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lot 1
pronoun(a lot or lots) informal
- "I don't think a lot is happening with that, particularly around here, " she noted.
- We're in a lot of trouble.
- I told you last night, I've got a lot on my mind.
- People like you with tiny pension funds were allowed to take the whole lot in cash at any time after 50.
- The whole lot fitted into a sort of tray which went across the bath within easy reach.
- In terms of footballing credentials, O'Leary has got the lot.
adverb(a lot or lots) informal
- I think you'll be able to deal with your feelings a lot better than before.
- At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.
- They told me to brush my teeth lots while my mouth is recovering.
- Incredibly, this second lot of inmates are even more tedious and uninteresting than the first.
- It was inactive virtually after the second lot of partnership money was invested.
- They are asked to fill out some forms, then bureaucrats come around and ask them to fill out more forms, so people fill out several lots of different forms.
- We had a lot of mail from you lot about the wisdom of mixing phones and petrol stations.
- Voters are seen as a strange and volatile lot, who could turn bad at the blink of an eye.
- There is lots of drek out there from signed bands and this lot do quite a bit with what they have.
- Parts of that department were now laid out in crates on the car deck, lots to be sold off in the auction.
- It is notable, for instance, that the recent silver sale at Bonhams had just half the number of lots of the 2003 sale.
- The second lot is a collection of 302 photographs, purchased for £2,500, from Emily Shackleton's family album.
- The priests drew lots in all cases where differences might arise.
- The Great Council drew lots to choose 30 men from among its members.
- The consuls drew lots for the provinces, and Italy went to Aelius, Macedonia to Quinctius.
- The tickets were allocated by lot, those who received them were not the worthiest.
- If this is the standard of fare to be served up by the top six, cynics might say it would be better if the final positions were drawn by lot.
- If the last hand was blocked, then the lead is determined by lot again.
- The first who put in his hand was the Admiral, and he drew out the bean with a cross, so the lot fell on him; and he was bound to go on the pilgrimage and fulfil the vow.
- The lot fell on Matthias, and a place among the eleven Apostles was voted to him.
- A group of workmen decide to kill Carson, as a warning to his class, and the lot falls on Barton to do the deed.
- She is actually very happy and content with her lot!
- She often felt like she had been punished for a reason and that punishment was her lot in life.
- She worked full time as a weaver to put food on the table and cared for three of us without lamenting her lot.
- Then we come to the present situation where there are only six lots which are vacant and we look at the sales that are attracted there.
- The government town of Moonta was surveyed in 1863 and town lots offered for sale in April of that year.
- At the first land sales he was able to buy four town lots including the site of his hotel for $125.00.
- I park in the adjacent lot, generally in a way not to offend or to disturb other clients of the store.
- I rolled down my window and asked him if this was the proper lot to park in.
- The few times I drive to work, I usually park in the cheap lot just a hop skip and a jump from there.
- Any time a scene takes place on a movie lot, there are always dozens of extras running around dressed as cowboys and ancient Romans.
- It is rare when his abandoned streets and empty shops feel like back lots or sound stages.
- Production builders buy finished lots a block at a time, which gives them enough room for efficient staging and production.
- I really do not like used car lots, never have, never will.
- I saw him a few times around the used car lot, you know.
verb (lots, lotting, lotted)[with object]
- As a result, we have seen a much greater tendency towards the lotting of a property as this allows the market to cater for bids from both types of buyer and hence maximise values.
- The major components of this system are zoning, site plan review and lotting or subdivision of land.
- The following section outlines a system for conducting electronic auctions with aggregate lotting for transformation bidding.
1 The expressions a lot of and lots of are used before nouns to mean 'a large number or amount of.' In common with other words denoting quantities, lot itself does not normally function as a head noun, meaning that it does not itself determine whether the following verb is singular or plural. Thus, although lot is singular in a lot of people, the verb that follows is not singular. In this case, the word people acts as the head noun and, being plural, ensures that the following verb is also plural: a lot of people were assembled (not a lot of people was assembled). See also number (usage). 2 A lot of and lots of are very common in speech and writing, but they still have a distinctly informal feel and are generally not considered acceptable for formal English, where alternatives such as many or a large number are used instead. 3 Written as one word, alot is incorrect, although not uncommon.
all over the lot
- US informal In a state of confusion or disorganization.Example sentences
- So the Supreme Court is just all over the lot on this.
- The polls have been inconsistent and all over the lot, with the methodology of some coming under attack.
- Scientists are all over the lot on the question, and the issue is so hot politically that it's difficult to trust the science.
fall to someone's lot
- Become someone's task or responsibility: they accepted the burden of domestic responsibilities that fell to their lotMore example sentences
- Her single-minded approach to the tasks which fell to her lot, did not impinge in any way on the warmth of her personality.
- It also fell to my lot to oversee the publication of books as well.
- It fell to my lot in my twenties to teach 'creativity' to a few unfortunate students.
throw in one's lot with
- Decide to ally oneself closely with and share the fate of (a person or group).Example sentences
join forces with, join up with, form an alliance with, ally with, align oneself with, link up with, make common cause with
- The five dairy co-op shareholders decided to throw in their lot with Philip at the end of the day.
- When things didn't happen for me, I took the advice of my family and decided to throw in my lot with Ireland.
- They call off the wedding amiably and Susan decides to throw in her lot with the Harvey girls.
Old English hlot (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lot, German Los. The original meanings were sense 3 of the noun and (by extension) the sense 'a portion assigned to someone'; the latter gave rise to the other noun senses. The pronoun and adverb uses date from the early 19th century.
Words that rhyme with lotallot, begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, grot, hot, jot, knot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, rot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, slot, snot, sot, spot, squat, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht
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I recently interviewed at a major company and did well on programming questions such as:
- "What is the time complexity of quicksort?
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However, I couldn't answer many of the networking / operating system questions so I wonder how to fill this gap. I plan to read the book "Operating Systems" by Tanenbaum and I wonder even though SO is not a recommendation engine in this case if you can tell me other pointers or concrete recommendation how to practice linux/unix internals besides using a linux system in most ways I can and studying the aformentioned book?
I read this thread which is basically a duplicate of my questions Recommended reading to better understand unix/linux internals And I therefore have ordered the book "The Unix Programming Environment" even though it is old.
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I encrypt the string "usingAES" using AES 256 and delete the key file. Then I encrypt another string "usingRSA" using RSA 4096 bit with AES 256 bit block cipher - and delete the private key file.
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Palladino: Brogna doesn't deserve Twitter abuse
Watertown sports legend Rico Brogna has been knocked around in the media, again. Goodness knows, we've said a word or two on this topic. This time, however, criticism of Rico is unfair.
