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Dayton, Gilbert-Northwestern hold on to defeat Avon, 34-33
WINSTED — It looked way too easy. Gilbert-Northwestern was leading visiting Avon, 34-12, with 9:14 left to play. G-N was on the brink of all but sewing up the Western Division of the Pequot League.
But the fourth quarter has simply been the Falcons' time. They find a different mindset when their backs are against the wall. Ask North Branford, which gave up a pair of touchdowns in the last 26 seconds of an Avon win.
The Falcons almost pulled off a second miracle Saturday, but an attempted two-point conversion for the win was picked off by Yellowjackets defensive back Seth Dayton, and Gilbert-Northwestern escaped with a 34-33 win.
It was huge win for the Yellowjackets (4-0, 6-1), who now own a two-game lead in the West with their remaining in-division games against Nonnewaug and Housatonic.
"I don't know how to feel," G-N coach Scott Salius said. "Angry at the fact that we let them come all the way back or relieved that we got the stop when we needed it."
For the second straight week, the Yellowjackets got off to a slow start as the visitors scored first on a 32-yard scoring pass from Noah Hahn to Stephen Griffin on their second possession. Hahn (14-22-208) threw for four touchdowns, three in the fourth quarter.
G-N's Tony Ortiz Jr. did what he normally does, and took off on a run into the line that appeared to be stopped two or three times before breaking it 57 yards for the tying touchdown.
G-N took the lead on a 52-yard pass from John Lippincott to Seth Dayton.
They extended that lead to 20-6 on a 6-yard TD pass from Lippincott to Matthew Nieves.
The lead would grow to 34-12 into the fourth.
But a 30-yard TD throw from Hahn to Dylan Marquis was followed on the next drive by a magnificent catch and run by Murphy that started as a screen right and ended 70 yards later down the left sideline for a TD, making it 34-27 with 7:09 left.
A G-N punt left the Falcons with 54 yards to cover in 2:49 with two timeouts. A pass interference call would bring them to the G-N 20 with 2:13 left. Murphy would run for 12, and Hahn for 11, setting up a first-and-goal from the 5-yard line with 1:03 to play.
Two runs and a timeout brought the clock down to 19 seconds. Then Hahn went up the middle and was stopped short with six seconds left. But a whistle stopped the clock when Murphy's helmet came off. He had to sit out the next play.
On that next play, Hahn kept the ball and went in on a sweep to bring his team to within one, 34-33. Avon decided to go for two and the win.
With Murphy back in, and in motion, Dayton was the man of the hour as he stepped in front of the Falcons running back to grab the INT.
"It was like a dream come true," Dayton said. "I saw him (Murphy) go in motion so I knew the play was going to go to him."
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As I am loathe to use the GD forum, I will ask here, my favourite forum.
I have noticed my current career game has automatically been patched to 12.1. Is this the first FM to do this? From memory all previous FM's have required a new game to be started before the patch took effect.
Not everything would take effect, but most would. It's always been like this, saves are always compatible between patches. But to fully take advantage of a new patch it's best to start a new save. It's why many don't buy the game until February-March and start their careers then, when the third patch has typically come out.
GD is brutal. It's like it's Rant Day in the kindergarten. Except it's every day
GD isn't that bad guys. Just don't go in any threads that when you hover over them start with, "I've been playing FM for" or "I've been playing FM since" as 9 times out of 10 they are rants about how this shouldn't happen and this shouldn't happen. Then despite others saying it happens in real life, that's why it's in FM, they still don't back down .
I hadn't been in there much since getting FM12, but sometimes venture in there as its good for a laugh.
I can now see why daf gave his moderator status up in GD .
CSE is challenges, sign ups and experiments. Some of it is story based, but a lot of it is game based, like this forum.
I know to create screenshots and upload - my career thread has enough of them after all - but I notice the quality of my screens is lacking in comparison to others. How do I improve them?
I see some of the same in many other threads too, and it's quite frustrating really as it's so hard to see what's actually in the shots. The problem is that the forum resizes all in-forum images to 800 width, so when yours are in about 1 million pixels wide ( ) it's hard to see what's in them. I find it's good to resize the window (if you are playing in windowed) to something small so the pictures are coming up properly. That way half the picture won't be empty space too, like in many league tables. They way I've done it is to have the un-maximised window at 1024x768 for when taking screenshots. Then I can just double-click the top titlebar to get the window to maximise for play-time. Works quite nice.
See you are using the player section with lots of into too. That has the downside of making it rather hard to see the attributes, which is at least what I look for in those pictures. Probably better to use the attribute screen instead of the profile.
Hope that helps.
My wife managed to spill a glass of red wine on my laptop last night
I now have a horrible wait while someone looks at it, I'm praying it is just a blown fuse. I can't really afford to replace it, so is it wrong that the thing I'm most worried about is losing my FM save?
Definitely not, that's all I was bothered about when mine carked it.
Judge: "Why have you filed for divorce, sir?"
Dafuge: "My wife spilled a glass of red whine into my laptop, which killed off my FM saves."
Judge: "Err. What?"
On a serious note, hope you manage to save it. Terrible way for a career to end.
The way I do screenies is windowed mode, re-sizing the window to squeeze as much text as possible instead of blank spaces, and then crop the images in Microsoft Office Picture Manager. You don't get wasted space this way.
Dafuge: even if your laptop is ruined, your hard drive should probably be alright and you should be able to recover the information in it, including the all-important FM save. Who cares about the actual expensive piece of hardware laptop heh?
hasnt fm been mentioned in divorce cases before lol Its so unreal you could end up on judge judy
btw how do you do screen shots from the game? I usually prnt scrn and paste into paint.
I really hope my laptop can be fixed. It was a couple of years old but it was quite expensive new so I can't really afford to replace it. It will mean downgrading if I have to get a new one
Worth mentioning that the screenies then get automatically saved in the My Documents\Sports Interactive\FM 2012\screenshots folder, and that you can set them up to save them as PNG, JPG or whatever you like. Personally I go the extra effort by saving them as PNG and them converting to JPG in an image processing program with the level of compression I want, which is the best possible compromise between bandwidth and image quality. A bit of a hassle but I feel it's worth it, I like to post loads of pictures and don't want my thread taking ages to load, neither I want the text to look sh*t and nearly unreadable.
It depends on how much effort you're bothered to take, really. In another forum I am people often make special banners and use photoshop templates they create to show every single game result, now that's effort and something I wouldn't want to waste my time with.
A couple of years ago I took apart my missus' old laptop to see if I could work out why a couple of the buttons had stopped working. Underneath the keyboard was this disgusting, sticky brown scum all over the PCB the buttons were mounted on. Turns out she'd spilled cup after cup of coffee over it during its lifetime and it had worked fine until then. Cleaned it off and it was back to normal. My psyche remains scarred.
Then I'd imagine the damage will be to the PSU and everything else is fine. I can't say for sure how easy it'll be to replace that, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't simple enough. So long as the rest of the components are dried and cleaned well you should get away with it.
There wasn't much liquid inside it, so I'm hoping the problem is just power related. The laptop is completely dead, no lights show at all. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.
On a positive note, I've managed to get hold of my save game, so if I do need to repalce it at least I'll be able to continue my game.
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I'm interested to know what everyone thinks of having videos highlights in updates? I've put a couple in my thread but I'm never sure whether they are all that well received. What do you prefer; screenshots and descriptions, videos or a mixture?
My laptop needs a new motherboard
Bad news
Oh. That's a bummer
Looks like it will cost me something like £200. I looked into just buying a new one but it seems my two year old laptop is still very expensive to replace, the processor is the only dated part and even that isn't that bad. I've even tried loading FM on my old work laptop (which I'm using now), it works but it is unbearably slow.
It looks like I'll be spending a week with no FM. This usually wouldn't be a problem, but as I'm off work this would have been a week I'd have spent playing it non stop
The wife owes you
If only, I'm thinking this was sabotage
Are there any sort of couply things she's sprung on you since "the incident"? Antiquing outings? Visits to the in-laws ?
She sounds more like an outlaw.
Wow it is hard to find a cheapish striker in this game.
Found this regen who is 19 and my scouts reckon is just about as good as every one else, yet the AI won't even accept a 14M bid.
That continues to be one of the great weaknesses with FM. Too many good players are released or not offered new contracts, particularly young ones.
Can anyone advise me how to train PPM's? Used to be in the private chat feature but I can't see it now. Only time I have been able to train them on FM12 is when a coach has advised it, is it limited to backroom advice now?
Follow the steps you would to get a player to tutor, then there should be an option below that!
I'm probably being really dim but I still can't find it. When I go to private chat as I would to tutor a player I just get these options:
Tried all the options displayed but none of them are about PPM's. Is it one of the greyed options I need or am I missing something?
It isn't in the private chat any more, you do it through a coach rather than the player.
From memory, you just right click on a player and the option should be there.
Got it now, cheers Dafuge
As the saying goes, there should be more than one road to Rome.
When do people usually do a mid-season update? After the January window or half way through the league games?
Yeah, my thoughts exactly!
I do it either midway through the league, or at the start of the winter break. I can see the benefits of waiting until after the transfer window, but I don't tend to do much in that anyway so it rarely matters.
I always do it halfway through the league games. If I bought players (or even had a transfer window!), I might do it differently.
After half of the league games like everyone else.
On a side note, just come back from skiing in Scootland! (yes I meant to put two oo's ) and found that everyone had made seasons of progress on their games! After finally reading them all I need a lye down!
Me and the wife are having our first Xmas so there will be little FM (if it's up to her! )
I always do mine on January 1st (or halfway through the league games if I'm playing in a country that plays from different months i.e. Jan-Nov). Like SnakeXe and roganp, I rarely make that many transfers in January to write up about. But it's completely up to you hursty when and how often you update .
Winter break or 1st Jan for me, which usually is around the halfway point.
We usually spend Christmas day watching darts, which I've hated in the past, resulting in me going on FM but this past year I've fallen in love with the sport so a few beers and darts seems to be the plan. Although FM will not take a back seat at all!
Half way at the league stage for me too. Not often I make a signing worth mentioning. If someone has made an impact it can wait for end of season review anyway.
No family or FM time for me over Christmas period. I will be working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day
I very rarely have time to play FM on Christmas/Boxing day.
I usually spend the week before that playing non stop though
merry xmas everyone..
Tomorrow will be ok, but the following 2 days will be rather busier, one of the 'real life' things that it's hardest to avoid getting in the way. Won the Romanian League last Christmas, though was simply finishing off a season while I could in the morning. I would like to associate myself with the above message as well.
I will be playing a little on Christmas Day as our Christmas is on Boxing Day as this is when the family join us.
Definitely no FM on Xmas Day for me, will be too busy consuming my body weight in food. May get in a couple of hours tomorrow, but probably that'll be it until the 27th. Then I should get three full days of uninterrupted FM game time (that's unless I get begrudgingly dragged to the sales)
Also, we celebrate Jul/Xmas tomorrow so will be very little time for gaming then, and probably not much on what you call Xmas Day either. Maybe a little bit in the morning/evening.
Seven minutes early but bugger it... Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas all!
Merry Christmas guys!
Have a good one!
Merry Xmas guys. Hope you've all had a good one.
Merry xmas guys, My 4 year old daughter went to bed at half 6 and has only just woken up so not to bad.
Merry Christmas guys!
Just one match played today, but it was a good one. Hope everyone enjoys today despite a lack of FM time.
No matches for me today...
after all, it is pre-season and we are £60k over our wage budget!
Merry Christmas FMCU!
Merry Christmas to all FMCU frequenters. Have you got your special Xmas Steam acheivement yet?
I have a busy month ahead with MA assignments but I'll be back among you in about 4 weeks or so for another tale of globe-trotting adventure
Steam can burn in hell
Current game status: 12 days 0 hours 20 minutes.
Merry Xmas, I am now a Football Manager expert.
Can't get the Steam Acheivement, they don't want to play me.
Merry Christmas everyone
Merry Christmas everyone!
I keep getting this bluescreen error every so often, I have no idea why though;
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 3081
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OS Version: 6_1_7601
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How was everyone's Xmas then?
I ended up cooking the dinner in its entirety for me, the missus, and her dad and brother - which I actually didn't mind in the end because it gives me a massive stick with which to win any arguments until at least March!
Got some fantastic gifts as well - the Steve Jobs biography, a teapot, a waffle iron, two bottles of single malt Scotch - and the brother in law got me a sort of nerf-style compound bow thing which fires these foam arrows at a hell of a rate! Those kittens had better stay in line...
My wife got me this: http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/Produ...ropeanmanager/
Check out the release date
Get us some screenshots of that bad boy! (If you can make it run...)


