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5 Dumb Ways People Have Won at Sports
The rulebook of your average professional sports league is more complicated than the tax code, with every possible scenario covered in excruciating detail. Chances are that if an athlete is thinking of cheating, the league has already devised 20 different ways to severely punish him -- which is of course because someone has invariably tried it before.
But, as many an athlete has proven, you don't need to cheat, per se; you just need to get creative. Some of the most interesting winning strategies seemingly kick logic, reason, and sanity right in their collective dicks, until you realize that they totally worked and were 100 percent by the book. Strategies such as ...
#5. Both Teams Try Winning a Soccer Game by Scoring on Their Own Goals
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There are few things more humiliating to an athlete than scoring an "own goal," which is when you kick/throw/vomit the ball into your team's goal, scoring a point for your opponent. It's the ultimate sports brain fart, the sort of thing you do in elementary school and never live down. But when Barbados' soccer team did it in 1994, it was pure, evil genius, and it set off one of the most bizarrely hilarious sequences in sports history.
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It's a rare evil genius that can still look sinister in colorful knee-high socks.
Barbados was playing Grenada in the Group round of the Caribbean Cup and was winning 2-0 with seven minutes to go. Grenada then scored, making it 2-1. Even though Barbados was still winning, they were actually losing. Their win would tie the two teams in the standings, but Grenada would win the tiebreaker based on having scored more in previous matches. Barbados had to win by at least two goals or else they were eliminated.
With three minutes to go and Barbados still only winning by one, the team got desperate. Unable to score, they decided to force overtime. Since they were technically winning, the only way to do this was to score on themselves. Which they absolutely did. They didn't even pretend it was an accident; the kicker just kinda dicked around his own net for a bit and then gently lobbed the ball in, his goalie standing there and picking his nose the entire time.
So what? If they score in overtime, it's still just 3-2, and they still don't advance, right? Well, here lies the true reason for this move: The Caribbean Cup scoring policy, which was apparently written after a weeklong rum bender, stated that overtime goals counted double. Not just for this match -- for all matches. That must have been some strong fucking rum, because what ensued due to this rule made a mockery of this (and all) sports.
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See, where Barbados needed overtime, Grenada needed to prevent it -- even it if meant losing. So now they started trying to score in their own goal, hoping to end the game by losing by only one goal, which of course would mean that they had won. Any dignity this match had left quickly went into the shitter as Grenada raced to score against themselves while Barbados was defending both sides of the field and attempting to score against themselves again. This four-minute farce finally ended when Barbados scored (miraculously against the other team this time), winning 4-2 and advancing to the next round.
Unfortunately for them, the mad scientists charged with devising their team strategy couldn't think of a new secret weapon, and they sure as shit couldn't use the old one any longer. As a result, Barbados was promptly crushed in the next round.
#4. Winning a Bicycle Race by Purposefully Falling Off Your Bicycle
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Next up is a story about using shady tactics in the Olympics, something that we'd have assumed never, ever, ever happens. But this isn't your usual tale of athletes doing so many performance-enhancing drugs that even Vince McMahon would stage an intervention.
"Steroids? No, I just filled my arms with old bungee cords."
Nineteen-year-old British bicyclist Philip Hindes was competing in a three-lap race during the 2012 London Olympics. Hindes got off to a crappy start and immediately realized that he had no hope in hell of catching up. But he didn't come this far, or train this hard, just to lose. He brushed off the mental dust gathering around his brain, envisioned victory anew, took a deep breath, and ...
... fell right on his ass. Now, you don't need to be an expert in racing rules to know that crashing normally means the rest of the racers just laugh at you and vanish over the horizon -- you've played Mario Kart. But in the Olympics, races restart after a crash. This meant that Hindes got a second chance to not look like a moron on national TV. And since he actually was a talented cyclist, he raced out of the starting gate this time around, cruising to victory and making everyone wonder if his childlike bumbling was really as hilarious/sad as it seemed.
Luckily, Hindes saved officials the trouble of investigating by immediately admitting that he crashed on purpose. As he put it, "We were saying if we have a bad start we need to crash to get a restart ... I just crashed, I did it on purpose to get a restart, just to have the fastest ride. I did it. So it was all planned, really."
Turns out we're better at cycling strategy than we thought.
Naturally, the International Olympic Committee, sick of the shady shenanigans that athletes were pulling (as opposed to simply being athletes), took one look at Hindes brazenly cheating and ... did absolutely nothing. They recognized his victory and let him keep his gold medal, with the rationalization that "fans were not deprived of any competition." Perhaps they were swayed by Hindes' retraction of his confession, where he insisted that he misspoke and that English was his second language. We presume his first language is made up of words carefully constructed by a team of handlers and a big guy with a pipe who "reminded" Hindes that he accidentally fell down and that he'd better make things right before he "accidentally" falls down again.
#3. Winning a Baseball Game by Running the Bases Backward
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Well, if accidentally scoring on your own goal is an elementary school mistake, running the bases backward in baseball is the kind of thing most of us grow out of in kindergarten. If your knowledge of numbers has advanced to the point where the Count from Sesame Street has nothing more to teach you, then you can grasp the concept of stealing bases. If you're on first, steal second. On second, steal third. On third, steal home. Baseball has a lot of complicated parts, but the base numbering system isn't one of them.
In fact, running the bases out of order is not only counterproductive, but illegal. However, there was no rule against it in 1908, so the Detroit Tigers gave it a shot.
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Apparently Wrong-Way Ronnie had a better understanding of the game than we gave him credit for as kids.
The Tigers' Germany Schaefer was on first base, with his teammate Davy Jones on third. Back then, a common strategy for such a situation was for the runner on first to steal second, forcing the catcher to throw the ball to get him out. Successful or not, this gave the guy on third ample opportunity to steal home and score a run -- basically, the guy stealing second is just creating a diversion for the guy on third. But when Schaefer and Jones tried it, the catcher simply held the ball, allowing Schaefer to advance to second while keeping Jones at third. Even by 1908, somebody had figured out that it's not worth giving up a run just to keep some asshole off second base.
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At this point, Schaefer turned to Jones and yelled, "Let's try it again!" With that, he ran backward and stole first base (successfully, since that act probably isn't even covered in baseball's how-to manual). Now that they were on first and third again, Schaefer turned right around to steal second. Again. But this time it worked; the catcher, flustered by the two men making a mockery of his sport, mindlessly lobbed the ball to center field, allowing Jones to steal home and win the game.
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Presumably he then turned around and retook third.
