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Many Chasidic groups have a particular siddur that is used by most in that group. Does Satmer have such a siddur?
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I believe Satmar Chassidim use סידור ישראל דוד.
A visit to any Satmar Shtiebel in NY could provide a more solid answer. I didnt pay attention to the siddur I used at the kever of the Divrei Yoel in K.Y.
Davening in a Satmer shul in Boro Park, I noticed the siddurim used there were not the typical dimensions I was used to seeing. On the first page the publisher explained that it was made that way in order to fit the (pretty narrow) shtenders (pews).
I don't remember seeing anything unusual about the siddur itself.
On Yomim Tovim many of them use the Machzor Divrei Yoel which details all the customs of the Divrei Yoel.
The Rebbe Reb Yoilish ztz"l himself used to daven from the Siddur Tefillo Yeshoro we-Kesser Nehoiro.
Satmar in Montreal (R' Zalman Leib's) use Siddur Yetev Lev which indeed has a strange format, as mentioned by Shmuly.


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Nws National Hurricane Center Miami Fl
1100 Pm Edt Sat May 26 2012
Beryl Moving Southwestward With Little Change In Strength...
Summary Of 1100 Pm Edt...0300 Utc...Information
Location...30.8n 77.2w
About 215 Mi...345 Km Se Of Charleston South Carolina
About 270 Mi...435 Km E Of Jacksonville Florida
Maximum Sustained Winds...50 Mph...85 Km/H
Present Movement...Sw Or 230 Degrees At 7 Mph...11 Km/H
Minimum Central Pressure...998 Mb...29.47 Inches
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Changes With This Advisory...
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This General Motion Is Expected To Continue Tonight...With A Turn Toward The West Forecast On Sunday.
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The Estimated Minimum Central Pressure Is 998 Mb...29.47 Inches.
Hazards Affecting Land
Wind...Tropical Storm Conditions Are Expected To Reach The Coast
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Storm Surge...The Combination Of A Storm Surge And The Tide Will
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Waters. The Water Could Reach The Following Depths Above Ground If The Peak Surge Occurs At The Time Of High Tide...
Coastal Portions Of South Carolina...Georgia...And North Florida...
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The Deepest Water Will Occur Along The Immediate Coast Near And To The North Of The Landfall Location...Where The Surge Will Be
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From Northern Florida Through Southeastern North Carolina.
Next Advisory
Next Intermediate Advisory...200 Am Edt.
Next Complete Advisory...500 Am Edt.
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Subtropical Storm Beryl Discussion Number 5
Nws National Hurricane Center Miami Fl
1100 Pm Edt Sat May 26 2012
An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Investigating Beryl
This Afternoon Found That The Storm Was A Little Stronger Than
Previously Analyzed. The Central Pressure Was 998 Mb...With
Maximum Flight-Level Winds Of 55 Kt And Surface Wind Estimates Of
40-45 Kt From The Sfmr. Based On These Data...The Initial Intensity
Was Increased To 45 Kt. Structurally...The Cyclone Has Changed Little During The Past Several Hours As Transient Bands Of Convection Form Near The Center.
The Initial Motion Is Now 230/6...And The Short-Term Motion May Be A
Little Faster.
Beryl Is Embedded In A Large Mid-/Upper-Level Low That Is Moving Southwestward As A Strong Ridge Develops To Its Northwest Over The Eastern United States. The Dynamical Models Forecast This Ridge To Move Eastward During The Next 36 H...And Then Weaken It As A Large Deep-Layer Trough Moves Eastward From The Central United States.
This Evolution Should Cause Beryl To Turn Westward And Make Landfall In The Southeastern United States Between 24-36 H.
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However... There Is A Large Spread On Where And When This Will Occur Between The Easternmost Ecmwf And The Other Models.
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These Two Factors Should Lead To The Transition Of Beryl Into A
Tropical Cyclone Before Landfall.
However...The Intensity Guidance Does Not Forecast Significant Strengthening During This Process.
Beryl Should Subsequently Weaken To A Tropical Depression Over
After Recurvature...The Dynamical Models Are In Good Agreement That Beryl Should Re-Intensify Over The Atlantic Despite The Presence Of Significant Vertical Wind Shear. The New Forecast Shows A Little More Strengthening Than The Previous Forecast Based Mainly On The Lgem Model.
The Analyzed And Forecast Wind Radii Have Been Reduced Based On The Aircraft Data.
Forecast Positions And Max Winds
Init 27/0300z 30.8n 77.2w 45 Kt 50 Mph
12h 27/1200z 30.4n 78.8w 45 Kt 50 Mph
24h 28/0000z 30.2n 80.9w 45 Kt 50 Mph...Tropical
36h 28/1200z 30.3n 82.2w 40 Kt 45 Mph...Inland
48h 29/0000z 30.7n 82.4w 30 Kt 35 Mph...Inland
72h 30/0000z 32.0n 81.0w 30 Kt 35 Mph...Inland
96h 31/0000z 35.0n 75.5w 40 Kt 45 Mph...Over Water
120h 01/0000z 39.0n 66.0w 45 Kt 50 Mph...Post-Trop/Extratrop
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Remarks by Oscar Fann follow...
After the National Hurricane Center (NHC) indicated a slight change in the inland track of BERYL during the late afternoon update, the NHC has almost gone back to the original thought of a weakened BERYL pulling up just short of Valdosta late Monday, then stalling briefly, before recurving and moving off to the northeast.
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Briefly, that means rain chances enter the forecast Sunday night - about 30% for Dothan.
From Sunday night through midweek, the farther east you go from Dothan the higher the rain chances (and west from Dothan lesser rain chances prevail).
However, rain AMOUNTS look to be rather light for the period, although 1 to 2 inches could be possible in parts of southwest Ga. and east of the Apalachicola River in the Florida panhandle Monday though Wednesday.
If BERYL's direction or path changes, then obviously the forecast changes, but there has been little change in the forecast since early Friday.
For now, winds will not be a factor, and the severe weather potential relating to BERYL remains very low.
Beach and boating weather through the Memorial Day weekend should remain unaffected through Sunday. Monday should see an increase in clouds, but not a complete overcast. There will be more sunshine west of Panama City, but even coastal areas just east of Panama City could still have sunshine. Rain chances appear slight for much of Monday for coastal areas west of Apalachicola.
More updates through the holiday weekend here on our website as well as on WTVY-TV's regularly scheduled newscasts.

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Lemon Meringue Tart
Categories: Cakes/pies, Easter, Entertaining, Sweet, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
With the contrast between the smooth, tart lemon filling and the fluffy meringue topping, this pie is certain to be a hit
Prep Time: 20M, plus cooling
Cooking Time: 40M
Serves: makes 8-10 servings
- 14oz ( 400g) shortcrust pastry
- 4 large lemons
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 3 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tbsp butter, diced
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
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- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Fit the pastry into a 9in (23cm) tart pan with a removable bottom, fitting it tightly into the corners, and trim the excess dough. Prick the dough with a fork. Line with wax paper and fill with baking beans. Chill for 30 minutes.
