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I am creating a three-legged stand for a monitor (not really a table, but whatever) and am not sure how to conduct the measurements so that all three legs are accurately spaced in an equilateral triangular shape such that the weight of whatever is sitting on top is evenly distributed over all three legs. How do I go about calculating this?
An easier method to using dividers is to get a piece of string, wrap it around the circumference of the table surface, and mark the and where the string meets itself. Measure the length, divide by 3, then mark off the thirds on the string. Put the string back on and use the third marks to find the leg positions. It's not as exacting as @woodchips method but it's faster, you don't need special measuring tools, and it's probably good enough for your purposes.
Of course you could just eyeball it, you'd be surprised how exact you can get it that way.
An equilateral triangular set of legs is easy for a circular top.
Take a pair of dividers (for those who do not know what I mean, this is just the standard school compass used by kids), set to the radius of the circular top.
Step around the perimeter of the table top using the dividers. There will be EXACTLY 6 such steps until you return to the start point if you had set that distance carefully. Mark the steps you take with a pencil around the perimeter. (Adjust the dividers if you do not return to the start point, then redo the steps.)
Once 6 points are located around the perimeter, choose every other mark. Draw a line from the center of the table top to the corresponding mark on the perimeter.
Finally, with that same compass, draw a circle around the center point. Where that circle crosses the radial lines you have just drawn will be the location of your legs, so choose a reasonable radius here. Stability can be increased if the legs splay out a bit, but not too far as you don't want people tripping over them. Rungs that connect the legs can make them more robust.
The process I described above works because a regular hexagon can be inscribed inside a circle such that the vertices lie on the perimeter of the circle. The length of the edges of that hexagon are the same as the circle radius.
Theta = 360/12 = 30 degrees, Sin(30) = 1/2 So the chord length is R.
Edit: You often have the center of the circle from when you made the table top. Some circle cutting jigs will actually leave a hole in the center.
But, if you don't have that mark to use, that compass will come again to your aid. Set that tool to mark a distance larger than the radius of the circle. With one point at the perimeter of the circle, draw an arc across the rough center of the top. Now repeat, but from the opposite side of the table. Those arcs will cross at two points. Draw a straight line between them.
Now, rotate the entire process by approximately 90 degrees, drawing a second line between a pair of intersections of circular arcs. The two lines we have drawn will intersect at the center of the circle.
There is a rather simple tool called a protractor which is taylor made for this situation. Here is an example of one:
These are available in various sizes in the school supply section of many retail markets.
Simply draw a line from the center of the table top to the outside perimeter (1). Then use the protractor to measure off an angle of 120 degrees from each direction from the line you have drawn and make two more lines (2) & (3). These will determine the rotational location for the three table legs. Measure from the center of the table along each line an equal distance to locate the center position of the legs (4), (5) & (6).
Construct a hexagon, discard every other vertex.
Start with a no flexible string (wire works very well) and draw a circle. The center of this circle is where the center of the table's weight should be. The circle should be wide enough that your legs will attach somewhere along it's edge.
Then reposition to where you want one of the legs to be and draw (most of) another circle. Since the wire is the same length, it will pass through the center of table's weight.
Then reposition to where that second circle crosses the first (it will do so in two places) and draw more (partial) circles. They will go through the center of the table and the point where you drew the first off-center circle. Since your string didn't change length, the three points (center of the main circle, and center of the two other circles) are all the same length apart, making a perfect 60 degree / 60 degree / 60 degree triangle.
Then you repeat the process, moving the center of the "next" circle around the edge to where the last circle crossed the "center" circle. You will construct six crossing points on the outer circle, each exactly 60 degrees apart, and if you connected them you would have a perfect hexagon. To make a triangle, just ignore ever other point.


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Rocket Success Shows North Korea's Advance
Long-Range Missile Puts Pressure on Washington to Contain Pyongyang's Arsenal and Raises Worries Over Iran
WASHINGTON—North Korea appears to have turned a corner in its goal of achieving mastery of ballistic missiles, U.S. officials and weapons experts said following its successful rocket launch early Wednesday, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to contain Pyongyang's arsenal.
A particular concern for U.S. officials is that Iran, which also is developing a nuclear program and long-range missiles, could take heart from its Asian ally's success and accelerate what the West suspects is a goal of developing a warhead. Pyongyang and Tehran have closely cooperated in developing missile systems for more than two decades, according to U.S. and Asian officials.
"Nothing that we're doing now in terms of sanctions or diplomacy or anything has stopped [Pyongyang]," said Victor Cha, who served as a top adviser on North Korea to President George W. Bush. "Counterproliferation now becomes much more important."
The United Nations Security Council condemned the North's launch of a three-stage rocket that Pyongyang claimed had placed a weather satellite into orbit earlier Wednesday. The launch appeared to be North Korea's first breakthrough following four largely unsuccessful tries since 1998.
U.S. officials said they believed the launch was cover for North Korea to further develop long-range missiles that could eventually carry nuclear warheads capable of threatening Washington's allies in Asia, and, potentially, the U.S. West Coast. Japanese authorities estimated the rocket's range at about 3,700 miles.
Pyongyang has conducted two nuclear tests over the past decade, and U.S. intelligence agencies estimate it has produced enough fissile material for as many as a dozen atomic bombs.
Officials are still assessing whether the object carried by the rocket achieved a stable orbit. Some U.S. officials described the satellite as slipping out of North Korea's control. But making a final determination will take days, according to an official at the U.S. Strategic Command, which is tracking the object. Should Pyongyang indeed lose control at times it could still re-establish it, the official said.
"I am not prepared to agree to the characterization of it being a stunning success by any means," said a U.S. official. "We are still assessing it, and I am not sure that [success] is where we are going to end up."
Regardless of the satellite's fate, the missile technology that placed it into orbit demonstrates a new level of sophistication.
The North Korean launch showed that Pyongyang has been able to correct earlier problems with multistage rockets, said Henry "Trey" Obering III, a retired Air Force lieutenant general and the former head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. "They are a major step closer to having an ability to threaten the continental United States."
The launch violated U.N. Security Council resolutions banning North Korean missile activity. U.S. and European officials said Wednesday that they would seek to use a new Security Council resolution to enact tougher financial sanctions on North Korean leaders and companies. They also said they would work to develop ways to more intrusively contain the spread of nuclear technology and an array of conventional weapons in and out of the secluded state.
The Security Council "must now work in a concerted fashion to send North Korea a clear message that its violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions have consequences," said the Obama administration's ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice.
Still, critics of successive U.S. administrations said international sanctions and diplomacy have done little to prevent North Korea from steadily developing a nuclear weapons arsenal over the past three decades.
They said the White House should move more aggressively to establish a missile-defense system in Asia to defend allies such as Japan and South Korea.
Some also said that the U.S. must be prepared to heighten air and maritime interdictions as well as covert actions against Pyongyang, including sabotage, to prevent it from mastering the technologies needed to place a nuclear warhead on a long-range missile.
Current and former U.S. officials are worried that the North's advances could fuel a further arms race in Northeast Asia. Japan is already seen as having a latent nuclear-weapons capability. South Korea is developing long-range missiles and has a vast civilian nuclear-power program that could be converted to military use.
These officials are also concerned that North Korea would be willing to export its nuclear-weapons technologies to networks of buyers in the Middle East and Asia.
Pyongyang has regularly exported missile technologies to Iran, Syria and Myanmar, according to U.S. and Asian officials. U.N. nuclear inspectors believe the North secretly built a nuclear reactor in eastern Syria that was destroyed by Israeli jets in 2007.
U.S. and allied intelligence services have intercepted shipments of North Korean missile components going into all three countries in recent months, according to U.S. and Asian diplomats. "North Korea has proven that it's willing to sell anything to anyone. They need the hard currency," said David Asher, who has tracked Pyongyang's arms trade both at the State Department and the Center for New American Security, a Washington think tank.
U.S. officials particularly worry that China could impede any efforts at the U.N. to choke off North Korea's weapons development.
Beijing has supported international diplomacy focused on containing North Korea's nuclear program, called the six-party talks. China has backed both previous U.N. resolutions sanctioning North Korean military officers and arms companies.
But China continues to provide significant financial assistance to Pyongyang and its new leader, Kim Jong Eun. And North Korea companies have used China as a base through which to procure and sell arms equipment, according to U.S. and Asian officials.
This week's launch, said Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, should be a "wake-up call" to change U.S. policy toward North Korea. North Korea has already shared its nuclear and missile technology, and will spread long-range missile expertise as well, he said. "That's what makes this so dangerous," Mr. Rogers said. He said the Obama administration should press China to head off a nuclearized Korean peninsula.
