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7 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Rip-Offs
#3. Wild Wild West Was an Episode of Batman: The Animated Series
Just because you steal your source material from a successful predecessor doesn't mean your movie is going to be worth anything. Case in point: 1999's Wild Wild West. Before steampunk was blowing up your Reddit feed, it was smeared all over this turd stain of a movie. And the steampunk gadgets were the best part!
Lucy Who
Kenneth Branagh has had to do some awful things for a paycheck.
Not the best part? The plot. Which consisted of a former Civil War hero and a U.S. Marshal chasing down an evil scientist and his world-jeopardizing contraptions before the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. If Atlas Shrugged was set in the Old West and featured Will Smith and a giant mechanical robot spider, it would be just like this.
What It's Suspiciously Like:
A 1995 episode from Batman: The Animated Series called "Showdown."
Now, for those of you asking how the hell an episode of Batman: The Animated Series could get made into Wild Wild West, the truth is Batman was barely in the episode at all. "Showdown" was a flashback focusing on Jonah Hex -- the same character from the recent movie of the same name -- as he battled the immortal Ra's al Ghul in the Old West.
Hey, buddy, you've got something just ... right under your eye.
Incidentally, this episode would have made an even better Jonah Hex film than Jonah Hex.
Not a high bar, but still.
In the episode, the bad guy attempts to conquer the U.S. by attacking the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad with a superweapon -- which, incidentally, is the entire plot of Wild Wild West. They even have that scene with the Golden Spike and everything. The only difference is that Ra's weapon was an ironclad zeppelin instead of what Kevin Smith later described as "this big fucking spider" in Wild Wild West.
Crashing the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad ...
... with two steampunk superweapons ...
One significantly less stupid than the other.
... and a vast assortment of nifty guns ...
... when a flying machine from Leonardo's notebook comes out of nowhere.
Of course, at this point, most people had already left the theater.
#2. Terminator Was a Bunch of Harlan Ellison Sci-Fi Stories
We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but James Cameron appears to have stolen the story for one of his biggest, most iconic films -- a story of man's overreaching hubris, and the efforts of a small group to stop the extinction of an entire race. We're talking, of course, about his mega-blockbuster groundbreaking film The Terminator.
What movie did you think we were talking about?
If we have to recap the plot of The Terminator for you, what are you even doing here? Don't you have some butter to churn or something? Some socks to darn? Some VHS tapes to rewind?
What It's Suspiciously Like:
A trio of futuristic stories by sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison. In fact, you can practically build The Terminator's narrative from the premise of each of them. In the short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," a super-intelligent AI becomes self-aware and decides to wipe out humanity. The few survivors live in an underground complex, the only habitable place left on Earth. Then in "Soldier," two freakishly strong super-soldiers from a post-apocalyptic world are sent back in time in a flash of lightning.
One materializes in a present-day alley (just like Kyle Reese in The Terminator), where he's quickly spotted by police and has a shootout with them.
Even some of the dialogue in "Soldier" seems pretty close to what's in The Terminator.
But wait, there's one important thing missing: Where are the robots? Well, in "Demon With a Glass Hand," a man from the future with a robotic-looking hand is being pursued by things that are disguised to look just like men.
Like in The Terminator, their time travel only works one way: from the future to the past. Oh, and the main character, Mr. Trent, is told frequently that he's "the last hope of humanity." Finally, at the end of the episode, it's revealed that Mr. Trent is actually ... wait for it ... a robot sent back in time and disguised to look human. Also, if you take the name Mr. Trent and rearrange the letters you get ... TerMntr. Dun dun DUUUNNN.
And here's the kicker: back in 1984, James Cameron did an interview with Starlog magazine where he was asked where he got the idea for The Terminator. He was reported to have bragged that he ripped off a couple of Harlan Ellison stories.
Trust us. Closed eyes make him 30 percent less creepy.
Unfortunately for Cameron, Ellison was friends with some of the staff there, who leaked him the original draft of the interview containing the admission and took Cameron to court. They ended up settling, and to this very day, Harlan Ellison has an "acknowledgement" credit on The Terminator.
Fortunately, it looks like Cameron has learned from his mistakes and will never do the same thing again. PHEW!
#1. Reservoir Dogs Was a Film From Hong Kong
Few directorial debuts have had the cultural impact of 1992's Reservoir Dogs. Pulp Fiction is the first Tarantino film you're more likely to have seen, but Dogs started it all: the out-of-order storytelling, the filthy dialogue, the black suits, the pop-culture references.
The Steve Buscemi.
Despite the distinct look and ear-severing, at its core, the story was simple: A diamond heist goes wrong, and the bad guys involved get into one hell of a tense standoff over the aftermath.
What It's Suspiciously Like:
A 1987 Hong Kong action film, City on Fire, starring a pre-American fame Chow Yun-Fat.
It was a simpler time, before movie posters were required to include explosions and tits.
Now, saying that Quentin Tarantino borrows heavily from Asian films is about as original as saying that Quentin Tarantino borrows heavily from ... uh ... all other kinds of films, but hold on. This one is different, if only because the it's the exact same movie, but with matchy-matchy suits.
Jewel thieves decide to steal a load of diamonds at the behest of an older criminal boss. While robbing the jewelry store, an alarm goes off and one of the thieves kills the employees. Blah blah blah ... Mexican standoff ends in a massacre, aaaand scene. And in case you lost track, that was the plot of City on Fire we were just describing, not Reservoir Dogs.
Tarantino didn't just borrow a character or a scene or a subplot, he ripped off the whole story. And then replaced all the dialogue with pop-culture trivia, as if he was doing some kind of Pop-Up Video version of the same movie, but with white guys.
If you need a visual aid, director Mike White put together a handy 10-minute documentary in 1994 showing the similarities between the two films, titled Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
Probably just a coincidence.
Oh, and did we mention that Tarantino dedicated the script of Reservoir Dogs to Chow Yun-Fat? And that he's also been quoted as saying, "I loved City on Fire, I got the poster framed in my house, so it's a great movie," and "Ringo Lam is like my second, after Jackie Chan, third favorite of all the Hong Kong directors"?
Tarantino's next movie will be called The Suit, starring Uma Thurman as Jackie Chan.
With Sam Jackson in Jennifer Love Hewitt's part.
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I like the little 10/22s there a nice shooting gun. Enjoy and burn MANy MAny cases of amunition.
I only bought this partly because it was pretty. LOL! I've wanted a Ruger 10/22 for some time now, but this one caught my eye big time. I made the "which 10/22" choice based on how pretty the stock was. Have been pulling a lot of overtime and have scored a few bonuses, so I had some mad money and ran into a sale on 10/22s. It was fate. LOL! Colors are gray, wood, and red.
Camera's acting up, this photo is crappy, but still.
Suh Weeeet.
I like the little 10/22s there a nice shooting gun. Enjoy and burn MANy MAny cases of amunition.
Great choice! Those are some cool colors on that laminate stock; never seen that particular combo before. The laminates are a bit heavier, but very stable and resistant to warping.
Nice gun!
Possum stew for supper?
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The 5 Biggest Assholes Who Ever Turned Out to Be Right
#2. Harry Markopolos
The Asshole:
Harry Markopolos is a financial investigator who pretty much, by his own admission, combines the worst of a math nerd with the worst of a frat boy.
Like "The Situation" with glasses.
He liked to tell off-color jokes, and one day started ranting about some fund manager who he claimed was running the biggest scam in history. He said he was having to check his car for bombs every morning because the guy was tied to the Russian mob. He slept with a loaded gun every night, and seemed hugely overdue for some kind of mental health intervention.
Or he could do what we do and get a bed that can make a getaway.
He screamed his accusations to anyone who would listen, for nine straight years. He was soundly ignored.
How He Was Right:
The poor fund manager this crazy man was accusing was one Bernie Madoff, creator of the largest Ponzi scheme ever.
Not to be confused with Anson Williams's Potsie scheme.
Markopolos has since written a book, and titled it No One Would Listen. And he's right. No one DID listen. It all started a decade ago when Markopolos was asked by his bosses to figure out how Madoff was making such great returns. He did the math and figured out it was absolutely impossible.
Unsurprisingly, his bosses didn't want to hear that. He ratted Madoff out to the SEC multiple times and apparently managed to insult half the commission in the process by telling them they sucked at their jobs. While he was busy offending people, Madoff's scheme swelled to a $65 billion fraud.
