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Super PAC Mania
Super PACs bankrolled by a relatively small number of multimillionaires have changed the landscape of this year's presidential race. How did we get here, and what can we expect from future elections held in the era of super PACs?
The Supreme Court does not often become a foil for late-night television comedians, and the nation's complicated campaign finance laws are an unlikely source for comedy. But there was Stephen Colbert on a recent episode of The Colbert Report opening with a mini-seminar.
"Folks, it seems like these days, everyone is talking about super PACs, which, thanks to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, can collect and spend unlimited money on political advertising," Colbert told his viewers, some of whom had already contributed to his own super PAC creation: Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow.
Colbert's super PAC (which has raised more than $1 million) is not intended to have much impact on the 2012 presidential election, and his understanding of recent Supreme Court precedent may lack nuance. Still, Colbert's matter-of-fact invocation of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission when discussing the independent campaign spending organizations known as super PACs is an indication of how the case has become embedded in the national conversation during this election season.
It might seem that a Supreme Court decision that drew an immediate and unprecedented rebuke from the president in his State of the Union address could not become more controversial with the passage of time. But that is exactly what has happened to Citizens United, the Court's 5-to-4 ruling in 2010 that allowed unlimited corporate and union spending in candidate elections. The 2012 presidential campaign is unfolding in a never-before-seen wave of spending from wealthy donors and super PACs functioning as shadow fundraising arms of the candidates. Citizens United, meanwhile, has become—rightly or wrongly—shorthand for the ills that campaign finance reformers say are fundamentally changing presidential politics.
And despite President Barack Obama's extremely public campaign finance pronouncement—"I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests," he said during the 2010 address to Congress—his reaction to the growing influence of super PACs in 2012 has been to wade into the fray. Obama's re-election campaign has wholeheartedly endorsed a super PAC organized by former aides and has said Cabinet secretaries, and even senior White House staff, are available to attend fundraisers.
Obama's campaign managers are quick to assert that they could not unilaterally disarm in the face of super PAC spending that has lapped what the Republican presidential candidates themselves have raised. Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney, relies on 16 donors who each contributed $1 million or more during this campaign cycle; many of the donors have also contributed the maximum amount to Romney's formal campaign. And while the super PAC that supports Rick Santorum is also technically independent from Santorum's now suspended campaign, its chief donor, Foster Friess, sometimes traveled with the candidate.
None of this was specifically authorized, or perhaps even contemplated, when the Court made its decision in Citizens United, according to Columbia Law School Professor Richard Briffault, who is among the nation's foremost campaign finance authorities. But he says the ruling provided the rationale for subsequent court decisions and Federal Election Commission (FEC) actions that make for profound changes.
"Citizens United, particularly the Supreme Court's flat assertion that independent expenditures, whatever their actual effect on the political process, raise no danger of corruption or the appearance of corruption, provided crucial doctrinal support for the legal actions that launched super PACs and have enabled them to flourish," Briffault, the Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Litigation, writes in a forthcoming law review article. "The rise of super PACs suggests that the real impact of Citizens United may be the re-validation of the unlimited use of private wealth generally in elections, not just spending by corporations and unions."
Whether viewed as a ringing defense of the First Amendment or an abandonment of protections against the corruption of politics, Citizens United strikes most experts as extending a strain of Supreme Court jurisprudence that goes a long way toward dooming the campaign finance regulatory regime that Americans enacted after the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
"The post-Watergate system that was created in 1974 is basically on the verge of collapse," says Richard Briffault, adding that the reasoning behind Citizens United may curtail future attempts to restrict spending on behalf of candidates. "The Court is making campaign finance law almost impossible."
Briffault and Nathaniel Persily, the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, say attempts to curb the influence of money in politics created a natural tension between free speech and campaign regulation. The Court first dealt with the conflict in its 1976 Buckley v. Valeo ruling, holding that campaign contributions could be limited to deal with corruption concerns, but that campaign spending was political speech that should not be confined. The Roberts Court, although closely divided, has been vigilant in rejecting restrictions on independent spending committees, as well, if the result would be less political speech.
Although Citizens United dealt with the ability of corporations and unions to use their general treasuries for such spending, the real consequence of the decision has been "to basically unleash money more generally," Briffault says. "So what you're really seeing now with the likes of super PACs is not so much corporate funds as [spending by] wealthy individuals. And the corporations that you are seeing, for the most part, are not business corporations but not-for-profits that have been put together as devices for collecting and pooling and channeling the money of wealthy individuals, and maybe some businesses too."
Persily adds that the ruling gave reassurance to unions, corporations, and wealthy individuals that almost any form of express advocacy would be permitted. "While Citizens United itself was not that big an advance in the law, it turned a license for corporate involvement in the political process into a blessing," he says.
The Court's prescription for equipping voters to evaluate this new infusion of political speech was disclosure of information on the donors. But gridlock in Congress prevented action on new and more timely disclosure rules. And the FEC, mired in a partisan standoff, has been less active in a watchdog agency role.
As a result, Professor Robert J. Jackson Jr. says, voters are often left in the dark about the sources of spending, and shareholders of many publicly held corporations have no idea about the extent of a company's political spending.
"The reality right now is that corporations spend hundreds of millions of dollars—at least—and none of that is meaningfully disclosed," says Jackson, referring to money spent on both campaigns and lobbying efforts. "That's just the straightforward reality."
The 2012 election financing morass at least partially stems from a case that many believe could have been decided much more narrowly. The majority in Citizens United bypassed an opportunity to rule based on the unique facts of the case—which involved the right to air a documentary critical of Hillary Clinton during the 2008 election season. Instead, the Court struck down part of the existing campaign finance law and overruled its 1990 decision in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which held that corporations and unions could not use general funds to support or oppose candidates.
Key to what has happened since was a finding in the majority opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. "We now conclude that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption," Kennedy wrote.
Lower courts and the FEC have interpreted the Court's decision to mean that, since independent spending cannot be corrupting, there is no justification for limiting the amount that individuals and corporations can give to groups involved in independent spending.