The rocket launch, which occurred Tuesday night U.S. time, was monitored by American and Japanese military officials.
U.S. officials said the Pentagon didn't attempt to intercept the rocket with missile-defense systems because it was never assessed to be a direct threat.
The Japanese also have missile-interception capabilities, officials said, but they decided the rocket didn't pose a direct threat to Japan, either.
If the rocket headed toward Hawaii, it could have been hit by the ground-based U.S. interceptors in Alaska, U.S. officials said. Had the missile threatened Japan or another target in Asia, the U.S. could have tried to intercept it with its Aegis-ship based missiles.
Gen. Obering said the U.S. doesn't have the ability, except under limited circumstances, to intercept a missile in its "boost" phase, while it is heading upward.
"The system is designed as a military system…to defend against an attack," Gen. Obering said. "So if a missile does not threaten a territory, the system does not want to waste an interceptor."
North Korea's state media first announced the flight about two hours after it occurred and, in later dispatches, called it "a great turn in developing the country's science, technology and economy by fully exercising the independent right to use space for peaceful purposes."
The apparent success of the launch is expected to help new leader Kim Jong Eun, just as North Korea is about to commemorate the first anniversary of the Dec. 17 death of his father, Kim Jong Il. The younger Mr. Kim is perceived by outsiders to be facing some internal dissension, particularly from military leaders who have lost some of their power in the year he has been in charge.
"At a time when great yearnings and reverence for Kim Jong Il pervade the whole country, its scientists and technicians brilliantly carried out his behests to launch a scientific and technological satellite in 2012, the year marking the 100th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung," one North Korean state media dispatch said.
—Evan Ramstad, Dion Nissenbaum, Joe Lauria and Siobhan Gorman contributed to this article.

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KILLEEN (February 8, 2013)—A Killeen man was being held Friday in the Bell County Jail in connection with the sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl.
Michael Shane Chick, 37, was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bond charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child.
The incident was reported to have happened last summer.
The child's mother told police the girl had been assaulted while she was being cared for by a man last July 20 while the mother was at work.
During a forensic interview the child said the man made her watch a pornographic movie then forced her to perform sexual acts on him.
Police arrested Chick on Wednesday at a residence in the 2000 block of Little Nolan Road in Killeen.
The jail log reflects Chick lives at a residence in the 500 block of McArthur, in Killeen.


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A small city of about 100,00 people located in the North Bay section of the Bay Area. It is pretty boring and lame for the most part considering all the typical DGAF BMX riding Nor Cal white boys who live there, the Nortenos that stay at Rocky Hill Park are the only semi-real gangsters in Vacaville. One of the only good things about Vacaville is the incredibly danky bud they got there!
Dude #1-"Another boring Saturday night in Vacaville, what are we going to do Bruh besides go smoke on a Cutty Mission!?!" Dude#2- "Were not 21 so we can't go to the bars, fuck man why do we gotta live in the most boring section of the Bay Area!?" Dude #1- " Yeah let's just go to the Sco!"
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City located on Interstate 80 in between San Francisco and Sacramento adjacent to Travis AFB and home to the California Medical Facility prison and some pretty good outlets. Also hometown of Papa Roach, baseball player Jermaine Dye, Nick Arcamone and Kris Goldstein, all great pimps in their own right. Also known as Lack-of-Thrill, Whackaville, and Cow Town.
Vacaville is hella lame but they have a Nike Outlet so its all good..
by The Man March 06, 2005
Small town that has a pop. of 90,000 and is probably the most boring town in California. Filled with white people and farms. It's in the Davis Valley, has two shopping center called the Nut tree and the outlets. The town is very safe and NOBODY here is hard. Nobody in Sac or the Bay has ever heard of this town. Vacaville is a very racist town because of how many red necks live here.
Me: Vacaville gets SAC kings game
Her: Vacaville is not in Sac or in the Bay. Its in the valley!
Her: Vacaville is not in Sac or in the Bay. Its in the valley!
by Vaca High March 03, 2012
A smallish city in Northern California semi-famous for its high-security prison.
Where the hell is Vacaville?
by Jack Schumacher October 06, 2004
A stupid little boring town i grew up in that sucks, everyone is fat, lazy, stupid, and their lungs are full of smoke and smog.
Me: "maaaaaaaaan i grew up in vacaville"
friend:"i heard its super gay there"
me:"it is."
friend:"i heard its super gay there"
me:"it is."
by misfitpirate April 12, 2011
town whose name means "cow town" in area code 707
by jared the pimp February 01, 2004


text: It�s the little things that endear Lake Charles to me. For example, the little mom and pop joints that dot the urban landscape have intrigued me since our move to southwest Louisiana six years ago. You can read my posts on the donut shops here and the crawfish stops here. Other establisments I find fascinating are these little snow cone stands. They aren�t open year around � only in the summer. They are all over the place. In Pittsburgh, there�s the chain, Rita�s Italian Ice, which we loved, but they can�t hold a paper cone to these unique snow cone stands around here, especially in terms of price and flavor selections. I am also reminded of Pittsburgh�s iconic ice ball man, Gus, who�s been shaving ice by hand and hawking his treats on the North Side since 1934. (See photo here) I assume he is still there. I also recall getting snow cones as a kid at carnivals and county fairs. The ice was coarsely crushed and mounded into a paper cone, then drizzled with sweet syrup that invariably leaked out the bottom of the cone, making a sticky mess. My father NEVER allowed snow cones to be eaten in the car. Or much of anything else, for that matter. If we went to the Dairy Queen, we�d have to stand outside the car to eat our ice cream. But I digress.<>>Here in southwest Louisiana, we have these mom and pop �snow ball� stands. The ice is finely ground in a machine and thus is much denser than the snow cones I had been accustomed to in the north. And they are served in Styrofoam cups, so no leaks. Most stands here offer so many flavors; it�s difficult to make a decision.<>>In West Lake, there�s the appropriately named �Mom and Pop�s.� The ram is the West Lake High School mascot.<>>Most of these stands also offer vanilla soft serve. At Mom and Pop�s, you can order your snow ball �stuffed,� with soft serve in the center, or �cremed,� where they blend the ice, flavoring, and soft serve. Or you can get it stuffed and cremed. They also make a �slizzard,� which I guess is a take on the DQ Blizzard. At Mom and Pop�s, I had a red velvet snow ball.<>>Mom and Pop supervise and read the paper in the shop. They have owned and operated this shop for 20 years.<>>Down on Nelson Rd., you�ll find Krazy Kones. You can�t miss it, with the superhero and other assorted graffiti painted on the bright yellow background.<>>I tried sour apple this time. Let me give you a tip. Avoid the green colors, unless you�re going for that ghoulish goth look on your lips and tongue.<>>On McNeese St., there�s Mr. Snow. Most of these stands offer the snow cones with �cream.� I assumed it was something like coffee cream. But I wasn�t sure. So I asked the girls working the drive-thru window. They told me �cream� is specially made from condensed milk, evaporated milk, and added sugar. As if those flavorings aren�t sweet enough already. I have not yet tried this option. Instead, I ordered a simple cream soda flavored snow cone. I was surprised when she handed it to me and it was red. Red? I expected something tan or light brown, like cream soda, right. Nonetheless, it tasted like cream soda. And that�s what counts.<>>On Oak Park Blvd., you�ll find Kool Kones. <>>Instead of soft serve vanilla, they offer hard pack vanilla. I chose a stuffed dreamsicle snow cone. Hmmm. Yes, it was orange in color. But it didn�t taste like a dreamsicle. It might have been orange-flavored. But that�s different from dreamsicle. You know that subtle difference I�m talking about?<>>Okay, I�ve saved my favorite snow cone stand for last. �Famous New Orleans Style Snowballs� in Moss Bluff. It�s my favorite for one reason . . . .because it�s the only stand I found that has chocolate soft serve! I love chocolate soft serve. I�ve been annoyed with DQ for years for taking it away. <>>Just look at that list of flavors! I think they have the most.<>>Once, I tried a snowball here with both mint and chocolate flavors stuffed with chocolate ice cream. I love chocolate mint anything. Indeed, it was good, but the color combination was a tad unappetizing. Think mud. This past week, I had a coconut snowball stuffed with chocolate. I was thinking Mounds bar. I liked it!<>>Not bad for five days worth of research, huh! Next I might report on those curious drive-thru daiquiri stands. They definitely don�t have those in Pennsylvania. Just have to find me a designated driver.<>>How about you? Do you have a favorite snow cone stand?<>>


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I usually do my own piercings ritually, but I HATED the way my labret came out when I did it myself. The placement was all wrong, and it rubbed on my gums. So I took it out and let it heal. Last night, on date night with David, we went to Enigma in San Diego and had Didier pierce it for me. The placement is PERFECT. It doesn't hurt, and I'm not even having trouble speaking or eating. NICE! It was a nice treat to have someone I trust pierce me.
