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The 7 Most Baffling Criminal Defenses (That Sort of Worked)
Let's face it, people will say anything to get out of going to jail. For instance, stats show that less than one percent of insanity pleas actually work, since for every one guy who truly has something broken in his brain, there are at least 99 scumbags who're just making shit up.
Here are seven of the most bizarre criminal defenses ever mounted in court... some of which are made even more bizarre by the fact that they actually got off.
#7. The Matrix Defense
The Crime:
In July of 2002, Tonda Lynn Ansley of Hamilton, Ohio shot her landlady in the head. This is generally fatal.
The Defense:
Ansley told police, "They commit a lot of crimes in The Matrix." Following her lead, Ansley's attorney reasoned that the "our world is just an illusion generated by our machine overlords" argument was bulletproof and used it as the cornerstone of an insanity defense. They claimed that Ansley thought her landlady was part of a scheme to "brainwash and murder" her while in reality everyone was presumably living in pods of red goo.
Did it Work?
All too well. Ansley's defense was able to prove that she believed she was inside a computer simulation, and as such felt she was entitled to waste anyone around her that could possibly prove a threat. A jury of her peers found her not guilty by reason of mental defect.
On the surface this case seems to echo John Hinckley's famous "Taxi Driver Defense," but there are a few subtle differences we would like to point out: Hinckley claimed he tried to kill President Reagan to impress Jodie Foster by emulating the character of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. Tonda Lynn Ansley, on the other hand, shot her landlady in the face because she saw Keanu Reeves jump over buildings and stop bullets with his mind in The Matrix. We feel Ansley went the extra mile.
Note that this defense was so successful that it was used a year later by Vadim Mieseges of San Francisco for, you guessed it, murdering his landlady. Legislation to rename "The Matrix Defense" to the "Kill Your Landlady, Everyone's Doing It, Defense" is still pending.
#6. Homicidal Somnambulism a.k.a. the Sleepwalking Defense
The Crime:
On May 23, 1987, Kenneth Parks drove 14 miles to his in-laws' house and brutally attacked them, fatally stabbing his mother-in-law. He then hopped back in the car and took himself to the police station to surrender, telling them "I think I may have killed some people," which is just the sort of thing you want to be uncertain about when surrounded by cops.
The Defense:
Parks claimed he had no recollection of any of the events of the night in question, and could only remember waking up in police custody. His defense counsel proposed that he had committed the murder while sleepwalking and therefore could not be held responsible for his actions (Parks had evidently been dreaming about his mother-in-law blowing a huge lead on Family Feud).
The sleepwalking defense is normally used to escape blame for things like pissing in the sink, so prosecutors found it a little far fetched, a phrase which here means "That's seriously the best he could come up with?"
Did it Work?
Not to take Parks at his word, doctors and detectives ran an Electroencephalography (EEG) scan to check his story. For those of you unfamiliar with an EEG scan, it consists of attaching multiple electrodes to the head and measuring neuron firing activity in the brain. It also resembles anime tentacle brain rape.
The results of the EEG showed that in fact Parks had abnormal brain activity indicative of extreme parasomnia, a dissociative sleep disorder that can lead to anything from night terrors to night stabbings.
Given these results, Parks's unwavering testimony and no discernible motive for the crime, Parks was acquitted of murder and never invited to spend the night at anyone's house ever again.
#5. Trans(gender) Panic Defense
The Crime:
On October 4, 2002, a transsexual woman named Gwen Araujo was tortured and murdered by three men who had sex with her, while somehow unaware of her biological orientation (either her male genitalia had been disguised by a Romulan cloaking device or her attackers weren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier--evidence supports the latter).
The Defense:
The defendants claimed they were enraged to insanity when they realized that Araujo had man parts. Whereas most people would've had a couple more drinks and a hot shower, these gentlemen decided the most appropriate reaction would be a brutal murder by way of shovels and pickaxes. Apparently there is no greater trauma than a blowjob from a transsexual (an experience Cracked writers refer to as "Wednesday").
Her name is Stanley.
Did it Work?
Yes and no. The first trial resulted in a hung jury, essentially indicating that a room of 12 people couldn't decide whether killing someone for having weird genitals was wrong.
In the second trial, the defense attorney realized that none of the jurors were drooling into cups or wearing special "indoor helmets" and abandoned the Trans Panic Defense in favor of a more reasoned, less retarded approach. This probably seemed like less of a good idea when the murderers were quickly found guilty.
#4. The Idiot Defense
The Crime:
Richard M. Scrushy, the founder of healthcare service provider HealthSouth, was charged with violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, which in essence punishes corporations for routinely dicking over their investors a la Enron. Five of HealthSouth's Chief Financial Officers pled guilty to fraud charges, and in turn pointed the finger at Scrushy as the ringleader of the firm's unethical douchebaggery.
Also: Weird, right?
The Defense:
Scrushy's lawyers claimed he was completely ignorant of any wrongdoing, arguing that as head of a major corporation, his attention was diverted from trivial matters (accounts, shareholders, human resources, white collar crime) so that he could be free to focus on the more important aspects of high-level management (golfing, sleeping on huge piles of money).
So they essentially had Scrushy walk into the courtroom like Ricky Ricardo, throw up his hands and exclaim, "WHAT HAPPENED?" as if he had just come home from the Babalu show to find that Lucy had zanily embezzled millions of dollars from company shareholders.
"Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to- IS THAT EIGHT MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS??"
Did it Work?
Scrushy was found not guilty on the grounds that no one could prove he was aware of the skullduggery going on in his own company, demonstrating once again that race, religion, age and sexual orientation aren't relevant in deciding a person's guilt or innocence so long as they're willing to act like a complete fucking moron in open court.
That wasn't enough to fool a later judge, however, when a lot of the screwed shareholders sued Scrushy and won $2.9 billion, a sum Scrushy said he would be happy to pay because, "I have a lot of extra money, from all that fraud."


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I'm struggling since a couple of weeks with setting a multiple values cascading lookup field using a client object model, I could set the first value but then It show me an error of invalid lookup value, even I'm sure that the value exist and is valid. I tried different ways but always the same problem. FYI, I could set a simple lookup field even with multiple values but not cascading. I did a lot of searches on the internet and nothing really relevant and helpful at the moment. Any help, I start to loose my mind!!!!!
I'd suggest looking at the SPServices javascript library. Marc has made a great function the handles cascading very simple with jQuery. Since you're already using client side script, this might be another option.

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7 Famous Musicians Who Stole Some of Their Biggest Hits
A lot of people accuse hip-hop artists of stealing their best music. You can't get through a rap song nowadays without hearing bits and snippets of other popular songs that have been "sampled" in. On one hand, it sucks, because now your favorite song is ruined. But on the other hand, at least you have something to complain about now.
What most people don't understand, however, is that those original artists probably "sampled" their songs from someone else who had also sampled in their music, and on and on in an eternal circle of "legitimate" theft. Artists like ...
(Cracked is all original, which is why we made a Star Wars: Adventures in Jedi School mini-series.)
#7. Green Day
Depending on who you ask, Green Day is either one of the last great punk bands to walk the earth or a total slap in the face to everything punk music stands for. Either way, there's one fact about this polarizing band that nobody can dispute -- they love to steal. In fact, their last three proper studio albums have all prominently featured songs that sound suspiciously similar to other musicians' work.
