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What is the best way to do pectoral stretches? A specialist recommended that besides avoiding bench presses and strengthening my back, I should stretch my pectoral muscles as often as possible, as they have grown accustomed to being in a shortened state and will actively try to make me slouch. Preferably those stretches should use no equipment.
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Your pectoral has two portions and two muscle groups: the upper portion and the lower portion, the pec major and the pec minor. So to effectively target both portions and both muscles, here are two simple stretches that you should try:
A few things to consider:
Hope this helps!
I would look at some of the stretches used for swimming, and while the pectoral muscles play some part in posture, one of the major causes of slouching/rounded shoulders is over development of the front deltoid compared to the rear deltoid. This is extremely common in swimmers, and can often be seen in people that emphasize front muscular development and neglect rear development.


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I would like to know how to achieve this zigzag effect (including the shadow) in Photoshop CS6:
I would like to know how to achieve this zigzag effect (including the shadow) in Photoshop CS6:
For step 4 depending on the exact effect you want you're going to need to do some other things probably like rasterize the layer and append a rectangle on to the top of it so when you do the drop shadow it only shows on the bottom. You might also then want to add a layer under it and fine touch it a little with the airbrush because as you see the shadow is a bit darker in the middle then on the edges. A very large soft airbrush right in the middle on a layer underneath should get that effect added in for you.
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There is no quick and easy method in Photoshop. THe pen tool and drawing it manually is probably the easiest way.
If you have access to a vector app such as Illustrator, you could simply draw a path then use Effect > Distort & Transform > Zig Zag and then copy the result to Photoshop.

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BELLAIRE - Senior Kristen Russell made her points count when her team needed them and freshman Lindsey Froehlich dominated the inside by grabbing rebounds, swatting away shots and just getting in the way.
Their efforts paved the way as St. John Central's second-seeded Lady Irish punched their ticket for the OVAC Class 1A championship game with a 42-31 win over a very good Madonna Lady Blue Dons squad on the Irish boards Wednesday night.
Winning over the Lady Blue Dons for the second time this season, coach Bubba Kapral's Lady Irish moved into the 1A title game of the OVAC-Wheeling Hospital Girls' Basketball Championships on Saturday. Kapral's group will battle the Conotton Valley-Trinity Christian winner in the 8 p.m. finale.
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TO THE LINE — Madonna's Katie Lammers is fouled as she goes up for a shot by a St.?John?Central defender during the Blue Dons' 42-31 loss to the Irish Wednesday in?Bellaire.
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St. John Central improved to 15-6 with the win. They came into the playoffs as the second-seed.
Coach Don Ogden's Lady Blue Dons dropped to 9-11 on the season with the loss. They will take on the loser of the Conotton Valley-Trinity matchup in the consolation finals on their home court.
St. John came out smoking in the first period and appeared to be headed to a blow-out. The Lady Irish could do no wrong in jumping out to a 17-0 lead, while Madonna was having problems getting anything to go right.
Russell, Kaydie Coppa, freshman Marissa Rose, Jessica Alvey and Froehlich combined to outpoint the visitors by 17-0 at the outset before Katie Lammers dropped in one free throw and Nicollette Sellitti added two more at the 1:20 mark of the frame for Madonna. Caitlin Sliva netted a deuce to close the frame and hand the Lady Irish a 19-3 lead at the break.
In the second session, Rose converted a layup, and after Monica Bragg cashed one of two at the stripe for the visitors Rose pushed the lead to 22-4 at the line. Madonna then went on a 10-0 run, getting a two-pointer and trey from Isabella Rosso and scores from Becca Holt and Sellitti to cut the gap to 22-14. Rose's two at the line closed the half with a 24-14 Lady Irish lead.
"Madonna has a very good team," Kapral said after the win. "They have two really great players, but I knew we would come out and play well against them. Of course, I didn't think we would come out and run out to a 17-0 lead."
"We knew they would make a run, but we played well," the Lady Irish coach added. "It's hard to jump out to a 17-0 lead and not expect them to make a run. There were times out there when we weren't playing real smart, but our defense stepped us that helped.
"I'm very happy with this," Kapral said. "These (OVAC) games are a lot of fun. This is the way it is supposed to be. We are happy to be moving on to play on Saturday. This was a great way for our two seniors to finish out their careers here."
In the second half, the teams battled evenly, but it was the scoring of Russell in the third with eight of her team's 10 that kept the Lady Blue Dons at bay.
Russell converted three straight from the field early in the session that handed the hosts a 30-16 lead. The winners lead by 34-24 at the final break.
Rose opened the fourth with a deuce and Froehlich scored off a nice pass from Russell to push their lead to 38-24. Madonna's hopes for a comeback were throttled by a strong effort on the boards by Froehlich who grabbed six rebounds in the session.
"When you don't come ready to play and they do, that's what happens," coach Ogden said after the tough loss.
"That's my fault. I've got to have them better prepared for a game like this."
"Give St. John Central all the credit," he added. "They were able to disrupt us and get us out of our rhythm and take us out of our half-court game.
Russell closed with a game-high 12 points to go with nine rebounds and three assists. Rose followed close behind with 11 counters. Froehlich added six points, 10 rebounds and seven blocked shots. Emily Lemasters had seven boards.
Bragg led Madonna with nine points and four rebounds while Sellitti finished with eight points and 10 team-high rebounds.
St. John 42, Madonna 31
ST. JOHN CENTRAL: Russell 5, 2-4 12; Coppa 2, 0-0 5; Rose 3, 5-10 11; Sliva 1, 0-0 2; Alvey 3, 0-0 6; Roberts 0, 0-0 0; Knox 0, 0-0 0; Froehlich 3, 0-1 6; Lemasters 0, 0-0 0. Totals, 17-50, 7-15.
MADONNA: Dowiak 0, 0-2 0; Holt 1, 2-4 4; Antinone 0, 0-0 0; Rosso 2, 0-2 5; Sellitti 2, 4-4 8; Platek 2, 0-4 4; Davis 0, 0-0 0; Bragg 2, 5-6 9; Lammers 0, 1-2 1. Totals, 9-50, 12-24.
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The Return of Linsanity
HOUSTON—If the Knicks are to be believed, they aren't overly amped or otherwise excited about their first post-Linsanity game against Jeremy Lin.
Yes, they realize he experienced an improbable rise to fame and run of stardom last season in the orange-and-blue uniform. And yes, they know the circumstances surrounding his blindsidingly abrupt exodus this summer divided the fan base.
But while many are looking ahead to Friday's Knicks-Rockets matchup with great interest because of the history between the Knicks and Lin, the team is putting on a poker face and playing down the reunion.
A response from Jason Kidd was pretty standard in the Knick locker room in the days leading up to the game. Storylines like these are "what you guys write about. And that's what some people measure it by," said Kidd, who on some level has filled the role Lin left behind. "But at the end of the day, all you're measured by are wins and losses."
