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Bloopers - 10-20-2005, 04:59 PM
Just list bloopers you've seen in movies. You know, little mistakes that they forgot to fix when making the movie.
For example:
Muppet Treasure Island when the carriage carrying Cap. Smollet (Kermit) pulls up, we see one horse has a star on its forehead and the other has a blaze down its nose. They cut away for a second, cut back and the horses have changed positions.
Cats There's one scene where Mistopholes is having trouble with his shoe. Also, in one scene, Victoria is being played by the woman who usually plays Rumpleteaser. (The woman who played Victoria was sick that day.)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show When Columbia does her tap dance, the red carpet misteriously disappears. So do Eddie's suspenders later on.
The Cat in the Hat The Cat lets the kids in on the little known fact that grown cats are actually lactose intolerant. When he does sip some milk later, he belches. Cats can't belch. Then again, they can't talk or drive either so,
The Hunt for Red October The German soldiers aren't really speaking German. Not Good German anyway.
Men in Black When the car races over the ceiling of the tunnel, we find out that Will Smith has a white stunt double.
Titanic One of the guys in the lifeboat is wearing a digital watch.[/i]
--Captain Murphy
The Mummy Returns: In the scene where Rick O'Connel is grappling with a mummy on the bus, he turns and he has a watch. A few moments later, it vanishes as he pokes the mummy in its non-existant eyes! It reappears as he grimaces and tries to fling the goo off. XD That cracks me up all the time.
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
Mean Girls : when Caty returns from the party as a "ex-wife" her friends are watching a movie a scary movie. When she walks in the friends screm and there popcorn flies everywhere. when they return to the next scene the popcorn is all back in the bowl.
Here's another one.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: When the Cornish pixies are set loose, Hermione deliberatly knocks her books off the desk.
There used to be quite a few bloopers in the Star Wars trilogy, but Lucas edited them out in the newer editions. If you can get your hands on an older copy of the movies, watch for these bloopers.
One of the Storm Troopers bangs his head into a doorway.
At times, you can see the reflection of the camera and crew in C3PO and on Darth Vader.
When Luke lands his TIE fighter, Leia runs up to him yelling "Luke!" He responds by yelling "Carrie!" (Leia was played by Carrie Fisher)
When Han gets defrosted in RotJ, he's wearing an outfit different from the one he wore when he got frozen in TESB. (Did Jabba defrost him long enough to change his clothes? )
--Captain Murphy
There are tons in LOTR...
In FOTR, When Frodo and sam run to look at the Wood Elves, at first, Frodo is to one side of sam, and then they film from behind, and they switch sides - only to switch back again, when filmed from the front.
This is pretty funny...When aragorn runs up to boromir as he is dying, he jumps over a bunch of orc bodies...I'm not sure if its a blooper, but one of the 'dead' orcs lifts his head up to watch the scene.
This may or may not count as a blooper. In Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, after Quirrel yells "Troll in the castle!" and faints, all the kids panic and run away. Quirrel moves a bit as some of the kids pass him. Considering that the character had only been pretending to faint anyway, this might not be much of a blooper.
In one of the Batman movies (forget which one) Alfred gets knocked out by the Riddler (I think) and moves a tray out of the walkway- while he's supposed to be knocked out.
Disney bloopers!
Lots of recent Disney films have characters from other films making cameo roles. Look for:
Scar in Hercules
Mrs. Potts and Chip in Tarzan
Belle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Beast in Aladdin
Mickey and Donald in The Little Mermaid
Mulan: In the "Reflection" number, Mulan wipes her make-up off on her sleeves. But later, there are no stains on her dress.
The Rescuers: In one frame (you will need a DVD to catch it) during the scene where Bianca and Bernard are flying on the albatross, there's a naked woman in one of the windows in the background.
The Little Mermaid: In some scenes, Ariel has blue eyes. In others, they're green.
Oh, and the "All good kids take off your clothes." line from Aladdin is just a rumor. What he's really saying is "Good kitty, take off now."
(Weird coincidence, as soon as I logged in to the Doll Palace "Lovely Ladies" started playing on LAUNCHcast. Second time today a weird coincidence like that happened!)
Here's another blooper I noticed in Cat in the Hat. (You may need to pause it to catch it.) When the kids are signing the contract, they see a document that the Cat is embarrassed about. It says "Spayed & Neutered". That should be "Spayed Or Neutered" since an animal can only be one or the other. Females are spayed. Males are neutered. It specifies on the document that Cat is male. It also says he's 5'8'', though later he describes himself as being 6'. (Maybe Cat was rounding up.) It also says his birthday is May 25, 1963. Was this when the book was originally published, perhaps?
I remember another one I saw in It Takes Two. (A movie the Olsen twins made when they were only vaguely annoying.) When the Steve Guttenburg character is out riding his horse, he get smacked on the left side of his forehead with a tree branch. But later, he has the wound on the right side of his forehead.
--Captain Murphy
I can't exactly remember, but for anyone who's read The DaVinci Code, the author states that in the book, Walt Disney was big on symbolism.
--In the Lion King, when Simba is in a dust storm, letters over his head spell out $ex.
--There's also something about Ariel's grotto, and how she has red hair as she is referenced to Mary Magdelene...I don't know if that is true or not.
Most of the things about Disney aren't quite true. The dust mentioned above in The Lion King actually spells out SFX...moviespeak for "special effects".
Ariel as Mary Magdalene? That's a new one.
In Goldmember, when Austin Powers' plane lands in Tokyo, the graphic on the bottom of the screen says "Toyko International Airport." It's a double booper! Not only is it misspelled, but there is no Tokyo International Airport! There is the Haneda International Airport and Narita International Airport, but no airport with the city's name.
--Captain Murphy
As for further evidence on the Ariel/Mary Magdalene, I went hunting through The Davinci Code for the part, and this is what it said:
"When Langdon had first seen The Little Mermaid, he had actually gasped aloud when he noticed that the painting in Ariel's underwater home was none other than the seventeenth-century artist Georges de las Tour's THe Penitent Magdalene-a famous homage to the banished Mary Magdalene-fitting decor considering that the movie turned out to be a nintey-minute collage of blatant symbolic references tot he laost sanctity of Isis, Eve, Pieces the fish goddess, and repeatedly, Mary Magdalene. The Little Mermaid's name, Ariel posessed powerful ties tot eh sacred feminine and, in the Book of Isaiaah, was synonymous with "the Holy City besieged." Of course, the Little Mermaid's flowing red hair was certainly no coincidence either."
--Of course, this could just be the author's way of viewing it all to prove his point/theory....I just thought it was interesting.
That person's reading to much into it. Before "Mermaid", the Ariel best known to the literati was probably a mischivous sprite featured in Shakespear's The Tempest.
Will the naughty word filter here let me use the word nipple? Cuz I wanna talk about some nipple bloopers. In one scene of The Ten Commandments, you can clearly see Nefertiri's nipples through her sheer dress. In Cats, there are a few scenes where it's plain that Victoria isn't wearing anything under her leotard. (Since she's a white cat, it's easier to see than on the other cats.) In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Columbia's corsette comes loose in the floor show scene. ("It was great when it all began...") Funny thing is, I didn't notice this blooper until they played the movie on VH1 and they blurred the jiggly things out.
Weird how I can go from talking about Shakespear to talking about nipples, isn't it?