Many of you will remember (and potentially resent) the song "American Idiot" as being the catalyst for the great Green Day comeback of the early 2000s. As a band, Green Day was nearly dead before that record was released. But then the title track hit the airwaves and a whole new generation of fans fell in love. We're guessing not a lot of those new fans were familiar with a relatively unknown punk band called Dillinger Four, because if they were, they would have been irate. Take a listen to the opening riff of Dillinger Four's awesomely titled "Doublewhiskeycokenoice":
And now, check out the opening (and pretty much only) riff of "American Idiot":
Right, pretty goddamn similar. And the shenanigans (hello, obscure Green Day reference!) don't end there. On Warning, the far less beloved album that preceded the American Idiot triumph, the band basically added different lyrics to an old Kinks song and released it as the title track and first single:
Not wanting to break their streak of albums featuring hit singles stolen from other bands, Green Day's most recent album, 21st Century Breakdown, included one of their biggest singles ever, the super-duper depressing "21 Guns." Several attentive listeners noted that the song bore a striking resemblance to an ELO song called "Telephone Line." Check it out:
And that wasn't the first time they scored massive success with a "borrowed" tune. You may remember the single "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" as being that song you heard every day on the radio for like six months back in 2004. Either that, or you'll remember it as an Oasis song you also heard on the radio every day about 10 years earlier. But if there's any band that has no right to complain about other bands stealing their shit, it's definitely Oasis. Allow us to explain ...
#6. Oasis
You remember Oasis, right? For a year or two in the mid-'90s, they were one of the biggest bands in the world. After that, they had to settle for just being the biggest band in England, selling out Wembley Stadium on consecutive nights at a time when most Americans assumed the notoriously surly Gallagher brothers had dropped out of music to pursue a career of snatching old ladies' purses and beating up kids for their lunch money. Honestly, Oasis kind of deserved their massive fall from grace with the stateside audience, because they're quite possibly the most prolific song stealers of all time.
The band literally came out of the gate stealing, as evidenced by the similarities between their breakthrough hit "Cigarettes and Alcohol" and the T. Rex classic "Get It On (Bang a Gong)":
In their defense, Prince totally copied the same T. Rex song for his massive hit single "Cream." We'd love to show you video evidence of that, but even if we could find the video, Prince would sue us into oblivion for posting it (and probably you for watching it).
But we digress, let's get back to Oasis. Not only is the band prolific in their thievery, but they're incredibly diverse as well, not content to just steal from bands similar to them. That's not to say they don't steal from bands similar to them. They're basically a less talented version of the Beatles, after all. We're just saying they like to branch out a bit when it comes to who they steal from. For example, Stevie Wonder apparently noticed that the track "Step Out" sounded suspiciously like a classic song of his called "Uptight":
We don't know what action Wonder took, but we know "Step Out" was included on early promotional copies of the album, but was mysteriously pulled at the last minute, and when the song finally surfaced, they were sure to list Stevie Wonder as one of the songwriters. Seriously, how did they think they'd get that by him? Stevie Wonder is blind, so he undoubtedly has superhuman hearing.
But if stealing from Stevie Wonder seems like a stretch, give a listen to the melody of this Oasis song and see if it sounds like something you might have heard before:
Does that sound familiar to you at all? If not, it probably just means you were born sometime after the 1970s. Most everyone else will recognize that melody as one belonging to a massively popular Coke commercial:
So, you know, give Oasis credit for stealing in a think-outside-the-box sort of way, at least.
#5. Radiohead
OK, hipsters, we'll give the fact that Radiohead is on this list a second to sink in. We know you're probably already putting on your best commenting shoes so you can call us ignorant jackasses. But please, let us state our case. In keeping with a recurring theme so far on this list, Radiohead kicked off their career by making their breakthrough single a gigantic theft of another band. In this case, the victim was the Hollies. Check out Radiohead's "Creep" compared to the Hollies' "The Air That I Breathe":
Before you cry foul and claim that you don't hear the similarities, understand this -- the Hollies sued Radiohead and won. Take a look at the "writers" section in the sidebar of the Wikipedia page for the song "Creep." Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood are listed. That's because they wrote "The Air That I Breathe." Radiohead was forced to share writing credit with the duo after the lawsuit came to its inevitable conclusion.
"Yeah, but that was early Radiohead, man. Everyone knows that first album was garbage." Fine, music scholar, that's a great point. Unfortunately, that point is completely negated when you consider that "Karma Police," a song that's been hailed as "one of the cornerstones of one of the greatest albums of the '90s," was also a rip-off. And this time, the musicians they stole from had a little bit higher of a profile. Take a listen to "Karma Police" side by side with the Beatles' "Sexy Sadie":
Did you notice how seamlessly the two songs blend into each other? There's a pretty clear reason for that. Radiohead just slightly sped up the same piano riff from "Sexy Sadie" and added some Debbie Downer lyrics to it.
But, much like Oasis before them, the Beatles don't have a whole lot of room to complain, and not just because most of them are dead now (sigh).
#4. The Beatles
If you're in the mood for a comprehensive list, you can find a rundown of everything the Beatles are accused of stealing right here. If you'd just like us to give you a few examples instead, first let us commend you on your unyielding laziness. You're a reader after our own hearts. As for those examples, check out the striking similarities between the main riff of Bobby Parker's "Watch Your Step" and the Beatles' "I Feel Fine":
The Beatles were a special breed of song thieves, though, in that they'd go out of their way to admit to their wrongdoing. George Harrison confessed in an interview that he stole that guitar riff from Bobby Parker. Sorry, "was influenced by" is the term he actually used. The band also fessed up to ripping off the Isley Brothers for "From Me to You."
Perhaps the most unabashed song thievery belongs to John Lennon, on the popular baby boomer anthem "Come Together" he supposedly wrote. You know it from dozens of commercials and movies that have used it since. However, if you watch the below clip, you'll see Chuck Berry singing not only a familiar tune, but the same seemingly nonsensical lyrics about someone named "flattop" that Lennon would "write" decades later.
Again, there's nothing unintentional here. When they were sued by the people who owned the rights to Berry's recording, Lennon pointed out that he and McCartney had intentionally slowed down the rhythm and made the bass riff heavier to make the song sound "more original," which is known as "trying to disguise your blatant thievery" when it's done by people who aren't the Beatles. They eventually settled out of court.
The borrowing didn't stop when the Beatles broke up, either. "My Sweet Lord," the standout single from George Harrison's ridiculously epic solo debut All Things Must Pass, was pretty much a note for note copy of "He's So Fine" by the Chiffons:
That video is basically both songs being played at the same time. Harrison was sued and found to have "subconsciously" plagiarized the Chiffons song. Years later, Harrison bought the company that sued him and, by extension, the copyright for "He's So Fine." Problem solved!


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6 Iconic Movie Scenes That Happened by Accident
When filmmakers talk about "the magic of cinema," we assume that they're talking about the medium's ability to transport us into fantastical worlds of wonder and imagination, or some sappy shit like that. What they really mean is that, like in any job, accidents tend to happen when they're shooting a movie ... and sometimes those accidents turn out to be far better than what the director originally had in mind and are left in the film.
#6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy -- Viggo Mortensen's Pain Was Real
What Was Supposed to Happen:
Viggo Mortensen was a last-minute replacement to play Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which is kind of amazing considering that it's arguably the most important role. He pulled off the "risking life and limb to save the hobbits" thing like a champ, partially because he wasn't always acting.
For example, he actually murdered dozens of people over the course of those films.
The Happy Accident:
Due to a series of mishaps, miscalculations and God just straight up fucking with him, more often than not Mortensen really found himself in actual danger and/or anguish. For example, there's a scene in The Two Towers where Aragorn thinks that two of the hobbits are dead, angrily kicks a helmet and lets out a soul-scarring scream of grief.
