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6 Awful Hip Hop Slang Terms (That Are Way Older Than Rap)
Whether it's being articulately spat by the world's hottest rap stars or being infuriatingly misused by boring white idiots, hip-hop slang is everywhere you turn in modern society. Still, as likely as you are to hear "bling" several times a day, you probably don't know where words like it came from and, specifically, who you can blame for their creation. Well, we're here to help...
#6. Bling
In the long, torturous history of rap slang that has been mercilessly beaten to a bloody pulp by soccer moms and socialites, no term has taken more abuse than "bling." This seemingly meaningless word is meant to approximate the sound that is made when light reflects off of diamond jewelry. You know that sound, right? The sound light makes when it reflects off of something? Why do you look so confused right now?
New Orleans rapper and self proclaimed "hottest nigga under the sun" Lil' Wayne is most often credited with creating the word. It's a common misconception that he goes to absolutely no lengths to deny, as evidenced by this line from the Outkast featuring Lil' Wayne song "Hollywood Divorce"...
"Bling bling, I know and did you know I'm the creator of the term."
You are a liar, Weezy.
To his credit, he is one of the first rappers to say it. He used the word on a song called "Millionaire Dream" in 1998, but the word really took off the following year with the song "Bling, Bling" which was featured on an album by fellow Cash Money Records rapper, B.G. But the fact is, Wayne is taking a little too much credit for "bling." The real origin of the term is far less hood than you would believe.
Approximately this hood.
Back in the 70s and 80s there were a series of popular television commercials for a toothpaste called Ultrabrite. In one of the commercials, which happens to be the one fucking Ultrabrite commercial we can't find on YouTube, the narrator announces that "Ultrabrite gives your mouth...(insert sound effect that sounds like bling)...sex appeal." The line is delivered as a man smiles, revealing a row of gleaming white teeth. When the light hits his teeth, the "bling!" sound is heard.
The sound effect was given a name in the early 90s by comedian Martin Lawrence. In his stand up routine and on the Fox television show Martin (wherein he was so crazy), he would parody the famous Ultrabrite ads by using the word "bling!" to suggest that his jewelry gleamed like the teeth in those famous commercials. That's gangster! Kind of!
#5. Shiznit
You know who still says "shiznit"? Fucking nobody. If you still find yourself using this or any other word with "iz" inserted in the middle in a non-ironic fashion, please stizop izmmiznediatelizz. You aren't doing yourself any favors by clinging to this one. You'd be better off adding "iggedy" to every other word like Das EFX or some shit.
Bum stiggedy bum stiggedy bum, hon!
With that said, for a good few years there in the 90s, adding "iz" to the middle of words was, well, the sh(izn)it. We place the blame for this directly on the smoked out shoulders of Snoop Dogg. Granted, he wasn't the first to use this quasi-Pig Latin type of speech on record. As far back as 1966 a group called The Icemen (featuring Jimi Hendrix!) closed their song "(My Girl) She's A Fox" by singing the line "she's a fizzox" repeatedly. We're assuming it wasn't nearly as annoying back then as it is now.
But even if he didn't technically start it, Snoop Dogg popularized it, and that's worse. To add to the misery, this all eventually evolved into more insidious things like "fo shizzle," which itself resulted in this horrifying Old Navy commercial that one cast member of ABC's Lost probably wishes never happened.
Yep, that was Sawyer prancing around in the powder blue half-zip performance fleece pullover. Anyway, if people were saying "fizzox" way back in 1966, Snoop Dogg couldn't possibly be the real source of this scourge of American vocabulary. So who gets the blame? Carnies, that's who. Those scheming, dentally challenged types that inhabit fairs and carnivals in hopes of convincing you to spend $75 shooting free throws at a crooked basketball rim so you can win your date a $3 stuffed bear have been using a variation of the "Snoop lexicon" for decades now.
Carny, or Ciazarn is a secret mode of encoded speech that carnies would use amongst each other when they didn't want their customers to know what they were talking about. Instead of a simple "iz" their version uses a more drawn out "eaz" (pronounced "ee-uz") syllable to confuse the shit out of anyone who may be listening. Sure, you know they're talking about fucking you out of every possible dime that they can, but it's a lot harder to catch when it sounds like "weaz-e aeaz-re goeaz-ing teaz-o breaz-eak theaz-is cheaz-ump, heaz-ow deaz-oes meaz-y meaz-ullet leaz-ook?".
#4. Grind
"On the grind" is most often used in hip-hop terms as slang for drug dealing or any other money-making activity, like Internet comedy writing, for example. Seriously, we're rich--by third world standards--y'all! The term is thrown around constantly in hip-hop songs, most awesomely in the Clipse tune "Grindin."
It's hard to determine when it really took hold in the rap community because, as a slang term, grind has been used in a negative manner to describe any number of tedious, soul crushing tasks since the mid-20th century. For example, the various Cracked interns often complain of being "on the grind" when performing menial tasks like providing us with clean urine for our court mandated drug tests or checking Google images for pictures of knife wielding elephants. But one of the earliest pop culture uses of grind as slang for putting in work came from this thuggish fella...
"I'll fuckin, I'll fuckin pull your fuckin tongue out your fuckin mouth and stab the shit with a rusty screwdriver. BLAOWW!"
That is American literary giant Mark Twain. If you needed us to tell you that, close your browser and find a tutor as soon as possible. In "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," a short story written by Twain and published in Harper's Monthly in 1879, the character Mr. Richards drops the g-word to describe his work life:
"always at the grind, grind, grind, on a salary--another man's slave, and he sitting at home in his slippers, rich and comfortable."
If you're keeping score at home, this use of a future hip-hop slang term predates the birth of The Rappin' Granny by over 50 years. Hey, speaking of being on the grind, where the hell is that knife wielding elephant picture we asked those interns for?
Close enough!


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GRAYSON COUNTY, Tex. -- Parents rely on schools to take care of their children in the classroom and on the playground. Local administrators say they do not take this responsibility lightly. Stephanie Brletic tells us how schools around Texoma are keeping your children safe.
The Equality Texas Foundation recently received grant money which spokespeople say will be used to identify public schools around Texas that have innovative safety and anti-bullying programs. We talked to parents and officials about the safety of local schools.
Just like hallways and classrooms, bullying is a part of most every school. It's often hurtful, and sometimes even dangerous to students.
Both Sherman and Denison Independent School District's superintendents say they have zero-tolerance policies so parents know their students are protected.
"I think the parents expect when they send their kids to school that the schools are going to provide a safe haven for those kids, and they have a right to expect that, and our number one priority at our school is student safety." Denison ISD Superintendent Henry Scott says.
Dr. Scott says most of the problems seem to happen during the middle school and early high school years. Scott says if students violate policy, they will find themselves in serious trouble and in an alternative school.
In Sherman, Superintendent Al Hambrick says he is always looking for new ways to protect his students mentally and physically, so staff focuses on mentoring programs and emergency preparation.
"Those are the two areas where we have allocated grant funds this year, and moneys are allocated to make sure we have emergency procedures in place at all of the different campuses and at the central locations."
So far, the strategies seem to be working.
Parents we talked to say they feel like the schools are going out of their way to take precautions, making sure their children are secure.
"I've never had an incident where I've felt unsafe with her at any point, and when I call to pick her up they're very cautious about who I am and what I need her for," parent Jill Buckner says.
Spokespersons for the Equality Texas Foundation say schools in North Texas are doing a good job. In fact, they are considering three districts in the D/FW Metroplex as model districts. They hope to set up a community education forum in Sherman or Denison.