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Two of the nine people accused in a string of holdups from last summer, one of which claimed a life, were in court Thursday.
Frednetta Winston had a date set for a preliminary hearing. It will begin June 19th and continue the 21st. Jimmy Netherland also was in court. He waived formal arraignment, pleaded not guilty to his charges and now has a jury trial set for September 24th.
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Republican Gov. Rick Snyder said Friday he plans to appoint an emergency financial manager for Detroit, taking control of the state's largest city out of the hands of elected leaders. The governor, who has called a revitalization of Detroit critical to sustaining the state's nascent economic recovery, said he didn't believe city leaders were addressing rapidly enough Detroit's ballooning deficits and a persistent cash drought.
At an invitation-only town hall at Wayne State University, Mr. Snyder called it a "sad day" that he "wished had never happened." But he said that the emergency manager would also bring Detroit new promise. "It's time to say that we should be moving forward," he said.
City and state Democratic leaders opposed the governor's move. "I am deeply disappointed by today's hostile takeover of Detroit. We need to trust the democratic process, not throw it out," said Lon Johnson, chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, in a statement on Friday.
The governor's decision represents a turning point for a city that was once the industrial capital of America and an engine of its growth. Six decades ago, Detroit was a city of nearly two million people brimming with factory jobs that offered immigrants from the South and abroad a pathway into the American middle class.
Today, it is a city of just over 700,000 residents, confronting widespread poverty, blight and diminished municipal services. With an annual deficit of $327 million, the city is on course to run out cash by June.
A much larger city, New York, had a financial control board imposed in the 1970s during a fiscal crisis. But the state takeover of Detroit would be more sweeping, akin to the control board over Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, said Bruce Katz, director of Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
The takeover could have broad implications for the principle of local rule in troubled cities and widen racial tensions that have long been an undercurrent of relations between Michigan's cities and Lansing, the state capital. With a state takeover of Detroit, nearly half of the state's African-American population will live in a city under state control.
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Three primary schools competed in the event which took place at Platt Lane Training Complex on Tuesday 5 February.
The three schools involved; Ashgate School from Wythenshawe, The Birches School from Didsbury and Camberwell Park School from Blackley, have all previously received football coaching sessions in school as part of the 'One City' Disability Sport programme.
The three year programme is funded by the Premier League Charitable Fund and aims to increase sporting opportunities and develop player pathways for disabled people in Manchester.
The teams played each other twice with the emphasis being on enjoyment and participation.
The pupils all demonstrated plenty of skill, teamwork and scored lots of goals with each game being very close.
Both Camberwell Park A and B teams ended up in joint first only for Camberwell Park A team to win on goal difference.
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The Birches School collected the fair play award to celebrate their sportsmanship and efforts throughout the day.
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Triple Extension Movements for Football
From Elitefts this AM. Food for thought.
Many people subscribe to the belief that the only way to lift explosively is through Olympic lifting. When performed with sound technique, Olympic lifts are great for building explosive power. Many elite athletes efficiently use Olympic lifts. Louie Simmons at Westside Barbell has advocated a speed day using the dynamic method of training with weights at 5060 percent of ones max. However, he still puts maximum force on the bar.
Dr. Fred Hatfield, co-founder of the International Sports Science Association (ISSA) and author of numerous books on training, devised compensatory acceleration training (CAT.) In laymans terms, CAT is lifting with maximum force but with a submaximal load, usually 6080 percent of a 1RM. Hatfield held several world records in the squat in the 1980s, including a 1014-lb squat at a body weight of 255 lb in the over 45 years of age division. Rarely would he go over 800 lbs in training, but he would put maximum force into the bar.
If properly implemented, the use of Strongman events in a football training protocol is a superior method for an average or elite athlete to develop explosive power using triple extension exercises. Olympic lifts can be tedious and take years to execute properly. Eastern block Olympic lifters, routinely the best in the sport, begin training as early as age five. With technique being a critical component, most high school kids learning to Olympic lift correctly must start off using just the bar or a broomstick. They never develop any strength or explosive power. In some cases, athletes are prematurely given the green light to go heavy and often get injured in the process. Olympic lifts must be broken down and analyzed microscopically and therein lies the problem. This teaches athletes to concentrate more on form than on attitude and the amount of weight they can or should be using.
Strongman training encourages athletes to be aggressive, focusing on kicking butt rather than perfecting technique, which is similar to a game situation. Very few high school football players are fired up to do Olympic lifts, but most do look forward to and enjoy Strongman training. These training techniques allow athletes to focus on being aggressive. Too much aggression in Olympic lifting will destroy technique.
According to Bob Jodoin, strength coach and ISSA master trainer, With stone lifting, you start with your knuckles on the ground and finish at triple extension. The loads and leverages are different, however, and this plays well into the concept of dynamic, real world training. Good stone lifting technique emulates the perfect football tackle.
Does a snatch emulate a perfect tackle? Triple extension of the hips, knees, and ankles trains a football player to put maximal force into the ground in a shorter period of time. Is the best way to train this triple extension with a barbell or variously shaped Strongman objects? Football opponents move and are all shaped differently, making Strongman training more relevant. If done in a team setting, Strongman training gives athletes a chance to compete and gives coaches a chance to coach as they would in a game without having to break down every small detail.
Its like game day every time we do it, says Ken Mannie, head strength and conditioning coach at Michigan State University, speaking about team Strongman workouts. It puts pressure on the players and forces them into truly competitive situationsmore than weight room sessions and scripted workouts ever could.
Its irregular lifting, which makes it closer to football movements than ordinary weight training. It makes the body perform when its not in a perfect line, so tendons and joints get stronger. And just like in football, a player is forced to use his whole body, argues Mike Golden.
Compare the starting position in a tire flip and the starting position in a clean. The tire flip starts with the shoulders on the tire, the feet shoulder width apart, the chest over the tire, and the back arched, similar to a four-point stance. As the athlete lifts the tire up and gets triple extension, he will push the tire downward as hard as possible like a bench press. This mimics extending an opponent on to his heels and pushing him to the ground. An athlete gets triple extension with a clean, but even if the athlete jerks the weight, it is not nearly as sport specific as the triple extension of pushing over a heavy tire.
I could give other examples of the biomechanical superiority of Strongman training, but world renowned strength coach, Joe DeFranco says it best: The beauty of Strongman training is that theres no one way to perform the exercises. Athletes usually end up improvising to complete the event. The tire doesnt always flip over the same way. The sled doesnt always glide easily over the surface. The awkwardness of these events builds true functional strength from head to toe. This enables the athlete to strengthen muscles that are nearly impossible to strengthen with traditional training.
Olympic lifting is great for developing competitive Olympic lifters and for some elite athletes. However, Olympic lifting fails to duplicate the movements in football in any true way, and the risk to benefit factor is extremely great. Strongman training is very similar to actual football movements and will build legitimate transference strength. Strongman training develops every type of strength. In a future article, I will expand on other Strongman training techniquesnot just triple extension onesthat will help your football players.
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Interesting...but as so often, the author turns it into an "either/or" argument, when a sensible combination may be best...
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Interesting...but as so often, the author turns it into an "either/or" argument, when a sensible combination may be best...
fair enough...his argument would be better if he focused on training economy and the fact that there is no "right' way to manipulate the SM implements.
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I never played football. I was what you might call "skinny" or "unathletic" most of my life. Perhaps still?