Obviously, the veteran Knicks are more concerned about winning than they are about Lin. Nine of the 15 players on this year's team weren't around when Lin had his moment in the limelight.
Still, it might be a stretch to suggest the players will have a nonchalant attitude about facing Lin. Too much has happened in recent months for the matchup to be just another game.
Carmelo Anthony faced a torrent of criticism for allegedly asserting his isolation style of play above Lin's, which many analysts and fans thought was a better blueprint for winning. Those Anthony broadsides only increased when the wrangling over the team's offense appeared to prompt then-coach Mike D'Antoni's resignation.
Then there is veteran point guard Raymond Felton, who is more accomplished than the 24-year-old Lin and in his prime, yet makes less annually than Lin does. And it is certainly feasible that Lin would want to play well after essentially being shown the door in July, when the Knicks brought in Felton instead of matching Lin's three-year, $25-million restricted free-agency offer from Houston.
Even if no one openly admits it, the Knicks won't view facing Lin like they do other games.
"It's kind of an unspoken thing, but you always look at those things as motivation," said Antonio Davis, a former Knick who is now an ESPN analyst. "I'm sure Felton and Kidd in particular will want to have good games to prove the Knicks were smart to get them."
Davis, who spent his finest years with the Pacers before being traded to the Toronto Raptors, still recalls the anticipation he felt before playing against Indiana for the first time in 1999. Leading up to that contest, he and Mark Jackson—who had also previously played for the Pacers—"had talked about that game the whole season."
"From the day the schedule comes out, you know you're going to have something extra for that one game," Davis said.
Center Tyson Chandler, who played against his former Dallas team on Thursday, acknowledged there would be some concern over Lin. "I mean, you don't want him to go off [for a big scoring night]. You can say that," Chandler said. As Chandler spoke, Felton stood in the locker-room stall next to him, smiling while overhearing reporters ask about his predecessor.
So far, Felton has enjoyed a better season statistically than Lin, scoring more and averaging almost as many assists per game. And one teammate, J.R. Smith, was quick to point out what he saw as a Felton advantage.
In an ESPN radio interview this week, Smith called Felton "more dynamic" than Lin, saying he excels at throwing lobs and "finding guys in the corner for a three—not always just looking for his shot."
Lin said Thursday that he's "at peace" with how things played out, but he vowed to "play [his] heart out" against his old team.
If nothing else, coach Mike Woodson and the defensive-minded Knicks will put their knowledge of Lin's tendencies to good use. They might test his shaky ballhandling and swarm him upon crossing half-court, like the Miami Heat did last season.
Either way, rest assured many of the Knicks care more than they are letting on.
"I think the Knicks will treat Lin the same way Oklahoma City will eventually treat James Harden: They're happy for him [and his new contract], sure," Davis said. "But he's on their radar, and they're going to want to go kick his butt."
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Marathon Hits Wall Amid Criticism
Amid mounting public pressure, Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday canceled plans to host the New York City Marathon this weekend, saying it had become a divisive issue that was distracting the city from efforts to recover from superstorm Sandy.
Mr. Bloomberg made the afternoon announcement in a joint statement with New York Road Runners Chief Executive Mary Wittenberg.
The decision came just hours after Mr. Bloomberg reiterated a position he had held for days: the race should be held Sunday as a sign of resilience and because it generates some $340 million in economic activity.
But that was met with a growing chorus of dissenters, including top city officials, who said the marathon would tax city resources at a crucial time. The spectacle of the marathon—a celebratory, citywide event—also struck many as unseemly when at least 41 people had died, including a brother and sister who were found on Staten Island on Friday after staying home to protect their pets, police said.
The race wouldn't be rescheduled, Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said.
Earlier, in an effort to salvage the race, Ms. Wittenberg had attempted to recast it as a "Race to Recovery" highlighted by a fundraising drive to support relief efforts. Already those efforts had raised $1.1 million from the Rudin family, a longtime sponsor of the marathon, a $1 million commitment from the Road Runners, $500,000 from ING, the event's title sponsor, and what would likely have been hundreds of thousands more from runners who were asked to donate to recovery efforts.
But shortly after the midday Friday news conference where Mr. Bloomberg said the marathon would go on, aides "began having conversations about options" for canceling the event, a city official said. The mayor believed the city had the manpower to host the race without harming recovery efforts but agreed the issue had become too divisive, the official said.
City Hall officials and the marathon's organizers discussed a number of alternatives, including holding a 10-mile run in Manhattan and moving the traditional start of the race out of Staten Island. But in the end, the mayor didn't believe any of the options would quash criticism.
One person familiar with the matter said the mayor was aware of the criticism. But "it was definitely his senior staff" telling him the event couldn't move forward that led to the decision.
"The mayor did not believe that would bring the race back to being what everyone wants it to be," said one person familiar with his thinking.
"It is with an especially heavy heart that we're here to say there will not be a 2012 New York marathon," a shaken-looking Ms. Wittenberg said at an evening news conference. Serious thought was also given to holding an elite race, said Mr. Wolfsohn.
Runners will be offered spots in next year's race or in the New York City half-marathon in March. It will mark the first time the marathon won't be run since it started in 1970.
In recent days, calls to cancel the marathon had gained steam on social media. On Facebook, FB 1.35 % the pages "Boycott the 2012 NYC Marathon" and "Cancel the NYC 2012 Marathon" received tens of thousands of clicks of support. Online petitions also gained thousands of signatures.
The online movement heaped guilt upon tormented runners. Before the announcement was made. "I've had to stop reading Twitter and Facebook because there are so many nasty comments," said Ursula Cary, who was set to run her first marathon on Sunday.
The decision throws into turmoil the plans of some 20,000 foreign runners who have been descending on the city all week to run in the event—the biggest of its kind—that travels through all five boroughs.
News of the cancellation disappointed hundreds of runners in line to retrieve their bib numbers at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Midtown.
Emily Piacquadio stayed in line despite receiving a call from a friend saying the race was off. She estimates she spent close to $700 on her journey here from St. Paul, Minn. As for why she was still waiting she said, "I still want my T-shirt," she said.
Pablo Corona and Josh Weintraub traveled to the race from Atlanta. They were milling about the Javits Center deciding what to do. "I looked into running the Savannah Marathon tomorrow morning," Mr. Corona said. "But the flight out of here is at 8 p.m. and the race is at 7 a.m."
Mr. Weintraub said the timing of the decision at this point in the week was "unreal." But when he heard about police recovering the bodies of two children killed in Staten Island during the storm, he said, "I knew this couldn't go on."
Organizers have spent all week pushing ahead with plans, building viewing stands and the massive starting-line village on Staten Island. But the race became a flashpoint in the recovery, and pressure to cancel the race built throughout Friday, with likely mayoral candidates year calling for its cancellation, as well as several others from ravaged areas in Queens and Staten Island.
