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I was surprised to see any Emeralds footage at all. Is Barbara Horgan getting soft in her golden years?
Ronnie needs to lay off the weightlifting.
The previews w/ Rex and Allison were beyond crazy. Dude -- why are you throwing your life away for Allison???
Posted 28 June 2012 - 05:14 PM
Rex is elegant. Ronnie - I just dont see it.
I feel really bad for Allison. I am sure she is suffering a great deal.
Posted 28 June 2012 - 07:13 PM
So a principal [Christiana] will be having a nervous breakdown next week...?[/font][/size]
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Posted 29 June 2012 - 10:52 AM
And speaking of music, who is editing this show? When the correct music was used, it was all off with music from some other part of the ballet put on top of the wrong steps.
Posted 29 June 2012 - 11:13 AM
The few bits of Beckanne Sisk's "Paquita" solo gave me chills, and I would have loved to have seen both Christiana Bennett's and Allison DeBona's "Emeralds."
It's possible that the world might destruct before this, but watching the coming attractions -- more DeBona/Tilton drama -- I can only hope that when Tilton's grandchildren find the clips on YouTube someday, they think he was acting in a TV show.
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Posted 29 June 2012 - 01:28 PM
I suspect that to get permission to show any of "Emeralds," it had to be highly edited, and that might have included mismatching the music. On the other hand, the director/sound editor has a penchant for teen TV music soundtrack. I'm surprised there were even a few notes of Mozart in a "Petite Mort" clip, and I suspect most of "Breaking Points"'s audience would be shocked if the saw it in the theater.
The few bits of Beckanne Sisk's "Paquita" solo gave me chills, and I would have loved to have seen both Christiana Bennett's and Allison DeBona's "Emeralds."
It's possible that the world might destruct before this, but watching the coming attractions -- more DeBona/Tilton drama -- I can only hope that when Tilton's grandchildren find the clips on YouTube someday, they think he was acting in a TV show.
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][size=3]lol, Helene. [/size][/font]
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][size=3]I adore Beckanne Sisk. She really has an engaging personality and unusual composure for a 19 year old - for any age, really. She has a bright future.[/size][/font]
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][size=3]If you google DeBona she claims that she has a Pittsburgh attitude. I wish she would drop it but then CW30 wouldn't have a show, would they? Based on the 5 seconds they showed, I thought Allison looked radiant in "Emeralds." Not sulking is a good look for her.[/size][/font]
Posted 29 June 2012 - 01:36 PM
No kidding. She was lovely.
Based on the 5 seconds they showed, I thought Allison looked radiant in "Emeralds." Not sulking is a good look for her.
Sisk is still young, and while I don't see a drama queen in her future, and I'm sure she's had her disappointments along the way, it's still a bit early for her to be saying "never" when she hasn't hit major career snarls or romantic entanglements, had a close friend who was realistically competing for the same parts in the company, or have been a long-time standard-bearer. I doubt, though, she'll have any angst about dancing the same role as one of the company stars, the type of roles it's hard to imagine she won't get for the rest of her career.
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[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][size=3]Doesn't Allison seem a tad disrespectful to the conductor? Does she have histrionic personality disorder or what? [/size][/font]
I had no idea and was really, really, really, delighted to learn that "histrionic personality disorder" is an actual medical condition. I even googled it after reading this post and it's in the DSM! However, I am somewhat hesitant to tell my (not at all histrionic, indeed rather stoic) partner.
But I don't have anything bad to say about Allison--my reactions to the "characters" on the show (partly created by editing etc.) are more or less the same as Puppytreats' ... though mixed w. a tad more frustration or would be if I took it seriously.
As far as their dancing goes--based on the bits I have seen I would probably enjoy seeing any of the featured women on stage esp. the two casts of Emeralds and Beckanne Sisk in Paquita. The men look pretty good too, but on the whole I'm more of a ballerina-centric fan.
Posted 03 July 2012 - 12:47 PM
[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"Breaking Pointe" underscores hard work, and pain, behind beauty of ballet[/font]
[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Interesting quote from Allison:[/font]
"Young Beckanne, she's so talented, but I don't think she understands that more people have our paths -- Rex and mine -- than hers."
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What is the etymology of the suffix(?)たがい in 仲たがい and how is it used to express discord? If this is a suffix as such, is it used in combination with any other words?
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The たがい in 仲たがい is another, rarer pronunciation of 違い (usually pronounced ちがい), a noun meaning "difference". This is not to be confused with 互い, which has the same pronunciation. 仲 has the general meaning of "relationship", and is the same character from 仲良し ("close friend").
So overall we have a compound noun:
meaning differences (ie disagreements) in a relationship causing discord.
The etymology is tagapi > tagaɸi > tagawi > tagai. It is the nominal form of the verb taga-u (違う). As such, suffix is not the appropriate word. As a verb, there was the expression 仲を違う (naka wo tagau). This is the source of the compound 仲違い (nakatagai). This taga-u and tiga-u (or chiga-u if you like) are related. taga-u is the older verb and is essentially replaced by tiga-u.
ジョン answers this sufficiently.
There are other compounds which include tagai. They include:
All of these are old and unlikely to used much in modern Japanese. If you are into history, there is the 角違一揆 (kadotagai ikki) riot of 1346 in Bungo.

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I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with a built in Broadcom 5880 smart card reader that refuses to work inside my Windows Guest OS. Some relevant notes:
- the 5880 reader works fine on my host system.
