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The CGS 2008 (DirecTV): FIFA '08, CS:S, Forza 2, and DoA4. Two of the four games are merely simulations of real-life counterparts, and are never going to gain mainstream spectator interest for that reason. We don't need to watch simpler, polygon versions of sports that have been around for years. We're talking about video games, where we have the freedom to laugh at death, control entire armies, shoot fireballs from our hands, or any of the other millions of fun things we can't watch people do for sport in real life. If I want to watch realistic looking soccer or racing on TV, I'll look to reality. Dead or Alive 4? I know it's largely a matter of personal taste, but to my person DoA4 tastes like bland, slow-paced, button-mashing that bores me when I play it and as a spectator sport makes me want to leap to my death from my balcony. No, not even 2 guys bumping chests in a WWE-level display of testosterone is going to change my mind. CS:S was an obvious and necessary choice without which I would have put their selections in the realm of "bad joke".
The MLG 2008 (ESPN): Halo 3, Gears of War, and an unreleased Tom Clancy shooter from a franchise I'm half-convinced no one actually plays seriously except the Frag Dolls. The entire league this year is so far comprised of three Xbox 360 shooters. That's one genre on one console. Let me be blunt here - I think console shooters suck balls. Again, a personal preference, sure, but one that I happen to share with every human being I've ever met that first experienced FPS on a PC.
Of course there's some other big'ish leagues over here, like CEVO, which has CS1.6, CS:S, CoD4, TF2, and AA.... But I guess it just doesn't have enough team-based FPS to gain my interest. There's also the CPL
As an oldskool hardcore gamer who's been dreaming of mainstream competitive e-sports in North America for the last 20 years, I expected something more... relevant. I assumed they would generally contain a variety of genres and platforms that test more than just the narrow skill-set FPS does, or have games selected based on their natural competitive community growth instead of 720p compatible broadcast resolution and/or publisher funding. "Real" sports, like football, hockey, or baseball, aren't where they are because they broadcast well in HD, or fit a convenient TV time-slot. Their popularity grew organically over time because more people loved playing them and watching them be played than the alternatives. You can't force a sport's adoption on the mainstream, all you can do is usher along its natural growth. Unless we want pro gaming to ultimately be the next beach volleyball, where the tiny audience is there less for the sport and more for the eye-candy, someone needs to step up and either choose the games that naturally work well as e-sports, or develop games from the ground up with that intention. Fun to play, fun to spectate, and with a skill-depth that takes a lifetime to master. I mention StarCraft frequently because I think it's the perfect example of an e-sport evolving naturally in a culture, with televised play being the result of the sport's popularity and not the other way around. CS1.6 is also a great example of a massively popular competitive game that is huge on its gameplay merit alone. Neither of them will ever meet modern western broadcasting standards.
Fortunately televised e-sports development this year isn't entirely sour for me. The news of Tasteless' move to South Korea where he'll be shoutcasting pro StarCraft matches in English had me micro-dancing with joy in my living room.


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When the government changes the law, individuals respond to those changes. Because of this, the true effects of a law often differ radically from its authors' intentions. For example, Congress created welfare to help the poor in times of need, but instead it created a cycle of dependence trapping low-income Americans in poverty.
Similarly, raising the minimum wage brings with it unintended consequences that run counter to lawmakers' aim of helping the working poor. Like anything else, when the price of labor rises, businesses buy less of it. The role of the minimum wage in raising unemployment is well known and well documented. But even worse, recent research has shown that higher minimum wages reduce teenage education levels and decrease workers' long-term earnings. Studies also show that the minimum wage does not reduce poverty. As always, Members of Congress should look beyond their good intentions and consider the full effects of proposed policies. If they do, they will reject raising the minimum wage.


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5 Ridiculous Animal Myths That You Probably Believe
Somewhere, right now, an adult is quoting an interesting animal "fact" that he actually learned from an old cartoon. Or from some other equally unreliable source. This is why sayings like "blind as a bat" persist even though bats can in fact see (tip: try substituting the more accurate phrase, "Blind as a man with two assholes in his face instead of eyes").
Anyway, as we've pointed out before, animals are one of those subjects particularly vulnerable to laughable misconceptions. Which is why even today you can hear somebody say ...
#5. Mother Birds Abandon Their Chicks if You Touch Them
You're a little kid, and you have discovered a newly hatched chick for the first time. Maybe it fell out of the nest! You go to poke it, when your mom runs up and gives you the "Don't touch it or the mother bird will abandon it!" speech. Something to do with the bird having the smell of a human on it. And from that point forward, you know that loving something means letting it remain free ... from your repugnant stink, which is capable of ruining a life form for entire its species.
On one hand, the warning is well advised. Trying to help a baby bird by feeding it, cleaning it or housing it will usually kill it. There is a specific set of instructions for how to care for an abandoned bird, though usually the bird isn't even abandoned. Usually, kids are just stumbling upon the bird when its mother is away doing something else.
"I just want some goddamned time to my goddamned self."
It's a big enough problem that it's actually against the law to try and raise a native species of baby bird yourself; it's punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine up to 15 grand. Damn, having to admit that to your fellow inmates would actually be worse than the sentence itself.
"They caught me selling a dimebag of baby crows to an undercover."
The Problem ...
First off, birds hardly use their noses; instead they rely on their eyes and ears. So no, they can't immediately sense when a baby has been tainted by human stench, whether you pick it up with your hands or try to rub your balls on it.
Second, birds don't really care if humans touch their chicks or not. While touching a bird when it is learning to fly can be detrimental to its ability to fly, it doesn't stop mother birds from feeding or caring for their chicks. They're still bonded to them through good and bad, just like your parents are with you.
Except for the times they left you in the woods, only for the wolves to return you in disgust.
So How'd It Get Started?
We're going to go with Snopes' theory that it was the only way to get people to stop trying to freaking pick up baby birds.
Animal welfare organizations have long maintained (even now) that you shouldn't help newly born animals with anything because they're still learning. But, if you've ever met a 7-year-old, you know they're not easily deterred. "But MOM! The baby needs my help getting back to the nest!" So, the moms came up with this urban legend: "If you touch it, its mom will let him starve while watching you with blank, judgmental eyes dear. You see for mommies, it's a thin line between nurturing, and gladly ridding ourselves of a foul smelling accident that ruined her life."
"I'm not sure how we got on to this."
#4. Cut an Earthworm in Half, You Get Two Worms
For some of you, this was your first attempt at hands-on animal biology. You're in the back yard and you find an earthworm. You cut it in half, because you're a sadist, and look at that! Both halves are still alive!
"One day, this will be Father."
Then some helpful grownup comes along and says, "You know, eventually both ends will heal and grow back, and you'll have two worms!" It's one of those everyday interesting "facts" that you see mentioned in passing in old books.
To a kid, the logic is sound: If lizards and such can regenerate new tails they've lost, and worms are nothing but tail-shaped things, they can probably regenerate their whole bodies. And they're such basic creatures, really just tubes of ooze capable of nothing but wriggling and creeping out 12-year-old girls.
The Problem ...
Try this. Buy yourself a cow. Now sever the cow straight down the middle. How many cows do you now have? Did each half grow a new half cow? Didn't think so.
If you think we're being silly by picking such a completely different animal, fine. Try it with a fly, or a cockroach. Because earthworms are as biologically complex as any insect. They, too, have heads and tails and (more importantly) entire systems for eating and metabolizing food. They have brains, and hearts, the whole bit.
We can't find the bit labeled "burger," and we can usually find it pretty quickly.
So the idea that if you cut the head off, the ass end of the worm will just grow a new head is just as insane as thinking a cow or a dog can do it. It would be pretty freaking amazing if they could. And if it were true, we would be living on the planet equivalent of the movie Slither, because every worm that ever got chopped up would magically become a whole family of worms.
This is about to get a little chest-burstery.
So How'd It Get Started?
The myth probably comes from a simple misunderstanding. Earthworms, like most insects, do have regenerative abilities, just not nearly as advanced as we think. So if you cut part of an earthworm's tail off, it might be able to regrow a stunted replacement. And they do keep moving after you cut them in half, but that's just because both sides are wriggling in pain as the final nerve signals shoot through. The same has been observed to happen with decapitated chickens and humans. Both with chickens and earth worms, the non-head side eventually dies off.
So to recap, the first experiment that taught many a child that nature is a mysterious, wondrous thing was actually just chopping an animal in half, and watching it writhe around in the throes of death. But at least your parents warned you before you molested those birds into the orphanage.
#3. Rabbits Eat Carrots, Mice Love Cheese
Do a Google Image Search for "cartoon rabbit" and within the first five results you'll find one eating a carrot, even if it's not Bugs Bunny. Carrots are to rabbits what bananas are to monkeys.
The only thing more certain than a rabbit's carrot addiction is this: Mice love cheese. If a mousetrap doesn't have a big triangular wedge of cheese in it, the mouse is going to walk right by that sucker. That fact has been well established everywhere from commercials to song lyrics to kids' movies.
We can just tell this is about to be solved in a funny and heartwarming way.
The Problem ...
Cartoons have been hard on the world's pet rabbits. You can tell because every single website about rabbits, and rabbit breeders, and rabbit feeding all have to carry this warning: If you try to feed a rabbit nothing but carrots, it will die. It's like giving a human nothing but cotton candy. If your rabbit happens to like carrots, you have to carefully ration the stuff. Non-cartoon rabbits eat mostly hay and green leafy things. If you give a rabbit a carrot with the green top still on it, it will disregard the carrot part and eat just the top. It'll be like, "What's this orange shit?"
"Go die in a fire."
As for mice and cheese, to start off, mice have really sensitive noses, so Limburger would peel their little mousey faces off. Figuratively speaking. And then a recent study that we hope was funded by a grant to investigate cartoon myths found that mice respond to the taste, smell and texture of food, and will decline something as strong-smelling and highly flavored as cheese. They're actually drawn to foods with relatively high sugar content, such as grains and fruit. In response to all this cheese/mice humbug, the apparently bored British Parliament released a "technical note" suggesting that mice be caught with, "biscuits, porridge oats, other cereals and chocolate."
So that's what you need to plant next to their little arch doorways in the baseboard.
And remove all frying pans from the vicinity if you have a particularly hapless cat.
So How'd It Get Started?
As for rabbits and carrots, it goes back to Bugs Bunny and an old Clark Gable movie from 1934. The film was a romantic comedy called It Happened One Night, and it was a huge hit at the time. There was a scene where Gable was talking around a carrot he was chewing on and the animators for Bugs Bunny depicted Bugs doing the same, in an open parody of the scene that audiences of the time would have immediately recognized (kind of the way we immediately recognize when a Shrek character imitates "bullet time" from The Matrix). That became standard Bugs Bunny behavior, and what followed was 75 years of kids growing up thinking that rabbits were carrot junkies.
Clark Gable, seconds before launching into an astonishing operatic piece.
As for mice and cheese, one popular theory (which hasn't been discussed scientifically, so take this cum grano salis), is that mice were constantly being discovered in medieval cupboards eating the household cheese stash. But this would have been because it was the only food they could get to -- the meat would be hanging and salted, and grain would be stored in jars. It was cheese or starvation.
"Beats ending up as hot dog meat."
So it's like that one time you mentioned offhand to an aunt that you liked beef jerky, and now she's been getting you beef jerky every Christmas for 20 straight years. Or that one cop who probably got caught eating a doughnut a hundred years ago and forever cemented the dietary reputation of an entire profession.


