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READY TO CELEBRATE — Eighth-graders at Bishop John King Mussio Junior High School prepare to celebrate Catholic Schools Week, which begins today and runs all week. On hand for the preparation were, from left, Lucca DiMichele, Samm Simmons, Chloe Pieniazek, Emily Stevens and Joseph Sanford. -- Contributed
STEUBENVILLE - Catholic Schools across the nation will promote "raising the standards" as they celebrate Catholic Schools Week.
The annual recognition begins today and runs all week, according to Jude Lucas, Catholic Central High School guidance counselor and teacher.
The theme for the 2013 celebration is "Catholic Schools Raise the Standards."
According to the National Catholic Education Association, Catholic schools are noted for their academic excellence and high moral standards. This year's theme celebrates the constant attention Catholic educators pay to increasing learning and growth in faith of all students, according to officials.
The theme follows in the launch of a new initiative, the "National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools," to ensure consistent high standards at Catholic schools across the country. Catholic educators also are participating in a nationwide education initiative for all schools called the Common Core Catholic identity initiative.
The week is designed to recognize the schools commitment to faith, academics and service.
According to the N.C.E.A., children attending Catholic Schools are taught:
Faith not just the basic of Christianity, but how to have a relationship with God.
Academics, which in Catholic schools are held to high standards, help each child reach his or her potential.
Service, the giving of one's time and effort to help others, is taught both as an expression of faith and good citizenship.
CCHS along with Bishop John King Mussio Junior High and Elementary schools will participate in a number of events to celebrate the week.
According to Lucas, the high school will go by the following schedule: Monday: dress down in favorite team apparel and a presentation from motivational speaker and musician Bob Lesnefsky; Tuesday: dress down day, root beer floats during lunch and an all-school Olympics; Wednesday: a blue and gold dress down day, random acts of kindness recognition and a pep rally; Thursday: special surprise activities throughout the day as well as an academic meet at home; Friday: faculty, staff and administration appreciation day along with a visit from Bishop Jeffery Marc Monforton.
"If a student has helped out a classmate or a teacher, they will be recognized and asked to come to the office to receive a random act of kindness recognition," Lucas explained. "The pep rally on Wednesday will honor the winter sport athletes, and hopefully we will receive a preview of the cheerleader's OVAC competition cheer."
She also mentioned that hosting the academic team meet at home against Buckeye Local is "a way for us to raise the academic standards."
The junior high school's students' week will consist of the following: Monday: pajama day and a math madness day; Tuesday: dress down day, a presentation from Lefansky, and an all-school Olympics; Wednesday: student appreciation day with a bowling trip, a blue and gold dress down day and a pep rally; Thursday: Mass with the high school students and an ornament judging contest; Friday: faculty, staff and administration appreciation day, a staff luncheon, a visit with Bishop Monforton and a Tournament of Truth at Lanman hall.
"Bob Lesnefsky leads the Dirty Vagabond Ministry and is also a Christian rap artist named 'Righteous B,' so he will lead a presentation as well as perform some hits," said Theresa Danaher, principal. "The crazy Olympics will incorporate eight students from each grade and they will participate in a number of events, including hula-hoop contests and dress up relays."
The junior high also will have an ornament judging contest.
"Every year, each student makes a drawing in art class and each year we choose one drawing to be made into an ornament," she said. "The ornaments are then sold the following Christmas and benefit scholarships."
She also mentioned that the students will work on their mail goal during normal math and computer classes on Monday.
The week serves as a way to honor the students, parents, faculty, staff and Catholic community, Danaher noted.
"We are excited for the week and look forward to honoring our school and schools across the nation," she said.
Weirton's three Catholic schools also have a week full of activities for students and teachers.
St. Joseph the Worker Grade School kicked off its celebrations Friday by asking students to bring in donations of canned soup for a "SOUPer kickoff" to Catholic Schools Week.
The collection was part of the school's community service project, with the soup being donated to the Weirton Community Bread Basket.
School officials said there will be an open house on Monday from 8 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. and from noon to 2 p.m. The activity will be open to anyone from the community who is interested in checking out the school.
Tuesday will feature a Student Day, with special treats for all students, and Wednesday will be Teacher Day.
Thursday will feature a special Mass for the students and faculty, while Friday will be a day for everyone to dress in their favorite sports team colors.
St. Paul School begins its observance today with the 11 a.m. Mass at St. Paul Parish, with school students and faculty in charge of the liturgy. A school open house will take place from noon to 2 p.m.
"Everybody is welcome," Development Director Laura Rauch said, explaining the open house especially was geared toward those who might be interested in attending St. Paul School.
Monday will feature a Green and White Spirit Day, with a pep rally in the afternoon, with a Mix and Match or Crazy Sock Free Dress Day for students taking place Tuesday.
On Wacky Wednesday everyone is encouraged to get up and dance whenever they hear music. Wednesday also will be a day to wear their favorite sports team gear.
Thursday will be a $1 free dress day, with proceeds donated to a local charity. Students in second through fifth grades will have the school spelling bee finals, and sixth through eighth graders will take part in a "Jeopardy!" game.
The week will wrap up with a Pajama Day for kindergarten through fourth grade students, and a free dress day for students in fifth to eighth grade. Also, kindergarten to fourth grades will spend the afternoons watching a movie in their classrooms, with fifth to eighth graders visiting the Millsop Community Center.
As a school-wide project, St. Paul students will be collecting items for the Hancock County Animal Shelter.
Madonna High School Principal Steve Grasser said there are several activities planned for the week, including Monday's observance of Senior Night for the girls basketball team.
Among the other activities is a Class Unity Day and students are being asked to bring in donations for the Gabriel Project. The Gabriel Project works to provide assistance to expecting mothers in need, as well as to families with infants and young children under 2 years of age.
