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7 Mind-Blowing Chemical Reactions You Won't Believe Are Real
Chemistry is mind-numbingly boring to most of us. It's like calculus, but with letters where numbers should be. It takes a unique kind of psychopath to get excited about doing math with the alphabet. But put chemistry through a "YouTube" filter, and you get some truly incredible stuff that will surely blow your mind*.
*If you're stoned. If you're sober, you'll probably just say "neat" and then go on to check your bank statement, or whatever it is normal people do with computers.
#7. Hypnotizing Bromic Acid
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Dealer out of town? Miss your daily dose of LSD? All you need are two simple substances and a Petri dish to fake your own lava lamp screensaver (or one crusty keyboard and like two spare minutes if you just want to watch it).
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Annnnnd five minutes have passed.
According to science, the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction is an "oscillating chemical reaction" during which "transition-metal ions catalyze oxidation of various, usually organic, reductants by bromic acid in acidic water solution," making it possible to "observe development of complex patterns in time and space by naked eye." That's science-speak for "slap some bromine into an acid solution and forge your own chemical Hypnotoad."
The acid turns the bromine into a chemical called bromide (which is a different color and an entirely different letter), but the bromide quickly turns itself back into bromine, because the science elves that live inside of it are stubborn jerks. The reaction then repeats, and you can watch the pattern undulate unto infinity, or at least until you pass out into your bag of ranch flavor Bugles.
#6. Clear Chemicals Instantly Turn Black
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Question: What happens when you mix sodium sulfite, citric acid, and sodium iodate? Close, but the right answer isn't "Who gives a shit?" Also, you should really check your attitude at the door to the lab. There is very little room in science for that kind of wanton brusqueness. The correct answer is this:
The chem version of your toilet after Jager night.
When you mix the aforementioned ingredients in certain proportions, you end up with a finicky liquid that starts out transparent, but then turns deep black in an instant. This is handy if you want to observe something called an "iodine clock" reaction, or convince your cousin that he truly is haunted by a Japanese well ghost after watching that YouTube clip you sent him. Put simply, a chemical clock reaction happens when specific compounds are mixed in such a way that their concentration slowly changes. When it passes a certain threshold -- BOOM, you've got Shenanigoats climbing everywhere!
But wait, there's more. By changing the proportion of the ingredients, you can even reverse the reaction:
The chem version of flushing after Jager night.
And, using different ingredients and formulas, like the Briggs-Rauscher variant, you can even get a schizophrenic mixture that constantly switches from blue to yellow. Look, if you need any more than this to convince that primitive village that you're their new wizard-king, we don't know what to tell you. Maybe invest in a quality robe.
OK, if your toilet starts doing this, you may want to seek medical attention.
#5. Creating Plasma in a Microwave
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But what if you want to mess with your high roommate and you don't have access to a bunch of obscure chemicals or the basic knowledge needed to mix them safely? Don't despair! Can you get your hands on a grape, a knife, a glass, and a microwave? If not, then we're really sorry the economy turned on you so viciously. If so, cut the grape into two pieces. Then take one of the pieces and slice it in half again, leaving the two quarters connected by the skin. Place it inside the microwave under an upturned glass and turn it on. Then step back and watch aliens abduct a piece of chopped fruit.
What you're actually doing is creating a very small amount of plasma. You probably learned in school that there are three states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas), but there's actually a fourth type, the hard-to-define rebel matter called plasma that comes from superheating a gas until it ionizes. Grape juice happens to be rich in ions, so it's one of the better mediums to use if you want to observe some simple science or make some bets and take cruel advantage of your impaired housemates.
As a responsible website, we must remind you to never try this experiment at h- you already went out and bought some grapes, didn't you? Just be careful: The ozone generated inside the glass can be toxic in high quantities. So tell your friends that the microwave needs to recharge its death ray after every use.
#4. Separating Mixed Liquids by Stirring the Other Way
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If you stir milk into your coffee, you can't ever get that milk out again. It is gone to you forever, and you will have to live with polluting the purity of that noble beverage. That's just how liquid works, right? You stir something into something else and the two are forever joined. And then there's laminar flow. To see this witchcraft in action, just put a few drops of colored dye into a vat of corn syrup, caaarefuuully stir them up ...
... and then stir it back in the opposite direction at the same pace.
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Holy shit, Superman was right.
We know it looks like it, but we swear we didn't just reverse the video there. Laminar flow can happen in all sorts of scenarios with all sorts of liquids, but this dramatic example happens because corn syrup is so viscous that mixing the dye into it twists it up into layers. It's more like stretchy elastic than a fluid. So if you reverse the action exactly, you can reverse the effect, and the dye goes back to where it was. It's like being the crappiest time traveler ever!


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I assume you've heard plenty about this story by now, but have you listened to the whole tape or read the transcript for yourself? You should check it out if you haven't.
There's lots of juicy stuff in here, but forget all the talk about baseball bats and provocateurs. The caller tries to bait Walker with these suggestions, but he doesn't bite. He's sucking up to the boss, so he doesn't contradict him, but he does deflect the baseball bat line, and he explains his reasoning for not wanting to provoke the protesters.
It's not a ringing defense of the right to assemble, but it's a plain statement that he doesn't agree with sending in the troublemakers. Good for the Madison police chief who's speaking up about this, but it's not the main story- it's a distraction.
One more distraction is at the very end of the call, where the fake Koch invites Walker to California to show him a good time, and lets it be known that he has vested interests in the outcome. It would be an ethics violation if Walker took him up on the trip, but it's purely hypothetical. People are quoting Walker's first few words after the "vested interests" comment, but in the context of his full response, they're pretty much filler.
Twice the fake Koch tries to bring it around to money or rewards, and twice Walker comes back by talking about doing it because it's the right thing to do. Anyone who's quoting the "Well, that's just it" part out of context is lying to you.
So what's worth paying attention to?
The good stuff is how he lays out the pressure tactics and trickery he's got lined up. The discussion of national strategy will make a good opposition ad when he claims to have the state's interests in mind.
Walker does solicit "Koch" to get "a message put out" for his supporters in swing areas, presumably in an election. Koch controls political funds that can't legally be spent in coordination with candidates or parties. There could be a campaign finance violation here, but the language is probably too imprecise.
My favorite, however, is that Walker thinks the definitive moment of Reagan's presidency was when he fired the air traffic controllers. This was apparently the first crack in the Berlin Wall. I kind of follow his logic, but no.
(Aside: Reagan didn't defeat the Soviet Union. George Kennan did it in the embassy with a telegram.)
The whole thing is very interesting and very worth reading, both for the inside view of Walker's strategy and for a demonstration of the poor quality of candidate the teabaggers can drum up. My sense is that Walker knows how to fight, but governing is completely beyond him. His administration will largely be a failure, but he could inflict a lot of damage on the way down if he's not stopped.
As First Performed At The Housewarming Of Cabaret Brainwash
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Note: check out this awesome band called Dysnomia!
Dysnomia is the daughter and moon of Eris. She represents the spirit of lawlessness. There's no evidence that the Greeks worshipped her in any way; she was more of a philosophical or poetic conceit. Therefore, this may be the first rite ever held in her honor. How's it feel to be a pioneer?
Step 1:
Announce a party. Promise everyone a lavish invocation of Dysnomia.
Step 2:
Blow off planning any rites until the last possible minute. Hastily scribble some notes on an envelope the day of the party.
Step 3:
Get stoned and forget.
Step 4:
When a drunken party-goer reminds you about the Rites, first say, "Oh shit!" Then hurriedly grab your silly hat, two or three dollars, a joint and whatever other ceremonial crap you require.
Step 5:
Stand on a milk crate and focus the attention of the party upon yourself. Depending on your condition, and that of your guests, this may be done by whistling, ringing a bell, or shouting "Heeey yooouuuu guuuyyyssss!!!!"
Step 6:
Loudly proclaim,
All hail Dysnomia!
Your guests will probably shout a bunch of meaningless drivel in return. This is good.
Step 7:
Light the joint, take a good deep hit, and pass it. While it's going around, take a dollar bill from your pocket and light it on fire. Invite your guests to step up and burn their own money. Many will be too afraid or too greedy, so burn another bill or two to encourage them. If no one goes along, call them a bunch of wankers, cancel the rite and get really drunk instead. But not to worry- someone will probably join you.
Step 8:
Once you've broken the ice with a bit of lawlessness, you may intone,
Now we will confess our crimes.
Start it off yourself with a good strong confession. For example:
I blockaded a logging road by attaching myself to half a ton of cement.
Step 9:
Look meaningfully at the person to your right, or your left, or someone you know is likely to have a good story. Let everyone in the room take turns admitting their crimes. Everyone's got 'em. Maybe they smuggle cocaine or burn down suburban developments, or maybe they just steal office supplies or run stop signs. The point is not whether the action is moral or immoral, ethical or unethical. It's not whether they've gotten caught (although arrests often make good stories, narrow escapes from the law are better.) It's simply whether they've violated the law.
Step 10:
Keep it going. Don't worry about going in order. Do try to keep people from interrupting and stepping on each other's confessions- use a talking stick if you have to.
Step 11:
It's OK for there to be pauses as people think of more stories or reflect on what they've heard, but don't let the energy fade away. When it looks like things are winding down, use your bell (or whistle, or voice, or whatever) to focus the group back on you. Be sure to thank everyone and tell them how great they've been. People eat that shit up.
Step 12:
Proclaim again,
All hail Dysnomia!
When the responses die down, intone the mystic phrase:
Shiny! Let's be bad guys!
Now you're done.
Step 13:
Gather the roach and the ashes of the dollar bills and save them in a little jar. You can put them on your shrine or something. Also, you can smoke the roach if you ever run out.