It is yet another story of Brogna taking a coaching job, lasting one season, then walking away. Truth is, Rico didn't walk away; he limped away.
Following his pro baseball career, which ended prematurely due to health issues after the 2001 season, Brogna has been on a long journey of discovery. There aren't enough bread crumbs on the planet to help one follow Rico's meandering trail.
His most sustained high school jobs have been two years of coaching Kennedy High football and three with Watertown boys basketball. Other gigs included one season each with Nonnewaug football, Salisbury football and Shepaug girls basketball (where he was hired but never coached) and last season with Notre
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On the collegiate level, there was one season with Post University baseball, and as assistant football coach at Wesleyan University. He has been a Double-A hitting instructor with the Phillies and a part-time big league scout with the Rockies. Rico spent one season managing the Diamondbacks' Double-A club in Mobile, Ala., and currently he is a scout with the Tampa Bay Rays.
Did I miss any?
One week ago, Notre Dame announced Brogna had stepped down after one season with the Lancers. Rico was immediately pummeled by criticism, most of it on social media sites. Negative reaction spewed across Twitter. No one took the time to get the real story behind Rico's resignation.
As we mentioned above, Rico didn't walk away from the Notre Dame job, he hobbled. The condition that tormented his baseball career, anklosing spondylitis, an inflammatory disease in the spine, now has Brogna walking with a cane. It comes on top of a partial knee replacement surgery that brought on, as he put it, "a few inconvenient infections."
Understand this: Rico didn't leave the Lancers crippled days before the 2012 season began, as many critics said.
"We had worked this out months ago," Brogna said. "It's not new. They just did a news release (Aug. 8) on it, but it was discussed a long time ago as my disease really kicked in, unfortunately. I'm very day-to-day, as they say."
Back in the spring, Notre Dame put its coaching staff in order. The school held off on an official announcement until last week, and that cost Brogna dearly in the instantaneous rush to judgement on Twitter.
"We made sure the program was in great shape," Brogna said, noting that Dawon Dicks was in place as the new head coach months ago.
Brogna's current health concerns affect his ability to coach as well as how he carries out his scouting duties with the Rays.
"I've had to really cut back on my schedule," he said. "Instead of traveling for the team, scouting at pro games, I'm doing more video and computer evaluations on players, and writing reports from the video analysis for the Rays. It's been difficult, if not impossible, to travel."
Brogna, at 42, is a young man with a body that feels awfully old.
"I try to go for a slow walk each day, which helps a lot," he said. "But that's about the extent of what I can do physically. The doctors have been great. I'm on a routine schedule for (medicine) infusions and I've tried epidural procedures. Hopefully, the treatments will aid my recovery. Sports has become secondary for me in my life at this time."
Brogna knows what sports fans and sports writers are thinking. I, too, have been critical in the past of Brogna's inability to settle on one coaching job. That criticism hurt, Brogna said, though he's way past fretting over that issue.
"I know the perception out there concerning my coaching and leaving, and I can't and won't argue that," he said. "People that know me well understand. Health is quite an important aspect to life. I wish I could continue coaching, but I can't do it physically. Maybe in the future, I'll be able to. But I have to get healthy and sustain it before I'm going to get back on the sidelines again — if I ever can."
Having already undergone a half-knee (right) replacement, full replacement surgery is next. But as Brogna noted, "It's complicated. I have had multiple infections (in the knee) and I'm on medicine (for the back) that can lower my immune system, but I have to take it."
He coached all of the 2011 football season with what he called "a perpetual cold." After the Lancers defeated Immaculate on Thanksgiving Day — for the team's only victory — Brogna collapsed from exhaustion.
Is it time for Brogna to reassess his desire to coach? We might think so, but Rico doesn't. Once obsessed with getting a coaching job and sticking with it, Brogna was determined to "prove to myself and to others that I can do this for more than one or two years."
In an interview two years ago, Brogna told me: "I took a long look at myself. I love to teach and coach high school and prep athletes in ways that can help them beyond sports. But I also have to prove that I can stick with something. You try to teach a young athlete that you have to fight through the things that you don't like or that disappoint you, and stick with it. I need to do that better myself."
That was painful self-evaluation. Rico's hit-and-run coaching style wasn't good for anyone, and he knew it. He also knows that it does not matter any more.
"Faith, family and health always come first," he said.
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tim andrew wrote on Aug 16, 2012 1:24 PM:
" ...well we know he doesn't need the money. I went to yahoo and checked out what he has made with all the teams, ...alot I might ad, which, I can't understand if that's the reason, 'not making enough' has made him go from one town to another. Why, because you can make another 20K? ...or what ever- Damain left Boston for the Yankees for 7M...is that not being faithful, or, does he need the xtra 7M? Free country- "
Jim Fortin wrote on Aug 16, 2012 10:50 PM:
" Rico is the best athlete ever to come out of Watertown. His ability is only outshined by his personality. He has always been there for the kids and lived his life as an example for children to follow. He has lived his life scandal free. At 42 years of age he deserves to take care of his medical issues and not worry about wagging tongues. Rico, thank you for the thrills you have given us over the years and I wish you well. "
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AG082: A Shroomish Skirmish
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A Shroomish Skirmish (Japanese: 森の格闘王!?ワカシャモVSキノガッサ! The Forest's Fighting King! Combusken VS Breloom!) is the 42nd episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge.
Episode Plot
The gang takes a break in a forest. Everyone eats what Brock made for lunch. Ash's Corphish has eaten all its food and spots Torchic eating its food, but Torchic blocks Corphish. Corphish eats its food, making Torchic cry. May and Ash arrive and Ash forces Corphish to apologise, but they bicker. Mudkip and Pikachu arrive to calm them down. Torchic and Corphish start to battle - Torchic attacks with Ember and Corphish with Bubble Beam. Pikachu has no choice but to electrocute everyone to calm them down.
Torchic and Corphish battle, so Ash, Brock and May send most of their Pokémon back to their Poké Balls. Team Rocket starves, wanting to eat *something*. An apple rolls to them and everyone grabs it. They spot some Shroomish with apples on their heads, so they go to take them. Meanwhile, Torchic and Corphish still battle, even kicking Pikachu and Mudkip for standing in their way. Grovyle uses Leaf Blade, calming them down. Torchic begins to cry and goes to May. Shroomish begin to revolt while Team Rocket eats their apples. More Shroomish appear, and despite Team Rocket still eating, those Shroomish evolve to Breloom. A Breloom jumps and stomps, so Team Rocket run away. They go to the gang and begin to chant, however see more food - they jump and eat it. While they are done, they continue to chant.
