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8 Classic Movies That Got Away With Gaping Plot Holes
People hate plot holes in movies. At least, that's what they'll tell you. But sometimes, if a movie is awesome enough, people will overlook even the most retarded gaps in reason and logic.
At least, until some asshole on the Internet points them out and makes a big list of them. Enjoy:
#8. Back to the Future
The Plot:
Marty McFly goes back in time, helps his parents get together, invents rock and roll...
The Hole:
...and everyone promptly forgets he was ever there the minute he leaves.
Nobody notices that a famous clothing brand is later named after him, nobody notices that Chuck Berry releases a song that sounds pretty similar to the one he played at the big dance, and most importantly, nobody bats an eyelid when his Mom has a kid who looks exactly like him.
Now we don't claim to know exactly what first enters the mind of a married man when his wife births a child who looks identical to their old high school boyfriend, but we're guessing it's not "time travel conspiracy." Old George was either the most oblivious, forgiving man on earth, or there were some secret resentment beatings in the McFly household.
Even more disturbing, what must his Mom have thought? The only explanation we can see making sense from her point of view is that Marty was Satan (he did invent rock and roll after all) and the whole thing's some kind of demon spawn Rosemary's Baby type deal. And no one should ever be in a position where the most plausible explanation for their situation implies that they fucked Satan.
This was the most sinister looking picture of Michael J Fox we could find.
Plus, think how chilling Marty's final remark on stage becomes given this context: "I guess you're not ready for that yet... but your kids are gonna love it."
#7. Minority Report
The Plot:
Tom Cruise is convicted of a murder he hasn't committed yet, by a team of psychics called "precogs."
The Hole:
The precogs? They don't work. At all. We're told they predict the future but nothing they predict ever happens. If they actually predicted the future properly, they'd predict the people getting arrested, not committing murders.
In the entire movie, the only precog prediction that actually comes true exactly as they said involves a kid losing a balloon. Chinese fortune cookies have a higher success rate than these guys.
But maybe they're really more telepathic than precognitive, able to see what people's intentions are. Except they can't do that, either. The movie is set in motion by the premeditated murder ball coming out with Tom Cruise's character's name on it. But he hadn't planned the murder at all. The whole point of the movie is that he had no idea who he was going to kill.
The one time they do predict a murder that actually happens, they still manage to fuck it up. The loophole the movie's villain exploits is that if you commit a murder that looks identical to a previous murder, when the precogs' vision comes up they'll just think it was an echo and delete it. But that would only get rid of the image, there'd still be a new ball naming you as the murderer, which would be hard to explain. Seems like a flawed plan right? Well, it would be in any other movie.
Add that to the fact that Tom Cruise was able to continually get past the retina scanners at police headquarters by using the eyes he had when he first became a fugitive (they don't revoke your access when you get accused of murder? What, do they operate on the retina honor system?) and you have to wonder if they weren't just making shit up as they went along.
#6. The Sixth Sense
The Plot:
Spoiler alert: Bruce Willis is dead. The whole time. We totally didn't see it coming and apparently neither did he. He's only able to figure out he's a ghost when he sees his wife drop his wedding ring.
The Hole:
But shouldn't he have figured it out before that? All the other ghosts in the film seemed to be wandering the earth, mindlessly reliving their deaths, with little awareness of the outside world at all. But ol' Bruce was just carrying on as normal, working and going about his day-to-day routine, completely unfazed by the fact no one but a small child had spoken to him in several months.
What kind of lifestyle was he living before his death that would make him fail to notice that no one could see or hear him? He assumes his wife isn't speaking to him because he's "neglecting their marriage." In the days right after he died, did he think she was mad at him for getting shot in the stomach? And what about everyone else? Does he also assume all waiters are suddenly assholes? That the girl at the supermarket check out finds him too hideous to make eye contact with? That taxis won't stop for him because he's balding?
And how does he get the assignment to treat the kid anyway? Nobody hired him, being a ghost and all. Does he just approach random children in churches and start giving them free psychiatric advice? That's no way to run a business, ghost or not, and we're pretty sure it will get you thrown in jail.
#5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Plot:
At the end of another wondrous wizarding adventure, Harry uses a magical time-travel necklace to go back and save himself and his godfather from the evil dementors.
The Hole:
This is actually a problem in most movies that contain time machines. The movie treats time travel like this urgent thing: "We've made it to the past! Now we've only got a few minutes to go back and stop the dementors!" No you don't, you have as much time as you need. It's fucking time travel. If you mess up, just go back and try again.
"OK, thirty-seventh attempt..."
They also seem to feel that they have to do it immediately, that there's no time to wait. Of course there's time to wait, you've got a goddamn time machine. Do it tomorrow, do it in ten years. You already know you've succeeded, you were there when it happened. It's actually the only situation you could be in where failure is impossible. It's the least suspenseful thing imaginable, yet they treat it as the nail-biting climax of the movie.
The power to travel through time still wouldn't be worth
the humiliation of owning Harry Potter jewelry.
We're picking on Harry Potter especially for this because after they use the time machine that one time, that was it. For the rest of the saga, the entire wizarding world is under siege from a magical Hitler, and they never again find the time travel useful? Despite all the people who die in the Harry Potter series (and post Azkaban, they start killing them off like it's a Friday the 13th movie) he never goes back and saves any of them?
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I'm trying to create a sliding scale system where if variable $x$ is low, then variable $y$ will be on the lower end of a $1$ to $10$ sliding scale. If variable $x$ is high (above perhaps a threshold?), then variable $y$ will be on the higher end of the sliding scale.
I can't for the life of me figure out the logic behind that. I've tried to do something like:
$$y = \frac{10}{x}$$
But in that case, when $x$ is $100$, $y$ will be low. And when $x$ is $1$, $y$ will be high. I need the exact opposite to happen. I imagine this is a common formula but I cant figure it out. Any ideas?

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I have a couple questions regarding this:
- Is there a good source for old firmwares, including 3.2? (iClarified doesn't have 3.2)
- Does Apple support downgrading for OS compatibility testing?
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As bckbck already said, you need the SHSH blob from the earlier version. If you don't have it for the desired OS version, it's too late.
And iOS 3.2 was only supported on the iPad, so it won't run on iPod touches.
Should the data on http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=SHSH be correct, then you can downgrade to iOS 4.1 with your device.
And you can get all firmwares at http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/.
First, iPhonos (my way of saying "iPhone OS") 3.2 was a unique version that was only available for iPad users. Since iOS 4, the iPad versions have the same version as the iPhone and touch version.
Second, on iPhone 3GS and touch 3g and later, plus all iPads, it uses a unique number, called a SHSH, which is a code made up of other codes in your device, including your device's firmware version and serial numbers of the hardware inside the device. But, the touch 1g and 2g, as well as the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G, do not have some of the hardware required for the SHSH to be generated, so they have to fill in some of the gaps in the SHSH that the missing hardware would have filled in. This needs to be done by the software, not hardware. iDevices that run iPhonos 3 or earlier don't know of this, so you can downgrade to any earlier iPhonos version without needing to save a SHSH.
You should use the firmware page that @jan.h mentioned, but make sure you use the second dropdown list, as the other dropdown is for iPods that don't run iOS.


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In the SNES game Secret of Mana, all the weapons seem to have 8 orbs, and thus 9 variations, except the Mana Sword. It doesn't seem possible to forge the Mana Sword more than 7 times, to get it to level 9. Is there a way to forge the 8th level sword, the Dragon Buster? And if so, what is the 9th sword?
In the standard gameplay, there is no 9th orb for the sword. I've placed the reason for this in the following spoiler block.
There is, however, a glitch that can let you use it normally. You can find this information in this other answer. ♪
The 9th version of the Sword is the Mana Sword. The only way to get this during "normal" gameplay is via Dryad's final spell, "Mana Magic". When both the Girl and the Sprite cast "Mana Magic" on the Boy, the Dragon Buster becomes the Mana Sword.
There is, however, a way built in to the game to forge the Dragon Buster one final time to obtain the Mana Sword before you get Dryad's magic:
This process can be repeated to teleport your characters to any part of the game, not just the Mantis Ant. However, most locations will not still have the bosses, only the Mantis Ant seems to reappear and give you an Orb. Also, while you can repeat the process to obtain more than 9 orbs, if you forge the Sword past level 9, the game will get "confused" and the sword will change to a different weapon, like the Gloves.
I added, as a comment, to Josh's answer that the glitch won't work on the iPhone version of the game. In fact, the island is different (it's a different shape) and you can no longer land on it:
If you're brave enough to jailbreak your iPhone you can hex edit the save file to change one tiny byte to give you 9 Sword Orbs so that Watts will reforge it into the Mana Sword.
To do this, you will need:
Take great care whilst editing the hex file. Any values must be overwritten, never inserted. Changing the offsets of other values will corrupt the file. It's best to make sure the file size never changes.


