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I know some skills are best learned while a person is very young, like a second language, or absolute pitch. What are some other skills that are best learned while young and can be beneficial to a person? My thinking is that since those skills can only be learned while young, then that would be the time to focus and teach them. Other skills like reading/math can be focused on later.
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Beside language and musical skills, one thing that is never thought in schools is character or assertiveness skills, they present a challenge as sometimes the parents don't posses them, although there are many good books on the topic (just check an online book store and read the ratings!). Meta self-help books such as the 7 habits of highly successful people, which go beyond mere tips to forge true character are recommended.
Kindness, following directions (need for school and business, not just discipline), sharing, group 'work', sportsmanship, kindness (o-did I already say this), empathy, creative play (work), kindness (o-did I say this again), problem solving skills, how to deal with difficult people, kindness (again).
I can give suggestions on how to teach some of these if you wish, but the question was what skills should be taught. It is very hard to get rid of bad habits if these skills are not taught from the beginning.


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I am considering writing a new software product. Performance will be critical, so I am wary of using an interpreted or language or one that uses a emulation layer (read java).
Which leads me to thinking of using C (or C++) however these are both rather long in the tooth. I haven't used either for a long time. I figure in the last 20 years someone should have created something which is reasonably popular and is nice to code in and is complied.
What more modern alternatives are there to C for writing high performance code compiled code?
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If C++ is a different beast than it was 15 years ago, I would consider it, I guess I had an assumption that it had some inherent problems.
Parallelisation would be important, but probably not across multiple machines.
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On Linux I have a good idea on what files I would like to get ahold of when you are sitting on a regular file download vulnerability. Any file on the entire OS system is accessible for download, which do you grab first?
You only have the vulnerabilty at hand and nothing more of information (directory structure and similar is unknown at the point of compromise). The discovery and furter exploitation has to come from the file download vulnerability.
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I'm looking for software in order to put files from bracketing together under Lion and create HDR image.
The software I like best currently for HDR merging on the Mac is Nik HDR EFX Pro. It has a number of different ways you can vary the merge and so far has some of the more realistic tone adjustment I have seen.
They have an Aperture/Lightroom and Photoshop plugin.
I am not MAC user, but under Windows I used opensource Luminance HDR and as I see, it is also available for MAC, so you can try it.
I use Lightroom on a Mac to do most of my usual processing, so I opted for the LR/Enfuse plugin.
It is a "donationware" product, so the price is up to you, and the tool itself works wonderfully, and integrates extremely well into the Lightroom workflow.
Prior to my switch to Lightroom, I used Hugin, which is open source, and also uses enfuse from the panotools project under the covers to do the processing.
You could look at HDRtist and HDRtist Pro. They are both easy to use programs that on the easier to use side, with adjustment sliders for controlling the HDR effect(s).


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I married this month, and I moved in with my wife.
Now we have a lot of tasks to do. It's extremely difficult for one to decide what to do first, not knowing the other's opinion. Something that is important to me may not be so important for my wife.
It would be great if both of us could set our own priorities to specific tasks. The overview should give a good idea of what's more important.
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I have a few and they are very well taken care of. Still curious to know, what is the average lifespan of L lenses ( and non L lenses as well, USM version )
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I have a few and they are very well taken care of. Still curious to know, what is the average lifespan of L lenses ( and non L lenses as well, USM version )
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I have an L lens that is 30 years old and still works fine. It's a fully manual lens however. Basically the glass and metal will not age, the only concern is the electronics. Whilst ICs don't really wear out, capacitors do age, I believe caps failing is one of the common causes for old electronics to stop working.
I recently dug out my 1989 Nintendo gameboy, which is about the same age as the oldest of Canon's electronic focus lenses. I'm pleased to report I powered it on and it still works.
Personally I would expect 15-20 years, quite possibly longer. My oldest USM L lens is six years old but I'm not concerned about my lenses ageing, the ones to be wary about would be lenses like the 85 f/1.2L and 200 f/1.8L which have focus by wire and are therefore useless without the electronics.
If well maintained, I'd say 10+ years easy.
Lenses tend to become outdated before they actually wear out, and this is one of the reasons that people often recommend focusing on good lenses over a good body.
Also, mountings change, but despite that, there are still many used lenses that are still used on new bodies with adapters. The abundance of adapters for old lens mounts should be a good indication of the long lifespan of a good lens.
Zooms wear a lot faster than fixe-focal length lenses (though internal focusing/floating element fixed focal length designs are more like zooms).
Most of the lenses I use regularly are between 20 and 30 years old, and work just as well as when I bought them. One is probably due (or maybe even overdue) to be cleaned and lubed, but most of the others don't even seem to need that yet. I'd guess they'll still be fine well after I'm dead and gone.
I would guess the average lifetime of handheld camera lenses is affected mostly by accidental damage that renders them unusable and beyond economic repair.
For lenses that haven't been dropped, crushed burned or drowned, the average lifetime (in which they can be used to take photographs) is certainly measured in decades.
I just tried a 1982 lens† on a 2012 camera‡ and it works as well as the day I bought it.