A pep rally is scheduled, featuring a praise and worship service and games, and student and faculty days also will be held.
Grasser said some of the classes also have plans for community service projects.
"Those are still being finalized," he said.


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We know $P(A > B) = 0.7, P(B > C) = 0.6$, what is $P(A > C)$?
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The 5 Most Famous Musicians Who Are Thieving Bastards
Every artist "steals" a little, whether they realize it or not. For instance, we talk about how some musician was "influenced" by music they grew up with, even if sometimes that influence consists of outright stealing and/or barely remixing a classic. That's just the way it works.
But sometimes, it's even more blatant than that. In fact, some of the most successful musical acts in history based huge chunks of their careers entirely on plagiarism. Like...
#5. Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin are remembered for two things: banging a groupie with a mudshark and recording songs that rocked harder than any band had ever rocked before. Too bad a bunch of that shit was stolen.
Don't believe us? Well, here's a whole laundry list of songs they stole; but if the words of a dawn-of-the-Internet era website aren't enough to convince you, consider their classic song "Dazed and Confused."
A young Jake Holmes played a song of the same name (and chords, and lyrics kind of) at a show in 1967 where he was opening for The Yardbirds, who featured--say it with us!-- Jimmy Page on guitar. "Dazed and Confused" became a mainstay of The Yardbirds live sets and eventually found its way onto Zep's 1969 debut album, where it was credited to... nobody. Holmes never took legal action but he did eventually send Page a letter asking for acknowledgement and maybe a little gas money if he could spare it (he could). The letter went unanswered.
But who cares, right? We're talking about Led Zeppelin here. The band who wrote "Stairway to Heaven" man! It's the most popular song in the history of sound! It's the song that was playing on the van stereo when your father shot the load that would become you into your mother's moist and eager lady parts! That one song is enough to secure the legacy of 10 bands!
Too bad they jacked that shit too. The opening notes (and easily the most recognizable part) of "Stairway" were taken almost note-for-note from a song called "Taurus" by Spirit.
How did nobody notice that? Because nobody knows who the hell Spirit is. But for the record, Led Zeppelin opened for Spirit on their first U.S. tour, so it's safe to assume they were familiar with the band. Repaying an opening spot on a tour of the States by stealing a guitar riff is sad, but what's even sadder is that Spirit's guitarist, the awesomely named Randy California, knew exactly where "Stairway to Heaven" came from but was too nice of a guy to say anything - he just wanted them to say "Thank you."
They never did.
#4. The Black Eyed Peas
If you don't know who the Black Eyed Peas are, you're either a time traveler or have recently woken up from a coma (and in either case, congratulations!). The rest of you already know how insanely successful they are, despite having some of the worst music imaginable. What you probably don't know is that very little of that music is actually theirs.
For instance, a young rapper named Phoenix Phenom recently accused the Peas of ripping off her song "Boom Dynamite" and calling it "Boom Boom Pow." On the one hand, the only similarities are with the beat and the "boom boom" part. On the other hand, the beat and the "boom boom" part is as much of the Black Eyed Peas that we can listen to before our souls begin to atrophy.
In hip-hop, there are two schools of thought when it comes to sampling. Some people follow the P. Diddy method, which does involve spending a fuck-ton of money, but the upside is you get to take a huge, steaming, shiny-suited shit all over pretty much any beloved song of your choosing. But it's not for everybody. The Vanilla Ice method of blatantly stealing a song and hoping nobody notices may work better for the cash strapped.
Apparently, the Black Eyed Peas are an impoverished bunch. Shortly after they released the song "Party All the Time," a band called Freeland suddenly realized that their song "Mancry" had been sampled--unfortunately, the Peas had neglected to inform them of this fact.
We tried to chalk all this up to an overworked will.i.am, who "makes" most of the beats for the group. Writing original songs is hard enough, imagine having to do it while also balancing the daunting task of finding something for those two weirdoes who aren't Fergie to do. But no, even solo they can't be trusted. For instance, back in 2007 will.i.am grabbed a hefty chunk of Daft Punk's "Around the World" (without asking) to use in his first single. For some reason, Daft Punk wasn't too happy about the whole deal.
But by far the worst example of song plagiarism is Fergie's hit single "Fergalicious," which is pretty much just J. J. Fad's "Supersonic" with slightly altered lyrics and a remarkably amped up realization that you're listening to all that is wrong with music when you hear it.
This isn't sampling so much as stealing an entire goddamn song, and since (as usual) the original artists got screwed over, Fergie's now facing a lawsuit of her own.
#3. Metallica
A band so hardcore they have the word "metal" in their name, Metallica is probably the most influential rock group in the last 30 years. What's odd, though, is that they've managed to be so influential without actually cranking out very many original songs at all. Check out "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)," as compared to Bleak House's "Rainbow Warrior":
If there was any doubt in your mind that "Sanitarium" was a rip-off, James Hetfield confirmed it in an interview, although he said that the band in question "shall remain anonymous." Just the kind of dickhead statement we've come to expect from Metallica over the years, but it doesn't end there.
Sharp-eared YouTubers have spotted several more suspicious songs, like "My Apocalypse," "End of the Line" and "The Day that Never Comes" that were stolen from The Offspring, Pearl Jam and Joe Satriani respectively. There's also one that alleges "The Unforgiven II" was a rip-off of Iron Maiden's "Children of the Damned"; but that's just ludicrous! The truth is, both of those songs are actually stolen from Jimi Hendrix's "1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) ." And then there's the one Metallica song that even your grandmother loves, "Enter Sandman."
Office spreadsheet pioneers, Excel, found out way after the fact that "Enter Sandman" was a quite shameless rip-off of their absurdly titled "Tapping into the Emotional Void." Kind of adds a whole new twist of irony to that Napster fiasco, yeah?
