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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] MPI_Errhandler_fatal_c failure
From: TERRY DONTJE (terry.dontje_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-18 14:58:29
On 8/18/2011 2:32 PM, George Bosilca wrote:
> Terry,
> The test succeeded in both of your runs.
Not really. Granted the test aborted in both cases however the case
you show below has further issues while the orte is trying to clean
things up. It certainly is not what I would call friendly. But that is
besides the point, the issue is orte is having issues with
MPI_Errhandler_fatal_c test IMO and it looks like you have seen the same
failure prior to the epoch changes. Fair enough, I'll go back to the
drawing board and see if I can narrow this down.
> However, I rolled back before the epoch change (24814) and the output is the following:
> MPITEST info (0): Starting MPI_Errhandler_fatal test
> MPITEST info (0): This test will abort after printing the results message
> MPITEST info (0): If it does not, then a f.a.i.l.u.r.e will be noted
> [dancer.eecs.utk.edu:16098] *** An error occurred in MPI_Send
> [dancer.eecs.utk.edu:16098] *** reported by process [766095392769,139869904961537]
> [dancer.eecs.utk.edu:16098] *** on communicator MPI COMMUNICATOR 3 DUP FROM 0
> [dancer.eecs.utk.edu:16098] *** MPI_ERR_RANK: invalid rank
> [dancer.eecs.utk.edu:16098] *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (processes in this communicator will now abort,
> [dancer.eecs.utk.edu:16098] *** and potentially your MPI job)
> MPITEST_results: MPI_Errhandler_fatal all tests PASSED (4)
> [dancer.eecs.utk.edu:16096] [[24280,0],0]-[[24280,1],3] mca_oob_tcp_msg_recv: readv failed: Connection reset by peer (104)
> [dancer.eecs.utk.edu:16096] 3 more processes have sent help message help-mpi-errors.txt / mpi_errors_are_fatal
> [dancer.eecs.utk.edu:16096] Set MCA parameter "orte_base_help_aggregate" to 0 to see all help / error messages
> As you can see it is identical to the output in your test.
> george.
> On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:29 , TERRY DONTJE wrote:
>> Just ran MPI_Errhandler_fatal_c with r25063 and it still fails. Everything is the same except I don't see the "readv failed.." message.
>> Have your tried to run this code yourself? It is pretty simple and fails with one node using np=4.
>> --td
>> On 8/18/2011 10:57 AM, Wesley Bland wrote:
>>> I just checked in a fix (I hope). I think the problem was that the errmgr
>>> was removing children from the list of odls children without using the
>>> mutex to prevent race conditions. Let me know if the MTT is still having
>>> problems tomorrow.
>>> Wes
>>>> I am seeing the intel test suite tests MPI_Errhandler_fatal_c and
>>>> MPI_Errhandler_fatal_f fail with an oob failure quite a bit I have not
>>>> seen this test failing under MTT until the epoch code was added. So I
>>>> have a suspicion the epoch code might be at fault. Could someone
>>>> familiar with the epoch changes (Wesley) take a look at this failure.
>>>> Note this intermittently fails but fails for me more times than not.
>>>> Attached is a log file of a run that succeeds followed by the failing
>>>> run. The piece of concern are the messages involving
>>>> mca_oob_tcp_msg_recv and below.
>>>> thanks,
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I hear that "Windows XP" is commonly called "Chā P" because the letter "X" may be pronounced "Chā".
Are there other Latin characters that have similarly peculiar pronunciations?
I hear that "Windows XP" is commonly called "Chā P" because the letter "X" may be pronounced "Chā".
Are there other Latin characters that have similarly peculiar pronunciations?
There is no single way to pronounce a given letter in the Latin alphabet. The set of rules varies wildly depending on the speaker's geographical location.
That being said however, I have, a few years ago, compiled a list of common (more Northern I believe) pronunciations of Roman letters. You can find it on this subpage of my Wiktionary homepage: Roman Letters in Mandarin.
For your convenience, I am going to paste it here:
Just on your specific example, chā is certainly possible as X resembles the cross. I have never heard of people pronouncing XP like this before though.
Reading X as cha1 is definitely informal, almost online talk. It is only because X resembles a cross (叉) and cha1 is easier to pronounce.
This kind of meme is highly local and may not last long. Some other commonly used ones are actually from poker card names:
This 'nicknaming' is not limited to Latin characters, but also symbols and signs, e.g.
Again these are highly geographical and may go away at any time like any other urban catchwords.
Chinese people pronounce "X" as "Chā" because "X" is not easy to pronounce (at least is harder than "Chā") and "X" looks like a cross, and a cross is pronounced as "Chā" (叉) in Chinese. Chinese people also pronounce "XCode", a code editor on apple Mac, as "Chā code".
As this "custom" derives from the difficulty of pronunciation, I think there may be some other similar "customs" for other Latin characters. However, as far as I, who is a native Chinese speaker, know, "X" is the only special case.
I know this is an old question, but since none of the above answer have mentioned,
O would be another one, sometimes pronounced as 圈, but it's not as common as X, and the only example I can think of is OOXX (圈圈叉叉)
This is a very interesting question. We all know that there are many dialects in China, and the pronunciations of Latin alphabets are also varied in different areas.
I used to live in Shandong, and now in Nanjing where I can hear accents from different places in China.
I'd like to give you the pronunciation of them in my hometown(泰安 or 莱芜 in 山东):
X, pronounced as Chā in Chinese, looks like two stick. X is also corresponding to the Chinese character 叉. If you do your math homework wrong, your math teacher will use her pen to write a shape like X. I don't know whether your teacher gives one.
You mean Latin alphabet?
As a native speaker of Chinese, I must to say that many chinese don't say chā to replace x(at least my classmates and I don't say chā to replace x).But actually the pronunciation of x is difficult for us chinese.So sometimes we will say chā to replace it real pronunciation.E.g.,we will say chā-box to replace the word Xbox.

