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5 Mysterious Disappearances (That Were Elaborate Hoaxes)
We've all had those days when we just wanted to run away. Maybe the boss was being a jerk or the toilet overflowed after enchilada/laxative night. Maybe your best friend is an old Asian man who makes you do his housekeeping under the pretense of giving you martial arts lessons. Who are we to presume what troubles ail you? The point is, most of us suck it up and work through our issues.
Not these champs. When things got tough, they decided it was time to disappear under the cover of a grossly implausible story.
#5. The World's Worst Dad
What's the worst thing that can happen to you when you're a kid? OK, besides peeing your pants during a spelling bee in an auditorium full of your peers. We'd count losing one of your parents in the top three worst things, easy. In 2002, British dad John Darwin disappeared after kayaking in the North Sea. His body was never found, his wife inherited a 250,000-pound insurance policy and his teenage sons began the long, torturous process of grieving their father. But not before they spent hours researching missing persons and unidentified bodies, scouring the Internet for clues like the goddamn Hardy Boys. For five years.
Then they got a call that GUESS WHAT? Their dad was alive and well, and had just walked himself into a police station with a spot of amnesia! The boys, now in their early 20s, got their mom on the phone to shriek the good news. The nightmare was over!
The Bullshit:
For Anthony and Mark Darwin, the nightmare was just beginning.
Dad, as you probably can guess, did not actually have amnesia. Dad had, in fact, faked his death for an insurance policy, intending to start a new life without them and travel the world under his new identity. But that's not the worst part: Their freaking mom was in on it the whole time.
Faces like theirs are exactly what alcoholism was made for.
The whole scheme was hatched between the two of them for that insurance policy, which they happily splurged on themselves within the five years dad was "missing" and presumed dead by all of the people who loved him. The couple took trips, bought cars, shopped for 42-foot catamarans and snorted gold dust off each other's bodies (allegedly).
By the way, if you're wondering where dear old dad was hiding out while they were carrying out this fraud, he lived NEXT DOOR. Right there, by his mourning sons.
Of course this was devastating, as they thought they lived next to Santa that whole time.
So how did they find out? Eventually, the "widowed" Mrs. Darwin announced she was starting over in Panama. It was time for a new climate, a new hemisphere, a new start. Her grown sons wished her well. She had been through so much, after all. What the sons didn't know was that it wasn't just their mom who was going to start over in Panama -- their "dead" dad was going as well. So they could have canoeing adventures.
And take pictures with their real estate guy.
And that was when the guilt finally hit not-dead John Darwin. So he came up with the best plan he could (because he only watched soap operas and the Bourne movies) -- amnesia. He booked a flight home and turned himself in. Now think about that phone call those grown boys made to their mom -- how she had to act out her surprise and joy and relief after all those years. Call us cynical, but Meryl Streep she ain't:
"My soul mate. Alive. Yay."
Three days later, the jig was up. Between the tan and the fact that the policemen weren't toddlers, the whole scheme fell apart pretty quickly. Both John and his wife ended up putting in six years in the slammer. As for the boys, well, one of them put it this way:
"They were in it together and they deserve the sentences handed down by the judge. They're as bad as each other."
#4. The Congressional Candidate With Cold Feet
Congressional candidate Gary Dodds was in the middle of a rigorous campaign when something terrible happened. He was driving alone in April 2006, and he had a horrific car accident. He left his car, disoriented and injured, and somehow found himself crossing the icy Bellamy River in search of help. Twenty seven hours later, he was found shivering under a pile of leaves, frostbitten and drifting in and out of consciousness.
But at least he was found. Because Gary Dodds is a survivor.
"My opponents can't even handle the air-conditioner without a coat."
The Bullshit:
The aftermath of this amazing tale raised a few red flags.
First, it appeared that the car crash wasn't so much a "crash" as it was an "accelerated bump," one that drew in rescue authorities within minutes. Second, Dodds' body temperature when they found him was 96.8, despite his violent case of the shakes. Most bullshitty of all was his frostbite -- which only seemed to affect his feet up to his ankles. It was almost like he'd been soaking his feet in cold water for 24 hours. We're not kidding here -- there was an actual demarcation line where his "frostbite" ended.
"Oh God, there was ice everywhere. It was 18-year-old scotch. The horror ... the horror."
It didn't take a mathologist to realize the numbers weren't adding up. It turned out that the whole escapade was a ruse to distract attention from his failing campaign, to paint this picture of some kind of Rambo, as if camping skills translate into being something other than a resourceful Boy Scout. Needless to say, Dodds came in third out of four candidates, and the fourth was a drunk llama.
Dodds was also convicted of leaving the scene of an accident, falsifying evidence and causing a public panic. But since then, everything's been coming up Dodds! Except for when he got arrested again a couple of years later.
For impersonating a drunk llama.
#3. The Horny Preacher Lady
Just for the sake of illustration, imagine that one day Oprah Winfrey goes for a swim in the ocean and disappears. Just -- vanishes. Think of what her fans would do. Think of the chaotic mournfest America would fall into.
People would go back to eating books for sustenance.
So, God help us, nothing like this imaginary travesty will ever happen. But something similar did happen in 1926, only the drowning victim was a celebrity preacher named Aimee Semple McPherson. She was a televangelist type before there was such a thing as television, a big time media pioneer. She was one of the first preachers to use radio and invented the megachurch. And she did it looking and talking like a flapper holding bootlegged hooch in her undercarriage. Watch this video of Aimee and her albino fox carcass spreading the good word.
So, back to our story. On May 18, 1926, Aimee went for a swim in the Pacific Ocean and never came home. Her mom tactfully made the announcement at the end of a sermon by declaring "Sister is with Jesus." Aimee's flock freaked out. One would-be rescuer drowned, and another died of exposure. For a solid month, the country played detective, looking for her body. Until the day when -- praise Jesus! -- she stumbled out of the desert with a story of kidnapping, drugging and torture. But at least she was home. Hallelujah!
And here's a legitimate photo of her killing a Bigfoot.
The Bullshit:
For all her savvy business sense, Aimee didn't quite think her story through. For one thing, she claimed she escaped her kidnappers and managed a 13-hour trek through the desert. Yet she looked as fresh as a daisy -- she wasn't dehydrated or sunburned, her clothes didn't have that I-just-fucking-traversed-a-desert look. So that didn't quite sit right with investigators.
"And the LORD bestowed upon me shower gel, and lo, Palmolive did flow through the desert like water."
Then there was the matter of Aimee's so called kidnappers, "Steve" and "Mexicali Rose," who she said chloroformed her before stealing her away in their car. Steve. Mexicali Rose.
And that was about the moment when everyone noticed that Kenneth Ormiston, the married radio operator from her megachurch, had been missing for about as month as well. Either an altogether different kidnapper was really into Jesus or these two had been laying up in a love nest copulating (for God). Apparently, it never occurred to Sister Aimee that anyone would actually miss anybody but her, or that anyone would suspect that the two of them would take off together.
And suddenly you're picturing them having sex.
In fact, five different people claimed they saw the two at a rented cottage in Carmel-by-the-Sea. But when it came time for the district attorney to build the case of kidnap fakery, not to mention manslaughter of her rescuers, this Ormiston fellow said yes, in fact, he had been renting a cottage in Caress-by-the-Semen. But not with Aimee -- it was with another hussy. A lady he refused to name.
A-- Amelia Earhart?
In the end, either the district attorney didn't have enough evidence against the lying lovebirds, or Jesus himself convinced him to drop the case. Note: Two years later, this particular district attorney was convicted of accepting a bribe from an altogether different entity. You do the math.


