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5 Scientific Advances That Should Have Changed Everything
One of our favorite subjects here is world-changing inventions that the world just ignored. Almost everything you think of as a recent invention was in fact invented decades or even centuries earlier and promptly forgotten about.
Sometimes it's bad luck, or shady business dealings, or the fact that the world just plain isn't ready. But one way or another, the reason is almost always ridiculous in hindsight. For instance ...
#5. They Had Electric Cars in 1899, but Abandoned Them
Electric cars are such a new technology that they still just barely work; it takes hours to charge them, you can't get a charge at a filling station and they're sold only to a select few early adopters who want to outdo their Prius-driving neighbors. But in a world that's running out of oil and getting hotter from greenhouse emissions, the tech can't mature fast enough.
But here's the thing: Electric cars are not as new as most people believe. They've been around for quite a while and in fact, from 1899 to 1900, were more popular than gasoline-powered cars. There were loads of manufacturers and developers, and the fact that they were thought to be a lucrative market was further enforced when notorious glory hog Thomas Edison got in on the action and started developing efficient, affordable electric cars with Henry Ford.
If 20-inch spinners had been invented back then, we'd still be driving those right now.
With combustion engines seemingly on the ropes, it looked like the electric automobile was destined to become the industry standard.
But the Problem Was ...
Electric cars took a knockout blow when huge oil deposits were discovered in Texas in 1901. America's suddenly giant oil supplies dropped the cost of fuel cars dramatically, which was more than enough to tip the scales their way.
Back then, the heads were shaped as middle fingers.
Electric cars weren't killed overnight -- Edison and Ford were still trying to collaborate on a commercially viable model in 1914, and one company still produced up to 2,000 of them as late as 1920 -- but the impact of plentiful, cheap oil kicked the electric car's ass right to the margins of the industry, where they remain even today.
Texas: Why driving to work every morning costs more than your rent.
How It Could Have Changed the World:
Do we need to count down all the ways that gasoline cars have become a problem? How about you instead just flip over to one of the 24-hour news channels. Within 20 minutes or so you'll see a story about a war in an oil-rich country, or global warming, or fluctuating oil prices due to a market full of nervous speculators, or car companies on the verge of bankruptcy as they desperately try to come up with more fuel-efficient options.
Left: Gas prices in May of 2008. Right: Same station in December of the same year.
Now, it's true that when you suggest electric cars as a fix for all that, invariably somebody will pipe up and say, "But the electricity they run on comes from coal. Your 'green' electric cars don't change shit with global warming!"
But you have to understand how electric cars -- especially as they would exist with an extra 100 years of evolution -- would completely change the game. An electric car doesn't care where the electricity comes from -- if they switch your power plant outside town from coal to nuclear/solar/wind, you get to keep the same car. And it's a hell of a lot easier to upgrade a single power plant than it is to slowly, over time, convince a million drivers to buy a new car. Especially one that uses an uncertain new technology.
Man, we learned our lesson the hard way on that one.
In other words, the transition we could be making -- from dirty electric cars to clean electric cars -- would have been about a hundred times easier than the transition from gasoline to electric. And the world wouldn't have to keep a constant, nervous eye on the Middle East the entire time.
#4. A Great Anesthetic Was Discovered ... and Used as a Recreational Drug Instead
18th century surgery was a mess. Operations were so painful and dangerous that they were strictly a last resort and usually lethal all by themselves, made all the worse by the fact that the patient tended to shift around and scream quite a bit. The anesthetics of the time were marijuana, hypnotism, poisonous plants and punches. They worked about as well as you'd imagine.
It was not until halfway through the 19th century when the first proper anesthetics emerged in the form of morphine, ether and nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas. The latter gained a reputation of relative safety and reliability, with only one death out of 500,000 uses. Compared to the previously prevalent anesthetic methods of liquor and hope, this was not a bad score at all.
"OK, quick, take out his gall bladder and draw dicks on his face."
Laughing gas was, in fact, discovered and isolated way back in 1772 and first proposed to be used as an anesthetic in 1799, nearly 50 years before Ether & Co. emerged.
But the Problem Was ...
If you suddenly figured out how to manufacture a substance that caused a rush and a laughing fit, what would you do? The answer is simple: Laughing gas parties.
"Maybe we should see if this stuff has some sort of medical application. Y'know, once we float a couple more tanks."
Throughout its early existence, laughing gas was used as little more than a recreational drug. Aside from the parties, it was sold in bags in true drug dealer fashion. There were even theater shows, featuring people inhaling nitrous oxide onstage and stumbling around.
While Sir Humphry Davy did suggest in 1799 that maybe nitrous oxide could be used as an anesthetic, no one actually bothered to test the theory until 1845, when a dentist first attempted a public demonstration ... which was a failure, as he gave an insufficient dose to the poor test subject. When they finally got the dosage right and proved the compound's efficiency, other anesthetics had already come around. Laughing gas had lost its chance to become a life-saving, science-advancing forerunner -- just because a bunch of snobs were too busy imbibing the stuff for shits and giggles.
"Ma'am, this is just a physical exam. You don't need anesthetic."
How It Could Have Changed the World:
How does medical science decades ahead of where we are now sound?
Keep in mind, this isn't just about keeping patients comfortable. It's hard to overstate just how much the discovery of proper anesthetics affected medical progress. When the whole "Oh God do it quickly he's wriggling" thing ceased to be an issue, doctors could suddenly devote their time to actually maximizing survival rates and the effectiveness of procedures. Imagine where that trend would have taken them by now if they'd been able to start it back in the final years of the 18th century.
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"Oh, stop being a baby -- it's just a leg. It's not like you don't have another one."
And that's not even taking into account all the lives that could've been saved during the decades of gory horror surgery, which also could have been largely avoided.
#3. Robert Goddard's Rocket Technology Was Ignored by the USA, Used by the Nazis
Robert Goddard had connections, talent and vision. His area of expertise wasn't exactly unsexy, either: Goddard was a goddamn rocket scientist. In fact, for decades, he was the whole field of rocket science all by himself.
From his start at rocket research in 1907, he made the news. In 1914, he patented rocket fuel and the multi-stage rocket technique. Then he built the first rocket projected by liquid fuel, the first rocket with gyroscopically improved balance, the first rocket fired with scientific instruments on board and the first rocket to climb into the higher atmosphere. The man was handy with rockets, is what we're saying.
Via Wikipedia
"I just like blasting dick-shaped objects as high into the atmosphere as I can. What's psychological about that?"
During World War II, his research was guided by the Navy to applying jet engines to conventional aircraft for use in warfare. In that capacity, he created the lift-off rocket. So the U.S. had the world's only rocket scientist at their disposal, and he was actually working to win the war.
But the Problem Was ...