Unfortunately for the Tigers, they weren't allowed to perform an encore of this goofy act, as Major League Baseball banned backward base running exactly one day later. They did so using the angriest language that the writer of an impartial rulebook could possibly muster: "Any runner is out when, after he has acquired legal possession of a base, he runs the bases in reverse order for the purpose of confusing the defense or making a travesty of the game."


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The theta function of a lattice is defined to be $$ \vartheta_\Lambda = \sum_{v\in\Lambda} q^{{\Vert v\Vert}^2}$$ which yields as a coefficient of qk the number of vectors of norm-squared k.
On the other hand, the Jacobi theta function is given by $$ \vartheta(u,q) = \sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty u^{2n}q^{n^2}$$ and we have the obvious fact that if $\Lambda = \mathbb{Z}$ with its usual intersection form, then $\vartheta(1,q)$ is the theta function for that lattice.
We also have the fact that $\vartheta_{\Lambda_1 \oplus \Lambda_2} = \vartheta_{\Lambda_1}\vartheta_{\Lambda_2}$, and so we can decompose our theta functions into products of theta functions of primitive lattices.
Combining these facts, it is not entirely ridiculous to hope that there is some way to write, for a lattice of rank k, a ``theta function'' of the form $$\vartheta(u_1, \ldots, u_k, q)$$ such that $\vartheta(1, \ldots, 1, q)$ is the ordinary theta function of the lattice. In some sense, the u-variables keep track of the basis elements of the lattice which immediately raises the question as to well-definedness of such an idea; it is worth noting that for the lattice $\Lambda = \bigoplus_i\mathbb{Z}$ that this definition does make sense.
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I want to write on a computer topic which isn't covered by many existing books out there. What is the process of getting your book published?
The answer: yes, there is such a guide. There are many such guides, at the publishers' websites.
Now on to the dessert:
If the topic is on computers, no doubt you'd like a publisher like O'Reilly.
Here they have a step-by-step guide to getting published by them. I'm pretty sure several other computer science/technology related publishers will have guides on their sites, too.
So, being the publisher the author, I think we can count it as legitimate. And it is pretty straightforward, too.
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As I said before, if you're writing something that hasn't been covered, no doubt you'll want O'Reilly. But they'll ask you: why are you uniquely qualified for writing that book?
It was asked in a comment: what about fantasy or sci-fi? Answer: Tor dot com might be what you're looking for. I linked directly to their submissions guidelines' page. They don't want novels, just short fiction. But they link to Tor Books' submission guidelines. in case you have a longer work. Good luck and have fun!
I disagree with @iajrz. For non-fiction, you should write the proposal first. Publishers and agents do not want to deal with a fait accompli. Check out Larsen's book. It's a great walkthrough of the entire process.
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PNCA Remembers Faculty Emeriti Douglas Lynch
Pacific Northwest College of Art mourns the loss of one of its influential faculty members and one of Oregon's great artists and arts educators—Douglas Lynch—the designer of the Portland city flag and a Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist who designed and created The Timberline Lodge's legendary linoleum carved murals.
In 1946, Doug Lynch was hired to develop and establish a program of study in graphic and commercial design at PNCA (then known as the Museum Art School). He taught in the commercial design department at the College for 30 years—which has evolved over the decades into what is now the College's Communication Design program.
PNCA faculty emeriti, Doug Lynch led a remarkably creative life and influenced the creative lives of many of the region's top designers and artists. Many in the city's creative industries can trace their design lineage back through Doug Lynch and PNCA's design department.
Read the "Oregonian article":http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1240275309217940.xml&coll=7.
Caption: PNCA faculty emeriti Douglas Lynch with the Portland city flag. Photo courtesy of Fritz Liedtke.
Lights Over the River
Native Portlander Hap Tivey visited Pacific Northwest College of Art on the evening of April 11 to meet several PNCA students for a large outdoor light installation. A group of BFA and MFA students assisted Tivey with the project involving various spaces along the Eastbank Esplenade between the Morrison and Hawthorne bridges. Large cement culverts were illuminated with glow sticks visible from the West side of the Willamette river.
Visit Hap Tivey's Web site for more information on his recent light exhibitions.
Podcast: FATE Lecture with Okwui Enwezor
Award-winning international curator and artistic director Okwui Enwezor delivered the keynote address on April 3 for the CONFLUENCE 2009 Foundations in Art: Theory & Education (FATE) Biennial Conference.
Pacific Northwest College of Art professor and FATE conference co-chair Mary Preis delivered the keynote introduction.
FATE is a national association dedicated to the promotion of excellence in the development and teaching of college-level foundation courses in both studio and art history.
Listen to Enwezor's lecture entitled "Studio, Lab, Study and the World: Art and Education in a Global World."
Read PORT's April 24 "interview":http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2009/04/interview_with_4.html with Enwezor.
Podcast: David Yow
The Pacific Northwest College of Art Communication Design program hosted an interview and presentation with musician and designer David Yow on April 8 in the PNCA Swigert Commons.
After an introduction by Aaron Draplin of "Draplin Design Co.":http://www.draplin.com/ Paul Anthony of "Rumblefish":http://www.rumblefish.com/index.php interviews Yow on Yow's past as the frontman of Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard and Qui and his transformation to "the best photo-retoucher in the world." Afterward, Yow gives a lively presentation of his photo retouching portfolio, accompanied with audience snacks.
To promote the event, PNCA Communication Design student David Roos and Draplin collaborated on a custom poster screenprinted by Pete McCracken of "Crack Press":http://www.crackpress.com/. Yow autographed the posters for audience members following the interview.
Listen to a podcast of "Talk: An Intimate Evening with David Yow."
Art Prize in Honor of W.J.T. Mitchell
Pacific Northwest College of Art recently held an Idea Studio Art Prize Competition in honor of the iconology and visual studies scholar W.J.T. Mitchell. Professor Mitchell lectured on "The Future of the Image" for a PNCA+FIVE Idea Studio.
A total of 12 students submitted their artwork for consideration for the Art Prize. Matthew Wilson, MFA in Visual Studies '09, was chosen to present his illustration piece entitled "Surrogates #4" to Professor Mitchell at the conclusion of the lecture.
Watch the full video (206 MB, Quicktime Video) of Professor Mitchell's lecture and art prize award.
Designer for Obama Administration Talks with PNCA Marketing Class
Portland-based designer Aaron Draplin recently spoke with PNCA Communication Design students about his work for the Obama Administration.
Learn more about Draplin and his work. He is currently featured in Creativity magazine, read "Heavy Industry":http://creativity-online.com/?action=news:article&newsId=135415.