However, that wasn't so much great acting as actual physical pain -- while kicking the helmet, Mortensen broke two toes and fell to his knees, not because the script required it, but probably because he simply couldn't stay on his feet anymore.
Lord of the Rings: Behind the Scenes
And that's why Aragorn is in a mobility scooter for the rest of the movie.
But hey, who needs toes? It's not like someone threw a knife at his face or something -- nope, that happened in The Fellowship of the Ring, when another actor misjudged a throw and accidentally flung a real knife at Mortensen's face at high velocity; according to the DVD commentary, Mortensen managed to swing his sword and block the knife, creating another unintentional badass moment for his character.
His role as a baseball player in that shitty Sandra Bullock movie saved his life.
Finally, while filming the scene in The Two Towers where an unconscious Aragorn is floating down the river, Viggo got caught in an undertow and nearly drowned due to the weight of his armor, barely escaping with his life.
Peter Jackson, of course, kept all these accidents in the films because they were simply the best takes. One of the key factors of the success of the trilogy was the fact that it just felt more authentic than fantasy movies tend to be, and having the actors almost dying and literally screaming in pain certainly helped in that sense.
"Yes. Accidents."
#5. Being John Malkovich -- A Drunken Extra Attacks the Star
What Was Supposed to Happen:
In Being John Malkovich, a puppeteer called Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) finds a portal to actor John Malkovich's head and starts charging people to take the guy for a spin for 15 minutes. Eventually, Malkovich finds out what's going on, descends into the portal and ends up in what looks like the most fucked up Halloween party ever.
There are four Malkovich heads in this shot, but two are covered by a dress.
After leaving that place, Malkovich quite understandably freaks out and threatens Schwartz with litigation if he doesn't stop renting out his brain to strangers, storming off along the shoulder of the New Jersey turnpike.
The Happy Accident:
Drunk extras. According to the commentary by director Spike Jonze, some extras sneaked beer onto the set and got pleasantly plastered. The scene called for cars to just drive past Malkovich as he angrily walks away; however, one of the extras forgot that he wasn't a jock in an '80s high school comedy and yelled out "Hey Malkovich, think fast!" before lobbing a beer can at his head.
"Loved you in Dangerous Liaisons!"
Malkovich's surprised yelp of pain and subsequent cradling of his head amused Jonze so much that he decided to keep the scene in the film. This isn't so surprising when you consider that this is the man who helped bring Jackass to our screens, so we already know that he revels in the pain of others.
But it worked beautifully; rather than being a scene about how angry John Malkovich is at the main character, it became a scene about how his life is falling apart around him. It helped us empathize with the actor, not to mention that the moment was also very much in line with the absurd humor of the screenplay (how did the guy even know it was Malkovich?).
And how did Malkovich fit into that dress?
In regards to the drunken extra, this inspired moment of sheer douchebaggery paid off in dividends -- since he now had a line in the movie, his pay rate was bumped up to $700 a day, that of a speaking role, and he was also now eligible to get his Screen Actors Guild card, which just goes to show that being a complete and utter dick is the only way to get ahead in Hollywood.
#4. Casino Royale -- Daniel Craig's Iconic Beach Shot Was an Accident
What Was Supposed to Happen:
At the beginning of Casino Royale, the first James Bond movie starring Daniel Craig, 007 travels to the Bahamas to get information from a lackey of Le Chiffre, the main villain. Naturally, Bond decides to do that by seducing the lackey's hot wife, because he only knows two ways to talk to people: forceful interrogation or post-coital small talk.
"Sometimes the two sort of blend together, honestly."
In one scene, Bond was supposed to be swimming at the beach when he sees the wife riding on a horse and the two make eye contact. She was supposed to be the sexy one there, but that's not how it turned out ...
The Happy Accident:
Do a Google Image search for "Daniel Craig" and within the first 10 results you'll get this:
"The name is Cake. Beefcake."
For millions of people (particularly women), that's what the phrase "Daniel Craig" brings to mind -- the man standing up out of the surf, in tiny blue shorts. And it's all due to a sandbank.
Craig says that while shooting the scene, he accidentally hit an awkwardly situated sandbank that forced him to stand up and walk out of the water, instead of just floating off as the script said, thus showcasing his sculpted torso and causing Bond-gasms in roughly half the audience.
The image of Craig stepping out of the water ended up being plastered all over the promotional material for the film, with many people assuming that it was a nod to Ursula Andress emerging from the beach in the first Bond movie ever, Dr. No ... or a reference to Halle Berry doing the same thing in the shittiest one, Die Another Day.
Craig's top floated off, apparently.
When Casino Royale was first announced, Bond fans all over the world boycotted the movie, since the filmmakers had not only decided to reboot the saga, but dared to cast some unwashed blond guy in the lead. The perceived homage to Bond's legacy likely helped win over many reluctant fans, at the same time letting the rest of the world know that this was a more rugged 007, and not just the same old shit.
But the main effect was on Daniel Craig's career: The scene single-handedly turned him into an international sex symbol. Craig said he realized right away that the moment would draw comparisons to Andress, but he didn't think that he "would be haunted by it for the rest of my life." Yeah, we're sure that all the booty he'll still be getting from that scene when he's 80 will be hard to cope with.
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Bugsy's Spinarak
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This Spinarak is a bug/poison-type Pokémon owned by Bugsy.
Bugsy's Spinarak is one of Bugsy's Pokémon. It was used as the first Pokémon to battle Ash and his Cyndaquil. It used String Shot and Poison Sting, its only two known moves. During the battle, Ash sent out his Chikorita, despite the type advantage. Chikorita used Tackle on the Spinarak to defeat it.
Known moves
|String Shot
|Gettin' the Bugs Out
|Poison Sting
|Gettin' the Bugs Out
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Plenty of research activity in physics have been vigorously opposed by their opponents as pseudoscience or fringe science, while other research are mainstream. It is possible some topic is pseudoscience if the experts claim it is so, but they could potentially be biased. For the nonexperts out there, short of appealing to authority, what objective criteria can be used to distinguish between valid science, fringe science and pseudoscience, i.e. topics which are a waste of time compared to topics worth pursuing.
What objective criteria distinguish between valid science, fringe science and pseudoscience in physics?
I would like to take a stab at this, because I think that this is where we are most privileged. This is perhaps the last moment in time when science is the exclusive domain of the specialist. I am optimistic that soon every person will either directly possess, or personally know some people who together possess, enough expertise to access all human knowledge. Public dissemination makes science into what it was always intended to be: an activity of masses, not elites.
In such an environment, bogus ideas don't stand a chance.
Scientific criteria
Pseudoscience and fringe science are pejorative political terms, which are never used by the proponents of the ideas. I don't like the labels--- I prefer simpler labels, like "right" and "wrong". One can ask, what distinguishes a correct idea from an incorrect idea?
For this case it's simple. The only criteria are
Of these, the third is by far the most important--- without it, we would get stuck in ruts all the time, we would run out of new ideas, and research quality would be determined by pure politics, and we know by bitter experience that in politics, Aristotle beats Aristarchus. Further experiment suggest new theories, and new ideas, more often than theory suggests new experiments.
But experiment is not the sole arbiter, because experiment requires theory to interpret, and experiments can be flawed--- consider early studies on ESP, or more recent OPERA results So you need to consider 1 and 2 when evaluating theories and experiments, to see if they make sense in the framework of knowledge already accumulated. But you can't go overboard--- if experiment tells you something, and careful analysis shows that it is correct, then that's that.