- if I plug in an external USB smart card reader (SCR3310), that works fine inside the guest OS
- the built in 5880 reader works fine in a guest if I use VMware.
Virtual box will allow me to connect the 5880 from the USB devices menu. It then indicates a lot of flashing red/green lights on the USB icon, but my smart card software inside the guest (ActivClient) does not recognize that a reader is present. Inserting/removing the card has no effect.
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- Windows 2008 R2 64-bit as the guest, 3.5GB RAM
I just updated to VirtualBox 4.2 but have tried this on a bunch of previous 4.0 and 4.1 versions. I was hoping this would eventually be fixed. My googling through the community indicates that others have had this problem and it has never been solved.
Any idea how to make this work or whether it will be fixed?
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comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by AllTheVbox!
It's been a perennial pain trying to get VirtualBox to properly recognize integrated Broadcom 5880 Smart Card readers on Dell laptops (in my case using an Ubuntu 11.04 host and Windows guests), even when the card reader checks out fine under on the host and you pass the device through exclusively to the guest. Worse yet, as of my installation of a Windows 7 guest, I can't even get my trusty SCR3310 reader to work on the guest OS. :(
I know virtual machines can handle this hardware - see VMWare - and this is a well known problem for VirtualBox, so I'm at a loss as to why crickets chirp whenever a user submits one of these tickets. Will someone at Oracle please, PLEASE at least acknowledge that this is a problem, explain why it's happening, and provide a sense of whether there is a technical approach to fix it in a future release?
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by ubeinges
I've got the same problem with a Windows XP SP3 guest. The error remains the same throughout all versions of VB 4.1.x and 4.2.x I tried. The same card reader works fine with the same guest installation when I use it in VMware player. So this must be a Virtualbox issue.
Could you please fix this!
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by ubeinges
Tested today with brandnew version 4.2.2. Issue is still present.
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by MatNe
Still the same problem - please fix it, I need the smartcard driver in Virtualbox too.
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by mobbingmaster
Still the same problem! Please fix it - this is currently the only reason why we still need the VMWare Player - all other VMs are running under VirtualBox.
comment:7 Changed 3 years ago by Jon Roach
I have the same problem with a Dell E6400 internal reader. VMWare Player can pass the Broadcomm card reader through with no problem, so why can't VirtualBox? VB has been dogged by this particular problem for years, and I'm starting to think it will never be fixed.
Please fix it: I'm dying to get rid of VMWare Player, but am currently stuck with it because the Smart Card is a critical part of the remote access solution for our company and VirtualBox just can't support it. Yet.
I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with a 64-bit Windows 7 Pro guest.
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Sam problem here. Tried enable/disable EHCI, tried filter(and not) the device.
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I'm looking to purchase a bike for my commute to work and want a bike I can attach a back rack to. Looking around on-line it is very hard to figure out with which bikes this is possible. What is the term for the points that you connect a rack to? Or more generally, what should I search for that tells me a bike has these points?
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I'd call them "rack mounts", which is what pake, surly, and all-city tend to use on their websites to describe them. Alternatively you could call them "braze ons for racks" or even "rack bosses".
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They are called rack braze-ons, braze-on rack mounts, rack mounts, or pannier mounts.
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What the difference, technologically, between flashdrives/jumpdrives and solid state drives?
Besides the circuit board and some preloaded drivers/programs. What justifies the price jump that a 32GB flashdrive is $20 and a 32GB SSD is at least $60? The dollar to GB ratio drops a bit with higher capacity drives.
My guess is of course still a supply/demand thing, but is there any special quality in SSDs that would justify it otherwise?
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I believe it is a matter of speed of data transfer and power draw. Flash drives can operate on power from USB, whilst ssd need more to operate faster.
The SSD uses a SATA connection (assuming you mean an internal SSD), which is a 6Gbit/sec connection. USB flash drives are either 480Mbit/sec or 4.8Gbit/second, for USB2 and USB3 drives. The flash drives you're talking about are USB2, so they're quite a bit slower than an SSD.
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To start off, Flash drives is a generic term for any USB connected device using solid state memory (jump drives are a kind of flash drives (mostly just branding))
So the question should really be, what is the difference between flash drives and an SSD. Which as stated above lies mainly in two areas. the first is connection with flash using USB and limited to the speed of the USB bus. Whereas SSD's connect using SATA and are more expensive because they can go a LOT faster. The yield on flash memory suitable for an SSD is much lower than that suitable for a flash drive because of the speed differences. They second main difference lies in hardware/drivers used to interface with the device. flash drives are pretty universal and no special hardware or drivers are needed. SSD's on the other hand and most often overprovisioned (meaning a 60 gig SSD actually has 64 gigs of flash memory that the internals of the drive use to replace parts of the SSD that go bad over time.) --more next answer--
SSD's are often also configured as a RAID inside the device to get even greater performance. (a 60 gig drive is actually 64, and inside is better described as 4 16-gig segments combined using RAID technology.) This allows the outside interface to show as 60 gigs while inside a whole bunch of things are going on to increase speed and life of the device. none of that happens with USB-based flash drives.
@rprebel: Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't 480Mbit/sec equal to 0.480Gbit/second? You said 4.8Gbit/second and I believe that's 10x faster than the theoretical maximum.
