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"Gospel of Jesus' Wife" - One year later
You may recall the hustle and bustle about the so-called "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" papyrus fragment from a year ago. I blogged about it a few times (here and here) and contributed to the Washington Post on it here. (And then Grant Gallicho cleverly mocked me at a Commonweal event, to which I responded here.)
Recently NT scholars Larry Hurtado and Mark Goodacre, both active bloggers, have raised questions about what has happened to this papyrus. While I am certainly not privy to the details at Harvard, I did have a chance to see infra red photos of the papyrus last year and to discuss it with some other papyrologists.
Below the jump I'll summarize my notes from that meeting (beyond what was previously blogged). Beware: content very boring to non-specialists!
- I don't know if the ink and papyrus were tested. The ink was to be tested by spectroscopy, but in fact this can only falsify the document—it can't demonstrate authenticity, as many others have already noted. In addition, an ancient formula of carbon ink is not difficult to make. The infrared images suggest the ink is carbon-based and thus either ancient or made according to an ancient method.
- All the other papyri in the owner's collection appear to be normal and bland documentary papyri (Greek, Coptic, Arabic).
- Documentary papyrologists are used to looking at sloppy handwriting, irregular ink strokes, variant spellings, and uneven word spacing. I do not think this text "looks fake." It looks unprofessional, to be sure, but documentary papyrology deals with all kinds of handwriting.
- I was not persuaded that the epsilon in line 6 (shafene) demonstrates that the writing instrument was a brush. There seem to be no other letters that would lead to this conclusion, and it's not likely that a scribe (ancient or modern) would switch instruments while writing.
- That being said, some suspicious items included: the ends of lines 3, 5, and 6 seem not to include ink for the subsequent letters, where we might imagine some.
- I was not convinced that the fragment provides "too much content." Coptic is an efficient language, especially with articles, pronouns, and prepositions. If we cut out parts of Coptic Thomas from Codex II and give ourselves 19-21 letters per line for 7 lines, we learn a lot of content and can reconstruct even more.
- Nor is this text's content "too good to be true." We have already learned lots of what seemed to be outlandish bits of content from the authentic Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Philip, etc.
- The back of the papyrus is the most interesting thing not usually discussed. It does not seem plausible that the back is a modern forgery. That being said, the differences between the back and the front have been discussed, especially the fewer lines on the back and slightly larger letters and line spacing.
- The infrared images showed a few things more clearly: First, it seems likely that the proposed oblique stroke in line 4 is more likely the right side of an upsilon, and possibly the end of the word maay ("mother") or mmay ("there"). Second, it seems like there is ink at the beginning of line 7 underneath the iota of line 6. Third, the infrared image makes the back of the papyrus more legible, or at least, easier to see that there is more text there.
- One of the things noted about the text on the back is that the word ebol seems clearly to be written with an omega (as ebwl). It's possible to say that on the front, the word anok (line 7) seems also to have a lengthened vowel and be written as anwk. If so, this could strengthen the case that both front and back were written by the same person.
- That being said, one attractive hypothesis for those on the forgery side would be that the back of the papyrus could be ancient and the front could be a modern forgery. The problem with that, however, is that would entail the vertical fibers to have been used in antiquity and the horizontal fibers to have been blank and reused for the forgery, which is unlikely.
- I also still think it highly unlikely that someone could forge the abrasion and stripping of the fibers at the beginning of line 4 on the front. Then again, every expert forgery teaches something new, I suppose.
- On the whole, I see many suspicious things about the papyrus, but the weighing of probabilities does not necessarily tilt toward the conclusion of "forgery," certainly not a "clumsy forgery," as some have said. On the other hand, I don't think there remain many "true believers" in staunch defense of the text's authenticity.
- in conclusion, if it is a forgery, then the forger got very lucky in finding a papyrus in cartonnage that had ancient writing on the vertical fibers and blank papyrus on the other side.
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Michael Peppard is associate professor of theology at Fordham University, author of The World's Oldest Church and The Son of God in the Roman World, and on Twitter @MichaelPeppard.
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In my opinion, Andrew Berhnard has convincingly shown how the papyrus was constructed from similar words and phrases in Gos. Thom. Particulalryl notewothry is the transformation of an epsilon into an iota in line 6 and the fact that the papyrus replicates a typo from an online verion of the Gos. Thom. that was later corrected.
It is probably best to let the whole matter die without further comment. It appears that this is a huge embarrassment to Karen King and the others who uncritically proclaimed it authentic, as well as for HTR which has decided not to pusblish the article. This seems to me to be the reason that people have gone silent on the papyrus and are unwilling to comments or recant.
Beware: content very boring to non-specialists!
What's interesting, is that that is exactly what should have been the case with GJW fragment. A papyrus fragment? What could be more "inside baseball" than that? New Testament Studies, however, is perhaps unique among academic disciplines in its (li)ability to break through the ivory shell surrounding scholarship and ooze out onto the public. There really are, as you said, just all sorts of texts "stranger" than this one that have been kicking around the academy for years, but the hunger people have for some further insight into the life of Jesus is all that it takes to push a papyrus onto the front page of the Huffington Post (or NYT!). I think that the technical issues are interesting, but what's really fascinating is the reactive combination of so many different impulses: media hype, careless promotion, scholarly (and parochial) reactionarism all coming together to produce a lot of light and little heat.
People latched on to the question of what the text might say about the historical Jesus, even though it, of course, said nothing at all with respect to that. All of which is too bad, because this text (and, in my opinion, all other early Christian texts) are more interesting for what they say about their social and cultural environment than anything else.
a lot of light and little heat.
I meant the opposite, of course...
People latched on to the question of what the text might say about the historical Jesus, even though it, of course, said nothing at all with respect to that. All of which is too bad, because this text (and, in my opinion, all other early Christian texts) are more interesting for what they say about their social and cultural environment than anything else.
That is exaclty the point. If it is a forgry it does not tell us about the social and cultural environment of early Christianity. It tells us what someone wants us to beleive about thart environment regardless of the truth.
When everyone is finished debunking the papyrus fragment that may give us some inkling of Jesus personal history, I would suggest purusing the writings of Prof. James Tabor of University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Here are some tasty hor d'oeuvres:
Oh, good Lord, no...
Btw, he's at UNC-Charlotte.
What's wrong Abe? Not in your wheelhouse?
I like his 1986 monograph; he has since gotten tied up with Simcha Jacobovici and various sensational archaeological boondoggles.
Abe, I'm reminded that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's archeological studies - which heavily influenced his philosophy and theology - were not exactly welcomed by his Jesuit superiors and the Holy Office because they so threatened the dominant ideology of their time.
Nonetheless, the church benefited immensely from his then rejected scholarship, and of course his personal sacrifice.
Ok, but I'm not really sure that the two situations are similar. I am sure that Tabor has his detractors because they don't like the implications of his work, but mainly it seems that his methodology and conclusions are what is being critiqued.