- Place on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes, until the dough looks set. Remove the paper and the beans and bake until the dough is crisp and golden brown, about 10 minutes more. Transfer to a wire rack. Reduce the oven temperature to 350°F (180°C).
- Meanwhile, to make the filling, grate the zest from 2 of the lemons. Juice the lemons: you should have 3/4 cup of juice.
- Whisk3/4 cup of the sugar, the egg yolks, and cornstarch together in a bowl until the mixture is pale yellow. Gradually whisk in 1 cup water and the lemon juice. Add the butter. Pour into a saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring constantly, until simmering and thickened. Reduce the heat to low and let bubble for 30 seconds. Strain through a wire sieve. Stir in the zest. Spread evenly in the tart shell.
- Beat the egg whites in a large bowl with an electric mixer until foamy. Add the cream of tartar and beat until soft peaks form. Beat in the remaining 1/2 cup sugar, a tablespoon at a time, until the meringue is thick and glossy. Spread the meringue over the hot filling, being sure that it touches the pie crust on all sides.
- Place the tart on a baking sheet. Bake for 12-15 minutes until the meringue is tinged light brown. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely. To slice, dip a thin, sharp knife into a tall glass of hot water before each slice.
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You could/should test the full restore test, maybe locally with a XAMPP installation (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) but before doing the full restore in a test environment you should change in the .sql file some settings to reflect the fact that it is running on another server.
While there are plugins to simplify the process (I dunno to what extent, as I've never used them), you can also do it manually without much programming knowledge (or really any at all).
The first way I'd do it is just to use Wordpress's XML Export function. This is the easiest way to move content from one Wordpress install to another. However, this only backs up posts and comments. You will need to back up your themes, plugins, and uploaded files separately.
Your other option is to just do an SQL dump. If you're using MySQL, then use the
You'll still need to backup your files separately, but this should also backup your wordpress configurations. Though if you're doing an upgrade, this probably isn't desirable.
You can easily write a shell script or PHP script to perform the mysqldump and file backups (just gzip them to a backup directory) and automate them with a cron job.


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6 Comic Book Easter Eggs That Stuck It to The Man
#3. Artist Calls Out Another Artist for Stealing
In the comic book world, there is a common practice known as swiping, which is taking a completed panel from a released comic, changing some details and claiming it as your own. It's like how all the dumb kids would copy the nerd's homework in school and then intentionally make one answer wrong just to throw off the teacher.
It looks a little something like this:
So yeah, those aren't the same images, but the artist on the right clearly used the picture of Storm as a basis and just deleted like, what, eight feet of hair? Nine?
Most of the time, swipes are taken from classic artists who have a lot of panels, are highly regarded and just don't care because they're already at the top of the game. But in 1994, Roger Cruz stole the above panel from Joe Madureira, the artist for X-Men. Madureira was only in his 20s and therefore had only about half a dozen finished comics to swipe from, making it pretty obvious when something of his got stolen.
Here are a few more to show how blatant the whole thing can really be:
Madureira wasn't too pleased about it, and since he knew Cruz was obviously reading everything he drew, he called him out on it in an issue of X-Men. Note the newspaper headline:
Oddly enough, Cruz never tried to swipe this page, or many others afterward by all accounts, so apparently Madureira got the message across that he was going to start ratting him out if he didn't quit stealing his shit, a technique that has been masterfully employed by big sisters throughout time.
#2. Iron Man Prints a Former Staff Member's Resignation Letter
An issue in the Iron Man comic books that is not touched on very heavily in the movies is Tony Stark's raging alcoholism. Seriously, in the comics, the suit basically functions off the smell of whiskey that comes off Tony. This functioning alcoholism was the basis of one of Iron Man's most famous stories, "Demon In A Bottle."
In the story, Tony stumbles into Avengers Mansion blind drunk one night, showing a random hooker-like female companion all the top-secret shit that the Avengers use to fight crime, like fucking Iron Man needs to do anything at all to impress a chick other than exist. Anyway, after Tony's butler, Jarvis (who is a human in the comics, not a robot), tries to tell him how whores shouldn't play with the laser beams, Tony verbally bitch-slaps Jarvis back into his place for speaking out.
The next day Jarvis, hands a hung-over Tony his resignation letter, a perfectly normal thing for a disgruntled butler to do after having to clean up Iron Man's vomit of self-destruction every night. But it was the text of the letter that left quite a few sharp-eyed readers wondering what the fuck Jarvis was talking about.
The letter read as follows:
This is to notify you that I am tendering my resignation from my position. This resignation is to take effect immediately.
I am leaving because this is no longer the team-spirited "one big happy family" I once loved working for. Over the past year or so I have watched Avengers' morale disintegrate to the point that, rather than being a team or a family, it is now a large collection of unhappy individuals simmering in their own personal stew of repressed anger, resentment and frustration. I have seen a lot of my friends silently enduring unfair, malicious or vindictive treatment.
My personal grievances are relatively slight by comparison to some, but I don't intend to silently endure. I've watched the Avengers be disbanded, uprooted and shuffled around. I've become firmly convinced that this was done with the idea of 'showing the hired help who's Boss.'
So what the hell is going on at Avengers Mansion that Jarvis is quitting on behalf of his repressed friends and not Tony freaking out at him? And why do the world's mightiest superheroes feel the need to make a point of "showing the hired help who's boss" -- especially considering that the hired help consisted entirely of just Jarvis? Well, the answer lies in the fact that this was not Jarvis' resignation letter, but the actual resignation letter of long time Marvel artist and staff member Dave Cockrum, who had resigned a few months before this.
Cockrum left his position for the reasons stated above in his letter and started doing freelance work for both Marvel and DC, which is like sleeping with the enemy, for money, and then charging you the same price.
Obviously, someone working on Iron Man was bitter about Cockrum's resignation and printed the letter as a not-too-subtle "screw you," making it as insulting as possible by making it the resignation of a butler, the lowest of the low in terms of characters in the Marvel, or any other, universe.
So the writer obviously got a chuckle printing the letter, and the reader was left thinking that the Avengers abused the shit out of their staff, and that should have been the end of it. If the incident was never pointed out again, it might have remained as a simple prank that only the writer, and Cockrum, would ever know about, leaving the rest of the world ignorant of the sweet burn that had been inflicted on Cockrum.
But apparently the writer realized that sweet insults are no good if no one knows about them, so three issues later in the letter section, the writers printed the following. Though framed as a kind of retraction, it's really more of a "just so you all know how awesome we are."
