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Alvarez Powers Pirates to a Win
PITTSBURGH—The numbers are there for anybody to see. They require no wacky analysis to decipher, no superhuman X-Ray vision to locate, no advanced degree from MIT to understand.
Pedro Alvarez, the Pittsburgh Pirates' third baseman, hit .180 against left-handed pitchers this season. Left-handed batters, like Alvarez, hit .118 against Kevin Siegrist, the St. Louis Cardinals' flame-throwing lefty reliever.
So with the score tied in the eighth inning Sunday, with two runners aboard and the most important game of the year on the line, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny relied on the data. He turned to Siegrist to face Alvarez.
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle did the opposite: He ignored the stats and stayed with Alvarez. For whatever reason, he determined this was going to be one of the 18% of at-bats against lefties that Alvarez would succeed.
Call it an intuitive hunch or call it a lucky miscalculation—this time, Hurdle was right.
Alvarez came through with a go-ahead single off Siegrist, sending the Pirates to a 5-3 win in Game 3 of the NLDS and giving his team a 2-1 series lead. Pittsburgh can win a playoff series for the first time since 1979 with a victory Monday (3 p.m., TBS) here at PNC Park.
"He's trying to make adjustments," Hurdle said. "We're seeing some in the postseason. So yeah, they get your attention."
Hurdle could have countered. He had Gaby Sanchez—who hits .333 against lefties—on the bench for that very situation.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that Hurdle could have considered using Sanchez as a pinch hitter, a strategy made more enticing because Alvarez had been 0 for 5 with two strikeouts off Siegrist. Later, Alvarez himself would admit that he knew facing Siegrist "was going to be a tough matchup."
But removing Alvarez isn't so easy. He tied for the National League-lead with 36 home runs this season. He is a major reason why the Pirates are in this position at all, why they stunned the baseball world and reached the playoffs for the first time since 1992. Without Alvarez, the Pirates wouldn't be a win away from advancing.
After the game, Sanchez said that when Alvarez came up, "I definitely was not expecting to hit." Alvarez rewarded the Pirates for their confidence.
"You're talking about Pedro, a guy on our team that led the league in home runs," Sanchez said. "We all have faith in him that he would come through. He's done it plenty of times, even against lefties."
That hit solidified another win for the upstart Pirates, continuing their magical run of success.
It didn't come easy. When the Pirates took an early 2-0 lead in the first inning, Cardinals outfielder Carlos Beltran delivered a two-run single in the fifth. When the Pirates took a 3-2 lead on a Russell Martin sacrifice fly in the sixth, Beltran hit a home run in the eighth to tie it again.
It all led to Alvarez's at-bat. The Cardinals did everything right. They put Siegrist into the game in an ideal moment. It just didn't work out.
"That's the matchup we wanted," Matheny said. "And today, they won."
All of this was witnessed by 40,489 crazed fans in the ballpark—a vast majority of whom wearing black. The attendance set a PNC Park record, surpassing the mark of 40,487 from Tuesday's wild-card game against the Cincinnati Reds.
Countless others stood on the streets outside. More still watched from the Roberto Clemente Bridge beyond the center-field wall. It is unknown whether they could actually see the game.
The people that could see the game, however, saw a team on the verge of something special.
They cheered and shouted and screamed, with the noise beginning before the first pitch and ending with the celebratory fireworks after closer Jason Grilli recorded the final out. They saw Andrew McCutchen—who was serenaded with chants of "M-V-P" all afternoon—reach base all four times he came up to bat.
A week ago, the Pirates were happy to be in the playoffs. That alone was a remarkable accomplishment.
After winning two straight games and vaulting into the lead, just being here is no longer enough.
"The confidence level is high," Martin said. "And the stakes couldn't be any higher."


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1932 Ford Roadster Pickup - The Long, Winding RoadWritten by Brian Brennan on May 13, 2011 Contributors: Josh Mishler Oftentimes To Get To The End, The Road Can Have Many Twists And Turns
When designing and building high-end hot rods, roadster pickups generally don't fall into the mix. But then how can you go wrong with anything as iconic as the Deuce? Don Smith from Mansfield, Texas, is no newcomer to hot rods (two- or four-wheel variety, as he's the owner of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership) and especially '32 Fords. He owns all models of the '32 save one, so to him a '32 Ford roadster pickup to finish the collection was a natural selection.
Obtaining one of Henry's gennie steel models proved to be the easy part-it came from a friend. Now for the fun-and effort. First, a little more on the truck's early years; as with so many hot rods the "behind the scenes" story is often as entertaining as the final presentation. As already written, Don has all models of the '32 with the exception of the '32 roadster pickup. His open-air Deuce pick-me-up spent a goodly portion of its "youth" as a work truck driven around Pomona, California, as the shop truck for High Grade Plating. It's here our pickup became transoceanic with a boat ride to Sweden where it spent many years.
In an interesting twist, the truck was placed back on a boat and ended up back in the States and in Texas and eventually under the watchful eye of Jim Jard (another hot rodder with an interesting track record) of Houston. Jard and Don are friends and when Don began searching in earnest for a '32 roadster pickup Jard was there to help him reach his goal. The roadster pickup moved from a garage in Houston to a garage in Mansfield only to end up at the beach, well, Beach City, Texas, and the shop of Roy Pigford, a longtime builder of many an award-winning hot rod.
The idea of building a special '32 roadster pickup is one thing but ending up with a hot rod that will stand among other well-executed topflight examples of hot rodding-well, that's something else. With this goal in mind, Don and Pigford put their considerable talents together and began. Our first chance to see the '32 Ford roadster pickup was at the Grand National Roadster Show this past winter as it was in contention for America's Most Beautiful Roadster.
As with all builds, as good a place as any to start is the foundation, and in this case the original '32 pickup frame was retained and then boxed and notched at the firewall. This improves the hood and fender's relationship, giving the "downhill" look. The '32 frame was then fitted with a Pete & Jakes (Peculiar, Missouri) center crossmember, Model A front crossmember, and Posies (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania) semi-elliptical rear springs. The rear suspension is based on a fully polished Winters Performance Products (York, Pennsylvania) quick-change outfitted with a limited-slip differential, 4.11 gears, and painted axle housings with Dutchman (Portland, Oregon) axles held in place with Pete & Jakes ladder bars and shocks. Rear braking comes by way of finned Buick drums via Wilson Welding (Flower Mound, Texas).
Up front, a Super Bell (Peculiar) 4-inch drop I-beam axle with buggy spring, P&J shocks and Panhard bar, Wilson Welding finned drum brakes, with Vega steering through a LimeWorks (Whittier, California) steering column and a white finish four-spoke wheel. The brakes are operated through a P&J pedal assembly and a Wilwood (Camarillo, California) master cylinder. All that braking slows down old-time Firestone rubber mounted to one-off custom wheels (16s in front and 18s in back) by Mike Curtis found at the corners.
Moving the pickup down the road is a 296-inch Ford Flathead having undergone a thorough going over by H&H Flatheads (La Crescenta, California) pumping 300 hp at 5,200 rpm-both impressive numbers for a Flathead. H&H prepped the fully ground block while all the components are polished. Detail is the word of the day with loads of paint, plating, and polish to make this Flathead flat (no pun intended) sparkle. Unmistakable is the polished vintage S.Co.T. blower topped with a pair of Stromberg 97 carbs, custom stacks, and screens. Firing the fuel is an MSD (El Paso, Texas) ignition with Taylor (Grandview, Missouri) primary wires. Polished vintage Navarro heads beautifully accent the Flathead along with a Chevy 409 water pump and chrome-plated generator. Other cooling components include the SPAL (Ankeny, Iowa) electric fan and the Steve Long brass radiator. The custom exhaust system is based on polished stainless steel headers, an exhaust pipe, and mufflers all fabricated by Roy's Body Shop. Hooked to the Flathead is a Chevy S-10 five-speed with a McLeod (Placentia, California) clutch package operated by a custom shifter and P&J pedal.
Pigford started the project with original sheetmetal but as is often the case, the work only begins at this point. The doors were rebuilt with new skins and wooden doorframes by Wood 'n' Carr (Long Beach, California). Other sheetmetal changes include a Rootlieb (Turlock, California) hood, Dan Fink Metalworks (Huntington Beach, California) grille, and stainless insert complete with "original" crank hole. The pan under the front grille was shortened at Pigford's and custom nerf bars were added to the front and rear. Sealed beams along with '39 Chevy taillights make up the lighting while all the electrical in the truck comes by way of Bob Mayes (Pasadena, Texas). The bed is shortened, note tire/wheel combo is centered in the wheelwell and features a roll pan. The sheetmetal and powertrain components were sprayed in PPG custom mix gold prepared by Paul Stoll of PPG. Pigford sprayed the color on while Rodney Hutcherson was instrumental in the color sanding and buffing. No small task for a hot rod being readied for AMBR competition. Bob Talton's (Pasadena, Texas) fine pinstriping runs along the body lines, bed, dash, and the top of the '32 grille shell. Other noteworthy efforts came from Jim Zeiger who handled the glass, while Sherm's Custom Plating (Sacramento, California) was responsible for all of the brightwork.
The gold paint is striking but it is truly well accented by the pearl white leather interior stitched over custom diamond tuft seating and door panels; carpeting is a custom gold hue over plenty of Dynamat (Hamilton, Ohio) insulation. All this fine stitch work was aptly handled by Gabe Lopez (San Bernardino, California). The steel '32 dashboard is fitted with '34 Plymouth gauges rebuilt by Red Line.
Here's one '32 roadster pickup that has made the rounds, literally crossing the Atlantic Ocean-twice, working as a shop truck and a hot rod only to end up as a showstopper. Well, there you have it: One heck of a shop truck turned into as high a level hot rod as you will ever see.
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Polished Wilson Welding finned Buick drum brakes (note drilled backing plate) attach to a Super Bell plated I-beam axle.The bed wood is a long way from stock and it is probably a good idea as the fresh light colored wood with chromed strips really adds to the truck's appearance.LimeWorks supplied both the four-spoke wheel (wrapped in pearl white leather) that rests on top of the hot rod-style steering column.<br/> The pearl white leather is stitched in the traditional hot rod looking diamond tuft along with gold piping while the carpeting is in a gold hue all by Gabe Lopez.Stock '32 framerails are the basis for this highly "tuned" chassis; fitted with a Pete & Jakes center crossmember, Model A front crossmember, and stainless steel lines and exhaust system.A Chevy S-10 five-speed trans complete with custom shifter is used behind the H&H Flathead. Note Wilwood master cylinder and P&J pedals.