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I installed Ubuntu 11.10 two days back. Today I added a user named vivi and set it to administrator. And I just changed vivek, my username, to standard user. Now, since I created new user vivi, I have not supplied any password for it, yet I am unable to perform any administrator actions. Can anybody help me to restore administrative privileges?
Not sure if the above answer will work, since under live cd, you can't edit the system which installed too easily.
boot from the live CD, or mount the drive some other way, then edit
You also have the option of editing the passwd file, editing the root entry so you can login, but that's probably less likely to work well
If I understand yours problem, you have now no administrator account with password and just common user account (without admin privileges == not listed in suders (not in admin group).
Well - I thing yours only option is boot from live CD and (as root) set/change password for yours admin account (in chroot) or add his user account in admin group.


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STEUBENVILLE -The city's Eastern Gateway Community College Christmas parade will include nearly 90 entries for parade-watchers to enjoy when it begins at noon Saturday downtown.
The route will proceed south from North Street to Adams Street along Fourth Street. Floats, bands, marching units, queens, dancing groups, trick horse riders, Mickey and Minnie, Froggy from WOGH-FM and others will escort the arrival of Santa Claus in the city.
Sponsoring this year's event are the Steubenville Visitors Bureau, Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, WTOV-TV and Eastern Gateway Community College, and the event will be broadcast live on WTOV-TV and streamed on its website, according to Judy Bratten, co-organizer and director of the Steubenville Visitors Center and Historic Fort Steuben.
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RINGING IN THE SEASON — Children in the Wintersville United Methodist Church Bell Choir have been practicing for the Eastern Gateway Community College Steubenville Christmas Parade, in which they will perform aboard the Herald-Star float. It will be among nearly 90 units in the parade, which will begin at noon on Fourth Street on Saturday. The choir also will perform for the church's Christmas program at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 16. Behind them are the choir's directors, Carol Sue Evans, Michele Purviance, Michele Gribben and Ashley Burns and the Rev. Clint Quillen, the church's pastor. The group was formed and directed by Shirley and Michele Gribben from 2006 to 2009 and revived this year.
"The parade also is being helped with efforts from the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, the Franciscan University of Steubenville and the Steubenville Lions Club. The Herald-Star is doing a lot of great promotion for us, and (the newspaper) is going to have a wonderful float as well.
"We have 88 entries, ranging from decorated ambulances to a 'trick' horseback rider," Bratten continued. "We're looking forward to having Rich Donnelly as our grand marshal. He's a big fan of his hometown."
Donnelly, a Steubenville native and Catholic Central High School graduate, has had in a career in professional baseball that has spanned more than 40 years, including a stint as a coach with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also has a second career as a motivational speaker, according to Bratten.
During the parade, the lobby of the Grand Theater at 121 S. Fourth St. will be open for viewing from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors can see the progress being made on the theater's restoration project.
Some of the expected units include the Adena American Legion Post 525; Steubenville Fire Department; Steubenville Police Department; Steubenville Mayor Domenick Mucci; Steubenville High School Marching Band; Steubenville City Schools; United Way of Jefferson County; WEIR-AM; Jefferson County Community Action Council; Jefferson County Humane Society; Spot Bar; Steubenville Rotary Club; Steubenville Tigers; Trinity Health System; Urban Mission; Historic Fort Steuben; WTRF-TV; Jefferson County Animal Welfare League; Catholic Central High School Band; Santa and Laura Meeks, president of Eastern Gateway Community College; and many more.
Prior to the parade, the Steubenville Parks and Recreation Department will present Breakfast with Santa at Froehlich's Classic Corner, 501 Washington St. Reservations for 100 children are being accepted on a first-come, first-served basis by calling (740) 283-6000, extension 4006. The free breakfast runs from 10 a.m. to noon.
No parking will be allowed from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday on Fourth Street from Clinton to Adams streets.
Organizers are asking for no vehicles to be parked on Dock or Logan streets during the same time period Saturday. The parade will be organized Saturday morning in the vicinity of Steubenville High School.


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I've got one desktop computer Ubuntu 11.04 with an external USB drive mounted on it on the home WRT54L Linux network (192.168.0.2), and when I arrive at home with my laptop, I want to be able to mount the external USB drive from my Ubuntu 11.04 laptop (192.168.0.3) to the desktop, without having to unplug it from the desktop, that is accessing it.
Is it possible to send, via a terminal command, a remote mount command to the desktop usb drive from my laptop? Ideally something that creates a local mountpoint I can just call locally from the programs installed in my laptop, like:
username@laptop ~ "mount the drive so the laptop can see it" username@laptop ~ ./myprograminlaptop /my/file/which/is/actually/on/the/desktop/file.txt
Can I automate this process every time the laptop is connected to the home network?


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I was trying to use 2 methods "HOWTOMD5SUM" and "HOWTOSHA256SUM", but they are all way complicated for a newbie. Is there an application that could do the same in a simple way? I've already tried "checksum calculator" too, but it seems to work on iso files, not on live CDs.
How about choosing the "Check CD for defects" from the boot menu? :)
This is an screenshot from an old Ubuntu version, in newer versions you have to hit Enter during the boot process when you see this screen to see this menu:
md5 checking is not only used to check for errors, but to check for authenticity. You could have a cd that does not have errors, but that is non-authentic... ie., a hacked copy. It could also be a case that your download did not complete properly. It is possible to use the md5sum to ensure that what you are burning is valid and a complete copy. If you had an .iso that was not valid you could end up with a CD that would not boot (depends on where the error was in the downloaded file).
To check the md5sum of the .iso file you would:
You then take the result - 6cac02eb0b97633d3db3c86f1cf9a117 and compare it to themd5sum listed on the download page.
example: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
You can see that the md5sum is not the same as the one I generated. These are from daily builds so this is to be expected.


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Truck Tales - 2002 Chevy Pickup UpgradesWritten by on May 15, 2006 It seems that everyone these days has a pickup. Don't believe it? Take a look around the next time you're on the road. The real issue for any Car Crafter is how to stand out in the sea of trucks in both performance and looks while still keeping the prac
The best-selling vehicles in the U.S. today are pickups. Just look around as you mosey down the highways and byways and you will realize that trucks come in every shape and size and are often personalized by their owners and reflect their owner's personality.
It is still true in many regions of our country that you can drink a man's liquor, you can steal a man's girlfriend, but don't be messin' with his truck!
So we buy that perfect truck, whether it be used or new, and immediately start making it our personal calling card. This might entail brushed-steel toolboxes for that work truck or a new set of ground effects for that new sport truck.
Follow along as I detail how I created my own Silverado SS to serve as a combination rolling performance platform and work truck. I have recently retired from the airline industry where I had 32 years worth of experience, but it was successful since my number of landings equaled the number of takeoffs! Since I was also a Navy pilot, I have always believed in operating the best and most powerful equipment available. I installed the Magnuson Supercharger, Hotchkis front sway bar, Tokico shocks, Dynatech headers, and a Pace-Edwards Jackrabbit cover. The rear sway bar had to be integrated around the Flowmaster exhaust so we employed Gene Childress' talents at Muffler Masters since he had the welding tools and heavy-duty drill.
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|364 @ 5,800
|Rear Wheel TQ
|282 @ 4,{{{100}}}
|393 @ 3,700
|400 @ 3,{{{200}}}
|Stock gas mileage: 14 city/17 highway
|Parts List
|Front & rear antiroll bar
|Front shocks
|Rear shocks
|Supercharger kit
|Exhaust system
|Bed cover
No article in Car Craft would be complete without some performance testing. The truck turned a 14.20 @ 96 mph at Bristol last fall with the Magnuson Supercharger in place. This spring, after adding the Dynatech headers, the best time at Mooresville Dragway was a 9.40 @ 76 mph in the eighth-mile. As you can see, there was basically no traction in First gear. It actually hooks better on the street.
Yes, even a 5,000-pound behemoth can autocross! Of course you may not be competitive with all those flyweight cars, but just go out and have fun. During this event, the truck ran the course in 54.6 seconds compared to the quickest Mini at 48 seconds. Our Silverado bested a lot of smaller cars and won its class.
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My previous experience with Hotchkis Performance made me aware that the best handling upgrade is a set of tuned 171/48-inch Hotchkis sway bars and Tokico Trekmaster shocks, especially since I'm planning to tow with this truck. After combining the Hotchkis sway bars and the shocks, the ride and handling are significantly better than stock.Note the staggered mounting of the Tokico Trekmasters and the well-engineered frame-mounted rear Hotchkis sway bar-this arrangement helps plant the rear tires. The Flowmaster exhaust is designed and tested for specific applications. The exhaust note from this system doesn't even hint at the estimated 480 flywheel horsepower the little 5.3 Vortec cranks out.You cannot call yourself a car crafter unless you tweak the power. With a supercharger, you need an excellent exhaust system, including the DynaTech headers and connecting pipe with a catalytic converter to keep it all legal.The folks at Magnuson Products had just released their Radix Intercooled Supercharger for pickups that will really perk up that 5.3 Vortec engine while maintaining the warranty. Installation is easy, because it all bolts on from the top of the engine.Here is the final installation of the blower, which easily fits under the hood. The intercooler mounts a separate tank, cooler, and a pump that circulates the coolant to keep the hot air chilled for more power.We performed a series of chassis dyno-tests to get a complete before-and-after evaluation of the power for the record. The accompanying chart tells the final story. With the Dynatech headers, the combination of supercharger and exhaust mods was worth 120 rear-wheel horsepower. That's an increase of exactly 50 percent.Next is dress-up and practicality. Since I attend car shows, I end up hauling a lot of stuff. Lindsay Tire installed the BedRug, which keeps the bed clean and dent free. Jodi Hoebing at Pace-Edwards told me about the new Jack Rabbit sliding bed cover.When you travel out of your favorite radio stations' broadcast area there may or may not be another suitable station. I have been following the status of satellite radio for years and decided to use the Sirius. Now you can turn on whatever tunes light your fire or yell at six-plus channels of talk radio!