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An autopsy conducted earlier this week revealed the cause of death of a Mill Shoals man was not due to electrocution.
Michael Adams, 22, was pronounced dead at Fairfield Memorial Hospital Monday afternoon after he collapsed while working as a private contractor on a home east of Fairfield. He was operating a welder at the time of the incident and was at first said to have been electrocuted.
However, Wayne County Coroner Jimmy Taylor now tells WFIW Radio in Fairfield that after interviewing witnesses and conducting an autopsy an electrocution has been ruled out.
The autopsy did reveal some abnormalities with Adams' heart, leading investigators now to believe he had a previously undiagnosed heart condition. Further testing of Adams' heart as well as toxicology are ongoing.
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When we draw $n$ samples of Laplace-distributed random variable such that $n=2k+1$ and the location parameter is zero, the median $x$ (or the $k$-th order statistic) has the following p.d.f.:
where the p.d.f. of the underlying Laplace distribution is given as $f(y)=\frac{1}{2b}e^{-|y|/b}$.
The formula for p.d.f. of the median stems from the usual method of characterizing the distributions of order statistics and is found as equation (2.5.10) in Kotz's volume on Laplace distribution. There is another formula for the case when $n$ is even, but we shall not be concerned with it for now.
I am interested in the variance of the sample median. Since $f_m(x)$ is symmetric about $x=0$, I can get rid of the absolute value and write it as follows:
What I need is to reduce the following definite integral to a more manageable form:
For fixed $k$ this is fairly easy integral to solve. However, I am interested in asymptotics of variance $\sigma_m^2$ as $n\rightarrow\infty$ and $b$ is a linear function of $\sqrt{n}$, and thus need a solution for an arbitrary $k$.
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If a Linux user need use his bank account from Internet, then what technologies and procedures should use?
- Is better to use the Guest Account (if exist) of the OS, or an Administrator Account?
- What web browser is highly recommended?
- Should the user clean the browser history or it isn't useful?
- Some specific port should be closed? (I'm developing with PHP so I have the port 80 opened for Apache)
- There are some plugins or configurations that must be enabled/disabled?
- Any software or method that could help to improve the security?
- The Tor browser + Vidalia is a good or a bad alternative?


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First the tears, then the anger, then the action. We go through the stages of grief, which hopefully will diminish possibilities of such a recurrence.
News broadcasts are repetitive: change gun control legislation, provide better mental health services, background checks for persons making weapon purchases.
Part of the pain of it all, is that we feel impotent to make a difference. I suggest that there is one thing all of us can do. Take an inventory of the things in our personal lives that contribute to violence in our society.
For some it might be as mild as explosive language at a time when we are annoyed. For others it might be a choice of a steady diet of visual images of gunfire, attacks, violent video games and movies used for entertainment. Are we swept into a fascination with all things lethal?
From biblical times to our latest wars, we have relied on primitive solutions: might makes right.
Watching the faces of children who were recipients of such violence may lead us to a new way of solving difficulties. Here we are at Christmastime, and we are finding that in truth "a little child shall lead them," and 20 will redouble our efforts to " Give peace a chance."
Are we ready to turn our weapons into plowshares?
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text: What's up people, how is it going today for you all? Well, I hope all is well because I'm about to submit some fun and easy lessons that will get you back in the spirit to have a happy day. To start things off I will be uploading a lesson that I was supposed to put up yesterday. Here is "how to draw Vegeta easy", step by step. There was no way that I was gonna stop doing or making easy lessons based on our favorite Dragon Ball Z characters. Vegeta is one of the popular figures from the series so I knew that showing you folks an easy way to drawing Vegeta easy would be something that a lot of Dragon Ball fans would like. DBZ will always be a loved show even if you used to be a fan, but grew out of it over time. I can still sit there and watch a load of episodes if my brother asked me to. So here it is, have fun with it, and be sure to rate, comment, and fav. I shall return with more for you all so stay tuned in. Peace out and have a good day.


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RFC 1319 — The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm is a cryptographic hash function which is no longer considered secure.
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How is the MD2 hash function S-table constructed from Pi?
For fun, I'm learning more about cryptography and hashing. I'm implementing the MD2 hash function following RFC 1319 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1319). I'll preface by saying I know there are ...


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28 Jul 2008 1:26 AM #1
Column alignment for EditorGridPanel in Firefox
Hi guys,
We are using a Datastore and ColumnModel, displaying it via a EditorGridPanel. However we have a display issue in firefox... The data and the column names are out of sync.
Looking at the forums, it looks like it's because the column name is longer than the length of the field data. However, I couldn't see anyway to solve the problem..
There was on post that mentions setVerticalLines(true), but we have no call that looks remotely similar.
Any ideas?
28 Jul 2008 7:19 PM #2
dado0583 -
Any chance you can put together a showcase example that we could troubleshoot locally?Aaron Conran


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11 Aug 2010 2:06 AM #1
[OPEN-1295] Html Editor under Chrome
Hi guy,
I want to say say if anyone have check and fix this problem
if I use htmleditor check following link http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/dev/exa...m/dynamic.html and I press Source edit button , after focus on control I press Tab button check attachment for result( inside control add following string "<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>") , if control it's blank.
In IE and GEcko work fine
Thanks for help
11 Aug 2010 10:22 AM #2
Having a tough time understanding exactly what you are doing. Can you follow the bug posting guidelines, it may help: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...-the-Bug-Forum
28 Sep 2010 11:58 PM #3
Ext version tested:
- Ext 3.0 rev 3.2.1
Adapter used:
- ext
css used:
- only default ext-all.css
Browser versions tested against:
- Chrome 5/6
- Safari 5
Operating System:
- Win Vista PRO
- I use htmlEditor and I press Source edit button, (ext control swap in visual mode from iFrame to textarea),
I read a html source, if in a source control press a tab key, html source edit control loose focus (normal behaviur - IE, FF) for textarea, but dont give a focus at next control on form (ex.textfield, button...), but give a focus at iFrame control who in this instant it's not visible, and intercept any keys, and write on a textarea (Safari, Chrome -webkit-)
User dont understand whic control have a focus
Test Case:
See this URL : http://
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- for reprocuce go in a form who have a htmlCOntrol
press source edit button
give a focus on textarea
press keytab
press any key o key tab
check a problem
The result that was expected:
- When I press tab focus give on at next form control or in a button submit form
The result that occurs instead:
- Focus it's given on a not visible iFrame and if I press any key this element intercept key press and write html code on textarea
Debugging already done:
- none
Possible fix:
- not provided
thanks for help
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I am aware that having positive Lyapunov exponents in a system signifies that a system is chaotic. However, I would like to know if there is a means to know the degree of chaos in the system from the Lyapunov exponents. For example, does it signify anything if a system has 10 positive Lyapunov exponents out of 25, or all positive Lyapunov exponents. Thanks.
Consider the map $T: \mathbb R^4 \to \mathbb R^4$ given by $$ T x = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\\ 0 & 0 & \cos(\theta) & \sin(\theta) \\\ 0 & 0 & -\sin(\theta) & \cos(\theta) \end{pmatrix} $$ Then two Lyapunov exponents are $\neq 0$, and two are zero. Furthermore, one sees that the dynamic splits into a chaotic part given by $\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 \\\ 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$, the cat map, and by a completely regular one given by a rotation by $\theta$.
Hence, you want all Lyapunov exponent non-zero to get fully chaotic dynamics.
Of course, one might interpret all these things differently depending on what one means by chaos.
The (Kolmogorov--Sinai metric) entropy is a measure of chaos in a dynamical system w.r.t. an invariant measure. For a broad class of dynamical systems it is equal to the sum of all positive Lyapunov exponents. I would recommend reading http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Pesin_entropy_formula
Quoting this article,
The content of this formula is that the entropy of a measure is given exactly by the total expansion in the system.