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If found guilty, the death penalty could be the fate of a man accused of murdering a pregnant woman in Allen County.
The Allen County Circuit Clerk's Office says a notice of intent has been filed by the Allen County Commonwealth Attorney to seek the death penalty against 34-year-old Charles Copass.
Copass is accused of murdering 22-year-old Chelsey Mahaney in June.
Mahaney's body was found stabbed several times in Copass' home.
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Colds, Allergies, and Asthma: How Do You Tell Which Is Which?
Q: How can I tell if my four-and-a-half-year-old has a cold, allergies, or asthma?
A: It can be difficult to sort these diagnoses out, particularly in the winter. Most children this age have three to six colds over the winter, with symptoms lasting one to two weeks for each cold. The symptoms of a cold usually start with a runny nose that lasts five to seven days and possibly a low-grade fever. The cough usually starts a day or two after the runny nose, and can continue for up to two weeks. Once the cold is over, however, there should be no symptoms, at least until she gets her next cold, which may only be a few weeks away.
With allergies, children usually have a runny nose that does not seem to wax and wane, as a cold does. The runny nose is more constant, with thin clear drainage. Children may have frequent sneezing as well. Some children with allergies will not have a runny nose, however, and may just have nasal stuffiness.
Asthma can be related to allergies, and while children typically wheeze as the manifestation of their asthma, some kids will only cough. If the symptoms of cough only occur with exercise, that is another warning sign that there may be some asthma. Coughing that is more prominent at night is also suggestive of asthma. The other thing to remember is that asthma is also a familial disease. If one parent or sibling in a family has asthma, eczema, or hayfever, then that child is more likely to have asthma.
If your child's symptoms do not seem to resolve completely between episodes, then I would be concerned that there is more than a cold. Talk with your child's doctor if this is true or you feel that she has signs of allergies or asthma, as effective treatments and preventive measures are readily available.
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Shari Nethersole is a physician at Children's Hospital, Boston, and an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Yale University and Harvard Medical School, and did her internship and residency at Children's Hospital, Boston. As a pediatrician, she tries to work with parents to identify and address their concerns.


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From a technical perspective, what exactly is RAW and how does it differ from JPG or bitmap images? I'm not asking about the pros/cons versus another format, but rather what constitutes RAW format, how is the data stored, how does it differ from JPG (other than lack of compression), and how is it different than bitmap?
RAW is data that is extracted from the camera at an earlier stage of processing.
This allows further processing to be carried out later on a computer at will. Notably, it avoids the lossy processing steps of demosaicing, sharpening/noise reduction, and JPEG compression being permanently applied to the resulting image file before it leaves the camera.
When you take a photo:
Here's what happens when you take a photo, and at what stages of processing the RAW and JPEG images are extracted.
More about the RAW format
To create the RAW file, raw data from steps 1 to 4 above is assembled into a file format, which is usually a proprietary file format based on the TIFF format. The data is sometimes compressed using a simple lossless compression algorithm and sometimes part of it is also encrypted.
Within the RAW file, the camera embeds a whole lot of metadata, with all the information necessary to do the extra processing steps later according to the camera's settings. This includes information like what white balance, sharpening and contrast settings are selected in the camera. RAW software can then choose to follow this advice or ignore it.
The camera also embeds a small JPEG file into the RAW file, which it can then use when playing back the image in the in-camera "play" mode. This embedded JPEG adds a little to the size of RAW file but it means the camera doesn't have to apply all that processing every time the image is viewed in play mode. RAW processing software on computers largely ignores the embedded JPEG, though some software may use it for a fast preview mode or for generating fast thumbnails. It is generally a fairly low quality JPEG, good enough for previewing only.
Raw files aren't really images as such, but the data straight off of the camera's sensor. I think of it as freezing the state of the camera immediately after the exposure has finished, and bundling it up into a file, normally with some kind of lossless compression. The wikipedia article provides a fair amount of detail about the sort of thing that's recorded, but as a guide I'd say:
Bear in mind that there is no single Raw format, and all camera manufacturers are free to bundle up this sort of data in their own way. Adobe is trying to promote its DNG (Digital Negative) format, which I personally use, as a standard RAW format. A few cameras can output DNG, but most have to be converted. I do this on import into Lightroom, as one of the advantages is that it can store Lr edit data within the file, and not require xml sidecars. Another advantage of DNG is that it tends to result in smaller file sizes than native Raw files.
I would imagine that because of how most sensors are built with a Bayer filter-type design, the data from the sensor just contains levels from each photo-site on the sensor. A bitmap, for example, would have combined the RGB sites to form a single pixel.
RAW is a copy of the data from the sensor. JPEG has been refined.
A RAW file is a direct dump of the data which the camera captures.
The heart of a digital camera is a light-sensitive chip known as a sensor.
A JPEG file, on the other hand, is both a standard file format, and has had some refinement applied to the image to make it look better. These refinements include correcting for white balance and sharpenning. Also, a JPEG has typically had some compression appiled. So the process of creating a JPEG discards data which was originally present on the sensor, and which will be preserved in a RAW file.
Both a RAW file and a JPEG are kinds of bitmaps (they both represent individual pixels).
Many cameras are capable of generating both a JPEG and a RAW file for each image.
When to use each
JPEG is better if
RAW is better if
I have skipped some of the details here (see comments) in order to make the basics clear.
I think this question can better be answered by wikipedia for the most technical aspects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format.
In general, RAW is the exact output of the sensor. It can be compressed, or not, but the main difference between JPEG and RAW is that RAW is a loss-less format. JPEG has an 8-bit per pixel depth, while RAW can have as many bits as the sensor has. So, in order to get from RAW to JPEG you have to lose a LOT of information to get from, let's say, 12-bit per pixel to 8-bit per pixel.
RAW formats are what cameras use. After that, when you are post-processing you would use a TIF format to maintain as much information as possible. TIF is also a loss-less format and it will keep the same bit depth as RAW.
If you took a look at the image that your camera initially takes, you'd be disappointed in it. After an image is taken, the photo is run through what you can think of as post-processing within the camera to boost the color, contrast, sharpness, etc.
When you shoot in RAW you get roughly the same image as you would with JPG, but you get all the data necessary to "undo" all that in-camera post-processing so that you can do it differently yourself if you want to.
When you shoot in JPG, the camera records the data, processes the image, then deletes that "undo" data to save room on your memory card.
Or if you want to qualify in a degree in RAW and camera processing check out these videos from the Google PhotoTechEDU talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=7SuDOMhUUMg&feature=PlayList&p=F7C5C8C217CF2E13&index=1&playnext=1


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The Franklin merchants officially kicked off their holiday shopping season this weekend.