Max asks them from what were they running from, so they remember the Breloom - they appear! Team Rocket says that they ate some apples from the Breloom, but Jessie thinks it is justified, since they were all starving. Breloom use Mega Punch, blasting everyone off. May and Mukip are seen on a branch sticking from a cliff. They go away. Corphish and Torchic are seen amidst the bushes. Torchic cries when it does not see its owner. Corphish and Torchic wander off as well. Brock, Ash and Pikachu are seen on a path. They search for others, so Pikachu goes on Swellow's back to search from above. Ash and Brock go as well, but encounter Breloom. Ash goes to battle with them, but Brock pulls him, thinking it might not be a good idea...
Meowth and Max hide behind a bush. Corphish and Torchic arrive near them, rejoining them. Meowth thinks they should wait for someone, but runs to them when they wander off. Mudkip senses something on the fin on its head - Jessie and James arrive to them and pass them and fall down on the branch May and Mudkip were on. Meowth wonders why is Torchic sad, so Max says it thinks it might never see May again, so they go to search the others. Mudkip senses something more - Brock and Ash are running away from the Breloom. Ash battles them, so Brock pulls him not to make the situation worse. Next thing, they begin to roll down a narrow path.
Max, Meowth, Torchic and Corphish came to a canyon. Torchic spots some fruit nearby - soon, lots of Shroomish and Breloom appear. Pikachu and Swellow found them. Pikachu jumps to them, while Swellow goes to Ash. Ash and Brock rolled over, breaking the branch James and Jessie were sitting on. Brock sends Forretress, using Rapid Spin to make the fall softer. Swellow found Ash, warning him of the battle. Pikachu and Breloom use Iron Tail, although Pikachu is pushed to a wall. Breloom attack, so Corphish counterattacks with Bubble Beam, but misses. One Breloom uses Mega Punch on Torchic, but Corphish stands in its way, so Corphish hurt itself. Nevertheless, Corphish tackles them, but a Breloom stomps on it. Breloom wound Corphish, before Torchic's eyes. A Breloom goes to use Mega Punch, but is canceled by Mudkip's Water Gun.
May and Mudkip arrive to the scene. Corphish falls down, being severely hurt. Torchic goes to protect it. Torchic yells at them and evolves to Combusken. Ash, Brock, Jessie and James also arrive to the scene. The Breloom challenge Combusken to the fight. Breloom uses Iron Tail, but is canceled by Combusken's Peck, knocking it over a wall. Combusken attacks with Fire Spin, but the attack fails due to Mega Punch. Breloom attacks with Mega Punch, but it failed when it goes attacked by Combusken's Sky Uppercut. Meowth translates that Breloom wants to end using just their bare hands. Both Pokémon fight very well, but in the end, both fall down. Meowth also translates they are going to pay for stealing apples - Breloom attacks with Mega Punch and Combusken uses Fire Spin, blasting them off.
Combusken and Breloom shake each other's hands, respecting one another's strength and power. The gang goes to eat. Corphish goes to eat the food, but is stopped when Combusken sees the attempt.
- "What did they say?" - James
- "(Translating for Breloom) Not a bad punch. (Translating for Combusken) Yours too." - Meowth
- Featured Pokémon: Sunflora, Venomoth, Wailmer, Gastly.
- In the beginning of the episode, a classic Pokémon identification can be seen. In this case, it is a Butterfree.


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The next Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 18. The agenda for the next meeting will be posted on the city's website on Friday, June 14.
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Notes from the Technology Trenches - January, 1999By Elizabeth H. Klampert, Published on January 15, 1999
Since the Web provides a forum for just about anyone to publish just about anything, users of information found on the Internet should look at it with a critical eye. Assessing the quality of information involves looking at a variety of factors.
Much is written about evaluating the quality of Web resources. This is demonstrated by the World Wide Web Virtual Library's long bibliography of online articles that discuss the quality of information found on the Web. Lawyer and author, T.R. Halvorson also points us in the direction of many different articles about the same topic.
In a previous Research Wire column, Genie tackled the topic of finding good law on the Net, and identified five characteristics of superior information sources: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity. While there is some variation in stated criteria for evaluating Web resources, most discussion takes on a similar theme.
It is generally accepted that those who rely on Web based information should look at the credibility of who is providing the information.
- Is the provider an authoritative source, such as a governmental body or other organization?
- Might there be any sort of bias on the part of the provider of information?
- Can the content of the information be independently verified for accuracy if need be?
- Does the provider of the information also supply contact information such as an e-mail address, street address or telephone number?
The date of the information is another important factor.
- Is the information itself up -to-date?
- Does the provider of the online information keep the Web site fresh and provide updates as quickly as possible?
- Is it easy to update the information on the site?
On the American Library Association's Web site, author Jim Kapoun provides a handy chart explaining five factors to be considered when evaluating a Web resource: accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage. Johns Hopkins University's Elizabeth Kirk delves deeply into the issue of evaluating the quality of Web information, with particular attention to evaluating the provider of the information. She identifies questions to ask about the author, publisher, and timeliness of the information provided. Esther Grassian, from the UCLA College Library, provides guidelines for critical thinking in the evaluation of Web resources, which consist of a thorough compilation of questions one should ask oneself about both general and discipline-based Web resources.
In his article "Evaluating Information on the Internet," D. Scott Brandt from Purdue University Libraries poses the problem that some people think they can find anything on the Internet and that anything they find is good information. He identifies three ways in which information is filtered for quality in traditional publication methods:
- written/issued by an authoritative source
- authenticated by editorial review
- evaluated by experts, reviewers, subject specialists or librarians.
Publication on the Web can often bypass these traditional methods of filtering information for quality, thus making the end user of the information more responsible for the evaluation process. While some patrons believe all Internet information is quality, others take a more paranoid approach and refuse to acknowledge the Internet as a legitimate method of delivery for information. A student in a continuing library education class I recently taught told a story of an attorney who refused to accept a copy of a bill retrieved at Library of Congress' Thomas Web site because it was from the Internet, and therefore inherently unreliable.
Some patrons prefer the Internet as a method of information delivery above all others, despite the fact that more convenient resources may be available literally at their fingertips. I remember walking past a law student in the reference room who was using the Law Revision Counsel's Web version of the United States Code. While this is a reliable source for the U.S. Code, it isn't the most convenient version of the code to update, as the end user must search for public laws that affect their code sections and incorporate the updates themselves. While this task is certainly achievable, and might be the only research option available at times, it was not the best option for this student. She had commercial research services available on the computer she was using, which not only make the updating more automatic, but will now even tell you when there is a bill pending in Congress that might possible affect your code section if it is passed. Not to mention the fact that she had the hard copy of the U.S.C.A., with its pocket parts and supplements, literally four feet away on the shelves behind where she was sitting.