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when I change the loudness with pulseaudio, pulseaudio acts on several of the values I can see when I use
alsamixer -c0
I have a problem: when the PCM loudness exceeds a certain value (80%), the sound crackles (or soaks? I don't know if this is the word).
I'd like to make sure the PCM value is fixed to 80%, so that pulseaudio only changes the value of the "Front" channel.
How can I achieve that?
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DXG 720p HD Camcorder (Fashionable Luxe Edition) for $29.77 + shipping
At last, a camera pretty enough for your wedding. Take that however you want.
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pink baby 112 on amazon , but not so good reviews, but 3of5 stars is ok, and a deal at this price
Fashionable like an all gold and diamond grill.
I'm strangely attracted to this. It reminds me of something...not sure what...like someplace I've been that all glitzy, ritzy. White leather and overdone gold decor. hm. Maybe it was that lady's living room back when I had a paper route. Does it come with gold wall sconces? And one of those "rain" sculptural lights with the oil that runs down the strings?
No mention of an SD slot. 128MB is what, 15 minutes?
@aphroat: It says: "Supports high capacity SD cards."
If this is anything like the previous model I have; you can get better video from a person with a pencil and a blank flipbook.
That's Hot! So chic.
I would say this is ugly but that would be an insult to ugly things everywhere.


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Is there a way to tell, after the fact, whether an image (placed with the
<img> tag, not via JS) has loaded correctly into a page? I have a gallery of head shots, and occasionally the third-party image server ends up serving up a 404. I can change the server-side code to use an
onerror="showGenericHeadshot()", but I really want to avoid making changes to server-side code. Ultimately, I want to determine if an image is missing or broken and replace it with a generic "Image Not Found" graphic. Things I've tried:
Image.prototype.onerror = showGenericHeadshot-- doesn't work for
$('img[src*=thirdpartyserver.com]).error(showGenericHeadshot)-- doesn't work in IE
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The May 2007 issue of School Reform News covers efforts by District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty and Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to assert more authority over their local schools. Also on page 1:
- Opponents of Utah's new universal voucher law are working on a referendum to repeal it.
- The Pacific Research Institute finds the performance of California's K-12 education system to be disastrously poor.
- The Virginia House Appropriations Committee has rejected a voucher bill for students with disabilities.
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New FEMA Deadline Is Set for Connecticut
HARTFORD—Connecticut residents adversely affected by Superstorm Sandy will have some extra time to register for federal assistance.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended its deadline to Jan. 28 from Dec. 31.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said extending the registration deadline will ensure that any resident or business affected by the October storm has ample time to apply for help. To date, he said more than $20 million has been approved to help Connecticut residents with disaster-related expenses.
According to Malloy's office, about 11,400 residents of Fairfield, Middlesex, New Haven and New London counties, as well as the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribal Nation, have registered for federal assistance.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The numbers show drivers over the age of 65 are at greater risk for being in auto accidents, but a few adjustments - and a lot of awareness - can help them stay safer behind the wheel, longer.
AAA Kansas' recent Car Fit sessions aimed to help senior drivers make those adjustments. Jim Hanni of AAA Kansas says Car Fit is a way to go through a checklist of things that can assist drivers in avoiding a crash or, if they do get in an accident, to be as safe from injury as possible.
The Car Fit checklist goes through about a dozen major points, from operating the turn signals, to operating the gas and break pedals, even adjusting the steering wheel and seat belt correctly.
Adjustments to the mirrors also are a big focus. Gerald Appelhans, a physical therapist with Stormont-Vail HealthCare, says we are not as flexible as we get older and often can't turn our heads as far from side to side. He says older drivers are taught how to adjust their mirrors to reduce their blind spot, so they don't need to look as far over their shoulder to see.
Any issues identified are met with strategies to cope, which could involve devices like removable handles to assist in getting out of a vehicle, a pull strap for ease in grabbing the seat belt, and various panoramic or spot mirrors.
The formal Car Fit sessions are over, but AAA has a new web site with resources for older drivers. It's www.seniordriving.AAA.com.
Stormont-Vail's HealthWise 55 program assisted with the Car Fit checklanes during May.


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|Release Date:
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|Willie, Okko, Karanja, Luke, Harry
|Jonathan Kaplan
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It is known that, if a topological space is simply connected,its first homology group vanishes. The converse is not true, since for every presentation of a (say, finite) perfect group G we can construct a CW-complex, via generators and relations, having G as a fundamental group. Are there such examples in the class of topological or differentiable manifolds? In other words, does there exist a non-simply connected manifolds with trivial first homology group?
The classical examples are homology spheres.
These are smooth complex projective surfaces with the same betti numbers as $\mathbb{CP}^2$, but with infinite fundamental group $\pi_1(X)$ (in fact it is isomorphic to a torsion-free cocompact arithmetic subgroup of $PU(2,1)$).
These are complex projective surfaces (hence, real $4$-manifolds) with $p_g(X)=q(X)=0$, obtained by taking the quotient of a $K3$ surface (which is simply connected) by a fixed-point free involution.
So, if $X$ is such a surface we have $\pi_1(X)=\mathbb{Z}/ 2 \mathbb{Z}$.
On the other hand, for any compact complex surface $X$, the first cohomology group $H^1(X, \mathbb{Z})$ injects into $H^1(X, \mathcal{O}_X)= \mathbb{C}^{b^1(X)}$ by the standard exponential sequence of sheaves
$$0 \to \mathbb{Z} \to \mathcal{O}_X \stackrel{\textrm{exp}}{\longrightarrow} \mathcal{O}_X^* \to 0$$
(in particular, it follows that $H^1(X, \mathbb{Z})$ has no torsion).
Since for an Enriques surface $X$ we have $b^1(X)=\frac{q(X)}{2}=0$, we have $H^1(X, \mathbb{Z})=0$.
If you are willing to use manifolds with boundary then the question is easy. For any finitely presented group $G$ you can build a finite simplicial complex $X$ with $\pi_1(X)=G$, then embed $X$ in a simplex and let $M$ be a regular neighbourhood of $X$ in the second barycentric subdivision; this will be a manifold with boundary homotopy equivalent to $X$.
If you want to restrict to smooth closed manifolds then the problem is harder, but I think that the answer is the same. Fix a sufficiently large number $n$ (I think $5$ will do) and let $P_k$ be the connected sum of $k$ copies of the $n$-torus. By a small exercise with the van Kampen theorem, $\pi_1(P_k)$ is the free product of $k$ copies of $\mathbb{Z}^n$. Thus, for any finitely presented $G$ there is an epimorphism $\pi_1(P_k)\to G$ for some $k$, with finitely generated kernel. Each generator of the kernel can be represented by a map $u:S^1\to P_k$, which we can assume to be an embedding by a transversality argument. If the normal bundle to $u$ is trivial then we can thicken it to an embedding $S^1\times B^{n-1}\to P_k$, remove the interior, and replace it with $B^2\times S^{n-3}$. (In other words, we perform surgery on $u$). This gives a new manifold, and using van Kampen again we see that the new $\pi_1$ is obtained from the old one by killing $u$. After repeating this process for each generator we get a smooth closed manifold with $\pi_1=G$.
I am not sure what to do if the normal bundle of $u$ is nontrivial, but I doubt that this is a serious problem. I also think that I have seen a more efficient construction in the literature, but I do not remember it at the moment.