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I was diagnosed with Grave's Disease (hyperthyroidism, or over-active thyroid) in July 2009. In September 2009, I had my thyroid oblated using radiation. The procedure worked perfectly, and I became hypothyroid (under-active thyroid because it had been destroyed by the radiation) by the end of 2009. I started thyroid hormone replacement in January 2010. As of late-February 2010, my thyroid levels were normal. I'm feeling much better and this is, essentially, no longer an issue. I just take daily thyroid hormone replacement tablets once a day. No biggie!
I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for your good thoughts and prayers while I went through this. I really appreciated all the messages I received, and honestly, it helped me get through the tough times.
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Radiation on the Graves' Disease is Wednesday.
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My thyroid scan was yesterday. It does not appear that I have a tumor. It appears I have hyperthyroidism brought on by Graves' Disease. I will know more after my September 3rd follow up with the Endocrinologist.
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I love these albums. They do not take up much room at all and they just hold the photos. I do a lot of scrapbooking. My three year old already has a school album, dance album, and 4 albums of everything else so you can see I take a lot of pictures. It is nice to have something to keep them in, in order, and that does not take up a lot of room.
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It's a good light album, but the plastic pages are not clear and transparent. The photographes look blurry when you put the pictures in due to the cloudy plastic sheets.
I bought 4 albums recently, and I wished I had bought 1 first to see.
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Everytime I will type a sentence in which the last character is dot, colon or quotation mark it will change the next letter automatically to uppercase, so that I don't have to press the shift key?
The settings should apply to all desktop environement (XFCE, KDE, Gnome) and terminals. Sometimes you need to write lowercase after dot, so there could be some key that will suppress uppercase.
I noticed that mobile applications have this possibility.


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John's heading out on vacation and Golnaz is reliving her past as a basketball/skateboard/swiming all-star. They've got the scoop on a new Imagine Cup award and a new challenge plus a look at a college in Belgium with a fantastic Imagine Cup track record. And we check the Big Board to discover which small country rocketed onto the top ten. BEWARE OF THE HYPNO-SPIRAL!
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New award and new challenge!
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University of Houston has made it every year as well.
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The 6 Baffling Mistakes Every Horror Franchise Must Make
#3. The Unrelated Sequel
Hollywood has a huge number of unfilmed screenplays lying in the slush pile and no way to market them. Make no mistake, studios want to film your shitty movie... if they have a better than good chance of tripling their investment.
This is why, quite often, you'll see seemingly random stand-alone horror scripts crowbarred in as sequels to an established franchise, the film makers just doing a quick rewrite to cram in the existing characters instead of whoever the original writer had in there.
Hellraiser was particularly bad at this. If you saw the last, uh, half-dozen Hellraiser flicks, you would've noticed that they threw out continuity and began offering up any quasi-supernatural police thriller as a sequel. As long as that weird puzzle box pops up and Pinhead drops by for 15 minutes to yammer something evil, then it's a Hellraiser movie, goddammit.
Up until 30 seconds ago, you were watching a romantic comedy starring Greg Kinnear.
One of the most notorious examples of this bait-and-switch was Friday the 13th, which continued well past the fourth film, 1984's misnomered The Final Chapter. Jason Voorhees was killed by a machete through the brain, and seeing that he was just a terrifically durable human being at this point, it'd be impossible to bring him back.
Money, however, speaks louder than story, and soon the studio barfed out a fifth movie about some yutz who simply dressed up as Jason. Fans were understandably apoplectic.
Also, the Internet Gods would never forgive us if we didn't give the obligatory nod to the infamous Troll 2, which was so unrelated to the original Troll that the film's characters never say the word "troll" once.
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Halloween. While most franchises will try to somehow tenuously connect their cheat-sequels to the established mythology with familiar themes and namedropping, the producers of Halloween made the baffling decision to make a sequel that wasn't even the same kind of movie.
1982's Halloween 3 wasn't about the ne'er-do-well escapades of Michael Myers, but rather booby-trapped Halloween masks that are magically powered by Stonehenge. Also, there are robots.
Did we mention the masks turn children's heads into spiders and snakes?
There was a little method to this madness. Halloween creator John Carpenter never wanted the franchise to continue past the second movie, and the studio wanted to create an anthology horror series like Creepshow. But when Halloween 3 bombed hard, the studio told Carpenter to take a walk--there would only be another sequel if it was absolutely identical to the first two Halloween films. Nowadays, this is known as "The Saw Method."
#2. The Comedy Sequel
Iconic horror franchises always run the risk of devolving into unintentional self-satire. A lot of filmmakers figure they can just combat this head-on by acknowledging the fact openly (or as they say in the biz, "putting a lampshade on it").
But the fact that a lot of people think that Killer Axe Man 17 is getting kind of stupid doesn't actually change if the film's writers point out that they know it's stupid. This acknowledgment just makes everything stupider. Nevertheless, it happens almost every time; somebody pens a sequel that replaces horror with cute, self-referential jokes.
Freddy Krueger was fairly notorious for the subtle escalation of his clowning as the Nightmare on Elm Street series went on, so much so that people forget that the original film was pretty freaking scary. But the problem was never so explicit as in 1991's A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead, which attempted to be a straight-up laugh riot and featured bizarre cameo appearances by Johnny Depp, Roseanne and Tom Arnold. It's impossible to take the primal fear of the original Nightmare seriously when Freddy kills a kid by sucking him into a video game.
The sixth Friday the 13th took a similar route, alternating badly between rampant violence and awkward slapstick. The title sequence emulates Jason doing the gun-barrel walk-on bit from James Bond. The next thing you know, Jason's killing people whose faces make bloody smiley imprints on hard surfaces.
The Worst Offender:
Child's Play. It's true that a story about a serial-killing doll is hard to pass off as a genuinely spine-chilling tale. But, there's a fine line here between a "so over the top that it's kind of awesome" B-horror movie, and something like 1998's Bride of Chucky and 2004's Seed of Chucky, which are so ridiculously self-aware that they're bashing you over the head with the kind of "LAUGH, DAMMIT!!!" desperation you usually only see in really bad comedies.
We don't have anything against dick jokes per se--they put bread on the table here at Cracked--but Bride of Chucky took the dick joke to horrifying new levels. The writers make constant references to Chucky's "wood" ("I thought you were made of plastic!") and as for the doll-fucking scenes, we'll let you research those on your own time.
Yes, that is a baster full of puppet semen.
#1. The Reboot
Construction workers know that there's only so much damage a structure can take before you have to knock the building down and put up a new one. This same logic applies to movie franchises. After the sequels go into the double digits and run the gamut of aforementioned tropes, the time has ultimately come for a reboot, otherwise known as the "Ol' Fuck It, Let's Start Again."
Reboots and remakes are different. A remake often works as a loving homage to the original film, whereas a reboot tends to aggressively disown its source material, instantly establishing itself as the new canonical version and asking you to please forget all the prior, shittier films that preceded it.
"Ice to see you!"
There two reasons this is becoming maybe the worst of all of these gimmicks:
One, because it overwhelmingly is the one we're most likely to fall for. Installing a new director, cast and rewinding the timeline to the origin story is somehow supposed to make us forget that all of the creative juice has been squeezed out of the character a decade ago. And we will. The good feelings earned by Batman and Bond reboots have convinced us that somehow you can make Freddy fresh again.
And this leads to the second problem, which is that this will ultimately be more overused than any of the gimmicks mentioned above. In 2003, a Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot opened the floodgates. Since then, Halloween, Friday the 13th and Children of the Corn have seen reboots, and Hellraiser, Child's Play and the aforementioned A Nightmare on Elm Street have reboots in production. In fact, of all the franchises mentioned in this article, the only one no one will touch is Leprechaun.
Seriously, we'll get word on a Troll reboot any minute now.
The Worst Offender:
Halloween because it's the only franchise that they tried to reboot twice.
1998's Halloween H20 accepted only John Carpenter's first two films as canon and brought back Jamie Lee Curtis for the lead role. Although, the film was actually praised by critics as a return to form, the franchise immediately fucked up again with Halloween Resurrection, which performed abysmally at the box office and killed the franchise a second time.
