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Ultimate Paint and Body Guide Part 7 - Under The GunWritten by Drew Hardin on April 25, 2007 Part 7: Taking Your Paint Project From Primer to Pigment.
Finally, the moment of truth. All the steps we've covered so far in this series-metal prep and repair, panel alignment, shooting primer, and block-sanding-have led up to this: making your car-color dreams a reality. To help make that dream come true, we're approaching the subject of spraying color from a number of different angles. We spoke with several professional painters looking for insider tips. We collected information on how to choose the right spray gun and how to set up a gun to get the results you want. (I even took a painting class to bolster my neophyte spraying skills and discovered I'm way more Tim Conway than Junior Conway with a spray gun in my hand.)
Yet all the tips and insider scoop we can cram into these few pages won't help you as much as the next three words: Practice, practice, practice. It's one thing to read about spray technique, but it's a whole other deal to actually "shoot a single, flowing coat," as they taught us in class. When you're learning to paint, junk panels, walls covered with masking paper, and other targets that don't much matter are your friends. Perfect your gun handling off the car, and you'll like what you put on the car a whole lot better.
Also, don't be too ambitious with your first paint projects. Specialty products like flakes and candies are a lot tougher to get right than solid colors, and single-stage paint will require fewer passes with the gun than a basecoat/clearcoat combo. If you work your way into the more complicated finishes as you gain experience, you'll be far more satisfied with the process and your results.
How the Pros Do It
We talked to several painters-Tim Beard of Hot Rod Restorations, Dave Lane of FastLane Rod Shop, Brian Lynch from House of Kolor (HoK), John Morrow of Johns Customz & Performance (JCP), and Sears' Dan Swanson-about the steps they take when applying color. Here's what works for them.
The base: Most of our guys like to spray color on a ground coat that consists of a sealer or primer-sealer so the surface is as even as possible. According to Swanson, the primer-sealer also keeps sanding scratches from being pulled up by the later topcoats. All our painters recommended matching the ground coat to the color of the topcoat as closely as possible or you risk getting a variation on the color you want. Taking this a step further, Lynch said HoK sealers can be tinted and then used as a ground color, allowing you to skip the basecoat step. "But not all companies recommend clearcoating over sealer," he advised.
Keep it clean: Surfaces must be immaculate prior to painting or you risk contaminating the paint and ruining the job. Swanson likes to use soapy water, as "solvent-type final cleaners may not fully evaporate before you start painting and can leave some ugly rag marks." The rest of the group uses solvents, cleaners, or degreasers to get any residue off the car. Morrow has a helper wipe right behind him to keep the wax and grease remover from doing just what Swanson feared. Lint-free rags ("Is there really such a thing?" Swanson asked.) and tack rags keep fabric bits from the paint.
Gun choice: Most of our painters, even those not in air-quality-compliant areas, shoot with high volume/low pressure (HVLP) guns. (More on gun types below.) For some, it's a matter of law, but even those who have a choice like the way an HVLP gun reduces the amount of paint that's wasted as overspray.
Gravity-fed guns (with the paint cup on top) are preferred over the old-fashioned siphon type (with the cup under the gun) for several reasons. They're lighter, have a better balance, and the gravity feed means you can shoot until the cup is empty, something the siphon gun won't do. "Where the siphon guns come in handy, though, is when you're spraying an interior or hard-to-reach spot," Morrow noted. "The venturi effect in the cup feeds paint to the gun no matter what angle it's held at, even upside down. A gravity-feed gun won't do that."
Gun setup: Few of the pros could tell us specifics about how they set up their guns-fluid-tip sizes, air pressure going into the gun, things like that. They've been doing it for so long, they've developed a feel for the right settings to deliver the desired spray pattern. Or they stick so closely to one type of paint, they can set their guns once and leave them.
Some take Beard's approach, which is to have an assortment of guns, each set up for a different kind of paint. "I'm fortunate enough to have five, six guns with different tip sizes, and I can grab the one I like for a certain type of paint. I use a 1.3 [tip] for metallics and pearls, 1.3 or 1.5 for solids, 1.5 also for clear, and a 2.0 nozzle for primer. Different colors have different thicknesses; blacks are thicker because they have more solids." Beard paused. "It's easier for me to mix the paint, pick up the gun, and go. If I think about it too much, I screw it up."
When Beard does have to make adjustments, he minimizes his variables-he locks down his material flow and air pressure to predetermined settings and then alters his distance, speed, or pattern size.
How To Set Up A Spray Gun
The mix: Follow the manufacturer's recommendations regarding the use of catalysts or hardeners, Lynch said. "You don't want to mess with that ratio. Now, a reducer you can mess with, to vary the viscosity of the paint based on the conditions." Hot weather can thin the paint and speed up flow, so you'll want to use a different reducer or less reducer than on a cooler day.
Beard takes a different approach: "I use a midtemp reducer all the time, even when it's 100 degrees. That way if I have to do a spot repair in December, it won't change the color. I may have to work a little faster when it's hot, but different reducers have changed my colors."
Whole versus apart: Our guys were pretty evenly split between those who prefer to paint a car in pieces and those who paint the car assembled. Those who paint the car whole have developed a pattern, generally starting in one corner and working around the car to keep each coat consistent. Then they don't have to worry about "the dark spots that can happen when you stop and then start again in the same area," Lane said. Some painters start at the roof and work down, others tackle the roof when they reach the side of the car.
The most important tip for those who paint in pieces: part orientation. Position the parts as they will be seen on the car. Don't set doors horizontally on sawhorses, for example, or hang a hood vertically. "That way the paint lays down properly," Beard said.
How long a paint job takes depends on the results you're after. A collision repair shop tries to have a car in and out of paint in a matter of hours. The Impala repaint shown here took three days at JCP. When we spoke to Beard, he was preparing to shoot a street rod in candy, a process that will take him a week.
Fixing problems: Some issues-dirt or a bug in the paint, small runs-can be remedied with a light sanding and a reshoot, especially if the problems are in the basecoat. Minor imperfections in the clearcoat can often be wet-sanded out. "Now, if you're four coats into a candy job, there's no margin for error, no way out," Beard said. If there's a flub, "you stop and re-base it. I've had to do that." Fixes can be similarly difficult in other specialty coatings, which is one of the reasons they're not recommended for novice painters.
Gun Shopping
The first step in buying a paint spray gun is to determine if you have to use HVLP due to air-quality regulations in your area or whether HVLP would be just one of several choices open to you. Many on our panel of painters use HVLP guns because of their transfer efficiency-the amount of paint that actually sticks to the surface versus paint wasted as overspray. But if you're a painter in a noncompliant area, there are other options.
Reduced pressure (RP) guns are becoming a popular alternative to HVLP because they offer HVLP-like transfer efficiency but at pressure levels that are just slightly lower than a conventional high-pressure gun, said John Sloane of the Eastwood Co. So if you're used to spraying with a conventional gun, the switch to RP wouldn't be as radical as changing to HVLP. And then there are low volume/low pressure (LVLP) guns. These "make more efficient use of the air supply to them," Sloane said, so they don't require quite as much compressor capacity as an HVLP gun, which makes the whole setup a little more affordable for the hobbyist.
