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Dear President Obama,
The school known today for its 99 percent college attendance rate and 42 National Merit Semifinalists in the class of 2012 is gaining notoriety for an achievement unlike any in its past.
DuPont Manual High School, the magnet school ranked 62nd in the U.S. by Newsweek, has earned national attention with "The President Project." The initiative created by a group of ambitious senior students is an effort to bring you, President Obama, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – a Manual alumnus – to the school's 2012 graduation ceremony.
"I guess, technically, President Obama came up with the idea because he did the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge and we had been planning to apply to that," said Michael Perry, class president of Manual and chief campaign organizer of "The President Project."
The idea to invite the President to deliver the commencement address was conceived a few years ago by Perry and Vice President of the student body, Parker Bowling. But since this fall, Perry, Bowling and several upperclassmen have taken a tremendous step toward their goal, creating a committee to promote the project through just about every medium possible.
"We wanted to try to hit all of the ways that we could communicate, so we did a letter campaign to the White House and we wanted to do an official invitation along with our letter," Perry said.
In October, the committee began producing a brief two-and-a-half minute video invitation called "We Are Manual," which they launched on YouTube in mid-December and posted to their Facebook page and website, www.thepresidentproject.com. The video has since accumulated more than 20,000 hits and has been aired on Fox 41, WHAS11 and WLKY.
"We Are Manual" has built plenty of momentum for the endeavor, but the greatest factor promulgating the initiative has been endorsements from members of the public.
"The students are of course the base of the support," said Bowling, who is public relations manager for the project. "We met the mayor, the superintendent, and they're the two people who support us the most. We met (Congressman) John Yarmuth. We started meeting with the governor. We started meeting with Matthew Barzun, who's Obama's chief fundraiser."
The committee has also attempted to reach out to such famous Kentucky natives as George Clooney, Johnny Depp and Manual almuna Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls.
In addition, the group was granted the opportunity to meet Mrs. Obama herself during her recent visit to the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage for a campaign fundraiser.
"We're trying to think outside the box," Bowling said. "Matthew Barzun said you can never stop. (The White House) knows about (the project), but they can forget about it in five minutes. Keep pushing, keep calling. Keep reminding people to do something."
Even those who are anti-Obama have stepped forward to bolster the cause. "One of the guys who's been one of the most active has been the head of the Teen Republicans at our school," Perry said. "He disagrees with his politics, but he admires the man."
The leader of the Young Democrats at Manual took initiative, as well, by organizing a voter registration drive that successfully registered about half of the senior class to vote. "Education shouldn't be a Democratic issue or a Republican issue; It should be an American issue," Bowling said of the bipartisan involvement in the campaign. "I think that's something everyone can buy into regardless of party affiliation."
The public has certainly bought into "The President Project," as witnessed by the copious amount of referral mail that has been shipped by the committee to the White House. The committee has asked via their website that those who wish to contribute to the campaign either email their name to firstname.lastname@example.com or type a letter no more than one page long directed toward you, President Obama, and email it to the address above.
"Obama reads like 10 letters every night, and (the Correspondence Office) said our letters are in that pool to be picked out for Obama to read," Bowling said. "Most invitations to the White House automatically get a response back saying, 'Thank you for the invitation; we have to decline'…We haven't gotten that yet. So, the fact that they haven't said no puts us in an elite percentage."
Manual and the rest of Kentucky are still awaiting the final decision, but the superintendent is already prepared and willing to accommodate a last-minute visit from the President at graduation. Yet, regardless of the outcome, Perry and Bowling are optimistic of their accomplishment thus far, as it has proven, Bowling said, that they've built something that will ultimately put America's youth in a better position.
"It would be great for Manual, the city, the state (if Obama agreed to deliver the commencement speech)," Bowling said. "And I think, just the story that a couple of 18-year-old kids got the President of the United States to come to their high school in Kentucky. I think that's going to be motivating for the entire country."
President Obama, in a past commencement speech you delivered to the Julia R. Masterman School, you said, "Nobody gets to write your destiny but you…And nothing – absolutely nothing – is beyond your reach, so long as you're willing to dream big."
The Manual class of 2012 have not only dreamt big, but they've also taken big action to achieve a dream many people older and wiser would have thought impossible.
Please, President Obama reward this student body for their hard work, persistence and willingness to dream. And, please be willing to turn that dream into reality.
Ashley Anderson, Staff Writer for The Voice-Tribune
For more information on The President Project, visit www.thepresidentproject.com, LIKE it on Facebook or follow it on Twitter at @thePresProject.


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The Center for Rural Affairs is partnering with the Women, Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN) to help aspiring and beginning women farmers and ranchers turn their farming or ranching dreams into reality through training and mentoring with established women farmers.
The project brings three opportunities to beginning and aspiring women in agriculture: Your Future in Farming business planning workshops, a Farm Dreams entry strategies seminar, and select apprenticeship placements.
1) Your Future in Farming is an intensive business planning course designed to help women farmers and ranchers design a business plan for their agricultural operations. A well organized and thoughtful business plan is a key step for beginning farmers and ranchers who want to finance their operations. Participants will learn from experts at a series of 5 workshops, and will complete a business plan for their budding operations. Workshops will be held in Hastings on Saturdays in March (March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) from 6-8:30 p.m.
2) The Farm Dreams Workshop is an entry level, four-hour, exploratory workshop designed to help people who are seeking practical, common sense information on whether farming or ranching is the next step for them. Participants will be able to examine their resources, skills and motivations for farming/ranching and develop an educational plan for moving toward their farming goals. This workshop will be held on Saturday, March 30 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., location TBD. Lunch will be provided at no cost.
3) A mentoring program for women interested in apprenticing on a farm, including hands-on skills training with an experienced and successful female farmer. The farmer runs a family owned diversified farm including organic vegetables, herbs, pork, laying hens, grass-fed beef and dairy goats. Additional information on this program will be available at all the trainings mentioned above.
For more information or to register for any of the above opportunities, please contact Virginia Meyer at the Center for Rural Affairs (402) 687-2103 ext. 1014 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Former Marshfield resident Bruce Katz and his keyboard wizardy at The Regattabar in Harvard Square. 311 rocks the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston. We recently wrote about Craig Bickhardt's appearance at the New Bedford Folk Fest: tonight he's headlining at the Cataumet Arts Center in Bourne. Blues titan Jose Ramos makes a guest appearance with local funksters SuperFly, on the outdoor patio at The Beachcomber in Quincy starting at 7 p.m. Moe jams at The Cape Cod Melody Tent.� Russ Costa's SongAsylum at Home Ice in Quincy. De La Soul gets down at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. Head for Fall River, and the First District Courthouse, for the free outdoor Block-apalooza, featuring Scituate's Girls Guns & Glory, and headliner Buckwheat Zydeco. Soul queen Toni Lynn Washington sings with the Willie J. Laws Band at The Next Page in Weymouth. Krill rocks Great Scott in Allston. Us the Duo harmonizes at The Sinclair in Cambridge.� Country Mile warms up Toby Keith's in Foxboro. Melissa Tirrell sings at Tinker's Son in Norwell. Hip-hop with Cage, and Sadistik, at The Middle East in Cambridge. Ed Scheer jams aieht Rick Russell at Turner's Yard in Pembroke.