It is my opinion that these three principles by themselves suffice to distinguish right ideas from wrong ideas, without any need for political labels like pseudoscience, fringe science, and so on. This way you don't take any chances dismissing an idea politically. If the idea is wrong, it should be trivial to refute it by finding an internal contradiction, a theoretical weakness like a huge amount of unnatural parameter tuning, or a flat out contradiction with experiment.
In today's media climate, it takes less time and effort to fully refute a wrong idea than it takes to come up with it in the first place. So wrong ideas today have a negative multiplication factor, and it should be a short while before they are all extinct. This is a pity, in a certain sense, because it means that future generations will never know an Archimedes Plutonium, or an Alexander Abian, they were quite possibly the last and best of their kind.
Evaluating theories
When evaluating theories, it is important to not restrict yourself to "right" and "wrong", although this classification is still important. You also need to consider "fruitful" vs. "dead-endy", "interesting" vs. "boring", "original" vs. "derivative". These criteria are more human, and more subject to error than the rigorous scientific standard of right and wrong, but they are necessary, because even wrong ideas can often be tweaked into correct ones, and you need to know where to tweak.
Most of the ideas that are traditionally labelled pseudoscience are generally easy to dismiss even in a theoretical evaluation without direct experimental evidence, because they are clearly boring, clearly derivative, and clearly dead-ends. One doesn't have to classify them as pseudoscience to see this--- one can label them boring, derivative, and dead-endy without distinguishing them from their peer-reviewed cousins which are just as boring, just as derivative, and just as dead-endy. I don't see much difference between a numerological analysis of the standard model that appears in a peer reviewed journal and a numerologically motivated analysis of the standard model that somebody publishes on a personal web-page.
Many ideas which were dismissed as pseudo-science turned out to be correct. So it is best to ignore the labels and consider the ideas on their merits. Here is an incontrovertible list:
There are further examples of theories which were dismissed as vague or ill-defined, perhaps not quite pseudoscience:
In addition, I personally find the following vague spiritual ideas impossible to refute, and perhaps they might gain statistical evidence in their favor with time, although they are currently not part of science:
Why do wrong ideas persist?
I believe that any persistent wrong idea, especially in today's media environment, is only alive because it is serving a social purpose which is not apparent. Once a good substitute correct idea is formulated which can serve the same social purpose, the idea can die. Alternatively, the social purpose might be rendered obsolete, by an evolution of society.
This, along with the published results of detailed models for the distribution of warming, ice-core data on the correlation between CO2 and temperature, and projected predictions that each successive year will be warmer than the last (predictions which are each exceedingly unlikely considering how hot current global climate is, and which are uniformly correct), make it certain that the world is warming due to the activity of humans. The only strike against this theory, as far as the media is concerned, is that it was predicted by left-wing activists in the early 1970s.
So there is a social force at work here. The obvious reason to deny warming is to prevent a carbon tax, or emissions cap, and this is supported by big money. So you have denials, but there is no sound science behind the denials. But global warming denial, like genocide denial or big-bang denial, is on the wane.
I think in this case it is important to recognize that the wrong ideas are persisting because of the important life-altering effects of religious experience, which has motivated people to allow reforms, even to the point where they will die for their beliefs.
The notion of religion, that it is possible to gain experience of consciousness different from that of the individual person, is to my mind entirely reasonable. But the authoritarian claim that the Bible is a good source of ethics is entirely bankrupt.
But people believe it, because these chants and prayers have a perceptual effect on the people who perform the ritual, and those that come in contact with them. This effect is real, but to what extent it is inter-objective remains to be seen. It is a powerful way to direct people's attention, see Allen Ginsberg's magical "Om": http://www.intrepidtrips.com/pranksters/ginsberg/ . These things transcends their emptiness as physics, because of their mental resonance.
Wrong ideas in science
In many fields of science there are flat out absurd ideas which gain traction, mostly because nobody thinks about them enough to realize that they are absurd. It is hard to name many of these, because I am just as blinded as anyone else by my place in time, but I will try:
These are a counterpoint to false ideas by non-scientists. These are false ideas promoted by scientists. I would call them pseudoscience, but unfortunately, they are mainstream positions today.
In physics, I compiled some of the persistent wrong ideas here: Common false beliefs in Physics
Cold Fusion
One of the most deplorable cases where the label "fringe science" and "pseudoscience" is thrown around a lot is in the field of cold fusion. Many dozens of groups, mostly in unpopular research centers, although a few in well financed respectable laboratories, have reported nuclear effects in deuterated Palladium. The political structure of physics dismisses these claims, but in my opinion, there is no sound theoretical argument against them.
I have not seen a convincing refutation of cold fusion, but I have seen papers with very solid evidence that nuclear effects are happening. The papers continue to trickle out, and cold fusion is now acceptable again to the American Chemical Society, although not yet to the American Physical Society, or the National Science Foundation.
It would be nice to see a debate of cold fusion on its merits, without political labels getting in the way. Only for some specific theoretical models, are there clear refutations.
Science is almost never revolutionary, it is mostly evolutionary: new, good science, usually takes care of explaining all the existing observations, and possibly providing
1) explanation for previously unexplained observations
2) new observations not previously thought about
Fringe science is usually quickly detected because it tries to debunk existing well established science without a proper account of the observations already consistent in the existing framework.
For instance, by axiom of choice, lets pick a random theory proving that special relativity is wrong. It almost sure does not care about explaining cosmic rays muon decay mean paths, time dilation in atomic clock or any of that boring stuff. It will cut right to trying to prove that the theory is wrong based on their own pseudo-logical arguments.
Also, another early symptom of fine crackpottery is try to cram a lot of concepts in as little text as possible, in an attempt to intimidate people out of debunking their assertions
There are no hard criteria... but, I think a very good general metric is the predictive power of the hypothesized model. Real science makes quantitative, testable, predictions based on a rigorous mathematical model. The more closely the proposed mathematics match observed data, the better the science.
Pseudoscience tends to make qualitative predictions based on ill-defined hypotheses. Creationists, for example, often claim that the speed of light has been slowing down over time (thus purporting to explain why we can see galaxies billions of light years away). What they don't do, however, is provide a concrete model of the nature of the change. Do photons change speed in flight or do they keep the speed associated with the time of their generation? They also don't provide a mathematical model with which to make predictions. How does the decaying light speed theory improve on calculations based on general relativity?
Many of the other answers overrate experiments too highly. Let me emphasize thought experiments instead. Many of the most important breakthroughs in physics, by Galileo, Newton, Einstein, quantum mechanics, etc. were due to thought experiments. Even the positivists who were so heavily leaning toward empiricism had to acknowledge this sneakily by subtly changing their position to logical positivism, to allow for the "rationalistic" element of thought experiments.
Metaphysics basically deals with statements which are undecidable given the current models of physics, i.e. statements which either it or its negation, but not both, can be added as an additional postulate and still give a consistent theory. But it's entirely possible the next paradigm shift and the next version of physics models can firmly decide the truth or falsehood of some of these statements one way or another. This moves that topic from metaphysics to physics. This is why pursuing metaphysical questions is worthwhile because it can prepare the way for the next paradigm shift.
Time will tell. Wait a couple of decades, and nearly everyone will know the difference. Hindsight is 20-20.