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• Washington DC
• Miami and south Florida
• Los Angeles and southern California
• Denver and the Colorado Rockies
• Boston
• Chicago
• The Hawaiian Islands
• Seattle and the Pacific northwest
• San FranciscoOf course, these suggestions only touch the surface of all that there is to see in the United States. No single visit can even come close to see all the many natural and man-made attractions in the country.
English is the official and primary language of the United States. However, Spanish is widely spoken in the southwestern U.S. and in south Florida. You'll also find pockets of French-speaking Americans in south Louisiana and northern Maine. In general, however, it's best to learn at least a few words of English before you travel.
The official U.S. currency is the U.S. dollar.


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Assume $f\colon \mathbb Q\to \mathbb Q$ is a function which admits continuous extensions
- $f_0\colon\mathbb R\to \mathbb R$ and
- $f_p\colon \mathbb Q_p\to \mathbb Q_p$ for each prime $p$.
Is it true that $f$ is a polynomial?
I guess the answer is no, but I do not see a counterexample.


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A just-released USGS film will take you on a journey along with USGS researchers tracking walruses going about their daily lives in the remote Chukchi Sea. The film, Tracking Pacific Walrus: Expedition to the Shrinking Chukchi Sea Ice, follows scientists as they travel to the Chukchi Sea to examine how these mammals are faring in an Arctic environment with sparse summer sea ice and increased human activity.
The USGS-produced film contains exclusive footage of the large mammals in their natural habitat, documenting the lives of these huge animals as they raise their young, dive for clams and worms on the ocean floor or congregate with other walruses.
A Changing Arctic Climate Means Changing Arctic Ecosystems
Arctic sea ice is melting faster than forecasted by many of the top climate models: the first ice- free summer is now predicted to occur by 2035, perhaps as soon as 2025.
But warming temperatures are causing other changes as well — increased coastal erosion, deteriorating permafrost, and major changes in the dynamics of freshwater flows. These changes influence biological communities and the ways in which human communities interact with them. For example, the longer open water season in the Arctic is allowing increased shipping, tourism, energy production and other human activities in this remote region.
As part of the USGS Changing Arctic Ecosystems initiative, USGS researchers are identifying and investigating the linkages among physical processes (such as sea ice melting at a faster rate), ecosystems and wildlife populations. By understanding the degree to and manner in which wildlife species adapt to rapid environmental change, resource managers and policy makers will have a better foundation for making critical decisions now and in the future.
New Research on Pacific Walrus and Sea Ice
The information gained through tracking large marine mammals, such as polar bears and walruses, is helping USGS scientists understand how disappearing Arctic sea ice is affecting the region's ecosystems and the species that inhabit these ecosystems.
For example, recently published research by USGS and Russian scientists revealed that diminishing summer sea ice in the Arctic over the past 5 years has caused behavioral changes in Pacific walruses. The population-level effects of these changes are unknown and the subject of active investigation by USGS.
Using a simple darting system, scientists attached radio-tracking tags to 251 walruses in the Chukchi Sea. The tags transmitted the animals' whereabouts and whether they were in the water and feeding. Using the tagging data gathered from 2008-2011, scientists created detailed maps of the walruses' seasonal movements and feeding patterns relative to the location and amount of sea ice.
When Chukchi Sea Ice Retreats North of the Continental Shelf Edge, Walruses Haul Out
The study found that due to earlier melting of the ice in the summer, walruses arrived earlier in their northern feeding grounds on the broad continental shelf of the Chukchi Sea. When the sea ice over the continental shelf melted completely in the fall, however, they "hauled out" onshore in large aggregations and foraged for food closer to shore. [Hauling out refers to the behavior associated with seals and walruses of temporarily leaving the water for sites on land or ice.]
The specific effects of these behavioral changes are not yet understood; however, scientists do know that while onshore, young walruses are susceptible to mortality from trampling. USGS has recently published a study that examined the population effects of this type of mortality, finding that loss of young animals to haul-out mortality has a greater effect on the population than loss of adult females in the harvest. In light of this finding, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is increasing its ongoing efforts to protect hauled-out walruses from disturbance.
Additionally, hauling out onshore and using nearshore feeding areas may require more energy for animals used to simply diving off their sea-ice platforms for food at the bottom of the shallow Chukchi Sea.
Data from this study will provide resource managers with basic information on areas important for walruses, such as the Hanna Shoal region, as human activities in the Arctic increase. The areas of walrus foraging observed in this study overlap with oil and gas lease blocks leased by BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management).
The study, published as this month's feature article in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series, is part of the USGS Changing Arctic Ecosystems initiative at the Alaska Science Center.