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I'm a heavy user of Google Reader. I'm just missing one thing and I can't believe that this is not possible: Is there a way to view starred articels per feed?
If I click on "starred items" on the left sidebar, Google Reader gives me ALL starred items of all my subscriptions. I have a lot of feeds sorted under categories.
Is there a way to view just the starred articels in these categories or just the starred items for the individual feeds?


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Redskins Keep Sliding, Bengals Shock Packers
The evidence continues to mount that Robert Griffin III should not have returned so quickly from his knee injury. The Washington Redskins fell to 0-3 as their star quarterback threw an interception and no touchdowns in the team's 27-20 home loss to the Detroit Lions (2-1). In Cincinnati, the ascendant Bengals stormed back from a 30-14 deficit to beat the Green Bay Packers, 34-30. Elsewhere, another Ohio team shocked the NFL as the Cleveland Browns, minus Trent Richardson, went to Minnesota and upset the Vikings 31-27. A playoff team a year ago, the Vikings are now 0-3.
—Kevin Clark
Report: Miller Tried To Manipulate Test
Denver's Von Miller was caught trying to manipulate the NFL's drug-testing system, which led to a six-game suspension that could have been longer.
A person familiar with the case told the Associated Press Sunday that the Broncos' All-Pro linebacker tried to avoid a positive test under the league's substance-abuse policy. Miller's six-game suspension was a compromise among the NFL, the players union and Miller's representatives. The league wanted a longer penalty.
—Associated Press
Vettel Jets to Formula 1 Victory in Singapore
Sebastian Vettel (below) inched closer to history on Sunday, winning the Singapore Grand Prix on the searing hot streets of Marina Bay. The 26-year old German Red Bull driver now holds a 60-point lead in the Formula 1 championship table with six races to go, a commanding advantage in his quest to become the third man ever to win four consecutive World Championships. Over the weekend in Singapore, Vettel was fastest in practice, qualified first, led every lap of the race, and set the fastest lap. He finished the race 32.6 seconds ahead of Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, with Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen in third.
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Are poetic contractions, such as "e'er", "o'er" and "ne'er" (and other less common ones), English? As in officially recognized?
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I'm not sure what it means to be "officially recognized" in English; there is no official list of English words.
If you mean appearing in dictionaries, then yes, it is a word.
(If you mean being employed in speech or everyday writing without sounding odd, then probably not. Its use is restricted to poetry, as you acknowledge.)
These contractions are primarily relegated to literary usage nowadays, and such usage is sparing in modern literature.
There is one phrase, however, which enjoys continued popularity in the spoken vernacular:
Some might call it vestigial, but unlike the appendix, it still serves a useful purpose. No synonym carries the freight of implied prescience that this term bears.
"Wastrel" rolls deliciously on the tongue, and "good-for-nothing" judges those who are by present accounting utterly useless. But only "ne'er-do-well" pronounces "I have seen into your future, and there is no hope for you."
Yes, they're real abbreviated English words, though I wouldn't use them unless I wanted to sound old-fashioned or poetic.
What do you mean officially recognised? English has no official arbitrator other than your dictionary of choice; so just check in your favourite dictionary!


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what is difference between JBPM and BPEL(and ESB)? Would you please explain them?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
I am not much familiar with JBPM. But it seems to be a Business work flow which can work with java services or basically java based process. Not only with web services.
BPEL is a standard to write work follows with web services. Always BPEL language used to integrate the web services and define processes based on that. Here is an sample I have written for that[1].
ESB is primarily used for mediation and transform messages. When you integrate different types of systems, the message flow between them may vary. So people can use ESB as a mediator. And also some ESBs provides service integration as well. WSO2 ESB[2] is such an ESB you can use.
[1] http://wso2.org/library/articles/2011/05/integrate-business-rules-bpel
Exactly, ESB + BPEL is a technical solution for an integration problem. If you want to use jBPM5 just to do integrations thats fine and you probably will use jBPM5 with an ESB for all your mediation and transformation of your messages. The power of BPMN2, a standard notation to describe business processes will help you to describe more high level/business oriented scenarios than just simple system integrations. The concept of human interaction is heavily embedded in the language and in the jBPM5 infrastructure. Think about the fact that your models (business processes) can be shared and understood by business/non technical people and they will be able to validate, improve and change those definitions when the business reality changes.
Hope it helps!
jBPM is BPMN based. This is a java based solution to your workflow problem. BPEL is also solves the workflow problem, but the approach is entirely different. It is web service based. BPEL from a syntax perspective is more complex than BPMN but is considered more extensive.
The right comparison should actually be between BPMN and BPEL I guess.
difference in terms of technology.
BPM should only be used where there is a human task otherwise ESB fulfills everything from orchestration to transformation to Rules to CEP


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STEUBENVILLE - His nick name was "Red" because of his hair, but retired city firefighters are describing retired fire Chief Bernard Bickerstaff as "the quiet man" and "a gentle giant."
Bickerstaff died Thursday at the age of 84.
He was hired as a Steubenville firefighter in 1957 after serving in the Air Force.
Bickerstaff was promoted to captain in the fire department in 1963 and then became an assistant chief four years later.
On Aug. 23, 1973, Bickerstaff was sworn in as fire chief.
Retired fire Capt. Jim Humienny said Bickerstaff "was of the old school."
"He was the chief and he came across as a fire chief. That's how we all saw him. He was strict but also very fair. We called him the 'gentle giant.' He was a very good man," stated Humienny.
Retired firefighter Dominic "Mo" Fato described Bickerstaff "as someone who couldn't help you enough."
"I really liked the man. He was a good fire chief and a good fireman. I once heard him described as, 'the quiet man' because he didn't get excited and didn't say much. But he knew his job and he was very good at it. I think the fire department was his first love," Fato remarked.
"He was never one to seek attention for himself. He really was a quiet man," added Fato.
"I knew Red through the fire department. He was a very nice man and a good guy," recalled retired fire Chief Terri English.
And retired fire Chief Rick Blair described Bickerstaff "as a hardworking man."
"I worked with him at the fire department for about 20 years and he was always tutoring the younger firemen. He was an excellent chief and a very good tutor. He was always teaching us about the job. He was also a good firefighter," said Blair.
Calling hours for Bickerstaff are from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the Mosti Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel.
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Hi all
I've been playing around with panos for a while and have decided to get a better head.
My current kit list is,
5D, 1D2n and 20D
Tok 10-17 fish (with hood shaved off), Sigma 15mm fish and Canon 17-40L (plus L lenses up to 300mm)
Frotto 55pro and the 555B levelling column. I have a cheapy L bracket style head that's not even remotely accurate and a 303 head. The frotto is big, heavy, not that friendly and is pretty visible at 10mm.
Logic says that I should do all my stuff with the 5D and the Tok for quick captures of busy scenes, and the other lenses for higher quality.
Will a NN3 be sufficient or should I look at a 5?
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I have decided to make a brand new thread. Make sure that if you haven't seen my old dolls before to check them out at either my site or at my older thread, which was getting a bit long.
This is Mandi from the HoC goes High School RP I'm in. ^^ She's categorized as a "Plastic" and is 'best friends' with Kasa, the "Queen Bee". Mandi (who's last name is Moore XD) isn't all that smart, and has been with many guys throughout campus. Those who know the RP would know more about her. Her hair's longer then that, so I may edit it to make it longer...
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LITTLE ROCK — By mid-afternoon Monday, about 4,000 people had electronically signed a petition on the White House's website seeking permission for Arkansas to withdraw from United States and form its own government.
Petitions for the secession of at least 21 states have been submitted to the Obama administration since Wednesday, the day after President Barack Obama's re-election to a second term, according to the White House. The administration says it will review and respond to any petition that receives 25,000 signatures within one month.
The petition for Arkansas' secession was created Saturday by "Jesse W.," with no address or hometown listed. Of the signatures on the petition that have hometowns listed, most are from outside of Arkansas. The signers are identified on the website by first name and last initial only.
The petition includes a quote from the Declaration of Independence but offers no other justification for secession.
Other petitions seek permission for the withdrawal of Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas.
The right to petition the government is guaranteed under the First Amendment. Among the other petitions that can be viewed on the White House's website are ones seeking to end drone strikes, recount the presidential election, outlaw offending the prophets of major religions and "send the president to meet a dying 8-year-old in St. Louis."


