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Is it possible to make Unity 2D launcher icons smaller or larger than the default size?
There is a way to make the icons smaller, however the icons are surrounded by backlit that's always 54x54 px and you can't shrink that, it's hard coded. What you can do is this:
The slider for resize icons - Launcher is not available in ubuntu-2d (Unity 2D) session. So I assume you are using Unity 2D.
An ascertainment of which session you use , would be
command in terminal.
If you want to resize the Launcher - Icons in Ubuntu-2d (Unity 2D) session you must "hack" some items manually.
Carefully read and carefully apply bellow changes.
Open the terminal and do
find this entry
and change the width to 52.
Save - close and then again
find the entry
and change the sourcesSize.width and sourceSize.height to 32
save - close the file and then again
find the section
and change the titeSize to 40 and selectionOutlineSize to 52.
Save the file and logout - login for changes take effect.
Enjoy and be aware that with an update in the future maybe (not for sure) these values returned to defaults.
This procedure was previously described here in March 2012: Changing icon size in Unity 2d Ubuntu 12.04.
There is a little script to change the size of the Unity-2d launcher items. Download the script from the forums (you need to login to download the file).
Then make the file executable:
Use the script to change the size of the Unity-2D launcher item:
Here, I have used 32 as an example. You can use other icon sizes as you wish.
Original answer:
As of writing this answer, it is not possible to change the size of the launcher icons easily. Georgi's hackish method is the best possible way to change the icon size.
The feature to change the icon size is still not fully developed yet and hopefully, it will land in for 12.04.
See https://answers.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+question/175008.
You can change icon size in 12.04. Go to the forums and see my post on this in the Desktop Environments forum


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Deane E. Nutzman, 91, of Nehawka died Oct. 9, 2012 at the Louisville Assisted Living Facility in Louisville. He was born Aug. 9, 1921 at Omaha to Eugene and Emma (St. John) Nutzman. He married Mary Lou Garrison June 3, 1950 at Union.
He is survived by wife Mary Lou Nutzman of Nehawka; sons Dale Nutzman and wife Nancy of Plattsmouth and Mark Nutzman and wife Beth of Nehawka; daughter Kay Gerdes and husband Charles of Weeping Water; brother Ned Nutzman of Nebraska City; six grandchildren, Matthew Nutzman, Brandi Sutko, Kent Nutzman, Kate Nutzman, Heath Lindsey and Heather Weideman; seven great grandchildren, Graham Nutzman, Colton Nutzman, Amelia Sutko, Tristan Lindsey, Kael Lindsey, Haley Weideman and Emmy Weideman; numerous nieces and nephews, many other relatives and friends.
He was preceded by sisters Mildred Nutzman and Janet Young and husband Kirk; and sister-in-law Marianna Nutzman.
He lived in the Nehawka area his entire life. He was a farmer and member of Nehawka United Methodist Church, Nehawka American Legion, Nebraska City Elks Lodge and Western Star Lodge No. 2, A.F. & A.M.
Deane also formerly served on the Nehawka Methodist Church Board, Nehawka School Board and the Nehawka Farmers Coop Board.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Nehawka United Methodist Church with Rev. Sandy Webster officiating. Burial will be at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery - Nehawka.
Memorials are suggested to Nehawka United Methodist Church or Nehawka Rescue Squad.
Visitation is 1-9 p.m. Friday at the Marshall Funeral Chapel in Nebraska City with a Masonic service at 6 p.m. The family will greet friends following the Masonic service until 8 p.m.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.marshallfuneral.com.Marshall Funeral Chapel of Nebraska City is in charge of arrangements.
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6 Terrifying Real Speeches That Were Thankfully Never Given
#3. Nixon Refuses to Resign
While sideways Nixon was busy accepting responsibility for the failure of the moon landing in the alternate universe, regular Nixon was still also screwing things up. The Watergate scandal may not have been the biggest dick move in Nixon's presidency, but it certainly was the most public. Yes, breaking into a hotel late at night may not sound quite as bad as sabotaging peace talks in Vietnam or trying to assassinate a journalist with LSD, but goddamnit, trying to cover it up is apparently worse than all those things put together.
Richard Nixon, the George Washington of liars.
As Congress prepared impeachment proceedings, Nixon had two options: fight for his presidency even if it meant trashing every single shred of integrity to his office, or spare the nation a lengthy impeachment process by resigning. Sure enough, Nixon and his speechwriters considered the latter "Option B," and that is the speech he gave to the nation on August 8, 1974, when he resigned the presidency.
"In conclusion, America, if you want beef then bring the ruckus; Wu-Tang clan ain't nothin' to fuck with.
Thank you, and God Bless America."
It's a fairly standard bullshit-artist speech. He starts off explaining how he's not going to stand up and explain himself, and then he spends about four paragraphs explaining himself. He used a whole lot of safe, "firmly believe that I have not committed any act of commission or omission that justifies removing a duly elected President from office," kind of language. He never outright says he's innocent, just subtle variations on "I'm pretty sure I don't think I did anything wrong, in my opinion." That way, regardless of the outcome, he can still exit the other side saying, "Well, I still believe I didn't do anything wrong. Conscience: Clear."
He goes on to get all martyr-y, explaining that he's going to get into a long trial and investigation instead of resigning because that's more in the spirit of the American constitutional process. "Look, I'd resign right now, folks, but I'm just so god damned American that I couldn't do it in good conscience. I owe it to this amazing country of ours. Let's hear it for America, am I right?"
"Any other country would have shot me."
The Most Chilling Part:
That "Option B" was Option B! That was his backup plan. Also, the part where Nixon desperately tries to make the case that his resignation would only lead to a string of resignations "on every future president who might, for whatever reason, fall into a period of unpopularity." What a cowardly threat. "Look, if I quit, then you'll also lose all of the good presidents who come after me!" What a dickish thing to do. Also dickish? Burglary, attempted murder and destroying evidence like the Watergate tapes and blaming it on your secretary.
Rose Mary Woods, demonstrating how completely full of shit she is.
What Hearing It Would Have Meant:
Had Nixon delivered this originally intended broadcast, it would have kicked off a constitutional war the likes of which the country would not see again until, well, you know ...
Not pictured: Cigar.
By the summer of 1974, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon, and on August 9 the Watergate prosecution team was debating whether or not to indict the president. Even Nixon's buddies like Strom Thurmond were forced to tell him that their mutual hatred for black people and Jewish people would not be enough to keep the Solid South behind him.
In short, Richard M. Nixon would have been forced out of the White House, kicking and screaming in a matter even more embarrassing than his current reputation in Futurama and among the Jury of the Damned.