For lenses that are protected from mould and not heavily used (e.g. by busy professionals), the average usable lifetime may be centuries (assuming you can find a working body that will mate with the lens)
Build quality must be a factor too. I wonder whether current plastic lenses will mostly fall apart with use, long before much older metal-bodied lenses do.
Camera Bodies don't last as well
Cameras on the other hand are often full of parts that deteriorate whether in use or not (leather bellows, plastic sponge mirror dampeners, etc) as well as moving parts which wear significantly with use (e.g. mechanical shutters) or rely on consumable parts that become unobtainable (e.g. OM-1 batteries?)
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Manual lenses seem to last forever, well stored and if mold doesn't settle in anyways. Electronics tend to die sooner because capacitors break down over time.
I have a perfectly good 5cm lens that came with my grandfather's Leica M3 from the mid 1950's and I've used far older 4x5 lenses set into modern Compur shutters before. So that's a range of glass that's 57 to 70 years.
Then I have a couple Nikon lenses with electronics in them that are 15+ years old now and still going strong, though a bit worn in mechanically.
I tend to treat my lenses well, clean the electronic contacts, store in normal humidity, etc... I've only had one lens get mold and it was terribly abused camping in the snow, big temperature and humidity changes, all that.


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DH key agreement protocols require the participation of both parties, so are only suitable for synchronous connections. Is it possible to implement PFS in a fashion usable for asynchronous protocols, like e-mail, or storage? I'm intuitively thinking not, but I haven't be able to find conclusive proof one way or the other.
Asynchronous forward secure encryption is possible if you allow users to have synchronous clocks. It seems impossible without that or a third party, though I am aware of no formal result.
A trivial(and hence awful) solution is to generate N key pairs and use one for each interval, discarding them as we go. A somewhat more efficient solution is to use Identity Based Encryption(IBE) to have one public key and N private keys.
The most efficient scheme I know of is due to Canetti, Halevi, and Katz in this paper. It provides for constant size public keys and $O(log(N))$ private keys where N is the number of time intervals. As far as I know, no paper has improved on that bound, though several have achieved that bound with more efficient techniques.
The gist of the design is you have a tree of keys where there is one root public key and messages can be encrypted to any node in the tree with the root pubic key and the index identifying the node. (So far, this is just an IBE scheme). Unlike IBE, the decryption key for a given node can be computed from it's parent key.
We now map time intervals to nodes using a pre order traversal (i.e. the root is interval one, the left child interval 2, the left left grandchild of root is interval 3 ...). So once time interval 1 is up, we derive the keys for both the left and right nodes and then delete the root key. Now messages encrypted to interval one are safe, but we can still decrypt everything targeted at the remaining N-1 intervals.


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I am from an Asian country and there people believe that you should sleep from 12am (at the latest) as this is the time where your "body will detox or repair your cells the most"
So sometimes I am worried about my health. I am asking this question whether I have sufficient hours of sleep ("8 hours"). Assuming that I sleep at 4am everyday, will my body "actually detox and repair itself"? Or is my health deteriorating every moment I sleep late?


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7 Animals That Are One Flaw Away From Taking Over the World
The fascinating thing about evolution is how it finds infinite ways for creatures to be badass. Some can rip every other species in their area to shreds, some are masters of camouflage, some just breed so fast you can't eat them all. But equally amazing is how creatures find a way to survive and thrive even with laughable and obvious design defects.
For instance ...
#7. Mayflies Have No Mouths
These insects may only be a quarter of an inch to an inch long, but apparently most of it is dick.
Mating is all the mayflies do -- as soon as they reach adulthood, they mate in a gigantic midair orgy the likes of which have only been seen inside a Rolling Stones tour plane. Their annual sex swarm is so thick it can even show up on weather radar.
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"There's a strong, sweaty bug sex front approaching from the west. Residents are advised to stock up on lubricant and MDMA."
They cause traffic disturbances and nearly black out skies with their massive swarms of depravity. After they're all sexed out, the females drop the fertilized eggs in the water and carry on with the rest of their lives.
"I'm going to business school!"
Of course, "the rest of their lives" isn't terribly long in this case, because ...
Their Stupid Defect:
They have no freaking mouths. They can't eat.
Adult mayflies do not develop working mouths. Their digestive organs are completely filled with air, which is the saddest thing we've imagined all week. As soon as they go through metamorphosis and reach adulthood, they begin starving to death. It would be bad enough if they were born without mouths, but the fact that they actually lose it when they grow up proves that nature has gone out of its way to screw them.
Hans Weilenmann
In a manner of speaking.
That means that, like most orgies, after the sex part is done it's a pretty ugly sight. In this case, mayfly corpses thickly litter the streets and beaches of the towns their sexcapades engulfed the night before. Sometimes snow plows have to be called in to clean up the several-inch-thick piles of their lifeless (yet totally satisfied) bodies.
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Then again, if they didn't die so fast the whole world would look like this.