What can you expect to pay for a gun? Eastwood offers "economy" guns for less than $60, while a high-end gun like a German Sata can fetch $700 or more. For that much dough you get "a gun with better feel, a little nicer balance, more careful machining, and probably better durability," Sloane said. "Expensive guns go through more rigorous quality control to ensure more consistent quality for each gun. If you spray day in and day out, I would encourage a higher-end gun. Not only will it feel better in the hand, it will atomize better and transfer efficiencies will be better."
Buy a gun from a supplier that supports the product warranty-wise and can get parts for you if needed, Sloane said. "Usually, if you stick with a known name-DeVilbiss, Binks, Sharpe-you'll be getting a better quality gun than a generic or unlabeled kind of gun." Sloane believes the "ultimate judge of the gun is its ability to apply a smooth finish to the surface. Minimal orange peel is the goal, and effective transfer efficiency is important. The high-pressure guns of 20 years ago wasted as much as three-quarters of the paint that went through them as overspray. HVLP technology dramatically reduced that."
One other tip: Be careful not to over-accessorize a gun. "According to our DeVilbiss rep, the biggest factor that decreases HVLP gun performance is loading it up with accessories-a regulator, moisture filter, restrictive quick disconnects," Sloane said. "Anything you do that restricts the free flow of air to the gun will have a dramatic effect on the gun's performance. A high-pressure gun is more tolerant of these accessories, but with a low-pressure gun, a few psi difference at the inlet will make a big difference in quality."
How To Spray a Car
How to Spray Your Car (cont.)
How To Clean the Spray Gun
Training DaysSeveral paint manufacturers offer classes to keep refinish professionals up-to-date on new products and techniques. But where do you go if you're a dedicated hobbyist looking to brush up on your skills? House of Kolor offers several seminars on how to use its products; one-day orientation and two-day basic classes are open to the public.
We took a basic class at HoK's Dallas training facility and found it to be a screaming deal. You get intensive yet informal (sounds weird, but it works) classroom instruction on a variety of subjects, from paint types and terms to more in-depth topics like how the human eye sees metalflake suspended in paint. Much of the information deals with HoK's products and how they differ from the competition's, but since a HoK custom paint job builds to a higher mil thickness than a collision-repair-based repaint, you need this info to use the HoK products properly.
The two-day class also offers lots of hands-on gun time. In addition to in-booth demonstrations of spraying techniques, students are given a mailbox to refinish in any way they choose. Why a mailbox? Its steel construction has to be scuffed, primered, and finished, just like automotive sheetmetal, and it has curved surfaces to work around, just like a fender. It's smaller and easier to handle than a fullsize car body part, but it's still big enough to accommodate flames, scallops, and other graphics and special effects.
Pass the two-day class and you're eligible to take HoK's four-day advanced course, which is aimed at helping professional shooters expertly use the company's full range of specialty paints. "We'll also spend time duplicating any problems the painters might be having so we can solve them or teach them how to avoid having the trouble in the first place," said Brian Lynch , HoK's training manager.
Best of all, these classes are ridiculously inexpensive. The orientation class is $50, the basic is $100, and the advanced is $500. Those prices include lodging for each day of the class, most meals, all the paint materials, and safety equipment. Yes, HoK is losing money on these things, so sign up now before Lynch comes to his senses and starts charging what they're really worth. Visit www.houseofkolor.com, click on the "News" link, then go to "Training Schedule" for more info.
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House of Kolor's Brian Lynch walks through the basic spray-gun controls using one of the training center's Sata guns. Though the paint manufacturers offer recommendations for tip sizes and air pressure, these controls help fine-tune the spray pattern. Here, he points to the Sata's fan-control knob, which is used to adjust the shape and size of the spray pattern.The final adjustment is for air pressure using a regulator mounted on the spray-booth wall. Look closely and you'll see it's set at about 34 psi. Expect to compensate for some pressure loss through the hose, Lynch said. During our classroom spraying, 30 psi at the wall translated to about 22 to 24 psi at the gun.Here's how JCP's John Morrow laid color on a customer's '63 Impala. Prior to going into the booth, he wiped the sheetmetal with a wax and grease remover to make the surface completely clean of sanding dust, dirt, skin oil, and other contaminants. He repeated the process after pushing the car into the booth. Note the red paint around the hood; Morrow had earlier shot the jambs, interior, under the hood, and inside the trunk with the doors, hood, and trunk lid off the car.Morrow used DuPont ChromaBase BC, a basecoat/clearcoat system, to cover the Imp. DuPont has a computer program to calculate paint formulas that will exactly match vintage car colors. Once Morrow was satisfied with his color choice, he mixed the paint using these tints and other ingredients. The fixtures on the paint cans aren't just their spouts; each fixture is hooked to a motor that spins a small paddle in the can to mix the paint when needed.The paint formula ingredients are measured in grams, so Morrow mixed the paint in a bucket on a scale. First he mixed a quart of white for the roof; later he'll make 3 quarts of red for the body.Morrow uses a DeVilbiss gravity-feed HVLP gun. Note the air-pressure regulator-what he calls a cheater valve-at the base of the gun's handle. He shot this job with a 1.3 fluid tip on the gun, and DuPont recommends a pressure setting of between 35 and 45 psi when pushing ChromaBase through that tip size.After pouring the mixed paint through a strainer into his DeVilbiss gun, Morrow started on the roof. He sprayed the driver-side C-pillar first, then the driprail and the header area over the windshield before starting across the roof. When he got to the midway point, he moved to the other side of the car and continued spraying from where he left off.The spray technique: Hold the gun within its sweet-spot distance from the car, usually around 7 or 8 inches; pull the trigger; sweep horizontally in one direction for a distance of about 3 feet; move the gun down for the next pass so the spray patterns overlap (60 to 70 percent is recommended); sweep horizontally in the other direction. Some painters, like Morrow, release the trigger between the gun sweeps; others keep the trigger pulled so there's an uninterrupted flow of paint.
The ChromaBase has a flash time (the time it takes for the solvents in the paint to "flash off" or dry) of just 5 to 10 minutes, so Morrow didn't have to wait long before applying the second coat of white to the roof. After finishing his initial passes (he prefers about a 60 percent overlap), he angled some final passes at 45 degrees in what he called a crosshatch spray pattern to "fill in any light or dark stripes in the paint."Once Morrow was finished with the car's lid, Sam Puefua stepped in to complete the body spray. He masked off the newly painted roof and wiped off the dust-like overspray that hadn't yet dried.Puefua started spraying the body at the driver-side rear quarter-panel, worked up and over the trunk lid, then sprayed down the passenger side of the car. From here, he worked his way around to the driver side and back to where he began. After applying two coats of the red, Puefua left the car in the booth overnight and returned the next day-within the paint's 24-hour respray window-to apply two coats of clear.Here's HoK's Brian Lynch cleaning one of the Sata guns used in his training class. "Don't pull the trigger with the air cap on," he advised. "It just messes it up." Remove the air cap and run thinner or acetone through the fluid passage between the paint-cup fitting and the nozzle. When the thinner runs clear, this portion of the gun is clean. Note: Some air-quality management rules don't allow the open use of cleaning chemicals like this. In those cases, you'll need to use a closed-system cleaning machine so fumes don't contaminate the air.If the air-cap hole gets clogged, break a paint stir stick down to a sharp point to clear the clog. Wood is softer than brass and won't damage the hole.In HoK's two-day training class, students get lots of hands-on painting practice while refinishing a mailbox. Here, HoK's Lynch checks out Steven Barbosa's gun-handling techniques.You're encouraged to be creative in painting your mailbox, which means pretty much anything goes. Motorcycle customizer Robert Oakley masks his licks on his way to a complex paint scheme involving flames, flake, and marbleized special effects.