The changes have fundamentally altered the arc of the Republican presidential contest. While individual contributions made directly to a candidate are capped at $2,500 during the primary, super PACs offer the possibility of unlimited "indirect" spending in support of a candidate's electoral goals. And big bucks can net real impact. The decision of Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam to give more than $10 million to the super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination gave the former House speaker new life after a shaky start.
Some proponents of the Citizens United decision, such as longtime First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, say detractors of the ruling have distorted its meaning. Even if what individuals can give directly to a candidate is capped, campaign donors since the Buckley decision have been able to fund express advocacy to whatever extent they want. Both Democrats (George Soros) and Republicans (Karl Rove) had already found ways to contribute, collect, or bundle money to further their political interests.
But Briffault says the new super PACs are taking the next step. "I think people assumed there might be committees that existed purely to elect Republican candidates or Democratic candidates or anti-tax candidates or environmental candidates," Briffault says. "I don't think what was fully foreseen was the emergence of committees existing solely to elect Romney or Gingrich or Rick Perry. They function as if they are the candidate's committee, except they have to keep their distance from the candidate. And they are raising and spending in some cases more than the candidate."
The ability to give unlimited amounts to a super PAC supporting a candidate seems to be a way around Buckley's support for limiting contributions that go directly to a candidate, according to Briffault. "I think the distinction has collapsed," he says.
During the first month of the election year, five wealthy individuals contributed $19 million, approximately a quarter of the total raised for the presidential race in January, according to a Washington Post analysis. A dozen people have sent nearly $65 million total to super PACs in the 2012 cycle.
During the 2010 elections, super PACs spent nearly $84 million. Richard Briffault says that was merely a warm-up for 2012. The pro-Romney super PAC alone has already spent more than half that amount.
Such astronomical figures, Briffault says, are part of the reason that the Citizens United ruling has struck such a chord with the general public, which polls show are overwhelmingly opposed to the decision. "I think the public sees this as connecting to general problems of growing inequality and the growing power of the wealthy and powerful in American life and American politics," he says.
The reasoning of the Court's decision is easy to understand, according to Briffault: "The logic was that the real interest here was in people hearing the ideas. And that there is less interest in who's doing the speaking than in hearing whatever there is to be said." But that leaves little room for those who worry about the role of money in politics.
"One of the real, lasting consequences of Citizens United," Nathaniel Persily says, "is the anemic view of corruption that survives . . . . You're left with something like quid pro quo corruption, and that is the most difficult kind of corruption to prove."
In addition, the Court last year struck down provisions of public campaign finance laws that proponents say make them most attractive. In Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Bennett, the Court said Arizona could not increase the amount of money given to a publicly funded candidate based on the spending of his or her privately financed opponents. Such provisions function as attempts at "leveling the playing field," and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. reinforced in the Arizona decision that this is not a legitimate reason for curbing First Amendment rights.
"The majority of the Court, and it's really a bare majority of five, is hostile to anything that smacks of equalization," Briffault says. "They are willing to permit states and Congress to adopt rules that are designed to prevent corruption, but they take a very narrow view of when corruption is likely to happen."
Beyond the Arizona decision, the Court has shied away from taking any new challenges to the campaign finance regime. It has turned down a petition from the Republican National Committee to reconsider the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act's prohibition on "soft-money" contributions to political parties. And it upheld, without hearing the case, a lower court's decision that foreign nationals are not allowed to contribute to campaigns.
Persily suspects the Supreme Court may be taking a time-out on this issue. "I was surprised by the public backlash to Citizens United," he says. "And I think they were, too."
But new challenges await. A district judge in Northern Virginia recently ruled in a criminal case that direct corporate contributions to candidates—banned since 1907—cannot be squared with the court's reasoning in Citizens United. The decision is on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond.
And as united as the Court's current majority appears in taking a libertarian approach on campaign finance issues, it is worth remembering Briffault's point that it is a slim one-vote majority. If President Obama wins another term and a member of the Citizens United majority retires, the shift could be significant. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59 and Stephen G. Breyer, dissenters in the case, have even suggested that the Court should re-examine the ruling in light of what has transpired since it was decided in 2010.
One vehicle for a reassessment would be a decision by the Montana Supreme Court late last year that upheld the state's ban on corporate spending in elections, which is directly at odds with Citizens United.
"Montana's experience, and experience elsewhere since this Court's decision in Citizens United . . . makes it exceedingly difficult to maintain that independent expenditures 'do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption,'" Ginsburg wrote in support of hearing the case.
But it seems unlikely that the majority is ready to reconsider.
"So," Briffault concludes in his upcoming law review article, "105 years after Congress enacted the first restrictions on contributions in federal elections, and 38 years after the comprehensive post-Watergate contribution limits were adopted, we appear to be rapidly heading into an era in which those contribution limits have been rendered functionally meaningless. We shall soon find out what this means for our campaign finance system, our elections and our politics."


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Columbia College executive director of Administrative Services announces retirement
COLUMBIA, Mo., June 23 - Bob Hutton, executive director for Administrative Services at Columbia College announced his retirement effective September 26, 2014.
"After a distinguished career leading various initiatives at the college, Bob plans to begin a richly deserved retirement this fall," said Dr. Scott Dalrymple, president of Columbia College.
Hutton has led the college's Administrative Services division for more than 18 years, overseeing a multi-million budget for construction projects and property acquisition. During his tenure, Columbia College has added or acquired 12 new structures, including major building projects such as Southwell Gymnasium, Atkins-Holman Student Commons and the new Gerald T. and Bonnie M. Brouder Science Center. Hutton also helped increase the college's physical footprint nationwide, overseeing the acquisition of the Rolla, St. Louis and Jefferson City campus buildings, and the construction of the Lake of the Ozarks campus. Due to Hutton's guidance, the college has no deferred maintenance.
"I'm very proud of the progress (the college) has made," said Hutton. "Our grounds and facilities are noted in the community - that gives me a lot of pride."
Prior to working at Columbia College, Hutton was the director of Facilities at Stephens College for more than five years. He also served on the Columbia City Council for 12 years. The college plans to begin a search for a new executive director of Administrative Services immediately.