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Wearable sleeping bag. 'Nuff said.
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Prob not the posters fault. But it'd be nice if the link went directly to the product instead of having to hunt around the site.
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MySQL has a new release model
By Giuseppe Maxia on Jun 11, 2009
In an earlier post, the pursuit of openness, I announced that MySQL is working at a new release model.
There are still a few details to sort out, but the general plan is ready. The new release model has been approved and starts to operate immediately.
The basic principles of this model are:
- The trunk is always at least in beta quality.
- A milestone starts in beta quality ( never in alpha) with a merge between the trunk and a stage tree;
- Milestone releases, with RC quality, released every three to six months.
- Integration windows between milestones allow the insertion of new features from stage trees
- GA releases happen every 12 to 18 months;
- There are not more than two releases in active support.
The practical consequences of this model adoption is that what was planned for the previous development is now canceled. MySQL 6.0 planned features (Falcon, Maria, Online Backup) are not a priority for the time being.
The next stage tree will be Azalea, which will include the 6.0 features that are stable enough to have a chance to be merged with 5.4 (mainly, subquery optimization batched key access, the fix for Bug#989, out parameters in stored procedures, information_schema.parameters, and some more).
The fundamental difference between this version and the previous one is that Azalea is not blocking. In the previous model, nothing could be released until all the features were ready. In this model, if the features in Azalea are not stable by the time of the intended GA for 5.4, we will rollback, and release only what is ready and stable.
This sort of train model, which has been quite successful with other open source projects, is more dynamic, easy to understand, and more open to participation.
The details of the model are explained in a MySQL University session, today, June 11, at 14:00 UTC (16:00 CET), where Tomas Ulin, director of engineering for the MySQL server, will explain the model and answer questions.