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A handmade paper chandelier in pink ombre from Etsy hangs decoratively above baby Piper's cot.
The perfect place to put mama's weary feet up at feed time.
Completed with bedding from the Logan Collection by Olli & Lime."
Thanks Nicole!
I LOVE the colours. And that chair!!! *sigh*ReplyDelete
oh my what a beautiful room! love the grey and pink, so lovely!ReplyDelete
just stunning!ReplyDelete
Oh that paper chandelier is just divine, what a beautiful dreamy nursery xoReplyDelete
All i can say is amazing stuff. Just love it!!!!ReplyDelete
This room is gorgeous but, did you know that drop down cribs are banned because of safety issues! Please find something more suitable to protect your sweet little one. You can buy a kit that prevents the side from going up and down.ReplyDelete
Coryann -- thanks for your comment. Drop down cots are banned in the US but not in Australia, apparently the safety standards are different in the two countries.
Aus readers can check Product Safety Australia for more info: http://www.productsafety.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/980675/fromItemId/973331
Love it!,,,,, what a beautiful stylish space xoxReplyDelete
Just to let you know that Olli & Lime linen is available in Australia via www.danishbydesign.com.auReplyDelete
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STEUBENVILLE - The JB Green Team will conduct a "Stock the Pantry" campaign starting Thursday at the Ohio Valley Mall and on Nov. 5 at the Fort Steuben Mall.
"The paper collection drive will be held in the Fort Steuben Mall parking lot across from the Sears Auto Service Center from Monday through Saturday. Individuals and businesses can drop off their paper and paper products at the recycling center that week. And all proceeds from the week-long paper recycling campaign will be given to local food pantries for the upcoming holiday season," explained JB Green Team Education Coordinator Louise Holliday.
JB Green Team Belmont County Education Coordinator Dorene Unterzuber said the paper recycling drive in Belmont County will start Thursday and continue until Nov. 8 at the Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville.
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RECYCLE FOR A CAUSE — The Steubenville Code Enforcement Office will team up with the JB Green Team for a paper, electronic and tire collection drive starting Saturday. Planning the collection were, JB Green Team Belmont County Education Coordinator Dorene Unterzuber, Steubenville Code Enforcement Officer Shawn Scott, JB Green Team Jefferson County Recycling Program Director Diane Julio and JB Green Team Education Coordinator Louise Holliday. - Dave Gossett
"We are hoping to be able to donate a sizeable donation from the paper sent to the recycling center to eight food pantries in Jefferson County and nine food pantries in Belmont County in time for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays," added Holliday.
Holliday said the Jefferson County food pantries include Abundant Life in Toronto, the WEBA food pantry in Amsterdam, Saline Township Food Pantry on state Route 152, Smithfield Evangelical Friends Church, the Dillonvale Food Pantry, Adena Community Food Pantry, Salvation Army in Steubenville and Urban Mission Ministries in Steubenville.
According to Unterzuber, the Belmont County food pantries include the St. Clairsville Area Council of Churches, Friendship Council of Churches in Bridgeport, St. Paul's Episcopal Food Pantry in Martins Ferry, St. John's Lutheran Food Pantry in Martins Ferry, Project Manna in Bethesda, Shadyside Fellowship of Churches, St. Vincent DePaul Society in Barnesville, the Salvation Army in Bellaire and the Yorkville United Methodist Church.
"The paper recycling proceeds we can share with the area food pantries will come just in time to help those people in need during the holiday season," noted Unterzuber.
"We know there are still many people facing some tough times, so this community effort to recycle paper will also assist the pantries," added Unterzuber.
Holliday said paper and paper products also can be taken directly to Valley Converting in Toronto.
"Just let the scale operator know that the paper is being donated to the food pantry campaign. Newspapers, junk mail, cereal boxes, magazines and telephone books can be recycled. We ask all items be placed in a box or paper bag because we no longer take plastic bags in our paper bins. And please remember paper plates, cups, napkins, candy wrappers or items soiled with food cannot be recycled," explained Holliday.
The JB Green Team also will sponsor an electronic collection drive from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Nov. 9-10.
"If anyone has electronics that need to be recycled, we will accept computers, fax machines and television as well as other electronic items," said JB Green Team Jefferson County Recycling Program Director Diane Julio.
"We have electronic recycling every Wednesday at our recycling cell at the Jefferson County garage. But since we are conducting the paper recycling drive, we thought we would offer an e-cycling event as well," remarked Julio.
And the city Code Enforcement Office has joined with the JB Green Team to conduct a small truck and automobile tire collection from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Nov. 9-10 across from the Sears Auto Service Center.
"The tire drive is open to all citizens of Steubenville who would like to legally discard tires for recycling," Code Enforcement Officer Shawn Scott said.
"We were able to obtain a grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to conduct this tire drive as well as at least one tire collection in the spring. We usually collect 3,000 to 4,000 tires every year and hope this extra drive will help clean up our community," stated Scott.
"We will have volunteers at the site to help unload the tires and we will be taking the tires to the Lasting Mulch Co. on North Fifth Street for proper recycling," noted Scott.


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What is the function called, when the function effectively multiplies its input by $-1$?
i.e. $f(x) = -x$.
Similar terminology being the inverse of a number, i.e. $f(x) = 1/x$.
There may not be one, I'm just convinced there is, and no one I ask can give me a straight answer.


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Today, I found out that you can write such code in C++ and compile it:
int* ptr = new int(5, 6);
What is the purpose of this? I know of course the dynamic
new int(5) thing, but here i'm lost. Any clues?
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.
Today, I found out that you can write such code in C++ and compile it:
What is the purpose of this? I know of course the dynamic
You are using the comma operator, it evaluates to only one value (the rightmost).
The memory address that the pointer is pointing to is initialized with a value of 6 above.
My compiler, g++, returns an error when attempting to do this.
What compiler or code did you see this in?
I believe it is bug which meant to allocate some sort of 2D array. You can't do that in C++ however. The snippet actually compiles because it's utilizing the comma operator, which returns the last expression and ignores the results of all the others. This means that the statement is equivalent to:
The 5 is ignored. this allocates an int on the heap and initializes it to (5,6).
the result of a set of statements separated by the comma operator is the value of the last statement, so the int is initialized to 6
Simply do this:
As far as comma operator is concerned, use it when you can't do the desired task without it. There is no use of applying tricks such as:


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This is an exercise mentioned in this question:
Let $Y$ be an integrable random variable on the space $(\Omega,{\mathcal A},{\bf P})$ and $\mathcal{G}$ be a sub $\sigma$-algebra of $\mathcal{A}$. Show that $|Y|\leq c$ implies $|E[Y\mid{\mathcal G}]|\leq c$.
It has been shown that using $E[|y|\mid{\mathcal G}]$ to estimate $|E[Y \mid{\mathcal G}]|$ is not a good idea due to did's answer to the previous question.
One more step I can go so far is $E[Y]=E[E[Y\mid{\mathcal G}]]$. I don't think this would work since expectation only gives the average.
So how can I get $|E[Y\mid{\mathcal G}]|\leq c$ using $|Y|\leq c$?


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Top Definition
a big brown bag full of cash money, or a bag used to conceal a 40 oz bottle of liquor.
Man I can fit like 50 thousand ones in that brown paper bag.
by gbrd December 17, 2007
Trending Now
A 32oz or a 40oz bottle of beer wrapped in a brown paper bag because you like the look of it usually bought at quik stops, gas stations,7-11's... Ect.
Also the title of a slaming DJ Khaled song
Also the title of a slaming DJ Khaled song
Let's hit up the quik stop and get us some brown paper bags... Son!
That brown paper bag.... That brown paper bag!!
That brown paper bag.... That brown paper bag!!
by Cecilia and Sabrina October 11, 2007
when a girl has a great body and an ok face so you just want to put a bag over her head and f**k her. only players do this, or even think about this.
wow! look at maddy...mmmm. brown paper bag her
by maddy stepnoski June 11, 2009
Brown Paper Bag is a trucker's term for an unmarked police cruiser commonly heard over the CB Radio. If there's a brown paper bag and he's drinking it, that means said cop has got somebody.
"Breaker, breaker 1-9, got a brown paper bag at mile marker 1-2-3."
by Jay Dog September 28, 2005
an object that has ruined my life
Ever since i smoked it im always coughning
by i forgot March 10, 2005
A device that may be used to smoke if you are incredibly stupid.
Hey look Luisito is smoking a brown paper bag. What a dumbfuck
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I'm trying to mass change (120) subscriber passwords. The passwords are stored in table wp_users but I need to change the password based on information from another table wp_usermeta where it has information about what types of users there are.
I've been able to create this:
UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5('default') WHERE `wp_usermeta` AND meta_value LIKE `%subscriber%`
But I'm lost after WHERE since sql thinks I'm looking for a column called wp_usermeta when its actually a table.
#1054 - Unknown column 'wp_usermeta' in 'where clause'
Any Ideas? Thanks
UPDATE `wp_users`
SET `user_pass` = MD5('default')
WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT `meta_value` FROM `wp_usermeta`
WHERE `meta_value` LIKE '%subscriber%' )
But it changed all rows in the wp_users table. Any help appreciated. Thanks.


