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The sheer number of baby carriers on the market can make an expectant parent's head spin. Yet there are really only four types: sling carriers (also called wrap carriers), front carriers, convertible carriers and backpack carriers.
The best carrier for you is one that you and your child both feel comfortable with, is easy to use, and holds up over repeated use, including washing and drying. Most baby carriers are well padded, adjustable and made with child-safe fabrics. Organic fabric choices are widely available. One important note: Always keep your receipt. You may have to try a few different carriers before finding one that fits both you and your baby.
Sling or wrap carriers support the baby with soft fabric that is draped across the parent's body. Most styles also drape over the shoulder for extra support. Some slings have rings that help with adjustments; others are simple pouch-like designs that are best for babies once they have full head control.
The most important thing to know about sling carriers is that a baby should never be curled in the carrier with his head forward in a C-shape. This is a suffocation hazard and has led to infant deaths and product recalls. It's crucial to read and understand all instructions for use before using one of these carriers with a baby, especially a child under 4 months. However, when used properly they are as comfortable and enable a mother to nurse discreetly. They can be used from infancy to toddlerhood.
Front carriers are soft-structured carriers that can be used from birth, although sometimes they require an insert for newborns. Some front carriers can be worn either with the baby facing the parent, or with the baby facing outward (once he or she has good head control). Front carriers are padded and adjustable, and the best of them distribute the baby's weight between the shoulders and hips to ease the strain on the parent's back.
A few of these carriers have the old-style "crotch dangle" type of carry, which means the part of the carrier that holds the baby is narrow and does not support the baby's hips. Some experts worry that this lack of support may lead to hip dysplasia or affect healthy spine development. Front carriers are a good choice for infants and younger toddlers.
Convertible carriers are front carriers that can also be worn on the back or shifted to put the baby's weight on the hip. Most convertible carriers have an outward-facing option when used as a front carrier, but some do not. The best convertible carriers have good padding and a number of adjustments for comfortable weight distribution. These carriers are good for infants to older toddlers, depending upon the variety of carry positions.
Backpack carriers are for the active parent who wants to take their child along on hikes or long walks. These carriers enable a child to sit up high and see the action. The best backpack carriers are ergonomically designed so the child's weight is evenly distributed between the shoulders, back and hips. It should have a five-point safety harness for the child. There should be storage options for gear as well, just like in any serious hiking backpack, and it should be possible to put it on and take it off without help. These are for older babies with good head control.
ConsumerSearch has analyzed dozens of expert reviews and hundreds of owner reviews to evaluate baby carriers in all four categories for comfort, ease of use and durability. The result is our picks for the best carriers for you and your baby.
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- Pharmacogenetics of warfarin – is testing clinically indicated?: A must-read about warfarin and Coumadin issues.
- This page catalogues drugs with pharmacogenomic information in the context of FDA-approved drug labels and lists drugs with mounting pharmacogenomic evidence.
- Have you ever seen a Promethease Report?
Promethease is a tool to build a report based on SNPedia and a file of genotypes. Customers of testing services (23andMe, deCODEme, Navigenics, …) can use it to learn more about their DNA. It can also pool the data from multiple testing services. The program runs for approximately 2 hours. If you make an optional $2 payment via Amazon.com the program runs faster.
Actually, I cannot download my genomic data from Navigenics, but will be able to do so after the summer. Anyway, the results can be interpreted as follows:
Personalized medicine: An interview with Esther Dyson (What Matters):
But if your mother died of a heart attack, or your father has colon polyps, as mine does, it's pretty clear what the indications are. Genomes themselves give you only—with a few exceptions—percentages. So, it's not like you put this information up and people are going to stick pins into it. I actually was expecting more medical spam about, you know, "We looked at your genome. You should buy such and such nutri-ceutical." What will be exciting is when you have hundreds of thousands of these and you say, "Oh, wow. They're these five genes that seem to interact." Most things are not a gene. It's usually a lot of different genes—and then, combined with what you eat and whether you sleep enough and whether you stay warm enough and all these other things—that actually produce a real outcome in a person of being in such and such condition.
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Richard Trevor Hubbard was formally arraigned by Judge Rachel Bringer Shepherd in Ralls County Circuit Court Tuesday.
After a preliminary hearing last month at the associate circuit court level, Judge David Mobley found cause to advance the case to the next level.
Hubbard, 18, is charged with sexual assault, sexual abuse, forcible rape, felonious restraint and child molestation following an incident with his former 15-year-old girlfriend.
Hubbard plead not guilty via his attorney, Public Defender Jennifer Richardson, and is set for a status hearing 10 a.m. March 5 before Bringer Shepherd at the Ralls County Courthouse.
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Empty piece of pipe is culprit of scare at Lake Shore Middle School
An object resembling a pipe bomb was found in the wood shop of Lake Shore Middle School in Mequon on Sunday afternoon.
The object turned out to be an empty piece of pipe capped at both ends. The Milwaukee County Bomb Squad moved the pipe to a safe location and detonated it at 4:20 p.m.
A group of parents and a technology education teacher was cleaning and reorganizing the wood shop area when the suspicious object was found at 1:15 p.m., according to a letter sent to parents by the Mequon-Thiensville School District. The pipe appeared to be discarded plumbing parts and not an attempt to build a pipe bomb.
A second search of the building was conducted after the disposal of the object, and nothing else suspicious was discovered. Classes on Monday will not be affected.
WIAA Individual Wrestling Championship photo gallery updated with title matches
WIAA individual state wrestling tournament crowned its champions yesterday in Madison and MyCommunityNOW has updated photojournalist Peter Zuzga's state wrestling tournament photo gallery with images from the championship rounds.The
Photo gallery: WIAA state wrestling photo gallery
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Germantown too much for Homestead
For the third time this season the Homestead boys basketball team gave defending WIAA Division 1 state champion Germantown a battle, but for the third time, the Warhawks' size and length proved too much.
Top-seeded Germantown had a 17-3 lead at the end of the first quarter and never looked back in defeating fourth-seeded Homestead, 70-44, in a regional final Saturday in front of a standing-room-only crowd.
"We did what we had to do to take care of this team," Germantown coach Steve Showalter said. "Nothing was easy. We had some spurts where things weren't going right."
The Warhawks (24-0) notched their 52nd straight win, a streak that dates back to the 2011-12 season. The win earned them a spot in the sectional semifinals Thursday against No. 3 seed Arrowhead at Waukesha West.
If a first quarter can turn a game one way or another, the Warhawks made it count, holding the Highlanders to just 1 of 11 shooting. As they have done all season, Germantown used its size and length.» Read Full Article
Brown Deer has answer for every St. Catherine's strike
After one quarter of its WIAA Division 3 regional championship contest on Saturday night, the Brown Deer boys basketball team held a comfortable 16-5 lead over visiting Racine St. Catherine's.
Head coach Kelly Appleby and his team, however, were not fooled by that.
"We expected them to come back," Appleby said of the Angels. "They're a good team and a quality opponent. They've got a great coach over there (the veteran Bob Letsch), and they've had huge success through the years.
"We knew they wouldn't just roll over for us. We weren't too excited about what we had there. We had a good start, but we had a whole game to play."
True to Appleby's prediction, St. Catherine's indeed kept coming back, climbing to within one point in the second period and two points in the fourth quarter, but each time, the Falcons answered with a run of their own.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay drops a heartbreaker to Milwaukee Washington
Whitefish Bay has seen its fair share of talented basketball players this season.
Unfortunately, they ran into one more in Milwaukee Washington's latest superstar,
Jamaar McKay. His unselfish pass to Justin Harris led to the game-winning free throw as the Purgolders eliminated the Blue Dukes, 63-62, Saturday night at Washington in a WIAA Division 2 regional final.