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Thank you!
Now working in Holland, just had to have some patience, my bad.
Thank you!
Now working in Holland, just had to have some patience, my bad.
downloading in SPAIN!!! com on!!!!!
I am jizzing uncontrolabley!
Now installing for me in Canada....knew it was only a matter of time......honest!!
hopefully 20 minutes from now I'll be playing! Going to start out with Scunthorpe I think
If anyone has problems getting the demo downloading while using google chorme try using another browser. Works with Firefox.
YES! I am going to be wrecked in work tomorrow. Great stuff SI. Took a restart of Steam and a few attempts to DL for those having trouble.
Woo, downloading in Norway now!
"do you want a free car?"
"yes i do but i demand i get it at 12.01am!!!"
Finally downloading... 3.2mb/s
5% now i cant wait
Finally, download started.
Woohoo, woohoo, it's time to get nakeeed and funky!
change steam sever location from the setting to uk and it will work
for those having troube with the install bottom please go to settings next the downloads tab and choose a server near you , uk at the moment is overloaded lol
Yeeeeeeeeeeees ! It works now for France, thanks SI !
Damn....the demo just went up on Steam....and I am stuck here at work!!!!!!!!
Baaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! I am in agony here....
7hrs till home time....: (
I want to see my RCD Mallorca with 7 players on the starting 11 from the island!!!
let the bug reports flow ...too many injuries i give 2-1 odds as the first then defenders as 3-1, corners 5-1 the rest bar!!
I'm American and I got it. You have to restart steam. Also, the demo doesn't show up if you search and let the drop downs try to match what you've typed, you have to literally search for "Football Manager 2011 Demo" and when you click search, it will be there.
Thanks SI!
Yes, I finally found it and I'm now downloading with 2,7 mb/s and have reached 40 %
Is the demo size supposed to be 1.98GB btw? Seems kinda big, or am I somehow downloading it twice?
East Coast USA working via steam.
If clicking "install" button on steam page doesn't do anything keep trying and restarting steam. What worked for me was closing Steam client, and opening it through the link from the Mirror website.
1.8mbps. 8 minute download total. America. Boom.
downloading now and just time to play my last game on fm2010 Sunderland vs Newcastle, nice little finisher
cheers Si
Downloading now, connection a bot slow, around 250 kbps, but I'm waiting! THANK YOU SI!!!!!
FInaly i have the Demo
Finished the half season already.
Going on my new game now.
Managed to finally start download in Sweden though it took quite a lot of arseing around with Steam to make it work Really big file size this year on the Strawberry!
Yes about time!!
D/L has started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Had to remove steam and reinstall to get mine to download. Downloading at 1mb at 20% :-( I want a faster connection. Thanks SI you rule!!
downloading with 5mb/s thank you norwegian oil money
i guess peoples frustration just proves how addictive SI have made this game
although i bet it frustrates SI workers just how people act sometimes, i bet they just think atleast it's that successful people are raring to get on the demo
goodwork miles and SI and SEGA
works in Mexico but accesing the uk link lol
gonna be a while me thinks oh welll i cant wait
(an by the way 600 posts wohooo)
95% come on!!!!! up at 6am
Getting mildly peeved now. lol. My dl rate varies from 4.2mb/s to 5.4kb/s. So much for steam being able to cope. lol
so slow 35% done in 20mins
does anyone know why Im only downloading at 70KB/s when I have a 50MB internet connection? I downloaded a film earlier at 2.6 MB/s
15% with 1.2 MB/s
Thanks Miles for the link and sorry for being impatient. Am just too excited
For those who clock on the button and does nothing, just restart steam and click there again... i will work
For who say unavailable on your region, just change the region, and when it's over change again.
Some people seem to be having issues with seeing the demo not available in their region. Please see the demo live sticky, which has these addresses in it... Please follow the thread applicable to your country / language...
UK & English speaking people - http://bit.ly/ck1wUB (also has a very special competition!)
Spain - http://bit.ly/9xQdl6
Finland - http://bit.ly/dfFG6Z
Denmark- http://bit.ly/djXj9M
France - http://bit.ly/cWl2MQ
Non English speaking people that aren't in the countries above - http://bit.ly/cbXM4I
20% already
I'm at college at 11:15, but I'm gonna play for a couple of hours regardless Currently 40% going at 800KB/S
Installing DirectX is taking longer than the download
i'm in i'm in!!!!!
i haven't been as excited as this since i was actually in a woman for the first time! why am i wasted time here typing
have fun people!!!!!!!
nsue, pereira, kevin, marti, ramis, LET'S GO ISLANDERS!!!!
20% oh yeah baby
Am taking laptop into lecture!
10 minutes left. Come ON or just hang me
Haha, took seven minutes. Sometimes soccer not being as popular here is a good thing :P.
This is RUBBISH. The game's broke.
8 injuries in my first game. The corner bug doesn't work anymore. The AI is scoring from the halfway line. Wingers aren't cutting in like they should.
When do we get our first patch SI?!?!?
NONE of this is true of course. Still won't stop people complaining though.
Day off followed by week off just in time for the demo, genious timing!
Forgot - regens are broke too
Wow. Finally a decent intro to an SI game. Impressive.
Can the community do me a favour and tell me if you've been able to download from your own language STEAM sites if you are in France, Spain, Finland, Denmark, please?
It is downloading for me. I am in the US on the east coast. I restarted steam a couple of times and hit the install link several times and it finally started downloading. Good luck to everyone.
I keep getting
"The steam servers are to busy to handle your request, please try again in a few minutes"
Seems FM is even managing to break Steam
oh no, it peaked at 595k now paused completely....!!!
downloading.. steams sucks a bit after all, but not complaining, in a few minutes i'll be playing FM2011 and im the happiest man on the planet, along with you guys offcourse
59% (7 minutes and half left... you idiot that was 5 minutes ago!!) This is worse than pure torture
After following this thread for the last few hours, I think the whiny minority need to ask Miles' and the rest of SI's forgiveness.
I'm simply struck by the irony of how much of their free time they work, so that we can play during our work time.
Thanks you guys.
Very impressed SI. Never used steam before, and that worked without a hitch.
Download speed - 180 kb/s max.
Am i the most unlucky person in the world or what?
That was the fastest I've ever seen such a big file download.
Wow was not expecting it this early
Just woke up, burning through the download now (730 KB/sec, connection limit basically). Love Steam.
Cannot connect to Steam servers. Goddamnit!
i couldnt download it from "Non English speaking people that aren't in the countries above" in Mexico
It is bazzling in here Malaysia. 1mb/s. Peak was 1.5mb/s.
Though my spead is a lot faster than that.. still very good.. 84%
Downloading in Australia...700KB/s almost 65% done
Really appreciate it Si !!
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WP SI, good to see that Ilkeston were taken out in time
i was downloading at 1.3mb/s now its like 200 contstantly (****) 90 %
98% ding ding!
love the fact the game is getting bigger every year. means the game is getting better and better. i remember when it was only 800-900 mg.
Longest 8 mins to go of my life!! Anyone seen the latest update of rooney? To be placed on transfer list immediately and poss suspended!!
Directx is going to kill me...
mines only done 10% in 38 mins any ideas on how to speed it up please
Installed. Took about a minute or less. I AM INNNNNNNN
pity about my constant 225kb dl speed. it never changes except if its late at night.. most ive ever seen is 650kb a sec. a little envious of all you guys with your 1-5 mg dl speeds. Damn u Australian broadband!
what can you do to quicken up download speed!!!
As i dont have a steam account. I will have to wait till friday to download it.
Anyone know why mine is being so slow? Averaging 55kb/s which means it will take over 5 hours...
Steam website and create an account, it doesn't take long.