To put that amount in its raddest terms: That's worth as much as 65 B2 bombers.
Forget financial regulation: let's create classes giving accountants people skills. If we had, the country might have saved about $43 billion, and Markopolos wouldn't have had to rub our faces in it.
#1. Werner Erhard
The Asshole:
Kind of a Deepak Chopra for the 70s, Werner Erhard is most notable for inventing "EST," or "Erhard Seminars Training," a type of new-agey "The Secret" for disco-era liberals who had yet to discover power crystals or hybrid cars.
Feeling self-actualized yet?
EST was all about tearing down your soul and rebuilding it: i.e. giving somebody money to humiliate you. Erhard came up with it while driving one day when he had an "epiphany" wherein he "realized" that he "knew everything and knew nothing and didn't know what he didn't know." And if that doesn't make any sense to you, then you're just not enlightened enough and should probably write a few more checks to the EST foundation. If this sounds like a cult, well...
Erhard basically ripped people off by promising them an ability to see the world "as it really was," not mentioning the fact that his patented and expensive self-actualization seminar could just as easily be achieved with a plate of pot brownies and a late-night Halo campaign with some philosophy majors.
Did we mention Erhard used to be a used-car salesman named Jack Rosenberg? Or that his slimy cult leader routine proved to be the not-so-subtle inspiration for GI Joe nemesis Cobra Commander?
And now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
How He Was Right:
Among his other asshole behaviors, Werner Erhard kept insisting that another cult, pretty much just like his, was out to kill him. But that was ridiculous. After all, it's not like a cult would have some kind of secret intelligence unit or anything! Especially not one called--let's look it up here--"Scientology."
Nobody believed Erhard. But, as you can probably guess, indeed Scientology had listed Erhard as a "suppressive person" and then basically declared a "Scientologic fatwah" on him.
That's like a regular fatwah, but with Tom Cruise.
The full extent of operations wouldn't be revealed until six years after Erhard was prattling about Scientology trying to kill him, when the world learned of Operation Snow White, which was L. Ron's little attempt to improve his reputation by stealing and destroying nasty files the government had on him.
If you really want to get the thetans out of your head, you'll deal with this Erhard guy for me.
Yep, the Scientologists were after Erhard, not because they hated his beliefs or anything, but because he was making money off of brainwashing people using some of their techniques, and they hated having the competition.
Scientology spammed the poor bastard with so many private detectives that they had five file cabinets full of documents about him. So, even crazy cult leaders can be right sometimes. Wait... does this mean when Scientologists complain that other people are conspiring against them, we should take their word for it?
No. No it doesn't.
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DAVID BERGELAND/Durango Herald
DAVID BERGELAND/Durango Herald
In the play version of �Peter Pan,� the title character asks his theater audience to clap if they believe in fairies to revive an ailing Tinker Bell poisoned by Capt. Hook.
Durango residents would probably applaud enthusiastically because there is plenty of evidence around the town that fairies are alive and well.
According to a very unscientific poll by The Durango Herald, there are at least eight fairy homes along East Third and East Fourth avenues, based on the appearance of miniature-sized doors, windows and decorations attached to neighborhood trees and garden stones.
Some apparently inhabit the trees of the most well-known addresses, such as the historic Jakway house at 11th Street and East Third Avenue, but judging by their furnishings and accessories, our little people seem to lead fairly ordinary lives.
They play basketball, if a tiny backboard on the sidewalk of Third Avenue can be believed.
They put out flags to show their patriotism. They decorate according to the holiday with Lilleputian-sized May Day poles, Easter eggs and scarecrows for Halloween.
Some pixies are thoughtful enough to leave notes in their mailboxes for their hosts� visiting grandchildren, said Patti Baranowski, who said fairies inhabit her backyard garden.
�The fairies will ask (the grandchildren) if they�re watching the garden, how long they�re staying,� Baranowski said. The grandkids will send back messages like, �Fairies, I hope you�re happy. Can you come to my house, too?�
Like any good local, the little people seem to know how to play to the tourists.
Barbara Edidin said she enjoys watching people react whenever they see her fairies� lawn furniture, water well and tree door.
�I enjoy it for myself, but it�s really fun to see people walk by and do a double take,� said Edidin. �People photograph it all the time.�
Some people leave food, such as pistachio nuts. Two little boys once approached Edidin and asked her if they could contribute stones to the fairies� landscape.
�I was so delighted,� Edidin said. �They wanted to do something for the fairies.�
But passers-by are not always so nice. They drop cigarette butts. A woman once reached across a fence to snatch a peace symbol because she considered it to be a Satanic symbol for resembling an upside down cross.
�The whole thing was bizarre,� Edidin said.
But everybody has their own concept of fairies. Edidin thinks her fairies are conventional little people who walk in and out of their tree door, but Baranowski is pretty sure her fairies can fly because her tree door is not at ground level.
Baranowski�s garden fairies have a soccer ball to flatter a grandson who loves the sport. As a family activity, the Baranowskis painted a statuette of a kneeling pixie for the garden.
�I don�t think there�s any age that doesn�t enjoy a fairy garden,� Baranowski said. �It�s joyful.�
Leslie Morris, assistant manager of Cliffrose, Your High Desert Gardens in Cortez, said �many women bring in their children for a play date� whenever her store has decorating classes.
Morris considers the trend to be a revival of the ��70s mystical thing� because putting a miniature door at the base of a tree makes �it more magical.�
Edidin just enjoys playing with miniatures.
�I consider it the dollhouse I never had,� she said.
DAVID BERGELAND/Durango Herald
JIM HAUG/Durango Herald
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Mycroft Holmes, gives a cigarette to Sherlock and says "Merry Christmas". Then in the following scene, Dr. Watson asks Mycroft if he gave the cigarette to Sherlock.
So, it seems to me that the cigarette has some significance. Although it might also seem like Sherlock was just suffering from the supposed loss of Irene Adler, and his brother just thought the nicotine patches weren't good enough to help him relax.
Any thoughts?
Mycroft Holmes, gives a cigarette to Sherlock and says "Merry Christmas". Then in the following scene, Dr. Watson asks Mycroft if he gave the cigarette to Sherlock.
When Sherlock says "This is low tar", Mycroft replies "Well, you barely knew her". This reenforces the idea that the cigarette is a way of coping with the loss - he didn't know her that well, so he doesn't need a strong cigarette.
I presumed that it was just Mycroft and John Watson's way of telling whether Sherlock was badly affected by the news of her death. I think in the original A.C.D. stories, Sherlock Holmes does seem to have a tendency to fall into what we would now call depression and even that he has tendencies towards manic-depression. In the original stories he is also a user of drugs including opiates (which were not illegal at the time) when depressed.
I thought that (modern) Sherlock does not routinely smoke, therefore if he accepts the cigarette then he is going to be bad. I don't think it was just a way of helping him relax.
I can't be certain this is the right answer, but some of episode 2 makes it look like Sherlock's serious addiction is cigarettes not something a little more risque. So cigarettes are the modern stand-in for his need for cocaine.
Letting him have one is an admission that he has had to deal with something serious (like the loss of Adler).
Mycroft and Watson mentioned a "danger night." I assume Mycroft gave him the stick to be nice when seeing his brother emotionally falling down. Tobacco has also completely replaced the morphine use, but he did refer to his 7% cocaine solution in one episode. It was just a treat.
Actually, if you paid attention to the episode he reveals his use of the Nicotine patches, he says its next to impossible to keep a smoking habit in London "nowadays" this is likely due to some form of legislation limiting areas where one can smoke or additional taxes on them. While Mycroft most likely extends this due to the loss of Irene Addler as well, it is also because of some form of restriction to smokers in London. At least, that is my analysis without checking in on British law.
It was a way of testing how upset Sherlock was. In the Hounds of Baskerville, Sherlock is extremely stressed out because he doesn't have a case to work on, and can be seen trashing the flat looking for a pack of cigarettes. When someone comes with a case, Sherlock begs him to smoke (since the person smoked) and then sniffs out all the smoke.
So, since Sherlock was upset, he took the cigarette. That's why John swears when he finds out.
I saw it as a test to see how upset he was about Irene. When he took it and Mycroft spoke to John, he was worried about it being a 'danger night' and Sherlock taking the cigarette provided him with the proof that that night could potentially be one.