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I live in India, where CDMA technology (where you can't change your SIM card, and you have to stick with one service provider once you buy the phone) is not popular. GSM is the general trend. I am really really keen on buying an Ubuntu phone. But so far, i have only heard of phones shipping Ubuntu along with a carrier (which i believe is the same as the service provider), and i'm wondering if canonical will ship Ubuntu phones, without any carriers, in which you can insert your own SIM card? I've wanted the Ubuntu phone to be my first smartphone. Now, if Ubuntu phone is going to release in April, 2014, and that too, without GSM capability, i don't know if I should wait for it to release. I want Ubuntu Phone to be my first smartphone, but if the wait isn't really worth it, should i go ahead with another phone now?
According to the Ubuntu Edge website (Which I think you are referring to), the Ubuntu phone is unlocked. As such, it is open to any carrier. ALL these phones will be non-carrier specific. Now the problem here is that I doubt that the project is going to go ahead, because funding does seem insignificant. Anyway, you can read more up on the Ubuntu phone here:
The Nexus 4 (which you can buy unlocked directly by Google) is capable of being flashed to run the Ubuntu Touch OS. But that's supposedly risky as it may brick your phone and is only recommended for developers. As of right now, I'm not aware of any phone that you can buy with Ubuntu Touch pre-installed, unlocked or not. People may be talking about it like it's already out, but it's still in development.


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Not Always Right - 04-06-2009, 07:22 PM
I'm sure you've all heard the saying, "The customer is always right." Well, here are some funny example of times that the customers were wrong. Wayyy wrong. xD
((From NotAlwaysRight.com))
(A customer is looking at the live fish swimming in the tank at the supermarket where my mom works.)
Customer: Are these fresh?
Mom: Theyre alive.
Customer: But are they FRESH?
Mom: yes.
(I was sitting behind the counter drinking coffee when a woman walked up to me.)
Me: Hello, miss! How can I help you today?
Customer: Give me that!
Me: Um, what?
Customer: *points to my coffee cup* Give me that! You dont deserve it. Only rich people like me deserve coffee and tea!
Me: *sighing and pointing towards the coffee machine* Miss, if you want some coffee you just need to show me your library card, and you can get some from there.
Customer: *whips her card out and glares at me* Here! Now give me your g**d**n coffee!
(I point to the machine again, then go back to my book and coffee. Out of the corner of my eye, I see her run to the coffee machine, grab the full coffee pot and run out the door.)
Me: HEY! Give that back!
Customer: *shouting behind her while running out the door* You dont deserve it, you poor little b****!
(Later on, another library patron who had seen it all came up to me. He told me how the same woman had stolen roses from his flower shop, and said that it was because no one else deserved them.)
(Im a desk assistant at a college dorm. One day, these two giggly freshman girls come up to me.)
Girl #1: Ummm can we, like, borrow your phonebook?
Me: Sure thing.
Girl #1: *flips through the book, looking completely dumbfounded*
Me: Need help finding something?
Girl #2: *whispers* Jasons is under J.
Girl #1: *whispers back* I know, but sometimes I forget the alphabet
Girl #2: OmiGAWD me too! *giggle giggle*
(I grab the phonebook and look up their listing.)
Me: HereJasons.
Girl #1: Oh my GAWD thank you! They should really have a college course for, like, phone books! Im not from this town, so, ya know
(The lunch rush has just come and gone, and now the early release seniors from the local high school are trickling in.)
Me: Hi, welcome to (drink shop).
Blonde customer: Mmm I think Ill try the Mahalo Mango today.
Redhead customer: Oooh. I heard mangoes are kinda bitter.
Blonde customer: Ew like, can I get that without mango then?
Me: Would you rather the Power Pineapple? Its the same smoothie, just pineapple instead of mango.
Blonde customer: No, I want to try something new so, yeah. Mahalo Mango without the mango.
Me: Okay what would you like instead of the mango?
Blonde customer: Um can I get pineapple?
Go to the site for much more. Those are just a couple good ones. xD Some people can be so dumb. My friend works at Tim Hortons, and one of her coworkers were working late at night. Some guy came in and un*****ed a tabletop - yes, just the top - and ran off with it. O_o He called their boss, and she was like, "Are you drunk?" She came in the next day, and sure enough, one of the tabletops had been stolen. XD
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Today I wanted to try the
localization feature of iOS.
I added a
Localizable.strings file to my project with the following content:
"TP_Start_Button" = "Workout Plan";
"TL_Start_Button" = "Training Log";
"Calc_Start_Button" = "Calculator";
I set the titles of three
UIButtons like this:
- (void)viewDidLoad
[super viewDidLoad];
[self.tp_start_button setTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"TP_Start_Button", nil) forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[self.tl_start_button setTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"TL_Start_Button", nil) forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[self.calc_start_button setTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"Calc_Start_Button", nil) forState:UIControlStateNormal];
After that I added another language by selecting my project and pressing the "+" button under localization. O chose German and another
Localizable.strings was created. I replaced the content with the German translation. Then I had the following:
Localizable.strings (English)
Localizable.strings (German)
And in my project folder the folders
de.lproj and
were created with the
Localizable.strings inside.
However, after starting the iPhone Simulator, English was loaded as the default language. After setting the language to German the language of my app didn't change. Even after deleting and reinstalling the app from my device it didn't work.
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5 Massive Hit Songs That Almost Didn't Get Released
We like to think we all know a hit song when we hear one. If we don't, we like to at least think that guys like Quincy Jones and Keith Richards know a hit song when they hear one (it's sort of their job).
Apparently, it's not as easy as we thought, as a lot of classic songs almost never made it out of the studio.
#5. "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" - Rolling Stones
Like most awesome things, this song originated in the middle of the night. Unlike most awesome things, this song originated in Florida. During the Rolling Stones 1965 US tour, Keith Richards woke up suddenly for reasons that shockingly had nothing to do with heroin. He had a riff in his head that was harder to shake than his heroin habit. Keith Richards. Heroin. Get it? Anybody?
Anyway, the story goes that Richards got up and recorded the riff and the phrase "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" before dozing off. The next day, Keith and Mick fleshed out the track, and immediately Keith began to hate the shit out of his late night inspiration. At first his complaint was that the song was too "folksy." And we all know that the last thing the music buying public of 1965 wanted was "folksy" sounding rock music.
It didn't stop there. Keith later admitted that he considered the title "...just a working title. It could have been 'Aunt Millie's Caught Her Left Tit In The Mangle.' I thought of it as just a little riff, an album filler. I never thought it was commercial enough to be a single." He expressed concerns that the riff sounded too similar to Martha And The Vandella's "Dancing In The Street," and would've been happier if the riff was just quietly tucked away somewhere, never to be talked about again.
Eventually the rest of the band had to drag Richards into the studio and force him to record the song that he wrote and showed them in the first place. Even then, he considered his guitar part a scratch track and the recording an unfinished demo. Keith just wasn't satisfied.
Fortunately, all the other band members, their manager, the sound engineer and we assume several wandering passersby all outvoted Richards by a landslide to release the single. The song spent two weeks at #1, and Richards's throwaway scratch track become one of the Rolling Stone's most recognizable anthems, and boosted sales of the Gibson fuzzbox he used on the recording to the point where supplies ran out by the end of the year.
As a sidebar, in light of the fact that Richards never went back to claim it, some of us in the Cracked writers pool have decided to use the song title "Aunt Millie's Caught Her Left Tit In The Mangle" for our in-house garage metal band DIKCHOKE. Expect an exclusive release on our Myspace page later this year.
#4. "Kiss" - Prince
Love him or hate him, we can't deny that Prince conquered pop music in the mid-80s, slapped its ass, pulled its hair and convinced it to do more than a few things it would regret later.
In 1986, Prince was at the top of his game and had started taking other bands under his dainty, bedazzled wing, like Morris Day's band The Time and the "chick who's humping Prince" project Appolynia 6. Also this band Mazarati but, as you'll soon see, no one really gives a damn about Mazarati.
Prince was diverse and talented enough to realize when he was writing a song that wasn't a Prince song. Such was the case, at the time, with "Kiss" which, believe it or not, was composed as a folksy/country song. Unable to finish it, he brought the demo track to his pet project du jour, Mazarati.
Who were obviously waiting for that perfect country/folk track to make it big time.
Unimpressed and kinda pissed, the band spent an entire day in the Paisley Park studio with engineer David Z completely rebuilding the track from the ground up. They retired for the night not believing the track was good enough. Or so they thought.
David Z returned the next morning to find Prince in the studio, tightening up his own freshly-recorded guitar and vocal tracks to the song. Reacting to Z's stunned confusion, Prince retorted that "This song is too good for you guys. I'm taking it back." This decision is likely the reason you had probably never heard of Mazarati before today.
Prince started cutting. He dropped the bass guitar off the track, along with all instruments but voice, guitar, drum machine and backing vocals. The result was shockingly sparse; only nine tracks were included in the mix down (most modern pop songs include roughly that many tracks for the vocals alone).
Prince is crazy!
When the people at Warner heard it, they kind of wondered where, you know, all the instruments and stuff were (they said it sounded like a demo). So if you're keeping score, the song was rejected by Prince, rejected by a shitty almost-Prince funk band and then reimagined as a sparse, bass-less song which was then almost rejected by the label.
Prince, probably after crossing his arms and whimpering in falsetto, told them that was the track they were getting and they better just deal with it. After a massive fight, the label reluctantly released it.
"Kiss" hit #1, and proved a triumph for a musician who was given more artistic freedom than pretty much any since. As for Mazarati, well, Prince later provided them with an outtake song by The Time called "Jerk Out" that made it nowhere until The Time took it back and made another # 1 hit off of it.
Seriously, after doing the research for this, we here at Cracked have been sending Mazarati friend requests on their official Myspace page, possibly one of the saddest official Myspace band pages ever. In-house Cracked band DIKCHOKE has only been around as long as this article, and we've already accumulated twice as many friends.
#3. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" - Eurythmics
Believe it or not, there was a point when no one had ever heard of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart--better known as Eurythmics, even better known as the scary chick in the tuxedo and the guy playing the cello in the cow pasture and even better known as "that 80s band that wrote that Marilyn Manson song." That "song," "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)," almost didn't exist because the band, dropped from their label after a lackluster and hitless first album, almost completely dissolved before composing it.
In 1982, the band, which had started in 1980, had yet to make a single that even approached the minor success of their previous band. Their first album was plagued by management troubles, and by the time they were recording "Sweet Dreams," they were reduced to recording in an improvised "home studio" (read: attic of a warehouse) and were in-between labels.
Also, they were really weird.
Their arguments became more severe--which tends to happen when you combine artists with poverty--to the point where Lennox could not take it anymore and threatened to leave. Then, with a cold suaveness more easily expected from James Bond than a pasty synth-pop composer, Stewart replied "Okay, fine, you don't mind if I go ahead and program the drum computer then, do you?" (he's British, so we don't know if "drum computer" is a euphemism for something filthy, but we'd guess that, no, it is not). And there, with Dave Stewart fucking around on a drum machine, and Annie Lennox curled up on the floor sobbing, commenced what is likely the most awkward, creepy and uncomfortable recording session since Phil Spector held a gun to Leonard Cohen's head.
While screwing around, Stewart accidentally reversed a synthesized bass line, and holy shit did it sound badass. Badass enough that Lennox "could not resist" getting on her keyboard and laying down a synth line. The words just came to her and she improvised the lyrics and vocals right there in one take. From the looks of it, they probably made up the "plot" of the music video on the spot right then too.
Pretty much all you need to know about the music video.
Of course, this incident just followed the standard behavioral instinct of "if you're in the middle of an argument that angry sex can't solve, just get on the computer" that most guys possess. Except instead of playing World Of Warcraft until four in the morning, Dave Stewart put together an international hit song, and married one of the chicks from Bananarama. Kind of puts your life in perspective, doesn't it?