"Wait a second," you might be saying. "I know enough about World War II to know that it was the Nazis who had the rockets, not the Allies. They were famous for their V-2 rockets they rained down on cities, blowing apart entire city blocks at a time."
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"Wait, they can murder people? Somebody find Goddard and give him billions of dollars!"
Well, where do you think the Nazis got that technology from? That's right.
Agents of the ascending Reich expressed interest in Goddard's missiles in 1939. Worried, he contacted the U.S. Army, gave evidence of the potential of his missiles ... and was promptly shown the door. You see, Goddard was so far ahead of his time that he was considered a lunatic by most Americans. Who cared that the Nazis were after some crazy guy's crazy inventions? They'll probably blow themselves up!
Goddard's mad scientist reputation was not helped by the fact that he drew inspiration from stuff like H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds and had an uncanny knack for causing heavily publicized catastrophes with his experiments. His very first experiment blew up the basement of his university's science department, and that first liquid fuel rocket flight of his only lasted 2.5 seconds before it landed screaming in a cabbage patch.
"Oh, shit ... um ... my bad."
So nobody cared when the Nazis goose-stepped away with copies of his papers and over 200 of his patent applications ... which they promptly used to build their own rockets with an outrageous funding of $2 billion. The grand total of Goddard's rocket research funding, incidentally, was $110,000.
All of this, combined with Goddard's extreme shyness and the media's tendency to pick even his better ideas apart, caused him to become exceedingly withdrawn and doomed to spend his life as a "mad scientist," whose reputation would only be restored after his death, largely by NASA (who eventually ended up using pretty much everything he'd invented).
Goddard, seen here explaining mathematically how the entire world could kiss his ass.
How It Could Have Changed the World:
Imagine a version of World War II where the Allies, not the Third Reich, develop missiles that can be launched across huge distances with reasonable expectancy to actually hit something. Imagine a history where instead of Nazi V-2 rockets showering London in 1944, the vastly superior Goddard-1 rockets -- backed up by decades of research as opposed to the few years' work spent reverse engineering the V-2 -- bombard Berlin and Tokyo into submission mid-1942. Millions spared, no need for nukes, everyone rejoices.
Also, think of how ridiculously one-sided the Space Race would have been if America had actually tapped into its 20-year advantage properly? It would be like the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, only the hare is jacked up to his eyeballs with amphetamines, and the tortoise is a garden gnome. Who knows -- we might now be at the point where we can go casually fly circles around the moon with our low-consumption sports rocket had Goddard been able to show us the way.


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So far I have seen these colors for up voted answers:
Green background, Yellow text - Accepted Answer
Grey background, Dark Grey text - Normal Answer
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When the number of votes a question has is in blue, what does that signify?
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Everett Massacre's lessons are relevant today
The water was calm. Only sounds of traffic disturbed an ordinary afternoon. There was no mayhem. No gunshots rang out.
Writing about the 95th anniversary of the Everett Massacre, that was my experience looking out the window of The Herald newsroom Tuesday. I work near the site of where Everett's City Dock once stood at the end of Hewitt Avenue.
In the early 20th century, it was a lively place of business and travel. On Nov. 5, 1916, it became a notorious place.
That Sunday, the steamer Verona pulled alongside the City Dock. The vessel and another boat from Seattle, the Calista, carried about 300 members of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Already, members of the I.W.W. union -- called Wobblies -- had seen trouble in Everett. For weeks they had come to town to speak out in support of shingle weavers. Those local workers were on strike, pushing to regain a pay level they had in previous years.
Not long before the waterfront showdown, street-preaching Wobblies had been beaten in the Beverly Park area. When the Verona approached the dock that Sunday, tensions between Everett's ruling class and the Wobblies exploded into violence.
Retired Everett Public Library historian Margaret Riddle spent years with David Dilgard, a history specialist at the library, researching the Everett Massacre. Riddle's essay for the library sums up the saga that ended with a grim toll: Shot to death were at least five Wobblies -- the account says as many as 12 may have died, and their bodies secretly pulled from the bay -- and two local deputies, Jefferson Beard and Charles Curtis.
Historians don't know if the first shot was fired from the boat or by Everett men on the dock. For decades, the killings weren't talked about in Everett, Riddle said. It was Norman Clark's 1970 book, "Mill Town: A Social History of Everett," that shed light on the bloodiest chapter in Northwest labor history.
On Tuesday, the waterfront was quiet. Yet the same high-stakes issues that played roles in the Everett Massacre -- free speech in public places and compensation for mill workers -- are making headlines in today's Everett.
Occupy Everett, part of a larger movement to draw attention to Americans' economic struggles, has set up camp at the Snohomish County Courthouse plaza. Herald readers also learned this week that union workers at the Kimberly-Clark Corp. plant approved a labor agreement with Atlas Holdings LLC, a potential buyer of the plant -- a pact that would bring pay cuts and end pensions. If the deal goes through, fewer than half of today's 750 jobs at the plant would remain.
"One similarity between the 1916 climate and today is that the I.W.W. wanted to bring workers into 'One Big Union' and unite," Riddle said. "Today's protesters express wanting to cut across political and class boundaries and unite for a common good.
"We also tend to see the Everett Massacre as a local event when it was, as it is today, part of a world crisis," Riddle said.
Nearly a century separates 1916 Everett from today. Still, Riddle sees "clearly a division of the haves and the have-nots in both cases."
Historic Everett, a preservation group, is planning events to commemorate the Everett Massacre on Wednesday night and on Saturday at Everett's Anchor Pub, near where the shootings occurred.
"It fits in with the ideas of today," said Dave Ramstad, a member of Historic Everett's board of trustees.
Wednesday's event includes an invitation for union members to share their thoughts at an open microphone. On Saturday, author and spiritual teacher Mary Ellen Flora will talk about "healing the past" as part of the program.
"People died on both sides -- men in Everett who had raised their families and invested their lives here, and young men traveling the country trying to establish better protection for workers," Ramstad said.
Peter Jackson, son of the late Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, an Everett native, wrote about the Kimberly-Clark workers' pact and the Everett Massacre on Tuesday in his blog on the Crosscut website. He sees ties between the ways cities are handling Occupy protesters and Everett's past. The northwest corner of Hewitt and Wetmore avenues was known as a "free speech" corner. The Wobblies had been there before the shootings.
Jackson has talked with Everett leaders and historians Dilgard and Jack O'Donnell about erecting a statue at that corner -- a bronze soapbox, perhaps -- to explain its history and commemorate the Everett Massacre.
Now, the only monument to what happened is a marker at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, where three of the Wobblies are buried.
"There is nothing in the city of Everett," Jackson said.
"The whole issue of freedom of speech was part of the ignition system that sparked the Everett Massacre. It resonates clearly today," said Valerie Steel, president of Historic Everett's board of trustees.