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BELL COUNTY (January 8, 2012)- The Texas Department of Public Safety conducted some of their first 2013 non-compliance checks for sexual offenders Tuesday.
The checks are done to make sure convicted sex offenders are complying with state requirements. Such requirements include checking with probation officers and being registered.
According to Trooper Harpin Myers, 13 offenders in Bell County were checked Tuesday.
Onle 3 were found "non-compliant." Arrest warrants were then issued for those people.


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I plan to travel with my family from London to Glasgow and back during the summer. I will be travelling by train or other public transport. I would like to make a few overnight stops on route. Perhaps cutting the journey into 3 parts. Can anyone suggest a good itinerary of places to visit on the route north and south again. The places must be accessible by public transport without too much detour from the main route.
I've not stopped much on the west, although can recommend Cumbria - or anywhere in the Lake District really. So Carlisle - very nice town. Part of the start of Hadrian's Wall, which is pretty great to see and walk a segment of.
Up the East Coast is another option - you could stop in York, and Edinburgh, before crossing over to Glasgow. Edinburgh speaks for itself - spectacular castle, amazing old town, so much history.
York was a Roman town and the York minster is very special. The city itself is very compact and still has some of the city walls, as well as many old - OLD parts worth seeing.
Aside from Hadrian's wall, all of the above can be accessed on the train line and with minimal walking. For Hadrian's wall you may need a car, we had cars - but there might be public transport or a tour.
Apart from other suggested places, consider stopping in either Cambridge or Oxford - these are really nice, historic towns. It is certainly easy to get there from London, you would have to check the onward transport to your next destination. Probably it will be not that hard to get to Birmingham from Oxford.
Some people recommended Liverpool, but I haven't been personally.
Further on north there is the Lake District, which is very nice if you are into hiking. Visiting it in one day without a car might be rather tricky though.


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Not sure if this will be on topic but I'd like to know anyway:
Why do mileposts on US Interstates increase South to North instead of North to South?
I assume the numbering of mileposts is to match the numbering of the U.S. Interstates themselves -- west to east interstates, which have even-numbers, are numbered from south to north (i.e. I-10 runs through southern states, and I-90 runs through northern states). Likewise, south to north interstates, which have odd-numbers, are numbered from west to east -- I-5 runs along the west coast, and I-95 runs along the east coast.
Note that this is the opposite of the US Highway system -- north to south routes grow larger from east to west. US Highway 1 is on the east coast, and the old US Highway 99 (which is now no longer a US Highway) ran along the west coast. Likewise, US Highway 14 runs through several northern states, and US Highway 82 runs across several southern states.
I believe the reason the Interstates were numbered opposite of the US Highways was to avoid confusion, i.e. when talking about route 5 along the west coast, you know the person is talking about an Interstate, not a US Highway.


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6 Ways The Creator of 'Sharktopus' Invented Modern Cinema
What if we told you that the man behind some of the cheapest, crappiest and most ridiculously named movies ever made (like Sharktopus, Dinoshark, Piranhaconda and 395 others) is also directly responsible for classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver and Terminator 2?
How is that possible, you ask? Because the acclaimed directors behind those pictures all got their start making B movies with Roger Corman, and it changed the course of their careers.
So the next time you and your friends get drunk and settle in to make fun of some direct-to-DVD movie with crappy effects, gratuitous nudity and acting fit for infomercials, remember that if it weren't for Roger Corman, we wouldn't have directors like ...
#6. Martin Scorsese
The Struggling Nobody:
As every poor sap in film school eventually finds out, there's an astronomical difference between "finishing film school" and "actually working in film" -- especially if you're a director. Letting a kid who just graduated direct a real motion picture would be like putting a med student in charge of an entire hospital.
That was more or less the deal for young Martin Scorsese in the late '60s: Aside from a little-seen black-and-white film that took him three years to complete (he started it as a school project), his first job after graduating NYU was as an editor. Scorsese had his eyebrows set on directing, but who the hell would give a chance to a kid with no money, no connections and practically no resume?
A man who directs films like Attack of the Crab Monsters isn't afraid to take risks.
The Sharktopus-Sized Break:
Enter Roger Corman. Scorsese had been a fan of Corman's work and met him to edit some of his films, since, you know, that's what Scorsese did back then. Corman, however, had other ideas: It was Corman who asked young Scorsese if he wanted to direct a sequel to one of his films called Bloody Mama. The only catch was that he had to do it for $600,000 and in 24 days. Also, he had to include some nudity at least every 15 script pages. But other than that, Scorsese would have complete creative freedom.
Scorsese said yes, and the result was Boxcar Bertha, a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style film starring David Carradine and a topless (at Corman's insistence) Barbara Hershey.
*Sigh* We'll just wait here while you pull up GIS. Done? OK ...
The film was, in the words of Scorsese's mentor, John Cassavetes, "a piece of shit," but it put the young director on the map. After Boxcar Bertha, Scorsese asked Corman to produce his next film, but Corman would only do it if all the characters were black people so they could pass it off as a blaxploitation film.
Scorsese declined the offer and made the movie without Corman and on a smaller budget. The film was Mean Streets, the first "real" Scorsese movie, with all the usual elements like Italian people, violence and Italian people getting violent.
The artist hadn't yet entered his "oranges fucking everywhere" period.
The Result:
Mean Streets paved the way for the rest of Scorsese's career, but none of that could have happened without Corman. See, this is the magic of Corman's "Make it cheap and get that shit out the door" assembly line approach to filmmaking. Why not throw a talented kid at the helm of the project? What did he have to lose? It's a chance Scorcese might not have gotten elsewhere, and that crash course in movie making taught him everything he needed to know about getting movies done fast and under budget. You can bet that came in handy when he was directing Taxi Driver for $1.3 million.
Totally worth it, despite being forced to live off of his own fingernail clippings.
Hell, we'll just let Scorsese say it: He called working with Roger Corman "the best post-graduate training you could have in America at that time." And he's far from the only great director to reap the benefits ...
#5. Francis Ford Coppola
The Struggling Nobody:
After graduating from UCLA, it didn't take too long for young Francis Ford Coppola to find work as a director ... of shitty soft-core porn films. In 1962, he directed two underground films called Tonight for Sure and The Bellboy and the Playgirls, both of which failed to impress porn cinema patrons.
But at least he was directing his own movies, right? Yeah, if by directing you mean "turning other people's movies into porn." Bellboy, for example, was actually an already existing nonpornographic German film that he was hired to recut and sex up (or "to Coppola," as it's known in the industry). And, for all we know, that could have been his job for the rest of his life -- that's not the kind of work that makes studio big shots take notice.
It takes two things to get noticed in the film industry: beard and scarf.
The Sharktopus-Sized Break:
It was perhaps this complete lack of shame that got Coppola the attention of Roger Corman, who hired him to "Americanize" a Russian sci-fi film he'd acquired the rights to. Part of Coppola's job was to redub the dialogue, even though he had no idea what the Russian actors were saying, which meant he had to come up with an entirely new plot from scratch. Corman also asked him to replace all the names in the credits with American-sounding ones and shoot inexplicable scenes of foam monsters duking it out on the moon. Coppola said yes to all these things.
Via Wikipedia
Look real close at that monster's chest. Yep -- it's a vagina.
Coppola ended up doing various other jobs for Corman's company in the following year, ranging from dialogue director to associate producer to sound man. He also washed Corman's car, literally.
Then, when they were wrapping up a movie in Europe, Corman noticed they still had a little money left in the budget and told Coppola (still working as a sound man at this point) to make another movie with it. Like, right now.
Coppola hammered out a script in two days, and the result was a sexy supernatural horror film called Dementia 13. Ironically, Corman wasn't satisfied with the amount of sex and violence in the movie and hired another director to Coppola Coppola.
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"Not bad, but can we draw more boobs on her? Maybe turn the grass into a field of dicks?"
The Result:
Even though he had disagreements with Corman toward the end and didn't work for him again, Dementia 13 meant that Coppola finally had something other than porn to put on his directing resume. The film made a decent amount of money, and soon Coppola moved on to direct more personal projects, including The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, which are widely considered to be even better than Dementia 13.
To prove there weren't any hard feelings, he even gave Corman a cameo in The Godfather: Part II, and admits that he made the 1992 version of Dracula as a tribute to his old mentor.
Which might explain the boobs on Dracula's head.
#4. Jonathan Demme
The Struggling Nobody:
At least the last two guys had studied film and presumably knew their way around a camera -- Jonathan Demme, on the other hand, started as a college dropout who reviewed films for small-town newspapers to survive. Demme worked as a press agent for an independent studio for several years, but he had as many chances of actually directing a film as the guy who made the coffee.
One of the worst parts of doing publicity for films has to be being assigned to some shitty B movie and having to figure out how to make this look like something people might actually want to watch. In Jonathan Demme's case, however, an assignment like that changed his life.
No, we totally understand. Smile it up there, String Tie.
The Sharktopus-Sized Break:
Demme met Corman while working as a publicist for one of his films, a low-budget aviation movie. At the time, Corman was starting a new company and needed to make eight movies as fast as possible. When he found out Demme had written film articles and been involved in producing commercials, Corman thought "Close enough" and hired him to write and produce some films for him.
Again, this could only have happened with Corman, because who else on earth gives that little of a fuck? After a couple of years of working together, Demme asked Corman if he could direct a movie. Corman said "Sure, whatever" and put him in charge of a sexploitation number called Caged Heat. It is exactly what it sounds like.
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If this isn't what you immediately thought, you're dead inside.
While women-in-prison films are usually just an excuse to show a lot of girl-on-girl sex and girl-on-girl violence, Corman allowed Demme to use Caged Heat as a vehicle for social commentary. Social commentary, with titty shots (this wasn't optional). The movie was actually pretty well-reviewed, and to this day it remains one of the highest-rated films in its genre.
Which, when you think about it, is like winning a race against yourself.
The Result:
Demme directed two more films for Corman before moving on to his own work. Said work now includes critically acclaimed movies such as Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia and, more recently, Rachel Getting Married. Some critics see in Caged Heat many of the same themes Demme would tackle in his later work, like sex, repression and female leads that spend a great deal of the movie in jail cells talking to creepy motherfuckers.
As thanks to his mentor, Demme has cast Corman in five of his films -- he played the FBI director in Silence of the Lambs.
"Moths? No, no, no. If you want to sell a movie, you need tits."