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Misunderstandings about 85
- An anonymous coward wrote:
So I'm seeing edit wars and that sucks but there's kind of no option because there's no talk page and now there is so take it here, guys.
I'm wikitransposing a bunch of stuff from the articlespace to here because it's getting out of hand and crufty. Maybe we should start a new page called Beef, and you can just talk shit about people in the space or not in the space bugging you, either signing your posts or like an anonymous little coward. But at the beginning of this page it says, "This is a place to keep track of ... people who have been asked to leave Noisebridge ..." So for now, let's just limit it to that, yeah? If someone hasn't been explicitly individually asked to leave the space, please leave them off 85. As it is it's turning into a "people part of subcultures I don't like" page. 'Cause otherwise this thing is going to get ridiculous and way out of control, with oogles and other annoying individuals. And let's face it, in a place dedicated to people with limited social skills, almost everybody's a bit fucking annoying. <3
Sorry Anonymous Coward, this is completely wrong. 85 is not a list of people who have been kicked out of the space, as implied by your bad attempt at selective quoting (...) above. It's to help solve a specific problem of the space being invaded by non-hackers. It's a tool to help us determine who the problem users of the space are and then ask them to leave. (Jesse Z.)
It wasn't an attempt at selective quoting... it was selective quoting. I'd think the ellipses made that obvious and explicit. If you'd read what was actually written, you'd see I was labouring under no misimpression that this was exclusively a list of people who have been kicked out. I merely suggested that the page needed clearer focus - or don't you feel it's become crufty? People annoyed with Rayc included him on the page. Does anyone disagree that he can be difficult to deal with sometimes? But do you think he belongs on this page? I don't. But "unexcellent" is by nature subjective. Jargon file and Mitch Altman puppet shows aside, the definition of "hacker" is a contentious one as well. So then why not include rayc? or is moving shelves now "hacking" because we like him?
So if we can't come up with clearer criteria for inclusion on the page, let's just move it to "oogles" and anybody who dresses too white trash or takes the Gaia theory too seriously can go on it. It had become a subcultural witchhunt, and, I felt, not productive. You understand that the more people who can become included on the page, the less power and significance it has.
Some people ("some people") had perhaps been swept into this understandably zealous purging of counterrevolutionary elements, and painted with a broad brush. I never heard of Jedi before this whole pack of mush-brained self-styled anarchists and spangers descended upon Noisebridge in Amber's wake. Was he part of her original crew in tow? Or does he just happen to wear a beanie and camo? Who knows? Who cares? I think it was Shannon at the last meeting who made an allusion to folks enduring religious sermons for their supper, and being just as willing to "learn[...] to speak hacker" for a meal here - well, if it looks like a hacker and it quacks like a hacker... that's still better than merely asserting that because you're "with Occupy" or a human being you have a right to be in the space. If you're tinkering with stuff and seem like you're making a genuine effort to learn and interface with the existing culture I think there are a lot of people who will go to bat for you, regardless of how you got here. If nothing else, he seems to have a knowledge of the 'Net beyond checking his e-mail or of hardware hacking beyond making bongs out of whatever happens to be lying around on the shop floor. Do we now kick people out for knowing people who we haven't kicked out but don't like? If this page is merely an "on notice" page for people to shape up their behaviour, then why the endless pro/con battles below everybody's name?
That first night I added all those names in response to Kelly's desire to document incidents, I cast a wide net. If I didn't recognize you and you even looked like you could have ever owned a Limp Bizkit or Insane Clown Posse CD, I tried to put you on the list, even/especially if I didn't get your name. There was just such an onslaught, it felt out of control and I didn't feel I had the luxury to be discriminating. It was mostly public scratch paper to figure out who's who among these new faces in the space, many of whom were blatantly abusing it. I didn't intend it to be a long-term document of people we didn't like. And that vagueness is exactly what caused the page to be immediately sabotaged by other Noisebridge regulars.
Including questionable cases muddies the waters and undermines the very purpose this page was created for - to empower people to feel like they have institutional support to ask people to leave for unexcellent behaviour.
Maybe this is just a page to compare notes on people who've acted inappropriately. But then rayc doesn't get a pass just because he doesn't dress like Shaggy from "Scooby-Doo" or talk like a stoner. And certainly people don't get to censor others' comments just because someone on this list is their friend.
Edit/P.S.: Oh, God. Now, look, they've gone and added Justin. Do you seriously doubt this is going to degenerate into anything but a drama-ass slapfight if some clearer criteria aren't established? Do you really think merely being an obnoxious fucktard is grounds to be permanantly barred from the space? You don't think anyone'll block that?
If not, then please, I reiterate, please limit 85 to people you think engage in particular bannable offences, or else grow a fucking pair and tell them to their face why they're annoying, or try to kick them out yourself and then add them.
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- "Please only re-add someone if you know for a fact they've been asked to leave and have specifically refused or been escorted out." --Eric
- Sorry Eric, that is just not correct. This page is to compare notes with people who may think a person's presence in inappropriate. If a person has already been asked to leave they may be placed on the 86 page. I have not seen Amber in four days and the space has been MUCH MUCH improved as a result. I would very much like it if she never returned. (Jesse Z.)
- No, if you look at 86 you'll see that's simply not the way it's worked so far. 86 has been strictly for people who had to be forcibly ejected from Noisebridge for the immediate security of others or their property. 85 has included people who were asked to leave, whether or not they protested or wanted to state their case at a meeting. (Eric)
- 85 is a jury, not a judge. It's a place to discuss people you are concerned about but not certain enough about to unilaterally ban. You should not put anyone on 85 unless you think there's a serious possibility they should be asked to leave, and the purpose is not to slander but to facilitate community input to the decision process. If it were really the case that people should only be there after they've been asked to leave, then we'd have an 84 page for the purpose 85 currently serves. (Jesse Z)
- Then Rayc belongs there. <3 eric
Old beef
Rayc lives at Noisebridge. He doesn't always sleep here, but when he does he feels entitled as fuck. He tells people he works for Noisebridge and thus is allowed to sleep here. He decides who else is allowed. He gives everyone tours, he's giving one right now as I write this, and as usual 90% of wat he is telling people is cringe-inducingly absurd bogus nonsense. He is frequently obviously under the influence of substances of the "upper" variety, and exhibits classic tweaker behaviors like constant reorganizing and "soldering" with plastic (making hella toxic fumes, wtf, please ask him to stop). Rayc obviously means well, but sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. Rayc should stop trying to improve Noisebridge infrastructure, stop giving tours, and generally LURK MOAR (aka stfu and chill the fuck out). - Anonymous
- I hadooped the above text, did a Bayesian analysis of the memes... DING DING DING its JustinDoerr! Are you still sore Rayc freaked out when you sat on him? I think you need to chill a little. - Anonymous
- Nope, Chuck Testa. Adversarial stylometry is hard, but I'm barely trying here. - Anonymous
- I, for one, want to say I love rayc' tours. If you have a specific criticism, please mention it, so we can perpetuate awesome institutional culture for newcomers and learn from each other, but it seems to me that rayc always gives tours, when no one else is willing to, that, if nothing else, leave first-time visitors excited and inspired. Whatever other bullshit falls out of his mouth, who cares? People can figure out the rest for themselves, right? As long as they're here and willing to contribute and learn. And that's what rayc' tours do. - Eric
- The biggest problem with his tours is that they frequently can give people the (accurate) impression there is a tweaker who thinks he's in charge of the place, which is not particularly welcoming (except to tweakers). - Anonymous
- someone really unchill posted a lot of crap about long time Noisebridge volunteer Rayc. I certainly DO NOT agree with everything Rayc does, but I can't imagine any sane person thinking he is unwanted or is an 'Oogle'. Justin Doerr if you really think Rayc should be escorted from the space, please make one of your hilarious long winded without end rambling tangential requests at the next weekly meeting, so we can laugh at you. - Anonymous
- I did not say he should be escorted out, I said he should lurk moar. Calling him a "long time Noisebridge volunteer" does not address any of the issues above. - Anonymous
- ok fine. Let's agree Rayc is NOT an oogle / occupier / squatter / hobo. I wouldn't mind telling him he needs to chill out a bit. I will ask him verbally at next opportunity.
- Justin suffers from a terminal case of Overshare . Often the disease sufferer has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA that no one gives a flying fig about their daily struggles. The only known cure is polite shunning until the sufferer gets a clue. - Anonymous
- I assume the "not" in "I promise not to be excellent" was not intentional, but given [1] and [2] it may as well have been. Although I generally agree with his latest wall-o-text about why this page is bullshit, I wish Justin would take the same advice I gave to Rayc above: stop trying to improve Noisebridge, and lurk a lot fucking moar! -
The Oogles
Some people seem to have gotten the impression Noisebridge is a 24-hour hangout and drop-in center, whether or not sleep is permitted. With refrigerators where you can leave your food.
The following people have been accused of using Noisebridge as a crashpad and the general sentiment seems to be that they are not making the space more Excellent.
- guy with cane who isn't Zack
- Has not slept or stored stuff at the space in any way.
- Assisted with Removing Jonathon from the space
- Has been active in utilizing the space productively.
- Iraq War Veteran with two purple hearts. (edited by Jedi)
Yogurt Container Man
- I forget his name. Nice guy, unshaven, pretending extremely hard to not be homeless, plays chess, is really handy at repairing the Occupiers clothes with a needle and thread or with the sewing machines. Stores random things in the shelves in the middle of the space.