Washington advances to play No. 1-seeded Wisconsin Lutheran Thursday at Waukesha North.
"He has been making those plays all season," said Washington first year coach Fred Riley. "I have been saying he is the 'Lebron James of Wisconsin' all season."» Read Full Article
Homestead keeps composure to oust Waukesha West
In close, meaningful games, a team tends to bond over a huge 3-pointer or a gutsy defensive stand. The Homestead boys gathered themselves early in the fourth quarter not after a huge play by a teammate but rather the opponent, Waukesha West.
After a 3-point play was followed up by a technical foul, Homestead went on a 10-2 run to close the door and notch a 62-51 WIAA Division 1 regional semifinal win over the fifth-seeded Wolverines. The Highlanders advanced to play at No.1-seeded Germantown on Saturday night.
"To be honest with you, it just really made us mad," said Highlanders forward Luke Worthington. "We kind of rallied around it. A lot of the calls were not going our way all night, but we battled through it."
Holding a cozy 46-35 lead two minutes into the fourth quarter, Homestead felt the boat take a hit. West senior Christian Walz scored a layup and the Highlanders (15-8) were called for a five-second, closely-guarded violation on the ensuing possession.
West guard Earnest Cowser drove to the basket, and Tyler Domenoski was able to gather a rebound, avoid a tumble and put up a shot that went in attached with a foul by Worthington, which put him on the bench for a considerable amount of time. The technical made matters worse, and Domenoski drilled all three free throws to cut the lead to only 46-42 with 5:22 remaining.» Read Full Article
Disciplined Grafton boys end Nicolet season in 56-50 upset
Nicolet basketball coach Paul Hepp was so certain that the baseline 3-pointer that was put up by his team late in its WIAA Division 2 regional semifinal Friday night with North Shore rival Grafton was down that he had all but called the time-out already.
Instead, the ball did at least a 720-degree, maybe even 1,080-degree spin around the basket, being sucked more than halfway down before it popped back out and into the hands of Grafton forward Beau Benzschawel.
So instead of being down just two with just under a minute to go and with another chance to force a turnover, the Knights were forced to foul Benzschawel.
He downed two free throws with 45 seconds left for a 54-47 lead and the Knights were never able to get within four again in a season-ending 56-50 defeat.
"Sometimes the basketball gods just don't smile on you," said a philosophical Hepp, "but this more or less came down to whether we could play a full game or not. Even when we were on a recent winning streak (six games), we'd play some good halves and then we'd play some mediocre halves."» Read Full Article
Bay hammers Morse-Marshall
The Whitefish Bay Blue Dukes boys basketball team earned a trip to the third round of the WIAA Division 2 playoffs on Friday night by knocking off visiting Milwaukee Morse-Marshall Juneau, 78-40.
The third-seeded Blue Dukes (17-6) move on to face No. 2 Milwaukee Washington (16-7) on Saturday. The Purgolders were co-champions of the strong City Conference.
Blue Dukes senior guard Keelin Johnson helped his team jump out to the kind of fast start so important in postseason games by scoring Bay's first nine points. Johnson got into foul trouble early, but junior forward Joe Sherburne helped pick up the slack, and the pair combined for 16 first-quarter points to give Bay a 22-9 lead after one.
"Keelin played really well for us, Joe Sherburne, Christian Lane, Miles Sigh, you could really go down the list," Whitefish Bay head coach Kevin Lazovik said. "It was a great team effort. Guys came in off the bench and contributed and that's what we need at this point. You want to be playing your best basketball at this point in the season. That was a good one, and hopefully we can be even better still."
The Blue Dukes kept attacking, using their up-tempo, aggressive style to build a 20-point lead early in the second quarter and a 36-18 advantage at halftime. The sixth-seeded Eagles struggled working inside against a much bigger Whitefish Bay team and were forced to settle for long-range shots for most of the night.» Read Full Article
Summit Credit Union to close Brown Deer Road branch
Summit Credit Union said Friday it plans to close its location at 6914 W. Brown Deer Road on March 29.
"The decision to close the Brown Deer Road location came after careful consideration and evaluation of our branch network," Kim Sponem, chief executive and president of Madison-based Summit, said in a statement. "The Brown Deer Road branch was underutilized, and because it was not full-service, many of our members were already using our other three Milwaukee locations, as well as the shared credit union service branch just five blocks from the Brown Deer Road office."
The ATM at the Brown Deer Road location will continue to remain available to members, Summit said.
Employees at the Brown Deer Road branch will relocate to other Summit locations in Milwaukee, including the branch at 10015 W. Greenfield Ave., which is being rebuilt, Summit said.
"Our commitment to our Milwaukee-area members remains strong," Sponem said. "The closure of the Brown Deer Road branch allows us to focus on our plans to add more full-service, convenient locations in the Milwaukee area, which is a primary focus of growth for us throughout the next several years."» Read Full Article
Hansher, Leszczynski advance in Mequon's 4th District aldermanic race
Jeff Hansher and John Leszczynski advanced to the general election for the 4th District aldermanic seat on the Mequon Common Council.
The two newcomers beat Cherry Lange, who was also new to the campaign trail. Incumbent John Wirth announced his noncandidacy.
Leszczynski received 163 voters, or 47.38 percent. Hansher received 112 votes or 32.56 percent. Lange received 64 votes or 18.6 percent. Out of the 2,330 registered voters in District 4, 344 turned out to vote - a 14.8 percent turnout.
The general election is April 2. Council members earn $1,800 annually and serve three-year terms.
Unofficial results are:» Read Full Article
Season ends for Shorewood boys against Tech
Short and short-handed, the Shorewood boys basketball team could only do so much against a physical and determined Bradley Tech team Tuesday night in a WIAA Division 2 regional quarterfinal game, as the Trojans eased away from the host Greyhounds by a 67-62 count.
Coach Phil Jones wasn't happy with the physical play or the outcome, which ended the Greyhounds' season at 13-10.
"We were short-handed," he said. "Carmen Purvis wasn't available tonight and we play only six, sometimes seven people so that made it hard. ...We were active on the boards tonight, but everytime we were we got beat up and mauled underneath. That sort of negates all the good that you've done."
Bradley Tech now advances to a Division 2 regional semifinal Friday at second-seeded City Conference co-champ Milwaukee Washington.
Shorewood took an initial 16-13 lead in the first quarter, but then the Trojans came back with a 23-12 effort in the second period that put them up 36-28. Sophomore forward Joseph Harries had 11 points in the first half for Tech, including three 3-pointers and eight points in the second.» Read Full Article
Crawford knocked out of Bay trustee race
The candidate field for the Whitefish Bay Village Board is down to four, and newcomer Robert Crawford is out of the running.
After the Feb. 19 primary, incumbent Jay Miller and newcomers Carl Fuda, Kevin McMahon, and Ken Wysocky advance to the April 2 election and will vie for two seats currently held by Miller and James Roemer, who has filed noncandidacy.
Almost 2,900 Whitefish Bay voters cast ballots in the trustee race, and the primary drew a 21 percent turnout of Whitefish Bay's 10,306 registered voters.
Trustees serve three-year terms and earn $600 annually.
Unofficial results are:» Read Full Article
None injured in Bayside assisted living facility fire
Bayside - No one was harmed this afternoon when Bayside police and the North Shore Fire Department evacuated residents and staff of the Elizabeth Residence after a fire caused an estimated $50,000 in damage.
