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5 Unintentionally Hilarious Soviet Versions of Good Ideas
We admit it: We are pretty hard on the Soviet Union, partly because a lot of us grew up doing nuclear war drills in preparation for a Soviet first strike, and partly because almost everything they did was hilarious.
For instance, because the Russians were always running behind the West in technology, their entire technological development process involved waiting for their enemies to invent something, at which point they would grab a photo of it and demand their engineers make an exact copy using less money and time and lower quality materials.
The results were often ridiculous. Like ...
#5. The Armored Troop Transport That Didn't Have a Roof
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The obtusely named Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) was America's way of making a grand entrance in the Pacific during World War II. Introduced in the early 1940s, the LVT troop transports were the first things to hit the sand when we invaded the islands. They were heavily armored and could travel through water, and the Japanese really hated them because they were so damn effective.
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Otherwise known as a "Charlton Heston fishing boat."
There were a number of versions, some outfitted with heavy artillery and cool things like flame throwers. We'll repeat that: There were amphibious tanks that could pop out of the water and shoot fire at you. Of course every kid on the block wanted one, including the Russians.
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The Russians thus built the BTR-60. It looks like the same thing. It's armored and it carries troops. The armor on it could withstand any small arms and shrapnel fire and could stop a bullet as large as 7.62 mm from any range.
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Plus, all those wheels meant it could do a wicked donut in the neighbor's lawn.
The vehicle quickly moved into mass production. There was just one problem: the BTR-60 had no roof. It was basically the sporty convertible of all armored vehicles.
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Note to military vehicle designers: "Sunroof" equals "grenade magnet."
Due to the lack of a roof, the BTR-60 could be taken out by even the simplest of explosives. Take a grenade and throw it at any other armored vehicle -- it just bounces off the side and explodes as the armor protects the crew. Now throw one at the BTR-60 -- it goes in the giant gaping hole at the top and explodes directly in the troop compartment, killing absolutely everyone. All that armor does little good when the explosion is happening on the inside, and in fact just helps keep all of that killing energy trapped inside where the people are.
It's not like they couldn't put a top on it; the Red Army even requested one. But the designers basically said, "Screw you guys," or, to be more precise, they argued, "The limitation of losses wasn't the emphasis." Oh, well good. Glad we got that settled.
Via Wikimedia Commons
"Your lives are less valuable than stirring propaganda photos."
Their solution? Cover it with a tarp. Explosions and bullets rip right through it, but at least it kept the soldiers out of the rain.
#4. The Extremely Combustible Nuclear Submarine
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The Original:
USS Nautilus
The Nautilus, now currently known as a manufacturer of exercise equipment, was in 1955 the world's first fully operational nuclear-powered submarine.
Via Wikipedia
In its first trip, it lost over 2,500 pounds.
In its first year of service, it broke several world records, including two on its first test drive alone. It could stay underwater for up to four months at a time. It could also go underneath the North Pole. Oh, and guess who lived on the other side of the North Pole, envious of their rival's new toy ...
The Sad Soviet Copy:
November Class Submarine
The Soviet's first nuclear-powered submarine was ironically not named the Red October but the November Class. Apart from sounding like something Realtors have to attend when their licenses are about to expire, they did have some cool features. Like the Nautilus, they could stay under water for months at a time. At least until they decided to spontaneously combust, that is.
Via Virtualtrilogy.com
But at least it had a roof.
But if you can believe it, that wasn't the real problem. The Soviets, knowing that fires kill people, installed a nice fire suppression system for the crew. The fire suppression system on the November-class submarine was largely carbon dioxide, or CO2. Since fires, like people, have to breathe oxygen, CO2 kills fires very effectively. Now guess what it does to the people.
On September 8, 1967, submarine K-3 caught fire. Swinging into action, the fire suppression system promptly activated and proceeded to kill everyone in the first two compartments, no matter how close the crew was to the actual fire. Later when the remaining crew opened up the hatch to the first two compartments, the CO2 gas spread even more, creating more problems.
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"No problems here, guys -- looks all clear in h--" *thud*
Naturally the Soviets realized that a fire-safety system that killed people wasn't very effective. So they did the sensible thing: They covered it all up and pretended nothing ever happened. Then on April 8, 1970, the K-8 caught fire and sank entirely. The entire crew was lost. And the vast majority of deaths were not due to the fire or the flooding of the submarine. It was -- you guessed it -- CO2 poisoning.
Yet despite this huge problem, they built 14 of these underwater coffins anyway.
Via Wikimedia Commons
It's exactly as safe now as it was back then.
#3. The Biggest and Most Impractical Gun Ever
The Original:
M65 Atomic Cannon
Nothing spurs an arms race like a big, giant, phallic gun. From the very first moment the cannon was invented, something electric came alive inside the male mind, and from that point on no man could bear to be on the side that didn't have the biggest. This is why, in 1953, the U.S. developed the M65 Atomic Cannon, and nine months later every artilleryman's wife gave birth.
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Somehow, it just feels better to spend money on this than health care or education.
Look at that shit. It's more than 80 feet long. The shells are 11 inches wide. If we ever get around to building our giant robot, we know exactly where we're mounting that baby.
We can't imagine how fast the Soviets worked to build their own, seeing their own testosterone levels dropping at an alarming rate every minute it remained unfinished.
The Sad Soviet Copy:
2B1 Oka Nuclear Cannon
It only took them until 1957, when they banged out this:
Via Wikipedia
"Project Rasputin was a complete success, comrades."
BOOM! That barrel is more than 65 feet long. The shells were 16.5 inches across. And with the ability to lob a nuclear warhead 28 miles, you'd think the Soviets might actually have the U.S. beat in this competition.
The only issue here, really, is that in the course of making a gun that would restore their manhood, the Russians also made one that would destroy itself after every single shot. The recoil was so massive it tore out the transmission, damaged the drive sprockets (the treads), smashed the gun mounts and basically twisted most of its other parts into an unrecognizable shape.
When the gun was first unveiled to the public, Western observers thought it was fake because it was just too cartoonishly big.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Christ, you could use other tanks as ammunition for that thing.
Then there was the whole issue of how they were untransportable because the guns were too damned big. And we're betting that if you brought up any of those issues with the gun's designers, they would answer, "Sir, you are missing the point."


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Suppose $u$ is a harmonic function of a domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and $u$ is continuous up to the boundary. If $\partial\Omega$ has an open smooth portion, can $u$ be extended to a harmonic function outside this smooth portion?