Ramstad, 70, grew up in Everett. He remembers when no one talked about the Everett Massacre. "People had strong feelings. It was an incendiary type of event," he said. Ramstad credits Riddle and Dilgard for making the story public.
"They broke it open, started talking about it, and made it into real history," he said.
"I think it continues," Riddle said of today's push to speak out about economic struggle. "It's a whole different world for sure. At the same time, we have some of the same issues."
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As I'm now 12 seasons into my career game, I thought it would be the right time to start posting about. This is by far the save that I have enjoyed the most in recent times and I intend to play it for a long time yet
My first season started disastrously with Llangefni as I got them relegated and was promptly sacked. Thankfully newly promoted Pontardawe Town took a gamble on me and I was happy to take the job.Code:Season Country Club League Position Cup Wins ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2007/2008 Wales Llangefni Premier 17th and sacked ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2008/2009 Wales Pontardawe Premier 11th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2009/2010 Wales Pontardawe Premier 16th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/2011 Wales Pontardawe Premier 13th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/2012 Wales Pontardawe Premier 11th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012/2013 Wales Pontardawe Premier 7th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2013/2014 Wales Pontardawe Premier 3rd ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014/2015 Wales Pontardawe Premier 4th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015/2016 Wales Pontardawe Premier 3rd ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2016/2017 Wales Pontardawe Premier 2nd ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2017/2018 Wales Pontardawe Premier 1st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2018/2019 Wales Pontardawe Premier Seasons - 12 Clubs managed - 2 League titles - 1 Domestic Cups - 0 European Cups - 0
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21st Annual Cruisin' Ocean City - Sun, Surf, and Hot RodsWritten by Chuck Vranas on June 6, 2011
Once the winter weather passes and the warm temps is back there's nothing quite like the adrenalin rush you experience when taking your hot rod or custom out for a road trip, especially on the East Coast. Now in its 21st year, one of the neatest shows across the country to have earned the reputation of being a true driving event is Cruisin' Ocean City, in Ocean City, Maryland. The bitchin' seaside community opens up its 10-mile strip to more than 3,000 enthusiastic car and truck owners for an extended weekend every May, leaving the scent of high octane juice hanging heavy in the air. The weekend kicks off at "the inlet" which serves as the epicenter for the festivities. Bordered by perfect beaches and wicked surf; parking for 1,500 vehicles disappears by 10 AM on Saturday but turns over regularly due to other fun mini-events along the strip. The inlet features a traditional old timey amusement park complete with a Ferris wheel and scream-worthy haunted house. There's also a neat boardwalk that stretches for miles laden with loads of retail shops and food vendors hawking an endless array of fried goodies and sweets. There were also countless sponsor exhibitors including General Motors Performance Division, Summit, Meguiar's, PPG, and K&N Filters to mention but a few to check out. Every year you can count on meeting celebrities at the show and this year you had the chance to meet Danielle Colby Cushman from TV's American Pickers who spent plenty of time meeting her legions of fans.
Once you head out from the inlet to hit the strip, a stop by the Convention Center always packs a number of treats with this year including a chance to check out TV's original Batmobile as well as a live collector car auction by Express Auctioneers inside the Convention Center, a special indoor car show, and numerous vendors. There was also a number of other mini-events happening all day long including shows at Hooters, the Ice Cream Castle, and Phillips Crab House to mention but a few. If this sounds like fun; you're only half way there 'cuz once the inlet get-together closes for the evening, its time to tank up, grab a bite and head back out onto the strip for even more festivities. It's easy to feel welcomed with thousands of cheering fans greeting you from sidewalks, hotel balconies, parking lots, and multi-level garages as your odometer spins wildly. This year, there were plenty of traditional rides mingling with stoke, muscle cars, and Pro-Mods on methanol. You could hear the roar of healthy V-8 stalking the main strip well into the morning hours. This is one event that keeps the excitement flowing all weekend long till its time to head home. You can check it all out at www.specialeventpro.com.
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I would like to know if I could do something like:
$\epsilon (0)\text{:=}0$
$\epsilon (n)\text{:=}\frac{4}{2 n-(-1)^n+1}$
and use it instead of a constant.
As $n\rightarrow \infty$, $\epsilon \rightarrow 0.$
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In Hardy and Wright, sixth edition, page 494, (22.19.2), it states, "...there is always a prime $p$ satisfying"
$x < p < (1 + \epsilon) x$
Using this function:
$x(n)\text{:=}\frac{1}{8} \left(2 n (n+2)-(-1)^n+1\right)$
I want to have:
$x(n) < p \leq (1+\epsilon(n)) x(n)$
Edit after the closure: The answer I was looking for is "YES." I have located several proofs that have $\epsilon$ dependent on $x,$ meaning it can vary under my control. Now, I can't use it that way because neither $x$ nor $\epsilon$ are dependent on each other, but both are dependent on $n.$ But, I hope to adapt.
I did not sign off on quid's answer because it was not exactly what I needed. However, I do like the answer very much.


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If I have a set of implications, how can I prove the transitivity? In other words: I know the transitivity law, but I need to show on paper for an assignment whether the argument is valid or not.
$$ \begin{align} P&\to Q\\ Q&\to R \\ \therefore P&\to R \end{align} $$
I recall something to do with assuming P and/or Q, since $P\to Q$ will always be true if P is false anyhow, and the same with $Q\to R$... but I don't know how to do it on paper.


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JON SCOTT, C0-HOST: Saudi Arabia has a new tactic to try to fight the war on terror using religious clerics to give sermons to jailed Al-Qaeda suspects. The mission is to turn these terror suspects into informants, but will it really work?
Joining us now, the Director of Information for the Saudi Embassy, Nail Al-Jubeir. Mr. Al-Jubeir, good morning.
Mr. NAIL AL-JUBEIR (Director of Information, Saudi Embassy): Good morning.
MR. SCOTT: Can you describe how this new program is supposed o work?
MR. AL-JUBEIR: Well it's not a new program. It's been going on also with common criminals, deviants, in which they will try to teach them, to appeal to them, to their religious duty. In other words, it's like any other place they do that. Whatever works to turn convicts into law abiding citizens, we'll use.
MR. SCOTT: But I guess it depends on which cleric you select, because there are clerics over in that part of the world who have been saying, 'Hey. It is your - you know - duty to Allah...'
MR. AL-JUBEIR: Oh, of course not. No. No. Of course not. Those aren't really clerics. The clerics are those who really know the religion and know the meaning of the - the term Jihad has been thrown around very loosely by some of these evildoers. But no. They sit down with them. They preach to them. They teach them. The real definition of religion and of tolerance is what the real religion is and not the perverted version that has been used by extremists.
MR. SCOTT: We're looking at some video of what was left of that housing compound in Riyadh after some car bombers launched an attack there. According to some of the early reports, this technique of sending the clerics into the prison has helped you catch some of the guys responsible for those bombings.