Founded in 1851 in Columbia, Mo., Columbia College has been helping students advance their lives through higher education for more than 160 years. As a private, nonprofit, liberal arts and sciences institution, the college takes pride in its small classes, experienced faculty and quality educational programs. With more than 30 campuses across the country, 18 of which are on military installations, students may enroll in day, evening or online classes. The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Columbia College educates more than 31,000 students each year and Schools. Columbia College has more than 80,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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I have upgraded my phone to the latest firmware which is MainBand : I9300XXLFB.
Before that release no problem was recognized with the contacts app. But now; I am facing with an issue that; it takes 3 to 5 secs to load the contacs list.
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Stretching Exercises: 6 Yoga Moves That'll Make You Look Younger
Ward off lines and wrinkles by adding one or all six of these anti-aging, super-stretching yoga poses to your workout
• Place your arms alongside your body with palms down.
• Press into your hands and engage your abs to lift your legs up and over your head.
• If your legs don't touch the floor behind you, place your hands on your back to support your weight.
• If your toes do hit the floor, clasp your hands together and try to roll your shoulder blades together under your body.
• Hold for 45 seconds and gently roll through your spine to release the pose.
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Downward facing dog is hands down my favorite move. Some of these are not very good if your have a bad back or neck.
by Squidney Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 03:01PM Report as inappropriate
Very interesting, but be careful if you have a preexisting injury and/or pain.
by robyne00 Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 03:48PM Report as inappropriate
It's not exactly yoga that is anti-aging, but rather more the stretching that forces you to relax and breath, allowing you to clear your mind. I did gymnastics for 15 yrs and I found that stretching for 20minutes a day, with similar moves here, before the yoga fad, helped me reduce stress, even when the pressures of competition was upon me. This should explain for the yoga amateurs why exactly the move helps with anti-aging and also mention that most of these moves are not for those with joint or back problems such as myself. It's like blind faith with this article. You tell me what to do, but why?
by Lani702 Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 10:02AM Report as inappropriate
and yoga will help destress too
by kimihavens Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 01:13PM Report as inappropriate
im new to yoga (and love it) i tried this, the first 1 i couldnt really get, i was a little confused and dont bend that way. the second kept making me laugh. the rest i got lol
by Sohee Monday, September 17, 2012 at 01:55PM Report as inappropriate
Yoga is addicting and it is good for you!!! I try for 3 to 4 classes per week.
by Ydabney Thursday, August 9, 2012 at 10:51AM Report as inappropriate
yoga is my favorite..yyaayy ^.^
by jaye_tyler Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 02:58PM Report as inappropriate
I'm not very flexable so some of this will be difficult for me to accomplish
by rachaellh13 Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 04:02PM Report as inappropriate
also gives u energy for the day
by beautyinside Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 05:43AM Report as inappropriate
I will have to try these
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I am machmir on only listening to music that was performed by a Jew, but i don't really understand it. Does anyone know what is the source for this? Does Matisyahu perform with only Jews?
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See Igros Moshe YD 2:111 where he raises issue of church influence which relate to the players' intentions, the words, and the instruments. Jews presumably would not have suspicious (regarding idol worship) intentions.
Here's a summary of Igrot Moshe Yoreh Deah 2:56, which says that the bottom line is that "it is forbidden to listen to non-Jewish religious music ... However, if the song is written and/or song by a non-Jew but has no religious purpose, then there is technically no prohibition."
I heard a prominent Rabbi say that it was mutar as long as the lyrics and clean and the beat will not make one do inappropriate things. (See Rambam's comment on Avots 1:16)
In a Q&A session by R' Hershel Schachter I recently heard, he explains (I forget based on who) that artists put some of their essence into the art they make, so when you consume art, you internalize a little bit of the artist's soul. So, he advocates against listening to music composed by non-Jews.


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Miss Sadaise Arencibia, also promoted to Primera Bailarina.SB, DQ, Giselle, Sylvia clips...
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Miss Arencibia is one of the Cuban examples of the current trend affecting the ballet world today. Tall, elegant, lyric, long limbed, thin ballerina who seems to be always trying to look for the perfect placement and posture, but lacking in old school force and solid technique, which is the complete opposite case with Valdes.
One of Arencibia's faults IMO, is the tendency to pose as a way to accent the music, instead of actually moving to it in order to convey emotion. So in that sense I can sort of agree with you on "trying to look for perfect placement...". But even then, she still has the sort of old skool quality that I admire in Cuban dancers, say what you will about her look or build. The Cuban quality of actual dancing and clean technique that they and POB dancers have, over the floridly affected manner of dancing that many Mariinsky ballerinas adopt at the expense of technique especially footwork or petit allegro. Arencibia does look different in physique from other BNC ballerinas, so I don't know if that has any influence on how she uses her Cuban schooling to accentuate it.
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I'm really confused.
I'm trying to use some of the very simple Facebook plugins on my site, specifically the basic "Like" button.
I already know how to use the limited version with an iFrame.
However, now I'm trying to figure out the XFBML method and the online documentation seems to make a lot of assumptions about what you already know and really short on working examples. For example, they show you how to call the JavaScript Init and give you the single line of HTML code for element fb:like... but I could not see any examples of how to show/hide faces, set the default font, etc. like in the iFrame code.
I've since figured out that you need to add them as attributes to the element but that was thanks to StackOverlfow and no thanks to the Facebook documentation which simply takes you in circles.
<fb:like href="http://mydomain.com" show_faces="true" action="recommend" colorscheme="light" width="400" height="35" />
Ok, so now when using the XFBML code, it's height should expand/contract automatically depending on being logged in or not I assume.
I do not know if I'm supposed to initially set the height to "80" or if that happens automatically.
And I have no idea what I'm supposed to use for 'your app id' in the Init script. There is no App... just a Facebook Company Page... so why would I need an App Id when I'm just putting a Like button on a website?
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
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Creating new theme screen size
I'd like to create new GXT 3 theme. I have several questions:
- Does exist GXT 3 themes on market?