The downtown shops teamed up Sunday for a holiday open house.
One merchant says this is one of her busiest days of the year, because an event like this diverts people away from the malls.
She says over 400 customers came to her store from places like Nashville, Bowling Green, and Franklin.
"It's a pleasure to come to a small town and have that slower pace enjoyable experience," says Robin Swanson, owner of Gallery on the Square.
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Roswell UFO Festival
Do you have sci-fi fans in your household? Encourage their interests and experience a wacky vacation at the annual Roswell UFO Festival, held every year in early July around the anniversary of the alleged Roswell Incident. Come in costume if you wish, and join the parade. Attend lectures by famous authors and researchers, or watch up-and-coming bands perform. Even if you're not a believer, you can still enjoy the artwork, music, and rampant celebration.
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Beanbag Buddies
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Decorate mitten with cutout shapes from felt and fabric pieces. Mitten can be made to look like an animal, person, or abstract design. Glue felt or fabric shapes on securely. Fill the mitten with a handful of dried beans or rice. Have an adult stitch up the opening of the glove so that none of the beans or rice can escape. Bean bag buddies can be cuddled, tossed, or played with.
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6 Badass Tricks You Can Do With Fire (That Might Kill You)
#3. Jelly Jar Pulse Jet Engine
That's right, anyone with the desire to duct tape a glass bomb to a skateboard and a predilection for total physical disfigurement can create a miniature jet engine with model airplane fuel and an empty jar!
Once lit, the vapor in the jar quickly catches fire and expands, escaping through the hole in the lid but preventing the next "charge" from igniting until it has been released, at which point cool clean air enters, promptly explodes and starts the whole cycle over again until the fuel is exhausted. Or until something goes horribly wrong.
During this reaction, the jar makes a noise that sounds like it could explode at any second, probably because it can explode at any second. The video urges you to wear goggles in case of this event, and while we are by no means scientists, we're pretty sure you need more than three inches of plastic over your eyes to defend against white-hot exploding glass fragments.
Unless you are Luke Cage.
In theory, you can strap a few of these to something small with wheels and watch it roll off. You can also just, you know, push something small with wheels and watch it roll off. It probably won't explode, then.
#2. Ruben's Tube
A Ruben's Tube is a length of pipe with several holes drilled in it, hooked up to a speaker and a propane source. Sounds played through the speaker send jets of flame along the pipe in the shape of the sound waves. After all the destruction we've featured so far, this one is actually kind of nerdawesome.
Get a length of pipe with holes drilled every 3/4 of an inch, seal it on both ends and hook it up to a speaker and a bottle of propane. Turn on the gas, light it, then play some Slayer through the speaker and watch the most metal display of physics you will ever see. These folks at MIT made a video of the Ruben's Tube playing "Still Alive" from Portal:
The tube works because the sound passing through creates nodes and antinodes in sync with the holes. Basically, the peaks and valleys of the sound wave match up with the holes in the tube, so as the wave changes, more or less gas is ejected, changing the height of each flame on the tube.
Fun fact: One of the scientists whose research helped Heinrich Rubens to devise his titular device was named August Kundt. Oh, the jokes that might have been.
My Kundt's Tube is burning.
#1. Make a Fire Tornado
If you've ever watched any specials on forest fires or news reports about the pile of oil soaked rags known as southern California, you might have seen a fire tornado before. Nothing on earth looks so much like the finger of God come down to mete out some smiting like a swirling pillar of flame.
"I guess maybe if we came at it from the side? Just kidding fellas, I'm not getting anywhere near that fucking thing."
All you need to make a small scale version is a Lazy Susan, some lighter fluid, a dish, a sponge and some screen. Also, being impervious to flame would help, because the chance of this thing spilling and killing everyone around you is pretty high.
This is pretty much like setting a merry-go-round on fire, though hopefully without any burning children. When the lighter fluid-soaked sponge spins, the fire naturally turns with it. The screen tube allows the fire to breathe while spinning the air above it, which results in the spiraling jet of flame that the guy in the video seemingly can't wait to shove his face into.
Not pictured: logic, reason.
In nature, fire tornadoes are a lot less fun--in Tokyo back in 1923, a fire tornado killed 38,000 people in less than 15 minutes. Regular tornados just do not compare, because if Dorothy was carried off to Oz in a rampaging conical chariot of flames, the Wicked Witch would've just left her the fuck alone.
Find more from David at Associated Content.
For more disturbing ways humans are using science to make them look like wizards, check out 7 Man-Made Substances That Laugh in the Face of Physics and 5 Scientific Ways to Make Water Do Magic..
And stop by Cracked.com's Top Picks or we'll light your ass on fire right now.


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Shylock Sings the Blues: The Story of a Man Who Stands up to Bigotry
Vermont-based lyricist and illustrator David Sokol and composer Dennis Willmott replace Shakespeare's iambic pentameter and prose with blues, rock, and country songs in a contemporary re-telling of Shylock's story. Set in 1950s Venice, New Jersey, we hear Shylock's story about his determination to stand up to bigotry at any cost.
The music Shylock Sings the Blues has received widespread acclaim and was performed this year at the Burlington Jazz Festival.
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BELLMEAD (December 5, 2012)--A variety of holiday community events are scheduled for Thursday in Bellmead.
Beginning at 5:30 p.m. refreshments will be served and Christmas music will be heard next to city hall.
A short presentation will follow and the mayor will read The Christmas Story at around 5:55 p.m.
A tree lighting ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. and the Bellmead 62nd annual Knights of Columbus Christmas Parade is set for 7 p.m.
The parade will start at the intersection of Loop 340 and Bellmead Drive and after going up Bellmead Drive it will end where the road intersects with Hogan Lane.


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UMWA in Action
UMWA President Roberts statement on Senate HELP Committee report on Crandall Canyon disaster
March 6, 2008
CONTACT: Phil Smith, 703-208-7241
UMWA statement on Senate HELP Committee Crandall Canyon report
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today:
   "The report released today by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP Committee) on the tragedy last August at Murray Energy's Crandall Canyon mine in Utah underscores the need for the enhanced mine safety and health protections that are included in the Supplemental MINER Act (S-MINER) that passed the House of Representatives last year.
   "The report says that the mining plan that led to the cave-in at the mine was flawed and should not have been submitted by the company nor approved by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), which echos what the UMWA has said from the very outset of the investigation into the tragedy. Language in the S-MINER Act would strengthen MSHA's oversight regarding mining plans and provide extra accountability with respect to those who review and approve such plans.