Teilhard's "detractors" also didn't like the implications of his work, and his methodology and conclusions weren't a big hit at the Holy Office either.
You still haven't explained how the two figures are the same, other than that they had detractors. Just because one guy was unfairly rejected, doesn't mean that evryon whose scholarship isn't accepted is being mistreated. I don't really know/care about how the "Holy Office" responds to scholarship; Tabor's findings aren't being rejected by Catholic officials, they're being rejected by other archaeologists.
I read the link Jim provided and was pretty surprised. If what is said, is true, then it is an amazing discovery and the implications are indeed mind boggling. I am curious as to the problems with his methods.
The way he laid it out sounds all very convincing.
As a total amateur in this area I was struck by one thought. If this tomb really is the burial of Jesus how on earth would this not have been known? He seems to accept the gospel tradition of Mary Magdalene being at the empty tomb first to anoint the body. Now, if Joseph of Arimethea provided for the other tomb and arranged for the anointing, who would have done the anointing if not Mary? How can they at the same time be intimate and yet she is not the one who anoints his body? Who else would have done it? Who usually prepared bodies in that culture?
And how would this not have been more widely known?
Why the overwhelming insistence on the resurrection? It is one of the most compelling and clear messages prevading the whole of the New Testament. I just have a hard time believing that the gospel writers would have tried to knowingly hoist a fraud on the community especially one that was easily known or would have been known. The writers did not try to conceal the fact that Mary was pregnant and Jospeh was not the father. Mark did not mention it at all nor did Paul so there must have been a reason Matthew and Luke did. I suspect the reason was because the rumours about this were all around so it had to be addressed. Same thing for Judas. Benedict makes the point that the messiah was suppoed to have gathered all the tribes of Israel (symbolized by the twelve) and yet they had to deal with Judas which did not neatly fit the narrative. So it is not like the gospel writers were ignorant of scandal and difficulties with matching the real history with what was assumed in prophecy.
There is a simple explaination for this "story" about Jesus' wife. Consider the work of liberal sycophants today. They make things up to advance their world view and agenda. Examples? Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Misquotes Ambassador Michael Oren on Israel, then denies she said it even though video footage of her statement exists) and Barack Obama (The Lie of the Year 2013, You can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor, period). People with these moral values have existed since the beginning of time. Why should anyone be surprised that some of their writings have survived the millenia? Doesn't make them any more true than Obama's lie.


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W-2 Offset-Rocker Heads Configuration - Pump-Gas Punisher 360Written by on August 1, 2004 537 Streetable Horsepower From Your Flat-Top 360
Ever wonder what kind of power can be coaxed from a garden-variety street 360 short-block? You know, a basic bottom end, nicely built, with popular flat-top pistons at zero deck. We have always considered the production-style cylinder heads to be a limitation here. Sure 400 to 450 hp can be achieved easily these days, but even back in the day, Chrysler knew that getting the pushrods out of the way and really opening up the ports was the prescription for serious power. Want evidence? The precedent goes all the way back to 1970 and the Trans Am program. Mopar engineers knew that to reach the power levels required in their racing engines, something had to be done about the port constriction between the parallel pushrods. To homologate a package for the racing effort, production T/A engines had special cylinder heads with offset intake rocker arms, and intake pushrods tilted at an angle away from the port runners. The relocated valvetrain was the only change made to the street Trans Am castings. The casting and ports remained the same. Although the pushrod bulge still protruded into the port, as with any "X" head of the time, the bulge wasn't providing for pushrod clearance in the offset-valvetrain T/A heads. In fact, with the pushrod drilling angled to meet the offset rockers, the bulge was just a solid chunk of iron that could be cut away completely in the porting process.
All serious small-block heads were built upon the concept of the T/A heads because they worked. The most famous of these special offset-rocker heads has to be the W-2. Officially introduced in 1976 as part of Chrysler's Direct Connection parts program, the W-2 has earned a reputation of making the already strong running small-block invincible. The pinnacle of the W-2's fame was reached in 1979, when Bob Glidden destroyed the Pro Stock field with his W-2 small-block Plymouth Arrow to win the Pro Stock championship. The W-2 has seen continuous production ever since, and has been offered in many versions with the same basic port configuration. While the W-2 was a dramatic success as a race head, its performance characteristics were such that it also made a phenomenal street piece. The ports could support tremendous airflow; the port size was not excessive, and W-2 engines exhibited broad power curves. A well setup W-2 engine will make great torque lower in the rpm band, but just keep pulling as the revs fly, making seemingly endless power upstairs. W-2 small-blocks have long been feared on the streets.
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Switching to W-2 heads takes a little more than simply bolting on a pair of heads. offset W-2 rockers are needed, and with any of the long-valve heads, corresponding pushrods are needed to match the increased distance to the rockers. Since the intake port is much wider than a production casting, the intake manifold bolt pattern is spread. This, along with the W-2's unique oval port shape, requires a dedicated W-2 intake manifold. On the exit side of the head, the ports are substantially relocated requiring a wider bolt pattern to give acceptable header tube clearance; so dedicated W-2 headers are required, as well. all things considered, the changes required aren't prohibitively complex, just headers, intake rockers, and maybe pushrods. The question remains-what kind of power can be expected?
To find out, we decided to configure a 360 short-block representative of a typical high-performance street engine. We had the ideal combination in one of our dyno mules. The basic block was a production '79 casting, bored .030-over and fitted with SpeedPro C116CP pistons-a flat-top hypereutectic piece that has proven very reliable. The block had been decked and squared to let the pistons sit flush at zero deck. The rods were resized stockers fitted with Milodon bolts, and the crank was the production piece, ground 10/10 in typical rebuild fashion. Nothing truly special here, although the block was fitted with main studs for an added measure of bottom-end durability. The bottom end is not unlike thousands of hot 360s powering street machines everywhere.
We anticipated the heads would like high rpm, and since our 360 was already fitted with a small solid grind, we elected to leave the cam previously used with this short-block. The duration was relatively tame (see cam specs, Table 1) considering it is a solid grind. That suited us well, since a lot of duration with our high-flowing heads would easily push the limits on the rpm capabilities of the stock-based bottom end. The W-2 specific items to complete the assembly included an Indy intake manifold, Crane Gold 1.6:1 rockers, tti 171/48-inch headers, a Milodon head-stud kit, and a custom set of Smith Brother's 51/416-inch pushrods. We also upgraded the oiling system with a Milodon pan to ensure adequate lubrication under dragstrip launching conditions. The cylinder heads (the subject of a previous Mopar Muscle article), are a set of fully ported, long-valve, open-chamber, econo castings (PN P4529995). These long-valve econo heads are essentially the race heads with cast-in rocker pedestals. The familiar 2.02-inch and 1.60-inch valve diameters were retained, and the finished product offered more than adequate flow (see Port Flow, Table 2). All in all, the swap was very simple.