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Can you define these popular missing words?
A place where the dead believe they're still living and they pray for death, but death won't come.
As punishment for my sins in my former life, I have been forced to go to UPN.
von Agent Buckwald 29. Juli 2004
A television network that airs WWE Smackdown on Thursday nights. It is rumored to air other programs, but nobody cares about them if they do exist.
People watch UPN on Thursday.
von Evil Zak 25. Juli 2003
Bad TV Station. Mainly geared towards African Americans.
My power just went out, it is blacker in here than friday nights on UPN.
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1.)to increase or augment
2.)to decide or take action on
2.)to decide or take action on
1.) "Yo boss man, when you gonna be up'n our pay?"
2.) "I'll be up'n your pay when they up'n make up'n a word."
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Switch to defensive end pays off for Clemson's Beasley
Published: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 8:43 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 8:43 p.m.
Once Vic Beasley finally found and settled into his niche, it's been full-speed ahead for Clemson's junior defensive end.
DeStefano out
Clemson is thin at offensive tackle this week with Isaiah Battle suspended for Saturday's game, Gif Timothy doubtful with lingering symptoms from a concussion and Patrick DeStefano (stinger) out for Saturday's game with Wake Forest.
"DeStefano didn't practice (Tuesday) or (Wednesday)," Swinney told the media following practice. "He's been dealing with some stingers. Anytime you have something like that you want to make sure you have all the information before you put him back out there. He went back to the doctor (Wednesday) and I'm comfortable with what the doctor said and (DeStefano) is too, so that's good news.
"It's a shame because he could've really helped us this week. He can play either tackle or either guard and play them well. He's one of those young guys who I think has a really bright future for us."
Defensive linemen Carlos Watkins and Dane Rogers will miss Saturday to attend the funeral of their cousin who was killed in a car accident over the weekend. Watkins was a passenger in the car.
Wake Forest (2-2, 0-1 ACC) at No. 3 Clemson (3-0, 1-0)
3:30 p.m., ESPNU, 93.3 FM
Beasley has even surprised his head coach three games into this season, ranking second in the nation in sacks per game with 5½ overall. That includes three in last week's win at North Carolina State when he shared ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week honors.
"It's really amazing," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. "If you had told me two years ago that Vic Beasley would be emerging as a leader for us up front that would've been kind of hard to believe at the time. Sometimes guys don't always buy in as quickly as we would like. But if they stick with it, usually they'll get there and he's a classic example of that."
Beasley admittedly had a hard time buying into the wishes of his coaching staff. He'd played running back, and some quarterback and linebacker, in high school before Swinney and his assistants initially envisioned him as a collegiate tight end. Swinney didn't like the fit at tight end after Beasley spent some time there and eventually moved him to linebacker.
"He just didn't take to it," Swinney said. "He just wasn't really in the mix there, but what I kept seeing was this guy where we don't have a better athlete on the team with his great length, quickness and change of direction."
That prompted Swinney to summon the now bulked-up 6-foot-3, 235-pounder for a meeting that left Beasley obviously less than enthusiastic even as he was willing to do whatever his coaches asked.
"I said think about defensive end," Swinney said. "I told him you're not ready to be a defensive end yet, but if you'll buy into this I really feel you have a chance to be special there one of these days. He looked at me, and he's such a good kid, and he'd do it, but I don't think he had his heart in it. He did it because we asked him to. But he wasn't passionate about it and I think in his mind he was still hoping to maybe be on offense."
That led to Swinney offering a compromise.
"I approached him last year before the season and said I'll make a deal with you. Just commit this fall and if you don't have a good year and don't feel like there's a role for you and that you don't have a future there, I'll move you back to running back. He could be a good one. Now we all know how he developed last year and he came out of that season with so much confidence, and that's what just a little bit of success will do for people."
Beasley wasn't a regular in the rotation last year, but became the team's top pass-rusher in a specialized role. He led the Tigers and was fourth in the ACC with eight sacks despite playing only 288 snaps. That was an average of one sack per 36 plays. By comparison, Clemson's all-time sack leaders with 28 — Michael Dean Perry and the late Gaines Adams — averaged one sack per 45 and 62 plays, respectively.
With Beasley now fully committed to his position, his development could become even more rapid as hones his all-round game.
"I had a lot of frustration and a lot of doubt throughout my years here, but thanks to God now I've found a good place and I like the position that I'm at," Beasley said. "I never thought I'd be playing this position. I thought I'd be a linebacker or tight end."
Swinney can't wait to see what the future holds for a guy who reluctantly bought into the whims of his coaches.
"Although he wasn't ready to be an every-down type of guy (last season), a little success went a long way for him," Swinney said. "He's a very good player that's really just kind of scraping the surface of what he can be as he continues to develop."
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Space is still available for youth interested in participating in three June science camps at Dakota Wesleyan University.
Camps will take place June 9-13. "Minecraft Mathematics" is a camp for fourth- and fifth-graders; "Art & STEM" and "Robotics" are camps for sixth- through eighth-grade students. All camps will be on campus and will run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day. The cost of each camp is $75.
The camps will take place in partnership with the South Dakota Innovation Lab and the PAST Foundation as a way to introduce students to transdisciplinary, problem-based learning.
To register, either click here or go to https://pastinnovationlab.org/students/bridge-programs/.


