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I just installed Xcode 4. Everything seemed fine, but then, after poking around, I found that the ability to create Python and Java (And probably more) projects was missing. I asked Apple in apple store chat (on their web site) and was told that Python and Java are supported. However, I can't find where to make a Python or Java project - only C based files (and some more miscellaneous files). Does anyone know how to make Java/Python based files/projects?
I think Xcode 4 does not support Java or python so I would be interested in seeing what the chat said. OSX does support both.
Xcode was never a very good IDE for java or python so I would always try to use something else (except if using PyObjc)
Look on Stack Overflow for suggestions of IDEs
IntelliJ/PyCharm and Eclipse work on OSX as do several others
TextMate is a good editor for Ruby and Python. Tons of bundle's can be added to make it fit your needs.
Nothing has changed with Python support; just drop into the terminal:
You can use Xcode's editor to make .py files, etc.
Check out Quick Python/Developer tips for OSX Lion for more details.
Regarding Java, it's not part of Lion, but that's easy to fix—download the runtime for Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_26 from Apple so you can run the programs you'll be writing and possibly an IDE (like Eclipse) that requires it.
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The 7 Most Horrifying Parasites on the Planet
As soon as your doctor says you've got parasites in your body, you don't need to hear any more details. They're all horrible, right? How can it get worse than little tiny worms or something feeding on your insides?
Actually, it can get way, way worse. As it turns out, there's nothing in nature more creative than a parasite. And we don't mean that in a good way. For instance...
#7. The Guinea Worm Will Make You Do Its Bidding
Technically, your body is full of tiny creatures already. Bacteria, viruses and so on. So really, should we get freaked out when we find out that there's a specific kind of worm that lives under our skin? And should it really bother us that said worm can grow to be longer than your leg?
This brings us to the guinea worm. It starts small, really small. It begins life as a microscopic larva tiny enough to fit inside of the common water flea. Like the elderly residents of Florida, water fleas love to hang out in stagnant pools of water, gossiping and doing water exercises until they are unknowingly ingested by big, thirsty, humans.
So you go swimming and the flea makes its way down your throat. Now, not being adequately equipped to survive the harsh environment of the human stomach, the water flea is dissolved away, leaving the guinea worm larva behind. It finds a soft, fleshy cavity to burrow into and starts growing.
And growing.
About a year after infection, the full sized guinea worm is no longer microscopic, but instead measures two to three goddamned feet long. As long as a three year-old human child.
Being so large, a cramped human body is no longer adequate real estate. So the worm wants to get out, and here's where it gets even weirder. The worm burrows to the surface of the skin and creates a blister, and causes a burning sensation. It does this on purpose, because the worm has figured out that a burning feeling in a limb makes humans want to dunk it in water.
This is exactly what the worm wants. It pokes its wriggling head out of the blister, and releases its foul, milky brew into the water, containing hundreds of thousands more larvae. They are promptly eaten by water fleas and the whole thing starts all over again.
#6. Is That Your Tongue, Or is it Cymothoa Exigua?
On one hand, you can relax because this one doesn't affect humans... as far as we know. On the other hand, it's about the most fucked-up thing you'll ever hear.
Cymothoa exigua is a tiny crustacean that sneaks up on a fish (specifically, a red snapper) and works its way in through the gills. Typical parasite behavior so far.
Then it attaches itself to the base of the fish's tongue, the tongue evidently being the tastiest part of the fish (get it!?). The parasite uses its claws to dig into the tongue and drink the fish's blood--and that's just the beginning.
As cymothoa exigua grows, less and less blood is able to get into the fish's tongue which causes the tongue to slowly atrophy and ultimately fall off--well, not so much "fall off" as pathetically float away, but you know what we mean.
With the tongue dead and gone, the parasite settles in and replaces the lost tongue with its own body. Somehow, cymothoa exigua is able to attach itself to the fish's tongue muscles, allowing the snapper to use it just like a normal tongue, the parasite flapping around as a permanent fixture in the fish's mouth for the rest of its life.
Why does it do this? We don't know, but we're going to go with the commonly held opinion that the cymothoa exigua simply thinks it's funny.
#5. The Horsehair Worm's Side Effect? Suicide.
Imagine you're a happy grasshopper for a moment, joyfully kissing your grasshopper wife and kids goodbye as you leave the house, tiny briefcase in hand, ready to hop to work for the day.
Suddenly, on your way to the office, a sudden urge overtakes you, an urge that cannot be ignored. You obediently follow the siren song to the nearest body of water, and promptly fling yourself in. For weeks afterward, your widowed wife and friends will wonder what could have possibly made a perfectly happy and content grasshopper tragically commit suicide, by drowning no less. Depression? An affair gone wrong? Crushing gambling debts? No, it turns out it was just another strike from the soulless and evil menace known as the horsehair worm.
Resembling a coarse, thick horse hair (well, duh) the horsehair worm infiltrates insects, and sometimes even crabs, as a larva when the insect drinks tainted water. From inside the aforementioned grasshopper, the worm goes to work.
It weasels its way into the body cavity, and nourishes itself on the insect's tissues, sometimes growing up to a foot long. After a time, when the worm has matured, it starts to get horny, as teenagers do, and decides that the time has come to find himself a sexy mate. The problem is, all of the sexiest female worms hang out at the swimming pool club, and he's stuck inside of a prudish grasshopper.
That's a problem easily and dickishly solved by the horsehair worm, however, by simply reprogramming the insect's brain to seek out the nearest body of water and to hop right in, despite the sad fact that grasshoppers, like many other insects, can't swim.
As his former host panics and gasps its last breaths of sweet life, the worm casually slithers out of its anus, bids adieu to the drowning grasshopper and swims in search of the orgies of knotted up worms he's heard so much about.
#4. The Filarial Worm Can Turn You into an Object of Horror
Fucking mosquitoes. As if there weren't enough reasons to hate these living dirty needles, the bastards are responsible for yet more horrifying diseases thanks to the multitude of parasites they unwittingly inject into us every time they feed.
One such parasite is the almost too-weird-to-be-real filarial worm and, yes, it does affect humans.
Nature's douchebag.
After a year spent bumming around in our bodies, the worms mature into adults and finally take up the job they were born to do, by moving into the lymphatic system. Doesn't sound so bad...
Well, here's the thing. The lymphatic system keep excess fluids moving out of your body. It's one of those unnoticed bodily tasks that you don't appreciate until it stop working. Like if, say, a bunch of worms clogged it up. The filarial worm does just that, bunches of them all working hard in the vessels near the lymph nodes, causing those vessels to become obstructed and inflamed. Shit starts backing up, and the tissue starts inflating like a freaking balloon.
Finally, you wind up with massive and debilitating enlargements of the legs and genitals, a condition commonly known as Elephantitis. Goddamn mosquitoes.
Despite his rampant case of filarial worms, this man is still too proud to use only one flip-flop.


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It has become common practice to refer to most meforshim by acronyms of their name (eg Rashi, Rosh, etc.). When and why did this practice start, and is it proper?
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In a sense it goes back at least to the Gemara. R' Sherira Gaon points out that the names of some Amoraim that begin with ר (for example: Rabbah, Rava, Rafram) are actually shortened forms of "Rav" plus their personal name: רב+אבא=רבה (or רבא); similarly רב+אפרים=רפרם; and so forth. Also "Reish" (Lakish) is a similar short form for רבי שמעון.
I don't know when it started (or the answers to the other parts of the question), but I recall seeing "ר״מ במז״ל" in the ר״ן's commentary on the רי״ף (although that was, of course, a more recent reprint, and I don't know what the ר״ן himself wrote).
Perhaps the reason we use a shortcut when referring to their names is in order to cut to the chase and say over their Torah thoughts. The intention of this brevity is in order to show true honor to them by hurrying to say over their wisdom. The implication of this is that if one is just telling over historical facts about them that do not involve their words, spiritual level, or choices then it could be more appropriate to refer to them by their full names. I have not seen this anywhere but it stands to reason.


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We expect you will abide by these following rules if you decide to enter a hand-drawn contest. Failure to do so may result in an automatic disqualification and the entry[s] found violating along with any others you have entered will not be eligible for voting and you will not have any chance to place until the next contest.
No frankendolling! That means taking part[s] of a doll or more, and putting them on your own "doll", much like the movie and book Frankenstein. Please don't do this even with your own work.
No recoloring anything that was not made by you and entering it. This basically categorizes as "theft art." even if you have the original creator's okay, just don't do it.