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Hard and soft science
Hard science and soft science are colloquial terms used to compare scientific fields on the basis of perceived methodological rigor, exactitude, and objectivity.[1][2][3] Roughly speaking, the natural sciences are considered "hard", whereas the social sciences are usually described as "soft".[3]
Precise definitions vary,[4] but features often cited as characteristic of hard science include producing testable predictions, performing controlled experiments, relying on quantifiable data and mathematical models, a high degree of accuracy and objectivity, and generally applying a purer form of the scientific method.[2][5][6][7][8] A closely related idea (originating in the nineteenth century with Auguste Comte) is that scientific disciplines can be arranged into a hierarchy of hard to soft on the basis of factors such as rigor, "development", and whether they are "theoretical" or "applied", with physics, and chemistry typically being the hardest, biology in an intermediate position, and the social sciences being the softest.[4][9]
Some philosophers and sociologists of science have questioned the relationship between these characteristics and perceived hardness or softness. The more "developed" hard sciences do not necessarily have a greater degree of consensus or selectivity in accepting new results.[10] Commonly cited methodological differences are also not a reliable indicator. Psychologists use controlled experiments and economists use mathematical modelling, but as social sciences both are usually considered soft sciences,[1][2] while natural sciences such as biology do not always aim to generate testable predictions.[6] There are some measurable differences between hard and soft sciences. For example, hard sciences make more extensive use of graphs,[4][11] and soft sciences are more prone to a rapid turnover of buzzwords.[12]
Critics of the concept argue that soft sciences are implicitly considered to be less "legitimate" scientific fields,[2] or simply not scientific at all.[13] An editorial in Nature stated that social science findings are more likely to intersect with everyday experience and may be dismissed as "obvious or insignificant" as a result.[14] Being labelled a soft science can affect the perceived value of a discipline to society and the amount of funding available to it.[3] In the 1980s, mathematician Serge Lang successfully blocked influential political scientist Samuel P. Huntington's admission to the US National Academy of Sciences, describing Huntington's use of mathematics to quantify the relationship between factors such as "social frustration" (Lang asked Huntington if he possessed a "social-frustration meter") as "pseudoscience".[8][15][16] During the late 2000s recessions, social science was disproportionately targeted for funding cuts compared to mathematics and natural science.[17][18] Proposals were made for the United States' National Science Foundation to cease funding disciplines such as political science altogether.[14][19] Both of these incidents prompted critical discussion of the distinction between hard and soft sciences.[8][14]
See also[edit]
- Demarcation problem
- Hard systems and soft systems
- History of science
- Positivism dispute
- STEM fields
- Hard science fiction
- Soft science fiction
- ^ a b "In praise of soft science". Nature 435 (7045): 1003–2005. 2005. doi:10.1038/4351003a.
- ^ a b c d Wilson, Timothy D. (12 July 2012). "'Soft' sciences don't deserve the snobbery". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ^ a b c Frost, Pamela. "Soft science and hard news". Columbia University. Metanews. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
- ^ a b c Smith, Laurence D.; Best, Lisa A.; Stubbs, D. Alan; Johnston, John; Bastiani Archibald, Andrea (2000). "Scientific Graphs and the Hierarchy of the Sciences: A Latourian Survey of Inscription Practices". Social Studies of Science 30 (1): 73–94. doi:10.1177/030631200030001003. JSTOR 285770.
- ^ Lemons, John (1996). Scientific Uncertainty and Environmental Problem Solving. Blackwell. p. 99. ISBN 0865424764.
- ^ a b Rose, Steven (1997). "Chapter One". Lifelines: Biology Beyond Determinism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195120356.
- ^ Gutting, Gary (17 May 2012). "How Reliable Are the Social Sciences?". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ^ a b c Diamond, Jared (August 1987). "Soft sciences are often harder than hard sciences". Discover. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
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There are a couple reasons for this:
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But in a word, yes, user names are redundant for non-social sites. And even with social sites, you don't need user names. You can just allow users to choose a (non-unique) screen name/nickname that has no role in authentication/log in (such as this site--User Experience--or any of the other Stack Exchange sites).
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LOS ANGELES—Films anchored by historical unrest and political turmoil, or tinged with personal struggles, proved the favorites of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the announcement of the nominees for the 2013 Oscars on Thursday morning.
Leading the pack was "Lincoln," about the 16th president's efforts to abolish slavery, which picked up 12 nominations, including best picture, best director (for Steven Spielberg) and best actor (for Daniel Day-Lewis).
In total, nine films were nominated for best picture, including "Zero Dark Thirty," about the hunt for Osama bin Laden; "Argo," a drama set amid the Iranian hostage crisis; "Django Unchained," Quentin Tarantino's film about a slave's revenge; and "Les Miserables," an adaptation of Victor Hugo's sorrowful French historical tale.
Also nominated for best picture were French-language film "Amour"; "Beasts of the Southern Wild," an indie drama flavored with magical realism; "Silver Linings Playbook," a contemporary story rooted in mental illness; and "Life of Pi," based on a novel about an Indian boy's struggle for survival.
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The term popular culture as used by the Oklahoma Folklife Center refers to fads, fashions, and art. Usually, popular culture is driven by the mass media. Including broadcasting, movies, the Internet, and other processes. Western Swing music of the 1930s and 1940s was a fad of that era. It became so commonly known that when the fad lost momentum the dance styles and styles of music remained. Much of the music and dance known as "Swing" was learned through informal means, and the fad became a tradition. Today, most Oklahoma fiddlers will know one or two fiddle tunes played by Bob Wills or other Western Swing players. The style was passed on by oral tradition and not always bound to a tune or song. For jazz and blues musicians, swing is a tradition of style not just tunes or songs.
Some popular culture is purely oral tradition. For example, skateboarding became a fad in Southern California in the 1960s. The fad spread to most parts of America. The vocabulary of the skateboarder includes some of the language from surfing of the 1950s and 1960s. Over the years since the 1960s, skateboarders have learned by watching and listening to other skateboarders. The vocabulary keeps evolving but still includes some of the terms from its origins. Skateboarding is rarely seen in modern media and the media was not responsible for its growth.
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Other streams of popular culture include bodies of written works that drift into oral tradition. The songs of Woody Guthrie, the Carter Family, and Stephen Foster have become a part of oral tradition. That is, the songs are learned by listening to them and recalling them from memory. Eventually, what was once a contemporary song became traditional as many singers learned the songs only by listening to friends or family. Poetry often lives as oral tradition but may fade entirely in its written form.
The image featured on the Popular Culture section is Wiley and Gene. Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan performed a hillbilly/swing music act on radio and television and were based in Oklahoma City. Their song "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again" is a frequently recorded song by many popular musicians. Is the song in oral tradition? Many Oklahoma fiddlers and bluegrass bands play it as do some swing musicians. Perhaps it is in the process of going into oral tradition.
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From logic and memory I'll suppose that passage stems from the same root as, for example the English verb to pass, and French passer.
Which almost certainly implies that passage originally would have simply meant physical movement. The passage of time, a passage in a book, etc., would just be later extensions to meaning, based on metaphorical usage.
Thus passageway (doubtless originally two words) would have been coined to mean the actual path, corridor, or whatever through which passage took place. In practice, people often don't bother making a distinction between the movement itself and the route thereof, so passage often gets used for both / either.
Unlike EL&U, which formally tries to identify and weed out duplicate questions, the English language itself doesn't have a design committee to weed out words we could survive without. Anyway, I like having the choice of which to use.
It is a less ambiguous than passage which can be, for example, the 'passage of time' or a passage in a book. A passageway always means a physical space. If the context is ambiguous then 'passageway' may clarify it.
Obviously, synonyms will exist and two being similar to each other isn't really too surprising. "Way" seems to take it to an extreme, however:
The practice of using -way to more directly imply a path or location of travel is ridiculously common:
And the list goes on. Etymonline has some good comments on them. Many of the group are flagged as American English but the dates extend past the birth of the colonies.