#1. The Word "Sex" Is Hidden on Every Page of an Issue of X-Men
Now, when we say the word "sex" is on every page, we don't mean the word "sex" was mentioned in the dialogue of an issue entirely about a mutant sex orgy. No, we're talking about New X-Men #118 where artist Ethan Van Sciver subtly hid the word "sex" in the images instead.
He also managed to make Cyclops even more douchy than usual.
Once he got the idea, Sciver wasn't about to hide the word in the issue a measly one time, like The Lion King did. No, instead Sciver included it on every single page, hidden everywhere. Maybe you were innocently checking out Jean's awesomely tousled hair? Bam: sex.
Perhaps admiring that bush behind Emma Frost, as we all tend to do? Well, you probably like it because of the sex.
Thinking that bottle of whiskey looks delicious and you could sure go for some of that yourself? Oops. Sex.
Enjoying that image of a glowing, needle-filled brain? Hope you like it with ... sex!
So, what the hell was with all the sex? Theories abounded that it was done on purpose, as the villain of the issue was named Sublime, a form of the word "subliminal," so sneaking in the word "sex" on every page made sense in a deep, meta sort of way.
Some thought it was a clue to the blossoming romance between Emma Frost and Cyclops. And some logical people out there not living on X-Men message boards thought it meant nothing at all, and not surprisingly, those people were right. Sciver admitted that he had been irked with Marvel at the time for some reason that he can't remember and "wanted to pull some shit." He mustn't have been too upset, since he just hid the word "sex" instead of something like "DESTROY THE JEWS." Probably would have been too many letters anyway.
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If the site is for students and professionals, then why is someone removing my questions?
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When you assign a variable the value of 0123, it keeps coming up with a different number, why?
I would have voted to close this as "Not a real question". I would later have voted to delete this because it would never be of use to anyone else, since nobody else would have any idea which problem you were describing.
No one person is deleting your questions, they were closed by the community, then deleted by community vote as well.
So your questions got 5 close as off-topic votes, then 3 votes to delete each.
Your question ("what does PHP mean", which you asked twice) got closed and deleted because it is easily answered with a Google search.
See http://de.php.net/manual/en/faq.general.php#faq.general.acronym.
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Your question has been first closed from users who can vote to close questions. As far as I can see from the links reported by other users, the question has not been deleted.
Your question PHP variable value changes after assignment has been closed as duplicate; if it were not a duplicate, it could be closed because it doesn't shown any search effort.
One of the examples reported in Integers (the documentation page for PHP) explains how PHP interprets 0123.
If you are expecting a different value to be assigned to the variable, you are not correctly interpreting the code.


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Apart from stronger ALSR entropy...
Is a system using amd64 any safer than 686-pae?
What are the advantages, if any?
In general, yes, using 64-bit architectures is a bit safer.
ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) is a lot more effective on 64-bit architectures. On 32-bit architectures, ASLR is not very effective. On 32-bit architectures, it's only possible to introduce a half a dozen or a dozen or so bits of randomness into the address space layout. This means that an attacker can defeat ASLR by simply trying many times (a few hundred or a few thousand times).
ASLR makes it harder for an attacker to exploit buffer overrun vulnerabilities, so this difference between 32-bit and 64-bit architectures has some relevance to system security.
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One Hong Kong woman is dead and three more have been hospitalized after they received a "beauty" treatment that is usually reserved for cancer patients.
A 60-year-old remains in critical condition, a 56-year-old woman is in serious condition, and a 59-year-old woman is stable, CNN reports.
CNN reported that it has not been confirmed whether the deceased 46-year-old woman or any of the victims had been diagnosed with cancer, but the Hong Kong Health Department said in a previous statement that they had been in "good past health."
The four women had underwent a DC-CIK intravenous treatment, which was billed as a "platelet rich plasma," at a DR Medical Beauty Group location on Wednesday, China Daily reported. They were taken to the hospital after complaining of deep headaches and diarrhea.
It was later determined that they were diagnosed with septic shock, a life-threatening blood infection that causes extremely low blood pressure according to the National Institutes of Health. Their blood samples contained the bacterium Mycobacterium abscessus. While it is normally found in water, soil and dust, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report it often contaminates medications and medical products and can cause serious infections.
DC-CIK (cytokine-induced killer cells) is a form of plasma therapy used in metastatic cancer, the Independent reported. The blood transfusion, which the women each paid about $6,450 for, is known to help improve the survival rate of cancer patients after chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.
However, the clinic billed the procedure as a way to get rid of wrinkles and revitalize the skin. The company claimed that "growth factors" could be released from the platelets through a laboratory procedure. Patients who underwent the therapy had their blood removed, treated and reinjected into them.
"This treatment involves concentration and processing of blood taken from the person, which is subsequently infused back to the patient. According to investigation, the treatment was provided by a registered medical practitioner," a spokesperson for the Hong Kong Health Department said to China Daily.
The DR Group confirmed in a statement to China Daily that the treatment was conducted by certified doctors at an independent clinic affiliated with their organization, and that the women's medical history was checked before they had their blood transfused. They insisted that their version was a beauty treatment, not a medical procedure.
Thirty-one out of the 45 patients who underwent the procedure at a DR Group location have been notified. Authorities are urging people who may have undergone something similar to see a doctor if they experience symptoms.
The DR Group also offers a stem cell treatment created from a person's fat tissues that is also injected back into the host.
Dermatologist Chung King-lueh told China Daily that these procedures should only be done in a hospital.
"No one would do it in a clinic because we know it risks blood contamination by bacteria," Chung said.
Hong Kong's Health Minister, Dr. Ko Wing-man, told the Independent that harsher regulations may need to be put in place. As of now, the Hong Kong's Health Ministry does not have the authority to regulate beauty salons.
"I do not rule out the possibility of the need for legislation, or an amendment to the current law to pin down those high-risk medical therapies," he stated.
The Regional Crime Unit of Hong Kong Island and the Hong Kong Health Department are investigating both the treatment centers and a laboratory in Tai Po which was supposed to have prepped the patient's blood for the procedure, China Daily reported.


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Both Sides to Meet at White House; Any Deal Likely to Be Limited
Congress and the White House took small steps toward breaking the budget impasse Thursday, but Democrats and Republicans grew increasingly fearful they won't be able to avert the tax increases and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff, a prospect that is unnerving consumers and investors.
President Barack Obama invited congressional leaders to the White House on Friday afternoon for a last-ditch effort to broker a deal, as the Senate returned to Washington on Thursday. House GOP leaders said in a Thursday conference call with Republicans, who are growing nervous about their party being blamed for the deadlock, that the House will reconvene Sunday evening.