#2. Lincoln Loses Reelection, Sets His Stopwatch
Despite his current reputation as a cartoon character and Geico subject, the truth is that Abraham Lincoln's reelection chances initially looked pretty grim. By 1864 the American Civil War had entered its bloodiest year, General Ulysses S. Grant had been forced to a standstill outside of Richmond and even Lincoln's own party was beginning to consider the abolition of slavery a losing issue. All the worse, facing Lincoln in the election would be the same George B. McClellan that Lincoln had previously fired for being so bad a general that the Vice President of the Confederacy described his nomination as "the first ray of light I have seen from the North since the war began." It was the last, and arguably the best, chance the South ever had to win the Civil War: by convincing the North that the war was lost and by voting Lincoln out of office.
Seriously ... Fuck ... This ... Man ...
In Lincoln's own words, just three months before the election, "I am going to be beaten ... and unless some great change takes place, badly beaten." As such, he prepared a sealed document for his cabinet to open in the event that the unthinkable became real: that George B. McClellan was elected president. It was not a concession speech and it was not even close to congratulatory. It was his last-ditch game plan to win the Civil War, no matter what the cost or loss of life, before the incoming president could uphold his party platform and establish an immediate armistice with the South.
From Lincoln's point of view, the fate of the United States was in his giant, super-freak hands.
He told his entire cabinet that he was almost positive that he would lose and would spend his remaining time in office trying to help heal the Union, no matter what. He knows he's done for, so he's going to use the last of his time running around and just going crazy. Shit. It's like a presidential version of Crank.
"Half of my body mass is in cocaine."
What a cool guy.
The Most Chilling Part:
Where Lincoln says that his opponent "will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards." He would help the incoming president if it came down to it, but he genuinely believed that, if he wasn't reelected, no one would be able to heal America. Meaning that the United States had until noon, March 4, 1865 to win the Civil War, otherwise there would no longer be a United States south of the nation's capital.
Civil War Daily Gazette
Like this, only for keeps.
What Hearing It Would Have Meant:
While we do not know the details of Lincoln's Hail Mary against the South, there are two very likely possibilities: an all-out assault with an immense loss of life, or, as nearly happened in 1864, an ending to the war worthy of The Godfather. It is debated that Lincoln had actually attempted a hit job against Jefferson Davis as part of the so-called Dahlgren Affair. Among its details ...
"An address to his troops on Cavalry Corps stationery was even more explicit: 'The City it must be destroyed and Jeff. Davis and Cabinet killed.'"
We know what you are thinking and the answer is yes: Abraham Lincoln was seriously that cold in private.
Oh, but he could be tender.
Fortunately, none of this came to pass, since Lincoln finally got the big break he needed when General William T. Sherman captured Atlanta on September 2, just days after McClellan and his Copperhead allies convened their defeatist platform. With the South now precisely where Lincoln wanted it, Sherman promised to personally "make Georgia howl" for the president. Lincoln approved Sherman's plan for a "March to the Sea" in yet another display of badassery, which ushered Sherman into the annals of American history as the most hated man in the South and Lincoln back to his desk for a second term.
#1. The Doomsday PSAs
According to the 1992 Time magazine article "The Doomsday Blueprints," the Mount Weather doomsday hideaway President Eisenhower had Dr. Strangelove build into Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains contained a vault with prerecorded PSAs to air in the event of full-scale nuclear war. Interestingly, these videos included survival instructions for the nation recorded by television personality and Chesterfield cigarettes spokesperson Arthur Godfrey.
The man who nearly played the role of one of the angels from Revelation.
Up until last May, an underground meteorological station at the site issued daily reports on wind direction and speed, plotting potential radiation patterns. The site's television studio is prepared to provide the President -- or his successor -- a national audience over the Emergency Broadcast System. Throughout the Eisenhower Administration -- and for years after -- a vault held tape-recorded addresses by both Eisenhower and celebrity Arthur Godfrey. The prerecorded message was concise: The country has come under nuclear attack, but the government continues to function.
In addition, a number of prominent newsmen who had taken oaths of secrecy had agreed to accompany the president to the relocation site of his choosing and lend their familiar names and faces to help calm the surviving audience.
According to an interview with former CBS president Frank Stanton obtained by the Cold War-crazed website CONELRAD in 2004, these PSAs not only "absolutely" existed, but Eisenhower had more than one of them made. PSAs were recorded not only by Arthur Godfrey but also by Edward R. Murrow, which more or less guarantees that part of the country's contingency plan for nuclear holocaust included smoking lots and lots of Chesterfield cigarettes.
"And now a word from our sponsors ..."
The Most Chilling Part:
We're guessing the part that went "the country has come under nuclear attack," since this was essentially the ending for humanity Terminator 3 was preparing us for all along.
"This ends the portion of history where you remain alive."
What Hearing It Would Have Meant:
Assuming you possessed the foresight to hide things out in a lead-lined fridge, that you had just been cast as either "Man," "Boy" or Guy Pearce in The Road.
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As stated by the title, what is the difference in years of experience in given language in terms of developers? For example, if one developer has had five years working with language A and the other developer has had two years working with language B followed by three years working with language A, would there be perceivable difference between them?
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"it depends"
Experience <> knowledge or understanding.
Programmer 1 could be very good, a guru even, or they could be someone fumbling around with the language for the last 5 years.
Programmer 2 could be someone who understands concepts independently of language they're using. Or someone who found language B too difficult and hopes A is easier.
Coding Horror's "The Years of Experience Myth" is worth reading
It depends.
I have a friend who tends to stick to one language, so if you considered him "programmer A" he's got 1 year of experience with that language, five times.
Different languages let you do different things. One essay I particularly like is called "Beating the Averages" by Paul Graham. In it he is trying to convince people to learn lisp, but he also makes some very useful points:
Generally, my advice is to learn more than one language, and to learn what languages' strengths and weaknesses are.
Of course, the developer who has more years of experience in one language will have a better understanding of the core libraries and idiosyncrasies of that language. If the languages embrace the same paradigm (imperative vs functional) then they should not have any more trouble picking up that language other than learning that.
My greatest difficulty picking up a new language came from trying to switch from C# to Erlang, because it represented not only a new syntax but a new way of thinking about programming as well.
Here is what I would expect/hope:
Languages aren't the issue. You can learn an entire language in a couple of days. What takes longer to absorb are the conventions, APIs and various third-party frameworks. When people ask for five years of X, they don't care about the language, they want someone that has a lot of experience solving problems in and with that language so that they don't have to pay for any of the learning curve.
Expertise and deliberate practice.
If you don't practice deliberately, you will not gain expertise. (You must examine your errors and correct them, practice what you are weak at, and having an expert to tell you what you are doing wrong helps too.)
If you don't try to improve, you can be a newbie forever!
After ten thousand hours of deliberate practice, you'll achieve expertise. (This finding from education/training is all over the net.)
If your programmer A hasn't been deliberately practicing, they never get better.
If your programmer B hasn't been deliberately practicing, they never get better.
One other finding from the same research: that if I've got 15000 hours and you've got 10000, and I keep practicing and so do you, you will never be better than me.
Knowing two languages will probably make B a better programmer (subject to practice rules).