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11 Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think
#5. The Automatic Door
Believed to have been invented in...
1954, by Dee Horton and Lew Hewitt.
These two Texans designed the first automatic door after noticing how strong winds would fuck with people's door opening abilities. The pair got to work on their product and, before long, people across the world were walking up to automatic doors, hesitating, thinking "fuck, is...is it broke?," continuing, halting abruptly, shielding their face with their hands and then flinching, humiliated as the door opened with perfect comedic timing.
Horton and Hewitt went on to found Horton Automatics, one of the biggest sellers of automatic doors today, with a massive range of clients including McDonald's and Tim Horton's Donuts (Nepotism?).
Actually invented in...
Around 50 BC, by Hero of Alexandria.
Fucktasticly named Hero was a Greek engineer, mathematician, inventor, teacher and overachiever who is believed to have lived somewhere around the second century. He is credited with numerous inventions, but his most celebrated was the aeolipile, which is not a type of airborne haemorrhoid, but an early steam engine.
The invention was used to spice up religious ceremonies with some special effects. The invention consisted of an alter, to be placed in front of some large, heavy temple doors, and all manners of pullies, buckets, fire and water. It was kind of like Mouse Trap, but instead of catching mice it made the masses think the breath of God had opened the doors.
As a companion piece, Hero designed a similar device that would be used to create the sound of a trumpet when the temple doors opened, because everyone knows God has an invisible trumpet follow him everywhere he goes.
#4. The Flamethrower
Believed to have been invented in...
1901, by the Germans.
Richard Fiedler created the "flammenwerfer" for the German army, just in time to capitalize on the 20th century's demand for horrible, skin-melting weapons. But it wasn't until the Second World War that the US invented a flamethrower that could fire continuous streams of burning fuel. These had such a damaging psychological effect on German soldiers that flamethrower operators who were captured by the Nazi's would be summarily executed on the spot.
The US army discontinued the use of the weapons when the realized that enemies running screaming while engulfed in flame doesn't really do much for the whole "winning hearts and minds" thing.
Actually invented in...
The 7th Century AD, by the Greeks.
Around 672 AD, a Syrian refugee and engineer invented what would come to be known as Greek Fire. This was a secret formula invented by the Byzantine Greeks and used in naval battle to burn ships, and in land battles to burn people.
Initially, it was fired from ships through a hand pump, but later a more mobile version that fired a stream of flames was developed. Greek Fire could not be put out with water alone, would stick to surfaces and ignited on contact. For this reason it has been compared to napalm, although no one liked the smell of Greek Fire in the morning, because due to its volatile and unpredictable nature, if you smelt it, you were probably on fire.
#3. Batteries
Believed to have been invented in...
1800, by Italian Alessandro Volta.
Nine years earlier fellow Italian Luigi Galvani attached two pieces of metal to a dead frog's leg and noticed that when he did, the leg twitched, thus discovering that animals generate electricity and, at the same time, establishing the historical animosity between experimental scientists and frogs.
"Science: 1. Frogs: 0."
Galvani, though, thought that living things and living things alone were the source of all electricity, a touchingly idealistic notion that would have made for some horrific power generators. Alessandro Volta, on the other hand, substituted frogs with cardboard soaked in salt water, producing what was thought to be the world's first battery.
Actually invented in...
In 1938, German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig (who died a few years later in a face melting Ark of the Covenant related accident) discovered a number of clay jars that would come to be known as the Baghdad Batteries. The jars have an asphalt stopper and, sticking through it, an iron rod surrounded by a copper cylinder. Tests revealed the presence of an acidic substance similar to vinegar and when replicas were made and filled with such a substance they produced between 0.8 and 2 volts.
The discovery of a working battery from 200 BC raised a whole lot more questions than it answered. Were there a lot of devices that required batteries back then? Did everyone just respond to the inventor with, "Nice going dipshit, a battery is exactly what we need to feed our families."
Some scientists propose that they were used to relieve pain while other scientists point out that electric stimulation would be ineffective when compared to painkillers available at the time such as heroin opiate and cannabis; who wants an electric shock when you could be chasing the dragon?
The most plausible explanation is that they were used to electrically graft silver onto gold, a method that is still practiced in Iraq today. Another is that they were placed into statues of gods to simulate the religious experience of "HOLY CRAP GOD JUST FREAKING SHOCKED ME! WHAT A DICK!"
#2. Vending Machines
Believed to have been invented in...
The early 1880s.
Coin operated vending machines were first introduced in London to dispense post cards and books.
America protested, "But you can't get fat on post cards or books," so the Thomas Adams Gum Company installed machines that dispensed gum and snacks on the New York subway. The invention soon caught on and over the decades has provided mankind with their most desired items; cigarettes, candy and schoolgirls' used panties.
Actually invented in...
Between 215 BC and 100 AD by, you guessed it, Hero of Alexandria.
The purpose of this first vending machine was to dispense holy water in the temples of Egypt. The device worked in the same way as a modern vending machine; worshipers would put coins in the top and it would dispense a measured amount of holy water for washing. At the end of the day, the machine would be emptied of coins and topped off with blessed water.
And we have to assume that more than once a day, some ancient worshiper dropped his coins in, got nothing in return, and then immediately rocked the machine back and forth while cursing under his breath. At least we've ironed that little wrinkle out.
#1. The Dildo
Believed to have been invented in...
1966, by Ted Marche.
The 1960s were a volatile time for the world. In the US, students were being shot and killed at anti-war rallies; in Britain, the Rolling Stone's were recording Street Fighting Man; in France, there was rioting in Paris; while in California, Ted Marche was designing things for women to stick in their vaginas.
One night in 1966, middle-aged ventriloquist (that's right, ventriloquist) Marche sat down at the family dinner table and began carving a six inch cock. It was the beginning of something beautiful, sort of creepy and incredibly lucrative; Marche went on to build a million dollar industry out of his invention. By 1976, Marche Manufacturing (Cracked would have went with Ventriloquist Cock, Inc.) had sold nearly five million dildos. None of these though sold in Texas, where they passed a law banning their sale. For more information on the state of Texas and their fear of dildos, why not read this 33 page essay by Phoebe Godfrey Ph.D. of Texas A&M on Texan dildos, the last page of which is a "dildo release form."
Actually invented in...
In 2005, a group of archaeologists discovered 13 fragments of siltstone at a site in Germany. Upon unearthing the 14th, they put the pieces together and realized that their great archaeological discovery was not, in fact, an ancient Greek computer or a primitive Mesopotamian battery, but a massive dildo. Like Isaac Newton and gravity, Einstein and relativity and Columbus and America, their names would forever be associated with their discovery: really, really old cock.
The dildo is 20 centimeters long, three centimeters wide and dates to the Ice Age, where women, judging by the objects size, apparently had a "massive capacity". Professor Nicholas Conard, a member of the team that, ahem, examined the dildo, spoke about their find saying: "In addition to being a symbolic representation of male genitalia... It's highly polished." Indeed.
While they may have discovered the oldest known sex toy, they didn't discover the only one. It seems that as long as human beings have had holes, we've invented things to put in those holes. Sex toys were commonly used in ancient Greece and according to always reliable source Wikipedia, archaeologists regularly discover ancient dildos but are reluctant to label them as such, probably because they don't want to be known as "that guy that keeps discovering dildos--you know, Indiana Dongs."
To see more ways we're inferior to our ancestors, check out 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain. Or find out about some puzzingly dumb mysteries they left behind for us that we do (or at least should) have answers for, in 6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions).
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At a Mass and reception held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston�s South End, Cardinal Se�n O�Malley recognized Kenneth Fong from Waltham, an incoming student at Arlington Catholic High School, as a Catholic Schools Foundation (CSF) Scholar.
Fong was selected because of his educational achievement, potential and demonstrated community leadership. He was one of 155 incoming high school freshmen from across the greater Boston area that were selected for this recognition.
The Class of 2018 joins three classes of CSF Scholars, bringing the program to 660 students who will receive $1.9 million in scholarship money from the Catholic Schools Foundation in the 2014-15 academic year.
"Young people like Kenneth are the future leaders of our society and we are thrilled to be able to invest in them through a Catholic education," said Mike Reardon, executive director of the Catholic Schools Foundation. "A Catholic school education has proven to help students reach their full potential and develop the whole person. We are excited that Kenneth will have this opportunity and wish him much success next year at Arlington Catholic High School."
Following the Mass, students, their families and school representatives gathered in the gymnasium of Cathedral High School for a reception and photos with O�Malley.
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Does the height of the steerer tube clamp differ between stems, or is there one standard height used on all modern mountain bike stems? In my particular case I want to replace the stem on a mountain bike with a shorter one, but can I pick any other threadless stem and have it fight right on without needing any more/less spacers etc.?
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No, the clamp that mounts to the steerer is not a standard height. There will be slight differences in the stack height of the clamp itself between different makes and models of stems that can typically be accommodated for with addition or subtraction of a small number of spacers, or the difference may be so slight that you don't have to change your spacers at all. Spacers are cheap so don't sweat it. The only situation where you could run into trouble is if you have no spacers and a steerer that is already nearly too short and you move to a stem with a taller steerer clamp (stack height). Doesn't sound like that's an issue in your case, though.
Stems are certainly not all the same height or length. As long as you get the right diameter, I believe you should be fine.
I've had friends swap out stems to fine tune the positioning on a bike.
@kibbee Steerer length is not that important as you very very seldom get any other size than the standard 1 1/8" other sizes like the 1" steerer thread less are normally only for retro conversions and will be almost impossible to find a stem in a LBS without a special request , you are however correct on the bar size, the old standard been 1" and the new standard of 31,8mm or oversized