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There have been several popular music games in recent years, but they seem to be most useful for developing a sense of rhythm. Are there any games that are helpful as ear training exercises? What would you recommend?
Check out Theta Music Trainer. Lots of games for ear training and music theory.
Technically, I think the vocals portion of Rock Band counts for this, as would its precursor SingStar.
If you've got a Mac and a familiar iTunes library, my friend made this game, almost as a joke. (It plays back x number of tracks from your iTunes library simultaneously until you identify them... it's called "Counterpoint.") That could feasibly train your ear in an abstract sense, since you're essentially trying to pick out familiar musical snippets from a very dense soundscape.
Ooh, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time had a game mechanic centered around playing back melodies on your N64 controller-turned-ocarina.
Ah, also Ambrosia Software's game Aquaria (also available on Steam) has a similar game mechanic that provides you with a diatonic scale from which melodies can be sung.
You might be interested in GNU Solfege. It's not a game per se, but it has A LOT of exercises with visual and aural feedback. It also records statistics about each one of your performances, so you can know how well you're learning and "score" yourself.
I've been using it for some weeks now, doing a few exercises each day and I can say it is lot's of fun and very didactic as well, but your mileage may vary.
Looks like you received a bunch of great answers already, but I thought I'd add something to the list anyway. Have you tried:
TENUTO (App) - It has a great set of Games/Tools for Ear Training and/or Sight Singing (VERY helpful, even if you never make a sound)
8 NOTES (Online/Free) - The WebSite includes 10 games, some are GREAT and they're ALL free!
I've never used it, but Sibelius has some ear-training software called Auralia which is supposed to build your ear up using training and games.
There are simple ear-training games in Band-in-the-Box. Those are quite simple, but even fun :)
The first is called Music replay game. It has three modes: note, rhythm and melody replays. The computer plays note or phrase and you have to replay it using a computer keyboard or midi instrument. You can set up a tempo and range of notes. There is notation displayed too, so this can be a sight-reading game too. Second is the Pitch Invasion - this game has the same controls and set-up possibilities as previous one. There are flying saucers falling down and each of them projects a audible pitch. By guessing it, you shoot the saucers down. This game is great for children.
There is the good old LOOM
This is an adventure game. The game requires one to memorize spells in the form of short tunes of 4 notes.To cast a spell one needs to play back the tune. Depending on the difficulty level it is done solely by ear or with a written notation.
Some spells can be played backwards reversing the meaning. Changing, for example, open to close.
Check EarMaster Pro 6 its not free but we can have 7 days full trial version.
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java.sql.Preparedstatement implies the escaping of characters will be done while parsing the queries, this does happen also when I have single quotes in my data but when I have single quotes in my table name itself the query does not work (I am using Oracle 11g).
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con = DriverManager.getConnection(
PreparedStatement preparedStatement = con.prepareStatement(
"SELECT * FROM (?) where rownum=1");
ResultSet rs3=preparedStatement.executeQuery();
Is there any way of escaping single quotes from the table name using a prepared statement?


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My ubuntu server doesn't boot when I connect sata drive, once I disconnect it it boots fine.
(I'm booting from USB drive)
What I did:
I installed SATA drive, booted normally, with fdisk created partition, formated to ext4 and rebooted. After reboot it doesn't start.
Any ideas?
I have no monitor to see why it's stoping or if there is any error msg.
I'm afraid it's bios that tries to boot from sata drive instead of usb...


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How to get Derkeethus out of the cave? I've tried pushing him and finally attacking him... i dont know what else to do. He wont go out either exit. Any ideas?
Its a known glitch that he may become stuck. If you are on the PC, then you can use the console to free him:
Otherwise, you are out of luck.
A better workaround is to move to the location where Derkeethus wants to get to, this is the outside the pass at the East exit, then open the console and type:
Press enter after each line. This moves the original Derkeethus to the correct location for the quest to autocomplete.
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I was recently promoted to QA lead on an agile team working with offshore testers and an onshore development team. What kind of things should I expect? Any helpful tips for how to be awesome at this? I was selected due to my soft skills not necessarily because I'm an experienced QA. Needless to say I'm a little confused on what kind of things I should be doing to ensure I do a great job. Any resources out there that will be helpful?
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I second (third?) the congratulations!
While I'm nowhere near as experienced as Joe or Bruce, I can offer a few tips from experience:
Good luck.
Here's a list I used last time I took a new position: http://www.allthingsquality.com/2010/04/qa-leaders-checklist.html
It's pretty hard to know what you should expect, since every situation is different. Instead of anticipating, try to determine how you will go about learning what you have actually gotten into.
There is a very relevant whitepaper here that you should read. It raises some excellent points.
Whilst I don't want to be negative, or scare you, your situation will be VERY challenging as you have to contend with the following:
I would sit down and perform an honest assessment with yourself on how strong or weak you are in those areas, and identify what you don't know and try and close those gaps.
You will need to invest in and work out a communication strategy for how to work in a distributed team I would recommend reading this post by Jeff Atwood.