Both of these examples illustrate that people with a need for information are not always making the best choices when Internet delivery is thrown into the mix. Neither of these law library patrons evaluated the options available to them in order to suit their information needs in the most time/cost efficient manner. Thus, evaluation of Web resources should not be made in a vacuum, but within the context of the research situation.
Evaluate not only the end product and the way in which the information is retrieved, but also the context in which the research is being performed. This involves a comparison of the various research methods available to you at the time you are performing the research. For example,
- Are you at home in the middle of the night, and the Web your only option?
- Are you at work, with a well-equipped library full of varied print and electronic resources?
- Is the Web the only place to retrieve the information conveniently?
- Do you seek a law from a foreign country that might not be readily available another way?
- Do you seek a U.S. Government agency publication that would involve a trip to a depository library or an interlibrary loan?
Sometimes the Internet is even the preferred method of retrieval, as is the case with the current day's Federal Register, which is available online at GPO Access before it appears anywhere else.
Thus, researchers should not only ask themselves whether the information is current and from a credible source, but also whether the site providing the information is the most suitable given the particular circumstances of the research project.
Smith, Alastair. "Evaluation of Information Sources," World Wide Web Virtual Library. http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
Halvorson, T.R. Quality of Information - Index Page. http://www.netins.net/showcase/trhalvorson/s-stuff/quality.html
Tyburski, Genie. "Publishers Wanted, No Experience Necessary: Information Quality on the Web" LLRX Research Wire. June 24, 1997. http://www.llrx.com/columns/quality.htm
Kapoun, Jim. "Teaching Undergrads Web Evaluation," College & Research Libraries News, July/August 1998, v. 59 #7, pp.522-523, http://www.ala.org/acrl/undWebev.html
Kirk, Elizabeth. Evaluating Information Found on the Internet. http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html
Grassian, Esther. "Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources," http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/Web/critical.htm and "Thinking Critically About Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources," http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/Web/discp.htm UCLA College Library Instruction.
Brandt, D. Scott. Evaluating Information on the Internet. http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/evaluate.htm


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Kevin Schofield - Inside Microsoft Research
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This video was very interesting, it would be interesting to see some interviews for some of the other MS Research teams are working on
The Channel 9 Team wrote:...some really interesting people work at Microsoft, including the inventor of the laser printer.
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... in order to get a job in Microsoft Research do you have to have a PhD or be the inventor of something like a laser printer? Just curious as to what the "bar" was set at for entry in that area.
The problem is not the recording or storing of a video of an entire life, but how one would go about searching it. Neither voice nor video recognition is anywhere close to being able to offer a solution to this and that is not going to change in the foreseeable
In practice we will soon have the technology that will provide functionality analogous to a (digital)vcr with one long program of your life. You will be able to replay the events of a particular time but not much else. I expect it will be a pretty boring
program to boot.
How about this calculation?
An average life has:
80 years * 365.25 days * 24 hours * 60 mins * 60 sec = 2,524,608,000 seconds
Recording at a reasonable quality:
@300K per sec = 757,382,400,000,000 bytes = 0.75 pedabytes
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Silverlight FireStarter (Part 6 of 9): Toolkit & Controls
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The Microsoft Silverlight 3 FireStarter sessions took place in Redmond, WA on Thursday, September 17th. There was a stellar line-up of Microsoft speakers, including a keynote from Scott Guthrie and presentations from Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and other community leaders. You'll learn what's new and noteworthy in the latest releases of Silverlight and Microsoft Expression 3.
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Just started want to lear as much as i can,have heard good things about it so i just want to be part of it.
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What are some of the differences between 2e and 3e Mutants and Masterminds?
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Some people talking about migrating back to 2e from 3e to provide a counterpoint.
And this is a good summary of all of the changes (I recommend reading the entire thread):
Here is a comprehensive review of the changes present in Mutants and Masterminds third edition, looking not just at the DCU material, but at the core rules.


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There are a number of benign diseases which can be treated with radiation. However, because these are benign diseases, the amount of toxicity which is acceptable is less than when treating a malignant disease. Protons could potentially decrease toxicity to normal tissues, limiting toxicity and allow escalation of the dose of radiation, improving local control. There have now been a number of centers who have reported their experience using protons to treat AVM, meningiomas and acoustic neuromas.
Acoustic Neuromas (AN) arise from Schwann cells which surround the vestibular portion of the vestibulocochlear nerve. AN's comprise approximately 8% of adult brain tumors and occur at a median age of 50 years. Approximately 10% of patients who develop AN have a condition called neurofibromatosis type 2. The majority of patients will present with tinnitus or hearing loss, and slightly more than half will have unsteadiness or vertigo. Prior studies have shown that stereotactic radiation is effective (97% recurrence free survival at 10 years) and has good preservation of function (70% of patients with unchanged hearing, 79% with facial nerve preservation, 73% with trigeminal nerve preservation).
AVM's occur in about 0.1% of the population. 90% of AVM's are supratentorial and most of the remaining AVM's are located in the posterior fossa. They account for approximately 1-2% of all strokes. Stereotactic radiation can be used to treat AVM's with success, depending on the size of the AVM. An 80% ablation rate is seen in AVM's of less than 3 cm, with AVM's larger than 3 cm responding anywhere from 30-70% of the time. Higher doses appear to be more effective.
Meningiomas arise from the arachnoid cap cells of the meninges, and 90% of them are benign. They account for approximately 13-30% of all primary intracranial tumors. Radiation therapy is commonly used for incompletely resected tumors, recurrent tumors, and as a primary treatment. Prior studies have shown that radiation decreases recurrence rates in patients who are incompletely resected (~50%) and prolongs the time to recurrence. The best candidates for stereotactic radiation have meningiomas measuring approximately 3 cm in size. Patients seem to have comparable rates of control with surgery versus stereotactic radiation; however 5-10% of patients will develop complications related to radiation.
A recent retrospective, single institution study from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, has examined the local control rates in 81 patients treated for AVM, 41 for meningioma, and 64 for acoustic neuroma. The majority of the patients were treated with proton radiosurgery as the proton beam was available only two days a week and only small fields were available due to limitation related to the passive scatter beam that was used. Patients were treated with 2-3 fractions total with fractions given twice per week.
Results of the study were as follows:
Acoustic Neuromas:
The results of this study suggested that outcomes from proton based radiosurgery were comparable to photon based radiosurgery. However, the lesions in the present study tended to be larger than in prior photon based radiosurgery protocols and it appeared that proton based radiosurgery provided better outcomes in patients with bilateral AN. Spot scanning beam proton therapy may allow even greater control of the dose distribution and spare even more normal tissue, which due to the location of these masses is critical.