From an implementation standpoint, the article makes perfect sense. I can imagine telling a group of 16 year old kids "See that heavy shit over there? (Pointing to keg, log, axle, or stone) Let's see who can shoulder it/put it overhead first" works better than discussing the intricacies of oly.
But.. in terms of training effectiveness, I'm not sure I ever get close to reproducing the speed or power when in shouldering a stone, sandbag, keg, or racking a log as I do with a clean or power clean. At near max weights, I attempt a slow, incomplete triple ext, and then begins the death march as I roll said object up my torso.
Maybe squats aren't appropriate for football because I'm not able to ask the big fellow across from he if he could kindly sit squarely on my shoulders so I can squat him properly? hah.
No doubt, SM movements could round out a solid S&C program, teach guys to apply force in less than ideal situations. But to replace o-lifting?
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For training athletes, I agree 100% that more simple movements are better. There's no debate; the olympic lifts are hard to learn and this takes time. Athletes in sports like football, rugby or whatever will gain more benefit from exercises that don't take long to learn. Removing the limiting factor of 'skill necessary to correctly perform the lift' means that you can ramp the weight up to where 'pure strength' becomes the limiting factor and thus gives you a training effect.
As to whether one style is better than the other in general terms, I agree with Garrett, it is a pointless debate. Why not use both? It obviously depends on your goals. Ultimately the body doesn't know whether it has to lift a barbell, a tyre or anything else. Explosive contraction is trained regardless.
I like variety in my training because my sport is crossfit, so I try to make use of strongman, olympic lifting, powerlifting, gymnastics etc to give me broader athleticism. So for me it is about choosing the movements that I feel will give me most carry-over to all other disciplines. Doing the olympic lifts will make me stronger at the olympic lifts and also benefit strongman and crossfit. Doing strongman will make me better at strongman and crossfit, but is less likely to improve my olympic lifts.
It makes sense for me to perform the high-skill movements often, as I get carry over to other things. Strongman, powerlifting etc is good for variety and to increase all-out strength, but if I can potentially realise improvement in these without training them, I then have more time to train other exercises (which require more practice, such as the olympic lifts).
Likewise, gymnastics are likely to improve other aspects of fitness due to the incredible strength they build. But you just aren't going to get good at gymnastics without training it.
So it seems logical, to me at least, that you perform the exercises which give you greatest carry-over to ALL other things, as well as that thing itself.
Does that make sense?
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Odd objects are also fantastic medium for training explosive work. Exercises such as Olympic lift variations and throws make odd objects such a valuable tool for training. What keeps coaches from using such great lifts such as the snatch, clean, and jerk is knowing that their clients do not possess the flexibility to perform the lifts well. This is especially true in case of the wrists for cleans. With using sandbags and kegs, this problem is eliminated as anyone can quickly learn how to perform a safe and effective clean or snatch in just minutes. Dont be mistaken though, Olympic lifts are not just for athletes. Everyone needs to learn how to move fast, have a stronger posterior chain, and increase body coordination.
The Downside of Strongman Training
As with any new training method, BFS believes that coaches should look with a skeptical eye at strongman training before including it in workouts as auxiliary exercises. Playing devils advocate, here are some of our concerns.
SAFETY. Not only must athletes be trained to safely practice and spot strongman exercises, coaches must address the fact that there can be a high risk of injury with some of these events especially tire flipping, in which there is the possibility of the tire falling back on the athlete, or injuring the biceps when improper flipping technique is used. Just ask Gagné.
I work with a lot of high-level athletes in hockey and football, and theres a great enough risk of injury with those sports that I dont want to risk injuring them in the off-season with strongman training. Only if an athlete has an adequate base in Olympic lifting would I consider performing these movements, and I wouldnt perform them year-round. In fact, Gagné says that despite his own skill in the exercise and his knowledge of proper warm-up techniques, he almost snapped a biceps tendon while practicing the exercise. Art McDermott agrees.
Coach McDermott, owner of the Poliquin Performance Center in Boston, is one of the foremost experts in the world on strongman training and is writing a book on the subject. Says McDermott, There are too many people using strongman techniques without proper training. It would be like my mom trying to show someone Olympic lifting you can expect the worst to happen!
Does Strongman Training Work?
One of the most vocal advocates of strongman training is Allen Hedrick, strength coach at the Air Force Academy, who has been implementing strongman training with his athletes for the past five years, starting with water-filled barrels, then tractor tires and logs. On a brief visit to the Academy this summer I saw an impressive arrangement of heavy tires, kegs and other strongman apparatus. Says Hedrick,
We use this type of training to supplement our emphasis on barbells and dumbbells, not as a replacement.
The rationale for including this type of training is that Hedrick believes that the resistance is active, compared to the static exercises performed with barbells. One example he provides is the water-filled barrels. As the barrel is lifted, the water shifts and makes the activity unstable. Although there is little scientific research available at present to evaluate the effectiveness of the active resistance of strongman training compared to the static resistance of barbells, Hedrick believes that in sports such as football, this type of training would be more sport specific because athletes encounter active resistance in the form of opponents.
The ability to demonstrate maximal 1-rep strength is only important in the sports of Olympic lifting and power lifting. In football and most if not all other sports functional strength is more important than 1-rep barbell strength. Having my athletes bench press or squat with a keg may not be the best way to increase their ability to demonstrate max 1-rep strength with a barbell, but I believe it does build a higher level of functional strength.
Hedrick also believes that such training has resulted in fewer injuries, citing that only two of their players required knee surgery this year.
Although there are many proponents of strongman training, it does have its critics. One is Mario Greco, an accomplished strength coach from Canada who has worked with many world-class sprinters and professional hockey and football players. Coach Greco believes that strongman training is not the panacea of athletic enhancement.
The duration that most of these exercises are performed makes it impractical to use them for maximal strength training, says Greco. You dont perform a farmers walk or a tire flip for one rep, so the recruitment of the fast-twitch motor units cannot be as high as youre able to achieve in conventional weight training. I also see little value in this type of training for improving agility or running speed, and for that matter the skills that are required for football linemen. In football, linemen are continuously driving through with their legs, and they are reacting to the actions of their opponents. If you really want to get more sport specific, have offensive linemen practice speed bag work and defensive lineman practice grappling or wrestling drills.
Another strength coach who challenges the idea of sport-specificity is Paul Gagné. Gagnés client list includes two of the best golfers in the world, Michelle Wie and Michael Campbell; Olympic champions in figure skating; and over 100 athletes in professional hockey and football. Says Gagné, One problem with saying that strongman training is sport specific is that the grips used often depress neuromuscular activity. With a barbell or a dumbbell you are always able to apply the precise amount of tension you want because your hands are closed. If you flip a tire, your hand is open, which reduces the neuromuscular activity. For sport-specific training, I would rather rely on complex neuromuscular exercises such as the Olympic lifts.
So I would say that if you want to train the energy systems, strongman training is fine; but there are limitations to applying strongman training to sports."
Good stuff, IMO.
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I love training SM, but the BFS article you posted Garrett seems spot on.
Makes a good point about grip if I understand it correctly.
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The BFS article takes pretty safe road.
be careful, be skeptical, don't throw the babay out....
Also, I have a strong desire to disregard anything that includes the following words.