According to an NSFD news release:
The fire department and police were immediately dispatched to the Elizabeth Residence, 9279 N. Port Washington Road, at approximately 2:50 p.m. after a 911 caller reported fire on the second floor. The call was immediately upgraded to bring additional staff and equipment due to the large population of elderly and disabled residents in the assisted living facility.
Arriving police officers reported heavy smoke coming from the second floor of the building. The first NSFD unit on the scene quickly determined the automated sprinkler system had put out the fire, though there was still smoke in several corridors of the building. Fire companies shut off the sprinklers, though a significant amount of water, fire and smoke had extensively damaged the area surrounding the unit where the fire began.
Police and fire department commanders evacuated and accounted for staff and residents of the building.» Read Full Article


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IANAL et al. is usually the start of answers to [legal] questions on any SE site (e.g. this). You usually end up with personal opinions which sound sensible and the accepted answer is often the one closest to the OP's hopes. But it's probably often not correct. I know the situation can be rather complicated and even differ by location, but it would be really helpful if the SE team were providing official lawyers (indicated maybe by using a § in the username, forbidden for everyone else, just like the mod ♦) to provide some orientation that one could actually rely on beyond much doubt...
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I initially thought that you meant the legal questions here on MSO. I can see how an informed answer for those makes a bit more sense.
For anything under the sun across the network? That doesn't make as much sense to me. How is this different from hiring someone to go around the network and answer any C++ question? Stack Exchange is the host for the content on the network, but it isn't responsible for providing the answers to the questions asked on the network (aside from questions about the actual network/company on the meta sites, of course).
If SE started doing this, they'd be bankrupt and on their arse begging for odd jobs within a year:
Also, lawyers are not experts on everything. There might be IP questions, Trademark questions, Copyright questions, Fair employment questions. And what's true in one country may be blatantly false in another country. So are you going to hire a lawyer from every expertise in every country to answer the questions?
Reliable legal advice, on a global site (implying various jurisdictions), without knowing the specific legal situation of the asker? I'd rather go for something less ambitious, like the universal translator or proving P == NP.
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Authors: T Pickles, A Agranovich, E Berthelet, et al.
Source: Cancer 2002; 94: 362-7
The use of androgen ablation (AA) has become more common in the treatment of prostate cancer. Androgen ablation has a proven survival benefit in patients with advanced (T3-4, or lymph node positive) disease and in those with high Gleason Score (8-10) disease, via the data of large EORTC and RTOG studies. Furthermore, the use of prolonged hormonal ablation (> 2 years) has been shown to be more efficacious than shorter durations of hormones. With the routine use of hormones in these patients, the number of patients receiving androgen ablation therapy is in the thousands per year. There is concern over the risk of permanent gonadal failure in these patients, with subsequent loss of testosterone production and increased late toxicity. This study investigates the recovery of testosterone production following AA.
Hormonal ablation is an essential part of treatment in many patients diagnosed with prostate cancer. However, with more patients being treated with AA, and for longer periods of time, there is concern over the long-term toxicity profiles, mainly dictated by permanent gonadal failure, reflected in testosterone levels. If permanent gonadal failure results, patients would be impotent and at significantly higher risk for osteoporosis, among other things. This study shows that, in the majority of cases this is not a concern, as gonadal function returns within 3 years. In fact, this may simply reflect those patients who would have naturally lost their testosterone production, as shown via the control population. However, though it was stated that longer duration of AA was correlated with less testosterone recovery, there was no data that directly addressing this issue. In fact, only 9 of their patients were treated with over 2 years of AA. As more patients are being treated with 2 to 3 years of AA, this is an important question that needs to be answered. Also, there is no data on symptom recovery (hot flashes, impotence, etc.) as testosterone levels increased after cessation of AA. In addition, patients were scored as recovered if their testosterone rose to normal just once during the analysis period. There is no revision or correction of the data if those patients again dropped below normal. Overall, this study reports encouraging data of testosterone recovery after AA. As long term LHRH agonist therapy has become the standard of care in AA, a prospective study needs to be done to directly address gonadal recovery in these patients.
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Exceptionalism misunderstood
In May 2011, The Washington Post's Richard Cohen, a columnist I admire, wrote an opinion piece titled "The Myth of American Exceptionalism." In it, he opined that the "problem of the 21st century is the problem of culture," in particular the "culture of smugness," the emblem of which "is the term 'American exceptionalism.' It has been adopted by the right to mean that America, alone among the nations, is beloved of God."
I wrote a rebuttal, contending exceptionalism means nothing of the sort and that no one on the right that I was aware of — and no one, evidently, that Cohen was aware of since he quoted no one to substantiate his thesis — would define exceptionalism as he had.
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I have multiple projects in my life but only one notebook.
This means that documents, software, notes, almost everything goes into the same machine and this can be very distractive.
My solution to that is to use Virtual Machines (specifically VMware).
Every time I start a new project I create a virtual machine on my computer so that all the relevant project data and software are there.
The problem is that Virtual Machines are slow, and some times is really annoying to start/stop them. Somehow you pay the price of this separation of concerns with speed.
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"The shortsighted budget produced by Senator (Patty) Murray (D-Wash.) would result in $1.4 trillion less in total economic output and 853,000 fewer jobs over the 10-year forecast period. It is bad enough that the Senate Budget Committee has abdicated responsibility on fixing entitlements, but the salt in the wound is the harmful higher taxes that would impact American businesses, individuals, and families."
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- Padded collar and tongue for comfort
- Full grain leather and suede is durable and easy to clean
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Rated 4 out of 5 by twwtww from Good looking with low profile. I like my new boots. I like the low profile so that they look more like shoes than clunky boots. They are not as comfortable as other Rockport boots I've owned and not near as comfy as the multiple dress ports I've owned. I need more arch support so I think I'll buy a better inner sole. Overall I like the shoes, but I was hoping they'd be more comforable for wearing all day.
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Rated 2 out of 5 by polo from Wish I would have sent them back Boots run very large. I have to wear thick socks to make them feel correct in the footbed. The throat is so large I have the two sided pulled completely together and it still does not feel snug around my ankle and leg. Wish I would have spent more time in the boots before I wore them outside.
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Sharon Palmer, head of the American Federation of Teachers and vice president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, will be damned if she can remember being honored by the Communist Party USA in 2004 for making the state safer for socialists.
Yeah, the Amistad Award statue the Reds gave her has a prominent place in her office in Rocky Hill, and, yeah, she occasionally cavorts with Reds from Greater New Haven because their "People's Center is an integral part of the fabric of the New Haven community." But what about the ceremony she and labor leaders from across Connecticut attended? At best, she has disjointed recollections, "something to do with social justice," she told the (Manchester) Journal Inquirer.
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The Lewisville Legion Auxillary met on March 11, 2013. There were eight members present. President Linda Carlson opened the meeting. Iris Davis played the piano, sang the songs "The National Anthem" and "God Bless America."
Secretary report was read and approved with one change. Treasurers' report was read and approved.
Correspondence was read. Old business was Lewisville Fun Daze on June 14 and 15. It was decided to do bingo Friday night and a bake sale on Saturday morning at the Legion.
Members heard from two candidates for Girls State, Kristi Oberdieck and Alexis Jahnz. Legion offered to pay for one girl and the Auxillary will pay for the second girl.
New business was updated the kitchen serving guidelines to $25 for kitchen rent, Chicken supper will be on March 17, 2013 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Memorials were held for Ruth Wiederhoeft and Evelyn Erdman. Closing ceremonies were held.
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5 Animals That Have Learned How to Keep Pets
Keeping a pet is the kind of asshole move that only humans could think up. Taking an otherwise wild creature, slapping a collar on it or sticking it in a cage, and making it dance for our pleasure? That shit would never work in the animal kingdom, where every creature that isn't your own species is either predator or prey.