Spray gun: Make sure your gun is compliant with air-quality regulations in your area. Shown here: DeVilbiss automotive paint and priming system with two HVLP guns, two cups, multiple tips, air regulator, cleaning kit, and more from Eastwood.Hose: To minimize air-pressure drops between the compressor and the gun, air lines should be no longer than 50 feet with a 3/8-inch id preferred. Shown here: 50-foot, 3/8-inch hose from Sharpe.Air treatment: Needed to keep dirt, oil, or moisture from leaving your compressor and getting into your spray gun. Shown here: Sharpe's Dryaire desiccant air drying system.Protective gear: Some sort of breathing apparatus, whether it's a simple filtered respirator or an enclosed hood, is a must for keeping the paint's poisons out of your lungs. Some makers recommend a full painter's suit; most painters we've seen in action are more casual. Shown here: 3M's disposable, dual-cartridge respirator.Compressor: Don't scrimp here, and don't buy on power alone. Get a compressor that can deliver the volume of air (cfm) at the optimal pressure (psi) for your gun. A two-stage compressor, though more expensive, will provide you with a more consistent air supply than a single-stage blower. Shown here: Craftsman model 18419 60-gallon, 3.2hp, two-cylinder compressor.


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Is there a way to "fix" my stainless steel fry pan that does not sit flush on my cooktop stove?
I have had some limited success using a technique borrowed from large steel fabrication and construction, specifically ship building. In order to 'flatten out' the steel wall and deck plates on a ship, after they are welded into place, they are alternately heated and quenched with water, which has the effect of shrinking the metal, reducing or removing the warps created from the heat of the welding process.
What I will do with a warped pot or pan is heat it dull red on the stove and apply wet cloths to the warped part(s), if the whole thing is warped, I start in the middle. Successive treatments do reduce the warping. Just be careful, and wear leather gloves and a heavy long sleeved shirt, the steam is hot, and will burn you very badly if not careful.
No, there isn't. You'll either have to live with it, or get a new pan.
Some pan materials are more resistant to warping, like cast iron (either enameled or raw). Those are a little pricey, but if you take good care of them, your grandkids will still be using them.
Had a warped stainless steel pot I was getting ready to toss, but decided to give it one more use since I forgot it was warped until I needed to use it right away. Was making tamales so it was on a good simmer for about 3-4 hours. Placed a heavy cast iron Dutch oven on top while it cooked to try to get better contact with my ceramic top stove. Left it to cool and forgot about the pot until I went to clean it in the morning. When I did, I noticed the warp was all gone. Pleasantly surprised and glad I did t throw it away. I will definitely be more careful with it in the future. Hope this is helpful to someone out there.
Cook something in the pan, even if it's just boiling a little water. Take it off the stove, dump out the contents, but do NOT cool it or run it under any water.
Now, flip it over face-down on a large, flat surface. I have had good success just using a dishtowel over a plastic cutting board. (Don't use a wooden cutting board, as what we are about to do in the next step could break it apart at the joints) You want the rim of the pan face-down in good contact with the level surface all the way around, with the handle hanging off the table where it won't interfere. Very important.
The idea is to have that rim face-down, the pan still HOT (hence the dishtowel over the plastic cutting board, so it doesn't melt). And this needs to be on a STURDY table. You'll see why.
Take a large rubber mallet (NOT a regular steel hammer!), and whack the center
of the pan a few times. Don't be shy. Hit it hard.
Just a few whacks, test it. If it's not enough, flip it and whack it again.
NOW... From now on, after you cook in it, do NOT put it anywhere near any water or anything cool until it has a chance to cool on its own. If you dump out the contents and immediately put it under water, even warm water, the rapid temperature change will make the bottom warp upward.
It is true that really high-quality cookware with very thick bottoms does not suffer from this. But your average everyday stuff, you can still avoid the problem if you avoid rapid temperature changes.
When it it already warped, use the rubber mallet technique, it works.
A bit of advice how to prevent the problem in the first place. Someone mentioned deglazing. When deglazing use room temperature liquid. Cooking wine shouldn't come directly from the fridge. Secondly to keep you pans from warping pour liquid in from the edges.
Cooking is fun, don't let fear of warping pans discourage you.


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I posted a question on StackOverflow asking if there were any libraries/open source code/tips on how to meet the requirements for a project I am currently working on for my company.
I didn't receive any helpful responses, so I came up with my own plan and received approval from the team to code it.
I spent the better part of two days writing, testing and debugging code to perform the very thing I was asking about. However, because this was billable time for my company, the code is not free nor open source; it is owned by my company and I cannot post it under the cc-wiki license.
What is the best way to handle my question? Should I just answer it and say "I figured this out on my own"? I can't think of a better way to get downvoted :-)


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I am a student and using Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 as dual boot.
In my college, we have a proxy server, so all I need to use the internet is set the proxy settings in
Preferences -> Network Proxy and I am set to go.
At my home, I have a broadband connection that requires me to enter my username and password and then its all set on Windows. However, I have no idea how to get it right with Ubuntu.
Once I tried doing that by setting the PPPOE settings and then it worked on Ubuntu too, but when I came back to college, the internet stopped working.
All I remember is that I did some stuff with setting some
Network Manager stuff to
false or something like that, and it continued working with the proxy server too.
Please help me with this, so that I can easily use internet both at home and college too.


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THE SCHOOL are from Cardiff and after a string of successful singles and EPs in UK/Europe and USA, the moment has arrived for their presentation to Australian audiences.
After appearing on Rough Trade's best of the year compilation, after having been hired by Slumberland Records (THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, BRILLIANT COLORS, THE AISLERS SET…) to share a single with GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN, having recorded various BBC sessions, having had their music included in advertisements, TV series and movies in different countries, and having received innumerable elegies of all kinds all over the globe, the moment definitely arrived for this six-piece band. It has been a long process, with huge expectations, encouraged by songs like the ones included in the previously commented releases. And for once it's better than ever to use the cliché "it was worth the wait".


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Please post an aproximate date (time of year) for the release of 0.5 and any informations about it in this topic.
Mon, 05/28/2007 - 19:23
Yes, it would be great to have an aproximate date for ver 0.5. I think we are all eagerly waiting for the new version.
Tue, 05/29/2007 - 10:16
Ok everyone, sorry for being silent about the 0.5 release date. Still, I fixed some bugs in the last days, so this delay had some positive consequences. I would now like to fix the startup crash if it is possible because it would really not make a good impression if the program crashes when you first try it.
I hope to solve this in something like 1-2 weeks and the finally release 0.5. Having new icons would also have been cool, but I think I will not delay the release anymore.