And you're using them for language A, I assume? (Clearly, there would be a difference in language B.)
It partly depends on the differences between A and B (particularly if we shorten the second developer's experience with A). If they're fairly similar, there will be essentially no difference in experience. If A has considerably different concepts, three years is still likely enough to learn them. Given a very large library and complicated tools, there may be a difference between three and five years.
Of course, what matters most here is the individual. A good developer can learn a new platform thoroughly in three years, and so this shouldn't be an issue.
I would agree that language is language and concepts are concepts.
My problem is that there are a large number of programmers these days that without a sophisticated IDE they could not program at all. They are really not programmers but are really more like designers.
I know from personal experience that there are a lot of people that have been seduced by the draggy - droppy Microsoft development environment. It is not Wrong that they drop a textbox onto the screen then set the properties with the wizard and drag the data from a picture of the database, but are they really coders in any language if all they do is set up basic equality tests?
Those folks are never going to be able to take the Concepts they have learned and apply them to another language.
When I Interview folks I am more interested in how they did their development and what frameworks they used. I like to ask questions like, "How do you write an event handler?", "How exactly do you put the data into the DB?", or even "How do I turn this particular button purple when I click it?" this will quickly weed out the designers and leave the programmers. I have found that 3 or 4 years actually programming with a year in my language of choice is sufficient for what I need.
Just another opinion,
"Years of experience in X language/platform" is largely a recruitment pathology...
It's open to interpretation and isn't anywhere near as useful as it looks at first glance. As has been said, the Years of Experience Myth is a good read.
Also, crucially, the measurement of "years of experience" itself can be very inaccurate. Here's an example from my current gig: my main task is developing and maintaining a Java web app. However, this runs off a back end which is MFC/C++/SQL Server. Consequently I'm dealing with C++ code on a virtually daily basis too. BUT - this C++ experience is relatively superficial and maintenance-oriented, and I don't really write entire big components or programs from scratch in MFC/C++ anymore (I used to in previous roles though).
Can I still count these last 5 years as "5 years of C++ experience"? Maybe. Maybe not. Depending on how I want to sell it to secure a particular role, I can easily overplay it without outright lying, or I can admit that it wasn't really a 5 solid "years of C++ experience". :) I'm sure plenty of cases out there are similarly open to this kind of "inaccuracy of measurement" problem. Depth of experience can grossly cloud the quality of experience. So an "X amount of time spent with C++" doesn't mean much in itself.
Yes, Programmer 1 has no syntax knowledge of language B.
Programming concepts are programming concepts. The language is merely syntax.


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For a list of all current Kirtland Community College courses and their equivalent Wayne State University courses, please click on the link below to download the Equivalency Guide for Kirtland Community College. Adobe Reader is required to view this document.
Transfer plans for Kirtland Community College students are listed below. The plans are grouped according to the Wayne State University school or college that offers each program and then listed in alphabetical order. Clicking on the name of a school or college will direct you to the web site for that school or college. Clicking on the name of a program listed under a school or college will open the transfer plan for that program.
- College of Education
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I blocked a directory in my site that is not secret but meant for internal discussions that are not relevant for search engine results. After running "Search as Google" at Google Webmaster Tools, the result was a 301 - Moved Permanently. Is this supposed to happen or can this be a black hat cause for my website?
There are many ways to restrict access to content on your site. A lot of Content Management Systems issue a permanent redirect to a generic "You are not allowed" page or the homepage in that case.
Let's say your software verifies that you previously logged in at example.com/login/ when you try to access example.com/index.php?id=123. If you did not, it redirects you to example.com/login. Some tools let you stay on the page (...index.php?id=123) but display a login screen for authentication, verify the credentials you submit and then display the content.
But this is all just convenient for the users. The software could also block with a HTTP response code (like 403) with or without a human readable description about the cause.
What you probably want as you say it's a directory: Create an entry in your robots.txt to disallow bots access to it. This way they know they should not index the page or content below that directory (it's not for the general public anyway).


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The book I'm reading doesn't provide the definition of degree of an isogeny and I failed to google it. Can anyone tell me?
An isogeny $f:A \rightarrow A'$ induces a map $f^*:\overline{k}(A') \rightarrow \overline{k}(A)$ on function fields which is necessarily injective. We define the degree of $f$ to be the degree of the extension $\overline{k}(A)/\overline{k}(A').$
Equivalently, if $x$ is any point of $A',$ we can pull back $x$ along $f,$ and obtain a divisor $$\sum_{P \in f^{-1}(x)} e_P(f)P.$$ The degree of $f$ is the degree of this divisor. Because $f$ is a homomorphism this degree is independent of $x.$
If $f$ is separable (which occurs when $char(k)\not|Deg(f)),$ then $f$ is etale and so $Deg(f) = |f^{-1}(0_{A'})| = |ker(f)|.$
Let E be an elliptic curve with a p-torsion point which is denoted by P. If you define ϕ:E→E/⟨P⟩ then if ϕ is separable, then the degree of isogeny is the order of the kernel which is given p=#⟨P⟩.


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MARTINS FERRY A traumatic series of events has turned into a happy ending for one local canine as the dog that survived the raging house fire on Vineway St. on Tuesday evening now has a permanent home.
It's fitting that the dog, now known as Sparky, will reside in the home of one of the brave men who helped battle the blaze he was trapped in.
Following the fire, the dog was taken in by a local family to foster after Fire Chief Jack Regis learned that the dog's previous owner no longer wished to keep the dog.
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Seven-year-old Lanee Matz and her sister 9-year-old Alivia play with Sparky inside their Martins Ferry home. Their father, Justin Matz, a captain with the Martins Ferry Fire Department's Vigilants Engine Company, decided to adopt the dog after he was rescued from a Tuesday night blaze in town.
An outpouring of support on the Martins Ferry Concerned Citizens Facebook group led to an all-out search for new home for Sparky.
In the interim, Dr. Robert Carr of the Martins Ferry Animal Hospital provided the dog free medical care. Kroger in Martins Ferry donated food, treats and toys and Beauty Barks Day Spa in town gave Sparky a free visit with the works.
"Seeing the dog on the Concerned Citizens' page, I had to try and give it a loving home," said Justin Matz, the captain of the Vigilants Engine Company and one of the many members of the Ferry Fire Department responding to battle the fire. "I asked my wife about it and she did not hesitate."
Safe to say, Sparky is not starving for attention.
The Matz family has three children, including 9-year-old Alivia and 7-year-old Lanee who were more than willing to give the dog all the affection it needed.
"I brought the dog home (Friday) afternoon and they didn't know about it until I brought him in the door," Matz said. "The girls love him already and I know he'll receive the love that he deserves."
Everything has seemed to come together for the dog which appears to be a mixture of labrador and golden retriever.
Fire crews began battled freezing temperatures at the Vineway St. residence around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday night when crew members noticed a glowing pair of eyes staring back at them from inside the house.