Yet, looking around this giant waterlogged space-boulder we call Earth, we find several clear cases of domestication among animals that shouldn't even grasp the concept. Fortunately for us, the photos of these creatures together are almost always hilarious.
#5. Giant Tarantulas Employ Tiny Frogs as Housekeepers
It takes a moment for the eye to adjust to that image, because it makes no goddamned sense. That there is a huge, furry spider hanging out with his tiny little frog pal, ready to go on adventures together like they're in some awful direct-to-video Disney movie. But that shit is happening out in nature, right this moment.
Francesco Tomasinelli
"Uh ... It's not what it looks like."
As an aggressive, venomous, and trouser-ruiningly huge tarantula, Xenesthis immanis has no trouble murdering just about anything it wants. Small, furry mammals are nothing more than fast food, and it can even kill and eat venomous snakes simply by biting first. It's pretty much the last animal you'd expect to keep a loving, loyal pet. And yet, Xenesthis immanis has made itself a best friend in the form of a tiny, adorable, dopey-looking frog named Chiasmocleis ventrimaculata.
This frog is so teeny and vulnerable, even Kermit could slap it around. They're aware of this, too, doing just about anything to survive, from living under massive mounds of elephant shit to living under the figurative thumb of an eight-legged murderer.
Francesco Tomasinelli
Keep in mind, they eat other frogs.
The latter is actually the perfect setup, for both frog and spider. As the spider feasts on prey, discarded remains begin to pile up. This (along with the spider's appetizing eggs) attracts ants and other hungry pests, which the tiny amphibian eats up before any damage can be done to the nest. In exchange, the spider does not kill and eat the frog. That's ... pretty much it. These two radically different species have come to an unspoken understanding.
Francesco Tomasinelli
Or maybe a spoken one. We don't speak spider-frog.
Of course, this is a giant, angry, hungry spider, and sometimes they forget themselves. Should Xenesthis ever lose its shit like Oscar Madison on bath salts and start picturing its pet Felix roasted on a plate with an apple in its mouth, the suddenly-not-so-harmless froggy will unveil its secret weapon: toxic skin. Biting into it isn't enough to kill the spider, but will certainly persuade it to cancel its dinner plans and go back to chewing on something safer. Like a cobra.
#4. Emperor Shrimps Ride Other Creatures Like They're Horses
Despite sharing a title with Palpatine, emperor shrimps are actually about as powerful as that little frog thing Jabba was friends with. Tiny, slow, weak, and defenseless, these guys are all but predestined to wind up the main course on some bigger fish's barbie. How do they survive, then? By turning every larger creature they see into their majestic stallion, to carry them along the ocean floor like the freaking Lone Ranger.
Shinichi Morita
Emperor shrimps are natural hitchhikers, and they'll ride just about anything in a pinch (they might even choose you, which is certainly a better fate than if a shark decided to do so) -- but their ideal whip is some venomous creature, like a sea cucumber, medusa worm, or nudibranch. Those animals are usually brightly colored, a striking visual that can easily convince potential predators to stay the fuck away or risk a very painful death indeed.
Unlike most other creatures that travel from place to place via living, breathing taxi, these shrimps are not parasites. They don't harm their trusty steeds in any way, and might even help them by nibbling on actual parasites that stupidly try to take root. More often, though, they simply hitch a ride to wherever it is shrimps go when they're not slathered in butter on somebody's plate, feasting on any waste or debris that the steed kicks up during the ride.
Steve Childs
"I'm going to call you Falcor."
Emperor shrimps are so dependent on their free rides, in fact, that if they can't get one, they'll just sit around and mope until something sittable comes along. But when one does, the scene's more magical than a hundred "soldiers on leave surprising their children" videos put together. Such as in the video below: If worm whispering isn't your thing, just skip to 5:20 and enjoy the new couple's beautiful first dance together.
#3. Keyhole Limpets Keep Scale Worms Around as Attack Dogs
Keyhole limpets are typical cone-shelled mollusks, in that they don't do a whole lot with their day aside from laying there, sticking to shit, and suffering recurring nightmares about someday being fried and dunked in mayonnaise.
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Mmmmm ... limpy.
Their shells offer decent protection from predators, so long as those predators are too stupid to realize that meaty mollusk goodness is but a single flip away. The problem is, they're usually not, and this results in the limpet spending the rest of eternity as starfish poop.
But limpets aren't stupid (well, as not-stupid as a near-brainless organism can be), and many have set up a home defense system to scare off those who might want to eat it. Since their species isn't covered under the Second Amendment, guns are sadly not an option (they have no cold, dead hands from which to pry a rifle anyhow). Their alternate weapon of choice? A big, ugly, pissed-off attack worm.
"I'm standing my ground ... well, ocean floor. You know what I mean."
Known as Arctonoe vittata (which rhymes with "Hakuna matata," in case Weird Al is reading this and needs ideas), this cuddly bit of bait lives inside the limpet's shell, happily eating and napping all day while enjoying the good life. But unlike your lazy, apathetic cat, who clearly takes being a pet for granted, the scale worm is extremely protective of its cozy home. Should some shithead predator attempt to dine on its master, the worm will quickly (and viciously) dissuade it from doing so via a series of ferocious ninja bites.
The biting part could easily be avoided if the limpet would simply stick up a "Beware of Worm" sign somewhere in its territory, but clearly it would rather hand would-be intruders a brutal, toothy surprise. They're assholes like that.
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Special Olympians earn awards
WELLSBURG - Athletes with Brooke County Special Olympics returned from the West Virginia Volleyball and Bowling Tournament in Parkersburg with several medals and ribbons, and two received awards for their outstanding sportsmanship.
Matt Elcesser was awarded the J. Fred Earley Sportsman Award, which is given to an athlete who demonstrates good sportsmanship and leadership qualities. He has been with Brooke County Special Olympics for several years and participates in volleyball, track and field and basketball.
"He is friendly, courteous and very helpful to everyone," said Judi Ambrose, Special Olympics volunteer.
This year Putnam County Special Olympics leaders presented the Scottie Alford Award, a one-time award given in honor of Putnam Olympian Alford for an athlete who demonstrates outstanding determination.
The recipient was Brooke County Olympian Ed Kosut, who is known as a quiet guy who supports others while striving to do his best. Kosut participates in basketball, volleyball and bocce.
Brooke Volleyball Team A, coached by Cathy Furioli, received gold medals, placing first in its division. Its members are: Dan Adams, Heather Ambrose, Matt Elcesser, Kay Ferrari, B.J. Griffin, Jimmy Hunter, Marie Kosut and Mark Pollock.
Brooke's Unified Volleyball Team, which includes athletes with and without disabilities, placed second in its division. Receiving silver medals were: Drake Johnson, Ronnie Miller, Josh Zonker, Clayton Weeks, Angela Powell, Sara Furioli, Jenna Furioli, Breanna Vanderpool and Kylie Greathouse.
The team is coached by Bill Furioli.
The doubles teams of Matty Filippelli and Andrew Rager and Donald Liposchak and David Mendrick received silver medals. Garnering bronze medals were Lesly Schwertfeger and Priscilla Dugan.
Allen Smith and Stephen Caswell received fifth place ribbons, and Ed Kosut received a participation ribbon.
In the singles bowling competition, gold medals went to Filippelli, Schwertfeger, Caswell and Smith. Receiving silver medals were Jeremy Janura, Ed Kosut and Rager. Bronze medals were earned by Dugan, Mendrick and Liposchak.