#6. Octopuses Die After Sex
Screw Hollywood: It's not apes that humans should feel threatened by, it's octopuses. We've already covered their amazing camouflage and their deadly poisons -- what we haven't told you is that they're also one of the most intelligent animals in the world. They've been observed using tools and solving complex problems. They can move across land and can pour their bodies through the tiniest holes and crevices because they have no goddamn bones. Also, their tentacles have so many nerve endings that they can act autonomously. In other words, their freaking arms have minds of their own.
"I have nothing against you, human. My friends here are another story."
For our money, if there was one creature that would seem capable of organizing, developing a civilization and rising up to overthrow humanity, it would be the octopus. Why aren't these writhing, melon-headed bastards riding sharks up and down the coast harassing surfers? It doesn't make sense that these creatures are so smart and have so many astounding adaptations and yet they haven't managed to build a single underwater castle yet. That we know of.
Their Stupid Defect:
They can't have sex without dying. Yeah, that's a big one.
"Even a tentacle job is fatal."
After a male octopus has mated for the first time its own body will, in a remarkable display of post-coital shame, release a special endocrine secretion that will cause it to drop dead within a few weeks. As for the female, she lives long enough to care for her eggs ... but then that post-partum depression kicks in and causes her to stop eating and die. It's genetically programmed death.
And you think you've had some bad morning afters.
If these glands are removed, the octopus will continue living up to a whopping six months more. This is one of the most intelligent and adaptable creatures ever, but they simply aren't built to last. It's like nature itself is trying to keep these bastards in check, knowing that they would probably enslave every other species on the planet if they were allowed to build up the numbers.
Just like us, they're too horny for their own good.
#5. The Portuguese Man-of-War Can't Swim
At first glance you might mistake this gelatinous gasbag for a jellyfish on steroids, but a Portuguese man-of-war is actually a siphonophore -- that is, an "animal" that consists of a bunch of smaller organisms working together, and they all want to kill you. Yes, there's an organized army inside this deceptively innocent-looking murder machine. It's just like the story of the Trojan horse, if horses had poisonous tentacles 30 to 165 feet long and traveled with a posse of a thousand or more other death-filled decoys.
They might also be the descendants of Cthulhu.
The man-of-war's crazy-long tentacles are covered in venom-filled capsules that paralyze and/or kill fish and other small animals when they sting. The thread-like tentacles then deliver the prey to the digestion section of this coordinated killing contraption. They eat whatever animals happen to come into contact with their tentacles, which can be hard to avoid with their length and tendency to travel in large groups.
While their sting is not typically fatal to humans, it can really mess a person up.
Douglas R. Clifford, St. Petersburg Times
Chicks dig scars, but they're pretty mixed about weeping red sores.
Also, it can even sting after it's dead. How's THAT for badass?
Their Stupid Defect:
They can't swim. Or walk or crawl or fly or slither. Seriously, they have no way of propelling themselves across the water, which sort of sucks because that's where they live. They can't even steer their bodies in a different direction; the Portuguese man-of-war sort of drifts aimlessly across currents, hoping really hard that fish will come its way. The main reason they travel in such large numbers is that none of them can help where they're going.
The closest they come to controlling their destiny is when they surface. There they can use a janky little built-in sail to catch wind...
They have the look of a pool toy and the maneuverability of a floating condom.
But unfortunately, the surface happens to be where its enemies are. Then the best they can do to avoid predators is deflate some sort of bag and sink for a minute. Then it's back to drifting like a jackass. These terrifying sea creatures often end up becoming lunch for such cunning hunters as turtles.
Or, they can follow the current right up onto a beach, where they wither and die.
D. Gordon E. Robertson
Somehow, this picture reminds us of War of the Worlds.
They're not the only creature that has mobility problems, though ...
#4. Tarsiers Can't Walk
Measuring in at a puny 10 to 15 centimeters, this bug-eyed little primate is as deadly as it is cute. And it's pretty fucking cute. Unlike most primates, tarsiers are 100 percent carnivores -- they refuse to eat anything that doesn't have a pulse, by which we mean that they always feed on their prey while it's alive. The usual victims of these turd-sized predators include insects, birds, scorpions, bats and snakes.
And that one guy's hand.
Tarsiers live entirely in trees and travel and hunt by jumping branch to branch. They can leap up to 40 times their body length, right onto the back of their victim. They have even been known to take down birds mid-flight.
Once they make the leap, it's just a simple matter of sinking their giant, razor-sharp teeth into the prey's flesh a few times and dinner is served. They devour every piece of their kill; feathers, beaks, skeletons -- you name it.
We haven't seen eyes that full of wild hunger since the Glenn Beck Thanksgiving Special.
Tarsiers hunt at night, since they can see extremely well in the dark. Their eyes are so big they can't move them in their sockets, but evolution has made up for that by allowing them to rotate their necks almost 360 degrees.
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Holy water makes them burn.
Of course, you already know that they've been screwed in another way ...
Their Stupid Defect:
They can climb and they sure as hell can jump ... but they can't walk. Their flimsy little legs simply can't handle it. If they fall out of a tree, they're screwed -- the best they can do is hop around like idiots. They even sleep and give birth while clinging to a tree, since to them the ground might as well be quicksand.