Thanks again to everyone who is testing the program and reporting bugs!
Tue, 05/29/2007 - 17:19
Hi JB,
good news ! Just one question. Do you plan to introduce also in this version the tittle clip editor patch made by reinhard some weeks ago ?
Juan M.
Wed, 05/30/2007 - 17:50
No, I will not add that patch to version 0.5 because it adds new strings that would have to be translated. But there will probably be a 0.5.1 version not too far away with that kind of new features.
Wed, 05/30/2007 - 18:00
Thu, 05/31/2007 - 11:46
Oops, you're right :oops:
sorry both, next time I'll confirm usernames and do not rely on my memory ;)
Juan M.
Fri, 06/08/2007 - 21:55
Hello everyone. I just committed some rather important fixes that change the export behavior. Instead of adding black bars if you export your video to a format that has a different aspect ratio, it now scales the video, setting a correct value for the display ratio so that when playing the video, the player should scale it to restore correct dimensions. Can please anyone using svn try it and let me know if it's ok ?
If I have positive feedback, I think I will stop here and do the 0.5 release.
Maybe i will just add some icons from this thread:
Sun, 06/10/2007 - 17:58
Jean-Baptiste, do you think this bug might have been caused by your changes, or has it been already present?
Tue, 06/19/2007 - 13:10
Any news about the new release? I am awaiting for it! :)
Sun, 07/01/2007 - 01:13
Any news about the new release? I am awaiting for it! :)
Same with me, is there a roadmap or something? Or have you specified a date yet? I would love to see the 0.5 :)
Thanks so far
Mon, 07/16/2007 - 18:20
any updates on the release of 0.5........?
and have you any plans for the first KDE4 version?
kind regards
Sat, 07/21/2007 - 01:34
I think that the seriousness of some bugs delays the release. Please visit the "Bug reports" forum:
and help with debugging and solving the bugs that are still unsolved.
There's a particular bug in FFMPEG with high quality timeline exports, which cannot be solved by KDEnlive developers - it needs to be addressed by FFMPEG guys. If you could help the FFMPEG guys with reproducing this bug without KDenlive, using the ffmpeg utility (e.g. by supplying sample video data and a ffmpeg script), then they would probably take care of this problem.
Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:21
thanks for the info.
Tue, 07/24/2007 - 06:14
To help ffmpeg debug, make a custom render profile in kdenlive with a .jpg extension and with no avformat parameters. Then, use a filename like kdenlive-%06d.jpg. Render. You can then use the images in ffmpeg ala:
ffmpeg -r 25 -i kdenlive-%06d.jpg -pix_fmt yuv420p ...
You will need to map all the mlt parameters of the render profile you are testing to ffmpeg's options. (In a future version of mlt, I am going to try to adopt ffmpeg's option parsing approach.)


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Perry Barr Ward Statistics
Perry Barr Ward, is in the north-western part of Birmingham. It includes part of the Perry Beeches Estate, Tower Hill a part of Great Barr and part of Witton. Its features include Perry Park, the Alexander Stadium , Perry Hall Playing Fields, Perry Barr Greyhound Stadium, One Stop Shopping Centre and The University of Central England.
It is part of the Parliamentary Constituency of Perry Barr.
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More detailed statistical information is available about Birmingham and its other wards on our Census and Population Pages and also on the National Statistics Neighbourhood Website.
For commentary on Birmingham please see 'View Report' section of the Census and Population Information pages.
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Public Transport.
Rail: The ward is bounded on its South- Western edge by the Birmingham - Walsall Railway Line, including Hamstead and Perry Barr stations.
Canal: The Tame Valley Canal, partly on an Telford's Aqueduct and partly through Perry Barr Locks, bisects the ward.
Major bus routes: 51, 52, 952
Major Roads: A34, M6
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WACO (November 7, 2012)--Veterans will head back to school Thursday for Rapoport Academy's "Take a Vet to School Day."
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It's one thing to sell merchandise related to a popular franchise -- if, say, we want to put our money toward Street Fighter toys first and rent maybe eighth (if at all), that's our prerogative. But lately it seems like marketers go completely overboard, slapping their characters on everything and in every possible scenario, regardless of whether it belongs. But hey, if molding a line of action figures featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles playing baseball makes the guys in charge an extra $20, who are we to judge?
We'd never be that greedy. So, therefore, you should buy more of our stuff, right?
It is tempting to think of this as an exclusively modern problem: There weren't any "I'm Daft for Taft" lunchboxes cluttering up the shelves back in the day. It's only recently we really sold out our cultural soul to such a degree. But even the legendarily whorish Turtles would have retreated to their sewer playset in embarrassment had they known the shameful lengths that Tarzan went to in the 1930s. Bored with selling the expected bows and arrows and trading cards to children and fans of the property, the marketing geniuses behind the Yodeling Ape Man strove instead to make him a part of every aspect of your daily life.
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Post subject: A Respectful Conversation about Rape Culture
Starting this convo in its own thread because feminism discussions seem to keep getting derailed by rape culture discussions, which slip into discussions about rape itself. The article below delineates the difference, and pretty succinctly and respectfully answers a lot of questions on the issue.
Honestly, feminism is kind of a big topic to tackle in just one thread. While it hugely contributes to the subjugation of women, I feel like there some other societal impacts that help rape culture warrant it's own floor for discussion.
Lauren Nelson wrote:
Once upon a time, it was socially acceptable to joke about beating a man because of the color of his skin. Today, jokes like that land you in social Siberia (for the most part racism isnt dead).
Why? Because people took a stand for what was right. When we talk about rape culture, thats what were asking do the right thing. Dont stand for the rape jokes. Dont support companies who think rape depiction is a solid marketing idea. Dont make excuses for the perpetrators. Educate yourself, and educate others.
And be brave. Because these conversations suck.
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I think the conversation would have to start with the question "is a rape joke ever acceptable," much like conversations about the same sorts of issues in racism would start with the question "is a racial joke ever acceptable"
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BK, thanks! I think it's a great idea for a topic. In a month this thread would be a great redirection link from all the other subforums.
Sam, thanks for the paper, it was very illustrative.
And my two cents: I think that the problem with rape is when the persons start to see other persons as objects.
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... what?
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Arkhron wrote:
I think that the problem with rape is when the persons start to see other persons as objects.
I'm going to assume that you were trying to say something other than what you actually wrote, here.
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Ahm... ok, I though that Sam was trolling me a bit (the second or third time of a "... what?" response) but if you say too, I think I need a reword.
I was trying to say that a rapist see other persons as objects he/she can use at will. I think too that anyone who see people as persons with ideas, lives and feelings can't be a rapist, because recognizing that treats in others prevents harm them.
I guess I am talking about violent rape. I don't know if my point could stand in a statuory rape or a in-relationship/marriage-rape
I hope I explained myself better now, sorry for the unintended WTF moments ^^U
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I think Sam's "...what?" may have been in response to your thanking him for "the paper," Arkhron; from what I can see, Sam didn't post a link to a paper or article. BK was the one who posted the link to the thought-provoking article on how to discuss rape-culture with a skeptical listener.