@cengland0: Yes and no. USB v3 is 10x faster than USB v2, which has a theoretical max of 480Mbit/sec, making USB v3 a 4.8Gbit/sec connection.
Neither of them can compete with Thunderbolt, though. That has two 10Gbit/sec channels, making it faster than even an internal SATA drive. The next external HD I buy will be a Thunderbolt drive.
@rprebel: Nice that you are planning on buying a 10Gbit/second drive but please realize that only the burst speed will reach that limit and that's from the minimal data that's stored in its cache.
The current drive technology, whether it is SSD or a spinning hard drive, cannot consistently output 10Gbit/second. You might be able to connect multiple drives in a spanned configuration to increase your speed because it can be done in parallel but a single drive will not do that speed alone.
@cengland0: It'll only be a backup drive, but thx for the info all the same.


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I thought I read somewhere that Skyward Sword was to be the first Zelda game in the timeline, but now I can't find that source.
Is there any indication where Skyward Sword fits in the timeline?
I thought I read somewhere that Skyward Sword was to be the first Zelda game in the timeline, but now I can't find that source.
Is there any indication where Skyward Sword fits in the timeline?
There's been new light shed on this, by Nintendo itself in the form of a Zelda artbook.
According to Eiji Aonuma (the series producer), Skyward Sword is set before Ocarina of Time:
...which would make it the first chronologically so far (at least according to Shigeru Miyamoto and those theories that previously put OoT first).
The timeline is generally contested and conflicting information is given. The wikia page linked above also includes the "generally accepted" order of groups of games, saying it's unclear how the groupings relate to each other.
Note also that Miyamoto has also said there's more than one Link, which further messes with timelines, although as Ashley notes in the comments they claim to have a magic formula that resolves all the paradoxes :P. I don't believe they have anything that makes any sense, personally.
As expected, the timeline in Jeff's answer isn't as canon as it appears:
This Loldwell comic captures all of this pretty well:
Seeing as the game involves the creation of the Master Sword, you can assume that it must come before any games that include said sword (or are clear sequels to such games). So, the only games that could possibly come before it are:
So, Skyward Sword must come before any of the other games, while it may or may not precede the ones in the above list.
Just finished the game, wanted to share my thoughts on the timeline debate. What's special about Skyward Sword is that it does not take place at one point on the timeline. Frankly, I think the events of Ocarina of Time take place in between the two key times this game occurs in. Demise is resurrected and defeated in the past. The Master Sword is also planted in the past. The exact time frame is uncertain, but Impa goes from a young adult to a very, very old woman in the present. Also to note that Impa is in Ocarina of Time, still not elderly looking (though that may be limitations of the game itself), but with graying hair. Certainly in between her youth of the past, and extreme age of the future. This too means that the Zones of Ocarina of Time must become what the world is in Skyward Sword, of course that's not hard to figure. Death Mountain becomes Eldin Volcano, Kokiri Forest becomes Faron Woods. I'll get back to Lanayru as it's special. Demise also obviously becomes Ganandorf of OoT, apparent in his story of reincarnation, and in just plain appearance (tan skin and fiery hair, a big ole nose). So, OoT's Link does his short quest within a 7 year time frame, and plants the Master Sword back in place. I also think Twilight Princess takes place before the present in Skyward Sword. Kokiri Forest has already become Faron Woods, but Death Mountain and Gerudo Desert retain their OoT names.
Now to fun Lanayru Desert time. Accounting for the Time Zones, you visit Lanayru Desert a thousands years in the past. There is a vast ocean at this time, and I think Windwaker, Phantom Hourglass, and Spirit Tracks take place here, at varying times before present Lanayru Desert. There's also evidence for Windwaker to Tie in Demise, with his glowing scar across his forehead, a reminder of the fatal stab to the head Link delivered in Windwaker (remember, Skyward Sword is not the creation of Demise, only his resurrection). And I know Spirit Tracks wasn't nearly as popular as main Zelda titles, but I loved it dearly, and so was shocked to see an easter egg from it in Skyward Sword. At the end of the Lanayru Mines dungeon, the turn table from Spirit Tracks is revealed. That being the central hub for the Spirit Tracks region, where it was a rather tall tower (but of course, you travel underground in the dungeon, so the tower has clearly sunken considerably). The distance in time between Windwaker and Spirit Tracks also gives evidence to Lanayru Desert. While Windwaker is in an entirely flooded world, Spirit Tracks, taking place much, much later, has much more land mass, but still a very considerable ocean presence. The receding water levels are well illustrated, and the ultimate result is Lanayru Desert, formerly Gerudo Desert.
I could go on with what came before Windwaker, but it wouldn't relate to Skyward Sword's placement.
Another thing to add is that the dragon's names are used in Ocarina of Time and their symbols are used for the 3 orbs in Windwaker. At the end, there is a curse placed upon them and their next reincarnations forever which explains why all the other games have many of the same characters. Hylia is also the name of the goddess in Skyward Sword which the lake in Ocarina of Time must have been named after.
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It's too bad that there's no DLC included. Good deal if you've never played either of these games before, though.
I own and recommend them both.
Even without the DLC, it's what, 200 Bajillion hours of gaming combined? So probably not worth it for completionists who want to do everything, but worth it for those that want to sample or just want cheap, good action-RPGage.