Did the W-2s deliver? We brought the assembly to Johnson's Machine Service (JMS) in Monrovia, California, to test the combo on their DTS dyno. The engine crackled to life, and we set the total timing on the locked out MSD distributor to a conservative 34 degrees. With the temperature up from a little running time, the engine was shut down for a hot lash adjustment, and we were ready to run for the numbers. A partial pull revealed a somewhat lean mixture, so the jetting on our Holley 950 HP was bumped up a couple of sizes, and it was time to make some real power pulls. The 360 sounded very healthy up the range, as we pulled it over a broad range from 3,000-7,000 rpm. The result: 537 hp at 6,500 rpm and 467 lb-ft of torque at 5,100 rpm. The engine willingly pulled to 7,000 rpm; dropping only 8 hp over the range from peak power to the top of our test at 7-grand. Yes, it just wanted to keep pulling, and certainly would have stretched the rpm range too high for this short-block if we had gone with a longer duration cam. Torque production was stout over a broad range, showing over 390 lb-ft at 3,000 rpm and never looking back. No wonder the W-2 has a reputation that kills.
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|Duration @ .050"
|Duration @ .200"
|Lobe Lift
|Theoretical lift @ 1.5:1 rr
|Theoretical lift @ 1.6:1 rr
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|Installed intake centerline
Note: This camshaft is based upon the FL-Series .875-inch tappet lobe profiles. Comps quicker equivalent MM-Series .904-inch lobe profiles offer more velocity andarea under the curve, typically further enhancing performance. Contact Competition Cams for info.
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Westech's Superflow 600 Flowbench (with FlowCom)
All tests at 28" water depressionsion
|Peak flow with pipe
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Our W-2s are the long-valve econo versions that carry the longer valves of the race W-2s, but have cast-in rocker pedestals. The valve size is 2.02-inch intake and 1.600-inch exhaust, and the heads are fully ported. Comp titanium retainers (PN 721) and stiff dual springs (PN 939) installed at 1.950 inches were used, a combination that has proven to provide excellent valve control with these aggressive-rate solid profiles.The Milodon pan required removing the oil pump to install the matching Milodon pick-up for their pan (PN 18345).More good stuff from Milodon to aid reliability, a windage tray (PN 32230) secured with a set of Milodon main studs. Main stud kit (PN 81186) includes special studs to mount the tray.A small-block problem area is at the front two pan bolts, where the timing case seal retainers interfere with socket access. A switch here to Allen-head cap screws solves that problem.The Milodon pan is much wider than the stocker. This allows for greater capacity without making the pan excessively deep. This helps preserve reasonable ground clearance. when installing the engine check carefully for adequate clearance, particularly at the front of the pan near the K-member. It gets quite close in some chassis, sometimes requiring minor clearancing of the K-member lip.We switched from a replacement chrome oil pan to a Milodon deep sump (PN 30940). A non-baffled replacement pan will allow the oil to flow back,under a hard dragstrip launch and uncover the pick-up, with a resultant loss of oil pressure just when it is needed most. We've seen destroyed bearings as a result of this deficiency before, so the baffled Milodon pan is cheap insurance.An Indy 360-3 single four-barrel intake was the perfect match to our W-2 heads. We have found the Indy intake to be among the best available in single four-barrel manifolds for the W-2.A MSD billet distributor was our choice for ignition. We based our selection on components that experience has shown to work. The distributor is very tunable with the quantity of mechanical advance adjusted with interchangeable bushings, while the advance rate can be altered quickly by exchanging the top-mounted springs. The advance mechanism can also be easily locked out, which we did for this application
These 171/48-inch W-2 chassis headers are made by tti for most performance Mopar applications. The sizing is perfect for the power potential of the W-2 package. We didn't have a set of secondary wires made up for the test, and initially collected the rag-tag assortment of wires seen here to run the engine. It proved to be a mistake, leading to a high rpm misfire.After the engine was run to operating temperature, JMS dyno-operator Robert Hendrix reset the valve lash to the same .018/.020-inch spec we had set them to cold. It is important to set the lash hot and after run-in with a performance solid-lifter engine.With everything in order and total timing set to 33 degrees, the W-2 360 was producing 537 hp at 6,500 rpm and a peak of 467 lb-ft. of torque at 5,100. Stout numbers for a pump gas 360 that's streetable enough to get in and drive anywhere.The jetting proved to be a little lean for our liking, so the carb was opened for a jet change. We found number 76 jets inside and swapped them at all four corners for 78s, which are the factory-supplied jets for this carb.


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What is Chemotherapy?
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Chemotherapy is the use of medications or chemicals with cancer-fighting abilities. This why chemotherapy is often called an anti-cancer agent.
It all begins with normal cells versus cancer cells. Normal, healthy cells divide and grow in a patterned, controlled behavior. As they divide, replicas are produced. Cancer cells, on the other hand, grow out of control.
There is no apparent pattern at all. When in contact with a normal cell, the cancer cell takes over and copies itself many times over. In this way, the body becomes overburdened with cancer cells. Chemotherapy destroys cancer cells with drugs.
How does Chemotherapy Work?
Chemotherapy drugs interfere with the cancer cells' ability to grow or multiply. Different groups of drugs act on cells in different ways. Identification of the type of disease is important because certain chemotherapies work best for certain diseases. For example, a patient treated for acute myelogenous leukemia is treated with different agents than one treated with Hodgkin's disease. Even patients diagnosed with the same disease may be treated with different agents, depending on what is known to be most effective for the particular circumstances.
Chemotherapy can damage normal cells as well as cancer cells. Those normal cells most effected are ones which divide rapidly. These include the hair follicles, cells in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and bone marrow. Consequently, side effects can occur including: hair loss, mouth sores, difficulty in swallowing, nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, infection, anemia, and increase risk of bleeding. These side effects will be discussed in greater detail later.
How is Chemotherapy Given?
Chemotherapy can be given in different ways. The five most common methods are:
- intravenous (IV)
- oral (PO)
- intramuscular (IM)
- intrathecal (IT)
- intraperitoneal (IP)
The intravenous route or IV is a very common way of giving medicine directly into a vein. A small plastic needle is inserted into one of the veins in the lower arm. There is some discomfort during insertion because a needle stick is required to get into the vein. After that, the administration of the medication is usually painless.
Chemotherapy flows from the IV bag/bottle, through the needle and catheter into the bloodstream. Sometimes a syringe is used to "push" the chemotherapy through the tubing.
The oral method takes the form of either a pill, capsule or liquid taken by mouth. This is the easiest and most convenient method and can usually be done at home. Under certain special circumstances, chemotherapy given by other routes may also be administered at home.
Intramuscular means that the chemotherapy is given by way of an injection into the muscle. There is a slight sting as the needle is placed into the muscle of the arm, thigh or buttocks. Although, this procedure only lasts a few seconds, the effect of the intramuscular chemotherapy may last much longer. This is because the chemotherapy may be absorbed slowly through the muscular tissues and into the bloodstream.