They look constantly terrified about the fact that somewhere, ground exists.
For this reason, tarsiers are exceptionally easy to capture. Despite their suction-cup hands, simply shaking a tree limb is enough to knock them loose. Once they're on the ground, poachers are free to capture them with a burlap sack (or predators gobble them up real quick), and unless they manage to bounce or something, there's not much the little devils can do to escape.
Despite being an endangered species and not doing too well in captivity (mainly because of the eating live animals only thing and because they tend to kill themselves), tarsiers are still sold as pets in the Philippines, where there must be a severe shortage of other pets.
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In The Shining, when Jack Torrance has clearly gone mad and is chopping down the bathroom door with an axe to get to his wife, why does Jack Nicholson say "Here's Johnny!" when his character's name is Jack? Is it completely random and showing how he's gone so insane he's just saying random names, or does it have some sort of significance?
That line was ad-libbed by Jack Nicholson as an imitation of Ed McMahon's intro for The Tonight Show.
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I'm writing a Haskell to Javascript code generator, using GHC as a library. Since Javascript doesn't have an integer type and its Number type can only represent integers up to 2⁵³ properly, I'm representing integers as Numbers, explicitly performing all arithmetic modulo 2³². This works very well with a 32 bit GHC, but rather worse with the 64 bit version.
GHC will happily coerce Int64 values to Ints and interpret Int constants as 64 bit values (0xffffffff turns into 4294967295 rather than -1, for example) and that's causing all sorts of annoying problems.
The compiler works very well for "normal" web stuff even on a 64 bit system, provided that the standard libraries are built on a 32 bit machine, but "please don't use large-ish numbers, OK?" isn't something you want to see in your compiler's manual. Some of the problems (but not all) can be alleviated by compiling with -O0, but that (unsurprisingly) produces code that's not only slow, but also way too big.
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In a world where every guy with a truck full of tools is a "contractor", how do you weed out the good from the bad?
A few ideas:
In the US, check their status with the Better Business Bureau. Also, if you hire contractors frequently, you should probably look into subscribing to Angie's List, which crowdsources customer reviews of contractors and other service providers.
Talk to at least 2.
Every contractor does things differently. Each will bring up concerns and ideas that others do not. You will learn a lot from these conversations that will help you make a good decision.
I've learned from dealing with contractors recently that I have to define exactly what I want done so that there is no misunderstanding or room to scale back on the required work.
For example, if I want a tree removed I have to describe whether or not I want the roots removed, stump grounded down, etc. You don't want to have to say, "I just assumed you were going to do X, Y, and Z." Consider all of the details you can think of. This can be difficult if you're not familiar with the various approaches and don't know all of the details involved in a job (it's why we hire professionals in the first place), but the more you can research and document the better.
I rarely post on any forum, but I think I can provide some helpful suggestions, due to years of experience. I hope you find my suggestions more useful.
Often the quality of the contractor or more importantly, the quality of the work, is a direct reflection of who controls: the timing/amount of payments and who controls when the job ends.
I always try and get 3 or 4 different quotes.
You'd be amazed at that difference in price and analysis of the problem/work involved. I have had differences, major differences; one person quoted £1,500, another £6k.
The major thing I have learnt is that you have to manage contractors - don't assume anything, every little detail. And get it all written up. And obviously don't pay for time, pay for a job, and of course don't pay until yr happy with the work.
If anyone starts quoting a daily rate I run a mile.
People have mentioned looking at peoples cars etc I don't think this is useful, who cares what car etc. As logn the work is up to standard and the price is reasonable - I expect a decent worker to make a healthy profit, so why not ?
If the work is not up to standard or there a various problems call a stop to the work, I guess you could even include that in your original contract.
The other thing I have learnt, try and do things yourself, some of these things are not that hard. Its just having the confidence to do them. Even if you do make a mistake it can normally be rectified.
My Significant Other owns a small millwork shop dealing in interior and exterior remodeling projects. I have worked for him for the past 10 summers doing finish work. We both know many, many other contractors; the good and the bad. Here are some guidelines from the inside:
Ask for proof of insurance that covers you if something happens while they are doing the job. Even painters we've hired gave us a copy of their insurance.
Ask to see some of their work and talk to previous clients. The good ones will put you in touch with previous clients straight away. The bad ones will prevaricate.
Don't employ the ones that come round touting for business. If they have the time to drive around looking for "damaged" roofs, driveways in need of repair etc. then they can't be that good. Having a full schedule is usually a good sign.
Find out the payment terms. If they want all or most up-front, it is generally a bad sign.
I typically ask around at work for referrals - we have a junk mail board that's a great place for posts like that. You could also look at the Better Business Bureau for your area, or look at a site like Angie's List. You could also ask the contractor for references.
There are a number of good ideas already given, I would add to check their license. I know Florida keeps a nice online presence http://www.myflorida.com/licensee/
@Eric's list is great. I'd add a few more:
I don't know of any contractor who will quote a job by the hour. On the contrary a knowledgeable contractor knows exactly how long a given job will take and will do his best to finish the job within that time frame. He will also do his best to do it right to avoid call backs which cost him time and money. A good contractor will provide a punch list, that is a list of things which need to be corrected before final payment.