Could be a terrific 'throwback Friday': songsmith Jonathan Edwards is at the River Club in Scituate, with the estimable Lucy Kaplansky opening; South Shore favorites The T. McGinnis Band opens a weekend stint at The Beachcomber; Extreme rocks the Cape Cod Melody Tent, with Charlie Farren opening. Michael Franti's Soulshine Tour should be non-stop joy, with reggae band Soja also on the four-act bill at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. NRBQ celebrates their new album at The Met Cafe in Pawtucket. Two superlative songwriters, Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott (himself a former Sour Mash Boy) combine at The Narrows Center in Fall River. Country heart-throb James Wesley does a short set at Toby Keith's: he plays at 9 p.m., with the Digger Dawg Band taking over at 9:30. If you got shut out of tickets for JT at the Garden Saturday, consider catching the premier JT tribute act--the TimberFakes perform at the Middle East.� The Stovall Brown Band heats up the Next Page. Five Times Fast plays at Tinker's son. Gainsville Road rocks The Ming Dynasty in Marshfield. Early November brings the chill to Brighton Music Hall. Bluesman Mark T. Small at West Bridgewater's Chilihead BBQ. Twiddle gets down at The Sinclair. Confrontation and three more metal bands thunder into the C-Note in Hull. Suzanne McNeil sings at Molly Maguire's in Weymouth. Celtic thunder when Colm O'Brien sings at Paddy Barry's in Quincy.
Get an early start for the annual Aquapalooza benefit for Save the Harbor, Save the Bay, a Boston Harbor cruise from noon to 6 p.m., stopping off Peddock's Island, with an all-star lineup of local blues and soul: Toni Lynn Washington, The Throwdown Band, Lydia Warren and more, sponsored by Russo Marine and produced by Marshfield music guru John Hall. The guys from Zachariah live in different states now, so this might be the last reunion show for that legendary New England country-rock outfit, at the C-Note. Jimmy Buffett's annual show at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield. The Fab Four's Beatles tribute at The Music Circus. The Marshall Tucker Band in an afternoon (2 pm) concert at Indian Ranch in Webster. Soul Box heats up the Next Page. Second Chance rocks Tinker's Son. Songman Matthew Sweet at The Paradise. McNeil, Mahoney & Bowser--not a law firm, but local singer Suzanne McNeil backed by two of the area's finest guitar aces, Tim Mahoney and Scott Bowser at Paddy Barry's. Justin Timberlake at TD Garden in Boston. Hip-hop at the Middle East, with Capone and Noreaga. Bombadil shakes up Brighton Music Hall. Norwell rockers Totem make their debut at Maggy's in Quincy. Short'ty Billups at Chilihead BBQ. Sidewalk Driver makes the scene at The Sinclair. Sarah McLachlan's singular sound at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. Folkie Pesky J. Nixon at The Soule Homestead in Middleboro (6 p.m.). Bob Dutczak& The Force rock the Randolph AmVets. Comedian Mike Birbiglia at the Cape Cod Melody Tent. If you're out and about Saturday afternoon, catch Jim Sylvia's always excellent 4-7 p.m., Parrothead & More gigs on the patio at The Beachcomber--he's in his 18th year there.
Sunday you can catch the 2 p.m. Barenaked Ladies show at The Indian Ranch; or catch Camera Obscura that night at the Paradise; along with the usual Chuck's Cheese Jam at Paddy Barry's; and Brian Mahoney's weekly soiree at the Irish Pub in Quincy.. Monday Bear Hands touches down at Brighton Music Hall. Tuesday has the new Queen, with Adam Lambert, at TD Garden; while the Mayhem (hardcore) Festival takes over the Xfinity Center; but the best deal could be the Under the Sun Tour at the House of Blues, featuring Blues Traveler, Uncle Kracker, Smashmouth and Sugar Ray. Wednesday, how can we resist Hapa--the sound of Maui--at The RegattaBar?� July 24 is really packed with choices: the new trio Puss 'n' Boots, which features Norah Jones, at the Sinclair; blues quartet Trampled Under Foot at the Narrows Center; and New Orleans funk master Jon Cleary at The RegattaBar. July 26 has several options but The Kooks at the Paradise are already sold out; and Veruca Salt at Brighton Music Hall is also sold out; but tickets remain for Keith Urban at Xfinity Center. The Happy Together Tour is also on the 26th, with The Turtles, joined by Mark Farner, Mitch Ryder, and Gary Lewis & the Playboys, at The Music Circus. Nine Inch Nails, with Soundgarden, is a big one at Xfinity Center on July 29.


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5 Famous People You Won't Believe Didn't Exist
#2. William Tell
Why He's Famous
The average person probably knows the name "William Tell" for one of two things -- either "The William Tell Overture," aka "The Lone Ranger Theme," or simply "the guy who used an arrow to shoot an apple off of a child's head."
But everyone in Switzerland knows the story by heart: In the early 1300s, what would become their country was occupied by Austria. One day, an official named Albrecht Gessler demanded that everyone in the village of Uri bow to his hat. William Tell was like "No, that's silly," so in punishment, Gessler forced Tell to shoot an apple off his son's head with an arrow at 120 paces. If he failed, both Tell and his son would be put to death.
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"I'm just trying to stress to you the importance of hats."
Tell grabbed two arrows and successfully de-appled his kid. When Gessler asked him about the second arrow, Tell informed him that if he'd killed his son with the first one, the second would have been aimed at him (presumably in the crotch area). Furious, Gessler ordered him to the dungeon, but Tell escaped and killed him. Tell's defiance of Gessler inspired the people to fight, and the resulting rebellion led to the formation of the Swiss Confederacy.
But It Turns Out ...
Most historians agree that neither Tell nor Gessler ever existed. In fact, the Swiss apparently "borrowed" that story from the legend of a 10th century Viking named Toko. Like Tell, Toko was forced to shoot an apple off his son's head, and he reserved a second arrow for the jackass who made him do it. The main difference was that Toko had to shoot the arrow while the kid was running downhill, and that he was completely shitfaced at the time.
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And we think Batman was there, too. At least judging from this illustration.
The earliest written account of the Tell story was created around 1568, some 250 years after the events it describes. Also, the date of the apple incident is supposed to be in 1307, and supposedly it inspired the villagers to unite and destroy the castles of the Austrians -- however, evidence showed that those castles had already been wrecked decades earlier.
Nevertheless, Tell has become such an integral part of Switzerland's culture that in a survey, some 60 percent of Swiss respondents said they believed he did exist. Even today, all Swiss exports carry a little symbol of a crossbow in his honor.
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"Honestly, by now it's more about Daryl from The Walking Dead."