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Chance That Surgery Could Find Benign Tumor
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I am having surgery for a thyroid cancer found with a biopsy but I read online that they could do the surgery and find out it is benign. Is that really true?
Rachel Kelz, MD, MSCE, at Penn Medicine responds:
The accuracy of the pre-operative diagnosis is dependent upon the cytologist that reviews the slides. It varies across institutions. Assuming the pre-operative diagnosis is made by an experienced cytopathologist, the likelihood of benign results following an FNA that is a proven cancer is small (<3%.) There are several FNA diagnoses that are not overt CANCER that require surgery for a definitive diagnosis such as follicular neoplasm and suspicious for thyroid cancer. These diagnoses are expected to be benign on pathologic review in a specific percent of patients.
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Direct path beam pattern lux readings are just not that good (pointing the light directly at the light meter). It's very hard to do and lux readings vary widely as one gets a few mm off center. I don't think I can do it well enough to be useful.
There's a new light company in San Luis Obispo called Lezyne. They have a $40,000 integrating sphere that measures light output. I have free access to it so I just might drive there to measure all these lights.
Just fyi to others, the way I measure light output is by pointing the light to the ceiling of a controlled room and measuring the ambient light in the room. It is a pseudo integrating sphere and it actually really good. I just did it for all the 2012 lights and it still agrees with my beam photos well.
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State Sen. Barry Finegold is seeking to parlay his recent support for supermarket workers into votes in his quest to become the next state treasurer.
With just a week until the Sept. 9 primary elections, Boston-area TV stations were airing ads featuring Market Basket workers crediting Finegold for supporting them during the weeks when they left their jobs.
Market Basket workers supporting Finegold in the ad include Shawn Castles, Ryan Breton, Ken Mercer, Rosa Pereira, Joe Amaral, John Kennedy and Valerie Polito, who says in the ad that Finegold "started a boycott."
Finegold will face Democrats Deb Goldberg and Rep. Thomas Conroy on the Sept. 9 primary ballot.
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How is arbitrary different from finite in mathematics? An arbitrary union of subsets and a finite union of subsets look the same to me! Is an infinite union of subsets arbitrary?
The meaning is totally different. The statement "for arbitrary $x$" means "for all $x$", whereas "finite" is a term that can be applied to a set to indicate that its cardinality (size) is a natural number.
In particular, asking "is $A$ arbitrary" only makes sense in certain contexts, where you may be asking whether something is being proved for all $A$, or only for a specific $A$.
Sometimes the phrase "arbitrary union" is used as shorthand for "union of a collection of arbitrary cardinality" as opposed to "union of a finite collection" or as opposed to "union of a pair" (binary union.)
The word "arbitrary" does not specify a property of the thing it applies to. It is merely a rhetorical way to call attention to the fact that what you say is not restricted to things with any particular property.
It's still left to the reader to figure out from context what the thing you're calling attention to not saying is, but that is okay, because the word "arbitrary" has no formal effect.
So saying that "such-and-such is true for arbitrary unions" formally means neither more nor less than saying that "such-and-such is true for unions", period.
When we say "let $A$ be an arbitrary widget", we're not formally saying anything different from "let $A$ be a widget" -- just making sure that the reader notices that the only thing we know about $A$ is its widgetness. We can follow up with "remember that $A$ was arbitrary ..." which again just mean "remember that we didn't assume anything in particular about $A$".
Just to add to what Aloizio and Trevor have said -
Suppose I say "let $U$ be an arbitrary subset of the real line." Then $U$ can be anything. Some choices:
Suppose I say "let $U$ be a finite subset of the real line." Now that means $U$ must only have a finite number of elements. Of the above choices, the only one that still qualifies is $U=\{1,2,3,4,19\}$.
Arbitrary means you can have any indexed union of sets.
Finite means you can have only a finite union, i.e., you can only have an union indexed by a set of same cardinality of $I_n$, where $I_n:=\{1,...,n\}$
For example:
Define $A_{\alpha}:=[\frac{1}{\alpha}, 1]$ for every $\alpha \in [1, \infty)$
You can make $\displaystyle \bigcup _{\alpha \in[1,\infty]} A_{\alpha}$, and it will be a good exercise for you to show that this is $(0,1]$


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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
ETF Pairs as Sentiment Gauges: IWM and SPY
Recent posts have looked at EEM vs. SPY and XLY vs. XLP as sentiment gauges for the broad stock market. Above we see yet another ETF pair, IWM vs. SPY, as a gauge of speculative sentiment among traders and investors.
The underlying logic is much the same as EEM vs. SPY: traders will be drawn to the smaller, more entrepreneurial, growth-oriented companies when they anticipate economic expansion and will gravitate toward the larger, safer issues when they expect economic weakness.
As we can see above, the small and midcap stocks that are part of IWM have been outperforming the large cap SPY issues, recently moving to relative strength highs. That strength can also be seen in the advance/decline line specific to NYSE common stocks: the broad list of smaller cap issues has been moving the line to bull highs lately.
It is interesting to juxtapose the bullish speculative sentiment of IWM vs. SPY with the more tempered outlook given by EEM vs. SPY. Within the universe of U.S. stocks, we see risk-taking sentiment among traders; that same sentiment is not extending itself globally. Indeed, if we look at large cap stocks across Europe, the Far East, and Australasia (EFA), we can see that those overseas bourses as a whole have not sustained bull highs thus far in 2010.
As long as there is broad participation in upward movement in the U.S., I don't expect any major market correction. Should we begin to see small caps underperform their larger cap counterparts and overseas markets--especially in emerging economies--underperforming the U.S., I would become far more defensive.
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- Chris said...
Looking at the spread between two etfs or indices is a good tool for a snapshot of what has transpired in the markets, but it is a bit simplistic and, in fact, downright dangerous to extrapolate trends forward based on this lagging indicator.
To really get a grasp of what traders are thinking "now", one must delve deeper and look comparatively at the technical correlations and divergences among the various asset classes, not just the direction of the price spread.
- Flowtastical said...
$tick is holding pretty well above and spys are flat??
- SR said...
Please expand your date range and you'll see what I mean...
- Jonathan said...
We have just had a decent correction and we may not have seen the end of it. However this just offers the opportunity to take advantage of your etf list of securities and exploit the markets current position.