In addition to the data from South Africa, the Uppsala facility in Sweden has published its experience treating AVM's (Vernimmen FJ et al., Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2005 May 1;62(1):44-52.). Of 85 patients treated, 64 had long term follow up. The majority of patients were treated with 2 or 3 fractions with a minimum target dose of 17.35 single fraction equivalent cobalt Gray equivalent doses. In AVM's less than 14 cc there was a 67% obliteration rate as compared to AVM's 14 cc or greater, which had an obliteration rate of 43%. Grade IV acute complications were seen in 3% of patients and delayed effects in 23% of patients. Other studies have suggested that proton therapy may be more effective than photon based therapy in larger AVM's (Levy RP et al., Acta Oncol 1999;38:165-9.).
The Uppsala facility in Sweden has also published results on approximately 140 patients with residual grade I skull base meningiomas treated with proton therapy (Gudjonsson O et al., Acta Neurochir (Wien) 1999;141:933-40., Gudjonsson O et al., Eur J Nucl Med 2000;27:1793-9., and Blomquist E. et al., Acta Oncologica,44:8,862 — 870). Patients were treated with fractions of 5 or 6 CGE in four fractions. Eight year progression free survival was 85-90%.
Data from the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland examined 16 patients treated with spot-scanning proton radiation (Weber DC et al., Radiother Oncol 2004;71:251-8.). All patients had untreated, recurrent or residual meningiomas. The median dose was 56 CGE in 1.8 or 2 CGE fractions. The three year progression free survival was 92.7% with a local control rate of 91.7%. Cumulative 3 year toxicity free survival was 76.2%. While their results were similar to those obtained with photon therapy, treatment times were shorter with comparable toxicity. Theoretically, less normal brain was radiated, which could potentially lead to a decrease in long term neurocognitive deficits.
There is very limited, older data on the use of proton therapy in pituitary adenomas (Kjellberg RN et al., N Engl J Med 1968;278:689-95. and Minakova Y et al., Med Radial (Moscow) 1983;28:7-13.). Given the age of these studies, newer data is needed to determine the role of proton therapy in pituitary tumors.
Studies of the use of protons in adult CNS tumors is limited. A phase II study from Massachusetts General Hospital examined the use of accelerated fractionated radiation therapy using a combination of photons and protons in patients with glioblastomas (Fitzek M. et al., J Neurosurg. 1999 Aug;91(2):251-60.). Patients were treated with 180 cGy bid to a total dose of 90 CGE. All patients had unilateral supratentorial tumors with 60 ml or less of residual tumor. Actuarial survival at 2 and 3 years was 34% and 18% respectively. Median survival was 20 months. All 23 patients developed enhancement on follow up scans and 15 had tissue evaluation. 7 of 15 patients had radiation necrosis and had a significantly longer survival. Only 1 of 15 patients failed in the 90 CGE volume. The authors suggest that these findings demonstrated that accelerated fractionation to 90 CGE provided local control in almost all patients and that the 20 month median survival was likely due to this improved local control. Unpublished data from Uppsala, Sweden demonstrated a 3-5 month improvement in overall survival compared with "conventional radiation� (Blomquist E. et al., Acta Oncol. 2005;44(8):862-70.). In the 80 patients studied, all received proton therapy as a boost after external beam photon therapy.
Uveal (ocular) melanoma is rare, but it is the most common primary ocular neoplasm. Uveal melanoma is normally treated with plaque therapy for small lesions, but large lesions often require enucleation (removal of the eye). The role of proton radiotherapy in adult uveal melanoma has been well established, and has the advantage potentially preserving vision in eyes with large tumors. Between 1975-1986, 1006 adult patients were treated with protons at the Harvard Cyclotron, and excellent local control and probability of eye retention were achieved. Ten children with ocular melanoma were treated with protons in Boston (70 CGE in 5 fractions). All the children were alive and locally controlled at over 10 years of follow-up. Similar results have been seen at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland where four fractions to 60 CGE was used.
Links to reviews of recent abstracts and presentations regarding proton therapy for uveal melanomas:
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With last week's release of Mass Effect 3 birthing a new generation of Commander Shepards, commenter TheForgetfulBrain wonders how ugly custom-made characters can get. Show him your ugly side in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
I scoured the internet yesterday for some truly hideous player-made characters. To my surprise, it was a bit harder than you'd think - I only found a few threads featuring featuring folks' hideous characters. I know that when I play anything with character creation, I tend to get a bit shallow with my characters (even when the creation utilities don't make that easy for you - Dragon Age and Oblivion, I'm looking at you).
How about you folks? Got any screenshots of your own beloved, yet hideous saviors? Or do you also tend to make your characters as aesthetically pleasing as possible?
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5 Mind-Blowing Ways That Science Has Done the Impossible
We see so many day-to-day advancements in science, from increasingly powerful smartphones to a potential AIDS cure, that we kind of get numb to it. But somewhere out there, scientists are still reaching for stuff that's so far above and beyond that it sounds like black magic. As we speak, there are researchers who are performing such witchery as ...
#5. Recording Your Fantasies and Dreams
See, this is what we're talking about. Having a stranger look directly into your dreams and fantasies isn't science, that's freaking sorcery. Yes, we understand that the images you see in your mind are just electrical signals from your brain, and that theoretically somebody could capture and decode them.
But ... these are our dreams here. A magical other world where we ride dragons with Shaquille O'Neal, and the dragon speaks in the voice of our old gym coach and continually yells at us for not wearing a cup. Are you saying scientists can hook cables up to our brain and watch it happen? Or see our daydream where we win the Super Bowl and play lead guitar at the halftime show?
"Who's ready for a blistering rendition of the first six chords of 'Smoke on the Water'?"
Pretty close, yeah.
How the Hell?
It was scientists at UC Berkeley who developed a way to literally see what your brain sees, and they did it by manipulating the magic of YouTube. They showed the subjects a bunch of movie trailers with electrodes hooked up to their heads, and computers recorded their brain activity. After that, they fed the computer millions of YouTube videos and asked it to compare what it had recorded with the millions of images of cats and people falling off bikes that they were showing to it.
The computer then selected the top 100 videos that best matched what popped out of the subjects' brains, and created a kind of composite image of what it thought it saw. The result, while not exactly Blu-ray quality, is pretty striking:
Now, before you go crazy over the possibility of literally recording your dreams, we clearly have a ways to go. But this at least serves as proof of concept, that we can actually transform mental pictures into video. It's just a matter of refining the process of defining which brain activity equals "I'm somehow competing in a spelling bee wearing only a jockstrap." Then we can put that shit straight up on YouTube!