I have a very vague claim that if this portion is analytic, then we can extend $u$ by schwarz reflection principle. But I don't know anything about the smooth case. Can anyone give me a hint?

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Cambro- is the traditional form; the OED defines it in part as:
It's never been common, but has clung on tenaciously over the years, in cambrophone, cambro-centric, Cambro-American, and the like. (It's much more common in geological use, where it refers to the Cambrian Period.)
However, few apart from classicists or historians will understand it. An alternative option is Cymru- or Cymro-. This is less traditional, but usage on the internet and in British newspapers suggests it's probably about as common today; and it has the great advantage that most Brits, and certainly anyone who's lived in or near Wales, will understand it immediately. So if you don't mind creating etymological Frankensteins, this is what I'd recommend.
In my opinion, Kate Gregory is on the right track.
The Latin word for Wales is Cambria, so by analogy, the prefix would be cambrio- - Cambriophonic, Cambriophilia, Cambriocentric, and so on.
When choosing a prefix to attach to an existing word in order to make a new word (a neologism), the convention is to use a prefix with the same linguistic root as the main word. Cymru- would be inappropriate for prefixing to words with Latin origin, or that come to us in English through Latin (as most Greek roots do). Cymric would be better, it and is certainly the English-language adjectival form of the Welsh demonym, but it doesn't have the form of a prefix.
Of course, if you want an adjective that stands as its own word, Welsh or Cymric is best, though frankly, Cymric isn't as widely used.
So you might want to say a "Welsh speaker," "Cymric speaker," or a "cambriophone" depending on your audience.
The adjective is cambrian; as in, the Cambrian Period - the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era. The OED has cymric too. But any prefix you use, is likely to confuse a lot of your audience. So why not reword what you're trying to say, to avoid needing a prefix?
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For $\tau > 0$ define $\theta_{\tau}(x) = e^{\tau(x-x^{2})}$. I am curious about the asymptotics of $\widehat{\theta}_{\tau}(\tau)$, that is
$\int_{\mathbb{R}} e^{\tau(x - x^{2})}e^{-2\pi i \tau\cdot x}dx\ \sim\ ?\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (\tau \to +\infty)$
But I don't know how to get anything from the oscillation. Bringing absolute values inside the integral we have
$|\widehat{\theta}_{\tau}(\tau) |\leq \int_{\mathbb{R}} e^{\tau(x - x^{2})}dx \sim \sqrt{\frac{2\pi}{\tau}}e^{\tau/2}$
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According to a 2011 Gallop poll published by CBS MarketWatch, 67 percent of Americans believe that now is a good time to buy a house.
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For some, it's uncertainty about jobs and the economy. Others cite uncertainty about getting their home financed. And some still wonder if housing prices will go even lower. According to Gallop, many Americans are still worried about their home values, with 27 percent saying that home prices in their communities will fall this year and 42 percent are concerned that their own houses will lose value. Only 21 percent believe home prices in their areas will increase.
Many economists, like Mark Zandi with Moody's Analytics, say these concerns are overblown. "Everyone's re-evaluating more carefully whether they should own a home or not," Zandi said. "But for the vast majority of Americans, homeownership is still the right thing."
Consider this: With a fixed interest rate, your home payment never goes up, but your rent will climb in most places. And even if prices don't rise that much – if you pay down the mortgage every month, and you don't take out a big home-equity loan – there's an automatic savings for the future built into owning.
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Born in Beverwijk, Peter de Wit decided he wanted to become a cartoonist at the age of 14. He started out by making the comics magazine Striprofiel together with his friend Gerard Aartsen in Assendelft. He made his debut at age 17 with the strip 'Jochem' in the free paper De Kennemer. Peter went to study Finnish languages, but eventually cancelled his studies to become a professional comics artist. He found employment with the Richards Studio in Amsterdam as a comics letterer.
He joined the publishing house Oberon in 1979, and continued to draw for Eppo magazine and its subsequent incarnations Sjors en Sjimmie Stripblad, Sjosji and Striparazzi until the late 1990s. He started out with the funny western comic strip 'Stampede!', that he drew between 1979 and 1983. This was retitled to 'De Cowboys' in the late 1980s, when the strip was reprinted in the Minetoe comics supplement of newspaper Het Nieuws van de Dag. Under this title, the strip also returned in Sjosji in the 1990s.
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In addition, Peter created a great many other (western) strips for Eppo as a filler for editorial pages, such as 'Kleine Hihahoeha'. De Wit also made Eppo's editorial comic, called 'Redactiestripje', from 1980 to 1983. This strip was later continued in AVRO Wordt vervolg Clubblad (called 'Intussen in de Studio'), Sjors en Sjimmie, Sjosji, Striparazzi and eventually in the comics information magazine Zozolala until 2011. He had his breakthrough with 'De Familie Fortuin', a comic about a dysfunctional family, created by editor Jan van Die in 1985. Ruud Straatman wrote the scripts until 1990, and then Peter did both artwork and scripts until 1998.
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In addition to his work for the Oberon magazines, De Wit made several comics for the Malmberg school magazines. His strip 'Broer en zus' was published in Okki, while Taptoe subsequently published 'Kitty en Koen', 'Huis en Tuin' and 'Woef en Wimpie', the latter two as editorial strips. Through his agent Comic House, he was also assigned to create a comic strip for the Tros magazine Mikrogids, which became 'Vader & Dochter'. De Wit additionally made 'Het Mooiste Vak ter Wereld', a comic about a teacher in French languages in a high school, in Van 12 Tot 18.
Broer en Zus (1989)
He began a longtime collaboration with Hanco Kolk in 1985. Together, they wrote the scripts for 'Gilles de Geus' ('Bryant the Brigand'), a series created and drawn by Kolk since 1983. This series, set in the Dutch Eighty Years' War, is often referred to as the Dutch 'Astérix'. They also created the photo comic 'Mannetje & Mannetje', with themselves in the starring roles, that was published in Sjors en Sjimmie Stripblad/Sjosji from 1988 to 1995. This strip was also adapted in a TV series for VPRO television. In addition, Kolk and De Wit hosted a comics course for the educational broadcasting company Teleac. For Vara TV Magazine, they made the comics version of the television comedy 'Laat Maar Zitten' in 1992.
