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Is there a reason why most people use the normalization $$ \hat{f}(x) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{- 2 \pi i t x} \cdot f(t) d t $$ instead of $$ \hat{f}(x) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{2 \pi i t x} \cdot f(t) d t \text{ } ? $$ I've just finished writing a paper where I've used the second definition, and I'm wondering now, if I should re-write it. The paper is in analytic number theory.
I think I've come to the personal concensus, that with the choice of notation $$ \hat{f}(x) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{- 2 \pi i t x} f(t) d t $$ we are extracting information from $f$, while with the notation $$ \hat{f}(x) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{2 \pi i t x} f(t) d t $$ we are generating information from the function $f$.
For example, if $f$ were the probability density of a distribution I would go with the second notation to denote the characteristic function of the distribution. This aligns with the standard notation for the fourier transform of a probability distribution (check "characteristic function" on wiki). Anybody with me on this?
P.S: I've seen both conventions used in my field. I believe the choice has to do with the perspective you take on the role of $f$. Do you want to understand $f$ better or do you want to generate things from $f$ and are actually interested in $\hat{f}$ rather than $f$?
There are many variations of the definition of the Fourier transform and its inverse that are all essentially equivalent. For example, the factor of $2\pi$ often appears as $1/(2\pi)$ in front of the integral in one of the transform pair, or as $1/\sqrt{2\pi}$ in front of both integrals in the transform pair.
Researchers in different fields have often adopted a particular convention. If you want to publish in a journal where such a convention is well established, then you will probably find that it is easier to get your paper accepted for publication if you follow the convention used by people working in that field.


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Pasta with arugula
Type: Main Dishes
If you like robust modern Mediterranean flavors, this simple-to-prepare but special pasta dish will appeal to you.
Prep Time: 3M
Cooking Time: 10M
Serves: serves 4
Egg & nut free
- 12 oz dried egg-free spaghetti
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 red chili, seeded and chopped
- zest of 1 1/2 lemons
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 oz arugula torn into 1-in pieces or shredded finely (chiffonade)
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan (plus extra to serve)
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
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- Cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling water according to the package instructions or until al dente.
- While the pasta is cooking, heat the oil in a small pan over low heat. Add the garlic, chili, and lemon zest. Cook until the garlic has softened (about 2 minutes). Add the lemon juice.
- Drain the pasta and pour the flavored oil over. Add the arugula and Parmesan and toss well.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve immediately, with extra Parmesan on the side.
- If nondairy Parmesan is not available, try other nondairy cheeses. An equal quantity of feta-style cheese chopped into 1/2 inch cubes or nondairy mozzarella both work well-especially if topped with black olives.
Dairy free also egg & nut free: Follow the recipe for Egg & nut free, but replace the Parmesan with an equal quantity of nondairy Parmesan (see Resources). This can be quite salty so you may need to adjust the seasoning accordingly.
Gluten free also egg & nut free: Follow the recipe for Egg & nut free, but replace the egg-free spaghetti with an equal quantity of an egg-free pasta that is also gluten free. Corn pasta is ideal in this recipe since it holds the flavors well; 100 percent buckwheat pasta is fine, too.
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Doctors have some warnings for parents whose kids are trick-or-treating.
From peanut allergies to diabetes to eating too much candy, physicians want parents to be aware of the dangers.
They say diabetic children should stick to healthy treats, like apples.
Dr. Buddy Clayton, with Mountain States Health Alliance, says parents with kids who have peanut allergies should go through their children's candy at the end of the night and read the ingredients labels to check for peanut products.
"Once again, I wouldn't want the child to touch it; sensitivity to peanut allergies are just quick and terrible, so I wouldn't take any chances until the parents go through the candy," says Dr. Clayton.
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Since my initial post on the list forums my list of the best films since 2000 has grown from 34 films to 83. I thought that this huge leap in new additions warranted an entirely new post to get some new thoughts and suggestions for movies that you think I should check out for this list. I've been re-watching all of the films that I've seen since 2000 (plus checking out some that I've never seen) so that I can look at these films with a new and critical eye. Some movies have remained classics in my eyes, others aren't quite as good as I remember them being, and some I've actually liked a lot more this time around. These movies are prime examples of quality filmmaking, whether they are adult dramas, action movies or teenage comedies. The acting, direction, cinematography, writing and pacing are all top notch. Above all, though, they are, in my opinion at least, the most memorable films of the decade. I've put the films in alphabetical order from the best quality to the least (5.0/5.0 movies then 4.5/5.0 then 4.0/5.0 then 3.5/5.0).
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It only makes sense to show you the films I've watched critically that HAVEN'T made it onto my list, and I will list them below. Foreword, though - just because they didn't make it doesn't mean they are BAD movies, in fact some are decent, some are okay and some are watchable, but in order to be on my list they have to be, at the very least, a GOOD movie. There MAY exist the possiblity that I could bump one or two of these up and add them to my list, but I'm 99% sure they won't. Yes, I've seen more movies than what's on both lists, but I'm only including films that I've watched after I started this project, so anything I don't remember clearly will not be included. This list exists so that you know what I've actually seen so that if you want to recommend films to me then you now know what not to recommend. Anyway:
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
A History Of Violence
Battle: LA
Black Hawk Down
Blue Valentine
The Book Of Eli
Children Of Men
The Conspirator
Dancer In The Dark
Date Movie
District 9
Drag Me To Hell
Eastern Promises
Epic Movie
Freedom Writers
Garden State
Hot Fuzz
In Bruges
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
The Love Guru
Master & Commander
Match Point
Me & You & Everyone We Know
Michael Clayton
Monster's Ball
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Paranoid Park
Pride & Prejudice
Public Enemies
Red Road
Revolutionary Road
Road To Perdition
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MD5 tools output hexadecimal values. In the same manner, do SHA and RSA together produce a hexadecimal (or any other) output?