It doesn't stop there; this process of breaking down how the brain works and building machines to interpret it will open up all kinds of weirdness. For instance, a team in the Netherlands has successfully invented a system that allows the users to type just by thinking the letters -- even if the user is comatose. They discovered that by asking a vegetative patient to imagine, for instance, herself playing a game of tennis, a certain area of the brain lit up. From there it was just a matter of training the patient to associate letters on a keyboard with certain thoughts, and using a machine to detect that activity. Boom -- you're now mind-typing.
"Sir, you may want to tone down the fantasizing. Our nurses have filed a restraining order."
#4. Slowing Down Light to the Speed of Traffic
"The speed of light" is what's known as a universal constant -- which means it doesn't change, ever. It's literally the speed limit for the universe. The speed at which your flashlight beam illuminates the serial killer on the other side of the room is around 186,282 miles per second, which is the fastest that anything can ever go, according to the laws of physics.
So if light didn't travel that fast -- if we adjusted it to, say, 38 miles per hour -- wouldn't the whole universe collapse or something? Even if not, what would freak you out more than seeing your car outrun your own headlights?
If you slowed down light enough, the world would look like a constant acid trip.
Well, amazingly, scientists have managed to slow light down to the speed of Los Angeles traffic.
How the Hell?
It turns out that describing the universe's top speed as "the speed of light" isn't entirely accurate. Light is just the only thing fast enough to hit that wall, on account of the fact that it has no mass. So that's how fast light ordinarily travels, but light is made of particles, the same as anything else, and so theoretically it can be slowed down, or even frozen in place.
Wait, did we say "theoretically"? Because Danish physicist Lene Hau found that she could slow light to a crawl by firing a whole mess of laser beams through a dense, super-cooled chunk of sodium. In layman's terms, it's like shooting a bullet into water.
So what are the possible applications for slow light? Hau has no idea, but reminds us that the guy who invented lasers had no idea what they could be used for, either. Could they make a novelty flashlight where the light kind of oozes out like ketchup? We'd buy one of those.
"Goddammit, what kind of paper towel even cleans this up?"
#3. Teleporting Information
If we tell you that scientists have discovered a way to "teleport information," the problem is that you may not get what's amazing about it. After all, information is kind of instant already -- we use our cellphones to "teleport" information around the world every day, right?
But of course, in reality you're just shooting radio waves into the air, and they have to make their way from one place to another, which is why there's a delay if you're on the phone in New York trying to talk to someone in Mozambique. And those waves can be blocked by all sorts of things.
Especially by your nagging, bitchy friends who want you to "just hang up and find a real man."
So the idea that scientists can relay information between two places instantaneously, without anything passing between them, is every bit as weird as zapping a person from one side of a wall to the other, without them ever passing through the wall, or around it, or under it. Not only is it possible, but scientists have done it.
How the Hell?
In 2009, scientists at the University of Maryland teleported information from one atom to another one meter away. Not to be outdone, Chinese researchers in 2012 did the same thing -- over a distance of 60 miles. Instant teleportation. We don't mean it traveled really fast -- we mean it didn't travel at all. The "signal" was instantly just there.
The consequences were unfathomable.
The phenomenon is called quantum entanglement. It means that two atoms that are "linked together" can then be separated, one taken miles away from the other, but (here's the kicker) whatever you do to affect one immediately affects the other. They're not communicating in any way, they're just "entangled" across space and time by forces that we're pretty sure are impossible for the human mind to grasp. Hell, even Einstein had a difficult time wrapping his head around this stuff.
And that's why he'll forever be known as "the stupidest man to ever live."
If it sounds like the sort of thing that could accidentally create a black hole, you don't need to worry. Scientists have already found another way to do that ...


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Churchill Downs is opening a new off-track betting parlor on Wednesday.
The Louisville track's simulcast wagering operations are moving to a first-floor venue at the Gate 1 entrance.
Race fans will enter the venue, called The Parlay, through the track's admission gates adjacent to the Kentucky Derby Museum.
Track officials say the approximately 14,000-square-foot facility will easily accommodate 600 fans. The facility will also house the track's media operations leading up to the Kentucky Derby and during its three live racing meets.
The simulcast wagering venue is one of four capital projects totaling $9 million launched in mid-2012 by Churchill Downs racetrack.
The Parlay features a 24-foot bar and a food service area.
Churchill will continue its Wednesday-through-Sunday simulcast schedule in The Parlay, depending on availability of signals.


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Political stars hit the campaign trail in Virginia's gubernatorial race
Political stars are coming out to support the candidates to be Virginia's next governor.
Former President Bill Clinton and Virginia's democratic candidate for governor, Terry McAuliffe, are spending a second day on the campaign trail.
President Clinton arrived in Virginia to rally behind his longtime friend in the home stretch of the campaign, "I know that he will be a good governor and I know he's a good man. So I'm personally invested in this. We've been friends for a long time."
President Clinton is headlining a three-day, nine-city campaign tour on behalf of McAuliffe.
On the opposite side of the political divide, Republican gubernatorial candidate, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is teaming up with Senator Rand Paul in the final days of the campaign.
At a rally today, Cuccinelli attacked his democratic rival, Terry McAuliffe, for what he called a lack of a concrete plan. "My opponent says happy words. 'We want more jobs, we're talking about education.' Yes, we're saying the words but he has no plans. And I said, 'hey, I like education, I like jobs, I like puppies too.' But I don't bring a puppy home if I don't have a plan of how I'm going to take care of that puppy or my house is going to be a wreck. And Terry McAuliffe is all puppies and no plans."
The two candidates face-off next week. Election Day is Tuesday, November 5th.
We'll have complete coverage on air and online here at WCYB.com.
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WACO (January 10, 2013)—Richard Allen Butler, 27, of Waco, was in the McLennan County Jail Thursday charged with aggravated assault on a peace officer, family violence assault/strangulation, interference with an emergency phone call, unlawful restraint and resisting arrest after an incident in which his mother was strangled and bitten in the face and an officer's index finger was bitten, crushing the bone and nearly severing the fingertip, police said Thursday.
The injured officer, whose name was not released, was one of the officers sent at around 5 p.m. Wednesday to a home at 2101 Daughtrey Ave. in response to a 911 call from Butler's 11-year-old daughter, who reported that her father was attacking his wife and his mother, police said.
She reported that Butler refused to let the two women leave the room or to call police, authorities said.
"Witnesses told police that Butler had been drinking and also smoking synthetic marijuana," Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said in a press release Thursday.
Butler demanded the officers shoot him and was ultimately subdued with a Taser and taken into custody, Swanton said.
Butler's 47-year-old mother suffered a severe laceration to her nose in the attack, police said.
She and the injured officer were taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Butler was checked out and then was taken to the McLennan County Jail, where he's held in lieu of $100,000 bond.