Fast twitch fibers
motor units
modal domain
Given that the article is about football, it is safe to assume that we are not contemaplating how SM will make you a better olympic lifter, croquet player, gymnast or taxpayer...but a football player? Yes.
Here are some other observations.
Olympic lifiting is really time consuming.
Anyone can get injured doing a movement wrong, You can really do this in a spectacular way with a heavy odd object.
Training with odd objects explosively will make you really tired.
Olympic lifing is all about doing it the right way,
SM is all about finding a way that works for you.
A lineman has more in common with a superheavy wrestler than a super heavy weightlifter.
Anyone who can power clean double bodyweight is pretty strong and pretty fast for their size.
Joe DeFranco trains his guys pretty much straight up Westside PL/ SM and consistently prepares absolute monsters.
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Time to be really annoying and say that the take-away point is, there's more than one way to get strong and fast.
The one issue that has only just been picked up on, is that strongman movements are just as capable of injuring an athlete as anything else. I don't where this idea has come from, that flipping a tyre or whatever is somehow safer and won't increase risk of injury. That is absolute nonsense.
Furthermore, odd object lifting often requires technique. To say that you can lift a keg or a tyre etc anyway you like is wrong. That's no different to explaining the power clean by saying 'just pick it up to your shoulders'. Rounded backs, etc, it's going to be ugly and probably do more harm than good.
The useful thing about barbell lifts is they teach an athlete to move properly by making the moving of weight as efficient as possible. If you know how to brace, keep a straight back and drive through the heels in a DL, then when you come to pick up a sandbag or keg you will be in a better position to do it without injury. If you just take people with no idea how to lift and get them to pick up a heavy bag or tyre, it's going to be a sorry mess.
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I call bullshit on an article that implies that oly lifting is inherently unsafe without a bazillion years of training and in preference people should be lifting odd objects with maximum aggression with little emphasis on technique and training.
I'm just really fucking tired of people anywhere that spend more energy hating on system X than spreading the love of system Y, whether X and Y be oly lifters, powerlifters, strongman trainers, Crossfitters. Vegetarians are fine to hate on, however.
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I was reading http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis/hillis_p2.html and it says that a charged battery weighs more than a dead one or a rotating object weighs more than a stationary one (i.e. mass containing energy weighs more than mass that doesn't).
Is this true in special relativity?
Because the energy would be confined to the area of the original mass, wouldn't it become more dense if it is true?
Also, if the mass we are speaking of does become more gravity-sensitive on energy gain, does it actually gain physical mass (protons, electrons and neutrons)??


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Understanding Monads with JavaScript
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- Speakers: Ashic Mahtab
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JavaScript has functional concepts. And a particularly tricky functional concept that people have trouble in understanding in the monad. In this session, we will talk about monads, how we can use them in JavaScript and what benefits they can bring.
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The code for the session is available at https://github.com/ashic/aspConf-Monads
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The audio quality is pretty poor, even the High Quality MP4 is not audible.
@Chan319: Could it be a streaming problem? Have you tried downloading the file (perhaps the High-WMV)? Is there no audio or is it crackling or of low volume for you?
Tried the HQ wmv and had no problems with the audio. Just grabbed the regular mp4 and had no issues either. Both worked fine with windows media player and vlc. May be something on your system Chan319
Tip for presenter. Don't punish/bash/hit-with-force your space and enter keys. After I notice this once this is all I can hear... and worst of all I start anticipating for when will then next Hulk-smash spacebar keypress will happen. Just saying I'm sure I'm not the only one
Thanks for the tip Probably positioning of the desktop mic needs changing...and there I was thinking of getting a mechanical keyboard
It is possible to prove that sufficiently complex bureaucracy is not capable to takes care about the customers. There are too many problems with keeping the system alive. Customers are not necessary.
I see similar problems with complex and abstract descriptions of practical problems. There are so many problems with the concepts of Monads and similar abstracts objects that practical applications became not necessary and irrelevant. There are enough problems with the concepts of Monads by itself.
Do you need proof?
There are more than 10 presentations about Monads on Channel 9. I do not recall a single one which seriously discuss some practical aspects of that phenomena. There are not enough time to discuss such unimportant aspects of the problems in all these presentations.
I am not saying that this is bad.
Abstracts concepts are also necessary.
They makes our live more beautiful.
Nice talk, good expalantions of monads on the first part.
However, I don't see any connection between the Js part and the c# part. Speaks about composability too, but no monads.
I would just translate the int-string monad to c#, using the sorter lambda syntax and then rename bind by select many and use query comprehensions.
I was more putting forward the idea of computation expressions. In the c# part, this focused on binding Action<T> with a wrapper and it did so by taking in Action<T> and returning an Action<T>. While not explicitly following how monads are commonly explained, this does enable us to put some real world use cases of the concept to use (i.e. achieving composability, aspect orientation etc. without magical frameworks that do IL weaving).
On connecting the javascript part to the c# part: It might provide some more insight to show a c# version of the generic lift1 function and apply this function twice to lift the hello handle action to a secured and then a logged/secured hello handler. This might lead to even less boiler plate code for actually doing the logging and the security checks.
So I agree with Olmo that the c# part was more an application of the decorater pattern.
@Martin, @Olmo:
Thanks for the tips...a generic lift1 will no doubt clean it up further and help link the concept. Will do so in the future.
right in the middle you can see why dynamic typed languagues are just a pain. Any strongly typed languague won't have him made smarter about his add/add3 typo but the compiler would have him get it in no time .... and of course you can see the "JOY" of JS by adding and substracting strings and yield some kind of almost sensible output ... god this languagues is so ... argh
@philosopher: if you need practical aspects look at any of the LINQ casts here or elsewhere. Other examples would be the asynchronous workflows in F# (you can find a *inferior* version of this in C# too - there it's called await/async ), the IO-Monad in Haskell, testing with randomized data with QuickCheck/FsCheck, ...
That's the fun of this cat.theory stuff: it's so general that it's everywhere around you - even if you don't notice.
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JJ Ramirez walks with a stride of confidence as he enters the room.
He has to have that bit of confidence, because some of the people in his classroom on this Thursday evening are looking for guidance from a leader.
"Man! We're going to have to move into the gymnasium if we keep growing," Ramirez said, scanning the room filled with about 30 people.
The group settles in as Ramirez stands at the front of the room, readying his papers. There's no common characteristic among those present. One younger man has baggy clothes of mostly one color, a nicely dressed woman next to him, and another young man drenched in sweat next to her.
"In that room, there were gang members sitting next to business owners. There were people that are living in brick houses and people living in shacks. There was everything you can think of. It's black, it's white, it's Hispanic, it's Asian," Ramirez said after the class had left. "It's just incredible to see. And I think that's just a glimpse of what heaven's going to look like. People discriminate, but sin doesn't. Crime doesn't. Pain doesn't. They come because there's a lot of pain in people's lives these days. And so it's just incredible to see all the different walks of life that come."
Ramirez opens his bible, and begins to start the lesson for the evening. Tonight's agenda: battling spiritual temptations and overcoming the enemy.
"A lot of us has come off some crazy stuff. Most of us in here has had some battles – it is God's grace and it is a miracle that we're sitting in this room together," Ramirez said to the group, followed by a prompt 'amen' from one of the older men in the room.