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Teams from Nebraska City, Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca and Johnson County Central will compete at the Syracuse Invitational tournament Saturday at the Syracuse Ball Complex.
Action gets underway with three games at 9 a.m.
Nebraska City will clash with S-D-A on Field D. Other matchups have Southern facing Cass County Central and Bennington playing Johnson County Central. Wahoo Bishop Neumann will play Yutan-Mead at 10:45 a.m. in the final first round game.
The loser of the Nebraska City-S-D-A game will play in the consolation bracket at 10:45 a.m., while the winner will advance to the tourney semifinal at 12:30 p.m.
Consolation round winners will play in the fifth place game at 2:15 p.m. Consolation round losers will play in the seventh place game, also at 2:15 p.m.
Semifinal round winners will play in the tourney championship at 4 p.m. Semifinal round losers will play in the third place game at 2:15 p.m.
Nebraska City enters the tourney with a record of 0-4. The Pioneers lost three-games at the season-opening Milford tourney last weekend. Scores of those games had Nebraska City falling to Conestoga, 10-2; Milford, 4-0; and Adams Central, 7-4. The Pioneers dropped a decision to Waverly 10-5 on Thursday night.
S-D-A has played just one game, winning a 13-12 extra-inning affair against Milford on Thursday.
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7 Amazing Things People Got Just by Asking
You've got to use what you've got to get what you want. That's how the old saying goes, anyway. But how do you get the things you want when you have nothing? That's a trick question, because you've always got a voice, and sometimes, that's all you need. By doing nothing more than asking, the people on this list have raked in riches and rewards beyond your imagination. Things like ...
#7. A College Education
Asking other people for money is a bummer. No matter how perilous your situation may be, unless you're some kind of con artist, you're always going to feel loser-y when someone forks over their hard-earned scratch just to help foot one of your bills.
Neighborhood lemonade sales are the first jobs to go in a recession.
But what if you could soften the beggarly blow by asking for something that people view as a nuisance anyway? Like maybe if you asked 2.8 million people to each send you one dirty, good-for-nothing penny. That's the genius-level plan that Mike Hayes, a graduate from Rochelle High School in Illinois, thought up when he found himself short 25 large for the $28,000 he was going to need to attend college (in 1987).
Instead of saddling himself with a lifetime of student loan debt or pulling a Soul Man a la C. Thomas Howell, Hayes took his cause to the people. He sent a letter to newspaper columnist Bob Greene, whose column was syndicated in over 200 newspapers, despite being a person we've never heard of. In the letter, Hayes asked readers to send one penny each to go toward funding his college education. Greene published the letter, and the response was overwhelming.
Eleven postal workers drowned in the flood of pennies.
According to this article, as of November 1987, Hayes had received more than 77,000 letters and earned more than $26,000. Snopes follows that up by confirming that the enterprising young handout enthusiast did indeed earn enough for that college education and graduated with a degree in food science.
Good choice. A degree like that is going to give Mike a major leg up when it comes time to fight for the last available fast food job in town with the rest of the college graduate pool.
"With my degree paid for, I was able to afford the machete that got me my first job."
#6. A Date With the First Lady
Hitting on another man's wife is a bold move, no matter who the husband in question may be. But it becomes a matter of personal safety when the wife you're hitting on also happens to be the first lady of the United States of America. Perhaps you don't realize it (because your state has no helmet laws in place), but that means her husband is the president of the United States, and that's a man who can send some damage your way if you wrong him.
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He could have a cruise missile halfway up your prostate by the time that kiss ends.
The very real threat of a Secret Service-issued beating was no deterrent for Lance Corporal Aaron Leeks, though. When he laid eyes on First Lady Michelle Obama at a Toys for Tots event in Washington, D.C., the brave Marine took the ultimate in skirt-wooing risks and asked the Head Lady in Charge if she'd accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball. "With your husband's permission, of course," he added, avoiding an uncomfortable waterboarding later.
Shockingly, the plan worked. Michelle Obama called an aide over to get the Marine's information and, as far as we know, is still planning to attend the event in November. But even if she backs out, how many among us can claim to have hit on the first lady without being tasered and dragged out of the room in handcuffs?
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Not all of his guards look like 12-year-olds.
#5. A Product-Labeling Wrong Righted
Have you ever looked at something and decided that the person who gave that object its name was a complete idiot? Like the person who decided that the Chihuahua should be called a dog when it's clearly a rodent with bigger ears and uncontrollable sass. Something along the lines of "yap rat" would be a better name, but we don't get to make those decisions, do we?
If it fits in a picnic basket, you can't rightly call it a dog.
Usually we do not. But there's something about the naivete of youth that makes anything seem possible, even a herculean task such as getting a long-standing product-naming error corrected. So when 3-year-old Lily Robinson noticed that a product called "tiger bread" at her local supermarket seemed to have been named by a complete dumbass, she didn't hesitate to act.
By Lily's estimation, the product that these buffoons were selling as tiger bread should have been named after the savannah's tall drink of goofy, the giraffe. And she was objectively right. The bread's cracked, crusty skin made it look like it was spotted. And so she sat down with a pen and paper (and probably one of those fake tea sets like in the movies) and hammered out a sternly worded letter for the people at Sainsbury's, the local grocer in question, and asked the 3-year-old equivalent of "Have you jerkoffs ever even seen a tiger?"
"Seriously, get some fact checkers, you grocery-shilling ignoramuses."
It's the kind of wiseacre comment you imagine retailers getting by the hundreds, if grocers' mail is anything like our comment section, but present it in the hastily scrawled penmanship of a 3-year-old and people pay attention. Why? Because kids not only are adorable, but also are too young to know that they should demand payment for their work. Rename something based on the recommendation of an adult and you might as well give them a cut of your company's revenue, because they're going to expect a windfall.
Not little Lily, though. All she got in return was a letter from the company, saying her idea was brilliant, and a Sainsbury's gift card. As for the bread, it retained its tiger-based moniker for a few more weeks, but once Lily's letter went viral on social media outlets, the company relented to public pressure (great use of your free time, England) and changed the name to giraffe bread. And all it took was a little girl to sit them down and tell them that nobody was fooled by the badass self-appointed nickname they'd given their bread.
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From the hands of babes ... come rampant typos.
#4. Getting Iron Maiden to Play at Your Wedding
It's every couple's dream to have heavy metal legends Iron Maiden summon the fiery winds of Satan himself to blow the doors off the hinges at their wedding reception. Or, at least, it's every guy's dream. Fine, just every guy with a mullet. But still, that's a lot of people dreaming about having the Maiden shred their wed, but only one man (some unnamed dude in Poland, if you're looking for specifics) actually saw that dream become a reality.
If you speak Brad-Pitt-in-Snatch, you can hear the whole story by watching this video.
If we heard that correctly, the band was going to what they thought was a "disco" but instead turned out to be a "converted ballroom, innit?" where a wedding was taking place. A quick-thinking wedding guest, upon recognizing the band, asked if they'd consider playing a few songs to celebrate the nuptials. Sure enough, the band was just kind (drunk?) enough to go for it.
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"Give a free wedding concert? Thanks for the tip, beer!"
You can see approximately 45 seconds of the performance in the above video, because when a world-famous band shows up at your wedding to rock, who in their right mind would just record the entire event? That would be silly.