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I find it very distressing to witness the disfiguring of my grandaughter while my daughter says it is ok for her to cut her own her hair, from beautiful long curly hair to a hacked haircut. What can I do about this?
Assuming you're not your granddaughters legal guardian, remember that your granddaughter is not your daughter.
When a parent (read: any legal guardian) is present, knows what is going on and has okayed it, you are not to interfere. The only exceptions are when she is (in danger of) hurting herself, or hurting you or something of yours.
If those exceptions do not apply, leave it be, how hard that may be, and take it up with your daughter instead, in private.
Honestly, unless your daughter gave her a large sharp knife to cut her hair with, it's not abuse or anything. It sounds like your daughter is letting her daughter take some control over her own appearance. If, once she's done, your granddaughter is displeased with her haircut, take her to a hairdresser for a repair. If your granddaughter likes her hair, LET IT ALONE.
Else, if you find it distressing, I recommend you remove yourself from the situation (either physically, or by reading a book or otherwise distracting yourself).
The answers provided so far are a bit brusque, but I'd suggest that's because, as you most likely know, we all want to be free to raise our children in our own way -- sometimes quite different from how our parents raised us.
I remember telling my mother when I was rather young that I wasn't going to learn from all of her mistakes: I would sometimes make my own mistakes and learn from those and that is OK. (I've always been rather precocious, lol.)
To me, parenting isn't about controlling your child, but teaching them to think about choices, considering the positive and negative consquences and then letting them (where it isn't dangerous) make their own decisions. To that end, when my daughter at 12 wanted to dye her hair, I talked with her about the consequences to ensure she understood them, but ultimately let her make the decision to dye her hair... she now regrets it and "never" wants to dye her hair again.
As mentioned in one of the comments, a private conversation with your daughter to understand her rationale may be all that's needed for you to accept the parenting decision she has made. If her decision seems illogical, then it may behoove you to kindly offer a consideration of all the facts at hand for your daughter to re-evaluate her parenting methodology, but ultimately provided she doesn't allow or cause harm to her daughter, her choice of parenting is in her hands -- we don't always like or approve of the decisions our children make, but did our parents always approve of our decisions?
The perspective we have taken with our kids is that while we would love them to have great hair all the time, it is fun for them to mess with it, and it can help get it out of their systems.
We'd rather they did it now than when they are going to job interviews as adults, so we encourage them to do what they like - and this has included a bit of self haircutting, mohawks, colours etc. It's fun.
My parents maybe wouldn't have liked it, but it's only hair.
I'd suggest relaxing and realising it won't make your granddaughter a bad/ugly/crazy person, it doesn't make your daughter a bad person, and it definitely is not your business unless either of them wants to make it your business.
I happen to believe a parent's responsibility doesn't end when her children are grown, it just changes somewhat. Does it bother me when my Mom offers unsolicited advice about my own children? Sometimes yes, but I understand there are things I can and do still learn from her, that it's still part of her role, and that I am free to take what she says under advisement and still do it my way.
She is kind and wise enough to not undermine me in front of my children, to use a degree of tact in bringing things up, and to leave it alone after she's given her input. It sounds like you are extending that same courtesy to your daughter.
Understand there are things everyone likes and doesn't like about their own upbringing, and often parenting style is deliberately chosen to be different in certain areas from one's own parents. I'm sure you can think of things your mother did that you didn't want to continue to the next generation. Who knows, maybe one of those those things was even that your Mom never stopped you from making mistakes like hacking your hair! That's not necessarily a sign of disrespect. It's a sign that your daughter wants to learn both from your strengths and perceived weaknesses.
I would go with the Stephen Covey approach of "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." Have a conversation with your daughter about why she feels it is important to her to let her daughter cut her own hair. Listen completely before making any judgements. Once you fully understand her reasons, you might be surprised to find you actually agree. If you still disagree, you will have a better understanding of how to share that in a way she will understand.
A lot of parents are permissive because they don't want to stifle their child's creativity, but sometimes it's hard to recognize there is a middle ground where children can be creative without being destructive, or to recognize the difference between stifling and providing supportive structure and guidance.
There is middle ground between letting a four year-old cut her own hair and preventing a four year-old from having any say at all about her own body. A good compromise would be to let the daughter choose her own style, but get it cut by a professional so it turns out how she intended. I think it's a great role for a grandparent to suggest alternatives your daughter might not have considered, while taking her unique parenting style into account.
Have you talked to your daughter about it? Do you understand why she's allowing it? It's a bit weird.
If she's insistent, that's that. This is odd enough, I can't imagine anyone being surprised to be asked what's going on.