- Which min screen size GXT supports? When painting components in graphical editor which area size I should select? 1024x768 ? 1280x1024 or anything else?
- ContentPanel and Framed panel look like rounded rectangles. But they do not use css3 border-radius property. Instead of it use complicated html syntax and image slicing. Can I use css3 styles in my appearance of content panel and other widgets?
- Is there examples of creating custom theme for GXT3 widgets like layouts, panels ?
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I can't answer all of these, but I can try for the technical questions.
2) There is no 'minimum size', since even on a large screen the user can't be stopped from shrinking the browser window down to something very small. This is usually considered to be an application issue (i.e. rebuild the app for very very small sizes), or a user issue (i.e. stop making the window so darn small).
3) We currently use images as this ensures backward compatibility with all supported browsers - IE6, 7, 8 do not have rounded corner support. Likewise, all gradients are done with images - those same browsers don't support gradients, and IE9's gradient implementation is both very different and very slow.
The only thing preventing you from using CSS3 features in your own application is your need to support browsers which do not support those features. With the CssResource support for @if user.agent checks, you could provide two implementations, and know that only the code that is used in each browser would be compiled in.


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The 7 Creepiest Old School Robots
Robots are terrifying, we all know that. They murder our loved ones and assume their identities, and yet when we yell about it in the street, we're the ones who get put in a cell. The only upside is that the sin of robotics has only recently advanced to the worrying stages, and it might not be too late to stop it.
But that's just another filthy robot lie, meant to deceive you into a false sense of security. Creepily advanced robots have been around forever, and they have always, always wanted to destroy everything good on this Earth and then process your children for fuel.
#7. Evil Robot Children in the Age of Enlightenment
In the late 18th century, Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz needed a good way to publicize his products among the European nobility. And what better way to sell watches than by building horrible mechanical non-children?
Watch that video featuring three of Jaquet-Droz's creations and you'll finally understand what schizophrenic Amish people scream about in their padded cells. "The Draughtsman" and "The Writer" are two life-size automaton twins created by Jaquet-Droz between 1768 and 1774 to be toured across Europe and shown to aristocrats. One could draw four different pictures on a piece of paper (including the baffling image of a nude baby driving a chariot pulled by a butterfly), and the other could write any custom text up to 40 characters long.
It's like Twitter, mixed with the embalmed corpse of a Victorian-era child.
Needless to say, this sort of technology was astounding for the 1700s. The Writer alone was made out of no less than 6,000 moving pieces, and still functions to this day. Since it was programmable (in that you could change the message it wrote), it's been called one of the earliest ancestors of modern computers. Though they were obviously recovered (seeing as how we have video of them now), these priceless automatons were actually "lost at several points" in history, where they presumably underwent Pinocchio-like adventures together.
Fifty bucks says this thing killed Archduke Ferdinand.
#6. The Clockwork Monk
In 1977, the Smithsonian acquired a small statue of a medieval monk that was carved out of wood and capable of autonomous movement. Not much was known about this strange artifact at the time, except for the fact that it still functioned, and that it was very, very old. Clearly, that's the beginning of a horror film. Some teenagers are going to have sex in its display room, the fresh sin will awaken it and you'll spend the next 90 minutes watching the Clockwork Monk stab horny vixens with a sharpened crucifix. If you don't believe us, here, take a look at the monk in action:
When it first slowly starts to turn to you, at about 13 seconds in, you just know, intrinsically, in the unmapped part of your brain that tells you when a loved one has died seconds before you actually get the call, that this is the last thing you're going to see in this world and that there is naught beyond it but solitude and cold.
Also he happens to be unclothed here, which is frankly just uncomfortable.
In actuality, the elaborate pantomime of terror the monk is pulling off was supposed to be prayer. The clockwork monk "walks in a square, striking his chest with his right arm, raising and lowering a small wooden cross and rosary in his left hand, turning and nodding his head, rolling his eyes and mouthing silent obsequies. From time to time, he raises his cross to his lips and kisses it."
And when you sleep, it kisses you and whispers your name from the closet.
The Smithsonian estimated that the monk was made around 1560 in Germany or Spain. That's all they knew at first, and probably all they wish they knew still. But alas, they eventually discovered more information: In 1562, the heir to the throne of Spain sustained a serious head wound that caused him fever and blindness. His father, the king, thought all was lost, until the heir was reportedly cured by the miraculous corpse of a Spanish monk that had been dead for 100 years. You see, in his desperation, the king had allowed the monk's mummified remains to be placed in bed with his sick son -- a totally legit medical practice recommended by Dr. Corpseboner -- and he was so thankful when this dubious medical treatment actually worked that (according to some historians) he commissioned a moving replica of the dead monk.
Wow yeah, Spain, that's uncanny. Uncanny is exactly the right word for what this is.
Apparently, the king wanted to repay the miracle of God with a miracle of his own. And what better way to thank the lord than spitting right in his face with a mockery of everything living, much less holy? Oh, and as a final middle finger to the big guy in the sky, the king ended up killing his son a few years later anyway.
Something tells us it was a mercy killing.
#5. Laffing Sal
As you get older, the things that scared you as a kid slowly become tame, and even ridiculous. You grow up and suddenly realize you're not scared of Freddy Krueger anymore -- he's just a wacky burn victim who really likes puns. Big dogs, the dentist, clowns -- all these childhood traumas start to fade. And then Laffing Sal brings it all cackling madly back.
Laffing Sal is a mechanical monster that steals hope from the eyes of children. If you watch that video closely, you can pinpoint the exact moment when that boy's soul flees from his body to a place of safety. What remains of his life will be joyless and empty, thanks to Laffing Sal's dead gaze and horrible, monstrous giggling, but at least his eternal essence won't end up a meal for the unliving clownbeast.
Even in restraints it still managed to strangle six people.
When activated, Laffing Sal swivels around in a manner that demons mistakenly think looks human, and a record player located under her feet plays a looped recording of her haunting, mirthless laughter, which does not signify joy so much as the complete and utter absence of it.