City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn said in a statement that holding the marathon "is not a decision I would have made." Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio were also among those calling for the marathon to be postponed or cancelled,
Patrick J. Lynch, president of the police officers' union and an occasional adversary of Mr. Bloomberg's, said staffing was simply too low, with many members of the department suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy, to hold the marathon. "We are spread far too thin fighting crime, terrorism and the effects of this disaster," Mr. Lynch said in a statement.
City Council Member Jimmy Oddo, whose Staten Island district was hit hard by the storm, said city workers had already been shifting their attention to the marathon route.
"If there is a police officer who is standing behind a barricade watching runners go by from Italy and Ethiopia, I would like to have that police officer at intersections on Staten Island where there still aren't working traffic lights," Mr. Oddo said.
Indeed the NYRR and its marathon are well known for the care and feeding of their runners, with a volunteer force 8,000 strong.
Increasingly, providing support for runners while others living nearby lack basic comforts was becoming a public-relations disaster. The NYRR day says it distribute more than 32,000 gallons of energy drink, and 54,000 finisher recovery bags filled with fruit, bottled water, protein bars and other goodies on marathon day. The starting line in Staten Island is equipped with 93,600 bottles of water, more than 30,000 power bars and fruit smoothies, and 45,000 cups of coffee.
NYRR moved Friday to shift its resources, including thousands of tents and portable toilets to the recovery efforts.
Ryan Lamppa, a researcher for Running USA, said the move is unprecedented in marathon history. Smaller marathons have been canceled due to heat, and large ones have been stopped in the middle, also because of heat concerns, but no major marathon of this magnitude has been canceled, "This is unchartered territory," Mr. Lampa said.
The marathon would have inevitably caused disruptions. It requires closing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for hours, halting the flow of traffic between Brooklyn and Staten Island for hours. Then, runners would have headed up Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, shutting off access to its numerous gas stations.
City crews prepped the road along the marathon path on Bedford Avenue through the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Williamsburg and Greenpoint sections of Brooklyn Friday afternoon. The famous blue line that runners follow from the start to the finish had also recently been painted along the route.
"Any inconveniences the cancellation causes for me or the thousands of runners who trained and traveled for this race pales in comparison to the challenges faced by people in NYC and its vicinity in the aftermath of Sandy," U.S. Olympic marathoner Meb Keflezighi said.
—Sara Germano, Jessi Rucker and Jo Piazza contributed to this article.
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For midsummer color, you can plant tender bulbs of tropical perennials such as gladiolas, cannas, and dahlias. You need to dig up these tender bulbs and store them in the fall, then replant them after the danger of frost has passed in the spring. Each year they multiply, so you have even more to plant the next year.
Bulb is a term that loosely describes a variety of fleshy, underground organs that some plants use to store energy over winter to fuel growth in spring. Plants that use these special organs are sometimes called geophytes. They include:
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Weighing less than the average running shoe, the RocSports Lite 2 Moc Toe is the perfect men's active casual shoe. This moc toe has been re-engineered from athletic shoe architecture for all-day, lightweight comfort and style. The deconstructed stitch to sole upper reduces weight and helps increase flexibility, while ADIPRENE® by adidas sport technology helps provide all day comfort. This comfortable men's shoe offers versatility, is perfect for the guy on the go, and is sure to get you through the day in style and comfort.
- Stitch-to-sole construction helps provides a very cushioned and flexible sole
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Jimmy17 from Great for People with Foot Problems I purchased these shoes for work when I started having ankle issues. My feet have been feeling sooo much better since then. They are nice enough for a business casual job, provide support like a tennis shoe, and feel great all day. You'll notice the lightness and cushioning as soon as you put them on. I absolutely love them! The only negative I have is the orange stitching on the heel tab, which takes away from the look, but that's nothing compared to no longer having foot problems.
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Why though, do languages do this? The only effect this code will have is taking time.
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Please clarify the advantage to taking a 10-20 shot pano assuming you could cover the same viewable area with say 3-4 shots..is it resolution of the image? Is it noticable? I guess it is basedon people talking about how many mega pexels or giga pixel's their images are...any way, clarify if you would please...Is it true that some people will even take 5 images of a scene with lots of overlap vs 1 picture to coverthe same image? This makes a noticable difference?
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I need to spec a motor to turn a mixing barrel. The barrel contains loose earth and can be filled to a maximum of 50% of its interior volume. It is a horizontal cylinder, and will rotate through its central axis. What effort/torque is required to start the barrel turning?
In my case, the mass of the barrel when filled to its maximum is 50 kg, its length is 1.2m, diameter is 700mm. Friction in the bearings and the drive is negligible.


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H&H Flatheads & Navarro Racing Equipment - Classic LifeWritten by on March 1, 2009 Flatheads ForeverForever Flatheads
It all began while we were out in front of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California, attending an exhibit opening when a conversation started up about a '56 Ford panel truck. As it turned out the young feller who owned the '56 Ford was H&H Flatheads' Mike Herman and he had a whole lot more to talk about than just his trusty old Ford panel. He went on to say that H&H Flatheads was the exclusive distributor for Navarro Racing Equipment, and it didn't end there either. Mike went on to speak about acquiring everything from Barney Navarro's personal toolbox exactly as Barney had left it to a ton of cool historical memorabilia commemorating Navarro's career as a racing legend. Upon hearing all of this we suggested that maybe it would be neat if the NHRA Motorsports Museum hosted a Navarro exhibit. Mike laughed and said that he and Tony Thacker, the NHRA Museum's executive director, were already in the planning stages.
There are few people that can describe an event as well as Tony Thacker so we'll just use his words from the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum's website to give you guys an insight to the Navarro Racing exhibit.
"The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum together with H&H Flatheads pays homage to one of the fathers of hot rodding, the legendary Barney Navarro. A former hot rod racer turned manufacturer, Barney Navarro was known for his unconventional methods in engineering faster and efficient racing machines. From racing in Bonneville to engineering heart pumps for Kaiser Hospitals, Barney dabbled in all forms of engineering.
Following WWII, Barney started machining Weiand speed equipment. In 1946 he began making Navarro Racing Equipment. He was a pioneer in the evolution of the flathead improving everything he touched. His greatest impact was at Bonneville where he was one of the first to use a roots style blower for racing.
Later in his career he tried his luck at Indy developing a 199 cubic-inch 6-cylinder Rambler motor with over 700 horsepower. He also raced flat bottom boats with Henry Kaiser who founded Kaiser Hospitals. Barney also invented a heart and lung pump that was used at Kaiser Hospitals all the way into the '80's.
Navarro passed away in August 21, 2007 leaving behind an unmatched engineering and design for nostalgic speed equipment. Today, H&H Flatheads continues the Navarro legacy by producing his flathead heads and manifolds as they were produced by Barney for over six decades. With the approval of Barney, Mike reintroduced three manifolds and the '49-53 heads which were not made for 50 years."