Almost a decade later, Rob Zombie took another bite of the reboot pie with 2007's hugely successful Halloween. And again, Zombie's 2009 sequel utterly failed to deliver. Yes, even a man whose driver's license reads "Mr. Zombie" could not bring Halloween back from the dead.
Maybe he should call himself Rob Necromancer.
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The new cool page created by Ubuntu-adverts team http://www.thisisthecountdown.com/ displays a nice counter, and an Ubuntu logo followed by a short motto. It seems, however, that it's not counting down to the Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot release. So what's the time zero, and what is expected to happen when the counter reaches zero?
It was created by the Ubuntu Adverts team to build up some hype in advance of the 11.10 release. The counter expires at midnight 11th October in the UTC-5 timezone (US Central time). This is 6am on the 12th October in the UK. However, the release of 11.10 is expected on the 13th in the afternoon UK time.
This page seems to have been an entrance for an Alternative-Reality Game, that was played by seeking for information on a bunch of fake websites, deciphering messages, etc. The game was synced with the real time, and it progressed through many days. As of Oct 11, the game is still in progress, but considering the amount of information that has been already presented, it is unlikely that one might easily join the players and continue from that point. The game is played cooperatively with many other players, by discussing puzzles at an IRC channel - #awholenewworld (you can find logs at this answer's end)
There was a number of clues released and puzzles to solve between now and then. I think at time zero a new website, possibly with more information about Oneiric will be released, there might be a more intensive phase of the game at that point, or it might be the end of the game.
The first clue is the class of the tag which may be decoded by base64 decoding then hex to ascii to reveal "world space agency org" http://worldspaceagency.org which is a website that was labeled as under construction.
The background image at worldspaceagency.org was also an MP3 file (stereo, 22.5 Khz)
Many clues have been released through a twitter account. http://twitter.com/#!/thisisthe
As of 10/5, the GIF at worldspaceagency.org has changed. There is now text near the bottom that says
There is also a pastebin of the appended data. There is pure HEX data here There is also a permutation before the codetext:
After deciphering using this tool with the key
On 10/6 the worldspaceagency.org page changed completely and now features a simple menu, WSA logo and some news. One can access a fake console at http://worldspaceagency.org/console/ which displays some chirped messages, and play morse code message (which after deciphering is
The Morse code used to decoded to
ARISS is the amateur radio link to the ISS, it was running on an IBM A22P thinkpad left behind by Mark Shuttleworth in the ISS (yes, really) there is some kind of problem with it's power supply unit. http://www.rac.ca/ariss/faqariss2.htm (That might be the why the audio file was all scrambled.)
The hacker console displays what appears to be an IRC log with some random office chit chat and the message:
Possible clue: Pine Lake, GA on Wikipedia.
Full decryption of the console text is available here.
As of late 10/6 or early 10/7, http://thisisthecountdown.com has changed. The background is now different, and the bar above the countdown appears to move.
If you click the twitter link in the site, it auto-fills your tweet with the following:
Update 10/9: Turns out the 404 page at http://worldspaceagency.org/ariss/ibm/a22p/ was a fake. Some text at the bottom was changed. The first characters of the text in question ended up being a phone number: '404-9 CONTAC', or '404-926-6822'. Another transmission was found upon phoning the number. Here is a digital recording.
The recording was used to decode the transmission in the console at the WSA website. The decoded transmission is here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/704729/ The transmission references Chi Sagittarii, a group of star systems, along with the Wow! Signal, which was emitted from said star systems and is considered evidence of potential extraterrestrial life.
The security link on the home page requests a username and password. The credentials are below:
From that point, the game gained speed, and both the plot and the puzzles thickened, but the number of them makes it difficult to discuss them all in that answer.
Note: here's a big plot gap - please add some information on the following points
The counter changed once more and we found a barcode like thing below the numbers (transmission.gif). It turned out to be a sliced QR code where each red dot marks the cut point. After inverting and encoding the result, it brought us to another archive file (EXTRACTED-CASEFILES-r2.7z) via this link The file again contains updates to the three case files. The password for the protected ZIP file (
Where RFC 2616 deals with HTTP standards. The headers contain the following:
→ point of no return → event horizon.
In the meantime the counter was updated (the estimated time for decryption has been recalculated) and now shows only a few hours left until the decryption of the transmission will be finished (which likely will be the end of the game).
Final Result - It turned out that the countdown was indeed for Ubuntu 11.10 .
IRC logs from
Here is a compact list of what information we have (please add new info as it becomes available):
"(NEEDS INVESTIGATION!)" signifies information that hasn't been discussed at length in the IRC yet
The purpose of this list is to help make investigations more thorough by letting us check every new piece of information for connections with everything else in the list.
It looks like it is just a game and the counter will never reach zero since the page is now a single message with color bars in the background.
0x484558 resolves to 'HEX' with an Hex to ASCII convertor ... ( like previously 0x575341 --> WSA )
Remember everything is in the sources : rgb(74, 46, 109) rgb(112, 47, 97) rgb(101, 114, 111) rgb(115, 112, 97) rgb(99, 101, 114)
From ASCII to Text 074 046 109 112 047 097 101 114 111 115 112 097 099 101 114 gives something like J.mp/aerospacer
Just fill J.mp/aerospacer in firefox navigation bar ( not in the search bar) and it resolves to http://soundcloud.com/worldspaceagency/02-traveler/s-lrAhQ
J.mp/6EQUJ5 is also a jump code to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_signal
Wow ;-)
Check the source code for the password protected data file :
In the source the IRC link was in fact linked to http://thisisthecountdown.com/wsa-server-rip/EXTRACTED-CASEFILES-r1.7z
The rgb codes were different too : ASCII (097 108 105 101 110 114 105 102 116 102 114 111 110 ) = alienriftfron.. ( last numbers were 0 0 one hour before the new countdown)... an anagram for finalfrontier (password)
The title of the page was email@example.com: Decrypting...
Then came the new countdown .... read first post for the whole story.
It looks like the files are similar to the others we can access via SSH
Ubuntu logo is now in the front of the page...
data-text="A whole new world. A whole new computer. #ubuntu"
Long life Oneiric... Thanks for the cool music ;-)
What if the word "one" in the clues meant "ubuntuone" ? Ubuntuone is now in version 2 compared to version 1.6 in natty which means that it was done twice and that it may include a new service.
So for me ubuntuone has all the pieces but doesn't know it ....
who wants to make the diff between 1.6 and 2.0 ?
"if the world could sing" may refer to a social service that may be included in the musicstore (like anybody can upload his songs...)


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College football senior sendoff: BYU, Utah and Utah State set to say goodbye to 63 players
A former walk-on, Chappuis has earned valuable playing time for Utah, as evidenced by the fact he's played in 39 games. During his Ute career, Chappuis has had 62 tackles, an interception and forced a fumble.
- Oldest first
- Newest first
- Most recommended
Amazing how BYU and Utah State seniors get another game after this weekend.
However, Utah players don't.
Go Cougars!
- 8:44 a.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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Stay classy, Omaha.
I'm sure I join thousands in thanking all of these guys for what they've done over the last few years of their lives. For the vast majority of them, high profile football will have been just a blip on their life's radar, but it's the only way we came to know who they were.
For the Utes, I personally got to know a lot of these guys while I was in school, and it will hard to see them leave the program after tomorrow. For the Cougs and Ags, I met a couple of these guys prior to college and it's nice to be able to see how they've developed. Every one of them deserves more respect than silly posts like the one above. To all 63 of these players, congratulations and thank you!
- 9:19 a.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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@ Cougar_Independence
It's amazing how BYU's seniors have never beaten Utah in their college careers. In fact, the Utah State seniors have beaten Utah more than BYU's seniors have.
- 9:48 a.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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Amazing how y'all in Utah argue and fight over which pathetic FB program is
better, when you're all fishing in the backyard creek.
Our HS team could probably give all 3 of your programs a good game.
- 10:11 a.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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A little premature for this article. Utah plays for the Third Annual Bottom of
the Basement this week while the other two will continue to play afterwards.
BYU easily dispatched of the best of the best HS players from Texas to play for Texas the last 4 years. Bring on your little HS team!
- 11:44 a.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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So J-TX, Do you consider University of Texas as one of your high school teams down there? That would be the one that BYU embarrased?!! And this is not the only time a Utah team beat a major college from Texas. So have a little respect.
- 11:44 a.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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Good luck to all the seniors! It's been fun watching you.
- 1:28 p.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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Sad to see the huge chips are still on the shoulders of the small minded. Time to move on I suppose.