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Quite a few years ago I tried some glueless patches for repairing my punctured tubes while out on the road, and found that they rarely stayed on for very long. I know that technology has advanced a lot since then, and I am wondering if I should now try them again? Do they work?
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They work ok - if you are just riding around town, they would probably be fine. If you are on a ride out in the middle of nowhere, I wouldn't count on these. The ones with glue work significantly better, to the point where I wouldn't buy the glue-less ones.
I've use glueless patches for a number of tube repairs and have found them to be just as durable as the glued patches.
Slime scabs suck as a permanent repair. I think they would be fine for a temporary repair, because that is about how long they last. Self vulcanizing cement and regular patches are still the best way to go. I still have some scabs, but will only use them in an emergency, or when I patch my ex girlfriends tubes.
I have used the stick on patches. The durability is conditional with proper installation. 1-scuff the tube 2-try and have the tube the same size as the inside of the tire. 3-after placing the patch on the tube take a smooth object and rub air out from under the patch. This is the most important step!
Glueless patches are to get you home, and glued patches are for the permanent repair once you make it home.
Personally, I carry a spare tube and glueless patches, and at home I have a nice glue kit. The glue kits actually bind the patch to the intertube, where the glueless stick on top over the puncture. That being said, I've had glueless patches stay on until I tossed the tube.
No! Still the same experience as a few years ago. Don't bother wasting your money on them (again). My experience has been that sometimes they don't even get you home before needint to be reapplied. Carry a spare tube and if you get a flat, take it home with you and patch it with a glue patch, or carry one of the small glue patch kits with you if you are flat prone.
I do carry them with me but I've never patched on the road -- I always carry a fresh tube instead since most of my flats happen in wet conditions. But I've occasionally used "glueless" (they're actually pre-glued) patches from the comfort of home and they've turned out fine.
I bought some once. Never again. The problem is that if you patch once, then have to patch again, the first patch crinkles when the tube deflates and then develops a leak because the patches don't stretch with the tube.
I've had no problems with the Park ones that I haven't had with 'proper' ones and haven't felt the need to replace them when I get in. Like regular ones, my experience is that if it's on, it's on and if it's still good after 24 hours then it'll last as long as the tube. I've had some issues with getting them to stick in the rain but I think that probably applies to all patches.
I use the Park GP-2 patch kit and have found them extremely durable, lasting the lifetime of the tube. This is with 28-32mm tires and pressures up to 90 PSI or so.
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AP source: Tagliabue bounty ruling coming Tuesday
Published: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 4:06 p.m.
A person familiar with the decision says former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue will rule Tuesday afternoon on the latest round of player appeals in the NFL's bounty probe, and that any potential punishment will be delayed by a week.
The person says the delay is designed to give a federal judge in New Orleans the opportunity to rule on pending motions to throw out the suspensions and remove Tagliabue as the appointed arbitrator for these player appeals to the league. The person spoke to The Associated Press Monday on condition of anonymity because no rulings have been announced.
The NFL's decision to delay potential sanctions for four current or former Saints means linebacker Jonathan Vilma and defensive end Will Smith may play Sunday when New Orleans hosts Tampa Bay.
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International Genealogical Index (IGI)
Staff are working on our collections to check, document and repackage thousands of items ready for their transfer to the new building during this time. This work will be our major task and consequently we are not able to respond individually to enquiries until after September 2013.
However, if you are specifically requesting personal information held about yourself, a member of staff will contact you to discuss this further:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
For all other enquiries, please contact us again once we open in the new Library of Birmingham.
We regret the inconvenience this is likely to cause to our users. A new Library of Birmingham website will be launched soon. Details of the services we will be providing from September will appear in due course as well as contact details for the new Library.
Meanwhile to keep in touch with us, please follow our blog at: http://theironroom.wordpress.com/ and to follow the progress of the new library please see: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/lob
Usually known as the IGI, this is the index compiled by the Mormons for religious purposes, first published in 1973, and later made available to genealogists.
What does the IGI show?
The IGI gives information about baptisms and marriages taken from parish registers in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the Channel Islands. A few births and burials are included. It gives:
- the surname and first names of the person registered.
- the date of the event; some entries date back to the sixteenth century. There are few entries for records later than 1876.
- the parish where the event took place.
- the parents or spouse of the person registered.
It is arranged by county; the old counties, as they were in the 1870s. It is then in alphabetical order of surname. The IGI lists surnames with similar spellings together. Obviously people with the same surname may not be from the same family, although they are listed together.
The index is not comprehensive as the researchers were not allowed access to all parish registers. There is a list of the parishes covered for each county on microfiches in the Archives and Heritage Service. There are few records for Nonconformists and these are almost all prior to 1837. There are very few records for Roman Catholic churches and no Quaker or Jewish records.
The IGI should be used with caution. Some of the information is unreliable.
- There may be multiple records for the same person, if information about them has been submitted by more than one researcher.
- Most of the entries relating to records later than 1876 are by individuals, as are some of the earlier entries. These may be difficult to check.
- Some records include estimated dates, and assumed places of birth. This is sometimes indicated, but not always.
- Transcriptions are not always accurate, and spellings of surnames may vary considerably. However surname variants are listed together.
- The IGI use of county boundaries is inconsistent. Smethwick Nonconformist records are included with Birmingham, under Warwickshire. Smethwick Church of England records are with Staffordshire.
It is best to check the original entry in the parish register if possible, as the IGI may be inaccurate.
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The IGI is on microfiche in the Archives and Heritage Service. If you are visiting the library, you will need to say which surnames, for which county, you require. There are a number of microfiche machines available on a first-come, first-served basis. One machine can be booked in advance, by phoning, or in person at the counter. There is no booking charge, and no charge for using the machines. There is an instructions file available giving further help with using the IGI.
In the Archives and Heritage Service we have the 1992 microfiche edition.
- We hold the IGI for the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Caribbean. The index has also been compiled for other countries, and is available in LDS (Latter-Day Saints) libraries, which are listed in the file in Genealogy.
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Trendy Apartment Near Times Square
Size800 ft²
Floor No.3
- Air conditioning
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
|west 51st street, 10019 New York, United States
|Property type
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|Response time
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|Calendar updated
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Two comfortable bedroom are present and are fitted with wooden flooring and a queen size bed each. The airy living room is a nice place to relax and includes a sofa bed. There is a separate kitchen equipped with the cooking appliances needed to prepare home cooked meals. Find a shower and a tub in the bathroom.
Just 200 metres away is the 50 St Subway Station. Central Park is only 750 metres away and is home to Central Park Zoo, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. Ten minutes away on foot are the Rockefeller Centre and The Museum of Modern Art.
Guests will find themselves just one block from the Theatre District where numerous theaters, movie theaters and restaurants can be found. Many areas suitable for walking, jogging and rollerblading are also closeby.
No pets.
No smoking indoors.
No loud music.
Guests should not loiter in front of the building.
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Location is good, many landmarks within walking distance, trendy area, Jose (wimdu-registration name changed since our booking was made ?) is a nice guy, we recommend to bring your own bedsheet and linen! bathroom needs substantial cleaning.
My family spent 6 days in NYC using the flat as base for the visit.
The location of the flat is superb, just 700 meters from Times Square and proximity to a large variety of restaurants in Hells Kitchen. There is a very nice atmosphere in the neighbourhood. Check in and check out smoothless , the flat is nice and clean, super wireless connection.
Great apartment, really central, close to lots of fantastic places to eat in Hells Kitchen. The apartment was really comfy, with two great double beds, large lounge area with a good kitchen. I would definitely stay again. Wilberg was really easy to communicate with, and we were able to leave the cases in the apartment until we left for the airport which was really important to us. Thanks Wilberg for a great stay.
We were three friends traveling together and wanted to stay at a place, where we could sleep separately to a reasonable price. That wish was totally fulfilled in Wilbergs apartment. It was in fact very easy to feel good and function well in the apartment. It is a bright and spacious apartment, very central located, with few minutes to subway, shops and restaurants. We felt very safe in the apartment.
Wilberg is an excellent host, with lots of good humour and careful as well.
Superb location, apartement perfect for two couples on a budget! Wilberg is a great host; serious, hospitable and a really nice guy! Would stay here again!
Really helpful and reliable host, easy communication, nice and clean appartment in central position.
Very recommendable!
Das einzige was positiv zu bewerten ist, ist die Lage.
Es beginnt mit dem unfreundlichen Empfang, geht weiter mit den äußerst ausverschämten Verhaltensregeln und endet mit einem wirklich sehr verdrecktem, ungemütlichem verwohntem und lautem Appartement. Die Bilder auf der Wimdu Seite entsprechen nur von der Raumaufteilung und Größe der Realität
Sowas kann man wirklich keinem anbieten. Ich würde gerne Bilder einstellen um andere vor dem Schock zu bewaren, den wir erfahren mussten.
- Quality assured accommodation
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To the editor:
On Feb. 14, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., stated she deserved a pay raise because of the responsibility she has. If it was based on what she accomplished, she'd owe us. Is this woman for real? The son of womanizer Jesse Jackson pleaded guilty to ripping off his contributors of over $750,000. His wife pleaded guilty, too. See any reports of this scandal in the lame media? Of course not.
President Obuma wants to pay to educate all preschool children. His true intention is to get to 4- and 5-year-olds to indoctrinate them to socialist policies. If the government gives you money, you have to do what it says. If you take away religious beliefs so government is god, government controls the populace. If you make people dependent on government health care, no matter how flawed the system, government controls the populace. Government control of guns also reduces our freedom. This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation will have full gun registration. "Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future." - Adolph Hitler in "The Weapons Act of Nazi Germany," 1935.
Our exhausted monarch needed a weekend in Florida to receive personal golf instruction. Wouldn't it be cheaper to fly the instructor to D.C.? Michele Obama flew to Aspen for her get-a-way spending millions of our money. I guess she must be exhausted, too? After all, trying on wigs is fatiguing. Most Americans are living payday to payday, trying to make ends meet. Last Tuesday, gas was $3.86 a gal. This king and queen are making up for the social injustice they must have suffered. They won't tell you the breaks and financial assistance they received due to affirmative action and other programs they tapped into.
You think the president gets up every morning with a new idea about changing our government? No, his plans were formatted in college. He will lay out his vision slowly but surely, as he did first term. This way, no one sees what he's doing. He has long-range plans already on paper, but is implementing them slowly. Wait when he has two years left - what will this socialist will inflict on us? Because most of his idiotic followers never studied history they don't see how his agenda aligns with another dictator wannabe in 1932; 80 percent of his followers have no clue what I'm eluding to, and that's scary. The other 20 percent do, and that's scary.
Have you read the memo sent to department heads? Paraphrasing: Make the sequester as hard on the public as can be. Hurt the people. Did the president really have no place to cut expenses except to close the White House to tours? It's not his house, it's the American people's house. How dare this incompetent do this, yet 90 percent of his followers have no idea what it is or the impact of the sequester.
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This is a question often asked by switchers (Windows PC -> Mac)
On the Windows
Download Eudora for Windows and install it if it's not already on your computer. Eudora can be used for free in sponsored or light mode.
If you see the New Account Wizard when you open Eudora, click Cancel. Go to the File menu and choose Import. It should automatically detect any Outlook or Outlook Express accounts.
Your Outlook or Outlook Express mailboxes should now appear in Eudora's mailbox list. Close Eudora. If prompted to save changes to the Address Book, click Yes.
Locate the newly created Eudora mailboxes and address book so they can be transferred to the Macintosh.
On the Mac
Download Eudora Mailbox Cleaner.
Eudora Mailbox Cleaner will display the results of the import. If the import was successful, the number of imported messages, recovered attachments, and imported nicknames should all be greater than zero.
Your messages should now appear in Mail.app in a folder called Import. Address book entries should appear in the OS X Address Book application.
NOTE: If you are unable to open the imported files, you may need to rebuild them. Select each folder, then go to Mailbox > Rebuild.