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- Professional coursework at Rutgers-SHRP usually requires 15 months of full-time study.
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Vivino Wine Scanner iOS (iPhone - iPod Touch - iPad) for $0
Hey wine.wooters, figured you might like this.
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Wine.wooter here. I'm 99% sure I will try it once and hate it, but it's free so, who cares?! +1
Looking forward to trying this out. I lost my little notebook I kept wine notes in- this seems like the perfect solution for keeping track of favorites (and ones to avoid in the future)!
@eternalgreenknight: We all use cellartracker.com which is a free site to keep track of what you have, post notes, and search others' notes on wines.
Wow, thank you I will have a try.
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First is to change Reapers. I say give them more health and change it so that to make them you need atleast and engineering bay and allow them to have stim. Possibly even something later on like an Armory if stim is too OP if someone say gets an engineering bay before their second rax or so. I'm just thinking of a way to make the Reaper more then an early game harrass unit before it's never used again ever in the late early/middle/late game.
Next is to introduce the Lurker. Obviously have it good against the M&M ball, and make it a tier 2 unit for fucks sake. Then take the Hydra and make it stronger against mech units so that Zerg isn't stuck and has more room like Terran does in it's matchups with other races.
What do you think of my ideas? Have any of your own? Just curious to hear your thoughts on this.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Mariah Carey averts stage disaster by extinguishing electrical fire, Yoko Ono gets introspective, and Pamela Anderson dumps out her purse.
In Egypt getting ready to go on stage and suddenly there was a surge of power and an electrical fire started under my feet! Wtf?!
Naturally,my emergency instincts kicked in and I put out the flames w/a towel. Lol(yet true)
People think I'm doing something outrageous and ask me if I'm trying to shock people.
A magazine just asked me what's in my purse,So I dumped it out. And this is what's in there.
Vintage Pucci... http://bit.ly/bjn1L1
Got a bit overzealous with the Dr. Bronner's this morning. Might have accidentally washed my kid's mouth out with soap for first time.
A VERY Happy Birthday to @CraigyFerg #happybirthdaycraigy
Happy birthday to @bobsaget & enya & Dennis Hopper & Trent Reznor. I love you guys. You understand.
Oh France with your good wine and your great food and your tall towers and you fancy buildings and your beautiful women....good times
My pets' oil portraits are finally hung in my Paris apartment!! http://twitpic.com/1onipe
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I am feeling great. Love you all
don't hate "haters" they are part of the human ecosystem. lol
If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
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CHESTER - Friday's feature at Mountaineer Racetrack, the $37,100 Welcome Back Dash, began woefully for Jasizzle. Exiting the starting gate, the 4-year-old gelding got solidly thumped and squeezed between two other horses.
But in the late stages of the race, Jasizzle took the lead, and then held off a powerful late charge by the 2-1 favorite Voodoo Storm to prevail in a photo finish.
"It wasn't exactly a dream trip," said Jasizzle's breeder/owner/trainer, Tommy Ray Mills. "But, on occasion, something that starts off bad turns into something good."
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DOWN THE STRETCH — Jasizzle, under Luis M. Quinones, outgames Voodoo Storm by a head to win the Welcome Back Dash at Mountaineer Friday.
Jockey Luis M. Quinones put Jasizzle into a stalking position shortly after the break, holding third position while the front-runners Time for a Winner and Aly's Reward set opening fractions of :22.32 for the quarter and :46.65 for the half.
The Mountaineer track condition was rated "good," but it was also deep and tiring. Midway through the stretch, Aly's Reward was fading. And so was Time for a Winner as he approached the wire.
With a sixteenth of a mile to go, Jasizzle had the lead and drew clear. To his outside, Voodoo Storm under Deshawn Parker was closing ground. At the wire, Jasizzle held on by a head. Two strides beyond the finish, Voodoo Storm was in front. But it was just a touch too late for him.
Jasizzle, the second betting choice in the field of nine, returned $7.20, $3.80 and $3.40 across the board. His final time for the five furlong Welcome Back distance was 1:00.28.
His winner's share of the purse was $21,889, which brought Jasizzle's career earnings to $145,208. He has made 17 career starts, from which he has gained five wins and five placings.
"Jasizzle's got more heart than I do," said Mills, and I like to think I've got a lot."
The 50-year-old Mills describes himself as "a basic trainer. I'm not Todd Pletcher or Bill Mott," he said. Mills lives in Versailles, Ky., headquarters his stable at Keeneland's Thoroughbred Center. In speech, manner and appearance he is a contemporary version of the "Kentucky hardboot," a revered designation in the horse world.
He has a seven-horse stable, and a multitude of friends - many of them also train small, unheralded outfits, and enjoy seeing one of their brethren do well.
"Before Jasizzle had cooled out on Friday, there were 30 texts and at least 10 missed calls on my cell phone," said Mills. "And it was like that all during the trip back to Kentucky."
That trip started shortly before midnight.
"I've got a 3-year-old filly, Storm of Energy, in the eighth race at Turfway Park on Saturday," he said, "and I need to be there. The last time she ran she won by a head, and the next two horses dead-heated for second."
Mills is thinking about running Storm of Energy in the Grade 3 Bourbonette Oaks at Turfway on March 23. And he's also giving serious consideration to sending Jasizzle postward in the Grade 3 Shakertown Stakes at Keeneland on April 13.
Right now, Mills is on a good run, probably his best ever. And, when that's the case, keep running.
"If you win a race at Keeneland, everybody takes notice," Mills said. "And to win a graded race on Blue Grass day - I'd love it for Jasizzle. And I would especially love it for me."


