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Half scratch recipe exchange!
please share a recipe that is simple and uses a store bought mix-
BUT does not follow instructions from the mix. and has a different result
my example
Wine Cake a super great moist delicious cake
1 yellow cake mix
4 eggs
3/4cup oil
3/4 cup white wine/apple juice
1 tsp nutmeg
1 small box instant vanilla pudding
oher variations
choc- sub cake mix and pudding for choc. sub wine for milk remove nutmeg
white. sub cake mix and wine with milk
lemon sub cake a d pudding mix. juice witb lemonade or OJ nutmeg with zest
strawberry. sub pudding and mix witb strawberry. juice with a bery juice
thats all ive tried but im sure it would work with many variatikns
350 degree oven 45 minutes greased bunddt pan
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for an extra fluffy cake use soda instead of water
ex: use mtdew in a lemon cake, sprite in a white cake, drpepper in a strawberry--be careful:chococake does tend to turn into a bubbly mess
try using a white cake mix with a can of fruit cocktail (use the juice in place of water) and use applesauce in place of oil for the best "fruit cake" you'll ever want to make again.
try a red velvet cake mix with chocochips(full bag) in it for the best cookies.
My Dad, of all people, forwarded this on to me several weeks ago. The man has such a sweet tooth.
This recipe allows for individual small cakes ready to eat in one minute.
1 box Angel Food Cake Mix
1 box Cake Mix - Any Flavor
2 Tbsp Water
Makes 1 serving.
In a Ziploc bag, combine the two cake mixes together and combine well.
For each individual cake serving, measure out 3 Tablespoons of the cake mix combination into a small microwave-safe container.
Add 2 tablespoons of water, mixing well.
Microwave on high for 1 minute, and Bazinga! Instant single serving cake.
Store remaining dry mixture in the ziploc bag for later use. Cake toppings are limited only by your imagination & culinary skills.
Can't vouch for the recipe.
@moosezilla: My Dad makes what he calls a "Dump Cake" in a sheet cake pan with a can of fruit cocktail including the juice, white cake mix and if memory serves, there's a stick of butter in there somewhere too. My youngest says it's worth fighting over the last serving.
What fun to see this question. We have 4 birthdays this week and I made the cake for our celebration dinner tonight using a yellow cake mix, mixing in one banana, a can of pineapple, mango, and papaya fruits, using the juice in lieu of water, no added oil, 3 eggs. It was moist and just the right amount of sweet. Topped it with a frosting made of cream cheese mixed with fresh heavy cream, vanilla, and sugar with some strawberries to decorate.
@lavikinga - The 3,2,1 cake sounds great! Thanks for posting it.
@lavikinga: my sister's Dump Cake is my favorite:
1 can (16 oz.) crushed pineapple
1 can (20 oz.) cherry pie filling
1 pkg. yellow cake mix
1/2 to 2/3 c. slivered almonds
1 stick of butter cut into thin slices
Grease a 9 x 13 inch pan. Dump in the pineapple and juice, spreading evenly. Pour cherry pie filling over the pineapple, spreading evenly. Add dry cake mix evenly over the fruit. Add almonds, then lay butter slices all over the top. Do not mix. Bake in a 350 degree oven 1 hour.
And yes, we fight over the last pieces.
@magic cave: Yep, that's his recipe. More often than not, he'll use chopped pecans rather than almonds. He made it for/with my youngest last year ("building memories" he calls it & she was 23 last year!). The conversation between the two was amusing. "Are you SURE you're not supposed to drain the fruit?...You're doing this from memory?...But are you sure you don't need a bowl?...An ENTIRE stick of butter? Wow! Just like Paula Deen the Butter Queen!"
My Dad's responses consisted of "yup" and "just watch and learn."
Next to Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa Cake, she swore it was the best cake she had ever eaten. And yes, she loved that stupid Kwanzaa Cake in all its hideousness. I had to make that abomination for her birthday one year. What a mother does for her child!
@kophia: I might have to try this one for my DH. He loves his pineapple & mango!
@lavikinga: My sister got the recipe from my mother, who passed away in 1976, which gives us all an indication of how long it's been around. I just loved the comments from your daughter, by the way.
And I want to save the one-serving cake recipe your dad sent, too. With just two of us in the house, a full-size cake either gets stale before we can finish it or we eat too much of it too quickly to be healthy.
@magic cave: Do what my sister kids about: Slice a cake in half. Two slices, two servings. Of course, this is coming from the same person who told me she considered a "personal sized" bag of Ruffles to be the one that either "fits over you're head or fits your foot."
I've got a cookbook from some stupid high school fundraiser I participated in at the tail end of the 70s and I'll bet the dump cake recipe is in there, along with the vinegar, cocoa powder "Wacky Cake." Funny. Hadn't thought of that in awhile. My Dad's Dad did the same thing with me as my Dad did with my daughter. Building memories. Guess it works :)
@lavikinga: Two slices, two servings is pretty close to what we usually do, alas. It works out closer to six slices, six servings, but even that's more than what is healthy for two older, diabetic adults. More fun, of course, but much less "good."
This entire thread set me to rummaging around in a box of recipes I've collected since I was in my 20's, and the contrast of how we cooked then and what we try to cook now is both surprising and saddening. Dammit, I miss all those butter, salt, and dairy-laden dishes!
Mix together a box of spice cake mix (I usually use Duncan Hines), 1 tablespoon of water and a can of pureed pumpkin, 16 oz or so. Pour into prepared muffin tins (I usually use the paper muffin cups) and bake, in a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes (actually, haven't made them for a while and I'm not sure on the amount of time, but check on the cake mix to see what it says). These make tasty, not too sweet-but sweet enough, low cal muffins.
@magic cave: I know what you mean! I was looking at my grandmother's old recipies the other day. Those recipies make Paula Dean's recipies look like they're low-cal! Odd, though they ate all that fat, butter, sugar and salt, they didn't have the obesity epidemic we to today; probably because they didn't have all the things we have today to make our lives easier, resulting in far less phycial activity. Oh, well, I guess you can't have it both ways!
I get the Hamburger Helper Cheesy Hashbrowns mix and use breakfast sausage instead of hamburger. Seriously, who would eat that with ground beef? It was made for sausage!! Bake up some biscuits on the side and serve it for breakfast with some eggs. I've also been known to eat it for dinner.
I tend to add/change something in nearly every box meal I eat. It may be as simple as more cheese or adding meat or veggies, but I like to change it up.
Man, half what I eat is half scratch. The most popular chip dip in my house is one small onion and one small tomato, chopped and sauteed in butter or olive oil with 4oz Taco Cabana pico de gallo. Add one side serving of Taco Cabana refried beans and one side serving of TC rice, and a like amount of frozen corn. Stir in 4-6oz of Monterrey Jack or pepperjack cheese till it melts. Serve hot with tortilla chips. Serve it in a crock pot or other heated dish if you want it to stand around. Leftovers freeze well.


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Is there a relatively reliable way of calculating the time until sunset, without any specialist equipment, when I'm in the wilderness?
One method I've found to be particularly reliable is the finger method - hold your arm straight out in front of you, facing towards the setting sun like so:
Place your hand so your little finger is level with the horizon, and your fingers are stacked on top of each other. Each finger represents around 15 minutes of sunlight before the sun sets behind the horizon.
This method can be used relatively accurately up to two hours before sunrise, by using both hands.
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I am using Ubuntu 13.04 since today and I am missing the split screen function in Nautilus. Is there any way to patch Nautilus so that this amazing function is usable again?
Among other features that were unfortunately removed in Nautilus 3.6 (used by Ubuntu 13.04 by default) was the extra pane/split screen, invoked using F3. It was removed because the GNOME developers thought it didn't work well on touch screens and that placing one Nautilus to one side of the screen with another to the opposite side fulfilled the same purpose. It doesn't, but I'm not a developer! Links to the bug and the commit.
One way to get the feature back is to install a patched version of the older Nautilus 3.4. The easiest way to do so is to add a PPA managed by the good people at webupd8.org. Unfortunately this patch version is only available for Ubuntu 12.04 and the now-unsupported 12.10 and 13.04 releases.
Run these commands in a terminal:
N.B.: The instructions contain a warning, namely that if the dist-upgrade command attempts to remove packages, there is a problem and you should not continue. Otherwise things should be fine.
For Ubuntu 14.04 you'll need to patch Nautilus manually. This answer can get you started, but unfortunately I can't find what to patch exactly.
The simplest option is to change file managers. Nemo is quite similar to what Nautilus used to be. Yet Another User mentions below that it is in the repositories, but this webupd8.org PPA will install the newest version:
There are two workarounds I've found to approximate this feature.
To restore all of the features that they "rem(impr)oved" in nautilus 3.6, the simplest way is to install Nemo, which was forked by the Mint developers because of the removed features. Because it's included in ubuntu 13.04, you don't need to add any extra apt repository. Just
I think that The Gnome Developers are not in correct path. I use Nautilus in PC, no in a tablet!