Certain forms of cancer have a tendency to spread to the nervous system. To treat cancer that spreads to the spinal cord or brain, doctors may perform a spinal tap and inject chemotherapy into the spinal fluid. This is known as the intrathecal method of administration.
Permanent and Temporary Catheters
For some patients, IV insertions can eventually damage the veins in the arm. Some patients have small veins and some have very few accessible veins. Frequent IV insertions and too small or too few veins may prompt the doctor to recommend a permanent type of IV catheter. Permanent catheters allow patients to go home and receive chemotherapy without needing other IV's placed. Along with receiving chemotherapy and IV fluids through this catheter, patients can receive blood products and even have their blood drawn without painful needle sticks.
A common type of permanent catheter is the "Hickman" catheter. The terms "Broviac" or "Groshong" refer to a similar type of catheter made by different manufacturers. All work in similar ways.
Care of these catheters may be a little different, but the principle of insertion is similar. A thin, flexible tube is inserted into one of the central veins, commonly the external jugular vein. While under general or local anesthesia, the tube is tunneled through surface skin tissue between the neck and shoulder to another separate incision, usually on the chest or stomach wall. The entrance site will have stitches and a small bandage to facilitate healing. The exit site for the catheter is easy to see and care for, and patients must change their dressings regularly to prevent infection.
Frequent heparin flushes -- washing out the device with an anti-clotting drug -- are required to prevent blockage. Many patients learn to care for their catheter while in the hospital. Thorough teaching to patients and their families is done before discharge.
Another type of permanent catheter to a central vein is known as the implanted intravenous port. It is round in shape and is surgically inserted under the skin surface of the chest wall, between the neck and shoulder area. A nurse will insert a needle through the top skin surface to access the vein. The chemotherapy can then be given through the catheter as if it were an IV in the arm. As with the Hickman catheter, blood can be removed and received through this device. Although, there is no home care required, periodic heparin flushes are necessary.
There is also a temporary access device for administering chemotherapy that works in the same way as the Hickman catheter, but is removed before the patient is discharged. This is called the multi-lumen catheter because there are three IV lines in one plastic catheter line. Insertion is performed in the patient's room, with local numbing medication injected around the insertion site. Located near the neck, the site is kept covered with a dressing.
Intrathecal chemotherapy can be given into the spinal canal or through an Omaya reservoir. This device is surgically inserted under the scalp for direct injection of chemotherapy throughout the spinal fluid. The drugs are then given through the reservoir, rather than through the back during a spinal tap.
Lastly, chemotherapy may be given via an intraperitoneal (IP) port. This device is similar to the previously mentioned implanted intravenous port. The IP port sits under the skin and requires no specific home care. The port allows for placing chemotherapy directly into the peritoneal (i.e. abdominal) cavity. This technique is used to increase the concentration of the chemotherapy that contacts tumors in the abdomen.
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In how many ways can you distribute 9 marbles in 3 piles?
The marbles are all identical. I know its not a very deep question but I don't know how to solve it. There is a difference between (pile a getting 4 pile b getting 4 and pile c getting 1) and (pile a getting 1 pile b getting 4 and pile c getting 4). I first thought it was 9^3 but then i realized you needed to eliminate various combinations that gave the same result.
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Guests enjoyed the fine dining atmosphere of Corbett's while sampling Four Roses bourbons and mingling with Four Roses Brand Ambassador Al Young. Two lucky attendees also won tickets to see "Beauty and the Beast" at the Kentucky Center in October.
The event menu included a first course featuring butternut squash soup with Four Roses Yellow Label crème fraîche and house cured pancetta and fried sage. The second course offered wild striped bass with small batch Bourbon brown butter amandine, as well as parsnip and leek mascarpone terrine with pear-ginger marmalade. The third course delivered delicious prime tenderloin with single barrel Bourbon and brown sugar smoked barley, roasted candy striped beets, rainbow Swiss chard, fried sweet potato and black garlic demi-glace. Finally, the evening was topped off with a fourth course of apple pain perdu with cherry Bourbon ice cream and sea salt butterscotch and chocolate tuile.
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A research-level community of mathematicians developed in the United States in the closing quarter of the nineteenth century. Since that time, American mathematicians have regularly paused to assess the state of their community and to reflect on its mathematical output. This paper analyzes a series of such reflections--beginning with Simon Newcomb's thoughts on the state of the exact sciences in America in 1874 and culminating with the 1988 commentaries on the ``problems of mathematics" discussed at Princeton's bicentennial celebrations in 1946--against a backdrop of broader historical trends.
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The 5 Most WTF Things Found While Working on an Old House
Renovating is a pain in the ass, but it has to be done: That sex dungeon isn't just suddenly going to appear in your basement. It takes hard work and commitment to properly mount a humpswing. Besides, it's not all bad: Sometimes you find some neat stuff when you're working. Maybe you pull up that carpet and find some nice hardwood floors, or knock down that wall and uncover a cache of filthy old Playboy magazines, or look behind the couch and find a million-dollar painting, or clear out the attic and find unrelenting nightmares that will pursue you to your grave ...
#5. A 400-Year-Old Severed Head
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Cleaning out the attic is like banging a geriatric: It's dank, it's dusty, and there are probably spiders hiding somewhere in there. But as with all unpleasant chores, the shock fades with exposure. Stay in there a few hours and you'll no longer care when you move those curtains aside and find the corpse of a rat king (we're, uh ... we're no longer talking about boning geriatrics here). Then, just as you get into a no-longer-caring-if-spiders-touch-my-hands attic-cleaning groove, you find something a bit unexpected:
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"Oh no, Avery! I just thought you were really good at hide-and-seek."
Stephane Gabet, a TV production company journalist, went fishing around the attic of retired tax collector Jacques Bellanger and pulled out the 400-year-old head of a French monarch. That's right: Where us common folk might stash the occasional broken vacuum cleaner or embarrassing Beanie Baby collection up our house's shame-hole, Jacques haphazardly stowed and then promptly forgot about the head of King Henry IV, who ruled France until his death in 1610.
As unbelievable as that sounds, scientists were able to verify that the skull belonged to King Henry IV based on a dark lesion above the right nostril, a healed bone fracture above the jaw that matched a stab wound he received during an assassination attempt in 1594, and the fact that the entire skull was wrapped in a breakfast croissant and an indefinable air of haughtiness.
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"Why did I eat the croissant?"
The entire timeline of how the head wound up in Bellanger's attic is still a partial mystery. However, we do know that 183 years after the king's assassination, royalist-hating revolutionaries (or perhaps just thorough, if not very punctual, zombie hunters) ransacked Henry's grave and lopped his head clean off. Then, in the early 1900s, a French couple purchased the head from an auction house. Finally, in 1955, Bellanger bought it from the couple for 5,000 francs ... aaand proceeded to chuck it into his attic behind a broken chair and a box of old electric bills.