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I am not very clear about the word boilerplate when it comes to programming. How is it different to other similar terms such as template and prototype? I would appreciate some examples that clearly explain the difference.
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Well, this is the meaning of the three words you asked, in a programming context:
Template: it is usually referred in web design or programming as a base you take to make your own fixes. But you do not usually use a template witouth your own fixes/changes.
Note that in the general case, template is something you take from others (posted on the Internet, for example), while prototype or boilerplate is something you make on your own.
Boilerplate has a negative connotation and refers to repetitive code that does't really contribute to the logic of the program, but is required by the language or the framework. It indicates tedium and a violation of the "Don't Repeat Yourself" programming ethos.
For example, in Java, it's common to provide getter and setter methods to access certain properties on an object. Say we want a class to represent brands of hot sauce:
This is a simple data object without any real internal logic. However, the standard practice is to provide "getter" and "setter" methods in case we want to add logic later or use the object with frameworks that make use of the getter and setter pattern:
These methods are boilerplate. They take up most of the file, yet they contain no real logic and do not tell us anything more about the HotSauce class. They are tedious to write, and are often automatically generated by the editor program.
Boilerplate can also come from a buildup of declarations that normally save effort. For example, when using the Spring framework with Java, one must declare several things at the top of every unit test class:
The declarations at the top of the file convey important information: that we want these tests to be Spring-enabled, and to be initialized in the given context with the given active profile. The Spring framework uses those lines to do a great deal of initialization, yet they are still a bit verbose, and they must be repeated at top of every test class. Thus, even though they are useful, they become boilerplate.
In the context of programming, I do not believe that boilerplate is strictly a technical term like prototype and template.
An actual boilerplate is something that was placed on a boiler. It is usually pre-printed with the exception of a serial number, boiler capacity, etc. In this respect, it is closer to a template.
With respect to programming, a template can have a very technical meaning, which usually involves a class that has some type parameters, and boilerplate is just a piece of code that is inserted verbatim (both these uses respect the non-technical meanings).
There are, of course, many definitions. As we can see in these answers, even in programming it can have different meanings. I'm here to provide a web development perspective.
The New Oxford American Dictionary (via Dictionary.app) defines "boilerplate" as follows (among other definitions, but this one applies to technology):
To me, as I put on my developer hat, it can be described as a starting point. When I hear boilerplate, I immediately think of the HTML5 Boilerplate, which describes itself as a "professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites." It's consists of a simple folder structure and some basic files (most importantly the feature-rich and cross-browser compatible CSS and HTML)—a very useful starting point to kick-start web projects.
Basically, these are my personal definitions in the context of the great Interwebs:
A prototype is a bare-bones version of a specific project. I may make a simple prototype of an application and include only the most important features to send to colleagues or a client to look at—a demo. We may then evaluate if and how to move forward, perhaps with the help of some UX testing.
A template is a generic file or snippet that can be used in a project—often providing some sort of structure to build upon. For example, it can be a basic home page consisting of some HTML and CSS. Or, it can be a generic resume or contract (often an NDA) that you change according to your needs. Its purpose is to save time, and the point is to not have to write it all from scratch.
A boilerplate is thus very similar to a template, but in my mind it's more complete and thorough, and may consist of more than one template. For example, I personally would only use a subset of the HTML5 Boilerplate, removing things like JavaScript libraries I don't need.


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I saw this two questions that I don't fully understand:
Let $E$ be the number of strings in $\{0,1\}^{17}$ with an even number of 1's, and Let $O$ be the number of strings with an odd number of 1's. What is $E-O$
The answer in the book is 0, but there's no explanation. Also
What is the number of strings in $\{0,1,2,3\}^{17}$ with an even sum of coordinates
The answer is $\frac{4^{17}}{2}$, but also no explanation. Thanks


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There's a well-known decomposition of $L^2(G)$, a regular representation of compact complex group Lie $G$, called Peter-Weyl theorem.
Turns out for some reason I automatically think that there is a similar theorem that decomposes regular representation $k[G]$ of algebraic group $G$:
$$k[G] = \bigoplus_R \ R^* \otimes R$$
where sum goes over representations to $GL(n, k)$. For this to work I think we need $G$ to be a linear reductive group over, say, algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic 0. Also, perhaps we need $\pi_1(G) = 1$.
But perhaps this is not true — the search hasn't given me a reference yet, but I wasn't able to provide a counterexample either.
Consider, for example, the multiplicative group $\mathbb G_m$. Then $k[\mathbb G_m] = k[x, x^{-1}]$ where each summand $k\cdot x^n$ is a separate representation of $\mathbb G_m$ into $\mathbb G_m = GL(1, k)$, specifically the one given by $a \mapsto a^n$. So the identity works.
So, is there such a theorem? What's a reference or a counterexample?


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Why do hot objects prefer to emit photons over electrons ? Is there electron-positron annihilation ? If so , why ? Im confused by this.
The energy levels in any object are quantized. The ground state of an electron is the lowest energy. From there electrons can have many higher energy levels, the highest being that which allows them to completely escape the nuclear attraction, i.e., get emitted.
So hot objects can emit electrons, but the probability that any single electron will have that much energy just due to heating the object is lower than electrons going up a few levels (due to gaining thermal energy) and then jumping back and emitting photons. Very hot objects can become plasma (electrons are emitted and you are left with ions). There are of course other ways to achieve a plasma (e.g., dielectric breakdown discharge) which are not equilibrium thermal excitation. But that is beyond scope of this question.
Electrons are emitted, but being charged, they form a cloud close to the surface and do not travel too far due to attraction to the positively charged remainder. If you place a metallic plate near the surface, you can collect these electrons and even make a circuit. This is known as thermo-electric sources of electricity.
Photons are neutral and are not attracted to the hot body, so they go away.
Edit: There are no positrons there, but positively charged atomic ions. In a hot object there are processes of atom excitation/ionization and recombination. The latter process produces photons.