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In the paper
P.J. Webb: Bounding the ranks of ZG-lattices by their restrictions to elementary abelian groups. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 23 (3) (1982), 311-318.
the author writes in the introduction without giving any reference or explanation ($G$ denotes a finite group):
If $M$ is any $\mathbb{Z}G$-lattice, that is a $\mathbb{Z}G$-module which is a free abelian group of finite rank, we may write $M=\text{core}(M)\oplus \text{proj}(M)$ where $\text{proj}(M)$ is a projective module and $\text{core}(M)$ is a submodule of $M$ with no projective summands. In general the submodule $\text{core}(M)$ is not uniquely determined by these requirements, but all the possible choices for $\text{core}(M)$ will have the same ranks as an abelian group.
I managed to show that each lattice can be decomposed in the described way, but I'm not able to prove that all $\text{core}(M)$ have the same rank.
Question: Why is the rank of $\text{core}(M)$ uniquely determined ?


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Germany has a political scandal currently. A 40 year old politician had a sexual relationship with a 16 year old girl/woman. Jugendlicher, Teenager, Schulkind are afaik common terms in Germany with a juristic defintion. But are above terms clearly separated in daily usage/understanding, esp. in different regions (rural/urban/federal states)? Apart from relative age difference there seems to be a major debate mainly driven by different opinions/language when childhood ends (and therefore moral misbehaviour begins). Is Schulkind, containing the critical term Kind, at all widely used or more a rural term for very young school kids in elementary school?
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From Wikipedia, about juristic definitions:
In English:
This Wikipedia article has a nice chart for the age groups.
There's of course the term Schulpflichtiger, which is someone that must go to school (i.e. did not yet finish the required nine years).
In everyday language, Teenager and Jugendlicher are used interchangeably (with Teenager not really limited to 10-19 (or rather 13-19, coming from the English term), typically starting later though). It depends on your age; older people may call anyone under thirty Jugendlicher ("diese Jugend!" / "die Jugend von heute!"). The term Kind is sometimes used for older Teenagers as well to emphasize an age difference. Schulkind roughly matches the juristic definition; Schüler might be a better (i.e. politically correct) word because it avoids the Kind and can be used for all ages. For elementary school, you may instead use Grundschüler.
Young people sometimes insist on being treated as adults; there is a blurry line between when you should call a girl a young woman, or a boy a young man, or say "Sie" to them. This may begin at about 16, and go up to the age of 20, and with this line, the terms to use move.
Jugendlicher is a common, official and juristic term for young people not yet in the age of full criminal responsibility.
Teenager is adapted from the english term and refers to kids between the age of 13-19 ("teens").
Schulkinder are basically people going to school. Yes, it is basically more widely used for young kids going into their first few years in school.
Both Teenager and Jugendliche are fairly common in colloquial use. Jugendlicher seems to be getting a little less common and more old-fashioned, while Teenager is getting more common particularly among younger generations, but neither word would raise an eyebrow when referring to anyone between the ages of thirteen and twenty.
I've hardly ever heard anyone use the word "Schulkind" for a kid older than elementary school age, and never for anyone older than 7th grade or so.
In the American usage, these terms would refer to different degrees of "minority" for the purposes of "age of consent" or "dating" eligibility.
"Kind" would refer to a child, someone up to the age of 12 of 13, (depending on the state), a "first degree" minor who is clearly not "dating" eligible.
Jugendlicher would refer to an older person, between 13-14 at the low end, and 16-17 at the upper end, or a "second degree" minor, who is more of an adolescent than a child, therefore "datable" by "nature," but not in the eyes of the law.
Teenager is a misleading term in this context. While it refers to ages 13-19, it spans all three categories; a 13-year old "Kind," a 14-17 year old "Jugendlicher," and an 18-19 year old of "full age" of consent.


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Miss TDP 2: Handdrawn Round 1 - 07-06-2011, 12:24 AM
Its that time of year again for Miss TDP to be brought out of hiding and revamped! Before continuing to our round one theme, we ask that all members read the following rules and procedures if they are considering competing as our format has changed from the first pageant.
This competition may take up to two or three months to complete, however all participants are not required to stick with the competition throughout. Yes, we have eliminated the voting process and instead will determine a winner by whoever has the most points at the end of the competition! This means people are allowed to enter the competition or leave it at any time, they only will miss out on potential points that could effect the standings in the end.
What you need to do is to create a character portraying the round theme. There will be three rounds, and each round is worth ten points. These points will be awarded to each entry by the judges; Silver_Wolf_Kitty and Miranda_. The competitor with the most points at the end of competition will receive an award made for them by one of the forum staff.
THIS IS NOT A DISCUSSION THREAD NOR THE PLACE TO SUBMIT DOLLMAKER ENTRIES! Before you post here, I suggest you stop. All non-entry posts will be deleted. If you have questions, direct them to Silver_Wolf_Kitty, who is in charge of the entire competition.
General Competition Rules.
1. Character. When entering, you need to enter with one character and stay with it the entire time. This means that your dolls hair and skin colour must remain the same throughout, unless otherwise stated in the round theme.
2. Base. You must use the same base set throughout, so pick one with a variety of poses. This base should also be medium in size for handdrawn dollers (comparable in size to the "Maia" bases here: ~Fainelloth Dolls~ or the "Cora" bases here: Doll Bases by blood-cocoa on deviantART). Dollmaker users should use the shuni style base.
3. Theft. No stealing the work of another. This applies to both handdrawn and dollmaker participants, so do not submit a doll that someone else made or, for handdrawn dollers, mix and match pieces of completed dolls that are not your own. All work should be original and failure to comply will result in disqualification.
4. Props. Props and backgrounds are encouraged, but should not be massive. We will ask too large of entries to reduce their size, so be reasonable.
5. Transparency. We ask that all dolls have transparent background and is a GIF file. If you dont know how to do this, see the following thread: How to Make Backgrounds Transparent
6. Forbidden. Sexually explicit, nudity or overly bloody dolls are forbidden. Entering one could result in disqualification. Also, animation and glitter is not allowed as it creates an unequal field for those who can't animate.
7. Theme. Every doll should relate to the theme. While we encourage creativity, failure to keep with the theme can get you eliminated automatically that round.
8. Judges. No one is allowed to use friendship or promises to sway a judges decision. Threats, bribery, and attempts to interfere or discover the judges decisions in anyway will result in disqualification. Arguing with the judges can result in an automatic elimination.