#1. Tokyo Rose
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Why She's Famous
In the U.S., whenever people openly criticize American troops or side with the opposition in a military conflict, they're accused of being like "Tokyo Rose" (anti-war protester Jane Fonda was called this during Vietnam, or snidely referred to as "Hanoi Jane"). If you've seen the movie Flags of Our Fathers, there's a scene where the American GIs stationed in Japan hear a sexy English-speaking lady on the radio taunting them with the fact that, while they're being blown to pieces, back home their wives are probably blowing other dudes. That's "Tokyo Rose" -- she would broadcast anti-American propaganda aimed at demoralizing troops overseas.
After the war, two journalists actually found this traitor and the government threw her in jail.
Via Earthstation1.com
Yeah, suck it. You just got AMERICA'd!"
But It Turns Out ...
The only problem is, the U.S. military had an agency monitoring enemy broadcasts 24/7 during the war, and they declared that there was no "Tokyo Rose." It was just a catchall name soldiers gave all English-speaking Japanese women on the radio. So wait, who the hell did they arrest, then? A California-born woman, Iva Toguri, who actually did the opposite of what we just described.
Via Cinemaguild.com
It's complicated. War isn't science, OK?
In 1941, Toguri was in Japan, taking care of an aunt. She was set to return to the U.S. on December 9 of the same year, but a little thing called "Japan bombing the shit out of Pearl Harbor" made that impossible. So she stayed there against her will and eventually got a job in Radio Tokyo, where she worked under a captured Australian major who had been tasked with broadcasting propaganda in English. However, since their Japanese superiors/captors didn't actually understand what they were saying, the major and Toguri began slipping pro-American messages into the broadcasts, which were always done in a playful tone. Here's one:
Toguri never went by "Tokyo Rose" (her moniker was "Orphan Annie"), and you'll note that her voice was anything but sexy. When the war ended, reporters desperate to confirm the rumors found Toguri, thought she fit the profile, and basically conned her into admitting that she was the real deal. As a result, she was convicted of treason, fined $10,000, and sentenced to 10 years in prison, and she had her citizenship revoked. Toguri was finally given the old presidential "Whoops, our bad" by Gerald Ford in 1977.
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Important for Any Artist: Take Some Time With Another Medium
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An exhibit at Casa Nostra restaurant in Ben Lomond presents the assemblage work of Stephen Lynch alongside poetry by Kevin Devaney and Elisa Noemi. Says Devaney the result of this exploration of a physical medium is beauty. The exhibit is titled "A Brush With Echphrasis," eckphrasis being a Greek term referring to a description usually of art.


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2006 Lonestar Rod And Kustom Roundup - Deep in the Heart of TexasWritten by on June 27, 2006 Contributors: Kevin Lee Fifth Annual Lonestar Rod and Kustom Roundup
While the Lonestar Rod and Kustom Roundup is itself a one-day event, you can easily make more than a week's adventure out of attending this gathering, as we found out while attending this year's fifth annual festivities. We knew there were a few people and shops we wanted to visit in the Lone Star state before the event so we went in early and made our rounds. On Thursday we took up Jim Jard's invitation to attend his Roundup pre-party at his Houston warehouse. Good people, cars, entertainment, and food were all part of Jard's get-together, and we were back again the next morning to set off for Austin.
Once in Austin on Friday afternoon, it was very obvious what the weekend had in store--plenty of great rods and customs from Texas and far beyond. Cruising up and down the South Congress strip was the entertainment for the night.On Saturday morning, the air was again alive with the rumble of dual pipes as rods and customs of all shapes and sizes rolled through the gates and found parking spots on the grass next to the shores of Town Lake at Festival Beach. The day continued with great live music on the performance stage and special delicacies in the huge food court. After a great day checking out the parked cars, the live action started all over again with cruisers prowling up and down Congress.
We concluded our own Texas trek with a few more visits on Sunday, and before we headed home we had already made our plans for another week of Lonestar adventure next year.
Extended CoverageAfter a good nights rest a group of road ready rodders formed back at Jim Jard's shop on Friday morning to head over to Austin. Bruce Burroughs would lead the way for the adventurous bunch of rodders in his '32 Ford Roadster. Some of the "free-wheelers" like Jim Jacobs in his '29 Ford panel and Mark Morton in his chopped '32 Ford coupe started their journeys to the Round Up from Southern California.
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If there was any doubt as to where all the '32 five-windows went, we now know they headed to Texas. Kevin hitched a ride with Rick Love in his finally finished '32 five-windowThe "world's strongest pound-for-pound man" showcased his talents in an amazing series of demonstrations of his unbelievable super-human strength.Our Texas-sized week of fun and festivities really started with a bang when we attended Jim Jard's annual pre-Roundup celebration. Plenty of great cars and people showed up to get a jump on the coming activities.
The Roundup isn't all about hot rods with four wheels; some wicked two-wheeled wonders were in attendance. The latest addition to Flyrite Chopper's series of Seven Deadly Sins bikes was this slick scooter titled Greed.Newstalgia Wheel brought out their recently completed, heavily channeled Model A sedan. It may look a little rough on the outside, but underneath is a custom-built tube chassis with an airbag-controlled suspension.Don and Carolyn Smith from Mansfield, TX, fit right in with all the retro rides with their right-on '32 Ford Tudor.Austin native Thomas Pina gave kustom fans something to drool over with his skillfully sculptured '39 Chevy coupe.Charlie Rambo has been putting together this perfect example of a full-fendered '32 Ford sedan for years, and the attention to detail shows.
...He must have been having too much fun cruisin' to have heard that it wasn't cool to have a non-American engine in a hot rod.Rob Villarreal hails from Dallas and was happy to hang out in the shade with his blue '49 Ford coupe.Shane, Melissa, Kimee, and Kaylee rode over from Ennis, TX, in this way cool copper-colored '50 Ford.James Austin is just about ready to take delivery of his stunning Gary Howard-painted '55 Chevy pickup from the South Austin Speed Shop. Sharp interior work was by in-house stitcher Fat Lucky's.On Sunday after the Roundup we had the good fortune to visit Gary Howard's shop and check out his private stash of future projects. Cars being built in the shop covered a wide range from an early style Model A coupe to a full-custom '60 El Camino......Jimmy Vaughn's '53 Ford Victoria is in getting the custom treatment to be followed by one of Gary's stunning paint jobs.
A cool big Chrysler Hemi topped by dual four-barrel carburetors should provide more than enough muscle to propel this Model A coupe.A wide-range of talented bands performing live throughout the day makes the Round Up unique and a great way to spend a day outdoors surrounded by awesome rods & customs.Extremely dedicated Howard Kelly traveled all the way from Hanover, PA to attend the Roundup in his Model A coupe.Perpetual teenager and well-traveled rodder Bob Klessig took in his first Lone Star Roundup and has already plans to make this one of his "must attend" events.