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Once the American Civil war ended, did some states encounter more difficulty than others when it came to rejoining the Union? What circumstances or conditions might have contributed to their issues?
The question refers to "problems" without defining them, so I am going to cast my answer in terms of which states rejoined the Union earlier (supposedly fewer "problems") rather than later. I will try to tie the rejoining order to the best correlation I can find.
According to the link below, Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Florida were the first four Confederate states to rejoin the Union. They were Upper South (or in the case of Florida, peripheral) states that were not part of the mainstream South. The first three states plus Virginia did not join the Confederacy until after the firing on Fort Sumter.
The last seven states to rejoin were Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Mississpi, and Texas. With the notable exception of Virginia, these were the hard core "deep South" states. The most pro-Union part of Virginia was West Virginia, which "seceded from secession," meaning that what was left was more pro South than the other Upper South states.


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In this (btw, nice) answer to Twin primes of form $2^n+3$ and $2^n+5$, it was said that:
If $n\equiv 2\pmod 3$, then $7\mid 2^n+3$?
I'm not familiar with these kind of calculations, so I'd like to see, if my answer is correct:
Let $n=3k+2$ so then $2^{3k+2}+3\equiv 2^{3k+2}-4 \equiv 4\left(2^{3k}-1\right)\equiv \phantom{4\cdot } 0 \pmod 7$.
Reading a bit about Modular arithmetics, I found that $ a_1 \equiv b_1 \pmod N $ and $ a_2 \equiv b_2 \pmod N $ then $ a_1 a_2 \equiv b_1 b_2 \pmod n$, if $a_i$ and $b_i$ are integers.
Since we have $4\equiv 4 \pmod 7$, I conclude that $2^{3k}-1 \equiv 0 \pmod 7$.
Finally we use that $ 2^{3n}-1=(2^3-1)\cdot \left(1+2^3+2^{2\cdot 3}+2^{3\cdot 3}+\cdots+2^{(k-1)3}\right) $ and are done.
Are there alternative ways to prove it?


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Sawmill and Close it.
WYNNE, Ark., Aug. 22- A Deputy Mar-
shal has arrested eleven prominent white
planters from Poynsett County on the charge
of whitecapping. The prisoners will be ta-
ken to Helena to appear before the United
States District Court.
The negro laborers employed at a sawmill
in Poysett County were recently forced to
leave under threats of violance by a band
of white planters, causing the mill to sus-
pend. The arrests were made at the inti-
gation of the mill owner.
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Serves 4
Roasting Oven Environment
- 1 pheasant cut into 8 pieces
- ¼ cup olive oil
- Salt and Pepper
- 1 red onion, medium dice
- 2 stalks celery, medium dice
- 2 carrots, medium dice
- 3 sprigs of parsley, left whole
- 1 cup Vin Santo
- 1 can San Marzano Tomatoes, whole/peeled
- 1/4 cup black olives, oiled cured
- 3 cups chicken stock
Rinse pheasant pieces, dry well and season with salt and pepper.
Place roasting pan in oven and heat. Pour olive oil into heated pan, add pheasant pieces and brown well.
When browned, add diced onion, celery, carrots and parsley. Cook for about 10 minutes or until lightly brown and softened.
Add Vin Santo and reduce by half. Add tomatoes and black olives and heat through. Add chicken stock as needed to cover pheasant by 1/3. Cover and cook until meat is tender and falls easily from the bone, about 1 hour. Taste and adjust salt and pepper to taste.