MR. AL-JUBEIR: Yes it did. It did in this case and it also helped us catch some of the other suspects that are wanted around the world. So it is effective, because you appeal to their humanity just like any other police officer, whether it's in Washington, New York. You talk to them. You try to convince them of what they're doing, to sort of show them the light, and what's right and what's wrong. And most of these people -- the suspects -- are misguided. Not the hard-core, because I don't really know if you can get some of the hard-core killers to turn sides. But in most of these people, yes, it's been very effective.
MR. SCOTT: Did those bombings in Riyadh in any way change your approach to fighting terrorism in Saudi Arabia? Because there have been a great many accusations -- as you well know -- that the Saudis have not been fully on board in that war.
MR. AL-JUBEIR: Well what it has done is, it has made us more outspoken about what we're doing. In the past we used to keep quiet on what we do. Now it's all public. When arrests are made, it's announced. When our police border guards are being killed by the terrorists, it's being made public. When we seize weapons, it's made public. So there's a more public face to it than in the past. In the past, only information is shared with various law enforcement agencies or intelligence around the world, but hardly with the public. But now we're making it public.
MR. SCOTT: I received an e-mail from an American working in Saudi Arabia shortly after those bombings. He said the ironic thing is, we're here to help teach the Saudis how to enhance security and they won't take our advice. Your thoughts?
MR. AL-JUBEIR: I -- I really don't know anything about that. But yes. We're taking advice from everybody else that's out there, and that's why they're there. In terms of that particular case, I really can't comment on.
MR. SCOTT: All right. Well President Bush is over -- obviously-- in Sharm El Sheikh, as well as Crown Prince Abdullah and Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt. You heard -- I'm sure -- their comments this morning. Do you feel that there is the prospect for real Middle East peace coming out of this roadmap that the president and others are working on?
MR. AL-JUBEIR: Yes. We have to. There's really not many alternatives that's out there, and I believe the president's statement was very forceful. It's indicating to the world that as the president, he's putting the full faith and trust of his government to achieving a goal. And that's what we're hoping for.
MR. SCOTT: He said that everybody is going to have to work together in good faith. Is there more that our government could or should be doing? Is there more that governments in your part of the world could or should be doing?
MR. AL-JUBEIR: Well everybody can do more. There's -- there's -- there's clear indication that we have to do more. It's for the interest of the peace. And if we want to achieve peace, everybody has to chip in and -- you know -- try to achieve it. We can't sit on the sideline and start finger pointing and waiting till time -- you know -- immemorial. We can -- have to go and sort of achieve a settlement for this conflict.
MR. SCOTT: And -- and will there be more done on the part of Arab governments -- first of all -– to -- to help the Palestinians financially and to ensure that the Palestinian Authority is not in any way supporting terrorism?
MR. AL-JUBEIR: Well we're caught in a sort of tough position here. When we support the Palestinian Authority through international organizations, we are accused of supporting terrorism. And then when we don't support it, we're accused of not supporting the Palestinians. Our objective is to support the Palestinians in whatever decision they make. You know, our objective is to finally reach a settlement where the violence, the cycle of hatred and the cycle of death ends.
MR. SCOTT: All right. Mr. Nail Al-Jubeir, thanks very much for being with us this morning.
MR. AL-JUBEIR: Thank you.


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but why doesnt the other parts of the rx series show up on the main page? i'd hate for people to miss out on this hotness
Agreed! Please add the relevant Rx Tags to this video so I can find it later.
Just get things clear, is the following true?
WaitUntil(xs, ys) does not propagate the exception from
ys if it happens
before ys starts producing values, but it will propagate after
ys started producing values?
Or, the exception propagates after
xs and
ys started producing values?
I'm confused. Is "WaitUntil" actually "SkipUntil" ??? If what I thought I saw was right, this name is very misleading.
Audio is poor on WMV (High).
I think the name "WaitUntil" is very good, because it does what it says!
The result-IO "waits until" a defined event fires.
I think what you mean is "SkipWhile". But in case of this function you have to define a predicate and no event!
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Short links for August 18th, 2009
Some interesting things I found recently:
# These Are My Twisted Words – Free Radiohead song
Johnny writes:
So here's a new song, called 'These Are My Twisted Words'. We've been recording for a while, and this was one of the first we finished. We're pretty proud of it.
There's other stuff in various states of completion, but this is one we've been practicing, and which we'll probably play at this summer's concerts. Hope you like it.
The download includes a 320kbps mp3, some artwork and additional info.
# kSynth – Mike Hodnick's kSynth is a visual audio synthesizer in Silverlight.
# H. O. Studley Masonic Tool Chest
If the workmanship in a tool chest is any indication of the maker's talent, then the craftsmanship of Master carpenter and stonemason H. O. Studley must have been awe-inspiring. Brother Henry O. Studley (1838-1925) built this magnificent wall-hung chest while employed by the Poole Piano Company of Quincy, Massachusetts. In an oak clamshell box adorned with rosewood, ebony, pearl and ivory, Studley kept both tools he made and a collection of the finest hand tools made prior to 1900, including a complete set of woodworking tools as well as machinist and stonemasonry tools. To pack the 300-plus tools into a case only 19 1/2 inches wide, 39 inches long and 9 1/2 inches deep, Studley devised a jigsaw puzzle arrangement of flip-up trays, fold-out layers and hidden compartments.
# Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
Right now, access to the album is limited exclusively to people who funded it on Kickstarter. But don't fret! Digital downloads of Kind of Bloop will be for sale for $5 to the general public on Thursday, August 20 at noon PST. Come back then!
Previously posted here.
# RjDuino (YouTube)
Using a custom RjDj patch to control an Arduino. Made possible via the "netsend" and "netreceive" objects in PD, which are also usable in RjDj. The interface with the Arduino is made through the Firmata firmware in combination with the PDuino library.


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WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service said it would give people affected by superstorm Sandy one more week to file tax returns and make payments that otherwise would have been due Wednesday.
The government said taxpayers and tax preparers affected by Sandy would have until Nov. 7 to submit forms and payments. Businesses whose payroll- and excise-tax returns and payments would normally be due on Oct. 31 are among the groups that will benefit from the extended deadline.
The IRS announced the extension as New York City and other parts of the East Coast were struggling to come back from the storm, which flooded the New York subway system and led to widespread power outages. Large segments of the region's transit system remained disabled, and lines were forming for gasoline as many stations were closed because of power outages and supply problems. Many businesses and homes were destroyed or damaged as floodwaters rose, complicating record keeping.
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lftp, when I do
ls I get the listing of the files on the FTP server, with their date. However, the timezone is not displayed.
On my local machine, I can do
ls -l --time-style=full-iso to see the timezone, but this command doesn't work with
Generally speaking, does the FTP protocol allow for server timezone discovery?
When I do a file listing (
ls), how can I see which timezone the date is supposed to be?