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What are you currently playing, and on what system?
On PC I am currently taking a trip down memory lane and completing a tour of duty as a Luftwaffe fighter pilot in Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe from 1991! It's amazing how engrossing this game is 20 years on!
On the PS3 I am playing through Call of Duty: World at War for the second time. I'm enjoying it, I've always longed for a good Stalingrad/Eastern Front set of missions in a FPS and this game certainly delivers on that. And the "storming the white beach at Peleliu" mission is as good, if not even better, than the famous "Omaha Beach" mission in Medal of Honor Frontline. (But I'd forgotten in World at War how often the Kiefer Sutherland voiced character screams "They're getting close!" that gets kinda irritating LOL)


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For this week's #MasterofCocktails we're making 'fluffy ruffs'!
Whilst leafing through The Savoy Cocktail Book, I came across the Fluffy Ruffles Cocktail. Now, as you'll no doubt know, Fluffy Ruffs are a suggestion for the Butterfield Diet Plan, so my interest was immediately piqued. Whilst working on this one I was even officially re-twat by @MrBButterfield himself! We do have a warehouse. The invitation's there Brian...
The recipe took a bit of fiddling before I was happy with it - some of the quantities and even ingredients needed changing. The final result of said tinkering is a delicious cocktail that calls for Rum, Sugar, Lime and Quinquina.
What's not to like?
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I just received my NN3 MKII. My D200 has a Really Right Stuff L-bracket on it and there's a mounting hole in it that I presume I can use for attaching the camera mounting plate. (That hole is to the rear of the D200's hole for mounting brackets.)
First question: Is it OK to screw the camera mounting plate into the hole on the L-bracket, or do I have to remove the L-bracket?
Second question: Does it make any difference in which direction I mount the camera mounting plate? The illustrations in the manual all show the plate with the extra hole on the bracket placed to the rear of the brass screw used to attach the plate to the camera. If I keep the L-bracket on my camera, the camera mounting bracket sits under more of the camera body and appears to be more stable if I rotate the entire plate 180 degrees, so that the bracket's extra hole is pointing towards the front of the camera.


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I am looking for an app that has some of the same functionality (ssh specifically) as the Terminal application on the desktop. What different apps exist for iOS that have this functionality?
Prompt for iOS
Prompt allows you to remotely SSH into another machine. Without jailbreaking, there is no way to use Terminal to access your file system. However, I've found that if you do jailbreak your phone and want to use Prompt as a Terminal, you can set it to SSH to server
Remoter: Remote Desktop (VNC) for iOS
This app does basically the same thing just a little differently. By default it allows a VNC connection for screen sharing, but it has different add ons that you can purchase that allow SSH, Telnet, and RDP.
There are plenty of SSH apps for remote connections (see Matt's answer), but it is likely impossible that a local Terminal-like app could ever exist for the iOS device itself. The three main reasons would likely be:
If you are willing to jailbreak, there is MobileTerminal, which together with jailbreaking, gives you many of the common GNU utilities that operate directly on the iOS device's filesystem.
It would be a fair bit or work, though, as the version of MobileTerminal available through Cydia (the jailbreak App store) is out of date, and doesn't work on many devices. You would probably have to compile + install the current version from it's sources.
It's worth mentioning you can have a proper local UNIX shell if you jailbreak your device, and there are a few apps available for it.
I've never done it myself, perhaps someone who has can edit my answer to include more details.


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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jeddah today.
King Abdullah opened the meeting by briefing the Cabinet on his recent consultations with world leaders and their envoys. He highlighted Saudi Arabia's ongoing efforts to boost relations with countries around the world, foster Arab unity and safeguard its national interests.
In honor of the third anniversary of King Abdullah's reign, the Cabinet reviewed Saudi Arabia's domestic and foreign policies over the past three years. It highlighted the King's vision, which incorporates the following elements:
The Cabinet urged government departments, social institutions, the media, intellectuals and social activists to incorporate the King's vision on all levels.
In addition, the Cabinet approved a number of procedures for governmental organizations to follow during the Hajj as well as a civil air transport agreement with China.