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text: I experienced this problem when installing SWISH-s and resolved it by using the -e option and pointed the Temp-Dir to a drive that has lots of space (almost 100GB). Now it appears to be an issue again. I've also tried indexing by in a command window using my admin account and receive the same error. We use the following command to execute the index: D:\ProgramFiles\Swish-E\swish-e -S http -e -c D:\ProgramFiles\Swish-E\conf\siteindex.config. The config file looks like this: # ----- SiteIndex.config - Spider using "http" method ------- # # Please see the swish-e documentation for # information on configuration directives. # Documentation is included with the swish-e # distribution, and also can be found on-line # at http://swish-e.org # # # This example demonstrates how to use the # the "http" method of spidering. # # Indexing (spidering) is started with the following # command issued from the "d:\Program Files\Swish-e" directory: # # swish-e -S http -c Siteindex.config # # Note: You should have the current Bundle::LWP bundle # of perl modules installed. This was tested with: # libwww-perl-5.53 # # ** Do not spider a web server without permission ** # #--------------------------------------------------- # Include our site-wide configuration settings: IncludeConfigFile D:/ProgramFiles/Swish-E/conf/Settings.config # Specify the URL (or URLs) to index: IndexDir http://www.hr.msu.edu/hrsite # If a server goes by more than one name you can use this directive: # EquivalentServer http://swish-e.org http://www.swish-e.org # This defines how many links the spider should # follow before stopping. A value of 0 configures the spider to # traverse all links. The default is 5 # The idea is to limit spidering, but seems of questionable use # since depth may not be related to anything useful. MaxDepth 10 # The number of seconds to wait between issuing # requests to a server. The default is 60 seconds. Delay 1 # Skip pages with Meta tag "noindex" obeyRobotsNoIndex yes # (default /var/tmp) The location of a writeable temp directory # on your system. The HTTP access method tells the Perl helper to place # its files there. The default is defined in src/config.h and depends on # the current OS. TmpDir D:/Inetpub/Indexes/Temp # The "http" method uses a perl helper program to fetch each document # from the web called "swishspider" and is included in the src directory of # the swish-e distribution. SpiderDirectory D:/ProgramFiles/Swish-E # Put the index files in the Inetpub/Indexes directory IndexFile D:/Inetpub/Indexes/SiteIndex.New.index # end of SiteIndex Config file I am receiving the following warning in my log files from the indexing job: Warning: Configuration setting for TmpDir 'D:/Inetpub/Indexes/Temp' will be overridden by environment setting 'C:\DOCUME~1\rek\LOCALS~1\Temp' which does not exist. When I look in the specified temp directory I've found SWISH-e work files so I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. The summaries of the last good index on 9/8 look like: 1468 files indexed. 39839610 total bytes. 810188 total words. Elapsed time: 00:32:05 CPU time: 00:32:05 Indexing done! We are using the latest windows version of Swish-e on a Windows 2000 server. The archives and FAQ point to the -e option to fix memory issues. What have I missed? Rick Richard Klingensmith MSU Human Resources Information Systems 1407 S. Harrison Road Ste. 40 East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 432-4636 ext. 155 email@example.com ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. *********************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 11 15:33:46 2003


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Sydney Cancer Conference 2012
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Last Modified: April 20, 2012
Dates: September 27-28, 2012
Location: Sydney, Australia
Sponsoring Group: University of Sydney
Web Page URL: sydney.edu.au/cancer-research/SCC2012/
Topics Covered: The Sydney Cancer Conference 2012 theme is From Discovery to Implementation covering basic cancer research, biomedical cancer research, Clinical and public health research, and psychosocial aspects.
Objectives: A major multi-disciplinary international meeting of basic, clinical, translational, public health and psychosocial researchers focussed on the problem of cancer.
Who Should Attend: All cancer researchers, clinicians
Registration Information: Earlybird registration close on the 26th July 2012. Registration during the earlybird period for the two day event is $440 (AUD). After the earlybird prices are $495. Student prices are also available for $165. You can register for the Sydney Cancer Conference 2012 online at sydney.edu.au/cancer-research/SCC2012/
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By April 1, smoking at outdoor venues in Marshall County will be against the law.
Marshall County Board of Health members earlier this month approved the regulation, but not before amending one section. They decided to change some language emphasizing that smoking was prohibited in outdoor venues and at fairs and festivals, but that owners or organizers could still ask the health department for permission to designate an area for smokers.
Before taking the vote, they heard from the public, including Haven Inn of Glen Dale owner Jim Weekley, who said he was in favor of expanding the regulation because it included a provision to ban smoking inside hotels and motels.
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Haven Inn owner Jim Weekley listens to debate about expanding the smoking ban in Marshall County. The board approved prohibiting smoking in public outdoor areas.
''It could actually prevent a structure fire,'' Weekley said of the ban, noting he has a difficult time keeping up with the damage caused by smokers in his rooms.
Elizabeth Fager, representing Grand Vue Park, said the ban expansion could decrease the park's revenue from its cabin rentals and that the park would have difficulty enforcing the measure.
County resident Ruth Cook said she was concerned the board would eventually want to ban smoking in private residences, something one board member assured her would not happen.
''I've had a lot of tragedies in my life. ... I think smoking helps me,'' said Cook, a 50-year smoker.
Representing Mound View Health Care, Heather Blake said she was in favor of the ban, noting her concern is tobacco contamination that can linger even after a cigarette is extinguished.
Board member Don Mason said the objective of prohibiting smoking in outdoor public places is to protect children attending events and ballgames. The health department has received complaints from parents concerned about secondhand smoke during such events, prompting the board to take action, said Administrator Ronda Francis.
She noted that during the comment period, some people called her and said they wished the ban included bars and gambling parlors - two places where smoking still is allowed.
Other outdoor areas the ban impacts include playgrounds, swimming pools, outdoor dining areas and waiting lines and more. And unlike before, there will be penalties for breaking the regulation for those found guilty in court of doing so. The regulation will continue to allow smoking in private residences unless the residence is being used as a child care or adult care facility.
Some residents want to see the ban pushed further, while others believe it currently is too stringent.
Moundsville resident and smoker Aubrey Payne disagrees with the ban's expansion to outdoor venues.
''I think it's very wrong to do that. They always talk about non-smokers' rights, what about smokers' rights?'' she said. ''If there is a child beside me I will move - I'm polite about it. They should tell people not be disrespectful.''
Becky Morgan, a Jacobsburg, Ohio, resident, said she enjoys coming to Moundsville's Riverfront Park for summertime concerts. But she dislikes it when people smoke in the crowd. She agrees with the expansion of the ban and believes having a designated area set aside for smokers is OK.
''It's not likely to affect anyone else. ... I lost my dad to smoking. And my mom - she was allergic to the medicine they gave him,'' Morgan noted.
Bellaire resident Martin Paliah said he enjoys shopping and eating out in Moundsville, but he believes the ban should be expanded to bars and bars that serve food as well.


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Is there any trusted, verified and regarder classification of testing? The discrepancies I talk about are like:
Functional testing =testing against documentation/requirements to verify functions of the SW
This is obviously not true as non-functional requirements can be also stated like performance requirements etc and thus testing it would be rather functional testing (of non functional requirements).
Or consider exploratory testing, it is apparently functional testing but based on your ideas that come from the expected functionality (or vice versa, you try to brake it).


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Georgge Hodge is the vice president of the Leavenworth Triathlon Club. The club has monthly meetings to talk about bike maintenance, race nutrition, injury prevention and other fitness topics. Leavenworth Parks and Recreation and the Leavenworth Triathlon Club will host the second running of the Dog Daze Duathlon at 7 p.m. on Aug. 11 at Warren Middle School. 1. What's so different about this race? It's a run-bike-run sequence, so athletes will have to change from running to biking then back to running. 2. How can you get ready for the race? Practice both disciplines in a single workout. Practice jumping on your bike and riding a few miles immediately after running. Likewise, practice running immediately after. Eat a well balanced dinner the night before and a good prerace breakfast that morning. Ensure you hydrate that morning, too. 3. Do I need a racing bike for this event? Most any bike will work. However, tandem bikes and recumbent bike are not allowed. 4. What should participants wear? Wear a nylon or synthetic blend t-shirt or jersey. Consider wearing bicycle gloves, too. 5. What expectations should the participants have? My favorite tip is to use this event to do some personal goal setting. It will be physically and psychologically demanding to see if you can complete all three events during our Kansas heat wave. For every person that crosses the finish line that morning, there will be millions of people who never had the courage to get off the couch and try it.
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I bring in pictures in RAW format from my camera to Photoshop CS5 but in raw format they are around 10 MB each. When I do Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S to save them for web, I get a dialog every time warning me that since they are big, performance may be degraded.
It is really annoying that this is raised on every single one I save.
Is there a way to configure Photoshop to increase the threshold memory size that triggers this warning so I can configure it to say 11 MB and stop seeing this message over and over again.