The Navarro Racing Equipment exhibit opened on December 18, 2008 and will run well into 2009.
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Navarro (left) poses with keeper of the flame, Mike Herman of H&H Flatheads. H&H was personnaly chosen by Barney and his wife Donna as the appropriate business to continue the Navarro name and products. H&H purchased the Navarro Racing Equipment name, remaining inventory, and all Navarro patterns in 2005. Today they recast pieces that have not been produced in over forty years using the original tooling.


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Based on a study of 227 subjects, Jones and colleagues conclude that "there is no disadvantage …in commencing treatment with FGAs rather than atypical SGAs in people with schizophrena…" (Jones et al., 2006). Jones et al chose to compare two groups (all FGAs v.all SGAs). Although they acknowledge, in general, within-group heterogeneity, they consider the comparison between groups clinically useful. However, this perspective that in fact ignores the heterogeneity is limiting, and, in combination with the results of the study, might encourage clinicians to believe that the effectiveness of all antipsychotics is equal (with the possible exception of clozapine).
A recent report provided evidence of great variability of effectiveness across the spectrum of FGAs and SGAs (Tiihonen et al., 2006). This was an observational prospective cohort study of 2230 adults hospitalized for schizophrenia in Finland. The main outcome measures were rates of discontinuation of treatment, and rehospitalization. The study found that the effectiveness within the FGA group varied as a function of route of administration Perphenazine decanoate (the only depot drug analyzed) was considerably more effective than the oral form of the same drug,; in fact, it appeared to be superior to any other drug in the study, including clozapine. Furthermore, clozapine and olanzapine showed better effectiveness than haloperidol . Other drugs in the study (FGAs and SGAs) showed inconsistent differences from haloperidol. Thus, the effectiveness af antipsychotics is not equal.
Nevertheless, in spite of methodological differences, the Jones and Tihonen studies are consistent with each other. Had Tiihonen et al. elected to create and compare two groups analogous to the Jones study (FGAs v. SGAs), the result might have been the same as shown by Jones et al: no group difference (see Tiihonen tables showing the treatments ordered by the relative risks of rehospitalization and discontinuation). This result, if presented as the sole outcome of the study, would have obscured very important differences among individual drugs.
What, then, is the useful clinical perspective based on all these data? I think that the success of perphenazine decanoate in the Tiihonen study brings up again the great importance of compliance for effectiveness. Furthermore, the choice of drug for individual patients should probably be driven by the individual properties of the drug and of the patient, rather than by the drug's classification.
Do the SGAs exhibit greater effectiveness than the FGAs? At this stage of the game, we may seek refuge with Orwell: All antipsychotics are equal, but some antipsychotics are more equal than others.
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Before schools started to use pinyin for teaching characters to Chinese children, how and/or what was used to teach it instead? And what about how dictionaries showed the pronunciation of characters?
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In the (very) old days, there was a system called 反切 (in English) where two characters were used, one for initial, one for the rhyme (vowel[s] + final), followed by 切 to indicate it was a phonetic notation. For instance, 東 could be represented as 德紅切.
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I thought I should insert an example from the canon of Chinese dictionaries, 康熙字典. Here's page 1 -- might as well start at the beginning...
I highlighted the two definitions for 一:
From Wikipedia, before Hanyu Pinyin was introduced, the PRC Chinese learnt Bopomofo or 注音符號 [Zhùyīn fúhào]. It comprises of 37 characters (注音) and four tone marks (符號).
An example: 大 (ㄉㄚˋ, dà) where ㄉ is the consonant for "d" and ㄚ is the rhyme for "a".
There are a variety of ways to look up a word in the dictionary such as 部首查字法 and 数笔画查字法. This article describes the various method.
As mentioned in the comment by Claw, 反切 (introduced around 220 A.D.) preceded 注音符號, which was introduced in the 1910s. And even before that, there were two other methods, namely 直音法 and 读若法. As the names suggest 直音法 refers to learning by comparison with another character of the same pronunciation while 读若法 refers to learning by comparison with another character of similar pronunciation.
But for all the three methods described above, there is a need to memorise the pronunciation of a few characters first, before one can proceed to learn the pronunciation of other characters based on these characters.
Actually the comparison between the IPA and pinyin is misleading in another way. In IPA the pronunciation of the letters remains constant... in pinyin, the pronunciation of certain letters changes according to preceding letters - namely - i after q is different to the i after c.
Plus iu in qiu is not what one would expect from an IPA. Same for -un ending.
It always amazes me that pinyin was invented in 1949 or thereabouts and they still couldn't invent a romanisation without strange exceptions.
As for the question how characters are taught, one important point that all other good answers mentioning 反切 fail to elaborate, though they really give a brief & clear introduction to the traditional academic way of showing character pronunciation in dictionaries, is that when we are talking about "before the introduction of pinyin", a nationwide standard Chinese (e.g. 國語 Guoyu, 普通話 Putonghua or so) might have nor been popularized. What does this mean? Actually in the old days, as told by my 外公 Waigong, a native speaker of 贛語 Ganyu born in the 1930s, in any 私塾 Sishu, for a long period the only type of institution that served for elementary education before the introduction of western-style schools, all characters were pronounced by the 先生 Xiansheng in their dialectal versions. And kids generally recited the fundamental materials such as 《三字經》 Sanzi Jing 《百家姓》 Baijia Xing 《千字文》 Qianzi Wen by imitating their 先生 without deeper understanding, till they could fully handle the mapping between the characters and their pronunciations. In such process, no auxiliary tools for phonetic indication were used, nor were a unified one even possible, due to the huge differences between dialects.
And I shall say, from the viewpoint of a native speaker of 普通話 Putonghua, who has learned it through school education since young, 反切 could hardly have been used as a practical tool to teach young children the pronunciation of characters, since occasionally it uses more complex characters to explain simpler ones. Plus, the practice of combining syllabic characters rather than juxtaposing phoneme symbols itself shows the restriction of old Chinese scholars' understanding of the relation between syllable and phoneme, not to mention how young kids should use this imperfect tool to learn "hard" characters from scratch.
P.S. apart from 反切 which indicates a syllable in whole, from my vague memory, there might also be a tone-indicating symbol system called 四聲破讀記號 Sisheng Podu Jihao or something similar in ancient literatures, which puts a small circle in one of the four corners of a character, so as to indicate whether its tone is 平 Ping, 上 Shang, 去 Qu, or 入 Ru of the traditional tonal system. But unfortunately I can hardly find a reference for this. Anyone who can provide further information would be highly appreciated ^_^.
I personally believe Pinyin is only for non-native speakers or is only to set up a kind of standard prounciation system for Chinese language.