It is still possible the two sides can reach a deal, especially with the leaders meeting Friday. Any resolution would be a scaled-back version of the package Mr. Obama and congressional leaders had anticipated passing after the November election. The White House is pressing for the Senate to extend current tax rates for income up to $250,000, extend unemployment benefits, keep the alternative minimum tax from hitting millions of additional taxpayers and delay spending cuts set to take effect in January.
The 11th-hour strategy carries enormous risk because it leaves no margin for error in Congress's balky legislative machinery. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said the prospects for passage of a bill before the last day of the year are fading rapidly. "I have to be very honest," he said. "I don't know time-wise how it can happen now."
Anxiety about Washington's ability to resolve its budget battles is roiling the economy. Conference Board figures showed that consumer confidence fell in December to its lowest level since August, driven by a pessimistic outlook for economic activity next year.
Stocks have swung on the latest news from Washington. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell sharply on Mr. Reid's pessimistic comments before recouping most of a 151-point drop on news the House would reconvene this weekend.
At best, leaders are looking at a narrow bill that could be passed at the last minute. At the meeting Friday, Mr. Obama will outline the elements he thinks should be in a deal and could get majority support in both chambers of Congress, according to a person familiar with the matter. He won't put forward a specific bill or legislative language, the person added.
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Missing the year-end deadline would mean an income-tax increase Jan. 1 for virtually all taxpayers and spending cuts of $110 billion in defense and domestic programs. For months, economists have warned that going over the cliff could thrust the U.S. back into recession.
Most officials say they believe any deal is most likely to emerge in the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) left the door open to looking at a White House proposal, although noted the difficulty of "coming up against a hard deadline here."
Whether or not there is a deal, the weeks since the election have produced a stark display of political gridlock. "The government is not working," said Steve Bell, senior director of the Bipartisan Policy Center, who was a senior budget adviser to Senate Republicans for many years. "There is no doubt that the policy-making apparatus in this town has collapsed."
Following the tea-party wave in the 2010 election, the 112th Congress looks set to be the least productive in recent history. By the end of November, the House had passed 146 bills over the previous two years, by far the smallest number for any Congress since 1948. The Senate passed fewer bills in 2012 than in any year since at least 1992.
Rather than smoothing over differences, the November election appears to have hardened them. "We came out of the election with both sides thinking they won and had an equal mandate," said Ross Baker, a professor at Rutgers University who is now interviewing lawmakers on Capitol Hill for a book on bipartisanship. "One problem is we don't have a common narrative to guide us."
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Mr. Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) proclaimed a postelection desire to avoid the cliff and both sides made major concessions before negotiations collapsed last week. By then, they had reduced their differences to a range most congressional veterans could imagine being bridged in past eras when party leaders were more practiced at the art of compromise.
"We are at the point of no return," said Jim Manley, a former longtime aide to Mr. Reid, who also thinks it isn't possible to seal a deal before the deadline. "And so off the cliff the country will go."
Mr. Obama called Messrs. Boehner, McConnell, Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) late Wednesday during his holiday vacation in Hawaii "to receive an update on the ongoing fiscal negotiations," White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage said.
The calls mark the first time Mr. Obama has called Mr. McConnell, who is now seen as key to brokering a deal, directly to discuss the fiscal cliff.
While the Senate returned from its Christmas holiday Thursday, it worked on legislation unrelated to the fiscal cliff. Mr. Reid taunted House Republican leaders for still being in recess, a criticism that stung some House Republicans, who complained to their leadership.
In their conference call Thursday afternoon, House GOP leaders announced they were calling members back into session Sunday evening in hopes that there would by then be a budget agreement to approve. They also told members to expect to stay in town through the following Friday, suggesting the possibility of a prolonged fight.
Republicans participating in the call said they believed GOP leaders were prepared to move quickly, if the fiscal cliff deadline is breached, to bring up legislation to reverse the tax increases and spending cuts retroactively. That action could be taken by a new session of Congress, which will be sworn in Jan. 3.
For all the economic anxiety about going over the fiscal cliff, there are political advantages to both parties for postponing action. There will be more Democrats in the new House and Senate. Mr. Boehner would have his re-election as speaker behind him, one of the first acts the new Congress will take. He has denied his job security is a concern, and no one has announced a campaign to challenge him.
—Siobhan Hughes, Michael Crittenden and Neil King Jr. contributed to this article.
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Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, and Charlie Sheen in Red Dawn (1984)
OK, this one is a bit of a stretch (like the plot) because only the bad guys wear uniforms. But nearly every single person in the original Red Dawn had a sort of post-apocolyptic meets rural Colorado hotness going on about them, especially Patrick Swazye, Charlie Sheen, and Jennifer Grey. Oh, and everyone carries a gun. Everyone. Paging Dr. Freud.
Elvis Presley in G.I. Blues (1960)
Playing Tulsa McLean, a singing, dancing Army specialist who dreams of opening a nightclub, G.I. Blues offered Elvis Presley a chance to show off many of his assets (not just his voice).
Ne-Yo in Red Tails (2012)
He's not first billed, or even third billed, but Ne-Yo is the breakout hottie in Red Tails, an overlooked film about Tuskegee airmen, a crew of African-American pilots called into duty during World War II.
John Wayne (center) in Seven Sinners (1940)
This is a LGBT win-win: John Wayne is dashing in a white Navy uniform in Seven Sinners as a man who falls in love with cabaret singer Bijou, played by bisexual actress Marlene Dietrich. Plus there's a mobster, dashing villains, and the Seven Sinners Cafe. The film was re-released as part of Universal's Vault Series in 2011.
Josh Hartnett in Black Hawk Down (2001)
Sure, it's a film about elite American soldiers outgunned and surrounded by warlords in Somalia, but director Ridley Scott (fresh off of making Gladiator) infused Black Hawk Down with a whole lot of Josh Hartnett and Ewan McGregor sexiness. Even military movie haters kind of dug this one.
Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953)
Iconic in film history in large part thanks to a roll in the sand as waves lapped over them by Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr, but From Here to Eternity were plenty of fans who would have rather seen the attractive Lancaster tug-a-hug with co-star Montgomery Clift. Oh, it's about soldiers, pre-Pearl Harbor, passion, tragedy, yada yada, and it won eight Academy Awards (including one for the other hot co-star, Frank Sinatra).
Tom Cruise in Top Gun (1986)
If you were a gay kid in the mid-80s, it's likely you had a crush on Tom Cruise after Risky Business (and the sight of him in his tighty whites). Top Gun has Cruise in all his obnoxious masculine glory plus there are some really hot (subtextually gay) scenes of Val Kilmer and his minion (I mean friend). The 3D Blu-ray version was released last month.
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (2009)
Director Kathryn (Zero Dark Thirty) Bigelow made this complex and seemingly brilliant film about the Iraq war, but we watched The Hurt Locker only to see Jeremy Renner get dirty and angry and, well, basically, we watched for Renner.