   "The report also indicates that the mine's operator, Bob Murray, far overstepped his bounds before the tragedy occurred, and that MSHA did not take the proper action to stop him–indeed, the report says that Murray 'bullied MSHA and got away with it.'
   "The S-MINER Act contains language that clarifies and strengthens MSHA's role and responsibilities in emergency situations and in providing information to the families of miners who are caught in an emergency. The S-MINER Act also gives the agency more tools to use against operators who have a consistent pattern of violations of the law and regulations.
   "We urge the HELP Committee to now take up the S-MINER Act as soon as possible and send it on to the full Senate. American coal miners are still dying just because they went to work. We need the enhanced protections the S-MINER Act provides. The terrible events at Crandall Canyon must never be forgotten and never be repeated.â€
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Do you recall when the TimThumb exploit occurred? Which versions of WordPress bundled with this exploit? I need to inform a client that they should be upgrading to at least the version of WP when this exploit was patched.
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What are "Community Wiki" posts?
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The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance is considering establishing a hotline for worshippers to report "mistakes on the part of the preacher" during sermons, Saudi Gazette reported today.
Dr. Tawfiq bin Abdulaziz Al-Sudairi, Undersecretary of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance for Mosque Affairs, Call and Guidance, said the hotline will be set up "should the need arise", and would serve to compliment the current system by which the ministry currently receives "any observations directly from worshippers via telephone or fax," the daily reported.
Dr. Al-Sudairi added that "errors" in sermons had not reached serious levels following the establishment of the Mosque Care Program to review procedures, and that the majority of khateeb (preachers) are adhering to the Sunna in Friday sermons and are committed to the ministry's guidelines.
The Mosque Care Program, Dr. Al-Sudairi said, has "been a great success in improving sermons and putting right certain aspects which have been noted, and the program is continuing in its work and will not stop."


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A funeral service for Larry L. Cushman, age 74, of Springerton, was held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 23, 2013, at Stendeback Family Funeral Home in Enfield. Family and friends visited together from 3 until 7 p.m. Saturday in the funeral home chapel.
Soloist Linda Duckworth opened the service by singing "Go Rest High On That Mountain." She also sang "Long Black Train" and "Amazing Grace." Pastor Keith Moore shared prayer and memories. Pastor Larry Woodrow delivered the message.
Josh Griesemer, Zach Cushman, Dusty Cushman, Logan Rose, Dustin Rose, Nicholas Rose, Sean York, and Wesley York served as pallbearers at Springerton Cemetery where Mr. Cushman was buried. Megan Cushman, Tanner Rose, and Gavin Griesemer were honorary pallbearers. Condolences may be left at stendebackfamilyfuneralhome.com.
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5 Bizarre Accidents That Helped Invent Modern Medicine
We like to think that medicine is an exact science, as the adjective "haphazard" doesn't exactly inspire confidence when it's applied to people who have the power to stick their fingers up our ugly bits. But it turns out that some of the greatest discoveries in modern medicine didn't come about as a consequence of hundreds of dedicated doctors slaving away for hours in a lab. They occurred because people are often stupid, lazy, incompetent, unlucky or accident-prone.
And some of those people happen to be doctors.
#5. Luigi Galvani, Frogs and Electricity Accidentally Discover How Muscles Work
There's something intrinsically hilarious about the life of Luigi Galvani. First off, his ringlets were so fat you could stuff hot dogs into them. Secondly, he hailed from the University of Bologna. Yeah, the school is historical and prestigious and blah blah blah. Nothing changes the fact that "bologna" is right there in the name.
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We weren't kidding, man. Bun and all.
And finally, Galvani loved dissecting him some frogs. Like, all the time. If dead frogs were Mario, Luigi Galvani would be Luigi. So one day, Luigi was just doin' how he do, dissecting a frog to prove that its balls were in its legs, when he forgot that the metal table holding the splayed dead frog was the same metal table previously used for static electricity experiments. And that his dissecting instruments were also made of metal. So when Galvani's assistant touched the frog's sciatic nerve with his electrically charged scalpel, that dead frog leg twitched like it was suffering withdrawal from frog meth.
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It wasn't the accurate location of frog testicles, that's for sure. After a few more experiments involving electricity and frog legs ...
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... that smelled like chicken ...
... Luigi Galvani and his assistant were the first people to see that it's electricity, not air or water, that moves muscles. This was HUGE, because up to this point, the smartest guys in the world believed that nerves were hollow tubes that functioned as channels for something and that this something was what spurred muscles into action.
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When people are stumped, "a series of tubes" is the logical go-to explanation.
Some guys thought it was fluid, and others thought it was air, but no one thought it was electricity. It took an Italian guy with a frog fetish and a memory problem to figure it out. From Galvani's discovery that electricity exists within the body came a whole new branch of science, not to mention the notion that with enough electricity, one could theoretically reanimate a corpse. In other words, without Luigi Galvani and his laughably negligent lab techniques, the world would have never known the joys of Franken Berry cereal.
#4. A Failed Heartbeat Detector Is an Accidental Pacemaker
Who among us hasn't spent a lazy Saturday morning wishing they could implant a tiny microphone into their thoracic cavity to record the sound of their own beating heart? We've all been there. But unlike most of us, former Navy radio operator Wilson Greatbatch thought he could get the job done. In 1958, Greatbatch created a tiny little one-transistor electric circuit to record the sound of a beating heart from inside the body. However, since this was the '50s, said components were still in the "What's this shit? Is it magic?" stage of public understanding, and Wilson used the wrong transistor.
"Is it a fork? Doesn't matter -- just chuck it in there."
Instead of recording heartbeats, the device promptly started sending out pulses at a rhythm of 60 to 70 a minute -- which is a very heartbeaty rate indeed.
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Wilson Greatbatch had just invented the world's first pacemaker, which, in retrospect, was probably a lot more bitchin' than inventing the first internal body-noise recorder.
In the world of diseases of the heart, coronaries are the big men on campus, followed closely by "total eclipses of the." One that you don't usually hear much about is heart block, which is shocking, because it's an electrical heart disease. If you have heart block, you have a version of arrhythmia. In this version, the electrical pulse that controls the rate and rhythm of your heartbeat is all jacked up. At the time of Greatbatch's transistor mix-up, there was only one way to treat heart block: by hooking you up to a television-size machine and zapping the bejeezus out of you:
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Which used to be the same basic therapy for insanity.