My workaround: I installed "SunFlower File Manager" :
The version of Nautilus that came with Ubuntu 12.10 had the split screen. So you can consider to downgrade Nautilus to that older version.
You will need Synaptic Package Manager. If you don't have it, because normally it comes not with a default Ubuntu installation, you can download it from the Ubuntu Software Center.
But there's a little problem. If you've only one version of a package, you can't force another version. So, if you're in Ubuntu 13.04 (raring) you need to add the software repository from Ubunt 12.10 (quantal).
The easiest way to add that repository is with the Software & Upgrades Programs. In that program you choose the tab 'Other Software' and 'Add'. In the popup screen you add on the APT line:
and save. Now you have to open Synaptic Package Manager and hit the Reload button.
Select the Nautilus Package, and hit Ctrl-E or in the menu select Package - Force version. Then select the version of Nautilus that came with Ubuntu 12.10 You will see other packages that have to be downgraded.
To keep that downgraded version, so it's not updated anymore, you have to lock it. So in the menu choose Package - Lock Version.
To start Nautilus in its downgraded version, you have to logout, and to login.
That's all!
I used information that I found originally on this page.
Googling around I found a couple of interesting links:
a patch to bring back some nautilus features. (This this patch is only intended for use with Ubuntu 12.04 and Nautilus 3.4.2)
Some discussion about it at Ubuntu
a fork from mint guys
a list of missing features (and a poll)
So it seems that the nautilus affaire has been discussed in lenght, I wonder what decision the Ubuntu dev team finnally made...
There's been a nice article at webupd8 with a tutorial how.
Long story short: Install the (SolusOS) patched Nautilus 3.4
The quickest workaround approximation I have found in 13.04 is a two step process:
1) drag title bar of open nautilus window to an edge of the screen (left or right)
2) hit Ctrl + N
The default behaviour of the New window is to open in the remaining space.
Still twice as many steps as F3 but tolerable if you don't want to go through a downgrade or patch.
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Iraq War Veteran Joins Lawsuit Filed by Constitutional Litigation Clinic Challenging Constitutionality of War
September 08, 2008 –Iraq war veteran William Joseph Wheeler was added today to the lawsuit pending in the Federal District Court in Newark challenging the legality of the war in Iraq absent a Congressional declaration.
The lawsuit was filed originally in May on behalf of New Jersey Peace Action (NJPA) and two mothers of Iraq war veterans who are part of Military Families Speak Out. The Amended Complaint was filed today by plaintiffs' attorneys, Professor Frank Askin of the Rutgers School of Law–Newark Constitutional Litigation Clinic and Bennet Zurofsky of Newark, the general counsel of NJPA.
Wheeler, who resides in Windsor, California, was honorably discharged from the Army in 2004 after serving nearly three years in Iraq as a member of the 240th Forward Surgical Team, and was part of the original Iraq invasion force. He was among the first U.S. troops establishing control over the Tikrit airfield. He is subject to recall to duty until May 2009.
"I and my comrades in arms were ordered to invade and occupy Iraq as a result of an unconstitutional order issued by President George W. Bush," Wheeler stated. "For a long period of time, we were subject to hostile mortar attacks on a nightly basis, and were all subject to emotional, psychological, and physical effects arising from the ordeal of combat, all because of the President's illegal war."
The suit alleges that Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution prohibits the President from launching an offensive war against a sovereign nation without a clear Declaration of War by Congress. The Complaint sets forth in great detail the history of the adoption of Article I, Section 8 by the Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787. It notes that Thomas Jefferson, who was stationed in Paris during the Convention, congratulated the delegates for having "chained the dog of War" by assigning the war-declaring authority to Congress, and declining to allow one individual to exercise that awesome power.
The lawsuit seeks only a Declaratory Judgment that the President may not wage an offensive war against a sovereign nation absent a clear Congressional vote. It does not ask the Court to interfere with the hostilities in Iraq. But it does note the necessity for a judicial declaration in light of recent presidential threats involving Iran, Georgia, and Pakistan.
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A boy on the beach – Flickr pic of the day
This photograph of a boy on the beach was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Casian Johnson Wright.
Says Casian Johnson Wright: "This picture was taken at Big Bay on one of those glorious Cape Town winter weekends when the sun sparkles and dances on the waves, inviting everyone to take a walk on the beach. Amid the weekend hustle and bustle at Eden on the Bay, I encountered the silhouette of a little boy, quietly reflecting – almost a reversal of roles as it usually is the ocean that calms us.
I really enjoyed that moment when time stood still and hope that the mood is successfully reflected in the picture I took."
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Stokes Co., NC -- State health leaders are trying to contain a measles outbreak.
Health officials confirmed 19 cases of the outbreak in Stokes, Orange, and Polk counties. One of the cases was identified in a student at North Stokes High School according to the Stokes County Health Department. All students at the school have been vaccinated for the measles. School officials are working to make sure administrators, teachers, staff and visitors have proof they've had the MMR vaccine.
Scott Lenhart, Stokes County Health Director said the majority of the cases are associated with Prabhupada Village Community.
"We are cautioning Stokes County residents, especially those who are not immunized, to avoid visiting the Prabhupada Village Community until the outbreak is over," said Lenhart.
The Stokes County Health Department is advising anyone who thinks they've been exposed and are not vaccinated to be immunized within 72 hours of exposure to fight against developing the disease. The Measles Vaccination is free of charge and available at the Stokes County Health Department.
Lenhart also recommends that anyone, "not vaccinated should avoid any highly populated public events and gatherings in Stokes County during the outbreak."
Measles is highly contagious and is spread through coughing, sneezing, and contact with secretions from the nose, mouth, and throat of an infected person.
Symptoms include a fever over 101 F degrees, runny nose, watery red eyes, and a cough. A rash appears on the face and spreads over the body after a few days. If you've got measles you're considered contagious for four days before and after the rash appears.
Complications from the measles can include pneumonia, infection of the central nervous system, and could result in death. If you think you have the measles contact your doctor or health provider immediately.
For more information call the Stokes County Health Department at (336)593-2400.
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I like to talk my dad through games but it can be difficult without seeing his screen. Is there a remote desktop-type product that would allow me to "stream" his screen while in DirectX?
I assume since you are talking about Direct X that both you and your father are on PCs.
What you are looking for is a VNC program. However, the problem you will run into is that DirectX runs on the local hardware it is executed on. Therefore it renders only on that particular computer's video card and monitor directly.
Are you both inside one network (wired) connection or in remote locations (or over wireless)? More bandwidth might be required for minimum slowdowns.
UltraVNC uses the GPU for graphics processing, but it might not work particularly well depending on your system specs and the amount of action going on on the other side. Depending on the game you are running, you might need to disable "WinVNC video hook driver" (in your Device Manager under Display Adapters dropdown) on the computer hosting the VNC connection. If things are running too slow try reducing the color settings in UltraVNC.
It's not really possible. You may be able to do something similar with OnLive.


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Reviewers: John Han-Chih Chang, MD
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology 1999; Volume 17: pages 832 - 845
The initial mainstay of treatment is surgical resection. The extent of resection (biopsy only versus subtotal versus total) has beenfound to be a significant factor for outcome favoring those patients in whom a total resection can be performed. Adjuvantpost-operative radiation therapy (RT) and/or chemotherapy (ChT) is the next step since few are cured by surgery alone. In manystudies post-operative RT has been proven to improve survival over surgery alone. In recent years, ChT has come to the forefrontas adjuvant treatment post-operatively. It was suggested that ChT could be used in concert or instead of RT. The InternationalSociety of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) performed a study of surgery and post-operative RT versus the same treatment with theaddition of vincristine, CCNU and prednisone (VCP regimen). In high-risk patients, there was a significant benefit in survival for theVCP arm of the trial. Similar favorable results for the addition of ChT for high-risk patients were obtained from a study conducted bythe Children's Cancer Study Group (CCSG) in association with the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG). The PediatricOncology Group (POG) also ran a randomized trial of postoperative RT versus RT plus MOPP ChT. Again survival appeared to beimproved with the addition of ChT.
Thus, the goal is the optimization of ChT. "What kind" and "how much" are the questions that needed to be addressed. Recentphase II trials have touted the success of the 8-in-1 ChT regimen in response and survival data. The VCP regimen from the SIOPstudy has been a benchmark. This study from the Children's Cancer Group (CCG) attempted to answer the nagging questions ofwhat ChT agents would be the most optimal.
Surgical resection or biopsy was performed on all patients. Staging was based on neurosurgeon's report, postoperative CT, MRI ormyelography, spinal fluid for cytology and bone marrow.