"I was on the first floor hitting hot spots and another crew was in the basement when the guys happened to see the glow in the dogs eyes as they passed their flashlight across the room," recalls Matz.
Huddled in the basement, the dog was freezing cold after the water used to battle the blaze began pooling on the bottom floor, where he was standing.
Firemen rushed the dog out of the house and into the cab of the Liberty Fire Company's No. 3 Engine to get him warm and away from danger.
The dug suffered some lung irritation from smoke inhalation and pictures from that evening showed he looked a little underfed.
But Matz reports he's eating well, playing with the girls and already adjusting to life in his new home.
"He's eating well, his tail is wagging fitting right in has not been a problem," Matz said. "I want to thank everyone that helped out with the donations, along with the foster family, for helping him out."
It's always said that people in the Ohio Valley rally to help out a fellow neighbor in need. It's evident that helping hand of assistance stretches beyond their fellow man and to all manners of creatures big and small.
There's one happy, playful canine in Martins Ferry today that can attest to that.
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SANTA CLARITA, Calif.-- The NAIA's No. 7 ranked Azusa Pacific women's tennis team opened the GSAC season with a resounding 9-0 win over The Master's on Tuesday. The Cougars, who opened the season with a major win over UC San Diego, lost just nine total games on the day, while sweeping four singles matches with a perfect mark.
In doubles the team of Emily Harris and Nakieta Hein was able to come away with an 8-1 win to open the day, while Leah Hoffee and Danae Ingwaldson posted an 8-2 victory. Natalie McNall teamed up with freshman Bethany Duval, who was making her first appearance, to notch an 8-2 win to wrap up doubles.
In singles play Hoffee, Harris, Ingwaldson, and Kim Koetterheinrich won convincingly with 6-0, 6-0 sweeps. Hein, who was making her Azusa Pacific debut, registered a 6-1, 6-1 sweep, as did McNall.
With the win the Cougars improve to 2-0 on the young season and travel to Fullerton for a match with Hope International on Saturday.
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Becker / Man vs Harris / Hein APU 8-1
Foerstel / Keith vs Hoffee/ Ingwaldson APU 8-2
Zaretsky / Forstall vs Mcnall / Duval APU 8-2
BECKER, Maggie vs NCNALL,Natalie APU 6-1, 6-1
FOERSTEL, Karli vs HOFFEE, Leah APU 6-0, 6-0
MAN, Tiffany vs HARRIS, Emily APU 6-0, 6-0
FORSTALL, Taylor vs HEIN, Nikita APU 6-1, 6-1
KEITH, Jennifer vs Ingwaldsen, Danae APU 6-0, 6-0
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Under The LightsWritten by on July 19, 2004 The 52nd Annual Detroit AutoRama
There is a definite level of excitement that carries through Cobo Hall when the doors first open for the annual Detroit AutoRama. As showgoers stream in, some of the first vehicles they see are the Great Eight contenders for the coveted Ridler Award.
The contenders are always top-notch and can easily overshadow the hundreds of other rods, customs, musclecars, and drag cars on display. While we think it is important to show you the Ridler contenders, it is also important to present some of the other fine entries, for without them the AutoRama never would have garnered its nationally known reputation.
These other entries are what make this a huge show, unequalled in size and every bit as popular this year as in preceding years, judging by the huge crowd. Unseasonably nice weather no doubt played a big role in attendance.
Competition is keen for the Ridler, probably the most coveted award in the rod and custom hobby, and judging is no easy task for members of the Michigan Hot Rod Association (MHRA). When the votes were counted, it was Al Brokly's bright-red Willys that took home the '04 Ridler.
As the show wound down and Al packed up his trophy, we thought we heard the buzzing of welders and turning of wrenches off in the distance. No doubt it was a new crop of Ridler contenders, already hard at work and dreaming about next year's AutoRama.
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This Steve Moal-built '32 Ford roadster, owned by the Hansen Family of Pleasanton, CA, was appropriately named "Seduced" and was a Great Eight contender.Ridler competition included this beautiful '34 Chevrolet built by Rutterz Rods for Rich and Paige Udell of Swan Lake, MT.Dubbed "Wizzard," this '41 Willys, owned by Anthony Osborn of Cedartown, GA, was a favorite in the Ridler competition. The green flames complement the bright-orange finish.Bill and Sue Keck of Dubuque, IA, enlisted the help of Avalon Body Shop to build their nicely detailed '41 Willys pickup which captured a nomination for the Great Eight in the run for the Ridler Award."Wild Rose" was listed as a '32 Chevrolet, entered by Theo Kuypers of Edmonton, AB, Canada, and was completed less than two weeks before the show. It was another fine choice for the Great Eight.Jim Kerrigan's '33 Ford roadster, built by Dominator Street Rods with a body designed by Thom Taylor, boasted a 4.6 DOHC Cobra engine and quickly caught the attention of MHRA Ridler contender judges.Flawless workmanship on Roy Pigford's '66 Chevy from Pasadena, TX, was evident with countless modifications, including relocated wheelwells. A 383 Lingenfelter 500hp engine provides power. The sedan was chosen for the Great Eight.Albert Brokly of Lansing, MI, has owned this '37 Willys (with a '41 nose) for 49 years, used to drag race it, and has spent the past 17 years building it for Ridler competition. The beautiful coupe and the Moal-built roadster were the two finalists for the Ridler Award. In the end, the Willys took the big trophy home.
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What is the group of outer automorphisms of $SL_n(\mathbb{Z})$. I wanted to understand semidirect products of the form $SL_n(\mathbb{Z})\rtimes_\varphi \mathbb{Z}$ and its isomorphism type depends only on $[\varphi]\in Out(SL_n(\mathbb{Z})$. There is always the conjugate inverse, which is clearly not an inner automorphism, as it doesn't preserve the minimal polynomial of the matrix (at least for $n\ge 3$). Are there any other outer automorphisms ?
As I suggested in my short comment, this kind of question has been around for a long time and has led to a vast amount of literature. It probably starts with work over fields by Schreier and van der Waerden in the 1920s, then considerable work by Dieudonne, O'Meara, and many others. Two indications about what's out there are a survey by O'Meara The integral classical groups and their automorphisms (1969) and a short paper by me dealing from the algebraic group viewpoint with groups like $SL_n(\mathbb{Q})$, On the automorphisms of infinite Chevalley groups, Canad. J. Math. 21 1969 908–911, the latter probably available online by now.
These are listed on MathSciNet, but I couldn't display the links there for some reason. I'll try to suggest more focused literature on your question when I get time today.
P.S. Ed Formanek has pointed to a basic early paper by Hua and Reiner here. Like many other papers on related automorphism groups, the emphasis is on identification of special types of automorphisms which suffice to generate the whole group: inner, "field" or "ring" (as in complex conjugation and the like), "graph" (as in transpose-inverse map for special linear groups), "diagonal" (as in the use of conjugation by diagonal matrices not of determinant 1 to produce automorphisms of a subgroup). Naturally the ring or field automorphisms play no role over the rational integers or rational numbers.