Officers responded to a similar incident in June when a 22-year-old Waco man who evidently assaulted several people at a home and told them he "was on a bad trip from ingesting K-2, "got down "on his hands and knees and chased a neighbor while barking and growling like a dog," according to witnesses, Swanton said.
The man then took a medium-sized black dog onto the front porch of the home where he beat and strangled the animal and then "began to bite into the dog, ripping pieces of flesh away," Swanton said.
The dog died at the scene.
Officers found the man sitting on the porch with blood on his hands, clothing and face, Swanton said.
While waiting for paramedics to arrive, Swanton said, Daniel asked officers to fight him or use a stun gun "to help him get off his bad trip," Swanton said.
Officers did neither, Swanton said.
K-2 is a form of synthetic marijuana.
None of the chemicals the herbal product contains is a copy of anything found in cannabis, although the effects can be similar.
Studies suggest synthetic cannabis use is associated with psychosis and the exacerbation of existing psychotic disorders.
Extreme paranoia, hallucinations and violent behavior have also been reported.


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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wanted to know what's on the minds of Mountain State residents. Thursday evening, he got his wish.
Residents attending Morrisey's town hall meetings at Brooke Hills Park in Wellsburg and Mary H. Weir Public Library in Weirton questioned everything from liability insurance and drug abuse to how individual and corporate tax rates impact West Virginia's business climate and federal over-regulation.
He said his office is willing to call the federal government out for excessive and unfair regulations, adding the Mountain State "may have several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court" within the next year or two that could propel it "into the middle of the fight, which could be impactful."
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"West Virginia should never tolerate a federal government running over it," he told his Weirton audience. "I can't (promise) we'll always win but I can tell you we'll be fighting every day for our state."
A woman at the Brooke Hills meeting told Morrisey she doesn't believe states can do much to change actions by the federal government, but the attorney general pointed out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has already lost a number of court battles because it overextended its authority and it can happen again.
"West Virginia has the ability to stand up and challenge it," he said, adding the state will be most effective if it aligns with other states in filing legal opinions challenging EPA actions through the U.S. Supreme Court.
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey spoke about what his office can do to support economic development at town hall meetings Thursday at the Mary H. Weir Public Library. -- Linda Harris
Earlier in the day, the attorney general also spoke to area residents during a stop at Brooke Hills Park in Wellsburg. -- Warren Scott
"If there are a collection of (state) attorneys general who are willing to fight on these issues, we can make a difference," he said.
As an example, he said his office, working with Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and attorneys general of other states, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to determine if EPA regulations governing greenhouse emissions from stationary sources, such as coal-fueled power plants, comply with the Clean Air Act.
Morrisey told both groups it's important to reduce the state's reliance on federal funding: Currently, he said West Virginia receives $1.60 to $1.70 back for each dollar it sends to Washington and federal funding accounts for about 36 percent of the Mountain State's budget.
He said budget cuts will change that and West Virginia must adapt.
"... Federal dollars are going to run out, we need to get serious about facing some of our economic challenges," he said.
Another common thread was the impact high income and corporate taxes have on the business climate in the Northern Panhandle.
Morrisey told Weirton resident Mark Zatezalo that West Virginia needs to be able to compete with neighboring states, pointing out that individual and corporate tax rates "drive economic growth, and when combined rates are higher than neighboring states, it's not good."
He told residents at both meetings that the state Legislature should work toward establishing a tax rate comparable to the bordering states or risk a drop in general revenues.
Jon Meriwether, owner of Merco Marine, a Wellsburg-based manufacturing firm, said it's become increasingly difficult for businesses to obtain liability insurance, with fewer providers offering coverage. He told Morrisey if more insurance providers could be attracted to the state, it would create more competitive rates.
Jim Lee, chief probation officer for Hancock, Brooke and Ohio counties, told Morrisey heroin abuse has become a major problem in the region, with many teens and young adults dying from overdoses in the last two years.
Morrisey said he's creating a task force within his office to work closely with state and local law enforcement to reduce prescription drug abuse, and has joined attorneys general from 47 other states and territories in asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ensure manufacturers develop tamper- and abuse-resistant forms of prescription painkillers as well as requiring generic versions of the drugs to be held to the same regulations as major brands.
The drug problem, he said, "is like a game of Whack-a-Mole. You attack one illegal drug, and another pops up in its place."
Follansbee City Manager John DeStefano told Morrisey communities across the state are struggling with an EPA-mandate to separate storm water and sanitary sewer lines.
"There's no grant money out there, so they tell us to raise our rates," DeStefano complained. "We can't raise our rates that much."
In response to an Arizona transplant's concerns about turning illegal immigrants away, Morrisey said the state should do all it can to encourage people and businesses to come to West Virginia, though at the same time it's imperative to reduce the public's dependence on federal assistance. He also said real education reform is needed, along with an improved regulatory climate, competitive tax rates and better legal climate.
"People haven't been willing to do what's necessary" in the past, he noted. "If we're not willing to do those things ... we'll be in deeper trouble in the future."
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by Melissa Brunner
Last week, your final hour of prime time programming on CBS was a chance for the Republicans to take center stage with their national convention, officially annointing Mitt Romney as their Presidential nominee. This week, it's the Democrats who take over the tube, officially saying they want Pres. Barack Obama to stay in the White House for a second term.
The one hour each night which the major networks devote isn't the only change the conventions have seen over the years. Years ago, the networks devoted several hours of coverage each night to the parties' big events. Until the 60s, the conventions also held a lot more suspense since that's when the candidates actually were chosen. These days, of course, we know months in advance.
The question for you is whether you believe the conventions still matter. Princeton University presidential historian Julian Zelizer recently told the Washington Post that yes, they do. He says it's a long-form way for you to see what each party is all about and to see how the candidates perform in the spotlight. In particular, he cited Ronald Reagan's 1980 acceptance speech as unifying a divided GOP. A USA Today editorial agrees, saying the conventions are a wakeup call to uninterested voters to start paying attention and an uninterrupted chance for each candidate to make their case to those voters. USA Today also cited a poll that 14 percent of voters eight years ago said they made up their mind on who'd get their vote during the political conventions.
If those are the pros, the cons might be added up in dollars and cents. It's not just generous party donors who foot the bill for those conventions - you and I chip in, too. Congress set aside $100 million for security and $18 million for each party to fund this year's conventions.
The end result of the political back and forth is certainly important. We are selecting the person who will be our country's Commander-in-Chief the next four years. But what do you think of how we get there? Will you be watching (or did you already watch) the political convention coverage? What value do you believe these gatherings hold today?