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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Food and Feed Safety Research
1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
Design, develop, and evaluate area-wide approaches to aflatoxin elimination using atoxigenic strains of A. flavus. Research characteristics required of processes and equipment for production of inoculum by grower run organizations. Produce inoculum and assess commercial compatibility and efficacy of the area-wide approach.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
In consultation with Arizona growers and gins, an area-wide aflatoxin elimination program based on atoxigenic strain technologies will be designed and tested. Inoculum production will be scaled up and equipment designed and modified to permit production of sufficient inoculum for evaluation of an area-wide program. Requirements for the different stages of inoculum production will be empirically determined. The economics of atoxigenic strain based programs will be assessed and area-wide influences of atoxigenic strain applications will be quantified.
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Steubenville-area churches have announced the following sermon themes for their Sunday services:
-- Bell Chapel United Methodist Church, Steubenville: "The Devil Made Me Do It."
-- Covenant Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Who Is He?" Guest speaker Jack Ernest.
-- Finley United Methodist Church, Steubenville: "Benefits of a Christian Marriage," morning service; "Living the New Life" (part three), evening service.
-- First Christian Church, Disciples, Steubenville: "Go Build My Church."
-- First Church of Christ, Scientist, Steubenville: "Soul."
-- First United Methodist Church, Toronto: "Let's Give It Up."
-- First Westminster Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Dust in the Wind."
-- Harmony United Methodist Church, Mingo Junction: "For Such a Time as This."
-- Rush Run Community Chapel, Rayland: Guest speaker evangelist Cindy Lalich.
Second Baptist Church, Steubenville: "Fulfilling Your Purpose."
-- St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Steubenville: "A Means to an End."
-- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Steubenville: "God Shall Keep You Always," Pastor Terry Mohr.
-- Starkdale Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Singled Out."
Tiltonsville United Methodist Church: "A Scout is Reverent."
-- Wintersville United Methodist Church: "Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit: Serene Peace."
-- Zion United Church of Christ, Steubenville: "Wilderness Companions."


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We sometimes call this or that group/singer a 'Christian' while we do not call others as such. I've once asked here if a certain group could be considered Christian and received vastly different responses. On the other hand there are openly 'Christian' groups whose performances are so stupid one would not wish them be associated with Christianity. So, what are the defining qualities and how one can check if a certain group/singer/songwriter is Christian in their/his/her work
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Much like the definition on this site, the definition of a "Christian" artist tends to be "any group that claims itself as such."
Much of the rise of Western Music can be attributed to the harmonization of the mass and other sacred music - Bach would sign his work "S.D.G," sola Dei gloria - for God's glory alone - but he is rarely considered a "Christian musician." Robert Greenburg in How to Listen to and Understand Great Music delves much more deeply into the historical connection of the church and western music.
In contemporary times, "Christian Contemporary Music," including the likes of Michael W. Smith, Petra, Degarmo & Key, Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman, and similar people, is itself a branding term that tends to encompass a certain style of music that often gets picked up by "praise and worship bands" at contemporary churches. Indeed Jon Acuff (Stuff Christians Like) mentions that these P&W bands often release their own CDs, and clearly fall in this category. Many of the luminaries of the band (e.g. Michael W. Smith) serve as Worship Ministers in their own churches.
Amy Grant, however, helped to define the term when she transitioned from being a "Christian" musician to a more mainstream one. (Russ Taff did the same move but didn't get nearly the same amount of press.) When she released "Baby, Baby," she did so explicitly under the guise that she wanted to do more mainstream stuff. In reaction, many Christians still wanted to claim she was a "Christian artist," despite Grant's desire to "move on."
From the NY Times, 5/11/02:
In 2009, Bob Carlisle's secular "Butterfly Kisses" won the coveted "Song of the Year" from the Gospel Music Association's "Dove Awards" - the premier CCM award. According to industry insiders, the GMA was embarrassed that a song without any "Christian" content was voted the coveted "song-of-the-year". To that end ...
(Reference, but be warned, it gets weird...)
In the end, "Christian" is as much a brand as an actual adjective. The wide spectrum of CCM has no branding authority, so it kind of is was it is.