9. Competing. You can only submit one entry for each competition, so choose wisely.
10. Entries. You may enter both competitions if you wish. Make sure, however, that you do not enter the same profile for both competitions; it must be different.
1. Participants enter a doll every two-three weeks in the set thread. They may enter it sooner, however further edits are not allowed after the doll is entered. No matter what, the two-three weeks are a guaranteed time slot(unless all entries are received before it).
2. Any participants who fail to meet this deadline will be eliminated. Deadlines are not being extended for anyone, so do not ask. Special extensions may be asked in the event of a long trip or medical/family emergency, but you must contact Silver_Wolf_Kitty immediately if this occurs.
3. After submission is closed, the judges will then provide critique on each entry and score the dolls based on creativity, adherence to the theme, and several other factors which will be revealed when critiques are posted.
4. After critiques are posted and points are updated, the next round will begin.
Round 1: Fairytales
Don't get too excited yet, these are not your typical fairytales, so there will be no Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, or Sleeping Beauty here. No, you are limited to portraying a character from one of the following five stories:
The Goosegirl
Your doll can be dressed as any character in these stories and creativity is highly encouraged, just identify the character when you submit your entry. There will be no point reductions for repeated characters. For this round you may change your character's hair colour, although it is better if you stick with your intended colour for the competition.
Entry Format
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Base Link
Fairytale Represented:
Short Explanation/Comments (OPTIONAL):
Link to Your Thread (OPTIONAL)
Please submit all Handdrawn entries here. The end date is July 22nd.
Good luck!
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Name: Ella
Fairytale Represented: Donkeyskin
Short Explanation/Comments: Ella is in the dress as bright as the sun
Link to your Thread
Miranda: I can see that you've been practicing your shading; the hair looks a lot better than your first handdrawn dolls, tho it could do with a little more stranding, and perhaps some stray hair strands to make it look a bit more realistic. Also, the ponytail is a bit thin, and the eyebrows could be shaded to match the hair. The dress is fantastically patterned, altho the pattern doesn't really curve with the dress; it's just straight up and down. The outline could be darker; that's just my personal preference, and a bit more creasing around the waist would be good. Overall tho, it's a good doll, just needs a little more work here and there.
Score: 7/10
Kitty: To begin, your shading has significantly improved, particularly on the dress. The way you have shaded the skirt is something you should keep up for these types of dresses, which helps create the creases and folds that would occur with such a bulky skirt. The folds on the waist are spot on as well, which can be very difficult to properly achieve, so bravo! Where your shading has fallen a bit flat is in the ponytail,which really needed more highlights, particularly on her chest where it'll be a bit more uplifted and catching the light, which shading lighter there would've helped give the hair the natural, flowy look you want to aim for when shading hair. Where I encounter major shading and technique issues is with your pattern application. If you opt to not curve the pattern with your outfit, then you absolutely must shade the pattern with the dress. With such a light shade, you would want a nice contrast between the shades to help create the same shadows you have in the dress. I would suggest working more patterns into your other dolls to practice this more.
Now, for the details, I think you picked a nice shade of yellow for this dress, especially since yellow can go very wrong in dolling. Personally, I would've preferred a different dress cut. A one sleeve simply feels unrealistic to me and it could've helped you to do some research on renaissance and medieval gowns to help give you some direction with the shape. Finally, you had a real opportunity to dress this doll up, but it fell flat beyond the gown. A ponytail was too casual for me and I would've liked to see you challenge yourself with an up-do or even a basic bun variation (or a medieval veil or cap, if you are feeling really up to a challenge )! Also, some jewelry could've really helped bring you some top points. Overall, this is a good start to the competition and I'm looking forward to seeing you up your game.
Score: 6/10
"I feel you breathing... Everywhere...The rain, the hay... please. Please Wendela."
Name: Amy Hunter
Tale Represented: Goose Girl
Comments: She's barefooted on purpose, not because I forgot. Her hair is being blown into her face by the same wind she begs for to keep Conrad running about, and her dress is brown because peasants wouldn't be able to afford dyes of any sort; even the shading of the white shirt is brownish. More comments found in my thread.
My Thread!
Miranda: First of all, I've just got to say that I love that hair! It looks so silky; I just want to reach out and stroke it! It's quite obviously windblown, as is the dress which is quite obviously a peasant style dress, perfect for the goosegirl. I love the folds; folding is difficult to achieve, especially if you're dolling a windblown dress, and it's a good touch to not have her have shoes. The background looks good, tho the flowers and grass are a little rough and ready, but it's good that you made the effort to put in a background as that really helps in the setting for the doll.
Score: 9/10
Kitty: WOW! The folds and shading on this doll look amazing and I'm glad you challenged yourself with the windblown hair and dress, knowing you could've easily done anything and gotten high points with your skills. You obviously did your work, sticking with nice dull colours for her dress and barefeet, which really sell the poverty that the Goosegirl would've been living in. Small suggestion, possibly playing around with darkening her feet from the dirt might've really finished off her barefeet look and would've been a nice small detail that would've helped drive this entry that extra point. Your background, particularly the sky, is beautiful, but your grass is rough, but understandably a difficult thing to do, (though I like how its all blowing the right direction!) and needs a little more work. The only thing I have are suggestions that could've helped make this doll more recognizable as a story, maybe some of the geese she was tending around her feet or Conrad's hat flying in the sky behind her? Otherwise, this is an entirely beautiful doll!
Score: 9/10
Base is from DHF, but the site's been taken down
Name: Meredith Malone
Tale Represented: The Red Shoes
Comments: Meredith is dressed up as Karen after she has her feet chopped off and is trying to go to church, but the red shoes block her way. Don't worry, the bloody feet are made of plastic. Meredith wasn't very amused when I suggested actually amputating hers . The outfit is (very loosely) inspired by some pictures of Danish national costume (since the author of the story is Danish).