And for some in the room, the statement rings true. Some are drug addicts. Some have shot at people before. Others have been arrested. But Ramirez doesn't care about their past, only in helping them achieve a better future. And surprisingly enough, the group hangs to every word Ramirez preaches. Not because he's holding a bible, but because they know that he too once was in the same situation as them.
"I've lost some spiritual battles before. My heart used to be in the streets and doing drugs and chasing women and doing bad stuff that I was doing. But the devil knows that he can't get me there anymore. I've let that stuff go. So what is dear to my heart right now? My children. And so he'll go after my children and try to tempt them," Ramirez said, striking a chord with a young Hispanic woman who nodded as if she was worried about the same problem with her children.
Many years before Ramirez began his Save Our Streets (SOS) Ministry - which not only provides a place for spiritual guidance but also aims to help troubled youth in Bryan and other surrounding cities – he himself was hooked on drugs and close to losing his family.
"I had a very troubled youth. My parents did very well, and provided for me very well. But my mom had to work three or four jobs, and my dad was a truck driver and was gone all the time. And so it was real easy for me to get caught up in the street lifestyle. And I got caught up with people in the neighborhoods that were doing drugs. So at 13 years old I was hanging around with heroin addicts and helped them shoot drugs in their veins," Ramirez said. "And I got to high school and started fooling around with girls and getting caught up and smoking drugs and doing drugs instead of going to class. My mom was trying to get me to go to school, but I just wouldn't."
Ramirez barely finished high school, and then began selling cocaine at age 17. Though he said there wasn't a true organized gang system in Bryan back when he was a teenager, he said the way he and his friends worked the neighborhoods, they would be considered a gang by today's standards.
"We hung out, we vowed to take care of our hood, and we took care of our drug territory and sold drugs. Drugs and gangs go hand in hand. We got in fights, but back in our days if you pulled out any kind of weapons, it was considered the lowest of the low. Today they don't have a problem pulling out a weapon in a second. These kids are 100 times more dangerous than we were. And the scary thing is I think we're sitting on a powder-keg right now. There's always a struggle for power and to control the crowd, so the more groups or gangs we get out there the bigger that struggle will become," Ramirez said, almost validating his directive to help troubled youth.
In his early 20's, Ramirez tried to get away from the lifestyle and focus on raising his new family. But he was pulled back, and began smoking cocaine, eventually spiraling to the point that he was spending between 100 and 200 dollars a day on drugs.
"I was losing my family, losing my kids, my American dream. I was disappointing everybody, lying to everybody, cheating, and stealing. Things I'd never do, I was doing. And I finally got to a point that I had admit to my wife – because she knew something was going on, but she had never been raised in that type of environment so she didn't know the full extent – had to admit to her what was going on. And she gave me an ultimatum: you get help, or I'm taking the kids and you'll never see us again," Ramirez said.
Apparently the message worked. Ramirez began seeing a drug abuse counselor and tried to curb his addiction. But as with many addicts, the habit was hard to break. And so Ramirez, full of guilt and aware of the potential consequences, would take another hit.
But one day, something happened that Ramirez proclaims changed the direction of his life forever. As he sat on his porch coming off a high, while his pregnant wife was off at work, an old friend that he used to deal drugs with pulled up. The friend, who Ramirez hadn't seen in more than a year, told Ramirez he began thinking of him recently, and wanted to let him know about the bible and that it had helped him change his life.
"And when he drove off, I looked and thought man this guy has done one too many drugs. His mind is gone. This isn't going to help me," Ramirez said. "I thought, 'how dare you give me this little book – you're crazy.' I almost got angry inside. But I didn't want to disrespect him because he was my friend."
Ramirez tossed the bible on his porch table without much thought. And then a few weeks later, as Ramirez went back to sit on his porch while his pregnant wife as off at work, feeling depressed.
"I couldn't even hold down a job. I couldn't even pay for the food. They were cutting of my lights. They were cutting off my gas. They threatened to take my American dream because I couldn't pay for it. My wife doesn't even trust me to take care of my own child. And I sat down on that porch and for the first time in a long time, began to weep. And I'm putting my face in my hands, and I bent over, and there was that bible that I had left there a couple of weeks ago," Ramirez said. "And I just picked it up and I said 'God if you're for real show me something. Because I'm losing it here. I don't even know if you're for real.' So I opened up that little pocket Bible – I didn't know anything...New Testament, Old Testament -- and a scripture jumped out at me. It was John 8:36. And it said 'He whom the son sets free, is free indeed.' And I don't know what happened. But the pain and frustration all of the sudden felt different."
Ramirez returned to his drug counselor with renewed hope, and began to have better success battling his addiction. He also reconnected with his 11-year-old daughter, from a previous relationship, who invited him to a Christian concert at G. Rollie White coliseum on Texas A&M's campus.
And it was there, that Ramirez said everything changed. As the preacher leading the concert spoke about battling demons, Ramirez said he heard something.
"I heard the voice of God for the first time in my life. It penetrated. I heard his voice. I knew it was him. I didn't hear it (in my ears), I heard it in (my heart). And I heard him say 'JJ this blood's for you.' He called my name. And then He said, 'if the son sets you free, you're free indeed.' And I lost it. I lost it. I couldn't hold it. The tears started coming. And the more I tired to stop, the more it came out," Ramirez said, choking up with tears again. "And I felt a hand on my shoulder, and when I looked it was my little girl. She had one hand on my shoulder and one hand in the air. And tears were streaming down her face as fast as they could fall off her face. And she was praying for me. And asking God for me. And I didn't deserve that."
The preacher then asked for any volunteers to come to the front that wanted to receive further spiritual guidance. And so Ramirez and his daughter went to the front.
"The next thing I know is I've got this big 11 year old in my arms and tears are streaming my face. And that day I gave my life to Jesus Christ. And it's never, ever been the same. That day God gave me a call. And I knew there was a calling my life to do something, I just didn't know what yet. And I said man if this message can change me, it can change anybody. Anybody. My life was going in a very downward spiral, and here I am don't have the desire for drugs or alcohol – almost instantaneously. Boom. It's gone," Ramirez said.
Ramirez began going back into the neighborhoods where he used to deal drugs, talking to anyone that would listen. And slowly people began seeking him out for advice. He began working out of spaces loaned by other churches, sometimes preaching in the back corner of a gymnasium. He began dreaming of a big building of his own, with classrooms and a place that the trouble youth could come to in order to get off the streets. And one night, Ramirez claims he heard God again, instructing him to accomplish his dream.
"And I made a vow that day. I said 'God, if one person comes out just like me, that's all I want…is just that one. I dedicate my life that day to that one individual that can come out just like me. I don't know how it's go, I just know I'll go for that one.' And He whispered back, 'I don't just want one, but I want them all,'" Ramirez said. "And so here we are, 16 years later, and it's come out of the ground. And so I know why I'm called. I know why I wake up. I know why God made me. I know that He turns everything to the good. I know some of the bad choices I made were teaching tools for me to understand what these young people are going through and what their generation is dealing with and those generations to come will have to deal with."
Ramirez continued to work on building his ministry, and as it grew in size each year, he soon outgrew the space he was working in. He worked with community members to slowly begin raising funds to build a new building, complete with classrooms and a gymnasium.
Finally, in 2009 Ramirez was able to open the doors of his new S.O.S. Ministries building, a 21,000 square foot, three-million dollar facility that would allow him to continue in his quest of providing a place for youth and all others to come in off the streets.