Below are the facts:
1) Chinese children are taught how to write some special Chinese character with the already known prounciation immediately (so children don't have to learn the Pinyin first. As a native speaker of Chinese, I even didnot know why Pinyin was taught before high school :) Native speakers learn how to pronounce first, and then learn how to write; this should be the truth;
2) The modern Chinese Pinyin system (or scheme?) is only for Mandarin (or Putonghua, which is based on Northern China's Peiking/Beijing dialects). So most of the aged Chinese people in south China who were educated with only their own dialects even cannot pronounce Pinyin correctly. One of the most popular Chinese character IME software is based on Pinyin, but I know a lot southern China people who cannot use such IME software but a more complicate to learn Wubi IME software.
Er, well, in Chinese, Pinyin is to characters just what the International Phonetic Alphabet is to words.


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Gmail's official app doesn't store password in your device. Your password is 100% safe if you use this app.
This is how it works: The password is used by Google's authentication servers for the first time ONLY. After first successful authentication, an
Note: These all aren't true if you use third-party email apps for Gmail viz. Stock Email app, K-9 Mail etc. IMAP or POP protocol needs original password to authenticate users everytime. So, plain password needs to be available to email app before sending it to server. So, most of email apps store passwords in plain text (hashing/encryption is useless because hashing/encryption key needs to be stored locally). In this case, I'd recommend you to enable
Android passwords used with the built-in Email application are stored in plain text inside a SQLite Database. This is in contrast to the Gmail application, which uses Auth Tokens as described in Sachin Sekhar's answer.
For Jelly Bean, the database location is:
The above location varies with the Android version
This location on a non-rooted device is secured and protected by the Operating System.
A member from the Android Development Team posted an explanation that till today still applies:
Aditionally, since this issue appears to disturb many Android users, you can also follow this discussion at Slashdot - Android Password Data Stored In Plain Text.


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Thank you for interest in this talk. Unfortunately I am not able to answer your questions until the time of the talk on PDC. However please do post them such that I could make sure I have answers for them in the talk. Also watch for upcoming posts on my blog for this as well. I am sorry for a delay but it is only few weeks before I can answer all your questions.
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I would like to know how WWSAPI compares with gSOAP. We are currently using gSOAP to talk to our WCF services. Are there any benefits to switching our current gSOAP layer to use Windows Web Services API?
I have downloaded the sample project and built it,but i got a error like this:Failure errorcode=0x80070057
The count for parameter description is 4181(0x1055) while parameter description is null on WS_OPERATION_DESCRIPTION.
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I'm getting a similar error when running the sample project: "The count for parameter description is 4111 (0x100F) while parameterDescription is NULL on WS_OPERATION_DESCRIPTION".
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Golden Carrot Puddings recipe for @JourneyKitchen
Kulsum over at JourneyKitchen and I were wondering (twittering?) about something sweet to cook with carrots, besides the same old carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I remembered the kids cookbook sitting on my bookshelf.
I don't have kids – rather, my dad had bought it for me as a joke before my first day at university. Little did he know that it would end up being one of my favourite go-to books over the next ten years and more! Since it's geared towards kids, every single step is accompanied by hand illustrations, which makes it just that much more fun to sift through. Without further ado, here's the recipe (pics below).
Recipe: Golden Carrot Puddings
- 4 tsps golden syrup (I much prefer honey!)
- 1 1/3 cups coarsely grated carrot
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans (walnuts good too)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice (I've used allspice or cloves before)
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/3 cup oil
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- whipped cream, to serve
- 1. Lightly grease 4 microwave safe cups with oil
- 2. Put a teaspoon of syrup (or honey) into each cup
- 3. Put carrots, nuts and sugar in a bowl
- 4. Sift flour, spice and cinnamon over
- 5. Add egg and oil. Mix well.
- 6. Spoon evenly into cups. Smooth tops.
- 7. Cook on rack on Medium/High, 8 minutes
- 8. Leave in dish 10 minutes, then turn out. Serve with whipped cream.
Quick Notes
I have done a baked version of this too, instead of microwaving. I used a 180 degree oven and baked until the puddings were kinda spongy. If you try the toothpick test, you'll notice that they're kinda moist/sticky in the middle. This is totally normal – you don't want to overbake and have them turn out too dry.
Cooking time (duration): 30 min
Number of servings (yield): 4
Meal type: dessert
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What do you use for occasional pain relief?
Aspirin? Aleve? Acetaminophen? Alcohol? I know that there is a plethora of things out there that don't start with "A". What's your choice?
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Aspirin. It's not as scary as the rest of the others.
Depends on the source of the pain. If I'm not sure what to take, I generally go with advil.
I don't always use medicine, but when I do, I use ibuprofen.
I find someone deserving, and kick the living sh*t out of them.
You did ask.
i generally use aleve (e.g. naproxen)...i don't mind ibuprofen but i don't always have access to food at the moment i need pain relief.
Ice, arnica and/or hot shower for muscle stuff + ibuprofen if I must.
"Jefe, what is a plethora? "
I probably sound old, but lately I have been using ben gay on my upper back. I have been very surprised how well it works and it does not have the smell like it used to.
@shrdlu: Sounds effective. Hope you feel better afterwards!
@conanthelibrarian: yes you sound old.
In tend to go for caffeine, alcohol, ibprophen, acetominophen and finally oxycodone (and other things like oxy).
For muscle aches, I generally use ibprophen and/or alcohol.
A headache gets some combination of ibprophen, acetominophen and caffeine (about the only time I use acetominophen is for a headache and sometimes fever reduction as it is next to useless for muscle pain).
I almost never take oxycodone, though I have plenty of it around (I have a very high pain tolerance and rarely use it when prescribed for post-op pain or kidney stones, thus it tends to accumulate). When I'm in an especially funky mood I will occasionally use oxy with alcohol to cope with what amounts to emotional pain, but such use is quite rare, perhaps once or twice a year if that.
I should note that I use caffeine (generally in the form of coffee) and alcohol (beer, wine and/or stronger stuff) on an almost daily basis, though I occasionally stop both for several days (alcohol more than caffeine).
I use asprin as the other stuff never seems to work for me.
I used to be an Ibuprofen taker, but I'm not on a medication that prevents me from taking any NSAIDS (and that includes asprin and naproxin). Sucks, I'm only allowed to take acetaminophen, and I swear it's not as effective. However, the last time I sprained my ankle, I got a low dose of Vicodin, that stuff works wonders!
Thanks for the sampling so far, gang. I meant to mention(beer made me forget) that I have been diagnosed with some sort of degenerative back ailment that flares up sometimes, the last few days being "sometimes". I rarely take any kind of pain meds, but days like today make me want to take some kind of relief-in-a pill.
I have a low back problem, probably not the same as yours, but it "goes out" every once in a while. I'm on a walker for a few days, then walk bent over for a week or so, gradually getting upright. But my doc said ibuprofen. When I asked him how come not Naproxyn or something, he simply said, "it's safer."