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6 Writers Who Accidentally Crapped Out Masterpieces
#3. Most of the Stuff Kafka Wrote
Great works, from a man who was so ashamed of them he demanded they be destroyed rather than shown to the public.
The Impact:
Franz Kafka's work is known for its highly original, surrealistic and disturbing themes and subject matter, covering topics ranging from the meaninglessness of existence to totalitarian regimes--all of which perfectly captured the malaise of a Europe that had been ravaged by the first World War and was staring down the barrel of a second. American high school students probably know him as that scientist that turned himself into a cockroach."
The complex symbolism and themes in his writing have been analyzed to death, to the point that biographers and literary types have taken to compiling and analyzing the memos and reports that he'd filed during his day job as an insurance officer. These include such literary classics as Fixed-Rate Insurance Premiums for Small Farms Using Machinery, the tragic modern morality play of On the Examination of Firms by Trade Inspectors and the hauntingly beautiful Accident Prevention in Quarries.
In this episode, Jim wakes up to find he's transformed into an insect.
But it all Got Started When...
So what were Kafka's plans for the work that would eventually influence Nabokov, Fellini, J.D. Salinger, García-Márquez, Bukowski and David Lynch? Apparently, Kafka thought that these masterpieces would make a very nice pile of ash in his best friend's fireplace.
As it turns out, Kafka was a dude with a generally poor self-image (surprising, seeing as physically-speaking, he's easily the most doable author on this list).
He had little to no faith in his writing ability, considering very little of it to be worthy of publication, and asked for it to be destroyed upon his death.
Luckily for pretentious literary types everywhere, his best friend and executor of his estate Max Brod promised to carry out Kafka's wishes, and then immediately turned around and published then hell out of everything he had been specifically told not even to read himself. Thus providing future generations with a wealth of frustratingly incomplete, half-written and unedited text that would serve as Kafka's legacy (one of the posthumously published novels, The Tower, infamously ends mid-sentence).
So, you know all of those images and videos you've got buried on your hard drive, that you really don't want the world to see? Don't ask a friend to do it, delete that shit yourself.
#2. Frankenstein
The weather is bad, so what's a bored teenager to do? How about stay inside and invent a new literary genre?
The Impact:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the classic tragedy of Victor Frankenstein, a humble scientist whose only sin was his insatiable desire to create an abomination unto the Lord our God. It was met with immediate popular success upon its publication and, like all good novels, was immediately adapted for the stage, since reading is gay and movies hadn't been invented yet.
This was in spite of its mostly negative critical reception, much of which was focused on the fact that the author actually had the unbelievable gall to be a woman. As one reviewer put it:
The writer of it is, we understand, a female; this is an aggravation of that which is the prevailing fault of the novel; 420 SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY OF MY LIFE!!!! (_)_)::::::::::D~ ~ ~ ~ but if our authoress can forget the gentleness of her sex, it is no reason why we should; and we shall therefore dismiss the novel without further comment.
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The book's influence could have ended there, but film was invented soon afterward and directors scrambled to pour cash into Frankenstein-themed special-effects extravaganzas, bastardizations of Shelley's work that reached their pinnacle in 1931, when Universal Pictures released Frankenstein, ensuring that Shelley's well-spoken, tortured creature would be forever remembered as a bumbling green retard through countless film adaptations thereafter.
Oh, and did we mention that it's essentially the first science fiction novel, ever? All in all, pretty damn influential...
...for a woman.
But it all got started when...
The summer of 1816 was an extremely crappy one, due to a series of extremely wicked volcanic eruptions in Indonesia setting off a worldwide temperature drop. At the time, a 19-year-old Mary Shelley (who was at that point just plain old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) and her boyfriend, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley were visiting Don Juan author Lord Byron at his estate in Switzerland.
Forced inside by the shitty weather, the discussion eventually turned from the pitfalls of being rich, famous and talented (not unlike the conversation around the Cracked office water cooler) to the subject of Erasmus Darwin's experiments with electrically reanimated frog chunks (also not unlike the conversation around the Cracked office water cooler).
"See the hot new secretary? I wonder what she'd look like with frog legs."
Byron, most likely trying end the conversation early so they could move on to the three-way bone session, suggested a scary story contest. Just like that, she came up with Frankenstein and his monster. Two of the most iconic characters in literature, dreamed up by a cabin fever-stricken 19-year-old trying to kill time.
By the way, Lord Byron's entry in the "contest" was a fragment of a vampire story where, for the first time, the vampire was portrayed as a well-dressed aristocrat who preyed on high society. You know, the way they've been portrayed in 90 percent of the vampire novels and movies written since.
#1. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Impact:
There's not much else to be said about a dude whose plays are still constantly read, performed and studied 400 years after his death, especially when you consider that we have empirically better forms of entertainment available to us, such as movies where guys get shot in the face, video games where you can shoot guys in the face and songs about times that guys got shot in the face.
The trifecta!
Figuratively speaking, his works define the English language. And by "figuratively," we of course mean "literally." The motherfucker made up half of the dictionary off the top of his damn head. If you've ever said that something was a "sorry sight," or that "what's done is done," not only are you an unimaginative hack, but you owe Shakespeare $10.
"That's mine, too."
And as far as inventing half the English language goes, you've got to bear in mind that although Shakespeare was able to solicit some pretty sweet patronages from the nobility (once again, phat cash), the majority of his audience consisted of the filthy, unwashed peasants that packed the pit in front of the stage (theater-goers in Elizabethan England were in the unique position of being able to both see a Shakespeare performance and stand next to a donkey for three hours).
Far be it from us to suggest that Shakespeare had any sort of contempt for his toothless, donkey-riding fans, but perhaps his ability to invent so many new words had less to do with his prose refusing to be bound by the constraints of the English language, and more to do with the fact that his illiterate audience wouldn't be able to tell a real word from a "Shakespeare original" if their donkey's life depended on it. It's very possible he was just fucking with them.
If you're surprised Shakespeare appealed to such unwashed masses, keep in mind that while he was a pretty popular guy for his time, few critics considered him to be the superhuman writing machine he's seen as today. The plays that Shakespeare wrote were considered low-brow and somewhat poorly made by the day's standards, owing to their utter lack of regard for the strict, bullshit rules of drama everybody was supposed to follow at the time.
But it All Got Started When...
The reason Shakespeare didn't care about the rules is because he wasn't trying to write plays that would outlive him by 400 years. In fact, the guy never even bothered having his stuff published, out of fear that other acting troupes would snap up copies and draw away his audiences.
Shakespeare didn't want immortality, all he wanted was to make a living doing what he loved, with maybe just a little bit left over to bling out his name with a pimp-ass coat of arms. In fact, it would seem as if Shakespeare was...only in it for the money.
And the bitches.
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