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A hidden message or image found in text, music or film. A well-known subliminal message was that of Coca-Cola ads which flashed for less Than a second in movies. You may not have seen it, but your subconscious did. Don't argue with him.
Diggers in delicious donuts are talking idiotically, noticably keeping licked earwax.
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anything that sends you a message without your Knowledge of It, usuaLLy picked up on by your subconscious mind, oftEn ViolEnt thoughts, that can be left unhaRmed to slowly work its waY intO your brain. pEople rarely catch them, even when they are right in front of their eyes--more obvious than anything.
"he used subliminal messages to own the world."
by garryp February 06, 2004
A series of advertisiments that flash so fast that your only your sub-conscious mind can pick it up. This method was used alot in the 1950's and 60's to get people to smoke. If it is used enough your actions can be effected by these messages. It has been baned by the US government.
John: I can't stop playing World of Warcraft
Patrick: I think it has subliminal messages in the game.
Patrick: I think it has subliminal messages in the game.
by bern316 August 26, 2009
a way to tell someone to do something without them knowing
subliminal message:
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Definitely the best upgrade for the Chinese in Command & Conquer Generals. It increases the healing and increased fire rate of propaganda by another 25% permanently for only 500 $. Nuke Overlords + Propaganda Tower + Subliminal Messaging = Teh Ep1c W1nz0rzzz!!!!!11111111
Subliminal message upgrade is complete!
by Aquifex July 14, 2009
The sound of nothing but bass coming from a motorized vehicle.
What's that guy's problem.
I dunno, he's sending out a subliminal message.
I dunno, he's sending out a subliminal message.
by Mark Shackelford May 04, 2007


text: Let me start off with a little background, a brief taste of indoctrination, err, introduction. So far I have managed to survive fifty plus years on this planet, and the last eight have been as a full-time fantasy author. My previous occupation was the president of a consulting firm. I live in sunny Florida with my wife and cat. My daughters are grown and are off making their own marks in the world. I have just finished writing book number eighteen, which is the finale of an eight book series. All of my books fit into three series, and the bibliography follows: Targa Trilogy - Origin Scroll – 1997 - Dark Quest – 1997 - Ancient Prophecy – 1997 Sword of Heavens - Sapphire of the Fairies – 1998 - Unicorns' Opal – 2002 - Abuud: the One-Eyed God – 2002 - Dwarven Ruby - 2002 - Emerald of the Elves – 2002 - Dragons' Onyx – 2003 - Amethyst of the Gods – 2003 Forgotten Legacy - Young Lord of Khadora – 1998 - Star of Sakova – 2000 - Web of Deceit – 2002 - Aakuta: the Dark Mage – 2003 - Island of Darkness – 2003 - Elvangar – 2004 - Winged Warrior – 2004 - Time of Cleansing (working title) – 2005 My next work will be a stand-alone fantasy novel, which I shall refer to as CFTK for now. Although my books are available in print, my primary focus has been the ebook world. I understand that I am a bit ahead of the readership world, but I am a firm believer in the future of ebooks. It is my intention to be firmly situated in that industry when it finally takes off. Currently, two of my books are ranked first and second at fictionwise.com in the fantasy category. I am thrilled to have sffworld.com host this forum, and I look forward to hearing from all of you.


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As a former Windows user I was used to accepting EULA's and other licenses when installing any piece of software, or when installing the whole OS. On Ubuntu it happens extremely rarely (I've met it only once). Is it correct? Ubuntu and most of it's software is under some free-to-use-and-modify license like GNU GPL or something similar, but shouldn't the license be presented to the user?
This is regarding free software:
A license is very different from a EULA. The software on your computer starts out under the normal (default, in some countries) copyright by the authors. Only then do you get special permission to copy and re-distribute the software under the terms of the GPL. This does not restrict your use of the software, nor does it put any special onus on you to comply with some arbitrary terms. It is not a contract.
Think of the GPL as an agreement of the terms of re-distribution; you are granted license to deal with the software in ways normally prohibited by copyright law, given you agree to some terms.
A EULA restricts your use of the software, it has nothing to do with simple copyright. The EULA says, you may use this software, but not in any way you like. It restricts you further than copyright or trademark law could. Free software doesn't have that kind of restrictions, therefore you don't have to agree to any contract.
I wasn't able to comment on Stefano Palazzo's answer above, but I just wanted to clarify that it's not necessarily true to say that an open source licence isn't a contractual licence. They often are, and it may well be the case that all open source licences are contracts in some jurisdictions.
But of course he's right in that there are generally no obligations placed on the user so there is no incentive to get them to accept the contractual licence. Copyright law provides an adequate fallback for any shenanigans, so there really is no need for an open source software developer to inconvenience the user with an unnecessary legal process.
By the way, while you're free to not agree with the licence, using the software without a licence will leave yourself open to a copyright claim from the developer. Generally they wouldn't act on it anyway.
Most people don't read those licenses or EULA's at all, and those who do find it important enough can probably find them through other means (on the software's website, for instance).
That's not very user-friendly to them, but it is to most users.
The model used on windows is not the norm on most systems. Having used a mac once I was a bit surprised at just how simple installing apps was (much more simple than linux, believe me, but not in a good way). The point is, showing a license for every install is not only annoying, but unnecessary. The license (if really relevant) should be shown when first running the software, or in an about menu, etc.
For users switching from windows, adding that extra step would mean another hurdle to understanding linux, which is another good reason why it (the extra step) is not included. BTW the software center shows you the license as a string in the info about the software (in a simple way) - that should be enough for most common users.
Almost every GPL licensed application has GPL license in Help > About dialog. At least KDE apps have one. If you want to read the license, you can do it form help dialog.