No doll-makers are allowed to be used in your entry. Not in part or whole, this means you cannot "make" a doll in a doll-maker and place it up here for voting. It is not considered a "hand-drawn" by you and should not be found anywhere in the "Hand-drawn Dolls" area, much less this contest thread.
Unless you get an okay by a current contest running, we ask you make a new doll for each theme. Contests are to give ideas to dollers and allow them to compete with others to see who's idea was stronger and who brought it across in the best way. So please don't use old dolls, even if they have a similar theme used as the one currently running in the contest.
Please do NOT steal any bit of work, whether from a doll here or somewhere else. This goes along with no frankendolling. That means, if a contest holds a certain theme and you see a doll somewhere else that looks similar to what you would expect from the theme, please don't take that idea even if you tweak it a little. If you are inspired by it, that's agreeable. But please note that you were and don't base your entry heavily off of it. Remember, we want to be original.
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You are allowed to enter a maximum of two dolls per contest, unless otherwise stated by the current contest holder.
Please make sure your entry has the current theme! If the theme is based off of flowers, please do not submit an underwater entry!
Please follow other rules the current contest holder may provide.
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If you host a contest and someone wins it, you can enter their contest although you may not place first in it.
No animation is allowed in the contsts, unless the contest is specifically entitled "Animated Dolls" or the contest host requests it. Any Any animated entries will be automatically disqualified.
We expect you to abide by these rules. If you cannot do so, please don't enter in the first place. We want this to be a fun thing and don't need any contestants to disobey the rules. It matters not who you are, whether you are the friend or sibling of an important person around here, we all have to follow these simple rules.
In the contests, the contest holder will set the theme and deadline. Those who wish to enter must create a "doll" with such theme before the deadline and post it in this thread. The contest holder will make awards and judge each doll based on effort, how well it portrays the theme, and quality. This means no judge will choose place just because it is their friend. They must decide these with each entry. If it looks sloppy and rushed compared to another entry, then it may loose points. Although, that sloppy entry may show what the contest holder had in mind for the contest better than the others. And the one with the most effort may not always have the best quality. Keeping these in mind, the judge must place what he or she thinks deserves. It has nothing to do with relations, and you cannot ask where to be placed or suggest. That decision is entirely up to the contest judge. Whoever places first gets to run the next contest, and the others get an award with their name and place on it.
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Since the last contest pretty much fizzled out, I'm going to make a last ditch attempt to revitalise the Handdrawn Contest. I think the main problem is that people who win are trying to see who can post the most complex theme ever; in my experience, people tend to doll better on more simple themes. So this is what I'm going to do with this contest; I hope everyone, from the most experienced to the newest dollers, will enter.
The theme is... Best doll on a set base!
All entrants have to do is make a doll from this base here:
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It can be any of the forward facing poses, and any of the faces; just remember, the doll MUST be made on the base.
You can also let your imagination run wild; any theme is allowed, however, your doll must have at least three of the following:
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You can choose more than three if you like; dolls will be judged on how well you've made use of the base. ^^ No animation or glitter, please; any animated or glittered entries will be disqualified. Please crop and transparentise all entries; if you are unsure about how to do this, PM me.
End date is 3rd July; extensions are possible, if there's a good reason like being on holiday for example.
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I am creating a presentation of slides to be used with a projector. Most of the slides contain lists of incomplete sentences so as to not clutter them up with too much text and overwhelm the audience. I have written the phrases without ending periods. Should they have ending periods?
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I think that this is personal preference.
Periods tend to show that it is the end of the thought. I find them useful in separating out concepts. If all the concepts are related, you might leave the periods off, but really, it's more about personal preference.
The most important thing you can do, though, is be consistent. If you have one slide with periods, all your slides need to have them. Otherwise, the presence or absence of periods may become a distraction.


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Courtesy of BOOM!, CBR presents an exclusive preview of "Deathmatch" #5 by Paul Jenkins and Carlos Magno with a cover by Whilce Portacio. The casualty list grows April 24.
CBR presents an exclusive preview of "Deathmatch" #4, the final chapter in the first arc of Paul Jenkins and Carlos Magno's BOOM! Studios superhero title, in stores March 27.
At this year's Emerald City Comic Con, "Batman/Superman" artist Jae Lee reflects on his winding career path in comics and describes how a spilled bottle of ink got him his first job.
BOOM! Studios kicks off a new campaign to direct fans towards high-profile talent launches like Mike Carey's "Suicide Risk," Paul Jenkins' "Deathmatch" and a mystery project from artist Brian Stelfreeze.
Courtesy of BOOM! Studios, CBR presents an exclusive preview of Paul Jenkins and Carlos Magno's "Deathmatch" #3. The issue sports a cover by Whilce Portacio and goes on sale Feb. 27.
BOOM! Studios has provided CBR with an exclusive preview of "Deathmatch" #2. Paul Jenkins and Carlos Magno's super-powered battle royale to the death continues on January 30.
ROBOT 6's Tim O'Neil spoke with Paul Jenkins about his and artist Carlos Magno's recently-launched "Battle Royale"-style BOOM! Studios series "Deathmatch," the creative freedom the book affords him and more.
Courtesy of BOOM! Studios, CBR has an exclusive preview of "Deathmatch" #1 by Paul Jenkins and Carlos Magno. The "Secret Wars" meets "Battle Royale" slaughterfest begins December 26.
Writer Paul Jenkins discusses bringing his massively successful Kickstarter graphic novel "Fairy Quest" collaboration with Humberto Ramos to BOOM! Studios for single issue-release beginning in February.
"Deathmatch" writer Paul Jenkins spoke with CBR News about the upcoming BOOM! Studios series, inventing a whole new universe of characters and the challenge of pitting them against each other for a battle to the death.
BOOM! Studios has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at Whilce Portacio's cover for "Deathmatch" #1 written by Paul Jenkins with art by Carlos Magno, hitting stores in December.
Paul Jenkins returns with a harrowing tale of a British expat now living in the South of the United States and coming to terms with being a natural marksman with semi-automatic weapons.
Paul Jenkins' newest FLOGGING column takes a trip down memory lane and features tales of his brother, "Hellblazer," and another of Paul's "Ten Most Stupid Injuries."
Paul Jenkins' latest installment of FLOGGING warns us not about the impending Zombie Apocalypse, but about how the Artificial Intelligence we rely on to improve our lives is trying to kill us.
Paul Jenkins and FLOGGING returns to CBR, as the writer waxes poetic on the world that is Twitter and teases details about his and Humberto Ramos' current Kickstarter project, "Fairy Quest." Plus, Betty White!
Novelist and TV writer Gregg Hurwitz is continuing his association with Batman beyond the world of the Penguin as he'll be taking the writing duties on DC Comics "Batman: The Dark Knight" from Paul Jenkins.
DC Comics has announced Peter Milligan will come on as writer for "Stormwatch" beginning with issue #9 in May following his departure from "Justice League Dark."
"Batman: The Dark Knight" writer Paul Jenkins spoke discusses the sexual politics behind the creation of the White Rabbit, Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight Rises" influence and more.
Paul Jenkins' DC Comics workload increases in March as the "Batman: The Dark Knight" writer takes the helm of "Stormwatch" for a two-issue storyline. UPDATE: Paul Cornell announces #6 as his final issue.
Greg McElhatton gives "DC Universe Presents" #1 4 stars, saying the Deadman-starring title by Paul Jenkins and Bernard Chang contains "one of the better [cliffhangers] from the DC re-launch to date."
Writer Paul Jenkins spoke with CBR News about his Deadman story for "DC Universe Presents," exploring the concept of existentialism in the DCU and his and artist Bernard Chang's take on Boston Brand.
Writer Paul Jenkins speaks with CBR about taking over writing duties on DC's "Batman: The Dark Knight," its publishing schedule and the philosophy of the Bat.
David Finch spoke with CBR TV about the reason behind bringing on Paul Jenkins to write his September-relaunching "Batman: The Dark Knight," his artistic influences and more.
DC Comics has provided CBR News with an exclusive first look at the covers and solicitation copy for "Wonder Woman " and "DC Universe Presents" #3.
Augie dips into unread bookshelf for two cool trade paperbacks, one a fun space opera and the other featuring the best Humberto Ramos art of the artist's career!
Marvel Comics has released an advance look at "Ka-Zar" #1, the first issue of Paul Jenkins and Pascal Alixe's new 5-issue miniseries. Return to the Savage Land on June 8!