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As the weather changes in Dodge City so do rules regarding the enforcement of utilities regulations. Effective Friday, Nov. 1 and continuing through March 31, utilities companies in Kansas are not allowed to disconnect customers for failing to make a payment when the temperature drops below a certain level. The rule applies to situations where temperatures of 35 degrees are lower are forecast for the following 24 hours. The cold weather rule is enforced by the Kansas Corporation Commission. Dodge City's Victory Electric Co-op is one of the companies affected by the requirement. According to Communications Specialist for Victory Electric Jerri Imgarten, the co-op encounters many situations each winter where a customer does not pay their bill but the company is not allowed to shut off utilities. Victory Electric feels the impact of the predicament. "Any time customers are not able to pay, it negatively affects the co-op's financials," Imgarten said. That said, Victory Electric takes measures to work with customers who are unable to pay their bills. "We understand families go through hard times and we do our best to make arrangements and work with members to develop a payment plan they can manage," Imgarten said. The cold weather rule stipulates that utility companies must offer customers a 12-month payment plan for the maintaining or reestablishment of service. Companies must announce shutoffs 24 hours in advance and shutoffs may only be carried out if the temperature is expected to rise above 35 degrees for 48 hours. Victory Electric stipulates that, in order to qualify for a payment agreement, customers must notify the cooperative and state their inability to pay their service bill. They must also apply to federal, state, local or other financial assistance programs. State agencies and local charities that help residents with utility bills include Red Cross, Salvation Army, State of Kansas SRS, First Presbyterian Church, Catholic Church, Methodist Church, Methodist Youthville and United Methodist Mexican-American Ministries. For any disconnect process, Victory Electric follows the rules and guidelines set by the Kansas Corporation Commission. The co-op has approximately 13,000 members and 19,000 meters.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Top prosecutors and law enforcement officials in the Topeka area have scheduled what they're calling an important announcement about a joint criminal investigation.
U.S. Attorney for Kansas Barry Grissom and Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor called a news conference for 10 a.m. Thursday. They'll be joined by Shawnee County Sheriff Herman Jones and Topeka Deputy Police Chief Tony Kirk.
The officials declined to release any details of the investigation Wednesday. A spokesman for Grissom said only that it involves an important matter of interest to Topeka residents.
Taylor's office said the news conference would deal with criminal indictments.