Brad Davis in Querelle (1982)
In director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's classic film, the late Brad Davis is Querelle, a captivating Belgian sailor (and murderer and thief) who gets it on with men and women and has some disturbingly erotic fight scenes with the actor who plays his brother. Davis — who was bisexual in real life and fathered a transgender son, Alex, with his wife Susan, who today is still an AIDS activist — was already famous for playing the legendary Billy Hayes in Midnight Express.
Val Kilmer in Top Gun (1986)
If you were me in the mid-80s, you could care less about Tom Cruise and instead focused all your attention while watching Top Gun on the Ice Man himself: Val Kilmer, who had homoerotic face-offs with Cruise in the film, had a sidekick, Slider (played by Rick Rossovich) that seemed more like a boyfriend. The duo had a shirtless, abs-ahoy volleyball scene that was so popular the Internet is filled with the search phrase "Was Ice Man gay?" (Don't fight it fans, he was, but it was back before the military integrated gays.) In one fight scene (oh, FYI, the guys are all at the Navy's "top gun" academy to train to be fighter pilots), Kilmer tells Rossovich, "This is turning me on." Slider says, "Don't tease me." Sure it was sarcasm, if you believe that. I took it at face value. The 3D Blu-ray version was released last month.
Marlon Brando in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Director John Huston's twisted film bombed at the box office, but perhaps that's because Reflections in a Golden Eye dealt with repressed homosexuality, a woman who removed her own nipples with pruning shears, a feminine Filipino houseboy, an Army soldier who rides horses nude, and so much more. Brando is a closeted Army major married to Elizabeth Taylor but lusting after said nude-riding soldier.
Mike "The Miz" Mizanin in The Marine Homefront (2013)
Face it, America likes it when pro wrestlers, fighters, and bodybuilders end up in action films (Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Rock, Hulk Hogan, John Cena to name a few). With this week's DVD/Blu-ray release of The Marine Homefront you can see the latest hunky athlete to throw his hat in the ring: WWE superstars like Mike "The Miz" Mizanin. The Miz is a Marine sargeant on leave who finds out his sister has been kidnapped by extremists so he becomes a one-man Army (er, Marine?) to rescue his sister, stop a terrorist plot, and save thousands of innocent people. It's a lot in one film, but just look at him; he's clearly hot enough to pull it off.
Jan Michael Vincent in Baby Blue Marine (1976)
Jan Michael Vincent is young and beautiful in Baby Blue Marine — the movie poster features him half-nude in all his twinkiness — as a wannabe Marine who fails basic training. On his way home he's mugged by a hero Marine and ends up wearing the guy's uniform and people start treating him like the hero. Sounds convoluted but it's not, it's simple and sweetly innocent and, as I said, Vincent is a sight to behold.
Jake Gyllenhaal in Jarhead (2005)
A character-driven movie about the original Gulf War, Jarhead makes Jake Gyllenhaal hotter than he's ever been.
Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in Anchors Away! (1945)
Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly are Joe and Clarence, two Navy sailors on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood in Anchors Away! They dance. They rescue a little boy. They supposedly look for girlfriends. But scene after scene, there's so much campy gay subtext (later, the phrase "Twice as gay as Anchors Away" was applied to many, many things) it's hard to take it at face value. In one scene, Clarence watches Joe sleep, Joe's bum carefully sticking out of the covers. He's happy for two reasons: one, Joe's inadverently sleeping instead of going on his date (Clarence sneaks glances at the clock) and well, that well-positioned booty in front of him. Joe tells a woman he's confused at one point; at another, he offers to pretend to be a girl so inexperienced Clarence can get some practice. Gay, gay, gay. Oh, and Gene Kelly dances with a mouse.
Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men (1992)
In the DADT military, a U.S. soldier is murdered and two military lawyers — Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee and Demi Moore as Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway — try to find out who killed him in the superb A Few Good Men. Cruise and Moore are both hot as hell in the film and, though Jack "You can't handle the truth" Nicholson gets all the accolades for his cameo, the acting all around is stunning.
Channing Tatum in G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2012)
It's not on DVD until June, but in some places you can still catch G.I. Joe: Retaliation at the theater. It's about the G.I. Joe team facing off against Zartan again, but you don't need to know the plot. Just look at this picture of Channing Tatum. Seriously, just look.
Matthew Davis and Colin Farrell in Tigerland (2000)
A platoon of anxious, defiant, and promising young soldiers go through advanced infantry training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, before (presumably) heading off to Vietnam, in this '70s-era film where not a single actor is ugly.
Richard Gere and David Keith in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Superb acting, great romantic film, with the main thing everyone remembers about An Officer and a Gentleman: a scene in which Richard Gere (a independent Naval officer candidate known as Zack Mayo) charges in to the workplace of Debra Winger (with whom he's had a embattled love-hate courtship) in his full Navy regalia and swoops her off her feet and presumably out of her dead-end life and into his bed (er, life) while the Oscar-winning song "Up Where We Belong" plays in the background. In your vision, keep the song, replace yourself with Winger and, well, you get why the scene has been recreated for both comedy and drama in subsequent films and TV shows and SNL skits.
Sal Mineo in Giant (1956)
Gay actor Sal Mineo (he came out in the the 1960s, one of the first gay actors to do so) first rose to fame with his Academy Award-nominated role as Plato, a sensitive teenager smitten with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. In Giant, he worked again with Dean (who died before the film came out), this time in a very small role playing Angel, a Latino teen who goes off to war. The role let Mineo don a uniform, and as you know, the only thing hotter than a man in a uniform is a gay man in a uniform. Bonus points for the film's bigger stars: gay actor Rock Hudson and AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor (who was only 23 at the time).
Josh Hutcherson and Chris Hemsworth in Red Dawn (2012)
The film is a remake of John Milius's 1984 cult classic, which followed a group of American teens in rural America who have to fight Russian invaders. This version of Red Dawn, out this week on DVD/Blu-ray/Ultraviolet takes some Red Dawn-esque elements, sets it in suburban Spokane, Wash., makes the bad guys North Korean (so timely), and puts some sexy gun-toting dudes in modern guerilla gear, as if Urban Outfitters made military uniforms. The best part? The guys (it's predominantly male) are even hotter: Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson (a gay advocate who works with the Straight But Not Narrow organization) and Chris Hemsworth (another sexy guy who loves us; he posed for the cover of Out magazine last year) chief among them.
Now it's your turn: tell us who we missed. Who's the sexiest guy in uniform in movies or television?


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I'm writing a science fiction story and wondered if someone could help me with the setup of a trinary star system I have in mind. Basically I just wanted to know if:
a) a system with a central, Sun-sized star could have two smaller (orange dwarf?) stars orbiting it in a circular trojan orbit, and...
b) how much disturbance would this type of orbit cause to any planets orbiting the inner star?