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FIGLIOLI, Beatrice A., 85, of Weirton, died Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, at the Life Line Hospital in Wintersville, OH.
Born on July 5, 1927, in Steubenville, OH, Bea was a daughter of the late Constantine and Helen Glajewski Kozielska.
She was also preceded in death by her husband, Anthony J. Figlioli; her son, Anthony C. Figlioli, and her son in law, Christopher Christ.
Mrs. Figlioli was a homemaker who devoted her life to her family and her church.
She was a pillar of the Sacred Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church, in Weirton, where she sang in the Choir, and was active in the Altar and Rosary Society, Christian Mothers, School Board, Parish Council, and the PTA. For over 15 years, Bea prepared and served the lunch for school children at Sacred Heart of Mary School. She was also very active in all the fund raisers for the parish including the Lenten dinners and parish picnics. She was instrumental in preparing and delivering Christmas Baskets for the needy people in our community. She also taught the Polish Language to students at the West Virginia Northern Community College. A true Christian, she will always be remembered for her loving, caring and positive attitude.
She is survived by her son, Michael Figlioli of Aurora, OH; her two daughters, Rita Christ of Weirton, WV and Maria (Rich) Grossi of Paris, PA; her sister, Delores Pietranton of New Cumberland, WV; four grandchildren, Alaina Christ, Jason, Joseph and Michael Figlioli; and two great-grandchildren, Angelo and Enzo Figlioli.
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I have a light switch that I want to get rid of. I don't know if it is active or not. I want to wallpaper the wall. How do I tell if the circuit is "live" and if so how to turn it off so it is safe to wallpaper over.
If the circuit is dead
If the circuit is not hot, you still will not be able to cover the box completely. You'll either have to remove the box and all wires leading to it, or cover the box using a blank cover plate.
If you decide to use a blank plate, you can wallpaper the plate itself (while not attached to the wall). This will help it blend into the wall, and all but disappear.
If the circuit is live
If the circuit is still hot, you'll have to trace the circuit back to the point of origin and disconnect it. In most cases a light will not be the only thing on a circuit, so it probably will not be as easy as removing a single circuit breaker. You'll likely want to contact an Electrician to disconnect the wires, and remove the circuit in this situation.
Depending on where you are located, it may be a code violation to cover it over completely. The accepted solution in most areas is to buy a blank outlet cover, like this:
Turn off the breaker (and if you can't figure out which one, just turn off the main breaker/fuse and disconnect the entire house)
Disconnect the switch, and put wire nuts and electrical tape over the loose ends.
Wallpaper first, and then put up the blank. If you need to, you can wallpaper the face plate separately before putting it up.


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I agree with YS and would add if u were at that level it would probably not fall from the sky, it will come in a way like finding money on the street or getting a raise/ promotion.
If I daven for parnassah, probably not. However, for someone righteous enough, maybe, but it can come with a catch.
Ta'anis 25a relates this story
(my summary):
Rabbi Chanina's wife asked him how much longer they would have to suffer in poverty, and she told him to pray for something to be given to them.
So Rabbi Chanina prayed, and a miracle occured - a hand appeared and gave him a gold table-leg.
Afterwards, he saw in a dream that in Olam Haba they would have a table with only two legs instead of the three-legged table that everyone else had. So he told his wife this and she made him give it back (which was a bigger miracle).
No, but if you work the minimum amount and devote yourself to the service of God more and more, then the amount of exertion that you will need to do will diminish down to zero.
Chovos Halevavos Shaar Habitachon middle of chapter 3:
No, you have to do Histadlus, each person according to the spiritual level the person is holding.
It is possible however it is not likely. Most of us are not on that level of Bitachon.
About good things falling from the sky - manna is the first that comes to mind; buew it was delivered without prayer.
Personally, I have not seen money fall from the sky; have you heard of such a thing?
When a person prays for money to fall from the sky, what might they be thinking of? If to enrich themselves in order to provide better for the family, then anything that happens suddenly and wholly unexpected, such as a surprise offer of a well paying job, then their prayer was answered.


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This sounds more like a brain teaser, but I had some kink to think it through :( Suppose you're parking at a non-parking zone, the probability to get a parking ticket is 80% in 1 hour, what is the probability to get a ticket in half an hour? Please show how you deduce the answer. Thanks!
What is the chance to get a parking ticket in half an hour if the chance to get a ticket is 80% in 1 hour?
It really depends on what model is assumed. However, if the idea is that no matter how long you leave your car there, you have a $20$% chance of getting through any given hour unscathed, you can treat it as an exponential decay problem. Let $p(t)$ be the probability that you do not get a ticket in the first $t$ hours. Then $p(1)=0.2$, $p(2)=0.2^2$ (a $20$% chance of making it through the first hour times a $20$% chance of making it through the second), and in general $p(t)=0.2^t$. The probability of not getting a ticket in the first half hour is then $p(1/2)=0.2^{1/2}=\sqrt{0.2}\approx 0.4472$, and the probability that you do get a ticket in the first half hour is about $1-0.4472=0.5528$.
If my probability of getting a parking ticket in a half hour is T, then
are the odds I got one in 1 hour. The first term says that I got it in the 1st half hour (so it doesn't matter what happens after that), and the second term says that I got it in the 2nd half hour (so not in the first). Solving and taking the sensible solution:
$$2T-T^2=.8\implies T^2-2T+.8$$
Which are roughly $55.3\%$ odds in a half hour.
Another way of looking at the exponential model: If $P$ is the probability you get lucky and don't get ticketed in the first 30 minutes, then $P^2$ is the chance you luck out twice in a row and don't get ticketed in the first hour. You know $P^2 = 0.2$. So $P$ is the square root of that or $0.447$. So the chance you are unlucky in the first 30 minutes and get a ticket is $1 - 0.447 = 0.553$ or $55.3$ percent.