Miranda: Lovely attention to detail; I like the crutch and the Danish costume, plus the doll looks aptly sad at her feet in the red shoes barring her way to the church. One small niggle is her red lipstick; a more subtle shade would have been better, especially since she's trying to make a good impression now to make up for her earlier transgessions. The shading is great; especially on the apron, tho the hair could be a little more stranded. I love the way the red shoes are shaded, and the feet aren't too gory, either.
Score: 8/10
Kitty: I was wondering if anyone would take of the challenge presented by the Red Shoes! I must say this is an excellent representation and you made this story immediately recognizable in your doll, which isn't an easy thing to do (its one thing to doll a character, but another to basically doll a scene). As always, your technique is marvelous, the only major critique I have is the white apron and sleeve doesn't have enough contrast. It seems like a flat white board which is unfortunate because you obviously have some nice shading going on. The shoes, stockings, and scarf though were spot on, brilliant shading for them all!
I really enjoyed that you opted to take a more historical approach and modelled it after the Danish national costume to start and also had some nice muted tones for her church attendance. It contrasts nicely with the shoes, which seem really garish and terrible dancing in front of her! You have some small details here, which echoes the tale with her crutch and the Bible, showing a real ability to incorporate props without having them overwhelm. This is something everyone else should watch out for!
Score: 9/10
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Name: Kylie
Fairytale Represented: the Fairies
Short Explanation/Comments: Kylie is dressed up as the younger daughter and how she thinks she would look. since the mother despised the younger daugter she doesnt have any shoes. since the fairy gave her the power to drop roses pearls and diamonds from her mouth when she speaks i gave her each of those items (she is wearing the diamonds as earrings)
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Miranda: This doll fits the setting of the fairytale well; she's dressed poorly and has no shoes, and she's smiling cuz of being pleased with her gift. However, the rose looks a bit too big to drop from her mouth, and I don't think she'd put the diamonds in her ears as earrings; for one thing, she wouldn't have the time or resources. The clothes look a little pillowshaded, and the hair, tho well stranded, could do with a few highlights to set it off. The folds in the clothes are a little too uniform, and should be more uneven.
Score: 6/10
Kitty: Right away, your shading needs some improvement. You are making a common mistake of pillowshading and it may help you to look at Kiwi_Kat's entry for an example of how to handle shading a poofy skirt, which can be a bit difficult to do if you are inexperienced. Your waist folds are not terrible, though you should focus on trying to curve the folds more to her body and you also should slightly reduce the bulkiness of your darkest shade in the fold. It should be about a one pixel line to help give you an idea of how thick it should be. You did do an excellent job with the hair and the next step you can take to push your abilities is to incorporate strands of different shades, playing more with highlights and lowlights to help give it a nice flowy look.
It was great that you really tried to incorporate the details of the story in a unique way (the diamond earrings) and your rose is beautiful. Personally, I think instead of a rose it may have been better for you to pixel flower petals rather than whole flowers, which you could've spread all around her and even placed upon her skirt. The lack of shoes was a nice touch. I didn't find the cut of the clothes particularly amazing (a longer skirt would've been more appropriate) and I would've preferred some duller colours and a more patchy look since she is the mistreated daughter after all! Overall, there is some good and bad here, you just need to take these critiques, keep practicing, and I'm sure your next entry will really wow us.
Score: 5/10 points
I've just finished my doll doll, but I'm wondering if I'll have time for props and such. So my question:
Is the end of entries 12am of the 22nd, or 11:59pm of the 22nd? So, the morning or evening of the 22nd?
Nevermind! I started (and pretty much finished) the props, but since the doll is so light the props were seriously distracting attention.
Ah well, maybe next time eh?
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Name: Evony Marie Vayle
Fairytale Represented: Donkeyskin
Comments: As mentioned above, I had planned to, and actually finished (for the most part), add props, but as the Moon Dress is an extremely light color they were entirely too distracting. I did want to mention my theory behind the dresses of the story: Her father (blech) simply yearned for his daughter by her beauty alone. I therefore took the time period into consideration and constructed a very scantily clad outfit. She's showing large amounts of cleavage and (oh my!) shoulder. To add to the highly arousing factor, the dress is corset-styled.
Also, her hair is hastily put up. I figured she was a princess, thus normally didn't do her own hair, so I stayed far away from any and all extravagent up-do's. But since her hair is wet from her bath, I didn't want to leave it down either.
And to conclude: That's not Evony's hair color. I just can't seem to get past golden blondes being "the MOST beautiful".
Critiques & Kudos Please!
Miranda: I've just got to say that I love this dress! It's wonderfully shaded, and perfectly sets off the whole idea of a dress as lovely as the moon. The golden pattern is simple and doesn't detract from the main dress, and I love the sleeves. The hair of the doll looks a bit off; I'm not sure how to explain it, it just doesn't look as tho it's hair, but a wig. A bit more hair strands put in would improve it as would a few loose strands here and there. But over all, this is a great doll wearing a really fantastic dress.
Score: 9/10
Kitty: The shading on this gown is so beautiful and realistic that I actually had to take a closer look to see if you blended it to achieve this smooth look! I'm amazed at what you accomplished with a very minimal set of shades when a gown of this size and smoothness would typically mean someone has used at least 10 different shades (I believe you used 6 or 7?). The gold for the corset top and the embroidery is quite lovely as well and I love that you didn't do an easily anticipated white gown, but rather a yellowish-beige gown that really is closer to the actual colour of the moon. The little details like the jewelry help polish off this look and I love that you have a shadow under her gown!
My lone critique lies with the hair. Most of it is beautiful, but the bangs are completely off. I think the bulkiness of those pieces is a bit jarring considering how soft the rest of it looks and the shading on them are simply not as lovely as the rest of your hair (such as those buns!). Bangs are notoriously difficult, so kudos for attempting them! Next time, I'd either suggest eliminating them entirely or focusing on a more stranded bang, which would've helped give it a more natural flow.
Score: 9/10
Excellent job, ladies! You'll all be happy to know that your critiques have been posted and the next round will be up tomorrow afternoon, so keep an eye out and remember that there are still another 40 points up for grabs that could totally change these standings. I've seen it before, so just keep up the great entries!
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The enormous boulder on which the statue of Peter the Great (also known as the Bronze Horseman ) sits is known as the thunder stone. According to local legend it was given it's name because it was believed thunder had split the piece off from a larger rock.