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In the late 1980s, De Wit and Kolk founded their own publishing label De Plaatjesmaker, through which they published their own series in book format, but also a series of small minicomics by various artists, called the Pincet series. Since 2000, Peter de Wit and Hanco Kolk make the daily newspaper strip 'S1NGLE' for Het Parool. This popular comic strip is now published in over 15 newspapers and it has been adapted into a successful TV series.
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De Wit's most famous strip however, is 'Sigmund', a daily comic about a psychiatrist who watches the world around him and who delivers the appropriate cynical comments. It has been published in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant since 1994 (initially it appeared in the Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws as 'Mijnheerke Psi', where it was considered too cynical). Several book collections of 'Sigmund' have been published, as well as a popular spin-off 'Burka Babes', that was also published in English.
From the mid 1980s until 2007, De Wit had his atelier in Amsterdam. Throughout the years, several artists have worked in "Studio De Wittenkade", including Hanco Kolk, Ben Westervoorde, Floris Oudshoorn and Aloys Oosterwijk. In 1999, de Wit won the Stripschapsprijs, the prestigious Dutch comic award. The 'Bryant the Brigand' album 'The Seven Provinces', was also published in English (2003).
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In March and April 2002, there was an exposition of the work of Peter de Wit in Galerie Lambiek. In 2004, a special album was released in the Strip Comic Week, celebrating Peter de Wit's 25 year career in comics.
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There has been growing interest in some academic circles, on Capitol Hill, and within the Treasury Department for serious consideration of U.S. international tax reform in the form of a territorial tax exemption system. In recent years, international tax reform proposals generallyand, in particular, ways to improve competitiveness and promote simplification, have been discussed at length. On March 20, 2002, for example, House Ways and Means Committee member Amo Houghton (R-NY) introduced the "International Tax Simplification and Fairness for American Competitiveness Act of 2002," a bill to simplify taxation rules for U.S. businesses operating abroad. Also this year, congressional focus on corporate inversion transactions and the resulting introduction of bills to curtail "corporate expatriations," have highlighted the issue of whether flaws in the U.S. international tax rules undermine an American company's ability to compete in the global marketplace. Last year, the Joint Committee on Taxation released a report on U.S. tax simplification, which stated the Committee's cumulative findings for an 18-month simplification study (the "JCT Report"). In the last Congress, Rep. Houghton and Sander Levin (D-MI) introduced a bipartisan international tax simplification bill. A companion bill was introduced in the Senate Finance Committee by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and (now chairman) Max Baucus (D-MT).
The specific concept of reforming the U.S. international tax system by shifting to a territorial tax regime has arisen most recently in the context of the unfavorable WTO decision regarding the FSC regime, and was further catalyzed by a similarly unfavorable decision regarding the ETI, or FSC-replacement, legislation. The WTO's decisions that both the FSC and the ETI regimes provided illegal export subsidies have caused substantial concern among U.S. taxpayers. This concern is firmly rooted in the common perception that the territorial tax systems as maintained by several European countries do, in fact, provide effective export tax incentives, yet survive or circumvent WTO constraints. The decisions, in turn, have sparked significant interest in a territorial exemption regime as a possible mechanism for complying with international trade obligations while improving U.S. competitiveness in a global economy.
The concept of a territorial regime has also been discussed in the context of so-called corporate inversion transactions. Many companies reportedly are considering reincorporating in a tax haven jurisdiction to avoid the application of various U.S. international tax rules. Concerns over the spread of these transactions have led to calls for adopting a territorial system to discourage companies from considering inversions.
In addition, certain proponents believe that territorial exemption systems improve "tax competition" between countries seeking to attract foreign investment. Such competition, they believe, will ultimately drive down income tax rates in such countries, and improve the global economy overall.
Finally, serious consideration has been given as to whether a territorial exemption regime could address the historically perceived need for U.S. tax simplification.
In light of these considerations, the NFTC decided to undertake a study to evaluate the efficacy of implementing some form of a territorial tax exemption system in the United States. In so doing, 32 member companies formed a study group (the "Territorial Study Group") to review the basic features of the "traditional" territorial systems, as well as the features of one ormore possible alternative exemption systems, and to evaluate each variation in terms of future U.S. competitiveness, effect on current WTO issues, tax simplification and long term stability. The Group then considered whether a switch to any model of territorial exemption system would be more likely to address these considerations than simply adopting specific reforms to the current U.S. tax system.
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31 Jan 2013 1:14 AM #11
After much tiral and error, I've found this command seems to do mostly what I want. The output is a new HTML file which references a script called 'all-classes.js' which contains all my JS code in one file.
sencha compile -classpath=app.js,app,sdk/src page -in=src.html -out=build.html
Uncaught Error: [Ext.createByAlias] Cannot create an instance of unrecognized alias: widget.form
1 Feb 2013 8:41 AM #12
My thought is that perhaps we need to have the microloader intact in your src.html file.
<!-- The line below must be kept intact for Sencha Command to build your application --> <script id="microloader" type="text/javascript" src="touch/microloader/development.js"></script>Phil Strong
1 Feb 2013 5:06 PM #13
This is an ExtJS 4.1 project, not a touch project. Is there an equivalent 'microloader' for ExtJS?
5 Feb 2013 1:02 PM #14
So ExtJS index file does have some special stuff
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>fresh</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href=".res/default/app.css"> <!-- <x-compile> --> <!-- <x-bootstrap> --> <script src="ext/ext-dev.js"></script> <script src="bootstrap.js"></script> <!-- </x-bootstrap> --> <script src="app.js"></script> <!-- </x-compile> --> </head> <body></body> </html>Phil Strong
14 Feb 2013 8:12 PM #15
My bootstrap.js files only contains license information, no code, so I cannot see how this helps. The initial project created by Architect does not have the bootstrap.js file either.
Has anyone successfully used Sencha Cmd to deploy and run an Architect project?
14 Feb 2013 11:14 PM #16
After investigating the all-classes.js file, it seems that some classes are being defined before their dependencies.
This line:
Ext.define("FB.view.BidWindow", ....
which uses a form panel (widget.form) in it's config data, is above the line:
Ext.define("Ext.form.Panel", ....
Any idea why this is happening?
15 Feb 2013 12:25 AM #17
I've been able to work around this using the requires list inside Architect. I didn't think this was supposed to be necessary?
However, I'm now getting a "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'on' of undefined" which I've tracked down to a store not being registered in the Ext.data.StoreManager.
I'm getting the impression that the sencha build tools are a bit immature when it comes to coping with larger projects, unless I'm doing something fundamentally wrong with my project.