A simple but not unreasonable model is that the ticket person cycles through her/his round in roughly constant time. Suppose that you park illegally for exactly an hour at a randomly chosen spot in the round, and at a start time uniformly distributed with respect to the cycle. Since your probability of getting a ticket in an hour is $80\%$, the cycle length is $1.25$ hours. Thus your probability of getting a ticket if you park illegally for half an hour is $40\%$.
There is another way to look at this problem.
Most of the answers of ~55.3% (including the currently accepted answer) assume the "meter reader" is checking cars COMPLETELY at random. In this model, there is an extremely small but non-zero chance you could leave a car in the same spot for a month and not get a ticket (although it's up there in "lottery" winner and struck-by-lightning chances). In fact, the chance of getting a ticket using this model is always less than 100% for a finite amount of time.
However, meter readers typically work in a linear pattern starting at one point and then looking at ALL the cars in a line down one side of a block. If we consider the realistic pattern that cars are checked in a linear fashion instead of cars being checked randomly, the answer becomes much simpler. Therefore, when they completely cover an area (in a finite amount of time), your car has a 100% chance of getting a ticket. If you are 100% likely to get a ticket within a finite amount of time, then the p(t)=1-0.2^t answer for getting a ticket is invalid.
So lets consider linear coverage.
If you have an 80% chance of getting a ticket in one hour, the meter readers in your city walk 4 out of 5 blocks per hour (in 60 minutes). Assuming they follow a pattern which has complete coverage and fairly evenly sweeps the whole parking area, they could have 100% coverage of all parking spots in 75 minutes. That means no matter where you park, within 75 minutes you will get a ticket. Under the linear coverage model, p(t)=0.8t. So in half an hour, you have a 40% chance of getting a ticket.
This is a case of not trying to get too mathematically clever because the simplest answer could actually be the correct one.
The real answer depends whether your meter people ticket cars randomly or sweep areas linearly with even coverage (and gets more complicated with real life where they sweep some areas much more often than others but still get 100% coverage over a finite amount of time).
Not enough data to come up with an answer. You would have to know the pattern that the parking warden takes to get the correct answer (first half hour, second half hour), also this depends on which part of the time unit the parking warden would take up, for example 1pm-2pm, 1.05pm-2.05pm etc
80% can reasonable be assumed for an hour, but for half an hour less so.
I would therefore conclude that there is an 80% chance that you will get a ticket as there is no way to distinguish the half hour from the full hour because of lack of data for the movements of the parking warden.
This sounds like a Poisson Process to me... so, assuming that:
Since we don't have additional data, I will asume that the expected probability of being spotted once per hour is $p=0.8$. This is a Bernoulli experiment (either you get spotted or not). I will model the probability of being spotted by a machine, person, or some other authority that can issue a ticket ;-)
If $\lambda$ is the expected times that you get spotted every hour, then $\theta=\frac{1}{\lambda}\ $ is the expected time between events.
The number of events given in $t$ can be modeled by a random variable $N \sim Poisson(\lambda·t)$ where $t$ is the amount of time (in hours) elapsed, and the time between events can be modeled by a random variable $X\sim Exponential(\theta)$.
So, the probability of getting $n$ tickets in $t$ hours, with an expected probability of $\lambda$ that you get a ticket in one hour is: $$Pr\{N=n\ |\ \lambda, t\}=\frac{e^{-\lambda·t}·(\lambda·t)^{n}}{n!} $$ Since we need to calculate the probability of being spotted at least once, we can calculate $1-Pr\{N=0\}$. Then, for $n=0$, $\lambda=0.8$ and $t=0.5$, then: $$1-Pr\{N=0\ |\ \lambda=0.8, t=0.5\}=1-\frac{e^{-0.4}·(0.4)^{0}}{0!}=1-e^{-0.4}\approx0.4918 $$
You should notice that, even if you "get spotted" more than once per day, this model still holds, since this process is memoryless.
Further reference: Ross, Sheldon, "Introduction to probability models", Ninth edition, Chapter 5.
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As you can see the transparent title bar with the white buttons doesn't work too well against a background map with white areas.
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But i am not able to understand that how to use kitchen sink to create my own app.
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Not sure I understand your request. The sample app Kitchen Sink is not here to show you how to build an app (at least I would not do it that way). But it is here to show you what components the Sencha Touch framework offers and how to use them in your app. For that you can let the app show you code snippets for the components that you are looking at.
To start with ST, I would rather read through the guides here http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2.2.0/#!/guide
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It is however possible to build the kitchensink demo as an app just create a barebone project with Sencha CMD and place the contents of the kitchensink app in /app. After that, modify the index.html to point to the right path for ST 2.2 and it should work (maybe you need to modify one or two more properties, I dunno exactly anymore)I`m from Holland!


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Fly JetBlue between Burbank and Long Beach this Saturday (7/16) only! Fares are $4.00* each way so get on board quick – book now through July 16 or while supplies last. Or for $5 each way customers can also enjoy an Even More Space seat on their Carmageddon Fly-over, which includes early boarding and early access to overhead bin space as well as a spacious seat with extra legroom - limited quantity available on each flight.
B6 #405 BURLGB 12:20 pm - 1:05 pm
B6 #1405 BURLGB 6:35 pm - 7:10 pm
B6 #406 LGBBUR 1:50 pm - 2:34 pm
B6 #1406 LGBBUR 7:55 pm - 8:30 pm
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This is a genius special. Nice find.
i wish I was there to take advantage.
From the website:
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties on the website, please call 1-800-JETBLUE (538-2583) to book your flights between Burbank and Long Beach.
