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New York magazine's Jonathan Chait on Republican rhetoric about debt:
Theyre not arguing that low taxes take precedent over lower spending. They just keep falsely insisting over and over that Obama refuses to accept spending cuts. If they think it makes sense to refuse the spending cuts Obama is offering because they cant accept the revenue increases he insists have to go along with it, why dont they just say that? Is the position so unpopular they cant even acknowledge it publicly? Are they just unable to conceive of a policy change that comes about as a result of compromise rather than hostage-taking? Its genuinely weird.
At Books & Culture, Alvin Plantinga on free will:
[Jonathan] Edwards endorsed determinism, for the most part, out of concern for divine sovereignty. His idea, ultimately, is that God's sovereignty requires that God himself be the only real cause of whatever happens. In the final analysis, God is the only agent, the only being capable of action, and the only cause of whatever events occur.Edwards' endorsement is weighty; and divine sovereignty is indeed important; but there are enormously high costs associated with his view. This is not the place for a full-dress discussion, but, just to indicate where the discussion could go, I note two problems for Edwards' view. First, if God is the real cause of everything, then he is also the real cause of sin; he is the real cause of every sinful action. But Christians have for the most part strenuously avoided the conclusion that God is the author of sin. God permits sin, certainly; but does he cause it? Does he cause the wickedness and the atrocities that our sad world displays? Does God cause genocide in Africa? Did he cause the Holocaust? Does he cause all the less conspicuous but nonetheless appalling sins committed by humankind? That seems impossible to square with God's perfect goodness.
David Gelernter worries about the effect of "internet drivel" on the written word (at Edge, scroll down):
The internet forces a general devaluation of the written word: a global deflation in the average word's value on many axes. As each word tends to get less reading-time and attention and to be worth less money at the consumer end, it naturally tends to absorb less writing-time and editorial attention on the production side. Gradually, as the time invested by the average writer and the average reader in the average sentence falls, society's ability to communicate in writing decays. And this threat to our capacity to read and write is a slow-motion body-blow to science, scholarship, the artsto nearly everything, in fact, that is distinctively human, that muskrats and dolphins can't do just as well or better.The internet's insatiable demand for words creates global deflation in the value of words. The internet's capacity to distribute words near-instantly means that, with no lag-time between writing and publication, publication and worldwide availability, pressure builds on the writer to produce more. Global deflation in the value of words creates pressure, in turn, to downplay or eliminate editing and self-editing. When I tell my students not to turn in first-drafts, I sometimes have to explain, nowadays, what a first draft is.
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Hi, Matthew:Lame piece by Gelernter. Why pick on Sean Penn, of all people? And was the paragraph Gelernter called "gibberish" written by Sean Penn? If so, why no italics or quotation marks? Did you agree with Gelernter? With the others? I thought there was a lot of gibberish. And a lot of phoning it in by people who have said the same thing repeatedly for decades. (Terkel, for one.)
If you travel to Cambodia, you can follow the Siem Reap north of Angkor Wat and visit Angkor Thom, where you will find the great Baphuon temple. Within the compound of Baphuon, you will find an ancient, gnarled tree that is hollow at the center. If you reach into this hollow tree, you will find an ancient scroll. If you open this scroll, you will find a few simple words. They say:David Gelerntner is a freaking idiot!
"And was the paragraph Gelernter called 'gibberish' written by Sean Penn?"Yes, it was."If so, why no italics or quotation marks?"I don't know, Gerelyn. Why don't you write the folks at Edge and ask the person who formats their posts.
A "freaking idiot" who teaches computer science at Yale. Strange.
But Yale's been turning out "left-indoctrinated ignoramuses" for years! I know because David Gelernter said so. (He did not take the results of the last election at all well.)
Matthew, I thought it was kind of weird, too--but it wasn't the weirdest thing I saw in Cambodia.But I trust the scroll, because 1) anyone who's gone through the Ivy League (cough, cough me) knows that idiots--while rare--are there (sort of like how you can find skunks nosing around Widener sometimes) and 2) Gelernter himself tells us that places like Yale are factories for the foolish (he knows this because the university system is now run by Jews).When I was in Cambodia, I saw a monkey steal a motorbike. A freaking motorbike.
He didn't get very far, but still: it was all very H.A. Rey.
How do you know that the monkey didn't own the motorbike?
Abe,I wish I had the time to start a thread just about that monkey in Cambodia. I don't, but you have my blessing to tell the full story in this one, even if it is off topic. (Fr. K, look away.)Of course, it's not impossible that there would be an idiot teaching and freaking at an Ivy League university, but it would at least be strange. As it happens, I took a course with Gelernter, and so I don't have to speculate. He's very opinionated, sometimes cranky, but never an idiot. You write, "Gelernter himself tells us that places like Yale are factories for the foolish (he knows this because the university system is now run by Jews)." You do know he's a Jew, right?
Why dont you write the folks at Edge and ask the person who formats their posts. Okay, but I thought the individual contributors to that big long self-congratulatory and utterly predictable collection of Internet drivel did their own formatting. Many of them used quotation marks and italics appropriately. Even Gelernter had no problem putting quotation marks around something else in his odd little squawk, so why leave them off the Sean Penn bit? Very mean to pick on Sean Penn. Jealous, I presume.
Yes, he's a Jew who thinks that Jews ruined the universities, much as he is an academic who thinks academics have ruined America, and is a guy who wrote 1 of 154 responses for a website that was all about how the internet deflates the value of the written word. In other words, he's a rich tapestry. I know the monkey didn't own the bike (I would not have discounted the possibility out of hand) because I had spent the week riding around on the motorcycle behind the guy who did own it. The monkey-operated bike went about 10 feet and then spun out into the brush. He was fine, the bike was fine, and a good time was had by all.
That's the best monkey-stealing-a-motorbike story I have ever heard.
Michael: You left out Plantinga's second article against determinism.... Edwards' position would be impossible in a Thomist view. For Aquinas, God and secondary causes (including the human will) are not in competition or rivalry so that to assert one is to deny the other, as if the more a creaturely cause enters in, the less God can have to do with it, and vice-versa. I wonder if Edwards' view might have depended on the Reformation disputes about merit and grace, which often were defended by a repudiation of the idea of any concursus of the Creator and the creature in created events, including events of freedom.
Who's Michael? What second article?
On the principle that motorbikes don't crash into brush, monkeys do, inquiring minds want to know: was the monkey wearing a helmet?
I think Michael was the name of the monkey.
Chait's piece is in response to an interesting piece by Keith Hennessey in the WSJ (the link to which is in Chait's piece). Chait doesn't expend much energy analyzing what I take to be Hennessey's premise before pretty much dismissing it out of hand. Essentially, Hennessey's recommendation is to force every Democratic House member to vote to raise the debt ceiling as many times as possible, leading into 2014 and 2016. What interests me about this strategy may be illustrated by reading this Noam Scheiber analysis of the House Republican caucus. Headline: "How Obama Can Break the House Republicans".http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111966/its-not-fever-how-obama-can-break-t...'s categorization of House Republicans into moderates, pragmatic conservatives and jihadist nutcases (actually, hardcore conservatives), and his estimate of their respective numbers, seems reasonably astute. Let's suppose that Hennessey's advice is followed and the political payoff is as expected: A certain number of Congressional Democrats who voted for eight or nine debt ceiling increases thereby become politically vulnerable in their districts. Presumably, not many hardcore conservatives would have a chance of winning and sticking in a district that elects a Democrat. So to the extent that those seats flip, they would flip to pragmatic conservatives and moderates.People who are fans of functional government and who don't think Republican control of the House is a particularly bad thing, may reason that there are worse outcomes than this.
Forget about it, Jim, it was Cambodia--nobody wears a helmet.
One more thought on the Chait piece. If Chait is right, and the President truly would seize the opportunity to significantly reduce the debt if he could somehow induce House Republicans to agree to a package that includes revenue increases, then that would be the signal triumph of the Tea Party. Ironically, Hennessey's strategy, if my analysis in my previous comment is correct, would probably result in the further marginalization of Tea Party House members. But the Tea Party would have induced, if not total surrender, at least arguably a smashing victory.
Speaking of devaluation of the written word and editorial attention on the production side, it would be really nice if we could go back and edit our comments after they're displayed publicly. People like me, who tend to live in their head more than in reality, and who read what's in their head rather than what's on the screen in front of them, are incapable of fixing all of their typos until they are displayed in everybody's full view.
Could Michael perhaps fix the comment settings?
Michael the Flying Monkey can do almost anything. Just not for very long.
-- A freaking idiot who teaches computer science at Yale. Strange. --Are the 2 situations necessarily incompatible?
I hit the send button too soon.I meant to append this:That's like saying that a "freaking idiot" who plays football at Notre Dame would be considered a strange statement.
No, it's actually nothing like that.And to your first point, strange does not mean impossible, so no: the two "situations" are not necessarily incompatible.
Michael--Matthew--they both begin with "M". Sorry, and fuhgeddaboudit anyway. Another time, maybe.
Re: David GelernterI think the text of the written word will not be debased. There will be more creativity with language but I think that a different kind of literacy will emerge that is different than the kind of literacy that we are accustomed to. A movement to digital literacy.Also, as broadband capacity increases and the technology around sharing images, jpegs and videos increases, the sharing of images will be in greater demand.Not surprisingly, Pinterest is the fasting growing social media site. I just signed up and am already addicted. So far its appeal is more to women than men although there is a lot for both sexes.
I believe that the future of discourse is the GIF, and frankly I welcome it.
"The internet forces a general devaluation of the written word: a global deflation in the average words value on many axes." Funny how those who decry the explosion in communication do not refrain from adding to the glut.
Claire, those short videos are GIFs, so indeed.
We can't all be professional writers; novelists, writers, playwrites, poets,pundits etc. Yet we all think with language and now thanks to the internet-all humans get to express themselves to the world.The written word as an art form -novels, poetry, plays etc. is not threatened by the explosion of words on the internet. Now all humans-who think with words -can externalize their words via text. Prior to the internet the written word was reserved for pundits,novelists and others.Or one had to learn the art of composition-ones thoughts had to be properly composed-conforming to the standards of the art form.One had to be "Literary" to get ones words in print. The internet is an extension of the human mind-of all people who think with words. The explosion of words on the net-is the expression of humanity which has always used language and who now get to have their thoughts transmitted via text and- heard by others. Words are not drivel any more then people are.People think with words- and now our every thought can be transmitted by text universally.The internet expresses our humanity-our thoughts- in a way that was not possible before;not as an art form-not contrived but as unfiltered thoughts.Or as unfiltered as we can get short of speaking out loud.The use of words as an art form will still exist parallell to the reality of the internet-the universal venue where all minds can speak and be heard.The literary art form uses the aesthetics of words to expresses universal truths and insights of the artistic few and will always be valued as such.The explosion of words on the net is more like the buzzing of bees in a hive .Buzzing is what bees do; communicating the words in our heads via text on the internet-is what humans[can now] do.
Claire --If the future is short videos (and it might be), then we will lose a tremendous lot, unless the videos include words. Images can present a huge amount of information, but without words we do not know which content in the image the sender intended to communicate. In other words, images include too much data. It is only by abstracting parts of the data (using words signifying abstractions) that we get to know the (limited) message. For instance, if I send you a video of a Carnival, you won't know what it is that I thought interesting about it, e.g., "Look at those cute [abstraction] children [abstraction]". Further, if the clip isn't accompanied by words you will never get my negative views about the content, e.g. "Notice that there is no hot dog stand on the concourse, and nobody looks happy".Apparently we can't think abstract thoughts without using images at the same time -- even totally abstract statements are accompanied by them (everyone from Aristotle to contemporary psychologists have said so), so abstractions remain a necessary part of our messages. They are what distinguish us from the beasts, and we shouldn't let American anti-intellectualism distract us from the fact.
Ann - I suspect that we will learn a whole new discourse with images and short videos. How easy it is to communicate much with a few images, and for certain things, how much easier it is, and more accurate, than to use words! (Just look at the blog I linked to earlier). Of course some things need words (CK's posts answering MSW, for example), but for certain things a well-designed video works wonders. Maybe your Carnival video is just poorly designed, and is hard to understand for the same reasons that a messy, disorganized text is hard to understand
Good point Claire. And to support Claire's point, take a look at this video developed by the anthropology professor Micheal Wesch.In just under 5 minutes and using only images, text and music, he shows how the internet is reshaping our discourse!"The Machine is Us/ing Us"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Claire --If you were as deaf as I am you might might have a better appreciation the importance of words in communicating most things, even most stories. Imagine watching a movie in Arabic. Unless you understand the language, you'd be at a loss to know what is going on. Or just turn on a movie on TV and turn off the sound. How much of the story would you get without thinking backwards?Yes, visuals are fine to show us how to do things, if you already know the point of the process, e.g., making a bread. Yes, you might remember the point of all those actions if you had seen the process and product before. But even then you probably were helped to understand what was going on because somebody had told you in words.
Here's an example of a process that is not understandable without either words or thinking backwards. I was just watching a man on YouTube. At one point he stabbed an egg yolk with a pen. You probably would not understand why he was doing that if you just watched him unless you knew something about him previously (probably by reading about him).(The man was the great calligrapher Donald Jackson. He stabbed the egg yolk because egg yolks are what pigments are put into to make colored calligraphic ink. He was in process of making some red ink.)