Originally created in the 1930s by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (presumably via Stygian alchemy), Sal was meant to be a decoration for fun houses, carnivals and fairs. Sal was so iconic that she's said to have been "a part of almost every fun house across the United States built in the 1930s and '40s."
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Most of the children who saw it then are now dead. Coincidence?
So how did one creepy machine make its way all across this country like that? The Philadelphia Toboggan Company made far more than just one. Dear lord, how many? Ten? Twenty? No, there were hundreds of copies of Laffing Sal. This wasn't a fluke invention that its creator would regret until his dying day (roughly only 15 minutes after Sal first came online). They actually mass produced that nightmare machine.
Oh god, we never thought we'd say this, but put the clown suit back on!
#4. Satan Machines and Robot Jesus
For anyone in a position of power, fear is an effective means of control. And if you can create said fear by building and deploying robots that look and behave like Satan, several centuries before they should even exist, all the better.
If you can make the crank look like a demon penis, more power to you.
That's exactly what many churches did in the 15th century: They adopted the now tried-and-true practice of scaring the Jesus into people, and did so primarily with demonic automatons that waved around, curled their tongues and howled like banshees. This one survives in a museum in Italy, where it just wants to run its tongue down your back as you slumber, that's all.
"You taste like old sin and new shame."
An even more effective means of control than fear, however, is faith -- rather, the callous manipulation of faith. Churches often tried to draw new parishioners through the use of intricate automatons depicting various Biblical scenes, but that's not quite what the Rood of Grace did. It was a large crucifix kept at Boxley Abbey in England, and it didn't use brimstone, smoke or fire to scare people, nor did it appeal to their sense of wonder in hopes of getting them to drop a few coins in the collection plate. It just totally lied about being a robot: The Rood of Grace had a Jesus figurine on it that would move and change expressions based on the size of the donation.
"Better put some more coins in the slot if you don't want Jesus to be sad."
The machine drew in thousands of pilgrims each year, mainly because the Church itself promoted the thing as a miracle. They never acknowledged that the whole thing was an automaton. But when Henry VIII gave his historic middle finger to the Catholic church, the people tasked with cleaning out the abbey ultimately discovered that the whole affair was a big fake, controlled by wires and engines. Much like Scientology.


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As we are fond of pointing out, it's easy to think of pop culture icons as having just walked onto the scene fully formed. But even the most timeless stories and characters went through creative tinkering right up until the last minute. You know, the way Batman was almost a blond geek in red spandex.
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But no possible justification could make Indy anything other than a "sick child molester" if he had boned Marion when she was, say, just 11 years-old. Which is exactly what Lucas and Spielberg originally planned for him.
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During a 70s brainstorming session for Raiders, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas seriously considered the idea that Indiana Jones' backstory should totally include the time he had sex with a girl who still had most of her baby teeth. Lucas commented that it would be "amusing," to which Spielberg immediately added that it would be even funnier if Marion was this 12 year-old slut who came on to Indy and seduced him!
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Perhaps we owe George Lucas an apology.
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It's hard to believe, but when Stephenie Meyer's novels about teens making out with walking corpses were first being optioned for a movie, the studios weren't treating it like a box office gold mine. That's probably why when Paramount finally did acquire the Twilight movie rights, it decided to just ignore the books and turn the whole thing into a huge action flick aimed mostly at guys.
Accordingly, its version of Edward had less of him breaking into girls' rooms to creepily watch them sleep and more of him taking down vampire-hunting SWAT teams from the treetops.
We're totally seeing a lunch box tie-in here.
Other major changes to the books included turning the bland Bella into a vampire action-heroine (that is, she'd get to play a character who wasn't completely useless). But perhaps most interestingly of all, this other Twilight would introduce an original nemesis for Edward -- a Korean FBI agent who tracks and hunts vampires across the country. And of course he knows karate -- we shouldn't even need to type that part.
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Even the Count from Sesame Street lost street cred.
Paramount eventually sold off the Twilight rights in 2007 after production was held up for too long. We like to imagine that it was due to problems with acquiring that much fake blood and military-grade explosives. After that, the new studio made the questionable business decision to stay faithful to the books -- a decision so questionable that the films have pulled in close to $2 billion in worldwide box office so far (to say nothing of merchandise and DVDs) and have become a bona fide cultural phenomenon the likes of which the planet has seldom seen.
I could be fighting a Korean FBI agent right now instead of bathing in my millions.
#3. Woody From Toy Story: A Murderous Giant
You Know Him As:
A courageous leader and loyal friend to the other toys in Pixar's Toy Story, but also a fairly complex character capable of petty acts of jealousy, especially when his status as favorite toy is being threatened by the new arrival, Buzz Lightyear.
But You Almost Knew Him As:
An abusive jerk and would-be murderer. Oh, and his face was pure fucking nightmare fuel:
The conflict between Woody and Buzz has been the central point of Toy Story from the get-go, but the original characters were quite different. The first draft of Buzz, for one, was a naive, easygoing toy who just wanted to impress his new owner, Andy. Woody, on the other hand was this smooth-talking, huge ventriloquist dummy and kind of a dick who cheerfully tricks the gullible Buzz into getting stuck behind a drawer so that Andy can't find him.
In other words, he was a lot more like Tim Allen.
That's not the "would-be murderer" part. As production continued, then-head of Disney Studios Jeffrey Katzenberg got involved in the project. He wanted to make it more "edgy," demanding that Pixar steer away from family entertainment and go for a darker, more "adult" approach.
By the time Pixar was done, Woody had become a cynical regular-size doll who terrorized and abused the other toys. Here he is with Slinky Dog:
And, oh yeah, he fucking judo-threw Buzz out the window in a fit of murderous rage.
"He's MY owner, bitch!"
In this version, when the other toys confront Woody over WHAT THE HELL, MAN?!, he basically tells them to fuck off and tries to sic his Slinky dog on them (it's implied he has mistreated him for years). Finally the toys realize there are more of them, so they gang up on Woody and hurl him out the window.