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STEUBENVILLE - During his high school playing days, Lester Hicks was known as a fierce defensive end. Soon, he will be known for authoring the fourth book on the tragic Marshall University plane crash.
Hicks, a 1970 Big Red graduate, was in town Friday for his alma mater's homecoming game with Pittsburgh Westinghouse. He served as honorary captain. Hicks played for Abe Bryan and was a member of the 1969 Steubenville team that went 7-2-1 and battled Massillon to a scoreless tie.
Following graduation, Hicks took his gridiron talents to Ellsworth Community College in Iowa. From there, he moved to Marshall.
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YOUNG HERD — Steubenville Big Red graduate Lester Hicks has written a book about his days as a member of the "Young Thundering Herd."
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Hicks was a member of the Marshall program in 1972 and 1973, teams that took on the staggering task of re-establishing football at the school. He was a 6-5 defensive end on what was the second edition of the "Young Thundering Herd."
"When Jack Lengyel, the Marshall head coach, recruited me, he said, 'other schools may want you, but we need you.' It was then that I decided I needed to be at Marshall," Hicks noted.
He joined an eclectic group of athletes recruited from other sports, along with surviving freshmen players who didn't make the fateful trip, and a host of walk-ons. Their task wasn't so much to win championships, but to simply play competitively and position the program for future success.
Along the way, the program endured its lumps, recording consecutive 2-9 seasons in 1971 and 1972 before managing a slight improvement to 4-7 in 1973. In an effort to get the program off the ground, Hicks and his teammates made their fair share of sacrifices, gaining perspective along the way.
"I learned to sacrifice my talent for the betterment of the team by playing hurt and playing almost every position, including defensive tackle at 212 pounds, which probably cost me a potential career in the National Football League," he said. "On the football field, I worked as if I was to play for 100 years, and I prayed as if I was to die tomorrow."
On Nov. 14, 1970, the lives of 75 people were lost in the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history. Among the losses were nearly the entire Marshall football team, coaches, flight crew, numerous fans and supporters.
Lengyel was hired following the crash and the initial "Young Thundering Herd" took the field in 1971.
For most people, the crash is a simply a tragic footnote in sports history, as well as the subject of the 2006 movie, "We Are Marshall." For Hicks, who resides in Powder Springs, Ga., with his wife Della, it is part of his life story. He returned to the Huntington campus last October when the school held a 40th anniversary reunion honoring Hicks and his teammates.
The event allowed him to renew the bond that he shares with his former teammates and prompted his decision to write the book. He began his work in February and hopes to have the book released on Nov. 14. His work will be entitled "Against All Odds - 4th Down and Forever."
During his time at Marshall and in the years to follow, Hicks, who returned to Harding Stadium for only the second time in 42 years, faced his share of adversity. He nearly died after passing out during a weight training session in college due to undetected viral hepatitis. He had a near-fatal blood clot after a knee scope in 1992. And he was almost killed in a car crash in 2005, and later that year, suffered a ruptured appendix.
Those travails, as well as the memory of those who perished in the aircraft accident in, taught him to treasure each moment and each breath.
"I personally have learned that life is fragile," he said. "The loss of the players' lives taught me to never take life for granted, regardless of my age. I felt privileged to be a Marshall University football player, and I felt an obligation to play through frustration, fatigue and a partially torn deltoid.
"I learned not to complain about anything because millions would love to have the good and the bad of my life. I treat each day as if it is my last day of living. As a result, I accomplish what I can by not leaving anything for tomorrow."
In a summary about the book, Tiffany Hicks writes that her father's journey echoes the universal sentiment that you can beat the odds as long as you have faith, determination, discipline and a tireless pursuit of happiness.
"This book takes the reader on an insightful ride of heartbreak, triumph and perseverance," she notes. "In a time of despair, division and recession, a book like this is just what the doctor ordered because it's relatable and its message of hope and generosity transcends race, gender and/or age."


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The rifle I shot that with has a 12 twist barrel. It's a Howa 1500 Varmint
What's your barrel twist on that?
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Thanks for the info. I think I am gonna go with the 40 grainers, but I am going to plug it all into a ballistic calc and check drops and ranges, dont think ill be shooting much past 250 with this, past that ill grab the 7 mag .What barrel lengths are you guys using? I was planning on cutting it down to around 16" and throwing a muzzle brake on...
You wont have any probs with the 1/8 twist as Shooter John mentioned. I shoot the 40's from My Tikka T3 with a stout load of H335 powder, and get great results. The Tikka also likes the 60 Vmax as well. Sometimes they make Big holes in Coyotes depending upon distance and shot placement. I have found the Nosler 40 BT to be a little better on fur, and they shoot good from the Tikka as well. However they are a little more costly. Wait till you hit a Ground squirrel with a 40 Vmax.. you will be amazed! Good Luck.
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Wow, good shootin! Those things just make a cantaloupe sized hole out the back of a yote with those kinda speeds!
They won't come apart, they should do fine. They shoot well out of my 1in9 twist Savage pushed real hard at over 3700 fps.Five shots each target at 100 yards.
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Here's two 5 shot group at 100 yards.
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(and on occasion does pass through coyotes with it's solid thick base etc)
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I do use factory shotgun shells exclusively however, & years ago I used nothing but Fiocchi for quail hunting. Then for a few years they were impossible to find, at least in the stores where I live. So I started pattern testing all over again with various "stuff" & settled on Winchester & PMC loads. I have been with them ever since, especially Winchester, & especially since they are always available.
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I wasn't terribly DISpleased with my Savage when I found a 55 gr bullet that it shot well, but I thought it could do better. Now I know what to try next. Thanks!!
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nope that didn't work, trying 1 more time.

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thats some good shootng john.! I have been shooting the 40 grain sierras (blitz kings) besides the v-maxes with great results on coyotes.
They won't come apart, they should do fine. They shoot well out of my 1in9 twist Savage pushed real hard at over 3700 fps.Five shots each target at 100 yards.
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wow shooterjon that is some immpressive shooting hope to get there some day
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The 12 Most Ridiculous Celebrity Self-Portraits
#6. Courtney Love
I get what your angle is here, Courtney. With your self-inflicted wounds and bloody kitchen knife and neon nudity, you're trying to say that your world actually isn't very glamorous at all. The portrait is ironic, or in Courtney-speak, it's "iwronick."
Incidentally (and not that I knew the lyrics offhand or anything), this drawing is actually a perfect representation of the song "Celebrity Skin" by Hole:
When I wake up
in my makeup
it's too early
for that dress
wilted and faded
somewhere in Hollywood
I'm glad I came here with your pound of flesh.
Fine, I'm bragging. I knew every one of those lyrics offhand.
#5. Charles Manson
It's super weird that Charles Manson drew himself as a Pokemon. It's even weirder that his special ability is growing creepy beards. And it's the weirdest that he talked Charmander into killing Ash for him.
This portrait was sketched inside the walls of the California state prison, which is why it has that certain je ne sais quoi. Mansonchu go!
#4. Sylvester Stallone
Guess the name of this self-portrait a young Sylvester Stallone painted way back in 1977! Come on, guess! OK, I'll go first: Green Eye of the Tiger. Mona Lisa Sly.
Nope. The rendering of this chiseled, sallow, be-wife-beatered Stallone who has somehow managed to get himself stuck in the middle of a brick wall is called Trapped Ideals. Because, you know, art.
Incidentally, Sylvester Stallone's actual eyeballs are colored a lovely semi-aquatic-rodent brown and bear no resemblance to the emerald hue seen here. So: trapped ideals, indeed.
#3. Grace Slick
What's great about this portrait done by Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane/Starship fame is that although she's naked and making devil horns, Grace has painted herself in a style one might find filling up the booths of a craft fair in rural Vermont. This technique just screams serving platters and decorative cookie jars. I mean, you could probably commission a tote bag* bearing this exact image from your mom's co-worker's Etsy shop -- and it would come with a free pair of macaroni earrings.
*Please, don't commission that tote bag.
#2. Joni Mitchell
It's surprising to find out that Joni Mitchell painted herself as Vincent Van Gogh (not to mention a little arrogant), but it's flat out alarming to learn that she cut off her ear and mailed it to Joan Baez. And let's not even get into that reproduction of Starry Night she created with her own feces.
Also, if "Turbulent Indigo" isn't Joni Mitchell's stripper name, then dammit, what is even the point of living?
#1. Wesley Willis
Wesley Willis' epic Magic Marker creation is exactly what a self-portrait should be! Funny, colorful, totally ready to high-five the shit out of you. Featuring his signature grid-marked buildings, this is just one of the hundreds of drawings Wesley produced during his 40 glorious years on this earth.
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I have found conflicting answers to this around the web, even a link to a launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/571476 which is kind of left hanging.
So I'm curious, was TRIM support backported into the 2.6.32 kernel that is in 10.04? Does anyone know for sure?
Edit Although the above Launchpad Bug is relevant, it's this bug that is linked from the last comment on the above one that is most relevant: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/644694
In this, for Lucid update to 126.96.36.199 stable release there is listed under: The following patches are in the 184.108.40.206 stable release: * sata_mv: fix broken DSM/TRIM support (v2)