The stone, which was estimated to have weighed 1,500 tonnes, was discovered in marshland by a local, S.G. Vishnyakov, at Lakhta near the Gulf of Finland in 1768. The story of how the stone found it's way to St Petersburg is just as epic a story as the statue itself.
Having found the perfect base for the memorial to Peter the Great, the big dilemma for sculptor Falconet was how to move such an enormous boulder all the way to Saint Petersburg. He wanted to work on cutting the rock right where it lay but Catherine the Great was having none of that, she ordered it moved.
The first problem was how to lift the damn monstrosity which was buried half way down in the marsh and the second was how to transport it to the sea where it was to be placed on a specially made barge .
Enter Marinos Carburis, a Greek engineer who happened to be a lieutenant-colonel in the Russian Army at the time. Having dug the thunder stone out of it's muddy home he then placed it on a metallic sledge which slid over bronze spheres which were about 13.5cm (6″) in diameter (a little like ball bearings).
The rock was then hauled , using only human labor, 6km (4 miles) to the Gulf of Finland. The process would end up taking 400 men 9 months to finally get it to the sea. One of the problems was they could only lay a 100m of track at a time. It was estimated the men managed to push, pull and heave the thing 150m a day.
During it's journey stonecutters were busily shaping it into a wave. Catherine would also periodically visit to check on the progress. On it's arrival an enormous barge was constructed and two warships were on hand to support it from either side.
The Thunder Stone is believed to be the largest stone ever moved by man.


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Airport facilities
Money and communications:
Two banks are located on the Departures level, and one on the Arrivals level. ATMs and public telephones can be found throughout the airport and at the Dusseldorf Airport Rail Station. Wireless Internet access is available.
Eating and drinking:
There are many bars, cafés and restaurants at the airport.
There are plenty of shops at the airport - from gift shops and fashion stores to food shops and duty-free outlets. Shops are open from early morning until late at night, seven days a week.
Porters are available (tel: (0211) 421 6888/6637). Left-luggage and a lost and found service are available on the first floor of car park 3 (tel: (0211) 421 2515).
Other facilities:
The airport has first aid and baby change facilities, as well as a non-denominational prayer room. A pharmacy and a dental practice are located in the Airport Arcades.


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January 30, 2010
J&B Met in full colour: photos
Our man on the ground, event reporter Deon Gurling, was there to record the afternoon of gorgeous outfits, colour, excitement, surprise winners and sunshine at the 2010 J&B Met in Cape Town.
Crowds were treated to a great day out and exciting racing. Filly River Jetez won the feature race, beating the favourite and her brother, Pocket Power.
South African swimming star Roeland Schoeman and TV and Radio personality Jeannie D judged the most glamorous couple contest. All images by Deon Gurling.
Cheering on their favourite!
Matapa Maila, Miss South Africa first runner-up
Cindy Nell and her husband, Clive Roberts
Read more about the race and what the winners had to say: River Jetez wins 2010 J&B Met thriller.
Remember to submit your pictures from the J&B Met to our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group on Flickr, so that we can feature a selection of them on our website.
Were you at the J&B Met? We'd love to hear what you think! Please post a comment below.


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What is the best iPad (3rd or 2nd Gen) Keyboard Case?
My wife is getting me an iPad for my bday. I'm always traveling and want an awesome keyboard case combo that is slim and looks great. I've been reading reviews and like the new ZaggFolio thing but some say it looks cheap and one individual said it was peeling.
Anyway, it was asked over a year ago twice and now with the new stuff out what do you guys think? What has done great for you and what was a total waste of money?
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I've always wanted a Zagg Folio case, saw one at MacWorld and the keyboard is nice (some combo setups have really cheesy keyboards).
I couldn't wait.. my way of getting over the "peeling" or whatever look from the ZaggFolio case was to get the leather one. It will do good things. I put the leather skin on the back of my wife's iPad 2 and it was awesome. When we sold it, the back was in perfect condition.
The prices are a little high but when I can resell it in almost perfect condition, I make my money back.
This one is for the iPad 3 or iPad or whatever you want to call it. Specifically because the camera is a little bigger and the magnet used to turn off the screen.
@fenriq: So I finally got it to my APO here in afghanistan, came pretty quick even with a "audit hold". It looks great but I do have some complaints. I paid $130 for the leather one and where the plastic meets leather you can see the underside of the leather. It is very tight on the iPad, so its not as easy as their video to slide the iPad in and out. On the plus side, it looks awesome, will protect my investment and the keyboard is awesome as well. If I want to close my macbook air and use my monitor, I can just take the keyboard out of the folio and use.
Some pictures:
Its a combo pack. Expensive but nice. Think it can be bought cheaper elsewhere tho.
There is one more keyboard case that is a best seller . Logitech keyboard case also provided by zaag . Read full details http://www.ipad3casestore.net/logitech-keyboard-case-for-ipad-3/


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Scaling Issues
There is a fantasy of mine that, whenever a new vessel appears on the view screen of the USS Voyager, something like this will follow :
Janeway :
|'Identify it, Mister Kim.'
Kim :
|'It's a Bugomite vessel, Natharr class.'
Janeway :
|'What, you mean the frigates they introduced in 2367? The ones that are two hundred and fifty metres long, eighty five metres wide, thirty six metres high, have eleven decks, mount six type four disrupter cannon, have a top speed of Warp 9.4, and carry a crew of sixty five?"
Kim :
|'Those are the ones, captain.'
The Ant Problem
This brings up a potential problem, sometimes referred to as the 'ant problem'. The name refers to science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s in which something - usually radiation - caused insects such as ants to grow to fantastic sizes so that they could then present a suitably scary sight to the heroes and audience. Some of the movies would put great emphasis on how amazingly strong ants are. 'An ant is able to lift seven or eight times its own body weight,' goes the argument, 'so just think how strong this monster must be!'