That's right: He "got over" the emaciated skull of a king like you get over a Tamagotchi collection.
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"At one point I tried to trade it for some pretty sweet Pogs."
#4. A Goonies-Style Treasure
In 1985, the town of Sroda in Poland decided to demolish an old building. Instead of the more common asbestos-and-body-of-missing-janitor rubble that typically accompanies commercial demolition, the townspeople were pleasantly surprised to find a cache of gold and silver coins. Sadly, The Goonies has lied to us all about property law regarding ancient booty; the authorities promptly confiscated the loot.
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"Sorry, but Jones' Law beats Goonies' Law every time."
Fast forward to 1988, and another demolition spat out an even larger cache of valuable coins. So either there was a treasure trove hidden somewhere in the town, or Sroda, Poland, is set in the Mario Bros. universe. In addition to the coins, Srodans(?) also found ancient jewelry, such as an ornate ring of dragon heads, gold pendants, and one particularly intricate carved crown.
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Legend has it that he who bears this crown shall reign over all burgers as their king.
The crown dated the collection back to the 14th century and tied it all to emperor Charles IV, who was the first king to become Holy Roman Emperor. So how much was it all worth? Well, the entire collection together has been valued at up to $100 million U.S.
We hope at least a few quiet pocketfuls of this loot went toward ale and whores.
The town is saved, Mikhail, the Polish equivalent of Mikey! Quick, tell Dator to deploy his Claws of Celebration while Chuunkh does the Trufflau Shuffenhaus!
#3. All the Dinosaurs, Found by Random Children
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Farmer John and his two sons were walking in their backyard in Oskaloosa, Iowa, picking berries and discussing mayonnaise and white bread or whatever it is that Iowegians talk about, when one boy spotted what he thought was a ball floating in the creek. Turns out it was a 4-foot-long femur from a wooly mammoth. Either that was one "special" kid, or the term "ball" means something entirely different in the land of corn and flatness.
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"Ma! Lookit this here basketball! Hurr, I'm from Iowa and I'm bad at shapes!" -Racism?
We know that's, ahem, loosely related to renovating, but we bring this up because it illustrates a heretofore unknown aspect of archaeology: It's pretty much all done by stupid kids just running around outside. Case in point: 11-year-olds Eric Stamatin and Andrew Gainariu of Troy, Michigan, went looking for crayfish and came back with a mastodon. The two were poking around near the stream in Eric's backyard when they "got bored and decided to build a dam." The boys spotted the bone and took it home. The Cranbrook Institute of Science identified the 13,000-year-old fossil as the axis bone from an American mastodon.
"It wouldn't catch on fire or play video games, so we gave it to an adult."
Twelve-year-old Maggie Jones was walking around her Texas backyard with her dad when she discovered a fossilized prehistoric fish, which is currently on display at the University of North Texas. Geography professor George Maxey estimates the fossil, which contains the entire skull of the ancient fish, to be over 100 million years old. Fourth grader Gabrielle Block found another 100-million-year-old fossil, a dinosaur tailbone, while visiting Dinosaur Park in Maryland. The park manager was shocked that the 9-year-old made the discovery, saying, "Usually it takes a well-trained and practiced eye to be able to pick out the fossils from the rest of the clay." He then added, "Maybe my job just isn't that hard, actually."
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Besicovich proved a long time ago that a straight line segment of fixed length could be rotated 360 degrees within a subset S of the Euclidean plane such that $M(S)$ is arbitrarily small-where M is two-dimensional Lebesgue measure. This solved the most general version of Kakeya's problem, which asked how small $M(S)$ could be if no further restrictions were placed on $S$. But was it ever proved that $M(S)$ could never actually be zero? I ask because Besicovich also proved that there existed subsets T of the Euclidean plane such that $M(T)=0$ and such that pairwise disjoint straight line segments of fixed length, having every possible orientation, were contained in $S$ (as subsets).
A Kakeya needle set cannot be of measure zero (a line segment cannot be rotated continuously within a set of measure 0). See the blog post by Terry Tao.
However, there are sets of measure zero within which a line segment can be rotated by a Baire-1 map (link).
Don't you need a set of positive measure to swing a cat, even through 0.00001 radians? Intuitively you need to include a small sector of a circle to rotate a line segment about any of its points as fixed centre; and while the problem would allow you to rotate about a centre that changes, I'm not seeing how you can do without something resembling a small sector. But perhaps that is the point of what you're asking?


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I had Windows 7 until yesterday, and then i wiped out my hard disc to install Ubuntu 11.10. But I've noticed that it overheats VERY quickly and gives you no reaction time and just switches off! similar to what would happen if you were to remove battery and unplug the power source! I had a similar problem when I was running the laptop on Windows 7 but that happened rarely. I have an HP Pavilion g6 which is less than a year old now. I want to know if theres any settings I can change or do anything that'll help me overcome this problem.
can you list your notebook specs? generally, it can be a problem with graphics hardware, cooling system(fan), or bios. check hp website whether your model has any available bios updates. one major reason of overheating, normally overlooked, is cleaning of notebook's cooling system. i faced same problem last year.


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Enhancements to JMS clustering in GlassFish 3.1
By satishkumar on Mar 02, 2011
GlassFish 3.1 introduces several
enhancements to JMS clustering. This blog highlight the key changes.
GlassFish 3.1 continues to support auto-clustering of both conventional (service HA only) and enhanced (service and data HA) MQ clusters in LOCAL and REMOTE JMS integration modes. Besides these, we have also added support for Embedded mode conventional clusters. In the Embedded mode, the broker is started in the same process space (JVM) as GlassFish and hence eliminates the overhead of multiple processes. This mode is now the default for both clustered and stand-alone GlassFish instances. However, while the Embedded mode for stand-alone (non-clustered) GlassFish servers with MQ use direct in-process communication with the MQ broker, clustered instances use TCP. This communication mode is selected automatically and it cannot be configured by the user. Direct mode communication uses API calls and completely bypasses the network stack. As a consequence, there is a significant speed-up. This cannot be used in the case of clustered instances since when running in a cluster these is a need to be able to handle broker or connection failures by failing over to another broker.
The following MQ clustering modes and JMS integration options are supported
MQ conventional cluster with master broker in EMBEDDED and LOCAL modes
MQ conventional cluster without master broker in both EMBEDDED and LOCAL modes
MQ enhanced cluster - LOCAL mode only
Lazy-initialization of MQ broker in embedded mode
In the embedded mode, the start-up of the MQ broker is deferred until it is really required. A light weight Grizzly Service is configured to listen on the JMS port. When a request comes in on the JMS port for the first time, the MQ broker is started-up before processing the request. The grizzly service proxies all subsequent requests on this port to the MQ broker. This behaviors is controlled by the JmsHost.lazy-init property of the default_JMS_host in domain.xml. The value is true by default. To disable lazy initialization, turn the lazy-init flag to false. This will disable the grizzly service and the MQ broker will be started-up eagerly along with the GlassFish server. A restart of the GF server is required to enable this change once the lazy-init property is changed.