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Dead Doctors Dont Lie 23 Dec 2014
Dr. Joel Wallach begins the show today discussing his "Seeing is Believing" CD. Telling the story of how the CD came to into being. At a lecture Dr. Wallach was giving a man asked him if the symptoms of macular degneration can be reversed. Suddenly another man jumped and called Doc a liar. Saying I'm an eye doctor and once a person is blind they're blind. Doc challenged the man to give him 12 legally blind patients. The doctor brought him charts for 27 patients and said if you can get even two to see I will apologize. Ninety days later all 27 could now read and drive and only two needed glasses. So the doctor recorded his apology onto a CD.Pearls of Wisdom
Doug Winfrey and Dr. Wallach discuss a news article concerning a study from Harvard Medical School. Finding that cardiac arrest patients and the sickest heart failure patients treated at teaching hospitals during the two biggest national cardiology meeting fared better than those treated 3 weeks before and 3 weeks after the meetings. Also finding these patients were less likely to have invasive procedures such as stents.Callers
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All degree-seeking undergraduate students may pre-register for up to 4.0 units of academic course credit along with up to 0.75 course unit of co-curricular partial-credit courses, such as music lessons, ROTC, Speech and Debate, or theatre performance. Students who have completed at least 3.0 units of academic courses in the immediately preceding semester and who received a semester grade point average of at least 10.50 may overload up to a total of 5.0 course units of academic course credit starting the first day of the new semester. Students may not exceed 6.0 units of total credit, including co-curricular partial-credit courses. Overloading students who receive a low grade notice in any course (except PE) must drop back to no more than 4.0 units of academic credit. These students may remain enrolled in an additional 0.75 unit of co-curricular credit, not to exceed 4.75 total units. 3/2 majors and Science and Management majors may pre-register for 5 academic courses with permission from their major advisor or the Dean of Faculty. Any student requesting an exception to this policy must petition the Academic Standards Committee and present compelling reasons (with appropriate documentation) for the exception.
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Sitting at 10-2, #2 ranked in the conference, the Seward County Lady Saints had to be thinking they were heavily favored in their match-up Tuesday night with the Pratt Community College Lady Beavers.
But apparently, no one told the Beavers they were expected to lose.
On sophomore night at Dennis Lesh Sports Arena, the Lady Beaver spikers sent the Saints back to Liberal nursing the wounds from a 3 set sweep.
PCC won the opening set 25-18. The second game was a turning point as the Lady Beavers took a hard-fought 28-26 sudden death victory.
Going up 2-0 was huge for PCC. The Saints could have gotten new life had they been able to tie up the match at one game apiece. The Beaver win, however, put them in the driver's seat.
PCC closed out the match with a 25-21 count in game 3. Set and match, 3-0 Lady Beavers.
Playing their final match in the Beaver Dome, and going out in style, were the following women who were honored on sophomore night: Maci Grimes, Andale; Elisa Seumanu, Kearns UT; Shaylinn Kaus, Hoxie; and Kylie Pywell, Plainville.
PCC ends the regular season Thursday against Garden City at their place. The Lady Beavers upped their record to 8-19 (4-9 in the Jayhawk West) with their upset of Seward.
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October has been designated as Polish American Heritage Month.
This heritage month, which began in Philadelphia and became a national celebration of Polish history, has been observed for 31 years.
Since 1608, when the first Polish settlers arrived in Jamestown, Va., Polish people have played an important part in American's history and culture.
During 2012, Poles will mark the 404th anniversary of the first Polish settlers, who were among the first skilled workers in America.
Polish Americans will mark the 233rd anniversary of the death of Gen. Casimir Pulaski, the father of the American calvary.
Also, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alliance College in Cambridge Springs, Pa., by the Polish National Alliance.
At the dedication ceremony of Alliance College, President William Howard Taft delivered these opening words: "This expression on the part of the Poles of the United States, of a desire to perpetuate in this land of their adoption the highest institution of learning for the purpose of furnishing for their educated youth an opportunity of the study of the language, the literature and the history of Poland, presents an interesting phase of the settlement of this country by immigrants from European countries."
October is the month to salute the Polish Americans for their achievements.
Be proud of your Polish Americans.
Yvonne Tuchalski
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Towns, States Are Ponying Up to Keep National Parks Open
Local Governments Look for Ways to Make Sure Federal Attractions Don't Close; Tusayan's $350,000
The Arizona town of Tusayan, on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon, has 558 residents and 1,000 hotel rooms. And by Saturday, it had $350,000 to reopen temporarily closed Grand Canyon National Park.
"The reason we exist is the Grand Canyon National Park. This closure is devastating," said Greg Bryan, Tusayan's mayor and general manager of a Best Western hotel. The town is offering to fund a partial reopening of the park that would allow visitors to drive through on a main road and stop at overlooks.
As the federal-government shutdown entered its fifth day Saturday, state and local governments were searching for ways to keep attractions open, especially in places where local economies largely depend on the parks. Some are willing to pay to keep the parks going during these final crucial weeks of prime tourist season, before winter sets in.
In Wisconsin, officials are keeping seven federally subsidized state-owned forest, wildlife and recreation areas open, even after receiving instructions from the federal Department of the Interior to close them. The state lands depend on federal funds for 18% of their budgets, or $701,000 total.
"I really don't think it is a defiance, but fulfilling our obligations," said Cathy Stepp, an official with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, which administers the state properties. "We are doing everything we can with social media, radio outlets and news to get the word out that we're open. The calls are coming in like crazy—people are planning to come here with camping trips every year, weddings, reunions."
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Lawmakers in Maryland have worked out a small exception to the federal shutdown to allow several hundred family members to honor firefighters who died in the line of duty at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, Md., this weekend.
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) worked with the memorial, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Fire Administration to open the site briefly for the annual memorial service.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, said the brief opening didn't present an additional cost. "They're just unlocking the gate and allowing families of fallen firefighters to pay their respects at the memorial," the spokeswoman said.
But the federal government turned down Republican South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard's offer to keep the Mount Rushmore National Memorial open with state workers. The National Park Service told state officials that it was required to use federal employees, not state employees, at the monument, and that opening Mount Rushmore would set a precedent to open the other federal parks.
"It makes sense for the federal government to shut things down because there isn't funding available, but it doesn't make sense to close something because they are trying to make a point," said Tony Venhuizen, a spokesman for the governor. "Our offer still stands if there is a change of heart on the part of federal officials. We certainly would be pleased to talk to them if they seem interested."
Federal officials have so far rebuffed offers from Arizona state and local officials to pay for reopening at least a portion of Grand Canyon National Park.
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, famous for her run-ins with the Obama administration, at first this past week released a statement saying her state "cannot afford to bail out the federal government," but then offered to use state funds to reopen the park.
"The governor believes that President Obama and both parties in Congress owe it to the American people to get their act together and work out a solution to fund the government. And, at the very least, President Obama should agree to reopen the National Parks," said Ms. Brewer's spokesman, Andrew Wilder.
He said the park's superintendent told the governor's office that the Grand Canyon "would not accept third-party dollars for park operations."
On Friday night, Ms. Brewer, Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin and Arizona Senate President Andy Biggs sent Latest Updates" target="_blank" class="icon none" >a letter to Mr. Obama asking that he immediately reopen the Grand Canyon, or least make it possible for state and private funding to reopen the park.
A spokesman for the National Park Service said its headquarters hadn't received a "formal offer" to reopen the Grand Canyon, but ruled out the possibility.
"Beyond the legal constraints involved, it would not be appropriate or feasible to open some parks or some parts of parks while other parts of the National Park System remain closed to the public," said National Parks Service spokesman Mike Litterst.
"We appreciate the generous offers of support and temporary assistance to reopen various individual parks around the country," he said, adding that the service "shares in the frustration" of more than 700,000 people turned away from 401 parks every day.
Tusayan business owners kicked in $150,000 toward the Grand Canyon park's reopening. The town council voted to contribute $200,000.
Mr. Bryan, Tusayan's mayor, said that if the state contributes enough to bring that amount to $500,000, that could keep part of the park open for a few weeks, reopening the main route through the park and the lookout areas.
In Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, the awe-inspiring attraction brings in millions of visitors every year and is an anchor of the state's tourism industry, which last year accounted for $19 billion in spending and 7% of tax revenue, according to a state tourism report. The attraction creates 12,000 jobs, and tourists spend $1.2 million a day on businesses there, according to Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, a Democrat who represents the district that includes the canyon, as well as seven national forests and other national parks.
Ms. Kirkpatrick said Friday she is continuing to negotiate on behalf of her district to try to reopen the Grand Canyon and other parks.
In Wyoming, home to Yellowstone, the country's first national park, officials talked to the National Park Service about finding an alternative source of funding to keep operations running, said Renny MacKay, a spokesman for Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, a Republican.
Earlier this year, locals helped pay for snowplowing at Yellowstone when the national park couldn't afford it because of automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequester. This time around, though, "the likelihood of reaching agreement on that type of approach is not likely," said Mr. MacKay.
"The closure of national parks and monuments in Wyoming creates a significant economic hardship on many small businesses in nearby communities," he said.
—--Kris Maher and Ana Campoy contributed to this article.
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There is so much thirst for diversity analytics, research and training that our team is always in demand.
I work in the Human Capital Management division of Goldman Sachs. I'm an Executive Director in the Office of Global Leadership and Diversity (GLD). My job gives me a great deal of variety – from analysing metrics to assessing our recruitment, promotion and retention rates, to running a series of conferences and events.
I started work in Diversity in 2005. During that time, I've had great opportunities to work with lots of famous and influential external people – from politicians to CEOs, actors and athletes. In my role I get to meet with the most senior members of the company to discuss diversity challenges and accomplishments. When I see how focused they are on diversity, I know that I'm in the right role.
I first came to the firm in 1991, as a summer analyst in Technology. Since then I've worked in many departments and divisions. There is no question that opportunities are out there – the key is to do a good job. If you are good and known, opportunities will come to you.
There's no such thing as an average day or week. Let me tell you about one of my recent weeks.
The week began with me hosting an offsite for my team to form our diversity business plan for next year.
The next day we rolled out a new training programme called "Out in the Open: Sexual Orientation in the Workplace." I helped develop this programme, which we piloted in New York before running it in London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
Following that, we ran a conference for our women associates, which helped them focus on taking charge of their career. The week ended when I got on a plane for Tokyo, where I was covering part of a colleague's maternity leave.
I have a lot of work to juggle. There is so much thirst for diversity analytics, research and training that our team is always in demand. It's helpful that my work is very team based. I have loads of tasks and projects which I own, but most could not be accomplished without the help of others.
I was studying Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. My resume was included in my school's resume (or CV) book, which they sent to companies. I returned to my dorm one day to find my roommates (all business school students) jumping up and down in a frenzy: I had received a call from Goldman Sachs for an interview. And quite seriously, I hadn't even heard of Goldman Sachs. My world was more techie – IBM and Microsoft. But I knew I had to go for the interview. That ultimately led to my first summer internship, which was then followed by a second summer internship and then a full time role in the Technology graduate programme a year later.
I interviewed with a number of different companies, both technological and financial – but ultimately thought the prospects that Goldman Sachs offered were the most interesting. And I was charmed by the environment and the people. When I first joined, I think my team treated me like a younger brother and yet, at the same time, also made it clear that I had a lot to contribute.
Coming out of university, I knew I wanted to be working in technology. I hadn't really imagined I would one day be designing trading surveillance systems for an investment bank! In 2002, I made a bigger leap by leaving my technology career to work in Equities Compliance. Back when I started, I never imagined that would be part of my career path. Perhaps even stranger was when I moved into diversity. Though unexpected, my career path actually makes a lot of sense. I can see parallels between what I did in Technology, Compliance, and now Human Capital Management. And I bring extra value to each area by bringing a diverse and unique perspective to my new role.
I'm also an active member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Network, and I think it's great that Goldman Sachs is so focused on ensuring all employees get an equal opportunity to succeed at the firm.
I'd offer the following advice to anyone interested in pursuing a career in this field: Be clear on your motivation – Why do you want a role in finance? What are you looking for? If you're not yet convinced, do some more research. And be clear on what you can offer. What are your best skills? Why would they be applicable? If you can demonstrate that you have something special, we will be interested.