The problem becomes obvious when we consider the ratio between the structural strength, muscle power and weight of such an animal. If you take any object and scale it up by a factor N whilst keeping the exact same shape and materials, then the surface or cross sectional area of the shape (or of any given element of it) will increase by a factor of N2, whilst the volume will increase by a factor of N3. The weight of the object rises in direct proportion to its volume while the structural strength at a given point rises roughly in proportion to the cross sectional area at that point. For a living thing the muscle power also rises roughly in proportion to the cross sectional area, which is why Arnold Schwartzenegger is such a tough guy with all those bulging muscles.
If we want to increase the size of our ant from one millimetre to ten metres we must scale it up by a factor of 10,000. So the cross sectional area of its skeleton and muscles at any given point will increase by a factor of 10,0002, or 108, but its mass will increase by a factor of 10,0003, or 1012.
Which means that far from being super strong, our ant has become ten thousand times weaker that it was when compared to its size! Such an enlarged animal could not possibly lift its own body weight, let alone tear down buildings or chomp up mad scientists. Indeed, our super ant's skeleton would more than likely just fracture and collapse under its own weight.
But we know that there are indeed very large animals in the world. So how does nature get around the ant problem? Well, take a look at an elephant compared to an ant :
Starship Sizes
I trust you can see how this relates to Starships. If we took the Enterprise-D and simply scaled it up to ten times the size, we would have a vessel almost six and a half kilometres long. The skeleton structure would be about one hundred times stronger than the existing Galaxy class - but the vessel's mass would be almost five billion metric tons, one thousand times greater than the existing ship. So overall, the ship's structural strength would be one tenth that of the current version.
Hence the 'scaling problem'. We've seen ships in Star Trek which are, apparently, simple scaled up versions of each other. Yet how can they be? There are several possible answers.
A Scaling Solution
By far the simplest answer is that the ships are not scaled up internally the way they are externally. It hardly needs saying that one ship cannot be a perfect scale up of another, or else we have in mind the image of Picard sitting on a gigantic bridge in a massively oversized chair, idly swinging his legs several feet above the floor! Obviously stuff like chairs aren't scaled up. Nor is there any real reason to believe that the skeletal structure of a ship is scaled up in perfect proportion.
Assume that we have a ship which is exactly 50 metres long, and which has an internal structural skeleton composed of beams measuring 100 x 100 mm in cross section. If we now create a new class identical to the first in external shape but twice the length, the structural beams now measure 200 x 200 mm, giving a fourfold increase in strength, but the mass will rise eight fold.
But what if we simply increase the size of the beams to 283 x 283 mm? Now the strength is in line with the new mass, and our problem is solved. Remember, this is essentially identical to the difference between the ant and the elephant - scale the body up by one factor, but make the structural support provided by the legs greater by scaling them up even more.
The only real limitation on this solution is that the expanded structural skeleton is going to take up a greater proportion of the ship's volume, and that eventually you will reach a point where there are no gaps left between the structural beams. Just as you would end up with an animal that was all legs if you kept making it bigger and bigger. But these kind of practical limitations aren't going to be a problem for scale ups of four or five, which would cover the majority of the ships we have seen scaled up in Trek.
Structural Integrity Field
Another possible solution lies in the device known as the Structural Integrity Field.
This system is described in The Next Generation Technical Manual; it projects a force field over the structure of a spacecraft in order to stiffen and strengthen it far beyond the normal limitations of its materials. Indeed, the book claims that without the SIF the structure of a Galaxy Class Starship is so weak that if you placed it on the ground, it could not even support its own weight.
'Star Trek : Generations' establishes that the saucer section of a Galaxy class starship can certainly support its own weight against one standard gravity, although this isn't to say that the structure of the whole ship would. Certainly the neck would be hard pressed to support the huge saucer section, if the materials used are within an order of magnitude of present day materials.
Whatever the true strength of the Galaxy class structure, there is plenty of support in canon for the existence and function of the SIF system. Many examples of a Starfleet vessel facing severe forces in some emergency are accompanied by dialogue referring to the SIF system.
So, there is no real need to mess about with the thickness of your structural beams as described above; larger ships may simply have more powerful structural integrity fields in order to compensate for their relatively weak structure. The only real problem with this explanation is that any scaled up ship would be in really serious danger if it lost power to its SIF. But then, this is exactly what the TNG TM claims is the case.
Of course, looked at from the other direction, this is just saying that the reliance on the Structural Integrity Field is reduced as the ships get smaller, which would actually be a benefit to the ship as it would free up the power for other systems.
Decks and Windows
A far more pressing issue than strength is deck heights. Most Star Trek ships are said by their designers to have decks about 3 - 4 metres tall, including some space between them for wiring etc. If a ship is scaled up by a factor of ten or twenty percent, then this is not much of a problem because we can simply assume that the larger ship has decks which are, say, 3.6 metres compared to 3 metres.
But this argument falls apart with ships like the Klingon Bird of Prey. Certain scenes make this ship look like it is 50 metres or so long, while others make it look well over 600 metres! Whilst there is nothing fundamentally impossible about a ship which has decks in excess of forty metres high, it does rather strain credibility.
It's relatively simple to just assume that larger ships substitute two decks for one - or three decks, or however many are needed to fit the scaling factor. This works fine for ships where the scaling factor is an integer, but this is not usually the case. Even so, it's relatively easy to create a combination of multiple decks and changed deck heights to account for virtually any scaling factor. For example, a scaling factor of 2.3 can be accounted for by having twice as many decks, each 1.15 times as high.
The one great spanner in the works of the above is that of windows. Since this whole issue arises because the same model is used to depict ships of different sizes, then by definition the windows of these ships are being scaled up in proportion. If we double a model in size we can claim that there are only windows on every other level, thus avoiding massively tall decks, but it's harder to avoid massively tall windows on those decks where they do exist.
Our options here are limited; there is no sensible way to avoid having scaled up windows, so all we can do is try to come up with window sizes and deck heights that work on a case by case basis. There is no real minimum size for a window - some present day ships have portholes less than a foot across, and there's no reason why Starships can't have the same. On the other extreme, it's preferable to have windows which are no more than one deck high; multi-deck windows are possible, and indeed could even be a quite attractive feature on something like a Starbase, but they are not an ideal feature on a Starship since any window broken in combat would evacuate the air from a much larger area.