And at a banquet celebrating the opening of his new facility, Ramirez said a young woman that had attended a few of his bible classes approached him and told him a story that again validated what he was doing.
"She said she lived across the street when she was younger, and her family wasn't exactly living correctly. And one day one of her mom's boyfriends had touched her incorrectly and so she ran away. And she said when I was abused, I ran to this property - and it's the exact property - I laid in the middle of that field for hours until it got dark. And I laid in that field and I looked up in that sky and I said God make this stuff stop. Make a place where this stuff can stop. And it was right in the center of where we built this building. And she wept because she said even as a little girl, he heard my prayer. So it's just really exciting to see how it's all connected and always been connected and this is what God wanted to do. And I'm the most privileged man on the face of this earth to be able to see what God has shown me and to continue to be able to work with the people that I work with," Ramirez said.
The proof of Ramirez's work can be found in many places. Like through Jose Sifuentes, a quiet Hispanic man who answers almost everything with "yes ma'am" or "yes sir". But Sifuentes alludes to the fact that he wasn't always so courteous when he was growing up in Houston.
"My parents tried to raise me right, and I took the wrong decision to hang around gangs and become a gang member. I got involved in drugs and at the age of 12 I was already what you might call an alcoholic, drinking all the time. And I tell people I did 15 years of school, but didn't really graduate," Sifuentes said.
After a run-in with the police in Houston at the age of 15, a judge was prepared to sentence Sifuentes to five years of prison. But his representative was able to convince the judge to allow Sifuentes to be placed in the boy's ministry at S.O.S., under Ramirez's supervision.
"When I came to the men's home, it became a different experience for me because it wasn't a case of me having to come in and represent who I am like it was on the streets; it was a house that showed love it was a house that opened their arms to me and accepted me as the ministry does. It just became the place where I felt like I could call this home. I always felt like I was rejected everywhere else and I didn't feel rejected here," Sifuentes said.
Since that day, Sifuentes has been drug-free, now has a family with three kids, and recently just bought his own home.
And there are others who vouch for Ramirez, like Eric Rodriguez, who has been coming to his ministry since he was a young boy.
"The main thing he's done is inspired me to be greater. I've never seen a man in my life do something with their life as far as helping other people change their lives," Rodriguez said. "He invited me to his house and I saw what a real man was. Because I didn't see one growing up. I saw what he would do in situations with his family how we would open up to different people."
Rodriguez credits the ministry and Ramirez for helping his life stay on the right path, which he said eventually helped him get into college – the first person in his family to do so.
But for all the ones that Ramirez is able to help, there are many others that he doesn't have as much success with. Ramirez points to a young man he thought was turning around, and wound up getting shot. Though the young man lived, Ramirez said he has occasionally kept up with him, and knows that he has been in and out of jail as well as battling drug addiction.
"Have I ever thought about quitting? Oh yeah. Multiple times. You see them fall back and it's really devastating to me. And a lot of people have come to me and said I don't know how you do it. Because it's heart breaking. It's heart wrenching. It's a tough thing. And sometimes that's why I think I've learned that's why a lot of people don't do this. Because it's tough."
Ramirez even admits a few years before he began work to build his new building, that he was very close to officially calling it quits. And as he struggled with the thoughts running through his head, he said he received a phone call.
"There were numbers on the cell phone that I hadn't saved, and I didn't recognize. So I answered it. And it was this 14-year-old kid that was no longer a 14-year-old kid, and was in the United States Navy now. And he said 'I just wanted to hear the only father's voice I ever really knew. If it wasn't for you, I couldn't be fighting for my country.' That day, that kid my check for the rest of my life. I'll do this for nothing. Just to get that one kid just like that," Ramirez said, choking back tears. "If I can just see one through it, I'll go through 500 more just to see that one. Because that one makes a difference."
So every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night, Ramirez continues to stand at the front of the classroom, telling stories of his past and giving guidance to those who might be going through the same things he did.
And he does so with a bit of confidence. Because he knows if he can earn the respect of the people in his room, he has a chance at getting through to just one more person.


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I tend to suffer a number of these in training. Various people have various ideas on ways to quickly stop the bleed. Is there a well researched way to quickly stop a nose bleed?
St John Ambulance has a page containing advice on treating nosebleeds. Specific points relating to stopping a nosebleed quickly are:
Importantly, their advice is not to tip the head backwards:
Instead, the casualty should "tilt their head forwards to allow the blood to drain from the nostrils."
"Shut up, stay still, stop sniffling, pinch your nose, and tilt your head forward" might not be the most reassuring advice, but it is probably the most effective way to stop a nosebleed quickly.
After getting my nose broken I had perpetual nose bleeds for about a month, I usually had about one each day that would just spring up randomly. My brother was training to be a paramedic at the time, so he knew how to deal with it and taught me. Presumably as it was from his paramedic training, it's well researched.
1: Look down, not up. You don't want the blood draining into your throat and your stomach. It's unpleasant long term, since you won't digest it very well, and there's a tendency to throw up if you get too much blood.
2: Pinch the soft part of your nose for 10 minutes. Don't let go to check if you've stopped bleeding, that's probably the most common mistake I see. If it's not really bad you might be able to get it done in just 5 minutes, but if after doing it for 5 minutes once you find it's still bleeding, just stick with 10.
And from the ENT specialist who did surgery to stop the bleeding from starting again. Presumably his advice is well researched as well.
3: Put a generous dose of Vaseline inside your nostril to keep too big of a scab from building up. If the scab breaks off, you get the nose bleed all over again, so you want it small enough that a light hit to your nose doesn't break it off or that sneezing doesn't blow it out starting a new bleed.
As an EMT I would have you sit down and lean forward where your elbows were supported on your knees. With a clean rag or paper towel try to compress your nostrils, or pinch them closed if not to painful. This will prevent blood form going back into your throat and allow it to pool in the nostrils and form a clot.
Depending how bad it is it should stop quickly. Blood is a very powerful gastral irritant, try avoid swallowing any.
I used to wrestle and I get nose bleeds very easily. In wrestling, you only have a couple minutes to stop a nosebleed before you forfeit the match. As weird as it sounds, we would use a small tampon. Just stick it up there and tilt your head forward. It'll be stopped very quickly.
Keep your hands up! :)
It's easy to get a nose bleed, especially if you've had a few of them. There are many ideas — I haven't tested any of them myself, but I've heard some of them debunked.
The most common one, is to tilt your head backwards — this won't stop the bleeding though, but you may keep it from soiling your clothes for a while. Be careful about lying down, as the blood will only be redirected the wrong way, and that might harm you.
What I would do, is to tilt the head forwards while pressing the nose, so that the bleeding is stopped. After a few minutes, the blood should clot naturally. If the nose bleed doesn't stop, seek immediate medical advice.
The most common advice that I usually hear is to just pinch your nose, which reduces the blood flow. If the bleeding is a bit heavier, then using a moist teabag (black tea) is known to help as well due to the tannins in the tea. Additionally, the bag itself acts as a poultice to help absorb the excess blood.
To stop a nosebleed first, hold your nose with a soft cloth, a tissue, or, a clean cotton wool. This will reduce the mess of flowing blood and will result in lessening your irritation with the nosebleed, when its over. Second, while holding down your nose with a soft cloth through one hand, lean forward as much as you can, and pinch your nostrils with another hand for 10 minutes, at this moment you can breathe from your mouth. Try to wait for maximum of 10 minutes. It seems difficult, right? But, in order to stop the nosebleed quickly, its worth to hold on for such a long time.