Follansbee auxiliary discusses projects
FOLLANSBEE - The Follansbee American Legion Auxiliary met in the post home Dec. 12 with Rita Robinson, president, presiding.
Topics covered included what to do for veterans for Christmas and a discussion on holding a Night at the Races in April.
The auxiliary received an appreciation letter from the Hospital Care Project at Landstuhl Hospital in Germany for having sent donations of ankle and crew socks and boxer shorts for the wounded.
Members were reminded that the $20 dues are due by Dec. 31. If not received, they will be declared delinquent.
Bethany women celebrate Christmas
BETHANY - The GFWC-WV Bethany Woman's Club held its Christmas dinner Dec. 11 at Bethany Memorial Church, with Helen Moren, president, presiding.
The invocation was delivered by Judy Pyle. Handling dinner arrangements was Charlotte Chambers while Connie McVicar was in charge of decorations.
A donation was made to the state scholarship fund for victims of domestic violence. A scholarship is awarded annually to help women affected by domestic violence to reshape their future by establishing a career and gaining personal independence.
Favors were made for Valley Haven and Ann's Country Retreat.
Guests were former Kiwanis members Ted Bunnell and Jack Hoffman, Lawrence Pyle, Akardy Seidweitz, Ray Godina, Karen Bracey, Lloyd VanHorn, Bill Riggs, Cindy Hoffman, Ruth Jones and Donna Lovato.
The meeting concluded with a game. The group will meet again in February.
Bethany club helps children in Africa
BETHANY - The Bethany College business administration and accounting club and the college's economics club raised more than $100, through a bake sale, for the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, a charity that aids young children in Africa.
The organization provides treatment against parasitic worms that can cause anemia and long-term development problems. It costs $5 to protect a child for 10 years, according to the group.
The students involved in the bake sale were Amber Ridings, Jared Roque, Allison Snyder, Cameron Cooper, Alexander Tyre, Peter Franklin, Evan Sargo, Kelly Becquet and Johntel Coleman.
Professor David Youngberg is adviser to the economics club, and Professor Anju Ramjee is adviser to the business and accounting club.
Club holds traditional tea
BETHANY - The Bethany College Japanese Culture Club, with assistance from the Japanese Outreach Program, hosted a traditional tea ceremony at the Mountainside Conference Center.
Known as Chanoyu, Sado or Chado, the ancient art form focuses on the aesthetics of tea preparation. Associated heavily with the rituals of Zen Buddhism, tea ceremonies feature images of beauty, such as flowers and art, to reflect and mediate.
Professor Fujiko Sawtarie hosted the ceremony, with Nobuyuki Tanaka, Nobuko Felt and club members serving as demonstrators, with commentary provided by Professor Sachiko Wood.
Audience members had an opportunity to participate. A dinner of yakisoba followed the demonstration at Harder Hall.


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Part 2 of my "Must-See in Asheville" is a little {gigantic} place just down the road from Biltmore called Tobacco Barn Antiques. And those of you who love picking will love this place. It's a huge old barn-turned-antique mall that's full of treasures of all shapes & forms.
My sister had been here a couple of times before, torturing me by texting me pictures of all the great stuff. She told me I would love it & she was right. We spent over an hour browsing the stalls of the different vendors, but we could have spent a couple more hours if we had had more time & less kids along for the ride.
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Science Features
Part 1: Overview
Drought is a stealthily incremental disaster that is much more costly to the national economy than most people suspect.
Even as the eastern states have seen an unusually wet summer, citizens in the midsection of the country read in May that the High Plains Aquifer could no longer support irrigation for vast stretches of farmland in Texas and Kansas (New York Times, 5/19). In June residents of the upper Midwest read with particular interest a story of how drought and other factors have created historically low water marks for the nation's Great Lakes, putting a $34 billion shipping industry in peril (Seattle Times, 6/15). In August, citizens of the Southwest, many of whom depend on water from the Colorado River basin, read that the low water levels of Lake Mead would be minimally recharged by a record-low annual release of water from upstream reservoir Lake Powell, the latest outcome of a 14-year drought (Las Vegas Sun, 8/15).
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100 Days of Drought at Lake Mead: March 24 to July 2, 2013
According to a report by the National Drought Forum, more than 65 percent of the conterminous U.S. was affected by drought in 2012. The report notes that costs associated with the 2012 drought could be greater than losses from Superstorm Sandy, which makes the 2012 drought one of the top three costliest natural disasters since 1980. Widespread drought during 2012 in Texas alone resulted in $12 billion in damages.
What sections of the Nation are currently experiencing drought? How do those conditions compare to recent years, to the past century, or to more distant centuries? How can communities better prepare for and cope with drought? These are some of the questions USGS scientists consider as they work to understand the nature of drought and how to minimize its impacts.
USGS partners in the science of drought
The USGS works together with nearly 2,000 local, State, Tribal, and other Federal partners to pioneer new monitoring, assessment, and research capabilities, and develop innovative methods, tools, and mapping needed to address drought issues and management strategies across the Nation.
USGS science — conducted both in "real time" and over the long term — helps inform decision makers in communities across the country who have to deal complex issues and competing interests in times of drought. They need accurate, trusted information to:
Real-time data for real-time response
When a drought is taking place, USGS real-time tracking of streamflows and groundwater levels indicates the amount of water that is available at the moment.
During a severe drought, communities and water managers must decide, for example, whether to restrict certain categories of water use; to hold water in reservoirs for the future or release it to satisfy immediate water needs; or to increase ground-
water pumping to augment surface-water supplies. These critical decisions require accurate and timely information that USGS provides on the current status and recent trends in streamflow, ground-water level, and water use.
USGS has worked with the State of Pennsylvania for more than a decade to develop a real-time system routinely used in State drought management applications. The tool is instrumental in continuously tracking precipitation, surface water, groundwater, and soil moisture, and highlighting the resource most affected at any given time.
A complex picture
The threshold of drought varies from place to place. USGS maps and graphs comparing current conditions to historical observations are available for nearly 4,000 long-term streamgages located in every State across the Nation (see Texas example in graph).
While streamflow may be the most readily apparent evidence of drought, it is not the whole picture. USGS real-time information on groundwater levels demonstrates clearly that precipitation deficiencies (and subsequent drought) affect different parts of the hydrologic system over time.
Effects of a drought on streamflows may happen fairly quickly – within days, or at most weeks or months. Groundwater levels in wells, however, may not reflect a shortage of rainfall for a year or more after a drought begins.
The USGS "Below Normal Groundwater Level" map for early August (see map) shows areas with below normal groundwater levels extending throughout the U.S., in contrast to drought maps of surface water showing impacts mostly in the west. This pattern is consistent with the recognition that groundwater levels are the last component of the hydrologic system to respond to the start and to the end of droughts. Read more about drought and other USGS groundwater activities.
Tracking drought from space
In addition to ground-based observations of hydrologic response in our surface and groundwater resources, USGS provides remote sensing data from earth observing satellites to evaluate drought conditions. The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI) integrates space-based observations of vegetation with other information about climate, land cover-land use, ecological setting, and soil characteristics to show drought's effect on vegetation at a 1-kilometer resolution.
A time series of VegDRI maps for 2013 shows that in late August that the drought was far from over in the western states because of long-term rainfall deficits. Even though recent rains helped, conditions continue to degrade in the northern sections of the western region, including Idaho, western Montana, and northern Utah. In addition, because of the long-term rainfall deficits, moderate to severe drought was observed across the region, including Oregon, California, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
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WACO (February 14, 2013)--A Waco man has bonded out of jail after he was arrested on family violence charges stemming from a domestic dispute during which he was shot in the head.