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Eighteen years ago in 1994, the crowd at the Plenary Hall of the Jakarta Convention Center was left awed with the mesmerizing show of British singer-songwriter and overall great musician STING as he performed the Ten Summoner's Tales concert. This year, Sting returns to quench his fans longing with a bigger bang as the STING: Back to Bass Concert gets underway on 15th December 2012 at the Mata Elang International Stadium, Ancol, Jakarta.
The Jakarta Show also marks the last stop and pinnacle for the Back to Bass World Tour. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Sting's solo career, the Back to Bass tour is also to support the release of the box set Sting: 25 Years, a collection chronicling the former member of the band The Police chief solo career. For the tour –and his performance in Jakarta, Sting will be joined by longtime guitarist Dominic Miller plus Rufus Miller (guitarists), Vinnie Colaiuta (drummer), Peter Tickell (electric fiddle), and Jo Lawry (vocalist). As the title suggests Sting will also obviously put his fingers "back to bass".
The show promises to have all the hits, stripped down to rock 'n' roll arrangements (as in no strange arrangements or exotic instruments such as mandolins, Northumbrian pipes, and others). Some of Sting and The Police hits such as 'Message in the Bottle', 'Roxanne', 'Every Breath You Take', 'Englishman in New York', 'so lonely', and many others, will be performed with a basic rock n roll formation as when the hits were originally recorded.
Born as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, Sting is not only known as a legendary musician but also activist, actor and philanthropist. His musical career began with The Police, a new wave band which he formed with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers. The band released five albums and produced some of the everlasting hits such as 'So Lonely', 'Every Breath you Take', 'Roxanne', and others . Since his first solo album 'The Dream of the Blue Turtles' in 1985, Sting has released 13 solo albums. Sting has varied his musical style throughout his career, incorporating distinct elements of jazz, reggae, classical, New Age, and worldbeat into his music. As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, three Brit Awards – winning Best British Male in 1994, a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award, and several Oscar nominations for Best Original Song. He is a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Third Eye Management (TEM) Asia has prepared 8000 tickets which have been on sale since 26th September 2012, with prices ranging from IDR1,900,000 to IDR 5,000,000. The first 500 ticket buyers will receive Sting's "The Best of 25 Years" album and a voucher from Hard Rock Café.
Tickets and more information are available at:
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5 Mind-Blowing Ways Animals Display Human Emotions
We tend to imagine that animals are way more "human" than they actually are. You might think that you and your cat share a special emotional connection, but the cat won't hesitate to eat your ass if you die on the floor. Yet there are some startlingly human traits that turn up in the creatures you'd least expect. For instance ...
#5. Tigers Take Revenge
In 2007, some dudes at the San Francisco Zoo decided they wanted to spend Christmas Day taunting a Siberian tiger. While we're not sure exactly how you find an angle for shit-talking one of those ("Your population has dwindled to the mid-300s! Dick!"), that's not what's important here. What's important is that the tiger totally held a grudge over it. A few minutes after the men walked away, she escaped over the fence of her exhibit, passed numerous open exhibits of defenseless animals, went through a sea of innocent people/tiger food, and specifically sought out and attacked the three people who she remembered busting her chops.
"These bars are just for show."
But really that's nothing compared to the story of Vladimir Markov, a Russian man who dabbled in tiger poaching. On one fateful day in 1997, Markov managed to shoot and wound a tiger, and in an extra little dig, stole part of the tiger's recent kill. The tiger, however, managed to escape. But it was more than a little miffed by the whole ordeal.
The tiger later found Markov's hunting cabin in the woods. The man wasn't home, so the tiger tore to shit everything that had the guy's scent on it, then waited by the front door with a massive murderection. You can pretty much guess what happened when Markov got home. Yup, they had a cup of coffee and hashed things out.
"Welcome home, motherfucker!"
No, not really. The tiger actually dragged Markov into the bushes and murdered and ate him.
#4. Rats Never Leave a Man Behind
Calling somebody a "rat" qualifies as an insult no matter where you go, even if you're not an old-timey mobster. Try it at work tomorrow, you'll see. Nobody likes it.
That's because rats, in addition to being filthy disease machines, are the exact opposite of whatever makes humans good. Rats don't know how to cooperate or form societies -- they just stampede toward whatever rotting garbage they want to eat next, climbing over one another and probably shitting in each other's faces in their mindless, selfish scramble to eat and breed and do nothing else.
"It's actually pretty boss."
But one thing science has taught us over the centuries is that animal behavior that seems random or horrible on the surface takes on a whole new light if you watch it long enough. And rat watchers have seen them exhibit some pretty loyal, altruistic behaviors with each other. Ironically, finding this out required scientists to set up a cruel Saw-like chamber of psychological torture.
They took two rats that had shared some cage time together, placed one in a restraining enclosure, and left the other to gaze at his trapped friend, while the scientists presumably masturbated furiously. The captive rat expectedly started letting out wails of distress, spurring his pal to lose his shit and start trying to save him. In a clear show of empathy, the rat even ignored a pile of treats nearby, displaying that he wasn't after any reward -- he just wanted his friend back.
"Professor, the mice have reached Shatner-level self-awareness!"
And their benevolence didn't stop there. Once his buddy got out of the trap, the other rat shared some of his own treats with him. Just eating them silently, staring up at the scientists in quiet disdain.
#3. Elephants Mourn Their Dead
Elephants are like the Harvey Keitels of the animal kingdom: clearly badass, but with a stroke of mature intelligence that makes them a little less threatening. Also, constantly naked. But surely our idea of elephants as gentle, sensitive creatures comes purely from Dumbo, right? Well, there is one trait that we thought only humans had the emotional depth to possess: the ability to mourn the dead.
That's right: Where you think of animals as treating their fallen brethren as hunks of rotting meat, when elephants come across bones of their own kind lying around, they will gather around them and caress the skulls and tusks with their long, thick trunks.
"OK, reel it in, pal. You're getting a bit too touchy-feely there.
Not only do they show clearly evident signs of respect for the carcasses of their fallen comrades, but they will even go so far as to "bury" the bodies under foliage or nearby brush.
And it doesn't end with the corpses of fellow elephants, either. In Kenya, one particular beast decided to forge ahead with a double homicide, killing two people. But instead of just leaving them around, the elephant went and buried them.
"I'm so sorry about this. Please don't think bad of me for it."
So yes, they'll still murder you, but they will feel guilty about it and treat your corpse with the utmost respect.


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AIGA's Justified Design Competition
Category: Competitions,
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"Justified: AIGA Design Competition" will collect and showcase the stories behind the best design, to demonstrate the collective success and impact of the design profession.


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In 1948, Clair Omar Musser started the Musser Mallet Company in the mid-west. Musser was an innovative marimba performer, conductor, composer and designer. As a trained aircraft engineer, he utilized his natural gifted talents to create the modern day Vibraphone design. He grew his instrument offering to include marimbas, xylophones, chimes and orchestra bells. It became a dominant mallet instrument company in the world, renowned for its Musser sound and is now celebrating its 65th Anniversary.
Musser's design work became the standard for marimbas sought out by many artists. He was also creative for players too. He introduced the Musser Grip, an original technique for playing the marimba with two mallets in each hand that was different from the prevailing cross grip. The Musser Grip allowed for more individuality between the four mallets.
Artists like Lionel Hampton and Gary Burton elevated the Musser brand to new heights. From the very beginning, Lionel Hampton was the first Musser artist, truly revolutionizing the vibraphone and became known as the father of the instrument. Since 1965, Gary Burton has been a loyal supporter and Musser musician. He has innovated the vibraphone and continues to do so. Winner of a Grammy in 2013, Gary had this to share, "I started playing Musser marimbas and vibraphones when I was six-years-old, so I have been playing these instruments for 64 years. But officially speaking, I have been a Musser endorser for 50 years and I am still whole-heartedly a fan of Musser vibraphones. They are the best and the most reliable."
Looking forward, Conn-Selmer is proud to have secured the legacy brand Musser and its eminent sound as a part of the company. It is soon to be located at headquarters in Elkhart, Indiana with many more decades of success. The arrival of Musser at the Elkhart Campus will add to the strong brands in the distribution centers, the Vincent Bach brass and Woodwind facilities.
Thank you for your continued support of USA made products.
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Conn-Selmer is the North American distributor of Selmer Paris woodwinds and Yanagisawa saxophones as well as the global distributor for Jiggs pBone.
Through its educational program, Conn-Selmer is the industry leader in providing support and advocacy tools tailored to music education.
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VIDEO: Crash sends motorcyclist cartwheeling through the air
A crash that sent a motorcyclist cartwheeling through the air at a Clearwater, Florida intersection was captured by a red light video camera. Amazingly, the motorcyclist literally walked away after landing on the pavement.
The crash occurred around 3:45 p.m. on May 24 at Belcher Road and Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard.
Alex Jay Hall of St. Petersburg was attempting to turn east on Gulf-to-Bay when he was hit by the driver of the Honda motorcycle, Michael Curtis Smith of Clearwater.
Smith flew through the air and quickly got up after landing in the roadway. He was not injured.
Hall was cited for an improper left turn and driving with a suspended license without knowledge.
Police say Smith did not have the required motorcycle endorsement on his driver's license.