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The Me'am Lo'ez (מעם לועז), begun by Rabbi Yaakov Culi in 1730, is a commentary to Tanakh written in Ladino. It was subsequently translated to Hebrew and translated from the Hebrew to English in a fairly popular commentary in print. Does anyone know of a modern publishing house who has printed this in/with the original Ladino? When was the last time this was printed in Ladino?
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The Meam Lo'ez are 17 volumes written in 150 years, I know you mean a Ladino with Hebrew letters Meam Lo'ez, but the last time printed in Ladino with Latin letters were in the 2006 by the National Authority of Ladino at Israel. The book is a recompilation of Selected text from Bereshit with its introduction, glossary and index, here the book Daalet le-Navon.
The cultural magazine Aki-Yerushalayim wrote about the book in Ladino (my English translation):
Maybe you can get a printed copy if you email the National Authority of Ladino.


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Alps - Eastern Part > Bernina Group > Piz Palü > Climber's Log
Piz Palü Climber's Log
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|Silvia Mazzani
|East-West Piz Palù traverse
Date Climbed: Sep 14, 1982
|Great climbing day. Descent to Marco e Rosa Hut to climb Piz Bernina the day after.
|Posted Dec 13, 2012 7:08 pm
|Normal Route
Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2012
|Spent the night at the luxurious Diavolezza Hut and then had the most perfect day for our climb. The crevasses were huge at this time of year and amazingly beautiful. Does not get any better than this!
|Posted Oct 20, 2012 4:51 pm
|Piz Palù Traverse
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2011
|Traverse of the 3 Piz Palù starting from and back to Diavolezza. Beatiful ridge and climbing down the Fortezza's rocks.
|Posted Sep 11, 2011 4:09 pm
|Route Climbed: Traverse Date Climbed: august 2011
|Traversed over Piz Palü on our way from the Marco e Rosa Hut to Diavolezza after climbing the Biancograt the day before. Superb snow conditions on the entire summit ridge, nice mixed climbing on West Ridge.
|Posted Aug 20, 2011 10:32 am
|Normal Route
Date Climbed: Aug 9, 1989
|From Ref Marinelli Bombardieri
|Posted Jul 4, 2011 5:24 pm
|from Diavolezza hut
Date Climbed: May 9, 2010
|a perfect day with only a few people on top
|Posted Apr 27, 2011 6:53 am
|Traverse from north
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2009
|With Siv
Started at Marco Rosa hut
|Posted Mar 2, 2011 10:05 am
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2009
|We started from Rifugio Marco e Rosa and traversed from W to E, then headed down to the Diavolezza Haus.
Imagine our surprise when, on the actual ridge, we met a guy that had a dog with him, on a rope! It's not so much the dog that we worried about, but what if the dog would suddenly pull on the rope? His boss could easily loose his footing and you definitely do not want to fall on that ridge!
|Posted Jan 10, 2011 5:16 pm
|a classic!
|Climbed Palü the first time at age 11 with my Dad. Like the traverse most.
|Posted Sep 1, 2009 6:57 pm
|Peter K
|Routes Climbed: Traverse & Kuffner Pillar
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2009
|The three pillars make it look like an impressive stronghold.
#1: We made the Palü traverse coming from the Piz Bernina Biancograt with a rest on the Marco e Rosa Hut.
#2: Came back three days later on Swiss National Day (August 1st 2009) to climb the Kuffner Pillar. Took us a long but rewarding day, that will definitely remind in our memories.
#3: This time instructing a DAV youth leader training.
|Posted Aug 18, 2009 11:04 am
Date Climbed: Mar 16, 2009
|Ski route from Diavolezza. And traverse to the main summit with crampons and axe.
|Posted Mar 17, 2009 11:00 am
|Traverse West-East
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2007
|West-east traverse from the boval hütte.
|Posted Mar 11, 2009 1:36 pm
|winter time
Date Climbed: Feb 22, 2009
|From Diavolezza with Ski.
fog, windy and not very safe condiction for the snow, stopped just below the East summit
V, giacomo and Matteo
|Posted Feb 23, 2009 2:18 am
|nice day
|traversing from diavolezza to bellavista
|Posted Sep 20, 2008 12:26 pm
|Traverse from East to West
Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2005
|We were the only one summiting the Palu from Diavolezza.
|Posted Sep 7, 2008 7:57 am
|Traverse west - east
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2008
|A bit tired from the Bianco ridge done the day before, we traversed Palü to get from marco e Rosa hut to Diavolezza. Nice views down the famous north pillars of Palü.
|Posted Aug 7, 2008 7:23 pm
|Mathias Zehring
|with ski from Diavolezza
Date Climbed: Mar 26, 2008
|It took me 19 years till I reached only the east summit of Palü to climb the main summit. the days before had cold and stormy weather and we were very lucky that conditions turned to the good side on our summit day.
|Posted Jun 27, 2008 2:52 pm
|Normal Route
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 1990
|From Diavolezza hut in a perfect day with Alfredo
|Posted Mar 2, 2008 7:20 am
|[X] Bird
|West ridge from Pansera Bivac
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2007
|Very easy and pleasant climb. We came from the Rifugio Marinelli-Bombardieri, then to the Pansera Bivac and from there to the col at the start of the ridge.
|Posted Nov 21, 2007 9:17 am
|Piz Palü
Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2004
|Fantastic Skitour to Piz Palü 3901m
my picture are here: Link to Piz Palü 3901m
|Posted Nov 8, 2007 5:01 am