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TRIADELPHIA - As natural gas drilling rigs populate Ohio County's surface, some residents may not recall the Tunnel Ridge underground longwall mining system will grind out about 3 million tons of coal this year.
This production estimate, provided by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, shows an increase from the 2 million tons mined at Tunnel Ridge in 2012. Estimates show coal production at the mine that originally opened in 2010 could be increasing rapidly.
"Our production will increase next year as Tunnel Ridge is currently expected to produce approximately 5.5 million tons in 2014," said Joseph Craft, president and CEO of Tulsa, Okla.-based Alliance Resource Partners, which owns the Ohio County mine. "As we look forward, Alliance Resource Partners is poised for more growth in 2014."
If Tunnel Ridge reaches Craft's goal for the new year, the mine would exceed the 5.3 million tons of coal produced in 2012 by the former Consol Energy Shoemaker mine, according to MSHA statistics.
That facility, with its Benwood-based prep plant, is now known as the "Ohio County Coal Co.'s Ohio County Mine" following its purchase by Murray Energy Corp. as part of Murray's $3.5 billion deal with Consol Energy.
In October, Consol officials announced they would sell Shoemaker, McElroy (now the "Marshall County Coal Co.'s Marshall County Mine") and three additional West Virginia mines to Murray Energy, which already operates the Century Mine near Beallsville and the Powhatan No. 6 mine near Alledonia.
Completion of the deal makes Murray Energy the owner of every active underground coal mining operation in the Upper Ohio Valley, with the exception of Tunnel Ridge.
The most visible portion of the Tunnel Ridge mine consists of the three silos that tower above W.Va. 2 about 2 miles north of the Warwood section of Wheeling as part of the company's barge loading facility.
The mine shaft and administrative offices are located on Battle Run Road.
The mine's reserves contain an estimated 100 million tons of coal beneath 9,400 acres located in Ohio County and Washington County, Pa., according to the company's website.
Although officials with Tunnel Ridge and Alliance did not return calls seeking further comment, recent statistics provided by the West Virginia Department of Commerce list 353 coal miners working in Ohio County.
Alliance Resource Partners began in 1971 as MAPCO Coal Inc. After a 1996 management buyout, the company went public in 1999 under its current name. According to its website, it operates mines in areas it refers to as the Illinois Basin, Central Appalachia and Northern Appalachia.
"The high performance of our teams and continued focus on expanding Alliance Resource Partners' presence in the Illinois Basin and Northern Appalachian markets has allowed us to succeed in the current challenging market environment," Craft said. "Alliance Resource Partners remains on track to deliver its 13th consecutive year of record financial and operating results in 2013."
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i think that they should ban it in public buildings, like they have done in canada. im not sure about what other places have this law. but i think they cannot just outright ban it all together. while there at it why not ban all the things that are bad for people. fatty foods, pop, gambling, porn, hell guns(they hurt people) oil electric generation stations ect. if you ban one thing because its bad for you where do we draw the line. so i say they cant smoke in the local coffee shop and whatever but if they wanna in there own house we cant really stop it.
yea they should BUT BUT, if the do their might be more voilance due to people not being able to controll their rage because they cant have a smoke if you get me
Goverment should not banned on smoking..It's people intrest they wanna die or not...
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ENGLEWOOD — The Tom Adams Bridge into Manasota Key broke down Saturday, causing difficulty for travelers making their way to the key and its beautiful beaches.
The drawbridge was closed to traffic for several hours while it was stuck in the open position — until authorities were able to lower and lock it into place, allowing vehicles to cross, according to a press release from Charlotte County Sheriff's Lt. Richard McDonald, watch commander. But that means officials will not be able to open the bridge for sailboats and larger water vessels until it is repaired. No further information was available late Saturday.


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As one of his many supposedly social-justice oriented campaign pledges, French President Francois Hollande proposed a 75 percent income tax on people making more than a million euros, but he's been struggling to make it happen ever since he entered office — but reports of a growing exodus of the wealthy, an inopportune business climate, and the top French court's recent rejection of the idea have finally persuaded the government to throw the proposal onto the intellectual rubbish heap where it belongs.
But don't get too excited — we're talking about a government run by Socialists with a capital "S" here, after all:
The French government threw in the towel Friday on plans to levy a 75% tax on the rich, a key election pledge of President François Hollande, and acknowledged it wasn't clear how it would hike taxes on the country's wealthiest citizens.
After receiving advice from the country's top administrative court, French finance minister Pierre Moscovici said that the top tax rate applied to earned income couldn't exceed 60%, and that the maximum rate on a taxpayer's revenue could not rise above 66% overall. …
The decision definitively kills the controversial tax plan that some real-estate agents say has already helped fuel an exodus of France's super rich, while some corporate executives say it has weighed on their ability to attract and retain highly-paid workers.
Which is such a shame, because I'm sure the 75-percent plan was a good-faith, substantive effort to legitimately raise money to solve the country's debt crisis, and not just a low-down populist gesture to stick it to those filthy rich, right? Well…
The 75% tax was expected to apply to around 1,500 people and yield some €210 million in 2013—a highly symbolic fraction of the country's budget of about €300 billion.
Typical. France's economy is stalling out; unemployment is above ten percent; they're breaking their eurozone-pledge to keep the deficit at less than three percent of GDP and avoiding austerity measures; and Hollande's popularity recently plummeted to the lowest level in three decades. How do you say "strugglebus" in French?
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The Kick Cancer campaign brings cancer education and prevention programs to children and families.
Playing baseball with pals on the lush, green grass of a well-kept ball field on a sunny afternoon is one of the joys of an American childhood. And that's why Telisa Stewart, MPH, DrPH, Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Director for Community Education and Prevention, is in Haverhill, NH, on Picture Day for Little League, talking to kids, parents, and coaches. She's teaching these youngsters, as well as adults, that a day in the sun is a beautiful thing but that if kids aren't protected, it can also be dangerous. Studies show that demonstrating the value of healthy behaviors to children, such as protecting their skin from the sun's harmful rays, can have a positive impact on future risk for developing cancer.
Cancer is a serious problem in New Hampshire and Vermont. Approximately 7,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed every year in New Hampshire and 3,400 a year are diagnosed in Vermont, leading to 2,600 deaths from cancer annually in New Hampshire and 1,200 a year in Vermont. In fact, New Hampshire cancer rates for both males and females are significantly higher than the national rates. Overall, nearly two-thirds of all cancer deaths in the United States can be linked to behaviors that can be avoided or changed, including habits acquired in childhood.
The visit with Little Leaguers is part of a Cancer Center pilot project, the Kick Cancer campaign. "The Woodsville-Haverhill area is an opportunity for us to build a model for preventing cancer in the community, with the idea that we can bring it to other communities in the future," says Dr. Stewart. "The Cancer Center wants to bring awareness to the community about behaviors that put people at more risk and to offer resources to help motivate them to want to change those behaviors. We're looking to inspire action in the community so that people will use these resources to prevent cancer."
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Stewart's education program touches the community in several ways and includes distributing the results of cancer prevention research conducted at the Cancer Center. She worked with teachers and student mentors from Woodsville High School to teach students at Woodsville Elementary School about sun-safe behaviors, using educational materials created by the SunSafe program at the Cancer Center. The youngsters then drew posters showing sun-safe behavior at the beach, by the swimming pool, and playing outside, and the posters were displayed at local businesses in the Woodsville-Haverhill area. "The children were amazingly inventive, and the posters were really vivid and colorful," Stewart says. "Kids love to draw, so this was a great way to tie in our message with something they love to do. And they were all really proud to see their work displayed around town."
Education is also a matter of showing by example. Research by Dartmouth's SunSafe Program shows that when kids see their parents protect themselves with sunscreen, they're much more likely to put on sunscreen too. The same can be true in reverse for other behaviors, however—smoking, chewing tobacco, drinking too much alcohol, and eating poorly. If children see their parents engaging in health-risky behavior, they're more inclined to do the same.
That's one reason the Cancer Center's outreach effort isn't aimed solely at children. As part of Kick Cancer, Stewart developed a series of flyers about the hazards of smoking and chewing tobacco that were inserted into the pay envelopes of employees of the largest employers in the Woodsville-Haverhill region. Partners included Woodsville Guaranty Bank, Grafton County, and Cottage Hospital. Stewart also networked with other community organizations and institutions, including Horse Meadow Senior Center, Grafton County Nursing Home, the Three Rivers Business Association, local radio station WYKR, the Woodsville-Wells River 4th of July Committee, and the North Haverhill Fair Committee, to bring the cancer prevention message not only to children but parents and grandparents as well as businesses and community groups.
Next year, the Cancer Center will assess the impact of Kick Cancer campaign, with an eye toward expanding the program. "We have a big opportunity here to make a real difference in New Hampshire's and Vermont's health," says Stewart. "Kick Cancer isn't just about preventing a terrible disease, it's about giving people the tools to live healthy, happy, fulfilling lives in our beautiful region."
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LAMPASAS COUNTY (November 27, 2012)—The Department of Public Safety is looking for a third driver whose attempt to pass a line of vehicles on a highway north of Lampasas led to a crash that left a Cedar Park teenager dead and an Oklahoma man injured.
The driver didn't stop after the crash Sunday night on U.S. Highway 81.
Stephen Schutze, 18, died when the Ford Mustang he was driving crossed the center stripe on the highway and collided head-on with a pickup truck that was going the opposite direction.
The driver of the pickup, Bradley Drinnon, 23, of Oklahoma, was flown by Stat Air ambulance to Scott & White Hospital, in Temple.
Freeman said at around 7:55 p.m. Sunday, Schutze was northbound on U.S. 281 about 10 miles north of Lampasas when he saw a white pickup truck pull into his lane while the driver tried to pass several southbound vehicles.
Witnesses told Freeman Schutze attempted to evade the oncoming pickup, but drifted off the roadway onto an improved shoulder and lost control of his car.
The car began to skid and crossed the centerline of the highway where it collided with the southbound Dodge pickup driven by Drinnon, which was at the head of the line of vehicles that the driver of the white pickup was trying to pass.
Lampasas County Justice of the Peace Andy Garcia pronounced Schutze dead at the scene.
Authorities are seeking the driver of the white pickup, who could face charges in the crash.