Marvel has released an advance look at "X-Men: Prelude to Schism" #1 by Paul Jenkins and Robert De La Torre with a cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli. The next major X-Men storyline starts on May 4.
Marvel Comics has released an advance look at the June-debuting "Ka-Zar" miniseries by writer Paul Jenkins and artist Pascal Alixe. The first issue, with a cover by Alixe, roars into comic stores on June 8.
Four mutants will disagree over how to face a crisis that could wipe out all mutantkind in May. CBR News spoke with writer Paul Jenkins about his mini, "X-Men: Prelude," which examines each perspective.
Readers will get a chance to see how diverse the title character can be with the four issue "Thor: Heaven & Earth" miniseries by writer Paul Jenkins and an all-star team of artists. We spoke with Jenkins about the book.
With the series finale hitting stores tomorrow, Paul Jenkins explained to CBR News how his tale of Hulk's upstart son's decision to go toe to toe with Galactus came to be and how it will help lead to next year's "Fall of the Hulks."
His two-year vacation finally over, Paul Jenkins has finally come to light at CBR with his
all new, all different FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE column! Thrills, chills and spills are in store as Paul tells how he landed, well, here!
The writer of such books as "Inhumans," "Wolverine: Origin," "The Darkness," "Hellblazer" and more, Paul Jenkins goes in-depth with CBR News about his long career in comics, and how he almost literally fell into the profession.
After nearly five years of waiting, the showdown between The Darkness and Pitt is finally in stores this week. Writer Paul Jenkins spoke with CBR about the miniseries and why he thinks young Tim makes the characters work together.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo Bhangra, the college's competitive Indian dance team, and a musical theater production produced by a college alumnus will be among performances in the Rochester Fringe Festival Sept. 19-23.
The Geneseo Bhangra Team will perform Sept. 22 at 4:30 at the Rochester Association of Performing Arts (RAPA) East End Theatre, 727 E. Main St. The musical "PICk Love" is scheduled twice during the festival: Sept. 20 at 9 p.m. and Sept 22 at 7 p.m., both in the RAPA East End Theatre.
The Bhangra performance is free. Tickets for the "PICk Love" performances are $15, available online, by phone at 585-454-2100, at the Eastman Theatre Box Office or at the door, if still available. "PICk Love" cast members will present a free musical theater workshop for those age 14 and older Sept. 21 at 7:15 p.m. at the RAPA East End Theatre.
SUNY Geneseo is a higher education partner for the festival, the first of its kind in Rochester. The festival is featuring some 180 performances celebrating the performing and visual arts in the heart of Rochester's East End.
"Geneseo is pleased to partner in this exciting Rochester arts project, which we hope will become a tradition," said Christopher C. Dahl, president of SUNY Geneseo. "The strong support for this diverse festival of the lively arts is an indication of the value that the Rochester community places on the arts and demonstrates how such initiatives enrich our lives and enhance economic development in the region."
Randy Barbara Kaplan, professor of theater, is the faculty adviser for the all-student Bhangra team, which focuses on a type of dance that comes from the Punjabi culture of Pakistan and India. It is a high-energy dance that was originally a celebration of harvest and is now commonly performed at weddings. The team performs at a variety of campus events throughout the year.
Geneseo musical theater alumnus and Rochester native Michael Radi is the composer/librettist of "PICk Love" and will be musical director at the festival performances. David E. Shane will be directing the all-star cast directly from New York City, where Radi lives. The production, which Radi first produced on campus as a student, takes a humorous and heartfelt look at the different stages of love.
The fringe festival concept began in 1947 when eight theater groups turned up - uninvited - to perform at the newly established Edinburgh International Festival. The groups performed at venues they arranged themselves. The following year, Scottish journalist Robert Kemp coined the term "fringe festival" to describe the renegade performers and today, there are more than 200 fringe festivals worldwide.
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5 Iconic Building That Were Barely Saved from Destruction
Most of us only know a country by its buildings: When somebody says "Egypt," we think of the pyramids, and when they say "Russia," we picture those buildings with the towers shaped like onions. There is this very elite class of buildings so iconic that they transcend the country that built them. So it's kind of weird how often we almost let the things get destroyed.
#5. The Eiffel Tower
If Paris ever lost the Eiffel Tower, how would anyone ever know they were in Paris? We've seen movies -- every single scene that takes place there has to include the tower in the background as a cue to the audience. Judging from movies, Paris is just the Eiffel Tower and, like, three cafes.
Yet, once the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889, many a Parisian gazed up at its majesty and moaned about how much they hated the huge, shitty eyesore, the towering metal monstrosity despoiling their precious Parisian skyline as if the Earth had spawned a robotic erection to fuck a cloud. Famed writer Guy de Maupassant was known to often eat lunch in the restaurant in the tower -- not because he liked the food, but because that was the only place in Paris from which he couldn't see the tower. It was even repainted orange to make it look better at one point, because nothing says "beauty and elegance" like an enormous safety cone.
Via Wikimedia Commons
And death rays. Death rays are key.
But the detractors knew that they wouldn't have to put up with it for too long, because the tower was only a temporary construction, planned to be demolished after 20 years.
That's right: When Gustave Eiffel designed the tower, he had to abide by the rules of the "build a huge freaking thing" contest for the 1889 World's Fair (the only reason the tower was built), with one of the stipulations being that it could easily be torn down when the city of Paris got the land back from a 20-year lease. So Eiffel ordered up a metric shit-ton of the cheapest iron he could get his hands on, tinker-toyed it up into the tallest structure the world had ever seen and said, "Eh, that looks like it should last at least 20 years."
"It's just a giant tower in a highly populated city. No need for any safety precautions."
The tower turned out to be the big hit of the exposition, which temporarily quieted its detractors, but when 1909 rolled around and the demolition date loomed, they renewed their harrumphing with a fervor -- they were just itching to finally be rid of the ugly thing. And it looked like they were going to have their way, right up until Eiffel grasped onto a newfangled invention in the hopes that it would help extend the life of his brainchild: radio.
Eiffel had this wild idea that radio seemed like it could become the next big communications device. And since radios needed a tall place to send long-range messages, the world's most hated -- but tallest -- structure seemed like an ideal spot for a radio tower. And it was: Eiffel stuck a radio transmitter at the top of the tower and offered it to the French Ministry of War as a communications base, enabling their messages to make it all the way across the English Channel. With war quickly building up with Germany and Italy, the radio proved to be a useful wartime instant messaging system.
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"It's the Lunchtime Request Hour. Call in some Skynyrd!"
So the radio became the tower's saving grace, and just five years later, it proved to be well worth saving when it became the key transmission point to jam German radio communications, stalling their advance just north of Paris. From then on, the Eiffel Tower has stayed put, with the last serious attempt to dismantle it being in 1967, when a crazed Montreal mayor thought it would be the perfect thing to "borrow" for the World's Fair. But the tower remained, saving many a Hollywood production from having to print the word "Paris" on the screen every time the city is shown.
#4. The White House
Since John Adams first took up residence in it in 1800, the White House in Washington, D.C., has been nearly burned down by British pyromancers, as well as expanded and restored countless times, sometimes looking more battered than Joe Pesci at the end of Casino. But the building has always stood strong as one of the most everlasting symbols of the United States. Except that time it almost collapsed when Harry Truman was in office.
In the late 1940s, Truman and his family began to notice some quirky things about their new home. Like the fact that entire floors swayed when they walked on them. Or how the ceiling would sag down toward the floor, while the floor in turn creaked and groaned to complain about it. You know, the type of things a real estate agent would refer to as "charm." But when a piano nearly fell through the ceiling and Truman's own bedroom and bathroom were sealed off because they were structurally unsafe, Truman decided that maybe it was time to do something about it. So he called in some inspectors to check it out, and the news wasn't good: The White House was on the verge of collapse. According to one inspector, the second floor was only staying up by "force of habit."
The White House in 1941, after the Great Wetness.
It turns out that during the Depression and World War II, the money that normally would have gone into keeping the president's house upright was instead diverted into keeping people from starving and blowing people up, respectively. And when Franklin Delano Roosevelt and others complained about the increasing problems, they were presumably told to suck it up and quit being such babies -- the nation had bigger fish to fry. That, plus years of constantly drilling holes into walls for phone, gas, water and power lines had weakened the building to the point that living in it was like living in a house of sticks, just begging for some asshole wolf to happen by and blow it down. Add in a third floor shoddily renovated by Calvin Coolidge and a brand new balony put in by Truman that threw the whole damn thing off kilter, and the White House was ready to cry uncle.