Wine.woot! Or rather, the delicious medicine I buy from wine.woot!
I do not thing this was asked but what kind of pain are we talking about? Back, Headache, Knee,Hip, neck, shoulder, Girl friend or wife or both?
@conanthelibrarian: Try Bio Freeze better than Ben
@bigfrank: My chiro gave me some bio freeze to try and I did not think it worked all that well on me. Guess I should try it again.
@conanthelibrarian: A lot of PT are using it. I found it worked great but it needs to be rubbed in and massaged
If you have a diagnosis on your back, I would ask the doc. Different pain relievers work on different types of pain. So while advil maybe great for a headache, it might not touch muscle pain.
I smoke weed
@shrdlu: What about regular sh*t? Do you kick that out of them as well?
Ibuprofen, easier on the liver than acetaminophen. I'm not sure how it compares to aspirin.
I've developed allergies to aspirin and acetaminophen over the years, so ibuprofen is the only (OTC) thing I've been able to take for about 20 years. Well...I can take Aleve, but it doesn't do an effing thing for me.
Schedule II/III drugs work great, of course, because they work in an entirely different way.
Acetaminophen is so toxic to the liver that it should be pulled from the market. Big pharma is way too big for that to ever happen though.
Excedrin or the generic equivalent... just don't take it at night, because in addition to acetaminophen and aspirin it also has a pretty big dose of caffeine.
But, holy crap, short of opiates there's nothing like it.
I like Excedrin, and if it's a tension headache or tense muscle, I also use Tiger Balm.
Goody's powders......they may taste awful but they work fast. They also come in orange which, in my opinion, has two advantages: 1) they come in sealed plastic tube instead of the folded paper of the regulars so they're easier to keep with you and 2) they taste ok enough to take without water when you're in a pinch.
Ibuprofin for muscle pains, tylenol for regular headaches, tylenol sinus (when I can find it!) for sinus headaches. I get rare migraines but I count myself very fortunate to be one of those folks who see an "aura" before the pain starts. I get the Christmas tree lights type of aura, and it occasionally takes over my entire line of vision. The reason I think this is a good thing is that, if I can get my hands on even some OTC migraine meds (Excedrin Migraine is my favorite), I can almost always avoid the headache itself. I can't drive, of course, because everything looks so pretty and sparkly (Ooooooh! Shiny!), but at least I don't hurt.
Edit: My sister (a serious migraine-sufferer) persuaded me to try Head-On, despite their dreadful commercials. Pretty good stuff! The feel of an ice pack without the ice pack! They also make a larger, stronger version for muscle pain. In many ways it's like Ben-Gay or my grandmother's favorite, Icy Hot.
@jsimsace: A beer is a good start...
I'm a big fan of ibuprofen. I've been known to call it "vitamin I", mostly when I'm having knee problems and end up taking it regularly. Aleve is my second choice. It does seem to take effect faster then ibuprofen for me.
I use ibuprofen (I find the liqui-gels work much faster) for muscle aches, and aleve sometimes for a light headache. I have chronic headaches and have fancy prescription stuff that I take most of the time when I can't go on without treatment - I try to avoid treatment for as long as possible to limit the amount of medication I take since I also take a daily preventative.
I have also started using Salon Pas for some muscle soreness, most recently with my herniated disc issues. Definitely good results. And I second @bigfrank on the suggestion for BioFreeze, that stuff rocks.
@captainsuperdawg and @mtm2: Too funny. Yes, I actually kick regular sh*t out of them, too. Yes, I feel better afterwards (although the recipient does not).
Seriously, I take absolutely nothing for pain. Years (aeons, even) ago, when I first realized that I would have chronic pain for the rest of my life, I decided that simply adjusting to that fact was my best option. I am fortunate in having a very high pain threshold, but use meditation or other distractions instead of pain. When I've had surgery, I always refuse all medication the moment I'm conscious and able to do so.
I've had doctors who insisted on my having a prescription for pain, and even calling me at home because I hadn't filled a prescription (yes, I'm not kidding). Now I fill them, and take them to the drug disposal roundup that the local police department has.
My mom had debilitating arthritis, and I was hit by a drunk driver, so I have seen what pain relievers can do to two different people, all the way from aspirin to oxycodone.
The most important thing is this: pain relievers work differently for everyone. Give my mom an oxy and she would feel a little better. Give me half of one and I'd be passed out in 5 minutes.
I find the most powerful relief (without knocking me out) for a migraine or back pain is one Aleve + one Tylenol (they are safe to take together). I use the arthritis (time release) caps so I can take as small a dose as possible to get relief for as long as possible - 8 to 12 hours on a single dose.
Ibuprofen tears my stomach to pieces.
Remember that different medications treat different stages of the pain process. Drugs like ibuprofen and aleve work by reducing inflammation, which in turn reduces pain, while narcotics like oxycontin work by blocking pain receptors, but not really addressing the underlying cause of the pain. That's wonderful in the situations for which oxy was developed (end-stage cancer patients with metatheses to bone), but it's not as useful for back pain as reducing inflammation. Topical creams like Ben-Gay or arnica gel because they're abrasive, drawing more blood into the area, which may promote healing.
Since the OP mentioned a degenerative back condition: Celebrex has been a billion times more effective than any dose of Aleve; it allowed me to get my life back, honestly. On a handful of occasions when the inflammation was pressing on a nerve root - resulting in the kind of pain that really can't be described - my doctor has given me a short course of steroids to reduce inflammation fast.


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I'm seeing suggested edits to tag wikis on Stack Overflow which I do not have the ability to approve. Could you just not show me those?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
I agree it makes sense hiding the items, however it is a reasonably expensive calculation that I do not want to do on all page loads. Even doing it on `/review/edit-suggestions' is a little expensive.
The whole suggested edit system has made me rethink tag wiki requirements, we now allow all people with access to the pending edit suggestion queue the rights to approve tag wiki edits. 20k users can edit all tag wikis with no restrictions.
In retrospect the complex requirements for tag wikis made no sense, they are too hard to explain, pure reputation is much simpler.
It seems to me there are (at least) two kinds of suggested edits: tag wiki and question edits and the rep threshold for those also seems to be different: I had the notice for suggested edit by I wondered how I could edit a wiki tag: there was nothing visible.


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Boys hoop: Crosby rolls; Pomperaug falls
Tyshon Rogers scored a game-high 35 points as Crosby rolled over Watertown, 77-49, Wednesday in an NVL game in Watertown.
Lex Perez added 12 points , eight rebounds and six assists for the Bulldogs (8-0), and Aseim King added 10 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.
Nick Mondak scored a team-high 15 points with eight rebounds for Watertown (3-5), and Logan D'Agostino chipped in with nine points and four assists.
Zack Kopp had 10 points and Ryan Brown and Kyle Sklanka each had five rebounds.