I have found an instant way to stop nose bleeds. I mix powder collagen (from GNC, Vitamin Shoppe or any health food store with a few drops of water to form a paste and put it in your nose and dip a twisted up paper towel pack in the collagen paste and put into the nostril. Hold for a few minutes. But it Stops instantly. Amazing.
Use NoBleed twice a day for 1 month and then once a day for one month before wrestling season and then once a week after that during wrestling season to PREVENT the nosebleeds from occurring. It works. Also can be used by non-wrestlers who are affected by chronic recurrent nosebleeds...


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What would be a more suitable background to enter cognitive sciences, mathematical psychology, and study of emotions? I have the option of taking a Integrated Masters Degree in Mathematical Sciences, or Physical Sciences. Going into which field will allow me to contribute greater to the study of the mind? Also, which field gives me more research options for the same?
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I would go with Physics.
Physicists study the world using mathematics, while mathematicians study mathematics itself which is a construct that does not necessarily exist in the real world (Albert Einstein once said: "as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."). This means that physicists encounter the interface between theory and experimentations, just like cognitive researchers, while mathematicians do not.
I think this is the reason why there are many examples of models developed in the study of Physics being applied successfully in cognitive science (e.g The famous Hopfield model (1982); Spin-Glass, Amit et al (1985); Ornstein-Uhlenbeck, Heath (2000); Diffusion, Ratcliff et al (2004) ). Obviously, all of these examples use math heavily. But while a mathematics student would study them using a theoretical approach, a physics student would probably study them emphasizing their application.
(PS. My bachelor's degree is in Math, Physics, and Computer science, so I think I can say I'm unbiased here... At least I hope so)
Now that @ofri has presented a good argument for physics, I'll give a few arguments for the benefits of a course in maths, and particularly a math course that focuses heavily on statistics.
There are many areas of psychology where a good understanding of statistics is very helpful. Statistics is particularly useful in psychometrics, mathematical psychology, and more broadly, any research involving multivariate or other more complex statistical methods. Furthermore, the statistics that is often taught in undergraduate psychology programs is often more applied, focussing on how to interpret common statistical techniques. If you have a degree in mathematics and statistics, you should be able to understand the techniques used in psychological data analysis in a deeper way.
In particular, calculus, linear algebra, probability, mathematical statistics, statistical computing, and a wide range of statistics subjects (e.g., introductory statistics, multivariate statistics, bayesian statistics, etc.) are a huge help when it comes to contributing to the psychological literature using advanced quantitative methods.
Also, when it comes to seeking an academic position, the capacity to teach statistics and research methods to psychology students is often a bonus, as is the capacity to consult and collaborate with fellow researchers on statistical methods.
My background is as someone who has specialised in the interface of statistics and psychology. Thus, I am biased, but equally I consider that I am in a fairly good position to have seen the benefits to my own and many other people's psychological research careers in having good quantitative skills.
Looking back at the history of current academic psychology, I would say that it has a tripartite foundation: The beginnings of psychology lie in ancient Greek to early modern metaphysics, that is the philosophical speculation about the nature of the soul (psyche). Many psychological concepts (such as the psyche itself, but also consciousness, volition, emotion etc.) are metaphysical in origin and nature, that is: they have never been empirically proven to exist. In this respect modern psychology and cognitive sciences are still metaphysical.
Since the eighteenth century philosophers (beginning with Christian Wolff) have attempted to conceive of a measurement of these psychic constructs. The theory and practice of this measurement has been developed by scholars from a more medical (such as Wundt) or more natural sciences background (such as Fechner and Helmholtz). If you wonder about the relevance of physics or geology to psychology, then you must first understand that scholars of that age were still almost always polymaths, educated and practicing in a variety of fields. If you look at their scientific biographies, you'll realize that they were not "physicists" or "physicians" in the currents sense, but interested in and researching the whole of "God's creation". What Fechner brought to psychology was not physics, but the methodology of physics: the experiment and the mathematical analysis of the experiment's results.
The third foundation of psychology today is, of course, physiology. Since the Descartes' substance dualism (that the soul is a substance independent of the body) has been effectively abandoned by modern philosophers in favor of a physicalist position (that the mind is an effect of the body or, specifically, the brain), psychology and, more specifically, neuropsychology has attempted to understand where in the brain which psychological processes are taking place, and how.
More and more of today's cognitive sciences are performed by biologists and medical scientist. Many researchers in our (psychology) department are already from a medical background, and the departments of medicine and biology have large laboratories doing psychological research. If psychology does not want to become irrelevant, psychologists have to become experts in neurophysiology.
Another huge influence is research by economists (Kahnemann etc.), who bring a lot of statistics with them. The relevance and status as a scientific discipline of psychology rest on the ability of psychologists to not only apply mathematical and statistical models developed in fields with different perspectives and purposes, but the ability to develop models and methods of mathematical analysis that fit psychological phenomena.
Unfortunately most psychologists and cognitive scientists lack in philosophy of science, so they don't understand when and where their research is leaving the firm ground of experimental science and entering the domain of metaphysical speculation.
What I believe is the best foundation for meaningful psychological research today is, therefore, threefold:
Borsboom (2006) explains, why mathematics is fundamental to the development of psychology: most psychologists are unable to understand, develop and apply the theoretical models of item response theory, therefore current psychology is using classical test theory, which has several shortcomings.
Borsboom, D. (2006). The Attack of the Psychometricians. Psychometrika, 71, 425-440.
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This question is about how people should behave on Stack Overflow? More specifically, when you ask a question, do you have any right to argue (in writing) against the people that answer your question? (read the next example before making up your mind)
I ask this question because on more than one occasion I have provided somebody with an answer and they did not agree with it. But, instead of just ignoring me, or even just showing their strong disagreement by down voting me, they persist on trying to argue with me in their comments. As though they believe that, despite the fact that they asked the question, they still know better.
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The way I see it Stack Overflow has in implied question asking 'contract' if you will. The person that asks a question is implying that they do not know the answer; thus the question. So they are not an Expert and have no place arguing against answers. The people who answer are experts (maybe not, but the contract assumes they are). Therefore their advice should be listened to and taken under consideration. You can comment on why you agree / disagree, you can upvote or downvote to the same effect but under no circumstances should you argue with them. If you want the contract to be that you are the expert and everybody else should learn from you, then write a blog post, Stack Overflow is not meant for that.
NOTE: Please notice the fine line between a statement of (dis)approval and an argument. Where I am okay with the former but not the latter.
I know this may sound like a rant but it is important to me and I really want to know what everybody else thinks. So please, what do you think, yes, no or maybe?
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If an application crashes, the program stops and there is nothing anyone can do about it, other than starting the program again.
Crash is a bad behaviour in general and should be avoided, but why are they seen as security vulnerability?
If an application crashes, the program stops and there is nothing anyone can do about it, other than starting the program again.
Crash is a bad behaviour in general and should be avoided, but why are they seen as security vulnerability?
As previous answer have covered most of the scenario in which attacker can get direct benefit by analyzing application crashes. I will recommend read on "Analyze Crashes to Find Security Vulnerabilities in Your Apps". Analyzing crashes for security vulnerabilities may require low level programming skills. As shown in figure 1 every exploit may not lead to security vulnerability and defines a investigation path for analyzing application crashes.