So what is the most extreme scaling factor in Trek? Well the ship which is scaled more than any other is the Klingon Bird of Prey. This ship was originally designed by Nilo Rodis to be about 109 metres long, and most visuals of the ship in Star Trek III support this length. Later shots showed the same ship to be around 50 or 60 metres long, but since this was definitely the same individual ship on both occasions we can't use the idea of different sized ships of the same shape to explain it. One or the other figure must be an error, so we can just go with the more sensible 109 metre figure.
Scaling issues do arise when the Bird of Prey appears in TNG, however. Various episodes depict Bird of Prey vessels with lengths varying between 50 or 60 metres at the low end to well over 600 metres!
So we have a maximum scaling factor of 12, if we believe each size represents a different class. The Bird of Prey model is equipped with windows, so we have to assume that the windows on the larger versions are 12 times the size of those on the small versions. We can just about accommodate this by making the big ship's windows a full 3 metres high, while the small version has porthole style windows which are 0.25 metres high.
If we can accommodate this extreme, then we can accommodate pretty much any other scaling factor.
It's a truism that a real designer would simply avoid all of the above problems by coming up with a completely new design in the first place of course, but the fact is that the ships are indeed there on screen, so if we do accept the images as fact then we must believe that the designers did choose to do this damn stupid thing. Whilst I've never been one to insist that everything seen on screen is a perfectly literal representation of actual events, I do like to incorporate everything which is not contradicted by other canon sources. In the case of scaled ships, there's nothing in the canon to show that these do not in fact exist, so for the purposes of this site I go with the idea that certain ships are indeed scaled up or down.
In reality, my personal feeling is that the strength problem would probably be resolved by a combination of factors. A scaled up ship most likely has a combination of a beefed up structure and a more powerful structural integrity field. The former would ensure that the structure would meet whatever minimum strength the designers felt was necessary, while the latter would save on the materials required to build the ship, so reducing resources cost and build time. This kind of detail is virtually never revealed about ship designs either on or off screen - the rare Tech Manuals are the only sources which give figures that can be considered even vaguely trustworthy. So for the most part we can just make a generalized assumption about the changes to the structure and leave it at that.
The deck problem is a little more tricky, since the solution depends on the scaling factor involved. All we can do for this is deal with each problem on a case by case basis.
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Under Linux, this would be a no brainer. Just go into /etc/password and edit that, and rename the directory in /home. I want the new shortname and the new home folder to match after the change.
Apple's own instructions work quite well. There may be more complex and faster ways out there, but I've never run into an issue (such as incorrect permissions) with these steps.
Mac OS X v10.6 and earlier: How to change user account name or home directory name
In System Preferences, Users & Groups, right click the username in the list on the left and select Advanced Options. Edit the Account name field and click Ok.
Ideally you'll also want to edit the Home directory to match the new username, although this isn't strictly necessary.
I really don't like to edit a user in place since it's so simple to delete the user (preserving the home folder) - rename the folder as root - make the new user with the correct short name matching the renamed folder.
The preference pane will see that you already have /Users/newshort and offer to inherit the folder. It does the best job I know of in setting ownership and correcting the ACL needed for your home folder to work as Apple intended.


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VICTORIA is BC's provincial capital and the region's second city after Vancouver. It's a popular excursion from Vancity, and though it's possible to come here for the day, it's better to stay overnight and give the city the two or so days it richly deserves. Victoria is not named after a queen and an era for nothing. Much of the waterfront area has an undeniably quaint and likeable English feel – "Brighton Pavilion with the Himalayas for a backdrop," said the writer Rudyard Kipling – and Victoria has more British-born residents than anywhere in Canada.
Despite the seasonal influx (some four million visitors per year), it's a small, relaxed and pleasantly sophisticated place, worth lingering in. It also provides plenty of pubs, restaurants (and the odd club) and serves as a base for a range of outdoor activities and slightly more far-flung attractions. Chief of these is whale-watching, with a plethora of companies offering trips. As a final lure, the weather – though often damp – is extremely mild; Victoria's meteorological station has the distinction of being the only one in Canada to record a winter in which the temperature never fell below freezing.
Victoria's heart is compact: the best shops, restaurants and attractions are within walking distance of the Inner Harbour area and the Old Town district behind it. On summer evenings this area is alive with strollers and buskers, and a pleasure to wander around as the sun drops over the water. Foremost among the daytime diversions are the Royal British Columbia Museum and the Parliament Buildings. Otherwise you might drop by Craigdarroch Castle and think about a trip to the celebrated Butchart Gardens, some way out of town, but easily accessed by public transport or regular all-inclusive tours from the bus terminal. If you're around for a couple of days you should also find time to walk around Beacon Hill Park, a few minutes' walk from downtown to the south.
Brief history
Salish peoples originally inhabited Victoria's site, in particular the Lekwammen, who had a string of some ten villages in the area. Captain George Vancouver, when mapping the North American coast, described his feelings on first glimpsing this part of Vancouver Island: "The serenity of the climate, the innumerable pleasing landscapes, and the abundant fertility that unassisted nature puts forth, require only to be enriched by the industry of man with villages, mansions, cottages and other buildings, to render it the most lovely country that can be imagined."
The first step in this process began in 1843 when Victoria received some of its earliest white visitors, notably Hudson's Bay Company representative James Douglas, who disembarked at present-day Clover Point and built Fort Camoson, named after an aboriginal landmark (the name was later changed to Fort Victoria to honour the British queen). Aboriginal peoples from across the island settled near the fort, attracted by the new trading opportunities it offered. Soon they were joined by British pioneers and in time, the harbour became the busiest West Coast port north of San Francisco and a major base for the British navy's Pacific fleet.
Boom time came in the 1850s following the mainland gold strikes, when Victoria's port became an essential stopoff and supplies depot for prospectors heading across the water and into the interior. Though the gold-rush bubble soon burst, Victoria carried on as a military, economic and political centre, becoming the capital of the newly created province in 1866 – years before the founding of Vancouver. But Victoria's planned role as Canada's western rail terminus was surrendered to Vancouver, and with it any chance of realistic growth or industrial development. Today, the town survives quite well almost entirely on the backs of visitors, the civil-service bureaucracy and retirees in search of a mild-weathered retreat.