What are the differences between the MD5, SHA and RSA algorithms?
MD5 tools output hexadecimal values. In the same manner, do SHA and RSA together produce a hexadecimal (or any other) output?
What are the differences between the MD5, SHA and RSA algorithms?
It's not the type of output. Hex is just the way the data is formatted - since all of them are working on binary data, hex makes a great deal of sense.
The important part is what they do and how they do it:
MD5 is a cryptographic hash function. "SHA" is the name for a family of hash functions; first a short-lived "SHA" which was renamed "SHA-0", then "SHA-1" was defined (a best seller). Later on, new members of the family were added, collectively designated as "SHA-2", and consisting of SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512. Recently, a new SHA generation was designed, called "SHA-3" but also "Keccak" (this was an open competition, Keccak being the codename of one of the candidates, who ultimately won).
A cryptographic hash function is a fully defined, deterministic function which uses no secret key. It takes as input a message of arbitrary length (a stream of bits, any bits) and produces a fixed-size output. Output size depends on the function; it is 128 bits for MD5, 160 bits for SHA-1, 256 bits for SHA-256... Everybody can compute a given hash function on a given input, and they all get the same results. Hash functions are also called digests because they somehow produce a kind of "checksum" or "summary" of the input. Robust hash functions must be such that nobody knows how to "invert" them or even find two distinct inputs which yield the same output. The latter is called a collision and it is a mathematical necessity that collisions exist (since the function can accept many more distinct inputs than it can produce distinct outputs), but we require that it is unfeasible to find even one collision.
MD5 turned out to be very broken with regards to collisions (we can produce a collision in a few seconds of work on a PC) and SHA-0 is also broken in that respect; SHA-1 is a bit flaky; the rest of the SHA family appears to be robust so far. How a hash function achieves collision resistance is a bit of a miracle since the whole function is completely known, with no secret value; it just mixes the data too much for the best cryptographers to unravel the process.
RSA is two algorithms: an asymmetric encryption algorithm and a digital signature algorithm. Although both algorithms build on the same kind of mathematics, they are quite distinct (a lot of people describe signatures as "encryption with the private key", which is a flaw analogy and at best confusing, so don't do that). Both algorithms uses keys, i.e. pieces of data which must be kept secret. It so happens that for RSA signatures, what is signed is not directly a given message (a sequence of bits) but a hash of the message: the message is first processed with a cryptographic hash function like SHA-256, and the hash value is then used. This is done that way because the mathematics of RSA can handle only values of moderate size, a few hundred bits at best. Cryptographic hash functions are such that signing the hash is as good as signing the original data.
That way, RSA and cryptographic hash functions are often used together; but they are not the same thing at all.
Hexadecimal is a way to represent a sequence of bits into a sequence of characters: hexadecimal uses digits and letters from 'A' to 'F'; each character encodes exactly four bits ('0' encodes '0000', '7' encodes '0111', 'D' encodes '1101'...). Any sequence of bits (and in particular the output of a hash function) can be converted to hexadecimal and back. Hexadecimal is popular because human eyes and brain are good at reading characters, and not at reading bits. Command-line tools which compute cryptographic hash functions on files traditionally output hexadecimal characters for that reason. However, there is nothing which intrinsically ties hash functions with hexadecimal: everything which fits in a computer one way or another is a sequence of bits, and so is amenable to hexadecimal; and a hash function output is just a sequence of bits, which can be encoded in various ways, hexadecimal being just the "traditional" way (although Base64 is also often encountered, especially when dealing with databases).


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Ashley L. Roe-Freeman of Adena from Charles W. Freeman of Cadiz. Former name, Ashley Roe, restored.
Donna Kay Brestle of Mount Pleasant from David Bruse Brestle of Rayland. Former name, Donna Riley, restored.
Danielle Strope of Steubenville and Ethen Strope of Steubenville. Former name, Danielle Mitchell, restored.
Bobbi J. Cothran of Rayland and John R. Cothran Jr. of Tiltonsville. Former name, Bobbi Faulkner, restored.
Dyane Mason of Rayland from Casey Mason of Steubenville. Former name, Dyane Hickman, restored.
Kasey L. Hartsouk of Bloomingdale from John C. Hartsouk of Bloomingdale.
Keith Simpson of Toronto from Ashlee Simpson of Stafford, Va.
Michelle L. Skinner and Joshua L. Skinner of Richmond. Joint decree of divorce.
Parry Swinyer of Steubenville from Joshua Swinyer of Leavittsburg.
Sara S. Fram of Mingo Junction and Larry A. Fram of Weirton.
Melissa J. Dobbs of Steubenville from Steven M. Dobbs of Wellsburg.
Lorie A. Irwin of Toronto from Edwin I. Irwin of Toronto.
Terry D. Spencer of Wintersville from Cynthia M. Spencer of Hobart, Ind.
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So You Knocked Her Up: A Child-rearing Guide
But there is a dark side to the horizontal jog: STDs. Chief among these is a disease known to cause a large, screaming discharge and require nearly two decades of financial support. The illness, known on the street as "pregnancy," "bun in the oven," or, in South America, "a flesh tamalé," CAN be prevented, either through abstinence or an uninterrupted diet of alcohol and prescription medication. Still, nearly ninety percent of Americans will face this horrible affliction in their lifetimes.
Of course, having children isn't all bad (sorry, we're required to say that). But now that you've crapped out a post-placental want machine, here are some tips on minimizing the detrimental effects your new goblin will have on your heady, go-getter lifestyle.
TV: The Magical Robotic Parenting Machine
Look at them, they love it! That' right, good old TV, the same place you get hours of quality product placement, can also serve as an effective surrogate parent. Simply place the child in front of the set, turn it on, and patented Edutainment Gnomes will do the rest.