To generalise Deer Hunter's answer:
Note that simply catching and discarding an unexpected exception is also insecure and not to be done. Terminating the process is better than continuing in an unexpected inconsistent state.
This is essentially the distillate of Feynman's Appendix:
You can find the full document here:
This is recommended reading for all software developers, particularly those who have the habit of catching exceptions which they do not fully understand.
An application crash is the result of an unexpected and unhandled behaviour. This means there is a bug in the application that crashed, and numerous bugs leads to vulnerabilities.
One of the most dangerous kind of crash is ths crash due to memory corruption (Segmentation fault). This kind of bugs can often be exploited to make the vulnerable application execute an arbitrary (malicius) piece of code.
Moreover a way to crash a software can be used in denial of service attacks.
You are merging two different events: stopping and crashing
Certain types of crashes are known as "Access Violations" these are the Crashes/Anomaly which "violates" the rule defined by programmers who wrote system/software/operating-system or defined by programmers who wrote compilers which makes executables.
Suppose attacker(Neo) finds a crash into one of the software(Matrix) he can use that crash to "violate" the rule(rules witch are defined for Matrix) and he can use that crash to take control over system(Matrix) and now He want to do malicious activity(Turn off the matrix) for that he knows a API call ,but that API call is controlled/guarded by another program/antivirus(Agent Smith), but since he got the full control over system(matrix) he can close Antivirus(Agent Smith) and now he can close the system(Matrix)
Since this will affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system these crashes are called as Security Issues.
Many application crashes -not all of them, but many- involve the machine executing something that it shouldn't have. The machine jumps into something that it thinks is supposed to be code, but it's actually zeroed-out or random data (or at least data that hasn't been prepared as code). The machine tries to look at this data as code, but it doesn't make any sense as code, so the machine doesn't know what to do. When that happens, the application crashes.
But the thing about bugs is that if you know how to trigger them, you can trigger them deliberately. Sometimes, depending on how the bug works, you can even control what data the machine jumps into. That possibility is what makes security folks nervous: if you can make the machine jump into data that doesn't make any sense, and you can control what that data is, then you could make the machine jump into something that does make sense. Once you've got that set up, you could make the machine do more or less whatever you want.
Not every application crash works this way. @AliAhmad's answer shows the basics of how to tell what can and what can't. But because the consequences of an unsafe crash can be so severe, every crash has to be checked out to see if it's "safe" or not.


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Sports are a civil right for disabled students, U.S. Education Department says
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WASHINGTON — Breaking new ground, the U.S. Education Department is telling schools they must include students with disabilities in sports programs or provide equal alternative options. The directive, reminiscent of the Title IX expansion of athletic opportunities for women, could bring sweeping changes to school budgets and locker rooms for years to come.
Schools would be required to make "reasonable modifications" for students with disabilities or create parallel athletic programs that have comparable standing as mainstream programs.
"Sports can provide invaluable lessons in discipline, selflessness, passion and courage, and this guidance will help schools ensure that students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to benefit from the life lessons they can learn on the playing field or on the court," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement announcing the new guidance on Friday.
Federal laws, including the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, require states to provide a free public education to all students and bans schools that receive federal funds from discriminating against students with disabilities. Going further, the new directive from the Education Department's civil rights division explicitly tells schools and colleges that access to interscholastic, intramural and intercollegiate athletics is a right.
"This is a landmark moment for students with disabilities. This will do for students with disabilities what Title IX did for women," said Terri Lakowski, who led a coalition pushing for the changes for a decade. "This is a huge victory."
Education Department officials emphasized they did not intend to change sports' traditions dramatically or guarantee students with disabilities a spot on competitive teams. Instead, they insisted schools cannot exclude students based on their disabilities if they can keep up with their classmates.
"It's not about changing the nature of the game or the athletic activity," said Seth Galanter, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights at the Education Department.
It's not clear whether the new guidelines will spark a sudden uptick in sports participation. There was a big increase in female participation in sports after Title IX guidance instructed schools to treat female athletics on par with male teams. That led many schools to cut some men's teams, arguing that it was necessary to be able to pay for women's teams.
There is no deadline for schools to comply with the new disabilities directive.
But activists cheered the changes.
"This is historic," said Bev Vaughn, the executive director of the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, a nonprofit group that works with schools to set up sports programs for students with disabilities. "It's going to open up a whole new door of opportunity to our nation's school children with disabilities."
A Government Accountability Office study in 2010 found that students with disabilities participated in athletics at consistently lower rates than those without. The study also suggested the benefits of exercise among children with disabilities may be even important because they are at greater risk of being sedentary.
"We know that participation in extracurricular activities can lead to a host of really good, positive outcomes both inside and outside of the classroom," said Kareem Dale, a White House official who guides the administration's policies for disabled Americans.
Dale, who is blind, wrestled as a high school student in Chicago alongside students who had full vision.
"I was able to wrestle mainly because there was a good accommodation to allow me to have equal access and opportunity," Dale said, describing modified rules that required his competitors to keep in physical contact with him during matches.
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I watched Prometheus Movie last night. Though I found a good concept here, I still have some questions about it.
- There were some scenes that picture holographic images. I don't get from where they were getting that much energy to create holographs.
- What happened to Dr. Shaw at the end? Was she able to return back to Earth or she was stucked in the same planet?
- Why did the engineer want to destroy Humanity? And since he had no weapons, how could he have destroyed Earth's Humanity with a single space craft?


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The "percentile", or "10d10" dice are still found as a standard component of most polyhedral dice sets. But, I've yet to see use of them in my (albeit limited) experience with D&D 4e. Are there powers or other rules I'm not aware of, that still use these?
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Nope, not in the WotC books, anyhow. It's possible that someone slipped a percentile dice requirement into a third party supplement, but there aren't even tables that use percentile dice in WotC's stuff. The new red box Starter Set comes with six dice -- no d10 with extra 0s after the digits to serve as the 10s digit.
The Official Dungeons And Dragons Dice Set only comes with 1d10, so... I think that's a pretty good sign that it's officially depreciated from use.
I played the new Gamma World 7th ed.(at Amazon) as a one-shot this weekend and I had to roll percentile dice for the first time in a very long time, possibly since 2nd ed. Gamma World is based on D&D 4e, but quite scaled back (no healing surges, no daily powers, no bull rush) and a little weird. From WotC:
The percentile rolls were part of rolling for my equipment during character creation. I rolled a '1' on the random equipment table which meant "roll twice on the
I wound up playing an 8' tall stuffed teddy bear that threw the dumb-bell as its heavy two-handed ranged weapon and gave bear hugs to bad things. I had a blast.
The explanation of "Game Dice" on p8 of the PH includes the following,
I'm still searching for an example of where they are needed though! Good question :)
I still use them behind the screen for a lot of things but nothing that I can think of in front of my players. In the few cases were I might want to represent a random effect, I can "round" the odds to fit within one of the standard dice types.
Not an official use, but our DM rolls percentage dies on all critical failures(PC and monster, weapon and skill checks). If he rolls a 90+ you get to reroll the die. 10% and below something bad happens. It adds a bit of randomness...and gives the percentage die some love as they do often feel neglected.


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