$4 is cheap. Thats cool. But I dont see the point of flying to/from Burbank airport to Long Beach airport. They are only 37.1 miles (35-45 minutes) away from each other. I thought its kinda silly. Dont get me wrong, the price is very cheap and Jetblue is awesome. :)
@pipersinc: I405 will be closed that day.
@pipersinc: That's where Carmageddon comes in. They're closing down 11 miles of one of the main N/S freeways between them, which is going to make the traffic an absolute madhouse. They want people to avoid it by flying.
Edit: yeah, what rlapid2112 said
sold out
interesting, carmageddon. like our snowmageddon we had one year. what will they be doing that day on the road? hopefully not filming a movie!
@rlapid2112 did anyone else notice the highway number matches the flight numbers one way?
@w00tgurl: good catch, now I am glad I am not there!
@w00tgurl: They're adding lanes, and to minimize the duration of the inconvenience, they're shutting all of it down so they have room to work.
I'm glad I won't have to deal with it.
You can fly back and forth a couple of times, because flying is fun.
Oh I see. Sorry I didn't know that. Well That's cool jetblue is doing this Carmageddon deal :)
Just leave your taser at home.
soooooo....risk your life for $4.....no thanks.....i'd rather WALK then get in a friggin plane......
@ghuif7ds8a: SPAMMER, burrrrrn, spammmer!
how are you going to get to the airport? oh yeah, the 405.
@sabby2000: You are much more likely to die while walking than you are to die while riding in an airplane. If you are saying that you won't get on an airplane because it is dangerous, then you might as well give up walking, too. When going by distance travelled per fatality, flying is the safest mode of transportation and walking is the deadliest. More people die walking than flying! I hope you have a safe walk while everyone else is taking a super low risk plane ride! Of course, walking won't cost you 4$ so I guess you're the one who's really getting the deal here!
"Mean Streets' findings include four significant facts. First, walking is by far the most dangerous mode of travel per mile. The fatality rate, using 2001 data, per 100 million miles travel was 20.1. By contrast, passenger cars and trucks rate was only 1.3. Transit is the safest at 0.75 per 100 million miles. Second, in 2003, 4,827 Americans (11.3 percent of all traffic fatalities) died while walking down the street, and 70,000 pedestrians were injured in traffic crashes. Over the ten-year period 1994-2003, 51,989 pedestrians have died on U.S. streets. Third, senior citizens, African-American and Latino pedestrians suffer a fatality rate well in excess of the population at large. Fourth, more than half of the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas grew more dangerous."
@sabby2000: owned.
@sabby2000: "i'd rather WALK then get in a friggin plane......"
So, you're saying you want to do both then.
@superninja: This guy is a genius...took me a second though.
ROFLMFAO! Classic.
@superninja: nice catch!
@okham: I usually take my Taser with me, just in case there are any terrorists on board, but I haven't seen it since the last time I flew.
No fear of flying... The TSA though... shudder
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Probably $4 each way and, what, probably another $30-40 in taxes and fees each way?
@bdoug399: you're flogging a long-perished pony. they are sold out.
@superninja: I don't get it.
@wjmoss: it should be "than" vs, "then"
"then" indicates doing it in sequence (first one THEN the other)
"than" indicates preference of one over the other
@wjmoss: The quote was "i'd rather WALK then get in a friggin plane......" implying that they were going to walk before getting on a friggin plane instead of the correct statement "i'd rather WALK than get in a friggin plane......".
EDIT: Looks like @rlapid2112 beat me to it.
They just talked about this deal on the news all the way in Connecticut. They said the deal sold out in minutes!.. Part of it thanks to deals.woot, I'm sure.
psh With having to show up early for the flight and all that it would be easier to find an alt to the 405 then dealing with that. The 405 is always packed anyways good PR stunt. If they had this from John Wayne to Burbank I would do it for the hell of it.


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Harley Quinn's Greatest Moments from "Batman: The Animated Series"
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You may have already heard about Orbital Comics' Image Duplicator art show in London (probably via this piece at The Beat): This story is right in my wheelhouse, but I was resisting writing about it until there was a large enough stockpile of art from it to present here. The show is a reaction both to the recent Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at the city's already-iconic Tate Modern gallery, and to the BBC's coverage of the event (which I wrote about at the time elsewhere).
Dave Gibbons is a long-standing critic of Lichtenstein (you can find footage online of him complaining about what he calls Lichtenstein's "dishonesty" from as far back as 1993). Gibbons appeared on the BBC's documentary to put the case for the accusations of plagiarism that may always dog Lichtenstein's reputation. The segment featuring Gibbons debating with presenter Alastair Sooke was filmed in front of the famous "Whaam!" canvas. Sooke was all too dismissive of Irv Novick, somewhat deriding his work in order to flatter Lichtenstein. It seems odd Sooke chose to criticize Novick's compositional decisions and praise Lichtenstein's, when every element of Roy's piece was lifted from Irv's. Anyway, these new perceived slights seem to have been enough to stir Rian Hughes, Jason Atomic, and the Orbital Gallery regulars into action.


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It's a six-year plan that highway department officials say is coming to an end. Scottsville Road construction is almost complete.
Greg Meredith, Chief Engineer Highway Department, says, "Well now we've gotten pretty much four out of the five sections complete. We're still working on one."
Construction on Scottsville Road is nearing completion. Meredith says, "The last section, they're working on it. They hope to be complete by the end of this year. Of course, weather plays a big part. If we have a wet summer it will delay progress."
Meredith says the surfacing, where the road is actually paved, is scheduled to be done in June.
"We've got the grade and drain portion finished which is basically moving dirt for the road," Meredith says.
And he says in a best-case scenario they would be finished by this fall.
Meredith says, "Right now we're even. We're just where we should be as far as the plan goes. The contract called for workday contract. They have so many days to complete the work based on what a normal workday would consist of."
Meredith says right now there's still a lot of work ahead, but they have time to meet their deadline.