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I wonder if the convention of labeling points in geometric diagrams with uppercase symbols ultimately derives from Greek mathematics, which was originally written in "majuscule" (uppercase) Greek script (in contrast to the "minuscule" script that was introduced much later (9th century?)). Certainly Euclid and Archimedes used only uppercase, and all of Descartes diagrams in La Geometrie (1637) follow the same convention.
It seems that middle- and high-school textbooks continue to use uppercase labels (is this only in the U.S.?), but college texts do not follow this as rigidly. This was brought home to me when I wrote a chapter for high-school teachers and the editors changed all my lowercase vertex labels to uppercase. I much prefer lowercase for point labels, although I do not quite know why I have this preference. (Maybe because uppercase seems like SHOUTING?) But when writing for an audience accustomed to a particular convention, it seems prudent to follow that convention.
My questions are: (1) Is the Greek majuscule script the origin of the uppercase diagram-labeling convention? (2) In so far as I am correct that the uppercase convention is followed up to high school but dissolves at more advanced levels, why does it persist to one level but dissolve beyond?


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22 Apr 2012 1:09 PM #1
Touchmove, Touchstart, Touchend targets wrong in iOS
Ext version tested:
- Touch 2.0.0GPL and 2.0.1RC
- iOS 5.1
- When I have a touchmove event and I track the target, it works in Chrome but in iOS the touch target is ALWAYS the first thing I touched. Even if I drag my finger to a different element, the same element.id comes back again and again.
- Check out http://roycyang.github.com/sencha-touch-extensions/ in the debug console
- Note how in Chrome or Safari if you click on the GT.FixedButton, the target changes when you move your cursor?
- Doing the same thing in iOS gives you the wrong target
- That the target element is actually what you are touching
- The target never changes, is always the first thing you touched
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The touchmove target never changes in iOS:
See this URL for live test case: http://roycyang.github.com/sencha-touch-extensions/
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30 May 2012 11:52 PM #3
any fix?!?
did you found any fix for this issue?!
23 Jul 2012 12:01 PM #4
I need this fix too. Are there any solution?
29 Nov 2012 12:24 AM #5
It's not fixed on ST2.1 (Build date: 2012-11-05 22:31:29)
The temporary solution:
onElementTouchMove: function(e) { if (Ext.browser.is.ChromeMobile) { var x = e.event.changedTouches[0].screenX; var y = e.event.changedTouches[0].screenY; } else { var x = e.pageX; var y = e.pageY } var target = document.elementFromPoint(x, y); }


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(Mumbai) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
Mumbai 400 099, India
Telefon: (022) 2626 4000 (domestic terminal) or 2681 3000 (international terminal)
Website: www.csia.in
Important information for passengers with an onward flight within India
Travellers who arrive in India on an intercontinental flight and who have booked an onward flight within India must collect their bags during the stopover from baggage reclaim, take them through customs and check them in again. This regulation applies to all airlines and must also be adhered to when, according to the ticket, the baggage has been checked straight through to the passenger's destination airport.
The airport terminals are located 26-30km (16-19 miles) north of Mumbai.
How to get there
The airport is well signposted from Mumbai.
Information about parking possibilities at the (Mumbai) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
Access by public transport
A railway reservation counter is situated in Terminal 2, for connections to the metro rail system; trains run to the nearby airport Mumbai CST Terminus (formerly known as the Victoria Terminus) and Churchgate for connections to Mumbai and destinations throughout India.
A city bus service to Mumbai and a pre-paid coach service to destinations in the southern states are available. Intercity coach services can be booked in the Arrivals areas of Terminal 2.
Pre-paid taxis, metered taxis and motor rickshaws are available at the airport (journey time to the city centre - 90-180 minutes).
Information desk
A meet and greet counter is located in Terminal 1B. There are also tourist information counters.
Airport News:
There are plans to extend the proposed new Mumbai metro line out to the airport.
Further travel information
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Is there a nice, possibly GUI way to add mount points to partitions in Ubuntu?
For some reason, the mount point for my windows
NTFS partition which was recognized during the installation is gone. In "Computer" the library still exist, but there's no mount point in
fstab or
How can I add it again, so that it'll be nicely accessible from gnome as it used to be?


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I would like to install Gmail notifier for my work email, which is not a gmail account, but runs in google apps.
I had this set up at a previous job in a similar situation (on OS X) but my first attempt failed here (on Windows 7). I installed it, it would regularly as me to log in to my google account, but never notify me of incoming emails.
Is there a trick to this?


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12 Feb 2013 10:45 AM #1
Unanswered: Miscalculating top location
Hi All,
I'm using a grid nested in some tabs to display some data and, for whatever reason, ExtJS is miscalculating the the location of the x-panel-body - giving it a CSS top of 67px when it should only be 32px.
I've looked at the surrounding margins and height of the header, etc. And, the grid displays properly in pages where it's not nested in tabs. Any ideas?
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Can you post some code, and perhaps a screenshot? And is this consistent across browsers, or isolated to one or more?
Next to impossible to debug something like this without more information.