The machine may have saved your life, but it also burned your skin and hurt like a mofo. So it was inconvenient, to say the least. Greatbatch's device, on the other hand, not only took control of the heartbeat through its electrical pulses but also was small enough to plug into the heart cavity itself. After two years of testing, Wilson licensed his technology to a company that got right to work saving hearts through electricity. Fifty years later, millions of people have had pacemakers implanted, and Wilson Greatbatch is still out there, looking as Mr. Magooey as ever.
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"Which one of you bitches wants to ride the Greatbatch Express? The answer is all of you."
#3. An Addict Discovers the Key to Painless Surgery
Think back on your college days, or, if you're like a lot of our readers, think about your life right now. Chances are you've got at least one friend who is more likely to be found hitting the upside-down beer bong than hitting the books. And if you don't have that friend, look in the mirror, because it's you. You probably would have got on well with 18th-century poet, chemist and inventor Humphry Davy.
"I could totally smoke some shit out of that."
But the thing about Davy was that he wasn't just an incorrigible party boy -- he was also sort of a self-taught genius, notorious for conducting experiments on himself. And in 1799, he thought he'd try his hand at finding the cure for hangovers by getting his fool ass addicted to nitrous oxide. He not only launched a laughing-gas craze among the upper crust but also published a scientific paper documenting the effects of the gas, which was taken seriously by just about no one.
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First meeting of the "Shit Fucks You Up" club.
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At one point, Davy found himself with a raging toothache. He sucked on a little nitrous, as he probably would have done anyway on account of his addiction, and discovered that the pain of the toothache floated away like a newspaper kite on a windy day. So at the end of his paper Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, Davy offers one throwaway line casually suggesting the gas could be used for painless surgeries.
As opposed to their usual pain reliever: two bottles of whiskey.
And nobody believed him. Not only did no one believe him, but doctors at the time thought pain during surgery was a good thing; a patient's yelps encouraged doctors to get faster and more efficient, apparently, and it was believed that the pain would somehow help patients heal themselves post-surgery. It took 40 whole years before anyone revisited Davy's idea that surgery didn't have to hurt. And it's fortunate that someone did -- otherwise, most of us would be walking around with teeth that looked like a spilled bottle of Tic Tacs.


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WHEELING - Ohio Valley Medical Center recently was awarded the American College of Radiology designation as a Breast-Imaging Center of Excellence, making it the only breast imaging center in the Ohio Valley and only the third in the state to receive the national designation.
By awarding facilities the status of BICOE, the ACR recognizes breast-imaging centers that have earned accreditation in the College's entire voluntary, breast imaging accreditation programs in addition to the Mammography Accreditation Program. Nationally, Center for Excellence status has been granted to only 919 other facilities across the country.
"It's exciting to be the first facility in our area to be designated as a Center of Excellence, but more than that, it is rewarding to know that we are exceeding industry standards and expectations to do what is right for patients in our community," said Vicki Novick, director of radiology and imaging services at OVMC and East Ohio Regional Hospital. "We are extremely proud of our dedicated physicians and staff who have worked so hard to help us achieve this important designation and their efforts to providing each of our patients with high quality and compassionate care."
The breast imaging services at OVMC are fully accredited in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound and ultrasound-guided breast biopsy. Peer-review evaluations, conducted in each breast imaging modality by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field, have determined the facility has achieved high practice standards in image quality, personnel qualifications, facility equipment, quality control procedures and quality assurance programs. Ohio Valley Medical Center was the area's first hospital to perform digital mammography screenings and stereotactic breast biopsy procedures.
"Being named a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the ACR assures patients that we are a premier provider of comprehensive breast imaging services," she said, adding the designation "reflects our dedication to providing patients with the best possible care."
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Even after great deal of research, I was unable to find any way of copying entire database from one server instance to another.
In MS-SQL this is usually done through "backup database" and "restore database" sql query. We can even use external tools such as Management studio to create scripts.
But, How this can be done in Oracle 11g express? Any ideas??


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Is there a saying that could be explained as 'those who find faults with other people tend to be blind to their own faults?' As with people who are picky; their criticism of others often applies to themselves.
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Is there a saying like 'those who find faults with other people tend to be blind to their own faults'?
...which indicates that a pot hanging over the fire will be just as black (that is, in the same state) as a kettle. There are a number of variations on that saying; it's so well-known that generally it suffices simply to mention "pot" and "kettle" in the same sentence.
And the Bible has something to say on it, eg in Matthew 7.
Again, the last sentence is so well-known that simply reminding someone [using the King James Version] to take the beam out of their own eye will often be enough.
Matthew 7:3
(King James version)
The standard variant is:
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People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
This is a classic, in English and other languages alike:
Matthew 7:3 is the inspiration.
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Food is an important part of Italian life. Italians usually take their time when eating lunch and dinner. Italian meals consist of many courses: first there's an antipasto (appetizers, or "before the meal"), then il primo (first plate), il secondo (second plate), contorni (vegetable side dish), and then i dolci (the dessert). The antipasto usually consists of cold cuts, the primo consists of a pasta or rice dish, or soup, the secondo consists of a meat or fish dish, the contorni consists of a vegetable dish or salad. Italians tend to eat lunch later than Americans do, and dinner is after 8pm. The meal is usually accompanied by a good glass of wine. Breakfast in Italy is not considered an important meal, and if anything, Italians usually just eat fette biscotte (similar to a sweet-cracker) with jam, or a pastry with espresso. And since Italians take the time to enjoy their food, it is almost impossible to order coffee on the go. On that note, you will never see Italians eating while they are walking on the street. If people are in a rush, they will eat standing up.
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Tips are merit-based in Italy, not standard like in the U.S. You are not obligated to tip, but remember, your server probably knows you're American, and knows that you would tip in your own country. It never hurts to leave a few extra euro for good service.
If you order meat, it may come out fairly rare. If you ask for 'well-done,' the chances are that you will get meat far less than well-done by American standards.
Realize that there is very little fried food in a Tuscan diet. If you see calamari on a menu without the word fritti, understand that it may come out sautéed or without any breading.
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If you run ls -l on a file that contains one letter, it will list as 2B in size. If your file system is in 4k blocks, I thought it rounded files up to the block size? Is it because ls -l actually reads the byte count from the inode? In what circumstances do you get rounded up to block answers vs actual byte count answers in Linux 2.6 Kernel GNU utils?
I guess you got that one letter into the file with
(note that
In contrast to
To have
The first column is the allocated size, again in units of 1kiB. Last can be changed by specifying
I think that the deep answer is the following:
As the other answers show, in principle a file created with two bytes has length two bytes (show by
(the first command add 8191 zero bytes to
Some filesystem can also compact short files so that they occupy less space by sharing blocks (see for example tail packing) and others like btrfs do copy on write, so the relationship between a file, its logical length, and how much space it occupies on a disk is a complex one.
(1) It is not really a hole, it is at the end... but still, it works to the end of the example.
As we can see the size of the file is listed as 2B. However, if you need to check the block size, you need to run the below command.
The 4 above displays the block size used. We can also verify the same using the
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9 Horrifying Foods You Won't Believe People Actually Eat
You've probably heard the term "comfort food" -- warm homestyle meals made of familiar dishes that remind you of home and childhood and immediately put you in a good mood. Macaroni and cheese, maybe tomato soup and grilled cheese -- that sort of thing.
These are the extreme motherfucking opposite of that.
#9. The Octopus That Squirms While You Eat It
Have you ever read one of H.P. Lovecraft's chilling tales of unfathomable horror and thought "sounds delicious"? Then you'd probably enjoy the Japanese and Korean delicacy known as odori don. It's literally a live squid or octopus dumped on your plate and served to you, its legs still thrashing around in the sauce.
Here, Ock tries to recreate a scene from Flashdance.
Well, it's not alive in the strictest sense, because they remove the thing's brain before they slap it onto the plate. They're not monsters. But by the time it hits your table, it was alive so recently that it still flaps its tentacles around and tries to escape when you pour soy sauce over it. What's happening here, besides your own nightmares being harvested and served to you on a platter, is that the octopus' nerves and muscles are still active and spring to life when they come into contact with salt, like the salt in soy sauce.
Evidently, those who partake of this and other types of sannakji say that it's the sensation of the tentacles writhing about inside your mouth that creates the appeal, rather than the fairly bland taste. Because you really know that your seafood is fresh when it's trying to fight its way out of your mouth.
Here, Ock tries to get fresh with this man.
Of course, if you care to try it, you should probably be aware that sannakji carries a not insignificant risk of death. Being that an octopus' tentacles are covered in powerful suction cups, this thing can and will grab onto the inside of your throat and lodge itself there, choking you. The danger posed by the still-squirming cephalopods means that it's banned in some countries, like Australia. Even they have a line.
#8. The Severed Human Toe Cocktail
The sourtoe cocktail is a versatile drink, in that the liquid part can be whatever you like. Whatever helps you cope with what you're about to do, really. Honestly, we're thinking it doesn't matter a whole lot, because even if your wondrous elixir is so perfectly potent and gloriously flavored that it'd knock Dionysus himself flat on his probably-already-drunk ass, what you've made is not a sourtoe cocktail until you drop a disembodied human toe in it.
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And not the pinky toe. It's gotta be Big Bob.
The Canadian bar that serves the toes doesn't want anyone getting anything more than psychologically ill from their delightful beverage, so the digits are first drained of all bodily fluids and pickled. Yes, this means you won't die unless you choke on it, but it also changes its appearance from "severed human toe" to "gangrenous severed human toe."
"But ... why?!" we hear you say. Basically, in 1973, Captain Dick Stevenson found some guy's frostbitten toe floating in a jar of moonshine in some cabin somewhere. After concluding that it probably belonged to a Yukon moonshine runner and dated back to the 1920s, he said to himself, "That needs to be in a drink," and the sourtoe cocktail was born. The best part? There's a rule if you drink it: "You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but the lips have gotta touch the toe." No swallowing, though, because severed toes are hard to find.
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Luckily, it's northwest Canada, so "frostbitten" is a whole advertising demographic.
#7. Shrimp That Twitch on Your Plate
So maybe you thought the "live" octopus earlier was a cop-out -- it didn't have its brain, after all, so it was just nerves firing in response to the liquid. No, you want your seafood alive, damn it, and wriggling on the plate. But you don't want it to suffer. Good news! In Japan and China, they have a solution: They make shrimp more pliable to the idea of being eaten alive by getting them shitfaced drunk first.
Trying the same thing on your date is immoral and illegal.
"Drunken shrimp" is a dish that slaps subtlety right in the face and provides exactly what it promises. The live shrimp twitching listlessly on your plate have been soaked in either sake or a Chinese spirit called baijiu, which is upwards of 100 proof and tastes a little worse than rocket fuel. This results in shrimp that are drunker than a German frat party. The alcohol is probably well appreciated, because eating the shrimp requires stripping off its shell and biting off its still twitching body, which is not something you want to happen to you when you're stone sober.
Apparently, in addition to making the shrimp pleasantly amenable to death, the liquor makes them super thirsty, so they eagerly suck up whatever marinade your chef chooses to soak them in. Plus you imbibe a few shots of powerful booze right along with your meal, transferring the shrimp's intoxication to yourself in the most terrifyingly roundabout way possible.
An ogre eats you next, and the circle of booze continues.
#6. Fruit Bat Soup
This is really just a colossal middle finger to the concept of food preparation. The entire process for preparing fruit bat soup, as it's enjoyed in Guam, is as follows: rinse off the bat, boil it, chop some vegetables (sometimes), douse everything in coconut milk, serve. Notice how "shave the bat" is conspicuously absent from that list. Fur is eaten along with eyes, wings, and just about everything else that's not bone.
It's not a bad idea because it offends our delicate sensibilities; it's a bad idea because eating this is a marvelous way to punch holes in your brain. When they're alive, these bats eat plants that are known to cause neurological diseases in humans, so when you take a bat with a belly full of poison seeds and toss it right into your stew, it doesn't take a doctor to figure out what's going to happen next.
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But it does take a doctor to cure you. Just kidding! There is no cure.
Parkinson's isn't even the worst part; it's actually only a third of the neurological disorder you're likely to get from this. The other two-thirds are Lou Gehrig's disease and Alzheimer's, resulting in a cocktail of cerebral malfunctions known scientifically as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-Parkinson's dementia complex, or ALS-PDC for short. We're reasonably certain that a diagnosis that involves lumping together all of the words nobody ever wants to hear applied to their brain into one long, six-word string of awful for which nobody can even come up with a clever acronym means it's probably something bad.
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Still, the soup may reverse vampirism, so that's something.
#5. A Sea Urchin's Pulsating Gonads
Yep, it's another dish that will squirm its way right down your goddamned throat. And we can't promise this is the last one.
The sea urchin, or uni, is mostly about as inedible as it looks. It's already probably the least appetizing thing that you can imagine, being that it's not much more than a tennis-ball-size tangle of thorns.
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The softer parts aren't particularly inviting either.
But it's full of fleshy and reportedly delicious chunks that are, for all intents and purposes, its gonads. And if you're in the mood for some sweet, tasty urchin nuts, then you don't have to wait for the thing to die; you can just crack its shell open in a vice and tuck in as it squirms.