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For Ietef "DJ Cavem" Vita, HIP HOP is not just a form of music, it's a way of life—one he's using to teach kids about cultivating the earth and eating fresh veggies. This is Ietef's story.
In this collection of watercolor illustrations, a comics artist illustrates her journey through grief after the sudden death of her first child.
The Nazca Lines of Peru inspired Oregon artist Daniel Dancer to invite an entire elementary school of students to be the beads on the headband of a 25-acre Indian head. The result was stunning and life changing. This is Daniel's story.
This mandala-esque poster is a happy self-care tool, and can also be adapted to classroom use.
What calls high school English teacher Aletha Fields to teach each and every day? Her faith, her commitment to take care of herself, and the love and appreciation from her students. This is Aletha's story.
A typical day at Brooklyn Free School.
At "free schools," kids decide what they want to learn. Teacher Gia Rae Winsryg-Ulmer honors their right to be themselves and the independent-thinking people they are meant to be. This is Gia's Story.
This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about the intersection of handwriting and digital typeface, and the fate of cursive writing around the world.
Psychologists recently conducted a study that found that meditation may make you more liberal, at least in the short-term. Richard Schiffman argues that the politics of true spirituality are more about balance than support for any one side.
Are animals capable of feeling emotions? PBS Nature shares evidence that humans are not the only ones on the planet who cares, loves, and empathizes. Meet five animal odd couples.
It's 3 a.m. and the wind's howling. Do you know your neighbors?
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Polica performs live in The Current studio
Polica had already recorded their first full-length before debuting on the local music circuit. So the mystery behind them after their inaugural show in September 2011 was already remarkably large, especially considering the musicians' previous projects like Roma di Luna, Bon Iver, and GAYNGS.
Featuring Channy Leaneagh, Chris Bierden, Drew Christopherson, and Ben Ivascu, Polica has already garnered widespread interest throughout the country. On the heels of a recent tour with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and a record produced by Ryan Olson (GAYNGS, Digitata) and mixed by Jim Eno of Spoon, the band has proven that releasing only a handful of tracks as a teaser without any other press can be the best equation to really knock up your buzz-factor.
Their debut Give You the Ghost is out February 14, but the band has already released it on iTunes as an early gift to listeners.
Songs played: "Amongster," "Wandering Star" and "The Maker."
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How is the speed of light calculated? My knowledge of physics is limited to how much I studied till high school. One way that comes to my mind is: if we throw light from one point to another (of known distance) and measure the time taken, we could know the speed of light. but do we have such a precise time measuring tool?
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Different physicists have attempted to measure the speed of light throughout history. Galileo attempted to measure the speed of light in the seventeenth century. An early experiment to measure the speed of light was conducted by Ole Rømer, a Danish physicist, in 1676. Using a telescope, Ole observed the motions of Jupiter and one of its moons, Io. Noting discrepancies in the apparent period of Io's orbit, Rømer calculated that light takes about 22 minutes to traverse the diameter of Earth's orbit.[4] Unfortunately, its size was not known at that time. If Ole had known the diameter of the Earth's orbit, he would have calculated a speed of 227,000,000 m/s.
Another, more accurate, measurement of the speed of light was performed in Europe by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1849. Fizeau directed a beam of light at a mirror several kilometers away. A rotating cog wheel was placed in the path of the light beam as it traveled from the source, to the mirror and then returned to its origin. Fizeau found that at a certain rate of rotation, the beam would pass through one gap in the wheel on the way out and the next gap on the way back. Knowing the distance to the mirror, the number of teeth on the wheel, and the rate of rotation, Fizeau was able to calculate the speed of light as 313,000,000 m/s.
Léon Foucault used an experiment which used rotating mirrors to obtain a value of 298,000,000 m/s in 1862. Albert A. Michelson conducted experiments on the speed of light from 1877 until his death in 1931. He refined Foucault's methods in 1926 using improved rotating mirrors to measure the time it took light to make a round trip from Mt. Wilson to Mt. San Antonio in California. The precise measurements yielded a speed of 299,796,000 m/s.
The title of your question is about calculating the speed of light ($c$), but the body asks about measuring $c$. Others have answered you on the measurement issue, but I'd like to include a bit about the calculation of $c$ from principles.
Light, as an electromagnetic phenomenon, is described by Maxwell's equations:
$$ \begin{eqnarray} \nabla \cdot E &=& \frac{\rho}{\epsilon_0}\\ \nabla \cdot B &=& 0\\ \nabla \times E &=& -\frac{\partial B}{\partial t}\\ \nabla \times B &=& \mu_0 J + \mu_0 \epsilon_0 \frac{\partial E}{\partial t} \end{eqnarray} $$
where $\rho$ is the charge density, $J$ is the current density, $E$ and $B$ are the electric and magnetic fields, respectively, $\mu_0$ is the magnetic permeability of free space, and $\epsilon_0$ is the electrical permittivity of free space. In the absence of any charges, one solution to these equations is a traveling plane wave with velocity
$$ c= \frac{1}{\sqrt{\mu_0 \epsilon_0}} $$
Of course, this leaves the problem of measuring $\mu_0$ and $\epsilon_0$, but is a great demonstration of the fact that light is truly an electromagnetic phenomenon. As an added bonus, $\mu_0$ and $\epsilon_0$ can be measured in a variety of ways, without requiring very high time resolution.
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But really, how do you feel about drinking pussy?
Oh, not THAT sort of pussy! No. God, don't be so FILTHY. I meant the energy drink, clearly! No double entendres here, thanks very much. See, look, THE DRINK!
Straight from the Pussy website, apparently, "the name Pussy shocks and demands attention – that's the point. Inhibition is a recipe for mediocrity. This is a premium energy drink named with confidence."
Ah – so I am *supposed* to be shocked! Well, that's okay then. Funnily enough, it doesn't mention anything about me also feeling vaguely homicidal, and wanting to punch the creators in the face. Guess they had a limited word count.
The other part that I find vaguely hilarious (in between me head butting the wall, that is). "This is a premium energy drink named with confidence."
Confidence? Really?! See, I would have gone with stupidity, sexism, idiocy, and downright blatant misogyny before I would have said "confidence". Maybe they were confident in their idiocy? Confident in their ability to laugh off the ridiculous amount of sexism they've managed to pack into one marketing campaign?
After trawling through their website, I've reproduced a few of snappy marketing one liners on there for your amusement:
"Pussy starts conversations. It believes in having a good time as often as possible"
"Looking for Pussy? To find out which bars, venues and stores stock Pussy near you, call us on 020 7348 9870."
"Pussy is a 100% natural drink. No nasty chemicals and nothing manufactured. It is made for people looking for a natural alternative."
"Pussy is spontaneous, entertaining, optimistic and fun."
(All quotes taken from the Pussy website)
(Also, if you're my mother and you're reading this, please skip the next paragraph).
Now, let's theoretically pretend that this double meaning is ACTUALLY trying to refer to a woman's genitals for a minute, and compare what they've said with the truth.
Is my vagina spontaneous? Only when it decides to send me my period a week early, or late. So I guess you can have that one, Pussy.
Is my vagina entertaining? Only since I taught it how to play the piano.
Is it optimistic? God yes. Sometimes my vagina and I just sit up late into the night, talking. And I'm all, "God, my life is SO SHIT", and my vagina is then all, "Nawww, Jess, cheer up! Be happy! You've got such a good life!". Yep. My vagina is definitely optimistic.
Is is fun? Of course. Sometimes my vagina and I just go out for coffee, and get our nails done together, and then we sit on the beach.. oh, wait. I'm thinking of this ad now:
Does my vagina start conversations? Perhaps not mine specifically, but I do know that, according to popular culture, it's all that men seem to talk about. So again, correct. Though personally, my vagina's not that chatty.
And if you're looking for my vagina? You probably won't find it by calling that number.
But, in all serious, and vagina jokes aside, this entire ad campaign and product is just foul. It's disgusting, it's stupid, and it's trying to play into a market of double meanings and rude jokes.
Not only does it manage to take sexism in advertising to an entire new level, but it also does so whilst claiming that it is pushing the boundaries, and by not being "mediocre".
The creator (a man, obviously), Jonnie Shearer, obviously did not consider the thousands of women who are going to be serving drinks behind a bar, or simply standing beside someone as they order a "pussy". He is obviously never going to be in the position of being an 18-year-old bar maid on a busy Saturday night, when some sleazy guy leans over and asks her for a pussy. I'm not saying that Jonnie Shearer caused these situations – but by god, he most certainly had a hand in furthering the instances of them.
All things aside, it is NOT okay for this sort of post-modern, retro sexist, double-entendre stinking pile of crap to exist. It simply isn't. Anyone with half a brain can see that their advertising campaigns are blatantly sexist, and if it was up to me, I would show Jonnie Shearer the world that exists outside of his male-dominated perspective. A world where rape exists, a world where "pussy" is actually sold in the sex trade, and a world where woman have to be confronted with their genitals treated as a form of humour for this "natural energy drink".
And just in case you were in any doubt about whether this product, and their advertisements, are sexist? Here are a few more posters advertising the drink:
You could argue that, perhaps, these ads are empowering. I mean in the last one the woman is clearly getting *something* out of it. And in the others, all the women seem to be having a pretty good time.
But there's a few things I'd like to point out. In all but one ad, the man is holding the drink- ie, he is drinking the pussy (and in the last ad, he appears to be literally doing that). The woman is always naked, the man is always clothed – he's a position of power, and she's in a state of undress (which, coincidentally, is how uncomfortable some women might feel after seeing these ads. Like they're naked). And finally? The women are all typically attractive (as are the men – but the men aren't naked). Yet another body image issue for women to be concerned about. The only women deemed suitable to have 'attractive pussies' are slim, have light skin, and are young.
I'll leave the final word to the advertising guru, Don Draper.
"Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is okay. You are okay."
Pussy seem to have forgotten this while they were busy trying to create attention for themselves. Controversy wanes, publicity wanes, but happiness doesn't. And who on earth is this drink supposed to make happy? Not women. Not the majority of men. That leaves them a very small market.
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Let $G$ be a transitive group on $\Omega$. Every orbits of $G$ on its natural action on $\Omega\times\Omega$ is called an orbital of $G$ on $\Omega$. For each orbital $\Delta$ of $G$ on $\Omega$, the orbital digraph $Graph(\Delta)$ is a digraph with vertex set $\Omega$ and edge set $\Delta$. Clearly, $G$ is a subgroup of automorphism group of $Graph(\Delta)$. Is there any paper or book that determine for which groups $G$, there is an orbital $\Delta$ that $G$ is equal to the automorphism group of $Graph(\Delta)$? Clearly, the action of $S_5$ on 2-subets of $\{1,\ldots,5\}$ is an example.
The property of $G$ you are looking at is called 2-closure, i.e., you ask for a classification of 2-closed permutation groups. See the paper by Liebeck, Praeger, Saxl, On the 2-closures of finite permutation groups. J. London Math. Soc. (2) 37 (1988), no. 2, 241–252, where this question is investigated for a particular class of primitive permutation groups.
More precisely, this is not 100% equivalent to your question (it would be, if you allowed graphs have coloured arcs), as there exist 2-closed permutation groups $G$ such that for each orbital the automorphism group of the underlying (di)graph is strictly bigger than $G$.
In general such a classification is not known, and the problem is hopelessly hard, I think.


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My heart goes out to all the children at Pleasant Hill Elementary School and their families.
The 2,000-plus wonderful people of the Edison Local School District have voted down a levy that would have kept an excellent elementary school open.
Since I started substitute teaching, I have always said that Pleasant Hill is the warmest and most inviting school I have been in. The teachers show every day, and in a million ways, how much they care for their students - the principal cares so much about his school - and the students thrive there. It is an amazing place - and now it will close.
I'm not being nostalgic - it's not because this is where I went to school, it's because during the past three years I have come to see that Pleasant Hill is a very special place with a very special group of people.
Edison Local lost something Tuesday it can never replace.
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I am doing a heuristic evaluation of my company web based product designed for Tablets. Do you know any heuristics checklist specifically meant for tablets? If so can you please share it?
One that is always useful is Jakob Nielsens Ten Usability Heuristics, which isn't specific to tablets, but can be used as a starting point for building your own checklist:
In short, these bullits apply:
Then add PhillipsWs' comment of Readability in sunlight and we only have a few more to add, such as Ease of use when in motion and Cues to start again after pause.
The last three all address the way a tablet is used, such as reading on the beach where the surrounding light is very bright and possibly the user is wearing sunglasses. Yes, it's hard do get it to work at all, but there is always ways to improve contrast between content and background. Tablet users also move around and stop and restart activities when it suits them. the last two suggestions address these situations.
To add further to the list, one could write a few use cases to see what needs to be measured in order to get the list more comprehensive.