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Akk! Just realized -- I have to get tickets for the Ashton mixed bill on Wed, June 21 and Sleeping Beauty on Thurs, June 22 to make this work. Does anyone think I'll have problems getting tix to SB on its opening night? (and what time does that darn box office open because I can't find that info online?) Thanks!
Chauffer, you shouldn't have a problem getting tickets for those nights, at least not yet! The Kennedy Centers online system lets you chose the section you want to sit in and then tells you exactly which seat it is offering you. The only problem with using the system is if youre picky about exactly where you want to sit (like me). I like to be in the first row of the balcony, even if its on the side. But the online system assigns center seats first, so it may show me D103 when Id rather have A15. In that case, its better to call the box office where you can specify what you want and be told about everything thats available.
The box office opens at 10 AM. If you are willing to make a $60 donation to the Kennedy Center you can buy your tickets NOW because Kennedy Center members get a 10 day window before single seats go on sale to the public. Thats what I did, I ordered my tickets on 3/31, and got great seats. Good luck!

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Let $x_s = \sin(\theta+\frac{2\pi s}{3})$ and $y_s = 1+\cos(\frac{2\pi s}{3})$, $s=0,1,2$.
Define $f(\theta) = \sum_{s=0}^2 x_s\ln y_s$.
Is there any method to derive roots of $f(\theta)$. I have run a simulation on it, and found that $\theta=0$ is a solution. But I am unable to see how to analytically obtain it.


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For Team Fortress 2, which classes and what moves/weapon loadouts/ allow for higher jumping? I know of the most basic, rocket jumping, but can other classes do something similar?
Here are some basic jumps you tend to see pretty often. These should get you started. For (far) more advanced techniques, there is a nice list on the TF2 wiki.
Engineer The Engineer can "sentry jump", using the Wrangler that allows him to control the otherwise automatic sentry himself. It's quite simple, altough rather slow so it's rarely done in the midst of battle. Simply build a sentry, jump on top of it, take out the Wrangler and aim it upwards. If you're at the path of the bullets, they should propel you upwards. Can cause a lot of damage, especially if the sentry is high level, but can get the Engineer to some rather interesting places.
You should also remember that crouching during any normal jump can get you that last necesary inch of distance or height, since it will take a split second longer before your feet touch the ground.