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text: Hi:Need your advice: I am doing a prep test every other day and am steadily stuck at 143! Am hoping when I start the LG bible I could get a few extra points in Games section. I am taking the test in Oct and would apply to 2 tier 3 and one tier 4 schools in part-time course as I have to keep my full time job. I have no doubt about excellent LOR etc and have extensive education and experience. But I know I need a score better than 143. I am now so dejected that putting myself through yet another prep test again is a torture. When I look back at the answers I can understand the reason but am pretty sure, there's no way I can identify the correct answer from my pick!!. Any pointers? When did you start seeing a difference/improvement in performance. I have seriously started to believe that age has slowed me down.


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For Rampage forward James Wright, the sight of several thousands of teddy bears raining down from the stands is not exactly new. He took part in several Teddy Bear Tosses during his junior days with the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League. But he never scored the goal that made it rain bears.
Last month was different, though, as his goal at 16:36 of the second period on Nov. 24th was memorable in more ways than one. His power-play goal ended Abbotsford Heat goaltender Barry Brust's AHL shutout record at 268:17 minutes and also signaled the San Antonio faithful to toss more than 1,000 teddy bears onto the ice of the AT&T Center.
"It was pretty neat," said Wright. "The bears were going to be thrown on the ice regardless of who scored for us, but I was pretty happy I was the one to do it."
The journey for the teddy bears came full circle on Tuesday afternoon, as Wright and several of his Rampage teammates hand-delivered more than 100 teddy bears during the team's annual holiday visit to the Children's Hospital of San Antonio.
"Just seeing the faces of the kids today is nice," said Wright, who also delivered teddy bears to the Children's Hospital last year. "The kids all look so excited and we are happy to be a part of it. It's a great time of year to be doing this."
Wright, along with his teammates and T-Bone, roamed the halls of the Children's Hospital and delivered the bears to children and their families – stopping for plenty of photos along the way.
Among those who received a teddy bear was nine-year-old Jeric Ortiz. Despite his initial shyness, Jeric relished the chance to meet the Rampage players.
"I was so excited," he said. "I've watched them on the ice but seeing them here now…"
Jeric, still clutching on the bear he had been given, struggled to find a word but after a few seconds he found just the right one.
"Wow," he said with a beaming smile.
"It's a breathtaking moment," said Deseri Ortiz, Jeric's mother. "It's tough coming to the hospital so often, but being able to have these experiences is huge. I think it's great for the children and the community."
Back in the hallway, Rampage forward Andrea Deveaux carries the bucket of bears while Casey Wellman passes them out. In a corner of the emergency room waiting area, T-Bone gives high-fives to children and their parents.
Goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris has made it a point to stop and chat with every child he can during the visit. As one of the Rampage's veteran players, and a father himself, he has taken part in several hospital visits and knows how meaningful they can be to the children.
"I think it means a lot because it helps center you a bit," Grumet-Morris said. "When you give back to the community, especially with young kids here, it re-energizes you."
"I think the most important thing here, though, is that we're not just entertainers," he said. "We want to be a part of this community and stay engaged."
The Rampage will go back to work this week, playing three road games leading up to the holiday break. The children will also return to their lives, whether it's returning home or staying in the hospital over the holidays. But they both carried smiles on Tuesday as a reminder that sometimes a soft, cuddly teddy bear and a visit can mean so much more.


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I made 3 personal goals about 3 years ago.
- I should have a girlfriend and have sex any time I want
- I should weigh 100 kg, push out 70kg bench press and have a good physique
- I should have 1 million dollars in my bank account.
I started to work simultaneously towards my goals. I enrolled into a good university and studied a lot to pass exams with good grades. I started going to the gym and to parties to learn about women. About one year ago, I achieved my 1st goal. I got a girlfriend. I also achieved my 2nd goal about 6 months ago and I was in a really good shape. Then I decided to get serious about my 3rd goal as that's the only one left.
Here's where the problem starts. I focused on my studies throughout university, but I realized that if I ever want to have a shot at goal 3, I have to do a lot more. I started reading professional books in my free time, joined startup communities and started projects on my own. Unfortunately, this means that goal 3 requires a lot of my time, and it's increasingly likely that goal 1 and 2 will become unfulfilled simply because lack of time. I can't go to the gym that much and I can't go to parties and spend time with my girlfriend that much. To me, it appears that the only way I can achieve goal 3 is by studying and working my ass off.
I'm beginning to think that I should have started with goal 3 first and I made a mistake. Is it possible to become a millionaire by starting a company, have a great relationship and be physically in top shape at the same time?


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Old Towne Business Association to meet tonight
The Old Towne Business Association will meet tonight (Wednesday) from 5 to 7 at Dr. James Strong's office, 153 E. Main St.
Meetings are open to all businesses within the flood wall.
Refreshments will be served.
Chamber to host monthly luncheon Thursday
The Taylorsville-Spencer County Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly luncheon at noon Thursday.
A little over five years ago, Julie Sleep was an artist with a studio located in Elk Creek.
Developers of a proposed outlet mall south of Interstate 64 in Simpsonville have requested permits with the Army Corps of Engineers to get their project moving.
For more than a year now, Horizon Group Properties, a development company with offices in Chicago and Muskegon, Mich., has been inquiring about and planning for a 60-acre parcel just west the BP station at Exit 28 off of I-64 and south of Buck Creek Road.
This was no April Fool's Day joke. Jet-skis were making their way across Taylorsville Lake on April1 and they had to wait in line to launch behind an array of pleasure boats, fishing boats and other craft. Summer has seemed to arrive early at the lake, and for one local business, there couldn't be better news.
During a time when attorneys based out of state are running full-page newspaper advertisements across Kentucky and elsewhere to influence public opinion about local nursing homes, Signature Healthcare of Spencer County is reminding citizens of its commitment to the community.
Signature Healthcare has not been immune to these ads — despite the fact that the building has a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to a news release.
The former CEO of Citizen Union Bank has settled his lawsuit against the bank.
CUB and Billie Wade, who served as president and CEO from 1991 until March 2010, have settled a wrongful termination and defamation suit Wade filed in July 2010.
A mediator's report, submitted to Shelby Circuit Court on Feb. 13, contained no details of the settlement, saying merely that, "all claims among the parties have been settled."
Businesses and consumers across the country have been hit by an on-going email scam that appears to be from the Better Business Bureau. The fake emails started in November, and have changed forms a number of times. Most of them include a virus — if the recipient clicks on a link.
BBB Louisville was alerted by an Accredited Business Friday about the latest version, which accused the business of illegal activities. The following is the scam email:
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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:08 AM
The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers of scams and bad business practices taking place in Kentucky and across the United States. Some of those scams are:
1. Job seekers, beware of reshipping scams. In this scam, foreign criminals purchase merchandise with a stolen or fake credit card and then hire U.S. citizens to have it shipped to their country. These jobs are posted on online job sites and in newspapers.