Well, not really, but explaining how it really works would take too much of my valuable time. The important point is, if you've got a late night at the office, a peace rally, or just need to play a few rounds of back-alley craps, your TV is ready, willing, and able to embrace your son or daughter in its loving, probably-eye-cancer-causing arms. With great kid' programs like Blue' Clues, Dora the Explorer, and that one with the mentally handicapped Aardvark, your kids will be well on their way to careers in counting to the number "6."
Note: Children will still require nourishment.
Child Obesity: If They Can't Move, They Can't Bother You
You see them all the time on Maury and Donahue: fat, fat children, barely able to lift that last buffalo wing to their fleshy maws. And we know what you're thinking: why not me? Well, believe it or not, you too can have the Shamu on the block. All you need is a little dedication, elastic diapers, and some pages from the Chunky Kidz™ recipe guide. Is your child sick of macaroni and cheese? Why not macaroni and cake batter? Carrot sticks not cutting it? Try a Twinkie or two with a little peanut butter smeared on the top…mmm, good.
The advantages of a fat baby are numerous. Besides always having a ready conversation piece, a fat baby can survive even the harshest of winters, if, say, one were to accidentally leave them under a bench at the park or in the crawlspace behind the downstairs bathroom. Even if forgotten at home during a long trip abroad, their luxurious coat of baby blubber provides both warmth and sustenance, either for them or the family dog, whichever goes insane with hunger first. A final warning for those going the fat baby route: massive, sloppy dumps are virtually unavoidable.
Anal caulking is strongly encouraged.
If All Else Fails, Smother Them... With Love
Children need love, and as much as they can get. Regardless of race, genetic background, or intellectual ability, nothing will aid the development of your baby more than your love. That's why you need to ram it so far down their filthy throats that they start farting rainbows. Really get it down there. Shake it into them, if necessary. Your love MUST transfer from you to your child if it is to feed off of your life force and leave you an empty husk collecting Social Security and reeking of imminent death.
Love them often, and with all of the intensity you can muster. Shout "I love you" into their ears while they sleep so that they dream of your warm embrace. Shave hearts into their wispy hair. Ignore them for hours on end, so that your brief moments of half-hearted affection seem grander by comparison. Whatever you do, fill your child' life with such a thick fog of love that it dies gasping for breath in its pink, stuffed-animal-laden crib. Figuratively, of course.
If you're still having trouble coping with the rigors of parenting, there are many fine books on the subject at your local library. That, or I know a guy. Either way, we here at CRACKED wish you a pleasantly distant and closed relationship with your new burden…I mean child.


text: ...from their writing these days? Man, I've written my story out of so many long-standing corners these past few weeks, it's just blowin' my mind. Had the "Ah-Ha!" moment many times ("This is what I've been created to do!"). I've been writing my story scene-by-scene. This gives me so much versatility and focus in my process. The task of writing a book no longer seems to be so daunting. Every scene I write is much like a story in itself. One will have a beginning, and one will have an ending, but those in between will be "ragged" at either end, for the ease of joining them together. I've been leaving space between paragraphs. Stephen King called paragraphs, "maps of intent". By spacing them, the emerging map becomes far more clear to me. And yes, grammatical errors, typos, and such are much easier to spot, and correct. I am now actually very excited to get back to my writing. "Excitement" for me used to be finding a movie in the Redbox (DVD kiosk) that I had been wanting to see. Now, those 1.28 rentals have become a waste of money. I rarely watch the movies I rent now. I can write any movie I want...control every aspect of them. How much better can entertainment get? I've been recalling all the times in grade school, when a teacher would choose my story out of all the others, to read it to the class. I've learned so much these last several weeks. I'm far from perfect, having a lot to learn, and experience. I never knew one can experience such an incredible adventure, sitting all alone in a room, just pecking away on a laptop. Is there a literary equivalent to Muhammad Ali? There is now!


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Post students to receive scholarships at Business Women's Forum
High-profile guest speakers may be what attracts attention to the annual Business Women's Forum, but it's the annual scholarships awarded to female students at Post University in Waterbury that defines its purpose: promoting and aiding women in business.
The forum, now in its 30th year and set to open Thursday at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, will once again provide two Post students with scholarships. Tiffany Flinn, of Cape May, N.J., and Ashley White, of The Bronx, N.Y., will each receive scholarships of $3,000.
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They were both shot in the head around 11:15 p.m. while struggling with a suspect in the apartment complex parking lot. They died at Carolinas Medical Center in the early morning hours of April 1, 2007, but not before officers picked up Demeatrius Montgomery, who later was charged with their murder. Montgomery is currently awaiting trial.
The community responded to the death of Officers Shelton and Clark with an outpouring of grief, offers of support and aid and thousands of dollars in donations for the slain officers' families. Thousands of officers, including those from more than 38 different departments, joined the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in mourning the loss of these young officers. Thousands of citizens lined the funeral procession with signs, American flags and tears of grief to pay their final respects to Officers Shelton and Clark. It was an unforgettable show of support.


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I showed my brother and girlfriend this earlier, they had feels too.
I showed my brother and girlfriend this earlier, they had feels too.
Holy fuck! I get it! Took long, but in my defense, I never played that game.
I don't get the one with the stormtroopers.
NotBIG420: Its a pun on all the memes where they zoom in on the face of a person in a crowd (usually with a funny/disturbing expression), and then zooms back out to everyone having the same face. Pretty lame I guess, but I enjoy lame puns
Most of those pictures are really good, can't be bothered to quote though, so yeah.
That's a weird fetish.
He muh bitch. That's why I always smell what he cooking.
Well, that's... creepy.
Well, that was quite disturbing.
good job.