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I do feel as though I am lowering the tone of this enterprise by writing once again about crime. Robert Lewis's The Bank of the Black Sheep is set in the gray, damp, cold of a Welsh winter, a variation on the theme of the feckless private detective. It's a dark read that deftly combines bleakness with hilarity. The cast of characters--almost all losers--have enough quirky humanity to matter. That quirkiness, and the edgy excellence of the writing, kept me interested to the end.Robin Llewelyn awakens handcuffed to a bed in the Howell Harris Hospice with no memory of his identity or why he is there. He is on a morphine drip, apparently because he is dying of cancer. Doctors have told him that enough morphine would erase his memory, but only temporarily. The handcuffs, and a visit from a couple of unpleasant fellows from the local constabulary, lead Llewelyn to think that he has perhaps committed a crime or is suspected of having done so. His handcuffs are removed and he asks to be taken off the drip so he can attempt to find out who he is, and what he may have done.Llewelyn sneaks out of the hospice at night into the nearby market town of Llandovery. At the bar of the White Hall Hotel, he orders a Watkins Ale and is so transfixed by its amber beauty that he cannot drink it. Nothing much happens until an oafish local farmer named Gerald blows through the door. He spies Llewelyn and lumbers over to his table, behaving as though they knew each other well. Llewelyn questions him about it, but Ger justs laughs. Soon after their meeting, a parcel is delivered to Llewelyn's room at the hospice. It contains several thousand pounds in twenty-pound notes, a sawed-off shotgun, and a cryptic message.The money means opportunity for Llewelyn. He has no friends at the hospice except for a brief acquaintance with the gentle Hilary Price. She brings a breath of civility into his life--they attend a concert of Schubert's music together--and he feels that she deserves a kinder fate than to end her days at Howell Harris. "Better, surely, that the sound outside your bedroom door is the soft tread of a husband or a daughter on the landing, and not the boots of nighttime security or foreign nurses." But Hilary dies, and Gerald's money enables Llewelyn to escape the hospice altogether.It is not entirely plausible that a man dying of lung cancer could survive the feats of physical endurance and abuse that Robin Llewelyn does, but he is a man driven to find out who he is before death gathers him. He pays a call on Gerald at his family farm only to find that Gerald has fled. Poking around the barn Llewelyn makes two discoveries, one of which terrifies him and one which excites him. He also finds a photograph of a young couple with a baby that tugs at his memory.At this point the story becomes more of a caper, perhaps a noir-ish Big Deal On Madonna Street, with a hodge-podge of bad guys, less bad guys, and almost-good guys warily circling each other. It begins to dawn on Llewelyn that he knows the bad guys fairly well, and it does not cheer him up. One of them, Tomos Blethyn, accuses him of betraying them all, spitting out the words that stun him: "Even your own son."The pieces of Robin Llewelyn's puzzle fall slowly into place. The circle of felons, actual and potential, expands and contracts in various unpleasant ways. Two bent coppers are disposed of. Of himself and his small band of new friends, Llewelyn observes: "You should never underestimate the criminal who can consider himself a half-honest man." The author's sly affection for this odd group of characters gives them life. His attitude toward the caper that changes their lives is implicit in the quotation from Brecht which opens the book: "What's breaking into a bank compared with founding one?"
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Apparently, this is the third (and last, if the protagonist is dying) in a series of noir novels.I enjoy Dashiell Hammett and the like because in them the protagonist is solid and likeable, someone you can identify with and care about. The modern tendency seems to be to portray people who have nothing special to recommend them as individuals, perhaps presuming that the modern reader is too sophisticated to identify with characters in fiction - or, maybe, that the modern reader enjoys slumming, looking down at the wretched of the earth. Or what? What's the attraction of unattractive characters?You say
The cast of charactersalmost all losershave enough quirky humanity to matter. That quirkiness, and the edgy excellence of the writing, kept me interested to the end.
I guess I can understand reading to enjoy the skill of the writer, but that seems a poor substitute for something more substantial. I wonder whether many people read "light" fiction the way they watch junk television - to relax, "to give the mind a rest". I've heard that, and it makes sense the way it makes sense for someone to watch a bull fight or auto racing for the noise and excitement and the smell of the crowd, but it doesn't appeal to me. I'd much rather read Maeve Binchy than a skillfully written story about losers.As always, of course, it's a matter of personal taste.Have you read Ross Thomas?
David,Thanks for your thoughtful comments. I didn't realize the book was the last installment of a trilogy until I was halfway through reading it. I was enjoying it so much--despite all the lowlifes--that I wanted to learn more about the author.You seem interested in what motivates an individual's choice of reading, movies, television, etc. I, like many others, depend on recommendations from people whose taste I respect, and I read book reviews. But then there are the quirks: never judge a book by its cover, but one of the best books I've ever read--A Primate's Memoir--called me from the library's basement stacks with the most captivating portrait of a baboon. The baboon, in brilliant color, was sitting on a rock with pen and pad in hand. So, too, with Bank of the Black Sheep. I liked the cover, and the book as well. Naturally, this is a very hit or miss way to choose a book. I'm not fond of the word "losers" because it seems tremendously smug, not to mention un-Christian. Yet I could think of no other word to describe most of the characters in this book. What is wonderful about Robert Lewis's writing is that he imbues most of them with a humanity that made me care, and that from the bleakest of circumstances he not only extracts great humor but manages to craft what will pass for a happy ending. A writer as gifted as Lewis can make the company of "losers" very worthwhile. That's my story, David, and I'm sticking by it.Thanks also for the mention of Ross Thomas, whom I have not read. I've checked my local library and they have over a dozen of his titles. Is there one you would specially recommend? Let me also urge you to read the book I mentioned earlier, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, by Robert M. Sapolsky. I've read it twice and given it as a gift. It is excellent. Happy New Year, David.
Sounds a little like a novel in the vein of Paul Auster. He writes in a florid noir style that borders on self-satire, and the always-flawed narrators face some moral dilemma that they aren't quite equipped to handle. Usually those narrators are writers or academics (or both), which adds an interesting dimension.I especially liked Auster's "Oracle Night" and "The Book of Illusions."Thanks, Lauretta.
Thanks also for the mention of Ross Thomas, whom I have not read. Ive checked my local library and they have over a dozen of his titles. Is there one you would specially recommend? Let me also urge you to read the book I mentioned earlier, A Primates Memoir: A Neuroscientists Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, by Robert M. Sapolsky. Ive read it twice and given it as a gift. It is excellent. Happy New Year, David.
Thanks very much for the recommendations of Lewis and Saplosky. The Lewis trilogy is for a look next time I'm in a library (where, my email tells me, I'm overdue on a book about whose whereabouts I haven't a clue), since it's not an ebook yet. I do like the prose of the sampler on amazon, though. Good writing is always tempting. A sampler of the Saplosky is on its way to the iPad.I love all Ross Thomas's novels, but you could do worse to start than Briarpatch.
David, I think you will be hooked by Sapolsky's memoir. He's led an interesting life and writes about it very well and with great humor. I will be off to the library tomorrow to get Briarpatch.
Jean, thanks for the comments on Paul Auster. A few years ago I took one of his books from the library and thought I had fallen into a dark pit. I'll check out the titles you recommended and read with fresh eyes.
Sorry, but I can't get enthusiastic about a protagonist named Llewelyn, which I can barely spell and certainly can't pronounce. For me its all downhill form there, and I start looking for another book.