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The Kentucky Medicaid program will add additional co-payments for services and drugs to help off-set a 675 million dollar Medicaid shortfall.
Medicaid officials discussed the new co-pays at a forum this morning at the Sloan Convention Center. They say the money will save the program an estimated 30 million dollars annually.
The cabinet for health and family services says the Medicaid crisis is largely driven by federal changes, but more flexibility is needed in the program. "I think one of the issues we see every place we go is the program "one size" fits all Medicaid program is no longer working...many of the regulations in the Medicaid program were written in the 1960's.
Dozens of people turned out for the forum and were encouraged to ask questions and offer suggestions about preserving the Medicaid program. "This does effect me and my friends around here, we are all concerned about the co-pays they have going and because a lot of us are on tight budgets."
As of July 1 Medicaid members began paying $1.00 for generic drugs, $2.00 for preferred brand drugs, and $3.00 for non-preferred brand drugs.
On July 15 recipients who are not federally mandated to receive their benefits will also pay new fees. $3.00 for generic, $10.00 for preferred brand and $20 for medicine not on the state's preferred list. Starting August 1, most Medicaid recipients will have to pay co-pays for medical treatment like ER visits, office visits, hospital stays and outpatient services.
Co-pays will not apply to pregnant women, people under the age of 19, some minorities and people in long term care facilities.


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Is there any specific reasons why so few consider the possibility that there might be something underlying the Schrödinger equation which is nonlinear? For instance, can't quantum gravity (QG) be nonlinear like general relativity (GR)?
There are nonlinear versions of the Schrodinger equation that are completely irrelevant to your question. These are like the Gross-Pitaevski equation, they are nonlinear classical field equations that describe the flow of a self-interacting superfluid or BEC. These equations have nothing to do with the evolution of probability amplitudes, and I will not consider them further.
Probability theory is exactly linear
To understand why the concept of a nonlinear equation for probability amplitudes is not reasonable, and most likely completely impossible, consider first classical probability. Suppose I have a classical equation of motion of the form
$$ {dx\over dt} = V(x)$$
where the vector field V describes the future behavior as a flow on phase space, coordinatized by x. Now I can ask what is the evolution of a probability distribution $\rho(x)$, if I have incomplete knowledge of the initial position.
The evolution equation is determined by considering the probability of ending in a little box surrounding x'. This probability is the sum of all possible paths that lead to x' times the probability of being at the beginning of the path. This sum gives the probability equation:
$${\partial \rho\over \partial t} = V(x) \cdot {\partial \rho \over \partial x} - \rho(x)\nabla\cdot V $$
The point is that this equation is exactly linear, for fudamental reasons. It is impossible to even conceive of a nonlinear term in the evolution equation of a probability distribution, because the very definition of probability is lack of information, as represented by a linear space.
Note that classical probability distributions are defined on the entire phase space, so they are enormous dimensional linear equations which completely include the nonlinear dynamics if you restrict to delta-function sharp probability distributions on x. The only difference with quantum mechanics is that there are no delta-function sharp distributions in the presence of non-commuting observables on all observables. Otherwise the two types of descriptions are similar
Quantum mechanics mixes amplitudes and probabilities
If you have a quantum mechanical system, the wavefunction mixes with classical probability in a nontrivial way. If you consider a quantum system of two entangled spin 1/2 particles in a spin singlet, the projection of the wavefunction onto one of the two particles is a density matrix which is a classical probability.
This is extremely important to preserve, because the probabilities are nonlocally correlated, so if there were any way to extract the far-away component of the spin wavefunction, you would be almost certainly be able to use this to signal faster than light, because you can collapse the wavefunction where you are, and the far-away density matrix would then not have a probability interpretation.
These types of nonlinear theories are so difficult to conceive, that Weinberg suggested in the 1960s that quantum mechanics has absolutely no deformation of any kind which is consistent with no-signalling. Although this conjecture is not proved, to my knowledge, it is certainly plausible, and there are no nonlinear deformations which could serve as counterexamples (the link to this paper has just been posted as I write by Oda).
It is wrong to think that there is any nonlinear deformation of the Schrodinger amplitude equation. Such modifications do not exist, and almost certainly cannot exist. If the world obeyed such an equation with a tiny nonlinearity, different Everett branches would become interacting, and we would be able to see the ghosts of our other selves, and other nonsense. It would rule out any form of hidden-variable interpretation of the wavefunction, and it would almost certainly lead to violations of no-signalling.
@Ron Maimon has given the canonical answer to this: the wavefunction is probabilities, and to preserve probabilities one must have a linear equation (indeed, also a norm-preserving evolution operator).
I offer another viewpoint, in the style of how Einstein thought about relativity, i.e. two postulates. The postulate is that it is not possible to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time. Abraham and Lloyd showed that if quantum mechanics were non-linear at all, then this would be possible.
Aaronson has a nice paper, the start of which references a large literature on why quantum mechanics has to be the way it is.
In addition to the classic Weinberg paper cited above, there's this shorter version, and then follow ups by Peres 1989 on how it violates the 2nd law, by Gisin on how it allows superluminal communications, and by Polchinski on how it would allow for an 'Everett' phone.
More recently, there's this mathematical argument against nonlinear QM by Kapustin.
Although it's not a very satisfying (or informative) answer, nonlinear equations are a pain in the butt to solve so we prefer to avoid them whenever possible. It makes sense that the first equation(s) developed to describe quantum systems would be linear, simply because they're the simplest.
That being said, there's no reason that the "true" theory underlying QM would have to be linear. In fact, for exactly the reason you pointed out (i.e. that general relativity is nonlinear), it's commonly believed that we will need some kind of nonlinear theory to properly explain the universe at its most basic level.


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A female corrections officer was charged Tuesday with having sex with an inmate facing the death penalty for the 2003 murders of two New York Police Department officers, authorities said.
According to a federal complaint, Nancy Gonzalez is eight months pregnant following a relationship with Ronell Wilson, who was sentenced to death in the homicides of undercover detectives Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin. She was charged with unlawful sexual abuse and entered no plea during an arraignment in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday. She was released on $150,000 bond.
Ms. Gonzalez was captured on video repeatedly meeting with Mr. Wilson in a vacant room inside the Metropolitan Detention Center, and she disclosed her pregnancy to jail officials in June 2012.
In a recorded call with another inmate—whom she also allegedly had a relationship with—Ms. Gonzalez said she "took a chance because I was so vulnerable and wanted to be loved and now I'm carrying his child," according to the complaint. While she didn't identify the man by name, Ms. Gonzalez described encounters with a high-profile prisoner from Staten Island and provided other identifying details, including that his first initial was "R."
A law-enforcement official said the inmate is Mr. Wilson.
Ms. Gonzalez, 29 years old, also allegedly told the other inmate that she had intercourse with the prisoner over three weekends with the express purpose of impregnating herself. She said she "kind of got sucked into his world" and "felt like, well, why not give him a child as far as giving him some kind of hope," according to the complaint.
She expressed concern in these recorded conversations over how she would describe the baby's conception in the future: "How am I going to explain this to this little boy?" she said, mentioning that it was "with a person who took lives."
In addition to the phone conversations, several informants cited in the complaint said they witnessed interactions between Ms. Gonzalez and Mr. Wilson, including Mr. Wilson "exposing his genitals."
Phone records also revealed conversations between Ms. Gonzalez and Mr. Wilson's family.
Ms. Gonzalez faces 15 years in prison. Her attorney, Anthony Ricco, told reporters after the proceeding that Ms. Gonzalez was a "victim" in this case.
"She's had a very tragic life," he said. "She has long-term issues that affected her life and judgment."
Mr. Wilson was convicted in December 2006 of shooting the two officers during a gun buy-and-bust operation in the Tompkinsville section of Staten Island. A month later, a jury voted unanimously to put him to death by lethal injection, the first such death-penalty decision in New York City since 1954.
Last year, Mr. Wilson's attorneys argued in Brooklyn federal court that he was not fit to stand trial because his IQ is too low.
The judge hasn't made a ruling.
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