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A Team who's fans think they're hot shit just because they won one world series in 86 years
Red Sox Fan: I CANT BELIEVE WE WON THE WORLD SERIES, YANKEES SUCK
Yankee Fan: Win 20 more championships and we'll talk
Yankee Fan: Win 20 more championships and we'll talk
af BaseballFanatic27 9. juli 2005
Horrible team. HAs no talent, can't work together that's why they haven't won in so many years. Only reason they won in 2004 is because the Yankees got tired and a lil to confident. No way can they repeat the win again.
Wow the red sox lost to the Yankees again.
af nYankees 4. april 2005
the exact definition of luck and unskilled bastards who cant play baseball to save their lives, and couldnt even win a baseball game even if their opponents forefitted the game. and even though they beat the yankees that doesnt mean a thing because the red sox have lost to the yankees sooooo many times before. so to sum it up, THE RED SOX FUCKING SUCK!!!
the red sox got fucking lucky, and they still suck at baseball
af pimp daddy dollars 17. januar 2005
fuckin worst team in baseball, bunch of lazy ass shits that don't play up to there capabilities.
Yankee can kick bostons ass back to the stone age cuz thats where it looks like they all came from.
af bleehhhh 5. august 2005
A team who's fans are so arrogant, and ignorant, that they can't seem to grasp the fact that winning ONE world series (in EIGHTY SIX YEARS might I add) does NOT make them the best team in baseball. You may hate the Yankees with every fiber of your being, but that does NOT change the fact that they still have 26 championships, putting them at the top of the baseball chain. Sorry to burst your bubble! Yankees-1923 1927 1928 1932 1937 1939 1939 1941 1943 1947 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1956 1958 1961 1962 1977 1978 1996 1998 1999 2000
Red Sox- 1903 1912 1915 1916 1918 2004
Notice our longest span between victories is eighteen years, while yours is eighty-six, we're just better!
Red Sox- 1903 1912 1915 1916 1918 2004
Notice our longest span between victories is eighteen years, while yours is eighty-six, we're just better!
Red Sox fans are happy now, but it's just ONE world series. You're the better season, but as YOUR saying goes "Wait 'til next year." Now I can see how you want to bash us because it's a HUGE victory, but okay...you won...now what do you like forward to? You have no rought, it's now just another city of bragging. And next year when we kick your ass, what can you say? You can't blame it on Bambino because that's "over", so what now? Blame it on people being paid off, and "so and so" was sick? There isn't any excuse anymore except the other team is better! So when the Yankees win, you'll just have to admit, you suck!
af Danielle 5. januar 2005
A disappointing and inferior baseball team from Boston Massachusetts that is supported by mostly low class but persistent fans extremely bitter from generations of losing to the New York Yankees.
Red Sox suck! Red Sox suck!
af 1cool1 1. december 2006
One of the most overrated teams in sports. People claim they were always Boston fans, but as recently as five years ago, the Baltimore Orioles drew more people to their ballpark. Because of the fact that they won the series in 2004, their popularity skyrocketed, and millions of fans jumped on the BoSox bandwagon. Their fans don't seem to realize that they also have to pay penalties for their outrageous contracts. For the amount of money they spend, they should be half-way decent.
The New York Yankees/Boston Red Sox rivalry is one of the most overrated rivalry on television. Along with Roger Clemens and Bonds, you'll never see anything about the Rockies or Marlins on ESPN.
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Minimalism has inspired such architects, painters, and writers as Mies van der Rohe, Ellsworth Kelly, and Ernest Hemingway. In the art of weight loss, however, minimalism isnt such a brilliant approach. Conversely, in fact, nutritionists now believe that adding more of certain foods to your diet may help you weigh less. And we're not just talking about puffed wheat and dry salad. Of course, calories are still a key part of the picture. But reducing your diet to steamed broccoli and grilled fish can set you up for failure (if it doesn't bore you to death first). Women who give up specific foods or food groups often only fuel their cravings and end up overeating, as researchers from the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, demonstrated in a 2006 study. Shedding pounds, and keeping them off, is a much more realistic proposition when your focus shifts from what you don't eat to what you do—leaving the minimalism to the numbers on the scale.
Robert Atkins pushed protein with such fervor that he started to sound like a fanatic, but research has found that eating a reasonable amount of protein instead of carbohydrates can indeed encourage weight loss. Women who ate 120 grams of protein a day and exercised regularly lost an average of 21.5 pounds over four months—6.5 more pounds than did exercising women who consumed an equivalent number of calories on a high-carbohydrate diet. The protein group also lost more weight in the abdominal area (while retaining all muscle mass) than the carbohydrate group did, according to the study in The Journal of Nutrition.
"Your body has to work harder to digest proteins than it does with carbohydrates and fats, so protein actually burns more calories," says Joy Bauer, registered dietitian and coauthor of Joy Bauer's Food Cures (Rodale Books). "And because it takes a while to digest, it also makes you feel full longer." In other words, you'll be less likely to find yourself elbow-deep in the office candy jar after a chicken salad lunch than following a slice of cheese pizza. Eating protein may also signal your stomach to produce less ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone, researchers reported in April in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Consuming at least 50 percent of your body weight in grams of protein is a good daily goal—if you weigh 140 pounds, for example, shoot for 70 grams, Bauer suggests. That amount could be derived from six ounces of roast chicken plus one cup of low-fat cottage cheese; or one cup of kidney beans, four ounces of lean hamburger, and two cups of low-fat yogurt. Just make sure to spread the wealth. "Most of us eat about 60 percent of our daily protein after 6 P.M.," says Donald K. Layman, professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "But you should also have it early in the day so you're less likely to snack later." He recommends as many as 30 grams of protein at breakfast (during which the average American woman gets fewer than ten grams). An egg (six grams), a cup of low-fat yogurt (12 grams), and half a whole-grain English muffin with two tablespoons of peanut butter (12 grams) will get you there. In addition to chicken, fish, beef, and pork, make sure some of your regular protein sources are vegetable-based, such as beans, and calcium-rich, such as yogurt.