"We certainly hope they get it done by the completion date," says Meredith.


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This article in New Scientist says that all matter is actually virtual particles popping in and out of existence and nothing more. is this correct?
The terminology "virtual particle" comes from quantum field theory.
Note the third word in QFT, theory. Theory means that it is a mathematical model for calculations which will, if the theory is valid, describe concrete measurements and behaviors of physical reality. The basic building block of QFT is the Feynman diagram: a mathematical prescription that will give integrals which will describe the crossection and angular distributions and phases in experiments with elementary "particles". By "paticles" we refer to the standard model particles assumed to be elementary.
Some of the lines that you see in this image are called virtual particles and some are called on mass shell particles. The two electron lines are on mass shell, the gamma, the quarks and the gluon are virtual, in this diagram. It is incomplete because although it has as input on mass shell particles the right side has only virtual ones.
The following decay of a Kaon
shows input real and output real particles, i.e. particles we can measure with our instruments and get their lifetimes, their crossections etc and check against the theory as exemplified by the Feynman diagrams.
We observe that input is a pair of quarks and output are three pairs of quarks. It is the pairs that are real. The quarks, the gluon, the W exchanged are virtual, i.e. off mass shell particles: with the quantum numbers from the table of SM particles but an off shell mass.
Now one can say that the K meson is composed of virtual particles if one makes a one to one identification of the guess, a good guess, of how the Kaon is built up, but the Kaon itself is real, as are the pions which are the end products. Real because we measure them with our instruments. Virtual particles are a very useful mathematical tool that simplifies our view of particle interactions, that is all.
In some sense asking about "is everything virtual" is like entering a clock shop with its hundreds of clocks and say " are all clocks gears". Clocks are made up with gears but are much more than gears. Thus protons are made up with quarks and a sea of gluons, all virtual particles, but a proton is much more than the virtual particles.
Edit: I will incorporate the content of my reply to the comments here.
Electrons and all leptons are real particles when on the mass shell, i.e. on external Feynman lines. The same is true for photons and Z and W bosons when on mass shell. Quarks and gluons can never be free and measured individually, because of the nature of the strong force. So quarks are always virtual and have to appear in pairs(mesons) or triplets (protons) in the external legs of the diagrams, and it is the pairs and triplets that can be on the mass shell. Gluons cannot be on their mass shell either, and their only externally measured evidence is in hadronic jets.
The nucleus is a more complicated grouping, it contains off the mass shell protons neutrons gluons photons, but all together, the nucleus is on the mass shell. when isolated. When surrounded by electrons it becomes an atom, the atom then is the one that is on the mass shell and contains electrons +nucleus off the mass shell. When observing a molecule, the molecule is on the mass shell and contains off mass shell atoms. When observing a crystal, the whole crystal is on the mass shell and the molecules are off mass shell.
All microscopic quantum mechanically defined items can be sometimes virtual and some times real ( except quarks and gluons which are always virtual). Virtual is in the contained level and real is the total group that is under measurement and observation.
There is always a real level riding on virtual particles, nuclei, atoms, molecules depending on the magnification one looks at in the microcosm. Our reality rests on nested levels of virtuality and reality ascertains itself on the level we are examining.
In the classical world we live and move in the underlying levels of virtuality are immaterial, because in addition to the nesting process described above there is also something called "decoherence"
It statistically transforms all quantum mechanical substructures to the level we measure and describe with classical physics and certainly call real.
Although the New Scientist requires readers to subscribe in order to read the entire article, this is very much the answer I was looking for. An agreement of 2% of the proton mass with QCD-based calculations is indeed impressive, and a big improvement over previous attempts (and from which I was actually sourcing some of my much less popular responses).
The energy that causes the gluons and quarks to get pumping, dancing, color changing, and whatever else they do, is driven by the relentless popping in and out of existence of other quark-antiquark pairs, as well as other virtual particles. I'd like to know the details of the analysis they did, but it will need to be published somewhere I don't need to subscribe in order to read.
Although it could not be said when this article was published, the other 2% is no doubt the contribution of the Higgs mechanism with the quarks. Murray himself should be pleased, as much as figuring out such things seem to have tortured him.
This is a beautiful theory, and it makes a lot more sense than the previous nonsense I read about having "perfect vacuum" in confines of the constantly changing flux tubes. Now I can finally understand why everyone else at the physics stack exchange is so jazzed about QCD in general. It makes perfect sense to me now. Thanks for sharing.


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Monica Shorter joined the Coker staff in August of 2013 as the assistant softball coach.
Shorter came to Coker from Akron, Ohio, where she most recently served as the assistant coach at Berkshire High School. She was also the head coach of the Diamond Chix U16 team.
As a player, Shorter played collegiately at the University of Akron. A pitcher and first baseman for the Zips, she was an NFCA All-American Scholar Athlete and a member of the Dean's List.
She holds a Bachelor of Science & Education Degree from Akron with an emphasis in Coaching & Manual Communication. She also has a culinary arts certificate from the International Culinary Arts & Sciences Institution.


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I just realized: By exploring stackoverflow.com and reading other questions (and answers of course) I learned a lot new things. I obtained more in-depth knowledge on certain topics, identified better explanation than what I would have given and investigated new fields of interest.
Do you experience the same? Is this a desired intent of stackoverflow.com? Would you like to improve this experience or rather see this go away?


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Its Breezy Badger then Dapper Drake. Where are Clumsy Chameleon and Awesome Antelope?
The first two release was named randomly and came from a joke. And from the third release they decided to use alphabetical order in release names. This is documented very well in the Ubuntu Wiki page
From Mark Shuttleworth's writing, I'm quoting this from the wiki page:
So, the naming convention or policy wasn't fixed before the first release as you might have been assuming. That convention is later introduced and of course it is one of the greatest feature of Ubuntu OS.