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Have you checked your Amazon mp3/video/game/kindle credits today?
I got $1 credits in those 4 areas yesterday, for having purchased one of the $1.99 mp3 album downloads the day before, which then went to .99. Today, those credits are now all showing 0.01! Did that happen to you?
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I thought they refunded the money from those sales.
From the amazon mp3 twitter account.
"BTW, If you ordered at $1.99, we will be issuing you the difference via email. No action required on your part. Rock on! #rockthegoldbox"
@gideonfrost: Yes, they did. Not only did they add $1 to your mp3 account, but also to the game downloads, instant video downloads and kindle downloads. In other words, they gave us back $4 in credit in 4 areas. Only today, the amount is down from $1.00 to $0.01!
I didn't order one of those, but my Amazon GC is down to 0.01 now. Granted I only had like $2 in there or so but still.
@pamfenway: I have had this happen to me before. It shows $1 credit in all of the other categories but there is actually only $1 there it just can be used for 1 of those 4 categories. So if you used a $1 MP3 credit on a 99 cent song the credit would now show up as .01 in all of the categories. Hope this helps.
@segafanalways: Thanks for the heads-up. Seems pretty screwy, though. I mean, here we all were thinking we had a $1 credit in all 4 categories! I know I'm not the only one who must be wondering about this, 'cause there was a thread about this in the deal area yesterday.
I still see the $1 credit in my account.
OK...I have now decided that I am an idiot or Amazon is hiding the link to my credits. Will someone tell me WHERE to look an the site?
You guys had me worried for a minute. I checked and I still have my $3.00 MP3 credit from the Amazon Local deal. I was afraid they had zapped my credits too.
@morriea: I may not use the quickest way but I select MP3 Downloads and click Go. Then I click on the 1st song title. On the right side of the page you'll see "Redeem a gift card or promotion code & view balance", click on that and your credits will appear.
@missellienc: Thanks. I would definitely call that "hidden"...but it works. Amazon could have a link for "my credits" under "my account" to make it easy.
$4 is there
@missellienc: That's something else entirely. I think @segafanalways had it right. The credit we were allotted for having purchased the mp3 album was $1 only. However, when we checked our credits we saw $1 in each of the mp3, kindle, game & instant video downloads categories. This morning I purchased a .99 kindle book and now all of those categories are giving me 0.01 balance (excent mp3, where I have a 0.02 balance, from a previous 0.01 balance).
I'm glad I didn't purchase anything beyond that .99 book this morning.
@morriea: Keep this link in your favorites:
Make sure you hit the ENTER YOUR CODE button, if your balance doesn't pop up.
@pamfenway: Many thanks.
@pamfenway: image how bummed I was a few weeks back when I received a $10 credit from them and it showed in all 4 categories just to find this information out later. That $40 awesome turned into a $10 bummer pretty quickly.
@segafanalways: Yikes! That IS worse! Much worse! Makes my $4 to $1 disappointment nothing at all!
How Amazon gift cards work:
If you have $5 in gift cards it will show up in each of Amazon's categories (Mp3, Instant Video, Game downloads...). So it shows something like this:
That unfortunately doesn't mean you have magically gotten $25 in your account. All that it means is that you can use your $5 on any of these products.
@arevan: Every single other time I've looked at my balance for, say, mp3s, there is a balance ONLY in the mp3 category. NOT in every other category. Apparently, Amazon did credit us in the way you describe, but this is new to me. The $3 mp3 vouchers yesterday, for example, showed ONLY in the mp3 category.
@pamfenway: Yeah, Amazon can give you credits that are only good for certain categories (like Mp3, Instant video...). Those type of credits would only show up in their respective money totals. I totally understand the confusion though, it is a really awkwardly done aspect of their site.
@arevan: My thoughts exactly!
They could clean it up a bit.....


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I am working on translating software and its documentation to English. This software basically organizes and stores technical documents.
A document may consist of a set of various files, stored on a server. Usually, only one user will work on a document, while others could download its files.
I would like to have a name for this set of files, relative to the document. I am thinking of body of the document but I am not sure that it sounds OK.


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Bill Belichick Smiled Seven Times This Season
If New England is upset by Indianapolis in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs Saturday, Patriots coach Bill Belichick won't be smiling in the postgame news conference. If the Patriots defeat the Colts, Belichick most likely won't be smiling.
Belichick has, deservedly, earned a reputation as the game's most savvy head coach—as well as its most crotchety. When the coach is talking to reporters after a game (win or loss), the atmosphere feels more like a presser for an oil spill than a football contest. With this in mind, The Count decided to put on a number on just how grumpy Belichick is after games by using the only available statistic: smiles.
Watching video of every Patriots postgame news conference from this season, we counted seven incidents where Belichick smiled. This study surveyed 114.5 minutes of footage, so he smiles at a rate of once every 16 minutes—and keep in mind this is a season where New England won 12 games and the AFC East title. Here's a smile-by-smile breakdown:
Smile 1: Oct. 13. After beating the Saints in dramatic, come-from-behind fashion, Belichick smiled when he opened the meeting with an apology for forcing the reporters to rewrite their game stories. He then frowned for the next 13 minutes.
Smiles 2 & 3: Oct. 27. What most tickles Belichick's funny bone? Tom Brady's running ability. He smiled twice while talking about his slow-footed quarterback's key 8-yard scramble for a first down in a win over the Dolphins.
Smile 4: Nov. 24. Former Patriot linebacker Rosevelt Colvin surprised his old coach in the press room with a question about who was the best linebacker he ever coached from the city of Indianapolis. Belichick said Colvin and then laughed (the only documented laugh).
Smile 5: Dec. 8. At the end of the news conference following a wild comeback win over the Browns, Belichick smiled at his own joke about how, in addition to practicing comebacks, the team should practice not falling behind, too.
Smiles 6 & 7: Dec 29. The end of the season brought two smiles: first, when he made a sarcastic comment that Brady has helped the team "a couple times in the past"; second, when he made a crack about how cornerback Aqib Talib was the "assistant pro personnel director" for suggesting the team get running back LeGarrette Blount, his old teammate in Tampa.
The clearest takeaway from all this: Patriots losses are a complete no-smile zone. But if the Patriots go on to win the Super Bowl this season, we should get that eighth Belichick grin—maybe.