Also, I'd say that most wrongs begin when people see other people as objects (Granny Weatherwax was right, in that regard.
) But rape can take things even further. In many ways, it's a hate crime. So, not only is the victim objectified by the rapist, but the victim may also come to stand as a symbol for what the rapist hates.
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Oh, lol, I see it now. Sorry Sam, I was just awoke and dunno why mixed up the link thing.
Bitflipper, that is the quote I was saying
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Anecdote. Me and my roommates moved into a house that was a college party house before we moved in. As in you can still see the dicks drawn in pink sharpee on the walls slightly through the paint job that was slapped on before we moved in.
There had been a lot of remodeling work done on the place and in the bedroom that we decided to turn into a den, one of those closets with the sliding doors had been converted into a "half bath" of sorts, with a tiny sink, a toilet, and a mysterious bar installed in the wall and positioned just close enough to the toilet and sink to make K my roommates then girlfriend go "Ugh, this place comes with a rape closet"
Problematic to say the least.
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... what?
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It was the first thing in her head and right out of her mouth. Seems at the least tangetically relevant to the concept of rape culture, at least in america.
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Gonna recount a little bit of a Facebook conversation, just to see what y'all think.
I linked to
this blogpost about a woman getting sexually harassed at New York ComiCon
, and also to
this article on the subject, which posed the question to its readers, "what can we do about it?"
I got a few sympathetic comments, and then
a lesbian friend my age wrote:
You know what's weird? I don't normally think about this, but --
As somebody who is a) extremely sexual, b) attracted to women and c) very sensitive to visual stimulus, I am never /not/ thinking about the comfort level of any of my lady friends who cosplay or wear sexy clothing. I looked at this picture and had a very defined, "Whoa, hot!" reaction, and that's fine! But to assume she would *welcome* my advances or harassment, or to make advances or harass without regard to how it would make her feel -- that kind of entitlement is so fucking foreign to me.
Sometimes I catch my eyes lingering a little too long on a woman's cleavage, and *I* feel the shame. And you know what? THAT IS WHERE THE SHAME BELONGS. Not on the person exposing the cleavage. What is a shame is that a lot of people are deterred from cosplaying, something that can be a passion for a lot of people, because it's considered a "reasonable" expectation that if you cosplay, you will be sexually harassed. And that's straight up fucked up.
It should be a reasonable expectation that if you sexually harass somebody, YOU will be shamed. I long for a world where that is the paradigm. And this brave lady is working toward that.
Pretty salient, I thought.
The next post is from my friend, also my age, white male:
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I cant help but think that maybe you shouldn't wear a skintight jumpsuit with your cleavage completely hanging out, go to a comic convention, agree to be interviewed by a group of dudes...and complain when the subject revolves around your cup size. Not justifying their actions but it seems like an obvious outcome to me.
Another friend accused him of victim blaming, suggesting that he'd ask a rape victim what she was wearing, and he responded with:
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Lol Yeap because you know anything about me. I said I would never do that, and I wasn't justifying their actions but that shes a fool to voluntarily wear a skin tight revealing outfit, go to a convention where woman are portrayed as sex objects, agree to take pictures, agree to be interviewed because what she's wearing, no one touched her, no on violated her, she asked him to stop and he did and now I'm labeled a rapist sympathizer because of some.ridiculous obtuse gender biased correlation between voluntary objectification and rape. I love all this hypocrisy about respect. You and your phony morals don't know me and have no right to pass such judgement.
Since things seemed to be heating up, I finally stepped in with:
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Woah, there guys.
My response is a little delayed because I wanted to take some time to really think about what's going on in this story, and kind of analyze why it upsets me.
Dude Friend, the problem is that there's this mentality that women are somehow responsible for how people treat them.
Mandy dressed up as a character she liked and went to a convention for comics, which she presumably likes. The idea that she was somehow asking for harassment by expressing her interests is... well, it's fucked up, and majorly contributes to a fear of self-expression in women.
She said in the article that she was asked for an interview "about ComiCon," not about her appearance or her cup size. I'm sure you know that you don't need to touch someone to sexually harass them. And the interviewer didn't stop when she told him it was none of his business - he pressed the issue until she eventually had to walk away.
My problem with your reaction is that, even though you aren't consciously justifying their actions, calling her a fool for expecting people to be civil about how she chooses to express herself is doing just that. It's focusing the shame in the scenario on her, the victim, and that validates the actions of those creepers.
And yeah, maybe skin tight spandex is sexual. But so are women. And the idea that a woman can't feel comfortable or safe about expressing her sexuality in this country is another huge problem.
The only people responsible for treating her like that are the men who were doing it.
Then redirected him to check out the comments on the second link from themarysue.com for some more interesting thoughts on the subject.
This guy is pretty cool. I would have expected a little more sympathy from him. But I guess that's why it's important to have these conversations, because this mentality is so deeply embedded in our cultural subconscious that it's lurking in unexpected places.
I wonder how my 'Festers would respond to such a conversation. What are your thoughts?
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It was the first thing in her head and right out of her mouth. Seems at the least tangetically relevant to the concept of rape culture, at least in america.
but what is a 'rape closet' exactly? I tried to google it and besides some disturbing youtube videos I got nuthin.
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The conversation continues...
Dude Friend wrote:
The whole thing is a two way street but yet we're all pretending this only happens to women? Men are sexual, and believe me..we have just as hard of a time expressing our sexuality without being called perverts, creeps, socially retarded boys, etc. Take this thread for example, I said she was foolish for whining about guys looking at her protrusive cleavage and was quickly labeled a rapist sympathizer by someone who has never even met me. Why? Because I'm a guy. If I was a girl I don't think that assumption would have been so quick to be made. I had my girlfriend read the article before seeing these posts and she said the girl had no sense of humor and the guys were just having fun. When she read these posts her jaw almost hit the floor. I guess it's all a matter of perspective..
Whoo, boy, that packs a wallop.
Closer, Older Gentleman Friend wrote:
The thing is this: The "interviewer" began the interview by sticking his ass in the girls face. Read her article. In my book, that is not expressing sexuality, that is being a dick. An immature dick. Kind of like Howard Stern, who he probably admires.
Well, yeah. Exactly, ha ha.
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1) No, I'm sure harassment, victim-blaming, and repression of expression doesn't just happen to women. I didn't say it did. But it /does/ happen to women. A lot. I am definitely interested in male image issues, but this article happens to be about a woman, who I sympathize with because I am a woman and I deal with this issue.
2) Everyone should be able to express their sexuality *without infringing on the rights of others.* So a girl dressing herself is her affecting herself. A guy getting a crowd of dudes to guess a girls bra size (when she already said she was uncomfortable with it) is affecting someone else. That's not acceptable. There are ways to express oneself without harming others.
3) If you were a girl, I'm pretty sure every single person here would have responded in the same way. Women are just as capable of victim-blaming as anyone else - even more so, perhaps, due to the hypercritical nature of our media's treatment of women. We're all trained into this mindset, and it only harms each other, both men and women. That's why I talk about this stuff, to stretch people's expectations of society.
The fact of the matter is that victim-blaming is exactly what you were doing, Dude Friend. I'm sorry, I hope you don't find that offensive. I love you and value your friendship. If you look at the situation, and the definition of victim-blaming, and then look objectively at your statements, I hope you'll realize what I mean.