Conjugating by an element $Q \in GL_n(\mathbf{Z})$ is usually not inner, furthermore the graph automorphism $A \mapsto (A^T)^{-1} $ is not inner.
The phrase to google for is "automorphisms of Chevalley groups over rings" which in particular turns up recent work of Bunina.
By invoking Margulis superrigidity, for $n \geq 3$, any automorphism of $SL_n(\mathbf Z)$ extends to a rational automorphism of $SL_n(\mathbf Q)$. To show that the above-mentioned examples then are the only ones, one calculates the stabilizer of $SL_n(\mathbf Z)$ in $GL_n(\mathbf Q)$.
One possible approach (perhaps not the most elementary one) is to use Margulis' Superrigidity theorem. $\Gamma=SL_n({\mathbb Z})$ is a lattice in the simple Lie group $SL_n({\mathbb R})$ which has rank $n-1 \ge 2$ when $n \ge 3$. Now, if $\phi: \Gamma \to SL_n({\mathbb R}$ is a homomorphism such that $\phi(\Gamma)$ is Zariski dense, the above-mentioned theorem guarantees that $\phi$ extends to a {\it rational} homomorphism $\phi': SL_n({\mathbb R}) \to SL_n({\mathbb R})$. This condition is automatically satisfied here, so the problem boils down to characterizing the rational automorphism of $SL_n({\mathbb R})$. This is easy, because you can show that conjugations with matrices in $GL_n(\mathbb R)$ form a subgroup of index 2 there, and generate the full group with with $x \mapsto ^tx^{-1}$. You have to check which one of these will stabilize $SL_n({\mathbb Z})$. It is certainly in $SL_n({\mathbb Q})$ which is the commensurability subgroup. I have not checked this, but I guess that the normalizer here is exactly $SL_n({\mathbb Z})$.
The case of $SL_2(\mathbb Z)$ is probably more complicated. Superrigidity is certainly false, at least for some subgroups of finite index in $SL_2(\mathbb Z)$, since $SL_2(\mathbb Z)$ has free subgroups of finite index with a lot of automorphisms. If they do extend to $SL_2$ (I am not sure if this is the case) they you get an abundance of automorphisms that are not algebraic, and perhaps you cannot easily classify them.
See L. K. Hua and I. Reiner, "Automorphisms of the unimodular group", Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 71 (1951), 331-348.


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According to Stephen Cook on wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
...it would transform mathematics by allowing a computer to find a formal proof of any theorem which has a proof of a reasonable length, since formal proofs can easily be recognized in polynomial time. Example problems may well include all of the CMI prize problems.
This opinion seems to suggest that if in fact P = NP, then even the most notoriously difficult problems in mathematics would be essentially trivialized. So I am wondering are there any problems that are resistant to becoming 'easy' even if P = NP? For example, according to Cook, none of the seven Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium problems is an example of this.


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I have posted a question about the translation of μισέω in Romans 9:15, which quotes Malachi 1:2-3. To further dig into the question of whether "rejected" is a correct translation, I would like to know: Do we have textual evidence from other passages within the Old Testament or other Hebrew writings that would countenance the understanding of שָׂנֵא as meaning "rejected" in this text? Further comments on the interpretation of the Hebrew of Malachi 1:2-3 are welcome as well since my Hebrew does not extend much beyond a few dozen basic vocab words.
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Borrowing from my answer to your related question,
In Brown, Driver, Briggs Lexicon, they list the meanings of sone and its permutations as "hate, hatred, abhor, detest, foe, etc." They also note that it can be used in some cases for "revulsion/repulsed." The examples they give are 2 Sam 13:15, Dt 22:13, 16; and 24:3.
In the Deuteronomy verses, we see that she is being turned away and divorced. In that sense she is rejected.
R L Harris also says this in the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament.
Harris was the general editor of the work and added this paragraph to the entry on sone written by another scholar, G. V. G.
שנא always includes the meaning of rejection in the OT, but never loses its primary meaning of "hate". See Genesis 37:4, where "love" and "hate" contrast in the same verse about Joseph and his brothers.
There is no OT word for "rejection" in the sense that we use the word. The closest is עזב (azav), meaning to leave something, as in אישה עזובה a woman whose husband has left her (though not necessarily hated) often used allegorically to describe the relationship between the people of Israel and the Almighty.
Another similar word is יטש (yatash) meaning to abandon as in 1 Samuel 12:22, and Psalm 94:14. The latter verse uses both yatash first and then azav in classic Biblical parallelism.
The translation "turned against her" in Dt 22 and 24 is a daintiness for the Western ear. The simple meaning is hate, and in the case of Dt 22, the husband is not allowed to reject the wife, at least in the legal sense, although he hates her.


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Cubulation is a strong from of regularity for a group. Can the integer Heisenberg group be cubulated? If so, is there a simple, exact description of nonpositively curved cube complex with fundamental group quasi-isometric to Nil?


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I have been using an R1 pano head at 5 degrees tilt for years now. Looking into my spare parts box I found an R10 fixed at 5 degrees. I got a screaming deal a few years ago off of eBay, so I could not turn it down. Today I decided to see what it would take to put the R10 into service.
Going through the calibration exercise I found that the fore/aft setting was exactly the same for both the R1 and R10 pano heads. Good job thinking ahead Nick. (Nikon D800, Tokina 12-17, 5 degrees up tilt = 21mm)
Problem is that my 6" calibration disk I put between the rotator and tripod head was coming out saw toothed in the stitched pano.
Mind you pictures taken with the R10 slightly off center stitch ok, but when you are using a monopod you need to eliminate as much error in your set up as you can since you will be inducing NPP errors while taking pictures.
Now that I have been doing this for a few years I knew what adjustment needed to be made in order to have the disk come out nice and round.
I went out to my machine shop for yet another round of "modify the pano head". I turned the precision drilled holes into precision slots. I also elongated the counter sinks.
Now I have about 2mm side to side adjustment. I was able to dial in the pano head to the point where my calibration disk is nice and round, not pointy or lumpy.
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Besides, I have more than ten stacks of reference books on different subjects (mostly on physics) at home. My mom always says that I should have been a professional if I have read all the books. I actually don't think I can finish reading all of them in two years but I keep buying a lot of books.
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At Philippe Starck's Table
When designer Philippe Starck touches down in his native France after one of his many trips abroad, he heads not for the swanky shops of Le Marais or the Boulevard St. Michel but for the Marché aux Puces de St.-Ouen, on the outskirts of Paris.
Mr. Starck developed what has become the habit of a lifetime as a small child in the 1950s, exploring the famous flea market's narrow alleyways with his airplane-designer father, André.