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Before Dnd 4th ed came out, a lot of articles were printed saying that Star Wars: Saga Edition was like a "preview" of Dnd 4th ed. Now I find myself going the opposite direction: taking a group familiar with 4th ed through a brief tour of Saga. I'm not very familiar with Saga, however; how similar did they turn out to be mechanically?
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I've only played a session or two of each, but I'd say that no, SW Saga Edition does not particularly resemble D&D 4th Edition. It's a streamlined version of 3rd, with standard/move/swift actions, easy multi-classing, and 3rd-ed style saving throws. There are no powers (not like D&D 4 anyway), no healing surges, and no defined class roles.
It's quite a good system for the freewheeling cinematic style of Star Wars, IMHO. I especially like the Reflex Defense mechanic, which unifies saving throws with AC.


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Man Cuts Self, Smears Blood on Woman
Police say Shaka Jeter was distraught over a woman when he broke into her home Thursday night, cut himself with a razor blade and smeared his blood over her face.
Brooke County Magistrate Robin Snyder arraigned Jeter Friday on charges of nighttime burglary and second-offense domestic battery. The 24-year-old Weirton resident had yet to post $25,000 bond late Friday and remained in the Northern Regional Jail in Moundsville.
Weirton police arrived at a Weir Avenue home around 8:30 p.m. Thursday in response to a report of a man cutting himself. A woman ran from the residence, followed by Jeter, who police say was suffering from a large, bloody gash to his neck.
The woman reportedly told officers that Jeter kicked the door to the residence, causing the frame to break. Jeter then entered the home and allegedly grabbed the woman, who was sitting down to eat dinner with her two teenage sons, and forced her onto the couch in a different room.
According to court documents, Jeter gave the woman four choices: "she could take him back, she could watch him kill himself, she could have him sent back to jail or she could move far away."
Jeter brandished a razor blade, but the woman and one of her sons persuaded Jeter not to injure himself, with the woman reportedly begging, "Please don't do this in front of the children."
But Jeter again brandished the razor blade and cut himself. He then "grabbed (the alleged victim) by the face and was saying something about wanting her to feel his blood. … Shaka then started rubbing his blood all over (her) face," court documents state.
While the woman had Jeter convinced she was going to get him a towel, she told her two children to lock themselves in the bathroom and call police.
Emergency personnel treated Jeter's injuries at the scene before officers transported him to jail.
A preliminary hearing in the case had not yet been scheduled late Friday. Jeter advised the court he would retain a defense attorney.


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(CNN) -- On only his second day in office on Monday, Hong Kong's chief executive was chased out of a town hall meeting by protesters, in a continuation of the widespread backlash against his appointment, according to local media reports.
As the forum at a community center was drawing to a close, dozens of young protesters began to shout and hold up placards accusing Leung Chun-ying of putting on a "political show."
Police escorted Leung out of the building and formed a human chain to clear a path to his car, which was swamped by protesters.
The meeting, held in Tuen Mun district, was the first of six district visits planned for Leung to meet residents and discuss issues of concern in a public forum. It followed Leung's promise to improve communication with the public.
Hong Kong anniversary prompts protests
Hu marks Hong Kong handover
Open Mic: Hong Kong's identity Following his inauguration on Sunday, 400,000 protesters flooded the streets for the city's annual July 1 protest, in heightened numbers not seen since the turnout of 500,000 at the 2003 march, according to protest organizers. Police estimates of crowd numbers were much lower at 63,000.
Read about Hong Kong's mass protest on July 1
Leung's appointment, which was sealed by an elite 1,200-member committee with the Chinese central government's blessing in March, topped citizens' list of ongoing grievances. Sunday's protest was dominated by chants for Leung to step down, dotted with banners and costumes mocking his credibility.
Leung has come under fire most recently for six illegal building structures discovered at his home, which he claimed were installed by a previous tenant. He has also been accused of taking a hard-line approach on public freedoms and being a secret member of the Chinese Communist Party, allegations which he has denied. The backlash against Leung is a microcosm of the city's frustration over a lack of universal suffrage, amid fears of Beijing's encroachment into the city's affairs and freedoms.


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Listen to Kristina Hannam, co-chair of Geneseo's Environmental Impact and Sustainability Task Force, discuss sustainability initiatives.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- SUNY Geneseo has received a 2010 Environmental Leadership Award in the Resource Reduction category from the Rochester Business Journal. The newspaper presents the annual award to area organizations that are making great strides to become environmentally sound and helping to make the community a healthier place.
The newspaper cited the college's commitment in the past decade to safeguarding the environment and reducing resource use by a number of institutional initiatives including an upgrade to the campus power plant to improve efficiency, repairs to the campus steam distribution system to save water and student-generated projects to reduce electricity consumption.
The paper also recognized the activities organized by the college's Environmental Impact and Sustainability Task Force, established in 2006. The task force comprises faculty, staff and students. Co-chairs are Kristi Hannam, associate professor of biology, and Kirk Spangler, assistant director of facilities services.
The college is marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with a number of events on campus April 22-30. Earth Day itself is April 22.
Earth Day will begin with an herb planting in the MacVittie College Union. The college also is planning to serve a special Earth Day dinner in Mary Jemison Dining Hall focused on local and sustainable foods with a presentation by climatologist and geography professor Colleen Garrity.
Following Earth Day, a week of theme days will include activities to focus attention on sustainability, reducing consumption, conserving water resources, promoting sustainable food, encouraging efficient transportation, and giving back to the earth.
Activities will include a screening of the documentary, "No Impact Man" on April 23rd; viewing of other videos related to sustainability; water conservation initiatives; sustainable "LateKnight" weekend activities; and programs to encourage students, staff, faculty and administrators to take public transportation, carpool, bike or walk wherever they need to go.
Students and faculty will host tours of the Geneseo Community Garden April 28 in the southern end of campus. In collaboration with local community efforts, Geneseo has created a sizable garden spot where students not only can learn how to grow fresh organic vegetables and herbs but also share in the harvests of the garden.
On April 30, the Earth Week celebrations will close with an Arbor Day picnic on the College Union patio, and tree planting on the union patio.
Visit http://www.geneseo.edu/sustainability for more information on Geneseo's Earth Day activities and sustainability initiatives.
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I want to query selected propertynames from a list of Typenames in Geoserver. I could find an example from OGC WMS 1.1.0 Implementation Specification ( pdf document page 80 Example 10) which is not working for me. Here is the example:
Example 10
Query some properties of a list of feature types. In this case, the attributes WKB_GEOM and TILE_ID are fetched for the INWATERA_1M feature type and all the attributes of feature type BUILTUPA_1M are fetched.
http://www.someserver.com/wfs.cgi& SERVICE=WFS& VERSION=1.0.0& REQUEST=GetFeature& PROPERTY=(INWATERA_1M/WKB_GEOM,INWATERA_1M/TILE_ID)(BUILTUPA_1M/*)& TYPENAME=INWATERA_1M,BUILTUPA_1M
When I try to implement this I got the following error
"Requested property: PropertyName1 is not available" The possible propertyName values are:[PropertyName1, , , , , ]"
It would be great if someone give me a working example for Geoserver.
thank you in advance