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I'm having trouble understanding how to databind my Songs
List<> to a
ListBox without needing to set the
ItemsSource in the code behind.
It works though, but I would really like to see the List working in the liveview Designer.
namespace App5 { class SongsData { public string Title { get; set; } public string Lyrics { get; set; } } }
And in my MainPage.xaml.cs:
public MainPage() { this.InitializeComponent(); List Songs = new List(); Songs.Add(new SongsData() { Title = "Your Song", Lyrics = "It's a little bit funny.." }); Songs.Add(new SongsData() { Title = "Rocket Man", Lyrics = "I'm the Rocket Maaaan.." }); SongsListBox.ItemsSource = Songs; }
And in the XAML I have a basic ListBox:
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}" />
Can a friendly person please help me understand what to change - and hopefully why - to get the songs title to show in the
ListBox in the liveview Designer of Visual Studio?
With the above I have to Debug the program to see the song titles in the
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The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth
It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in ghosts, there are some places in which none of us would want to spend a night. These places have well earned their reputations as being so creepy, tragic or mysterious (or all three) that they definitely qualify as "haunted."
Places like...
#6. Aokigahara Forest
Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around.
What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? Fifty?
More than 500 fucking people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s.
The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. After that-always eager to prove they are bizarrely susceptible to suggestion-hundreds of Japanese people have hanged themselves among the countless trees of the Aokigahara forest, which is reportedly so thick that even in high noon it's not hard to find places completely surrounded by darkness.
Also skulls.
Besides bodies and homemade nooses, the area is littered with signs displaying such uplifting messages like "Life is a precious thing! Please reconsider!" or "Think of your family!"
"If you commit suicide here, bears will poop on your corpse."
In the 70s, the problem got national attention and the Japanese government began doing annual sweeps of the forest in search of bodies. In 2002, they found 78. But who knows how many they missed? In all likelihood there probably is a hanged person somewhere in Aokigahara on any given day. You can see some of them here. WARNING, NSFS (Not Safe For Soul).
By the way, if an entire dark forest full of hanged corpses wasn't bad enough, a few years ago some people noticed that a lot of the dead in Aokigahara probably had cash or jewelry on them. Thus began the proud Japanese tradition of Aokigahara Scavenging where people are running around the Death Forest, looking for dead guys to loot.
#5. The Overtoun Bridge
Located near Scotland's charming little village of Milton in the peaceful burgh of Dumbarton, the Overtoun Bridge is a local arch construction where no human beings have ever died in any suspicious circumstances whatsoever over the last few decades.
However, during that span, for reasons we can't begin to possibly understand, hundreds and hundreds of dogs have killed themselves there. It appears that dogs have been plunging off of Overtoun since the early 60s, at a rate of one animal a month... bringing the total number today to around 600 mutts, who for some reason, decided to end it all.
"Please don't make me do something like this again."-Photoshop Department.
And we're not talking about a series of unfortunate accidents that could have been avoided with a simple guard rail. People who actually witnessed the reported dogs willingly climbing the parapet wall and leaping to their doom with dumbass doggy grins on their faces. Whether they were crying blood remains to be confirmed.
Theories on why is this happening have been all over the place, from particularly aromatic rodents to a simple stream of bizarre coincidences. We call bullshit on both seeing as--to paraphrase Ian Fleming--"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action and over 600 is clearly the work of an ancient Sumerian demon or some shit."
"Because, for real, that shit is straight up like eight different kinds of crazy. Shit."
To further drive the point home, it has been observed that certain dogs that jumped off the bridge and survived, fucking climbed back up and THREW THEMSELVES TO THEIR DEATHS ALL OVER AGAIN.
Because the great Overtoun demon's hunger will not be appeased with tries. He demands fresh canine blood, and lots of it.
#4. Winchester Mystery House
In San Jose there is this house. It is a gigantic, sprawling 160-room complex designed like a maze, with mile-long hallways, secret passages, dead ends, doors opening to blank walls and staircases leading to the ceiling.
It's the work of Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune. In the late 19th century, deeply saddened over the death of her husband and daughter, she visited a Boston medium who told her she was haunted by the spirits of all the victims of Winchester rifles. She needed to make peace with them by... always be building a house. As in, never stop building a house, or else she will die. What a nice thing to say to someone who has just lost her family. There is no way this could end with Sarah building a real life version of the Addams Family household.
In 1884, Winchester started construction of her new San Jose mansion, which has gone on non-stop for 38 years right until her death. Despite modern contractors taking about that much time to put in the wooden paneling in your kitchen, the Winchester mansion eventually grew so big you could, in all seriousness, get lost in it. And getting lost was the idea, the crazy twists and turns and dead ends were intended to confuse the ghosts. Sarah was kind of a jerk like that.
Oh, bitch...!
But pissing off vengeful spirits was just one of the many architectural choices for the mansion. The entire Winchester Mystery House was decorated with a constant spiderweb motif--which Sarah believed had some spiritual meaning--and everything from the hooks on the walls to candle holders has been arranged around the number 13, supposedly for good luck. Yeah... for someone trying to free herself from ghosts, Winchester did everything but sacrifice a baby goat to Satan to assure her house will be haunted.


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I have the following code:
jQuery('#hexVal').change(function() {
var hexvarval = jQuery('#hexVal').val();
Basically, I want to change value of
#thumbnail_hover_color INPUT every time
#hexVal INPUT is being changed. When I do it manually it works. When other jQuery script puts text to #hexVal then it doesn't update
Question: How do I trigger "change value" for one INPUT field each time the value is changed (anyhow) in other INPUT field? I want them to have ALWAYS the same value.


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I want to be able to tell how many keys per second, using RSA 1024-bit keys, can be checked on a standard Pentium 4 system. How can I use this to determine decryption performance, and possibly remaining time?
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Performance really depends on the implementation, the type of processor, the processor clock, and many other factors. The OpenSSL command-line utility includes a benchmark tool. For instance:
The machine I ran this on is known to be quite slow (it is a low-power VIA C7 x86 clone). A Pentium 4 (which is also a 32-bit system) should run at least as fast as that, but probably not supremely faster (I would be surprised if OpenSSL reached 1000 signatures per second with RSA 1024 on a Pentium 4).
Translating such a figure into application performance is a difficult exercise.
This question is tagged as "brute-force". Trying to naively brute-force 1024-bit RSA by trying every possible 1024-bit RSA key is obviously not feasible. Even if you were able to validate a key in Planck time (Wikipedia) and could run this algorithm on every atom in the universe and would have done so since the big bang, you still wouldn't have found the key.
The good news is that there are short cuts. One option is integer factorization. If you know the public key and are trying to brute force the private key, you can try an integer factorization algorithm. If you are successful you can then go to RSA Laboratories and claim your $100,000 award. Good luck with that :-).
A more likely approach is based on the fact that RSA key pairs are generally chosen using deterministic algorithms which start from a relatively short pseudo-random seed. If you know (or can guess) the algorithm used to choose the key under attack and the number of possible seeds is also limited (either because the seed size is small or because the pseudo random number generator is week) this could limit the number of possible keys to a palatable number. Such attacks have been done in the past on keys generated by specific systems, but these are quite rare and far in between.
Even if you're lucky and the RSA key pair algorithm used is based on a 16-byte random seed (I've never seen anything shorter than that), and even if you had a computer that could do a million RSA private key operations a second (and you don't) it would still take you some on average about 6 trillion trillion years to brute force the key.
So the only situation in which it may be feasible today to brute force a 1024-bit RSA private key is if the pseudo-random seed used to generate the key is somewhat predictable and limits the number of possible seed to a number under 2 by the power of 50 or so. If you happen to know of such a faulty algorithm which is in use it would definitely be worth a research paper. Otherwise the fastet brute firce algorithm would be to wait until you can get your hands on a quantum computer.