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Also, amazingly me and Panza said the same thing.
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Serious question: Would those pictures mess with you guys so much if it were Americans doing it? Not going into any PC bullshit here, just asking. I wonder about this kind of stuff.


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The Future of Natural Gas
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Natural gas has moved to the center of the current debate on energy, security and climate. This study examines the role of natural gas in a carbon-constrained world, with a time horizon out to mid-century.
The overarching conclusions are that:
• Abundant global natural gas resources imply greatly expanded natural gas use, with especially large growth in electricity generation.
• Natural gas will assume an increasing share of the U.S. energy mix over the next several decades, with the large unconventional resource playing a key role.
• The share of natural gas in the energy mix is likely to be even larger in the near to intermediate term in response to CO2 emissions constraints. In the longer term, however, very stringent emissions constraints would limit the role of all fossil fuels, including natural gas, unless capture and sequestration are competitive with other very low-carbon alternatives.
• The character of the global gas market could change dramatically over the time horizon of this study.
The physical properties of natural gas, the high degree of concentration of the global resource and the history of U.S. energy policy have profoundly influenced the use of natural gas and the market structure governing its trade:
• the substantially lower carbon footprint of natural gas relative to other fossil fuels,combined with the development of North American unconventional natural gas supply and the high cost and slow pace of lower carbon alternatives, has focused attention on natural gas as a "bridge" to a low-carbon future;
• there are regionalized markets in North America, Europe and industrialized Asia,each with a different market structure; and
• "feast or famine" expectations for U.S. natural gas supply, associated with priceswings and policy changes, have often led to costly investment decisions.
The confluence of these factors is central to today's energy and climate change policy debate. The primary motivation for this study is to provide integrated, technically grounded analysis that will inform this debate. The analysis must deal with multiple uncertainties that can profoundly influence the future of natural gas:
• the extent and nature of greenhouse gas mitigation (GHG) measures that will beadopted in the U.S. and abroad;
• the ultimate size and production cost of the natural gas resource base in the U.S.and in other major supplier countries;
• the technology mix, as determined by relative costs of different technologies overtime and by emissions policy; and
• the evolution of international gas markets, as dictated by economics, geologyand geopolitics.
This study analyzes various possibilities for the last three of these, principally by application of a well-tested global economic model, for different GHG policy scenarios.
Our audience is principally U.S. government, industry and academic leaders and decision-makers interested in the interrelated set of technical, economic, environmental and political issues that must be addressed in seeking to limit GHG emissions materially. However, the study is carried out with an international perspective.


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Good Teachers Linked to Test Success
A study found that effective teachers can boost the test scores of students who had struggled under low-performing instructors, marking a new salvo in the national debate over teacher performance.
The three-year study by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, published Tuesday, is the first large-scale research to show, using random student assignment, that some teachers can produce test-score gains regardless of the past performance of their students, according to foundation officials.
Tom Kane, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and leader of the research project, said the data provide the best evidence yet that some teachers can "cause student achievement to happen, and this is a really big deal."
Education officials increasingly emphasize the need to evaluate, pay and fire teachers based on performance. More than two dozen states have passed laws to evaluate teachers, in part, on test scores, prodded by the Obama administration's Race to the Top education initiative, which offered money to states that began the process.
The Gates Foundation said its study found that a combination of student surveys of teacher quality, well-crafted observations of classroom teaching and test scores is the best predictor of teacher effectiveness. Mr. Kane said combining all three is the best predictor of teacher quality.
Critics say the Gates effort is flawed because it begins in part with the assumption that test scores are a good measure of teacher effectiveness, and then seeks to prove it by using test scores. Some teachers unions and parents say tests are a crude measure of teacher effectiveness.
Jay P. Green, a professor of education policy at the University of Arkansas, called the Gates research a "political document and not a research document." He said the research doesn't support that classroom observations are a strong predictor of quality teaching.
"But the Gates Foundation knows that teachers and others are resistant to a system that is based too heavily on student test scores, so they combined them with other measures to find something that was more agreeable to them," he said.
Critics of the study also say the formulas used to adjust student scores for race and poverty are problematic because they cause teachers' scores to jump around too much.
The three-year Gates study videotaped 3,000 teachers and their students in Charlotte, N.C.; Dallas; Denver; Hillsborough County, Fla.; Memphis, Tenn.; New York City and Pittsburgh. Dozens of researchers studied the results.
In the most recent update to the study, the Gates Foundation analyzed students' 2010 test scores for about 1,600 of the 3,000 teachers and ranked the instructors using a formula, known as value added, that adjusts scores based on students' race, family income and past performance on state exams. The ranking also included scores from student surveys and classroom observations.
The next year, students were randomly assigned to classrooms. The study found that the teachers who were ranked the highest on average produced the highest student achievement the following year. These students also scored well on other exams that measured deeper, conceptual knowledge of math and reading, the report said.
Ryan Kinser, who participated in the study and teaches eighth grade English at Walker Middle School in the Hillsborough district, said he watched videos of himself in the classroom and noticed he "looked wooden" and "talked too much." Once, he spent 10 minutes teaching his students the meaning of "hierarchy" and saw on the video that students appeared bored, and one remarked, "This is stupid, man."
"It forced me to reflect and better prepare for my kids," said Mr. Kinser, who is rated highly effective by his district.
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December 14, 2012
Cape Town has a beach for every reason
With soft, white sand and clear water stretching as far as the eye can see, Cape Town's beautiful beaches attract thousands of holidaymakers keen to keep their cool during summer.
Whether soaking up the sun or taming a wave, hooking a big one from the rocky shore or galloping on horseback along the sand, there's a beach suited to every beach-orientated activity imaginable.