The number of times these conversations need to be had is exhausting. But patient, diplomatic conversations seem to be the most effective way to get the idea across.
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I wonder how my 'Festers would respond to such a conversation. What are your thoughts?
I'm torn. On the one hand, yes, it would be nice to be able to freely express ones sexuality without fear of being hassled. On the other, I expect folks to behave with some decorum and some sensibility. And that applies to everyone. The reporter was way out of line for his comments--a striking lack of decorum on his part, and worthy of shunning.
On the other hand, I've seen teenagers dry-humping in a mall and I've seen some cosplay costumes that belonged in soft porn instead of in public; one should know when and where the expression of ones sexuality is inappropriate.
Was your friend victim-blaming? Yeah, it kind of sounds like it. But it also sounds like he's doing so without being aware of it. And, I think, he seems to be responding to Mandy's costume with a bit of shocked concern; have you asked him if he finds that costume to be a little over-the-top and a touch too provocative? (Feel free to forward him my comments, by the way, and tell him that I, too, can be an exasperating dudebro from time to time, depending on the opinion under discussion at the time.)
Bear in mind that the answer to that depends a lot on personal tastes and upbringing, so there's no one "right" answer. True,
don't find Mandy's Black Cat costume--or what I can see of it, at least--all that excessive, but it would garner comments from either of my parents and probably from my ex-wife, as well. So, it's not something that should be worn out on the street. At a fan convention, though? Probably o-kay; one knows what to expect at such gatherings, and risque costumes are part of the scene. Your friend, though, may disagree with me and may find the costume shocking regardless of where it might be encountered. That's o-kay; sticks-in-the-mud help keep society from going overboard and exercising "freedoms" that actually impinge upon the freedoms of others.
That much said, there is also the matter of exercising some sense. I would certainly not expect Mandy to wear that costume late on a Friday night in a bad part of town. Doing so would just be inviting trouble. Would that trouble be wrong? Yes! Should the world be such that she shouldn't have to worry about such trouble? Yes!
the world that way? Hell, no! And ignoring that fact of life will put somebody in the hospital or the morgue, regardless of how wrongful that may be.
It's one thing to strive for awareness and for decent manners all around. It's another thing entirely to ignore the fact that there are dangerous and unpleasant people out there, placing blind faith in ones expectations of decency. Tease the animals, and you're gonna get bit.
So, in summation: the reporter was an asshole. Completely agreed, and I hope the summitch gets professionally reprimanded and personally shunned in direct response to his disgusting behavior. But let's not forget that there are assholes out there, people, and let's strive not to become such, ourselves, as we express our own sexuality when and where appropriate.
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My mobile (iOS and Android) connects to my server via a REST API over HTTP. I would like that HTTP to be secure, so HTTPS seems to be the obvious choice. All of the questions about self signing SSL certificates warn about how users of the a website won't trust you if you self-sign and they don't know you. But in this case, I don't need my users to trust me, but rather the app has to trust me. Are there any problems with this approach or should I just fork out the money to one of the CAs so I don't have to worry about it?
For your particular use case, a self signed cert would be fine.
As you control the app, you do not have to use certificates recognized by browsers, which is the key point of a certificated by a trusted CA.
Functionally, there is no difference in security. See: Does Self-signed certificate differ from CA from a security point of view?
Security of the system is dependent on client implementation. All a certificate inherently does is provide an "agreed encrypted communication protocol". How secure the communication is in actuality is whether or not there is someone playing "man in the middle".
So how do you verify that the certificate received is the same certificate that the source wants you to use? That's either through a 3rd party verifier (which is what comes with payment to a CA) or through the client who (from a previously hard coded implementation) already whats what the cert should look like.
You can get a SSL cert for something like $10. Not getting one creates far more hassle than that money is worth.
You can write code to securely verify the self-signed SSL certificate in your app, but the potential for making mistakes is greater than zero, and therefore not really worth it.


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Is it correct to use the phrase honorary gifts to describe gifts that are given to honor someone? The normal usage of honorary is "given as an honor without the normal duties" (as in an honorary degree), which conveys quite a different implication.
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dictionary.reference.com's entry for honorary includes the following definition:
While I have not come across the term (or received one, for that matter) myself, Google's search results suggest that it is in use. Google Books also provides some examples of its usage.
According to the University of Colorado Foundation:
The School of Public Health at UCB states:
Therefore, it appears to be perfectly acceptable to honour someone with an honorary gift.
The word honoraria is used to convey gifts or payments made in this sense:
However, if you actually mean that you are giving a gift in their honor, then "honorary gift" is a perfectly acceptable term. See, for example, the Metropolitan Opera's page on Memory & Honorary Gifts, or the results from this search term.
I think OP would be unwise to use the expression "honorary gifts" for his intended sense. It's not a well-established term with a clear-cut meaning, but here's one site's take...
I see many sites making a similar distinction between memorial and honorary gifts. My guess is they don't normally mean the honorary gift actually goes to the person being honoured. More likely you're making a gift/bequest to a "trust fund". Perhaps a trust set up by the person being honoured, who is still alive; perhaps in honour of a sick relative who's about to die but hasn't yet.
You could try "honorific gifts".
That may not be ideal either, I tend to think of "honorific" as a title, e.g. Lord Lieutenant kurkevan.
Honorary gifts is an uncommon and potentially confusing usage. More typically you will find them dubbed Honor Gifts, Gifts in Honor Of, or In Honor Gifts.
See, for example:
While "token of appreciation" is often used for a small gesture that is meant to honor the person receiving the gift, "gift of appreciation" can also be used (11,500 hits on Google Books vs. 76,000 hits for "token of appreciation").


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For like 90 percent of all movie locations, the most interesting thing that happened or will happen there is that someone once shot a movie in that place (unless you think "Rob Lowe had sex with the catering lady on this backlot" counts as interesting). In fact, most directors have to work really hard to make regular places look cool and intriguing. And we said "most" because other times, the real story behind the location is so crazy and fascinating that it completely dwarfs anything that a coked-up Hollywood screenwriter could come up with. For instance ...
#5. Skyfall -- The Abandoned City Is Real, and More Evil Than a Bond Villain
As part of a continuing effort to make the lair of every James Bond villain as ridiculous as possible, the bad guy in Skyfall operates out of an abandoned city on an island, complete with crumbling buildings and objects eerily left behind. Why is it abandoned? Why would a master hacker live there? Because it's a movie, and because shut up. This is also the place where the villain shoots and kills a girl who has a glass of scotch on her head.
"What a waste of good scotch." -James Bo... wait, he actually says that in the movie.
But while the close-ups were shot on a set, you're seeing a very real place in the distant shots: the Japanese island of Gunkanjima, which once housed over 5,000 people, and now houses zero.
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In 2011, it got recognized as that year's Japanese city with the fewest public gropings (only five incidents).
The city served as a coal mining base for almost a hundred years. In the 19th century, Mitsubishi (before they started making cars for Jackie Chan) used to run boats from Nagasaki to the island so workers could dig coal, until they realized that they could save a lot of money by just putting the miners and their families in concrete blocks on the island itself. Some 5,250 miners squeezed onto a 16-acre island, making it the most densely populated independent place on Earth, ever -- the equivalent of placing the entire world's population in Maine.