Though they decided to use alphabetical name after Breezy, they also decided that they might avoid some letters. I think that is why there isn't a C name after Breezy. The relevant part form the Wiki page is
And from 17.10 the release names will be wrapped up and will be restarted with A. So, don't forget to suggest your awesome names.
Apparently versions that were released after 6.06 were alphabetically incremented in their alliterative letter. So chances are good that there will be an A... A... coming with version 17.10 and a C... C... coming with version 18.10. For the release history with numbering and names, see below or the List of Releases on the Ubuntu Wiki.
There isn't any release named with A or C for this time. But on 17.10 the name is "A". And also the 18.10 with "C" name.
Look here for additional information: Development Code Name
The first such release was Warty Warthog (released with "warts and all"), so it was certainly out of order, too, although at that time there really was no system for naming the releases. The next release was Hoary Hedgehog (staying with the "hog" idea, I guess), and after that came Breezy Badger, and then Dapper Drake. It appears the alphabetical idea came along with - or right after - Edgy Eft, so the "A" and "C" names weren't used just because the system wasn't yet in place.
Of course, there's also no reason to think that such a naming convention should start with the beginning of the alphabet, anyway, as after Zany Zoophyte it can just wrap around; I guess the alphabet can start wherever one prefers.


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I was reading this blog by Joel Spolsky about 12 steps to better code. The absence of Test Driven Development really surprised me. So I want to throw the question to the Gurus. Is TDD not really worth the effort?
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Test driven development was virtually unknown before Kent Beck's book came out in 2002, two years after Joel wrote that post. The question then becomes why hasn't Joel updated his test, or if TDD had been better known in 2000 would he have included it among his criteria?
I believe he wouldn't have, for the simple reason that the important thing is you have a well-defined process, not the specific details of that process. It's the same reason he recommends version control without specifying a specific version control system, or recommends having a bug database without recommending a specific brand. Good teams continually improve and adapt, and use tools and processes that are a good fit for their particular situation at that particular time. For some teams, that definitely means TDD. For other teams, not so much. If you do adopt TDD, make sure it's not out of a cargo cult mentality.
Joel has actually addressed this specifically in a few places.
He's explained that the things tests are not capable of catching a lot of important issues, particularly subjective ones such as "does this software's user interface suck?" According to him, over-reliance on automated tests at Microsoft is how we ended up with Windows Vista.
He's written how, in his experience, the kinds of bugs that users actually find tend to fall into two categories: 1) the ones that show up in common usage, which the programmers would have found themselves had they run their own code before using it, or 2) edge cases so obscure that no one would have thought to write tests to cover them in the first place. He's stated that only a very small percentage of the bugs he and his team fixes in FogBugz are the sort of thing that unit testing would have caught. (I can't find that article now, but if anyone knows which one I mean, feel free to edit the link into here.)
And he's written how it can be more trouble than it's worth, especially when your project grows into a very large project with many unit tests, and then you change something (intentionally) and end up with a very large number of broken unit tests. He specifically uses the problems that unit testing can cause as the reason why he has not added it as a 13th point to the Joel Test, even when people suggest that he ought to.
Joel Spolsky himself answered this question back in 2009:
No one but Joel could answer that for sure. But we can try some reasons/observations.
First of all, testing is not absent from the Joel's Test
Secondly, the whole idea of the Joel Test (as I understand it) is to have quick, yes-no questions. "Do you do TDD ?" will not exactly fit in (answer could be : "some of us", "for that part of the code" or "we do unit test".
Thirdly, I think no one said that (even Joel) that those points where "the only ones worth time" (by the way, "do you program" is not on it), just that those are good quick questions to ask when coming into contact with a software team, whether as a future team member or even as a customer - this is a list I gave to some non technical people around me that were looking for clues about how good/bad their own IT department was. It is not everything, but it is really bad to beat in three minutes.


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Show that $\mathbb{R}^2$ is not homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^2 \setminus \{(0,0)\} $.
Here's a slightly different way of looking at it that avoids fundamental groups (although has its own messy details to check). One of the spaces, upon removing a compact set, can be separated into two connected components with noncompact closure. The other can't.
Let me give a solution to the problem that uses the idea of homotopy of loops but avoids that of the fundamental group or the co/homology groups. (This is actually a fleshing out of Christian Blatter's comment to Matt's answer. FWIW I thought of this independently a couple of hours ago but had to run off to proctor an exam for someone else's class.)
We say that two loops $\gamma_0, \gamma_1: S^1 \rightarrow X$ are homotopic if there exists a continuous function $G: S^1 \times [0,1] \rightarrow X$ such that for all $x \in S^1$, $G(x,0) = \gamma_0(x)$ and $G(x,1) = \gamma_1(x)$. (Note I am not fixing a basepoint here: it doesn't matter either way for what I am about to say.)
We say that a topological space $X$ is simply connected if it is connected and every loop in $X$ is homotopic to a constant loop. It is clear that if $X$ is simply connected and $Y$ is not, then $X$ cannot be homeomorphic to $Y$.
I claim that $\mathbb{R}^2$ is simply connected and $\mathbb{R}^2 \setminus \{0\}$ is not.
Step 1: We show directly from the definition that $\mathbb{R}^2$ is simply connected.
Step 2: We show that $\mathbb{R}^2 \setminus \{0\}$ is not simply connected. For this we exploit the fact that $\mathbb{R}^2 \setminus \{0\}$ is an open subset in the complex plane and use complex analysis, specifically:
Theorem (Homotopy Form of Cauchy's Integral Theorem): Let $\Omega$ be an open subset of the complex plane, let $f$ be a holomorphic function on $\Omega$ and let $\gamma_1,\gamma_2$ be two homotopic paths in $\Omega$. Then $\int_{\gamma_1} f(z) dz = \int_{\gamma_2} f(z) dz$.