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ABBOTSFORD, B.C. (November 5, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage (4-6-0-0) surrendered a pair of power-play goals, both of which came while down two men, as the Abbotsford Heat (8-4-0-1) claimed a 2-1 victory over the Rampage at the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre on Tuesday night.
Rampage goaltender Michael Houser made 23-of-25 saves in his third consecutive start and took his first loss of the season (3-1-0). Defenseman John Lee scored the lone goal for the Rampage, his first of the year and second in his AHL career.
The defeat marked the first loss in Abbotsford in four games dating back to March 25, 2012. San Antonio is now 8-3-0-0 all-time in Abbotsford heading into tomorrow's rematch against the Heat.
Seven penalties were whistled in the opening frame between the West Division rivals. The Rampage had one opportunity with a 5-on-3 man advantage and the Heat had a pair of opportunities with the two-man advantage, eventually cashing in at the 19:31 mark.
Former Florida Panthers draft pick, Corban Knight let a shot fly and it caught the stick of Markus Granlund, who tipped it home past Houser, effectively putting Abbotsford ahead at the end of the first period. The goal was Abbotsford's sixth power-play goal in as many games.
The Rampage's strong puck possession finally paid off in the second period, as Lee found the back of the net for his first of the season. Catching a pass from fellow defenseman Colby Robak, Lee fired a long shot from the blueline, beating Abbotsford goalie Joni Ortio and tying the game at 1-1 at 14:02 of the middle frame. Robak's assist marked his third helper in the last two games.
San Antonio had a power-play chance just 1:04 after the Lee marker, but was unable to convert and the two teams headed into the second intermission locked at one.
The Rampage began the final frame with the extra man, but had no time to appreciate it, as the Silver and Black took a penalty 36 seconds into the period to negate the man advantage. Houser made a huge save on a Ben Street breakaway chance to keep the score even, but between a strong Abbotsford penalty kill and the third Heat 5-on-3 of the night, the stalemate broke just past the midway point of the third.
Abbotsford cycled down low and Blair Jones caught a pass on the half boards, rifling it past Houser from the top of the circle to break the tie at 13:28 of the third period. The Rampage had a late offensive push, but Jones' tally would prove to be the eventual game-winner.
The Rampage went 0-for-7 on the power play on the night, snapping a streak of three-straight games cashing in with the man advantage. Abbotsford was 2-for-9 with the power play and outshout the Rampage 25-24.
The two teams will square off again tomorrow (Wednesday) in Abbotsford at 9 p.m. CST.
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CHOPSTIX RESTAURANTS ON THE MONTEREY PENINSULA ARE GETTING A LOT OF ATTENTION THIS WEEK, AFTER A CRAIGSLIST POST CLAIMING UNSANITARY CONDITIONS WENT VIRAL OVER THE WEEKEND. ACTION NEWS REPORTER MAY CHOW HAS THE STORY. ### QUICK AMBIENT NATS THE OWNER OF CHOPSTIX -- MIKEY NGUYEN -- DID NOT WANT TO GO ON CAMERA, BUT ALLOWED ACTION NEWS TO GO INSIDE HIS POPULAR VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT IN MONTEREY. NGUYEN SAYS THE PICTURES AND CRAIGSLIST POST THAT SPREAD ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE QUOTE "OUT OF CONTEXT AND OUTDATED," AND HAVING A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON BUSINESS. HE SAYS ONE OF THE PICTURES SHOWS HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, WHO PASSED AWAY TWO YEARS AGO. ACCORDING TO JOHN RAMIREZ, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIRECTOR FOR THE MONTEREY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, HIS OFFICE RECEIVED THE SAME PICTURES AND COMPLAINTS ON THREE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS BEGINNING TWO YEARS AGO. RAMIREZ 17:45-17:57 "Same photos, same accusations, all three times my staff went out to food facility and did inspections and complaint inspections and found no basis for the complaints from the pictures or whatever was written on there." PUBLIC RECORDS SHOW THE MUNRAS AVENUE RESTAURANT WAS LAST INSPECTED IN MAY OF THIS YEAR. RAMIREZ 21:37-21:46: "our food inspection showed minor violations, little critical violations that were corrected at the time, but nothing significant that allowed it to be closed." THE FIVE VIOLATIONS INCLUDED INADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES AND UNSAFE CONDITIONS FOR FOOD. ON MONDAY, AN INSPECTOR REVISITED THE MONTEREY LOCATION BASED ON THE MOST RECENT COMPLAINT, AND FOUND "NO MAJOR OR MINOR VIOLATIONS OBSERVED AT THE TIME OF INSPECTION." RAMIREZ 21:25-21:36: "what was posted, what we received was not verified so what most people assume, no evidence occurring there." verified so what most people assume, no evidence occurring there." CUSTOMERS WE SPOKE WITH SAY THEY'LL CONTINUE EATING AT CHOPSTIX. ALLAN 15:40-15:49: "i've read the stories ...and not keep you from coming...of course not, I know what my experience is, and it isn't anything like that." SARAH 13:01-13:20": "it seems clean, the facility is clean, my soup always good, order takeout SARAH 13:01-13:20": "it seems clean, the facility is clean, my soup always good, order takeout boba tea, probably wouldn't deter me unless I knew it was really true." ACCORDING TO THE MONTEREY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, ACCORDING TO THE MONTEREY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, NEITHER THE MONTEREY NOR SEASIDE CHOPSTIX LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN CLOSED DUE TO HEALTH VIOLATIONS.### COMING UP...WHAT
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8 Election Myths You Probably Believe
#4. Myth: Campaign Spending Is Out of Control
Now here's one that seems impossible to argue. The numbers are freaking astronomical. President Obama and Governor Romney raised $769 million and $642 million, respectively (as of September 30, 2012) -- that's $1.4 billion total, for a freaking political campaign. And that's not even counting the tens of millions poured into political action committees.