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A long time ago, I was taught that science to be accepted must satisfy a set of simple criteria such that: Physics can only study phenomena which can be reproduced. A sudden flash of ligth that happens only once can not be studied. Observations must be matched by a mathematical model which can explain the observed facts and predict a few other. At last simplicity should be the thread to use to guide us in the darkness.
However nice is this set of criteria, one can not use it to discriminate true science from folklore: QM for instance, does not satisfy the reproductibility criterium, because of the impossibility to both know position and momemtum. One can indeed imagine a first experiment where I measure the position, and a second experiment made on a different particle produced in the same conditions where I measure momemtum. Thinking a little bit harder it is probably possible to dismiss all the above criteria with a long established theory, it being QM, statistical physics or else...
I now think that we should extend the postulate that reality is not independant from the observer to: the reality is created by the observer. And that a physical theory to be accepted must be thought and accepted by a large enought number of minds.
This position may appear extreme but consider for instance the paradigm about the motion of the Earth around the sun. Before Galileo everybody was convinced the sun was revolving around the earth, from Galileo's death up to now, everybody is convinced Galileo has proved the Earth is revolving around the sun. What are the facts: it is a daily experiment to see from earth, the sun rising and setting, and if one waits a full year to see the sun revolving around our position. In the same time, Galileo who is the father of the galilean relativity has clearly said that there is no absolute referential. We can thus doubt the words he is supposed to have pronounced about the earth revolving around the sun (making us think the sun is an absolute referential so much better than the geocentric referential). There was a turning point in history where a large enought number of minds has deformed Galileo's theory and transform it into a new paradigm: the sun is an absolute referential which is much more conveniant to use. And from this time on, humanity is firmly beleiving the truth is that the Earth is revolving around the sun.
At last, what do you think about the experiments which try to identify the interaction between mind and matter ? http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
@Mike Dunlavey gave the answer in the comment above:
It is enough looking to the history. IMHO with some modification, the real order is the next:
If the scientist have enough power, can catch more others, and at some limit the theory became as real. Example: dark matter/energy. Army of scientist believe in its existence, but nobody know what is it. The theory has enough power.
Another example: Here are many pseudo(?) scientists who believe than here is faster speed as light. Of course, never get enough attention, because they are without any power. Now, here is a chance than CERN will have enough power to change this with it's neutrino experiment. Only when/if the experiments confirm the faster speed, the army of physics will start rewriting 100 years of "fundamental" laws. Maybe the next 20 years confirms that some (low power) pseudo-scientist two years ago was right. (But the Nobel Prize but will get someone else).
So, the answer to the question: Here aren't objective criteria. Only two thing differentiate the real and pseudo-scientists: they's COURAGE and POWER - and those are not objective.
Another question is why real-scientists haven't enough "imagination" to start developing new theories before things happens? E.g. when some "low-power" pseudo-scientists come with some theory why other scientists usually immediately flag them as "pseudo"? The lack of math or simple enviousness? As @AdamRedwine told above - here are believers of non-constant speed of light - why "big" scientists don't start making solid math for the theory? The worst thing what can happens than they confirm the current theory. Simply, the scientists haven't enough imagination and courage to start thinking differently = crowd effect.
It is the same as anywhere else. One of my friend years ago telling me about multi-touch(!!) full-screen mobile phones. He simple hasn't enough courage and power to patent it and start real development. Apple (years later) has enough power...
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Cape Town is one of the world's most creative cities, boasting a variety of artwork. The city has been chosen as the 2014 World Design Capital and regularly hosts international creative events.
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My question is why is the shorthand for 32-bit x86 when the shorthand for 64-bit is x64?
I am guessing it has something to do with the days of 386s and 486s, when the 32-bit processors all ended in 86, but surely there were processors that didn't end in 86 and where still 32-bit?
Anyone know the history of this or can direct me to a good source of info.


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Has anyone dealt with this before? Our 22 month old daughter is put to bed at 10:30 pm everynight. She sleeps for about an hour and wakes up, crying. Our best efforts to ignore her have not succeeded. We usually succumb and take her out to the living room with us where we put her on the high chair, where within 15 minutes she falls asleep and we put her back to bed, this time until the morning. Why is she waking up an hour later? She has a full bottle before going to bed and doesn't need to go to the washroom when she wakes up (she's partially potty trained).
Not knowing your daughter's schedule it's difficult to say if this is the answer, but 10:30 p.m. seems a little late for a not quite 2-year-old bedtime. I don't know, maybe that works for your family, but sometimes children who are overly tired will suffer from less-restful sleep than their more well-rested counterparts and have more night-wakings. It seems counter-intuitive: a child who is exhausted should, hypothetically, go to bed and sleep like the dead, but this doesn't seem to always be the case. Or it could be that her nap(s) during the day are not sufficient to accommodate the late bedtime.
Other factors that might contribute to her waking when she does:
You could just have a habitual waking habit. I thought it sounded strange, too, but my sister-in-law mentioned that her pediatrician suggested it to her once for her daughter who was doing something similar. The link above mentions several methods to try to break your child of the habit, but it seems like you've all ready tried several of them to no avail. You could try the Wake to Sleep approach. My sister-in-law tried it with her daughter and it worked once or twice (there were other issues which were really what was causing my niece's wakings, it wasn't habitual like my SIL initially thought). Anyway, basically the approach involves knowing approximately when your child is going to wake up and going in to his/her room and partially waking your child before they come fully out of their sleep cycle. There is a lot of trial and error involved in this (some kids are just easier to rouse than others), but it might be worth a shot if nothing else is working.
How long have you tried ignoring her for? It does take a while and it is stressful, but worth keeping at.
As long as they're warm, fed and haven't done anything in their nappy/diaper then there isn't much more you can do for them. Love and attention is what they're after, but it isn't time for that.
Another thing we did, was to go up to the room whenever the crying got unbearable, lay her down, put covers on and left the room, all without speaking or acknowledging anything. They soon get bored and realise that "all of this crying isn't going to get me to where Mum & Dad are". You have to be persistent and almost switch-off, as it can be distressing to see your child sob so much. At least she'll know that she isn't the one in charge, as this can lead to other mischief!!!
Good luck and we've all been there :-)
When you put your child to bed the first time, do you leave the room when they are still partially awake, or only after they are dead asleep?
We learned with our boys that if we only left after they were dead asleep, then they sort of panicked when they woke up and we were gone. So we began to leave the room earlier and earlier. We have now reached the point with our second child that he is fully awake when we lay him in his crib and leave the room. He accepts it because this is the routine and he very rarely (twice a month?) will wake up and scream in the middle of the night, and even then it's usually just a dropped pacifier that needs replacing.
Of course this also relies on a consistent bedtime routine. Read books, say goodnights, lay in the crib, turn out lights, turn on music and close the door. Sounds simple, but the routine has now become his thing, and he corrects us if we don't follow it.
We didn't make this change over night, but it took maybe four weeks, and he put up a fight several times. Though the struggles were fierce they were blessedly brief and the payoff is well worth it.


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This Italian comfort food easier than it may seem
Originally made with chestnut flour, polenta was once the catchall term for any grain boiled to a porridge and flavored with spices and cheese. When corn came from the New World to the Italian Peninsula, polenta was made with cornmeal. Today, polenta is found in two forms: as a solid cake or as a creamy grits-like mush. In this recipe, I go with the mush.


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On my laptop (Ubuntu 10.04), the daemon ubuntuone-syncdaemon uses more than 90% of CPU. Even if I stop the synchronization. The only way to stop this is to sigkill the daemon ; but, obviously, my files are not synchronized and I obtain a lot of "conflict" files.