- 1:30 p.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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Utah had some tough circumstances this year; Travis Wilson's multiple
adversity issues, key injuries, a new OC, close losses, and three tragic deaths
within the program. With all that said, going 5-7 is not acceptable.
I support Whittingham but another season like this one and that could change.
Still, as fans from the instate schools, let's be fair when accessing the our relative teams. Some BYU fans think going bowling makes them superior but the schedules are unbalanced and not comparable.
On the flip side, I understand arguments from the blue that Utah beating BYU head to head doesn't simply make Utah better. Yes, one game makes not a season and match ups and things come into play. I try to be fair.
Here is my take. BYU has the better record and has played good teams. But they also play 5 patsies. BYU beat the teams they should have plus a big win over Texas. The other big match ups were losses.
Utah's best win (Stanford) was better than the Texas win. Remember head to head in Provo as well. But Utah digressed overall.
- 4:30 p.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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Some BYU fans could realize that being in a major conference is a big jump from
the MWC. And not just for Utah. Look at TCU for example. Like Utah, they are
also 4-7 this year and were 7-6 in their first year in the BIG 12 last year.
Since the MWC days until right now, BYU is third in record comparison head to
head with Utah and TCU.
BYU played some tough teams this year but half of their schedule was weak AGAIN. The Cougers lost to the better teams minus Texas and beat the teams they should. With a PAC 12 schedule or Big 12 schedule, it's logical to think BYU is on the couch for bowl season as well.
BYU beat USU after Keaton went down in the first quarter. They made their long contract with Boise State at the right time as Boise has been dipping the last couple of seasons after a ten year run of solid QB play.
Nevada, Middle Tennessee and Idaho State are the weakest of opponents. GT, Virginia, and Houston are below any PAC 12 opponent Utah plays except Colorado.
Playing bigger schools mixed in with lesser ones is not comparable. Football is a war of attrition.
- 4:53 p.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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Utah was 17-6 against BCS schools from 2000-2010. Since then, reality sets in for Utah fans when playing the big boys every week. BYU fans might want to learn this in order to be be fair and balanced (pun intended) to their favorite non-news source.
- 4:56 p.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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J-TX BYU VS Texas Remind me who won that game.
- 7:05 p.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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The Utes got exactly what they asked for when they agreed to become a well-paid PAC 12 doormat, so stop whining.
Bronco is 9-8(53%) versus PAC teams.
Kyle is 12-21(36%) versus PAC teams.
It's obvious which team is only a pretender, and which team would actually be a contender in the PAC.
- 11:34 p.m. Nov. 29, 2013
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Those football players that put forth the effort everyday in practice including
the scout teams
made for some really special football games. The seniors stepped up and contributed big time for BYU,USU, and Utah.Three games really stick out BYU vs Texas, Utah vs Oregon State and Utah State vs USC they were classics win or lose because excellence was there.
- 8:02 a.m. Nov. 30, 2013
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It's amazing how some of these utah sr's, like palepoi, have never had a winning record and never played in a bowl game in their entire utah careers. In fact BYU's sr's will play in more bowl games this year than many of the utah sr's have in their entire careers.
- 9:48 a.m. Nov. 30, 2013
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Thank you, to all of the Utah seniors for their part in getting the Utes into
the PAC 12 and for their domination byu.
Had byu joined a major conference 3 years ago...Today holmoe and mendenhall would be coaching highschools somewhere in California.
- 10:01 a.m. Nov. 30, 2013
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Ekute, u just proved everyone's point. The only thing u really care about is beating BYU. Congrats on signing your 10 years deal with the no bowl. That is something to really look forward to. I can't wait to see the u fall into an even bigger hole than they are in already. All the other teams in Utah will demand a two for one and the u will still have no rival as they year by year try to stay out of the basement of their conference of chumps. Enjoy your past experience at the late BCS bowl because with the new rules, u will never see another one. LOL
- 7:58 p.m. Nov. 30, 2013
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Your claim was disproven when Dr. Hill removed byu from Utah's schedule. Now the byu games are important to nobody.
- 8:23 p.m. Nov. 30, 2013
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It is amazing to me to see someone knocking a team from Logan who found a way to win even without their starting qb.... A starting QB that nearly beat his rival on week one of the season... After getting hammered in Logan Conference weekend what was USU's record? Yes, they are no OSU, they are no Michigan, no Alabama or Auburn... But of the three teams in Utah of clout they are the only one with a legitimate shot at being good for the long haul. BYU will simply be BYU as they ever have been save for one 3 year stretch of stunning near perfection and Utah... Well, I don't see them coming back out on top... Maybe on a PAC-12 off year they will get to have some fun in the grand tournament of Roses... But nationally, I don't figure they will ever be in contention again. The two year hiatus from RES and the minion nation will be well appreciated. Yes, 'our' senior class never beat the Utes... But, need I remind you that Several senior classes in a row never beat the Cougars either... Football is a system of streaks... Just enjoy this streak you were on, for it ends in 2016!
- 11:14 p.m. Nov. 30, 2013
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Loved the smack comments regarding J-TX's reference to Allen TX HS (I lived there 20 years, my kids graduated there). They're perennially one of the top 5 teams in the country the last several years. One thing I've missed moving back to UT is super high quality HS football. I went to the 2 top division championship games here, and there is no comparison. It's not remotely close. Still, it was awesome to watch BYU blow out Texas.
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@ Duckhunter
Some of those Utah seniors that you speak of have never lost to BYU in their college careers.
You and your fellow kitty cat fans have no room to talk smack to your rival that has beaten your team 4 years in a row and 9 of the last 12 games.
Let's also not forget that BYU has lost to two conference bottom dwellers (Utah and Virginia). Conference bottom dwellers according to BYU standards that your fellow cougar fans like to spout off.
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The Great Alumni Challenge
As Notre Dame and Alabama Vie for a Football Title, We Ask: Can Gomer Pyle Tackle Norm from 'Cheers'?
Notre Dame and Alabama, two schools that are rumored to care a little bit about their football teams, will meet Jan. 7 in a BCS national championship that's as juicy as these things get. Alabama coach Nick Saban's method for passing the time until then is figuring out a way to break down enough game film while also catching up on his 45 minutes of nightly sleep. Here's our way: imagining a game between Notre Dame and Alabama's alumni.
Sure, you could fill an entire Pro Football Hall of Fame wing with Crimson Tide and Fighting Irish names. But what about everyone else? Alabama and Notre Dame have produced great icons and greater villains—and not just on the football field. In fact, some of the most recognizable representatives of Notre Dame and Alabama aren't even real people. (Warning: We can't guarantee that these results will predict the outcome of the BCS championship.)
Quarterback Who Was Pretty Good And Also Named Joe:
Joe Montana vs. Joe Namath
Notre Dame's Joe Montana won a national championship and four Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers. Alabama's Joe Namath won a national championship and a Super Bowl with the sketch comedy troupe then known as the Jets. Montana has two things going for him: He never propositioned a reporter on camera and he never wore a fur coat on the sidelines.
Winner: Notre Dame
Actor Who Played a Lovable Supporting Character on TV:
George Wendt vs. Jim Nabors
Alabama grad Jim Nabors stole the spotlight from the title actor of "The Andy Griffith Show" when his Gomer Pyle character was introduced. Few television characters have been more endearing than Nabors's slack-jawed auto mechanic. One who even enters that discussion is Norm Peterson from "Cheers," brought to life by George Wendt, once a Notre Dame student. The underemployed barfly with the never-seen wife and historic tab immediately became a hero for Bostonians and alcoholics everywhere. But it was Pyle who got his own spinoff show ("Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.") whereas Norm lost his to fellow "Cheers" regular Frasier Crane.
Winner: Alabama
Most Conflicted Member of the School's Fan Base:
Condoleezza Rice vs. Harper Lee
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice grew up in Birmingham, Ala., when Bear Bryant was turning the Tide into a national force. But Rice also earned her master's degree from Notre Dame, and as the former Stanford provost, she's a fixture on the sidelines of Cardinal games. Harper Lee, the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," was born and raised in Alabama and spent time at the state university. Lee rarely makes public appearances, but she did accept an honorary degree from Notre Dame in 2006, when graduating students held up copies of her book and pretended they hadn't just skimmed the CliffsNotes back in high school.
Winner: Alabama
Guy Seen Talking on Television Most Mornings:
Regis Philbin vs. Joe Scarborough
Former congressman and "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough graduated from Alabama and often tweets the same two words that every other Alabama graduate often tweets, screams and mutters while sleeping: "Roll Tide!" Regis Philbin, the former morning-show host and still the loudest Notre Dame fan on the planet, doesn't tweet and doesn't need to. He's Regis.