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Jason Latour returns to answer your questions about the Phoenix revival, the far-reaching effects of Wolverine's Marvel U status and more.
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Greg Rucka joins X-Position to discuss Cyclops & Corsair's father/son intergalactic trip, and when readers will find out why Corsair isn't dead.
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16 Jan 2012 7:16 AM #1
Is login working at all?
I just uploaded a test app (more or less empty).
I created a user group "moo" with Login set to to "Before Download" and selected "Sencha ID (Developers) as "Authentication Service".
When I try to log-in all I get is a nginx timeout error.
Then I tried to switch the Authentication Service to "Sencha.io (Users)", and used the registration link from the login page that appears when I invoke the app's URL.
Result of registration is a redirection to "senchafy.com/hello" which only gives a 404.
What the heck?
However I saw in the "Developer console" that the group now has 1 registered user, so probably the registration worked.
Ok, so I try to login with the data I gave on registration ... and only get an endless redirection from my app to the login and back that only stops with a browser error ("Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.").
Sorry, but this feels like pre-alpha to me.
Is there anything I might have done fundamentally wrong to cause these issues?ExtJS 4 plugins:
varheaders - short/normal/long column header
clearbutton - mouseover clear button in text field
Blog: fit4dev
ExtJS User Group Hamburg
16 Jan 2012 7:49 AM #2
Read this io-forum (there are only a few posts) and you will find out that sencha.io isn´t working yet (pre alpha).
18 Jan 2012 10:50 PM #3
Login issues resolved
Sencha.io application user login issues are all resolved.
Thanks for trying sencha.io cloud framework. As a developer, share your feedback and what features you would love to have in our framework and admin portal.
19 Jan 2012 1:43 AM #4
Good news, thanks!
- docs: complete example (user-login, crud, online/offline-mode)
- reading/writing data from/to sencho.io from an external app


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November 12, 2012
NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies will host film scholar Raz Yosef for a public lecture, "Identity of the Victim: Trauma and Ethics in Current Israeli Cinema," on Tuesday, November 27, 6-7:30 p.m., at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (first-floor screening room), 53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets).
This event had originally been scheduled for October 30, but was postponed in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required to firstname.lastname@example.com or 212.998.8981. Seating is limited. Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, M (West 4th Street).
Reporters interested in attending must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU's Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or email@example.com.
Yosef is a senior lecturer and the head of the undergraduate cinema studies program at Tel Aviv University's Department of Film and Television. His published works include: "Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema" (Rutgers University Press, 2004); "To Know a Man: Masculinity, Sexuality and Ethnicity in Israeli Cinema"; and "The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema".
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
Around the Square, Arts and Science
Type: Press Release
Press Contact: James Devitt | (212) 998-6808


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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement today in which it deplores false accusations leveled a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council as regards Palestinians in Gaza not getting visas for the Kingdom to perform Hajj.
The statement said the Saudi Arabia views all Palestinians on equal footing.
"The Kingdom has given thousands of Palestinians from all Occupied Territories, including the Gaza Strip, visas for the Kingdom to perform Hajj, which were delivered to the Palestinian Authority.
Moreover, Saudi Arabia has increased the visa quota for Palestinians, taking into account the circumstances of their humanitarian conditions.
In addition to this, all Saudi outlets are ready to receive them, and to facilitate their performance of Hajj rituals."


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Hi everyone,
I'm a physicist working on stochastic processes and I've come up against an integral that I'm not able to approximate using steepest descent (I don't have a large or small parameter), integration by parts, or any of the other common techniques. So I'd very much appreciate the input of any applied mathematicians!
The integral is $$f(x) = \int_{x}^{\infty} \frac{\Phi(t)}{t^{5}}dt$$ with $\Phi(t) = e^{i \pi t^{2} / 2}[C(t) + i S(t)]$. Here, $C(t)$ and $S(t)$ are the Fresnel integrals defined by $$C(t) + i S(t) = \int_{0}^{t} e^{i \pi u^{2} / 2} du\ .$$ What I really want is the behaviour of $f(x)$ for small $x$. But, the integral is formally divergent if $x = 0$.
Made a little progress with integration by parts, but I wasn't able to entirely separate my integral into convergent pieces.


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I like the version with the letters, because I'm American and things need to be obvious for me.
That's adorable.
I would love to know from what anime is that
That doesn't look anything like shame though.
For either of them.
edit - talking about facial expressions here, better make that obvious
Oh those rubiks, never solved one


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KILLEEN (November 14, 2012)—Killeen's director of finance, Barbara Gonzales, and fleet services director, Kim Randall, both remained on paid administrative leave Wednesday pending the completion of an internal investigation, but officials aren't talking about what's behind the suspensions or the probe.
Gonzales and Randall were both placed on administrative leave last month, the city confirmed Wednesday, but no details were released.
"Barbara Gonzales and Kim Randall were placed on administrative leave October 5 pending the results of an internal investigation. The investigation is ongoing, and the City of Killeen will have no further comment until the investigation has concluded," City Manager Glenn Morrison said in a brief statement.
Gonzales was hired in 2003 as the city's general services director and was named finance director in March 2007. She also served as assistant director of finance from 1990 to 1995, the city said.
She heads the department responsible for the city's fiscal management and oversees the accounting, purchasing, print services, building services, custodial services, fleet services and utility collections divisions.
Randall has worked for the city since 1988 and oversees maintenance and repair of all city-owned vehicles.
Acting directors were named during Randall's and Gonzales' absence, the city said.