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And wicked awesome campaign buses.
How can something this important be decided by a billion dollars' worth of ads that spam the commercial breaks of Two and a Half Men?
But Actually ...
Well ... that's kind of the point. It's really important. Yet when it comes to spending, most industries put politics to shame.
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Somehow, giant zeppelins filled with booze just seem like less of a waste.
For example, in 2011, General Motors spent $1.78 billion in advertising to be the No. 1 car company in America, which is a fraction of the nearly $14 billion spent by the entire auto industry. Between the two of them, Verizon and AT&T spent $3.5 billion to be the top two companies in their sector. And $1.34 billion was spent on makeup ads just by L'Oreal.
Political campaigns are just marketing campaigns, and they have to buy their ad time just like Toyota does (forcing TV stations to give the time away would bankrupt them, since it would be pushing aside paid advertisers for unpaid political ads). And that means that they feel the impact of increasing communications expenses the same as everyone else, regardless of industry: new technology platforms and media outlets, a growing population, inflation, etc.
We'd be shocked if mobile billboards broke 10 miles to the gallon.
Yes, the $1.4 billion price tag for 2012 seems like a lot compared to previous elections, like 1996, when Clinton and Bob Dole spent just $90 million combined. That's quite a bit, but only about one-third of what Americans spent that year on potato chips, as one Federal Elections Commission member found. The 2000 campaign cost George W. Bush and Al Gore about $143 million total ... which was less than one-tenth of the amount spent on fast food advertising the next year. Again, it's all relative.
So while it is an objectively insane amount of money, doesn't it make sense for a society to spend more money figuring out who should become the most powerful person in the world than it does letting everyone know that there is now a Cool Ranch Doritos taco at Taco Bell?
Locos Tacos do have more of an impact on our daily lives than any politician.
#3. Myth: We Judge Candidates Based on Silly "Gaffes" Instead of Real Issues
Obama was caught saying that rural voters cling to guns and Bibles! Romney was taped admitting that he doesn't care about half the country! Ron Paul ate Lincoln's bones on live television and then shouted "Do something about it!" to a stunned public!
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Judging by the amount of media coverage they receive, you'd assume that political gaffes are the only things that matter in an election cycle. Any time a politician accidentally slips and says something stupid, condescending or offensive, you better believe that all of the armchair political scientists you work with will show up the next day saying, "Well, Biden just made a gaffe and called all women lazy; this race is as good as done."
But Actually ...
The truth is, Biden could accidentally fart out of his mouth and it wouldn't move the needle an inch. Gaffes get a ton of play in the media, and while it's true that candidates in a primary can lose their shot at the big job if a brain fart stains their mouth-undies too much (Rick Perry, we're talking about you), the same rules don't seem to apply to the actual election. Michael Tessler, an associate professor at Brown University, set out earlier this year to see if he could discern any significant impact from a particularly nasty Obama gaffe: his claim that the private sector was "doing fine" amid one of the worst economic crises in history.
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"I mean they are doing fine ... ancially. Poor."
Tessler polled a thousand people -- those who'd heard about the gaffe, those who hadn't and (presumably) those who were so sick of hearing the word "gaffe" that they punched the interviewer right in his damn face. In the end, there was no substantial difference in political preference between the groups that were and weren't aware of Obama's highly publicized slip-up. A gaffe that had dominated the news cycle for days didn't change the outcome of the election one jot.
But what about other, bigger gaffes? Like the aforementioned line about bitter people clinging to guns and Bibles? Can we see a chart about that? Maybe one with more than just four measly dots?
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More Dots = More Science
Wow! According to the series of dots splattered all over the above chart, Obama's comments meant nothing.
Obama's numbers remained stable (until they actually rose a little bit several days later), and the various misspeaks of the current election haven't been any more significant. John Sides, a political science professor at Washington University, put together this lovely graph of gaffes in the 2012 election:
The Monkey Cage
Either candidate could be taped riding a hobo's disemboweled carcass like a toboggan without breaking the margin of error.