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Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet's session at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Monday afternoon. He began by expressing gratitude for the recovery of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, who was recently discharged from the hospital after undergoing successful back surgery. The Crown Prince conveyed the King's greetings and thanks to the Saudi people and to all the foreign leaders who have inquired about his health.
Then, the Cabinet dealt with a number of local issues and discussed the latest regional and international events. The ministers commended the Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud International Award for Prophetic Sunnah and Contemporary Islamic Studies, praising the significant impact of this honor. They also discussed two annual reports regarding the Communication and Information Technology Commission and the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation.
On the topic of foreign affairs, the Cabinet welcomed the outcome of the fourth ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People, which was held in Marrakesh, Morocco last week. It reiterated the Kingdom's hope that the Syrian National Coalition, as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, will be able to form comprehensive and clear policies that ensure the rights of all the Syrian people and maintain the country's unity, sovereignty and independence.
Addressing its weekly agenda, the Cabinet authorized the Foreign Minister to sign a draft agreement on general cooperation with Benin; approved a number of decisions regarding the General Authority for Civil Aviation and a comprehensive strategic plan for the advancement of the Kingdom's aviation industry; and accredited the final account of the Saudi Ports Authority for fiscal year 1431/1432 H.
The Cabinet approved the appointment of Abdullah bin Abdullatif Al-Saif as a member of the Board of Directors of the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI), replacing Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Abdulqader, for three years.


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Educational Background
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (Ceramic Science and Engineering), The Pennsylvania State University
- M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University-Applied Research Laboratory
- Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University-Applied Research Laboratory
Research Interests
- Nanoindentation methods to characterize material behavior
- Nanomaterials characterization
- Hard coatings for defense applications
- Environmental degradation of materials
- Non-destructive testing and evaluation
- Structure property relationships for engineered materials
- Spray metal forming
- Metal matrix and polymer matrix composites
- Ceramic cutting tools
- Materials Science
- Mechanics I & II
- Manufacturing Processes
- Solid Mechanics
- Mechanics of Composites
- Fracture Mechanics
Recent Grants and Awards
- Curricular Development Grant for ENGR 242, Bucknell University (2012) - Principal Investigator
- National Science Foundation, Material Research Instrumentation Program (NSF-MRI): "Acquisition of a Nanoindenter for Characterization of Biological and Advanced Engineering Materials" D.Ebenstein (PI), M.Sharma, C.Stayton & K.Wakabayashi (Co-PI's). $262,852 (2010)
- Curricular Development Grant, Bucknell University, "Reform of Traditional On-Board Lecture Format to Teach Qualitative Based Courses" (2008) - Principle Investigator
Selected Publications
M.M. Sharma, C.W. Ziemian and B.D. Bouffard, "Effect of Surface Preparation on Corrosion Performance of Cold Sprayed Coatings Applied to AA2024-T351 Substrates" Proceedings of VI Aluminium Surface Science & Technology Symposium May 27th - 31st (2012) in Sorrento, Italy
C.W. Ziemian, M.M. Sharma, B.D. Bouffard, "Effect of Surface Preparation and Cold Spray Coating on the Fatigue Performance of AA2024 Substrates" in Proceedings at VI Aluminium Surface Science & Technology Symposium May 27th - 31st (2012) in Sorrento, Italy
Ziemian, C.W., Sharma, M.M., Ziemian, S.N. (2012). Anisotropic Mechanical Properties of ABS Parts Fabricated by Fused Deposition Modelling, In: Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Murat Gokcek (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0505-3, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/mechanical-engineering/anisotropic-mechanical-properties-of-abs-parts-fabricated-by-fused-deposition-modeling
Ziemian, C.W., Sharma, M.M., Whaley, D.E., "Effects of flashing and upset sequences on microstructure, hardness, and tensile properties of welded structural steel joints", J of Mater and Design, 33 (2012) pp. 175-184
Sharma M.M., Ziemian C.W. and Eden T.J, "Fatigue behavior of SiC particulate reinforced spray- formed 7XXX series Al-alloys", J of Mater and Design, 32 (2011) pp. 4304-4309
M.M. Sharma and B. D. Bouffard, "Assessment of the Long Term Corrosion Protection of AluminumCoatings on Aerospace Alloys Applied by the Cold Spray Process" Presented at ASM International's AeroMat 2010 Conference and Expo, June 21-24 (2010) Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue Washington.
B. D. Bouffard and M.M. Sharma, "Investigation of Corrosion Resistant Coatings Applied by Cold Spray for use in Aerospace Applications" Presented at ASM International's AeroMat 2010 Conference and Expo, June 21-24 (2010) Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue Washington.
AFRL/MLLMP - Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Report"
Innovative Corrosion Protection via Cold Spray Kinetic Metallization", Timothy Eden Brock Golesich, John Potter, Ashley Norris, Mala Sharma and Douglas Wolfe (April 2010). Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Sharma M.M., Ziemian C.W. and Eden T.J," Processing and Composition Effects on the Fracture Behavior of Spray Formed 7XXX Series Al-alloys", Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance: Volume 19, Issue 9 (2010), Page 1344-1351.
Ziemian, C.W., Sharma, M.M., Riglin, J.D., (2009), "Influence of Process Parameters on the Characteristics of Structural Steel Flash-Butt Welded Joints," submitted to Materials and Design (Aug 2009).
Ziemian, C.W., Sharma, M.M and Powanda, J.T., "Study of the Flash Butt Welding of High Strength Carbon-Manganese Steel" in proceedings of 2009 NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (June 2009).
Sharma, M.M, Ziemian, C.W., Bouffard, B.D, Powanda, J.T. and Riglin, J.D. "Acquisition of Instrumentation for Materials Characterization and Nondestructive Evaluation" Poster Presentation at the 2009 NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (June 2009).


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By Russel's paradox, we know that the concept of the set of all sets is inconsistent. Similarly, if classes have only sets as members, the concept of the class of all classes is inconsistent because some classes are proper and should be members of this class. But suppose that we consider sets as super-classes of level 0, proper classes as super-classes of level 1 (where super-classes of level 1 also contain super-classes of level 0), super-classes of level 2 as collections whose members are super-classes of level 1, and so on. And let a collection be defined as every super-class with a finite level. Does there exist a formal theory, consistent with say ZFC, such that a concept like the collection of all collections is possible ? Gérard Lang
Quine's system New Foundations is now suspected to be consistent with ZFC, and the modified systen NFU has been known to be consistent for decades. These systems certainly allows for a set of all sets, hence do not require any introduction of classes. On the other hand, (sub)set formation is severly restricted. It's perhaps a matter of personal values: do you prefer to have the set
$\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;${$x: x=x$}
or the functions
$\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;X\ni x\mapsto$ {$x$} $\in\mathcal{P}X$?
I presented a system for reasoning about arbitrary concepts, including the concept "is a concept". It's located at arXiv:1112.6129. The system has full comprehension; there is no restriction on "subconcept" formation. The paper includes a consistency proof.
The key idea of my paper is that we do not have a global notion of an object falling under a concept, in exactly the same way that we do not have a global notion of an assertion being true. The best we can do is talk about provably falling under, referring (as constructivists do) to the general semantic notion of provability, not to provability within some formal system. My system deals with concepts like "is a concept that does not provably fall under itself" by restricting the axioms relating to provability. One of the basic axioms that you expect to hold for provability turns out not to have a clear justification.
Maybe no one can read this paper because you'd have to be familiar with both Fregean concepts and intuitionistic logic, as well as comfortable with substantial technical content.
Church's "Set Theory with a Universal Set" (see, e.g., Thomas Forster's article) has a set of all sets, and Church provides a model (actually an interpretation in ZFGC) for it. He never published the actual consistency proof, though, and after looking in the Church archives at Princeton, I suspect that he abandoned it, as well as a couple of more complicated theories in which he was attempting to converge with New Foundations. I provide a full consistency proof in an article I've submitted to Logique et Analyse, for a variant in which the singleton function is a set (which is impossible in New Foundations), though the natural generalization leads to a variant of the Russell Paradox, the set of all non-self-membered sets equinumerous to the universe. Arnold Oberschelp also has a set theory with a universal set and the singleton function, though his consistency proof is difficult to verify, as a key part is merely a reference to an earlier article which uses a significantly different formalism.
I think that the least misleading thing to say about the Russell class and the universe in this context is that it is a theorem of first-order logic (even the constructive fragment thereof) that there is no set containing precisely those sets that are not members of themselves (and the ``Double Russell class'' similarly). You don't need any set theoretic axioms at all, not even extensionality! The nonexistence of the universal set requires set theoretic axioms. The set theoretic axioms that you need may be very appealing to you, but that isn't really the point. The nonexistence of the Russell class is a theorem of pure logic; the nonexistence of the universal set is not, and the difference matters.