Arm 1 ChT consisted of 8 vincristine (1.5mg/m2) weekly injections during RT, followed by 8 6-week cycles of weekly vincristine(1.5mg/m2) x 3 weeks, CCNU (lomustine 100 mg/m2) on day 1 and prednisone on days 1 - 14. Arm 2 ChT consisted of 2 courses of8-in-1 treatment, which is composed of vincristine (1.5 mg/m2), methylprednisolone (300 mg/m2 x 3 per day), CCNU (75mg/m2),hydroxyurea (1.5 g/m2), procarbazine (75 mg/m2), cisplatin (60 mg/m2), cyclophosphamide (300 mg/m2) and cytarabine (300 mg/m2) allgiven over the course of 24 hours. The 2 courses were separated by 14 days and subsequent RT began 14 days after the secondcycle. After the RT, 8 more cycles of 8-in-1 was delivered every 6 weeks.
In both arms, the RT to the primary site was delivered prior to full craniospinal irradiation (CSI) to allow for some bone marrowrecovery in arm 2. Those patients 3 years of age or older received a total of 54 Gy to the primary site and 36 Gy to the CSI axis. Thosethat were younger received only a total of 45 Gy to the primary site and 23.4 Gy to the CSI axis. Those that had spinal metastaseswere also given 14.4 - 18 Gy total boost to areas of bulk disease. Based on thedesign of the trial, patients in arm 2 were scheduled tohave a delay of approximately 28 days in their RT relative to arm 1.
Further analysis was then performed on 188 patients in whom pathology was confirmed with a central review. The others had eitherdiscordant pathology or were not available for review. Seven-year estimates of OS and PFS were 55% and 56%, respectively. Again,arm 1 with VCP was superior in 5-year PFS to arm 2 (64% versus 47%). Of those that relapsed, 50% had died within 6 months of theirfirst relapse. Two-year OS for those that relapsed was 9%.
The analysis of prognostic factors begins with patient age. Those 1.5 to less than 3 years of age per protocol had received less dose(9 Gy less) than their older counterparts. The PFS is also much worse if younger than 3 years of age. No difference was seenbetween ages 1.5 - 1.9 years versus 2.0 - 2.9 years. The 5-year PFS in ages 1.5 - 2.9 years was 32% versus 56 - 61% for those 3 - 21years (figure 5). Subsequent analyses were then performed with patients 3 years old and older.
Chang M stage was determined to be a statistically significant prognostic factor in those children older than 3 years. The 5-year PFS's for M0, M1 (microscopic cells in the CSF) and M2 - 4 (gross nodular seeding in the cerebellum, cerebral or spinalsubarachnoid space, 3rd or 4th ventricles, or extraneural axis) were 70%, 57% and 40%, respectively. Chang T stage was not astatistically significant prognostic factor when corrected for M stage.
Extent of surgical resection did seem to be a prognostic factor for the M0 subset of patients (n = 86) older than 3 years. The PFS at5-years of those who had less than 1.5 cm2 residual disease on CT or MRI was 78%. This greatly exceeds the 54% 5-year PFS ofthose that had 1.5 cm2 or more residual.
Toxicity data demonstrated much more increased toxicity (grades 3 and 4) in the 8-in-1 arm over the VCP arm. Hematologic toxicityfor each cycle of the 8-in-1 was two to three times that of the three-drug regimen.
The 8-in-1 regimen did have a built-in delay in RT of 28 days later than the VCP regimen. The actual results revealed a median delayof an additional 4.5 days. In both treatment arms over 96% received the specified RT dose. Data reported by the group stated thatthe delay in the XRT did not change outcome, though no specific numbers were given.
Prognostic factors have been a controversial issue in MB. This study attempted to stratify for risk factors prospectively in order toconfirm their impact on outcome. It seems that they have discovered increasing Chang M stage as a strong prognosticator of poorPFS. Greater residual disease on CT or MRI scan appears to also point to a worse PFS. Age also continues to be a prognosticator ofPFS. Those of age 3 or older tend to have a better overall outcome than those younger than 3. The confounding issue remains thatthe younger patients receive less dose of RT. If one postulates that the delay in RT may have caused the increased relapse rate inarm 2, lower dose may also be a factor. Unfortunately, it may be difficult to justify a higher dose based on the neurological sequelaefrom increased dose in the younger children.
Overall, the authors presented a very well designed trial that appears to answer some of the very important questions about ChToptimization and prognosis. However, it has continued to propagate the questions of how to integrate ChT and RT and what is thesafe yet therapeutic dose of RT that can be given to children less than 3 years of age.
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Very nice resort "DroomPark Schoneveld". Outside the resort, 1.5 km from the centre of Breskens, directly by the sea, directly by the beach. For shared use: park, indoor pool (01.01.-31.12.). Tennis (extra), children's playground (slide, swing). In the complex: reception, restaurant, bar, internet access, sauna (extra). Fitness room (extra). Bowling, kiosk, washing machine, tumble dryer (for shared use, extra), bicycles available (extra). Public parking. Shop 1.5 km, grocers 1.5 km, supermarket 1.5 km, railway station "Vlissingen" 59 km, ferry 1.5 km. Please note: car essential. Reception open 09:00-17:00 hrs. Please note: The photograph is a typical example. There are more similar properties for rent in this same residence. Beach reachable via stairs. Pets only on request and at extra fee payable on the spot. Child bed in total count of number of people. Schoneveld Beach Park is a beautifully appointed, very clean and cared for recreational park. The park is located almost right on the sea, the cleanest beach in the Netherlands. From the beach and the dunes, you have a wonderful view over the coast of Zeeland-Flanders. If the reception thinks it is necessary to ask a caution, you will have to pay this upon arrival (for example for groups or longstays the reception asks a caution of € 400-€ 600 per house). Longstays (longer than 21 days) on request! Please note: workmen not allowed. Pool closed for maintenance from 07.11.2011 till 15.11.2011. Swimming is possible in pool of adjacent holidaypark.
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Apartment is exactly as described.2 rooms ,clean,suitable for a family with upto two kids with a small kitchen.Its 30 mins by bus from the apartment to the altsatdt but the bus stop is only 20m away from the apartment.Could have been better if wifi was also provided.the host was really good, also giving us some suggestions on places to visit for kids.
Will definetly recommend to others.
Apartment was great: decent size with one double bed, two singles and a sofa bed in lounge, which we didn't use, but would have made a decent third bedroom. No wifi in apartment so paid 30 € for a gadget to get us all on line for a week but that was hopeless, not worth the money. In terms of location, Levante beach is not nearly as nice as Poniente. There is a bus (apparently) my son tried use, but that was difficult and took ages. So we used the car to get to the nice beach. Restaurants and bars all better at Old Town. We used this as a base only. If you want somewhere rough, full of stag parties, streets smelling strongly of urine and vomit, Levante is for you. Otherwise stay near the old town or Poniente beach. The apartment is fine but the location is not. I would also add its about a ten minute walk up a steep hill back from bars, perhaps not ideal for lone ladies.
The car park is accessed either by an illegal manoeuvre ( turning right when a right turn is not permitted) or you can find a road which is a detour of about four miles. Everyone does the illegal manoeuvre but it is not at all ideal.
What really made this house great was the outside area; great swimming pool and enough space around with nice seats. Also de patio was a great spot for dinner and lunch.
The interior was not great; no airco of fan (so HOT), bad kitchen equipment (old or simply missed) and not quite clean.
Staff of Interhome gave us good support.
Place is quiet and nice. It is superior place to spend some days with dog since there is an open space in front of cottage.
There are two super markets down the hill(mountain?) which is just enough to
have everything you need.
One thing you need to be careful is that this entitiy does not have WIFI connection. If you really want to connect to internet, you need to prepare by yourself.
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We all know a conspicuous member of our community got hitched recently. As most of us are not in Malta, and weren't able to fly there, I thought of a celebration question. Sort of.
The challenge is golfing a function (Mma only) that finds a prefix free encoding for the letters of two sentences.
The trick is that both sentences (given as parameters) must share the same encoding, with one of them written backwards.
The number of available symbols for the encoding is also a parameter for the function (always less than 10), and the function should attempt to find the shortest encoding for that number of symbols. There is no a-priori guarantee that a solution exists for every parameter set.
As an example, related to our celebration:
we wish you the best
sz is the handsomest groom
Inspiration was taken from this question (which does not require a prefix free code), but is a good explanation of what is required.
Happy wedding and golfing!
Shortest code wins!
PS: A bounty of 100, a wedding garter and the party leftovers to the winner
EDIT Clarifications. To be updated as comments and answers arise
- No caps. Only lowercase.
- No need to encode whitespaces, special chars or punctuation (skip them and consider only lowercase letters)
- Your solution should be able to show up results before they are back from the honeymoon.


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17 Sep 2008 4:38 AM #1psarafGuest
Alternate way for Confirmation Box
I have a situation, when some one click on link(anchor) it should ask for confirmation. if i do normal way of JS it works fine because my method calls JS confirm() function, return true or false, if I use Ext Confirmation box, it won't stop the execution and goes ahead.
What is solution if i want to use Ext Confirmation box?
I know that MessageBox is asynchronous and it did not stop the execution. i just need an alternate and easy way to do it.
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returnVar = false; deleteAlert = function(){ Ext.MessageBox.confirm('Confirm', 'Are you sure you want to delete it >",validateConfirm); return returnVar; } function validateConfirm(bn) { if(bn == "yes") { returnVar = true; } else { returnVar = false; } }
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If I don't use the proper tools. Last time I used spoons to take out the tire.