Support for Dynamic Cluster changes
In Glassfish v2.1, the MQ broker address-list was populated only during start-up. As a consequence, any changes to the cluster topology at run-time were not reflected until the entire cluster was restarted. As an enhancement in Glassfish 3.1, we now support dynamic changes in cluster topologies. The JMS service listens for cluster change events. These changes are propagated to the MQ broker dynamically and hence eliminating the need for a restart.
Improvements to MQ conventional cluster with master broker
Conventional clusters in MQ have traditionally required configuring a master broker for certain admin related operations like create/update/delete of durable subscription and physical destination. MQ broker instances also require to rendezvous with the master broker at start-up. This imposes the requirement for the master broker to be have been started before the remaining broker instances can start and function correctly. They have been several complaints from users running into "master broker not started" errors if there are delays in the start-up of the master broker. To address this issue, a new broker property 'imq.cluster. nowaitForMasterBrokerTimeoutInSeconds has been introduced that can be configured through GlassFish (as a property in the jms-host element of domain.xml) and this defines the timeout interval before the instances start reporting the error message. This is designed to make the MQ cluster more tolerant towards delays in master broker start-up.
Dynamically changing the master broker
A significant enhancement to the MQ conventional cluster is a new feature that allows users to dynamically change the master broker without requiring a cluster restart. In earlier releases, changing the master broker required the user to follow a manual backup and restore operation of the MQ configuration store and a subsequent restart of the whole cluster. This is now possible through by running a single Glassfish command - change-master-broker. As a consequence of this new feature, restart of the cluster is not required for this operation any longer. By default, the first configured instance in the GF instance list for the cluster is the master broker. This can now be changed to any other Glassfish instance in the cluster. The only restriction is the chosen instance should be a part of the cluster. While running this command, ideally all the instances in the cluster should be running. However, at a minimum the instance associated with the old master broker and the instance associated with the new master broker should be running.
MQ conventional cluster of peer brokers
Another significant feature in this release is a new mode in MQ clustering called the - MQ conventional clusters of peers brokers. This mode is newly introduced in MQ 4.5/GF 3.1. In this mode, the earlier limitation of nominating one of the clustered instances as a master broker is done away with and all MQ instances are now equal peers. Instead, a user configured database is used to store shared config data. This mode can be enabled by using the new CLI command - configure-jms-cluster (converted in the next section).
New CLI command to switch between JMS clustering modes
A new CLI command – configure-jms-cluster, has been introduced to switch between the different JMS clustering modes. This command allows users to configure and switch between different MQ clustering modes such as from conventional to enhanced and vice-versa. The syntax for the command is -
configure-jms-cluster [--clustertype =conventional | enhanced] [--messagestoretype=jdbc | file] [--configstoretype=masterbroker | shareddb] [--dbvendor] [--dbuser] [--dburl] [--force] [--property (name=value)[:name-value]\*] clusterName
a. Message store type (JDBC | file) – defaults to file
b. Config store type (MasterBroker | SharedDB) – defaults to MasterBroker
c. Cluster Type: Conventional | Enhanced (if enhanced, then (a) and (b) are ignored).
d. DB password needs to be passed in through the passwordfile using the key – AS_ADMIN_JMSDBPASSWORD
command only handles the configuration change between the existing
clustering mode to the new one. Hence extreme caution should be taken
when running this against an existing cluster where JMS related
activities have occurred. By JMS related activity, I am referring to
activities such as creation of destinations or durable subscriptions
and exchange of messages. When running against such a cluster, manual
steps need to be followed to back-up the config and message stores.
The steps are detailed-out in the MQ admin guide. The best practice
for running this command is right after you have created a cluster
but haven't added any instances to it. This way you can be sure that
no JMS activities have occurred and this operation is perfectly safe.
arbitrary broker props
A small but important improvement to GF JMS is the ability to configure any MQ broker property through GF. They can be configured in either jms-service or on jms-host. If the same property is configured on both the jms-service and jms-host, than the property configured on jms-host takes precedence. There are two ways to configure these properties – the first by specifying these properties while using the create-jms-host command. If you are using local and embedded JMS integration modes, you will need to set this new Jms-host as the default-jms-host. The second way of configurating this is by using the asadmin set command. The property names should be the fully qualified names and any
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When Dragon Quest VIII was released for mobile devices in Japan last December there was some uncertainty as to whether this port would ever make its way West. However, earlier this year Square Enix filed a new trademark for the game's subtitle "Journey of the Cursed King" and now Dragon Quest VIII has quietly appeared on the New Zealand iOS App Store meaning it will be out everywhere else by tomorrow.
The mobile port features a new portrait presentation and has been optimised for one-handed play. The app weighs in at 1.39GB and will run as the developer intended on iPhone 5 and iPad 3rd Generation or higher. Meanwhile, Dragon Quest VIII will have a premium price point of £13.99/$19.99 when it launches around the world tomorrow, with no in-app purchases in sight.
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Donald Wayne Walker Jr., 52, of Newton, died Friday (Nov. 9, 2012) at the Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus in Wichita as the result of an automobile accident.He was born on January 14, 1960, in Bakersfield, California, the son of Donald and Loretta Moore Walker Sr.Don had served in the U.S. Army. For several years he had lived in Arkansas City where he worked at the Prairie Land Processing. He moved to Walton in 2003 and into Newton in 2010. More recently Don had been a machinist at Moridge Manufacturing in Moundridge.Survivors include sons Michael, Donald and Jeremy all of Newton; daughter Jeanna Middleton of Wellington; brother Gregory of Newton; sisters Debra Johnson and Donna Walker both of Walton, Mary Walker of Newton, and Terri Boisen of Benton, Ks.; and four grandchildren.Funeral services will be held at 3:00 P.M., Wednesday (Nov. 14, 2012) at the Broadway Colonial Funeral Home. Interment will be in the Walton Cemetery.Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday 9 a.m. til 8 p.m. and Wednesday 9 a.m. til service time.A memorial has been established with the American Cancer Society, contributions may be sent to Broadway Colonial Funeral Home, 120 E. Broadway, Newton, Ks. 67114.Condolences may be left at www.broadwaycolonialfh.com.Arrangements are by Broadway Colonial Funeral Home, Newton.
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Chevrolet C10 Suspension Upgrade - Stand And DeliverWritten by on February 13, 2012 Dropping A Chevy For Style And Performance
I've covered a handful of upgrades made to the project C10 over the last couple of months but by far the biggest improvements I've made have been to the suspension. Granted, the '60s Chevy trucks had a pretty modern independent suspension system for trucks of their era, given their Ford equivalent were sitting on I-beam axles still. I've always said that one of the reasons that there are so many '67-72 Chevys still on the road is that the foundation of those trucks, in a general sense, leaves little to be desired when it comes to mechanical creature comforts. By 1972, power steering, disc brakes, and even air conditioning were pretty standard modus operandi. That meant upgrading your '67 or '68 five to ten years later to all the modern features of a new car or truck of that era was a matter of simply swapping parts. A little maintenance and upkeep and there's little reason for getting rid of a well-running work truck.