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SAN ANTONIO (Jan. 8, 2014) – San Antonio Rampage General Manager Mike Santos announced today that the American Hockey League (AHL) club has recalled defenseman Zach Miskovic from the team's ECHL affiliate, the Cincinnati Cyclones.
Miskovic, 28, is in his fifth professional season, and first full season with the Rampage. Beginning the season in San Antonio, the blueliner had two assists through 10 games before being loaned to Cincinnati on Dec. 30. Through three games with the Cyclones, Miskovic netted a goal and two assists.
In 27 games with the Silver and Black last year, the 6-foot-1, 197-pound defenseman recorded four goals and nine assists through 27 games after being traded from Chicago on Feb. 14. The River Forest, Ill., native has 201 AHL games under his belt, with the bulk of it being spent with Hershey after turning pro in the 2009-10 season. He has 19 goals and 24 assists in that span.
Prior to his professional career, Miskovic played four full seasons for St. Lawrence University. In 154 games with the Saints, he totaled 27 goals and 46 assists. He began his hockey career in the United States Hockey League with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders.
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Columbia College will confer 131 associate and bachelor's degrees upon graduates at a commencement ceremony at 6 p.m., Friday, May 18 at the All Saints Chapel, 750 Birmingham Road at Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville. Graduates from the two Jacksonville campuses as well as from the campuses at Hunter Army Airfield and Fort Stewart in Georgia will be participating in the ceremony.
Columbia College President Dr. Gerald Brouder will be conferring degrees and giving the commencement address.
"For Columbia College graduates, the commencement ceremony is the culmination of their hard work and dedication to improving their lives," Brouder said. "We are proud to celebrate the accomplishments of each graduate on this special day."
Columbia College, founded in Missouri in 1851 as Christian Female College, was the first women's college west of the Mississippi River to be chartered by a state legislature. The college changed its name to Columbia College in 1970 when it became coeducational and has since extended its campus across the country.
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There are clinical research trials for most types of cancer, and every stage of the disease. Clinical trials are designed to determine the value of specific treatments. Trials may be performed on an international level (at institutions around the world), national level (trials run at multiple institutions around the country), or at a single institution. Trials are often designed to treat a certain stage of cancer, either as the first form of treatment offered, or as an option for treatment after other treatments have failed to work. They can be used to evaluate medications or treatments to prevent cancer, detect it earlier, or help manage side effects. This article will help you understand the basics of clinical trials and their importance in the field of oncology.
An Institutional Review Board (IRB), which is composed of physicians, researchers, and even people not involved in medicine, must review and approve any clinical trial before it can begin. The IRB decides if the study is reasonable, appropriately designed, and safe for the patient population. Once the study is underway, the IRB continues to monitor for safety, adherence to the study protocol and any changes or findings that may affect the participants.
Anyone considering joining a clinical research trial must be fully informed about the trial details, benefits, and risks; explanation of these takes place during an interactive process known as informed consent. It is the responsibility of the study team and physician to explain the trial, in language that the participant/family members can understand, allowing them to make an educated decision about whether or not to participate in the trial. Once the study team has explained the study and the participant's questions have been answered, the participant must sign an informed consent document in order to participate in a trial. This document is designed to explain the trial in clear language, present risks and benefits, alternatives to treatment and explain the participant's right to choose not to participate. The participant may choose to think about his or her options or review the consent with family members and friends before making their decision- this is not a decision to make hastily.
There are several reasons to consider participation in a clinical trial. Often, through participation in a clinical trial, patients have access to unique treatments that would not otherwise be available. In addition, clinical trials are important because they allow the field of oncology to advance, finding safer and more effective treatments. Today's successful treatments are a result of their effectiveness determined in clinical trials. Unfortunately, only about 3-5% of adult cancer patients participate in clinical trials, leaving many research questions unanswered. This may be due to misunderstandings about trials (from both patient and healthcare provider perspectives), patient fears, providers not recommending a trial or not having access to trials in their treatment center. Clinical trials are time consuming and expensive to run, making it not feasible for all practices to offer them. In some cases, patients may need to inquire about clinical trial options in order to learn about them.
There are different types of oncology clinical trials, including treatment, diagnostic, prevention, screening and supportive care. These address all the steps involved in cancer care, looking to find the best intervention for each step that will result in the best outcomes. Clinical trials are performed in the following phases, typically in this order, with each phase designed to answer specific questions:
Every trial is "governed" by a protocol. The protocol is written before the trial starts and approved by the IRB. It details what the goals of the trial are, which patients and how many will be included, what treatments they will receive, how they will be monitored, when to stop treating a participant, etc. This document is very detailed and is the guidebook that the study team will follow. The protocol specifically states the criteria a person must meet to be eligible to participate. If the patient does not meet these strict criteria, they will not be able to participate.
Phase II and III trials are often performed using a technique called randomization. If the patient chooses to participate in a randomized trial, a computer chooses the treatment they will receive randomly. The study team, physician and patient have no control over this decision and, in many trials, do not know which treatment the patient will be receiving (this is called blinding). This is done to make a fair comparison of treatments, leaving out the chance that the results are affected by "bias". Bias occurs when human choices affect a result; perhaps choosing a particular group of patients for one treatment option over another based on preconceived beliefs that this option is best for that group.
The treatment groups may be referred to as control and treatment groups (or arms). The control group typically receives what is considered the standard treatment for that type of cancer. The treatment group receives the experimental treatment being studied. Oncology clinical trials rarely use a placebo and when they do this will be clearly described in the informed consent process and spelled out in the consent that is signed. The study team can explain the design of the particular trial you are interested in and how it will be carried out.
Once you are enrolled in a clinical trial, you will receive guidance from the study team as to any testing that needs to be done or anything you should report to them- including side effects, health issues that may arise or other concerns. You should know the name of the trial in which you are participating and keep a copy of your consent form handy if should you need to call your oncology office after-hours or go to an emergency room. If you have concerns while on the trial, they should be brought to the attention of the study team. If, for any reason, you do not want to participate in the trial any longer, it is your right to withdrawal from the study.
Clinical research trials are extremely important in expanding treatment options in all cancers. The treatments that are available today are due to the participation of prior patients in clinical research trials. We are constantly trying to identify better treatments to cure cancer. There are also studies to identify less toxic treatments or agents, which can protect the normal tissues and minimize side effects of treatment. Clinical research trials are very rewarding for both the patient and the physician. The patient may benefit from new treatment options and help future cancer patients in their fight against this disease.
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Hey there.
Been playing this game for a qhile now and I think I know most of the mechanics and cards. But why do the Soulstealers in z12 play so many attacks?
After noticing I started paying attention to it, and in the last fight I got him down to a bunch of NC cards (which sadly he always healed back via Necromancers tonic and the tonics with the healed alchs, the perfect circle) and 1 Talisman of Agility.
I checked his buffs and it showed the one Tali for 30% Chance of additional Attack (like my ToAs) but then he played 14 Attacks in a row.
This happens all the time with him, and I cant see a potion or an NPC having that Effect.
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Questions are being raised about the future viability of a regional utility in western Kentucky.
The Gleaner reports doubts about future of Henderson-based Big Rivers Electric Corp. was a topic of discussion on Thursday as the utility tried to persuade the Kentucky Public Service Commission to allow it to use existing cash to pay $58.8 million for a bond that comes due June 1.
In addition, Big Rivers' credit rating was downgraded last month and the company's auditor is actively evaluating its financial status.