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Independent Review Requests
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According to State insurance law, health insurance claimants have a right to an independent review of an adverse decision by an insurer of their claims. These reviews are carried out by Independent Review Organizations (IROs) registered with the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI). Every year, IROs certified to do reviews in Wisconsin are required to submit to the OCI a report for the prior calendar year's experience. The independent review process allows a consumer to appeal some health insurance claims denials to an independent third party. The results from the reports for calendar year 2004 are summarized below.
A total of 148 review requests were submitted to the 5 certified IROs for consideration. In 11 cases, the IRO declined the request. A review request may be declined for a number of reasons. If the request does not involve a question of whether the treatment is medically necessary or whether it is experimental, it is not eligible for an independent review. An IRO may also decline a review if it determines that it may have a potential conflict of interest or if it receives a request directly from a consumer rather than from the insurer. In addition, in 2 cases the insurer reversed its decision before the IRO completed its review.
The last column of the summary lists the average number of days that the IROs needed to complete a review. Although the time needed to make a decision varies depending on the complexity of the case, on average an IRO took 19 days from the date it received the review request to make a decision.
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The American masses aren't the only ones who have noticed the overexposure of Brad Womack's cut body—the Bachelor has, too. When Access Hollywood Live played b-roll of his sweaty workouts, he confessed "I get so embarrassed about that."
He admits that the producers are the ones who suggest he take off his shirt so often, but can't stop blushing as the show plays the footage. Oh, Brad—can you blame them?


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Worrying about my web application's performances, I am wondering which of "if/else" or switch statement is better regarding performance?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
That's micro optimization and premature optimization, which are evil. Rather worry about readabililty and maintainability of the code in question. If there are more than two
Alternatively, you can also grab Polymorphism. First create some interface:
And get hold of all implementations in some
Finally replace the
It might be microslower than
As you're talking about webapplications, you can make use of
If you're worrying about Java EE webapplication performance in general, then you may find this article useful as well. There are other areas which gives a much more performance gain than only (micro)optimizing the raw Java code.
I totally agree with the opinion that premature optimization is something to avoid.
But it's true that the Java VM has special bytecodes which could be used for switch()'s.
See WM Spec (lookupswitch and tableswitch)
So there could be some performance gains, if the code is part of the performance CPU graph.
It's extremely unlikely that an if/else or a switch is going to be the source of your performance woes. If you're having performance problems, you should do a performance profiling analysis first to determine where the slow spots are. Premature optimization is the root of all evil!
Nevertheless, it's possible to talk about the relative performance of switch vs. if/else with the Java compiler optimizations. First note that in Java, switch statements operate on a very limited domain -- integers. In general, you can view a switch statement as follows:
For all other cases, a switch statement is exactly as efficient as the equivalent series of if/else statements. The precise values of α and β depend on a number of factors and are determined by the compiler's code-optimization module.
Finally, of course, if the domain of
According to Cliff Click in his 2009 Java One talk A Crash Course in Modern Hardware:
You can get his full slides here.
Cliff gives an example (finishing on Slide 30) showing that even with the CPU doing register-renaming, branch prediction, and speculative execution, it's only able to start 7 operations in 4 clock cycles before having to block due to two cache misses which take 300 clock cycles to return.
So he says to speed up your program you shouldn't be looking at this sort of minor issue, but on larger ones such as whether you're making unnecessary data format conversions, such as converting "SOAP → XML → DOM → SQL → …" which "passes all the data through the cache".
Use switch!
I hate to maintain if-else-blocks! Have a test:
I remember reading that there are 2 kinds of Switch statements in Java bytecode. (I think it was in 'Java Performance Tuning' One is a very fast implementation which uses the switch statement's integer values to know the offset of the code to be executed. This would require all integers to be consecutive and in a well-defined range. I'm guessing that using all the values of an Enum would fall in that category too.
I agree with many other posters though... it may be premature to worry about this, unless this is very very hot code.
For most
But here's the thing: if you're using a
Compared to a
Performance between
In my test the better performance is ENUM > MAP > SWITCH > IF/ELSE IF in Windows7.


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Kittens sneak into prison, steal inmates' hearts
Maximum-security prisoners, staff nurse cats back to health
Four stray kittens found their way into the basement of a maximum-security prison and into the hearts of inmates and staff as well.
The Post-Star of Glens Falls reports that the kittens crawled into the basement of the Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Fort Ann, N.Y. a few months ago. The kittens were in poor health, had to be bathed to get rid of fleas and also dewormed. They were nursed back to health with the help of prison staff and also a few inmates. The kittens live in a cage built by one of the inmates and are free to roam around the building maintenance area.
The kittens are named for the prison and the surrounding area: Doc (for the Dept. of Correctional Services), Comstock (for the location of the prison), Annie (for Fort Ann) and Meadow (for Great Meadow).
Permanent homes are currently being sought for the kittens.
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Consider a function $g$ with the following properties.
- It is smooth.
- $g > 0$.
- $g \to 0$ at infinity.
- It has at least two critical points.
- There are finitely many critical points.
- Each critical point is isolated.
Thanks to the answer below, I am going to add one additional restriction on $g$.
- $g$ is a rational function.
I am adding yet another condition after seeing an edit below.
- Each critical point of $g$ is non-degenerate; that is, if $x$ is a critical point then $\det g''(x) \neq 0$.
In the example below, the critical point that is not a saddle has a zero eigenvalue and hence the determinant is zero.
Notice at least one of the critical points has to be a local max.
The question is: does $g$ have a saddle point?
In particular, for $g \colon \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$, does $g$ have a critical point of index $n-1$?
If there is a reference you can point me to that would be terrific. I believe a variant of the Mountain Pass Theorem may work...