Via Trumanlibrary.org
"I want it rebuilt in the shape of a dong or a middle finger. Or a giant dongfinger."
So Truman kicked off what we now refer to as the "Truman reconstruction," a massive four-year project during which the entire interior of the building -- everything but the brick outer shell -- was completely demolished and rebuilt. In other words, to keep the building from falling in on itself, they had to do this:
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When you're allowed to drive a bulldozer inside the building, that's usually not a good sign.
Meaning that if you manage to make it through the 12 security checkpoints and three full anal strip searches necessary to tour the building today, much of what you're seeing is sort of like a Hollywood-style remake, filmed nearly 150 years after the original. But the upside is that you're much less likely to die by a Roger Rabbit-style piano drop.
#3. The Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is only famous because its builders were fuckups -- due to an inadequate foundation set in unstable soil, the tower has been slowly tilting perilously closer and closer to nervous ground-based tourists ever since its construction in the 1100s. And on multiple occasions, it came damn close to becoming the Horizontal Tower of Pisa.
Perhaps the closest the tower has ever come to toppling was when the Allies almost gave it some explosive assistance toward the end of World War II. Allied troops advancing on Pisa couldn't figure out how the Germans were managing to stop every attempted advance with such accuracy on such flat terrain -- until someone realized that the Germans had the perfect vantage point in the form of the giant structure jutting up out of the otherwise smooth landscape ("Wait, is that some kind of leaning tower? In Pisa? Why did no one tell us about this?"). The Allied advance came to such a standstill that the top brass decided that, history and culture be damned, they were going to give gravity a hand by simply blowing that fucker over.
Via Wikipedia
Or maybe just sending a few guys to push on the side.
A lone Army sergeant by the name of Leon Weckstein was tasked with the job of calling in an artillery strike on the tower. Weckstein approached to within three quarters of a mile of it, but when he surveyed the full length of the tower through his telescope, he was overwhelmed by its grace and beauty. When he raised the radio to his mouth to call the strike, the words just wouldn't come out. The tower had been spared by a single soldier with a soft spot in his heart for Romanesque architecture and the postcard industry.
But even after the tower's narrow escape from becoming a war casualty, there was still that whole leaning thing to worry about. It turns out that, surprise surprise, a building that's slowly headed for inevitable collapse is not exactly the best thing, and by 1990 the tower was leaning at a 5.5-degree angle and was closed off to the public for the first time ever. When an expert said that the tower could collapse "at any moment," that's when Italy decided that something had to be done about it immediately -- "immediately" being government-speak for "nine years later."
"Oh, that old thing? Can't you just stick a car jack under it or something?"
But even with all their dillydallying, they still managed to beat gravity to the punch and, with a series of gigantic weights, brought the tower back up to just under a 4-degree angle, improving it so much that by 2008 it had stopped moving altogether. Of course, they can't just correct it to be straight again, because then the entire town would vanish off the map.
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The "stack a bunch of shit on it" method, commonly used to fix leaning towers worldwide.


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Doctor Strange #6
The backup feature in "Doctor Strange" #6 has a lot of fun snapshots of a world without magic, which ultimately serves to balance out a slightly dreary and one-note main feature from Jason Aaron, Chris Bachalo and company.
|March 14th, 2016
Doctor Strange #4
In Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo's "Doctor Strange" #4, the good Doctor warns the other magic-users of the impending apocalypse, but his analogy of using magic, punching and puking is what seals the deal.
|January 11th, 2016
Doctor Strange #3
Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo are in perfect sync as they tell a whimsical and all-too-entertaining story in "Doctor Strange" #3, which paves the way for a looming threat.
|December 4th, 2015
Uncanny X-Men #600
Brian Michael Bendis and over a dozen artists gather for a quiet but satisfying finale in "Uncanny X-Men" #600, highlighted with key character moments and flashes of artistic beauty that gel together quite well.
|November 5th, 2015
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1
This is the second "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl" #1 by Ryan North and Erica Henderson to be published in 2015, but -- fortunately -- it's still just as silly and charming as before.
|October 27th, 2015
Doctor Strange #1
In "Doctor Strange" #1, Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo give readers the perfect jumping on point into Stephen Strange's bizarre new world.
|October 7th, 2015
Uncanny X-Men #32
Scott Summers finds himself the king of an empty castle in Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #32.
|March 30th, 2015
Uncanny X-Men #29
"Uncanny X-Men" #29 continues to chug along nicely, as Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo continue to follow up on the world's most powerful mutant, even as Eva takes a dangerous gamble.
|December 29th, 2014
Uncanny X-Men #27
Uber-mutant Matthew Malloy's abilities continue to strengthen even as the X-Men and S.H.I.E.L.D. try to contain him, but Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo give Cyclops the best idea yet.
|October 16th, 2014
Avengers #34.1
In "Avengers" #34.1, writer Al Ewing and artist Dale Keown deliver a Hyperion solo adventure that falls short of being spectacular.
|September 12th, 2014
Uncanny X-Men #25
An absolutely massive cast fills the pages of Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #25 as the X-Men come home for the reading of Professor Xavier's will.
|September 8th, 2014
Uncanny X-Men #22
It's the X-Men vs S.H.I.E.L.D., but only sort of, in Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #22.
|June 23rd, 2014
Uncanny X-Men #21
"Uncanny X-Men" #21 has Brian Michael Bendis start advancing some plots in a good way as the two X-Men teams square off, but Chris Bachalo's art veers from gorgeous to jumbled.
|May 22nd, 2014
Uncanny X-Men #20
Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's story for "Uncanny X-Men" #20 flounders but the issue still looks gorgeous.
|April 21st, 2014
Uncanny X-Men #19.NOW
It's the X-Men Vs. S.H.I.E.L.D.! Oh wait -- no it's not. But Brian Bendis & Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #19.NOW still a good story.
|March 21st, 2014
Wolverine and the X-Men #42
Jason Aaron is joined by a host of past artists to close down "Wolverine and the X-Men" #42, as many of the existing students graduate, while we get a glimpse of a possible future of the school too.
|February 26th, 2014
Uncanny X-Men #17
Chris Bachalo brings some great layouts, tight linework, and attractive coloring to "Uncanny X-Men" #17, even if nothing really happens in Brian Michael Bendis' excessively long-winded and meandering story.
|February 21st, 2014
Uncanny X-Men #16
Magneto takes center stage as he heads to Madripoor on a tip from S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Dazzler in Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #16.
|January 16th, 2014
Uncanny X-Men #14
Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo deliver a blessedly small character story of a new mutant in "Cyclops' army" in "Uncanny X-Men" #14.
|November 22nd, 2013
Uncanny X-Men #13
"Battle of the Atom" has slowed down considerably, and while "Uncanny X-Men" #13 has an interesting revelation about the time-displaced original X-Men, Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's issue is otherwise filler.
|October 16th, 2013
Uncanny X-Men #12
Young Jean Grey and Scott Summers seek sanctuary with present day Cyclops's team, but when "Future Jean Grey" show up things get even more complicated in Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #12.
|September 19th, 2013
Uncanny X-Men #9
Dazzler is sent on her first field mission for SHIELD, only to encounter her old friends turned new foes in Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #9.
|August 2nd, 2013
Uncanny X-Men #8
Writer Brian Michael Bendis uses his gift for gab to bring readers up to speed in the X-Men's world in "Uncanny X-Men #8, and penciller/colorist Chris Bachalo returns to bring a pleasant, quirky look back to the title.
|July 11th, 2013
Emerald City of Oz #1
"Emerald City of Oz" #1 gives us a returning villain in the form of the dangerous Nome King, even as Dorothy, Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and Toto emigrate to Oz to live forever.
|July 5th, 2013
Uncanny X-Men #4
Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #4 could easily be subtitled "Ripped From The Gutters of "All-New X-Men" #10" -- and it's exceedingly clever.
|April 12th, 2013
Uncanny X-Men #3
"Uncanny X-Men" #3 by Brian Bendis and Chris Bachalo continues the upward trend in quality for the series as the Avengers come a-knocking.
|March 15th, 2013
Uncanny X-Men #2
"Uncanny X-Men" #2 by Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo delves into the mind and motivations of Emma Frost, before moving the plot towards the new student recruits and the dangers that Cyclops' team must face to keep them.
|March 4th, 2013
Uncanny X-Men #1
Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo take readers behind the scenes of the new mutant rebellion as Cyclops continues to build his team and a mysterious figure feeds S.H.I.E.L.D all his secrets in "Uncanny X-Men" #1.
|February 14th, 2013
In "A+X" #2, the new issue of the new Marvel NOW! anthology series, Chris Bachalo teams up Rogue and the Black Widow, while Peter David and Mike Del Mundo get Kitty Pryde and Tony Stark together for... a job interview?!
|November 27th, 2012
Wolverine & the X-Men #16
Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo bring an odd tale about (and from the perspective of) Kade Kilgore, King of the Hellfire Club, and in one way or another, a future player in the lives of the X-Men.
|September 14th, 2012
Wolverine & The X-Men #12
Another tie-in issue to the "Avengers Vs. X-Men" event that drags down an otherwise solid book.
|June 28th, 2012
Wolverine & the X-Men #10
Cyclops drops by the Jean Grey school to have a chat with Wolverine in an "Avengers vs. X-Men" tie-in issue.
|May 14th, 2012
Wolverine & the X-Men #9
The Jean Grey School prepares for the arrival of The Phoenix Force on Earth.
|April 19th, 2012
Wolverine & the X-Men #8
"Wolverine & The X-Men" #8 ties up a loose end from last issue so that "Avengers vs. X-Men" can begin its tie-in shortly.
|April 4th, 2012
Wolverine & The X-Men #3
All heck breaks loose when Krakoa attacks the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
|December 22nd, 2011
Wolverine & The X-Men #2
Wolverine and the X-Men come under attack from the Hellfire Club.
|November 28th, 2011
Wolverine & The X-Men #1
Wolverine and Kitty Pryde, with the help of Beast, Iceman, and some more junior X-Men are opening the Grey School. As expected, the first day is not going so smoothly.
|October 26th, 2011
Avengers #13
"Did you just heave in your own mask?"
|May 18th, 2011
X-Men #10
It's not bad, but you're not getting enough bang for your buck here.
|May 1st, 2011
X-Men #9
A handful of X-Men and Spider-Man continue the hunt for some missing kids and then battle sewer lizards.
|March 24th, 2011
X-Men #8
"X-Men" is already in a sophomore slump.
|February 26th, 2011
X-Men #7
The X-Men head to New York for a little superheroic outreach.
|January 31st, 2011
X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Storm and Gambit #1
Storm and Gambit attempt to steal the body of Dracula.
|August 30th, 2010
Amazing Spider-Man #630
The Lizard sheds his human skin to take on Spider-Man once again.
|May 9th, 2010
Dark Avengers Annual #1
What's Noh-Varr been doing since he fled Avengers Tower? We find out in this very good annual by Bendis and Bachalo.
|December 2nd, 2009
Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1
Reed and Bachalo pit Venom, the "Dark Spider-Man," against Spider-Man's natural enemy: J. Jonah Jameson.
|June 29th, 2009
New Avengers #51
The Avengers settle some team business while Dr. Strange approaches Wiccan with the offer of a lifetime. Plus, Chris Bachalo joins Billy Tan on art.
|March 25th, 2009
Spider-Man: Brand New Day -- Extra! #1
Three stories that act as teasers for upcoming arcs, but they're good enough to stand on their own.
|August 4th, 2008
Amazing Spider-Man #557
While the Mayan god-king may not matter in the long run, Chris Bachalo's astounding artwork certainly does.
|April 16th, 2008
The Amazing Spider-Man #555
Zeb Wells returns to Spider-Man, rounding out the initial team of Brand New Day writers, with Chris Bachalo making his debut on the character.
|April 4th, 2008


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Knitter's Spotlight: Handknit Socks
I've always thought of socks as great way to express my personality. With the exception of holiday socks (always in style), my preferences have changed a lot over the years. When I was little, my socks were white with lots of ruffles. In my early teens, I mostly wore ankle socks with cute prints. During college, I loved to show off my collection of colorful knee-highs at cheerleading practice. And when I was working as a reporter, I didn't care what my socks looked like as long as they were dry and warm!


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I have a
.psd file with a
96px x 96px resolution. Now I want to save this as four
.png files with different resolutions such as
36px x 36px,
48px x 48px,
72px x 72px and
96px x 96px. Instead of adjusting the image size manually four(4) times and saving as option, can I automate this somehow?
I have a
Not a complete solution, but this might help someone who's come here from Google.
If you save with the
I do this quite often when I need a couple of different sizes for an image, although as the other responses have noted, if you are designing icons, use vectors, it'll make your life so much easier.
How many times do you need to export the icon? If it's just the one icon, your best option is probably just to draw everything using vectors and layer styles, resize the document, make any adjustments required and save the PNG (optionally keeping the PSD for future exporting).
If you need to repeat the process many times, I'd recommend setting everything up as a sprite sheet with slices.
Here's something I wrote on the topic (includes many exporting techniques): Exporting from Photoshop.
When designing icons, you often need to manually tweak the smaller sizes individually — might be worth keeping that in mind as you build all the sizes.
With Photoshop CC, there is now a feature called Photoshop Generator which is designed to create multiple images
You can read about Generator here:
An excerpt:
Try this script: http://www.appsbynight.com/2012/09/17/create-every-ios-icon-for-your-app-with-a-photoshop-script/
It's designed to create Apple icons, but the developer provides the source. You could easily modify it to fit your needs.
Here's the direct link to GitHub: https://gist.github.com/appsbynight/3681050
This is an ExtendScript file. Extendscript is a variant of JavaScript that allows you to manipulate Adobe applications. In the case of this script, it essentially runs the Save for Web command for each item in the icons list.
For your needs, you can simply edit the icons variable like so:
Then place the file in the Scripts directory within your installation of Photoshop, e.g Applications/Adobe Photoshop {version}/Presets/Scripts (Mac)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop {version}\Presets\Scripts (Windows)
Restart Photoshop after adding the file.
Run the script from File > Scripts within Photoshop. The Script file name will appear in the list (minus the .jsx extension).
As Marc mentioned above, you're probably better off scaling vectors in the document and using sprite sheets.
The one thing you should avoid is scaling during Save for Web as Maxism suggests. I wrote a post comparing the results of different techniques and Save for Web consistently produced assets with artifacts and half-pixels: Scaling down and exporting assets in Photoshop.
I also made a Photoshop script that automates the process of exporting those assets: EXPORT TO ANDROID PHOTOSHOP SCRIPT.
Hope this helps.
There's no good way to go from 96 down to 36 automatically. Even at 48 you're going to see your design start to fall apart.
The only benefit would be if you have a lot of icons to export in this way and you plan to come back and clean them up. You can record it as an action or use jsx, if you're so inclined.
For your particular design, I would experiment with going down in steps or exporting each version from the original 96px version. Usually steps are best but on some designs it can introduce progressive amounts of distortion.
Create your icons in mdpi and use this Photoshop Action to export it in ldpi, hdpi and xhdpi. From mdpi to xhdpi it works good, but ldpi and hdpi looks a bit blurred.
A nice Mac Program called "Ship it" does exactly what you're asking: Export an image into Multiple Sizes/Formats. I've used it. Here's the link on the Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shipit!/id492043869
Try this http://blog.mready.net/2013/07/dg-photoshop-action-dpi-resizing/.
It's a plugin which can be used for I think your purpose with the resolutions that you say. I use it for Android icons.
There is a new option in Photoschop CC 2014. It's called "Generate Assets" it's under "file" and you can choose 0.25x, 0.5x, 2x, 3x and you can configure self the dimensions. It will export your layers to any fileformat and in different dimensions (if you want to).


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Ben Gockel thought he'd perhaps developed Lyme disease from a tick bite when he started feeling sluggish a couple years ago.
Turns out, the 36-year old has a problem with his heart. In June 2010, he was diagnosed with Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyophathy and congestive heart failure. Doctors speculate a virus might have settled in his heart, leading to the problems. A couple months ago, they told him they'd done all they could and Ben would need a heart transplant.
Now, family and friends are rallying around Ben and his wife, Katy Jo. With their help, the couple is organizing fundraisers to offset costs that could range anywhere from $8,000 to $200,000 or more.
One such fundraiser is coming up Aug. 27 at the St. Marys ballfields. A softball tournament will feature several teams facing off. Team registration is closed, but people who want see about filling out a squad should contact Allissa at 785-608-9808 or email@example.com.
In addition, a fund for Ben is set up through the National Transplant Assistance Fund. Send contributions to:
NTAF Midwest/West Heart Transplant Fund
In Honor of Ben Gockel
150 N. Radnor Chester Rd., Suite F-120
Radnor, PA 19087
Donations also can be made online at www.ntafund.org and search "Ben Gockel" in the "find a patient" box. Credit card donations by phone can be made by calling 800-642-8399.
The couple says they are grateful for all the help and are overwhelmed by the support.
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Suppose you are running a portfolio of quantitative strategies and that you develop a new potential strategy to be added to the mix. Assume for simplicity that the new strategy is independent of the existing strategy. The new strategy relies on data which is available going back X years. You proceed by backtesting and optimizing the parameters of the new strategy on an "in-sample" portion of your dataset, while reserving an "out-of-sample" portion for validation. The new strategy's weight in your portfolio will be determined by its out-of-sample performance. Your goal is to maximize your overall Sharpe ratio. What is the ideal ratio of in-sample length to out-of-sample length?
Interestingly enough there is no scientific theory that suggests what fraction of the data should be assigned to training and testing and results can be very sensitive to these choices.
From Quantitative Trading by Ernest Chan (p. 53-54):
For more sophisticated methods see Evidence-based technical analysis by David Aronson p. 321-323.
I would add that once the strategy has been revised to reflect such data it is no longer "out-of-sample" or in other words: If you optimize your strategy "out-of-sample" you will incur data snooping bias via curve fitting nevertheless! Or as Aronson puts it:
I think it depends on many factors: the characteristics of the market, the consistency of the market, the number of parameters, the optimization criteria and methodology, the time frame (whether it trades weekly, hourly, by minute, etc), and even the trading strategy.
One approach to answer this question would be to test on many different assets and compare the results of different in sample/out of sample ratios. For example, if you have a system that trades large cap stocks, then maybe you could test different in sample/out of sample ratios on 100 large cap stocks. Then analyze the average and distribution of Sharpe Ratios for each in sample/out of sample ratio.
I would be looking for not only high average Sharpe Ratio but few low outliers.
By the way, due to the many problems of in sample/out of sample testing, I wonder if there are other approaches that have higher likelihood of producing profitable systems.
Another approach is to use k fold or leave one out cross-validation by splitting the time series into a series of "chunks" according to the k value you want to use.


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So is Woot going to start selling shirts on Amazon now?
Like everyday I took a look at what Woot was selling at Amazon. Today I noticed they were selling a shirt (http://www.amazon.com/Shirt-Woot-1971-Floppy-Diskette-T-shirt-Large/dp/B007Q4KSEQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&m=A1KWJVS57NX03I&s=generic&qid=1334055128&sr=1-6).
Has anyone seen this before? This is not intended to be a deal, but instead is being asked as a question.
What do you think?
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Interesting find. I thought maybe it was a marketplace item, but it looks like it's on a regular amazon page. with the price inreases and quality issues, this may be another big change to the woot world
@minxa1: Yeah, I'm wondering if we will continue to see this. Would be interesting.
Good find!
It does indeed look like a normal Amazon page, but this doesn't even have "fulfillment by Amazon" nor a Prime option.
It looks like a "marketplace" item. It says "ships and sold by woot" and then links to their Amazon store (which leaves a lot to be desired). http://www.amazon.com/gp/aag/main?ie=UTF8&isAmazonFulfilled=&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&isCBA=&asin=&seller=A1KWJVS57NX03I
Very interesting find. Maybe this is just some new "overstock" store they're experimenting with. If this is the case, so long woot-off!
This could be a sneaky way for woot to sell derby winning shirts without paying the commission to the people who designed the shirt.
Let's keep our eyes open and complain if any derby shirts appear for sale anywhere other than on shirt.woot.
Since Amazon acquired Woot a couple of years ago... It was bound to happen
Next thing you know we'll have to order three shirts on the first night just to qualify for free super saver shipping. Yikes!
Wow...that is a good find. This was/is a test of the process for putting shirts on Amazon. No final decision yet if we'll pursue, but to alleviate any concern: we will continue to pay artists for any shirts sold regardless of on the Shirt.Woot site on in the Amazon marketplace.
@joelterrific: Thanks for the heads up!
@joelterrific: Thanks for the clarification and answer.
this guy really is terrific! @joelterrific
lol what the heck? Some comments on this thread disappear and appear if I refresh enough times...
@lobstrain: I noticed that. At first I thought I was going crazy.
woot,scamazon,buy.com....it's alll the same jeff bezo BS.
@mudman2007: And yet, here you are. With a yellow triangle, no less.
Know whats best about this?
Amazon Gift Cards!!!!
@gojomoso: And if you have an Amazon Rewards credit card, you can potentially get something for free* using the points.
@joelterrific - If the shirt gets reckoned on shirt.woot, will the Amazon page for the shirt still remain available? Or will the Amazon product page disappear?


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Apparently, electrical charge is transported by the ions dissolved in water, is this true?
Is sea water more conductive than pure water because "electrical current is transported by the ions in solution"?
Yep. Pure water is an extremely bad conductor of electricity, it has very few ions. Water with an electrolyte (like NaCl) is a much better conductor of electricity; as the ions can migrate. Migration of ions is just like migration of electrons. If you place an imaginary surface inside the cell, there will be net negative charge crossing over to the positive terminal and vice versa. This is just like a current. Since there is net current inside, its conducting.
The equivalent conductance (a loco* chemistry concept) of a solution is simply the sum of the conductances of its constituent parts (Kohlrausch law). Here, $\Lambda$ denotes equivalent conductance of a portion of the solution, and $\lambda$ is the same for ions. Just a notation.
For pure water, $$\Lambda_{H_2O}=\lambda_{H^+}+\lambda_{OH^-}$$ Now, since the concentrations of $H^+$/$OH^-$ are small ($10^{-7} M$ at STP), the $\lambda$s and thus $\Lambda_{H_2O}$ are pretty tiny. For water with salt in it, we get $$\Lambda_{soln}=\Lambda_{H_2O}+\Lambda_{NaCl}=\lambda_{H^+}+\lambda_{OH^-}+\lambda_{Na^+}+\lambda_{Cl^-}$$
Since $NaCl$ nearly dissociates completely, we get large $\lambda$s, and thus $\Lambda_{soln}$, which can be related to conductivity (in the aforementioned loco way).
So, pure/distilled water is an extremely bad conductor, while impure water with ions in it is a good conductor
* Loco because they assume a 1 m cell throughout, and don't keep the necessary $\text{m}^{-1}$ or whatever in their units. Due to this fixing of parameters, yes, we get that $\text{Area of plates}=\text{volume}$, which lets us relate it to concentration; but this gives us predictions for a specific case; when length of the cell is 1 m only. For some reasons these predictions are blindly applied to the general case. The whole thing gets confusing if you try to visualise it.
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Basically, the Japanese style of artwork has come to us with great stories, interesting illustrations and characters we can relate to. The artwork is anime, short for animation. This includes the cartoons, movies and video games. Manga is the style of written work from Japan. Manga is the Japanese word for comics. Manga and Anime are easily confused because they are actually so similar.
Both manga and anime are produced in series. This means there is always something new coming up. Characters can be normal or have special powers. Most of them are a lot like normal human being with the same sort of feelings and experiences we have. Anime and manga are also like a grown-up picture book. Instead of having to visualize what a character looks like in your head, you can see him or her in every frame. The really great part is that the story the characters tell is something like you would never find in your little sister's books.
The same is true of Manga. True Manga comes from Japan and is written in Japanese. The books have been translated to English though so those of us over here can enjoy them, too. Some books are now written and published in the US or UK since the demand has grown so much in the last few years.
Anime is all over the television and internet. If you have a really good librarian in your school or neighborhood, you may be able to check some manga books out without having to buy them. One word of caution, though. Over in Japan, manga and anime include stories and pictures for all age groups. That means you might find something great for kids and teens, but you might also stumble on something that is made only for adults. Ask a friend for some good suggestions and you'll be well on your way to your very own Anime addiction.


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Fly is a Flying-type move introduced in Generation I. It is found in HM02 in all generations. It allows the player to fly to previously visited towns, and can also be used in Battle. The Pokémon flies up on one turn, avoiding the opponents attack, then it swoops down on the next turn, dealing a good amount of damage.
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Maochun Yu is Professor of East Asia and Military History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. He is the author of The Dragon's War and numerous articles on modern China and the military and intelligence history of World War II and the Cold War. He is a resident of Annapolis, MD.