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Yes, you can definitely damage the rim and tyre. But normally you just pinch the tube. The little dents you make have sharp edges which are not good for the tyre, and you might possibly poke your tool through the sidewall, but it's extremely unlikely that you will break the bead of the tyre. You might even crack the rim by excerting too much force (this is normally a problem for people who resort to metal tools after breaking plastic tyre levers). But if you're using that much force, you are doing it wrong.
Tyre levers are cheap, buy some. Michelin (almost flat, yellow rectangles) or Schwalbe (blue ovals) are the better brands IMO.
The "magic" technique bike mechanics use for removing tyres is to pick one point on the rim, pull the tyre out at that point, then run your other hand round pushing the bead into the slight depression in the middle of the rim. That gives you extra slack at the hand that's pulling out, making it easier to get the tyre off. It also makes sure the rim isn't stuck to the tyre at any point, and makes sure the bead is disengaged from the hook of the rim. I usually use a tyre lever for that so that any rough spots or objects embedded in the tyre don't end up in my hand.
Look at a rim cross section to see what I mean:
Two things to look at: the hooks that "grab" the bead to hold the tyre in place, and the slight curve that creates a low spot for the bead to sit in while you're getting the tyre off. Done this way I often don't need tyre levers except for running one round the rim to loosen the tyre.
The danger of not using the right tools are that you may scratch or ding the rim, causing further problems later on, or pinch the tube, which will result in the tire remaining flat after you fix the original hole. Bike tire levers are very cheap, you can buy a nice set of the Park ones for about 3 bucks.
Technique... Use the tire lever only for dismounting the tire. Push the stem in a bit, and then push the rim in as far as you can at that point. Then, go to the opposite side of the rim and slide the tire tool in carefully, avoiding pinching the tube.
On most tires, you don't have to actually pry the tire loose, just slide the tool from side to side a bit till you can work it off by hand. Normally, you don't have to totally remove the tire to fix a flat, but you must identify and remove whatever caused it. You should be able to remount the tire with your hands alone, as it's easiest to pinch the tube when trying to use the tool to do this.


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Say you have a trading system that works best when markets are most volatile. What would be the best way to hedge against lack of volatility ? For example, 2008, 2009 was highly volatile and it has been trending down since. What's the best way to hedge and if VIX is the best one ?
If you're mostly trading equities, sell 2-3 month VIX futures, otherwise sell straddles on your non-equity assets or consider the new CME volatility futures on gold, oil, Euro.
chrisaycock isn't wrong: even if your trading system does better during volatile periods, you should be careful not to over-hedge, since losses on your short vol position(s) will probably come faster than profits from your core system.
Hedge the risk of low-volatility by engaging in a variance-swap. Peter Carr and Lurien Wu wrote "Variance Risk Premia" on the topic.
Write Iron Condors.
Preferably, with expiration between 21 and 45 days. Pick short strikes (call and puts) around the 30 delta for aggressive trades, and around 18 for conservative trades. Keep in mind that a 'conservative' Iron Condor blows up much worse than an aggressive one.
You always risk the spread value of your call or put spread (whichever is greater) less the credit received. The typical Iron Condor is balanced, so the call spread and put spreads are equal in risk. You only take risk on one side or the other because in our world, prices can only be at one place at a time.
This trade generates an initial credit and has positive time decay. It is short volatility and will lose 'paper' value if volatility increases or price moves towards the short strikes.
By no means would I recommend this trade, but for illustration purposes, an SPX Iron Condor this morning before the market opens is marked at $2.80 credit for strikes of 1290/1295 (put) 1345/1350 (call). This is for the Jun expiry, which is only 21 days away. The short strikes are the ones in the middle, and are sitting at about 30 deltas. Ostensibly, there is a 30% chance SPX expires higher than 1345 and a 30% chance it expires lower than 1295 by expiration. This gives you a small edge but keep in mind that Iron Condors have an expected return of zero.
Zero. Nada. Zip. You've been warned.
Hedging against lack of volatility is per definition a spurious concept. Hedging is done exactly to AVOID volatility.
It is obvious that during volatile periods there is much more potential to make profits (for speculators) since the frequency of prices going up and down is per definition high(er). So hedging against lack of volatility is not possible. And from the above, TIME is the key here. Volatility is basically (quick) changes in prices over (short) periods of time. The only thing one can do is to stretch the time frame by trading further away contracts.


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2004 Cruise For A CureWritten by on January 1, 2005 Contributors: CCT Staff Socially Responsible Vintage Car Lovers Support A Cause
Nothing makes those of us involved with preserving and enjoying vintage vehicles prouder than to hear about the generosity of passionate car/truck people helping others in need. We're especially pleased with the work being performed by the Southern California guys and gals associated with the Cruise For A Cure. We're quite sure the clubs from the '50s that began this socially responsible behavior would be pleased to know it has survived to the next several generations of hot rod and custom car lovers.
"This year's Cruise For A Cure gathered 3,327 registered cars at the Orange County Fairgrounds (in late September), mostly hot rods and classic trucks, Corvettes, Dodge Vipers, and PT Cruisers. This event was organized primarily to support Prostate Cancer Research," states organizer Debbie Baker. "Over 18,000 spectators participated, (805 men were voluntarily tested) and the organizers raised $231,700 for research against this deadly health problem." Our hats are off to all the volunteers, entries, and sponsors who made this generous contribution possible.
In attendance were a number of prominent car personalities, a respectable group of manufacturers, and various fire departments that brought out their vintage fire trucks for this one-day fund-raising event. Thanks again to everyone who supported the event. Here are some of the trucks and sights that we found in our viewfinder.
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David Gongora's bronze '56 Chevy panel truck was cruising the fairgrounds looking for a good parking place. This 'bagged panel is a very clean driver that CCT plans to feature in an upcoming issue.Entry 2380, an immaculate blue '49 Chevy pickup, is the pride and joy of Angie Rebman of Huntington Beach, California.Pro Design's Mike Filion brought entry 3031, a stunning '67 Chevy Crew Cab from his shop located in Santa Ana, California.Mark Arrocha's exceptionally nice '67 Chevy El Camino with large-diameter wheels was entry 563. Mark is from Anaheim, California.Jim Baker's clean, green '29 Model A roadster pickup was looking for a new home. It currently resides in Downey, California. The real steel pickup wears American Racing Torq-Thrust IIs.
Hang on tight Debbie, those fire department horses are used to getting to the scene of a fire in a hurry.Various local fire departments brought vintage fire equipment to display and parade around the fairgrounds. The crowd enjoyed the parade and the fire crews enjoyed the attention received.George Barris Kustoms brought one of his famous TV creations. This is the Munster Coach, and that looks like Count Dracula standing by to take volunteers on a blood-draining ride.Want to go back to the future? You could revisit the Delorean that was used as a prop in the movie of the same name.We weren't sure if the drivers of this extended custom Mini Cooper were coming or going, but they had everyone's attention as they cruised the fairgrounds.This sharp blue '38 Ford panel truck is owned by Roger and Judy Rohrdanz of Huntington Beach, California. The Rohrdanz are members of the Zeros Car Club.
Al Ubrun's black '56 Ford F-100 was one of the nicest we found last summer. Note the popular tilt-forward hood. Al resides in Riverside, California.Entry 598, a school bus-yellow '57 Ford Ranchero, belonged to Ken Wogomon of El Segundo, California. Billet wheels, the grille, and its ground-hugging stance are highlights of this neat '50s custom pickup.Ray and Ginger Lake drove their white and gray '57 Ford pickup that apparently has some Jaguar mechanicals under it - their license plate reads JAGRIDE. The Lakes are members of the San Diego chapter of the Over The Hill Gang car clubLeRoy and Dawn Jakin of Brea, California, are members of the Remember When Car Club. Their red with black fenders '34 Ford pickup is as nice as they come.Kenny Shaw's blue '55 Chevy pickup from Lake Forest, California, caught our eye due to its nice stance and straight body prep. Quality paint and stance are our clues and the most attention-attracting details of a clean ride.Ed Valera's red '68 Chevy pickup is another Lake Forest collectable pickup. We think it's neatly dechromed and obviously well prepped for paint.Tim and Peggy Hines of Torrance, California, like to travel fast in a Willys. Known as the Fast Car Club in America, this yellow '41 Willy pickup is a member of the Mid America Willys Car Club.Entry 1347 was one of the more whimsical trucks of the event. The outhouse addition behind the Model A cab was a two-seater. No owner information was available.
Jerry Montgomery of Laguna Beach, California, is the owner of this sweet blood-red '40 Chevy pickup. Jerry is a member of the Classic Cruisers Car Club.Bob and Marlene Anderson's '29 Ford roadster pickup runs a neat four-banger mill with an Offenhauser intake manifold. The Andersons are from Huntington Beach and are members of the Outriders Car Club.