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Two members of Muslim Wakf arrested for attacking tourist on Temple Mount
Terrorist's family claims shock, says rabbi-murderer 'loved life'
'Hamas tries to vanish, but we can see them'
Turkey deal was struck five years ago, security chief reveals
A-G to rule on use of 'abandoned property law' to save Amona outpost
Budget debates turn nasty
New on the small screen
A touch of Truffaut
Bennett invokes 2014 Gaza war in warning over 'past mistakes'
Herzog rivals ask for secret ballot vote
Prime numbers
Spanish to a tee
Beersheba set for next continental challenge
47 arrested in mass crackdown on Israeli soccer fan club 'La Familia'
Top Jewish American soccer players targeted by Israeli clubs
Group launches crowdfunding campaign against sexual harassment in police
Not just fun and games: Seeking tech behind video games
Health Ministry launches plan to eradicate hepatitis C
Delek makes bid for exploration license south of Cyprus
Israeli researchers find way to detect cancer cells before becoming brain tumors
Arab-Israeli children much more likely to die in accidents
Health ministry to take lead in combating child hot car deaths
Economic committee chairman calls for guidelines to protect animals during live shipments
Nation's cleanest beaches named
For the love of crows
Birthright Excel Ventures: A 2-month long crash course on startups and entrepreneurship
Grapevine: Not in the basket
Letters to the Editor: Fall guy
Fighting for justice
Bombings kill at least 31 in northeast Syria city
Is Gaddafi's son returning to politics?
Entire region concerned about 'day after' Iran deal expires
The illegal car trade of the West Bank
Iran destroys 100,000 satellite dishes in morality-driven crackdown
Iran left with no choice but to confront the US, official warns
Iranian Kurdish leader to 'Post': Iran regime is a common enemy
Jihadis call on 'lone wolf' terrorists to attack Israeli athletes at Rio Olympics
Report: ISIS operating sleeper cells in Lebanese refugee camps
One mile from ISIS feels safer than France or Turkey to Kurdish peshmerga
ISIS claims responsibility for Nice attack
Jewish groups rally against anti-Israel bias at UN
Analysis: 'Mikve law' throws cold water on Israel-Diaspora relations
'Dramatic increase in anti-Semitic violence in US'
Democratic congressman apologizes for calling West Bank settlers 'termites'
Healthcare hackathon organizers seek to be 'light unto others'
WATCH LIVE: Peres, Rivlin and Netanyahu launch Israeli Innovation Center
Israeli startups are used around the globe
Protesters torch Israeli flag outside Democratic National Convention
Democrats close ranks ahead of Clinton nomination
Clinton makes history, secures US Democrats' White House nomination
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This is how cats catch their rides in Thailand...
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TripAdvisor reviews in jail? Yes.
Second Lebanon War veteran's road to redemption
Empowering women globally
Obscure treasures
The American spirit's impact
The word of a woman
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Dark years on the Côte d'Azur
Rothschild revolution:
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Treats for Shabbat morning
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The last of Jerusalem's Mohicans
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Fun in the park
All lives matter
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Born, raised and educated in a vineyard
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ANDERSON, S.C. – After well-deserved nine-day layoff, the 17th-ranked Anderson softball team returns to the diamond this weekend, as the Trojans hit the road for six games in three days, traveling to Fort Valley on Sunday, Georgia Southwestern on Monday and Clark Atlanta on Tuesday. First-pitch versus the Wildcats is set for 1 p.m.
The Trojans
The Trojans improved to 16-2 with a doubleheader split with Young Harris on Feb. 27, as Anderson is off to the best start in school history, surpassing the 2012 squad's 15-2 record.
Senior shortstop Abby Child is second in the South Atlantic Conference with her .479 batting average and leads the league with 23 runs scored, 18 walks, slugging percentage (1.000), on-base percentage (.621) and is tied with sophomore Molly Child for the league lead with six home runs. She is riding a three-game hitting streak and ranks in the top three in three additional offensive categories.
Senior first baseman Danielle Swygert is fifth in the league with her .455 batting average, ranks fourth with 25 hits, and is ninth in both runs scored (16) and 11th with 16 RBI.
Molly Child is hitting .397 and has six homers, while driving in 20 runs on the season. The left-hander is tied with Swygert with five doubles and has drawn eight walks on the season, while currently on a four-game hitting streak. Second baseman Jessica Neidigh is hitting .367 with four round-trippers, four doubles and 12 RBI and the junior is a perfect 8-for-8 in stolen bases on the season. Freshman Courtney Czentnar boasts an impressive .366 batting average with three doubles and a pair of home runs. The outfielder has also been successful on the base paths, recording four stolen bases in four attempts. Junior Rebecca Martin is hitting .348, with three home runs and two doubles on the season.
As a team, the Trojans rank either first or second in the South Atlantic Conference in 12 offensive categories.
In the circle, junior hurler Katelynn Howser (7-0) and freshman Lauren Rudesheim (7-1) are tied for sixth in the conference in total wins. Along with rookie Augie Pena, the trio has recorded 105 strikeouts and has issued just 32 free passes in 113 innings.
The Wildcats
Fort Valley, a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, is looking for its first win of the season after starting the season with 21 consecutive losses, including four in SIAC action. Two of the losses were at home to South Atlantic Conference-member Carson-Newman, 15-1 and 9-1, in early February. FVSU is coming off a pair of setbacks, 14-0 and 16-3, to Barry University last Wednesday at Wildcat Field.
Freshman outfielder Asia Buckner leads the Wildcat offense with a .340 batting average and tops the team with a .472 slugging percentage, while recording four RBI on the season. In the circle, junior Alexis Ricks has made 21 appearances, including 18 starts and has 54 strikeouts in 106 2/3 innings, while issuing 81 free passes.
The Hurricanes
Georgia Southwestern posted a record-setting season last year. While going 29-26 last season, the Lady Hurricanes earned a program-most nine Peach Belt Conference victories and earned a seventh-place finish in the PBC, which was GSW's best finish in seven seasons in the league.
The Lady' Canes were a preseason selection to finish ninth in the Peach Belt Conference Coaches' Preseason Poll after their record-setting season and returned seven seniors for the 2014 campaign, including All-PBC Second-Team selection Hayley Knight, and junior outfielder Rachel McElroy, who earned Honorable Mention All-PBC accolades a year ago. Last season, Knight ranked 13th in the PBC with her .353 batting average.
Georgia Southwestern sports a 12-6 record this season as the Lady Hurricanes have won three straight and five of their last six entering a conference doubleheader on the road at UNC Pembroke on Sunday before returning home to host the Trojans a day later.
Knight currently boasts a .409 batting average with 18 hits in 44 at-bats and the Leesburg, Ga. native has swiped eight bases this season. Senior second baseman Mason Moreland is tied for third in the conference with 11 stolen bases, while third baseman Jordan Miller is hitting .375 and has driven in 11 runs.
The Panthers
Clark Atlanta, also members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, is 6-6 on the season prior to squaring off against Claflin, Benedict and Paine College before playing host to the Trojans at Lady Panthers Softball Field on Tuesday.
CAU advanced to the SIAC Tournament a year ago en route to posting a 23-20 overall record.
The Series vs. Fort Valley State
The Trojans and Wildcats have met just twice, with Anderson sweeping a twin bill, 8-1 and 17-0, from the Wildcats last season.
Molly Child was 3-for-5 in last season's matchups, including a pair of doubles, while Neidigh was 4-for-7 with a home run and scored three times. Abby Child was 3-for-6 with two RBI and a pair of walks. Swygert added three hits and three RBI, while Jansky posted two singles and crossed the plate three times. Charlotte Sieber chipped in a pair of singles and drove in a run on the afternoon.
The Series vs. Georgia Southwestern
The Trojans and Lady Canes have met 14 times, with the overall series deadlocked at 7-7. AU has won three straight in the series, including a sweep of last season's doubleheader at Smethers Field.
Third baseman Bri Cason was 5-for-6 with two doubles and three RBI in the sweep, while Sieber was 2-for-3 with a home run and four RBI. Neidigh added four singles, including a triple, with Swygert notching two doubles and a single in six trips to the plate. Jansky recorded three hits, inclusing a home run and a double, while Abby Child was 2-for-4 and walked three times on the afternoon.
The Series vs. Clark Atlanta
Tuesday's matchups will be the first-ever meetings between the two programs.