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WHEELING - Researchers gather at Cabela's at the Highlands this week to discuss the science behind the search for Sasquatch.
The third-annual Strange, Rare and Unusual Sightings Seminar is set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the store.
Events begin at 6 p.m. Friday in the Cabela's Conference Center with a reception featuring Jeff Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University who is recognized as one of the leading scientific authorities on the possibility of the existence of Sasquatch - also called "Big Foot."
The actual seminar will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and there is no charge to attend.
"There is the possibility that Sasquatch exists, and Cabela's supports the scientific research to find out the truth," Bud Forte, retail marketing manager for Cabela's at the Highlands, said. "There is a real possibility there is a bi-pedal creature that inhabits North America and other parts of the world. We don't know the truth, and there are real scientists doing the research."
Meldrum is the author of the book "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science."
Joining him will be researchers Eric Altman, a crpytozoologist and director of the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society; David Dragosin, assistant director; independent researcher Stan Gordon; and Billy Willard, founder of Sasquatch Watch of Virginia.
Many of the participants have seen and made plaster casts of large footprints, Forte noted. These and other plaster casts will be on display for the event. The researchers will show photographs and video of what appears to be Sasquatch taken in multiple locations. There will be eyewitness reports presented at the seminar by people who believe they have seen these creatures.


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In another question, I read that to begin with a budget of 250 Euro max, I could get a bridge camera. But are there any with the possibly to change the lens?
Having a non-interchangeable lens in an SLResque body with a compact-camera image sensor is pretty much the definition of a bridge camera, so I think you are out of luck :)
You might want to look into the four-thirds system instead or one of the other mirrorless jobs, but 250 Euro isn't enough to get into it I think.
It depends on how you define the term. Generally, no.
"Bridge cameras" are a category that "bridges the gap" between point and shoot cameras and something better — where "something better" is usually understood to be a DSLR, and the idea that it's a "bridge" usually implies that it has advanced features and manual control — but it also might mean that it's a relatively bulky superzoom, which might not really offer a lot of control or even high image quality but kinda looks like an SLR, and so "bridges" the difference only in appearance.
Some might even argue that this size/weight similarity is the most important part of the definition, and that relatively advanced compact cameras like the Fujifilm X10 or Canon G12 don't count, because even though they have high image quality and advanced manual control, they're not the right size and shape. Or, someone might put the line somewhere between those two models, arguing that the X10 is too compact to count.
To add to the confusion, in the time since the term was invented there's a new category of cameras: compact mirrorless interchangeable-lens system cameras. The lower end models of these are designed to compete with P&S cameras, and the higher end models to compete with digital SLRs, so in that sense these are very much "bridge" cameras — but since "bridge camera" had a meaning long before this category existed, they typically don't count.
From the point of view of your particular question, the starting price for these interchangeable cameras is generally much above your maximum of €250 — so from that practical standpoint, you are probably out of luck. You may be able to find an older-model or used Olympus Pen or Sony Nex for not too much more — but you should be able find similar-vintage DSLR in the same price range, so if the reason you're looking at this type of camera is simply cost, that doesn't simply the decision.
Assuming that "bridge" is in the old sense (and @mattdm gives a nice explanation here for why it may not), then you still have the option of getting a "bridge" that can accommodate a lens add-on. For example, the Canon S5IS (old, but this is the one I have for reference) has compatible wide angle and tele converters that can be attached to its lens to effectively widen the zoom range of the camera. Surely more modern compacts have similar options.


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When you access a list using web.Lists["Title"], you depend on list title being unchanged. What are the best practices for preventing such failures?
Just to add a SharePoint 2010 slant here - this issue becomes even more important if you have code which uses Linq, since there you have generated classes against the current schema of the list, and failures will occur if this schema changes and the classes are not in sync.
My recommendation here is:
I prefer the first option though. Suggest that's a good way to treat lists which have code written against them, they are effectively 'system/application lists'.
Option 1. Use list GUID for indexing.
This method may fail if the list is recreated from a template.
Option 2. Use the List's Web Relative Url which doesn't change and the web.GetViewFromUrl(url) method.
This will break if the default (AllItems.aspx) view Url is no longer available for the list which is possible but less likely than the List title being changed.
This method may also fail if someone changes the List URL using SharePoint Designer which is even less likely, but still possible.
There is no perfect solution, user should have contribute rights only. User who rename lists is an admin.
Option 1: if you save the site as a template (stp) and create from that template a new one, you will get a new guid for the list.
Option 2: changing url is possible using SPD and


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I am trying to ask a question about getting my hardware to work but I don't know what information to add to my question to get help, what do I need to do?
Related if you don't have access to a GUI:
I am trying to ask a question about getting my hardware to work but I don't know what information to add to my question to get help, what do I need to do?
Related if you don't have access to a GUI:
The most important information you can give is what you've done, what you expected to happen, and what you observe has happened.
This question is a particularly fine example of a hardware-detection problem with a USB device.
Other examples of this could be:
After this general problem description, what other information is interesting depends on what sort of hardware you're having problems with, and what problems you're having.
In general:
For Video problems:
For Audio problems:
Note: If you have a wired connection consider running the all in one wireless script outlined in this answer, it does all the heavy lifting for you!
Wireless Cards
Wireless connectivity issues are fortunately becoming rarer with each Ubuntu release. However problems still occur.
The following information will help diagnose wireless connectivity issues in questions posted on Ask Ubuntu, you can open a terminal by hitting Ctrl-Alt-T and typing in one of these commands, then edit your question to add the information.
How the kernel recognises your network cards
Details of your USB wireless card
This can give a long list depending upon how many USB devices are connected. If in doubt, post the entire list.
Details of your PCI wireless card
This can give a long list depending upon how many PCI devices are fitted. If in doubt, post the entire list.
How to see if a wireless card is soft-blocked or hard-blocked:
Errors whilst connecting
Often you can see useful errors by looking at your kernel logs.
If you attempt to connect via network manager you can see what errors are produced by looking at
Suggested procedure - type
Another useful output is
Searching on Google will sometimes bring results suggesting using NDISWrapper. This is an old technique where obtaining a Windows XP driver can be made to work in Ubuntu.
Generally, this should be avoided in current versions of Ubuntu since the drivers in the kernel have less compatibility issues.
If you have any wireless issues post the results of the four command-line entries above into your question BEFORE trying NDISWrapper.
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures is usually a good starting point if you want to know what information is useful for a bug report.
These might be helpful (depending on the type of hardware):
The following logs will contain details about hardware as it was seen by various system services (kernel, udev, etc) at boot time:
One of the most useful things you can do when describing a hardware issue, is describe what you did, what is connection you are using.
For example:
This kind of information may seem very simple, but it can help to pin point where common problems come from, or if you question may be off topic.
Execute these following commandline tool:
A general problem-solving hint
I've noticed that I often collect data to diagnose a problem by:
First, identifying the problem - what did I do, what did I expect to happen, and what seemed to happen? Can I repeat the problem?
Then, causing the problem to happen, and listing the system's logs in reverse order of modification time:
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I have written about my son, Matteo Filippelli, several times in the past. But I must take this opportunity to acknowledge a new group of student-athletes who will take over where the football team left off. The Brooke High School swim team, its coaches, the boosters and the athletic department have welcomed Matteo as a freshman member of this year's swim team.
Matt started swimming competitively for the Follansbee City Swim League but hasn't done so in the past few years. This year he will get the opportunity to be in the lane next to some of the best swimmers in the Ohio Valley.
This opportunity opens up a new group of student athletes to the world of children who are "handicapable."
I have always tried to treat Matt with the normalcy of other children. The support we have received from the people of Brooke County and the Brooke County school system have allowed me to do this. To their credit they have always been willing to allow him to try new things.
If you are at a Brooke swimming event this year, and you see a young man wearing his dark green belt, just know that he has a great support system in Brooke County. He may be the last one reaching the wall, but he will have everyone on their feet cheering. He'll make you smile and make you feel good about life in general.
Students and parents who have never met Matty are gaining a feeling of acceptance, tolerance and compassion. They will be reminded what true acceptance means. With all the negativity surrounding teenagers these days, my hope is that he will bring something possitive to the Bruins' season.
The coaches, the parents and, most of all, the players, have been amazing. Thank you again for making my son a Bruin in every sense of the word. I truly believe that Brooke has reached the level of "the best of the best" when it comes to high school sports.
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Many tobacco farmers in South Central Kentucky are hanging their hat on a potential federal tobacco buyout, but haven't heard an update on the proposed new bill in a while.
Wednesday on a farm in Hart County, Sen. Mitch McConnell attempted to fill that information gap with an update.
"I'm more optimistic than ever that we'll be able to get this accomplished, and I think we'll know one way or the other by the end of 2004." McConnell says.
The tobacco buyout would pay tobacco farmers out of money from the tobacco settlement in a price-per-pound system, in exchange for ending the current quota payment system.
McConnell says he believes the buyout program could encourage older farmers to get out of the business, and push younger farmers to expand their acreage. "The sad thing is we won't have as many people involved in tobacco farming as we used to, but hopefully it'll still be an important part of KY's agricultural scene," McConnell says.
The House and Senate passed different versions of the buyout bill, so the issue will now head to a conference committee. McConnell and Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) are both on the committee.
President Bush has indicated he will sign a finalized bill, which means farmers could have checks in hand by early 2005.