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Every season is different. We have gotten quite a different variety of personalties here as coaches from Randy Couture, to Matt Hughes, to Rich Franlkin to Ken Shamrock and even Tito Oritz.
The fighters come from many backgrounds: Jijutsu, wrestling, you name it.
Sometimes the fighters are MMA wannabees, other times like in the "comeback" season these were former Pro UFC fighters hoping to get a second chance in the UFC to capture back glory.
Depending on what fight you watch you might see a great fight. often times the fights are short but they are still hard hitting. Every now and then you'll get a squash match and to serve up as laughs you'll see one fighter who has NO BUSINESS in the UFC. Last season it was Gabe Rudiger who couldn't even cut a measley three pounds to compete.
For me though this is the type of show where the viewers always win. UFC fights typically aired on PPV only but SpikeTV has really embraced the UFC and sees the success it offers (it often does better than Spike's
other acquisition TV deal TNA IMPACT!!).
Likewise, viewers can see up and coming fighters like Joe Lauzon, Michael Bisping, Manny Gamburyan and Forest Griffin who really give competitive fights. Competitive fights mean great entertainment and seeing this for free on cable is worth watching. Overall, The Ultimate Fighter is one of those shows that does live up to its name.
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This returned the correct name that I gave it in the /etc/hosts file.
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6 Myths Everyone Believes about Space (Thanks to Movies)
#3. Meteorites Are Hot
Let's say a meteorite landed in your yard, right now. You run out there and see the thing sitting in a little crater.
Would you touch it?
Hell, no. Not until it cools down, right? After all, these things follow trails of flame through the sky. You've seen it in every disaster movie -- take the scene in Armageddon where the smoking, fiery meteor shower bombards New York, exploding stuff on impact.
It's never Dave's mom's house that these things crash into, is it?
Although we realize this is not the most scientifically accurate of movies, that's the one scene they might have gotten right. Where a meteor lands, you'll find a charred, smoking crater. Right?
The Reality:
Said chunks of rock have been in the balls-shriveling cold of space (about 3 degrees above absolute zero) for billions and billions of years. When they enter the atmosphere, they're only there for a few minutes because of their extreme speed. This means that no matter what Michael Bay would have you believe, meteors just don't have the time to become all scorching hot and explodey before impact. In fact, they're usually just lukewarm when they hit.
Less dangerous than a Hot Pocket.
But what about the fireball, then? Most everyone has seen a meteor shower, and those bastards are most definitely on fire.
In fact, the fireball has little to do with the actual physical meteor. The flames we see are the air in front of the object being compressed at incredibly high speeds by ram pressure. Basically, the meteor has a layer of air in front of it, surfing the shock wave it creates all the way down. That layer of air is what gets heated to the point of catching fire.
With those wriggly tails this is all starting to look like interstellar bukkake.
The phenomenon actually does manage to heat up the outer layers of the meteor somewhat, but since those always get blown off on impact, that doesn't really matter. So the next time a meteor lands, just go pick that shit up! Rub it on your face, it's fine.
#2. People Explode in the Vacuum of Space
In the red corner: Human. A tiny, moist creature made of warmth, mushiness and various internal pressures.
In the blue corner: The Vacuum of Space. The ultimate hostile environment, containing nothing but coldness and black hatred toward your mortal husk.
We've all seen how it works in countless B-movies and low-budget sci-fi shows: If you go out there without a spacesuit, space will explode the shit out of you. The pressure inside you compared to the pressure outside you will turn you inside out in the blink of an eye. It made a guy's eyes pop out of his skull in Total Recall, and even Bart and Homer Simpson died this way during a Halloween episode.
Most people (correctly) assume that if the pressure outside an object is greater than the pressure inside, the object goes boom like a balloon in the upper atmosphere. So, if you take a human outside of the pressure of our atmosphere, after a few seconds, it's splat.
The Reality:
Actually, Stanley Kubrick got it right in 2001: A Space Odyssey when astronaut Bowman totally survives a space walk without a helmet. You wouldn't want to hang around all day -- you can't breathe, after all -- but your head isn't going to pop like a meat balloon, either.
If it did, you can bet Kubrick would have insisted on a real-life demonstration.
Fortunately, humans have a bunch of things going for us that balloons don't. The main ones are our skin and circulatory system. The former does its job of containing and protecting our body so well it can actually negate the effect of explosive decompression.
Meanwhile, the latter can adapt to new environments so well that the blood keeps going just fine instead of instantly starting to boil. Even freezing isn't an immediate issue despite the cold environment, as there's not much matter in space to absorb your body heat.
In fact, the main dangers of being out of your suit in space are oxygen-related: breathing, naturally, and also holding air in your lungs, which leads into the lung-inflating trauma scuba divers get when surfacing too quickly from great depths.
Why go to space when you can explode your eyeballs right on your own doorstep!
Though that's not to say space won't kill your ass if you just decide to hang around wearing nothing but a respirator and a Speedo. It totally will. It just won't be as hilarious to watch.
#1. There Is a Permanent Dark Side of the Moon
Well, this one is basic astronomy, right? The moon has a dark side that catches less sunlight than the average ass. It's a freezing, dark wasteland that is eternally doomed to face away from the bringer of warmth that its other side is constantly graced by.
As a result, the dark side of the moon is a place of myth, mystery and fear in popular culture, equally useful for hiding ancient Transformer technology as it is for inspiring freaky, progressive music.
If you play the moon phases backward to this album, you'll hear God telling you to get a girlfriend.
The Reality:
There isn't a dark side of the moon, any more than there's a dark side of the Earth. It's true that the moon is left with only one side facing the Earth at any given time. Facing Earth at any given time, not the sun.
Barring eclipses and other anomalies, this side of the moon gets exactly the same amount of light as the face side, just at different times (on Earth, scientists refer to this phenomenon as "night").
That's the time when light levels drop to 4 and mobs start attacking you.
We just don't see it ourselves because it faces away from us. There is, after all, a "far side" of the moon, because the same part of the moon is always facing us. But that doesn't mean the other side is bathed in darkness; the whole myth of the dark side is humanity applying the same logic babies use when you put your face behind your hands: "Can't see it? Not there."
"What's that? Moon ass."
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RICHMOND— Steven Lynn Sommerville, 60, formerly of Hendersonville, passed Wednesday November 28, 2012 in Richmond, VA. He is survived by his wife Vicki Karen Sommerville; parents, Herbert and Betty Sommerville; sister, Teri Wampler and husband, Lee; niece, Brittany Strope; nephew, Brandon Sommerville. Steven was a Vietnam-era U.S. Air Force Veteran and a former engineer with E.I. Dupont/AGFA, and Kimberly-Clark. The family received friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday, December 3, 2012 at Morrissett Funeral and Cremation Service, 6500 Iron Bridge Rd. (rte. 10). The service to celebrate his life was held 1 p.m. on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at the funeral home. Interment followed at 3 p.m. in Virginia Veterans Cemetery at Amelia. In lieu of flowers the family suggest memorial contributions be made to Alzheimer's Association, 4600 Cox Road, Suite 130, Glen Allen, VA 23060. Condolences can be expressed at morrissett.com.
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Visitor Parking
All parking on EvCC campus requires a permit.
Machines give no refunds or change.
$ 2 for 2 hours
Visitor parking is located in Parking Lot B on the west side of Gray Wolf Hall.
Where to pay
- The debit/ credit machine is located west of Gray wolf Hall in Lot B, between visitor and staff parking.
- The cash pay parking machine is located just north of the designated visitor parking stalls next to the bicycle shed (see the parking map). This machine requires exact change in $1 bills or quarters, dimes, and nickels.
- Payment can also be made in the Cashier's Office in the Parks Student Union.
Always place your Payment Receipt face up on your driver's side dashboard in plain view.
Where to park
You must park in stalls marked "Pay Visitor". If there are none available you can park in any unmarked stall for the two hour limit.
Limited all day parking is available for $3
Payment can also be made in the Cashier's Office in the Parks Student Union.
Parking is only permitted in student stalls located in parking lots on the east side of our College Campus (our east campus is considered everything east of Broadway (Transit Center) including lots H,I,J,N,K and L, College Plaza parking lot.
$3 daily, student and staff permits can not be used in pay visitor parking spaces.
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Turning Point
TurningPoint is an audience response system (ARS) that integrates with Microsoft® PowerPoint®. This enables audiences and students to participate in presentations or lectures by submitting responses to interactive questions using a ResponseCard™ keypad or other hand-held/computer devices. For immediate assistance with Turning Point, call (859)-218-HELP and select the option for AV Services.
TurningPoint Resources for Faculty
- ARS Checkout Program (firstname.lastname@example.com) Faculty can check out responders for 1-3 days with advance notice.
- Getting Help with UK ARS (Contact AV Services)
- Download TurningPoint (Download.uky.edu)
Testing the clicker before use
- (Testing a clicker before use) In the Polling tab on the TurningPoint Dashboard, click the Receiver number. Under Connections>Response Devices, click the Test button. Press 1/A on the ResponseCard. A response in the "Polling Test" window indicates that the receiver and ResponseCards are communicating properly.
Changing the channel on the receiver
- (ResponseCard RF and RF LCD) The Response Cards need to be set to the same channel as the receiver when polling. 1. Press the CH or Channel button. (older ResponseCards have a GO button) 2. Enter the two-digit channel number. 3. Press CH, or Channel again. 4. When the ResponseCard receives the new channel, the light will turn green.
- (ResponseCard NXT) The Response Cards need to be set to the same channel as the receiver when polling. 1. Press the Channel button. 2. Enter the two-digit channel number. 3. Press Enter (the center button). 4. When the ResponseCard receives the new channel, the screen will display the new channel.
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TurningPoint Resources for Students
When ordering online from Turning Technologies, to receive the best discount, use the school code: 8OeJ (number eight, capital "O", lower case "e", capital "J") This goes for faculty, students and staff.
How to get a clicker
- Clickers can be purchased from most textbook stores.
- Clickers cost approximately $40.
How to register your clicker in Blackboard
- Go to Course Tools
- Scroll down to TurningPoint Registration Tool
- Select your device type
- Enter the Response Device ID found on the back of your clicker
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(AP) ATLANTA - A judge has granted Georgia inmate Warren Lee Hill a stay of execution, but lawyers for the state plan to immediately appeal to the state's Supreme Court.
Hill had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Friday for the 1990 killing of a fellow inmate. But Superior Court Judge Gail Tusan issued an injunction Thursday blocking that, which could be overturned on appeal.
Hill's attorneys are challenging the constitutionality of a law barring the release of information about where Georgia obtains its execution drug. State attorneys contend the law is constitutional and necessary to discourage retaliation against those who take part in executions.
Tusan granted the injunction to allow further arguments.
Hill's attorneys also have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying he shouldn't be executed because he's mentally disabled.
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5 Badass Con Men Who Fooled the Experts There to Catch Them
Con artists exist because the world is full of stupid and/or gullible people who believe everything they hear. That's why the world also needs experts, people who are paid a lot of money to sort reality from bullshit. And we like to think they do a good job, otherwise museums would be full of pictures of dicks signed "Leonardo Da Vinci" in crayon.
But then occasionally some con artist slips through the cracks and manages to make a living selling bullshit to the exact people who should be most qualified to call it out, and suddenly you find yourself wondering if we're all just waiting to be suckers.
#5. One Guy's Nonsense Anti-Terrorism Software Fools U.S. Intelligence
In 2003, catching terrorists was right at the top of the government's to-do list, thanks to a certain obscure incident that had recently happened in New York. The U.S. government was pretty jumpy about the whole thing and was enthusiastic about any new technology that might help them stop any future tragedies before they happened.
They handed out rainbow awareness ribbons so we could each make a difference.
Enter Dennis Montgomery, a computer programmer from California. He developed software that he claimed could decode messages broadcast by the Arab television network Al-Jazeera. He said he'd found them to contain coordinates and flight numbers used for planning terrorist attacks. Having learned from Hollywood that there's nothing you can't do with a computer, the Department of Homeland Security decided they'd take it and promptly handed over $20 million. That's quite a bit of money, considering Montgomery was pulling these secret messages out of his ass.
Flights were grounded all over the world on Christmas in 2003 after officials were warned by Montgomery's software that a terror attack was imminent. French authorities detained six people in connection with the supposed plot, then let all six go because they weren't terrorists at all. Frustrated, the French intelligence agency decided to test the software themselves, finding it to be "merde de cheval complete," or "total horseshit." The CIA agreed with this assessment and told the DHS what a bunch of morons they were, presumably with a comical slap across the back of the head.
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2004's drone strike on DHS headquarters was an unrelated tragedy.
You'd probably assume Montgomery was fired and locked up in Guantanamo Bay for his deception, right? Of course not. He kept working for various government agencies for years, and in 2009 he was awarded a $3 million contract with the Air Force. At the end of that year, Montgomery was charged with passing bad checks at casinos in Vegas, at which point the intelligence services finally decided they should probably stop giving him money.
#4. A Make-Believe Forensic Investigator Fools the British Courts for Years
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Forensic investigation has got itself a pretty glamorous reputation, even though everything about its TV portrayal is nonsense. It's easy to see why someone might fancy a bit of laser-and-microscope action, so in many ways Gene Morrison was ahead of the curve. He decided in 1977 that dusting and swabbing was the life for him, so he set his sights on several years of hard study to gain the expertise necessary. Just kidding -- he bought a sham degree through the mail and began his own forensic investigation firm with no more qualification than what you can get from a pulp crime novel. Apparently no one bothered to check if his credentials were genuine or even whether the university they came from existed, because Morrison started calling himself "doctor," and that was good enough for the U.K. justice system. Thankfully, he only got away with this for ... let's see here ... 26 fucking years.
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Even Dre managed just 20 years before his medical credentials were questioned.
Yep -- for the next two and a half decades, Morrison hired himself out to private and public clients, earning 250,000 pounds from U.K. taxpayers in the process. He testified in 700 trials, so that's several hundred lawyers who failed to spend five minutes figuring out that the witness was Mr. Liar McLiarpants. Sorry, that's Dr. McLiarpants.
Authorities had to reassess every case that Morrison had ever testified in to ensure that nobody had been convicted on his evidence, which in many cases was cut and pasted directly from the Internet. In the end, he was convicted on 22 charges related to perjury and fraud, although he insisted on being called "doctor" throughout his own trial.
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He wore a stethoscope, too, to check court corpses' heartbeats.
It's not clear what it was about Morrison that had police, judges, and juries convinced of his worth for so long. Perhaps he changed the font when he copied and pasted a bunch of his reports from the Internet? A transcript of a police interview in 2007, after Morrison was caught out, suggests it is perhaps his ability to hold together a coherent tale with unbridled panache. For example, when asked where in America he'd studied for his degree, he came back with "Er, crikey, I can't remember."
#3. A Man Carves Fake Artifacts in His Shed, Sells Them to Museums
The entire point of a museum is that it's full of people who know their shit -- the tourists may think they're just looking at a picture of some flowers in a swamp, but the museum knows it's a Monet. That's the whole reason museums exist. So you wouldn't think that somebody would be able to, say, make some bullshit in their garage and pass it off to museums as real priceless works of art. And you certainly wouldn't think the museums would fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars for said bullshit year after year. But you'd be wrong.
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So, you're ignorant either way.
British artist Shaun Greenhalgh was having a hard time selling his work. He was reasonably talented, but damn it, reasonable talent doesn't get you nearly as far as, say, crime. So, Greenhalgh embarked on a career of creating and selling fake artifacts. After roping his father, George, into the scam, Greenhalgh tried to sell museums a "small silver object" inscribed with Old English and claimed it contained a piece of the true cross of Jesus. Experts at the British Museum and English Heritage realized the silver box was a fake, but thought the wood might be real, since claiming to possess a genuine artifact of the Crucifixion isn't suspicious even if you hand it over in an obviously forged container. George Greenhalgh sold the piece for 100 pounds. Then he sold another piece. He kept doing this for almost two fucking decades without being caught.
Greenhalgh produced fake paintings and sculptures, from copies of ancient artifacts to works by famous artists such as L.S. Lowry and Barbara Hepworth. His other pieces included a Roman plate, golden statuettes, and a Victorian vase. His father would claim that they were all heirlooms that he had found magically laying around the house, as though finding a seemingly infinite number of priceless relics under a sheet in your attic is completely normal. And museums and historians kept ruling them genuine.
Other pieces allegedly "fell off the back of a truck," explaining their ruined state.
Their most successful con was an Egyptian statuette called the Amarna Princess, which they sold to Bolton Museum in 2003 for 440,000 pounds. Ironically, the museum thought they were tricking the Greenhalghs by shelling out much less money than the ancient statue was worth. In reality, the statuette had been carved in just a few weeks and made to look old using tea and clay.
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The head's missing because the elder Greenhalgh got angry and hungry seeing all the tea gone.
"Rubbing it in tea" is a method of faking age that has been practiced and perfected by 8-year-olds making pirate maps over many decades, so it's easy to understand why it would convince antiques experts. In the end, the Greenhalghs were caught when an ancient Assyrian relief they were hocking turned out to have a spelling mistake. When the experts decided to maybe take a second look at some of these artifacts, the whole long career of forgery began to unravel ... but not before the Greenhalghs made over $1.35 million.