Bloubergstrand ("blue mountain beach") is known as a kitesurfing and windsurfing hot spot, thanks to large waves driven by the Cape's south-easterly winds. Premier venue Big Bay plays host to annual surfing contests. Find it: a 20-minute drive north from Cape Town, along the West Coast.
Dubbed the St Tropez of South Africa, Clifton's protected beaches are ideal for sheltered sunbathing and swimming, especially when Cape Town's south-westerly wind is howling. Clifton's fourth beach attracts Cape Town's bronzed beauties, while its second beach is a cool hangout for students. Find it: along the M6 route from Cape Town, or use public transport to get there.
Clifton's first beach has waves suited to surfing; or for longboarding, Muizenberg is ideal and Big Bay in Bloubergstrand offers bigger surf. Find it: Clifton is along the M6 route from Cape Town, or use public transport to get there.
Lazy afternoons and stunning sunsets are best enjoyed at Blouberg, Sunset Beach, Camps Bay, Llandudno and Hout Bay. Find it: along the Cape West Coast, north and south of the city.
Camps Bay, Sunset, Three Anchor Bay, Fish Hoek, Long Beach and Hout Bay offer swimming, snorkelling, diving and surfing. Find it: along public transport routes.
Au naturel
Naturists should head to Cape Town's famous nudist beach, Sandy Bay, to join like-minded beachgoers. No refreshments or ablution facilities are available. Find it: take the coastal path from the parking lot at Llandudno.
For the kiddies
Families with children might prefer a swimming pool facility such as at Camps Bay, Long Street, Elsies River, Hanover Park, Mnandi Resort (Strandfontein) or the Sea Point Pavilion.
Fish Hoek's long beach is a favourite spot for swimming and snorkelling, and is one of the safest on the False Bay coast. Find it: on the False Bay coast.
Kommetjie, Kalk Bay, Sunset and Big Bay are popular among serious bodyboarding types, but social riders can be found anywhere out of the wind where there's a fairly decent wave. Find it: Kalk Bay is around the corner from Muizenberg.
Clifton's third beach is a particular favourite among the gay community. Find it: along the M6 route from Cape Town, or use public transport to get there.
Not far from the village of Simon's Town, Boulders Beach is the chosen nesting place of 3 000 highly endangered African penguins. Find it: ask in Simon's Town for directions.
Jager's Walk leads over the rocks and along the coastline, offering a wonderful sightseeing vantage point. The more energetic might like to keep going all the way to Simon's Town. Find it: south of Fish Hoek.
The Cape Peninsula, with its wild waters, is an ideal game-angling locale. For fish like tuna, the False Bay ledges are a good spot, while Rooikrans in the Table Mountain National Park offers an abundance of different species. Rock angling from Kommetjie or the Kalk Bay harbour is likely to land good eating species like galjoen, steenbras and stumpnose. Find it: follow signage to the Peninsula or head south along the West Coast to Kommetjie.
Horse riding
Long stretches of deserted sand at Noordhoek are as inviting to the horses as they are to the riders. Salty wind and stunning mountain vistas make riding along this beach – from the base of Chapman's Peak to Kommetjie – a memorable experience. Find it: take the West Coast route south from Cape Town.
Hot tips
Before heading out for a day in the sun, pack sunscreen, a sun hat and bottled water. Leave valuables behind, and pay attention to lifeguards and shark spotters if you're going swimming.


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NEW DELHI—One of the five men accused in the gang rape of a 23-year-old Indian woman—a crime that received widespread international attention—was found dead in a jail here, his lawyer said Monday.
Ram Singh was found dead at Tihar Jail, Delhi's main prison, at around 5:15 a.m., said his lawyer, V.K. Anand.
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Mr. Singh, 33 years old, and four other men were being held at the jail during their trial at a special court in Delhi on charges that include kidnapping, rape and murder. The five men have pleaded not guilty.
"He hanged himself [from] the ceiling with his own clothes," said Sunil Gupta, spokesman for Tihar Jail.
Mr. Gupta said Mr. Singh had three cellmates. He said the cellmates "were clueless about his intention to commit suicide. They were sleeping when the incident happened."
Rajinder Singh, Delhi's assistant commissioner of police, who is part of a special task force investigating the Delhi rape case, said Mr. Singh used his "own clothes" to hang himself.
"He used the sleeping mat to make a noose, string from his trousers as a rope to hang himself."
Mr. Singh's lawyer, who originally said that his client had killed himself in jail, hours later contested the police version.
"It is not possible he committed suicide. And the theory that he used his own clothes can't be true as there is high security inside the prison," Mr. Anand said.
Mr. Gupta denied allegations of negligence by the jail authorities. "I am aware media channels are accusing jail authorities for negligence but I deny this allegation. There are guards outside every ward here in Tihar. Ram Singh's ward, too, had sufficient guards. It is not possible to have guards outside every single jail," he said.
Mr. Gupta said the four other accused men at Tihar, who are in neighboring cells, are being closely watched by jail authorities following the suicide.
Addressing reporters in New Delhi, Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said, "It's a major lapse. It's not a small incident. It's a suicide."
"A magisterial inquiry has been ordered. Things will be clear once the report comes," he added.
The five men, along with a juvenile who faces juvenile-court proceedings, are accused of luring the young woman and a male friend onto a bus, then beating the friend and beating and sexually assaulting the woman with a metal rod before throwing both of them naked onto the side of a highway on the evening of Dec. 16.
The young woman, a physiotherapy student, later died of her injuries. Mr. Singh was the regular driver of the bus, one of thousands of private buses that ply the capital's streets.
The case drew widespread attention in India and world-wide for its brutality and for the spotlight it shone on India's failure to protect women. The bus traveled around south Delhi, near an enclave popular with diplomats, for about 45 minutes as the assault took place. Protesters marched in New Delhi and other Indian cities and the government has since moved to strengthen laws to deter crimes against women.