This may all sound ridiculous, but any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


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The Bunk About Bonding
How much better off you will be, understanding that some moms are infatuated from day one and some moms find love bowls them over in a fit of tears months later. The same is true with dads, though research tells us men typically follow a year behind moms in their emotional adjustment to parenthood. It's common for fathers to lag behind in the bonding process.
All this said, take heart. Because it really does not matter how you or your spouse come to feel affection for your child. It only matters that you do.
Give in to Skin-to-Skin
One of the secrets moms are too self-conscious to share is how exquisite it is to cuddle with their babies and children. We don't talk about the "sensuality" of the mother/child relationship for fear of people thinking we mean "sexuality." Yet, there are few more intoxicating pleasures in life than falling asleep with your baby in your arms, carrying a snoozing toddler to his bed, or holding hands with your son on the way to the bus stop.
The sheer physicality of motherhood is staggering. You are, most often, the body the babe craves, the one associated with food and comfort, and later the only one capable of chasing away nightmares. Infants crave us because they know our scents, recognize our voices from the womb, or get accustomed to us as their primary caregivers.
But the intensity of a baby's desire can be overwhelming and frightening. It blows apart feminist theory such as "Men and women can do the same job equally well." It makes you question the Creator, "Did you design us this way so we would be encumbered with children and unable to do ANYTHING else?" It makes all the dreams you had of maintaining your life, outside of motherhood, seem like a chalk drawing, pelted by rain.
No More Personal Space
This pressing body stuff is alarming for parents who need privacy or are uncomfortable with intimacy. When my sister, Catherine, had her first son, Taylor, I remember watching her carefully shore up her boundaries. She pumped milk but did not breast-feed directly. Taylor slept in his room from the first night home on. She cautioned friends not to cradle her slumbering boy for long, lest he grow to depend on being held.
Catherine adored her son and worried about doing the right things for him. But she wasn't willing to have Taylor impede on her long-held realm of modesty, even if it would make her life, managing a new baby, easier.
I saw the fears of Every Mom being played out in Catherine's home. The first weeks postpartum, the lines between you and baby are terribly blurred. Where you stop and the baby begins is unclear. It's natural to resist the cloying nature of these interactions, and to sink a flag into dominions you want to remain your own.
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what are the must-have apps for the kindle fire?
I recently got a Kindle Fire but don't have many apps. My phone is an iphone so I am unfamiliar with the aneroid apps and also see that the Fire has its own separate app store. I'm having a hard time finding ones I think will be useful on wick only. Thanks for the tips!
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Facebook, weather channel, Pulse News. If you're my 8 year old son and get ahold of mom's Fire, Good Fart and Happy Poo.
@sskarstad: you say 8 yr old son, I say husband :) thanks for the recommendations.
Kindle version of Hunger Games trilogy, Plants vs. Zombies, comics / manga readers, Angry Birds in Space HD edition.
I'm betting you got one of the recertified kindles recently that amazon was selling for 139.99, me too!
I don't know what your level of techy-ness is, but I highly recommend at least considering hacking the device to run CM7. This will give you what is basically a customized version of standard android and access to almost every app in the market.
I can go into detail on how to do it if you want, but it is pretty easy. Check out the xda developers forum for the kindle fire and android development.
Once there, there is something called the kindle fire utility which does almost all the work for you. Then you can either keep the stock kindle fire operating system but with access to the full market now, or you can install a custom rom. I recommend Hellfire's CM7 rom. Eventually you will want CM9, but I don't think it's really worth it yet, too unstable.
@portezbie: I actually got mine with debit card points, but it is much less useful than I anticipated. I think I will go the route you have suggested, had been pondering that recently. thanks for the tips!
Of course, WootWatcher!! It is the one app that I can say gets used everyday & it was free!! I also seem to use Pulse(great news source) & Pandora & TuneIn Radio(music sources) on a regular basis. If you enjoy solitaire or Mahjong, try 250+ Solitaire Collection & Random Factor Mahjong. They are decent free apps. Don't forget to check out the the app store daily, as Amazon offers a new app every day for FREE!! Thanks for the question. Can't wait to see what others have to offer.
Words with Friends, draw something (not in the app store but search and you'll find it via google), mahjong, facebook, netflix, and then just check the free app of the day at amazon.


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3 Sep 2011 8:57 AM #1
Import support for image sequences & .eps/.ai format support
Hi, new to the forum. Ive been testing Sencha for the last two days and would like to request two features that would help with animations.
The first would be the ability to import a sequence of images into an existing container. I work periodically with After Effects and Swift3D to export multi-frame animations in both .eps and .png formats. Having the ability to import multiple images as a sequence would be extremely appreciated. I'm not sure if ths feature already exists, but if it does, I could not find it.
Also, as far as I can tell, there is no support for vector import in Sencha. This is the other feature that I believe would be extremely helpful as an alternative to raster based animations and also with keeping animation/project sizes down to a minimum.
6 Sep 2011 9:42 AM #2
Thanks for the feature requests. Improved image importing is definitely coming. We're experimenting with SVG support.
18 Dec 2011 8:05 AM #3
I share your point of view. It is crucially important to have either a support for .svg, .ai, .eps or to have a trace bitmap option. I would absolutely fall in love with Sencha in case it would be able to trace bitmaps.
5 Jan 2012 9:51 PM #4
Frame by Frame
I've also been leaning the software and would like to see more frame-by-frame support both in the Timeline and as an import feature. It would be really helpful if I could step through the timeline frame by frame and as I do so tweak the position of an image. Flash lets you step through the timeline, but is weak letting you easily position sprites.
Also importing a series of images is important for creating traditional animation movements (a person walking).
26 Mar 2012 1:34 PM #5
Has this been addressed yet
Has there been any updates regarding image sequences?
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As of Animator 1.5 we have added a basic support for keyframe animation. In general you should create a spritesheet and then through settings you can adjust the easing function to step through the keyframes one at the time.
On how to do this there is an explanation in the documentation here: http://docs.sencha.com/animator/1.5/...ncepts_sprites
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Mountain of Bones (Hardcover)
Ian was the 0ne who chased the majestic buck into the forest. (His motto: Act first, think later.) Kendra didn't want to become separated from the other sixth graders, but she followed Ian anyway, despite what her analytical mind told her. PJ followed him too. Even though he was scared, he figured he might catch some amazing footage with his video camera.
They all hoped to return to the hiking trail before anyone noticed they were gone. However, the mountain had other plans for them: dark, sinister plans that only nightmares are made of.