15 Feb 2013 12:40 AM #18
It seems much of my problems are caused by checking the 'singleton' box for some of my views.
I uncheck this, and these errors go away. I'll need to rewrite some of my functions to work with this configuration, but at least I'm making progress here...
15 Feb 2013 1:13 AM #19
Woohoo I solved all the dependency issues, pages and stores are now loading.
However the built project only comes up with a blank screen. No errors or messages. Just blank. Of course, the source project does not do this.
I'd be super happy if someone could get me past this to a working build!
20 Feb 2013 8:37 AM #20
Have you tried the built project in Chrome/Safari/FF?
Is it white screen on device or browser?
Any errors in Chrome?Phil Strong


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A basilica was originally, in Hellenistic Greece, a tribunal administering justice on behalf of the king (βασιλέως - basileus). The word and the thing were adopted by the Romans after annexing Macedonia in the 2nd Century BC. The archeological site of Pompeii, for instance, has the remains of a large basilica which served as a tribunal, and a few hundred meters away in the modern city of Pompeii a catholic basilica.
When Constantine officially legalised the Christian faith (Edict of Milan) as one of the Empire's state religions (4th century A.D.)1, he erected a number of large churches which were then named basilicas. The current Basilica of St Peter's in Rome replaces a previous building built precisely by Constantine. As a general rule basilicas are the highest ranking churches and are declared so by the Pope. Some high profile basilicas are built on top of the burials of notable saints (St Peter's, St Francesco of Assisi, St Vasily in Moscow, St Paul Outside the Walls...)
Cathedrals, on the other hand, were typically built during the Middle Ages. They are headed by a bishop. However, if this bishop is head of his diocese, then his cathedral outranks any basilica in his diocese.
Neither cathedrals nor basilicas are restricted to the Catholic faith: see St. Basil's in Moscow, of the Russian Orthodox Church (remarkably sometimes translated as basilica; sometimes to cathedral).
1 He also decided we would rest on Sundays ;-)
A cathedral is the proper term a church that is home to a bishop. A basilica may refer to anything from a church's architecture to its importance to the pope, depending on its type. The Holy Roman Catholic Church categorizes basilica according to their function: palace, a papal seat of authority, etc. Some cathedrals are also called basilica, but it's generally the case that a basilica outranks a cathedral in matters of church authority.
A cathedral is the principal church of a diocese, while basilica is the name given to certain churches granted special privileges by the pope.
A cathedra (Latin, "chair", from Greek, kathedra, "seat") or bishop's throne is the chair or throne of a bishop.
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Pregnant women want the best nutrition for themselves and their babies, but many doctors are finding that some important pre-natal information is not being passed on to women during those critical nine months.
According to a recent study, only 31 percent of women 18 and over understand which vitamins and nutrients are important to pre-natal health.
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Most know that taking folic acids can prevent birth defects to the baby's spine, but what about the importance of omega 3 fatty acids like DHA?
Dr. Donnica Moore, women's health expert, says, "DHA is a polyunsaturated fatty acid. Mother's naturally pass DHA onto their growing babies through the placenta and through breast milk but additional DHA is essential during pregnancy and while nursing".
DHA is one of the essential building blocks of the brain. Doctors say it aids in the development of the eyes, nerves and the immune system, and may help increase thinking ability.
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SOUTHBURY — Jack Yule is starting to think seriously about a topic for his college essay.
The Pomperaug High senior tri-captain has his thoughts on others less fortunate and recent tragic events, involving the 2012 death of a classmate, Tucker Gowen, and the 26 innocent lives taken in the Sandy Hook School shootings last year. They have put things into perspective.
"The people of Newtown are our neighbors and Tucker was a classmate, even though I didn't know him well," said Yule. "They have had a big impact on me and it has taught me some life lessons. I wish to embrace the great people in my life and not let them pass me by."
"Before long my high school football season and career will be gone," he said. "I realize that I need to take advantage of every single moment."
Unwilling to waste any time, Yule, 17, wants his teammates to especially embrace the next three weeks of the preseason in preparation for the Panthers' Sept. 12 opener with visiting Newtown.
Separate from his coaches' rules, Yule is establishing his own set of guidelines for his teammates to hopefully follow.
"You lead by showing," said Yule. "I try to be the first one in sprints or push-ups or up-downs or in any drill we do. My parents (Blake and Janet) have instilled in me to be the best person that I can be every day. I am trying to set a real good example."
So are his fellow Pomperaug captains — Nico Rosa and Sam Rubinstein. The trio was a part of the Panthers' 4-6 record in 2012, the first losing season and worst mark since 1995 when Pomperaug went 3-7.
That hit home with Yule, who will be a three-year starter at middle linebacker. He will also start at fullback.
"When I was a sophomore, we were 8-2 and were on a real high and then last year, we had the same high expectations, but hit a low period," said Yule. "We had a tough schedule, but we are not making any excuses for that. We had the potential to have a good season and we let it slip away."
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"Talent can get you only so far and we found that out last year," he said. "We need to work harder."
Two weeks after the 2012 season ended, Yule got serious. He credits Pomperaug assistant coach Kevin Maxen by opening the weight room at 6 a.m. daily, beginning Dec. 1. Maxen, a 2010 Pomperaug captain, oversaw the after-school session as well.
"Kevin helped instill a completely different mindset in all of us," said Yule. "Kevin was a great player and is a great person to look up to. He and his brother Willie (another ex-Pomperaug captain, now a junior at Central Connecticut) care so much about this program and what it has given them. They are so strong-willed and determined."
Those qualities have rubbed off on Yule, who wants to make the Pomperaug football alumni proud, as well his own family, which includes four sisters —Caitlyn, 21, a UConn senior, Delaney, 15, a Pomperaug junior, and twins' Patricia and Hayley, 13, eighth-graders at Rochambeau Middle School.
"My sisters are my biggest cheerleading section," said Yule. "When I have a bad day or need a pat on the back, they are always there for me. I am so thankful to have them on my side."
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I see that many papers written on fundamentals of thermodynamics(theory) nowadays are by some old professors somewhere(there may be exceptions). Most active young faculty don't seem to be seriously interested in reinterpreting thermodynamics like nonequlibrium thermodynamics i.e. continuing the work of Ilya Prigogine etc. So is this worth while for a graduate student starting his research career to work in this area? Any open problems a fresh graduate student can aim to solve theoretically?