Assistant commissioner of police Rajinder Singh said Mr. Singh's body had been moved to a nearby hospital for a post mortem. "Only after the inquiry is done by special district magistrate, we can say what exactly happened," he said.
Reached by telephone, the father of the rape victim said: "We are feeling a bit relieved with this development. But we really don't know what more to say right now."
Mr. Anand said that during the last court hearing on Friday, Mr. Singh "looked cheerful since he met his 5-year-old son in the court." He said he didn't know what had driven Mr. Singh to this extreme step. "He was happy with the way the trial was proceeding."
A.P. Singh, a lawyer for Akshay Kumar and Vinay Sharma, two others facing trial, said he was skeptical about authorities' explanation that Mr. Singh hanged himself. "How is it possible for a prisoner to hang himself inside a jail cell? Is Tihar's security so weak?"
He added: "My clients are terrified, scared, they fear for their safety."
Mr. Singh's father said in an interview that the family, too, doubted the official version of events. "I had met him six days back," said Mange Lal. "He said the authorities are not treating him well." He also noted that Mr. Singh couldn't use one of his hands efficiently since an accident several years ago.
Tihar's spokesman has said the prisoners in the rape case have been treated properly and confirmed that authorities believe it was a suicide.
Following Mr. Singh's death, the trial being held at a special fast-track court at the Saket district court complex in south Delhi, was adjourned Monday.
The next date of hearing has been set for Tuesday.
--This article has been amended to include lawyer V.K. Anand's initial statement that he believed the death of his client Ram Singh to have been a suicide.
—Saurabh Chaturvedi, Rajesh Roy, R. Jai Krishna, and Aditi Malhotra contributed to this article.


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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Auburn Montgomery Exercise Science Professor Michele Olson is garnering international attention for a new research study in which she finds a four-minute workout routine as effective as five times the amount of traditional cardio and that it doubles metabolic rates.
At the 60th annual conference of the American College of Sports Medicine on Friday, Olson shared the results of her study on the "Tabata" style of interval training. Created by Japanese exercise physiologist Izumi Tabata, trainer to Olympic speed skaters, Tabata training has been featured in numerous fitness magazines and is popular among celebrities but has never been tested to see how many calories it burns and what kind of a metabolism boost it really packs. Having debunked numerous fitness gimmicks and get-thin-quick claims throughout her career, Olson scientifically measured Tabata in her lab at Auburn Montgomery and is the first to determine what Tabata exercise really does to our heart and metabolic rate.
"This particular style of interval training has profound effects even on short-term, post-exercise metabolism," Olson said. "It would take five times the amount of typical cardio exercise, like 20 minutes of very brisk walking, to shed the same number of calories that result from a four-minute Tabata."
The program involves four-minute bouts of explosive interval moves done for 20 seconds for eight rounds with a 10-second break between each round. For her study, Olson used rounds of body weight squat jumps for the explosive moves. With a metabolic cart, Olson's study participants had their calorie burn measured before exercise, during a Tabata bout, and 30 minutes following the activity. Olson found that a Tabata routine burns a whopping 13.5 calories a minute and doubled the subjects' metabolic rate for 30 minutes afterwards.
Olson said the study will have a significant impact on sports trainers, fitness leaders and an array of exercise professionals.
"Now that there is specific, valid, and scientific information on the acute energetics of Tabata exercise, exercise professionals can employ it increasingly with confidence," Olson said. "Having training methods in one's arsenal that are scientifically-validated and devoid of gimmickry is clearly what separates the exercise pros from the rest of the pack."
Izumi Tabata was in the U.S. last week for Olson's presentation to the American College of Sports Medicine and Exercise is Medicine World Congress – the largest, most prestigious sports medicine and exercise science organizations in the world and the lead international authorities on exercise.
"It was certainly momentous and a wonderful surprise to have him at the conference," Olson said. "Dr. Tabata was extremely gracious and sincerely pleased and impressed with the research study I presented on the Tabata method."
Since the conference, Olson has been interviewed by "Shape," "Self," "Prevention," and "Health" magazines about her findings. Her research substantiates a growing movement in the fitness industry that short, intensive exercise routines are as effective as longer traditional methods.
"Having limits on time is one of the biggest obstacles to exercise for many in the population," Olson said. "If you can achieve the same benefits doing short bouts of exercise that would normally take 20-30 minutes, then our hopes in this industry are that these types of studies will play a meaningful role in exercise participation and health promotion."
Olson is a leading authority on Pilates, energy expenditure, and abdominal exercise. She received a Ph.D. in exercise science from Auburn University in 1991 and is the lead investigator at AUM's Kinesiology Laboratory. Learn more about Olson at www.micheleolsonphd.com.
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First of all, I'm a layperson.
Psalm 45:14 (KJV) says "She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework;
the virgins, her companions that follow her,
shall be brought unto Thee."
Hebrew text:
לִרְקָמוֹת תּוּבַל לַמֶּלֶךְ בְּתוּלוֹת אַחֲרֶיהָ רֵעוֹתֶיהָ מוּבָאוֹת לָךְ
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TORONTO - Registration for Toronto Pony League will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at the Toronto High?School hitting facility. The cost is $50 per person.
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WOOSTER - Steubenville Big Red graduate Jordan McIntyre was named the Offensive Player of the Year for the College of Wooster football team.
A slot receiver, McIntyre put together career-best statistics as a senior - 44 receptions, 532 yards and six touchdowns - in every receiving category to earn his first postseason recognition, an honorable mention selection in the All-North Coast Athletic Conference.
He was among the top-10 in the NCAC in receiving yardage and also carried the ball 13 times for 169 yards and another score. His best outings of the year came in back-to-back weeks as he had eight catches for 90 yards and two touchdowns at Case Western Reserve University, followed by a four-reception, 99-yard, two-touchdown effort against Hiram.