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A new map of human cortex combines data from multiple imaging modalities and comprises 180 distinct regions.
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Bat populations ravaged; hundreds of amphibian species driven to extinction; diverse groups of birds threatened. Taking risks will be necessary to control deadly wildlife pathogens.
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Researchers discover a densovirus that is associated with sea star wasting disease.
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Improved methods to grow patients' tumor cells in a dish offer opportunities to find durable therapies.
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Researchers show that patterned coloration can be an effective means of distracting predators from vital body parts.
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A study suggests that, at least in US academia, men and women now receive roughly equivalent treatment in the workplace. The scientific community disagrees.
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In Chapter 1, "Fossils and War," author J.G.M. "Hans" Thewissen describes the difficulties of conducting field research in a conflict zone.
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Ashley Bellamy was arrested Monday morning, along with her boyfriend Marcus Gibson, for trying to sell crack vials at a Philadelphia-area Wawa convenience store, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. But what got the attention of local police, was where Bellamy concealed the drugs: her vagina.
An unidentified middle-aged man reportedly attempted to buy crack from Bellamy and Gibson, who were parked outside the store and sitting in an SUV. When the man walked up to the vehicle and tried to hand the pair $50, Gibson allegedly pulled out a gun and demanded that the buyer return to the convenience store to get more cash.
When the man returned to the store, instead of getting more money from the ATM, he called police to report that there was a man inside an SUV at the store's parking lot who was brandishing a gun.
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Lobster Risotto
Mascarpone, Lemon & Tarragon
I recommend this recipe for that really special dinner party. It captures the true flavor essence of lobster, and the addition of mascarpone adds a luxurious texture. The risotto is especially flavorful if you make your own fish fumet (fish broth).
Serves 6, total time:
Lobster Broth
- 4 quarts fish fumet (broth) or clam juice
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 fennel bulb, chopped
- 1 leek stalk, white and light green parts, chopped
- 1 celery stalk, chopped
- 1 bunch fresh thyme
- 2 1½ pound live lobsters
- ½ cup onion, diced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup Carnaroli or Arborio rice
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 bay leaf
- ¼ cup Sauvignon Blanc
- ½ cup mascarpone cheese
- 1 lemon, juice and zest
- 4 tablespoons fresh tarragon, chopped
Make Lobster Broth
- In a large soup pot combine the fish fumet, onion, fennel, leek, celery and thyme; bring to a simmer.
- Remove the claws and tails from the lobsters and cut the bodies in half down the middle. Add all parts to the pot, including the liquid that spills from the lobster bodies. Simmer for 8 minutes.
- Remove the claws and tails from the pot and submerge into ice cold water for 10 minutes. Clean the meat out of the claws and tails and return the shells back to the pot. Chop the lobster meat into bite size pieces and reserve in the refrigerator.
- Continue to simmer broth mixture for one hour; strain the liquid through a fine sieve into another pot. Discard the vegetables and lobster pieces. Bring the strained liquid back to a simmer and let simmer until it reduces down to 4 cups of total liquid. Keep the broth hot to make the risotto.
Make the Risotto
- In a medium pot sauté the diced onions in the olive oil over medium heat, until translucent. Add the rice and toast the grains lightly while stirring constantly for 4 minutes. Reduce heat, add salt, bay leaf and Sauvignon Blanc. Continue stirring until the wine is absorbed into the rice.
- Add 1 cup of the hot lobster broth and stir constantly until most of broth is absorbed into the rice. Repeat this step using ½ cup additions of broth to the rice while stirring constantly. The risotto should always maintain a liquid consistency without being submerged under the liquid, and should simmer gently.
- Once 3 cups of the liquid has been added, taste the risotto and check for firmness by biting down on the individual grains of rice. If the rice is still hard and grainy in the center continue to cook and incorporate more broth.
- Once the rice grains are tender stir in the reserved chopped lobster meat, mascarpone, lemon juice, lemon zest and tarragon. If the rice is thick and unable to pour, add more broth. Add more salt or lemon juice to taste. Serve immediately.
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Since constructive mathematics allows us to avoid things like Russell's Paradox, then why don't they replace traditional proofs? How do we know the "regular" kind of mathematics are free of paradox without a proof construction?
Proof theorists have obtained several "relative consistency" proofs between classical and constructive theories. These show that if certain theories of classical mathematics are inconsistent, then corresponding theories of constructive mathematics are also inconsistent. These relative consistency results are proved constructively. They show that the consistency problem does not simply disappear if we switch to constructive mathematics.
One of the more famous relative consistency techniques uses a "double negation translation". This method assigns each formula $\phi$ of a system a corresponding formula $\phi^N$ (the "translation" of $\phi$). The exact definition of the translation varies from author to author, depending on the system at hand. But the name is somewhat accurate: the definition of $\phi^N$ involves adding additional negation symbols to $\phi$ in the right places.
In 1933, Gödel proved there is a translation $N$ of formulas of Peano arithmetic so that whenever a formula $\phi$ is provable in Peano arithmetic, the corresponding formula $\phi^N$ is provable in the constructive system of Heyting arithmetic. Moreover, if $\phi$ is of the form $A \land \lnot A$ then Gödel's translation assigns it the formula $\phi^N = A^N \land \lnot A^N$, which is still contradictory. This means that if Peano arithmetic is inconsistent, so is its constructive counterpart Heyting arithmetic. Gödel's proof is constructive, like you would hope.
So if we were only worried about consistency, there would be no advantage to working in Heyting arithmetic instead of Peano arithmetic. But people who work in constructive mathematics do not do it only for the sake of consistency. Constructive proofs carry more information than classical proofs, so constructive provability is interesting even to classical mathematicians.
You can read a little more about Gödel's result at this wikipedia article.
A whole bunch of things in mathematics are inherently nonconstructive. For instance, invariant theory--recall the famous quote by Gordan that Hilbert's mathematics was "theology." (A quote which, I believe, was in jest.) The Hahn-Banach theorem, a fundamental tool in functional analysis (and a great tool for proving all sorts of results, like approximation results--Runge's theorem, the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, and more) relies on the axiom of choice, and is consequently nonconstructive. The fact that any proper ideal in a ring is contained in a maximal ideal is frequently used in algebra, and yet it needs the axiom of choice. The use of ultraproducts in logic (or the construction of hyperreal numbers) is inherently nonconstructive: you can't just exhibit a nonprincipal ultrafilter on the natural numbers.
Basically, a lot of mathematics just doesn't work without Zorn's lemma, and this is equivalent to the axiom of choice.
"Taking the principle of excluded middle from the mathematician would be the same, say, as proscribing the telescope to the astronomer or to the boxer the use of his fists. To prohibit existence statements and the principle of excluded middle is tantamount to relinquishing the science of mathematics altogether."