Winner: Notre Dame
Football Coach You Might Have Heard Of:
Knute Rockne vs. Bear Bryant
Both coached their alma maters to multiple national championships. Both turned their programs into the powerhouses they remain to this day. Both had names that would make even Manti Te'o jealous. Is there really a way to distinguish Knute Rockne from Bear Bryant? Here's one: Bryant brought the houndstooth hat to the forefront of college football; Rockne helped popularize the forward pass.
Winner: Notre Dame
Football Coach You Never Want to Hear From Again:
Charlie Weis vs. Mike Shula
Charlie Weis went to Notre Dame, coached at Notre Dame and was fired at Notre Dame. Mike Shula went to Alabama, coached at Alabama and was fired at Alabama. Shula has bounced around as an NFL assistant since leaving his alma mater. Weis finished 1-11 at Kansas this season, but at least he rebounded with a head-coaching job.
Winner: Notre Dame
Nattily Dressed Member of High Society:
Thom Browne vs. Gay Talese
Fashion Week mainstay Thom Browne was once called "the most influential menswear designer in America" by GQ. One thing that probably isn't the source of runway fodder at Browne's shows: his swimming career at Notre Dame. The writer Gay Talese's path to the Upper East Side was just as winding. The son of a tailor, he graduated from Alabama after growing up in New Jersey. Talese is now revered in New York's literary circles as much for his magazine stories as his closet of bespoke suits.
Winner: Alabama
Successful College Quarterback Who Apparently Still Plays in the NFL:
Brady Quinn vs. Greg McElroy
Last season, former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn, now starting for the Chiefs, was jumped on the Denver Broncos' depth chart by Tim Tebow. But this season Tebow, now a backup for the Jets, has been jumped on the depth chart by former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy. So by the Transitive Property of Tebow, the Crimson Tide takes the prize.
Winner: Alabama
Alum You Want Nowhere Near Miami on Jan. 7:
Bernie Madoff vs. Steve Bartman
Notre Dame's Steve Bartman may have cost the Chicago Cubs an opportunity to win the World Series for the first time in 95 years. Bernie Madoff, who briefly attended Alabama, oversaw a Ponzi scheme that robbed his clients of billions of dollars. Hmm. Toss-up! So let's say the loser is the one who can't attend a football game, because he's in prison.
Winner: Notre Dame
Influential Member of the Bench:
Rudy vs. Hugo Black
The Hollywood version of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger's time at Notre Dame still reduces fully adjusted grown men into kiddie pools of tears. A scout-team player for almost his entire career, Ruettiger sacked the quarterback on the final play of his senior season. So how can Alabama law graduate Hugo Black possibly compare? All he did was serve as a Supreme Court justice for 35 years.
Winner: Alabama
Alumnus Who Inspires Us Even Though He's Not Actually Real:
President Bartlet vs. Forrest Gump
Never has there been a U.S. president as perfect as Jed Bartlet, the Notre Dame alumnus played by Martin Sheen on "The West Wing." He was also fiercely loyal to the Fighting Irish, once forcing one of his staffers to wear a Notre Dame cap for making a crack about his alma mater. It would take an implausibly diverse, historically significant résumé to top President Bartlet's. Enter Forrest Gump. Not only was he a Medal-of-Honor-winning war hero and wildly successful seafood purveyor, he was also an accomplished cross-sport athlete: an All-American football player for the Tide, an internationally renowned table-tennis star and a legendary distance runner who repeatedly ran across the country for no good reason.
Winner: Alabama
Actor Who Portrayed a Creepy Bad Guy on "Lost":
William Mapother vs. Michael Emerson
Both Notre Dame grad William Mapother and Michael Emerson, who has an MFA from Alabama, played villainous weirdos on the incoherent ABC hit "Lost." Mapother's Ethan was one of the principal Others on the island before he was killed in the first season and came back to life in many more flashbacks. (Spoiler alert!) But Emerson's character, Ben Linus, was the bug-eyed menace that drove what the show alleged to be "plot."
Winner: Alabama
People Who Usually Show Up in Other Parts of The WSJ:
Brian Moynihan vs. Jimmy Wales
Brian Moynihan, the chief executive of Bank of America, earned his law degree from Notre Dame. Most folks wouldn't know that without Wikipedia—which wouldn't exist if it weren't founded by Alabama's Jimmy Wales.
Winner: Alabama
Corrections & Amplifications
A previous version of a chart to go with this story identified Brian Moynihan as Thom Browne and Browne as Moynihan.


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The discourse that is the foundation of a liberal arts education is shaped by the interplay of many different perspectives. At Hamilton we embrace different cultures, backgrounds, ethnicities and voices and welcome students from more than 46 countries. Approximately 10% of our financial aid supports international students who comprise about 5% of our student body.
International Application Deadline: January 1 (unless Early Decision)
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Many on Capitol Hill are eyeing favorably bills that create a massive electronic employment databases. While proponents of the Shuler-Tancredo "SAVE Act" (HR 4088) and the Johnson "New Employee Verification Act of 2008" (HR 5515) talk tough about cracking down on illegal immigrants, the truth is their bills' nationwide mandatory electronic employment verification system require all American workers, foreign- and native-born alike, to seek the government's permission to work.
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I was wondering what other company versions our members have seen? How do they compare with the original?
By the way, Miami's Coppelia was last performed in January 2005 and is described in the program as follows:
Choreography: Arthur Saint-Leon
Staged by Eve Lawson and Eric Quillere
Lawson was MCB Ballet Mistress in the 1990s, and has held the same position in the National Ballet of Norway, etc.
Quillere, who played Dr. Coppelius in 2005, trained at Paris Opera Ballet and danced in the corps. Later, danced with MCB. He is now the chief Ballet Master at the Ballet de Bordeaux. http://www.opera-bor...illere-832.html
Miami's Act III is actually a wedding celebration. It begins the Dance (Waltz) of the Hours. The solo portion of the divertissements includes only Dawn (l'Aurore), Prayer (la Priere), and Spinner (la Fileuse). This is followed by ensemble and couple dancing, along with a couple of solos. As I recall, there is choreography for the Waltz of the Hours, though I can't remember it. There is also an adagio pdd for Swanhilda and Franz.
Hymen and/or Cupid do appear in this version, but I can't recall what they do. I also can't recall any significant role for Discord or Peace. None of these is credited in the cast list. Just about everyone onstage is dancing by the curtain. This climax certainly deserves the term "grand ballabile."


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I am puzzled with the following discrete logarithm problem:
Given positive integers
b, c, m where
(b < m) is True it is to find a positive integer
e such that
(b**e % m == c) is True
where two stars is exponentiation (e.g. in Ruby, Python or ^ in some other languages) and % is modulo operation. Using general math symbols it looks like:($b^e \equiv c (\mod m)$).
What is the most effective algorithm (with the lowest big-O complexity) to solve it ?
Example: Given b=5; c=8; m=13 this algorithm must find e=7 because 5**7%13 = 8
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BELLAIRE - In case you have noticed, there is an increase in big trucks on the road thanks to the oil and gas industry descending on the Ohio Valley.
They bring a lot of good along with them. But it's no secret big trucks have big tires that have a nasty habit of kicking up rocks and other debris and unknowingly playing havoc with the vehicles in their immediate rear.
Those rocks have a nasty habit of causing chips in windshields of vehicles, which is a major inconvenience at best and a safety hazard at worse if allowed to spread.
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That's where Josh Miller wants to come in.
Miller is the owner and operator of Elite Auto Glass, a mobile windshield chip repair service.
During the day, Miller operates at 3665 Belmont St., Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
He fixes windshields there, as well as assiting in detailing work at his buddy's business, Ohio Valley PDR.
On Saturdays, you can find Miller at the Quiklube Drive Thru Oil Change Center in Moundsville from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
But his assistance is just a phone call away.
"I'm 100 percent mobile," Miller said. "I can go to anyone at any time."
And it rarely takes Miller long to finish.
Upon arrival, he assesses the damage and quickly gets to work. Most jobs take anywhere from 5-15 minutes to fix the chip. Occasionally it takes a little longer but Miller works quickly and efficiently.
Because he is mobile, Miller is able to take on evening and weekend work as needed.
He offers free estimates and insurance payments are accepted for his work.
To schedule an estimate or for more information, call Miller at (304) 281-7714.
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I think forum poster hendricd does not charge people for using his user Ext-basex user extension...Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
Read the docs too: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/
Scope: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.ph...642#post257642
21 Oct 2008 5:12 AM #12
I can't access the commercial licence page at the moment, but the last time I looked (several months ago) it quoted a price for the licence.