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5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed
Psychologists know you have to be careful when you go poking around the human mind because you're never sure what you'll find there. A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects.
Oh, we're not talking about the occasional psychopath who turns up. No, we're talking about you. The experiments speak for themselves:
#5. The Asch Conformity Experiment (1953)
The Setup:
Solomon Asch wanted to run a series of studies that would document the power of conformity, for the purpose of depressing everyone who would ever read the results.
Subjects were told that they would be taking part in a vision test, along with a handful of people. The participants were then shown pictures, and individually asked to answer very simple and obvious questions. The catch was that everybody else in the room other than the subject was in on it, and they were were told to give obviously wrong answers. So would the subject go against the crowd, even when the crowd was clearly wrong?
The Result:
Questions the subjects were asked were like the puzzle shown here:
All they had to do was say which line on the right matched the one on the left. As you can see, Asch wasn't exactly asking these people to design the next space station. Really, the only way you could get the line questions honestly wrong is if you took two doses of LSD that morning and rubbed them directly on your eyeballs (which would have made for an even more awesome experiment, but we're getting off the point).
Yet, sadly, 32 percent of subjects would answer incorrectly if they saw that three others in the classroom gave the same wrong answer. Even when the line was plainly off by a few inches, it didn't matter. One in three would follow the group right off the proverbial cliff.
What This Says About You:
Imagine how much that 32 percent figure inflates when the answers are less black and white. We all tend to laugh with the group even when we didn't get the joke, or doubt our opinion we realize ours is unpopular among our group. So much for those lectures you got in elementary school about peer pressure and "being brave enough to be yourself."
"Well, it's a good thing I'm a rebellious non-conformist," many of you are saying. Of course, for virtually all of you, the next step is to find out what the other non-conformists are doing ...
... and make sure you conform to it perfectly.
"Wait, you're right! Surely we must rebel against this mindless herd mentality! Let's all take to the streets!"
#4. The Good Samaritan Experiment (1973)
The Setup:
The Biblical story of the Good Samaritan, if you hadn't heard, is about a passing Samaritan helping an injured man in need, while other, self-righteous types walk right on by. Psychologists John Darley and C. Daniel Batson wanted to test if religion has any effect on helpful behavior.
Their subjects were a group of seminary students. Half of the students were given the story of the Good Samaritan and asked to perform a sermon about it in another building. The other half were told to give a sermon about job opportunities in a seminary.
As an extra twist, subjects were given different times that they had to deliver the sermon so that some would be in a hurry and others not.
Then, on the way to the building, subjects would pass a person slumped in an alleyway, who looked to be in need of help. We like to think Darley and Batson beat the crap out of some random dude to make it more realistic, but sources say otherwise.
C. Daniel Batson probably did not beat a homeless dude
The Result:
The people who had been studying the Good Samaritan story did not stop any more often than the ones preparing for a speech on job opportunities. The factor that really seemed to make a difference was how much of a hurry the students were in.
In fact, if pressed for time, only 10 percent would stop to give any aid, even when they were on their way to give a sermon about how awesome it is for people to stop and give aid. Though to be fair, if you were late for a class, did your professor ever accept, "I had to stop and help a wounded traveler" as an excuse? Probably not unless you could produce the guy's blood-stained shirt as evidence.
What This Says About You:
As much as we like to make fun of, say, anti-gay congressmen who get caught gaying it up in a men's bathroom and pointing out Al Gore's resource-hogging mansion ...
... the truth is us common folk are just as likely to be hypocrites as the politicians. After all, it's much easier to talk to a room full of people about helping strangers than, say, actually touching a smelly and bleeding homeless man. So even pointing out their hypocrisy becomes a form of hypocrisy.
And in case you thought these results were just restricted to hypocritical seminary students, turn on the news. Remember a few years ago when cameras captured at least a dozen cars refusing to stop for an injured woman laying in the road?
Just like the students, they all had to be somewhere. The drivers were presumably proud enough of themselves just for swerving to miss her, rather than squishing her like roadkill.
Which brings us to ...
#3. Bystander Apathy Experiment (1968)
The Setup:
When a woman was murdered in 1964, newspapers printed that 38 people had heard and seen the attack, but did nothing. John Darley and Bibb Latane wanted to know if the fact that these people were in a large group played any role in the reluctance to come to aid.
The two psychologists invited volunteers to take part in a discussion. They claimed that because the discussion would be extremely personal (probably asking about the size of their genitals or something) individuals would be separated in different rooms and talk to each other using an intercom.
During the conversation, one of the members would fake an epileptic seizure, which could be heard on the speakers. We're not completely sure how they conveyed over the intercom that what was happening was a seizure, but we're assuming the words "Wow this is quite an epileptic seizure I'm having" were uttered.
The Result:
When subjects believed that they were the only other person in the discussion, 85 percent were heroic enough to leave the room and seek help once the other began the fake seizure. This makes sense. Having an extremely personal conversation (again, presumably about tiny genitalia) with another person is difficult enough, but being forced to continue to carry on the conversation by yourself is just sad. But either way, 85 percent helped. So that's good, right?
Well, they weren't done. When the experiment was altered so that subjects believed four other people were in the discussion, only 31 percent went to look for help once the seizure began. The rest assumed someone else would take care of it. So the phrase, "The more, the merrier" somehow got lost in translation because the correct expression should be, "The more, the higher probability that you will die if you have a seizure."
Anyone can have epilepsy, according to this child's drawing
What This Says About You:
Obviously if there's an emergency and you're the only one around, the pressure to help out increases massively. You feel 100 percent responsible for what happens. But, when you're with 10 other people, you're only 10 percent as responsible. The problem is everybody else only feels 10 percent responsible too.
This sheds some light on our previous examples. Maybe the drivers who swerved around the injured woman in the road would have stopped if they'd been alone on a deserted highway. Then again, maybe they'd be even more likely to abandon her since they know nobody is watching (unlike the people in the experiment, who at least knew there were others around to judge their actions).
Or maybe it comes down to just how plausible an excuse we can make for ourselves. "Surely someone will come along and save the lady in the road," we say. Or, "Surely someone else will do something about the environment," or "Surely the shark will get full and stop eating that dude at some point." We just need the slightest excuse to do nothing.


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"Max Nordau and the Generation of Jewish Muscle," in Jewish Culture and History 6.1 (Summer 2003): Special Issue "The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914." This essay represents one section of the current book project—"The Inversion of the Jews: Degeneration Theory and Modern Arts"
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James Joyce's Judaic Other
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Suppose there is a bijection between the underlying sets of two finite groups $G, H$, such that every subgroup of $G$ corresponds to a subgroup of $H$, and that every subgroup of $H$ corresponds to a subgroup of $G$. Does this imply that $G, H$ are isomorphic? Note that we do not require the bijection to actually be the isomorphism.
The question is interesting to me because I am considering maps of groups which aren't homomorphisms but preserve the subgroup structure in some sense - given a group, we can forget the multiplication operation and look only at the closure operator that maps a subset of $G$ to the subgroup generated by it. If the question is resolved in the affirmative, then the forgetful functor from the usual category $Grp$ to this category won't create any new isomorphisms. (Note that I didn't precisely specify the morphisms this new category -- you could just use the usual definition of a homomorphism, and say that if the mapping commutes with the closure operator, then its a morphism. The definition I actually care about is, a morphism of this category is a mapping such that every closed set in the source object is the preimage of a closed set of the target object. It doesn't make much difference as far as this question is concerned, the isomorphisms of both categories are the same.)
I asked a friend at Mathcamp about this a few weeks ago, he said a bunch of people started thinking about it but got stumped after a while. The consensus seems to have been that it is probably false, but the only counter examples may be very large. I don't really have any good ideas / tools for how to prove it might be true, I mostly wanted to just ask if anyone knew offhand / had good intuition for how to find a finite counterexample.


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The California Highway Patrol is looking for a hit-and-run driver in Shasta County.
The driver crashed through a fence on Churn Creek Road near Anderson just after 2:30 on Friday morning.
The fence was knocked over, along with some trees and shrubbery.
The man who lives at the home wanted to remain anonymous, but said the driver pleaded with him to not call police because he'd been drinking.
He said he was jolted awake because his dogs were barking like crazy. He got up and went outside with a spotlight. That's when he said he saw a car in the yard.
He said his gates are pad-locked, so he figured it must have been a crash.
By the time he made his way outside, he said there was a second car trying to get the crashed car out of the yard. The first car even ran over the fence again to get back on the road, but it broke down within 50 ft.
The homeowner said the driver then started asking him not to call police because he said he was on parole for a felony charge.
He said he just tried to keep his distance.
"I saw the car in the yard. It was a little shocking. I was waking my wife up, telling her and she was like what do you mean, what are you talking about," said the homeowner. "Immediately, my first concern, of course, is safety for the kids and so that's why I didn't want to get involved."
The homeowner said the driver and his friends eventually took off, leaving the crashed car behind. CHP ended up towing it off the road.
Officers said the car was not stolen and the owner told them it was most likely taken and driven by a grandson.
The homeowner called us Friday evening and said the driver's father stopped by to apologize for what happened. He also offered to pay for the damage.