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6 Beloved 80s Toys With Bizarrely Horrifying Origin Stories
Most Gen-Xers don't realize that they owe many of their Christmas memories to the FCC. During the early '80s, parents became concerned by the kinds of things their kids were seeing on TV, so they asked for new rules regulating advertisements shown during kids' shows. Bowing to pressure from the White House and from toy makers, the FCC responded to these concerns by pretty much deregulating children's television altogether. Kids' shows quickly became half-hour commercials for toy lines, which parents began buying at unbelievable rates.
What is strange is that, given the chance to create simple stories and background information on their products, toy makers instead took the characters' mythology to bizarre, dark places.
#6. Cabbage Patch Kids -- Child Slavery, Kidnapping, Mutants
It's hard to overstate how big of a deal the Cabbage Patch Kids were in the '80s. Riots over the latest Christmas toy are all too familiar today, but back in 1982 when Cabbage Patch Kids hit the scene, it was almost unheard of. Determined to be ready for the demands of Christmas '84, toy makers released storybooks, cassettes and an animated Christmas special describing the adventures of the Cabbage Patch Kids. What they unveiled was a world of sheer madness.
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Stare deep into the eyes of your dark fate, my children.
First of all, "Cabbage Patch Kids" is not a cute nickname -- they grow from actual cabbages. Which is fine -- we understand the makers of a toy line about babies don't want to have to begin their show with a woman screaming from labor pains. But it just keeps getting weirder from there -- the magical cabbages are pollinated by mutated creatures called bunnybees, who drop crystals on them.
Hybrids that scientifically must result from a rabbit sexing a bee.
The kids thus emerge into a world with no parents, and are basically left to fend for themselves until they're "adopted" (that is, until their doll is bought by some lucky kid whose own parents are willing to face down a stampede to get one). And these kids really need to be adopted quick, because unfortunately their little cabbage patch is in very close proximity to a gold mine owned by the evil Lavender McDade. Lavender is an entrepreneur with a brilliant business plan: kidnap the Cabbage Patch Kids and -- get this -- turn them into slaves.
To mine the gold, obviously.
Lavender describes her plan in a sassy song from the album:
"I've got to stop those Cabbage Kids from finding parents of their own
I'm going to need some henchmen I can't do it all alone
'Cause there's gold here in the valley and the kids cannot go free
I need their little fingers to dig the gold for me."
Buy some Cabbage Patch Kids, OR THEY WILL FEEL THE WHIP!
#5. GoBots -- Human Experiments, Cyborgs, Nuclear Fallout
Sometime in 1984, there was a conversation over at Tonka Toys that went something like this:
"Hey, I have an idea -- let's import some of those robots from Japan that turn into cars."
"Well, sir, Hasbro's already doing that. They're going to call them 'Transformers.'"
"Oh ... well, what the hell, let's do it anyway."
"Good idea, sir."
Via Wikipedia
And the GoBots were born!
GoBots never gained as much mainstream popularity as the Transformers. For one thing, the toys just weren't as cool. Even the kids in the GoBots commercials couldn't seem to summon the enthusiasm needed to promote them.
Sure, buy this shit. Whatever.
But, like the Transformers, the GoBots had their own animated series (Challenge of the GoBots), and the creators knew that to compete for the imaginations of young children, they had to crank that shit to 11.
The show tells us that the GoBots are from Gobotron, a planet that was once home to a race of humanoids, the GoBings. Thousands of years ago, a terrorist group known as the Renegades started a war with a group of peaceful people called the Guardians, which ultimately ruined their planet. OK, that sounds a lot like the Transformers' back story so far. But here's where shit gets weird.
Facing extinction, the survivors sought out a man known only as the Last Engineer. Not because he was the most brilliant scientist or because he had a way to fix the planet. No, they needed him because for years, he had been slowly transforming himself into a cyborg by cutting off parts of his own body and replacing them with machinery.
For fun.
The GoBings decided to allow the Engineer to transplant their brains into robot bodies, allowing them to survive as GoBots. He provided these transplants indiscriminately to both sides, Renegade and Guardian alike, until they had all been assimilated.
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"Um, Mr. Engineer ... did I do something to offend you?"
When his work was done, the Engineer disappeared and left the two factions to continue fighting. Challenge of the GoBots is set in modern times, which means that the GoBots have been at war for thousands of years. Which is to say, this toy line is about human minds, trapped in metal bodies, trying to destroy each other. Forever.
#4. The Hugga Bunch -- A Futile Quest of Murder and Hugs
The Hugga Bunch were a group of cute little plush dolls meant for, of course, hugging!
In 1985, fans of the dolls tuned in to watch a TV special centered around the Hugga Bunch ... and came away needing therapy.
The story centers around Bridget, who is distraught over her parents' decision to send her beloved grandmother to a nursing home. She is also rather frightened that whenever she hugs her toys, an eerie giggling sound comes from her closet. The mystery is solved when, alone in her room, Bridget is confronted by a terrifying creature emerging from her mirror.
The creature is, of course, Huggins from the Hugga Bunch. "We've been watching you through the mirror for a long time," she tells Bridget. Oh, we're sure you have, Hugga.
The Hugga convinces Bridget to travel through the mirror into Huggaland to find a solution to her problem. There she meets the whole Hugga Bunch, who bring Bridget to the Bookworm for advice about her grandmother. This is where things go from Alice in Wonderland with creepy sentient Peeping Tom dolls to FUBAR.
The Bookworm suggests collecting some youngberries and feeding them to poor grandma. You know, so she'll be young again and her family won't force her to go to a nursing home. There's just one catch: The youngberry tree is protected by an evil sorceress. To get to her, they will have jump down an endless hole to the Land of the Shrubs.
Read: Hell.
There they must travel beyond the River of Glass, defeat the hairy behemoth (aka the scariest creature in the Bible) and steal the youngberries from the evil queen, all without letting the berries touch the ground. The friends jump down the unending pit and make their way to the castle, guarded by the behemoth.
The plan: Hug it, of course! The behemoth transforms from a horrifying monster who's trying to kill them to, well, just a horrifying monster.
1. Monster. 2. Hug. 3. Elephant.
The creature, now an unsettling blue elephant thing, joins them on their journey into the queen's castle, where they find the youngberry tree encased in glass. They meet the queen, who is enraged that they wish to take her precious berries (note: they're the only thing keeping her alive).
Things seem hopeless when the queen imprisons the Hugga Bunch and freezes Bridget in place for all eternity (fortunately, a hug saves her). When the queen is distracted by her own youthful beauty, the gang steals her berries and runs away. The queen, who needs the berries to remain young, shrivels into old age and dies horribly.
Seriously. But hey, at least they got the berries, right?
Armed with the youngberries, Bridget returns through the mirror to restore her grandmother's youth. Unfortunately, the berries spill out and disappear, making the whole adventure totally pointless.
Finding herself as the star in what is apparently a goddamned Shakespearean tragedy, Bridget decides to take the only course remaining to her and threatens never to speak to her brother again unless he starts showing some affection. Moved by this tirade, her brother proclaims that he doesn't want poor grandma to leave, even if she is old and useless. Their father suddenly sees the error of his ways and grandma gets to stay in their home to die the same horrible, inevitable death we just watched the queen die, but in slow motion. Bridget, presumably, returns to her room to smash her mirror into tiny pieces.
Believe it or not, we haven't yet mentioned the most horrifying thing about this tale of a young lady on a one-way track to the local asylum: The Hugga Bunch won an Emmy.
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Solidifying the fact that Emmys don't mean a goddamn thing.