Jimmy Vaughn's Caddy still stops everyone dead in their tracks after a few years on the scene. Bucket seats, a 4-speed stick and cheater slicks give this custom a sharp performance edge.Mike Young's mildly customized '36 Ford 3-Window coupe is one of the latest beauties to wear one of Gary Howard's smooth paint jobs.


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I've been working with Starting Strength for a while now and although I've been taking lots of notes on form and watching videos wherever I can I can't stop rounding my back. I find that when I'm coming up from a squat I feel like I need to ditch the weight or 'round' my way up. Does anybody have any suggestions for preventing myself doing this and if possible without having to deload too much to do so?
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@Andreas tips are great; also, look to the ceiling while doing the exercise.
I'm guessing that your lower back is the one that curves. That happens because its weak. You can strengthen it by doing dead lifts and/or lower back raises.
If you started to train recently, just do the lower back raises; start with 3 sets of 15 reps twice a week. I would do this for a whole month.
I've been training for a long time, years, but after a break of about 6 months; I had the same problem. What I did was:
Did this 3 days a week for 2 weeks.
Then I added the dead lifts, like this:
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I can neither code Bash nor Python (actually, I am only comfortable with C-like syntax), and, actually, am too busy and lazy to learn them now. But I would like to script some tasks. Is there a scripting language for GNU/Linux, having obvious and comfortable syntax for C/C++/C#/Java developers?
If you're comfortable with Java, then try groovy, a scripting language based on the Java platform. There is almost zero learning curve.
Pike is a scripting language with a C-like syntax. You've never heard of it? Consider this a point against: it's rarely installed by default, it doesn't have many libraries, there's not much literature about it, there aren't many people who can help you with it…
Just pick Perl or Python, the two major scripting languages on unix systems (plus the shell, but it's a trickier language and has a less general scope.). The syntax is only 1% of learning a language anyway. I'd recommend Python as the simplest of the two.
If you really want to program in C but not have the long steps of compiling & linking, check out the TCC: the Tiny C Compiler. It even supports running via shebang.
CINT is another C & C++ interpreter. I don't know if you'd want to have to wrap commands in
though. Maybe a macro like the following (untested)
might be useful in that approach, e.g.,
Maybe not :)
You should search for "learn python in 10 minutes".
It covers the most useful python features: lists, tuples, dictionnaries, classes, and of course its awesome indentation system.
Learn it, I personnaly considering python as important after C\C++, because it does so much by default, and as a scripting language, it serves a lot.
Ch is a C and C++ interpreter, it can be used for scripting.
Install and try tcsh. You can also make it your default shell, if you want. Although I don't recommend it. ;-)
php-cli, can be quite useful.
php has a bad reputation, but since php version 5 the language is actually quite ok. And the syntax is similar to C/C++/Java.
There is cling Cern's project of C++ interpreter based on clang.
Here is Google Talk: Introducing cling, a C++ Interpreter Based on clang/LLVM
There are some packages available for node that facilitate system scripting.
The node package manager is probably the easiest way to install such packages; node itself can be built from source (with the v8 engine it runs on) or installed via some system package managers.
You may need to learn to use evented I/O in order to get much done.
I haven't written it yet, but the best scripting language for C would be... C. Compilers are fast enough now that you could write a little script wrapper that would compile and run your program. Indistinguishable from a scripting language that loads in the source and parses it before executing. When I get a script working, I'll post it.


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Source: Space Politics
quote: We've been launching people into space for a while now.
quote: Private companies will soon be offering rides
quote: companies are looking at privatizing the moon and asteroids for mining purposes
quote: Yeah it will be expensive, but the benefits outweigh the risks.
quote: We throw trillions away on lots of other stuff.
quote: Id rather they throw it at the moon.
quote: The fact that private companies are doing it at all is pretty awesome.
quote: As far as the lunar/asteroid mining goes, you may think its a Ponzi, but it has enough weight that pop-sci has addressed it in a few articles.
quote: You seem to be focused on just the launch.
quote: What about SpaceX? They've broken into the monopoly the ULA had on USAF contracts because they are cheaper.
quote: They are attemping to address the reusability aspect.
quote: I'd argue that private industry and competition will drive down prices, and lead to the innovation you desire because they have to answer to their investors.
quote: The government has no inkling of give a fuq about the amount of money they throw at the monopolies they are in bed with.


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Courage takes a lot of forms.
It goes from the men and women who fight to keep our country safe to some 16-year-old asking a girl out on a date.
People all over the world fight cancer, or some other terrible disease which they didn't ask for.
Firefighters run into burning buildings (anyone remember Sept. 11, 2001?) while others run out and policemen patrol some of the most dangerous streets in the world.
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball.
Mother Theresa was about everyone else.
Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, bucked the system and went to jail.
Pat Tillman left the NFL and went to war and lost his life.
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail for no reason.
Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus.
It takes courage to stand up for what you believe in, regardless of the outpouring of emotion and debate.
Golfer Grant Whybark recently did that.
Although not on the same level of those mentioned above, Whybark did what he thought, in his heart, was right and the kid is getting tasered for it.
PRAISE: Whybark, a sophomore at the University of St. Francis, was going to play in the NAIA national championships because his team had just won the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship, but was in a playoff against Olivet Nazarene's Seth Doran for individual honors.
When Whybark found out before the playoff that Doran had to win the playoff to advance to the national championships, he knew what he had to do and it was a simple decision for him.
He stepped up and jacked his tee shot out of bounds. On purpose.
He made 6. Doran made 4 and both were heading to nationals, May 18-21 at TPC at Deere Park in Silvis, Ill., site of the PGA Tour's John Deere Classic.
I don't want to hear about "integrity of the game" and how Whybark "cheated the game and everyone else who was in the tournament."
Stop already.
Whybark did the honorable thing.
Sportsmanship at its best.
It has been said forever that golf is a gentleman's game.
Whybark did the gentlemanly thing.
I've listened to people say that Whybark should have just missed a putt on purpose and kept everything to himself and no one would have known better.
Yeah, right.
Oh, I see, pulling a 5-iron from 150 yards out and rifling it over the green would have been much better.
Pulling a Tin Cup would have been much better?
Missing a putt on purpose or showing a sudden case of the yips would have been much better?
Tell me, dads, if Whybark was your son, you would have said what?
"Son, you win at all costs."
Then, you are now "that" dad.
Congratulations to Whybark for doing the right thing.
TASER: The 17-year-old who ran onto the baseball field in Philadelphia was tasered by a police officer.
Some people said that was too harsh.
I say taser him again just to make sure he doesn't do it again.
After that, taser his dad for allowing his idiot son to run onto the field.
Reports say the kid called his father and asked for his permission and the dad retorted something along the lines that he didn't think it was the best of ideas.
Dad, just tell him "No, son, that may be the stupidest thing you've ever thought of."
Instead, his dad told the Philadelphia Daily News, "I don't recommend running on the field, but I don't think they should have Tased him at all."
I know, stay off the field and you won't get tasered.
Sounds easy enough to me.