In my opinion, the DLC for both of these games is worth the extra ten bucks you'd pay to get a used GOTY edition. Not to mention, at least if you're like me, purchasing these simultaneously would make me immediately want to dive into both, which would seriously kill the joy of diving into each of these individual worlds.
Anyway, missing DLC really seems like a bummer here, particularly for these two games which had excellent DLC.
@starmandeluxe: The problem with getting used GOTY editions is that most of the time the codes to activate the DLC are used so it makes the DLC useless. Unless you get it from Gamefly
@segafanalways: True GOTY editions have the DLC on disc, no codes required.
@segafanalways: It depends on how the specific GOTY edition handles the DLC. With both Oblivion and Fallout 3 GOTY editions, you simply install the DLC from the included 2nd disc, no activation codes needed. So getting used GOTY copies for these titles isn't an issue.
You are correct that other GOTY editions may use activation/download codes for the DLC, so it's something to check for before buying used.
@segafanalways: good point, it is always worth investigating the format of GOTY editions before buying used. I was basing this comment off both of these, which did come with DLC discs (which I very much appreciate, since my xbox downloads slow as molasses).
I just honestly can't imagine the FO3 experience without the DLC...point lookout and the pitt in particular are just so robust and interesting.
what? No horse armor? Two of my favorite games. Might just get them to play them again.


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We've all heard of some mind-blowing phenomena involving the sciences, such as the double-slit experiment. I was wondering if there are similair experiments or phenomena which seem very counter-intuitive but can be explained using mathematics? I mean things such as the Monty Hall problem. I know it is not exactly an experiment or phenomenon (you could say a thought-experiment), but things along the line of this (so with connections to real life). I have stumbled across this interesting question, and this are the type of phenomena I have in mind. This question however only discusses differential geometry.
Off the top of my head, I can think of two astonishing phenomena which were observed experimentally before they were explained mathematically.
The first is Benford's law. This was discovered by an astronomer in the 19th century who noticed that the early part of his book of logarithmic tables was more worn than the later part, suggesting that numbers with first digit 1 or 2 appear more frequently in nature than numbers with first digit 8 or 9. In fact, the distribution of first digits from most data sets (including numbers lifted from the New York Times!) tend to obey a fairly consistent logarithmic distribution. This pattern has a variety of different explanations depending on the context - it is known to happen for power law data or data coming from a variety of different distributions, for instance. Some explanations involve serious mathematics, such as the ergodic theorem.
The second is Feigenbaum's constant. Begin with a simple one-parameter dynamical system, such as $f(x) = ax(1-x)$. To say that this is a dynamical system means that we are going to pick a value of $x$ (between $0$ and $1$), plug it into $f$, plug the output back into $f$ again, and so on. The question is: what will happen as we keep iterating this procedure? The answer depends on the constant $a$. If you start off with $a$ between $3$ and $1 + \sqrt{6}$ then you get an attracting $2$-cycle, meaning the system bounces back and forth between two points. For a range of values slightly larger than $1 + \sqrt{6}$, you get an attracticing $4$-cycle, meaning he system oscillates between four points. As you keep sliding $a$ upward, you get $8$-cycles, $16$-cycles, $32$-cycles... until finally, for values of $a$ around 3.6 or higher, you just get chaos. The question is: what is the period doubling rate, i.e. the rate at which you go from an $2^k$-cycle to a $2^{k+1}$-cycle? The period keeps doubling faster and faster, but the ratio is asymptotically a constant: about 4.6692. The crazy thing is that you can repeat this analysis for a variety of similar dynamical systems, such as $f(x) = a - x^2$, and you get the same phenomenon: accelerating period doubling followed by chaos. The ranges of $a$ for which you see a given cycle vary from system to system, but the period doubling rate of $4.6692$ appears over and over again. Feigenbaum discovered this experimentally and then proved that it holds for any one-parameter dynamical system $f(x)$ with a single quadratic maximum.
If you let $a_1=a_2=a$, and $a_{n+1}=20a_n-19a_{n-1}$ for $n=2,3,\dots$, then it's obvious that you just get the sequence $a,a,a,\dots$. But if you try this on a calculator with, say, $a=\pi$, you find that after a few iterations you start getting very far away from $\pi$. It's a good experiment/demonstration on accumulation of round-off error.
There's the famous Buffon Needle problem: if you drop a needle of length $a$ at random onto a floor made of parallel wooden strips of identical width $l \gt a$, what is the probability that the needle will lie across a line separating two strips? The answer involves $\pi$, and you can actually use this process to experimentally approximate $\pi$.
One that definitely blew my mind when I first heard about it was Khinchin's constant: if you take just about any real number (excluding the rationals and a few others) and write down its (unique) continued fraction expansion,
$$x = a_0 + \frac{1}{a_1 + \frac{1}{a_2 + \frac{1}{a_3 + ...}}} = [a_0;a_1,a_2,a_3,...]$$
and then form the geometric mean of the first n coefficients,
$$\left(\,\prod_{k=1}^n a_k\right)^{1/n}$$
you can ask what happens if you do it again with larger and larger n, i.e. in the limit as $n \rightarrow \infty$. The intuitive guess is that this depends on the $a_k$ (meaning, on the $x$ you picked.) Surprisingly, it turns out that this isn't true: basically, no matter what $x$ you pick (i.e. almost always), this infinite product will converge to the same value, which is called Khinchin's constant.
Weirdest of all, while it's really easy to check this numerically (just pick a real number at random and start computing), and while there are several different proofs that this happens almost always, it hasn't been proven for any one particular case: for example, $\pi, \gamma$ and even Khinchin's constant itself all seem to have this property, but no one has a proof.
Here are few such examples
1.The Smale's paradox which informally says it is possible to turn a sphere inside out in a three-dimensional space with possible self-intersections but without creating any crease. Smale's Paradox
2.The Banach-Tarski paradox, which says it is possible to break a ball into pieces and create two balls which are identical to the first one. Banach Tarski Paradox
3.The existence of undecidable problems is also very counter intuitive to me,even though the proof is very simple. Undecidable problems
4.Borsuk–Ulam theorem which very informally says that at any given time on the earth's surface, there exist 2 antipodal points with the same temperature and pressure.
One experiment I remember being amazed by when I first saw it goes as follows:
If you do this for long enough you obtain something looking like the Sierpinski gasket! It turns out the randomness is a bit of a red herring, as performing this half the distance procedure will always give you a point on the gasket. So it will give you a similar picture with non random sequences provided the distribution is "okay". There are loads of other cool Sierpinski ones too!
I would recommend checking out the list of Wiki experimental mathematics applications and examples as it shows a nice list.
There is even a Journal of Experimental Mathematics.
I would also look at the controversial Wiki computer-aided proofs, including a university that will sell you a proof with your name on it!
Lastly, I would say that field of Computational Science is a direct blending of mathematics with the typical science related fields to solve problems.
For general audience simply show that $\mathbb{N}$, $\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{Q}$ have same cardinality. To someone without university level studies on mathematics it is really counter-intuitive.
You could also compare unit ball and unit cube in different dimensions. Start from unit circle inside unit square, and put 4 smaller circles to corners of square. Then go to 3D and put 8 smaller balls to corners of cube. Continue to 4D --- how big are now "smaller" hyperballs compared to "big" hyperball? You could also try to explain something in probability with this example.
I like hexaflexagons since I watched Vihart lovely video (also fell in love with her in the process) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQ10POrZh8
Building and playing with the Möbius strip is also super mind-blowing http://youtu.be/BVsIAa2XNKc?t=5s
Topology puzzles are also very fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5fPwE7GQOA
Calculate the day of the week a person was born can also be surprising Calculate which day of the week a date falls in using modular arithmetic
As n goes to infinity, the volume of the unit n-hypersphere goes to zero.
simpson's paradox explains why it is possible to manipulate the way a data is presented to get contradicting trends ( for example gender bias in University Admissions )
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Create an (almost) perfect budget
If only we lived in a world where it is really possible to create your perfect monthly budget. However, in my world, I'm waiting for the Sears repairman to come and fix the washing machine--a job that will probably cost $200 and that I certainly didn't plan for.
First lesson: There is no such thing as a perfect budget.
But--and this is a big "but"--the fact that I knew what I planned to spend this month turned this unexpected expense into something that could be dealt with. With a few changes, such as a smaller deposit into my online savings for a new car and waiting a few weeks for vacation clothes, I'll pay today's bill from my checking account.
If you're tired of not knowing exactly what's coming in and, even worse, where it's going, a monthly budget can bring you peace of mind. So, take a deep breath, grab some paper or your laptop and take comfort in the fact that your budget doesn't have to be perfect.
Learn from history
Not sure where to start? Look to your recent past. After you record your regular, fixed expenses--rent, phone, car payment--look at expenses that change every month. Some, you can estimate pretty easily. Review charges for gas over the last few months to get a good idea of what you spend. Same with electricity. Adjust up or down based on how hot it is outside or if you're planning to be away from home for an extended period. Eventually you'll know your utility bills well enough to save money in warm weather.
For others, you'll do some educated guessing. How often do you buy clothes? What do you usually spend? Credit card bills and debit statements will help. If you can generally piece together what you've spent recently, you can decide whether next month's clothing budget will be $50 or $250.
Honesty: the best policy
If there's one guideline for successful budgeting, it's this: Be honest. No, really--totally honest. If you record that you spend $100 going to restaurants with friends but really spend $225, you're going to feel like you're on a bad diet--the kind no one stays on for long. Yes, budgets allow you to change your spending habits, but if you try to change them too much--if you go on a spending starvation diet--you'll fail before you reach your goals.
That doesn't mean you can't learn to save on gas, for example. But knowing how much you spend now is the fastest way to adjust those numbers downward.
All the small things
Those magazines in the checkout aisle will get you. The spur-of-the-moment Starbucks runs, the five bucks you donate to an office charity or leave as a tip may seem too negligible to write down and are easy to forget. But a few of those $5 payouts a week can add up to $100 or more over a month that's not accounted for in your budget.
Here's where tools come in handy. If you're old-school, carry a little notepad and pencil in your car or bag, and write things down a few times a day. But you can find online tracking tools that are just as convenient, and can be accessed from any computer or device. Kiplinger has one, for example, or use a Google Docs template.
Build in treats
It can't be stressed enough: Those magazines, coffee stops and, yes, donations to charity--they're all part of your real life. Cut them out entirely and life loses its flavor. (Here we are, back to the diet metaphor.) Planning ahead for those grocery-store whim purchases won't make them any less enjoyable. You may find that knowing you have the cash for them makes them less ripe for buyer's remorse.
Get an attitude adjustment
Some folks call a budget a "spending plan." A little renaming can make a difference--like a menu plan versus a diet. After all, just like food, we can't live without spending money somehow--for housing, food, transportation. And we improve our lives with other kinds of spending, whether making automatic transfers into our savings accounts or planning for that annual vacation.
And don't aim for perfection--there is no such thing. A workable budget may take a few months to get right. You'll forget items at first--like that you pay for car insurance twice a year--and you'll really want to believe that you can only spend $100 hanging out with friends.
In the end, the washer repair ran $167.01. With a few adjustments, that extra money went back into my savings account. While not perfect, in the end, the budget was pretty darned good.


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Taj Boston to Debut 'Boston Conservatory Opera Cake' June 6 in The Café to Benefit The Boston Conservatory Scholarship Fund
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"Taj Boston is proud to continue our association with The Boston Conservatory, Boston's own prestigious, independent performing arts college that offers degrees in music, dance and musical theater," said Jeffrey Seward, General Manager, Taj Boston. "What could be better than an Opera Cake to sweeten the opportunity for students to pursue their dreams at America's oldest performing arts college?"
The cake in question is a contemporary take on the traditional Opera Cake, consisting of a light almond sponge cake soaked in coffee syrup, layered with coffee mousse and milk chocolate ganache, and topped with chocolate glaze. It will be offered for $10 in The Café, available daily for lunch and dinner beginning Monday, June 6. Taj Boston will donate a portion of each sale of Boston Conservatory Opera Cake ($2) to The Boston Conservatory Scholarship Fund.
The Boston Conservatory Scholarship Fund paves the way for the next generation of performing artists and educators to get the best training and education possible. With approximately 80% of Conservatory students receiving financial aid, the scholarship fund allows the Conservatory to attract and enroll talented students of the highest caliber --- regardless of their ability to pay.
"Taj Boston is known for its refinement, rich traditions and exceptional good taste," says Richard Ortner, President of The Boston Conservatory. "And 'good taste' only begins to describe the spectacular confection they've created for us! We are honored to partner again with the Taj, and enormously grateful for their help in supporting our gifted young performers in this imaginative way."
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Say it: Kree-MAY-shun
A way of turning a dead body into a soft ash.
You may hear someone say, "My granddad always told us he wanted his body cremated."
The body is taken very carefully to a special room. This is not like any room you have in your house. There is a special heat in this tiny room, not like any heat in a fireplace or in a furnace. This heat is so hot it slowly dissolves the body.
When the cremation is finished, what is left of the body is a soft ash. The person caring for the body gently collects the ashes. The ashes are put into a special machine. The machine makes them even smaller. Now the ashes really look like ground-up seashells or very coarse or chunky sand.
This is done in a place called a CREMATORY (KREE-mah-tor-ee) or CREMATORIUM (kree-MAH-tor-ee-um). These places are made just to turn bodies into ash.
The ashes are placed in a jar called an URN (err-n). The ashes are called CREMAINS (kree-may-ns) or CREMATED REMAINS (kree-MAY-ted re-may-ns).
Remember, when people are dead, they can't feel anything. They cannot feel the heat.
We have had cremation for thousands of years. Today, more and more people are choosing cremation. All bodies finally return to the good earth. Cremation is just one way to make than happen faster.
Your family will have a special place for the urn and the ashes.
Maybe you can see the urn and ask more questions.
Your family can do many very nice things with the ashes.
Some people scatter the ashes over a favorite place.
Some people bury the urn or keep it in a special place at the cemetery.
Some people keep a tiny bit of the ashes in a locket or in a tiny box.
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Doug Yoder is passionate about marketing, and specifically passionate about uncovering and leveraging consumer insights.
Doug started working in consumer insights after graduating from The University of Iowa with a BBA degree in 1983. After a few years working for an insights firm, Doug knew he would benefit from the deeper and broader business training offered in an MBA program.
After applying to a number of schools, Doug chose Tippie.
"The faculty capability in my area of interest was high, the program had a nice sense of international student diversity, and it had a very collegial environment. Plus, Iowa City was a hidden gem."
As an MBA student, Doug served as a teaching assistant, which enabled him to work closely with faculty.
"I have a high degree of fondness and respect for The University of Iowa and its programs across-the-board. One of the things I liked about my Tippie experience was the interaction with a small group of talented students and the interaction with faculty—it was tremendous. And from a value proposition, it's a tremendous value."
Since graduating from Tippie, Doug has held various consumer insights and brand management positions, eventually focusing his area of passion—consumer insights.
While working at Mead Johnson Nutritionals, Doug provided insight support for the team that launched the first infant formula marketed directly to consumers in the United States. He eventually led the research function for the infant formula business worldwide. In between, he led efforts in CRM, new product development, and was director of marketing for a $300 MM business in the United States.
While working at Silver Ventures, Doug led strategic marketing and insights efforts for the Texas-based private equity/venture capital firm. He worked closely with the management teams of acquired companies to develop and implement growth strategies, adding value to the brands, making them attractive targets for strategic buyers.
Today Doug works at Hill's Pet Nutrition where he leads consumer insights in global marketing. Recent projects have included repositioning Hill's brands around the world, developing models of category dynamics and leading change in the assessment of new product and long-term innovation opportunities for the company. His work at Hill's takes him to markets around the world, working with global teams to better understand consumers and veterinary professionals.
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Located on the east coast of the island of Sumatra, the city of Jambi is the capital city of the province that bears the same name, namely: the province of Jambi.
The city of Jambi straddles the long and wide Batanghari river that has its source in the Bukit Barisan range, at Danau Diatas and Danau Dibawah (the Upper and Lower Lakes) in the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra near Lake Singkarak. The river pours out at the Strait of Berhala on the east coast of Sumatra. Flowing the total length of 1,700 km, the Batanghari is the longest river on Sumatra. The city of Jambi lies on both sides of the river with the Aur Dari Bridge spanning the two sections of the city that lies at the estuary of the Batanghari.
Although less known as a tourist destination, Jambi is, nonetheless, rich in resources, both natural and mined. Jambi produces agricultural products like rice, potatoes, soybean, cabbage, tomatoes, and the province has large tracts of palm oil plantations, while its mines produce oil, gas and coal and tin. Indeed, oil and gas, palm oil and coal are the province's most important exports.
Historic Chinese records mention that Jambi was once the seat of the classic Malay Kingdom which spread its influence over much of Sumatra and even to the Malay peninsula, a result of which is the use of the Malay language and pronunciations in West Sumatra, Bengkulu, Jambi and parts of Malaysia.
Archaeological remains at the vast Muaro Jambi site, also attest that in the 7th to the 8th century, Jambi was the center of Buddhist learning. After the fall of the palace of the kingdom of Srivijaya at Palembang – today in the province of South Sumatra - in the 11th century, the Srivijaya seat was moved to Jambi, where it thrived until the 13th. century.
The airport of Jambi is called Sultan Thaha Saifuddin airport. Because of its limited capacity, only domestic airlines fly to Jambi mostly from Jakarta. The airlines include Garuda Indonesia, Lion Air, Sriwijaya Air and Citilink.
But as a business city, Jambi has many star-rated hotels next to budget hotels.
The city of Jambi has a many star-rated hotels as well as budget hotels. Below is a short list to choose from:
HOTEL NOVOTEL JAMBI ( **** ) 125 Rooms Jln Gatot Subroto 44, Jambi Tel : + 62-741-27208
HOTEL ABADI HOTEL & CONVENTION CENTER (****) 250 Rooms
Jln.Gatot Subroto 92, Jambi
Tel :+ 62-741-25600
RATU HOTEL & CONVENTION ( ***)50 Rooms Jln. Slamet Riyadi 24, Jambi Tel: 62-741-25600
COSMO HOTEL ( **) 40 Rooms Jln Soekarno Hatta 07, Jambi Telp: +62-741-573500
ROYAL GARDEN RESORT (**) 63 Rooms Jln Paal 10, Jambi Tel: +62-741-444569,443816
GRAND HOTEL (**) 70 Rooms Jln. Prof Sumantri Brojonegoro 51-54, Jambi Tel:+62-741-64398
MATAHARI HOTEL (**) 92 Rooms Jln. Sultan Agung 67, Jambi
Tel: +62-741-33157
FORMOSA HOTEL ( *) 23 Rooms Jln.Abdurrahman Saleh 1 , Jambi Tel: + 62-741-573125
Amaris Hotel Muara Bungo Jambi Jl. Sultan Thaha 103 Muara Bungo, Jambi Tel: ++62747 321556 , Fax: +62747 321551 Email: email@example.com
By air, Jambi is served from Jakarta by Garuda Indonesia, Lion Air, Sriwijaya Air and Citilink through the airport called the Sultan Thaha Syaifuddin airport.
Overland, Jambi is well connected by intercity buses to its neighbouring provinces of West Sumatra, Riau and Bengkulu. The Bus terminal is at Alam Barajo and Rawasari.


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Wrigley Field, built in 1914, was originally named Weeghman Park. The park became the official home of the Chicago Cubs in 1916 and went through several name changes before finally being named after gum magnate and then-owner of the Cubs, William Wrigley Jr., in 1926. Today, the stadium is the second oldest and fourth smallest active baseball stadium in the country.
Fun Fact: Wrigley Field did not host a night game until 1988.
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The 6 Coolest Things You Can Do With Your Dead Body
#3. Become the Strongest Material on Earth
The jewelry industry doesn't want you to know this, but diamonds can be made in the lab. It's not even all that hard. You start with carbon and apply heat, pressure and time. Wait a second! Human ashes have carbon in them! You know what that means!
Yes, if you died right now your family could cremate and wear your dead body as a rather morbid article of high end bling-bling within 6 to 9 months. This is the promise of Illinois-based, dead-human-to-pretty-diamond converters LifeGem.
Once a body has been cremated (or a lock of hair is obtained) LifeGem scientists perform science all over it, first placing the separated ash carbons into an evil looking crucible that may as well have been a terrifying artifact found on the floors of Auschwitz, foreboding serial number and all.
This crucible is then heated to around 3,000 degrees Celsius, converting the carbon into pure graphite. This graphite is then placed into a diamond press that replicates the heat and pressure generated by the earth in order to form a diamond.
These are molecularly identical to naturally occurring diamonds, and contain all of the same traits. This will help tremendously when your family inevitably pawns the fucker for beer money.
But don't just take our word for how valuable these things can get. Apparently, LifeGem borrowed 10 strands of hair off the head of Ludwig van Beethoven from a celebrity hair collector, and pressed it into a diamond that was valued at $1,000,000.
Just Imagine...
A diamond is the strongest substance on earth and, when sharpened correctly, can also be one of the deadliest. Have them take your diamond to designer Tobias Wong so he can sharpen your freshly forged visage into a wearable implement of carnage and mayhem. A diamond so sharp it can slice right down to bone. Man, get that for your son after you've been (again) brutally slain by a crime boss... he'll be 90% of the way to a superhero.
#2. Power a City
If you've ever seen The Matrix then you may have overheard Morpheus explain to Neo that "the human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120V battery, and more than 25000 BTU's of body heat." As retarded as the science behind their human power plant was, some European crematoriums are making the idea real.
Dukinfield Crematorium in England was having a problem when it came to burning their fresh crop of bodies: They couldn't afford to perform their creamationary duties while simultaneously keeping the mourners of the dead warm within the chapel. Their solution was a controversial one as they proposed that the energy given off should be recycled to power the chapel's boiler and lighting system. The system would capture the heat released by both the furnaces and the dead, then pass them through heat exchangers which would then be pumped into radiators.
No effort was made to NOT make it look like a place that burns humans.
But if you can power one little building, why don't you go all out and power a whole town? Three Swedish cities (Boras, Helsingborg and Racksta) are doing just that. Using the same basic ideas stated above, these crematoria have all cut deals with their local power companies and are contributing up to 10% of their respective towns' energy.
Just Imagine...
If you lived in an apartment with shoddy wiring you can now rest assured knowing that, in a roundabout way, your body will continue to shock the genitals of anyone using a plug-in vibrator.
#1. Be a Science Exhibit Via Plastination
Old school style mummies are played out. Now, we have a far more elegant way to keep people around way, way longer then they need to be. This new process is called "Plastination" and, just as the name suggests, it involves cramming a dead body so full of plastic that it essentially turns it into the giant action figure Jeffery Dahmer wanted as a child.
Plastination was developed in 1978 by Dr. Gunther von Hagens and is used today as a learning tool for medical students of all types. You may have even caught a traveling exhibit showcasing a collection of the bodies posed in positions that suggest that it's totally alright to play a game of football with your dick meat fully exposed.
Or, hey, basketball, too.
The process of plastination can be broken down into five steps, all of which kind of sound like hunting process of a serial rapist:
1) Fixation: Where decay is halted by the injection of formalin, a bacteria fighting agent, into the arteries of the body.
2) Dehydration: After the doctors slice-and-dice whichever organs they wish to set aside for later, the body is placed in an acetone bath where all of its fats are dissolved away and its water sucked into the body's cells.
3) Forced Impregnation: The body is placed in a vacuum chamber with a polymer such as silicone rubber. As the acetone leaves the cells it swiftly draws in the liquid polymer behind it, leaving the cell filled with plastic.
4) Posing: Once every cell is loaded with plastic the body can be maneuvered around to strike any pose the scientists wish. It is also in this step where the scientists must resist their primal urges to place the bodies in lewd sexual positions while their hands perform obscene gestures.
5) Hardening: The body gets hard and just, kinda, you know, stays that way. There really isn't a whole lot of science involved in this step.
The process takes just over a year to complete with the end result being a mannequin-like figure that serves as a diorama for the internal workings of the human body. The Institute for Plastination - located in Heidelberg, Germany - is always accepting bodies, but keep in mind that they will not, under any circumstances, except bodies that were thrown at their front doors from speeding cars. All bodies used are willing participants in the project... sort of.
"Gee, I hope my friends don't freeze my dead body in this position and put me on display for douchebag med students."
Just Imagine...
The Institute of Plastination has this thing for arranging the bodies in action oriented posses to accentuate the dramatic features of a specimen in motion; they also plastinate non-human creatures such as giraffes, camels and gorillas.
That's right: They can set you up so that you're wrestling a bear for eternity. Or arrange to have your body scoring a point during what people can only assume is a wicked awesome 1-on-1 tetherball match with a gorilla. Let your imagination run wild!
We're gonna be immortalized like this - forever watching internet pornography.
To read about what kind of batshit stuff people will do with their bodies while living, check out The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science. Or get in the holiday spirit and find out what Santa really thinks about your kids' letters in Letters FROM Santa.
And don't forget to visit Cracked.com's Top Picks, because that's what your grandmother would want you to do.


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My dear Dad, Ken Read (1924 – 1982) in his garden with lifelong family friend Roy. They had a great day with a metal detector and just may have found something! This was in the 1970s.
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I also want to play around with airmon-ng and thus want to use the wifi card in monitor mode.
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Sometimes people add a name for a sick person. Can you just change it to an entirely different name? I know of a case where they kept the first name and changed the second name - originally the name was Menachem Mendel and they changed it to Menachem Chaim. I do not know if a Rabbi was asked and I am curious if there is any source for doing so.
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The answer Here: http://www.tzemachdovid.org/thepracticaltorah/lechlecha.shtml
Indeed, that is how the minhag began. The practice of changing one's name to an entirely new and unrelated name is attested in many places relevant to gitin because of the precision in names necessary there. (citation needed)
Incidentally, it seems that the minhag was drawing upon the auspiciousness of the name changing and not the meaning of the new name, so it was just as likely for בנימין to turn into ראובן as חיים.
I don't remember my source for this, but I recall learning that they used to completely change someone's name (not just his second name). Our adding a name is a modified version of that.


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