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If you're interested in the foundations of thermodynamics on the quantum level then there is plenty of work being done, including by young 'uns. Actually it's pretty fashionable, in the UK quantum physics community at least. If you like the sound of this then you could look up, for example, the work of Sandu Popescu, Jonathan Oppenheim, David Jennings, Janet Anders, Vlatko Vedral, Robert Spekkens and co-workers. Obviously that list of names is heavily biased by my own limited knowledge and preference.


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Now in its tenth year, the Ohio Short Film/Video Showcase brings together an impressive array of independently produced work from all corners of the state. Each under 20 minutes long and produced in Ohio in the past 18 months, the works vary in genre, tone, and production value, but all reflect the active media culture of the region.
Come early for the Youth Division screening at 4:30 pm and public reception from 6 to 7 pm.
The showcase events were organized by Wexner Center media arts and education staff members, as well as area media arts professionals. (Program approx. 120 mins.)
The aftenoon Youth Division screening features works by filmmakers under 18 years old.
support credits
Presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council.
Season support provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.


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Now, I can find out which processes are opening files dynamically. However, for a file on my filesystem, is there a way to find out which process created the file?
I'm trying to differentiate a file I created by:
from one created by say, an NSAPI process running under my id.
will give me information such as which tty is doing something, is that an attribute I can access?
Essentially, my id does a bunch of stuff. Much of what my id does should be via applications, or from a terminal. I'd like to find out more. Suggestions?


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5 Terrifying Killers (That Turned Out to be Mass Panics)
Humans are hard-wired to function in groups. But it's a double-edged sword -- it takes a lot of us to build a city, but as anyone who has ever witnessed a riot can attest, people's ability to act like idiots also multiplies in crowds.
And this phenomenon can manifest itself in really weird and even fatal ways. That's how we wound up with bizarre stories like ...
#5. The June Bug Disease
In 1962, some workers in an American textile factory came down with a mysterious infection that caused numbness, dizziness and vomiting. Basically, it had all the symptoms of a bad flu. But workers said it was no flu -- the sickness was the result of a sudden infestation of mysterious venomous insects. If you got bitten, you got sick.
"The only cure is a 30 percent raise and an additional 10 personal days per employee."
You can imagine the effect this news had on the factory floor -- the moment people heard that venomous bugs were crawling everywhere (and that there could be one IN YOUR HAIR RIGHT NOW), they freaked the hell out. But they were powerless to stop the plague -- soon, a whopping 62 employees were sickened by "the June bug disease," and a bunch of them even had to be hospitalized due to the attacks from these weaponized insects.
There was only one problem: No such bug was ever discovered in the factory, or anywhere else. They never existed. The venomous June bug was completely fictional.
If this thing has any poison, we're pretty sure it ends up smeared on the outside of your light bulbs.
What Really Happened?
In reality, the workers of the factory succumbed to a phenomenon known as hysterical contagion. It's a neat little trick of the mind that causes the body to react physically to things like stress and peer pressure, often manifesting in the form of nausea and other symptoms of illness.
And it's shockingly common. In 2006, 300 students in 14 separate schools in Portugal came down with similar symptoms after an episode of a popular teen soap opera called Strawberries With Sugar featured a plot about a mysterious and deadly virus outbreak (don't all teen soaps rehash that trope sooner or later?).
"Ebola will eat all our pretty faces! Yaaaaay!"
Or you may have heard about the notorious Pokemon epilepsy scare, in which blinking lights in an episode of the cartoon triggered nausea and vomiting in hundreds of Japanese kids. The original reported cases might have been real, but in the end, the number of kids reporting attacks was many times greater than the actual portion of the population that has sensitivity to flashing lights. At some point, healthy kids started convincing themselves they were having the seizures.
"Y-y-yeah, th-this is how J-j-japan enjoys th-things. You w-wouldn't understand."
Of course, it would be different if we were talking about symptoms like, say, blood shooting from your eyes -- it's hard for your body to spontaneously cause that due to peer pressure. But we all know that certain symptoms can be caused by a fear or stress reaction -- nausea, headaches, dizziness, hives -- and if the thing you're scared of supposedly causes those symptoms, you've got all of the makings of a very imaginary yet real disease. And it gets weirder ...
#4. The Fort Worth Perfume Panic
In 2009, a strange smell began wafting through a Fort Worth call center that someone quickly recognized as a poisonous carbon monoxide leak. Soon, people started dropping like flies from chest pains, headaches, dizziness and breathing difficulties. The building was evacuated, and at the end of the day, 34 people were hospitalized and another 110 treated at the scene.
The only problem was there was no gas leak to be found, and there were no abnormal traces of carbon monoxide in the air. Also, carbon monoxide is odorless.
Skunks will maul you to death if you're not prepared.
Eventually, someone worked out that the strange odor that people were complaining about was ... perfume.
Someone had applied their Chanel No. 5 a little generously that morning, and the resulting Fort Worth perfume panic claimed over a hundred victims.
Other symptoms included soft focus and bizarre voice-overs.
What Really Happened?
Apparently, there is such a thing as contagious fear, and it works like this: If something smells suspicious and someone speculates that the smell might be, say, poisonous gas, everyone freaks the hell out. And not just in the average "Oh shit, did I leave the oven on?" way, but their mind actually lures the body to join in the panic train. This can and often does lead to actual physical symptoms.
"Jane gets a whole week off of work? I wish I had stage 3 syphilis."
In the case of Fort Worth, the whole incident was eventually traced back to two employees who started complaining about a co-worker's perfume being so strong that it made them dizzy. Someone overheard and made a slight misinterpretation of the statement, and the whole building got to experience an exciting crisis situation firsthand. Although we suspect they won't be telling this one to their grandchildren.
"You great-great-great grandfather may have served in World War II, but that is nothing compared to this."
#3. The London Monster
In 1788, the headlines of London newsstands started screaming about the London Monster, a Jack-the-Ripper-like slasher of pretty women who stalked the city for two years. Unlike his more lethal counterpart, the Monster was content merely to stab women in the butt. No, really.
Yup. Of all the weird old-timey crimes, the one to survive into modern times was butt-slashing.
When the Monster went uncaptured, citywide panic ensued. Every man was thought to be the Monster, and any wrong move could earn a man the beating of a lifetime. Several people were attacked and beaten as Monster suspects, and women took to wearing copper pans over their asses. Again, really.
Eventually, a random dude was arrested as the London Monster and tried and convicted ... in an extremely confusing show trial, where it became apparent that pretty much all the witnesses were either heavily biased or obvious liars who admitted that they were only in it for the attention.