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8 May 2012 10:00 PM #11
Quick update. Been testing it in iOS and works great, no bugs to report and def production ready. Now to work on the same logic for a button in a scrollable container!
17 May 2012 4:45 AM #12
Why setMaskSize is called only when the mask is visible?
The function 'setMaskSize' is called only the mask is visible (tapMask == true). The issue with this is that we can't control the size and position of the mask (span) when it is invisible. Why is that? This is posing us a challenge to use it when we have a tool bar button that is docked right.
18 May 2012 12:31 PM #13
It shouldn't be set only on tapMask, that is an oversight on my part. I'll check out the code and push a fix to the repo.
18 May 2012 12:35 PM #14
Prasanna,, I updated the git to reflect the logic fixes. Now there is a setMaskSize and a setMaskColor. setMaskSize will always get called, thanks for the heads up.
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Thanks for your quick action on this.
29 May 2012 6:23 PM #16
This is QUITE an improvement on the stock button.
26 Jul 2012 1:08 AM #17
I was surprised to see that ST2.1 beta still has the same tap issues. Seems to me it's a major usability issue and was one of the reasons we ditched ST2 to go native on a larger app we build recently.
Great work on this extension.
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Agreed. I wonder if it couldn't be made as a patch to the existing Button so it'd get applied everywhere.
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Thanks for this work, much better usability!
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Just a quick update, I've been using the buttons on an iPad app and it's been working great. I'm in the process of cleaning up the application and making it open source on GITHUB. Once I do that, I'll throw a link in here, it is a Sencha Touch 2 app that uses:
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Ecclesia Semper Purificanda
In the course of his transformative journey, Dante Alighieri arrives at the heaven of the sun, where he encounters the great theologians and doctors of the Church. The two most prominent are, of course, Thomas of Aquino and Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, whose feast the Church celebrates today.
In the famous cantos eleven and twelve of the Paradiso, Thomas sings the praises of Francis and Bonaventure reciprocates by hymning the praises of Dominic. Clearly we are in Paradise where earthly competition and jealously are transcended. Except that, in Dante, earth is never left behind, but seen in its truth.
Thus both Thomas and Bonaventure conclude their praise of the other's founder, by castigating the present corruption of their own religious family. Ecclesia semper purificanda!
One of my favorite works of Bonaventure is his short treatise, The Six Wings of the Seraph, a series of counsels to religious superiors, structured on the seraphic vision of Francis which marked him with the signs of Christ's passion.
Here are two excerpts, taken from de Vinck's translation, published by St. Anthony's Press:
.....devotion is the basis of all true religious life, and the means by which all exercises of virtue come to prosper. Dry indeed is the religious life that is not abundantly anointed with this oil, unstable the structure of good works not bonded with frequent and devout prayer: it is destined to crumble like a stone wall built without cement. In every Order where the fervor of devotion has cooled, the whole framework of the other virtues begins to fall apart and comes close to ruin. The empty lamps of the foolish virgins will go out.
The superior is God's minister whom the Master has set over His household.....If he fails to correct delinquents, and allows vice to flourish under his rule, and bad habits to rise and wax strong and spread out; if he permits regular discipline to fall apart and infractions to teem; if he fails to make every effort to counter evil, both actual and foreseeable: he will have a threefold account to render to God.
There is much spiritual insight and pastoral realism in the work. I suspect Dante knew it, but would be grateful for any illumination on the matter from those more knowledgeable than myself.
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Rev. Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is Associate Professor of Theology Emeritus at Boston College.
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I am quite certain that I am not more knowledgable than you on Dante, but I'm not not certain what your question is. Is it on the pastoral nature of Dante, or on the necessity of devotion for the religious life?
Okay. But you'd think that after 1700 years it would have reached some degree of "purification" don't you?
Scott,Sorry for the ambiguity of the question.It was whether Dante knew this particular work of Bonaventure? It seems sure he knew the Itinerarium Mentis in Deum.
Andre: Why after only 1700 years?The reason that the Church is always in need of being purified is that it is composed, generation after generation, of sinners. When the Pelagians claimed that the Church on earth could be without spot or wrinkle, Augustine asked the Pelagian if he was a sinner. When he answered Yes, Augustine said: "Then the Church is not without spot or wrinkle, because you are the spot or wrinkle"! His other proof was that the whole Church prays everyday: "Forgive us our trespasses." If the Church everyday has something that needs forgiveness, it is always in need of being purified.Augustine, Aquinas, and I wouldn't besurprised Dante had a very concfrete notion of the Church.
No question we are a church of sinners from Pentecost till the present. Since Wermelinger we have a different perception of Pelagius. Jerome is said to have argued that even Christ was a sinner. Amazing how Augustine pursued Pelagius but courted Paulinus of Nola and Jerome, both of whom had a wont for getting kicked out of most places they lived in.Perhaps it was Pelagius' critical assessment of the "Confessions." What is also curious is Jerome and Augustine's catering to rich converts.What a century the fourth was. We had the decline of Christianity, yet so many, especially bishops, were made saints. What did they do to deserve this?At least Jude helped South Chicago through the depression.
Since the tpoic has arisen, Jerome was a very complex character as J.N.D. Kelly's biography shows very well. It is easy to find real warts, but he also had some extraordinary virtues. Above all it is startling that scarcely anyone else before the Renaissance--Origen is an exception to some extent--thought it worth while to learn Hebrew to be able to study the considerable number of books of the Bible originally written in Hebrew. If I recall correctly, Augustine, the brilliant Latinist, stumbled in Greek--bad teaching no doubt--and thought it was not a good idea to go back to the Hebrew. Of course one could blame the convenient fiction that the Septuagint was inspired.As for Ecclesia semper purificanda, who could think and think otherwise. Admittedly I once imagined that Dante was talking about his own day. I have come to realize that he was also talking about ours.
Interesting question on how much of Bonaventure Dante had digested. Honestly, I have no idea. I do have to state that one of my enthusiams about Pope Benedict is the recovery of Bonventurian and Augustianian thought in the Church at the practical level. Like His Holiness and despite a background in philosophy, I have never been much of a Thomist- I doubt St. Thomas was a Thomist according to how what that term has come to mean. Further, I have been immersing myself in evangelicalisms "emergent" movement largely spearheaded by Brian McLaren, that seeks to bring evangelical Protestant Christianity into dialogue with post-modernity. I think the theology of Bonaventure ideally suited for such a dialogue.
Scott,Thanks for your comment. Why do you think Bonaventure's thought "suited for a dialogue with post-modernity?"I'd also appreciate further insight into McLaren and the movement he spearheads -- if you have time.
Look for some e-mails shortly.
I believe that Bonaventure while he was at Paris taught some of those who later became active at Santa Croce when Dante was frequenting the religious schools in Florence. Steven Botterill in the Dante Encyclopedia states that Dante may well have known some part of Bonaventures writings "even though there is no unambiguous allusion to them in his work." Others have also pointed out the difficulty of tracing precise influences in Dante's career. Peter Dronke stresses how little "Dante's intellectual and imaginative processes can be accounted for in terms of his learned sources...all understanding for Dante implied transformation. Almost nothing can be 'traced back' in an uncomplicated fashion." Still its interesting to speculate. In my inexpert view it's highly probable that Dante would be aware of Bonaventure's position on the reform of religious orders given Bonaventures prominence in those controversies and Dante's clear interest in the subject. But thats far from determining that a particular work influenced Dante.
Forgive me, but where does "renewal" come into the picture?
Renewal vs. Reform. Same thing?
......... (any takers.....?)
It dawned on me: Yes, the Church is always in need of purification, and I have always associated this old Latin expression with the wider Church. However, Father Imbelli's post (if I'm not mistaken here) seems to focus application of this statement to the situations of religious orders, which comprise only one segment of the wider Church. Then Father Imbelli opines that "[t]here is much...pastoral realism in the work." This comment plus his earlier reference to God placing the religious superior "over His household" raised "red flags" for me, whether intended or not."Purification." Its meaning intended by Father Imbelli in his post? Its meaning for the wider Church? I'm especially concerned about the second question. We've been hearing all this claptrap about "reforming the reform" from the good folks in the bowels of the Vatican. How should we "purify" our Church? By shuffling the game pieces a bit around the board, i.e., reform? Or by acknowledging the game pieces need to be replaced --- maybe even the board itself, i.e., renewal?I do not count myself among "those more knowledgeable than [Father Imbelli]" regarding Dante, Bonaventure, Aquinas, etc., but this blogsite is open to the public, and I am deeply distressed by the apparent apathy of the average Catholic --- still in a Catholic pew (for now, anyway) --- toward the "reforming the reform" efforts of two reactionary popes and their curialistas trying to undercut the spirit of renewal that emerged from the Second Vatican Council."Ecclesia semper purificanda." Continue the same old "game" with its traditional monarch and serfs? Or return to the original enterprise far removed from the crusty, stinkin' ecclesial crap we have today?Reform or renewal?


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If carrying a three person tent when backpacking, what's the recommended way to split it up so that the weight is balanced out among all three people going?