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STEUBENVILLE - Little Caesars figures to have a local franchise up and operating by the third quarter of this year.
Bob Mazziotti, vice president of franchise development, said the company is in the process of finalizing arrangements.
"It's dead certain we're going to be there," he said. "We think we've got the right people, but that's being finalized as we speak. We will be there. Our real estate team is already there, starting to identify opportunities."
Mazziotti said Detroit-based Little Caesars, founded in 1959, chose Steubenville because of "demographics and because of the products that are there today. We think the market is ready for us."
Little Caesars makes its dough daily, from scratch, in store.
"Every store makes its own dough," he said. "We use a blended cheese - mozzarella and muenster - that's fresh, never frozen, and vine-ripened tomatoes from California processed and packaged for us. When you bring that type of quality with a $5 hot-and-ready pizza, it creates quite a demand."
Its stores are carryout only, but that's by design: Considered innovative when the first Little Caesars opened 53 years ago, nowadays sit-down pizza parlors are becoming passe.
"Today, pizza is basically eaten in the home," he said. "People don't go out for pizza like they used to, it's basically a dinner product."
He said there's a strong market for Little Caesars, which owns the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers.
"You have to wow the customer, and you do that with a quality product and a very strong value," he said, adding the typical Little Caesars pizza place takes up about 1,200 to 1,400 square feet.
"We look to locate in shopping centers that have residential retail, maybe a cleaners, a grocery store, a bank. We become part of that retail residential, become part of what the community shops for. ... While people are out and about grabbing their groceries, milk and whatever, they can pick up a pizza on the way home."
He said the Steubenville location "should be open, probably in the third or fourth quarter," he said.
While the chain doesn't talk numbers, he did say Little Caesars has locations worldwide, including Aruba, Canada, Egypt, El Salvador, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Turkey.


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In WordPress, How Does One Change The Meta-Description Of The Home-Page?
Honestly, I have searched low and high for the answer to this in WordPress. Went to every page in the back-office to no avail.
In Google search results it repeats my company slogan twice and that is all. Nobody will click on this as it looks ridiculous. How and where do I change this?
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Water Main Floods Subway
An aging water main burst near Madison Square Park late Friday morning, flooding Broadway and Fifth Avenue, and disrupting subway service in the center of Manhattan through the afternoon.
Water pouring out of the broken pipe flooded the 23rd Street station of the N, Q and R trains, which were halted from Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn up to 57th Street in Midtown for much of the day.
By early evening, Metropolitan Transportation Authority work crews had pumped out the station, which flooded over 1,000 feet of its length at a depth that submerged parts of the third rail, a spokesman said.
Water surged from the broken main at 750 gallons a minute, the spokesman estimated, and by the time its flow had been stopped, all four local and express tracks of the Broadway line subway tunnel had been submerged in water, requiring the MTA to shut down power to that section of the system.
The Q express train resumed service at 6 p.m., but delays and re-routings were expected to continue into the night as signal and safety equipment was repaired and brought back online.
The N train was still running as an express through Manhattan and into Brooklyn, and the R train was diverted onto the Sixth Avenue line, sharing space with the F. Both local trains were expected to be restored to regular service later Friday.
The break disrupted business and halted traffic around Madison Square, and brought crowds of onlookers who watched construction crews hack into the street, to prepare the area for repairs.
The Italian food hall Eataly, a Flatiron fixture that lies right across from the water main break, had to close from 11:30 a.m. to noon since there was no running water.
"The water was rushing right at the building," said general manager, Sara Abbas. "We ordered sandbags, which were on their way, but we canceled because the Department of Environmental Protection assured us we'd be fine." The market didn't flood, and Eataly reopened for afternoon customers.
Ms. Abbas had been planning to take the R to visit her mom in Sunnyside, Queens, Friday evening, but didn't anticipate the trains to be running in time. "Guess I'll be taking a cab."
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What open source tools allow for the creation of EMFs that conserve transparency in ArcMap? I tried VeryPDF and Any DWG to Image Converter, neither on actually gave me a vector file that provided transparency. Adobe Illustrator is a bit pricey when all I want to do is convert CAD blocks to vector symbols to use as ArcMap markers. Anyone know of a good software for this purpose?
You can use Inkscape. It's a very powerful vector design Opensource software that will allow you create and export transparent vector symbols in to emf files.
You will then be able to import (or copy/paste) it in arcMap maintaining its transparency.
You can also fill the background with a color of your desire by Right-click Image > Properties > Frame > Background > Color.
Based on my experience ArcMap will not honor any EMF transparencies irregardless of which program you use. (Backround wil always render white) If it is only background you want to remove and preserve the EMF as vector, you can use ArcMap itself to create the EMF.
An EMF created in ArcMap however will render background fully transparent. If you try to make any layer transparent the EMF will render the backround white.
You can import the CAD drawing you want into an arcmap document, export as EMF and you should be good to go so long no layer has a partial transparency. Background in ArmMap has to be set to none and I also remove any frames.
Although you cannot set partial transparencies, the result is a fully scalable vector graphic.
Here are a few examples of my company logo drawn in ArcMap and exported as EMF then placed as image in ArmMap - notice the background is transparent. The north rose is a fairly complex EMF, there are several layers in that particular map document including layer rotations and annotations and the resulting EMF draws and scales flawlessly. (Notice the circled rose - I just copied pasted and enlarged)
hope this helps
One solution could be to insert a point with the drawing tool bar. Properties-Change Symbol - Edit symbol - Type of symbol set to Picture Marker Symbol. Select your image. If it already has a transparent background -e.g. PNG no more action is needed, but otherwise you need to define the transparent color in the Symbol Property Editor (transparency color needs to be the same as the background color of the image to insert).


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6 Scientific Discoveries That Laugh in the Face of Physics
As we've pointed out before, there are some startlingly simple questions that science can't answer. And then there are the special occasions where the universe up and does a freaking magic trick that seems to be designed by an unjust, all-powerful entity dedicated to making scientists slowly pull off their glasses while saying, "What in the hell?" For instance ...
#6. The Sun Can Make Stuff Hotter Than Itself
We intuitively understand the direction that energy travels -- from the thing with energy to the thing with less energy. That's why the second law of thermodynamics is among the first things you learn in science class that makes you say, "Well, shit, I could have told you that." If you're too hot, you move away from the campfire, not toward it. You don't need science to tell you that heat energy travels from the hot thing to the less-hot thing. Well, everywhere in the universe except the sun.
That asshole always has to be the center of attention.
There's a discrepancy between what science says should happen and what the sun actually does, and it's known as the sun's coronal heating problem. Essentially, when heat leaves the sun, the laws of thermodynamics just totally break down for a few hundred miles, and nobody can quite figure out why.
The facts are pretty straightforward; the sun's surface sits comfortably at a blazing temperature of roughly 5,500 degrees Celsius. No problem there. However, as the heat travels from the sun's surface to the layer a few hundred miles away from its surface (known as the sun's corona), it rises to a temperature of 1,000,000 degrees Celsius. Which is 995,000 degrees Celsius, or 1,791,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1 billion gigawatts per 1/4 gigabyte jiggawatt hour (metric) hotter than it has any right to be.
He's a loose cannon!
The heat source (the giant ball of nuclear explosions and plasma) should be the hottest thing, not the empty vacuum of space around it. This is the only instance in the known universe where the thing doing the heating is actually cooler than the thing it's heating.
And it's been plaguing solar physicists worldwide since they discovered the little disagreement reality has with our universe in 1939. How is it possible that the area around the sun is about 200 times hotter than its surface? It's not, according to the second law of thermodynamics and everything else we're supposed to know about how the universe works.
Would anything this awesome-looking follow rules dreamed up by some nerds?
#5. When You Look Closely, Gravity Stops Making Sense
There's a certain order to the world. Mice get eaten by wolves, motorcyclists get demolished by 18-wheelers and gravity presides over the whole crazy parade, keeping it stuck to the ground like a boss. Understanding where forces rank compared with one another allows us to predict and explain all the different ways in which they will interact. The problem is that gravity, the one force that's involved in just about every interaction that happens here on Earth, is kind of all over the map.
It's the functional alcoholic of forces.
When you look at it up close, gravity is decidedly on the mouse side of the hierarchy. Rub a balloon on your wool sweater (nice sweater, nerd) and pass it over a piece of paper. The tiny electromagnetic charge your sweater transferred to the balloon will lift the paper off the table, overcoming the Earth's gravitational pull. That's the same gravitational pull that tethers the moon in orbit around Earth. Up close, gravity gets its ass handed to it by a bond that's about as strong as worn-out Velcro. But over a distance of 234,000 miles, it acts like the chain on a mace being swung around the head of a planet-sized Viking.
Gravity: It'll smash your head in and violate your women.
This is what's known as the Higgs mass hierarchy problem. Gravity has a tendency to wreak havoc on scientific hierarchies because the closer you look at it, the more likely it is to disappear. It's predictable when you take a step back and watch it yank things out of midair, but on closer inspection, it completely vanishes. In fact, at the realm of particle physics, gravity is 10 ^ 32 times weaker than the second weakest force.
The Earth's mass is 5.97 x 10 ^ 24 kilograms, which allows it to generate the supremely powerful and inescapable force that has held you on the surface of the Earth since you popped out of your mom. The fact that the stray electricity hanging out on your sweater could counteract it makes as much sense as a starving African child being able to bench-press a skyscraper.
The second she puts a hat on, the tides will be fucked.
#4. Satellites Speed Up for No Reason
Imagine you're pushing a baby on a swing set. At a certain point his squeals of delight start to turn anxious, so you stop pushing him, muttering something about it being true what they say about babies being little cowards. Once you stop pushing the baby, instead of slowing to a stop, he starts swinging higher and higher. The baby is just sitting there, not moving, and yet he appears to be gaining momentum. Your only option is to pull out your phone and curse the Ghostbusters theme for not including a phone number, because the universe is suddenly behaving like it's been run backward through a film projector.
The universe was slow to go digital.
This might be because you remember the law of conservation of energy, which says that energy can't be created or destroyed, just transferred. So you'll never get more energy out of something than what you started with unless you add it. Unfortunately, one of the simplest laws of physics has to have an asterisk next to it. Go down to the bottom of the page and you'll find something along the lines of "This is usually the case, but occasionally the universe gets a hankering to let an object passing by the Earth just up and gain speed for no real reason. We assume this is because someone somewhere is fucking with us."
Reality makes so much sense if you just assume God likes to get fucked up as often as the rest of us.
It's called the flyby anomaly because there are multiple instances where NASA's Galileo, NEAR, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft have experienced an unexplainable increase in speed over massive distances. It's always when they're passing Earth at enough of a distance to not be affected by its gravitational pull, yet they somehow pick up speed, like some universal force is inside stepping on the accelerator.
"Is this where we speed up for no particular reason?" "Nope, the blue one." -- Whoever's screwing with us.
The anomaly was only first noticed in 1980, and science has spent the ensuing decades trying to figure out what the hell is going on. They've accounted for every type of energy that's ever been discovered. So far, they don't even have a real theory. So we could suggest that the spacecraft are just showing off for the home crowd, and that would be as good as anything science has come up with so far.
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Right after the test, you will be taken to a recovery area where nurses will care for and observe you. Usually you will stay in the recovery area for 1 to 4 hours, and then you will be moved to a hospital room or you will go home. In addition to any special instructions from your doctor, your nurse will explain information to help you in your recovery. You will likely go home with a sheet of care instructions and who to call if you have any problems.
It is normal to have a small amount of vaginal bleeding for a day or so after a hysteroscopy. You also may have some mild belly pain if a gas was used during the test. This should go away in 24 hours. You can take acetaminophen (such as Tylenol) to relieve the pain.
Follow any instructions your doctor gave you. Call your doctor if you have:
- Heavy vaginal bleeding or discharge (more than a normal menstrual period).
- A fever.
- Severe belly or pelvic pain or cramping.
- Problems urinating.
- Shortness of breath.
- Vomiting.
A hysteroscopy is a way for your doctor to look at the lining of your uterus. He or she uses a thin viewing tool called a hysteroscope. Your doctor will talk to you about what he or she sees at the time of the hysteroscopy.
The inside of the uterus looks normal in size and shape.
Openings to the fallopian tubes look normal.
The size or shape of the inside of the uterus does not look normal.
Scar tissue is present in the uterus.
Uterine polyps, fibroids, or other growths are present.
A misplaced intrauterine device (IUD) is found and removed.
The uterine openings to one or both fallopian tubes are closed.
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GENESEO, N.Y. -- The Geneseo Wind Ensemble and Thursday Night Jazz Ensemble will perform a joint concert Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. in the college's Wadsworth Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.
The Wind Ensemble, conducted by James Walker, distinguished service professor of music, will feature works such as "Prelude and Rondo" by Burnett Tuthill; "Aria Della Battaglia" (Battle Song) by Renaissance composer Andrea Gabrieli, realized and conducted by student conductor Louis Lohraseb; and "Suite of Old American Dances" by Robert Russell Bennett.
"Bennett's work may not be well known to many as a composer but he was the musician who orchestrated virtually every major musical from the 1930s to the 1960s, including 'Showboat,' 'Oklahoma,' 'South Pacific,' 'The King and I,' 'The Sound of Music,' and 'Camelot,' among many others," said Walker. "The sound we know as the typical classical Broadway sound is his. His original composition for winds, 'Suite of Old American Dances,' has become a classic in the wind band repertoire."
The Thursday Night Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Jonathan Kruger, will perform Bret Zvacek's "The Next Big Thing;" Mike Tomaro's "Samba Para Minha Avo;" Cy Coleman's "Witchcraft;" and Jeff Jarvis' "Category 4."
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Originally posted by bbiernat:This alternate fix was also proposed:
Tools---Internet Options --- Security tab --- uncheck protected mode.
Tools---Internet Options --- Security tab --- click -trusted sites - click sites - uncheck require server - click add (Make sure you also have unchecked protected mode for this zone) This will disable it for only the site you add.
This solved the problem but obviously will weakens your security. I would recommend you only disable this when you go to sites you trust that have this problem.
Tested with IE8 on Windows 7 RC. I also think it will work with Vista and IE 7. I tested with the game shift 4.
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I had this problem for a few days now. I came upon this thread, and tried the protected mode fix, and I got multitask to work perfectly. However i didn't like the lowered security. I turned protected mode back on, and tried playing multitask again, and, no surprise there, my keys stuck. However, when i tried to run my browser (IE8) as administrator (right click on quicklaunch button – run as administrator), even when you go to the security tab and check the "protected mode" and restart the browser, you can play games without the keys sticking. However, by merely running IE8 as an admin, i get the "protected mode: off" status on the bottom, even when i checked that it was on in the Security tab. I also get no security warning (yellow bar on top). You might prefer running your browser as an admin rather than reducing your browser's security for a few games. It's not worth it.
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I found that even the slightest lag in game, either from particles, animations, or processing, the keys would stick. This glitch is most prominent in B29 Assault. Hopefully my info helped.


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I've just upgraded to Maverick 10.10 beta and notice heavy performance penalty on my Nvidia GT240 card. Will it be fixed for release?
EDIT:For me, 260.19.12 fixes all bugs. Perfomance & stability now perfect!
For those that don't know the specifics, the driver version is the recently-released
However, there are still lots and lots of people (myself included) having problems with
And even if they do managed to get a new version out before Maverick releases, it needs testing and pulling into Ubuntu. Do not trust to hope.
I personally suggest you report your issue, along with a bug log (read the stickies) on the nvidia linux forum. In my experience, you'll get a lot more feedback there than you will through the standard support mechanism.
If performance is really woeful and you can extract some specific test-cases which exhibit this terrible performance then it can be possible to fix or work-around the slowness.
For example, earlier in the cycle there was a huge performance regression in Cairo which resulted in gradient drawing becoming incredibly slow. That was discovered to be due to Cairo turning on support for server-side gradients, which the drivers didn't support properly. And so Cairo was patched to avoid the slowness.
In that case the problem was narrowed down by a small test-case: rendering a GTK progress bar, which had a gradient on it.
If you can come up with a small, simple test-case, there's hope - you can file a Launchpad bug. If not, head to the nVidia forums as others have suggested.
Proprietary drivers can only be improved or updated by the owner (Nvidia). Installing the nvidia driver will enable your 3D acceleration and allow Ubuntu to run Unity. To install the latest driver via terminal check this webpage out for an easy guide. Ubuntu Proprietary Drivers
Most likely not.
It is the proprietary driver so there is not much Canonical or the community can do about it.
The only chance that it will be improved is if it is the kernel interface to the driver that is causing the performance penalty but I have no knowledge about that sort of thing.
Try going to NVIDIA support.


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