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The 5 Most Insane Duels Ever Fought
#2. The Duel in the Back of a Cab
In France, during the Restoration, there was a lot of tension between officers in Napoleon's army and the better paid Royal Guard. This led to a lot of schoolyard-level bickering between officers in the respective camps. One of the more bizarre episodes, according to legend, took place between a colonel named Barbier-Dufai and a royal guard named Raoul, which apparently escalated after the former insulted the latter's cockade (we're disappointed to learn that this is a kind of hat badge, and not at all what we first thought).
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Knowing that definition also makes this painting tell a completely different story.
The two decided to go at it with swords right there in the streets of Paris, but after easily disarming Raoul four times, Barbier-Dufai figured he might as well be fighting a toddler and tried to brainstorm some way they could brutalize each other in a more evenly matched arena. That's when a coach pulled up and a really stupid plan was hatched.
The two men decided to get into the back of the coach with their left arms tied together and fight each other with daggers, stabbing at each other in a space about the size of an airplane bathroom until one of them stopped moving, for reasons they really should have both been embarrassed about. Raoul must have really liked that cockade.
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"WHAT?! Oh, it's go-time now!"
After the carriage had done two laps, the screaming had stopped and the driver was probably left with a memory he couldn't scrub out of his mind for the rest of his life. We'll spare you the details and just reveal that Barbier-Dufai won, because this isn't Hollywood and reality doesn't favor the underdog.
"You're still paying for two, buddy."
#1. The 19-Year Duel
The story of the longest duel ever fought is shrouded in enough legend that we really don't know how much of it is bullshit, but it's real enough that it became the basis of Joseph Conrad's story The Duel, which in turn was made into a movie by Ridley Scott.
The legend goes that Francois Fournier-Sarloveze was a captain in the French army at the turn of the 19th century, and he appears to have loved dueling more than just about any other activity. Known for being "bawdy" and "quarrelsome," which was basically a polite way of saying he was an aggressive douchebag, Fournier was such a menace that one Captain Pierre Dupont allegedly had to confront him about it. So Fournier apologized and chilled out, right?
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Well, he certainly looks like a humble enough guy.
No, of course not. He challenged Dupont to a duel. But neither of them could have known at the time that this was the beginning of an epic, lifelong mega-duel. They were basically Batman and the Joker, destined to do this forever.
Also like Batman, Dupont refused to use guns. So the two nemeses battled with swords. During their first encounter, Fournier stabbed Dupont in the shoulder, and the latter was unable to continue. Dupont demanded a rematch, and this time it was Fournier who was injured. Not content with a draw, they fought again, but this time they were both injured. At this point, you'd think they would have a good laugh about it and go to the pub. Instead, they agreed to keep dueling until this was finished ... which, as the story goes, would take about 19 years.
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"For every part of you that is douchebag, I have an equal amount of 'Go fuck yourself.'"
By 1813, Dupont had grown tired of living like a Highlander and wanted to marry. His fiancee, understandably, wasn't keen on settling down with someone who had to engage in mortal combat once or twice a year and made it clear that the only person she wanted him to be constantly plunging his sword into was her. So Dupont made the sensible decision and called it off. And by that we mean he organized one final duel, this time with guns, which he had always previously refused on the grounds that Fournier was a much better marksman.
But he had an ace up his sleeve. By hanging his jacket on a stick, Dupont was able to trick Fournier into emptying both his pistols on the decoy. With his guns empty, Fournier was at his lifelong rivals' mercy. But Dupont refrained from killing him on the condition that they end this bullshit forever.
"Also, you have to call yourself a pussy. In nine languages."
Yes, it only took two decades for one of them to come to his senses. And it was a bold move, since we're assuming a failure to continue dueling meant both men were immediately and forever scorned by 19th century French society.
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Simple numerical methods for calculating the digits of Pi
How do people/computers calculate π?
Im sure long ago, someone just took a measurement of the circumference of circles and their radii and came up with 3. Then as measurements got more accurate 3.14... etc...
But how do modern people, especially computers calculate π to trillions of digits?
If π is an irrational number, then how do we know the calculations are correct?

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I apologize if the following question has already been asked and settled. I couldn't find any thread.
Say, $\mathcal{C} = (Sch/k)$, the category of schemes over $k$ (a field). Let $\mathcal{F} \in \mathcal{C}^{\wedge}$, be an object of $\mathcal{C}^{\wedge}$ - the category of contravariant functors from $\mathcal{C}$ to $(Sets)$. One has the set of points:
$$ |\mathcal{F}| := \lim_{\to} \mathcal{F} (K), $$
the limit taken over fields $K/k$. Given a subfunctor $\mathcal{G} \hookrightarrow \mathcal{F}$ one gets a subset $|\mathcal{G}| \subset |\mathcal{F}|$ (ie. a canonical map from $|\mathcal{G}| \to |\mathcal{F}|$ that is injective). In particular, $|\mathcal{U}|$ for the open subfunctors $\mathcal{U} \hookrightarrow \mathcal{F}$ form a topology on $|\mathcal{F}|$.
Question: Given a closed subset $Z \subset |\mathcal{F}|$ does there exist a closed subfunctor (possibly non-unique) $\mathcal{Z} \hookrightarrow \mathcal{F}$ so that $Z = |\mathcal{Z}|$ (as subsets of $|\mathcal{F}|$)?
In some sense, are open subfunctors and closed subfunctors really "complimentary"?


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I´m using ext-4.0.7-gpl, and this bug don´t seems related to browsers.
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318 Small-Block Budget Build, Part 3Written by on January 1, 2009 We Finish Our 318 Build-The Heads
A couple of months ago, October 2008 to be exact, we started a buildup of an engine that clearly defines "built on a budget." We decided we would reuse the rotating assembly and build from that, making a reliable driver-style engine that would propel any A-Body into a cruise night or simply down the highway. In that issue we tore down and diagnosed what we had to work with and devised a plan of attack.
In the November issue we showed what we did in regards to assembling the short-block. We highlighted the basic ideas of what you need to check and how it went together to make it last.
In this issue, we show you what we did to put the heads together. Since we had the heads apart for machining, we decided to do a little port readjusting and cleaning. We know what you're thinking: It's a basic 318 build, and how much can porting the heads really help? Your question is valid. The approach to this budget-built 318 really means that doing the extra work we did to the heads may not be warranted, but what the heck, we needed something to do.
After we spent a little time cleaning up the head's ports, it was time to take them to the shop for some basic machining to make sure we had a good set. The first thing that Kevin from Auto Performance Engines handled was to clean the heads and make sure we had no cracks or other damage that would render them useless. Doing this ensures you don't waste money on rebuilding a set of bad heads. Next came the decking of the head surface. It's standard practice-or at least it should be-to give the head-to-block surface a good surface cut, just to make sure you're dealing with a true surface. We decided to take a little more than just a surface cut to make the chamber a little smaller. Doing this can get you in trouble later on because you could cause issues with valve-to-piston clearance or hurt the quench area, among other things. We decided that removing .020 inch would give us a nice flat mating surface, and we still had ample clearance. The compression ratio is bumped up a minimal amount by doing this, so you decide if it's worth it for your engine.
After the head's surface was milled, we had Kevin focus on the valveguides and seats. Our exhaust guides needed to be replaced, and the exhaust valves were also bad so a change was in order. This presented a dilemma. Do we stick with the stock 318 valve face-dimensions, or do we use larger valves? Again, this is a budget build, and going too large with valve replacement can actually hurt the engine's performance. Think of it like this: When forcing air through an opening, the larger the opening, the less velocity you get. Take too much velocity away from an intake charge, and you get no performance. So keeping that in mind, a factory 318 intake valve measures 1.78 inches, and the exhaust is 1.50 inches. Not what we would call a performance setup. Since we needed to replace the valves, and the seats needed reworking anyway, we decided to use a set of two-barrel-equipped 360 valves. The 360 valves measure 1.88 inches for the intake, and 1.60 inches for the exhaust. Remember, this is just a small change, but we are now giving the engine more air without overdoing it.
With that decided, we had to focus our attention on the springs and other related valvetrain parts. Our springs are matched to our Comp Cams PN 20-223-3 cam-which, by the way, measures a valve lift of .477/.480 inch, and a duration at .050 inch of .224/.230 degrees. It's not a monster, but it will fit our build nicely. With an older Mopar small-block, pre-Magnum heads, the rocker arms are mounted on a shaft, and are non-adjustable. Make sure that when your shop does the machine work to the heads, they also make sure the valve tips are even across their face. If not, you could have issues with a valve hanging open because the stem is too long, or a valve not opening properly if it's too short. This is an extreme explanation, but you get the point.
After the machine work was completed, we took the heads home, assembled them, and put them on the engine. Now that we've got the engine assembled, stay tuned as we install it in the car and hit the Dyno.
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By blending the valveguide bosses in the location under the valve, you can also gain some flow and ultimately power.Don't remove the boss; just blend the sides to allow air the most available space to flow around it.Since we were replacing the valves, we opted to use slightly larger pieces from a two-barrel-equipped 360. The slightly larger valves give us a little more air without sacrificing velocity.When installing the valvesprings, you must check at least the installed height. We don't have fancy tools, but a simple expanding gauge and a caliper can get the job done. If your installed height is higher than required, you'll have to add shims to get the height correct.If it's too short, more machining is required. TIP: Let's say you're putting together an engine that may never see more than 5,000 rpm. If your installed height is just a few thousands taller than required, you may not have to worry about shims.Yes, we're installing standard umbrella seals. This is not a high-performance engine, and this style of seal will be just fine. If you are so inclined, you can opt to have the machine shop machine your heads for positive-locking seals.
With the heads completed, you can bolt them to the short-block. Next we installed the lifters and the rest of the valvetrain.With oil getting as bad as it is, this stuff helps ensure that you don't have premature camshaft failure.Next we put our lifters in a container of oil for a few hours and then slid them into the bores. Before we did, we again coated the cam lobes and the lifter faces with Comp Cams break-in lube.The rocker shafts were the next pieces installed. When installing the shafts, make sure you have the oil holes facing down, and the proper bolts installed in the correct holes for attaching them to the block. LA-style rocker gear is oiled through the block, up through the heads, and out the rocker shafts. If you're using Magnum style heads, the oil travels through the lifters, up the pushrods, and onto the rocker gear.We again made sure to coat the rocker gear and valve tips with assembly lube before final torquing of the bolts.Finally we get to install the intake to make it a complete engine. We chose to use the Professional-Products CrossWind intake. The manifold is designed so that the same model fits some 318s, and 340/360 engines.Not only that, it also fits the later model Magnum V8. The manifold is designed to accept the standard-length bolts that came with your original engine.


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Kdenlive 0.9 has just been released. We encourage all users to upgrade to this new version that fixes many small issues and should improve the overall user experience. Some of the new features include:
The effect stack was rewritten to allow adjusting parameters for several effects in one go. Effects can also be grouped, groups can be saved and effects or groups can be dragged and dropped onto another clip
If you have been working on a scene with several camcorders, Kdenlive can now automatically align the clips in timeline using the audio.
Kdenlive now has an online resource browser that allows you to easily preview and import audio, graphic and video resources from archive.org, freesound audio library and open clip art.
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Fixed, thanks.
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Wow, nice. That was fast compared to earlier releases.
Also could you do something with the comment section? I have a dark/golden system colourscheme and in this comment box, it is golden font on grey background and I can hardly see, what I'm writing.
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Maybe you should change your colour scheme rather than Kdenlive web site change theirs :-)
Because it looks fine to me.
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Having lived already on the bleeding sunab repository I highly appreciate all your work on kdenlive. While I'm a video editor noob, kdenlive allows me to work on my diving video footage and create nice clips, thank you very much for kdenlive!
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Excited about this!
I'll wait until there are packages for Ubuntu but it sounds good. Thanks for all your work - you guys do an amazing job.
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Thanks for the new version. I love Kdenlive. BTW you forgot to send the announcement to KDE Apps Announcements mailing lsts: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce-apps
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Just wanted to say thanks for all your work and for this awesome release.
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Keep up the good work!
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Unfortuantly for me this new release has opened up a world of new bugs for me. I'm gonna have to down-grade. I can't wait until a stable release comes out. I don't think you guys should be adding so many new features when there's so many bugs you could fix first.
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Unfortuantly for me this new release has opened up a world of new bugs for me. I'm gonna have to down-grade. I can't wait until a stable release comes out. I don't think you guys should be adding so many new features when there's so many bugs you could fix first.
Mon, 06/04/2012 - 12:28
Where do you find the frei0r video stabilizer effect?
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In the project tree right click on a clip or access the option for the current selected in clip in the project tree through the "project" entry in the menu bar at the top.
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The Photo Story 3 product is really sweet. Cant wait to get my picture frame project finished to figure ways to use Photo Storries. I think the easiest way would be to write a C# app embedding WMP looking for new files in a shared folder. Then i can make
storries on my desktop and store them on the picture frame using the network.
Planning some cool software for my frame, probably using Photo Story and Fotovision.
follesoe - did you play Sherminator in the American Pie movies?
There is something very weird with the PhotoStory 3 encoder profiles for DVD (both NTSC and PAL). While all the others will give a fine result (for instance on a PC screen in 1280x768 pixels format) these two produce a videofile in .WMV format with images
that are so "fuzzy" that one wouldn't possibly dare to show it even to family or friends !!!
Changing one or more parameters with the Windows Media Profiles Editor doesn't help if you keep the same filename (using "save and close").
But if, without changing anything to the original profile, you "export" it and give it another filename (for instance newDVDprofile.prx), this new profile which is in fact identical -except for the filename- to the original one, will produce a nice videofile with images as sharp as the pictures that were used to create the slideshow !!!
So it seems that behind the stage the PhotoStory 3 rendering software does something special when using one of these two profiles: "smoothing" of all the pictures, similar to what is called "feathering" in Paint Shop Pro, but then on the whole surface. And this process is triggered only by the special content of these rather unusual filenames: {3E54A8AB- … }.prx or {913A60D4 -…}.prx
It is almost impossible to think that this might be a bug, so it was done on purpose. But then why isn't all this documented by Microsoft? In fact this "smoothing" could be a nice feature if the user would have some kind of key to control/attenuate the process.
It would be very interesting for the many enthusiastic users of PhotoStory 3
all over the world if the Microsoft Software Design Team could give their comments on all this !!!
I'm trying to figure out how to do this in C#. I have found some info in the Windows Encoder SDK, but I haven't managed to pulll it off. I'm hoping some member of the Photostroy team will give me some tips
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The Japanese government has been seeking ways to reduce its LNG import bill amid soaring domestic demand, and has tried to rally support from other buyer countries like South Korea and India. Japan is the world's largest LNG importer, and buys most of its LNG needs from Malaysia, Qatar, Australia and Russia.
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TOKYO -- Government and energy company officials from Japan
and India will have a two-day meeting in Tokyo from Tuesday to
discuss possible measures to address high global liquefied
natural gas prices, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry said in a statement Monday.
The Japanese government has been seeking ways to reduce its
LNG import bill amid soaring domestic demand, and has tried to
rally support from other buyer countries like South Korea and
India. Japan is the world's largest
LNG importer, and buys most of its LNG needs from Malaysia,
Qatar, Australia and Russia.
Augustine Peter, Director of Petroleum Planning &
Analysis Cell at India's Ministry of Petroleum and
Natural Gas, and Shinichi Kihara, International Affairs
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For example, I'd like to have a color called "text-color" or one called "content-box-color". How can I save a color like this and then assign it to an element?
Check out the wiki on Inkscape swatches.
Also if this isn't what you're after, there is a free program called Colorpic which is a standalone program that can pick up a color from anywhere on your screen and save it in a labeled palette :)
I use it every day.
Simply click Swatch button in Fill & Stroke.
Swatches is definitely the way to go here and offers some very useful functionality. Once set up correctly, you can change one color setting and have the change instantly propagate to many different objects that use that same swatch color.
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Another tip: to rename your swatches dive in to the XML editor and look in the element at the top.


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The letter that touched my heart so deeply was one written by Randall M. Sims ("One nation, under God," Sept. 23.) He said it all. We are the "voice of the unborn," but will have to be the strength of our older loved ones, too.
I applaud such letters as this and also the letters of Barry Bardone, Ed Bednar and Merica Petrella. All of them show how much they care about important issues in the lives of all Americans. They are our freedom fighters. They stand up for justice.
I also think about all of the brave young men and women who fought through all of the wars or conflicts so that we might live with freedom.
I watch the stories of firefighters and members of police agencies who protect us so we can feel the security of freedom. They, too, stand for justice, as do all of the past presidents who assured us of "one nation, under God" as we pledged our allegiance to the flag of our country.
My favorite part of the Constitution in the First Amendment is the freedom of speech and being allowed to voice our beliefs when something bothers us in life - mainly, death, and a forced demise.
I feel that destroying the smallest of human beings is as deplorable as the destruction of an older person who has lived through many years of wisdom and sacrifice.
I so strongly disagree that coerced, assisted suicide or euthanasia should be the law of the land.
Three of our states are already opting to set clinics in operation with another practice. What words can ever replace the lives that have been ended during the last 40 years?
How did it happen, and why? The youngest and the oldest will become the targets of such a heartless choice of removal? It is the innocents and the oldest angels who deserve our greatest love.
How far will the freedom of choice be taken?
Would my husband have been chosen because he had a diseased heart? Would my father have been removed as cancer spread through his body? Would they have chosen my mother because she suffered from dementia?
How many have family members with the same illnesses? My family left this Earth holding the hand of God. How many will leave, forcibly, holding the hand of a doctor who forgot his medical oath?
When do we chose to understand the difference between "freedom of" and "destruction of?"
What authority will decide who will go and who will stay? What kind of freedom is it that will allow the lives of human beings to be stopped by deciding they are no longer wanted or needed.
Who will take grandma -will it be the needle, the knife or the same procedure that took the lives of so many of the unborn angels?
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The Switzerland of Ohio Local School District Board of Education and members of the River High School senior class owe Pilots' senior track and field athletes a major apology.
At Thursday's meeting, the board finalized its graduation dates and set River's for Friday, May 24.
Unfortunately, that's the same date of the Division III Eastern District Track finals at Newcomerstown High School.
So, now the seniors on the River boys' and girls' track teams have a decision to make.
Do they compete in the district with hopes of eventually reaching the state meet or walk in a graduation ceremony that signifies the ending of 13 academic years?
A group foresaw this problem and approached Switzerland of Ohio and River officials about the possibility of changing the date.
According to Switzerland of Ohio Schools Superintendent Larry Elliott, River High School principal Ed Trifinoff conducted a survey of the senior class to guage its thoughts on changing the date.
However, a majority said it wanted to keep the date as it was. The school board considered that when it made its decision to stick with the scheduled date.
I guess those students, who voted to keep the date, could care less about sports and maybe even less about the classmates they've gone to school with for 13 years.
Again, it's just a true shame.
Seeing that's how some of their classmates feel, it should really simplify the decision for those senior track and field competitors.
To me, the decision becomes: mail me the diploma because I'm heading to the track meet.
However, it's a decision that shouldn't have to be made and a vote that shouldn't have to be taken.
Each year, this is a problem for schools and student-athletes.
I've been to the state track meet when athletes receive their medals and then are presented their diplomas.
However, these are decisions that student-athletes shouldn't have to make.
The Ohio High School Athletic Association works on a five-year calendar, meaning dates for post-season events can be found for many years down the road. Plus, anyone who follows spring sports knows the OHSAA wants its state tournament weekend on the first weekend when both days are in June, which is why the state meet is actually a week later than normal.
The dates are out there in ample time for school districts to set graduations on days where student-athletes don't have to make a decision or so it doesn't have to come down to a vote.
We realize sometimes these conflicts are unavoidable, especially in the spring team sports. More specifically, a baseball or softball team could get hot, win a few games in the tournament and advance somewhat unpredictably or weather could dictate things.
However, in the sport of track and field, the dates are set and etched in stone.
One prime example of who this decision affects the most is Cassidy McCullough.
McCullough is the defending state champion in the 300-meter low hurdles. She and her family have tried to get the date changed, but no one was budging.
So now, McCullough will, in all likelihood, miss her graduation or have to run the hurdles, hop in the car and drive as quickly as possible back to Hannibal to maybe catch the latter part of the ceremony.
In covering McCullough over the years, you're not going to tell that young lady that she's going to miss a chance to qualify back to the regional and then onto the state meet where she'll hope to defend her state title.
I realize she's just one example, but there are other seniors on the squad, too with the same decision to make and maybe, for those kids, it's not as easy a decision to make.
River High School track and field seniors deserve better from their classmates and their school board.
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- Not distribution specific. (It would seem inappropriate to link to anything but the distro I actually use, but Arch Linux is not really right for beginners.)
- Beginner friendly. Says in very simple terms what linux is for those who don't already have any idea. Links to download and beginner resources.
- Not overly preachy. Doesn't shame or scold people for being bad, naughty Windows/Apple/non-free-software users.
- Professional looking and up to date.
- Presents linux in a positive light.
But I'm having trouble finding a destination that matches all these criteria. Here are some of the things I've considered, but don't seem right for one reason or another:
- Linux online! Provides decent summary, but the page is extremely unprofessional looking (IMHO); straight out of the mid-1990s.
- Linux.com or the Linux foundation: To me, these seem more aimed at those who already know what linux is, and want to learn more about the foundation, or recent linux-related news, rather than beginners; but the first link may be a possibility; some the pages buried deeper down are more promising.
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The Hawaiian Earring is usually constructed as the union of circles of radius 1/n centered at (0,1/n): $\bigcup_1^\infty \left[ (0, \frac{1}{n}) + \frac{1}{n}S^1 \right]$. However, nothing stops us from using the sequence of radii $1/n^2$ or any other sequence of numbers $a_n$.
I will call a Hawaiian Earring for a sequence (of distinct real numbers), A = {an}, the union of circles of radius an centered at (0, an). Let the union inherit its topological structure from R2. Are all of these spaces homeomorphic?
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Does there exist a set theory T-which has not yet been proved to be inconsistent-and in which one can prove the existence of (1) the empty set (2) sets that are singletons and (3) sets which have non-empty proper subsets. T has no axiom of infinity but-as with Quine's NF-one can prove in T the existence of a universal set (i.e a set of all sets). However-unlike Quine's NF-the universal set of T should be finite. One can think of T as being formalized in the classical first order predicate calculus, using the same language as ZF. My motive in seeking a set theory such as T is to find out whether there exist set theories that might be acceptable to an ultrafinitist (as conforming to the principles of that viewpoint), while still allowing a certain amount of arithmetic to be carried out in them.
Perhaps I have misunderstood your requirements, but it seems that the following trivial theory has all your desired properties. Namely, let $T$ be the theory asserting
This theory is clearly consistent, since we can write down a finite model, with three elements. In fact, this is the only model of $T$. But meanwhile, it has all your properties, since it asserts that $E$ is empty and that $P$ is a singleton and that $V$ has a nonempty proper subset, namely, $P$. Finally, $V$ is finite, since it has exactly three elements.
(One quibble, you said in (2) that you wanted "sets" and not just a set that was a singleton. In this case, please add another set $Q$ to the theory that has only $P$ as a member, and also make $Q$ an element of $V$.)
I suspect that you may have in mind that the theory should also include additional unstated set-theoretic principles.
I have been studying a theory I call Modular Arithmetic (MA). MA has the same axioms as first order Peano Arithmetic (PA) except Ax( ~S(x)=0 ) is replaced with Ex( S(x)=0 ). MA is consistent because it has arbitrarily large finite models base on modular arithmetic. The upward Löwenheim–Skolem theorem proves MA must have infinite models. MA can be made into an ultra-finite theory by adding an axiom like Ax( x=0 or x=S(0) or ... or x=Sn(0) ) where Sn(0) is some finite number of applications of successor to 0 (a numeral).
Coming up with a set theory based on MA is problematic. It is simple to show MA is omega inconsistent. The predecessor of 0 must be non-standard (not a numeral) in any infinite model of MA. If the predecessor of 0 is standard we can prove the model is finite using induction. This means Ax( ~S(x)=0 ) is true for all standard natural numbers in any infinite model. A set theory based on MA can't be well ordered or well founded, either. (x =< y) <-> Ez( x+z=y ) is trivially true for any x and y. Using S(x) = x U {x} as a definition of successor is inconsistent with the axioms of MA.
In ZF, even the Axiom of Pairing allows the construction of arbitrarily large sets. Assuming we could come up with a set theory for MA, it would have the properties you ask for. One way to do this would be to encode sets as binary expansions of natural numbers. Element x is a member of the set if the x'th bit of the expansion is true. This would allow us to have sets of size log2(n) where n is the size of the universe. We can equate 0 with the empty set. We can define singleton sets for "small" elements of the universe. We could also define sets with subsets. We could do a reasonable amount of arithmetic by choosing n large enough. We could have sets and do math on sets as large as 100 by having a universe of size 2^100.
If there is such a theory, I doubt that an ultrafinitist would like it. The universal set V has to contain itself as an element, and that means you can have chains of unlimited length of the form $x \in y \in \ldots \in z$. But an ultrafinitist doesn't want objects of infinite size, and V smells very much like an object of infinite size (depth).
Depending on the exact interpretation of your axiom #2, and what you mean by set equality, I don't think such a set theory exists. If #2 is meant to say that for any set, there is a singleton containing that set as its member, then we have the existence of $\emptyset$, {$\emptyset$}, {{$\emptyset$}}, ... and all of these are elements of V. If set equality means what people usually take it to mean, then these are all unequal, so V is infinite.
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If, on the other hand, the meaning of your axiom #2 is as assumed in JDH's answer, and not as assumed in mine, then there is no generic machinery in your axioms for building new sets out of old ones. This raises the question of the specific meaning of "a certain amount of arithmetic." In JDH's answer, the objects P and Q can be identified with the numbers 1 and 2, and we can clearly make models where this process extends up to some larger integer, such as 387. Then you have a theory with enough objects in it to name the first 387 integers. Is this enough arithmetic? To make this a compelling realization of what we have in mind for a set theory, I think you would want to describe things like "the set of all odd integers less than 153," but your axioms don't have enough machinery in them to generate anything like that.
I think the basic problem here is that if we're going to be ultrafinitists and only admit the existence of integers up to some size $n$, then any set theory that can describe the existence of all sets made out of those integers is going to have a number of sets much, much larger than $n$ --- unless we don't provide enough machinery to generate a rich universe of sets out of these integers, in which case it won't feel like a compelling realization of what we have in mind when we talk about a set theory. This problem is bad enough without the universal set. The universal set just makes it infinitely bad.
It appears to me that meaningful ultrafinitist arithmetic is possible, but it has limitations e.g. cannot include functions growing too fast such as exponentiation to a variable power. Proving the existence of $x \mapsto 2^x$ would require a stronger form of induction than accepted by some ultrafinitists.
This MO question seems relevant: Is there any formal foundation to ultrafinitism?


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One reason ugg boots look and feel wonderful is the sheepskin used to make each pair. Sheepskin is a material that should be cleaned gently. Ugg boots should never be put in a washing machine or a dryer. Hand-wash your ugg boots in a warm water, using an approved wool detergent. You can use a soft brush for scrapping. To dry, place your uggs in the shade, away from heat or direct sunlight and allow drying out slowly to retain the soft, supple finish. Sheepskin footwear does shrink slightly after drying out, but will get back to normal after just a few wears. Once the boot is dry, lightly brush the cleaned area with a suede or nubuck brush. Brush in one direction only. If you follow these directions, your ugg boots will look fantastic for years to come.
Perhaps I'm just old and cynical, but it amuses me to see a question about how to clean Uggs coming from a brand new Woot! user, then to see a helpful answer from another brand new user, on the very same day there's a sponsored ad for an Ugg clearance sale.
@magic cave: hmmm...There is no Sponsored Deal for Ugg boots. The ad you see right there (points to the right) is a Google Ad. It is targeted. You are on a thread about Ugg Boots, if there is an Ugg ad to serve, Google will most likely serve the Ugg ad. If this were a Nike thread, you would probably see a Nike ad.
Just for fun, would you like me to change the word Ugg in the title and tags to Nike? :)
I am a fan of Emu, you can get them at 6pm for 1/3 the cost of UGG. Just saying. I do have to concur this is an odd question/response for deals.
@jumbowoot: Thank you for your reply. Coincidences abound daily, mostly unnoticed, so I guess this could be one. All told, though, two brand new Wooters asking and answering as they did is still odd to me.
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Hand wash only. DO NOT use a washing machine.
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Gently scrub to clean entire area. Sheepskin has a delicate surface, which can be damaged if scrubbed aggressively, or with an undiluted concentration.
Rinse clean in clean, cold water; lightly stuff with paper to hold shape; allow to dry naturally and slowly. DO NOT dry in direct heat or sunlight.
Once footwear is dry, lightly brush with a very soft suede/nubuck brush in one direction only.
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The province spent $500,000 on helicopter services when ferries broke down or were docked because of ice clogged routes in just one single fiscal year. The Telegram has obtained information on ferry breakdowns and service disruptions as well as the costs involved to the province.
As the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery moves through a series of changes — in leadership at the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union, in international trade deals, in changing stocks — The Telegram has pulled together a series of stories to place the present in context and provide thoughts on the future. The goal is to spark discussion on what we, as a province, want the fishery to look like, what we want it to be, what is possible.
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In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion.
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The different columns in Activity Monitor are a little confusing
Taken from my answer at Server Fault:
Mac OS X Memory Jargon:
Wired : This refers to kernel code and such. Memory that should not ever be moved out of the RAM. Also know as resident memory.
Shared : Memory that is shared between two or more processes. Both processes would show this amount of memory so it can be a bit misleading as to how much memory is actually in use.
Real : This is the "real" memory usage for an application as reported by task_info() - a rough count of the number of physical pages that the current process has. (RSIZE)
Private : This is memory that a process is using solely on it's own that is used in Resident memory. (RPRVT)
Virtual : The total amount of address space in the process that's mapped to anything - whether that's an arbitrarily large space for variables or anything - it does not equate to actual VM use. (VSIZE)
Active : Memory currently labelled as active and is used RAM.
Inactive : "Inactive memory is no longer being used and has been cached to disk. It will remain in RAM until another application needs the space. Leaving this information in RAM is to your advantage if you (or a client of your computer) come back to it later." - Mac OS X Help
Free : The amount of RAM actually available without any data.
The best documentation I know of (and have been able to find in followup research) is Apple's own Managing Memory article on their developer website.
Other worthwhile sources: Darwin-dev mailing list: [1], [2] and an old article on MacOSXHints. Additionally Mike Ash has posted a good layman's introduction on his blog
Real mem relates to physical memory (actual RAM modules in your computer). Virtual Mem is how much "fake" memory is allocated to the process, meaning memory that is allocated on the permanent storage medium (hard drive, solid state drive, etc) for that process. Shared memory is physical (Real) memory that can be shared with other processes. Private memory is "real" memory that can only be used by the process it is allocated to.
These explanations may help as well... directly from activity monitor --> help --> viewing system memory usage:
Here is an explanation of some of the information displayed at the bottom of the memory pane:
Apple updated the Activity Monitor in OSX 10.9 (Mavericks). They have a good article about what everything means here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5890. In summary...
Memory Pressure graph
The combination of Free, Wired, Active, Inactive & Used memory statistics in previous versions of Activity Monitor have been replaced in Mavericks with an easy to read "Memory Pressure" graph.
Memory pressure is indicated by color:


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Given an infinite cardinal $\kappa,$ is there some nice way to construct $2^\kappa$ non-isomorphic groups of that cardinality? In the answer to this stackexchange question, there is a fairly high-powered argument to show that that many (abelian) groups do exist, but it seems shocking that there is not a direct construction, like there is for $\aleph_0.$ (by the way, I doubt that allowing arbitrary, instead of just abelian, groups helps that much, but one never knows.) This question came from a conversation with our own @Joel David Hamkins.
If you just want a direct construction which avoids nontrivial set theory such as stationary sets etc., how about this?
Step One: For each subset $S \subseteq \kappa$, let $M(S)$ be the structure $\langle \kappa; < , S \rangle$, where $S$ is regarded as a unary relation. Obviously, if $S \neq T$, then $M(S)$ and $M(T)$ are non-isomorphic.
Step Two: For each subset $S \subseteq \kappa$, encode $M(S)$ into a corresponding graph $\Gamma(S)$ so that if $S \neq T$, then $\Gamma(S)$ and $\Gamma(T)$ are non-isomorphic. (This is an easy exercise.)
Step Three: For each subset $S \subseteq \kappa$, encode the graph $\Gamma(S)$ into a suitable group $G(S)$ with generators $\Gamma(S)$ and relations $R(S)$ which encode the adjacency relation. (This can be done using small cancellation theory.)


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When the very efficient D12 engine with unit injectors and overhead camshaft was introduced for the FH12 in 1993, many truck owners and drivers, preferring a lower truck for several reasons, started to ask for a 12-litre, ultra-efficient version of the FL7/FL12, incorporating the new engine in the existing truck family.
The best of both worlds
This was, of course, a good idea, not least since the high-built, long-distance FH range and the low FL range fulfil needs in different truck classes, meaning that internal competition between these two truck families is limited.
In 1995 the FL//FL12 was presented and very soon obtained a good reputation, combining the ergonomic advantages of a low level cab with the power (up to 420 bhp) of the most efficient and environment-friendly engine ever developed by a European truck manufacturer.
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The FL12 was in all respects a heavy-duty truck, and was well received for a great number of different transport tasks, especially when it came to regional distribution and construction-site transport duties. With the FL12, Volvo had created its most diverse truck family ever, equipped with a 7-litre engine (FL7), a 10-litre engine (FL10) or a 12-litre engine (FL12).
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NSRA Southeast Nationals PlusWritten by on April 4, 2014 Truckin' to Tampa
If we were to sum up the NSRA fall show in Tampa, Florida, we could do it in a single sentence. It was a gathering of more than 1,250 colorful vehicles with clear skies and more things to do than time to do it. But there's more, much more. The Florida Chamber of Commerce served up marvelous October weather in the mid 70s, itself a cause for rejoicing from the active Northern contingent.
Instead of leaving their favorite toys to languish in a snow-covered garage, they headed south to party the weekend away with the thousands of folks who use the Tampa show as a season finale. They and everyone else enjoyed the tree-lined lakes and spacious facilities of the Florida State Fairgrounds, a perfect location with loads of indoor and outdoor display space. In previous years, the NSRA event was only open to pre-1948 vehicles, but this year muscle cars from the 1960s and 1970s along with the classic cars of the 1950s could also participate.
Saturday morning was a perfect day to explore the collection of glistening custom vehicles, enjoyed equally by the competitors and the several thousand spectators who visited the show. Drivers could schedule a free NSRA safety inspection for their rides, increasing both their peace of mind and probably the value of the vehicle at trading time. Wings Kallahan, the voice of NSRA, kept you informed throughout the day on the PA system, letting you know if you were one of the lucky door prize winners. Walk through the swap meet vendors outside and the commercial exhibitors inside. With hundreds of sellers to choose from, you could find that new window crank or that missing front fender for your restoration project back home. Ladies enjoyed the Women's World Arts and Crafts display, while the kids loved the Scale Model Car contest.
Sunday began with drivers taking a leisurely stroll around the fairgrounds to visit old friends and check for any new arrivals, before gravitating to the Circle of Winners. Since the NSRA "picks" were chosen on Saturday, the 35 selected drivers were already in place and quickly became Sunday morning's center of attention. They were eager to hear their names called at the Sunday afternoon awards ceremony and to receive their prestigious NSRA Picks. Of course, everyone wanted to hear their names called for the significant NSRA door prizes. If you'd like to see a great collection of vintage cars and trucks, check out the 2014 schedule at www.nsra-usa.com.
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Vintage on the outside, the early Ford of Tony Luiz was loaded with mechanical innovations underneath.Lots of vendors were available inside and an equal number available outside, helping you to find that one special addition.The aggressive twin turbo setup under the hood ensures that Frank Stelmaszewski's 1964 C10 has no trouble keeping up with freeway traffic.In the family for 25 years, this chopped and shaved 1957 Chevy pickup is the pride and joy of Diana and Kirk Peterson. Watch for more on this one soon.Sporting a satin black paintjob and Moon covers, this 1955 F-100 is owned by Edwin Omdahl from Valrico, Florida.Sporting a chopped top and a satin black with red paintjob, this 1940 Ford is owned by Rodney Boyd from Gulfport, Florida.
Start with a 1980 P-30 Chevy chassis, add a 1974 Kenworth cab and a 1986 Chevy cargo bed, and you end up with a 1974 KW900A. Definitely a one-of-a-kind pickup truck.Members of the Geezers Car Club, tom and Donna Haley drove their 1957 Chevy in from Floral City, FloridaFormerly a flat black bodyshop truck for a dozen years, the 1940 Ford of Dale and Jackie Dinse has been completely rejuvenated. The truck won Best Use of Color. Watch for more on this one, too.This unique 1946 Dodge COE is owned by Jeff and Tad Johnson, members of the Gray Beards Car Club in Wingate, North Carolina.


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Casebook 2011: Camano Island Coffee Roasters employs fleet of environmentally friendly lift trucks
Camano Island Coffee Roasters receives, roasts and ships coffee direct to customers across the United States. To ensure freshness, the company uses a fleet of environmentally friendly lift trucks (Toyota Material Handling U.S.A., 800-226-0009, http://www.toyotaforklift.com) to move product quickly and consistently through the facility.
"We pride ourselves in the freshness of our coffee, which means it is imperative our forklifts run smoothly to ship coffee daily," says company president Jeff Ericson. "That's why we chose a reliable and environmentally conscious lift truck."
The company relies on lift trucks from the moment beans arrive at the company's headquarters, where the trucks unload 25,000-pound truckloads of raw coffee to a temperature-controlled storage area.
Green coffee beans are moved daily from the storage area to the roasting facility before making their way to the packaging division. There, while the coffee is still warm from roasting, each order is picked, packed and prepared for the shipping group.
Most of the organic coffee is sold online and direct to thousands of homes through the company's Coffee Lover's Club. To avoid an interruption to the supply chain, it is essential that the equipment used to handle the pallets of organic beans run at top performance. True to its goal of social responsibility, the company ensures that its suppliers offer products that are also environmentally friendly — down to the lift trucks.


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5 Bizarre Mental Illnesses That Turn Reality Into a TV Show
Let's face it: The minutiae of your day-to-day life would bore the absolute crap out of anyone watching it. The closest thing to a character arc most of us have is slowly learning how to use the popcorn button on the microwave. We are not Truman-caliber protagonists. But thanks to the wondrous misfires of the human brain, everybody can feel like the star of their own TV show! All the time! Every minute of every day, for the rest of your life. Whether you like it or not.
#5. You See Subtitles When People Talk
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Subtitles are a great way to make Sylvester Stallone movies intelligible for the English-speaking viewer. Of course, if you already speak fluent Stallone or think reading is for nerds, you can simply pull up the menu options, turn the subtitles off, and let the punches speak for themselves. But what if we weren't talking about movies at all? What if you saw subtitles during real-life conversations, like when Jason Statham starts flipping out in Crank? What if you could never turn them off?
"What the hell is this? No, I mean it, I'm functionally illiterate."
It happened to septuagenarian Dorothy Latham. When she has a conversation, the words appear as a brightly colored ticker tape in front of whoever's speaking. It is likely the one and only thing she has in common with the teen blogger known as Cath. They both have a rare form of synesthesia, a bizarre condition in which one of your senses becomes tightly linked to another. Seeing the color blue might make you taste cheeseburgers, or hearing the music of Nirvana might make you smell teen spirit (which is mostly old socks and stale semen, for the record).
In certain cases, the part of your brain that processes text joins the party and you end up with ticker tape synesthesia, which causes your brain to produce lines of text in your visual field whenever you hear someone talking. These real-life closed captions might scroll past your vision like a colorful marquee, or the words might spill out of the speaker's mouth like they're violently hurling a bowl of Alpha-Bits.
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And only occasionally do the messages come with lucky numbers.
Sounds like fun, right? But unlike movie subtitles, it's of absolutely no use with a language you don't already know (it's not a babel fish, just a brain condition). And situations where many people are talking at once quickly devolve from pleasantly colored subtitles into a Sesame Street-style nightmare of furious letters rioting all throughout the room.
#4. All of the Dialogue You Hear Is Out of Sync
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Imagine yourself in a kung fu movie. Masters need avenging, honor needs restoring, jump kicks are a form of currency, and absolutely nobody's voice is matching up to their lips. Awesome, right? Now, remove all of that stuff but the shoddy dubbing. That's your life, 24/7. How long until you change the channel on reality?
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Cutting your service provider isn't really the best option.
After undergoing routine heart surgery, a British man known only as "PH" noticed something strange: The voices on TV didn't match up with the people's lip movements. Then he noticed something stranger: neither did his daughter's. "It wasn't the TV," he said. "It was me. It was happening in real life." And, perhaps strangest of all, he heard the sound of the voice a fraction of a second before perceiving the movement of the lips, giving him the dizzying sensation of hearing from the future.
This bad dubbing effect happens because visual input and audio input take different lengths of time to reach our eyes and ears, respectively. In normal brains, this difference is resolved by a magical brain clock that basically just lies to us until we perceive sight and sound in peaceful harmony (we're only being slightly facetious there -- scientists have no idea how the brain accomplishes this neat little trick). But if that timing mechanism breaks -- in PH's case, a brain scan "showed two lesions in areas thought to play a role in hearing, timing, and movement" -- the audio channel gets all out of sync, and suddenly your entire world transforms into a poorly encoded torrent you cannot delete.
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"At least it's the HD version."
PH may not be alone in his badly dubbed world: A Vanderbilt study revealed that some autistic children suffer from this same kind of audio/visual separation, to the point that they may even cover their ears to "minimize the confusion between the senses." That's a mighty depressing way to end an entry in a comedy article, but unfortunately brain disorders aren't always fun and games. Who knew, right?
#3. Your Life Follows a Script You Did Not Write
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Every once in a while, a fictional character breaks the fourth wall and acknowledges that they're on screen. It's mostly used as a one-off gag played for laughs, but if the camera didn't pan away quite so quickly, you just might have caught a glance of the inevitable existential breakdown that befalls every Mel Brooks character mere seconds after the audience finishes chuckling. After all, put yourself in that character's shoes. How does it feel to know that all the world's a stage, and you're the one gettin' played?
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That's why you're still alive. They'd never kill off the main character!
Ask Louise Airey, who was only 8 years old when she first felt like she'd been pulled outside of herself. "All of a sudden you're hyper aware," she said, "and everything else in the world seems unreal, like a movie." At 19, a migraine triggered what felt to her like living through an 18-month-long movie (eat your heart out, Peter Jackson), and she's dealt with similar episodes ever since. Lucky her! She gets to experience all the sensations of starring in a movie without any of the pesky side effects like fame and fortune.
Welcome to the hell known as depersonalization disorder. It's a condition that can happen with no apparent cause, but often results from intense anxiety or extreme trauma. After a stressful situation, your sense of self can come unplugged from your own experience, and you end up with the deeply disturbing feeling that something else is controlling your actions. If you wave your hand in front of your face, it's not really "you" waving it -- you're just watching it happen. And maybe it's not even your hand at all, but that of a foreign body that you just happen to be inside of, like in Being John Malkovich.
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The upside is you now have the perfect excuse for everything ever.
Then there's derealization, the pervading sense that the world you live in and the people in it are artificial, just props and actors on a stage. In severe cases, the whole world can look like the two-dimensional background of a low-budget off-Broadway show. And like many anxiety disorders, the fear of having a depersonalization experience can actually trigger one. So if you suffer from depersonalization disorder and your greatest fear also happens to be that your entire life might be a work of fiction, well, you're basically doomed to life as a fictional character. Your crippling mental illness makes for a pretty sweet narrative device, though. Try to take some thin comfort in that.


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Do I need a folding bike to do this? What are the rules? Also, even if it's allowed, is it practical to do so? Subways get pretty crowded during rush-hour, and it's hard to imagine taking a bike there even if it's allowed.
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Bicycles are allowed on the subways at all times, but the MTA suggests against taking your bike on the subway during rush hour.
Folding bicycles are permitted on all trains and busses except for express busses. Once folded, a bicycle is really no larger than most other luggage.
When taking bicycles on the train, be courteous and use common sense. Don't bring a bicycle into a car that's too crowded. Let people out before getting in. Don't block the doors, keep control of your bike so it doesn't roll into anyone when the train starts or stops, and be aware of when people need to get by. I only ever take my bike on a train if there's enough room for everyone to sit; if it's crowded enough that people have to stand, it might be getting too crowded for a bike.
For more tips, see the MTA Bicycle Safety tips and the detailed rules on when you can bring a bicycle on the train.
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Heavy trucks carrying logs, lumber, oil and gas equipment and coal routinely ignore the speed limits along state Routes 43 and 164 in the western part of Jefferson County. This law-breaking has become so common that some news outlets don't even cover serious accidents. A case in point involved a truck transporting logs through East Springfield on the afternoon of Nov. 12.
To be sure, large trucks are not the only violators of our traffic laws. Our local roads have never been more dangerous. A semi-truck carrying a load of logs or other heavy cargo can do so much more damage than a regular passenger car.
I ask all drivers and the owners and managers of logging, coal and oil and gas companies to please correct this affront to public safety before it's too late.
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There seems to be a consensus that robo-upvoters are running rampant on Stack Overflow because of the Late Answer and First Post review queues.
You've all seen it, spam that has been upvoted, questions that have been upvoted, and so on and so forth.
What if we were to create a badge, such as Attentive/Thorough, with the following criteria:
- Flagged first answer with either Spam, Low Quality or Not An Answer
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- You cannot have upvoted the answer yourself
As usual, there could be multiple levels, such as 1/25/100 for bronze, silver and gold.
I know there is Citizen Patrol, Deputy and Marshall for flagging posts, but I believe these new badges would specifically target the problem of upvoting what should be obviously junk answers in the review queues.
It could possibly give the badge grinders something else to do while grinding through the Late Answer and First Post Review queues, and it might even make them actually read the answer...


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Last night on Late Late Night with Craig Ferguson, Katie Couric confessed that she had gone on a blind date with Bob Saget. Katie said there was no "magic." She did have some (sort of) kind words for Bob.
Katie was polite enough not to say that a date with Bob Saget is the stuff nightmares are made of.


text: We at the Field Museum are excitedly planning for our fall exhibiton, Opening the Vaults: World's Fair. In their planning, our exhibiton team came accross a mystery idem that they can't identify. Matt Matcuk posted about it on his blog. I love a good mystery, and it would be great if we could solve this one together. Let us know if you have any ideas about what this might be.


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Nearly 85 percent of the transactions in foreign exchange markets involve the dollar. Until the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, various currencies were issued in the U.S.
In the late 18th century and during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress printed its first paper money, known as continentals. But inflation was rapidly increasing and continentals were becoming worthless pretty quickly.
The First Bank of the United States established in 1791 was the first attempt to central banking, which was not well-received by a mostly agrarian electorate. When the bank's 20-year charter expired in 1811, votes in Congress were not enough to renew it.
The Second Bank of the United States of 1816 had a similar story. The Free Banking Era (1836–1865) had state-chartered banks and unchartered free banks, issuing their own notes, redeemable in gold or specie. Following the financial panics of the late 19th and early 20th century, the American public was ready for a central bank. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law.


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STEUBENVILLE — A special grand jury investigating whether other laws were broken in the Steubenville rape case is set to meet on Friday, according to the Ohio Attorney General's office....
Looks like the members of the "Grand Jury" are going to make a career out of this. It really doesn't matter anymore because the general public KNOWS who is covering for who and things will always stay the same in Stoopidville. You all deserve what you get. It's called Karma.
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I truly hope that there was not any more wrongdoing by anyone in this whole nightmare. If there was wrongdoing then it should be addressed and prosecuted. Let us work and pray that something like this never happens again.
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I am looking forward to Coach Sac being walked off his football field in handcuffs. It just appears it may be 2014 before that happens. There must be so much evidence about the coverup that it is taking longer then thought to catch all those who participated in the coverup, rape, or provided the party house & liquor. Thorough is good - get every scumbag in Steubenville who particpated arrested and thrown in jail.
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Yea right like anything will come out of this
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