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But without the seasonal joy of the McLobster.
So what happened? Did a bomb go off there or something? Nope: In 1974, the coal ran out and Mitsubishi left, telling the now jobless employees that they would be hired on the mainland on a first come, first served basis. Entire families rushed out, leaving toys on the floor and cups of coffee on the table. Within two months, the entire place was empty.
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This woman forgot her torso.
Seems like a place worth visiting and preserving, right? Korea disagrees: They're trying to keep it off the U.N.'s World Heritage Site list, on account of the small fact that during World War II, Gunkanjima used slave labor. And not just Korean prisoners -- some Japanese nationals were forced to work the mines, too, and were punished if they tried to escape. Besides being tortured and starved, some were sent to clear the rubble in Nagasaki... right after the bombs dropped.
See, the executives at Mitsubishi weren't just corrupt. They were straight-up Bond villains.
#4. The Dark Knight Rises -- ... Into a Cursed Indian Citadel
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In The Dark Knight Rises, Batman spends a good chunk of the movie trapped at the bottom of a prison pit where Bane left him. You might remember the bizarre tessellating staircases on the walls, which seem right out of Inception.
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"Unfortunately, the stairs are under repair, so the only way up is a flimsy rope."
Later, Batman Batmans the shit out of that pit, climbing out and finding himself in the desert, outside a fort.
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"And now, friends, a little Bat-present to remember me by ... *Ffffpt*"
The prison scenes were shot on a set (hence the fantastic TV reception), but the walls/stairs are based on a real structure outside Jaipur, India:
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If you invert the Great Pyramid and put it here, the Earth opens.
This place is called Chand Baori, was built in the ninth century, and has 3,500 steps across 13 stories. Remember how the prisoners liked to chant while Batman was trying to climb out of the pit? Well, so did the real priests who lived there as they descended the steps toward water, sending vibrations through the stairs.
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Alternatively, the chanters were graphic designers who mocked up the structure using Java.
Meanwhile, the fort above the pit was an actual on-location shoot outside Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India. Check it out -- there's even a real stone circle where the pit's outer lip was in the movie:
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Batman sealed it with the other guys inside to protect his secret identity.
The tale behind Mehrangarh Fort is even crazier than Bane's origin story -- when its builder, Jodha of Mandore, began its construction, he discovered that the so-called "Mountain of Birds" under it had a Lord of the Birds: a hermit named Cheeria Nathji. Jodha said "that's nice" and kicked the man out, and the hermit cursed the fort with the most terrifying affliction he could think of: "May your citadel ever suffer a scarcity of water!"
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"In ... in the desert, yes. Look, I'm not good under pressure."
To lift the curse, Jodha ended up building the hermit a house, putting a temple in the fort, and, just to be extra sure, burying a guy alive in the fort's foundations. One of the villagers around the construction site actually volunteered to get buried (presumably under the impression that Jodha meant "in so much ass that you'll be sore for a week") and Jodha repaid him by bequeathing an estate to his family. In fact, his descendants still live there. So, yes, there is a guy trapped under the city, only he's been there for 500 years.
Today, the fort's an open tourist destination, and one company even operates a ziplining course around it, thus allowing you to create your own deleted scene from The Dark Knight Rises.
For an extra thousand rupees, they'll break your back and trap you underground for six months.
#3. 12 Monkeys -- The Mental Asylum Is a "Haunted" Prison
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Despite being a movie partly set in a dystopian future where most of humanity has been ravaged by a virus, probably the most disturbing scenes in 12 Monkeys are the ones set in a present-day mental asylum. Bruce Willis' character, a time traveler from the year 2035, gets thrown into the asylum for, well, telling people he's a time traveler from the year 2035.
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A bleak and terrifying future where Bruce Willis loses all of his hair.
What could be worse than being trapped in that place along with hordes of crazies, Brad Pitt's inane babbling, and the specific horror of public domain cartoons? Well, how about being trapped in the actual 19th century prison where those scenes were shot?
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Terry Gilliam actually had to make the place look less like a Terry Gilliam movie.
That's the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. By some accounts, it was the world's first penitentiary, and it was built in 1829 in an effort to begin treating prisoners more humanely. Of course, at the time, "treating prisoners more humanely" meant not letting them talk, forcing them to wear hoods whenever they were outside their cells, and forbidding any type of human interaction. Silence was absolutely enforced throughout the facility, and prisoners were kept completely isolated from the outside world and each other, so naturally many of them came in as delinquents and came out insane (if they came out at all).
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Some probably still sit in there, wondering how the Civil War turned out.
Unsurprisingly, there are now claims that the place is haunted as all fuck, with disembodied laughter being heard in some cells, probably just to spite the ghost guards. Even in the 20th century, when the prison became overcrowded and the silence rules were dropped, prisoners couldn't wait to get out of that creepy place. In 12 Monkeys, there's an escape attempt, but it ends pretty quickly -- in real life, Eastern State Penitentiary saw dozens of successful escapes. The biggest one was in 1945, when a dozen inmates successfully dug a tunnel from the prison to the outside:
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Except one who turned up in Albuquerque.
The brains behind the operation, bank robber "Slick Willie" Sutton, was caught just two blocks away. Most of the others were recaptured and/or shot. And then one of the fugitives, James Grace, came by a week later, ringing the penitentiary's doorbell. He was kind of hungry and wanted to know if his cell was still vacant. See, Brad Pitt, that's a real crazy person.


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STEUBENVILLE - Weir's winning streak continues.
Francesca Farran netted a goal in the first half to lead the Weir girls' soccer team to a 1-0 victory over Big Red Tuesday night at Harding Stadium.
"It should have been 5-0," Weir (12-5) head coach Jessica Naughton said. "The kids stuck with it. They never quit. They kept shooting. They kept getting chances. They did not give up. It is frustrating. As a player, I know it is frustrating, but we did not give up. That was nice to see. One goal was enough tonight."
It was the Red Riders' ninth straight victory.
"I want to play a hard schedule at the beginning of the year," Naughton said. "That is why we play Park. That is why we play Brooke. Those are tough teams. The games are physical. We want that to carry over into the rest of our season. We have a rough beginning to our schedule, but we like it that way. We want to get them used to physical play. We have been on a roll, and we want that roll to carry over into our last three games heading into sectionals."
Big Red battled until the end, but they were unable to find the back of the net.
"It was 1-0," Big Red (6-6-1) head coach Jared Robinson said. "Jessica always has her team ready. I have known Jessica for a long time from the Force days to the Marland Heights days.
"I am proud of my girls and how they played. Weir is a good team, and we went toe-to-toe with them. They passed the ball. They moved the ball. They shot the ball. They did a good job on defense. We are just inconsistent with our finishing.
"Weir moves the ball well. They pass well. My girls gave 100 percent until the very end.
"Now, we are going to refocus on our goals and get ready for states."
Alyssa Shingle assisted on Farran's goal.