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Effects of Stream bank Erosion
Stream bank erosion degrades in-stream habitat by increasing the streams sediment load and changing its shape and function. When this happens the stream loses its ability to transport its sediment which causes it to become wide and shallow. Once these changes begin, the stream channel can become braided, quality habitat is lost and the increased sediment can reduce overall biological productivity.
The Use of Cedar Trees and Bank Vegetation to Reduce Stream bank Erosion
ODWC's streams management staff began to address these issues in 2002 by completing two stream bank stabilization projects on Spring Creek using both hard (rocks and boulders) and soft (cedar trees and vegetation) structural control techniques. The first project used a modified cedar tree revetment (soft structural control) to stabilize a 350-ft stretch of stream bank. This method required the bank be graded to 1:2 slope to reduce the shear-stress. Once this was completed, an erosion control mat was installed over the exposed soil and anchored in place with wooden stakes. Large root-wads were then placed along the toe of the bank to further reduce shear-stress by deflecting the flow away from the bank. Cedar trees were then anchored along the bank to provide more armoring and catch sediment necessary for establishment of stream-side vegetation. The cedar trees extended from the stream bed up to the bankfull elevation. Green ash, sycamore, and willow trees, and a variety of grasses were then planted up the slope of the stream bank to provide more permanent vegetative stabilization.Before: Bank erosion
After: Cedar tree and vegetation stabilization
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In 2002, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation installed a series of five J-hook rock vanes to stabilize a 500-ft. stretch of stream bank. These structures are designed to reduce the shear stress on the bank by shifting the deepest part of the channel from the bank toe to the center of the stream. Each rock-vane was constructed using large boulders (32-36 inch diameter). All rock-vanes were installed pointing upstream at a 20-30 degree angle from the stream bank and extend to 2/3rd the distance across the channel width. Each vane has a slope of between two and seven percent from the top of the stream bank to the end of the vanes. Both the soft and hard techniques techniques reduce bank erosion, help maintain proper channel morphology and provide more dynamic flow conditions and excellent habitat for many species of sportfish.
Before: Unstable bank
After: Addition of J-hook rock vanes
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Measuring Lateral Stream bank Erosion Rates
Lateral stream bank erosion can be measured on your property to estimate the rate of land loss. Do this by installing three or four pieces of 10-foot re-bar horizontally into the stream bank at the upper, middle and lower portion of the cut-bank. The bars should be driven in until flush. Repeat this procedure at the upstream, middle and downstream sections of the effected (three sites and 12 bars total) better overall estimate. The among of erosion can then be estimated from measurements taken over time. >Determine your rate of bank erosion by measuring and recording the average lateral depth of exposed re-bar protruding from the bank at regular time intervals (e.g., monthly). Be sure and drive the re-bar back flush into the bank after each reading to keep the area safe and to avoid confusion or inflation of readings when making the next measurements. Next, determine the length of effected bank and multiply that by the average lateral depth of erosion from your measurements. Your rate of bank erosion and associated land loss can then be accurately reported using a variety of terms (e.g. cubic yards/year)
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8 Prehistoric Creatures Ripped Directly from Your Nightmares
#4. The Sea Monsters That Ate the Other Sea Monsters That Ate Sea Monsters
It's like a Russian doll with teeth.
If there is one thing you take away from your time on Cracked, let it be this: No matter how terrified you are of the sea, you aren't terrified enough. Kronosaurus and Liopleurodon embody everything that could possibly be frightening about the ocean (well, except for maybe tentacles, but that's likely only because they thought tentacles were delicious).
Human toes taste a bit like tentacles.
Liopleurodon looked like a rough draft of a crocodile rejected by God with a note to "Tone it way, way down, man." It regularly reached 33 feet long, with one specimen discovered that had a jawbone 10 feet long. Given the proportions of some of the more complete remains found, some scientists speculate that Liopleurodon actually grew up to 50 feet long. Much like the Tylosaurus, the only prey big enough to quell the mighty hunger of Liopleurodon was other crazy, huge monsters, seen here in BBC's insane artistic rendering:
Behold the mighty allosaur ... oh, uh, never mind.
Speaking of the living avatars of fear on Earth, let's talk about the Kronosaurus, which was likely even bigger than Liopleurodon. Kronosaurus was named after the Titan Kronos, who was such a grand, evil bastard that he ate his own children (who were already pretty giant and terrifying themselves). This image sums up the reasoning behind the name pretty well:
"You'll never get your fins on my inheritance!"
Kronosaurs had large "banana-shaped" teeth and thick jaws designed to crush the shells of ammonites, which were ancient shelled squids from back before nature decided that armoring the Kraken was "perhaps a bit overkill."
Oh hey, there's Suicidal Size-Comparison Alan. Hello, Alan!
#3. T. Rex: The Xtreme Editions
That little dinosaur is holding a chair and whip off screen.
Coming face-to-face with a T. rex would be a bad day for anyone. The only thing worse would be somehow surviving that encounter only to find out he's got a pissed-off big brother waiting around the corner. But don't freak out, the T. rex doesn't have a more terrifying ancestor.
It has two: Gigonotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus.
Both lived about 100 million years ago, were roughly 45 feet long and made the T. rex look like the neurotic, asthmatic nerd of the Rex family. The Carcharodontosaurus is pictured above, and is considered to be the second largest land predator in history (that's called foreshadowing, friends). While Gigonotosaurus lived in South America and looked like this:
Seen here sporting what we're going to call a "slaughter bulge."
#2. The Gargantuan Buck-Toothed Fang Fish
We're gonna need some bigger fries to eat with that thing.
There's a unique subgenre of terror that's actually augmented by a bit of goofiness. It's like spotting a clown holding a carving knife: Somehow the big floppy shoes make him so much worse than a normal knife-wielding maniac. So it is with the Dunkleosteus, a 30-foot murder-fish bred with a tank and armed with giant, buck-toothed blades all up in its face.
Oh hey, there's Alan again. He's not too bright.
We're not embellishing a harmless thing because it looks scary: The Dunkleosteus is estimated to have possessed the strongest bite out of anything. Ever. For some perspective, one of the strongest bites on Earth today comes from the hyena, at 2,000 Newtons (about 500 pounds of force). They easily crack bones with their mouths. The T. rex is estimated to have had a bite around 13,000 Newtons (3,000 pounds of force), which, once you realize bones crack at 1/6 that force, just seems like spite.
The Dunkleosteus had around 150 million Pascals of bite force, roughly 22,000 pounds of force per square inch. That is so powerful they changed units of measurement just to calculate it. If you came across a Dunkleosteus while exploring the ocean in the world's most well-armored time-traveling submarine, Dunkleosteus would not only still eat you, but complain that, if anything, you were a bit soggy.
University of Texas
That guy's got bits of a blue police box stuck in his teeth.
Dunkleosteus could also open its mouth in a 50th of a second, meaning that it vacuumed in animals that would normally be fast enough to swim away from it. Usually, fish either have a fast bite or a powerful one, because you can get plenty of food with only one of the two. But Dunkleosteus had both, because evolution is a spiteful bitch that hates life like they used to date and life banged its sister the night before the wedding.
#1. The Largest Land Predator Ever
Or the dinosaur that made Jurassic Park III bearable.
Hey, remember that foreshadowing from earlier? Here's the thing casting that unusually large, spiky, quickly approaching shadow.
That's a Spinosaurus, and it grew up to 60 feet long. Its "crocodile-like" jaws easily reached 5 feet in length alone, and it sported a jaunty sail on its back, because who was going to say anything about it?
"Ha, I know, right! And what was with that goofy sail thi ... iii ... it's right behind me, isn't it?"
Believed to be the largest predator ever to walk the Earth, Spinosaurus is, at least for now, the King Scary Bastard in an entire epoch of the scariest bastards in history. Here's the mouth of one of Spinosaurus' smaller, gentler cousins, Suchomimus:
Nope nope nope nope.
Jesus, is that a skull or industrial logging equipment? That's it: We're starting a collection to distribute cyanide pills to toddlers, females and Internet comedians. Because if Jurassic Park ever comes to life and gets a hold of any of these things, humanity's best option is to just get the hell out of this whole "nature" thing altogether, and brother, we're calling it now -- it is women, children and Cracked writers first.
David leaves a trail of science across the Internet, and it collects at Zombie Chops, SciTechGadget and Revmodo, but you can also follow him on Twitter.
For more reasons that Mother Nature has always hated humanity, check out 7 Terrifying Prehistoric Creatures (That Are Still Around) and 7 Terrifying Giant Versions of Disgusting Critters.


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28 Dec 2012 4:07 PM #1
Simple Ext.grid.property.Grid read only row question
I have been searching the archives for how best to disable editing of specific rows in a property grid.
I have found old references and rewrites to achieve this but nothing that works for the 4.X version.
I am about to give up on the stock code and am asking on here in the hope that someone has an easy solution for this.
I would also like to set up categories but believe this would be a set of property grids if I can get them to work.
Thanks for any help you can give.
28 Dec 2012 9:13 PM #2
How do you determine which rows would be disabled for editing?
28 Dec 2012 9:29 PM #3
Quickly thrown together, but is this (functionally) what you're after? http://jsfiddle.net/existdissolve/wMcQk/
29 Dec 2012 4:16 PM #4
That is exactly what I was after, thank you so very much.
I am sending in an array of fields that are to be read only, I had tried using a complex type for each field with extra attributes like read only, min, max etc but it just ignored the type as it is not supported.
I might take a look at the source and see if I can add in extensions to the types supported.
While I have your eyes on this, if I wanted to make a custom dialog for a complex type... is there anything special I need to do.
I was thinking of showing something readable with a custom renderer then a custom editor that shows as dialog, The examples all show field editors that edit in place, except the date time, which I am hoping to find some inspiration from.
29 Dec 2012 7:08 PM #5
Depending on the version of ExtJS you're using, you can use either the customEditors (pre-ExtJS 4.1.3) or the sourceConfig (ExtJS 4.1.3) to specify custom editors.
RE: super-fancy custom editors, I've updated my example with a panel that has a nested form. It's a simple example, but shows that you could theoretically do whatever you wanted to do: http://jsfiddle.net/existdissolve/wMcQk/
Hope this helps!
30 Dec 2012 1:47 AM #6
great stuff
Thats an amazing example... simple to you but to me I would never have bought all those concepts together to create the result.
I will mull over the sample and get my app going... thanks
How did you get to that level of understanding, it seems almost too much to piece together using the online stuff without some guidance.
30 Dec 2012 6:12 AM #7
My main approach to this solution, though, followed something like this:
- I need a new field type
- Date field (like you suggested) has some elements that look similar to what I need (e.g., the little floating panel thingy)
- Date field extends Ext.form.field.Picker, so I will too!
- Extending Ext.form.field.Picker requires the custom implementation of createPicker (per the docs)
- What should createPicker look like? I opened the source for Ext.form.field.Date, stole the code, and started from there
30 Dec 2012 2:29 PM #8
Thats the approach I have too, i seem to be going very slowly... but at least i am going forwards :-)
Thanks again for all of your help, it is really appreciated...
30 Dec 2012 5:40 PM #9
Absolutely, happy to help!