-David Hilbert
The distinction between constructive mathematics and traditional mathematics has nothing to do with Russell's Paradox.
Constructive mathematics simply requires working with one less basic postulate that many mathematicians have believed to be sensible and on which some proofs are based, namely the Axiom of Choice
when dealing with infinite sets, many propositions cannot be proved mithout using non-constructive proofs. Axiom of Choice (AC, in brief) or an equivalent proposition is required. Russell's paradox is not a problem per se, you just rule out certain collections of things as sets; Banach-Tarski paradox (you may take a ball, "divide" it in a finite number of parts, translate and rotate them and obtain two balls equal to the first) may be worse indeed. But few mathematicians would prefer not to do a lot of maths because AC is not allowed!
Here is one elementary result you can't prove without the Axiom of Choice (that I used to think was not part of constructive mathematics): let $\left\{X_i\right\}_{i\in I}$ be an arbitrary family of non-empty sets. Then its product $\prod_{i\in I} X_i$ is a non-empty set.
Everybody knows how to prove that for a family of two sets. If two sets $X$ and $Y$ are non-empty, then their cartesian product $X \times Y$ is non-empty too: since $X$ is non-empty, you can choose one element from it: $x \in X$. For the same reason, you can choose also one $y \in Y$. So you have an element $(x,y) \in X\times Y$ and therefore it is non-empty. Right?
For a finite family of non-empty sets $X_1, \dots , X_n$ this procedure still works: you choose one element in each set starting from the first: $x_1 \in X_1$. And then keep on doing the same for the rest: choose $x_2$ in the second set $X_2$, $x_3$ in the third one $X_3$,... And so on, till you reach $x_n \in X_n$. You have thus produced an element of the cartesian product: $(x_1, \dots , x_n) \in X_1 \times \dots \times X_n$.
Even if you had an infinite countable family of non-empty sets $X_1, X_2, \dots , X_n, \dots$, you could produce an element of their product $\prod_{n=1}^{\infty} X_n$ this way: choose successively elements $x_1 \in X_1$, $x_2 \in X_2$,..., $x_n \in X_n$... And you would obtain your element $(x_n)$ of your infinite cartesian product. Hence $\prod_{n=1}^{\infty} X_n$ is non-empty too if all the $X_n$, $n=1, 2, \dots $ are non-empty.
Now, try to do the same with an arbitrary family of sets $X_i$, with the indexes $i$ belonging to an arbitrary indexing set $I$. That is, set $I$ can be infinite and not countable. This kind of cartesian products do exist in "nature". For instance: $I$ could be the set of real numbers $\mathbb{R}$. Take $X_i = \mathbb{R}$ for all $i \in \mathbb{R}$ too. This cartesian product $\prod_{i\in \mathbb{R}} X_i = \mathbb{R}^\mathbb{R}$ is the same as the set of all (not necessarily continuous) functions from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$.
Of course, you can prove that $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{R}$ is non-empty by showing an element of it (for instance, $f(x) = x$ for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$), but how can you prove, in general, that the product of an arbitrary family of non-empty sets $\prod_{i\in I}X_i$ is non-empty too?
If you try to imitate what you have just done in the finite or countable cases, you'll find asking yourself: where do I start? Which is the first $\ i \in I$? Assuming there is a first $i$, which is the next one?
The answer is that, for an infinite, non-countable, set of indexes $I$ there is in general no such a thing as a first index $i$, nor a next one. So you can't use the previous algorithm in order to produce an element of the product $\prod_{i\in I} X_i$...
Except you have something that allows you to choose, one particular element of each set $x_i \in X_i$ -no matter how, even with no precise constructive algorithm as in the finite or countable cases.
If you were able to do that for no matter which set of indexes $I$, then you would have your element $(x_i)_{i\in I}$ and you would have proved that, if every $X_i \neq \emptyset$, so is their cartesian product $\prod_{i\in I} X_i$.
What do allow you for an infinite, non-countable, set of indexes $I$ to choose those $x_i \in X_i$ for every $i\in I$? Well, this is exactly what the Axiom of Choice says.


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A weekly, scheduled, schema wide stats update was run on our Oracle 11R2 RAC cluster on Sunday. One of the queries had no apparent data or code change but now runs at 3 hours instead of 20 minutes. Looking at dba_hist_sqlstat , its running the same SQL as before, but with a different plan. The stats seem to have negatively affected it. Because its a large query that touches a few dozen tables, they already decided that restoring the stats on the affected tables isn't an option.
I've got the old (better) and new (terrible) plans by executing:
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For this price, you may be getting a Chinese-made knock off SD card. It may work fine, but don't be surprised if the Sony (or an obviously fake Sony with poorly applied fake decals) arrives in the mail. I've experienced this multiple times now from bargain websites, although camera stores (like adorama.com) are generally more reputable. Just be aware of their return policy in case you don't get the real thing.
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I am 25 years old, and I started learning piano about 6 months ago. I really want to play the piano well, but it takes me so long to be able to play any piece of music. In the meantime, I'm using a pencil to write the note letter next to the note I want to play. What things can I do to improve my sight-reading?
The first thing you need to do is: Stop writing the letter names!!!
This applies to piano or any other instrument. If you keep doing this when you practice, you won't be practicing your sight reading, only your technique. In other words, this is training you to play an A when you read the letter "A", instead of the musical notation for it.
If you can identify the notes, and it just takes you longer than you would like or than what is practical, try exercises in which you read notes out loud as fast as you can (not singing, so it doesn't have to be in tune, as that's a whole different animal). The point here is to train yourself to stop hesitating on identifying the note you see in the printed music, or to do so as little as possible. Remember that to be able to do this, your eyes need to be reading at least a little bit further than the note you are playing/singing.
I know it is hard, because I was there too, but the sooner you stop writing the note names and force yourself to identify it on the spot, the sooner your fingers will start getting used to reaching somewhere in specific as soon as you read a note. It might be a slow process at the start, but if you hang in there, it will be worth it!
Pick a piece you have played, erase all those pencil marks, and play it without looking at your hands, concentrating on the music in front of you. As slowly and as badly as necessary. This, in my experience, helps build the feedback loop from notes to fingers to ears.
Throw yourself into the deep end of the pool: volunteer to help beginning instrumentalists practice by playing the piano accompaniments. You'll play a lot of them and you'll have no time to practice them, but they are usually easy to read. You'll also learn the important skill of keeping the music going no matter what happens, and of faking the music (don't laugh -- everyone has to fake it once in a while).
For anyone who is already a pretty good sight-reader and wants to get better, join the Amateur Chamber Music Players and go to a chamber music "play-in". Everyone is sight-reading, so you're not the only one. This REALLY improves your skills, much better than sight-reading alone at home. (When you sight-read alone, the temptation to go back and play the measure right is just too great.)