Why does this happen? Well, the bottom line is that the kind of people who would be swayed by an offensive gaffe -- that is, the people who haven't followed politics closely enough to have made up their minds on a candidate -- are precisely the kind of people who aren't even aware when a gaffe happens, because they simply aren't paying attention to all of the political talk shows, blogs, etc. that endlessly discuss them. Meanwhile, the kind of people who do pay close enough attention to political races to actually notice these gaffes are, statistically speaking, more well-informed to begin with and have already made up their minds, so they won't be swayed by just one gaffe.
Which might explain why Romney was able to tell off half the country without seeing his presidential hopes collapse (and in fact took the lead not long after).
#2. Myth: Voter Turnout Is Plummeting, and Voter Apathy Is at an All-Time High
One story that news stations always pick up during an election year is the voter turnout, or to be more precise, the lack thereof. After the Nixon/Humphrey election of 1968, a year that also saw the assassinations of two major political figures, the U.S. was just plain tired, and Americans decided that they'd rather stay home and nap for the next election in 1972. Turnout dropped like a rock, going from around 61 percent to 55 percent, and it just kept going downhill from there. At its lowest, 1996, only around 48 percent of voters got in on the action, and according to the numbers, we're only now returning to the same voter levels as 1972, the Year of the Great Big Who Gives a Fuck. So we're not exactly doing great.
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The number of Nixons in office has dropped dramatically since then.
Clearly, election seasons of mudslinging, boasting, endless spending and virgin sacrifices have disillusioned voters.
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It's not that we're bad at motivating voters; it's that we're bad at math.
People have been trying to figure out why turnout dropped for some time now. Part of the reason for the initial 1972 drop is the ratification of the 26th Amendment, which made 18-year-olds eligible to vote, and we all know how much we can count on them to do something important.
"I'm just here to sell weed. Can I, like, wait in the corner or something?"
But the other problem is just the way we calculate it. Voter turnout is generally measured by taking the total number of voters in an election and dividing it by the total over-18 population of the United States. The problem is, not everyone is eligible to vote; as Futurama reminded us, anyone who has been convicted of a felony is ineligible to vote. There are also numerous immigrants who aren't quite eligible to vote yet, along with overseas Americans who still retain the right to vote in our elections. If you measure the total eligible population, even though there are some dips and rises from year to year, the numbers look much better.
In fact, as of 2008, turnout was as good as it was in 1968, which is great. Our ability to properly calculate and talk about voter turnout? Not so much.
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"If you guys want to grab a few more ballots each, that's totally cool with us."
#1. Myth: It All Just Comes Down to a Few "Swing" Voters Anyway
You've no doubt been told before that swing voters completely determine elections. Lifelong Democrats will vote for Democrats, Republicans will vote for Republicans, but a candidate lives and dies by his ability to persuade the elusive third group -- the swing demographic.
These "soccer moms," "NASCAR dads" and "jai alai uncles" don't make up their minds until the last possible minute. We view these people as electoral cheat codes: If a candidate can mash the right number of their buttons, he'll unlock a major power-up and convince all of the swingers to swing his way. But how many of you have ever actually met a swing voter? That is, someone who honestly could go either way this election, and also actually plans to vote?
"Perhaps once I enter the booth, I'll somehow magically make an informed decision ..."
Well, if you find one, shake his hand -- his vote is apparently the only one that matters.
But Actually ...
While those people certainly exist, they don't fall into any large categorized groups, and there's no evidence that they make up a meaningful chunk of the electorate or decide the outcome. National elections don't hinge on swaying a few undecideds; they hinge on activating unmotivated party members.
Barack Obama isn't out there to persuade Republicans. He's out there to remind Democrats. Winning is all about convincing the mass of apathetic people who agree with you to stop masturbating long enough to wait in a line full of old people.
"Does anyone else smell death and Cracker Barrel?"
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President Barbara Purks presided and conducted the installation.
Officers for the new year are: president, Frances "Cookie" Veltri; vice president, Rosemary Gaynor; secretary, Pat Deletka; and treasurer, Joan Villa.
Committee chairs for 2013 include membership chair, Nancy Smurda; reservations chairs, Vivian Weigel and Patty Holt; publicity chair, Purks; hospitality chair, Jim Hare; house chair, Mary Margaret Klepaldo; sunshine chair, Winnie Kemp; religion chair, Tony LaRosa; tours chair, Regina Truax; and historian, Brenda Edwards. The 2013 trustees include Jack Cummings, Sonny Marino, Betty Virtue and Marlene Hare.
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Click here to listen to Faizon Love's exclusive interview with the TJMS.
Name calling, arrests, police, money debt, snitching, and gun drawing? It sounds like the plot of one of your favorite crime shows but instead it's the details surrounding the drama between comedians Faizon Love and Katt Williams.
Last week, Katt Williams was arrested and released with no charges after police was informed that Williams had a gun.
A day later, the TJMS broke the story first that during Williams' arrest he said, "Faison called the police on us and then ran in the club."
Since then the two have been embroiled in a heated controversy with Williams even coming out and calling Love a "bald-face rat" for calling the police on him.