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Thankfully, when other Disney executives were shown the above storyboards, they utterly hated them and Pixar was given creative control over the movie. That gave us the current version, where all of Woody's vicious murders happen offscreen.


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Is it the same meaning in tyrannosaurus as in thesaurus?
I really can't imagine what those two words could possibly have in common!
The two etymologies are different.
In thesaurus, the -saurus isn't a suffix. It's part of the word. The word actually comes from the Greek word thēsaurós, which means treasure or treasury.
In tyrannosaurus, the origin is from the Greek words turannos, which means tyrant, plus the word sauros, which means lizard.
They have different origins:
From NOAD.
So, obviously, they do not have the same meanings. Although some people do like to make jokes about this. Cf. What's a big vocabulary word for someone with a big vocabulary?
According to Wikipedia, thesaurus derived from Latin and meant "treasure store". So assuming the first half of the word is treasure, then saurus must mean store presumably.
Contrarily, tyrannosaurus derived from the roots tyrannos and sauros from Greek, which meant "tyrant lizard".
Therefore, since one derives from Latin and the other from Greek, I would assume the similarities in the roots are purely coincidental.
As was mentioned in another comment, one interpretation of the Greek word thesaurus is "hoard". That interpretation made me think of "dragon's hoard". If saurus = lizard = dragon, that could be the link between the -saurus- root and thesaurus. Saurus is the dragon/lizard, and thesaurus implies the dragon's hoard.
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6 Absurd Movie and TV Plot Twists (That Really Happened)
#3. Evil Twins
The Cheesy Plot:
On the list of lazy plot lines, it's hard to top throwing an evil twin into the mix. While it's mostly famous as a soap opera trope, sci-fi shows also love beating this contrivance into the ground. Buffy the Vampire Slayer did it with the hot vampire Willow. Arnold Schwarzenegger did it in the The 6th Day which was... less hot. There are a multitude of other ways to shoe-horn it in there: Maybe they're a clone, maybe the characters meet their double in an alternate universe, or perhaps--if you're in a Jerry O'Connell vehicle--you meet your double whenever the writers can't figure out a good plotline. Or maybe there was just an argument in the writer's room about how the only way Allyson Hannigan is hotter is if she's on Allyson Hannigan (which is an argument that we the viewers all collectively won).
Shit Gets Real:
But don't believe everything you hear. Not everybody has a doppelganger. Just a few unlucky bastards like Joseph Lesurques. He almost exactly resembled a thief who had brutally murdered a bunch of people at a mail carriage and, despite the fact that he had an alibi and plenty of people willing to stand up for his character, they packed his ass off to the guillotine anyway. Exactly the kind of jurisprudence we expect from Victorian-era France.
Good thing we as a society have advanced since then and developed techniques like DNA testing... that we don't use. Ronald Cotton was identified by Jennifer Thompson as her rapist, repeatedly, on the stand. Cotton even got another conviction overturned and retried, wherein a different woman also thought he raped her. So that Cotton guy got exactly what he deser- oh hey, did we mention that there was a guy in prison loudly and profoundly bragging about how this Ronald Cotton sucker was serving time for the rapes he committed? And that a judge refused to allow that in court? Because that's just the kind of shit that happens in North Carolina? The entire state is like a Hugh Grant movie, chock full of wacky misunderstandings, only instead of romantic shenanigans everything ends in forced sodomy and injustice.
But all of those were just very convincing lookalikes. For the pure evil twins, look at the Han sisters, Sunny and Jean: Among Jean's bigger exploits were lying to get out of the Air Force, a whole bunch of check fraud and several attempts to impersonate Sunny. After those impersonation attempts failed, she decided to step her game up by hiring two teens to kill her sister. Luckily police arrived on scene before that could happen, and authorities were able to apprehend the correct sister. Presumably after they cornered the two and, finding themselves unsure of who to shoot, discerned the correct target when the good one spoke up and screamed, "Shoot us both; it's the only way to be sure!"
#2. Mistaken for the Special Guy
The Cheesy Plot:
If you ever see an episode of a sitcom set at a hotel or a restaurant, a common plotline is to mistake some random schmuck for a respected critic while treating the real critic like shit. Even brilliant artists like Alfred Hitchcock used this gag. In The 39 Steps, the hero, who had already been mistaken once for an enemy spy, tries to lose some cops in the crowd surrounding a political rally. He stumbles on stage, where they mistake him for the guest speaker. In true wacky cliche style, he manages to improvise a rousing speech and still escape his pursuers, all while in handcuffs. Which just reinforces what we've been saying all along: If Hitchcock were alive today, he'd be directing Friends.
Shit Gets Real:
Sometimes, though, life turns into one of those zany romps. Guy Goma was waiting on a job interview at the BBC when a receptionist wandered in and asked for "Guy." Of course, she was looking for Guy Kewney, who was going on air to speak about Apple and the Beatles suing each other because--and this just shows that you can revolutionize the handheld gadget industry and the pop music genre, yet still be complete and utter tools--they both thought they owned the rights to the word "apple." Goma apparently thought this was part of his job interview, and managed to show some surprising restraint considering how completely irrelevant the interview questions for Supply Manager were getting--until about halfway in he realizes, holy shit, this is actually going out on air:
Goma, perhaps hoping to prove beyond question that he is indeed an "adaptive multi-tasker who thinks on this feet," just up and rolled with it. Unsurprisingly, he didn't get the job. But since then, he's had a string of TV appearances, they might be making his life into a movie and he's become the official poster boy of "Goin' With the Flow" everywhere. Sorry, McCounaghey.
#1. Drugs that Let You Fake Death
The Cheesy Plot:
This one has been around so long it predates TV: Shakespeare used it in Romeo and Juliet most famously. The idea is that you take a drug which reduces your bodily functions down to the point that, for all intents and purposes, you're deader than "All Your Base." Hollywood just took that, removed the whole "teenagers stabbing themselves in the heart" thing and ran with it. It's pretty common on fantasy shows. Even serious, 100 percent fact based dramas like 24 will feature Jack Bauer faking his death with drugs, since his daughter wasn't handy to lure a cougar in to maul him.