The human scrotum wiggles just like this, in case you were curious.
This isn't just some crazy bullshit they do in Japan, either -- you can find places in LA and San Diego that will serve you up some live urchin nuts.
Restaurants are eager to insist that the urchins don't have brains or nervous systems, so they don't feel a thing while you're gorging yourself on their most intimate parts. That's got to be the bare minimum in terms of a selling point when you're inviting people to scoop the nut sack right out of a slimy, moving bowl of spikes and chew on it.


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WASHINGTON—Inside the Supreme Court, the lawyers and justices were debating gay marriage. Outside, in louder voices, a large crowd was doing the same.
The case regarding California's Proposition 8 has been more than four years in the making, and many in the crowd had waited a long time for the chance to express their views outside the nation's highest court.
The crowd was tightly packed and lively, quickly gaining energy as the sun warmed the chilly morning air and a string of speakers delivered passionate speeches. Most participants carried signs, chanted slogans and wore stickers that made it easy to distinguish supporters from opponents of gay marriage.
The event was mostly peaceful, although one heated exchange broke out shortly after oral arguments began.
A parade of people opposed to gay marriage moved in a line through First Street in front of the court—some shouting "one man, one woman"—prompting supporters to try to drown them out. One man approached the opponents, accused them of being "bigots" and told them to "own their hate."
Heidi and Ferde Rombola traveled from Beverly, Mass., arriving on a bus that left at 10 p.m. the previous night. Ms. Rombola said she stood against gay marriage because she said the Bible identifies marriage as an institution reserved for men and women.
"If these people wish to get together in a partnership, they should be allowed to do that," Ms. Rombola said. "But we shouldn't call it marriage."
The Rev. Steve Clunn, a minister with the United Methodist Church, said the Bible preaches "love and inclusion." Wearing a multicolored stole that evoked the rainbow images symbolic of gay rights, Mr. Clunn said he changed his views on same-sex marriage after meeting gay and lesbian pastors.
"The more I listened to others and looked at what I was believing about the Bible and what the church should be doing, the more I realized I was wrong," he said.
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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Norman Neureiter, director of the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), will address "Reflections on Science and Science Policy" Sept. 24 at 4 p.m. at SUNY Geneseo. The address will be in Newton Hall Room 204 and is part of the college's annual "Celebrating the Sciences" event, which brings guest speakers, Geneseo science alumni and others to campus for perspective on their disciplines. All events are open to the public without charge.
Neureiter, a distinguished scientist, diplomat and international business executive, has been in the AAAS position since 2004. He is overseeing the effort to build new connections between scientists, research institutions and the federal policy makers involved with anti-terrorism efforts and other national security issues.
Before joining AAAS, Neureiter worked both in private industry and public service. He entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965 and was named deputy scientific attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. In 1967, he was transferred to Warsaw as the first U.S. scientific attaché in Eastern Europe with responsibility for Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Neureiter returned to Washington in 1969 as assistant for international affairs to the president's science adviser in the White House Office of Science and Technology.
In 1973, he joined Texas Instruments, where he held a number of staff and management positions. He was appointed the first science and technology adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State in 2000. In 2008, he received the Public Welfare Medal, which honors the "extraordinary use of science for public good."
Neureiter earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Rochester and a doctorate in organic chemistry from Northwestern University. His father, Paul Neureiter, came to Geneseo in 1937 as chair of the Division of Natural Sciences and played an important role in the development of the biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics departments and was responsible for the formulation of the geological sciences department. The Neureiter family established a scholarship in his memory for women science majors at Geneseo.
Geneseo's "Celebrating the Sciences" event will include tours of the Integrated Science Center and demonstrations in various labs, including the particle accelerator in the physics department. A panel of distinguished Geneseo alumni will reflect on their careers during four separate panel discussions at 2:30 p.m. in Newton Hall. The panelists include:
Mark Bookhout '75, president/physical therapist, Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Specialists, Inc. (Excelsior, Minn.)
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Can you stop benching (saying the grace after a meal) after al-yichasiranu (the end of the fourth blessing of the grace)?
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The mechaber brings "harahaman"s as an optional addition to Bircas HaMazone. Today the general Ashkenazic Minhag is to say it all unless you have one of the following two minhagim:
I believe there is also a source [help please!] that says, while on your employer's time, you should only say the first four berachot. this could be extended to other situations where time or kavana are limited.
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Have you noticed that your aging parents are receiving more mailings or phone calls from financial and insurance companies than ever? If so, take a moment to ask them about it. It may be one of the most important discussions you ever have.
Why? It's unfortunate, but true, that some sales companies aggressively target seniors in an effort to get them to purchase products that are ill suited to their needs. To help prevent your parents from falling victim to these predators, consider the following:
· Help your parents find a reputable financial professional — This will enable them to proactively address any financial concerns they may have.
· Attend the appointment — If your parents are comfortable having you participate, go with them. This will provide all of you with an opportunity to ask questions and get answers, enabling you to have a meaningful discussion with each other after you leave the financial professional's office.
· Read the fine print — Some investments don't allow you to access your money for a specified number of years — sometimes 10 or 15 years or more — without incurring penalties or early withdrawal fees. Although many of these investments may benefit younger investors, they can create financial hardship for investors who are older or in poor health.
· Help eliminate unwanted sales calls — Put your parents — and yourself — on the "Do Not Call" list by visiting www.donotcall.gov or calling 1 (888) 382-1222. And help reduce the amount of junk mail received by visiting www.dmachoice.org.
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Pilates are full body exercises that focus on strengthening your bodies inner core. The Pilates exercises that I have done before require no additional equipment. You don't need any special training, however they can be rather challenging! All you need is a good video.
Speaking of which, try this one, which is so appropriately named POP Pilates for Beginners - Total Body Workout.
Pilates was "invented" by Joseph Pilates, a German physical-culturist who, during the first half of the last century, came up with a system of core exercises that strengthen both the human body and mind. He was convinced that the health of these were interrelated. He published several books and gained more and more attention. In recent years the term "Pilates" has entered the mainstream and equipment is often both over-priced and over-rated...
Here is some advice for beginners (taken from this Pilates article):
In the above resource you'll also find that you don't have to buy the $3,000 reformer machines. There are several cheap (approx $100-$150) alternatives on Amazon. Once you have your new machine, you're going to want a trainer, and well trainers are not cheap. So here is what you do: subscribe to Pilates Anytime. It is a great website with hundreds of free pilates reformer classes.