Generally I find a three person tent small and light enough that you don't need to split it up when backpacking - indeed I find it's much less hassle to keep it all in one place so when you come to put it up, you know exactly where everything is.
Instead, I'd advocate balancing the weight via other means - distributing food differently is probably the easiest, but this could work with anything else you're carrying (cooking equipment, clothes, etc.)
If you must split the tent up, then I'd move the poles and pegs into a separate bag and put that in another pack (but personally I'd make sure you keep them together.)
I'm assuming there won't be three parts of equal weight. Depending on the tent design, you could be talking main room, fly, and poles. You could break it into threes that way, then swap other items to equalize the load. So, if you're carrying the main room, perhaps someone could carry some of your share of the food, for example.
Don't split it.
Look at the total group gear when dividing things up.
Having one person repsonsible for the tent also makes it less likley to have bits left behind.


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Often I find myself in a situation where I don't care whether or not my tool produces a new feature class, but I do care how long it takes to combine all of my large datasets. Does it take longer to produce a new feature class using the Merge tool instead of the Append tool, or are Merge and Append essentially the same in terms of performance?
Merge takes both geometry and attributes and combines (merges) the entire dataset into a new feature dataset.
Append is good way to join extra data to an existing dataset - it can have options to control subtypes of features being appended.
The key difference is
If the Schema Type TEST is specified, the schema (field definitions) of the input datasets must match that of the target dataset in order for the features to be appended. If the Schema Type NO_TEST is specified, input dataset schema (field definitions) do not have to match the target dataset. However, any fields from the input datasets that do not match the fields of the target dataset will not be mapped to the target dataset unless the mapping is explicitly set in the Field Map control.
subtype (Optional) A subtype description to assign that subtype to all new data that is appended to the target dataset.
You might be interested in the 'Tiled processing of large datasets'
Take this answers based on the tools themselves and not an actual benchmark:
The merge tool creates a new feature class, which takes time in itself, before it crams together the two datasets.
The append tool with the TEST option assumes that both datasets have the same fields (field names) and crams them together without having to create a new feature class (sounds faster).
The append tool with the NO TEST option allows for field mapping to combine like feature classes that may have different field names. This requires some behind the scenes conditional testing, which would take more time.
As the size of the dataset grows, the amount of time it takes to create a new fc seems insignificant. The only way to know for sure would be to do some benchmarks with your large datasets and post the answers here!
I suspect the difference isn't much it's more about what you want out of the tool in the end (field mapping vs. new feature class vs. no new feature class)


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After fielding an offer from Tennessee, Charlie Strong decided to stay at UofL. The Cards' head football coach has compiled a 24-14 record in three seasons.
He will coach UofL in just the second Bowl Championship Series game in school history when the Cardinals take on No. 3 Florida in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2.
Strong dodged questions about his future, refusing to commit on Monday of last week, but by Thursday had made up his mind. He and his representative are negotiating a contract extension that will make him one of the top 10 highest-paid coaches in college football.
KENT TAYLOR: How can we be sure that this is not something that will come up every year, that this is more of a long-term decision?
CHARLIE STRONG: I hope it's not something that will come up every year. The thing has really grown bigger than I ever imagined that it would be. I think the national news took it and then everyone else took it, but I just hate what I took our players through. We're trying to get ready to go play a bowl game and I did not want that much attention on me.
TAYLOR: Who did you talk to as you were weighing the decision?
STRONG: What I did is I just turned that phone off because you get so many phone calls and most of the time those guys are asking you to hire them. They're not concerned about your decision, they're worried about, if you go take that job, will you take me with you? We just sat down as a family and my wife and daughters, and it was just a family decision. You take so much into account, you talk about your coaching staff, you talk about your administrative staff, you talk about everyone in this building and how you affect their lives also.
A lot of times you let your ego get in the way, you kind of sit there and think, you know what I could go into that conference and I probably could go beat this team, I could go beat this team, but you kind of let your ego get in the way. Then you start thinking about, you know, it's not about that, it's about people and it's about how you affect their lives.
TAYLOR: When you made the decision, what changes were made in your contract – were years added, how much more money?
STRONG: You know what, Kent, I haven't even discussed it. I know some people say, he got a contract extension, Tom and I really haven't sat down and talked about that contract. I really don't even know yet, more important for me, I just want to make sure my assistant coaches are taken care of. How much is enough? I'm fine, I just want to make sure that they are well compensated for the job that they do.
TAYLOR: You were emotional at your introductory news conference. You had waited so long for that opportunity, and then you said on the "Jim Rome Show" that you weren't "cut like that," when he asked you about leaving for the Arkansas job. Then you kind of got emotional when you announced you were staying. What draws out that emotion – a sense of loyalty?
STRONG: It's about being loyal and it's about when you make a statement, who you really are and your character and your integrity. When you make those statements, you have to be true to those statements.
TAYLOR: You guys have talked a lot about how next year was the year you thought would be the big one. Is the Sugar Bowl kind of like the first game of next year, setting the stage for that run?
STRONG: This kind of kicks it off because you are into a new year. You get this game and you're playing against a really good football team. It's just going to show just how far, let us know, just gauge who we are right now, just how far away we are from being one of those elite programs.
TAYLOR: How important was it to get the ACC invitation before signing day in February?
STRONG: It's big for the recruits because the recruits can look at it now and see you're in the ACC. It's so funny how things are, how young people are and the way they look at things and what's really said. Now they say, "Oh now you're in a real conference." It's good that we can push that out of the way, so recruiting-wise we have a conference that you can really talk about and this is who your competition is and this is who you are going to be competing against.
TAYLOR: When you were at Florida, your final game there, you guys played the Big East champ, Cincinnati, in the Sugar Bowl. Were you all worried about the Florida players overlooking Cincinnati since they were a Big East school?
STRONG: I tell you what happened with that game because it's different the situation that Florida is in. When we were going in to play Cincinnati, we had just lost to Alabama. It was so different, not that I'm knocking Cincinnati, but it was the seniors' last game, you're looking at (Tim) Tebow, you're looking at (Takeo) Spikes. It was a group of seniors, probably like 16, that it was their last day, so you knew they were going to perform well. What's different is that players do, they do, they look at your schedule and they look at who you played, probably the only team that we played that they are going to be familiar with is Kentucky, because that's the only opponent that the two of us have played.
TAYLOR: When I asked you last year, when you were in the running for a BCS game, you kind of laughed a little bit – now can you believe that you are in a BCS bowl with this team, this year?
STRONG: Well with this team this year you look at the way we started off, you're 9-0, you felt like you had a really good football team. That was our whole goal, to have a winning season and get to a big bowl game, and our players all talked about it, we need to get in a BCS bowl, and now they're here, they're getting ready to go play a really good opponent.
TAYLOR: What improvements would you like to see?
STRONG: At the end of the season, I can sit down with our A.D., and I think Tom will do anything I ask and it's going to be some things that we need to get done and get this program where it needs to (be).
TAYLOR: What would you like to see from fans – you have been at SEC schools with the huge crowds, you guys played Connecticut with the Big East title on the line, you're 9-1 and the announced crowd was just shy of 46,000?
STRONG: You want the passion from the fans and you want the support. I tell you this and this frustrated me more than anything, and we have great fans here, but when we came here on "Senior Day," for the Connecticut game, we get off the bus and I don't care what time "Card March" is, I mean, heck, if it's 8 o'clock in the morning, it's 8 o'clock in the morning, but no one came out, and for that to be the seniors, we had a few people, we had the real fans out there, I'm not saying we didn't have anyone, but you would like to just see more fans come out. I know I heard, it's new, it's not new, if you support your program, you support your program. We have fans here that do support the program.


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IEEE Student Branch
Excelsior College's School of Business and Technology sponsors a student branch of IEEE, an international professional association for the advancement of technology. Excelsior is the first distance learning institution to host an IEEE student branch. IEEE is a leading organization for industries and educators in aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications, biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics, among other fields.
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Join us for a webinar on Getting the Most Out of IEEE Student Membership and Early Career Membership. Enter as a guest.
Presenter: John Sammarco
Dr. John J. Sammarco is a Principal Research Engineer with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He received the following degrees: PhD Computer Engineering, West Virginia University; MS Computer Engineering, National Technical University; MS Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh; BS Electrical Engineering Technology, Pennsylvania State University.
Over the last 25 years, he has authored or co-authored 64 publications that include machine safety, machine control systems, and sensor technologies. His recent research areas concern system safety, hazard/risk analysis of programmable-electronic systems, and the human factors of lighting, Currently, he is Chair of the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET and a member of the ABET Executive Committee, a member of the IEEE Committee on Engineering Technology Accreditation Activities, and a member of the Excelsior Industry Advisory Committee and Continuous Improvement Committee.
IEEE student membership offers a variety of professional and personal benefits that students can enjoy. IEEE opens the door to opportunities that will help you develop your professional identity in IEEE's designated fields of interest: sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In addition to accessing a range of membership benefits, you'll make global connections with people who can help you along your targeted career path through IEEE's international community of members and volunteers. The speaker's personal experiences with IEEE began as a student member while attending Penn State and continues this day as a senior member who is actively involved in IEEE. He will talk about how IEEE has helped his career.