Now they don't know where they are. They don't know how to get home. They don't know what gruesome creatures lurk in the shadowsbut when they find out these grisly ghouls are actually ravenous zombies, will they be able to escape the mountain with their lives?
This first book in the Gravediggers series is a scary, mysterious, wild ride that will thrill readers to the very last page.
About the Author
Christopher Krovatin is the author of the Gravediggers series as well as the young adult novels Heavy Metal and You and Venomous. He is also a contributing writer to Revolver magazine and a lifelong devotee to the zombie genre. He lives in Brooklyn.
Praise For…
"Beware. If you read Gravediggers, you're in for dangers and lots of horrifying surprises. This is my kind of book—fast, frightening, and all TOO REAL!"
-R.L. Stine
"This spine-tingling, hair-raising adventure is to readers what human flesh is to zombies - utterly irresistible."
-Michael Grant, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Gone series
"So realistically rendered and well written, Gravediggers will have zombies believing in humans!"
-Chris Grabenstein, award-winning author of the Haunted Mystery series
"What great, creepy fun! Scary, funny, with endearing characters and a fast-paced plot, the book is perfect for the zombie-lover in all of us."
-Rick Yancey, author of the Printz Award-winning novel The Monstrumologist and the bestselling Alfred Kropp series
"Krovatin provides moments of gross-out gore in this reluctant-reader pleaser."
-Kirkus Reviews
"A fun horror read sure to appeal to young readers eager to move on from series like R. L. Stine's Goosebumps."
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5 Ways Statistics Are Used to Lie to You Every Day
#2. What They're Calling an "Epidemic" May Actually Be Random Chance
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Sounds Like ...
Studies show that people who live near power lines have a higher rate of cancer and other diseases! That means electricity is quietly killing you from within! It's a good thing that right this minute, your face isn't near any glowing devices that run on electricity ...
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"You kids get down from there, you'll catch the cancer!"
The Problem Is ...
The "power lines cause cancer" thing was a real study that caused real panic not too many years ago. They looked at a map, drew a circle around people who lived near power lines, and looked up what diseases those people had. Sure enough, it wasn't hard to find neighborhoods just chock full of tumors.
But in doing so, they fell victim to what is called the Texas sharpshooter fallacy, or the clustering illusion -- that's when you see false patterns in random data. The name alludes to a theoretical cowboy who shoots randomly at the side of a barn, then paints a target wherever the most shots are clustered together and tells people he's a sharpshooter.
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In England, they call it the "throw a girl in front of the tennis ball machine" fallacy.
The truth is that in a large enough population, you're going to get random patterns -- especially if you give yourself infinite room to find similarities. For instance, the above study may also have found that kids living near power lines are 5 percent more likely to be named "Steve," or that they are 3 percent more likely to prefer red bicycles. When you're talking about tiny differences, you can find all sorts of weird-ass connections. So, they found that in some areas, kids were up to four times as likely to have leukemia (holy shit! Power lines are murdering our children!), but they ignored the fact that in other areas, the kids were actually less likely to have it (holy shit! Power lines have magical healing abilities!). In reality, it was all averaging out.
And if you just found yourself saying, "Yeah, but with those kids who were four times as likely to get sick, there has to be something to it," you've already forgotten at least two of the points in this article (hint: leukemia is rare and it doesn't take many cases to get a fourfold increase).
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"Again we boo! Boo for a second time, mathematics!"
Why Does It Matter?
Remember that crazy story about the guy in Miami who went insane and ate another dude's face off? Then every day after that, there was another story of a biting attack? Even the skeptics were all "Wow, another crazy person bit somebody on the subway! There has to be something to this."
And there was: When humans get into fights, we tend to bite each other, but only in the wake of the Miami thing was there any reason for such incidents to become news -- the only thing that changed was that suddenly every bite became a headline. We started looking for a pattern, and there it was. Then we quickly got bored with it, even though right now somebody, somewhere, is biting someone else.
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And not all of them are the victims of emotionally disturbed parents.
Over the centuries, this fallacy has caused us to invent entire epidemics out of whole cloth. Hell, this is even thought to be one of the reasons for the "witch hunts" that took place throughout history (or, you know, today) -- everyone in the neighborhood suddenly got sick, there's a weird woman living in the neighborhood, therefore said woman must have caused the sickness using her devil magic.
Now, sometimes the trend is in fact real, but caused by something totally unrelated. That brings us to the biggest fallacy of them all ...
#1. Correlation Does Not Equal Causation
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Sounds Like ...
The media love to report on the latest scientific study that tells us what's going to kill us today. According to this report on a study about the effects of television on health, scientists are stunned to discover that watching TV is as bad for you as smoking cigarettes after finding that every half hour of TV you watch after the age of 25 shaves a whopping 11 minutes off your life. But how can we possibly cut down when there are six whole shows about baking cakes?
Or, you may have run across someone who still believes that vaccines cause autism in children -- they may even have incredibly convincing line graphs showing that, yes, as the rate of vaccination has gone up, so has the rate of autism diagnosis. How can you argue against graphs?
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"As you can see, mathematically, you are a piece of shit and you totally deserve the slap I'm about to whip at you."
The Problem Is ...
If you know anything about how a television works that doesn't involve the word "sorcery," then you'll notice that it's just a box of lights and wires. It's difficult to understand how a benign pile of electronics can suck your life force out of your body from the other side of the room. And that's the problem -- the article is reporting on a causation, when all it really has is a correlation.
The difference is that until you know how television is murdering you, all you know is that television and death are related in some way. There's no way to tell whether watching a lot of television and dying a little earlier are both symptoms of something else.
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Of course, it could be more of a case of where you're watching TV.
And that, by the way, seems to be exactly what's going on here -- it turns out that people who don't like exercise tend to reach for hobbies that don't involve moving (like television), and not getting enough exercise is what's killing us. Which is to say, reading a book is much more deadly than watching TV on a stationary bike.
Another well-known example is the myth that kids who eat breakfast perform better at school. It's true that the statistics do show a correlation between eating breakfast and higher academic achievement, and this in turn led to parents cramming cereal down their children's throats in the hopes of force-feeding them into college. But when the phenomenon was finally investigated, researchers found that the act of eating breakfast really didn't affect the kids' intelligence at all. It's just that the type of kids who have things going on in their lives that keep them from eating breakfast are also the type to have trouble at school.
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"Bring in one freakin' flame thrower for show and tell, and everyone gets all uppity about rules."
Why Does It Matter?
It wouldn't, if the only result was increased waffle sales during school months. But shit gets serious when we start misidentifying the cause of society's problems. Like if, say, we decide that life-saving vaccines are causing autism when in reality the number of kids being diagnosed with autism rose not with the rate of vaccinations, but with our ability to detect autism. To demonstrate this, opponents to the vaccine hysteria whipped up another graph:
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Please don't tell Jenny McCarthy about this.