"At least you all now know that I have the most tremendous ass."
And indeed, despite the "guilty" party having been found and locked away, it started to look like there never was a London Monster in the first place.
What Really Happened?
Having a serial killer roaming around is one of the best ways to shake up a community, and there are always people who can profit from anarchy. Although somebody may have been stabbed in the ass at some point in the beginning, it seems that the entire idea of the Monster was based on herd mentality and a few opportunistic individuals.
"Hey babe? Don't get too freaked out, but I have this one weird kink ..."
For one thing, when the rumor went out that the Monster only attacked pretty women, and newspapers showered attention on every new victim, it was only a matter of time before false reports started cropping up. They didn't have reality TV back then, so attention seekers had to find more inventive ways to get their names out there. What we're trying to say here is that women started stabbing themselves in the ass.
These imaginary attacks threw fuel to the flames of mass hysteria, until literally anyone was thought to be the Monster at the merest accusation. The local thieves and pickpockets happily exploited this by mugging people, then pointing at them and screaming "Monster!" in order to escape while the poor victim was attacked by the mob.
Luckily this was Georgian England, so you could just throw your wife to the mob and give chase.
Go ahead and laugh at how gullible old-timey Londoners were, but keep in mind that just in the last couple of decades there have been similar panics in the U.S. about AIDS. In pin prick attacks, supposed villains went around hiding HIV-tainted pins in cushions and other places where unsuspecting people were likely to get themselves AIDSified. Wherever the rumor emerged, bars and movie theaters saw business plummet as the scared public stayed home under the bed ... despite the story being 100 percent certified bullshit. There were never any real attacks ... but there were kids running around pranking people by sticking them with pins.
"Hahaha, AIDS is hysterical!"


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When planning where and how you ideally want to give birth, you need to consider both what you would prefer and what the hospital or birthing centers can offer. The following questions may act as helpful prompts.
Who would you like to have with you during the labor and birth?
Do you want an active labor?
What pain relief do you want?
If you have an assisted birth, would you prefer vacuum or forceps?
Do you want your partner to be present if you have a cesarean?
Do you want the third stage of labor to be managed naturally or assisted with drugs?
How do you want to feed your baby?
What is the policy on induction? Will the hospital monitor your baby before labor if you don't want to be induced?
Will the choice of pain relief and the place of birth change if you're induced?
Are there tubs or birthing pool facilities?
Will you be able to bring in aids such as massage oils or music?
How much privacy will you have?
How many people will you be allowed to invite into your labor and delivery room?
Will your baby remain with you throughout your stay in the hospital?
Does the hospital have facilities for sick babies, or are babies transferred?
Can you go home when you feel ready, or is there a set discharge time?
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Copyright © 2008 Dorling Kindersley Limited.
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Hi. I am not a programmer or anything im just here to find a programmer and some help on some questions i have. I am a 19 yr. male from the united states & I love music.
The New Guy
Hi and welcome to the forum and you will find quite a few programmers here to help you out.


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Using a T1i and shooting the 360, should the camera be on manual or automatic focus?
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Using a T1i and shooting the 360, should the camera be on manual or automatic focus?
Sorry, I have the camera in M mode. Should the lens be selected as AF or MF?
when shooting panoramas or image composites the basic idea is every shot will eventually turn into 1 shot. Any variances in settings between images will show up in final stitched image as light or dark areas.
Every image as to be shot with the exact same exposure and setting as the one before it. Settings would include shutter, aperture (preferred F8+), focus, ISO, and white balance. And image stabilization should be turned off lenses that offer the feature. Most DSLR's offer manual mode - however even if in manual mode sometimes the white balance will stay in auto-mode. You should be able to switch the white balance option to manual in the menu system.
Hope you might share some of your first panoramas in our gallery - we're happy to suggest tips to improve your images.
Good luck


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I know that some people say that PVC is fine for racking tubes, but I have someone who is looking for an alternative--HDPE or PP would be acceptable but not preferred. Since PVC is the only type of plastic tube our local hardware store sells, are there some DIY alternatives that have worked well for people? (Caoutchouc? Sheep's intestine? What'd we use for this before plastic came along?)
A lot of brewers use silicone tubing for hot liquids, but there's no reason aside from cost not to use it for racking as well. That will take if the tubing part but you've still got to deal with the racking cane which is rigid. Copper or stainless tubing could be bent into the correct shape.
If vinyl isn't the gold standard for homebrewer's tubing, I don't know what is. It's good to ~170° F max.
As Tobias mentioned, silicone tubing is used for higher temp transfers.
Purchase anything anywhere "Food Grade" and you're good-to-go for low-temp homebrew, but I wouldn't get too creative with random hardware store DIY bric-a-brac without the "Food Grade" claim. There are some hearty anti-fungal additives to many compounds. (Case in point – when sinking a ball valve into a mash tun, make sure and purchase your silicone sealant from your local tropical fish store vs. the first thing you see at Home Depot.)


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Back on the Tribute Trail...
Game: FM11 (11.1 patch)
Database Edits: Several additional leagues (see below for details)
Time to get my FM11 career on the road!
Following on from the double award-winning This is a Tribute career, I've decided to yet again go down the journeyman path. There are a few differences this time though:
- This time, I am also taking part in Acid Burn's Continental Dominance Challenge meaning I have the goal of winning the equivalent of the Champions League on every continent.
- In order to achieve this, I have added some .xml files to activate the New Zealand leagues & O-League as well as to give me more options in Asia, Africa and the Americas.
- I have decided to give myself a full break from the norm so I have only loaded leagues I have never played a full season in before on any version of FM! (note: that's leagues I've never played a full season in, I may have loaded them in previous games or even dabbled for a half a season or so)
That means the following leagues have been loaded (* denotes an additional league):
Angola (top division only)*
Egypt (top two divisions)*
Tunisia (top division only)*
China (all divisions)
India (top division)
South Korea (all divisions)
UAE (top division only)*
Croatia (all divisions)
France (all divisions)
Holland (all divisions)
Russia (all divisions)
North America
Costa Rica (top two divisions)*
Guatemala (top division only)*
Honduras (top two divisions)*
Jamaica (top two divisions)*
New Zealand (top division only)*
South America
Brazil (all divisions)
Chile (all divisions)
Colombia (all divisions)
Uruguay (all divisions)
Obviously, my self-imposed new leagues only rule means the challenge will be tougher, especially with the CONCACAF Champions League as I have previously played long-term games in the Mexican leagues and the MLS. Time to bring one of the central American nations up!