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6 Plot Threads Famous Movies Forgot to Resolve
#3. The Shawshank Redemption -- What About the Serial Killer?
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) spends upwards of 20 years in jail for a double murder he didn't commit, escapes by tunneling through a shit-pipe and ends up living out the rest of his days with Morgan Freeman on a beach in Mexico.
Seems worth it to us.
But What About ...
Andy didn't commit the murders. But what about the guy who did?
We find out partway through the film that the real killer is a complete psychopath who goes by the name of Elmo Blatch and has been openly bragging about "getting away with" the killings (Andy runs into a guy who shared a cell with Elmo in another prison). When Andy tries to bring this nugget of information to the attention of the warden, he's put into solitary for a month as a way of keeping him quiet. They find a way to keep the guy who first tipped Andy off quiet, too.
Pictured: Not ketchup.
So Andy is forced to put his long-term escape plan into action, which -- because he's the hero and is wonderfully dedicated to the art of hitting his cell wall with a tiny hammer -- comes off without a hitch. Unfortunately, when he does become a free man again, there's no indication he does anything with the information he received about Blatch: Even the envelope he posts to the major papers in order to bring down Warden Norton doesn't seem to have anything about his innocence in it.
But what does it matter? We said Blatch was talking about the crime to his cellmate, so that means he's already in jail, right?
Unless there are two drainage pipes ...
Not for long. Blatch isn't in jail for murder. He was doing six to 12 for an armed burglary ... four years before. That means that in the film, this remorseless killer is back on the street before Andy even finishes fixing up his boat in Mexico.
And nobody cares. How long until he finds another young couple and kills again? What's to say he won't get away with it next time, too, and end up cutting a bloody path through New England? Did we mention the guy looks like this?
#2. The Wizard of Oz -- What About the Dog?
If you haven't seen The Wizard of Oz in a long time and are relying on a vague childhood memory of it, you probably don't remember exactly why Dorothy got sucked into a tornado and transported to the magical land of Oz. The whole reason she wound up in that predicament is that her little black terrier, Toto, had bitten an annoying townsperson named Almira Gulch. Gulch then goes out and gets a sheriff's order to have the dog put down.
Down, Cujo.
Knowing it's a choice between life without Toto and a life on the lam, probably as some kind of homeless prostitute, Dorothy opts for the latter option and runs away. This escape leads her to eventually get swept up in a tornado that carries her away to the magical Land of Oz.
That's where the real adventure begins, of course, and Dorothy and her ragtag group of plucky misfits help defeat a wicked witch with a chronic distaste for water. Order being restored, Dorothy clicks her heels together and ends up back in bed, surrounded by men with names like "Zeke" who have been watching her sleep. Everything is absolutely fine again!
Suddenly, that whole influenza epidemic makes a lot more sense.
But What About ...
Toto is still the canine equivalent of Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking.
Gulch had made it very clear that if Dorothy's Auntie Em and Uncle Henry didn't agree to have Toto executed, she was going to take their farm and leave them homeless. Gulch owns half the county -- she can make good on the threat. So what else can they do? It's just a dog, right?
But in the final minutes of the film, as we're brought back into the humdrum sepia tone of Kansas by Dorothy's nifty trick with the ruby slippers, Toto runs up and jumps onto the bed (admittedly, only 23 seconds before the end credits roll; somebody apparently wanted to keep the more observant viewers on their toes).
Those are the eyes of a dog who knows his days are numbered.
There's no explanation given. No mention of Miss Gulch seeing the error of her ways, or even of her having a massive heart attack and no longer pestering the good people of the county. Yes, it's just a dog, but it's also the whole reason every single thing in the film happened.
Instead, we're left believing that everything she threatened 90 minutes before is still on the table, and that shortly after the credits, Auntie Em and the three farmhands are probably going to have to take Toto around the back of the woodshed and hit him on the head with a familiar-looking yellow brick.
Either that, or the most depressing crossover in cinematic history.
#1. Spider-Man 3 -- What About the Symbiote?
In the third and final installment of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Peter Parker turns into a blend of Casper-era Christina Ricci and The Crow midway through the film, thanks to an alien symbiote that attaches itself to his suit and ups his aggression level.
"I've upped my aggression level, so up yours."
Crawling out of a meteorite, the symbiote is an extremely dangerous, sentient, tarlike goo that magnifies evil. This explains why when it merges with Peter Parker, a good-hearted boy who is only three boxes of Thin Mints away from being the best Girl Scout ever, it just turns him into your average Seattle hipster, but when it merges with Eddie Brock, a cheating, lying, jerk he starts taking hostages.
Fortunately, after his awkward crotch thrusts alienate both Mary Jane and Gwen Stacy in one night, Peter rejects the symbiote. After the symbiote attaches itself to Eddie Brock and creates Venom, aka The Most Disappointing Movie Version of a Villain Ever, Spidey saves the day. With the help of Harry Osborn, he destroys Venom, Sandman and the already deflated expectations of everyone who went to see this movie.
If you play the audio from the dance scene backward, you can actually hear Sam Raimi's leftover goodwill from Army of Darkness evaporate.
If not a satisfying an end to the franchise, it's at least a semi-happy ending.
But What About ...
The symbiote is still out there.
Some of it, anyway. We know for a fact that some of it wound up in Dr. Connors' laboratory, and the movie forgets to mention the huge detail of what eventually happened to that sample. But more important, while we saw some of it sneak out of the meteorite from the beginning of the film and hitch a ride with Peter Parker, who's to say that was all of the symbiote in there? The meteorite was probably chock-full of that stuff.
We could speculate what New York would look like if the symbiote got loose in the general population and turned everybody into Venom ... or we could just turn to the comics, where it actually happens at one point. It looks like this:
We hear Iron Man goes really well with pate.
That's a city full of superpowered, evil monsters eating some superheroes. Hmmm ... seems like you guys probably should have taken care of that before rebooting the franchise.
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Presentations from 2002 Conference
Report on Site Visits to Physics Departments
Ruth Howes, National Task Force on Undergraduate Physics
Efforts to Increase the Numbers of Physics Majors
Kevin Bedell, Boston College
James McNeil, Colorado State University
Thomas Greytak, MIT
Inquiry Based Teaching and Learning: How Effective?
Jim Stith, Vice President for Physics Resources, American Institute of Physics
Teaching Communication Skills for the "World of Work"
Rebecca Burnett, Iowa State University & Rice University
David Hertzog, University of Illinois
Report on Physics Teacher Education Coalition
Moderator, Fred Stein, APS
David Ober, Ball State University
Kathleen McCloud, Xavier University of Louisiana
Teacher Preparation Activities at Other Departments
Walter Gekelman , UCLA
Community Outreach Activities
Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University
Citrad Uher, University of Michigan
Roman Czujko, AIP, Director of the Statistical Research Center
Minority Students - Why so few and how can we improve?
Jorge Lopez, National Society of Hispanic Physicists
Charles Mcgruder, National Society of Black Physicists
Meg Urry, Yale University
A Physics View of Capitol Hill and the White House
Mike Lubell, APS, Director of Public Affairs
Breakout Groups:
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Amy Bug, Swathmore College, presider
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Chris Stanton, University of Florida, presider
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Group 3: Undergraduate Topic, Attracting and Retaining Students
Kevin Bedell, Boston College, presider
Session 1
Session 2
Group 4: Undergraduate Topic, Curriculum Issues for Physics Majors
Tu-Nan Chang, University of Southern California, presider
Session 1
Session 2
Group 5: Undergraduate Topic, Curriculum Issues for Non-Majors
Barry Dunning, Rice University,
David Ober, Ball State University, presiders
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Program Committee
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Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University
Kevin Bedell, Boston College
Amy Bug, Swathmore College
Tu-Nan Chang, University of Southern California
Barry Dunning, Rice University
David Ober, Ball State University
Judy Franz, APS
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...And "treat gun trafficking as a serious crime" is something you'd probably get agreement on from the NRA, GOA, SAF, and most gun nuts. ...
A lot of that is stuff that's been on the anti's wish list for a while, and a lot of it is just wishful thinking, or at least, stuff that they haven't thought all the way through.