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farmpuma wrote:It's a problem with the work units. On every system I've tried, a restart deletes all progress and downloads a new work unit.
1 June 10: Upgrade to kernel 2.6.33, Folding 6.29 + build and other minor fixes.
notfred wrote:Sorry but no GPU folding support in it, just SMP.
Dirge wrote:How are you guys booting these machines with no video card installed? I thought the machine would halt when it detected there was no card. Do you need to choose a particular motherboard or BIOS option to get this to work?
Dirge wrote:I can see the advantage of one less expensive part and the reduction in power. Even onboad graphics much chew up some decent amount of power when running 24/7 x 365.
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CANOGA PARK, Calif. – The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) today filed a complaint and motion in the United States District Court of Colorado seeking a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) enjoining enforcement of the recently re-issued federal record-keeping and labeling requirements, 18 U.S.C. § 2257, which are due to go into effect June 23, 2005.
The case is Free Speech Coalition v. Alberto Gonzales, # 05 CV 1126 WDM.
The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of the membership of the Free Speech Coalition by attorneys representing three law firms - Colorado-based Schwartz & Goldberg PC, Sirkin, Pinales & Schwartz LLP of Ohio, and the Buffalo, N.Y.-based law firm of Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria - contains over 20 separate claims on which basis FSC is asking the court to issue a Temporary Restraining Order.
The expectation of the attorneys is that the court will order a hearing on the motion for a TRO before the regulations are scheduled to go into effect, at which time plaintiff attorneys H. Louis Sirkin, Paul J. Cambria, Jr., and Michael W. Gross of Schwartz & Goldberg will present arguments why temporary injunctive relief prohibiting the enforcement of 18 U.S.C. § 2257 should be granted by the court.
The Free Speech Coalition is the trade organization of the adult entertainment industry. Its mission is to safeguard the industry from oppressive governmental regulation and to promote good business practices within the industry.
The Free Speech Coalition can be found at:www.freespeechcoalition.com


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[lube oil]
[lubrication oil]
[synthetic oil]
All hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) facilities use machinery, and every
one of these machines requires lubrication of some type.
Modern, profitability-minded plants thoughtfully manage their
lubrication practices and reap substantial benefits from the
resulting enhanced equipment reliability.
However, not all lubrication practices are cost and
value-optimized. A one-day audit of your lube management
practices may uncover near-zero-cost improvement opportunities
that, if implemented, have paybacks measured in days and may
quickly move the plant into the best-of-class grouping.
During an audit conducted by the authors at a world-scale,
state-of-the-art petrochemical plant in the US, the
lube program was generally judged to be well managed. The plant
had selected a competent supplier of both mineral oils and
synthesized hydrocarbon (synthetic) lubricants.
Management and the reliability group had engaged an
experienced oil analysis laboratory and were certainly aware of
the merits of sound lubrication management. Still, they had to
be encouraged to make changes and improvements. A few
illustrations will serve as examples here and convey part of
the story.
Examples of questionable transfer and storage practices are
shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Many
lube audits uncover unsatisfactory lubricant dispensing
practices; little oversights can have serious negative
consequences. For example, it is important to minimize
contamination on lube carts. Galvanized steel dispensing
containers are frequently attacked by certain lube-oil
additives; therefore, good practices mandate the use of plastic
dispensing containers. Leaving transfer containers open is
simply not acceptable, as shown in Fig. 1A.
Fig. 1A. Leaving a
transfer container uncovered
invites lube contamination and machinery
distress. 1B. Outdoor storage
drums are
notorious for collecting rainwater.
Storage drums should be located and positioned so that water
accumulation is ruled out, as shown in Fig.
1B. Changes in ambient temperature can cause rainwater
on top of the storage drum (see Fig. 2) to be
drawn into the drum via capillary action. Under these
conditions, a drum containing valuable lubricant is, thereby,
rendered unserviceable.
Fig. 2. Ambient
temperature cycling explains the
mechanism for water entering into oil
stored outdoors in the upright position.
Audit findings and recommendations frequently deal with
lubricant contamination. Also, the effective labeling of
points-to-be-lubricated is often found wanting.
Finally, we still find plants that are somewhat arbitrarily
standardizing on less-than-optimum grease
formulations. These facilities are applying incorrect
regreasing practices on thousands of electric motors. We have
seen superior plants experience as few as 14 motor bearing
replacements per 1,000 motors/yr; the average plant bearing
replacement is 156 motor bearing replacements per 1,000
motors/yr. We will spare the reader the statistics of
less-than-average plants.
Suffice it to say that being unaware of best-available
lubrication practices can be expensive. Deviations from best
lubrication practices may incur significant, yet readily
avoidable maintenance and downtime expenses.
Periodic lubrication audits are recommended. Experience shows
that lubrication audits can be extremely cost-effective and
almost always pointing to areas of improvement.
The discussion continues regarding oil lubrication practices
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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I'm planning to play the Big World Project version of the Baldur's Gate games. I'd like to have a standard party with one fighter, one thief, one priest, and one mage.
Which of the NPCs should I take if my goal is to keep them as long as possible? What should be the class of the main character?


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I have a script that includes opening a file from a list and then doing something to the text within that file. I'm using python multiprocessing and Pool to try to parallelize this operation. A abstraction of the script is below:
import os
from multiprocessing import Pool
results = []
def testFunc(files):
for file in files:
print "Working in Process #%d" % (os.getpid())
#This is just an illustration of some logic. This is not what I'm actually doing.
for line in file:
if 'dog' in line:
if __name__=="__main__":
p = Pool(processes=2)
files = ['/path/to/file1.txt', '/path/to/file2.txt']
results = p.apply_async(testFunc, args = (files,))
results2 = results.get()
When I run this the print out of the process id is the same for each iteration. Basically what I'm trying to do is take each element of the input list and fork it out to a separate process, but it seems like one process is doing all of the work.


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Diane von Furstenberg first hit the fashion circuit in 1970 when she moved to New York City for her new husband's job, a suitcase of original creations in hand. The newbie designer's label wound up outlasting the marriage, though, bolstered by the overwhelmingly successful debut of her signature DVF wrap dress — a silhouette inspired by the modern lady's need to make an effortless and quiet morning-after exit — a few years later. Fast forward four decades and the style remains a key part of the DVF brand's blueprint, but with full ready-to-wear and accessories lines to round the selection out.
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Clay Shirky is talking about colleges in his recent article, but it applies pretty closely to those of us in the K-12 world as well:
"I've been thinking about the effects of the internet for a couple of decades now. I've watched industry after industry forced to renegotiate their methods and models, in the face of a medium that allows for perfect copying, global distribution, zero incremental cost, ridiculously easy group-forming: The music business. Newspapers. Travel agents. Publishers. Hotel owners. And while watching, I've always wondered what I'd do when my turn came.
And now here it is. And it turns out my job is to tell you not to trust us when we claim that there's something sacred and irreplaceable about what we academics do. What we do is run institutions whose only rationale—whose only excuse for existing—is to make people smarter.
Sometimes we try to make ourselves smarter. We call that research. Sometimes we try to make our peers smarter. We call that publishing. Sometimes we try to make our students smarter. We call that teaching. And that's it. That's all there is. These are important jobs for sure, and they are hard jobs at times, but they're not magic. And neither are we."
If that wasn't enough, the article finishes with this:
"Instead, like every threatened profession, I see my peers arguing that we, uniquely, deserve a permanent bulwark against insurgents, that we must be left in charge of our destiny, or society will suffer the consequences. Even the record store clerks tried that argument, back in the day. In the academy, we have a lot of good ideas and a lot of practice at making people smarter, but it's not obvious that we have the best ideas, and it is obvious that we don't have all the ideas. For us to behave as if we have—or should have—a monopoly on educating adults is just ridiculous."
I can hear the sacred cows beginning to stampede from here.