By the way, quit making excuses for your kid when he is wrong.
TASER: Apparently all the hulabaloo surround the tasering didn't mean much because a 34-year-old did the same thing the next night.
I guess all this excessive force talk meant nothing to this idiot.
He should have been tasered, too.
PRAISE: Four students at Live Oak High School in Gilroy, Calif., wore T-shirts to school adorned with the United States flag.
Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano and Dominic Maciel were sent home from school Wednesday because they were wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
According to a report in the Gilroy Dispatch, one student said Vice Principal Miguel Rodriguez called the T-shirts "incendiary."
This too-politically correct world has gone too far when students in the United States are sent home from school because they wore American flag T-shirts, regardless of what day.
TASER: Los Suns.
Really? Los Suns.
If you are going to make a statement against an immigration law that more than 70 percent of Arizona citizens voted for, at least get it right and say, Los Sols.
Or, since Phoenix's uniforms just say "Suns" on the front, just use "Sols."
I'm not going to say if it is a good law or a bad law, but if people have not ready every word of the law, how do they know?
TASER: Most professional golfers who withdraw from a tournament.
Tiger did it Sunday with a "bulging disc in his neck." I'm not saying he doesn't have it, but if he had a 5-shot lead with 12 holes to play, would he have packed it in?
Ever see a golfer go 66-WD?
That is beyond rare.
Most golfers go 82-WD, 78-WD, 76-WD, 86-WD.
PRAISE: To the Oakland Raiders for finally dumping JaMarcus Russell, who now officially becomes the biggest bust in the NFL, replacing former No. 1 choice Ryan Leaf.
The guy is a stiff who chose to spend more time looking in the mirror than the playbook.
Nice work ethic there.
(Mathison, a Weirton resident, is the sports editor of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com)


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I live in Iran and many of sites such as BBC WORLD are blocked by our betray government so I don't have access to suchlike sites. Please guide me how I can use Https in the Ubuntu. I have address and user+pass for my https account.
You are wrong in thinking that https is what you need. What https does is to encrypt the information send between you and the server abroad. It does not allow you to access a server that your government (which you'd better not mention) has blocked.
You should really be looking at some of the following things (I am no specialist, so look around the site or ask another question):
Probably the best option is to use Tor. It allows for anonymous websurfing. There are some questions on this site about Tor in your country. Be careful, though, because your government is likely to be warned of you inquiring about Tor (and they might find other ways to know what you are doing; if it's just surfing BBC world, no worries).
Useful links:
Your question is unclear.
https is used over http :
You government will still see that you are trying to access address.com and if they're blocking address.com it will make no difference switching to https.
https will only encrypt the content sent (not the address).


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12-12-12-- Dates like today with repeating numbers have been recurring for the past twelve years.
This is the last year for nine decades where we will see numbers repeat like this.
For some, today isn't just the last date in this century with repeating numbers.
12-12-12 is also a few local students' 12th birthday.
"I just think it's really cool because not many people have birthdays on days like this, and it makes it even cooler because I am turning 12," said Josh Wilson.
For this Rich Pond Elementary sixth grader, turning 12 is just a normal day at school.
Except, Josh is one of few kids whose age matches the date of his birthday today.
"I'm actually turning twelve on 12-12-12," Josh said.
Josh's parents didn't realize he would have such a special birthday until they purchased the 2012 calendar at the end of last year.
"We just talked about how unique that was and how much of an honor it is to have that on such a special day. It wasn't planned, it just worked out that way and it's been a neat thing to celebrate," said Josh's dad, Mike Wilson.
For Josh, it's just like any birthday.
"It's just always a special day because it was the day you were born," he said
"He loves Mexican food so we're going to go to Pepper's, and the family is going to come out and join us, and I know that's something he's looking forward too," Mike Wilson said.
Also turning 12 today...
Jeron Moore of Russell County-- he was diagnosed with autism as baby and his parents say he wasn't expected to make it to his fifth birthday.
Other 12-year-olds on 12-12 include, Justin Minton of Hart County, Matison Cardwell of Bowling Green, Kylee Sartain of Bowling Green, and Tyler Hester of Bowling Green.
According to the Bowling Green and Warren County School Districts, 9 kids celebrated their 12th birthday today.


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Repeal Obamacare and replace it with less ambitious plan
Obamacare? Repeal it and start over. The law was passed on a party-line vote, and was not even read by those who voted. If that is the best our elected representatives can do, we are closer to a dictatorship than a democracy. I would have more respect for them if only the ones who read the bill voted and the rest abstained.
It was disingenuous for President Obama to look into the camera many times to assure the people that "If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan." Now he is apologizing for not being clear enough? Sounded pretty clear to me.
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conservative1 wrote on Nov 24, 2013 11:03 PM:
Single payer is wrong on so many levels. 1st. We are a capitalist republic NOT SOCIALIST or COMMUNIST.
2nd if you didn't believe it before, the federal government just proved (again) they are incapable of running ANYTHING. They can't do something as simple as put a website up. EVEN this crappy state got their website working.
3rd you may think Obama is a good man and wouldn't hurt you. How about when some evil president like Sarah Palin or Jeb Bush comes along? Will you trust your life in their hands??
You have way too much faith in government to be competent and willing to do the right thing. "
conservative1 wrote on Nov 24, 2013 11:09 PM:
All of a sudden you don't want to pay someone else's healthcare bill? You want them to get insurance and pay their own??
C4 Satisfy Republicans?? The Dems did this ALL ON THEIR OWN. They didn't satisfy anyone but the anointed one.
If you think the federal government can and will di it cheaper, better, fairer than the free market, then ya YOU'RE NUTS. They just need you to get this number tattooed on your arm (just for accountability purposes) and walk thru the green door. "
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OMG! Is it the end of days? An antichrist walks among us. A foreboding comet (Ison) has appeared in the skies. Soon the heavens shall rain down upon us (the Geminids meteor shower). Could the Mayan calendar have been right? Is the end of the world near? "
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U.S. companies would face a minimum tax on the income they earn around the world under a plan released today by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus that marks his most significant proposal to revamp the tax code.
Baucus's plan to restructure the international tax system would lower the corporate rate by an unspecified amount, end a rule that has encouraged companies to accumulate about $2 trillion in earnings in their foreign subsidiaries and impose a 20 percent tax on those stockpiled profits.
The proposal is the first of three drafts the Montana Democrat plans to release this week. It will be followed by proposals on tax administration and capital-cost recovery. Baucus, who is retiring from Congress at the end of 2014, said he wants to kick off discussions about revising the tax system.
"It's time to move; it's time to go," Baucus told reporters in his office in Washington, saying his tax plan would prove politically popular. "You can create your own destiny."
Whether he can succeed is far from clear. Efforts by Baucus and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp to make the biggest changes to the U.S. tax code since 1986 are stalled, partly because of a partisan dispute over whether the government should collect more revenue as part of the changes. Camp is a Michigan Republican.