"It was one of several outings my father used to take me on," says Mr. Starck, now a youthful-looking 63-year-old with several days' growth of beard and a pair of half-moon spectacles perched on the end of his nose. "I don't think he was at all interested by furniture or knickknacks; what interested him was building human relationships."
This sentiment lives on in Mr. Starck, who prizes the flea market for its unique atmosphere above all else. "The Marché aux Puces has always been for me a kind of utopian society with a particularly French accent," he says. "It assembles a synthesis of French society which is cultivated, has a sense of humor, a special way of speaking and a rather secretive way of being—without much snobbery."
But for years Mr. Starck couldn't shake off the feeling of being an outsider. "When it was lunchtime, I would see the stall-holders bring out their tables, bottles of Champagne, red wine and copious amounts of food, which they'd eat and drink in an atmosphere of laughter and shouting," he says.
"For decades I was incredibly jealous," he adds. "Finally my wife [Jasmine] and I said to ourselves that the one way we could have our own table would be to buy a stand at the Puces where we could cook our own food and invite our friends."
The Starcks were on the verge of executing this modest plan just over two years ago, when they acquired a charming ivy-covered stall, Le Pavillon de Lièrre, in the high-end Paul Bert et Serpette sector of the market. But the organizers of the Marché aux Puces had another, more ambitious idea that they felt would help to re-energize the recession-hit market. "Why not open a restaurant?" they asked Mr. Starck. "That way everybody can come."
So while Le Pavillon de Lièrre lies empty (Mr. Starck's plans for it remain alive but under wraps for the moment), a little further down, at the entry of the Paul Bert et Serpette sector, a fleet of SUVs and limousines line the street around the back of Ma Cocotte—the latest culinary address to set Parisians abuzz.
Built on the site of a piece of waste ground and a converted warehouse, the €5.5 million, 250-seat restaurant has been designed by Mr. Starck from top to bottom. It is owned by husband-and-wife team Philippe and Fabienne Amzalak, with whom he also collaborated on the restaurant Bon, which opened in Paris's upscale 16th arrondissement in 2005.
From the outside, Ma Cocotte resembles a solid, if rather chic, workmen's canteen—a "Monopoly house," in Mr. Starck's words—with its redbrick ground level beneath a gray zinc first floor. The inside is almost entirely decorated with objects that Mr. Starck picked out from the flea-market over the course of two years.
There is a studied harmony to it all, from the colored dining plates embedded in some of the concrete walls to the diamond-shaped tiles on the floors. Indeed, one of the waiters whispers that every corner of the restaurant has been photographed, to ensure no object strays from its designated spot.
"As it's me who put everything more or less in place, for me it is very clear why everything has its place," says Mr. Starck. "But if someone else comes along with another idea, then they can move things, with pleasure."
Down in the basement, the space-age bathrooms look like a set from Stanley Kubrick's "2001." On the ground floor, an open-plan kitchen and several long tables give the restaurant a communal feel, though there is also a small salon for hosting private meals. On the top floor, a cocktail bar and book-lined lounge surrounded by a spacious outdoor terrace are perfect for a laid-back lunch.
The mostly organic food, courtesy of chef Yannick Papin (previously of the restaurant Bon), is reasonably priced—the lunch menu, including main and starter, starts at €19, the dinner menu at €30—and filling, with the fish and chips a notable highlight.
'The Marché aux Puces has always been for me a kind of utopian society with a particularly French accent.'
"Over the years I've observed the atmosphere at other people's tables, where there was no elaborate décor—simply human warmth and intelligence," Mr. Starck says. "I decided to create Ma Cocotte in the same way, without any elaborate decoration or fashionable trappings. Perhaps that is why it's become such a big success."
Much has been made of Mr. Starck's remarkable ability to marry different objects and perspectives. So it is especially enlightening to hear how he chose Ma Cocotte's furnishings, many of which are from the melting-pot period of the 1940s up to 1955, when Scandinavian and especially American influences began to filter into France.
"Sometimes there is a moment of poetry," he says. "That is when I buy something. I buy a moment. I think of the person who made the object and their inspiration. When I create something, I do it for the person who is in front of me; when I buy something, I buy it for the person who was behind it."
Now that the Starcks finally have their own table at the Puces, Mr. Starck professes to eating there "whenever possible." Holding court with his "tribe" of collaborators and friends, he relishes what he describes as a place "where everyone feels at home."
A staunch socialist (he famously designed the interior of the Élysée Palace for President François Mitterrand and his wife) and self-described "democratic" designer, in favor of creating affordable work accessible to as many people as possible, Mr. Starck has in recent years turned his talents to luxury designs, be it the interiors of glamorous Paris hotels like Le Meurice and Le Royal Monceau, or a number of super-yachts, including one for the late Steve Jobs. His latest interior design is for an Asian-fusion restaurant, Miss Ko, which is opening on the Avenue Georges V in Paris later this month.
"There are still as many democratic things I do as luxury ones," he says, citing Ma Cocotte as an example. "The problem is that the media always prefers to talk about luxury things as opposed to democratic ones. So it's a vision which is lopsided…. Today, I think it's very interesting to do both because, like Robin Hood, I use the rich to give to the poor. If I am able to study how to make things for the rich, I can then see if I can adapt these creations for people with less money."
Mr. Starck has recently designed a line of prefabricated houses, P.A.T.H., which he says will produce more energy through solar-paneling and wind turbines than they consume. The houses will cost around €1,000 a square meter—slightly cheaper than state-subsidized HLM housing—according to Slovenian company Riko, which will bring them to market throughout Europe later this year.
P.A.T.H. is just one of many projects, many of them ecologically linked, that Mr. Starck has planned. But anyone trying to guess what will come next is likely to come up short. "I spend a lot of time and energy covering my tracks so as never to be pigeonholed," he says. "I never liked things in square-shaped boxes—I prefer tracing diagonals."


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Who else is sad that the real Nyan Cat passed?
Marty, who was @PRGuitarman's inspiration to nyan.cat, passed away on Thursday after succumbing to FIP ...
Rest In Poptarts, Marty. :(
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it's a cat. one step above a rodent.
@kamikazeken: I admire your goal of trying to receive the most down-votes in history.
I do hope that the kitty didn't suffer in the end.
I didn't even know there was an inspiration for Nyan Cat. I thought some dude just got really high... (seriously)
RIP Kitty.
Marty contracted FIP, for which there is no known cure. Includes a distended belly, loss of appetite, lethargy, diarrhea, fever, lack of coordination, among other signs. Look for these symptoms in your cats.
The goal is not to cure FIP but to provide the cat as pleasant of a life as possible until he/she passes away.
What is a Nyan Cat?
@abramokids: Me too.
I didn't know there was an original one also (I thought it just came out of nowhere).
RIP Marty. :(
In his honor.
@kamikazeken: you must be feeling inadequate, being a rat
He looked like a cute little guy. I like my Nyan's Dream http://shirt.woot.com/offers/nyans-dream shirt better now that I know there was a real cat behind the inspiration.