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I want to put ubuntu 12.10 on a Sandisk Cruzer 4gb USB flash drive, and then plug in the flash drive to my dell dimension 3000 so I can boot off the flash drive and install ubuntu. How do I do this? Help me.


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WACO (December 5, 2012)--Outstanding teachers from all 23 campuses in the Waco Independent School District will be recognized Thursday at 6 p.m.
Teachers will receive a plaque, rose, commendation letter from Texas Senator Brian Birdwell and a cash gift from the Paul and Jane Meyer Foundation.
Two of the honorees will be named the district's elementary and secondary "Teacher of the Year" and represent the district in the Texas Outstanding Teacher Program next spring.
The ceremony is open to the community and will take place at the Performing Arts Center at University High on S. New Road.


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TEMPLE (February 14, 2013)—Temple police arrested an 18-year-old mother Wednesday evening after the father of her child was stabbed repeatedly during a late-afternoon domestic dispute.
Officers were dispatched just before 5 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 1600 block of South 39th Street where they found the victim on the ground with serious wounds and a man who was restraining the suspected attacker.
Officers performed first aid until paramedics arrived.
The victim, whose name wasn't released, was taken to Scott & White Hospital.
Investigators determined the victim was stabbed after driving to the home with his father and the suspect's mother to pick up the child, police said Thursday.
At some point, the suspect approached the victim's vehicle and when the victim opened the door, she pulled a knife from her pocket and stabbed him several times before the victim's father was able to restrain her.
Serena Luna Rodriguez, 18, of Temple, was taken to the Bell County Jail, where she remained Thursday facing an aggravated assault on a family member charge, police said.


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FRIEND, Harry J. "Bus," 88, of Follansbee, WV, passed away Dec. 9, 2012, at Lifeline Hospital, Wintersville, OH.
He was born May 31, 1924, in Washington, PA, a son of the late Robert and Hannah (Friend) Kiger.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Dolores May Kinney Friend; a daughter, Barbara Radvansky on Nov. 8, 2011; and four sisters.
He was the owner of the H-J Friend Construction Co., and he also was a Navy veteran in World War II.
He is survived by a son, Harry H. Friend Jr. of Arizona; a daughter, Sharon (Carl) Roadman of Sanford, NC; four grandchildren: Lori (Shawn) Staten, Brian (Krista) Roadman, Harry Joseph Friend III and Jaime Radvansky; and three great-grandchildren: Damon Staten, Madison and Morgan Roadman.
There will be no visitation. A memorial service will be held at the convenience of the family.
Arrangements are being handled by Mullenbach Funeral Home, 669 Main St., Follansbee, WV.
Condolences may be sent to www.mullenbachfh.com.


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Newsletters from groups and organizations that find their way to my desk are often the springboard for stories, and the January issue of Urban Mission Ministries' Bright Horizons is no exception.
It offers, among other things, an opportunity for churches, schools, youth groups and individuals to help the mission replenish food supplies now in the wake of a high-demand holiday season, according to the Rev. Ashley Steele, the mission's executive director.
"We always expect the holidays to be pretty busy around here, but we already had noticed our numbers going up each month," Steele said in discussing the level of need the mission experienced during November and December - more than in 2011 - and this December "was probably our largest ever."
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The Unity Kitchen at Urban Mission Ministries provides a hot meal several times a week to those in need. Joyce Guglielmo, left, is Unity Kitchen coordinator, and the Rev. Ashley Steele is the mission's executive director.
-- Janice R. Kiaski
"A lot of the times now we're seeing a lot of people who are working but just can't make ends meet so they're trying to do whatever they can," Steele said.
In an interview earlier this week, the mission's executive director since July 2011 noted the Souper Bowl of Caring has become an annual tradition for many to make a big difference for charities that serve the community's most vulnerable.
On or near the Super Bowl, which is Feb. 3, area participants in this effort can:
Register at www.souperbowl.org or call 1-800-358-SOUP (7687) to receive free promotional materials.
Collect food or money donations on or near Feb. 3;
Report the results at www.souperbowl.org for "the country to see the power of caring," according to the newsletter, so organizers can determine a national total; and
Donate 100 percent of the collection to the Urban Mission.
Participation in this is not something new for the mission.
"We don't necessarily actually have something here (at the mission), but what we do is we encourage churches in the area to host their own Souper Bowl of Caring, and really a lot of churches have done this in the past," Steele said.
"I know a few are doing it this year, but it's really just a way they can do something whether it's make subs or soups or you name it, whatever they'd like, and they usually do it around the Super Bowl time with all proceeds going to a charity of their choice, which is our hunger ministry," she said.
"This is kind of a neat program because it comes right around the Super Bowl, and it really has made a lot of difference in years past for us," she said. "If churches or organizations are interested in the Souper Bowl of Caring, we would always be willing to come out and do whatever we can whether it is share a little bit about the mission or just help them plan an event if they need some help," Steele said.
The mission anticipates increased need this year, according to Steele, who said the ministry's focus in 2013 will be finding ways to help lower the numbers.
"There are a lot of different plans we have or at least ideas, not that we can solve the poverty issue in this area, but what role can we play in helping people get ahead and trying to either equip them with life skills or tools or just something that can help them help themselves," she said.
"I think that people want to do that. I think the majority of people really desire to have a better life in whatever way that that might be, so our focus this year is, even if the need increases, we'll still continue whatever we need to do to make sure people are fed, clothed and housed, but then also what can we do to just really help them find wholeness again," Steele said.


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Western Development Museum Announces Fundraising Concert Featuring SCMA Award Winners WYATT
The Western Development Museum is proud to announce a concert by Saskatoon-based country-rock band WYATT as they launch their second studio album You Shoulda Been There Last Night! featuring the single, "Jesse James." The music video for "Jesse James" was filmed at the Saskatoon WDM.
This concert – the first in the WDM's Front Porch Series – will be an exciting fundraising event to be held on Friday, May 10, 2013 on Boomtown Street at the Saskatoon WDM.
Funds will support the delivery of public programming events at all four WDM locations at Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Saskatoon and Yorkton.
In addition to the live entertainment, the evening's festivities will include a short presentation about the WDM, a silent auction, door prize draws, a concession and cash bar.
This will be the first chance to hear songs off WYATT's upcoming album and to pre-order a copy. Partial proceeds of album sales will be donated to the WDM.
"We hope people can come out, support the Museum, and share in the fun with this award-wining Saskatoon band," said Joan Champ, Executive Director of the WDM. "You won't want people saying, 'You shoulda been there last night!' "
The Front Porch Series featuring WYATT
Friday, May 10, 2013
Doors Open: 6 p.m.
Concert: 7 p.m.
Tickets: $25 (plus service charges and taxes) in advance; $30 at the door
Tickets now available!


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What is the motivation of defining the mmoment generating function of a random variable $X$ as: $E[e^{tX}]$? I know that one can obtain the mean, second moment, etc.. after computing it. But what was the intuition in using $e^{x}$? Is it because its one-to-one and always increasing?
Take the definition of "generating function" for a sequence. Do it where the sequence is the sequence consisting of the moments of $X$. That's it.
As you suggest, the fact that $e^x$ is increasing is a useful property here. In particular, that lets you in some cases to apply Markov's/Chebychev's inequality to the random variable $e^{tX}$ in order to get exponentially decaying bounds on the tails of $X$; see e.g. Chernoff bounds. In principle any other positive increasing function could be used in the same way, but $e^x$ is a particularly useful choice because it is especially well suited to studying sums of independent random variables, as noted already in Yuval's answer.
The goal is to to put all the moments in one package. Since $$ e^{tx} = \sum \frac{x^n}{n!} t^n $$ the coefficients of $t^n$ in $E(e^{tx})$ are (scaled) moments. In other contexts we can use $$ (1-xt)^{-1} = \sum x^n t^n $$ in place of $e^{tx}$. This gives more or less what engineers call the "z-transform" and in combinatorics it is known as "ordinary generating function". Using the exponential has the happy advantage that convolution of random variables translates to product of moment generating functions.
If X and Y are independent then $E[e^{t(X+Y)}] = E[e^{tX}] E[e^{tY}]$, so convolution corresponds to multiplication of the mgf's. Another reason: the moment generating function is actually a Fourier transform.
Now suppose $X_i$ are i.i.d. with zero mean, and define $Y_n = \sum_{i=1}^n X_i/\sqrt{n}$. Define $\phi(t) = E[e^{tX_1}]$. Then $E[e^{tY_n}] = \phi(t/\sqrt{n})^n$. Under reasonable assumptions, $\phi(t) = 1 + V[X_1]t^2/2 + O(t^3)$, and so $E[e^{tY_n}] = (1 + V[X_1]t^2/2n + O(t^3)/n^{1.5})^n \longrightarrow e^{V[X_1]t^2/2}$, and we get the central limit theorem (by continuity of the Fourier transform).