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DENVER � Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Tuesday that he and his wife, Helen Thorpe, are separating.
The couple issued a joint statement to announce the surprise news.
�After years of marriage that have added tremendous love and depth to both of our lives, we have decided to separate. This decision is mutual and amicable. We continue to have the utmost respect for each other, and we remain close friends. We intend to continue functioning as a family that spends a great deal of time together,� the statement said.
They will take their annual family vacation together this week, and they plan to spend holidays together, the statement said.
Hickenlooper will move into the governor�s mansion. He declined to move into the residence when he became governor in 2011. Instead, several members of his cabinet who come from outside Denver live at the mansion.
Thorpe is a journalist and has kept a very low profile as Colorado�s first lady. She has worked at The New Yorker and Texas Monthly. In 2009, Simon and Schuster published her book, Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America.
The couple has one son, Teddy, 10.
�Our chief concern right now is the well-being of our son, so we ask everyone to respect our privacy as we make this transition. While public office made this announcement necessary, it will be the only statement we make on this private matter,� their joint statement said.
They got married in 2002, a year before Hickenlooper won a long-shot campaign for mayor of Denver.
The couple sought �extended counseling� and infidelity was not the cause of their breakup, according to their statement.
In the last six weeks, Hickenlooper has led the state through its worst-ever wildfires and the mass shooting at an Aurora movie theater. But those events had nothing to do with his separation from his wife, the statement by the governor�s office said.
Hickenlooper�s popularity as governor has led to speculation that he could have a future in national politics. He has consistently denied that he�s interested in running for president in 2016, but on Monday he will give a speech in New Hampshire, site of the country�s first presidential primary.


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Scores of Twitter users have flooded the social networking site announcing their plans to go on looting sprees once Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, as the New York National Guard announced it would put troops on duty in Long Island to prevent such activity.
It's only been within the past century or so that everybody in the world wasn't surviving without electricity.The key thing to remember is that what people began to use electricity for had long been done by burning stuff - coal, wood, oil, kerosene, natural gas. If you approach the problems from that point of view, most things - except for refrigeration - can be reasonably easily handled. And what those pre-electric folks substituted for refrigeration was food preservation techniques.
It's only been within the past century or so that everybody in the world wasn't surviving without electricity.The key thing to remember is that what people began to use electricity for had long been done by burning stuff - coal, wood, oil, kerosene, natural gas.
Cooking and lighting I can do...I've actually got three different camp-stoves, a classic Coleman two burner, an MSR Dragonfly multifuel backpacking stove, and on that runs on the 2 lb propane bottles.Other than maybe a genset, that's about the best I can do, given my (career induced) requirement to move every couple of years.Depending on my next duty station, I may try to get a heater of some sort. KS and CO can get pretty cold in the winter.
Hey Doc.... I hate to sound so ignorant, but what the heck is PDARK?
It's certainly a DIY kind of job, once you find the right orifice.
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Thanks Doc. Cleared that right up for me.Not sure why but I was thinking you were from further west.... Montana or such.That's what I get for thinking.
I am. I teach a few months of the year at a medical school here, and work in the local medical system - which is just as poorly structured and run as those in the US, just in different ways.
Interesting. You can be a doctor in Canada. Dual citizenship maybe? I didn't know one could do such a thing. Or, maybe you were from there in the first place. Just curious. Hope I'm not being too nosy.Yeah and it looks like the medical system is probably gonna get a darned site worse down here, just shortly. God help us.
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The question in my book says:
Find the necessary conditions in which the quadratic equation $ax^2+bx+c$ would have roots (m, n) such that (in individual cases):
(i) m=2n
(ii) m=n+3
It's really annoying because whatever knowledge I had about quad. equ.'s didn't work and the answer the book gave was:
(i) $9AC=2B^2$
and (ii) $B^2=9A^2+4AC$
I gave this 10 minutes of thought; none.
The question form is obviously the problem; I don't have a teacher so I thought that someone might have a better explanation for "conditions" generally and specifically in quadratic roots.
$$ m=2n \\ ax^2(x-m)(x-n) \\ a(x-[n+3] \hspace{3pt})(x-n) \\ ax^2-2anx-3ax+an^2+3an \\ \hspace{-.9cm} = \hspace{.3cm} ax^2-ax(2n-3)+an(n+3) \\ *n=\frac {c} {a(n+3)} \\ *-ax \left[ \frac{2c}{2an+6a} \right] = b \\ x \left( \frac {c}{n+3}+3a \right)=b$$


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The holidays are such a busy time of year what with all of the holiday parties, last minute shopping trips, and family get togethers. But for those of us who are not fortunate to live near family, that means traveling is sometimes necessary. As a married couple, figuring out where to spend the holidays is sometimes difficult. But it really doesn't have to be. Luckily, we've sort of worked out a system that works for us. For instance this year we stayed here for Thanksgiving and so for Christmas, we're going to see his family. {continued...}
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One of the things that you learn when you're married is that you now have two homes & two families to think about. So this board started out with the idea of travel and with the image of a bride sitting on some red vintage luggage. If only traveling was this glamorous! I absolutely love the holiday desserts, the little red barn blanketed in snow and the handmade ring bowl. This palette of red and white is simply classic. I imagined that this couple could give out candy canes packaged with red and white striped ribbon & personalized favor tags. So where is everyone traveling to this holiday? Wherever you go, I wish you safe travels & a happy holiday!


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I am on machine A, hopping onto machine B to finally reach machine C.
A --ssh--> B --ssh--> C
When I ssh-add my private key on A, all works fine and I can hop onto B as many times as I want without supplying any passwords.
When I ssh-add on B, I get this error message:
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
The objective is to ssh-add on B too and from there to reach many different C's...
I know how to set up "pass-through" using .ssh/config but that's not what I am trying to do.


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Can you explain the procedure for high dose radiation for cervical cancer? From what I understand, it seems like it will be painful. Will I have any kind of anesthesia?
Michael Corradetti, MD, PhD, Radiation Oncology Resident at Penn Medicine, responds:
You are referring to tandem and ovoid brachytherapy for cervical cancer. This involves the insertion of radiation sources into the uterus and the area around the cervix. The procedure is performed at our institution with a patient-controlled analgesic device (PCA device), which allows for the patient to safely self-administer pain medication at the press of a button without a concern for overdose. Most patients endorse minimal pain, and mild/moderate discomfort. General anesthesia is only rarely necessary.
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Target distribution is multimodal, 24 dimensions, continuous state space. For MCMC integration (MH sampler) I use a manually tuned proposal distribution.
When I measure the convergence rate numerically I observe only a polynomial convergence rate.
I have a complete freedom of choice for the proposal distribution. Are there practically useful conditions to quickly check if a particular proposal distribution leads to the geometric convergence rate?


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24 Jul 2012 2:08 AM #1
Bug with scene control in Firefox
currently I have a html banner with 5 slides, each slide is a scene. The banner auto loop 5 slides and I also have 2 arrows to manual control (go next, go back). Each scene wait 5s before jump to next scene.
Everything work well as expected in chrome but in Firefox (14.0.1) ,when I click to arrow then the banner not work correct, slide appeared and disappeared so fast even the animation of that banner still not end.
Can you guys please check it ?
24 Jul 2012 8:17 AM #2
Would you mind sharing your project, so I can take a look at it? If you want to keep it private you could send me a PM.
24 Jul 2012 8:28 AM #3
24 Jul 2012 9:08 AM #4
Thanks for sharing. Nice looking project!
So I found the issue you are running into. As far as I can tell it is a bug in Firefox. We'll try to get a workaround into Animator at some point. In the meantime, you'll have to edit the exported JS file and make a small change to it.
You'll have to replace
this.olElement.addEventListener(eventName, function() { me.onAnimationEnd(); },false);
this.olElement.addEventListener(eventName, function(event) { var valid = false; var parent = event.target; while (parent = parent.parentNode) { if (parent === me.scenes[me.currentSceneID].element) { valid = true; break; } } if (valid) { me.onAnimationEnd(); } },false);
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Again you're stating "huge amount of injuries" - there aren't. Two players are injured in his position. The squad is deficient in central midfield but it's not because of injuries.
My opinion is that he was finished about half-way through last season and basically limped on until the end before retiring with good grace. To come back now is folly on his and the club's part - his legs are done. The Guardian Football Weekly podcast (fairly reliable AFAIK) this Monday said he hadn't been training with the Man Utd first team - the first they knew about it was seeing him in the dressing room and on the team sheet before the City game.
Pogba has been making noises about leaving the club at the end of his contract, which expires in the summer, due to lack of opportunities. If all you need is a bit part player and you truly believe in your young player's potential, you wouldn't bring back a guy who retired bang on time. Fair enough point about his example in training, but he's been coaching since retiring, why not just stick with that?
I can see the potential positives in the deal assuming he's still at a decent level, but from watching him towards the back end of last season he really was so far gone that I don't think he's any better use than a kid, and at least the kid has the potential to improve. That's why I think it's stupid.
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I just configured 4 3TB drives in a RAID-10 configuration but the total disk space in the RAID is 4TB. I used the following guide to setup the RAID-10, RAID-10 Intall. Shouldn't the size if the RAID-10 array be 6TB? According to this RAID Calculator it should be. Anyone have any idea of what might have gone wrong in the install?
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- Please sign up below if you're interested in helping plan this event. Make sure to indicate when you would be available to meet, in person, to discuss party planning.
- gba - Tuesday, Thursday & Friday Evenings. Saturday all day, Sunday all day.
- ladyfox14 - Tuesday-Saturday all day though I will be busy checking out apartments this month as well as covering extra work shifts
- rubin110 - Friday the 17th most likely.
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---- I think we should serve chicken feet. ~~~~ ----
- Ideas for the party
- We should show off some cool projects, like the Wii visuals system.
- We should have inclusive snacks and beverages.
- This means alcoholic & non-alcoholic drinks.
- This means vegetarian friendly munchies.
- In parallel with "non-restricted" munchies? Michiexile 17:44, 15 October 2008 (PDT)
gba 00:31, 15 October 2008 (PDT)
- We should have cool visuals playing on the projector.
- It would be cool if we had face paint if anyone wanted to get creative. And anyone for glow sticks?
- We need to remember to get wrist bands to give out to the attendees.
Actually ... y'know .. chicken feet _would_ be cool.
- Homebrew candy - candycanes? (difficult, involves HOT sugar and preferably marble benches), candied stuff (violet, lavender, ginger, et.c. - involves MUCH less mess, but still hot sugar), chocolate, et.c.
Michiexile 17:44, 15 October 2008 (PDT)
Websites with halloween-themed projects
- halloween projects at evilmadscientist.com -Endenizen 17:21, 15 October 2008 (PDT)
Our projects
- Processing artwork -Endenizen 17:21, 15 October 2008 (PDT)
- Pumpkin showcases from the workshop Michiexile 17:42, 15 October 2008 (PDT)


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18 Jul 2009 3:51 AM #1
[CLOSED] [3.0.0] Event handler arguments receive DOM element instead of Ext.Element
I'm facing the following problem:
In the documentation of Ext.Element.addListener(), the second parameter to the handler function fn(evt, el, obj) should be an Ext.Element.
Instead, the handler receive the HTML element that received the event. In addition, if the HTML element that received the event was a child of the element on which the handler has been set up, that child element is given to the handler, not the element on which the handler has been set up.
I don't know if this is the intended behaviour, but then the documentation should be fixed.... This is rather confusing ;-).
Thanks for the wonderful job!
18 Jul 2009 4:53 AM #2
addListener doesn't work like that. If you call, for example, panel.addListener(eventName, handlerFn, scope), the parameters that handlerFn receives are totally dependent on what eventName is. Let me demonstrate it with a gridpanel:
1) handling row double-clicking:
gridpanel.addListener('rowdblclick', function(grid, rowindex, e) { var record = grid.getStore().getAt(rowindex); alert('You dbl-clicked: ' + record.get('title')); }, this);
gridpanel.addListener('titlechange', function(grid, newtitle) { alert('New title: ' + newtitle); }, this);
18 Jul 2009 5:02 AM #3
18 Jul 2009 5:11 AM #4
Fine. Ext.Element that is. But I stand corrected that is if you scroll down to Public Events section in API page for Ext.Element, all the events expect HtmlElement as the 2nd parameters. What I said about refering to event definition instead of what told in addListener() definition is the truth.
18 Jul 2009 5:35 AM #5
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I changed the Ext 3.0 docs to specify that an HtmlElement is returned, not an Ext.Element.
They will be visible when the docs are released.Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
Read the docs too: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/
Scope: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.ph...642#post257642
18 Jul 2009 6:50 AM #6
Indeed, I should have scrolled a bit lower... Thanks for the answers anyway!
18 Jul 2009 12:30 PM #7
Marking this thread as CLOSED.Aaron Conran


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Updating A '50 Olds' Suspension And Steering - Make An Olds Man HappyWritten on November 1, 2012
Cars built during the mid 20th century offered a vast improvement in steering and suspension over their predecessors of even 20 years earlier. Fast forward 50 or 60 years, however, and they're woefully inadequate for today's roads and highway speeds, especially when fitted with more modern engines and powertrains. While some lend themselves to easy suspension swaps (think of the myriad of Mustang II–based crossmembers and clips available in the aftermarket), others aren't so easily adapted.
This '50 Olds is a perfect case in point. Jules Engoren bought this 455-powered coupe that already had a rack-and-pinion and disc brakes installed, yet he was less than enamored when it showed a tendency to swap lanes on the freeway at the sign of any slight deviation in the road surface. Zero (or even positive) caster made steering lighter in the days before power steering was common, and highway speeds were a lot slower back then. There is no way to adjust the caster on the Olds, yet the owner didn't want to go to the expense and amount of work involved to "clip" the car.
Having had "Kiwi" Steve Davies of Kiwi Steve's Hot Rod Shop in Brea, California, perform work on his '34 phaeton in the past, he asked Davies if he could modernize the suspension and steering without resorting to a front frame swap. The Olds has a chassis that doesn't lend itself easily to such a job, as the framerails are not parallel and the front crossmember is a hefty affair, to say the least.
After a lot of trial and error, and much planning, the result is a vastly improved ride that instills driver confidence, not fear. It's also an upgrade that could be performed with stock parts from other cars, though aftermarket upper control arms and spindles were used from Classic Performance Products, offering the benefit of improved strength with new parts.
However, before we get into the nitty-gritty of the swap, there are a couple of things to bear in mind. Firstly, this isn't a job for a novice, as plenty of fabrication and a thorough understanding of suspension and steering geometry are required to complete the task. Secondly, this swap represents an improvement over the stock Olds components, not a perfect front suspension on this platform, as so much is inherently "wrong" to start with. It is, however, with the right knowledge and skills, easier than stripping the car and grafting in a front clip from the firewall forward, as the engine, transmission, sheetmetal, and bumpers don't require removal and remounting. The use of Chevelle spindles means there is a vast selection of rotors and calipers that can be used, from stock versions all the way up to six-pot calipers and large-diameter vented rotors.
Wrapping Up ...
Though not part of the suspension, per se, there were a couple of associated jobs that were required to complete the project. As mentioned, this '50 Olds has a 455/700-R4 combo, and with the starter on the left side, exhaust clearance and steering column routing posed a challenge. After trying four or five different manifolds from various Olds models, this version that kicked out toward the rear finally provided the necessary steering shaft clearance. A small section of tubing was then welded up, with flanges for ease of future maintenance. With the addition of power steering, the Olds required a power steering pump, but specifically one valved for a power rack, not a steering box. This old style, low pressure, Saginaw pump was sourced from a one-year-only Chevy Citation.
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3 The plumb bob was also used to determine the track width, measured from the spring pocket to the inner bearing face on the spindle. This was done with the suspension under load, and shown here mocked up. The original plan was to reuse the stock wheels, but the 5-on-5 bolt pattern (to match the hubs and rotors already fitted) dictated otherwise once the Chevelle hubs were installed. However, new wheels of the same offset were used.4 A new lower ball joint mount was mocked in position to determine everything would fit. This placed the ball joint forward of the stock lower kingpin joint as required.5 With the ball joint mount tacked in place, a pair of junkyard Chevelle spindles was used for setup purposes. Davies then began experimenting with steering arms.6 CPP provided a pair of '64-72 Chevelle upper control arms (top) as well as a pair of '55 Chevy arms (bottom), so we could determine which would work best for the conversion. Points to consider were the placement and angle of the ball joint, as well as the latter having the correct taper to match the Chevelle spindles. At this point too, Davies was trying to make the job simpler by mounting the upper arms to the stock knee-action upper arm mounts.7 Chevelle spindles were selected because the measurement between the ball joints was as close as possible to the distance between the stock kingpin pivots. Also, they accept bolt-on steering arms, which makes them ideal for front- or rear-steer applications (meaning whether the steering rack is behind or in front of the spindle). Here the steering tie rod is being mocked up.A couple of things are going on in this picture. First, Davies was experimenting with the placement of the upper control arm mount using the '55 Chevy arms. Secondly, he was trying a '67-69 Camaro steering arm. The idea behind this was that it was from a rear-steer car, so the Ackerman would likely be close to what was required, but it had way too much drop, and placed the tie-rod end in the wrong place in relation to the steering rack.9 With the upper arm temporarily mounted, you can see how the caster is much improved over stock. Here it's set at 3 degrees. Also, a Chevelle steering arm is now bolted up. It puts the tie rod at the right height for the steering rack, but being from a front-steer car, it'll have to be modified to correct the Ackerman angle.10 Part of the problem with adapting a steering rack to the Olds is that the lower control arms are so long, the inner pivot points are near the center of the car. This means the inner pivot points of the tie rods on a normal steering rack wouldn't align with them, leading to bumpsteer. The solution? To use a steering rack where the pivots are in the center. This one is from a late-'80s to early-'90s Grand Am. It can also be found in a Cutlass or Calais. The left side of the mounting bracket bolts to the original steering box mounting holes.
12 Using Chevelle tie-rod ends, Davies fabricated these tie rods in order to start setting up the steering, though ultimately they weren't used.13 This plate was also made as a starting point to determine where the inner tie-rod ends should mount to the steering rack.14 With the steering mocked up, a bumpsteer gauge was connected and the suspension moved through its travel. This showed the steering arms were way too long, so the central bracket was made longer to bring the inner tie rod pivot outward.15 The Ackerman needed to be set before any further work could be done on the steering. With a length of string pulled taut between the lower ball joint center and the center of the rearend, the outer tie rod pivot on the steering arm should intersect the string line …17 Slightly out of sequence as it's all painted, this is what the final steering rack center bracket looks like. With this bracket, the bumpsteer gauge read a total of 0.150 inch of deflection throughout the travel, compared to 2 1/2 inches with the first bracket, and the Ackerman yet to be set. The steering is turned here; the tie rods are not offset!18 With the steering geometry set, the lower control arms could be finished. A jig was fabricated around the modified arm.19 The same jig was used for the opposite arm, though the angle of the ball joint had to be copied and flipped right to left.
22 Here's how the ball joint cup was attached to the control arm, substantially stronger than the temporary method it replaced.26 While the Chevelle upper arms eventually worked out to be the best fit for this application, there was still a small amount of bind in the ball joints, owing to the angle of the arm. Davies modified the arm as shown on the left to cure this.27 Though shown while the upper arm mounts were at the prototype stage, you can clearly see how plenty of adjustment was built in to the suspension for future alignment. It may look like a lot of shims have been used, but there's only a 1/2 inch of adjustment for camber.28 Though the tie rods have yet to be connected to the steering rack, '67-69 Camaro tie rod adjustment sleeves were used in the final version, and you can see that CPP dropped Chevelle spindles have replaced the stock versions now. The new wheels have the same backspacing as the previous ones, and as the suspension was designed with the same track width, we know they'll have sufficient clearance.
30 The tube shocks and antiroll bar brackets were re-attached to the lower arms, the shock mounting to the same towers that had previously been added (the original shocks would have been integral to the knee-action upper arms).32 Using specs for a '64-70 Chevelle, as that's pretty much what the suspension was based on, the digital Hawkeye machine made alignment a snap.33 The screen tells the story; with some shims removed from the upper arms, the camber is about as close to 0 as it could be. Each side has 3 degrees of caster, and the total toe is 0.15 degree.34 Here's the upper arm inner mount after alignment, with just two shims left. If Davies had started with less than a 1/2 inch of adjustment, there wouldn't have been enough room to set the camber correctly.


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TOPEKA, Kan. -- Friends of the Kaw has released its Fall Educational Floats and events for 2012. "We have planned many fun, educational events for this fall – float trips, the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, and classes on paddling and fishing on the Kaw. " says Laura Calwell, Kansas Riverkeeper for Friends of the Kaw.
Mark your calendars for any or all of these fall floats and events:
September 22, Saturday – Rain Garden Maintenance and Community Float, 8:30am to 1pm, from De Soto to Cedar Creek
Boat rental is waived for this float but you must RSVP on a first come first serve basis. We will meet at the De Soto Access at 8:30 a.m.
Sept. 23, Sunday – Kaw River Paddling Seminar at Bass Pro Shop in Olathe from 2 to 4pm
The class will highlight types of canoes and kayaks, paddles, personal floatation devices (PFDs) and other equipment that works best for floating the Kaw. We will talk about general and specific safety information on paddling rivers, and show participants how to get information on locations of access ramps, Kaw water levels and reservoir releases.
Sept. 30, Sunday – Youth Fishing Workshop at Bass Pro Shop in Olathe from 2 to 4pm
We will have activities for school aged youth on fishing and reducing stormwater pollution.
October 7, Saturday –River Ambassador Float – De Soto to Cedar Creek from 1 to 5pm
This educational float is geared for school aged youth and their parents. Boat rental will be waived for this event. Must RSVP.
October 12, Friday – Wild and Scenic Film Festival at 7:30pm at Liberty Hall, Lawrence
The festival tour brings together the best of Patagonia's Wild and Scenic films in a two+ hour program that leaves viewers feeling inspired and motivated to go out and make a difference in their community and around the world. Tickets are $10 in advance
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November 13, Tuesday – FOK Annual Dinner and Silent Auction from 6 to 10pm at Uncle Buck's at the Bass Pro Shop in Olathe. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Melinda Daniels, KSU Geology Professor, discussing her research on Kaw in-river dredging. Tickets for the dinner will be $40@ and RSVP's must be made by November 9. Silent Auction items are needed for this event so even if you can't come you can still support Friends of the Kaw and the Kansas Riverkeeper.
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