Kolbe Cathedral 65, Pomperaug 62: Maurice Hill finished with 21 points to lead Kolbe Cathedral in an SWC contest in Bridgeport.
Ian Gardner added 20 points for the Cougars (5-3), including four free throws in the final minutes to seal the victory.
Lucien Fortier's shot for the tie with two seconds left was contested and bounced off the rim as the Panthers (7-1) suffered their first loss of the season.
Fortier recorded 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Cooper Mooney added 16 points. Sam Rubinstein contributed 12 points.
Sacred Heart 67, Ansonia 46: Mustapha Heron had a game-high 29 points for the Hearts in Ansonia.
Heron and Charles Fisher combined for 15 of the Hearts' 24 points in the third quarter to take a 53-35 edge. Fisher finished with 11 points.
Eugene Culver had a team-high 13 points for the Chargers (2-7).
Whitney Tech 76, Wolcott Tech 59: Traejhon Joiner and Pha'Rod Goodjohn scored 22 and 21 points, respectively, for Whitney Tech (5-4) in CSC competition in Torrington.
Luke Pergola netted a game-high 27 points for the Wildcats (3-6) while Jake Munson added 20.
Brandon Oakes chipped in with 10 points.
Chase 66, Williams 41: Charles McClain had a game-high 15 points for the Highlanders in New London.
Blake Hardy added 11 points and seven assists for Chase (5-3).
Rudy Harvey had a team-high 12 points for Williams (1-6).
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How to Perform a Hip-Rotation Stretch
8 of 9 in Series: The Essentials of Getting Fit to Play Golf
The supine hip-rotation stretch is a safe and effective exercise to help you reduce hip-rotation tightness and, therefore, improve your ability to make a full turn around your hips during a full golf swing.
Lie on your back close to a wall. Place both feet on the wall so that your hips and knees are bent about 90 degrees.
After you're balanced, you can advance this stretch by moving your body closer to the wall at the start. This allows your hips and knees to bend at an angle greater than 90 degrees, for a greater degree of stretch in your hips.
Cross your right foot over your left knee and rest both hands on your right knee.
Position your hands on the top of your knee (the side of your knee opposite the wall).
Gently apply pressure to your right knee with your hands in a direction down and away from your right shoulder.
Apply pressure until you feel a light, comfortable stretch in the outer portion of your right hip and/or groin.
Hold this stretch for three to five minutes.
You want to feel a complete release of the original stretch in your right hip.
After the stretch is complete, slowly release the pressure on your right knee and repeat the stretch on your left hip.
Practice this releasing exercise at least once a day for two to three weeks or until you can stretch equally well in both hips.
If one hip is tighter than the other, then initially spend more time stretching the tighter hip. Your ultimate goal is balanced rotation for both hips. Only by achieving complete and balanced hip-rotation flexibility can you accomplish a full backswing and follow-through with each and every swing.


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The 6 Most Hilariously Stupid Criminal Excuses of All Time
If making fun of stupid criminals is a crime, then we plead guilty. We'll even do it in some laughably incompetent way so that we can become a list entry in one of our own articles.
Indeed, one of the deepest wells of comedy in the dumb criminal genre is the real yet incredibly implausible or outright insane excuses they make for their crimes. So, let's enjoy the tragic genius of the following criminal defenses ...
#6. I'm Not Drunk, But the Horse Is
Let's say you live in a rural area. It goes without saying you've drank an entire six pack, because it is mandated by the county and there's absolutely nothing else to do anyway. Presently, you get the urge to visit your sweetheart, but you don't have a car, and he or she isn't a member of your immediate family. However, there is a horse nearby. So what do you do? If you said "drunkenly steal that goddamn horse," then you are thinking like Tracy Nadine Ellenburg.
Via Wspa.com
When life gives you lemons, steal a goddamn horse and ride drunk through the streets.
A concerned citizen of Six Mile, South Carolina, contacted police after spotting Ellenberg erratically drunk-riding the contraband stallion down the middle of Main Street (the citizen's ability to distinguish between drunken and sober horseback riding should have been immediately commended).
Ellenburg had parked her horse before police arrived, but the officer on scene was able to locate it anyway, because it was the only horse tied to a bench outside a convenience store.
"Looks like it might rain. I think I'm just gonna bring it inside."
The officer confronted Ellenburg, who stank of alcohol, swayed and slurred her defiant insistence that she was sober, which you may recognize as a level of drunkenness so spectacular that people mimic it when they are pretending to be drunk. Regardless, not only did Ellenburg deny any wrongdoing, she actually blamed the horse, which, if you remember from before, was stolen. She declared that the horse was drunk, not her, and therefore the horse was at fault for the erratic riding.
The police, not appreciating having witnessed one of the seven wonders of the drunken excuse world, cited Ellenburg for disorderly conduct.
The drunk-ass horse got off scot-free.
#5. We're Not Stealing, We Thought Everything Was Free
A woman in St. Paul, Minnesota, was tucking her children into bed when she heard a noise somewhere in her house. Going downstairs to investigate, she spotted a man and a woman running full-tilt out the back door, like that one kid at sleepovers who refused to poop anywhere but at his own house. The woman chased after the intruders and found them loading bags of her stuff onto their bicycles, presumably because they had learned everything they knew about criminality from the evil baseball team in The Sandlot.
Via Minnesota.cbslocal.com
"No, officer, I have not taken 'all of the drugs in the world.' Why do you ask?"
They were thwarted hilariously when a neighbor blocked them in with his car and called the police. The thieves, Charles and Pernella Bull, had attempted to make off with a laptop, a desktop computer, a toolbox, the woman's purse and a few other odds and ends. On their bicycles. We cannot stress this enough.
When questioned, Mrs. Bull said that a friend had told her that the address was listed as a "free house" on Craigslist, which meant that the owners were moving out in a hurry, so anyone was free to just show up and take whatever they wanted. You may recognize this as the daffiest pile of bullshit in the history of lies told by anyone above the age of 4.
Via Minnesota.cbslocal.com
"They also said that if we wanted, we could punch them in the face and call them racist things."
Mrs. Bull said she had called out to ask if anyone was there when she walked into the house (you know, the house with all the lights on and a purse sitting on the counter), but when no one answered, she figured it was vacant and starting loading up the bicycles. The police weren't able to find the alleged "free house" listing on Craigslist, most likely because at no point in the course of human history had it ever existed, so the Bulls were arrested.
"No, officer, they said it was OK! Look, I have a note from them!"
#4. I'm Not a Bad Driver, It Was a Tarantula Attack
As Lee Solarski was tooling along one day, he crashed his car into both a mailbox and a pickup truck, as one does. Being a responsible citizen, he immediately drove the ballshits away, not realizing that a witness had written down his license plate number.