Only Write down notes as a "homework" assignment, don't practice this way:
Say the note names Aloud away from your instrument:
So as you read the notes you would say "C D E" aloud, don't worry about accidentals (Sharps and flats), just say the note names. As you get faster at this, you could start saying them aloud in rhythm. Then go play the music on your instrument developing the note to hand coordination.
Some of the advantages of this technique is that extends well to other instruments and clefs, but more importantly it allows you to focus on the problem at hand and your practice will be less frustrating as you don't have the complication of playing your instrument at the same time.
I learned this using "Fixed Do" solfege without accidentals (Instead of C, D, E I would say "Do Re Mi") since you you can generally say these syllables faster with solfege, but this would work with letter names as well. This technique is used to learn all seven clef in traditional music training and with this technique people learn the facility to be able to transpose on the fly.
I've been practicing my sightreading much the same way that I learned normal reading; I just keep doing it, as much as possible.
When I practice sight-reading, before I start playing, I look at the music, to see if I can imagine what it sounds like and to identify tricky sections of the piece. I also play through the piece at least three times: the first time, trying to keep the music in time; the second time, trying to just get all the notes and not keeping time; and the last time, trying to keep both notes and time as well as I can. After the third time, I tend to start remembering the notes, and it stops being sight-reading.
I also recommend practicing reading different genres and styles of music. Sight-reading pop music is vastly different from sight-reading hymnals. Sight-reading a piano reduction is considerably easier than reading 4-part open score.
Do flash cards!
This is much easier, and a lot more fun, if you have a good software program (and a MIDI-enabled keyboard/computer) to help you out :)
This may sound stupid but the way I improved my reading is every time I had to go to the toilet I took a random sheet of music with me and tried to speed-read all the notes without concern to the rhythms.
I agree with everyone else about not writing in the note names, but would like to suggest an intermediary step: write in a note only at the beginning of a line, or for large intervals.
Given that, another approach is to sight-read based on the intervals between notes, as well as on their absolute value (i.e, think 'one-step-down' or 'one-third-up', as well as 'A' or 'B', or 'C'). I've found this to be a very useful approach if you are coming from a guitar background, as you`re already used to thinking of notes in terms of the number of semi-tones (i.e. frets).
Of course, this way of sight-reading should be supplemental to learning actual absolute note names (if only for confirmation of correctness), and many of the other answers have suggested great ways to practice this.
Part of the skill of sight reading is training yourself to read the most important parts with priority... I did this by getting the regular [not big note] sheet music versions of music that I knew well. When I started out, the vocal lines and chords were about all I could get.
Learning chords helps tremendously, even for music without chord markings.
Ultimately, the key is exposure to as much music as possible and hours of practice.
One thing I've noticed in 27 years of playing piano and 20 years of leading/directing music--sight-reading and mastery/memorization skills require two distinctly different personality traits. I've met incredible young classically-trained pianists who cannot sight-read a Broadway musical score that I have no problem with, yet I never progressed beyond mastering a single movement of a Mozart sonata.
Break the monster problem down to very small chunks, and surmount them regularly :))
This often helps a lot: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Sight-Reading-Exercises-Students/dp/1551220261/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304451295&sr=8-1. Start at Book 1, read through the series. Make sure to get exceptionally comfortable with the really simple stuff - that's what's gonna get you agility and speed.
As a speed gauge, it may take 3 - 4 months to read simple pieces on sight, and several years to do something complicated - just like any coordination skill.
Also, do figure out which hand is the weaker one for you, reading-wise, and prefer it slightly. Usually it's the left.
I found a program called jalmus that works really well for practicing sight reading. it's available to download free on http://www.jalmus.net/ don't be scared when you see it's in french; you can change the language on the homepage
I Think this applies to piano or any other instrument. The fisrt thing you need to do is Stop writing the letter names!!! If you keep doing this then when you practice you won't be practicing your sight reading as well as your technique.
If you can identify the notes and it just takes you longer than you would like or than what is practical, then try practicing lots of excercises in which you try to read the notes out loud (not singing, so it doesn't have to be in tune since that's a whole different animal) as fast as you can. The point here is to train yourself to Not hesitate knowing which note it is when you see the printed music or to do it as little as possible. Remember that to be able to so this your eyes need to be reading at least a little bit further than the note your are playing/singing.
I know it is hard because I was there too, but the sooner you stop writing the note names and force yourself to identify it on the stop the sooner you will start getting used to reaching somewhere in specific as soon as you read a note. It might be a slow process at the start but hang in there an it will be worh it!
Just keep on playing piano with sheet music. Eventually, you'll get used to reading music notes. Your brain will automatically identify the notes. Try with the piano pieces you are familiar with. At least, you'll know when you are hitting the wrong notes. And don't look at your hands while playing piano (with sheet music).
Another 2 cents to add to this--
There's no quick panacea, you ideally build sightreading as you build your technical skills. Your sightreading is really limited by your technical skills, but your technical skills can flourish without necessarily being a good sightreader. Focus on mastering harder pieces and practice sightreading alongside it, and you will be on your way.
When playing, forget the letter names altogether. Associate a little black dot or circle on a given line with a particular piano key. The letters are only necessary for theory.
Practice rhythm separately. Beat out the time on the table with your hand(s) until you are certain of it.
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Charlotte redshirt freshman catcher Brett Lang (Charlotte, N.C. / Ardrey Kell HS) doubled off the wall in left center for the game-winning RBI in the bottom of the eighth and reliever Hunter May (Cornelius, N.C. / Pitt CC) nabbed his team-leading fifth win of the season as Charlotte outlasted visiting Siena 5-3 in game one of a Saturday doubleheader at Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium. The win pushes Charlotte's record to 12-5, while the Saints drop to 3-11.
Lang's double came with one out in the eighth frame with junior left fielder Justin Seager (Kannapolis, N.C. / Northwest Cabarrus HS) out at second. Right fielder J.J. Elseser (Brunswick, Ga.) drove in Lang with a two-out single to left center for the final run of the game.
Charlotte took its first lead on an RBI single in the fourth from sophomore designated hitter Derek Gallello (Fredericksburg, Va. / Riverbend HS), driving in senior third baseman Shane Basen (Waxhaw, N.C. / Marvin Ridge HS) after he had singled earlier in the inning.
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May pitched two innings, striking out a pair (5-0). He has appeared in 12 of Charlotte's 17 games this season. It was the eighth win for the bullpen.
Both starters pitched well, but neither got a decision in the game. Charlotte starter John Hamilton (Strongsville, Ohio) matched his career high with seven innings pitched. He allowed just two earned runs on eight hits and a walk, striking out three.
Siena starter Justin Brantley was charged with two earned runs in six innings. He gave up five hits and four walks, with five strikeouts.
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