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Tonight is bakery night so just a small post about muffins (again!). We had about 25 old bananas clogging up the freezer so I thawed them out and made a whole whack of muffins. These are just a variation on my hearty apple muffins and protein power muffins. I also tried to make a banana walnut pudding cake (yes, I am a one trick dessert pony) but I need one more try to get it right.
Makes 12 large muffins
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup wheat bran
- 1/4 cup oat bran
- 2 cups pureed banana
- 1/3 cup canola oil (or applesauce)
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease a muffin tin.
2. Divide batter into muffin tins and bake for 18-20 mins, until a toothpick comes out clean.


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Harper's Bazaar And Katy Perry Riff On Iconic 50s Vogue
- Katy Perry, shot by Alexi Lubomirski for the subscriber cover of the new Harper's Bazaar, looks gorgeous, if a bit crusty-lipped. She also looks a lot like Jean Patchett on the iconic Erwin Blumenfeld Vogue cover from January, 1950. [JustJared]


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- On bikes, trikes, scooters, skateboards and go-carts, 250 K-State freshmen showed off vehicles they designed and built for their Intro to Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering course.
The challenge- each of the vehicles had to carry a person and were powered only by small 18 volt cordless drills.
They showed off their creations Tuesday at K-State's engineering complex.
"They had to investigate the drill, figure out what RPM, what torque it had, look at different possible configurations, evaluate those then do the detailed design work for that. Then the real work is actually implementing that design- how do you go about building these and testing them," explained Greg Spaulding, assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering
"There's a lot of work that goes into the design project, the design process. We spent countless hours in the shop building," added freshman Emmett Hull.
The class was divided into 35 teams and the teams worked to keep their designs a secret until the big reveal and parade Tuesday.
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I normally wear a cotton t-shirt when I ride. If I get a bike jersey, how much difference will the reduced air resistance make at, for example, 20 mph? I realize it's not possible to be precise, but I am wondering how much difference it makes.
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No, you will not ride faster in any meaningful way unless you're doing time trials at an elite level where mere seconds (or less) of improvement are gained through optimizing a long list of equipment (with clothing in the middle of that list). As always, the overwhelming determinant of performance is training.
The real reason for wearing a jersey is the following:
This page contains a table with improvements that can be made with various aero clothing and equipment. Unfortunately the baseline is already a cycling jersey, not a standard cotton t-shirt. Given the improvements that clothing can provide though I would suggest the bike jersey would make a pretty big difference.
For me, though the big improvement is in comfort. A sweat wicking jersey is so much more comfortable than a wet, heavy cotton t-shirt.
There are several differences between a plain cotton t-shirt and a cycling jersey. @Mac has already highlighted the sweat wicking potential. Some jerserys are tailored, so they'll certainly be more comfortable and possible aero-dynamic.
After all a tight t-shirt won't necessarily be worse aero-dynamically - it might flap around less, aside from the different flow properties of the chosen materials.
Many jerseys have other attributes though: pockets, zips, reflective strips, longer backs - all of these things might help make other aspects of your attire more stream-lined.
If you want to be precise, this page originally by Rainer Pivit but found on the excellent Sheldon Brown site has the relevant formula.
In short - the effort required to reach and maintain a given speed is a combination of overcoming the forces of gravity, friction and wind resistance. The key factor in reducing wind resistance is minimizing the frontal area of the bike and the rider. A tight, form fitting t-shirt or cycling jersey will provide some benefit, and will reduce the 'parachute' effect of flapping clothing. But at the rates of speed we are talking about for recreational or utility cycling, the impact will be minimal.
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STEUBENVILLE — City Manager Cathy Davison Saturday announced the launch of SteubenvilleFact....
This website is going to do nothing. The people that think there is a cover up, are not going to be convinced otherwise by a website that was produced by the city. The rumors have already been started. It's too little too late. Maybe if this would have taken place months ago when talk of a possible cover up was beginning maybe it could of accomplished something.
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UNTIL ABDALLA, McCAFFERTY and HANLIN are GONE, the COVER UP CONTINUES. The RAPE CREW walks free,in Jefferson Co. But JEFF. Cty, did not count on AMERICANS watching. NO MORE ARRESTS after a child is brutally attacked, again & again. THE WORLD HAS YOUR NUMBER MAGGOT LOVERS!
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According to what I have learned in higher education schooling, unless you have an AUTHOR that can be verified, and unless you have citations regarding what is being said, the papers, documents, websites, etc.., can not be used as a credible history or source.
This site mentioned has none of these. This site is no more useful to reporting FACTS as any other BLOG site on the web.
If you want to have a valid site put up, post the author, post links regarding the laws, statements, official links etc.., AND please use a proper domain hosting site if you want to be credible. A **** site that kicks you to a **** is NOT credible enough to be considered "FACTS". If you can afford the domain name, at least be able to afford more then $8.00 a month to have it remain as your domain.
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Sorry, the *** is blocking out web domain types. In order my words blocked were, ORG and COM
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Should be titled "SteubenvilleLies" or "LittleChicagoFacts"
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Masked terrorists, I really wonder how you have helped bring any justice to the victim. Your claims are rediculous and silly. Please take off your masks they may be obstructing your view of the facts. The case is to be tried very soon in a real court. It will not be tried by masked conspiracy theorists.
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NEW MANCHESTER - For two years, David Cline has fought a losing battle to overturn a levy that funds the Hancock County Animal Shelter, maintaining it amounts to taxpayer support of a private humane society.
Cline, a Weirton resident, former city councilman, steelworker and former Hancock County commissioner, has devoted a great deal of time to this issue, and, without benefit of legal representation, twice has sued the county commission to have the levy overturned. Both of Cline's lawsuits were dismissed in Hancock County Circuit Court, and he appealed both rulings to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Justices ruled in the county's favor on the first appeal in a decision handed down earlier this month, while the second case remains pending before justices.
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State law requires counties to deal with stray animals as a matter of public health. But Cline believes taxpayer-supported activity at the "low-kill" Hancock County Animal Shelter goes beyond those statutory obligations.
County commissioners contract with the private, non-profit Hancock County Animal Shelter Foundation to operate the county-owned facility on Gas Valley Road outside New Manchester. In addition to providing a place for the county to deal with animals seized by its dog warden, the shelter also accepts animals that residents voluntarily surrender, and in most cases cares for them until they are adopted.
The shelter "turns no animal in need away," its website states. Court documents quote an August 2010 letter from a shelter official to county commissioners, describing the foundation's mission as "to care for all healthy and adoptable animals until they find their forever homes."
"I think that is an admirable and a wonderful thing they're doing," Cline said, adding, "That doesn't mean it's the taxpayers' responsibility."
Cline is frustrated that none of the rulings handed down thus far directly addresses the central question of his lawsuits - whether he, as a taxpayer, can be obligated to provide care "to an unlimited amount of animals for an unlimited amount of time." He's hoping justices will grant his remaining appeal before the high court and send the matter back to Hancock County Circuit Court for a hearing on that issue.
Hancock County taxpayers will contribute about $275,000 to the animal shelter this year - $175,000 through the general fund to pay for the county's contract to operate the shelter, and $100,000 through a property tax levy.
Cline doesn't dispute the county's authority to contract with a private foundation to operate the shelter, but his lawsuit alleges county commissioners have no authority under state law to put an excess levy to support that foundation on the ballot.
Cline also takes issue with the automatic renewal of the county's contract with the foundation each year without a competitive bidding process - and questions why the county can't fund the planned expansion and improvements at the shelter without the benefit of an excess levy, when it had almost $6 million in its capital improvement fund, $3.4 million in its "special projects" fund and almost $3.2 million in a "rainy day" fund as of March 31.
Commission President Jeff Davis said he had yet to read the Supreme Court's ruling and would not comment on it.
He also declined to comment on Cline's continuing objections to the county's relationship with the shelter. Commissioner Dan Greathouse also said he hadn't seen the high court's ruling. But he believes the public has made its wishes known concerning the shelter.
"The voters of Hancock County continue to vote the levy in. I think the voters have spoken, and that's plain and clear. ... They agree with the direction that the animal shelter is going," Greathouse said.
Following is a timeline of events related to Cline's legal challenge of the animal shelter levy:
July 26, 2011 - Cline files his initial lawsuit in Hancock County Circuit Court, about a month after commissioners called for a special election on the levy to provide $100,000 in annual funding for three years ending June 30, 2015.
Sept. 23, 2011 - Following a hearing, now-retired Circuit Judge Arthur Recht decides he will wait until after the election to rule on the lawsuit, pointing out the issue would be moot if the levy fails.
Oct. 4, 2011 - The animal shelter levy indeed fails, falling less than 1 percent short of the 60-percent margin required for passage.
January 2012 - County officials move successfully to have Cline's lawsuit dismissed as moot.
March 1, 2012 - County commissioners order an almost identical levy placed on the May 8, 2012, primary election ballot. This levy call is for four years.
May 8, 2012 - Hancock County voters approve the second levy, with about 65 percent in favor.
June 4, 2012 - Recht enters his final order dismissing Cline's 2011 lawsuit as moot. Cline petitions to have his case reopened in light of the county's successful attempt to pass an animal shelter levy.
June 19, 2012 - Recht denies Cline's petition, ruling the matter is political, not judicial. Cline appeals this ruling to the West Virginia Supreme Court.
July 9, 2012 - Cline tries a different tactic, obtaining signatures from 43 other Hancock County taxpayers and filing for a "writ of supersedeas" to rescind the levy, which the court may consider under state law upon the petition of at least 24 taxpayers.
Oct. 26 - During a status hearing before Circuit Judge David Sims, county officials question whether Cline, who is not a licensed attorney, can speak on behalf of his fellow petitioners.
Oct. 31 - Sims dismisses the second suit, writing, "Disputes and concerns with the operation and administration of the (animal shelter) should be addressed with the Hancock County Commission and not this court." Cline also appeals this ruling to the state Supreme Court, asking justices to send the matter back to circuit court for a ruling on the validity of the levy's purpose.
July 8 - The Supreme Court rules in favor of county officials in Cline's original lawsuit, agreeing the failure of the levy on Oct. 4, 2011, rendered the issue moot, based on the timing of the lawsuit and the fact the second levy call was for four years while the first was for three.