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Let $G\subset GL_n(\mathbb{C})$ be an algebraic group of dimension n, and let $\mathfrak{g}$ its Lie algebra.Is there a relations between the maximal number of independent semisimple elements of $G$ and the maximal number of independent semisimple elements $\mathfrak{g}$?
Assuming you mean "linearly independent" here, it's important to understand that the maximal numbers in question depend on the chosen faithful linear representation of the group rather than on its intrinsic properties as an algebraic group. For example, there are many conjugate maximal tori (of the same dimension) living inside the full upper triangular matrix group, but such a torus may or may not consist of diagonal matrices depending on the choice you make.
Also, the maximal number of independent matrices in the Lie algebra may well differ, as seen in the case of the trivial algebraic group whose Lie algebra is zero.
I'm not at all sure what the question has to do with Lie theory (?)


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New Fla. education commissioner to be picked
Published: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 9:45 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 9:45 a.m.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Florida State Board of Education is ready to pick a permanent successor to Education Commissioner Tony Bennett.
The board meets Tuesday. The appointed panel is expected to hire interim commissioner Pam Stewart for the job instead of launching a national search.
Stewart, 60, has already held the interim commissioner post twice now in the last year. She started her career as a Hillsborough County teacher.
Florida's education system has had a tumultuous summer dealing with both the resignation of Bennett and continued controversy over its A-to-F grading system and the transition to new standards.
Board members say they are ready to select Stewart. She also has the backing of Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
Stewart will become the fourth commissioner to serve under Scott since he took office in 2011.
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Are you more inclined to read ebooks or print books?
I must admit that even though I'm trying to cut back on print books (I have over one thousand at my house right now... and still more with my parents, eek) and buy mainly ebooks, I still can't help the occasionally buy in print format. Now, this is just for the books that come out in both print and ebooks (usually with NY pubs) than with titles that release in ebook format first. With those, I buy in eformat as soon as I can. But, with books that come out in print and ebook at the same time, I have decide a few things first. Is this a favorite author of mine? Is this a series I'm currently in love with?
I hate it when it's a book a buy in eformat, and it's soooo good... I mean good enough that I know I'll be rereading it several times and will rave about it to everyone... that I now want to buy it in print, too, lol. I have this idea that when computers take over the world, I won't be able to use my kindle, LOL.


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I know that anti-tank mines are observable by drivers with thermal optics, and you can even "spot" them. Sometimes I just happen to see mines myself, so, is it possible to lay mines in such a way, that the driver will not see them, but run over them ? Can the terrain be used effectively to do this ?
At first I would say that it depends on the driver and if he has a good gunner or some people running next to him. Besides that there are some several points you can keep in mind when placing your mines:
All this won't guarantee any minekill, but increase the chance of some kills. I hope it helps!
Like the claymore mines, you can hide AT mines in or near deployed ammo/heath packs using the pack as a camouflage. However, this usually requires a buddy as an assault/support to help you out. The packs don't normally last long out in the open.
The AT mines are good at destroying vehicles, but more importantly they slow/stop the forward progression of a tank. This is a commonly overlooked tactic. You can use the mines to direct a vehicle to slow down or stop where you want it to. Setting up the vehicle so that it is in the perfect position for an RPG/SMAW ambush.
Put them in points where someone just rushes through: On Caspian Border I always get killed goping to the Russian Gimme Flag on the Road going down from the RU Deployment. I just rush in there with a Jeep and go Rambo but I get blown up Sky High. Anyway you can even put mines to stop the Driver: I've been ambushed when blowing up a Minefield in a tank.


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While at Restaurant Hospitality, Gail also earned a Ph.D. in creative writing, taught food-related courses as an adjunct at The Mississippi University for Women Culinary Arts Institute and elsewhere, and hosted her own food radio program for several years. She is the author of six books and coauthor of The Vegetable Storybook, which won a Best in the U.S. 2010 Gourmand World Cookbook Award.


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In Brown County State Park, check out the Raccoon Ridge Campground. It offers primitive electric and nonelectric sites. There are showers, flush and pit toilets and a camp store. The Limekiln and Walnut trailheads are just outside the campground. If memory serves, the sites cost about $25 a night and you have to reserve two night over the weekend. Be sure to make sure no race or special event is planned on the trails for the weekend you're considering, and reserve your campsite well in advance. They fill up quick. Check out Hoosier Mountain Bike Association for lots of good info on the trails and park.
By the way, there were lots of roadies in the park last weekend because of an event for which the park served as a central SAG. It's not usually like that.
ETA: Here's the website to reserve a camping space at BCSP.


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Few days ago I promised myself that:
- I will be dedicated to my study for a long time.
- I will never watch any movie, never waste time on internet or x-box, etc. (sometimes I wish to break my x-box but don't know why I don't anyway!)
- Never waste time with stupid friends.
- Keep my all focus on study.
Then after 8 to 10 days these promises broke and for approximately two days I watched movies, played on the x-box, not focusing on studies.
Then again I promise myself I will follow my rule.
Then my life was running properly and I studied hard for 8 to 10 day and after that I broke my promises again. And this process cycles again and again. This happened to me 100 times!
Now situation is that when I try to any promise to myself my heart starts laughing at me. (Hope you understand the whole situation).
I just want to keep my focus on study for a complete semester. So please give me some advice on how I can keep self promises unbreakable for long time and stay motivated to study. You can insult me but say something which will be rooted deep in my mind.


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Two weeks ago I made several successful Java installations without any problem following link
But today I faced a problem. I was running standard apt-get update command, and faced warning message:
root@myname:~# add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
Oracle Java (JDK) Installer (automatically downloads and installs Oracle JDK6 / JDK7 / JDK8). There are no actual Java files in this PPA. More info: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html
More info: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/java
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
After pressing [ENTER], download of packages where stuck on ~90%.
Message that confused me was There are no actual Java files in this PPA.
Does it means that PPA has been changed in last few days?
Can you help me how to solve this problem and install Java as I did two weeks ago?