But when it came to modifying the original components in the form of, say, lowering it, there was a lot left to be desired. Heated or cut coils got the job done but didn't necessarily do it right. The geometry changed as did the ride quality. What used to be a nice, soft riding truck became a bouncy, rough riding covered wagon. And today, that's just unacceptable.
Enter Classic Performance Products (CPP). They've nurtured a market that has, until recently, been largely ignored by the performance-minded suspension companies by developing a whole slew of parts designed strictly to make that old truck ride, handle, and perform to today's standards. From tubular control arms, to Nitrogen shocks, to oversized brakes, they've developed a product line designed to take our classic trucks and give those more performance minded muscle car guys a run for their money.
When I started the C10 build, I knew I wanted to lower the truck, but I also planned on driving it in a daily fashion and wanted to experience the latest and greatest suspension setup that CPP had to offer. They recommended their Zero Offset SOS Big Brake Grand Slam kit combined with a set of their Totally Tubular control arms. This setup is good for a full 2½-inch drop, thanks to the Modular dropped spindle and combined with a 2-inch drop coil spring, the front of my C10 should sit nice and low. Plans call for installing a set of 17-inch Rocket Racing Wheels' Boosters at all four corners shod in 235/55R17 Coker Redline tires. At 27.17 inches, that tire/wheel combo should work great with the amount of drop planned and the big 13-inch rotors will fit nicely and provide plenty of stopping power, upwards of 30 less feet from 60-0 mph.
I've had a chance to drive the truck for a few months now with all the new suspension components installed and let me tell you, it's like driving a totally different vehicle! One of the hardest things that I've had to overcome was the initial tendency to drive it like I did before I made all the upgrades. Slowing down to ten miles an hour to take a turn or braking half a mile from an intersection is a thing of the past. In fact, I've scared my wife a few times as she was used to the way the truck handled previously and forgot that it stops and handles a hundred times better than it ever did before.
Next month I'll wrap up the back half and unveil what the C10 looks like down on the ground after the CPP makeover. I think you'll dig it! CCT
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CPP's new Modular 2 1/2-inch drop spindles combined with their 13-inch drilled and slotted rotors and four-piston calipers will get the C10 down nice and low with plenty of stopping power. Their spindle is designed to narrow the front track width 2 1/2-inches when used with a number of popular brake kits, which allows for the use of larger diameter tires and wheels so prevalent today.Of course, I can't get started with all the stock suspension components hanging under the truck, so I've got to remove them first. A Haynes manual is a great resource when it comes to disassembling any truck.With the suspension and steering components out of the way, a quick cleaning was in order before I sprayed the chassis and crossmember with some satin black spray paint.One of the recommendations the guys over at CPP had was to install a pair of their upper shock mount reinforcing tabs. Worn out mounting bosses was a common problem with these trucks once the shock mounting stud worked itself loose.The reinforcing brackets work by supporting the outside end of the shock stud, preventing it from moving. With the bracket bolted to the shock stud, two 3⁄8-inch holes are drilled through the frame rail using the bracket as a guide.The stock control arms were pretty worked, as were the ball joints and cross shafts. I crunched some numbers and figured it would be more beneficial to step up and replace them with CPP's Totally Tubular upper and lower control arms to not only solve the sloppy suspension components but to further the performance envelope of the truck.CPP's Totally Tubular control arms are designed with five degrees of caster while still functioning with full wheel travel, which yields an easy return to center steering design and improved straight line stability. Their oversized diameter results in less flex for a stiffer (and sportier!) suspension design while the self lubricating bushings will outlast any rubber or urethane. Late model, heavy duty ball joints also add a bit of brute to the overall setup and are easily replaced when the time comes down the road.
The sleeves also feature an interlocking design that prevents the hardware from ever working loose. Best yet, they're a direct bolt-in, requiring no modifications and work with all factory and replacement power steering systems.Drop coil springs will be used to get the nose down an additional 2 1/2 inches for a total drop of 4 1/2 inches.Attaching the modular spindle to the lower control arm ball joint, inserting the drop spring, and then compressing the spring using a spring compressor allows the top ball joint to be attached.Here, you can see the new CPP nitrogen gas shock attached to the lower control arm and the upper reinforcing tab, as well as the business end of the suspension components. Simple, yet very effective.With the suspension wrapped up, it's time to install the brakes. High-temp grease is used to pack the wheel bearings before the aluminum hubs are installed.Three major components make up the braking system at each wheel; a rotor, caliper, and mounting bracket. I'm using a 5x4 3/4-inch Chevy passenger car bolt pattern at all four corners on my truck so that my wheel options are vast.The caliper bracket attaches to the modular spindle using the provided 5⁄8-inch hardware, torqued to 154 lb-ft.
Since we have drum brakes out back and discs up front, I opted to use CPP's OEM-style master cylinder/power booster combo. It comes complete with the proper proportioning valve and just needs to be plumbed into the braking system.I'll be using a CPP brake line kit from each wheel up to the master cylinder but before it can be installed, it's necessary to bench bleed it to get the air out of each reservoir.A good suspension system isn't complete without a good sway bar and CPP's heavy duty version, made from 1 1/4-inch steel tubing, is a complimentary component to the rest of their suspension line. Their kit comes complete with the sway bar, urethane bushings, end links, frame mounting brackets, and Grade 8 hardware.The sway bar mounting brackets attach to the chassis using preexisting holes. Two of them however are occupied by rivets, which need to be removed. An air chisel makes quick work out of the rivets.To install the sway bar, first the end links are assembled while the center of the sway bar rests on a jack stand.Here are the sway bar brackets that mount to the framerails. Since I lowered the front of the truck, CPP recommended running their lowered brackets.Compared with the stock unit on the left and I can see why. The lowered brackets tuck the sway bar up nice and tight to the framerail, increasing ground clearance.Bolted to the existing holes in the framerail, I used the jackstand to lift the sway bar into place where the clamp and urethane bushing mated the two together.


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I'm new to Linux and I want to execute one command on every file in a loop:
avconv -i *.mp4 -vcodec copy -ac 2 -strict experimental *.mp4
Can any one tell me how I can do this? I have more than 100 files to convert. I just want to convert them into new files with the same names, but using different codecs. It works for one file but I don't know how to run it on all of the files. I found this
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Is there any editor/IDE(or a plugin for an existing editor like Vim or GEdit) that does auto-completion of many languages (not just C++)? Aptana does only HTML/CSS/JS and Code::Blocks does only C++ (I might be wrong on this one. If so, please correct me).
In Windows, Notepad++ does a pretty neat job.


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How widely used is
alloca in the real world? Should I teach my students to use
alloca when it makes sense? Or should I teach them never to use it? Coming from a C++ RAII background, the idea of not having to call
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If you are holding a course in general C programming, you shouldn't teach them a thing that is not in the standard. Beginner programmers needlessly writing non-standard and/or non-portable code because they were taught that way, has been a huge problem for the software industry during the past 20-30 years or so. The cost for not teaching them the standard and nothing but the standard is likely astronomic.
If you are holding a more advanced course in algorithms or application programming, it might be good to mention it. On the other hand, I have programmed everything from hard realtime embedded apps to Windows application fluff for 15 years without ever using that function.
I can see two things happening:
I think it's much better if you describe
Source: http://www.strchr.com/alloca
show them the dangers, and then tell them not to use it. They'll still learn about stack vs. heap, see the perils in action, and can move on with standard stuff.
The answer to this question should be based on what your objectives are in the first place.
Do you want to teach someone who already knows how to program how to write C and work with existing C code in the wild? If so, tell about alloca and anything else you want.
On the other hand, if you are teaching an introductory course that only is using C by coincidence (and because C is a very small language and so on) you should focus on the important parts (writing modular programs, subroutines, collections, ...). From a student's perspective, alloca is a bir redundant since malloc is enough in most cases and from a good-code perspective you are better off explicitely mentioning how manual memory management is annoying and how other languages deal with this problem After all, there are more things to memory management then alloca or RAII so you really shouldn't restrict yourself to these and as you mentioned already, its much easier to understand the purpose of alloca if you compare it to other "more standard" ways to do things in other languages (or C99...)
The only reason a C programmer should even be aware of alloca's existence is to understand and fix legacy code that's using it.
Any use of
Aside from a few thought experiments for which I have never found any real-world examples, there is no usage case for
My opinion is do not encourage using it unless you are teaching low level compiler principles used to allocate stack space for local variables. Teach it in that context.
The GCC documentation has a couple practical pros and cons on


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Winter Break Gives Sides Spring in Their Steps Before This Week's Showdowns
MADRID—In the week that followed the stunning first legs of the Champions League semifinals, two matches that saw the soccer royalty of Real Madrid and Barcelona thoroughly humbled by German opposition, the chatter in the soccer world turned to figuring out Germany's secret.
There were dissections of its youth soccer setup, of its competitive domestic league and the financial sustainability of its clubs. Talk also turned back to the shame of Germany's underachievement at the 2000 European Championships and the 1998 World Cup—two events that lit a fire under the national federation. But while those are all significant factors, one element has been largely ignored in the buildup to this week's second legs in Spain between Borussia Dortmund and Real here Tuesday, and Barcelona and Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
The one thing that German clubs are unquestionably better at than anyone in Europe: Doing nothing.
Every season, the Bundesliga takes a monthlong break right in the middle of the harsh Northern European winter, from just before Christmas to late January. The players spend at least two weeks away from the team, recuperating with their families, and then usually head to a mini-camp before their campaign resumes. The result is that they are physically fresher and more prepared than their counterparts abroad for the grueling haul to the end of the season.
Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger found that out firsthand last month when his side's would-be comeback against Bayern in the round of 16 just ran out of steam in Munich's Allianz Arena. The Gunners' 2-0 victory hadn't been enough to overturn a 3-1 defeat in the first leg, a night when greater energy was just one of many Bayern qualities.
"When you play against them in March and April—especially in April —as an English club or a Spanish club, you have a handicap," Wenger said. "That's for sure."
Spain, by comparison to Germany, has only a two-week winter break, as does Italy, while England sits at the opposite end of the spectrum: Between the Premier League and the FA Cup, the holiday season is extremely congested, making it a traditional make-or-break-point for many campaigns.
"What people forget with the long winter break is that during that break the international players get a real rest as well, which is not the case in the summer," Wenger said, underlining that national team players usually have obligations in difficult summer tournaments.
Though it can't make up for major gaps in talent or depth, which recently existed between the better Spanish and German sides, that extra physical edge in the spring can be the difference between two otherwise equal teams.
The first legs of the Champions League semifinals made that clear.
First, Bayern ran riot in Barcelona's heavy-legged midfield in its 4-0 mauling—the likes of Xavi, Andres Iniesta, and Lionel Messi were squeezed by Javi Martinez and Bastian Schweinsteiger. Then, Dortmund rattled Real Madrid with its high-energy pressing game in a 4-1 victory. The headlines belonged to Robert Lewandowski, who scored all four goals, but much of the dirty work was done by Marco Reus and Ilkay Gundogan in midfield.
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It should come as no surprise that, according to UEFA's statistics, the three players who have covered the most ground in the Champions League this season all play for Dortmund. Right back Marcel Schmelzer leads the way, running an average of 6.9 miles per 90 minutes. In fact, of the players remaining in the competition, eight of the top 10 in distance covered play for German sides. Only Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Xabi Alonso make the list for the Spanish teams.
There is only one Barcelona player in the top 15 (Xavi), which makes sense—Barcelona has so much possession that it doesn't have to press nearly as often, even though high pressing is a fundamental part of its game.
But if the winter break has made a difference this year, it's because Germany only recently figured out how to make it work best.
Until 2009-2010, the break was some two weeks longer. The first and second halves of the season were six weeks apart, almost as long as the English Premier League's entire offseason. The risk for players was a huge dip in fitness and a loss of focus.
Now with four weeks, divided between recuperation and lower-intensity workouts, they seem to have found the sweet spot.
So while the Spanish teams went back to work in early January, the Bundesliga players were just rousing from a long Christmas break to head to a restorative in-season training camp, away from the distractions of home and domestic competition. Bayern headed to Doha, Qatar, for a week. Dortmund flew off to La Manga in Spain, to the kind of seaside resort where players could work on tactical matters and fitness in the morning, and hone their nine-irons in the afternoon.
Almost four months later, Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos wouldn't address the question of winter breaks. The only thing he, the club, and its archrival in Catalonia are concerned with are a possible "remontada"—the Spanish word for comeback that has been the subject of countless columns here this week.
If either one is able to pull it off, then Real seems the likelier candidate to do it. Because of its away goal in the first leg, Real would progress with a 3-0 victory over Dortmund. It's a titanic task, but Dortmund has conceded 36 goals in 31 league games this year.
Barcelona, meanwhile, must score four to even force extra time against a Bayern defensive juggernaut that has allowed just 14 on its way to the Bundesliga title. Even the headlines in the city's normally gung-ho sports dailies have a whiff desperation about them. "With Leo [Messi], Everything is Possible," read Mundo Deportivo's front page Monday.
Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho was evasive about what exactly he felt went wrong last week in Germany. "I did that analysis with the players," he said when asked about it by a reporter. "But not with you."
And Ramos wasn't any more specific, though he had to acknowledge that Real was overrun in the first leg. "What we need to do is bet on ourselves," he said looking ahead to Tuesday. "We need to give more than what we did."
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