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In Shemuel I (3:1) the Pasuk tells us that prophecy was a very rare phenomenon. How, then, did 'Eli realize that Shemuel was receiving prophecy and not merely dreaming?
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Radak (to v. 8) explains simply: one or two times it might indeed have been Shmuel's imagination (thinking in his sleep that someone was calling him), but three times means that Shmuel really had heard something. Since no one else was there except Eli and Shmuel, Eli understood that it must be a Divine voice.
He also quotes Ibn Ezra, who says that it's because Eli himself hadn't heard anything. If it was a human voice, then once Eli had established (as above) that Shmuel wasn't just imagining things, he should have been able to hear it too. The only way, then, that Shmuel could hear a voice and Eli not, would be if it was a prophecy addressed directly to Shmuel.


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How can I get the position of tile 14 (or any other) when only knowing the following:
Tile ID: 14
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The end result should be 2x4.
How can I get the position of tile 14 (or any other) when only knowing the following:
The end result should be 2x4.
so in most programming languages your example would be:
Such a bijective mapping is much easier to express if your tile indices and rows/columns are zero-based.
If you look at the column numbers, as the column number increases by one, so does the tile index. More particularly, there's a pattern that for each row, it starts on a multiple of the row width, and increases by one.
This means that if we could get rid of that term, we would have our column number.
The modulus operator (commonly % in most languages) will take a number in a range [0,n) and map it to the values 0 through n-1, wrapping around.
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STEUBENVILLE — Staff, faculty, family and friends were on hand Sunday to witness the city high school Class of 2013 receive awards, honors and scholarships during the 41st-annual Steubenville High......
This article has nothing to do with Reno, sports, or Big Red football at all. Give it a rest and move on with your pathetic lives people. Bashing Steubenville will get you nowhere in life. Congrats to all of the 2013 Steubenville high school graduates
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automan260, Remember the fottball record in the graduating class of 1978 ? I do. 2 - 10 ans since "Da Red" left the All American Conference , went Independent, plays a laughable weak schedule, and hired an egotistical blow hard as head coach, he and the school can do no wrong from grade fixing to intimidating teachers not towing the line!
It's sad these accomplished academia award winners are overshadowed by the evil sadistic culture known as " Roll Red Roll ". The world has an image & opinion of the violent crime eyesore known as Steubenville and from other coaches and theologians they point to Steubenville and lecture " Don't be like them ! "
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Maybe the coach can be the commencement speaker and explain why it's important to shield rapists and how football triumphs over morality. The principal can tell the community always to take the high road,as he has done by following orders given to him by the coach. The superintendent and the school board can offer a prayer praising the coach (and hid extra administrative contract)and damning the victim, just as they have done before. The grand jury clock is ticking on them all
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You people are pathetic. What on earth would make you troll a high school academic awards article with bull like that? Is your life so lonely that you need to crap on the great accomplishments of so many good kids? All schools have their issues. This one has recoverd quite nicely and if you had an ounce of values, you would recognize it and move on as these kids and this school had to. Get a life!! From a proud 1978 Graduate of Steubenville High School
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In Parashat Vayetzeh, Yaakov goes to Lavan's house, but prior to his arrival he meets up with Rachel. Shockingly, the Pasuk says that he kissed her and cried (29:11). How exactly are we to understand this episode? Do we not say that the Avot kept the whole Torah before it was given, and can we not assume that the righteous Yaakov would not do something so immodest as to kiss a girl he isn't married to yet - in public?
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Many commentaries have offered explanations to this issue. Even if you disregard societal differences of modesty or niddah concerns, there are other possibilities. Here are a few:
Rachel was too young to arouse passion
Ramban argues:
The Seforno indicates (on 29:18) that Jacob had to work so long for Lavan so that she be old enough to marry:
Jacob was related to her and old.
This argument bolsters the first and is usually explained concurrently. As the Seforno comments, this is why in the verse after the kiss does Jacob tell Rachel that they're related :
In this case, being related and the age gap permitted it in the spirit of the halacha (Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer 21:7) that parents can kiss their young children.
Jacob kissed her head/shoulder/hand or blew her a kiss
Ramban offers this other explanation. He refers to Ibn Ezra's commentary on Jacob kissing Isaac (27:27). In both cases, the verb "kiss" is following by the preposition "to" or "towards." This could mean that he didn't actually kiss her, or that it wasn't on the lips. Ramban writes:
It seems that explanation softens the potentially erotic conjuring of kissing.
There are other explanations, especially kabbalistic ones, but these are the most common peshat explanations.
The gemaroh in Kesubos daf 17 says that Rav Acha danced with the kallah on his shoulder. When the Chochomim asked if they were allowed to also? He answered - if she is like a beam in your eyes then you could do it too. But if not then certainly not. That was all only in those days when they were on a tremendously higher level then us today. Nowadays, shulchan aruch (pischei tshuva on Even Haezer 65:1) rules that we are not allowed to because nobody could say that holding the bride effects him like a wooden beam.