Danny Tyrone Robinson, 42, was released Tuesday after posting bonds totaling $9,000 on charges of interference with an emergency call family violence, injury to a child family violence and aggravated assault family violence.
Arrest warrants indicate Robinson was involved in a domestic dispute on Jan. 3 with a woman believed to be his girlfriend during which the woman picked up a handgun and shot him in the head in self-defense.
The woman was not charged.
Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said the incident happened just before 1 a.m. on Jan. 3 at a residence in the 2100 block of Dallas Street.
Officers were sent to the address after a caller reported a shooting.
The affidavit for the warrant says Robinson attacked a woman at the residence by slamming her head into a wall, slapping her in the face and punching her.
At one point the woman's children got involved in the fracas and were chased around the house during which one of the children was injured.
The woman was able to grab a .22 magnum caliber revolver and fired it at Robinson, striking him a glancing blow in the forehead.
The gunshot forced Robinson to stop the assault for long enough to allow the woman to run from the house to a neighbor's home where she called 911.
Robinson was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center where he was treated and later released.


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The problem is these subjects in-turn contain a lot of things themselves, namely grammer, data, vocabulary, etc. I need to solve and study these exercises within these 2 months.
I need to finish my syllabus by july, so that I can start taking Mocks by August.
The problem is I can't decide whether to make a schedule, timetable or just add these exercises in a TODO list, but since there a LOT of exercises I am not exactly sure. Any help is highly appreciated.
If a schedule is needed whether to make a daily schedule or a weekly one?And how will I document what I am supposed to do.
There is nothing else that I am required to do except studying these two subjects.
I need to study from a lot of books about 5 for maths and about 7-8 for english.
English in turn consists of grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, and reasoning.
There are somethings I am required to do daily like comprehension, vocab lists and data exercises, this then leaves out basic maths and grammar.
I can study for hours together, that not a problem, the problem is I am not able to organize.


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3. Bake for 40-45 mins, until top is dry and firm. Let cool a bit before serving. Cut into pieces and spoon pudding over top.


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6 Terrible Decisions That Gave Us Great Movie Moments
#3. Chinatown -- "Forget It, Jake, It's Chinatown" Was Written Because the Screenwriter Left
The last scene in Roman Polanski's Chinatown is incredibly bleak, but that's the whole point of the movie: It's supposed to make you angry that some people can get away with anything, no matter how despicable, if they are sufficiently well connected.
Oh hey, how did this get here?
Here Jack Nicholson is Jake Gittes, a private investigator in the 1930s who gets involved with Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), the daughter of a powerful corrupt businessman, learning that as a teenager she was abused by her father and gave birth to a baby. In the last scene, Evelyn is shot dead by the cops who are protecting her father, and then we see the old man taking away her sister/daughter with impunity.
Earlier, Jake had told Evelyn that when he was a cop in Chinatown he did "as little as possible." When everything goes to shit and Jake is the only one who looks horrified by what just happened, a cop tells him: "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
But They Only Included It Because ...
In another case of "why would they bother doing it," Chinatown originally had a happy ending. There was no "It's Chinatown" line because they weren't even in Chinatown (as in, for the whole movie). So how did the writer come up with that change? He didn't: Polanski made it up at the last minute after the guy quit. He wrote the ending literally a couple of nights before shooting it, with some input from Jack Nicholson.
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"... and she has these really big boobs, you know, just massive, and then ..."
The ending as intended by screenwriter Robert Towne was a lot more traditional: The bad guy dies, the love interest survives and you forget about the movie by the time you reach the parking lot. It would have been a completely different movie, and as Polanski points out, we wouldn't be talking about it today.
"Great job, Jake" doesn't have the same ring to it.
As Polanski and Towne reworked the script together, their relationship deteriorated into mutual insults, and Towne ended up storming off before they could reach the last scene. And so the movie went into production without an ending -- a couple of days before wrapping up, Polanski improvised something and asked Jack Nicholson to help him out with the dialogue. It's unclear who came with "Forget it, Jake ..." but it definitely wasn't Towne, because he was long gone by then. His decision to bail out and let others finish his script eventually earned him the film's only Oscar win.
Towne claims that his ending wasn't exactly happy, since Evelyn would have had to flee the country after killing her father in order to avoid going to trial. We know a lot of escaped criminals who think that isn't such a bad fate.
Seriously, who keeps putting these here?
#2. Casablanca -- "As Time Goes By" Was Left in Because of a Haircut
Casablanca is one of the most perfect movies ever: As far as we're concerned, the only people who have a legitimate reason to not like it are the Nazis, and we're pretty sure even Hitler got a little bit choked up during the classic scene when Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) asks Sam the piano player to play the song "As Time Goes By."
The song, which we hear again during the most important moments in the film, fits Casablanca perfectly: Its lyrics don't just reflect the bittersweet love story between Ilsa and Rick (Humphrey Bogart), but they also seem to foreshadow the way their romance makes Rick realize it might be time to stop serving drinks to the Nazis and start serving ass-whoopings (because it's "a fight for love and glory, a case of do or die").
But They Only Included It Because ...
Casablanca's composer Max Steiner absolutely hated "As Time Goes By." He didn't just want to cut it out of the film, but he actually got the approval to replace it with something "better." The only reason they couldn't do that was that Ingrid Bergman got a haircut.
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Nowadays her CGI hairdo would have its own line of action figures.
"As Time Goes By" was left over from the unproduced stage play that Casablanca is based on: No one made a conscious decision to include it in the movie, it was just there when they arrived, and since it was already in Warner's song catalog, they kept it. In fact, they cared so little about it that producer Hal Wallis agreed with Max Steiner and let him record a replacement song, even if that meant calling back the actors to re-shoot some scenes.
"Play it, Sam. Play 'Max Steiner Has a Huge Cock.'"
There's no record of the director, the actors or anyone else going "Are you crazy? You can't cut that!" Steiner was already working on his new song when they found out that Bergman had cut her hair short for her role in For Whom the Bell Tolls -- since she didn't look like Ilsa anymore and no one in the entire studio was aware of the existence of wigs, they couldn't re-shoot her scenes and they were stuck with the damn song.
Steiner figured that if he was forced to incorporate "As Time Goes By" into the movie's soundtrack, he might as well base the entire score on it, so that's exactly what he did. He was basically going "Fine, have it your way, let's see if you like it" -- and accidentally crapped out one of the most enduring soundtracks in movie history.
#1. It's a Wonderful Life -- The Whole Movie Became a Classic Because of a Clerical Error
Even if you've never seen It's a Wonderful Life all the way through, you can still probably reconstruct the entire plot from all the times you've caught five seconds of it on TV. For decades it was shown a dozen times or so every Christmas, along with all of the other standards -- you'd flip through TV at Christmastime and it'd be "Scrooge, Claymation Frosty, Charlie Brown, that black-and-white movie about the guy who tries to kill himself ..."
Yeah, yeah.
But new Christmas movies come out every year ... why did this one become a timeless standard for half a century, when all the rest were forgotten? It's because it's great, right? And not for some completely stupid reason?
But They Only Included It Because ...
Nope, the only reason they played it so often was that, for a while, it was free. Before that, no one cared about it. We've heard about beloved movies that weren't appreciated in their time, but this is different, because It's a Wonderful Life wasn't rediscovered by the audience -- it was saved from obscurity by TV stations too cheap to pay for their programming.
"Listen, your show is great and all, but this schlock is free."
When the film was released in 1946, it got mixed reviews and barely made back its budget. In contrast, the previous collaboration by director Frank Capra and actor Jimmy Stewart had made six times its budget. After this, Capra and Stewart never made a movie again. And precisely because no one really gave much of a crap about the film, in 1974 someone forgot to renew the copyright (a "once every 28 years" task) and it accidentally fell into the public domain.