This is a nontrivial result, but it is a standard variant of the usual Cauchy Integral Formula that is found in most basic complex analysis texts. In particular, if $\Omega$ is simply connected, then every loop $\gamma: S^1 \rightarrow \Omega$ is homotopic to a constant loop and thus for every holomorphic function $f$ on $\Omega$ we have $\int_{\gamma} f(z)dz = 0$. In particular this applies to $\Omega = \mathbb{C}$ by Step 1.
The endgame is probably familiar: on $\mathbb{C} \setminus \{0\}$, if you integrate the holomorphic function $f(z) = \frac{1}{z}$ on the path $\gamma(t) = e^{2 \pi i t}$ then you get $2 \pi i$, which is not zero. Thus $\mathbb{C} \setminus \{0\}$ is not simply connected and hence not homeomorphic to $\mathbb{C}$.
$\mathbb{R}^2\backslash\{(0,0)\}\cong S^1\times\mathbb{R}$. you can use co/homology or fundamental groups (if that's in your toolkit). you can note that one is contractible and the other is homotopy equivalent to a circle (and tell those apart). you can note that one has euler characteristic 0 and the other has euler characteristic 1 (if this is something you can calculate).
conceptually its because your mapping a continuous space to one with a hole in it. you cant have a continuous map from $\mathbb{R}^2$ to $\mathbb{R}^2\setminus (0,0)$ since to do so you'd have to tear a hole in it.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – Led by sophomore Jennifer Monroe's second double-double of her career and junior Lesley Woods' 100th career 3-point field goal, Anderson University women's basketball fell just short of a comeback bid, falling to South Atlantic Conference newcomer Coker 72-66 Saturday afternoon at the Abney Athletic Center.
Monroe polished off the game with 17 points and a career-high 12 rebounds in her first game recording over 30 minutes of her career. For the game, the sophomore finished 7-for-14 from the floor and dropped in three free throws to go along with a block. Woods, who needed three 3-pointers to reach 100 before today, closed the contest with four to give her 14 points on the day. The 14 points marks the second time in three games the junior has scored in double figures.
On the opposite side, Coker's Tanesha Stenson matched Monroe's double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Cobra attack. After scoring just five points in the opening 20 minutes, Stenson led all scorers in the final stanza with 13 points and pulled down six rebounds, playing the entire period. Joining Stenson in double figures was junior Kelley Godbout with 14 points and six rebounds and classmate Hailey Yohn with 11. Godbout and Yohn combined for six made 3-pointers in over 30 minutes played between the tandem.
The setback snaps a consecutive streak of 19 straight victories over Coker, as the Cobras add their first win over the Trojans since Jan. 14, 1998. The loss drops Anderson to 7-7 on the season and two games below .500 in SAC play at 3-5.
"This was another tough loss today," Anderson head coach Jimmy Garrity said. "I was proud of our effort, especially in second half. Our players are playing extremely hard and I told them to keep up that effort and remain positive and good things will happen. I reminded them that when you win, it doesn't mean you're doing everything right. By the same token, when you lose it, it doesn't mean you're doing everything wrong."
Both teams jumped out of the gates quickly to begin the game as a combined 29 points were scored in the first eight minutes of play with Anderson holding a small advantage at 15-14. After a Lyric Levester jumper cut the lead to one for Coker, Monroe answered with put-back off a Katie Davis miss, sending Anderson back up by 3.
After the basket, the Cobras found some momentum when Patricia Sullivan scored on a lay-in after she was fouled in the lane by Davis. After Sullivan knocked in the free throw, Coker began a 10-3 run giving the visitors a four-point advantage with 7:39 left.
The Trojans would answer the run with a Woods trey, but was unable to take the lead back for the remainder of the game. Monroe brought the Trojans back within two at the 3:30 mark with a lay-in, but the Cobras answered with a 7-0 run to close out the opening half at 39-30, highlighted by a 3-pointer from Stenson to begin the spurt.
The second half brought a slower pace to the game, as every attempt by the Trojans to make a comeback was answered by their opponents. Facing a five-point deficit with 18:30 left, Coker dropped in two quick baskets headlined by a wing 3-pointer from Godbout to hand the Cobras a 10-point advantage.
Redshirt junior Emily Willoughby brought AU within four with a 3-pointer in front of the Anderson bench, but AU's small run was cut short by a Stenson lay-in off a drive into the lane that would eventually lead to an 11-point lead for Coker.
Facing the double-digit deficit, Woods buried her 100th career 3-pointer which would start an AU 8-0 run, capped off with another Woods 3-pointer with four minutes to play.
After the visitors went up six with 3:03 left, junior Sierra Simpson, who finished with five points, connected on 3-of-4 free throws after being fouled consecutively by Heidrun Kristmundsdottir and Stenson to bring AU within three. Following a miss on the other end of the floor, freshman guard Heather Jankowy drained a 3-pointer from the wing to draw the game even at 66-66. For Jankowy, she would finish with six points, all coming from behind the arc.
On the ensuing possession, Stenson answered with a 3-pointer from the top of the key to put the contest out of reach. The Cobras would score three straight points from the free throw line to close the game out and hand AU its fourth straight setback.
Anderson looks to break away from its losing skid as it heads to Mars Hill on Wednesday. Tip-off with the Lions is set for 6 p.m.


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This meetup group provides a great opportunity to meet people who share beliefs and enjoy having fun together! The group is not associated with any particular church or denomination. All members can suggest events, so you can let others know of events you are planning to attend & wish to have others join you. We hope that you will let us know what events your church is having for the community or other Christian Events that you are aware of.
All ages are welcome. We are a mix of singles, couples, those with children and without.
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