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When Master Dogen* (*lived in he 13th century, 51st successor of Buddha, and first true patriarch Zen in Japan) came back to Japan after travelling through China, he made some conferences. In Japan, Buddhism existed already, but Dogen said: "Only zazen* (*za = to sit, zazen = to sit in the posture of Zen) is important. All the Buddhistic decorations, the sutra's, the beliefs, the philosophy,..., all this is secondary. The decorations do not permit us to realize the true awakening of Buddha*..." (*Shakyamuni Buddha is the historical Buddha, but each person who realizes awakening in the posture of zazen, becomes Buddha)
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Scurvy is a disease that occurs when you have a severe lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in your diet. Scurvy causes general weakness, anemia, gum disease, and skin hemorrhages.
Scurvy is rare in the United States. Older adults who are not getting proper nutrition are most affected by scurvy.
Vitamin C deficiency; Deficiency - vitamin C; Scorbutus
Kumar V, Abbas AK, Fausto N, Aster JC. Environmental and nutritional diseases. In: Kumar V, Abbas AK, Fausto N, Aster JC, eds. Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2009:chap 9.
Salwen MJ. Vitamins and trace elements. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. New York, NY: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 26.
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Glutaric acidemia type II
Other Names for this Disease
- Glutaric acidemia type 2
- Glutaric acidemia 2
- Glutaric aciduria 2
- Ethylmalonic-adipicaciduria
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proteins and fats to produce energy. The severity of GA2 varies widely among affected individuals. Some have a very severe form which appears in the neonatal period and may be fatal; individuals with this form may be born with physical abnormalities including brain malformations, an enlarged liver, kidney malformations, unusual facial features, and genital abnormalities. They may also emit an odor resembling sweaty feet. Others have a less severe form which may appear in infancy, childhood, or even adulthood. Most often, GA2 first appears in infancy or early childhood as a sudden episode of a metabolic crisis that can cause weakness, behavior changes (such as poor feeding and decreased activity) and vomiting.[1] GA2 is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner and is caused by mutations in the ETFA, ETFB, or ETFDH genes.[1] Treatment varies depending on the severity and symptoms but often includes a low fat, low protein, and high carbohydrate diet.[2]Glutaric acidemia type II (GA2) is a disorder that interferes with the body's ability to break down
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- Glutaric acidemia type II. Genetics Home Reference (GHR). July 2008; http://www.ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/glutaric-acidemia-type-ii. Accessed 11/14/2011.
- Glutaricaciduria II. NORD. May 10, 2008; http://www.rarediseases.org/rare-disease-information/rare-diseases/byID/378/viewAbstract. Accessed 8/16/2013.
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The 5 Most Embarrassing Past Lives of Famous Musicians
We like to think that the musicians we love shot right out of the womb laying down the distinctive sounds that would one day make them famous. But as we've proven time and time again, the package that some of history's most beloved artists were wrapped in when they first entered our collective consciousness is often the product of several aborted attempts to get their shtick down perfect. For example ...
#5. Trent Reznor Was in a Peppy New Wave Band
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The Artist You Know
Trent Reznor, the frontman and sole creative force behind the legendary 1990s band Nine Inch Nails, is a gloomy guy who makes gloomy music. He recorded his band's most famous album, The Downward Spiral, at the mansion where the Manson Family murdered Sharon Tate. He set up a makeshift studio around the house that he tastefully dubbed "Le Pig" after the word scrawled in blood at that famous crime scene. Even with all of the music equipment present in the picture below, it still looks like the kind of place where something unspeakably terrifying must have happened:
Trent Reznor
But even knowing that, you're still going to listen to "Closer" the next time you have sex.
His battles with depression and social anxiety are so legendary that, during NIN's prime, Reznor was reduced to being a relative shut-in, putting out albums at a career-halting pace of one every five years or so. Johnny Cash covered a Nine Inch Nails song as a roundabout means of informing his fans that he was about to die. That is the kind of music that a guy like Trent Reznor makes.
The Artist You Don't Know
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Trent Reznor pictured with his New Kids on the Block tribute band, Step by Step.
Trent Reznor used to be the keyboard player in an early '80s new wave cover band. That's him on the far right in the above picture, pretending he doesn't hear the cameraman telling everyone to look needlessly serious. At the time, he was a fresh-faced 18-year-old student of computer engineering at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. The band was called Option 30, and his duties included lead vocals, keyboards, and (we're assuming) keytar.
Awesomely, the only known recordings from Reznor's foray into walking on sunshine consist of a bunch of covers of songs by bands like Icehouse, the Thompson Twins, and Falco. We know what you're thinking right now, and the answer is yes, we do have a clip of Trent Reznor singing Falco's "Der Kommissar."
If you can't get enough of the new wave stylings of teenage keyboardist Trent Reznor and his sweet band, there's plenty of this stuff online. Just don't let yourself get too happy when you find it. That's not how Trent Reznor would want you to feel.
#4. Everlast Was the First Vanilla Ice
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The Artist You Know
Actually, come to think of it, we're not entirely sure which version of Everlast you do know. He's had two radically different personae. The first was formed during his brief time as the lead emcee in hardcore hip-hop one-hit wonder House of Pain:
After the "rappers easily mistaken for neo-Nazis" trend died out, Everlast disappeared for a while, only to return strumming an acoustic guitar and wailing about his First World problems on the unexpectedly massive 1998 album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues:
While the sound of Everlast's music has varied wildly since his days fronting House of Pain, one thing has always remained the same: Everlast is a bad man.
"You wanna curb stomp some orphan puppies?"
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Let's just say this guy has gone through a lot of phases in his life. For instance, we suppose it's not that embarrassing to see a young Everlast in the studio with Ice-T's crew looking like a Beastie Boys stunt double:
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It's also entirely possible that he simply lost a bet.
Check out how delighted the guy on the left is to see this new trend of white people rapping finally making its way to his neighborhood. These were simpler times indeed. But things got strange when it came time for Everlast to release his first solo single. Instead of just keeping the "Is this guy a professional BMX rider or a rapper?" look, somewhere along the way it was decided that Everlast should take on a more "dapper" image:
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"Today, I'd like to talk to you about term life insurance from State Farm."
That's a screen grab from the video for baby Everlast's very first solo single, "I Got the Knack," which is taken from his real debut album, the heinously titled Forever Everlasting.
Given that the video is filled with oversized suits, goofy dancers, and Beverly Hills, 90210 hair, it would be tempting to blame all of this on a badly mishandled attempt to cash in on those 11 months or so of Vanilla Ice hysteria that swept the nation in the early '90s. Everlast would probably love to. Unfortunately, he released this LP equivalent of that picture of yourself as a kid where your ears look huge a full five months before the VIP Posse kicked their way onto the scene.
He was more fortunate when it came to record sales, though. To put it plainly, there weren't any.
Warner Bros Records
Not even with their primordial "Gangnam Style" choreography.
That made it a whole lot easier to pretend that this fiasco never happened when he resurfaced a few years later with a slightly less ridiculous look.
#3. Ronnie James Dio Was a '50s Rockabilly Dude (in the Actual '50s)
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If you're looking for one fact to properly sum up the mystique of Ronnie James Dio, this should do the trick: He won Revolver magazine's best metal vocalist award in 2010, at the age of 67, literally one month before he died. He simply did not stop kicking ass on Earth for one second until death forced his hand.
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"Goddammit, we're supposed to play chess, not a guitar duel!"
He was the prototypical metal deity, and for decades in the bands Rainbow, Black Sabbath (during their non-Ozzy years), and his own eponymous outfit, Dio established himself as perhaps the most powerful vocalist to ever sing heavy metal. His voice is one of a man who feasts on raw dragon steaks before embarking on demon-beheading and planet-fucking sprees that most would be unworthy to even jerk off to. Dio did not play heavy metal music; Dio was heavy metal music.
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By most accounts, though, heavy metal was born in the late 1960s when Tony Iommi realized that he could only play guitar with his factory-labor-mangled finger if he did it in a way that made sounds resembling the winds of hell. Ronnie James Dio, on the other hand, joined his first band in 1957.
It doesn't take a math degree to figure out that whatever he was doing in the field of music at that relatively innocent point in history certainly wasn't the kind of thing you'd be proud to airbrush onto the side of your van. Allow us to confirm those suspicions with this photo:
"Might I say your daughter is a lovely lady. May I escort her to church, under your supervision?"
That's an extremely young and much less metal Ronnie James Dio as he appeared when he was a member of the Vegas Kings, a 1950s rockabilly band. You'll note that he still looks kind of badass, and that he also looks kind of 35, despite only being 15 in that picture. You can probably chalk that up to years spent doing metal-as-hell things, even though he didn't know what "metal" meant yet. It definitely didn't mean "playing trumpet," but that's what he did on an early single by the band. His main gig was bass, though, so at least that kind of rocks.
Because nobody puts Dio in a rhythm section, he eventually assumed lead vocal duties in the band and gave them a "still not very metal because it was the 1950s" name: Ronnie and the Redcaps. There is no way you can actually be ready to hear Dio work his magic in this kind of environment, so we won't even ask if you are. Just listen for yourself:
Interestingly, in 1997, Pat Boone famously released an album of metal covers done in big-band style. The only metal vocalist to participate in this project? Dio, singing backup on Boone's cover of his classic "Holy Diver." All this time, we figured he did it because he had a great sense of humor. Turns out he just happened to have the necessary experience for the job.