TV stations looking to fill airtime with inexpensive programming took this little seen film by two well known names and started playing it all the time, especially during the holidays because, well, that's just when the story takes place. Several companies started selling cheap video copies without having to pay royalties, and there was nothing the studio could do.
Except go "Really? The one with the angel and shit?"
Apparently, people figured that if they played the movie so often it had to be a classic, so over the next couple of decades that's exactly what it became. Eventually, the paperwork was sorted out, and currently NBC has exclusive rights to air it, but the damage has been done: Millions of people now worship a film they never would have heard of if some office clerk had done his job. Copyright law works differently now, but still, who knows what future classics we're overlooking right now.
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Here at Cracked we hold our heroes to a higher standard than most. Especially our fictional heroes because, well, they have the freaking advantage of being fictional. Yet, so, so many of them still manage to screw it up.
For instance, look at some of the most brilliant scientists in movie history and you find a bunch of guys who should never have been allowed near a Bunsen burner. Like:
#6. Tony Stark from Iron Man
Why He's A Genius:
Tony Stark built a killer battle suit, which was badass and all. But then Jeff Bridges found the prototype and built a bigger, far more awesome suit. As a general rule, when you get out-scienced by the guy who played The Dude in The Big Lebowski, you'd better have something else up your sleeve.
Preparing to activate his White Russian arm cannons.
Stark's ticket to movie science credibility was actually located in his chest: A tiny, stable, almost limitless energy source. So powerful it can do the job of massive generators and jet engines simultaneously, and can go years without refueling. So simple it could be slapped together out of spare parts by two guys in a cave.
It's the miniature arc reactor, a device that by all rights should've revolutionized the world. Give the man a Nobel Prize!
Why He Should Not Have Been Allowed To Do Science:
The more you look at Tony Stark, the more you realize he developed the mini arc reactor only to play God, or at least a shitfaced version of Shaquille O'Neal's Steel.
We'd so pay to see that movie.
Case in point: After first discovering this world changing energy source, he makes exactly one more arc reactor, and uses it to power his pizza-colored murder suit. He doesn't make any demonstration models for his company. Hell, he doesn't even draw up any blueprints. In fact, he's so damn Howard Hughes about the whole operation, that he instructs Pepper Potts to destroy the original model, rather than turn it over to his company's engineers to mass produce and solve all of the world's resource problems forever.
Wait a second. Who throws away the only backup power source for the machine that's keeping him from having a heart attack?
Comic books have a name for brilliant scientists with nearly debilitating Messiah complexes. They're called supervillains.
#5. Dr. Henry Wu from Jurassic Park
In Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs weren't resurrected by the rich old guy (he was just the CEO), Samuel L. Jackson or even the mailman from Seinfeld. No, Dr. Wu, the guy responsible for all those scene-stealing sauropods, only got a measly 10 minutes of screen time. Ouch.
Why He's A Genius:
Dr. Wu fulfilled every child's dream of seeing a real live Triceratops. He also fulfilled every Internet denizen's dream of watching two lesbian T-Rexes bumping uglies in an orgiastic fury.
Why He Should Not Have Been Allowed To Do Science:
Wait, lesbian T-Rexes? Yeah, remember, Dr. Wu bred all the dinosaurs as females to prevent any prehistoric hanky-panky. He also spliced the dinosaur DNA with frog DNA. Sounds fine, except that after discovering hatched dinosaur eggs in the wild, it took Allen Grant five seconds to figure out that certain species of frog can spontaneously change sex in the absence of a mate.
And Dr. Grant was just a paleontologist--his job was to dig up dino bones. The man was a frog gene novice. How in the hell did this eensy-weensy detail elude Dr. Wu, who spent his career reverse engineering all those 65-million-year-old killing machines?
Perhaps he was distracted by his own handsomeness.
But the frog DNA flub is just the slack-jawed tip Dr. Wu's mentally retarded iceberg. No, his most unforgivable fuck-up was to breed Velociraptors.
Raising intelligent, sickle-toed murder-lizards for a children's theme park would give even the most bastardly supervillain pause. Remember, no one had ever heard of Velociraptors before the release of Jurassic Park, so unlike the carnivorous T-Rex, there was no money in breeding them.
So why the hell did Dr. Wu need Velociraptors? The only logical explanation is that he needed extra contestants for a little pastime we at the Cracked offices like to call "Lasersaurus Battle Derby."
#4. Dr. Otto Octavius from Spiderman 2
Note that we're not criticizing Dr. Octavius for becoming the supervillain Doc Ock later. That was his own choice and we respect that. No, we're talking about before, when he was a scientist yet somehow quite a bit more dangerous to the world than when he took up supervillaining.
Why He's A Genius:
Dr. Octavius devised a renewable fusion energy source from the radioactive isotope Tritium. Despite the immense power generated by this reaction, the only safety gear required was a set of off-gray pajamas...
...and four metal tentacles partially controlled by the Doc's brain, and partially having minds of their own.
Why He Should Not Have Been Allowed To Do Science:
Quick question: What do the New Mexican desert and the Soviet steppe have in common?
If you answered, "They're reasonably safe places to test nuclear devices," then bingo. If you inexplicably added "but a quaint prewar loft in the middle of Manhattan would also do nicely," then you're either Doctor Octopus or the world's evilest interior designer.
The gamma accelerator should always match the drapes.
Let's put it this way: As of the last U.S. census, New York City had perhaps 26,000 people per square mile. A nuke's effective radius is about six miles. By our rough comedy article math, approximately 2.9 million people would be instantly obliterated if the good doctor paused to scratch his ass.
Mind you, this figure doesn't even account for those millions in the outlying area sickened by radiation or horrifically mutated by fallout. On the plus side, New Jerseyans would barely notice, as they're used to living in a miasma of toxic crap.
Ah, another spring morning in Hoboken.
What's even stranger is that of all of the guests and press present for his experiment, no one suggested moving it to Los Alamos instead of conducting an unstable, free-floating nuclear reaction in what was basically a Pottery Barn showroom. Even Peter Parker--the guy whose alter-ego is supposed to protect the city--didn't say a damn thing. He could've ended the movie right there and saved us an hour of staring at Alfred Molina's man-boobs.
But the most damning thing is that when his "evil" robotic arms take over (turning him into Doc Ock) and subsequently recreate the Tritium reaction at the film's climax, even they had enough sense to move the freaking experiment to an abandoned wharf away from from a heavily populated area.
When your criminally insane prosthetics displayed a greater concern for human life than you, you are a shitty scientist.


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[4.2.0-489] Unit testing controllers - specifically event handlers
One of the promoted advantages of 4.2.0, as per the announcement post, is that controllers can be unit tested.
I have certainly found that I can easily instantiate a controller and unit test the methods without problems. However, I'm at a loss as to how to unit test the event listeners.
Given a controller and Jasmine unit test like this:
Ext.define("TestApp.controller.TestController", { extend : 'Ext.app.Controller', init : function() { this.control({ 'button' : { click : this.onClick } }); }, onClick : function(btn, e, eOpts) { console.log("Button was clicked"); } }) describe("Test Controller", function() { it("should be able to be created", function() { var test = Ext.create('TestApp.controller.TestController'); spyOn(test, 'onClick'); test.init(); // Do something _here_ to simulate a button clikc expect(test.onClick).toHaveBeenCalled(); }); });
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8 Mar 2013 4:17 PM #3
Controller testing isn't easy because of the number of components involved. If you consider how Controllers work, there are two major things to test: component selectors/ref selectors and controller methods. The latter can be tested in the usual way, whereas component selectors depend on Ext.ComponentQuery, which in turn depends on actual components being instantiated for queries to be meaningful.