Criticizing Plan
Corporate groups, including the Business Roundtable, issued statements within hours that criticized the Baucus plan. Roundtable President John Engler, who represents chief executives of large companies, said the senator's approach would make many U.S. companies less competitive.
Baucus's international tax plan is designed to be revenue neutral in the long run. He would reserve the one-time revenue of about $200 billion from the tax on accumulated earnings for an unspecified purpose.
The international system is one of the most technically complex areas of the U.S. tax code and potential changes are being watched closely by companies including Pfizer Inc. (PFE:US) and General Electric Co. (GE:US) that have significant global businesses.
General agreement exists across party lines on moving to a system that lessens burdens on companies that face lower-taxed foreign competition while tightening rules on U.S. companies' tax-avoidance tactics.
President Barack Obama said today that the differences between the parties on business taxation "should be bridgeable." Speaking at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council in Washington, he reiterated the administration's support for a "modest, clear" global minimum tax without endorsing Baucus's version of it.
Each detail in Baucus's proposal affects companies in different ways depending on how they have set up their businesses, where they operate and where they have located their intellectual property.
His plan will make it tougher for companies to claim profits in low-tax countries, said Ed Kleinbard, a tax-law professor at the University of Southern California.
"This is obviously bad news for tech firms and pharmas and others that have effective tax rates in the single digits," said Kleinbard, a former chief of staff of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. "It's impossible that they will maintain foreign effective tax rates in the single digits."
Federal Rate
Under current law, U.S. companies owe taxes at the full federal rate of 35 percent on all income they earn around the world. They receive tax credits for payments to foreign governments and can defer U.S. taxation until they repatriate the money.
That system has encouraged companies to accumulate untaxed earnings in foreign subsidiaries. It also has created incentives for companies to move intellectual property out of the U.S. and into low-tax jurisdictions.
U.S. lawmakers such as Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, have criticized maneuvers by companies including Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT:US) that have reduced their tax bills.
Many other countries, including the U.K. and Japan, have shifted to what's known as a territorial tax system in which U.S. companies would owe little or no taxes on their foreign income.
The Let's Invest for Tomorrow America Coalition, which advocates for a territorial system, said that Baucus's proposal would take the country further from a pro-growth position. Coalition members include Oracle Corp. (ORCL:US), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ:US) and Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO:US)
'Cannot Support'
"The Coalition cannot support policy provisions that are punitive against globally engaged American headquartered companies and make them increasingly vulnerable to takeover by competitors who are not subject to similar tax regimes either in the U.S. or in their home country," Claire Buchan Parker, a coalition spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Baucus, in suggesting a hybrid between current law and a territorial system, is proposing two options for his minimum tax. The first would tax all income from foreign sales and services immediately at a rate equal to 80 percent of the new U.S. rate. "
conservative1 wrote on Nov 25, 2013 11:04 PM:
You think insurance companies are fleecing us?? Do you know what their profit margins are? I'll attach a link to the list. Save yourself some time and scroll to the very bottom where you will find the profit margin on healthcare insurance at 3.3%. You think the Federal government can do it for less?? HA!
You have Kitty?? How about buying people's groceries that can afford their own? Or paying their rent when they drive a Lexus and have a bigger TV than you? People that take money that could be spent on those that really need help?
I think someone hijacked Kitty's account.
And no not all politicians lie to us.
We don't have to repeal it, it will repeal itself. "
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and FYI the insurance industry is VERY regulated.
Kitty your IRS is on it's way OUT. You're silly. "
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will it finally be barry's fault when the current 'stimulus' plan inevitably fails, causing yet another drastic downturn in the markets? or will you find some other scapegoat? "
conservative1 wrote on Nov 28, 2013 10:59 AM:
Bush ruined the world economy hahaha
Socialism is what killed Europe. I guess as long as we get free phones and can keep our children on our insurance until they are 40 everything is ok.
Capitalism is why you have running water in your home and EVERY other luxury. Without it we'd still be running out to the outhouse like the rest of the world. It pulls us all up like a vacuum. Even the poorest people in this country live better than most of the rest of the world. "
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Sun HPC Software Workshop '09 -- Early Bird's Almost Over!
By templedf on Jul 30, 2009
Just wanted to remind everyone that the early bird registration for the Sun HPC Software Workshop '09, Sept 7-10 in Regensburg, Germany, ends tomorrow (31 July 2009). It's your last chance to sign up at the discounted rate. After tomorrow, you will still be able to register, but the cost of registration will be higher.
In a nutshell, the Sun HPC Software Workshop '09 is a combination of our annual Grid Engine Workshop, a European edition of the popular Lustre Users Group meeting, and a conference on developing applications and services for HPC and cloud environments. The Workshop lasts three days, with a presentation track representing each of these topics. One the day before the main Workshop starts, we're also holding deeper technology seminars: a Lustre Deep Dive, a Grid Engine admin training, and a class on parallel application development taught by Ruud van der Pas. The Workshop and the preceding seminars are an excellent opportunity to learn more about these technologies and connect with the product engineers, partners, and other community members.
There is an open Call for Presentations for the Workshop, but it also closes tomorrow. If you're interested in proposing a talk for the Workshop (and getting a discounted registration fee if it's accepted), send a title, duration, and brief summary to the email address listed on the Agenda page. But, hurry. We'll be making our final decisions and notifying the speakers soon.
I look forward to seeing you there!


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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
E-Verify a bothersome but not insurmountable chore for area businesses
Published on Sat, Jan 14, 2012
Steve Hale of Hale Building Company in Anniston only wants to hire legal workers. He wants to comply with all laws.
But to him, the state is just not making it very easy.
Hale Building Company was one of many Alabama businesses with government contracts that were required to enroll with the E-Verify system this month to comply with the state's immigration law. E-Verify is a free Internet service offered by the federal government that lets companies check the working status of employees by comparing a worker's name to official records.
Hale said the process to enroll in the system, and just complying with the immigration law in general, has been difficult.
"There is a good bit of time needed to switch over to it," Hale said. "And there is just a lot of confusion about what is to be done. But we've made a very valiant effort to conform to the new law."
Hale said he does not agree with the way the state has implemented the law, which was passed last year and considered the toughest immigration legislation in the country.
"It seems like politicians could have done a better job to phase things in and explain them," Hale said. "And we're being asked to be the police of the industry, but we're not in business to track these people down."
Lance Taylor, president of the Taylor Corporation in Oxford, whose company also had to enroll in E-Verify this month, agreed with Hale that much of the immigration law is confusing.
"Every time they come out with something different, the lawyers try to keep us abreast with what we can and can't do," Taylor said. "There was just so much confusion when it first came out."
John Bryan, vice president of the Sunny King Auto Group in Anniston, said his company also enrolled with E-Verify this month as a precautionary measure.
"It was our understanding that if you did business with a governmental entity, you needed to be in compliance," Bryan said. "We weren't sure if we had to do it in January or April … so we did it as a precautionary measure."
The law requires all state companies in general to enroll with E-Verify.