Faizon Love joined the Tom Joyner Morning show to give what he says are the true details of the story.
According to Love, he didn't call the police, "I didn't have to he's 4 foot 2." Instead, Faizon claims he and "his partner" took the gun from Katt, "we took the gun away from him, that's how tough he is," however, once he noticed the gun was unloaded, he decided to "give this little n**** his gun back."
Love explained to the TJMS crew that the drama between them is over failed payment. He says he was on a comedy tour with Katt Williams over a year ago, but says he dropped out of the tour because Katt was "slapping people."
However, even after he left the tour Katt continued to promote Love as an act when he wasn't performing.
Media outlets have been reporting that Katt Williams owed Love $50,000 but Love says that is innacurate, he is owed $50,000 from Katt Williams for falsely advertising him after he left the tour.
Love says he would never loan Katt Williams money, saying, "for what? to a crackhead."
Love told the crew he hopes to end the problems with Katt but he believes Katt did this because he knew it would get news coverage and because he's infatuated with "gang violence" which he is constantly trying to perpetuate with his large entourage.
However, Love says he grew up with gang violence and he does not want to be a part of that lifestyle anymore. He chose to talk exclusively with Tom and the the crew because he believes Tom is a leader of the black community and he wants the beef ended because, "[Katt Williams] wants to be tough. And that's not the black life, man. We, our community is dying of gang violence" which he [Love] wants to end.


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I've done everything that I know how to do, that we know how to do to make the numbers work," says Chris Kummer, Parks and Recreation Director.
Warren County Parks and Recreation, along with all other county departments, are facing a ten percent budget cut.
These cuts could mean the general public will no longer be able to use the warren county aquatics facility among other Parks and Rec properties.
For Kristen McGinnis, who has back injuries, taking away the indoor pool means taking away the only way she is able to exercise.
"If I were to run, which I am not physically able to do, out at Filmore Park, and Filmore Park was closed, I could go run at Buchanon Park. I can't do that, I cannot swim anywhere else if this facility is closed to the public," McGinnis says.
Kummer says today's strong show of public support for the aquatics facility will keep it open, at least temporarily.
"By them showing up at least there's another two or three weeks of operation for the pool that maybe wouldn't have been there if they hadn't have been here," he says.
The budget cuts throughout all county departments comes after the fiscal court declined to increase an insurance premium tax and property tax last month.
"We voted to not increase the revenue at the time so that was making it difficult to provide for emergency services and public protection," says Warren County Judge Executive Mike Buchanon.
Now, Parks and Recreation has a difficult reality.
Kummer says if the Aquatic Facility doesn't close to the public, it will be something else.
"Parks and Rec will meet with the Warren County Fiscal Court again next Thursday to determine the fate of the Aquatic Facility.


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(CBS News) WATERTOWN TOWNSHIP, Minn. -- Sheriff Jim Olson was going through daily police reports last month when he came across a familiar name: Chris Oberender. Olson had been a young detective when he met with Oberender in 1995.
At the time, "Chris was 14 years old and murdered his mother," Olson says. He killed his mother with a gun.
When he was 21, Oberender was released from a mental hospital. Under Minnesota law, he was banned from owning a gun. That's what troubled Olson about the police report he was reading.
"And I saw the pictures that he had of guns on his Facebook page," Olson says. "He can't have guns. Chris Oberender should not have guns."
Asked how a man like Oberender, who was convicted of murdering his mother with a gun, obtains a firearm, Olson responds, "I wish I had a good answer for that. I don't."
Oberender passed a background check in 2011 and obtained a Minnesota gun permit. Police found 15 guns in all at Oberender's house. They also discovered a letter Oberender recently wrote to his dead mother.
The letter read, in part, "I am so homicide. What is wrong with me? I think about killing all the time."
Olson says reading those words was "chilling."
He says Oberender passed a background check because sloppy file keeping by the courts left critical criminal information out of his legal record. There were no fingerprints or record from the court.
What was in the record was Oberender's forced commitment to the mental hospital.
"In this case, we were lucky," says Lucinda Jesson, the state's top mental health official. "No one was hurt through the good actions of local law enforcement."
Jesson told CBS News law enforcement would have found the mental hospital record if they'd checked.
"We have to be asked to run the match," she says. "That does not always happen. ... It's not automatic."
"We were not aware he was not in the system until New Year's Eve," Olson says. "I would call it providence."
Today, Oberender is in jail awaiting trial for illegal possession of firearms. State officials say they have incomplete records for 168,000 people from Minnesota who want to buy guns, and under the law, if the state cannot find complete records, it must issue a permit within seven days.
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Is there a command, such as rsync, which can synchronise huge, sparse, files from one linux server to another?
It is very important that the destination file remains sparse. It may be longer (but not bigger) than the drive which contains it. Only changed blocks should be sent across the wire.
I have tried rsync, but got no joy. groups.google.com/group/mailing.unix.rsync/browse_thread/thread/94f39271980513d3
If I write a programme to do this, am I just reinventing the wheel? http://www.finalcog.com/synchronise-block-devices