Following Acid Burn's rules, I've started unemployed and I've chosen to give myself a Sunday League rep. I'm now set to apply for jobs and take one of the first two offers that comes along.
Let the journey begin!!!


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TEMPLE (October 5, 2012)--Anthony Lucas Diaz, 34, of Temple, was in the Bell County Jail Friday facing charges in connection with the robbery of an 85-year-old woman and the theft of another woman's purse 30 minutes later.
The robbery was reported at around 7:50 a.m. Thursday on North 2nd Street, where the 85-year-old victim told officers a man approached her and grabbed her purse.
She refused to let go and the man dragged her into the street where he took the purse and pushed her to the pavement, leaving her with minor injuries.
He ran to his vehicle and fled.
About 30 minutes later on North 3rd Street another woman told officers she had just placed her purse on the desk in her office as she arrived for work when a man grabbed it, ran out the front door, got into a vehicle and drove off.
In both cases, the women remembered the license number of the vehicle and the number was the same.
Officers identified the owner and arrested Diaz a short time later at a Temple apartment complex.
Charges were pending late Friday morning in the purse thefts.
Diaz was held on a list of other unrelated charges including criminal trespass.


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The Fifth Estate v. WikiLeaks: Unraveling Fact from Fiction in Hollywood's Dramatization of the WikiLeaks Story
The Fifth Estate v. WikiLeaks
Friday, October 11, 5:30 p.m.
From the halls of Washington to the streets of Tunis, the names Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have proven not only impossible to ignore, but cataclysmic in both the worlds of politics and journalism. Now the first major Hollywood film adaptation is about to be released, but how accurately does it reflect reality?
Electronic Frontier Foundation legal Director Cindy Cohn, Wired Senior Reporter Kim Zetter, Forbes senior online editor Kashmir Hill, and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder Rainey Reitman will discuss what the film gets right and wrong during a lunchtime panel discussion. Each have followed WikiLeaks closely for many years and, in fact, both EFF and Zetter are name-checked in the film.
The panel discussion will begin at noon, so take a long lunch on Friday and join us. (We unfortunately can't bring in lunch, but you are welcome to bring you own.) The discussion also will be filmed and posted to the Freedom of the Press Foundation website.


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16 Feb 2011 1:02 PM #1
[CLOSED]Ext 4 Themes
hi team,
it's a bit sad that all the examples use the ext js 3 - default theme (only slight changes).
we have a folder:
resources / themes / images / default
which contains lots of images, no other folder for other themes.
Do we need to create those images for new themes as well for non css3 fallback or are they auto-generated? quite a difference regarding creating new themes.
i remember from the conf. the statement, that ext4 would need almost no more images...
in resources / css we have ext.css and ext4.css.
if i include the ext4.css instead the other one, nothing gets rendered properly anymore.
best regards and hoping for more information
16 Feb 2011 1:38 PM #2
Ill just copy paste my reply from the blog cause I'm lazy
For those wondering what happened to the theme they saw at the conference, our first priority is to get all the components into a correct visual state by porting the Ext 3.3 theme into the new theming system. Note that all rounded corners and images used for framing etc are actually generated by our theming system. This means that for example the tabs you are seeing in IE are actually automatically generated based of CSS gradients and border-radius properties. None of them have actually been copied over from Ext 3. Once we get the 3.3 theme into a solid state we can look at implementing different themes using the new awesome SASS based theming system we have in place now.
16 Feb 2011 1:50 PM #3
Hi Tommy,
thanks for the reply! Being lazy after a release is ok :P
Ok, good to know the images won't be permanent (really got panic about it).
I am hoping to see one of the new themes soon, it is much more motivation to build an ext 4 app that looks like one.
Best regards
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The 9 Most Mind-blowing Disguises in the Animal Kingdom
There are few things freakier than animals or insects who learn to imitate their surroundings in such a way that one of them could be on your damned pillow before you'd notice it. So let's look at a bunch of them right now.
NOTE: Many of the below pictures look fake as hell. Unfortunately, these are real photos of disguises so weird and utterly convincing, you won't believe you're looking at real animals until they're right behind you.
#9. The Bird Shit Spider
We swear we are not making this up.
Hailing from Spider Capital of the World, Australia, this critter has found a clever method of hiding from predatory birds. Well, as clever as "looking like poop" can be. The bird-dropping spider is a method actor from the Keanu Reeves school of acting, as its "method" is to sit around motionless. The difference being the spider has been typecast as a turd.
Birds are adept enough at finding fresh food that they don't have to scrounge around in their own droppings, so this is actually one of the best places to hide in plain sight. While that's great news for the spider, the rest of us have to live out the rest of our lives knowing that the next time we're annoyed to find bird poop on our collar, it might turn out to be something a million times worse.
#8. The Clam's Fish Decoy
Count the fish in the above photo. The actual number is exactly one less than you think.
We have to say, we feel sorry for everything that lives in the ocean. The Little Mermaid was totally lying to you. Rather than funky Caribbean beats and singing crabs, life under the sea is like something out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Nothing is as it seems. For instance this fish, the one next to the clam...
...is not a fish. What we're seeing here is a broken-rays mussel; a freshwater mollusk whose fleshy lips come together as a perfect replica of a minnow.
Source: Unio Gallery.
It looks like a tasty treat for larger carnivores, but it's actually an egg sac filled with horrifying parasitic larvae that explode in your face and burrow inside you.
If we lived in the ocean, we'd probably swear off eating fish all together, just to avoid the risk. After all, there are plenty of other things to eat in the ocean, like these delicious insect-looking things:
Source: Unio Gallery.
Oh wait, those aren't insects, they're the eggs of the fluted kidneyshell mollusc, and burrowing parasites explode from their eyes. Maybe we'll just order a pizza.
#7. Spiders Pretending to be Ants
Whether they're hiding from predators, or just like the taste of ants and prefer to move incognito, lots of spiders have evolved to look so similar to ants that you can barely tell the difference until they're eating your skull. Seriously, let's play a game of "ant or spider" and see if you can tell which of these are which:
We fess up, it was a trick question. There are no ants in the above photos. But by far the weirdest is the male Myrmarachne plataleoides.
There aren't two of them there. That's one spider. It has oversized jaws to spar with other males and show off to the females, but since the ants they're imitating don't have such monstrous fangs, the jaws themselves are disguised as an entire second ant. Holy shit! It's like having balls so huge you have to push them around in a stroller disguised as a baby.