When the police tracked him down, Solarski explained that he'd crashed because his passenger had a tarantula in the car with them. The tarantula had gotten loose and was biting Solarski, causing him to lose control of the car during the attack. To his credit, we admit a rampaging tarantula would be enough of a reason to crash anything.
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Yeah, we'll believe that's the face of a tarantula-owning man.
The police searched the car but didn't find the offending spider, which we figure came as a relief to whichever officer drew search-the-car-for-a-secret-tarantula duty. After a similarly thorough search of Solarski failed to produce any spider bites, he was arrested. So ... did he make up the spider story on the spot? Is that his go-to excuse? Does he really have a friend with a tarantula who he blames everything on? "Hey, honey, I see you've stumbled across the folder full of porn Steve's tarantula put on my computer."
"It's not what you think -- a tarantula was on her, and I was just fucking it off!"
Though that's actually not the worst vehicular-related crime excuse we've ever heard. A Cincinnati man walked out to his car one morning and was surprised to find a guy asleep inside without any pants on. The half-naked sleeper turned out to be Kim LeBlanc, who told police that he'd done drugs and was pretty sure a leprechaun had opened the car door and let him in. He offered no explanation as to why a leprechaun would have told him to wait inside a stranger's automobile, or where the aforementioned leprechaun had gone with his pants.
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"Well, you look like an honest guy. Let's just call it even and move on."


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In terms of gravity and electric fields, I'm not sure what the difference is between field strength and potential is and how they are related? Both using maths and not.
The field strength is the negative first derivative of the potential.
For example, in Cartesian coordinates, with electric potential $V = V(x,y,z)$, the electric field is:
$$ \boldsymbol E =-\nabla V= -\frac{\partial V}{\partial x}\boldsymbol i - \frac{\partial V}{\partial y}\boldsymbol j - \frac{\partial V}{\partial z}\boldsymbol k $$
Note that you can add or subtract an arbitrary constant potential to $V$ and it will not affect the field strength, since its derivative will be 0.
For the field/potential, you can calculate the force/energy by just multiplying by a charge. In terms of gravitational field, use $\boldsymbol g$ instead of $\boldsymbol E$, and you multiply by mass, rather than charge, to get $\boldsymbol F$.
A "physical" way to think of the derivatives is that they show how rapidly the potential changes in space; big changes in potential over a short distance make for big fields in the direction of maximum change.
Note that the relation between electric field and potential above is true only for static fields. The more general formula is:
$$ \boldsymbol E=-\nabla V-\frac{\partial\boldsymbol A}{\partial t} $$
where $\boldsymbol A$ is the magnetic vector potential.
The units of electric field should be a big hint here: Volts/meter. It is literaly the electric potential per unit length along the field vector.
In terms of electromagnetism, the potential is given by the gauge field $A_\mu$, whereas the field strength is given by $F_{\mu\nu}=\partial_\mu A_\nu-\partial_\nu A_\mu.$ The main difference is that the field itself is can be changed to a different value by a so-called gauge transformation (which is given by an element of the group $U(1)$), while the field strength itself is invariant (not changed) by it.
For gravity, one can find a similar structure: here the field strength corresponds to the Riemann tensor ${R^\mu}_{\nu\rho\sigma}$, from which one can construct a quantity that is invariant under a change of coordinates (which corresponds to the electromagnetic gauge transformation), i.e. the Ricci scalar $R$. The coordinates are represented by the metric tensor $g_{\mu\nu}$, and the relations between the aforementioned quantities are given by
\begin{equation}{R^\mu}_{\nu\rho\sigma}=\partial_\rho{\Gamma^\mu}_{\nu\sigma}-\partial_\sigma{\Gamma^\mu}_{\nu\rho}+{\Gamma^\mu}_{\lambda\rho}{\Gamma^\lambda}_{\nu\sigma}-{\Gamma^\mu}_{\lambda\sigma}{\Gamma^\lambda}_{\nu\rho},\end{equation} \begin{equation}{\Gamma^\mu}_{\nu\rho}=\frac12g^{\mu\sigma}(\partial_\rho g_{\nu\sigma}+\partial_\nu g_{\sigma\rho}-\partial_\sigma g_{\nu\rho}),\end{equation} \begin{equation}R_{\mu\nu}={R^\lambda}_{\mu\lambda\nu}\end{equation} and \begin{equation}R=R_{\mu\nu}g^{\mu\nu}.\end{equation}
$R_{\mu\nu}$ is the Ricci tensor and ${\Gamma^\mu}_{\nu\rho}$ is the Christoffel symbol. The latter can be interpreted as a gauge field for gravity. The analogy is even clearer if one considers the field strength of a non-abelian gauge symmetry. For example, the field strength of $SU(3)$ is given by \begin{equation}F_{\mu\nu}^{ab}=\partial_\mu A_\nu^{ab}-\partial_\nu A_\mu^{ab}+iA_\mu^{ac}A_\nu^{cb}-iA_\nu^{ac}A_\mu^{cb},\end{equation}
where $a$ and $b$ are indices that transform under SU(3).
Field strength determines the force in the Newton equation. It is responsible for the velocity changes.
The potential has no such a meaning - its absolute value is not important if kept constant throughout consideration. So its absolute value is a matter of convenience. It is involved in such a thing as the total energy. And the velocity absolute value will change only if the potential changes. A particle never feels the potential itself, but a force (a local potential difference in the direction of maximum potential change).
The local potential difference $\phi(x+\delta x)-\phi(x)\;$ divided by $\delta x\;$ with small $\delta x\;$ determines the field strength at $x$.
You have to view the field as a vector field, that is, for every point, you will have a vector, that is $E$, that represents the force that a unit charge will feel at that point, and the direction of the force. If you don't feel comfortable with Volts/meter units, then use N/C (Newtons/Coulomb) That if: force per unit charge, that happens to be the same as volts/meter.
The potential talks about energies. The potential is now a scalar field, that is: for every point in the space we have a number, that number represents the energy a unit charge would have if it was located there (potential electric energy). By definition the potentials are defined so their gradient is the force: $E=-\nabla V$, as someone said before, in units, we have that $N/C=[V]/m$, being $N$=newtons, $C$=coulombs, $m$=meter, and $[V]$ the units of our new potential unit, and we decide to call that volts, as you see, the measure of the electric field is the same as volts/meter: $V/m$
See it as the slope of the potential, that is how it's defined: $-\nabla V$, the field goes down/up $x$ volts per meter in point $P$.
In a region with electric potential $V$ that varies with position, the electric field $E$ points along the potential's direction of greatest decrease. A positive charge will naturally go towards points of lower electric potential, and so at any given position, it will feel a force proportional to the electric field at that point, for the $E$-field points downhill, so to speak, exactly where the particle is compelled to go.
You can imagine the $V$ field as determining a landscape with hills and valleys--the value of $V$ determines the heights of these hills and valleys. The $E$-field points along the unique direction that most quickly goes downhill.