He finished his career as the program's second all-time receptions leader. He is fifth in all-time receiving yardage and is tied for ninth with 10 touchdown receptions.
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6 People With Amazing Abilities (That Are Totally Useless)
#3. Ricky Jay
He Does What Now?
Throws playing cards like a motherfucker.
Yep, Ricky's "that guy" you may remember from Boogie Nights and Deadwood. But acting is a secondary interest to Ricky, as throwing the living shit out of playing cards is his one true love. He's in the Guinness Book of World Records for throwing a card 190 feet at a speed of 90 miles an hour.
At first glance, the ability to throw a card with incredible speed and accuracy might look like a pretty cool and useful talent. You can imagine one taking to a life of crime fighting, spouting such pithy catchphrases as "You're about to double down... on death," or "let's play 52 card pick up, with your nut sack." Alas, Ricky's gift for card tossing isn't lethal--unless you're a watermelon.
That's right, Ricky Jay's fairly-amazing-to-watch ability to hurl a playing card ultimately does nothing beyond putting him neck and neck with Gallagher for the title of World's Greatest Watermelon-Based Entertainer. From this video, it seems to take him about 15 tries to do even get one to stick into the rind.
Ricky Jay embarked on his pursuit of magic and card flinging at an early age. Presumably, he pursued the magic arts for the same reason anyone would: to get laid. And getting laid proved a challenging proposition as this is how Ricky looked at the age of 12.
In addition to advancing his card-flinging ability--thanks to what must have been thousands of lonely hours flipping the things around his apartment--Ricky also amassed a comprehensive knowledge of the arcane and owns over 4,000 books on the subject of magic. So it goes without saying that he's drowning in vagina now.
#2. Jospeh Pujol: The Fartiste
He Did What Now?
Farted like a motherfucker.
A celebrity in his time, Joseph Pujol possessed extraordinary control over his farts. He could imitate cannon fire, thunderstorms, musical instruments and animal calls through the medium of fart. He also could play the flute with his ass, much to the chagrin of the flute's owner. In fact, someone wrote an ode to the fart master.
Please tell us you didn't watch all four minutes.
Pujol's ascension to fart master sounds like a superhero origin story. During his youth, little French boy Joseph experienced a strange and fortuitous day at the beach. While submerging his head under water and holding his breath, Joseph felt an icy cold rush to his anus. When he walked onto land he was shocked to find water pouring from his ass. Joseph learned he possessed incredible sphincter control. OK, so a radioactive spider bite this is not.
In time, he mastered control over his power and when he joined the French military he ingratiated himself among his fellow soldiers by using his special ability to suck up a pan of water and rocket the jet of liquid several yards using only his ass (like we said, this was the French military here).
Soon Joseph discovered he could also suck air into his ass and shortly thereafter he honed his ability to imitate the aforementioned weapons, animals, instruments and other phenomena. Joseph took his act to the stage and became very famous and rich under the name Le Petomane (translation: "The Fart Maniac").
Joseph famously ended his shows with a fart impression of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, a flatulent tribute that transformed a horrifying and tragic event into a fart-filled, crowd pleasing, feel good evening at the theater. Then World War I erupted. Joseph, overcome by the atrocity, chose to hang up the fart act for good. He apparently believed that there were some horrors that were simply too great to be overcome with the humorous power of farts. And in that, we believe he was wrong.
#1. George Vlosich
He Does What Now?
Creates amazing works of art... on an Etch-a-Sketch. Like a motherfucker.
Lay your unworthy eyes upon these.
Pretty amazing, huh? If you're in doubt as to how remarkable George's talent is, remember the last time you tried to make a circle on an Etch-a-Sketch. It's like trying to pull teeth... with your dick.
We are not the types to frown upon art, but here's the problem with George's work: art is not like gymnastics, you don't get extra points from the Russian judge for degree of difficulty. Would a painting by Monet be more beautiful or worth more if he had held the brush clenched between his butt checks?
There's no question what he's created is extraordinary--or, rather, he's created something perfectly ordinary but arbitrarily used a process that was extraordinarily difficult--but at the end of the day we can't get around the fact that all it takes to destroy his work forever is a douchebag older brother or a grandma with the tremors.
Now check out some people whose abilities aren't retarded and will blow your mind, in 7 People From Around the World With Real Mutant Superpowers. Or let CrackedTV's robot duo, Swaim and Clippy, take you further down the path of human retardedness, in The 12 Saddest World Record Attempts Ever Caught on Video.
And don't visit Cracked.com's Top Picks. Instead, put down those cups you've been practicing your stacking skills with and go outside. But first, go to our Top Picks page because there are boobs there (figuratively and literally).


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Why do I have to say 9-1-1 when I'm calling 9-1-1 from a cell phone?
When you call 9-1-1 in Multnomah County, you will be prompted to press a key or say "911" after hearing a brief recorded message. If there is no response or selection after nine seconds, the call ends.
Why the recording, why not just patch the cell phone caller through?
Calls to 9-1-1 from cell phones are predominantly how they are received. Use of landline phones are on the decline. Pocket dialing to 9-1-1 remains an issue as mobile devices placed in pockets or purses inadvertently dial 9-1-1, thus creating the need for 9-1-1 calltakers to verify if there is an actual emergency. While education around pocket dialing 9-1-1 has been around for quite some time, it bears repeating.
Should you have to call 9-1-1 in Multnomah County, press any key or say 9-1-1, you will be connected to a calltaker. At this point, say your location and let the calltaker now you have an emergency. Always know your location because not all wireless 9-1-1 calls provide location information. To get help quickly, be ready to answer the following questions:
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An administrator of a website or network may decide to suspend a user, preventing them access for a period of time. Is there an antonym of 'suspend' meaning to re-allow that user access?