Starting from this point, I'd suggest breaking Controller tests into two suites: first would instantiate the relevant View(s) and run over component selectors to test that they actually return Views in question; the second would test everything else. If your views are too heavy to be instantiated for testing, you can use mockups that replicate the structure of your view without adhering to the same layout constraints.
If and when you find yourself with a View that's too big to be tested this way, that would mean it's a good candidate for refactoring.
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I have seen a few custom minifigures out there with images on certain body parts never produced by LEGO. What is the best way to achieve this? I have heard of some people printing out the image on paper and gluing it, but I don't want to do that. That would look horrible even if I got the background of the picture to be the same color as the plain piece. I've also heard of printing an image onto sticker paper and applying it. That would probably work on a torso, but probably would do a bad job of deforming around legs, heads, or certain types of helmets. Anyone got any other ideas?
You can do that with scale model water decals. You can buy that in blank sheets and print out your designs with an inkjet printer. You can also use products that help those water decals set (adhere) and conform to the surface deformation and use scale model varnishes to seal it in place.
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As stated in this other question about painting Lego bricks: Don't expect it to sustain the normal usage of Lego bricks. This is good for display or light usage (like playing D&D with custom minifigures)
The way that Lego does it is with whats called a "pad printer". Brickprinter.com also uses a pad printer. It takes a lot of skill to get the printing to work correctly. You have to have the proper amount of solvent in the ink to get it to adhere to the part and not smudge. The solvent also softens the ABS plastic so that the ink actually embeds into the part.
Pad printers are also quite expensive. On the order of tens of thousands of $$$ for one that will do multiple colors in sequence.
I've been looking at using special "direct to substrate" (DTS) printers. There is an inkjet printer that has a 5000+ dpi resolution, can print on ABS using solvent inks, can print on an object upto 2" thick, and also has the capability of printing pigmented white ink (so you don't have to only print on white bricks). This printer is also expensive, though not as expensive as a pad printer. Used on eBay runs about $5000.
For the general user, it's probably best to stick with water slide decals, since the average cost of a 8.5"x11" sheet of decal paper is about $1. There are different kinds of paper (inkjet and laser), so make sure you get the right kind for your printer. Laser printed decals do not REQUIRE a clear coat to protect them, but I still do.
I also use an ALPS printer that uses resin based inks. The printer has been discontinued, but the supplies are still available. Generally colors are printed in layers, but in addition to the cyan, yellow, magenta and black ribbons, there are metallic silver, metallic gold, chrome silver, chrome gold, chrome magenta, chrome cyan and the most important color, white. This allows ALPS owners to lay down a layer of white (opaque), then add the semi-transparent (cyan, yellow and magenta) inks on top. Kodak used to make a printer (First Check) that used compatible ink cartridges and they also produced a Red, Blue, Green and Orange ink. Useful if you can find them, but pretty much impossible to find.
just looking around I see that used pad printers are not really so expensive if you plan to do a lot of bricks you might look into getting one here.


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I'm writing an Android application which has a server connection. I would like to authenticate the app's user on the Android device and let the server know this has been done.
Assuming the user has:
- entered his/her credentials in the Android device for Google and Facebook (these are the ones I'm currently interested in)
- allowed the application to use the stored credentials on the Android device
- the application acquired the details (account user and token) from Android's
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I've come to the conclusion that Food Processors, whether they're expensive/fancy or cheap/decent, will just break over time. So why not just buy a cheap one that has a decent Amazon rating.
just picked one up, looks like a great deal. thanks
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I work as web developer and have Firefox and Chrome installed on my Ubuntu system. However, most of the nightmares for web developers are getting things to work on Internet Explorer, mostly IE7 and IE8. My entire team of developers have switched to Ubuntu and now we're facing a difficult time with testing on IE. I'd like to be able to test from my own desktop, but not install virtualbox on each system, since that would defeat the purpose of moving to Ubuntu. Is it possible to have windows run on a virtual box instance on one server and remotely connect to it from say 5 or 6 systems at the same time? Or even run windows on one box and have my entire team remotely access that desktop?


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Inspired by this thread, which concludes that a non-singular variety over the complex numbers is naturally a smooth manifold, does anyone know conditions that imply that the topological space underlying a complex variety is a topological manifold without necessarily implying it is smooth?
The answer from Dmitri motivates this partial answer from the topological side of the question.
It is a theorem of Mark Goresky and others that every stratified space, and in particular every complex variety $V$, has a smooth triangulation. Moreover, I would bet (although I don't know that Goresky's paper has it) that the associated piecewise linear structure is unique. This means that the PL homeomorphism type of the link of a singular point $p$ of $V$ is a local invariant. I don't know how to compute this local invariant in general, but there must be some way to do it from the local ring at $p$. There can't be a simple calculation of this invariant that is fully general. As a special case, $V$ can be the cone of a projective variety $X$. If so, then the link at the cone point $p$ is the total space of the tautological bundle on $X$. $X$ and therefore the link can be all sorts of things. If $p$ is an isolated singularity, then the type of this link is obtained by "intersecting with a small sphere", as Dmitri says.
The variety $V$ is a PL manifold if and only if the link of every vertex is a PL sphere. This is the case for the Brieskorn examples.
On the other hand, a theorem of Edwards (or maybe Cannon and Edwards) says that a polyhedron is a topological $n$-manifold (for $n \ge 3$) if and only if the link of every vertex is simply connected and the link of every point is a homology $(n-1)$-sphere. In particular, the link of a simplex which is not a point does not have to be simply connected! For example, if $\Gamma \subseteq \text{SU}(2)$ is the binary icosahedral group, then $\mathbb{C}^2/\Gamma$ is not a manifold, because the link of the singular point is the Poincaré homology sphere. But $(\mathbb{C}^2 / \Gamma) \times \mathbb{C}$ is a topological manifold, even though it is not a PL manifold.
So for the question as stated, you would want to combine Goresky's theorem with Edwards' theorem, and with a method to compute the topology of the link of a singular point. On the other hand, whether a variety $V$ is a PL manifold could be a more natural question than whether it is a topological manifold.
At least in the case of isolated singularities, the possible topology of the link of a singular point has been studied in the language of complex analytic geometry rather than complex algebraic geometry. I found this paper by Xiaojun Huang on this topic. The link of the singular point is in general a strictly pseudoconvex CR manifold. This is a certain kind of odd-dimensional analogue of a complex manifold and you could study it with algebraic geometry tools. (I think that strict pseudoconvexity also makes it a contact manifold?) But the analytic style seems to be more popular, maybe because a CR manifold is not a scheme.
Sometimes, for instance in the case of a Brieskorn-Pham variety, such a CR manifold has a circle action whose quotient is a complex algebraic variety. At a smooth point, this quotient is just the usual Hopf fibration from $S^{2n-1}$ to $\mathbb{C}P^{n-1}$. In the famous Brieskorn examples, the link is a topological sphere with a circle action, but the circle action yields a non-trivial Seifert fibration over an orbifold-type complex variety. On the other hand, I don't think that this circle action always exists.
Another good example are Brieskorn singularities $z_1^2+z_2^2+z_3^2+z_4^3+z_5^{6k-1}=0$, $1\le k\le 28$, if you take a little sphere in $C^5$ centered at zero, then its intersection with the hypersurface is $S^7$ with a non-standard smooth structue. So the hypersurface is homeomerphic to $R^8$ but does not have a smooth structure.