Shit Gets Real:
As stupid as "a drug can fake death" sounds, it actually does exist. It even inspired one of our most beloved horror cliches: Namely, zombies. Somebody actually got their hands on the zombie powder used by Voodoo practitioners and discovered that, in addition to bird feathers, ground-up bones and whatever other garbage the priest had laying around, its main ingredient is pufferfish. Pufferfish are chock-full of tetrodotoxin, which as we've noted before is a great way to die horribly. But if you take just enough of it, you'll just get really, horribly sick and depress your system so much that everybody will think you're dead.
Of course, Hollywood leaves out the whole "vomiting everywhere and seizing uncontrollably" bit, but really, we don't need to see Jack Bauer doing the puke-covered booty-clapper. Knowing he does the Jack Bauer Power Dump is good enough for us.
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yes. That removed alot of system files. Is there any way to bring it up working again? I have connected to terminal, and
wget is working fine. As I managed to
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I think, the main thing would be, is to get
apt-get, but how?
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I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue (Hardcover)
Continuing a two-year program to bring back twenty-two Maurice Sendak treasures long out of print, our second season of publication highlights one of the most successful author-illustrator pairings of all time. A pioneer of great children's literature, Ruth Krausspublished more than thirty books for children during a career that spanned forty years. Krauss and Sendak collaborated on eight books, and we are delighted to reintroduce four of these gems in brand-new editions, together with a favorite Maurice Sendak picture book.
About the Author
Ruth Krauss, a member of the experimental Writers Laboratory at the Bank Street School in New York City in the 1940s, imaginatively used humor and invented words to create some of the very first books for children that highlighted a childs inner life. She collaborated with some of the greatest illustrators in childrens literature, including Maurice Sendak and her husband, Crockett Johnson.


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Is this a component? a container? a panel?
Grab a reference to the element of the component and set a click event handler via the Ext.Element API.
Can there be multiple ones of these divs? of these components? You may be better off using a css class and then using the delegate configuration.Aaron Conran
29 Nov 2012 5:06 AM #3
I had a tpl in a container. I wanted to tap a div element, I achieved this through the element, thanks for your help


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6 Insanely Awesome Things The 1900s Thought We'd Have by Now
Do you remember yourself at 14-years old? If someone asked you then what you thought you'd be like in 10 years, you'd probably say something like, "I bet I'm gonna grow a sick beard and work out and get super strong and never stop fucking!" Well look at you now: Single, unemployed, and the closest thing you have to a 'sick beard' is that diseased-looking splotchy collection of neck hair you keep forgetting to shave. In short, you are a massive disappointment to your younger, more idealistic self.
That's sort of how the world is, too. With the first decade of the 2000s out of the way, we decided to find a bunch of predictions people of the past had about life in the 2000s. We wish we didn't, because, cousin, we fucked up. For almost every prediction our ancestors made for us, we not only dropped the ball, but we stomped on it, spit on it, poured syrup on and ate the shit out of the ball. The only thing more depressing than how awesome the predictions were? They're all totally doable...
#6. The Natural World: Man Goes Nuts on Nature
What They Predicted:
People at the turn of the century fully expected that mankind would have utterly devastated the natural world by now. They envisioned an Earth with no wildlife whatsoever remaining, save for what we specifically bred and protected. And they had a word to describe this barren, lifeless wasteland:
Apparently the people in the past were pretty sure we would've finally gotten our shit together and won the war against Mother Nature that we all forgot we were waging. They saw a future where there were literally "no Mosquitoes nor Flies. Insect screens will be unnecessary. Boards of health will have destroyed all mosquito haunts and breeding-grounds, drained all stagnant pools, filled in all swamp-lands, and chemically treated all still-water streams. The extermination of the horse and its stable will reduce the house-fly." They not only thought we would have intentionally burned, paved over, and chemically sterilized all the world's marshland, but look at how they thought we'd reduce the house-fly problem: "The extermination of the horse." The horse. As in, the collective horse. The entire species.
And they fucking loved horses!
But the second the animals ceased to be useful, turn-of-the-century man fully expected our race to rise up and terminate all horse-kind, and then mount their mournful heads on pikes in our yards as a warning to the rest of the natural world: This is what we do to our friends, motherfucker, what chance do you have?
"Look at the wondrous variety of fish, Harold! ...Fire up the lasers!"
The 1900s did accurately predict Genetically Modified foods, stating that we'd all "be eating strawberries the size of apples" regardless of season, which was spot-on. However, they also expected that "figs will be cultivated over the entire United States." And man, we really dropped the ball on that one. To the extent that--unless a fig is a rectangular pad of dirt and grapes whose primary function is turning perfectly good Newtons into filth-pastries--most Americans don't even know what an actual fig looks like.
Is that... is that a fig? IS THAT WHAT FUCKING FIGS ARE?! I PUT THAT IN MY MOUTH! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
What We Have Instead:
Not only do we still have squirrels in the modern world, we actually have organizations solely dedicated to protecting them. We didn't just forget about the war on nature; we completely switched sides. Sure, there are still some hold-outs--people with McRib tattoos who think a "vegan" is something from Dragonball Z--but even those people aren't in favor of completely wiping out every single species of animal on the planet. Turn-of-the-century man had a scorched-earth policy for the Earth itself; the fact that you're not stabbing a raccoon right now absolutely sickens them.
#5. The Future of War: Road Warrior
What They Predicted:
Men of the 1900s generally thought people of the future would be flitting about in Wile E. Coyote-style ad-hoc contraptions slapped together from balloons, steam and top hats. They didn't really see a place for the car...outside of using them to kill the shit out of each other in epic steel machine-jousts that put Robot Jox to shame.