21 Oct 2008 5:20 AM #13
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ext-basex v2.3 is LGPL
ext-basex v3.0 is GPL/Commercial licence
21 Oct 2008 9:02 AM #14
Must be done this way: obj['Content-type'] = something;
...which is why most JSON encoders force quotes around member names.
- Built-in JSONP support (text, Object, JSON, XML ) -> to a native Ext response Object.
- Request Queues
- responseJSON support
- Basic Auth
- File system support.
"be dom-ready..."
- Sequential (transactional) loading of a resource (JS, etc)
- Realtime form validation server-side (intranets only recommended)
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22 Oct 2008 12:21 AM #15
I still think hs['Content-Type'] is a weak implementation because the string "Content-Type" is case insensitive with HTTP. This forces you to use ['Content-Type'] and not any other valid string for the name component of the header field.
Whilst ext-basex has a dual licence, in my case I can't use GPL 3 for my code. As I have no use at the present time for the other features of the extension it is not worth buying it just to be able to add a synchronous Ajax request. No doubt there are other Ext users, with a commercial Ext licence, in a similar situation and the above patch may help.
10 Dec 2008 6:24 AM #16
Use case for asynchronous http request
A possible use case: in TreePanel.beforeNodeDrop(), I want to perform server-side rather than client-side validation of the drop so that the logic about valid drop locations doesn't have to reside in the client. beforeNodeDrop() must return false to stop the drop, but it returns without receiving a response from the server. The server response can only be captured in the callback, but from there you can't control what beforeNodeDrop() returns. Is there a way to do this other than using a synchronous call?
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13 Dec 2008 1:00 PM #18
a few question about the syn ajax :
* it should be Ext.Ajax.request({ or Ext.lib.Ajax.request for the sample to call
url: 'some_page.php',
method: 'POST',
success: success,
failure: failure,
scope: this,
params: {foo: 'bar'},
async: false
* there are, extjs/ext-2.2/adapter/ext/ext-base.js and extjs/ext-2.2/ext-all.js,
you mentioned "This is ONLY for use with ext-base.js", does it means there will be a conflicting
at using ext-all.js ?
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BELLAIRE - Bellaire Village Council has directed Village Administrator Dan Marling and the employees at the water department to get a handle on the delinquent account situation within the village.
"We've been directed in the water office, with the water meter installation and shutoff crews, to aggressively go after accounts that are past due," Marling told council during Thursday's regular meeting. "Any account that is one month past due, the village has the authority to go in and shut off the water.
Marling noted that the department is trying to be as lenient and understanding as possible but added that in some cases, that leniency is being abused.
As expected, these efforts have been met with some resistance.
"The police chief assisted the other day," Marling said. "We've been cursed at, everything when it comes to this."
Marling explained that payment plans to make up the arrearage on the bills is not an automatic solution but one that must come before council's utilities committee.
He noted that letters went out Thursday to customers who are behind explaining the village' ordinance on water bills and that the village has the right to remove equipment from the premises if a customer is behind on their bill.
Police Chief Mike Kovalyk noted that if water customers are unwilling to cooperate, they can be cited for disruption of public service. There is a case pending in Eastern Division Court on just such an occurrence.
Marling was happy to report that the village has filled the position of a part-time CDL driver. He went on to explain that a recent ordinance outlining the practice of utilizing temporary and substitute employees has greatly aided work within the village.
"We will continue to utilize and build off that to get various projects done like patching potholes," Marling said.
Marling reported there were only six water breaks within village limits in March. That break total was down from previous months.
Brown purchased the pump at the end of last year and asked for permission to install this pump and maintain the water quality at the fountain during the spring and summer.
Councilwoman Lou Ann Bennett noted she had been in talks with Marling recently about the very subject and noted that the Chamber of Commerce, along with the All-American Days Festival, were going to foot the bill to get the fountain up and running, working with Marling and the village's electrician.
A spot on 16th street, just north of the old Riviera has been tabbed for the location of the garden, with plenty of parking adjacent to the roughly 1.5 acre lot.
Pugh said she doesn't believe planting will begin this year but noted that some of the Master Gardeners in the county have agreed to assist in the planning and implementation.
Council voiced its support.
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(The sizing labeled is 50, listed as medium, 52, as large, and 54, as extra large)
Rugged and ready for whats coming. This Belgian division of the ZRU (Zombie Response Unit) is a core strength in the defense of the rising horde of the un-dead! This official ZRU Military Field Shirt features the official seals on front and back. In addition features the Belgium flag to indicate the Belgium division. You can also add a ZRU field bag to your order as well during checkout!
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I wish I had a nickle for every bacon, zombie or pirate themed shirt or trinket sold on the internet.
I actually do have a nickle for every Bacon or Pirate or Zombie post on here...
It is less than $200, you know.
I had no idea that sort of language was permitted on this site. tisk-tisk.


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In English, we have: To simulate this situation, we assign 29 1s and 21 0s . This means that we labeling 29 members 1s and 21 members 0s in an experiment.
How does Spanish handle plural numbers in its sentences 1s and 0s?
You would say
The exceptions are the plurals of
Numbers in plural are written in words. If it's too cumbersome, you can prepend "números" and write them in figures, as in "123 números 0".
The answer of Angus is correct, I would only like to add that in written Spanish is not correct or usual to use numbers (as digits) but words. The correct translation for the sentence you wrote would be:
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GENESEO, N.Y. - State University of New York at Geneseo alumni returning for Summer Reunion 2009 July 10-11 will experience a weekend full of activities on campus and in the village.
The reunion coincides with the village's annual Summer Festival and the Geneseo Air Show. Most of the Summer Festival activities are scheduled in the Village Park next to the campus.
"The college and village will be bustling with activities both on the ground and in the air and this combination of events available to all of our returning alumni will be terrific," said Rose Anderson, assistant vice president for alumni relations. "Our wonderful reunion program will provide social and educational opportunities for alumni to reconnect with classmates and faculty, and the community events will definitely add to their enjoyment of the weekend," she said.
All Geneseo alumni are welcome to attend the reunion. The Alumni Association has planned special celebrations for the classes of 1929, 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1983 and 84, 1989 and 1994.
In addition to numerous class-specific events and celebrations at the reunion, the college is conducting an Alumni College, where alumni may attend courses taught by Geneseo faculty on such topics as "Thriving in Today's Economy," "Social Networking" or "The Physics of Baseball." Also planned are walking tours of campus, science demonstrations, art gallery exhibits and more.
The entire reunion schedule, lodging options and a registration form are available on the college's website at www.go.geneseo.edu/reunion. Additional information is available by calling the Geneseo Alumni Association at 585-245-5506 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I want an elisp script to highlight a region of text.
Upon exit, the highlighted selection should disappear when a key is pressed.
Everything I've tried results in the highlighting hanging on like the
shift key is pressed. What does it need to make the selection transient?
(defun TEST ()
(transient-mark-mode t) ;; I have this true normally anyhow
(set-mark (point))
(forward-char 2)
(setq mark-active t))
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IWP52 | Clint on the Coding For Fun Toolkit
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The 'Coding 4 Fun' Toolkit is a powerful set of controls and libraries that you can leverage for free, to add rich features and functionality to your XAML Windows Phone application.
Today we talked to Clint Rutkas, the creator of this toolkit, about some of the thinking behind it, and some of the cool things you can do with it.
Here are some links to related information we discussed:
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I'm getting a little confused on this seemingly simple concept. Basically I'm building a web app that will notify users via a Twitter Direct Message if an event occurred on their account with me. I'm building it in PHP with CakePHP as the underlying framework. I'd like to be able to send the direct message "from" the application via oAuth. I used the Twurl Console (at http://dev.twitter.com/console) to send a POST request via
http://api.twitter.com/1/direct_messages/new.xml?screen_name=<my screenname>&text=<content of dm>
When I check my DM's I basically get a DM from myself. Is that because the Twurl console uses your screenname when sending stuff from applications or because when calling the direct_message/new.xml you are sending a DM from your account which was authenticated with the test application in Twurl. In the end I'm looking to accomplish the same thing that spontwts does - notify you via DM when something happens on your account. Any input, resources, links, or code samples are very much appreciated :)


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WEIRTON - Local government leaders hoping to help shape the course of future development initiatives in the Northern Panhandle can take part in a community and economic development resource roundtable slated on Oct. 17 at Millsop Community Center.