Like Hale Building, enrolling in the system took considerable time and work for Sunny King's several dealerships.
"I wouldn't describe it as difficult, but it was something added to the plate of things to do," Bryan said. "It was something we did on a dealership-by-dealership basis."
To Bryan, the mandatory enrollment in E-Verify will be a good thing for the state and his company in the long run.
"I really don't think it's a bad thing to do," Bryan said. "I don't think we're in danger of hiring an illegal immigrant anyway, but if this clears that up once and for all, I think that's a good thing."
Wendy Feliz Sefsaf, director of communications for the non-profit American Immigration Council, said forcing companies to enroll in the E-Verify system wouldn't clear up much of anything and could cause problems for businesses.
"One of the biggest criticisms of it is its error rate," Sefsaf said. "People are not so much against verifying workers as they are against having a system that doesn't work."
Sefsaf said the system can sometimes cause problems for legal citizens, flagging them if they have changed their names through marriage or divorce. To be on the safe side, employers will sometimes not wait and simply fire these people, she said.
Hale said the issue of firing someone who is legal has been a concern for his lawyers.
"I'm told that the law does not protect you if you terminate someone wrongly because you can't E-Verify them," Hale said. "And you can get sued for wrongful termination."
Sefsaf said E-Verify cannot possibly catch all illegals who try to get work either.
"If an illegal has a fake name that matches a social security number, the system doesn't deter them one bit," she said.
Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, agreed the E-Verify system is not perfect and would not catch dishonest companies paying illegal workers under the table, for instance. However, the system would help companies trying to comply with the law.
"You have a lot of companies out there paying illegals who don't know they are illegal," Marsh said. "E-Verify will get that taken care of."
Marsh added that he has only had one company contact him to complain about the immigration law requirements and did not think any of them, including E-Verify, would be a burden to businesses.
"I don't think it's a problem," Marsh said. "It takes some time to set up the system, but after that it's not a problem."
For Taylor, the benefits of completing the lengthy E-Verify system enrollment process are still unknown.
"As far as I'm concerned, it's probably too early to tell," Taylor said. "Maybe after waiting six months to a year I'll know."
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Three school zones may change in El Dorado if the El Dorado City Commission approves an ordinance to amend the municipal code Monday evening.
USD 490 and USD 375 have suggested the 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. time be removed from Lincoln, Oil Hill and Grandview elementaries.
In other business, the commission will:
• consider a resolution calling on congressional leaders in Kansas to oppose efforts to advance legislation to eliminate the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds.
• consider a sanitary sewer project to serve the Greens at Prairie Trails Phase II, as well as a lift station and force main.
• set a hearing date for a project to extend the Walnut Valley Drive (Phase II).
• set a hearing date to spread to costs of boring sewer line in the 100 block of North Summit.
• consider a resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a sales tax rebate agreement with John K. Fisher for improvements to the dealership.
They will meet at 7 p.m. in City Hall.
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To the editor:
I can still remember the year I was invited to go Black Friday shopping with my mom and her two sisters. I was in my sophomore year of high school and was so excited to wake up at 6 a.m. to go to the mall at Fashion Valley in San Diego.
The whole day, and every Black Friday after that, was filled with tradition and joy. These shopping experiences were always exciting but not stressful; they were productive and never overwhelming. I never understood why many of my friends thought I was crazy to go shopping on Black Friday. This year, I learned why.
According to International Business Times, two people were shot in Florida, there were multiple arrests across the country, police had to use pepper spray and mass fights broke out over smart phones with customers taking boxes out of the hands of others. It is times like these that make me fairly embarrassed with our culture. Shootings? Really? I hate to break it to you but if you kill someone in the process of getting your 8-year-old a smart phone he doesn't need, you aren't going to be able to give it to him anyway seeing as you will probably be in jail.
As a whole, we all need to get a grip on reality and what actually matters - your life or saving a few bucks? Black Friday sales at many stores started at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day this year. It seems the idea of giving thanks for what we have is being overshadowed by being obsessed with what we don't have and feel we need. Personally, I don't plan on doing any more Black Friday shopping purely to boycott the absurd mindset we have fallen into that things are more important than family and life. Please join me.
Cayce Smits


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5 Personality Flaws That Science Will Cure in Our Lifetime
At least half of the bad people in the world avoid trying to change because they insist nothing is their fault. It's all due to their childhood, or their genes -- their temper, their weight, their bad habits -- all of it is outside of their control. It's bullshit, right?
Well ... not entirely. As we learn more about genetics, we find that more and more bad habits at least have their roots in our DNA. And once we find the right gene, it's entirely possible we can cure things like...
#5. Infidelity
There used to be a time when a weekend hookup with a lady at the county fair might have life-changing consequences, e.g., her daddy showing up at your doorstep with a shotgun, a preacher and some Gone With the Wind commemorative wedding china. Those days are thankfully long gone, at least until the fathers of loose women and cheated-on wives get ahold of a hormone that forces loved ones to be faithful.
It'll be the end of tennis coaching as we know it.
Welcome to the future, ladies and gentlemen.
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Scientists know that the hormone called vasopressin is integral to the formation of social bonds. In the male brain, vasopressin is released during sexual activity and encourages a guy to form an emotional attachment to his partner. But in a survey of 1,000 heterosexual couples, men who had a certain type of vasopressin receptor gene were twice as likely to report dissatisfaction with their marriages.
Imagine a future where being vasopressin negative was something you flaunted on your Match.com page. If you were a women, why wouldn't you want to know about a potential mate's "aptitude for monogomy," as the scientists put it. Hell, if there was a scientific test that could tell you whether the guy who just proposed to you is a ticking cheat bomb, you'd be stupid not to make him take it. Of course, the vasopressin receptor gene might not be terminal for its owner's sex lives. After all, if we can increase the number of vasopressin receptors, we might be able to cure cheating altogether.
Then we can deal with the other tell-tale signs of a mid-life crisis.
In an experiment conducted on prairie voles, males were injected with an artificial gene that boosted the number of vasopressin receptors in their brains. Then each male was paired with one female. Several hours later, a second female was thrown into the mix, because voles likes to party.
The males who received the vasopressin boost spent twice as much time with the original female they'd been paired with, while the males who did not receive the receptor boost spent equal amounts of time with both, presumably while attempting to proposition them for some hot three-way prairie vole action.
Or as they call it, "the vole-tron."
#4. Procrastination
For some of us, getting our work done is just a matter of checking our Facebook news feed, playing a quick game of spider solitaire, updating our Netflix queue, running to the bathroom, pouring a second cup of coffee, doing something about that flappy hangnail on our big toe and then settling down for business. For others, getting work done is a real chore.
"No point in trying to be productive until I've stumbled around my local supermarket stoned as balls for a few hours."
It's easy to write it off as "you're lazy" or "duh, you just prefer not working to working," but there is a specific mechanism in the brain that causes us to delay a task we know we have to get to, and there is a way to get around it.