@lonelypond: Woot needs to bring that shirt back on tomorrow.
Rest in Poptarts Nyan cat.
RIP Nyan Cat. The passing of any friend (pet) is difficult. All the best.
@joshobra: I wouldn't mind another chance to pick up the purple version.
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What Winning The 'Catholic Vote' Means Today
Since 1972, every single presidential candidate who has won the popular vote has also won the Catholic vote. But with Catholics making up one in every four voters, pinning down what exactly the Catholic vote is becomes tricky.
Catholics no longer reliably vote for any one party, but historically, they have voted Democratic. In 1928, the first Catholic ran for president: Democrat Al Smith lost to Herbert Hoover. Dr. Robert Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, told weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz that the link between Catholics and Democrats has to do with their position in the workforce.
"Part of it really is this alignment between the labor union movement and Catholics, who were really, up until the '70s, still really concentrated in Catholic enclaves in bigger cities; still working class ... in manufacturing jobs," he says.
A turning point came in 1972, when Republican Richard Nixon won the popular vote — and the Catholic vote — over Democrat George McGovern. Jones says the shift started gradually, with fewer Catholics voting Democrat in prior elections.
"So, we had begun to see kind of a slide. But it's not really until 1972 that we really see this division with Catholics really going Republican or Democrat depending on the election and looking really like the bellwether constituency that really goes with the general population," he says.
By the early '70s, Catholics had already been in the U.S. for generations.
"By the time we get to 1972, we have nearly a century of Catholic integration," Jones says, "with Catholics having upward mobility in terms of education, in terms of income and, I think importantly, moving out of Catholic enclaves in larger cities like New York and Chicago."
Now the mere size of the population indicates the unpredictability of its vote, Jones says.
"But I would say there are at least two key Catholic votes in the country, and they divide pretty cleanly by ethnicity," he says. "White, non-Hispanic Catholics, for example, in the last election supported John McCain over Barack Obama. However, if you look at the Latino Catholic vote, nearly three-quarters of the Latino Catholic vote supported President Barack Obama."
Obama received more Catholic votes in total, with the Latino vote putting him over the edge. In this election, both vice presidential candidates are Catholic. Further complicating their pitches is that many Catholics have different positions than the Church has.
Take contraception, Jones says, which the Catholic Church officially opposes even though the majority of Catholics don't have a problem with contraception, according to a Gallup poll. Another example is abortion. Catholic voters are divided on the issue, a 2009 Pew Forum report shows. The same is true for gay marriage, which the majority of Catholics support, according to a Public Religion Research Institute report.
President Obama is surging past Romney among Catholics. The latest Pew Poll gives him a 15-point lead among all Catholic voters. That's up from the two-point lead he had in June.
While the two candidates are virtually tied among white Catholics, Obama has a strong lead over Romney with both African-American and Hispanic voters overall.
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Publishing | We noted in late April that Archie Comics appeared to be embracing cultural and political commentary with its upcoming Kevin Keller miniseries, which features Riverdale's first openly gay character and his father, a retired three-star general. But now the publisher, or at least the character, is going a step further, marching into the middle of the debate over gays and lesbians openly serving in the armed forces by revealing that Kevin aspires to be a journalist, but only after attending the U.S. Military Academy and becoming an Army officer. "Even though we don't tackle the specific issue of Don't Ask Don' Tell, the goal was to show that patriotism knows no specific gender, race or sexual orientation," cartoonist Dan Parent says. "While it sounds like heavy subject matter, I tried to show it simply that Kevin, like his dad, loves his country. Being gay doesn't effect that in any way." [The Associated Press]
Publishing | DC Comics' line-wide reboot has received extensive coverage by mainstream media outlets, based largely on the original USA Today article or The Associated Press report. But my favorite piece is this one by George Gene Gustines that turns back the clock to 1985 and attempts to explain to The New York Times audience the effects, and problems, of Crisis on Infinite Earths, and the publisher's subsequent attempts to streamline continuity: "… If the goal was to make the DC universe easier to understand, the end result was the opposite: to this day, fans frequently mention 'pre-Crisis' and 'post-Crisis' as a way to distinguish stories. Twenty years later, in the Infinite Crisis limited series, DC tried to clean continuity up again: Superman's career as Superboy was back; Batman knew who murdered the Waynes; and Wonder Woman was a founder of the Justice League again." [The New York Times]


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7 Questions You Didn't Know Could Be Answered With Math
Nine out of 10 of you have probably used some variation of the term "I'll never need any of this in the real world" when you were studying math in high school. True, the mechanics of long division and PEMDAS don't seem as important in day to day life as, say, knowing how to change a tire. But according to science, a lot of the problems you face every day can be quantified with a single equation. Like ...
#7. The Thickness of Beer Goggles
"Beer goggles," or the idea that alcohol makes you find people more attractive, sounds like a convenient excuse invented by douchebags who don't want to admit that they will simply have sex with anything that moves. But science says beer goggles are real.
For proof, spend more than 10 minutes in any college town bar.
It is, however, more complicated than "Alcohol = Boner." Thanks to the wonders of math, the effect can be precisely calculated.
The Formula:
Professors at the University of Manchester, England, worked out that the effect isn't really beer goggles, but bar goggles (or dance club goggles). It's alcohol plus a number of environmental factors, like so:
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Incidentally, this is the same equation used to calculate your likelihood of picking up an STD.
An is the number of drinks consumed, limited only by your bodily fortitude.
d is the distance in meters between you and the object of your potential lust.
S is the smokiness of the room, rated between 0 and 10.
L is the brightness of the room, rated between 1 and 150.
Vo is a measure of your visual acuity, 6/6 being normal and 6/12 being "maced in the face."
"Oh yeah. This is probably a good decision."
If the result is less than 1, there's no beer goggle action at all. With 50 and higher, we begin to see a clear effect. If we test this with a single drink, a half-meter distance, clear air, good lighting and perfect vision, then the object appears in all its horrible glory.
However, if the guy just chugged eight beers and there's a three-meter distance, poor lighting and a smoky room, and he forgot his contact lenses, everyone is beautiful.
Surprisingly, alcohol alone doesn't seem to produce much of an effect if we ignore the other factors. With a clear, well-lit room and good vision, we plugged eight beers into the equation and only got 2.6. After 15 beers, it's still only 9 (if our math is wrong, someone will surely correct us in the comments). According to this, the secret isn't so much to go easy on the booze, just to make sure you stay in the non-smoking section and carry a flashlight.
Or do your drinking in the well-lit halls of hospitals and mental institutions.
#6. Why We Procrastinate
Statistically speaking, since you're reading a Cracked article right now, chances are good that there's something more important you should be doing. A Canadian academic named Professor Piers Steel, himself a chronic procrastinator, spent 10 years on the study while trying not to play computer games instead, and came up with an equation to figure out why we put things off so much.