From now on, you can be sure that every time a stranger shows up on our doorstep, we'll be counting their legs before we let them inside.
#6. Caterpillars Playing Snake
Nature pulled a dick move on the butterfly. Before you earn your wings, you have to spend your infancy as a slow-moving tube of meat in a world crawling with meat-loving predators. So, how can an enterprising caterpillar discourage the hoards? By masquerading as something that's actually dangerous.
Yes, all of those are caterpillars. When they become frightened, they retract their heads backward into themselves, causing that bulge that looks like the head of a snake. The snake "eyes" are just spots on the caterpillar's sides. So when a predator has a taste for this:
They get fooled into thinking they're looking at this:
Some caterpillars even go the extra mile by extending appendages from the top of their head to mimic a forked snake tongue, making it look like a snake that's about to strike ...
... in the most adorable way possible. Man, that guy just better hope he doesn't run into any creatures who prey on Yoshis.
#5. Flies Undercover as Ant Larvae
That's army ant larvae up there. Army ants are something very few animals want to mess with, as they're essentially a nomad swarm of all-consuming murder. Instead of building a nest for their helpless, grub-like larvae, these notorious insects just carry them around as they go, piling them up in the center of the swarm when they tuck in for the night. One thing in this pile, however, is never growing up to be an ant.
This is a "myrmecophilous" (ant-loving) phorid fly, related to the ordinary fruit fly. It's not a fly larva, mind you, but an adult, female fly that just happens to have no wings and no legs. On one end is her tiny head and thorax, while the rest is just one gigantic ass.
This mooching fly gets fed, cleaned and carried around by a million Amazonian insect warriors, who murder any other bug that so much as looks at her funny--at least until they let their guard down enough for the male fly, who actually has wings, to swoop in and tap what may be the biggest booty in the insect world.


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The 6 Strangest Ways Anyone Was Ever Mistaken for a God
#3. Hernan Cortes
When Hernan Cortes sailed up to the coast of the New World to meet with (and utterly destroy) the Aztec Empire, he had no way of knowing the astounding coincidence he was stumbling into. Of all the days of the year he could have picked, it just so happened that the Aztec calendar had just ticked over to "1 Reed, 9 Wind" -- the exact date that Quetzalcoatl the Feathered Serpent was expected to return from his study abroad in "the Abyss" to reclaim Mexico.
Which, judging from this picture, was not a very good thing.
In addition to having to fight giant head-eating snakes, according to the Aztec tabloid Codex Chimalpopoca, 1 Reed was prophesied to be "bad for kings." With so many stars aligning against him, it should come as no surprise that Moctezuma II of the Aztec Triple Alliance -- the largest and most powerful empire in the Western Hemisphere -- spent most of the early year sleeping with a razor-sharp macana under his pillow.
On 9 Wind, the same day that Quetzalcoatl was expected to come in "from the East," a bunch of conquistadors led by Cortes arrived from Spain. Even more coincidentally, the same day on Cortes' calendar just happened to be Good Friday, so according to tradition, he wore a black outfit that day. As it happened, in awaiting their god's return, the Aztecs were watching the sea for a white guy wearing black. Wait -- wasn't he supposed to be a snake, you ask? It's not our job to explain how this makes sense.
Also, while not pictured, Cortes was also wearing the same amazing hat.
Unfortunately for the Aztecs, being mistaken for a god gave Cortes just the leverage he needed to conquer and wipe out the Aztec Empire with a force of only 500 men, a detail that the prophecies would have been wise not to have left on the cutting room floor.
#2. Dead Dinosaurs, Elephants and Others
You may think of the digging up and examination of dinosaur bones as a recent thing, but we now know that people have been poking around the bones and fossils since at least 300 B.C. According to the fourth-century Chinese historian Chang Qu, the origin of the dragon legend can be traced to ancient discoveries of the bones of these giant lizards.
We don't see it.
Dragons are, of course, sacred, mythological creatures in many cultures. That's why many villagers in China, who really don't know any better, still confuse dinosaur bones for dragon bones and treat them accordingly: They grind them up and eat them, believing that they have miraculous healing powers (note that dieticians often advise that we not try to consume anything that has been out of the refrigerator for a quarter of a billion years).
That's far from the only case of supernatural creature mistaken identity, by the way. The dwarf elephant (or, more acceptably, the vertically impaired elephant) is a prehistoric ancestor of the regular old elephants we have today. Human beings have been digging up their remains for well over 2,000 years, but aside from paleontology not having been invented yet, the additional problem is that these people lived in ancient Italy and Greece, where human beings had never seen an elephant before. So what do you suppose they assumed when they dug up huge skulls that looked like this:
Also, vampire fangs.
It is believed that the concept of the Cyclops from Greek mythology comes from the skull of the dwarf elephant, whose immense nose hole and almost nonexistent eye sockets make it look like the head of a giant with one huge central eyeball.
That's not the only mundane creature to be treated to a case of epic supernatural misidentity. Whenever some awesome skeleton nobody recognized was discovered, it was almost guaranteed to have an epic story attached to it. For instance, it's believed that the giant tusk of the narwhal whale was the origin of the unicorn myth.
Still not seeing it.
#1. Lakshmi Tatma
At the tail end of 2005 in a small village in India, Shambhu and Poonam Tatma welcomed their second child into the world: Lakshmi, named after the Hindu goddess of wealth. It's more than just a really pretty name -- Lakshmi, the goddess, has four arms and legs. And so did their daughter.
Now we're seeing it.
Lakshmi was actually born with a "parasitic twin" who donated her arms and legs to the girl to create the rare birth defect. As a result, the girl wound up being revered throughout India as the living incarnation of the beloved goddess. See, not only did she look like Lakshmi, but it turned out that the girl was born during the Diwali festival, which is when Lakshmi the goddess supposedly visits homes to bless them.
No doubt about it, that is one happy octobaby.
Although Lakshmi was born into utter poverty, the overwhelming fame she brought her family was enough to assemble a team of doctors to successfully give her reconstructive surgery. Her father insists to this day that "I believe with all my heart that Lakshmi is indeed a goddess," and frankly, we're running out of evidence to suggest she isn't. All we know is that if this girl wants to be elected anything from homecoming queen to president of Earth someday, she has a following 1 billion strong in India alone hanging onto every little thing she does. Which is nice.
Also, she is adorable.
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