Nathaniel lives on a boat, where the only statistic he has to deal with is the frequency of pirate attacks. James has a degree in physics and chemistry, and you can follow him on Tumblr, where he talks about neither.
For more "facts" you should be weary of, check out The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Bullsh*t Statistics and The 6 Most Statistically Full of Shit Professions.
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Find the limit of $f(x)=\frac{\sqrt{a^2-ax+x^2}-\sqrt{a^2+ax+x^2}}{\sqrt{a-x}-\sqrt{a+x}}$ (at x=0) so that $f(x)$ becomes continuous for all $x$. My answer is $2\sqrt{a}$. Am I right?
Sorry to state the question incorrectly. We have to define $f(x)$ at $x=0$ such that $f(x)$ is continuous for all $x$. In that case my answer is $2\sqrt{a}$.
Let f(x)=$[x]$+$[-x]$ be a function where [.] stands for the greatest integer not greater than x. For any integer $m$, what can we say about $lim_{x \to m}$. Is $f(x)$ contiuous at $x=m$. Sorry for asking such vague question but I am forgetting the exact wording and the options given. This was a question asked in a class test.


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A few days ago a client asked me if the transition to the iPhone 4s retina display was a difficult one, development-wise.
This made me ask myself whether I should have considered iPhones with high resolution dispays even before the iPhone 4 had been announced - creating artwork with higher resolution, preparing codepaths... (while, of course, creating high resolution artwork is never a bad idea, considering its use for marketing, porting to other platforms etc.)
Now, with the iPad being around for some months, first rumors of a future iPad with retina display emerge from the depths of the www. And I start wondering - would it make sense to prepare new projects for such an iPad? I'm pretty sure that apple will in fact release a retina iPad at some point in the future, because it would be quite a logical step. So, I guess the important question is "how soon can we expect such a device?". There is much to consider when thinking about that, most of all production difficulties and the impact of a resolution of 2048 x 1536 (if apple sticks to simply doubling the "old" specs) on a mobile devices performance...
So, what do you think? Will it pay up to prepare new projects for a retina iPad, starting now? Or do you think the overhead is not worth it, yet?
Maybe some of you are already developing with the retina iPad in mind..?
I'd be glad to hear some of your thoughts! Thanks alot, guys!
Well, Apple just answered my question. Yes, it was in fact reasonable to consider a Retina iPad..!


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CAMERON - With a little more than a minute remaining in the first half, Weirton Madonna was looking for the knockout blow but the Cameron defense was up to the task.
Or so it looked.
On a third-and-7, Blue Dons quarterback Ross Comis attempted to scramble, only to have the pocket collapse on him. Despite what looked like a sure sack, Comis avoided the pressure, leapfroged over left tackle Quintin Hukill, cut to his right and went 46 yards for a touchdown and a 33-14 lead.
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LOOKING FOR MORE — Weirton Madonna's Elliott Nero, who returned a punt for a touchdown, looks for a hole during Friday's 60-14 victory over host Cameron. Nero also ran for two scores.
-- Art Limann
It was that kind of night for Weirton Madonna in a 60-14 drubbing of Cameron on Friday at Dragon Stadium.
''It was pretty crazy,'' Comis said. ''I was getting pressured and I was just trying to get out of there. Quintin was down on the ground so I jumped over him and I saw a little daylight. My receivers did the rest by blocking downfield.''
Added Madonna coach Doug Taylor: ''I just told the kids that Ross learned how leapfrog. He is just an athlete and (Friday night) was a big night for Ross Comis.''
Fact Box
Weirton Madonna 60, Cameron 14
Weirton Madonna20 13 13 14 - 60
Cameron6 8 0 0 - 14
W: Hypes 26 pass from Comis (Green kick)
W: Biondillo 7 pass from Comis (Green kick)
C: Starcher 9 run (kick blocked)
W: Nero 85 kickoff return (kick failed)
C: Yoders 5 run (Walker pass from Routt)
W: Ewusiak 14 pass from Comis (Green kick)
W: Comis 46 run (pass failed)
W: Hypes 41 punt return (pass failed)
W: Nero 35 run (Green kick)
W: Nero 9 run (Green kick)
W: Antinone 19 run (Green kick)
RUSHING: Weirton Madonna 41-344-4td (Comis 16-124-td, Nero 11-126-2td, Antinone 5-42-td, Ossman 7-41, Maus 2-11); Cameron 41-123-2td (Starcher 10-59-td, Yoders 11-38-td, Ward 3-22, Mackey 5-18, Knight 1-3, Routt 11-(-17))
PASSING: Weirton Madonna 12-15-120-3td-x (all by Comis); Cameron 9-23-80-2x (Routt 9-22-80-2x, Walker 0-1)
RECEIVING: Weirton Madonna 12-120-3td (Hypes 3-38-td, Biondillo 3-19-td, Bowser 1-18, Ossman 1-18, Ewusiak 1-14-td); Cameron 9-80 (Hart 3-33, Walker 3-31, Williams 2-17, Starcher 1-(-1))
FIRST DOWNS: Weirton Madonna 16, Cameron 13
PENALTIES: Weirton Madonna 7-90. Cameron 4-25
FUMBLES: Weirton Madonna 1-0; Cameron 1-0
Comis rushed for 124 yards and a score, while also throwing for 120 and touchdown passes to Garrett Hypes, Marcello Biondillo, and Tyler Ewusiak.
His exceptional night almost overshadowed that of teammate Eliott Nero.
After Cameron cut the deficit to 14-6 in the first quarter following a Devin Starcher 9-yard touchdown run, Nero took the ensuing kickoff 85 yards for a 20-6 lead.
Nero rushed for 126 yards and two scores to go along with the kickoff return.
''That is a good football team and I don't see them losing them to anyone else the rest of the year,'' Cameron coach Jim Rogers said. ''We missed three opportunities to score in the first half when we were moving the football.
''We tried to come up with some defenses that would slow them down. The first quarter, I thought we played pretty darn good football. But we don't have the confidence yet if something goes wrong. We just aren't there yet but that doesn't mean we can't be there.''
Hunter Yoders scored on a 5-yard run midway through the second to make the score 20-14, but following another good return by Nero that put Madonna in good field position, Comis hit Ewusiak from 14 yards out to make it a two-score game again.
The Blue Dons defense got to Cameron quarterback Logan Routt six times and limited standout receiver Mark Walker to three catches for 31 yards.
Hypes added a 41-yard punt return for a score in the third quarter to end any hopes of a Cameron comeback. Reserve quarterback Anthony Antinone scored a late touchdown to complete the scoring.
''It's important for us to answer a score whether it be special teams or a long drive,'' Taylor said. ''I think the kids took it to heart. They did a really good job.''