"This is a tremendous development for our students, since IEEE provides excellent professional resources and networking opportunities within the organization," said Dr. Jane LeClair, dean of the Excelsior School of Business and Technology. "IEEE's recognition also acknowledges the effectiveness of online education for technology students."
The student branch membership is open to any Excelsior College student interested in electronics engineering and electronics/instrumentation technologies.
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June 20, 2011 By pia
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The 50 Most Awesome Things Ever Done by Americans
American history is full of badasses. This country was built on the bones and fists of men and women who ate up pain and pissed out star-spangled banners. Over the last few years, we've been collecting the stories of real Americans who did really awesome things -- at peace, at war, and while being Teddy Roosevelt. Now we present the best of these stories to you, as a way of saying "Happy Birthday, America!"
#50. Steve Buscemi Became Part of the 9/11 Rescue Effort
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Steve Buscemi is the go-to actor for when you need a whiny, loudmouthed schnook who always gets his muscular friends to do his fighting for him. He's usually cast as one of two things: a snaky criminal or snarky comic relief. Neither role requires he be a physically intimidating man, only a slightly unhinged one. In short, not badass at all, right?
Wrong. As it turns out, Steve Buscemi isn't snarky, unhinged, or whiny. In fact, he's a goddamned 9/11 hero.
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And he always tips 20 percent.
He had the skills for it. Where many actors will wait tables, work as studio go-fers, or perform one of a hundred other degrading jobs while waiting for their big break, Buscemi took the less-traditional route of becoming a New York City firefighter. He did that until 1985, when he started getting gigs that didn't involve running into gigantic open flames on the regular. But he never forgot his roots, and this was never more evident than on September 11, 2001.
Many celebrities "helped" after the terrorist attacks by organizing fundraisers, handing out water and coffee, or recording horrible music that was no less horrible just because it was "for the heroes." Buscemi, again, bucked the trend by going right back into firefighter mode, returning to his old firehouse and volunteering for service. Right alongside the decidedly non-famous crew of FDNY Engine 55, he busted ass for up to 12 hours at a time, shoveling out debris and rubble and pulling survivors out of the wreckage. Countless people who might otherwise have perished can now say, without hyperbole, that Mr. Pink saved their lives.
Via Indieking.com
They later repaid the favor by being literally the only people to go see Burt Wonderstone.
There's a real good chance you didn't hear about this in the aftermath of the attacks, but it's not because the media ignored it. Rather, Buscemi wanted us to ignore it. He refused to talk about it in interviews, simply saying, "these are my brothers." He showed absolutely zero interest in turning his duty into a publicity stunt. That's why there are only a couple of pictures of Buscemi hard at work; here, he's the dapper chap in the upper-left corner.
Via Indieking.com
"Everyone ignore Jim; he's pretending to pose for beefcake calendars again."
After 9/11, Buscemi went back to showing off his crazy eyes on the big screen, but he has never forgotten his firefighting roots, even when it gets him in trouble. In 2003, less than two years after 9/11, Buscemi's old firehouse was deemed useless by the NYC government and was slated to close. Buscemi showed up with a bunch of other firefighters to protest this decision, with the entire group ultimately arrested for their efforts. He continues to support firefighters and their struggles to this day, proving that he only acts because he's too old to work his dream job any longer.
#49. A Homeless Drifter Saves the Life of a Newborn Baby at a Truck Stop
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Gary Wilson: mysterious drifter bound for Memphis. Truck stop vagrant or angel? You be the judge after you hear what he did.
Despite having two mannish names, Keaton Mason was a woman, and more pertinent to this story, a pregnant woman in labor. She was on her way to the hospital with her fiance when the baby decided a truck stop was just as good as a hospital to get born in (babies are pretty stupid). This particular baby came out in the usual way -- via stork exiting the vagina carrying a baby -- but she wasn't breathing, because the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck. That's bad news anywhere, but at a truck stop, it's kind of the worst.
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If they'd just kept going to the next stop ...
Despite having just given birth to a new person, Mason had the strength and good sense to scream for help while her husband-to-be dialed 911. Surely among the worldly drivers and good time girls standing idly by there would be someone who knew what to do -- and there was. A long-haired, bearded man holding a sign that said "Memphis" came forward. The sign wasn't just a trendy suggestion for the new baby's name, it was Gary Wilson's hopeful destination.
"Coincidentally, I was going there for baby back ribs."
While everyone else was freaking the hell out, Wilson freed the cord from the girl's neck and began to rub her back. The first one seemed intuitive, but how did he know to rub her back to get her breathing? Magic? Was he Jesus? Eventually, Gary "Jesus" Wilson took over the 911 call and talked to the dispatcher directly, receiving directions on how to cut and tie off the umbilical cord and get the baby's college fund all set up. For his trouble, the truck stop gave Wilson a meal and a place to sleep. But he was gone by the next morning, taken back up to heaven. Or in the back of a pickup to Memphis, whatever.
Like Michael Landon, but with more hobo stink.
#48. There Was a Time When Presidents Forded Rivers on Mooseback
This picture is real, this scene existed, and yes, at one point in our history, you could have actually voted for this man.
We do not know if this was a publicity stunt, a routine hunting incident, or seriously how our beloved President Theodore Roosevelt used to ride to work every day. All we know is that it was taken during the 1900 presidential election campaign, and as far as we are concerned, it virtually guaranteed William McKinley's re-election for as many terms as God gave him.
On that note, President McKinley was dead a year later.
#47. Mr. Rogers Gets Money from a Cynical Congress by Being Mr. Rogers
Generations of Americans grew up with PBS and shows like Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, but the whole network came very close to dying an early death. In 1969, President Richard Nixon proposed halving the funding for the newly formed Corporation for Public Broadcasting, because why should there be such a thing as kids' programming that isn't one long barrage of advertisements for toys and snack food? The U.S. Senate held hearings to decide the matter, and someone was going to have to convince them to keep the funding in place, rather than use it to buy, say, part of a new B-52 bomber. Good luck, sucker!
During the hearing, a then-unknown kids' show host named Fred Rogers stepped forward to give a statement on behalf of the philosophy behind his show and the channel in general. Mr. Rogers, being Mr. Rogers, didn't get emotional or worked up over it; he just calmly sat down for six minutes to have a heart-to-heart with the Senate about feelings and imagination.
"We deal with such things as the inner drama of childhood. We don't need to bop someone over the head to make drama over a scene; we deal with such things as getting a haircut or dealing with brothers and sisters ... I give an expression of care each day to each child."
At the beginning of the speech, Senator John Pastore seems impatient, even making fun of Rogers in the first couple of minutes. But at the end, after Rogers shares a little song that he wrote, Pastore says, "I'm supposed to be a pretty tough guy and I'm getting goosebumps for the first time in days ... looks like you just earned your $20 million."
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And what happened then? Well, in D.C. they say that Pastore's small heart grew three sizes that day ...
That would not be the last time that Rogers would do something like this. In 1984, when the Supreme Court was considering outlawing home-recording technology, they decided not to at least partly because Rogers was worried that taking away VCRs would make it so that some kids who couldn't watch his show at the scheduled time wouldn't be able to watch it at all. The court thought that made perfect sense.
Then, when Burger King ran a commercial with a parody look-alike named "Mr. Rodney" in 1984, Rogers asked them to stop. The senior vice president of the company pulled the $15,000 ad without a second thought, saying, "Mr. Rogers is one guy you don't want to mess with ... hopefully now we have peace in the neighborhood." Can we doubt at this point that Rogers was some kind of sorcerer?
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"I have some experience with getting kings to do what I want."
#46. Police Officer Prevents Hundreds from Jumping Off the Golden Gate Bridge
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We know what you're thinking. "This guy's a cop, isn't that what he gets paid for?" OK, how many cops dedicate their time to painstakingly listening to people's darkest troubles for hours at a time, all to prevent them from killing themselves? And how many of those cops have done this hundreds of times? Only one: California Highway Patrolman Kevin Briggs.
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Either this guy gets off on the smell of suicidal despair, or he really is a genuine hero.
For 22 years, Briggs has patrolled Marin County's highways, and part of his beat includes the Golden Gate Bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge is famous for two things: letting you know that Full House was based in San Francisco, and being the top suicide destination in the U.S. We're not sure if those two facts are related.
Have you ever been so good at a job that your co-workers call you in on your day off? Briggs is that good, too, only when he comes in to work, it's to keep someone from jumping to their death off a bridge. Briggs estimates that about twice a month he talks someone out of jumping -- so every 14 days or so, he's going through a life-or-death emotional roller coaster.
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Twice as tough as an emotional monthly cycle (lycanthropy).