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I've been posed a question in which I'm to differentiate with respect to $x$ a function of the form $(x+a)^k$. I've successfully completed (matches the book's answer) the question by using the chain rule, however I cannot achieve the same result using the definition of the derivative.
I would like a worked example of differentiation from first principles of a function of the form $(x+a)^k$.


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Let $M$ a right simple module and $N$ be a left simple module over a ring $R$. I'm seeking a kind of Schur's lemma, with $\mathrm{Hom}_R (M,N)$ replaced by $M \otimes_R N$. So my questions are:
Can we describe $M \otimes_R N$ explicitly?
In particular, for a fixed $M$, is $N$ such that $M \otimes_R N \neq 0$ unique up to isomorphism? If not, can we classify such $N$'s in a reasonable way?


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How long do treadmill belts last?
Under optimal maintenance conditions, with a clean deck and verification that the belt is centered, our belts last from 20,000 to 30,000 km.
Where is the serial number on the equipment?
The equipment serial number is printed on a silver label that is connected both to the frame and to the protective covers on the machine. This label may be found in various positions on different machines, but for pieces of equipment that require electrical power, it's generally located near the power cord.
A copy of this label is also attached to the compliance certificate for the product.
How can I check the usage data for my machine?
Every type of machine has a section dedicated to the user providing information about itself.
How can I get a manual?
Ask for one from the technical call center.
Is there a standard contract with the purchase of the equipment?
No. You can decide which contract meets your needs. Contact technical customer support for more information.
What do I need to do to validate the warranty?
Give the serial number of the machine to the technical call center.
Can I extend the warranty?
Yes, one additional year at the end of the two years in the normal warranty (1 in the case of used Wellness System™ equipment).


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Puma Redon Move Men's Casual Shoes
The Puma Redon Move Men's Casual Training Shoes are a sure bet to help you with your training. The men's shoes feature a sleek synthetic leather upper with cross-upper Velcro closure for a personalized, secure fit. The durable training shoes are easy to get on and off, making sure you don't waste time changing.


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Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce has scheduled its annual banquet at on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Eagles Club.
The reception and silent auction begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by an awards dinner, entertainment and live auction.
Tickets range from $40 to $50 and table reservations are due by Jan. 18.
Table decorations with the theme "Mission Impossible" are suggested.
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Laura Kurella is an award-winning, self-syndicated food columnist, an award-winning Food Stylist, and the author of two cookbooks: Fabulous Desserts and Fabulous Tiny Bites and beverage. Her column, Vitality Cuisine, appears each Tuesday in the Sturgis Journal, and her Radio Recipe show can be heard Tuesday mornings at 7:15 am at WBETFM.com Questions or comments? Contact Laura at email@example.com.


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I saw a statement somewhere that for the Hirzebruch surfaces $F_n:=\mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(\mathcal{O}\oplus\mathcal{O}(n))$, $F_n$ and $F_m$ are symplectormorphic when $m$ and $n$ have the same parity.
My question is: Why is this true?
I can see that they are diffeomorphic by Freedman's Theorem: computing the intersection pairing on $\text{Pic}(F_n)=H^2(F_n, \mathbb{Z})$, which is an even form when n is even, and an odd form when n is odd.
But this result is deep and abstract, is there any easy way to construct a symplectomorphism? Certainly it is not given by polynomial maps, I'm wondering what it will be.


text: As you know every captain must have a robot entity to confide in and count on. In the case of Gus from Rocket Monkeys, he is no exception. Up next we will tackle the task of drawing YAY-OK. He is a square shaped robot that reminds me a lot of Bender from Futurarma. Instead of having a digital style face like Bender, he has a regular face which is eyes and a mouth. If it wasn't for YAY-OK the Monkey brothers wouldn't be on track or know what to do next. There is a reason for technology, it's so that they can make our lives easier. Have fun with learning how to draw YAY_OK. Adios people!


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FANOTEC is proud to offer ALL prior customers of Nodal Ninja who wish to purchase a new Ultimate M series pano head generous discounts from $50 to $100!
* Discount program applies towards the purchase of Ultimate M1 series pano heads.
* Discount extends to any customer who purchased a NEW NN3 or NN5 series pano head.
* Customers of NN with advanced rotators are allowed to buy an M1 without rotator.
* Discount levels:
NN5 users: $100
NN5L users: $80
NN3/ NN3II users: $50
* Purchase of NN3/5/5L MUST have been made through authorized reseller PRIOR to Feb. 20th 2011.
* Should demand exceed supply customer may still get the discount by placing pre-order or guaranteeing purchase through reseller selling M1 series pano heads.
* Above conditions must be meant PRIOR to purchasing M1 series pano head.
* Discount will be applied by the reseller in the form of refund or coupon and applied prior to purchase or immediately after as in the form of refund.
* Discount program EXTENDED TO June 30 2011. Due to shortage of parts, we now extend the discount. Don't miss the final chance.
note: not all resellers will be participating in this program - if your original reseller is not selling the M1 heads please buy from other resellers.


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Scientists err, but numbers do not lie
Recently, Richard Muller, a physics professor at the University of California Berkeley and outspoken skeptic of man-made global warming, announced he now has evidence that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are totally responsible for the increase in global temperature over the past 250 years. I was excited about this finding, since my main argument against that idea has been that no scientific evidence yet had been presented to support the theory, and more so, to see what the actual evidence was that had escaped so many of us.
Professor Muller says there is strong evidence that global temperature has risen about 2.5 degrees F in the last 250 years, and the "entire rise in temperature has been the result of greenhouse gases produced by humans." Ah, OK? Most climate scientists agree that doubling the level of CO2 in the atmosphere will result in about a 2-degree F rise in global temperature. My own calculations indicate that doubling the CO2 level will produce only a 0.5-degree F rise in global temperature, but let's go with the 2-degree consensus.
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