In the past, men envisioned the modern world as a dark dystopia where "war cars will be used for all modern ground combat" and "giant guns will shoot twenty-five miles or more, with shells that explode entire cities." And that isn't terribly far off from the scale of artillery we have now. However, they thought the only logical counter-measure to these god-bullets were gargantuan "bomb-proof forts, protected by great steel plates over their tops as well as sides. Huge forts on wheels that will dash across open spaces at the speed of express trains." Roving death forts dashing across the devastated landscape to destroy city-sized gun emplacements? Literally every man on Earth has experienced a moment of pure, simple joy and immediately thought "This is pretty good, I guess. But I wish it was a little more like The Road Warrior." The fact that our highways are not mostly paved with corpses can be considered nothing less than a vast disappointment to our ancestors.
What We Have Instead:
For some reason about 20 years ago, we started making all of our cars out of plastic and fairy wishes. As recently as the '60s, America seemed to be on the right path to commuting in war machines. With a few basic, bazooka-centric modifications and perhaps some liberal barbwire accessorizing, an Impala or a Charger could easily have doubled as a death chariot on a moment's notice. Now we have things like the KIA Rio and the Prius; vehicles more likely to lose a game of chicken with an actual chicken than to strike fear into the hearts of our enemies.
The only thing keeping 1900s man from turning the entire world into a game of Twisted Metal was the impracticality of mounting a flamethrower on a horse. We have the method and means to turn our daily commute into a deathmatch, but are reluctant to do so much as lay on the horn for fear of roadrage. They would weep if they could see the potential we are wasting. And when they were finished weeping, they'd probably slaughter us with their fire-horses (We said it was impractical, not impossible).
#4. Global Relations: USA! USA! USA!
What They Predicted:
We don't know what, exactly, people were smoking back in the 1900s, but boy did it make them love America. The 1900s man loved America so much he believed that other countries would be begging to join us by now. They honestly believed that "Nicaragua will ask for admission to our Union ... Mexico will be next," followed shortly thereafter by the majority of Europe. According to their predictions, everyone was supposed to be just lining up to join us, and it was only a matter of time before the entire world just became Planet America.
"Hey, you hear America just straight killed all the horses? I want in."
What We Have Instead:
Hey, remember the last time a country asked for admission to the United States? No? According to the 1900s, we should be up to our assholes in European countries right now.
Do you see Belgium lodged firmly in America's anus? No?! What the--!
Instead, in the last 10 years alone we've lost the majority of our international allies, started up a few wars that didn't go so well, and with our unemployment so high and our dollar value so low, any other country would be stupid for even thinking about hopping aboard. Hell, even Texas is considering secession(although to be fair, getting Texans to threaten secession is like convincing sorority girls to take shots).


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What are some tips for writing good release notes? Any best practices or examples? My audience is both my QA department and the executive team.
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I distinguish between release notes and release contents. (The specific terms do not matter, and you may use different terms than I do).
The release notes is an externally-consumed document that helps users understand what is new in the release. It usually describes new features. It may or may not describe bug fixes, depending on the product, the type of customer, and how transparent the company wants to be. Some product have release notes; others do not.
The release contents is an internally-consumed document that fosters communication between teams on a project. It might start with a high-level description of the release's major themes, a list of features, and perhaps a list of significant fixed bugs.
To answer your question, you need to calibrate your release notes to the needs of your QA and executive teams. Their needs are probably different. Your executives may only want a high-level description of the project, whereas your QA team may care less about the high-level themes than in the actual features and significant fixed bugs. (These days I suspect companies rely more on bug tracking systems for bug statistics than in written documents.)
You did not mention your customer service team. Perhaps you do not have one, or perhaps your QA team is also responsible for customer service. Customer service will probably want both kinds of documents.
I can list out based on my experience. Release notes need to cover below items
These are couple of items I found useful for QA Team, Production Team and Product Mgmt team as well.
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We are using 2 different types of release notes, depending on whether it's a regular release of our software, or an intermediate one.
Normally the software I'm responsible for has one major release a year and it comes with full documentation (user manual, online help etc). For this release the release notes contains a section listing the new and modified features and the bug fixes. For the new and modified features there is also some kind of link to the documentation, e.g. "for additional information concerning this feature see chapter 3.2 of the user manual".
For intermediate releases, which are necessary due to bug fixes or features a customer needs so desperately that he cannot wait till the next major release, besides the list of new/modified features and bug fixes, there is also a description how to use the new or modified features from the users perspective. This information will be included into the documentation (user manual, release notes) of the next major release of the software. This is also true for bug fixes, which made it necessary to change the user interface or the way of handling the software.
Since my company works with multiple clients and releases may or may not affect all of them based on custom features in their install we use Release notes to the development & project management teams to:
Our support project manager will then take those release notes and update our product updates page with details that have been "clientified" for public consumption.


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Hi, am using jsp with access database and want to upload as in a profile picture for any profile on the site[i mean depending on the user's convenience] ..
I just have a code which helps select the image from the client's machine n gets its address..but then how to use it in a form or something so that it can be submitted and inserted in the database?
Any idea? I d prefer not using servelet.. but if it just cannot be done without servelet then ok can suggest with that too.
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Let $K$ be a field, and $F_K$ be the fraction field of the polynomial ring $R_K$ in $n^2$ indeterminates $X_{11},X_{12},...,X_{nn}$ over $K$. Now set $A = (X_{ij})_{i,j} \in M_n (F_K)$, and let $\chi_A$ be the characteristic polynomial of $A$.
Question : Is it always true that $\chi_A$ is irreducible over $F_K$ ?
Some thoughts :
- Since $R_K$ is a UFD, it is sufficient to check irreducibility in $R_K[X]$.
- If $ |K| \geq n$, then $\chi_A$ is separable (by evaluation of $A$ to a diagonal matrix with distinct diagonal entries).
- If $K[X]$ contains some irreducible $f$ of degree $n$, then this is true (just evaluate $A$ to the companion matrix of $f$ and observe that the evaluation morphism cannot increase degrees). For example, this yields the result when $K = \mathbb{Q}$ or when $K$ is a finite field.
- More generally, a non trivial factor of $\chi_A$ is unlikely to exist, since it would give a generic factorization of the characteristic polynomial of a $n \times n$ matrix with coefficients in $K$.
Even in the case $K=\mathbb{C}$, I cannot prove (or disprove) the irreducibility of $\chi_A$.