One reason we procrastinate has to do with dopamine, which is what allows us to draw the connection between the work we do and the reward for completing said work. In the carrot-and-stick analogy, dopamine is the carrot: It gives us the little high when we get close to the finish line, and the anticipation of that high.
A high that only shooting horse in an elementary school bathroom can top.
Here's the glitch: The closer we think we are to earning the reward, the more dopamine our brain releases, and the more we'll be motivated to work. But if we think the reward is a long way off, dopamine doesn't get released, our motivation is squelched, and we end up procrastinating.
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If we can block dopamine receptors, we'll just work and work and work, with each task carrying the same weight. We know this because scientists injected a dopamine-blocking DNA construct into the brains of monkeys, as scientists are apt to do, and the DNA totally changed the way the monkeys worked.
This is the least-horrifying way we could illustrate it.
Before the monkeys got the worky juice, they learned to read visual cues that told them how many more tasks they had to complete, and their performance improved as they got closer to their monkey reward. But after they got a brain dose of special sauce, the monkeys' dopamine receptors were blocked, and they could no longer judge when the reward was coming. And that was when the monkeys got down to business.
So what could this potentially mean for us humans? Well, if we're anything like monkeys (news flash: we are) the results of the study suggest that gene therapy might totally cure procrastination. Trust us, we wish this wasn't true -- the day they cure procrastination is the day the Internet dies.
#3. Gambling
If you've never had an uncle who gambled away the family furniture, your favorite bike and your cat's virginity over a midnight game of poker, consider yourself lucky. Because compulsive gambling is actually a medically recognized condition, and the people who have it are as vulnerable to their vice as other addicts. Scientists have discovered that gamblers have lower levels of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine. Which is important, because that little baby is what gives the rest of us a "rush" when we're aroused, thrilled or stressed.
Russian roulette is the cheapest high money can buy.
So just like a crack addict has to keep smoking more and more to reach the same high, the gambling addict has to risk more and more money to get the same rush. And here's more bad news: If you've got a close relative with a gambling problem, you're eight percent more likely to develop one as well.
Don't believe us? Wanna bet on it?
Of course you do. You can't stop yourself.
Cured By:
By treating pathological gamblers like substance abuse addicts. Literally. With the same medicine and everything. In one experiment, researchers divided compulsive gamblers into two groups. The first group were people who said they had to gamble when they felt an "urge," and the second group was composed of people who weren't even cognizant of urges -- they just gambled all the time because they were impulsive addicts.
Each group was given different drugs to treat gambling. The first group got opioid blockers, which are the medicines also used to treat opiate addiction, and the second group got a drug that did a number on the prefrontal cortex, which actually gave them the capacity to just say "no" every now and then.
That's right. Science turned D.A.R.E. into a drug.
In other words, one group got their urges reduced and the other got their inhibitions increased, and both groups were able to control their gambling problems a little better. Sounds like a win-win to us!


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Lately I've been studying monodromy and covering maps (in particular ramified covering mapos of Riemann surfaces), and I came across something I didn't fully understand. Let $V$ be a connected real manifold, and let $\rho:\pi_1(V,q)\to S_d$ be a group homomorphism with a transitive image. Let $H=\{a\in\pi_1(V,q):\rho(a)(1)=1\}$. It is easy to prove that $H$ is a subgroup of $\pi_1(V,q)$ of index $d$. By the general theory of covering spaces, we know that there is a covering space $F:U\to V$ of degree $d$ such that $\pi_1(U,x)\cong H$.
Now, we know that $\pi_1(V,q)$ acts on $F^{-1}(q)$ by taking a class of curves $[\gamma]$ and sending a point $x$ in the fiber of $q$ to the endpoint of the lifting of $\gamma$ to $U$ with initial point $x$. This action induces a homomorphism $\pi_1(V,q)\to S_d$ (with transitive image).
Now the question: Supposedly, given a homomorphism $\rho:\pi_1(V,q)\to S_d$ with transitive image, if we take the covering $F:U\to V$ associated to the group $H$ mentioned above, why is it that the homomorphism described by the action of $\pi_1(V,q)$ on the fibers of $q$ the same (or maybe with conjugate images) as the homomorphism $\rho$?
I read this statement in Algebraic Curves and Riemann Surfaces by Rick Miranda, and can't figure out why the homomorphisms should be the same.


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I love the creaminess of coconut milk and thought I would pair it with tomato and warm spices like cinnamon. The result was rather tasty. If my Mom had made Indian food when I was a kid, this might qualify as comfort food.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Coconut Curry Chickpeas
I love the creaminess of coconut milk and thought I would pair it with tomato and warm spices like cinnamon. The result was rather tasty. If my Mom had made Indian food when I was a kid, this might qualify as comfort food.
12 comments:
- Lucy said...
Fab curry - I love the texture of chick peas and rice together... inspiring blog :D
- December 19, 2007 at 6:29 AM
- Veg-a-Nut said...
Congrat on your healthy growing children and yeah! that you have a doctor who is ok with feeding a child a vegan diet. This dish of yours look wonderful. I love coconut milk and in fact have some in the freezer that I desperatly need to use.
- December 19, 2007 at 10:36 AM
- Paulina said...
That looks so good! I might just have to try it :)
- December 19, 2007 at 3:43 PM
- Anna Banana said...
I will definitely try this! BTW, I bestowed the over-achiever award to you because I'm jealous of your vegan culinary skills. Yes, it's a good thing!
- December 19, 2007 at 5:32 PM
- Alexis said...
This sounds so good! I love curry with chickpeas but have usually paired them with tomatoes. I'll have to try this creamier version.
- December 19, 2007 at 10:51 PM
- mustardseed said...
Nice(: I eat chana masala about once a week and I adore it.
But chana masala doesn't require any coconut milk, so yours must be alot creamier. And decadent(:
- December 21, 2007 at 11:26 PM
- SaraJane said...
Those look amazing. I'm definitely going to try this. I love Indian food so much.
- December 22, 2007 at 4:39 PM
- isis-goddess-98 said...
OMG thank you x 1,000,000. I have been looking for a simple, tasty curry and I think you've got it down! I will be whipping this up tonight ^_^
- December 26, 2007 at 3:47 PM
- John R. Maass said...
I made this tonight--it is very good, although I would recommend a wee bit more garam masala, and a wee bit lewss all spice. But, wife liked it VERY much.
- April 29, 2008 at 6:58 PM
- Dynah said...
I know this recipe is from long ago, but I'm just eating it for the first time. I made it this weekend and froze portion to eat during the week, and it has made my evening very nice after a long day at law school. Thanks!
- August 25, 2009 at 8:24 PM
- Leigh said...
What a great easy and inexpensive recipe! I made this for dinner tonight and will be eating it for the next couple nights. Thank you so much! Perfectly seasoned and not overly spicy.
- October 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM
- Agata Smialy said...
That is very inspiring! I added some modifications (sweet potatoes and okra) and it came out really really great. Thanks for inspiration ;)
- March 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM