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6 Reasons Dolemite Is The Most Awesomely Bad Movie Ever
You can't call the 1975 blaxploitation film Dolemite a bad movie, in the same way you can't call the Charge of the Light Brigade a failed military engagement: By any sane definition it really absolutely is the worst one ever, but its level of failure so far transcends the original concepts involved it takes on immortality. It honestly might not be legal to make a film like this any more.
This of course is just all the more reason to examine it, as if it were one of the last, badly deformed specimens of an endangered species.
#6. Production Value
Based on the credits, incomparable expletivist Rudy Ray "Dolemite" Moore writes, produces, directs and stars in the film.
WARNING: Poster teaches at least two incorrect lessons about firearm safety.
Based on everything else we see on screen, he filled all positions he couldn't physically do himself with people he picked up off the street. Most of the "actors" look like they just regained the power of speech through experimental surgery, and the boom mic makes daring raids to claim scenes as part of the Gloriously Crappy Sound Man Empire.
While some cinematic experiments have been recorded in one take, Dolemite was written and produced in that take too. People arrive on screen with absolutely no idea of what they're supposed to be doing, many looking like the concept of "pretending to be someone else" is being explained off screen in sign language several seconds after the camera has started rolling. This is the only way to explain why a "Fuck you"/"No, Fuck YOU" exchange can take upwards of 20 seconds.
A scene from the trailer, featuring an apparently heavily sedated Rudy Ray Moore.
It's still a priceless window into the most motherfucking soul on the planet. The plot is Dolemite framed, Dolemite released, then badly-paced VENGEANCE. Even within such a complex plot they find time to reveal Rudy's opinions on:
#5. Fashion!
Dolemite's first action on release from prison is to strip out of the square prison-issue clothes, with the entire male population of the prison watching, and get into pimp gear.
Tightey-whiteys: The only whiteys Dolemite will tolerate.
He then gets into a limo and starts taking his clothes off again for some reason. This is one of the many, many scenes that obviously seemed badass inside Rudy Ray's head and nowhere else, and that offer irrefutable proof that once Rudy screamed action, everyone else was too terrified to speak. One particularly curious decision that you'd think even the most cowardly Assistant Director would have raised his hand for: If I was portraying a badass ladies man his first action would not be "Performing strip-tease for a male convict population."
His adoring audience.
#4. Romance!
Rudy Ray Moore wants you to know he's successful with women, and he thinks "insinuation" is something people do when they're impotent. If he wishes to imply a lady likes him, the only reason you don't see shaft is because the cameraman can't get the lens into the molecule-thin gap between his crotch and the refurbished prostitute/actress impersonating a face-shaped vacuum cleaner.
The only time any of the women in the film look comfortable on screen is when they're licking people. I tried to imagine a life so tragic that the best moments in it are licking Rudy Ray Moore, which is why I'm dictating this article to the suicide negotiator on the street 10 floors below me. This remains the only movie I've ever seen where a full backhand slap is the most romantic gesture. And this is a real full on pimp-slap (as in "Oh, THAT'S why pimps are considered a cross between humanity and sewage"). Of course, in the world of Dolemite, this always leads immediately to sex. Horrific, horrific sex.
Stephen King once had a nightmare like this but was too scared to write about it.
A still image really doesn't capture the horror, and because I'm not Cthulhu I can't put it into words. I was going to make a GIF until I remembered my strict vow of "NOT measurably increasing the amount of terror and pain in the world." I've seen more romantic scenes in Hellraiser. I don't know exactly how long the grunting goes on, because I was screaming the first time and will lose my remaining eye if I go back to check, but recall it being approximately Forever Times Torment.


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I found the source in launchpad for 11.04 and 10.10 but I don't know how to install or compile it.
Update: The PPA mentioned below doesn't currently provide packages for 13.10/saucy and newer releases. You could try to install the 13.04/raring packages by modifying the corresponding sources.list file in
11.04 and 11.10
I can't answer directly how to compile the source. However, I've tested the following on a virtual guest install on oneiric.
Note if you look at the series available for the PPA it will tell you which distro version this PPA has been compiled for. At the time of writing - 11.04 (Natty), 11.10 (Oneiric), 12.04 (Precise)
as all stuff that changes your boot - back things up first with a good image backup
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During the installation you will be asked to select the drive you want to install on - press the spacebar to "*" the drive you want for example
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6 Absurd Movie Plots You Won't Believe Are Based on Reality
We spend so much time here debunking silly things we see in fiction that it's easy to forget how truly ridiculous real life is in comparison. Even the silliest, most implausible characters or plots from action movies have come true. Not often, mind you, but they do happen. We're talking about things like ...
#6. Badass Adventurer Scientists
Indiana Jones movies, The Mummy movies, The Da Vinci Code movies, those Nicholas Cage movies that basically rip off The Da Vinci Code -- they all feature ridiculous but popular characters: university professors who throw away their mortarboards and "research" history by punching it right in the goddamn face. Truly, being an academic is one incredible Nazi-fighting adventure after another.
"Before you start killing everyone, would you mind fact-checking my thesis on Ancient Egyptian religion?"
Nobody believes it's really like this, or at least we hope not. Otherwise you'll get your archaeology degree and cry yourself to sleep for the remainder of your boring life.
But It Has Happened ...
Meet Roy Chapman Andrews, the rumored real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones, who divided his time between searching for fossils and gun-fighting with Mongolian bandits.
"I try to carry at least one thing that could impale a Nazi at all times."
Beginning his career sweeping the floors of the American Natural History Museum in New York, Andrews eventually worked his way up to director of the museum and became an accomplished hunter of dinosaur fossils, even where those fossils were guarded by gun-toting brigands. After all, they belong in a museum. One anecdote tells of the time Andrews battled a 20-foot-long python, ultimately shooting it in the head and watching its dying body writhe and flail in the underbrush. Apparently he didn't think much of snakes, either.
"You're my next hat."
There's now an award named after Andrews, given every year to people who continue his legacy of giving zero fucks in their quest for scientific kickassery. Winners include Lonnie and Ellen Mosely-Thompson, who explore "the most inhospitable places on the planet" in hot air balloons and on yaks, and once dragged a bunch of ice cores across the Gobi Desert simply because that seemed like something that couldn't be done. Then you have Mark Moffett, adventurer entomologist, who apparently once fought off Colombian drug lords with a blowgun.
And discovered this thing. We'd probably go another round with the Colombians.
#5. Over-the-Top Supervillain Lairs
Where superheroes have their Fortresses of Solitude and Batcaves, so too do supervillains need vastly implausible lairs just to show how evil they are. Think of the giant submersible in The Spy Who Loved Me or Blofeld's volcano lair. There's nothing particularly scary, after all, about a villain who goes home every night to a rented apartment in Brooklyn. Surely, though, such extravagances don't translate very well to the real world, as most of today's villains are too busy running banks into the ground to bother installing giant shark tanks into their houses.
This thing can liquidate five small businesses an hour.
But It Has Happened ...
Probably the closest things we've ever had to genuine comic book villains are the guys we were fighting in World War II -- and yes, there were lairs. In fact, we've already shown you what Mussolini's National Fascist Party headquarters looked like.
"We are the good guys, right? Because that giant face is sorta giving me doubts."
But Hitler, too, had an evil fortress -- the Wolfsschanze ("Wolf's Lair"), which was a castle in Germany obscured by trees and reinforced by a frankly stupid amount of cement. After the Third Reich fell, it took over eight tons of TNT to destroy it, and 10 years to uncover all the 54,000 land mines planted around it. Hitler also had a Sonderzug (translated rather unfortunately as "Special Train") that was equipped with two anti-aircraft guns and four cannon batteries. Have you ever seen a train shoot down an aircraft? Hitler wanted to make that happen.
So yeah, the man had exactly one good idea in his entire life.
But you don't need to search back through history. Even today there exists a man with a strange foreign accent, living out of reach of the law, who uses his vast technology to bring world governments to their knees. We're talking about Julian Assange, and he works here:
Daily Mail
"The shark tank gets installed next week, so for now we've got a huge box of starving cats."
That's not a scene from one of the early Bond movies. That's the Pionen data center in Sweden, a high-tech server farm inside a former Cold War bunker that provides data storage for websites that nobody else wants to have on their servers, including WikiLeaks. Although Assange's dangerous stash of leaked documents don't require much server space, he was kicked out of so many Web hosts that he eventually had to move it to a building that looks like it houses a giant moon-destroying laser cannon.
Daily Mail
Pictured: Minions.
#4. Critical Computer Systems Protected by Ridiculously Easy Passwords
In the movies, when our hero needs to crack the password in the villain's lair, he or she usually succeeds within the first three tries or so -- more often than not, it's the name of the villain's beloved daughter or dead wife, or the name of an object that's sitting there next to the computer. Movie logic therefore suggests that we have no ability to memorize the name of anything that isn't always in our direct line of sight.
"... porn."
But It Has Happened...
We've mentioned before how most people don't heed those warnings from the IT department about complex passwords because our stupid brains can't handle memorizing too many random sequences of symbols. But this degree of password slackness must be limited to Gmail and Amazon accounts, right? You could never hack into something really important, like a government facility, just by guessing some common phrases.
Well, as 4chan's militant wing Anonymous discovered, the Syrian government, for one, has a disturbing propensity for obvious passwords. Anonymous found that a large amount of Syria's sensitive information could be unlocked by using the password "12345," or if it's really top secret, "123456." But we probably don't have much to lose by giving control of Syria over to Anonymous. It's not like they have nuclear weapons or anything.
And really, who wouldn't trust that face?
Actually, talking about nuclear weapons ... it turns out that through most of the Cold War, America's Strategic Air Command, the military division responsible for launching nuclear weapons and thus causing or preventing the apocalypse, kept all their weapon codes set to "00000000," because they were afraid a more complicated code would interfere with launch. Nobody wants to delay the end of the world just because someone can't remember their password.
It's the Caps Lock key that will ultimately save us.
That's right: During a time in history when we almost destroyed the world every five minutes or so, the only thing between us and nuclear Armageddon was the default code on your bike lock.


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I find that I never have time to focus on abs when I work out. If I continue to strengthen other parts of my body (I consistently do squats, deadlift, benchpress, shoulderpress) and continue to neglect working on core strength, will I run into problems?
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You squat, deadlift, and press. While these each stress specific muscles more than others (presses working more shoulder strength, deadlifting working more legs and back, et cetera), they are all whole-body exercises that work the core. If done heavy, these exercises demand and develop a significant amount of core strength, including the abdominals, as stabilizers. Along with your lower back, they isometrically hold your trunk in place for heavy lifting.
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I just found your blog. I hope you write more. I saw where you aren't going to write about not getting out of the tub and had to laugh since I just did write about my experience. I hope things are going well for you.
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I came across your blog while surfing. Thank you for posting how arthritis makes us feel. I have severe RA and it really changes your life. Thanks for taking the energy & time to write!!
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December 5, 2011 at 8:18 am
I came upon your blog while surfing this A.M. It will be a bit until I read though it all. I also had to figure out how to get out of the tub, for now I have a way – no less discovered by watching chimps move along the ground. Whatever works. . . at least for now. LOL
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Hello Inflamed. What a lovely blog you have for such a nasty topic. Can you make a difference? Yes, each of us can. You keep your chin up, remember your purpose and keep posting light and love while going through the valley. Look forward to meeting you in Boston. Tina Wesson


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Is there a well defined subset of the integers that cannot be defined as a property of a recursive process or Turing Machine?
I have long been intrigued by the observation that much of mathematics can be defined as properties of recursive processes or Turing Machines. One can construct the arithmetic hierarchy by all finite iterations of the question: does a TM have an infinite number of outputs such that an infinite subset of these outputs are Gödel numbers of TMs with an an infinite number of outputs? One can construct the hyperarithmetic hierarchy by iterating this question up to all recursive ordinals. One can go farther by asking does a TM which accepts an arbitrarily long sequence of integer inputs halt for every possible infinite sequence?
These are all questions that are in some sense logically determined by a recursively enumerable sequence of events: all the possible paths a TM can take with any possible finite sequence of inputs. Can one define a subset of the integers that cannot be defined in this way? Saying that a set is the even integers if the continuum hypothesis is true and the odd integers otherwise does not count since both alternatives are definable as properties of a TM. On the other hand giving a recursively enumerable sequence of statements whose truth values cannot be encoded as a property of recursive processes would count.
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Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy Blu-ray & $10 Amazon.com Giftcard & Free Shipping for $38.99
I've seen it cheaper than $39 but throw in the free gift card and it makes this a pretty good deal. (its a physical gift card so you can give it as a gift)
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The discount of the gift card is taken off when you check out. Too good to pass up.
I missed out on the lighting/cyber monday sale Amazon had on this so think I will go ahead and pick this up. I shop at Amazon so often I have no worries that this $10 will quickly be used up.
I also missed out on the lightning deal that day too. I could have kicked myself. I snatched this one though! Great deal - thanks!
Anyone who ordered this using the link on this site might want to double check exactly where they had it shipped to because it shows up in your cart as a wish list gift for the guy who submitted the link. Your address and his show up (his is hidden, but shown as Sicklerville, NJ) if you have an account and a default location saved, but it might choose the submitter's address automatically if you don't have an address saved.
Seeing how the submitter's previous two submissions are direct links to the pages and not for his wish list this is probably just an honest mistake. Still, be alert for these things!
My bad, let me fix that. If anything odd happens like I get a few in the mail, I will be sure to fix it.
EDIT: Looks like you can't edit them after there are comments?
http://amzn.com/B00198X0UO Here is a good link... if someone would please delete this or manually edit it, that would be great. I will re-submit it if someone would like to delete it. I already put an "other" tattle on it.
I'm in Sicklerville, NJ.
@jreednet are you in Sicklerville too?
@fgarriel: Yes, I'm near the Winslow Municipal Building, so if I get your Bluray by accident, I'll hand deliver it ;)
Great Scott! This has to be the best deal this side of Eastwood Ravine! In for one!
Must be a conspiracy. I live in Sicklerville too. Woot taking over the world!
@lifehouse71sg: Or Sicklerville at least.
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During the spring of 100 AG, Chong and his companions encountered Team Avatar, who was journeying to Omashu near a lake, and offered to lead them through a shortcut known as the Cave of Two Lovers. The band of nomads did not seem particularly bright and acted unusually easy-going, which became a source of frustration for the team, particularly Sokka. Although Aang at first rejected Chong's offer to lead them through the cave, quoting that Appa hated going underground, the group consented after being attacked by Fire Nation soldiers during an unsuccessful attempt to fly over the mountains.
Chong explained the key to getting through the complex labyrinth of tunnels was to trust fully in love. When traveling through the Cave of Two Lovers, however, he and the others became trapped within. To make matters worse, Sokka attempted to ward off a wolfbat by waving a lit torch around and accidentally dropped it near Appa. The bison began running around in fear, causing the ceiling to cave in which eventually created a barrier separating the group. While Aang, Katara, and Appa began their journey through the maze alone, Sokka was forced to travel with Chong, much to his horror. Chong and the other nomads continually played love songs, believing it to be the key to finding their way out of the caves. They were later saved by badgermoles, who were hostile at first, but quickly warmed up after hearing the nomad's music. They served as the group's escorts out of the cave. Chong and the other nomads continued on their nomadic journeys while Aang and his friends traveled to Omashu.[1]
Chong was generally a laid-back and optimistic person who enjoyed taking life as it came and would often improvise by singing songs on the spot. He was sometimes oblivious to what was happening around him. In general, though, he wished simply to help others see the world in a different and more fulfilling way, even if they resisted. Chong in particular was mellow to the point where he sometimes could not remember the lyrics of his own songs. He could be viewed as a slacker when it came to doing important things such as navigating the Cave of Two Lovers and was a constant source of irritation to Sokka, something he remained unaware of. Chong did not use maps and rarely had an actual destination; he just "[went] wherever the wind [took him]". In fact, he noted Sokka had "destination fever", being that Sokka was only concerned with arriving at Omashu. Chong's instrument of choice was the pipa; a pear-shaped, guitar-like instrument that had additional elaborate carving at the neck and pot.[1][2]
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- 202. "The Cave of Two Lovers"
- Chong's name relates to the Chinese-Canadian actor and musician, Tommy Chong, who famously starred in the marijuana-themed Cheech and Chong comedy movies.
- Chong and his companions appeared to be the Avatar World's version of hippies.
- He appeared in the non-canon book Love Potion #8, the third of the Ready-to-Read series.
- Chong and his gang of nomads were briefly mentioned as a source of knowledge for the play The Boy in the Iceberg.[3]
- Chong's right sleeve was tied and hung downward, acting as a bag.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hamilton, Joshua (writer) & MacMullan, Lauren (director). (March 24, 2006). "The Cave of Two Lovers". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 2. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com (link). No longer updated.
- ↑ Hedrick, Tim, Hamilton, Josh, O'Bryan, John (writers) & Volpe, Giancarlo (director). (July 18, 2008). "The Ember Island Players". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 17. Nickelodeon.


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Lionpaw makes a friend—and a discovery—that must be kept hidden; Jaypaw learns a secret that could benefit ThunderClan only by bringing harm to others; and Hollypaw knows something that could avert a battle, if only she could convince the rest of her Clan. Prophecy looms, ominous forces threaten to tear them apart, and each young cat discovers darkness: in the past, in the Clans—and in themselves.
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I attended the opening night's performance of Dracula. I don't like to attend opening nights because the later performances are almost better, but there are circumstances beyond my control that are limiting my options.
Anyway, the performance was pretty good, but it was easy to tell which dancers had danced their parts in previous years. We got the 'A' cast, with principles Sharon Wehner as Mina Harker, Maria Mosina as Lucy, Igor Vassine as Dracula, and Alexei Tyukov as Lucy's fiance, along with soloists Viacheslav Buchkovskiy as Jonathan Harker and Jesse Marks as Renfield. Retired principle dancer Gregory Gonzalez returned again to play Dr. Van Helsing. This was the first year that Maria Mosina has been cast for the most part as Lucy (in past years she had only played Lucy in the final performance), so she was able to add more development to that role. Since 2 of the most important dances in the ballet are duets between Dracula and Lucy, this casting meant that these very important parts were performed by dancers who have been paired together regularly for about a decade. IMHO, they were able to step these dances up a notch over what had been done in previous years.
The down side, besides that I didn't get much sleep the night before and couldn't get into the performance the way that I could if I was more rested, was the audience. It was by far the worst audience at any serious performance (by that I mean besides movies and rock concerts) that I've ever attended. LOTS of people talking during the performance (I finally told the 20-something women in the row in front of me that if they had only come to talk they could do it in lobby). LOTS of people returning late from the intermissions (with 2 20-minute intermissions, there was plenty of time to take care of anything that needed to be taken care of). And an unfortunate elderly man who was sitting in the center of one of the front rows who took ill, tried to leave during the middle of the last scene of the first act, and collapsed in the aisle. Probably not his fault, but it ruined one of the most powerful parts of the ballet.
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P.S. Before the performance, I told the 30-ish couple sitting next to me that I had seen Dracula 12 times before. Afterwards, the woman said to me, "We understand why you've seen it so many times."
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You're unlikely to find a 15-year-old with a bucket list, but Kinsey Morrison has been checking her list since defeating three life threatening illnesses.
This year, the St. Francis High School sophomore will cross off another item, though it's not one she had originally planned. Kinsey was chosen to sit for a pastel portrait created by Gaela Erwin, artist-in-residence at St. Francis High School, who will auction off her painting at Imagine 2012, a major art fundraiser for St. Francis High School.
"I had to select from seven or eight students, and I know Kinsey and I just thought she'd be great," Erwin said.
Last year, Erwin raised $3,000 for the school's scholarship fund with her painting of another St. Francis student, Noor Ambure, a refugee from Somalia.
"The sole purpose of Imagine is to help provide scholarship funds for our students, and St. Francis is quite unique in its commitment to scholarships and financial aid," said Alexandra Thurstone, head of St. Francis High School. "It really is our goal that any student who is admitted to the school is able to attend regardless of their financial circumstances."
Kinsey too is a recipient of a scholarship, which she greatly needed after her family went into a quarter of a million dollars in medical debt. "Because of the scholarship fund and everything St. Francis was willing to do for us, I get to come here and absolutely love it," Kinsey said.
A current class representative, member of the Quick Recall and Math League team, a varsity bowler and forward on the field hockey team, you'd never guess by looking at Kinsey that she was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and once told she wouldn't live past age five.
"It's a blood cancer basically," Kinsey said. "But, with cancer you have bad cells in your body; with what I had, you just produce no cells at all. On Mother's Day of 2002, my parents were told I had four weeks to live. Then I underwent 27 months of chemotherapy. There was no match in the world for me."
In a frantic search to save Kinsey's life, her two mothers, Audrey and Karen, delivered a daughter via surrogate who would serve as a donor for Kinsey should she be a perfect match. Against the odds, Kinsey's sister Teagan was a match, but miraculously, at the 11th hour, Kinsey suddenly went into remission and no longer needed a donor transplant – a case so puzzling, her story was printed in The National Enquirer.
Despite the miracle, six years later, Kinsey would again fight for her life. "When I was 11 my heart stopped seven times in one day," Kinsey said. "I have a really weird immune system. I got a virus and it went a little overboard and attacked my heart. It stopped three times in Sam's Club and we later switched to Costco," she joked.
Health scare No. 2 was defeated by emergency surgery, but Kinsey's fight wasn't over, as half a year later, she was diagnosed with graves disease due to a hyperactive thyroid.
"A lesser cookie would have crumbled," said Kinsey's mother, Audrey Morrison. "She fought everything."
Once she overcame her third health scare, Kinsey ran a mini marathon to prove nothing could stop her. Now a clean bill of health, she has since become an experienced public speaker – another task not commonly completed by many 15-year-olds.
"Because of my crazy, long health history I do public speaking," Kinsey said. "It's awesome for me because I enjoy doing it but also I get to spread my message to so many different people in so many different facets."
In her speeches, Kinsey teaches the importance of living life to the fullest, or having "a bucket list state of mind."
"You can tell it's kind of changed my perspective," Kinsey said. "I have so many things on my bucket list because I do plan to live till I'm 105 so I can see three centuries, but there's also that urgency of I've got to get it done now."
Before high school is over, Kinsey would like to graduate with a GPA above a 4.0, get accepted into her dream college, and speak before congress. "That's my biggest public speaking goal, but whether that will happen before high school or later, I would really like it."
She has also pledged a million dollars to Kosair Charities and Gilda's Club, where her mom, Karen, is president and CEO. "I'm thinking somewhere I'm going to become a millionaire," Kinsey laughed. "I haven't really planned that out yet. But my mom always says, 'You'll never be a millionaire because you'll give so much of it away.'"
For now, Kinsey can check off competing in a Jeopardy-style match against super computer Watson at the 2011 Idea Festival and playing a wicked stepsister in the Kids Acting Against Cancer production of Cinderella. That, and all she's involved with at St. Francis, including her speaking engagements, one of which will be at Imagine 2012.
"Triple-booked is like my middle name," she joked. "I try to do the best I can and prioritize everything. I put intensity into everything I do. (I live with) a mixture of fear all the time but also just this intensity to live no matter what and not let any fear hold me back."
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Louisville's premier art auction, Imagine 2012, will be held Friday, Feb. 3, at the Henry Clay.
The fundraiser will showcase art and jewelry from well-known and popular artists both in Louisville and around the world. Funds from the event's live and silent auctions will go toward the independent, private school's scholarship fund. Forty percent of St. Francis High School students receive financial aid scholarships.
Vicki Rogers, Lite 106.9 midday host, will emcee the event, along with chief meteorologist at WAVE-TV, Kevin Harned, who will also act as auctioneer for the live auction.
Guests can arrive at 6:30 p.m. and enjoy a seated dinner and participate in both the live and silent auctions, or arrive later at 8:30 p.m. for the silent auction and dessert reception.
Tickets for the Imagine 2012 live and silent auction dinner are $150 per person. Dessert reception tickets are $75 per person. Tickets can be purchased through the school's Imagine 2012 reservation line at 502.736.1044 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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As members of Rigpa, the international network of centres and groups founded by Sogyal Rinpoche, we are fortunate to meet many eminent Buddhist teachers.
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From my understanding, the unity of spirit, soul, and body is considered to be a ὑπόστασις, or "person." But, what argument is there against the soul itself (apart from the body) being a ὑπόστασις? It seems the soul possesses reason. It exists by itself. So, why is it not considered to be a ὑπόστασις? Or, if it is considered to be a ὑπόστασις, by who and where is such an argument affirmed?
NOTE: To clarify, I mean, ὑπόστασις as an equivalent to Greek πρόσωπον and Latin persona as understood in Trinitarian creeds and theology.


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I admit, when I first heard about actress Angelina Jolie undergoing a double mastectomy to reduce her breast cancer risk, I thought the decision was a bit drastic. Sure, I'd heard of the BRCA gene mutations and how it increasted cancer risk, but I never really understood just how much it increases the risk and how effective removing the breasts really is in bringing the risk back down. That is, until I visited this week with Ginger Reaves, APRN, who does genetic counseling at the Cotton-O'Neil Cancer Center for our weekly medical segment.
Reaves gave me a pamphlet from Myriad Genetic Laboratories which spells out the risks the general population has of developing certain cancers versus the risk for people with the BRCA gene mutation. Most people have an 8 percent risk of developing breast cancer - it's up to 87 percent for the BRCA folks. And that's not all - ovarian cancer is up to 44 percent versus less than one percent; male breast cancer up to 8 percent versus .05; pancreatic cancer up to 7 percent versus less than one percent; and prostate cancer up to 20 percent versus 13 percent. Yes, men can be carriers, too.
Obviously, the risk increase of breast and ovarian cancer in women is the most startling. It also would stand to reason that, if you no longer have your breasts or ovaries, you wouldn't get the cancer. But I wanted to know from Reaves if that really was all you could do to protect yourself. The answer is that it's not - but, just as logic would tell you, it is the most effective. It's not foolproof - Reaves explained some residual breast tissue would remain. But it does reduce the risk by 90 percent or more. Likewise, removing the ovaries and uterus can lower the ovarian cancer risk for BRCA carriers up to 96 percent. Other options are the drug Tamoxifen, which lowers breast cancer risk 53 percent, or oral contraceptives, which lower ovarian cancer risk up to 60 percent.
If neither of those is feasible, Reaves says women can opt to simply increase screening. Instead of annual mammograms, they might be checked every six months with the addition of MRI screening. Instead of a basic annual pelvic exam, a doctor might add ultrasound screening of the ovaries and uterus to the routine. This approach won't prevent the cancer, but Reaves says it will catch it early, which ups the odds for successful treatment. Women with the gene who are young and still wanting to start (or complete) their families might find this a very viable approach, Reaves said.
The ovarian cancer risk is especially concerning because the disease is often called a silent killer. By the time a woman notices symptoms, it's often at an advanced stage, difficult to treat. Unlike breast cancer, this is no self-exam.
So, with all the Angelina Jolie talk, should we all run out and get tested for BRCA? Not so fast, Reaves said. First, only eight to ten percent of breast cancers are BRCA related. While having the gene does significantly increase your risk, the reality is that only a small percentage actually carries it. Screening involves a blood test or cheek swab. While that sounds simple enough, the test costs several thousand dollars. If you don't meet high-risk criteria to be a carrier, insurance will not cover the cost. Even then, it might be questioned. If you're concerned, talk to your doctor.
Reaves says Jolie's decision to publicly share her decision will raise awareness, which is a good thing. Women who are at highest risk need to be aware so they can weigh their options and arrive at decisions that are best for their individual situations. Knowledge is power and, after visiting with Reaves, I understand the thought process a whole lot better.
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If Part 2 of a five-state effort led by Georgia DNR hits its mark, about 52,000 acres of prime sandhills habitat will be restored from Florida to Mississippi by 2014.
That means thousands of acres rejuvenated through prescribed fire. Thousands of longleaf pines planted and invasive hardwoods and "off-site" pines removed. Dozens of species such as gopher tortoises and Bachman's sparrows helped.
It's a tall order, even though this habitat, also called dry or upland longleaf, rates as a conservation priority across the Southeast.
But the Multistate Sandhills/Upland Longleaf Ecological Restoration Project has in its favor a recent award of $981,000 from the State Wildlife Grants Competitive Program, plus the addition of Mississippi and Louisiana to an already strong lineup of Georgia, Alabama, Florida and supporting organizations.
The project also has a record of success. Two years into the first phase powered by a previous grant and matching money and work, partners are ahead of schedule, particularly in the prescribed burning critical to restoring ecosystems that require regular sweeps of fire.
"Alabama, Georgia and Florida have passed their three-year goals in two years," said Matt Elliott, project coordinator and a program manager with the DNR's Nongame Conservation Section.
Second-phase work will vary from more controlled burns on public and private lands to planting groundcover and longleaf pine, expanded monitoring of gopher tortoises, and continued teamwork with groups such as The Nature Conservancy and Georgia Power. The plans dovetail with the State Wildlife Action Plan, a comprehensive strategy guiding public and private efforts to conserve Georgia's biological diversity (details at www.georgiawildlife.com/conservation/wildlife-action-plan).
Objectives for restoration sites include increasing vegetation beneficial to tortoises and the breeding birds characteristic of higher-quality sandhills. Gopher tortoises will benefit, but population changes for this slow-reproducing species will take years.
More than 50 sandhills species need significant conservation measures.
Georgia DNR's focus will include prescribed fire and longleaf restoration at Townsend and other wildlife management areas, as well as on many new private sites. Elliott said interest from private landowners in using prescribed fire on their property has been a pleasant surprise. "There are a lot more people … than we have the capacity to (work with)."
Reaching across property and state lines is vital to boosting the quality, quantity and connectivity of sandhills.
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Since 2000, the State Wildlife Grants program has been the main funding source to help keep common species common and protect others before they become critically imperiled and more costly to recover from the brink of extinction. Administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, these grants enable DNR and its conservation partners to protect wildlife and wild places to maintain the state's natural heritage.
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Partners in the second phase of the sandhills restoration project include the Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi state wildlife agencies, The Nature Conservancy, The Orianne Society, Georgia Power, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Gopher Tortoise Council, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway, Fort Gordon and many private landowners.
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The sandhills project is another example of how buying a nongame license plate or donating to the Georgia Wildlife Conservation Fund through the state income tax checkoff and other ways supports wildlife conservation. Contributions benefit DNR's Nongame Conservation Section, which receives no state general funds for its mission to conserve wildlife not legally hunted, fished for or trapped, as well as rare plants and natural habitats in the state.
For more information, visit www.georgiawildlife.com/conservation or call Nongame Conservation offices in Social Circle (770-761-3035), Forsyth (478-994-1438) or Brunswick (912-264-7218). For details on The Environmental Resources Network, or TERN, a nonprofit advocacy group for Nongame Conservation, call the Forsyth office or go to http://tern.homestead.com/.


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According to Wikipedia, if a system has $50\%$ chance to be in state $\left|\psi_1\right>$ and $50\%$ to be in state $\left|\psi_2\right>$, then this is a mixed state.
Now consider state $\left|\Psi\right>=(\left|\psi_1\right>+\left|\psi_2\right>)/\sqrt2$, which is a superposition. Let $\left|\psi_i\right>$ be eigenstates of Hamiltonian. Then measurements of energy will give $50\%$ chance of it being $E_1$ and $50\%$ of being $E_2$. But this then corresponds to the definition above of mixed state! At the same time superposition is defined to be a pure state.
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The Masters golf tournament gets under way Thursday in Augusta, Ga., but history has already been made, if comically late. Earlier in the week, a photograph appeared of Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, standing before a practice green and those signature azaleas, wearing perhaps the most coveted outerwear in sport: the bright green jacket of the Augusta National Golf Club. This photographic evidence confirmed what the club had announced last summer, that Rice, along with investment banker Darla Moore, had been admitted for membership, the first women to enter in Augusta's nearly 80-year history.
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Augusta took its sweet, sweet time. The club's protectors always maintained ANGC's right to admit who they wanted, and they absolutely did have that right as a private club. A prior chairman, Hootie Johnson, responded to pressing about female membership by saying the club would not be forced to change "at the point of a bayonet." It was silly and stubborn—and also completely their prerogative.
But Augusta National wasn't merely a private club upholding its freedom to be backward. It wanted it both ways. Augusta wished to be left alone while it became a power center, capitalizing on a massive, global event. It wanted to play an activist role in the future of the sport, while resisting any inquiry into its own affairs. Don't be lulled by the folksy tales of pimento cheese sandwiches and free parking: The Masters is a thoroughly modern, high-tech, sponsorship-soaked event, eager to wield its influence. It even inserted itself as a moral authority: Remember club chairman Billy Payne scolding a scandalized Tiger Woods for failing to "live up to the expectations of the role model we saw for our children"?
The hubris was hilarious. Last year brought the surreal spectacle of Payne talking in a Masters news conference about "the absence of growth in golf" and how Augusta wanted to widen the sport's appeal and then becoming undone by questions about why his own club lacked a single female member.
How could Augusta be taken seriously?
Easy. The Masters is seductive—easily golf's most magnetic annual event. It's popular, lucrative, desired. And so its social timidity got brushed over with benign neglect. Why rock the boat? Television fixed its attention on the action within the ropes. Players offered little resistance. The sport itself was weak-kneed. The PGA Tour has rules prohibiting a tournament at any club that has a policy or a practice that discriminated against a racial minority or women. The Masters escaped PGA Tour disapproval because it wasn't a PGA event. A sport turned a cheek and pretended all was cool.
But the boys club was unsustainable. Augusta had to know it—the world had changed, the workplace had changed, and so had the boardroom. It seemed especially indefensible last year when it was reported that Augusta had yet to offer a membership to a new IBM CEO Virginia Rometty, despite a tradition of admitting male CEOs of the longtime Masters sponsor. This seemed like such a layup.
A couple of months later, the club announced its doors had opened, for Rice and Moore. (Though no news of Rometty's admission. You can't shake all the stubborn out of Augusta.)
Now the Masters gets to breathe easier. Exclusion is no longer an inconvenient subject. Now everyone gets to behave as if female members at Augusta is the greatest idea ever, as if it wasn't in 2012 or 2005 or 1990 or when they opened in 1933. "It's just awesome," Payne gushed at a televised news conference Wednesday.
In the past, Payne had declined to discuss women and Augusta, referring to it as a "membership issue." But his body language was undeniable. Defenders of Augusta will maintain that this was simply a club decision, like so many decisions before it, but Payne's visible relief told another story. This mattered. It was obvious.
But any celebration seems a bit much. It's ludicrous that a club hosting one of the most significant events in sports waited so long to meet the minimum standards of equality. Augusta should hope that its hesitation eventually gets forgotten, a speed bump in the slow push of progress. Women in green jackets may indeed be awesome. But it's not a breakthrough. It is simply catching up.
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CBC-MAC, with fixed length message.
Is it safe to return all ciphered blocks instead of the last?
My intuition says it is less secure, since is gives an attacker more information. But how could one attack this scheme?
I'll assumme All ciphered blocks means the same as ciphertext for CBC-Encryption with implicit zero IV, while CBC-MAC is the last block of that.
All ciphered blocks is unsafe as a message authenticator for messages longer than one block, for it succumbs to a trivial attack (here with two blocks):
The verifier will then accept as valid $M'$ and its authenticator $A'$ just as well as $M$ and its authenticator $A$.
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I see both used, at times, almost interchangeably. What are the general guidelines?
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As reported by the NOAD, into has the following meanings:
onto means:
As side note, in some cases it is correct to write onto, but in some cases it is correct to write on to.
kiamlaluno's answer is comprehensive. A simplified answer is
means A is somehow inside B and enclosed by it.
means B has a horizontal surface on top of which A now rests.
It's the difference between in and on.
You get into a cockpit and onto a highway. We go in to be able to say we were here but we are always the ones who move on to the next one.
Inside the cockpit, on top of the highway. We go in(side) (in order) to be able to say we did it; when you are ready to move on to something better let me know; I'll get you onto the waiting list.


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I've read that Latins considered the Etruscans as a plague. However, it seems that the Etruscans (being peaceful merchants) were more civilized and educated than the Latins.
The Etruscan civilization is certainly enigmatic, but they did have - as all other civilizations of the era - a persistent military tradition, which included a series of major conflicts with the Romans. A lot of military or military related concepts & practices that are today commonly associated with the Romans are actually Etruscan borrowings. A notable example is the Triumph, at least according to Strabo (Geography 5.2.2):
That said, most of what we know about the Etruscans comes from Livy (59 BC – AD 17), and apparently he was more interested in glorifying his own people (and vilifying their enemies, including the Etruscans), than getting his facts straight. One of his (many) known errors was the claim that the Etruscans hailed from Northern Europe, a claim that contradicted the (much earlier) view of Herodotus that they were of Aegean / Anatolian origin. Herodotus side of the story was verified (more or less) in 2007 when a study showed that mitochondrial DNA Variation of modern Tuscans supported the near eastern origin theory.
I can't find a specific reference that the Latins considered the Etruscans "a plague", however describing the Etruscans as "peaceful merchants" is not exactly accurate either. Given that they often clashed with the Romans and that Livy's works were widely circulated at the time, it's not unreasonable to suggest that - at least for a time - the Romans viewed the Etruscans unfavourably. They were, after all, conquered, and history is usually written by the victors.
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If I can transfer a fire, can I light a new fire on yom tov? What's the difference between lighting a new fire and transferring a fire? Aren't they part of the same melacha?? The melacha is to create a fire or burn something!
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The Torah says "what is consumed by all people" is work that can be done on yomtov.
The Biblical prohibition on "burning" is in fact not in force on yomtov (i.e. "no-work" holidays other than Yom Kippur, when not on Saturday), provided it's for the right cause (more below). But creating a new fire is a separate problem of "generating", which is a rabbinic prohibition. (It does help remind you that it's still not a usual work day.) But you are correct that on Shabbos or Yom Kippur, it would be the same Biblical prohibition of "burning" whether you strike a match or touch an existing flame to a candle.
On yomtov, it is permissible to transfer an existing flame to cook food (to be consumed on that specific day of yomtov, by Jews), warm up a room (e.g. fireplace), light a candle, or use hot water to wash your hands and face as those are all considered "appreciated by all people." Not very long ago, smoking tobacco products had been seen as "universally appreciated" by the folks who brought you the Marlboro Man, but most of today's rabbis aren't buying it. Using hot water to shower your whole body hadn't been seen as "universally apppreciated" in medieval France, but many rabbis are reconsidering. (Now Ramban felt there was a specific rabbinic prohibition on showering ... but that's beyond the scope of this question.)
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See Mishna in tractate Beitza page 33a: "One may not bring forth fire from wood, stones, earth, tiles nor water etc."
Shulchan Aruch Harav ch. 502:1 explains the reasoning, since creating fire is considered "Nolad" (creating something new) versus lighting from a pre-existing flame which does not bring forth something new into this world (which is forbidden on Yom Tov).
The Rambam (Shevisas Yom Tov 4:1) writes that the reason one may not kindle a new flame on Yom Tov is because one could just as easily do it beforehand.
We find a similar idea with various Yom Tov related rabbinic prohibitions, such as cutting hair on chol hamoed, which one may not do because one could just as easily do it beforehand, and allowing people to wait may potentially cause a lack of honor to the holiday (Moed Katan 14a; Rambam ibid 7:17).


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As the title states, would the One Time Pad (OTP) be considered a cryptographic hash function?
No, OTP would not be considered a cryptographical hash function.
First, lets agree on what an OTP is. It's a character-by-character replacement function that relies on one key character per cleartext character. An OTP that reuses key material even one time can be broken (see Venona). While it may seem obvious from the name, it's an absolute requirement that the key material be used one and only one time.
Next, let's agree on the properties of a cryptographic hash. A message that is hashed must yield a digest value. It must be infeasible to recover the cleartext value of the message knowing only the digest, it must be infeasible to select a cleartext message that produces a specific digest, and it must be infeasible to produce two cleartext messages that yield the same digest. And, most importantly for this discussion, the algorithm must be deterministic, meaning hashing the same message must yield the same digest value each time it is run given the same message. If this were not true, message digests could not be used for comparing two messages, and hybrid cryptographic functions such as digital signatures would not work.
Therefore, a cryptographic hash function needs to be run more than once to meet its requirements. Yet we know there are security risks running an OTP more than once. Either you reuse the key material for each digest produced and risk compromising the key, or you use new key material for each message hashed and destroy the valuable property of determinism. Because neither of these choices is viable, an OTP is unsuitable for use as a cryptographic hash.
OTP is reversible, and so it's useless as a cryptographic hash function. The answer really is that simple.
Unlike what poncho says, cryptographic hash functions can take keys. And, the cryptographic hash functions' output is not constant (it depends on the security parameter or the size of the key). In many practical examples like SHA-1 or SHA-256, keys are implicit with their sizes fixed and the output size is fixed.
In any case, OTP is an encryption system with perfect secrecy. And it's not possible to realize this in practice (because it requires keys to of same length as message that you are encrypting). However there are schemes that are essentially OTP but use pseudorandom number generators to generate the key that is used to encrypt the message. Those encryption schemes are semantically secure.
One can definitely build a collision-resistent hash function starting from any semantically secure encryption. Look at an introduction to cryptography book for such constructions.


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WHEELING - Ryan Kirker is a free man after new forensic evidence emerged showing he did not write letters threatening to kill President Barack Obama and his family.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Preston Bailey on Friday granted U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld's motion to dismiss the charges against Kirker without prejudice - meaning they could be re-filed at a later date.
"My office filed a motion to dismiss after we determined there is not enough evidence to proceed against Mr. Kirker at this time," Ihlenfeld said. "A U.S. Secret Service forensic handwriting analysis revealed that the defendant was not the author of the threatening letters."
He said a second forensic handwriting analysis from a private laboratory obtained by Kirker's attorneys, Don Yannerella and Quan Le, also confirmed that Kirker did not write the letters.
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Federal agents arrested Kirker, 21, of McMechen, in May after the White House received the letter in April. The letter, addressed to "President B. Obama," included specific threats to the president, as well as his daughters and first lady Michelle Obama.
Secret Service agents said at least one letter sent to the White House closed with the phrase, "KKK forever."
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