So what does he say that's so magical? Getting the other person talking about things they have to live for helps. And if that doesn't work, Briggs can bring up the time that he beat cancer (because of course he did). In his 22 years on the force, only one (ONE) person has jumped on Briggs' watch. Not even Batman can boast that kind of success rate. Briggs' tireless efforts have earned him the nickname "Guardian of the Golden Gate."
And if you're not feeling good about humanity yet, keep reading. In 2005, someone snapped a shot of Briggs talking to Kevin Berthia. Hands in his pockets, head down, feet teetering on the edge -- this 22-year-old new dad was done with life. Briggs talked Berthia into giving the world one more chance. Eight years later, Berthia was not only still alive, but on hand to thank Briggs in person for saving his life.
Via People.com
Berthia fathered two children after the suicide attempt. One will cure all cancers; the other, AIDS.
Personally, we would have picked a different background picture, but whatever. It's still a happy ending.


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It is slowly being felt by me that learning French will give me access to the rich mathematical literature of France. I will be obliged if someone would please refer me to a source or book where I can learn to read a bit of French for my mathematics education. I know it is not easy but I would be happy to learn your language. I am fluent in English.
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Having the same issue in the opposite way, the best advice I have is to rely on Wikipedia's interwiki, both for the style and for the vocabulary. Try to read the same proof in French and in English and to see how sentences and symbols map1, if you need a translation of a word, look at the article in (en), then follow the interwiki to (fr). It works for almost everything2.
I expect that you will get the structure fairly easily, as it is doesn't change much between proofs. Just be aware that the philosophy of mathematics is not quite the same in France and in Anglo-Saxon countries. France remains under the influence of Bourbaki, whereas many Anglo-Saxon mathematicians now disregard this approach.
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Si l' arithmétique vous intéresse, je vous recommande chaudement le petit livre de Pierre Samuel Théorie algébrique des nombres, publié chez Hermann.


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The 6 Most Pointlessly Elaborate Movie Murder Plots
#3. The Poisonous Spider in Dr. No
James Bond movies are notorious for elaborate murder plots that involve large stockpiles of nuclear weapons, a small amateur army and the equivalent of the gross national product of a small Third World country. So while this one may not be the most elaborate, it is probably the most ill-conceived.
When one bad guy (Professor Dent) meets with Dr. No about their James Bond problem, Dr. No hands Dent a cage with a poisonous tarantula inside and orders that he kill Bond with it. Presumably he means with the spider, though it would have been quicker and more effective to bludgeon Bond to death with the cage.
The Problem:
According to the American Tarantula Society, the only way a tarantula bite could have killed Bond is if he were allergic to it. They are poisonous, sure, but the venom only produces a feeling no worse than a bee sting. So the worst Dr. No would have done to Bond is give him a nasty bruise or a week of muscle cramping in the name of evil.
But even if it had been some kind of genetically modified super-spider, the hard part is trying to get the thing to bite Bond. Ideally you'd need three burly guys to hold Bond down while you cram the spider down his pants. But of course at that point any weapon would work--and work better--than the spider.
Instead they wound up releasing the tarantula in Bond's bungalow where, for all the villains knew, it could have waited for six weeks before accidentally hanging itself in his chest hair.
A Better Way:
Instead of putting a spider in his bungalow, put a dude there. With a gun. To shoot Bond in the face.
#2. The Entire Plot of Smokin' Aces
A mob boss wants a Las Vegas entertainer dead, so he puts a $1 million bounty on his head so that a whole bunch of colorful and apparently grossly incompetent assassins will go after him at once. Also, the assassin is to bring the man's heart to the mob boss, whose own heart is failing.
"For my next trick, I shall make plot continuity disappear!"
A million bullets, knife wounds, shattered windows and one chainsaw to the ass crack later, we learn that the target (Buddy Israel) is actually the mob boss's son. Oh, and that the mob boss is working for the FBI.
Pretty much everyone dies.
The Problem:
Hmmm... it might have something to do with "sending nine hit men to kill one coked up magician in broad daylight, with the understanding that only one of them can collect." Seems to be a lot of room for complication there. Such as, say, the hitmen all killing each other to get the cash.
A Better Way:
The mob boss calls up his son to reconcile their relationship. He shows up at the penthouse looking disheveled and heartbroken. As father and son's eyes meet, they break down in tears and share a warm and loving embrace full of sobbing and apologies for all the wasted years. Then with a heart full of joy and redemption, the father asks for his son's forgiveness. He then shoots him in the face.
#1. The Joker's Bomb Conundrum in The Dark Knight
We would expect a ridiculously long and drawn-out murder plot from a villain like the Joker, a man by whom all clearly deranged and psychopathic murderers are measured. But this one had to have taken the assistance of a room full of supercomputers, and several psychics.
We're guessing the planning went something like this:
"First, we find two empty buildings. Without the cops noticing, we'll secretly sneak in hundreds of drums of explosive liquids, and wire all of them to explode. Next, we'll orchestrate an attack on the convoy transporting Harvey Dent. This will involve blocking busy streets, blowing police helicopters out of the air and launching missiles at the armored car. All of this will be done, not to kill Dent (though that could happen at any moment) but to cause Batman to intervene so that he will throw me in jail.
"So far so good..."
Then, while the whole town is on alert, we go ahead and have our henchmen kidnap both Dent and Rachel Dawes and strap them in with the bombs in the two abandoned buildings. Then I'll send Batman after one of them, knowing that this will result in Rachel being killed and Dent being a certain distance from the explosion as to become grotesquely injured and disillusioned. Then I'll blow up the jail without accidentally killing myself. Gentlemen, it couldn't be simpler."
The Problem:
Really nothing, as long as absolutely every single event happens exactly as it did in the film, down to the millimeter and microsecond.
If the rocket blows up Dent's armored car instead of hitting the Batmobile, if the Batmobile doesn't happen to have a motorcycle hidden inside it, if somebody clears the makeshift roadblock out of the way before the convoy gets there, if traffic allows the cops to get to Rachel before Batman gets to Dent, if a cop happens to be stations out in front of Rachel's building when the cops get the coordinates, if a hunk of debris from the building hits Dent and kills him as he's escaping the explosion...
You get the idea.
A Better Way:
The Joker makes a bullet disappear by shooting Rachel in the face.
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To find out how these over the top plans are likely to end, check out 6 Baffling Mistakes Every Movie Criminal Makes. Or check out the baffling plans Hollywood had for some of its greatest flicks in 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.


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5 Staggeringly Dumb Causes People Are Actually Fighting For
#2. Negative Portrayal of Snakes in Movies
Hey, remember Snakes on a Plane? The horrible movie/meme combination that dominated geek culture for like an entire year?
Well, allegedly to protest the inaccurate portrayal of snakes in the movie (but more likely because he's always wanted to), Pennsylvanian man Jesse Rothacker covered himself in snakes. Some believe this supports the theory that Pennsylvanians will do literally anything that bears a promise of maybe not being in Pennsylvania anymore, even if that alternative is being inside a snake.
We should point out that Mr. Rothacker runs the "Forgotten Friends Reptile Sanctuary," so maybe the frustration of spending eight hours a day trying to convince people that what their home really needs is a few more snakes drove him to these extremes. Oh, and he's on record protesting that he should be allowed to carry concealed firearms in public parks.
"I just want to be left alone with my snakes and my guns. In a park. At night."
He's right, you know. Compared to a darkened park full of dudes with guns jammed down their pants, a plane full of snakes is probably a pretty fucking safe place to be.
#1. Asperger's Pride Movement
If you don't know what Asperger's is, welcome to the internet!
Asperger's is a real disorder for some, but has turned into a kind of "get out of self-improvement free" card for legions of socially awkward Pokemon fans. This latter group doesn't care about your "medical credentials," "basic common sense" or even "knowing people who actually do have Aspergers." This syndrome they read about on Wikipedia once is their winning lottery ticket to a life of never having to learn how to interact with other humans. Welcome to the Aspergian Pride movement.
The Asperger's aficionados are even pushing their own "Aspergers Passport," an orange band you can wear to show support.
Yes, exactly like the yellow LiveStrong bracelet. You see, equating their struggle with that of cancer survivors is the kind of "this has to be a mental illness" assholism that marks the Asperger's sufferer.
In fact, as stated on Aspergia.com's mission statement, this crippling (and easily self-diagnosed) condition actually makes the sufferer better than you. Their checklist of nerd delusion identifies Aspergia as:
a) a superpower
b) a mutation
c) the next stage in human evolution
d) the legacy of a lost utopian civilization
Actual Asperger's sufferer.
We only wish we were kidding about that last one. Presumably in this Aspergian wonderland the faucets ran with Mountain Dew and there were infinite moms who cooked infinite dinners who never ever sobbed in private. It isn't explicitly stated that females in this land were impressed by knowledge of Star Trek episodes rather than physical prowess, but it's pretty heavily implied.
For movies that are depressing for a whole other reason check out Rick's look at 5 Awesome Movies Ruined By Last-Minute Changes. Or find out about some action stars whose careers had a less than happy ending in 5 Movie Martial Artists That Lost a Deathmatch to Dignity.