The concerns stem from a rate dispute between Big Rivers and two aluminum smelters. The smelters are the utility's largest customers and they have both given notice that they intend to end their power contracts in coming months.


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Stocks Strut Into February With Big Gain
Fresh off a blowout January, stocks started February with a bang, as telecom shares led a broad rally.
The telecom sector in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index jumped 1.9%, its biggest gain since Jan. 2, as Verizon Communications VZ 1.00 % climbed 95 cents, or 2.2%, to $44.56, and AT&T T 1.67 % advanced 72 cents, or 2.1%, to 35.51.
Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 149.21 points, or 1.1%, to 14009.79, topping 14000 for the first time since October 2007. The blue-chip index, which advanced 0.8% on the week, is 155 points from breaking its record close.
Just five stocks in the S&P 500 rose more than 4%, but the index had a deep enough bench to post its second-biggest daily gain this year. The S&P 500 added 15.06 points, or 1%, to 1513.17, up 0.7% for the week. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 36.97 points, or 1.2%, to 3179.10, rising 0.9% on the week.
Financials and materials shares were among other top gainers. Bank of America BAC -1.29 % led the Dow industrials, climbing 39 cents, or 3.4%, to 11.71.
Upbeat economic reports underpinned the gains. The Labor Department said job-growth readings for November and December were higher than initially reported. The Institute for Supply Management's January manufacturing purchasing managers' index, a measure of factory activity, rose more than economists expected. A preliminary reading of the Thomson-Reuters and University of Michigan consumer-sentiment index for January also rose more than expected. Construction spending for December increased.
European markets were mostly higher, with the Stoxx Europe 600 up 0.3%, after Markit's euro-zone purchasing managers' index contracted at the slowest rate in 11 months. Spanish stocks bucked the trend by selling off after a ban on short selling, or betting against shares, was lifted. The IBEX 35 index dropped 1.6%.
Asian markets were broadly higher on the back of strong Chinese manufacturing data and further weakness in the yen. China's Shanghai Composite Index climbed 1.4% after HSBC's HSBC 1.14 % January purchasing managers' index rose to a two-year high. The index climbed 5.6% on the week. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average gained 0.5% to finish at a 52-week high, up 2.4% for the week.
Crude-oil prices rose 0.3%, to settle at $97.77 a barrel, while gold gained 0.5%, to settle at $1,669.40 a troy ounce. The dollar rallied versus the yen and fell against the euro. The 10-year Treasury note fell in price, pushing its yield up to 2.017%.
In other stock news, Merck MRK 0.39 % slipped 1.42, or 3.3%, to 41.83, the biggest decline among blue chips, after the drug maker's fourth-quarter profit slumped. Last year's loss of patent protection for asthma treatment Singulair continued to pressure sales.
Tyson Foods TSN 0.75 % climbed 68 cents, or 3.1%, to 22.80, after the meat processor's fiscal first-quarter earnings rose more than analysts had expected. Average sales prices for Tyson's chicken and beef rose.
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Audience surged 1.88, or 15%, to 14.10, after the smartphone audio-processing-technology company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and said it expects to report a profit for the current quarter. Analysts had projected a loss.
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SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- In coordination with the Australian Defence Force, U.S. Seventh Fleet will take the lead in the safe retrieval and disposal of four bombs which were jettisoned off the coast of Queensland, Australia by two AV-8B Harrier aircraft in an emergency situation 16 July.
The U.S. military is aware of its professional responsibility to mitigate the environmental impact of its exercises/operations. As partners with our Australian counterparts, and particularly in the context of Exercise Talisman Saber, the U.S. military conscientiously conforms to the proper rules and protocols set forth by Australian military and civilian authorities.
In conducting the retrieval, Seventh Fleet will coordinate closely with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and ADF to ensure the environment is protected with the greatest care. The U.S. military has been in close contact with ADF and GBRMPA to determine the appropriate course of action. We are fully committed to redressing any potential adverse environmental impact in a timely manner. We will announce more detailed plans for recovery operations as they are finalized.


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TALLAHASSEE — A proposal to end guaranteed pensions for new teachers, state and county workers and other public employees began moving through the Florida Legislature on Thursday.
TALLAHASSEE — A federal appellate court on Monday temporarily stopped the execution of a drug trafficker convicted of killing a Florida state trooper with a pipe bomb.
What began as a routine traffic stop on Interstate 10 in rural north Florida quickly escalated into the killing of the trooper and launched a multi-state investigation that unraveled a major crack cocaine ring 21 years ago.
TALLAHASSEE — Legislation that would expand a ban on protesting, picketing and other disturbances at all funerals, memorial services and burials in Florida, rather than just those involving military honor details, is on a fast track after final committee approval Tuesday.
Florida's existing law, a federal statute and similar legislation in other states are largely a response to military funeral protests by a church based in Topeka, Kan.
TALLAHASSEE — The Republican-dominated Legislature has asked the Florida Supreme Court to throw out a legal challenge to its 2012 redistricting plan for the state Senate.
The high court put the case on a fast track Monday, setting tight deadlines for additional filings. Former Justice Raoul Cantero submitted the petition on behalf of the House and Senate on Friday. Cantero argued that only the Supreme Court can decide legislative redistricting cases and that the justices already have done so.
TALLAHASSEE — A "Plan B" is needed in case the anticipated replacement for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, fails to materialize or is delayed, the state's new education commissioner said Monday.
The State Board of Education also received a letter from Gov. Rick Scott pitching his proposal to give all teachers a $2,500 pay raise. At least one member, though, said she'd prefer to see raises awarded on merit rather than across the board.
TALLAHASSEE — Florida's taxpayers are saving millions of dollars because fewer felons are returning to prison after being released, the system's chief said Monday.
Department of Corrections Secretary Michael D. Crews also said he supports proposals to increase facilities that focus on preventing inmates from reverting to crime but opposes letting private companies run them.
Recidivism has been trending down for years. Inmates returning to prison within three years of release dropped from 33.8 percent in 2003 to 27.6 percent in 2008, Crews said.
TALLAHASSEE — The Legislature should allow more time and more places for early voting and limit the length of the summaries for proposed state constitutional amendments that lawmakers put on the ballot, Florida's elections chief recommended Monday.
Secretary of State Ken Detzner presented his proposals to Gov. Rick Scott and later to a legislative panel. His ideas drew a mixed and sometimes partisan response from lawmakers.
TALLAHASSEE — Strengthening ethics and campaign-finance laws and improving Florida's universities are among the goals that Florida House and Senate leaders said Wednesday they've agreed to jointly pursue in the coming legislative session.
House Speaker Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz , both Republicans, said they also want to phase out pensions that provide defined benefits for public employees and replace them with 401(k)-like personal investment plans.
TALLAHASSEE — A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down laws requiring automatic life sentences without parole for juvenile killers is presenting some thorny legal issues for Florida judges.
That includes an appellate court that split over how to apply the decision to a Jacksonville case Friday.
A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal unanimously upheld Thomas Partlow's murder conviction but ordered a new sentencing hearing. Partlow was 16 years old when he fatally stabbed a man after robbing him of $3 three years ago.
TALLAHASSEE — Flashing your headlights to alert oncoming drivers that police are lurking on the roadside ahead will no longer be illegal in Florida, though a lawyer who has represented ticketed motorists says a new law legalizing the practice still has loopholes.
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I see in a lot of posts talk about Team Fortress 2 and hats, what is that about?
What is so special about hats in that game?
I see in a lot of posts talk about Team Fortress 2 and hats, what is that about?
What is so special about hats in that game?