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I would use reinstate:
I would use either "resume", "restore" or "reactivate".
"Reactivate" is the clearest, but some may find it ugly.
The others will only make sense in a context where it is clear that the account has been suspended, whereas "reactivate" is fairly obvious even without context.
As a sysadmin the word we usually use is just 'activate'. e.g your account was suspended because the password expired, I have just activated it for you. It may not be grammatically correct but that is usually the on-screen option, button or command used in the software to do what you are saying.
(Or if you want to keep looking for other words, the origin of 'account' comes from mainframes when you had to pay to use it and your account was the amount of money you had put in. When you ran out of money your account was suspended, just like business accounting systems would do to customers. Try looking at business accounting terms if you want more ideas )
Suspend and Lift Suspension make sense to me.
If you see "suspend" as a synonym to "lock" because you forbid the person to use the computer system or software he wants, you could use "unlock" as the antonym.
I use the verbs "activate" and "inactivate" for these purposes.
In the database, the "IsActive" field stores the answer, which is yes for active and no for inactive.
It's simple and concise.
Having to use terms like suspend/unsuspend or lock/unlock can be confusing.


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January 23, 2010
Freshly Ground live at Kirstenbosch – Flickr pic of the day
This photograph of a concert in Kirstenbosch, featuring popular South African band Freshly Ground, was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Jim Sher aka Blyzz.
Jim says: "Freshly Ground - Best known for their Doo Be Doo hit are a truly wonderful band to see live.
"Their amazing stage presence added to the laid-back setting at Kirstenbosch results on a truly wonderful Sunday in the gardens. One of their fist performances at Kirstenbosch attracted around 11 000 people."
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In for one. Working in IT, you can never have too many of these; Power Cables, Cat5e/6 cables, and generally all A/V cables.
I also ordered a Chinese RJ45 tester for 3 bucks. We'll see how that goes.
Ordered,I actually need one this size!
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One day I overheard my Dad tell my Mom that I was getting so good with computers he would almost let me run Norton.
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Palladino: Putting name on gym right move
WATERBURY -- On Thursday evening they will stop calling the Kennedy High School Gymnasium the Kennedy High School Gymnasium. Now, for as long as the building stands, it will be known as the Jack Taglia Gymnasium.
It's about as good an idea as we've ever had around here.
Taglia was the head coach at Kennedy for 31 seasons, a city educator for 35 years, and one of the most respected basketball men Waterbury, the Naugatuck Valley League or the state, has ever known.
When the Eagles won three consecutive titles in 1989, 1990 and 1991, it was the first time an NVL school won three straight outright titles in 56 years. The only other team to do it, at that time, was Bridgeport Central, in 1933-35.
"This is not something you expect when you coach," Taglia said. "I am humbled and overwhelmed by the honor."
Taglia coached the game for two reasons, the only two reasons that matter.
"I coached because I love the game," he said, "and I love watching the kids go from being individuals, to melding into a team."
Taglia has long been tagged a coach who believed in defense first, and offense only when it was absolutely necessary to take a shot. One person who refutes that is Armand LeVasseur, the current Kennedy coach and only the third head coach the school has had in nearly 50 years — Marty Sweeney and Taglia being the others.
LeVasseur played for Taglia, served as an assistant under Taglia, and now, as the Kennedy head man, still speaks Taglia's words at practice.
"Growing up, all I heard was that Taglia doesn't let you play offense," LeVasseur said. "But what most people don't know is that he let you do what you can do on the court. If you played defense, he let you do your thing on offense. In my senior year, he gave me the green light to shoot. Although, I remember one time he yelled at me for taking a shot."
LeVasseur went off to play basketball at Drake, and he felt better prepared for the rigors of Division I ball than the other newcomers in the gym.
"I couldn't believe that these guys didn't know how to do the drills that we did every day at Kennedy," LeVasseur said.
Now, as head coach, LeVasseur uses the drills and time-management techniques he learned as a player and an assistant with the Eagles.
"The things that he showed me, and taught me, are the staples of what I do today, especially on the defensive end," LeVasseur said.
Taglia's best friend in the game, and probably his most intense rival, is Holy Cross coach Ed Generali.
"Jack is a great guy," Generali said, "but honestly, it was not that much fun coaching against him. I'd rather go for pizza with him after the game than coach against him. I told him all the time, 'Coaching against you is like scrapping your fingernails down a blackboard. Every play is hard work.'"
The pair were friends before they were high school head coaches, which prompts Generali to add, "I was coaching freshman when he was coaching at the alternative school, and now, he's a legend and I'm still coaching."
Knowing that Taglia is reticent to accept public accolades gives Generali one more open look: "He probably agreed to this only because they promised him a meal."
It is common to say of great coaches that they didn't just win, but they won the right way. I'm not always sure what that means, but look at the career of Jack Taglia and you understand.
The wins — there were 354 of them — the championships and the great players, were a small part of why Taglia spent thousands of days in a gymnasium.
"I believed that coaching was like teaching, and the gymnasium was my classroom at the end of the day," he said. "I was as competitive as anybody. I took the losses hard, and went back the next day and tried to correct things from the night before."
Victories were good, but having players "work hard, do the right thing, and represent the school and the city in the proper way," were far more important to this coach.
"We had some tough years," he said, "but whether we were 4-16 or 16-4, those kids hung in there and didn't quit. I am grateful for the type of kids we had. They were loyal, dedicated, and there every day at practice."
Now, the Taglia name is forever linked with the gym on West Side Hill.
"This supersedes every championship, great win, or great reward, I have ever received," he said. "To have the family name be synonymous with a place that I love is something special. It was fun, man. I enjoyed it, and I wouldn't trade that experience for anything."
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