"It was only supposed to take five years, but then World of Warcraft came out."
The Formula:
Here, U is the desirability of the task, E is the confidence that you will succeed at it, V is the value of completing it, I is the task's immediacy or availability and D is your sensitivity to delay.
Consider for example the prospect of studying for a big exam. We'll put your confidence at 5 because you haven't actually been to any lectures this semester. The value of the task can be 5, too, because reading about third-year accounting rips your soul through your nasal passages. Immediacy can be set to 2 because you know you're going to have to invest the entire night in it, and delay sensitivity we'll put at 10 because even the drapes have a good chance of distracting you at this point. Crunch the numbers through Steel's formula and we see the desirability of this task is about 1.25.
Compare this to the desirability of sleep and sex for an explanation of why your GPA never cracks 2.5.
Alternatively, you could read the entire back catalog of Cracked articles. We'll set your confidence in being able to read Cracked for 12 hours at about 1,000. The value of doing so we can also assume is 1,000. The availability can be 1,000 because you're already here. We'll say your sensitivity to delay is just 1, because you really feel like heating up some Pop Tarts and reading Cracked. 1,000 x 1,000/1,000 x 1 = 1,000, which is almost 1,000 times higher than your desire to study for your accounting finals.
The only thing more desirable than Cracked is having sex while reading Cracked.
Math! It's on our side.
#5. What Makes the Perfect Ass
Proving once and for all that being really smart in no way makes you more mature, Dr. David Holmes, a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, has cracked the ass matrix and discovered the formula for the perfect female butt, after what we assume was years of intensive "research."
Stare at this picture for more than 40 seconds, and you're officially a scientist.
The Formula:
In this formula, S stands for overall shape, C for circularity, B for bounciness, F for firmness and T for texture. When a woman has given herself unswervingly honest marks between 1 and 20 for all of these, and measured the ratio of her hips to her waist (V), they can all be entered into the equation and used to calculate just how ready the world is likely to be for her jelly.
Scientists are still hard at work trying to crack the Unified Breast Theory.
The winner? Kylie Minogue's ass is apparently an 80, which they claim is the ideal score. Put to the test, 2,000 people polled in the U.K. indicated that men prefer to ogle Minogue's backside over traditionally more notorious rumps like that of Jennifer Lopez.
Mr. Timberlake knows what we're talking about.
"The perfect female derriere," Holmes concluded -- identifying himself as a man who uses French words when he's not actually French -- "has firmness to the touch and a resilience that prevents undue wobble or bounce, yet looks soft with flawless skin." He then proceeded to wipe his bottom lip with the sleeve of his jacket and ask the interviewing journalist to bend over.
Manchester Metropolitan University
This guy specializes in stalking, psychopathy, autism and the perfect ass. He might just be the creepiest doctor since Patch Adams.
#4. What Makes a Movie Scary
Every one of us has something that puts the butt-clenching, bladder-weakening fear of God into us. For some, it's clowns who climb out of gutters; for others, it's women who brush their hair over their faces and then walk toward you really slowly on their hands. At the same time, it's easy to pick a good horror movie from a bad one -- ask anyone about the scariest films of all time and the same titles seem to keep cropping up, like The Exorcist, The Shining and The Thing.
Mathematicians have found a solution, and surprisingly it has nothing to do with the presence of the word "The" in the title.
Heads doing things heads aren't generally supposed to do seems to be of critical importance.
The Formula:
Researchers at Kings College, London, found that it's not quite as simple as turning the lights off and spraying the disposable support cast with fake blood.
In this ridiculously complicated formula:
es is escalating music;
u is the unknown;
cs is chase scenes;
t is the sense of being trapped;
a is the character being alone;
dr is how dark the film is;
fs is the film setting;
tl stands for true life;
f stands for fantasy;
n is for number of people;
sin is blood and guts and
s is shock.
S doesn't work without a lot of u, dr and sin.
The "1" is thrown in there as "stereotype," presumably because when you know the squealing girl in her underwear is going to end up lying at the bottom of the stairs, it's difficult to care too much when it happens.
Apparently, when plugging in all the numbers, The Shining turned out to be the perfect horror movie. It pushes all the buttons -- the characters are trapped and alone in a creepy haunted hotel, and the combination of ghosts and Jack Nicholson being insane add just the right ratio of fantasy to chilling plausibility. All this comes with some great chase scenes and plenty of the requisite escalating music.
Of course, a lot of other horror favorites are missing key elements (The Blair Witch Project has neither music nor gore), but the formula allows them to compensate in other areas. When you think about which horror movies scared you the most, consider how often they used these techniques -- isolation, darkness, reality and the sense of the unknown.
And also Jack Nicholson.
To see how it works the other way, we'll let you apply the formula to Troll 2 in your own time.


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The juvenile, whose name and age were not released, was taken to the Juvenile Detention Center in Killeen after his arrest, police said.
Officers were dispatched at around 9:20 p.m. Friday to a home in the 400 block of South 32nd Street where they found Temple Fire and Rescue paramedics performing CPR on the victim in the front room of the house.
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Previously only available as an add-on for the full Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Ubisoft has today announced that the recently released 'Freedom Cry' downloadable content will soon become available as a stand-alone downloadable game on the PlayStation Store and PC.
Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry is out on February 19th on both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, followed by a release on PC on February 25th. No reason was given for excluding Xbox platforms. Watch the trailer for Freedom Cry below:
Assassin's Creed 4 – Freedom Cry DLC Standalone Trailer
If you need a refresher course on the story and events of Freedom Cry, you can read over Ubisoft's blurb below, but also be sure to read El33tonline's review of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag on PlayStation 4 over here to see what you'll be missing if you skip the game in favour of the standalone DLC:
"Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry tells the story of Adewale, a man born into slavery. Once a pirate and now a trained Assassin, Adewale is shipwrecked in 18th-century Haiti, home to the most brutal slavery in the West Indies. In an effort to get back to the sea, Adewale assists the locals in exchange for a crew and a ship.
"The more he fights for freedom from slavery, however, the more he is drawn into the Maroon slave community, forcing him to face his vicious past. In the game, Adewale will take his new crew and set of weapons, including a machete and a blunderbuss, to assassinate enemies and free slaves, delivering merciless justice in plantations and cities alike. No stranger to the sea, Adewale will command a fearsome brig to take down slave owners in the Caribbean."
Have you already played Freedom Cry? What did you think? Why do you think Ubisoft has chosen to skip Xbox platforms for the standalone release of the DLC?
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Also known as The Presidential Thread, part deux, I came across the information that some states are seriously flirting with the idea of seceding from the union after this last election:
For instance, the White House will formally address this request if there are at least 25,000 signatures. Texas has already gotten them 22,000.
If the secession of some or all of these states occurs, what will be the impact? Would they become individual separate little countries beside each other? How would it change things (such as the budget) from what they currently are?