"Alyssa Shingle and Morgan Cassels stepped up tonight," Naughton said. "They controlled the middle of the field. Their coach (Robinson) would agree. He kept yelling to his players to keep the ball away from No. 26 (Cassels) and No. 11 (Shingle). He told them to keep the ball out of the middle of the field. It is nice to have those two in the middle of the field."
Shingle and Cassels helped the Red Riders control the ball for a good part of the game.
"I have got two excellent center midfielders," Robinson said. "They were able to keep them at bay. They were able to keep them scoreless. Their girls are ball skilled, and our girls were able to stay with them."
Alyssa Kelly made three saves in goal for Weir.
Loren Gray recorded seven saves for Big Red.
"I give our girls a lot of credit," Robinson said. "Weir is a tough team. They have a tough program. Playing them 1-0 will help our girls with their confidence going into the state tournament."
Big Red's next game is at 10 a.m. Saturday against Catholic Central.
"It is the Breast Cancer Awareness Game," Robinson said. "There will be boys and girls games. All of the local teams will be playing, us, Edison, Catholic Central and Indian Creek. We all sold baskets. We sold drawing tickets. The money from the admission and the concession stand will go to Trinity to help fight cancer.
"There is going to be soccer all day. There is going to be good games. I encourage everyone to come and see that.
"We have a friendly rivalry with Catholic Central. The kids have grown up together. They know each other. It is always a good game whenever we play."
Weir's next game is at 7:30 p.m. Monday against Linsly at Jimmy Carey Stadium. The Cadets are the OVAC Cup Tournament runner-up. Brooke blanked Linsly, 2-0, Monday night at Wheeling Island Stadium.
"We just missed out on the OVACs," Naughton said. "It was great to see my alma mater win it. I just wish we could have played in it.
"It is big for the valley. Most of my girls have never played in it.
"I think only my seniors have got to experience it. It is great to play for the cup, to play on the Island and to have that feeling. We were disappointed we didn't make it, but we were still able to play games."


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Let $K$ be a field of characteristic $p$. What are the finite subgroups of $PGL_2(K)$ whose orders are divisible by $p$? And if $G$ and $H$ are two such subgroups that are isomorphic, can one say when they are conjugate inside $PGL_2(K)$?
While the finite subgroups of $PGL_2(\mathbb{C})$ are well understood from a variety of different viewpoints, the answer to the above question does not appear to be well known. See, e.g., this article of Beauville for a pleasant discussion of the case in which $p$ does not divide the order of the group.


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We know $R=\{a+bi\sqrt{5}: a,b \in \mathbb{Z}\}$ is not a UFD because, for example, you can factor
and these are two distinct factorizations into irreducibles. This is can be shown using the norm $N:R \to \mathbb{N}$ defined $N(a+bi\sqrt{5})=a^2+5b^2$ and the fact that it's multiplicative, i.e. $N(rs)=N(r)N(s)$.
Since $R$ is not a UFD, $R$ is not a Euclidean domain either. How do we find an example to prove that our norm is not a Euclidean function? That is, how do we find a pair $a,b \in R$ for which there does not exist a pair $q,r \in R$ such that $$b=aq+r$$
with $N(r)<N(a)$?
I would guess that the above factorization I gave is a place to start, but having looked at that for a bit, I still don't see where to begin.
This is a problem I'm working on in reviewing for a test, not a current homework problem.


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STEUBENVILLE - The Franciscan University of Steubenville women's soccer team fell to Geneva College 3-0 Monday.
"It was a really excellent game of soccer tonight," head coach Johann Marin said. "We are playing quality and disciplined soccer. They are however not capitalizing on their opportunities for goals.
"The game is about goals and when we're not scoring we end up chasing the other team the whole game, but tonight we worked exceptionally hard.
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"We have confidence in attaining our goals we established for the season and are continuing to grow mentally, spiritually, and physically."
Goalkeeper Lauren Koath made four saves.
"We are going to continue to work on finishing and are very confident in our ability to continue to grow," Marin said.
"We are very excited for conference games because we are very prepared for fast games and talented teams."
The Lady Barons (2-5-1) host Penn State- Behrend at 1 p.m. Saturday in their first Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference game of the season.
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The volleyball team dropped to 5-6 after losing at home Monday to visiting Dennison University 25-16, 25-14, 25-11.
"They are a good team and they blast the ball," FUS coach Kelly Herrmann said of Dennison. "We could not play good enough offense to put pressure on them. We just kept setting them up. We were not hitting hard enough to slow them down."
Offensively for FUS, Anna Cain had six kills while Danni Link and Amy O'Keefe both had three kills. Sam Kelly and O'Keefe both had nine digs while Maria Prezzia had eight digs.
"Our season's almost halfway over," Herrmann said, "it goes by so fast. We don't want to spend time pouting. We want to move on and get ready for the next match."
The Lady Barons are preparing for conference play in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference this weekend.
"We're preparing for our conference play. Nothing really matters except for our conference play," Herrmann said.
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4 Evolutionary Explanations for Modern Annoyances
#2. Your Married Guy Friends Are Boring
If pop culture is to be believed, the bachelor party has evolved. A generation ago it represented the final opportunity for a man to sow his oats. Now it's a weekend of dude activities centered more on male bonding than on women. The bachelor party is no longer about sex. It's a going-away party. The unacknowledged in all this is that the friend you had when he was single will not be the same friend when he is married.
"It's weird. For some reason, I hate beer pong and fight clubbing now."
A team of Michigan State researchers led by S. Alexandra Burt revealed that nice guys who don't exhibit antisocial (bad) behavior tend to marry more often than their wilder counterparts. On top of that, marriage reduces bad behavior.
Burt said it is unlikely that marriage inhibits antisocial behavior directly. She believes marriage leads to better social bonding and less time spent with idiot friends (my words, not hers). Another factor that seems important is marriage quality. Better marriages produce less antisocial behavior. This is why Fire Steve no longer sets things on fire with you in the woods since he got married.
He sets things in the city on fire sometimes, but you can tell his heart isn't in it.
#1. Almost Every Song You Like Is About Sex
Why is there no good music on the radio? There are many reasons. Here's one you might not have thought of. Every song on the radio is about the same thing.
Friday night and liquor-based oral hygiene, if we've been listening to the right stuff.
Research by University at Albany evolutionary psychologist Gordon Gallup and his student Dawn Hobbs shows that most popular songs are about getting it on (my words, not theirs). The study found that "Approximately 92 percent of the 174 songs that made it into the Top Ten in 2009 contained one or more reproductive messages, with an average of 10.49 reproductive phrases per song ... the most popular/bestselling songs contained significantly more reproductive messages."
There's a reason he was the king of pop.
Why so many variations on the afternoon delight? Gallup writes, "Evolution is not about survival. It's about reproductive competition and the perpetuation of genes."
The lyrics are music to a gene's ears.
This is nothing new. An analysis of the lyrics of opera arias and art songs revealed many of the same reproductive messages extending back more than 400 years. A twisted variation of this phenomenon was explored in-depth in the excellent South Park Season 15 episode "Bro Down."
We want to attend the shit out of some opera right now.
For more much-needed explanations, check out 6 Slacker Behaviors That Science Says Are Good For You and 6 Obnoxious Old People Habits (Explained by Science).