The TF2 Forum community has had a thing for hats ever since the Spy / Sniper update when they (and the random drop system) were implemented.
They like to complain about hats, cheer about how awesome their hat is, or worry that too many people are complaining or cheering about hats.
Of course, it may have all petered out, but Valve decided to add more hats. The classless update only added fuel to the fire with such quotes (from the Blog Update news itself) as: http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/day01.php or,
It appeared to reach its height when the Valve blog (not an update post, mind) itself seemed to indicate that hats were the most important things to the developers.
Suffice it to say that Team Fortress 2 is no longer a first person shooter with RPG elements. It is 100% a hat simulator.
This comic more or less explains it:
Hats are the main unlockable customizations available for your character during loadout. Hats do not affect your character's stats in any way and are purely cosmetic. Some hats are rarer than others and are highly sought after.
Valve awards some bonus hats to people who pre-order their games. For instance, "Bill's hat" was awarded to anyone who pre-ordered Left 4 Dead 2.
One final thing to note about the Hats of TF2 and the reason they are so popular.
It makes Valve and Players alike rich.
You see, Valve originally created these hats as rare drops as non-monetized findables. With the help of Paypal, people discovered that they could make a lot of money 'legitimately' selling their hats to others. This in turn prompted Valve to fight this 'legitmacy' by implementing the Mann Co. Store and Steam Credits, so that those wishing to pay real-world money for fake-world hats could pay Valve directly.
Then they introduced crates that could only be opened with special keys, bought at the Mann Co. Store, that contain special hats with Unusual properties that can not be bought at the Mann Co. Store, along with a number of other rare hats and items not purchaseable at the Mann Co. Store, making these items ripe for 'legitimate' trade.
Finally, Valve started to let people design hats for the game itself, and contribute them to the Steam Work Shop, so that they could also make some non-quoted legitimate money off of this hat business.
So, not only are they the only vanity item in the game, propegated as being important to your class, AND the main focus of the entire game...
But some people also make real money off of those hats.
Thank you for your interest in this question.
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I was blogging about me using Pomodoros when proofreading a book. It worked in that it kept me disciplined and focused. In the conclusion I wrote "I'm not sure if it was the Pomodoros themselves that helped me or the fact that I was doing something different so felt obligated to be responsible."
Logically, it should have been the Pomodoros that mattered since the technique says to work for X minutes in a row. But I can't help but thinking that it was the fact that I was aware that I was measuring that got me to focus. Is there any research/articles that point to either hypothesis?


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Controlling Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Applications
Running peer-to-peer (P2P) applications is one of the primary ways students exceed their bandwidth limits. Please note that if you use P2P applications to share copyrighted material, you may be in violation of federal copyright law. The university cannot protect you from a copyright complaint.
The best way to protect yourself against potential copyright issues is not to use P2P applications at all. However, controlling these applications can be challenging, as many of them continue to upload files even when the application's window is closed. Sometimes the application must be completely removed from your computer to ensure that it is no longer sharing files.
For more information on how much bandwidth you get and what happens when you run out, refer to the Bandwidth usage and limitations page.
To check how much bandwidth you have used, see External Bandwidth Quota (UT EID login required).
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Welcome to Cartoon-Obsessions!
As a member you will be allowed to submit one work to our gallery each week. Please note that we DO NOT accept Original Characters (pictures that portray you in cartoon form or characters you created); we require canon characters to be portrayed in all deviations. Original Character works should be sent to Ocart, LoveOCs or OC-Center
All users are encouraged to join us through the "Join our Group" button located at the top of this page.
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text: No shading is involved in this tutorial so you can focus on drawing! This is Glenn (played brilliantly by Yeun), prior the apocalypse he was a delivery boy. Knowing his way around Atlanta with keen scavenger skills, he saves Rick Grimes from zombies when they first meet. Being the most compassionate member of the group, he's become a vital member, fallen in love with another member, Maggie. So this show not only has action, but romance too. With this very popular comic book, game, and TV show, you either love it or hate it. And I absolutely love this show. Let me know what you think of this more simplified tut by commenting, faving or clicking on "Love It"! Peace n love to ya!


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Installing Cars
I've downloaded a few cars and am having a little bitof trouble. I have no idea how to install them, the README files are hard to understand.. (some request I download another program in order for the mod to work?)
Is there a standard way in which all mods are installed? (eg, extract files to certain folder, copy sounds into sounds folder, copy efffects into effects folder)
Please help, as I have no idea how to do this!
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If you've never done any mods before, there are a few things you'll need to do before you can mod anything. You should be using patch version 220.127.116.11, as that's what most of the mods are made for. Then, unless you just want to replace the cars in the game, and still have to go and find them yourself, and use the paynspray to change colors and what not, you'll need a trainer program, which gives you an in-game menu where you can spawn cars and change the colors (among many many other things). For that, you'll need,
a file check fix: http://www.gta4-mods.com/script/gta-...ix-v1040-f2432
an asi loader: http://www.gta4-mods.com/tools/gta-i...r-v1020b-f1976
and a trainer (there are a bunch of them, this is the one I use): http://www.gta4-mods.com/tools/simpl...-laptops-f8680
I use that trainer, mostly because my laptop doesn't have a numpad, and most of the trainer controls work off the numpad. This one is made for laptops without the numpad, and moves the controls to U,I,O,J,K,L instead. If you have a full numpad, you'll probably want a different one. I would imagine that would control better.
Then, for actually replacing your cars, you'll need SparkIV: http://www.gta4-mods.com/tools/spark...0---1060-f4774
You'll have to use sparkiv to open the disc image files in your gtaiv program folder, and replace the cars' wft and wtd files with the ones that came with your new car download. Then, the car you downloaded should have a section in the readme that is a handling.dat line. Should look like just a bunch of numbers. You'll then have to copy/paste that line over the original one for the car you are replacing, in the handling.dat file in your gta4 program folder.
All in all, it is a bit of a hassle getting all this stuff set up. I was a bit overwhelmed when I first looked at getting into modding GTA4, but it's not too bad, once you get the hang of it. Just a bit tedious sometimes.
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Thankyou! It is a little overwhelming I'll agree, thankyou for your help
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Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't seem that there any nice easy way to install mods, like with some other games. I think that has to do with Rockstar not being officially "down" with the whole modding thing, and using a lot of security against it.
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Book your room at Hilton Garden Inn Charlottesville
Get an overview of this hotel3-star hotel with free airport shuttle and restaurant
Situated in Charlottesville, this hotel is 0.4 mi (0.6 km) from Aboriginal Art Museum and within 3 mi (5 km) of Virginia Discovery Museum and Downtown Mall. Historic Court Square and Albemarle County Court House are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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A restaurant, an indoor pool, and a 24-hour fitness center are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a spa tub, and a 24-hour business center are onsite.
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All 124 rooms feature kitchens with refrigerators and microwaves, plus free WiFi, free wired Internet, and LCD TVs with cable channels. Guests will also find MP3 docks, room service, and coffee makers.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
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In addition to an indoor pool, Hilton Garden Inn Charlottesville provides a spa tub and a 24-hour fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access.
This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 4407 square feet (397 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers room service (during limited hours), express check-out, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests at scheduled times. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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- Conference space size (feet) - 4407
- Conference space size (meters) - 397
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Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Great American Grille - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, dinner, and light fare.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Start your morning with a cooked-to-order breakfast, available each day from 7 AM to 10 AM for a surcharge. You can order up room service during limited hours.
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An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a 24-hour fitness center.
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Minimum check-in age is 21
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