The program begins at 6 p.m. and will include brief presentations on USDA Rural Development, West Virginia Community Development programs, West Virginia Appalachian Regional commission programs and Main Street West Virginia/On-Trac Programs.
"It's about what we can do throughout the Northern Panhandle," said Norm Schwertfeger, Brooke County Extension agent. "It's really an opportune time for it. We've got a lot of development going on in the Northern Panhandle. We're trying to do it at a time when we can still have a good impact on community development and economic development in our region, so we're in control of our own growth as opposed to just letting it stall."
Sponsors include the Brooke County Economic Development Authority, West Virginia Development Office, Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle, Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce and the Brooke County Planning Commission.
"We're in control of developing our communities the way we envision them," Schwertfeger said. "It's really important to get local government officials, whom we elect, to represent our interests."
Information will be available from the West Virginia Northen Brownfield Assistance Center, West Virginia Small Business Development Center, First Microloan of West Virginia, WorkForce West Virginia, West Virginia Development Office Main Street West Virginia/On-Tracl WVDO's community development division, West Virginia Community Development HUB and USDA Rural Development.
Schwertfeger said there's no cost to attend, but anyone interested should call the Brooke County Extension Office at (304) 737-3666 to reserve a spot.


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I track my website's traffic using Google Analytics. I have tracking parameters on marketing campaign links, conversion tracking for important page views and purchases, even logging the amount of a purchase. I've had this in place for over 5 years and I have yet to use Google Analytics to reach any conclusions about anything. Every time I try to discover something, be it an overall trend or finding very specific information, I get endlessly confused and frustrated by the GA interface and tools. Examples of things I'm unable to do:
- Determine the ROI of an Adwords campaign
- Track what visitors that clicked from a marketing campaign actually did on the site
- Track where purchasers came from
Is there a simpler tool, one that uses the Google Analytics API to take the data and make it more easily understood? I'm sure all of the data I need is being captured and structured correctly, it's the analysis of the data that I'm missing.
Tools I've already tried are Kiss Metrics and Raven. Raven uses the GA API but just presents the most basic reports that are already in the GA interface. Kiss Metrics doesn't use GA data and only does a few things and none of them are what I need.


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To the Editor,
This letter is based on the CBS News report about "Killing Jesus," the gospel according to Bill O'Reilly, that aired on Sept. 29 and was reported by Norah O'Donnell.
What's happening at Fox News? A station gone awry? Management not recognizing the danger of a man being directed by a higher deity, the Holy Spirit, to do its bidding.
O'Reilly's admission that he wrote the book after receiving a wake-up call in the middle of the night from the Holy Spirit directing him to write the book, "Killing Jesus" is nothing short of divine. What demon inspired O'Reilly? Without recognizing Jesus the son of God, the messiah, born of a virgin, there is no Christianity today, if the three are left out.
The life of Jesus as just a man wouldn't have left a blip on the screen in world history.
O'Reilly's Jesus as just a man. "He was upset with people of his own faith. He was upset that the Jews were taxing, overtaxing and extorting the folks.
"That's the crux of the 'Killing Jesus' theme, that there was a reason he was executed. Not that he was saying he was God, droves of people said they were God. But now, when you interrupt a money flow - now you're into territory where they gotta get rid of him."
Why would O'Reilly, a devout Catholic, write a book about Jesus that defends the belief of every atheist that Jesus was just a good old boy trying to get tax cuts for the rich? What a stretch to inject Jesus' life into today's political atmosphere.
O'Reilly, you killed the beliefs of every Christian and made the dreams of famous atheists the like of Bertrand Russell and Christopher Hitchens come true,
Without the father, the son and the Holy Spirit, there is no Christianity, no Jesus. Jesus walked on water. O'Reilly's walking on thin ice and taking Fox News down the deep black hole of no return with him.
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Celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings
Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer's art. The Portable Abraham Lincoln contains the great public speeches – the first debate with Stephen Douglas, the "House Divided" speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural Address – along with less familiar letters and memoranda that chart Lincoln's political career, his evolving stand against slavery, and his day-to-day conduct of the Civil War. This edition includes a revised introduction, updated notes on the text, a chronology of Lincoln's life, and four new selections of his writing.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
-Ric Burns, co-producer of PBS's The Civil War
Table of Contents
A Note on the Texts
The Portable Abraham Lincoln
The Emergence of Lincoln
To the People of Sangamo County, Mar. 9, 1832
Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning, Apr. 1, 1838
Letter to Joshua F. Speed, June 19, 1841
Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, Jan. 27, 1838
Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity, July 31, 1846
Letter to William H. Herndon, Feb. 1, 1848
Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln, Apr. 16, 1848
Fragment on Niagara Falls (late Sept. 1848?)
Notes on the Practice of Law (1850?)
Lincoln Becomes a Republican
Fragment on Slavery (1854?)
Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, Oct. 16, 1854
Letter to George Robertson, Aug. 15, 1855
Letter to Joshua F. Speed, Aug. 24, 1855
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857
"House Divided" Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858
Fragment on the Struggle Against Slavery (c. July 1858)
Speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858
First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, Aug. 21, 1858
Letter to W. H. Wells, Jan. 8, 1859
Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions, Jacksonville, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1859
Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 30, 1859
The Presidential Campaign
Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, Feb. 27, 1860
Letter to Cornelius F. McNeill, Apr. 6, 1860
"Whiskers" Letter to Grace Bedell, Oct. 19, 1860
Secession and the Coming of the War
Passage Written for Lyman Trumbull's Speech at Springfield, Illinois, Nov. 20, 1860
Letter to Alexander H. Stephens, Dec. 22, 1860
Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1861
Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Feb. 22, 1861
First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861
Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Mar. 9, 1861
Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr, 1, 1861
Letter to Secretary of State William H. Seward, Apr. 1, 1861
Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr. 25, 1861
Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr. 27, 1861
Letter to Ephraim D. and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861
Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861
Commander in Chief
Letter to Gen. John C. Fremont, Sept. 2, 1861
Message to Congress, Mar. 6, 1862
Letter to Gideon Welles, Mar. 10, 1862
Letter to Horace Greeley, Mar. 24, 1862
Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men, Washington, D.C., Aug. 14, 1862
Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862
Meditation on the Divine Will (c. early Sept. 1862)
Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Sept. 24, 1862
Letter to Gen. George B. McClellan, Oct. 13, 1862
Letter to Gen. George B. McClellan, Oct. 24, 1862
Memorandum on Furloughs, Nov. 1862
Letter to Carl Schurz, Nov. 24, 1862
Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862
Message to the Army of the Potomac, Dec. 22, 1862
Final Emancipation Proclamation, Jan.1, 1863
Letter to Gen. Joseph Hooker, Jan 26, 1863
Letter to Erastus Corning and Others, June 12, 1863
Letter to Samuel P. Lee, July 4, 1863
Letter to Gen. George G. Meade, July 14, 1863
Order of Retaliation, July 30, 1863
Letter to Dr. John P. Gray, Sept. 10, 1863
Approval of Sentence of David M. Wright, Oct. 7, 1863
Letter to Gen. John G. Foster, Oct. 17, 1863
Opinion on the Draft (c. mid-Sept. 1863)
Letter to Gen. George G. Meade, Oct. 12, 1863
Memorandum on Testing Diller's Powder (Nov. 2, 1863, or after)
Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Nov. 19, 1863
Letter to Gov. Edward Everett, Nov. 20, 1863
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, Dec. 8, 1863
Amnesty for Emily T. Helm, Dec. 14, 1863
Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Feb. 1, 1864
Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Feb. 5, 1864
Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Mar. 1, 1864
Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Mar. 18, 1864
Letter to Albert G. Hodges, Apr. 4, 1864
Draft of Address for Sanitary Fair at Baltimore, Maryland (before Apr. 18, 1864)
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland, Apr, 18, 1864
Letter to Sen. Charles Sumner, May 19, 1864
Letter to Charles D. Robinson, Aug. 17, 1864
Memorandum on Probable Failure of Re-election, Aug. 23, 1864
Draft of Letter to Isaac M. Schermerhorn, Sept. 12, 1864
Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 1864
Letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, Nov. 21, 1864
Letter to John Phillips, Nov. 21, 1864
Reply to a Southern Woman (Dec. 6, 1864, or before)
Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
Letter to Thurlow Weed, Mar. 15, 1865
Speech to the 140th Indiana Regiment, Washington, D.C., Mar. 17, 1865
Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., Apr. 10, 1865
Speech on Reconstruction, Washington, D.C., Apr. 11, 1865
Memorandum Concerning Passes to Richmond, Apr. 13 or 14, 1865
Biographical List of Lincoln's Correspondents