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This animated short film was one of the many that appeared on the MTV show "Liquid Television," probably early 1990s, maybe late 1980s.
It was set several centuries in the future, and focused on a guy who was a racer in the time's equivalent of auto-racing. If I remember correctly, he drove a super-fast personal-spaceship-type thing on a huge track versus other racers in similar machines.
If I recall correctly, the guy had been racing for a long time, and the racing was so intense that he was mentally scarred from it -- to the point that he developed telekinetic powers. One scene shows him sitting at home, lost in his thoughts, and random objects like pencils and books are floating in mid-air.
not Aeon Flux, not Speed Racer


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Pay for a Broadway show and get a Green Day set as an added bonus. That is, at least, what the capacity crowd at the April 22 performance of American Idiot got.
Following the full guitar-equipped cast's bow and encore, the curtain rose once more, and a "roadie" (on Broadway: union stagehand) brought out two microphone stands. The decibel level rose even higher as Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool — aka Green Day — took to the stage. (Their presence in the house was no secret as those seated in the orchestra section of the St.


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Despite evidence that governments around the world are reducing tax costs and compliance, these efforts are not being felt by CEOs. Here we explore some of the reasons for the disparity.
PwC's 18th Annual Global CEO Survey reveals that seven in 10 CEOs are still concerned about the increasing tax burden borne by their businesses – some 15 percentage points higher than the levels of anxiety seen in 2012.
These high levels of concern are despite the trends seen in the annual PwC / World Bank Group study, Paying Taxes: The Global Picture, which suggest a different story. The most recent study shows that not only has the global average Total Tax Rate for a typical medium sized company fallen by 1.3 percentage points, but so too has the compliance burden, measured by the average time it takes a case study company to comply with its tax responsibilities and the number of tax payments required to be made. Indeed, all three of these sub-indicators have shown a steady downwards progression over the past decade. So why is there such a mismatch?
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Is the difference between flotation and floatation a US/UK difference or something else?
I think I did see floatation in some physics book.
Is the difference between flotation and floatation a US/UK difference or something else?
I think I did see floatation in some physics book.
I'd have to say that the difference was influenced by something else.
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the French influenced the more widely used spelling flotation.
And according to the same root-source regarding floatation:
Several of these sources (will list below) all agree that floatation and flotation are variant spellings of one another.
And (my new favorite word coming up) according to this source, there is no specific difference between BE and AmE regarding to flotation/floatation confusion. I'd like to point out, his site has similar sources to back up his findings.
I wasn't aware of the floatation spelling, or that it was found in American English. The OED has only flotation, but with this note:
Summary: It's Scots, laddie.
I am a British Empire Antipodean, but well versed in the mother tongue, and long in the tooth to boot, but until now had never encountered "floatation" as a word.
Google NGrams show as below, with "floatation" appearing at about 1800.
Further searching produced a result which surprised me. It's Scots, laddie. The term "floatation" is widely used in Scotland, as opposed to the UK in general, being much more common than "flotation". While this can be confirmed by searching the web for floatation and reading Scottish related entries, a good idea of what will be found is obtained by searching the web for
The quote marks around the 1st term tend to make at least Google offer fewer entries with suggested alternatives.
Some results for floatation and flotation with various related_terms are below. M = millions of hits. k = 1000's of hits.
e.g. "Australia 420 k / 10.9 M" = 420,000 hits for floatation and Australia, 2.29 million hits for Australia and flotation.
Very obviously this method has methodological deficiencies, but it is also demonstrably useful.
floatation / flotation.
All 3.69M / 10.9M
One could go on :-).
An examination of some of the Scots related pages shows widespread use of "floatation" in contexts that would be foreign to most people reading this posting.
Russian 2.84 M / 864 k - A Scottish translator writer is suspected :-)
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I know that on Mac OS X, you can take a screen capture of the entire screen with Command+Shift+3 and you can take a screen capture of just a selection (or a window) with Command+Shift+4. Is there a rationale for this keyboard combination? What is the history of that command? Where does Command+Shift number originate from?
So far as I can remember/find, screenshot commands were first added to the OS itself in System 6.2
1 Text and image from FKEY that runs other FKEYs! by John Holder (MacTech magazine, 1988)
2 Further reading/references: Mel's Macintosh Universe: Macintosh Plus and a forum posting from 2003, How do I take a screen shot (the latter of which features some guy named Chealion).
Dori's answer was correct, but I figured I'd add just a little more history. Early Mac Keyboards did not contact Function Keys (F1 through F12 etc). In place of Function Keys, they allowed the user to type Command+Shift+1 through Command+Shift+9.
Prior to Mac OS X, the system software contained a "Suitcase" called "System". This was the heart of Mac OS classic, and contained the code necessary to boot and run the machine. However this code was not located in the data fork of the file, it was located in the proprietary Mac OS Resource Fork which is set up like a database -- every resource has a type, which is a four byte value, and an ID.
Prior to Mac OS 9, all application code was in resources of type
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Dear Husband,
Dear Husband,
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Publication Date: April 1, 2009
A gripping and moving new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates, which reimagines the meaning of family—by unexpected, often startling means
With the unflinching candor and sympathy for which Joyce Carol Oates is celebrated, these fourteen stories examine the intimate lives of contemporary American families: the tangled ties between generations, the desperation—and the covert, radiant happiness—of loving more than one is loved in return. In "Cutty Sark" and "Landfill," the bond between adolescent son and mother reverberates with the force of an unspoken passion, bringing unexpected consequences for the son. In "A Princeton Idyll," a woman is forced to realize, decades later, her childhood role in the destruction of a famous, beloved grandfather's life. In "Magda Maria," a man tries to break free of the enthralling and dangerous erotic obsession of his life. In the gripping title story, Oates boldly reimagines the true-crime story of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her children in 2001. Several stories—"Suicide by Fitness Center," "The Glazers," and "Dear Joyce Carol,"—take a less tragic turn, exploring with mordant humor the shadowy interstices between self-awareness and delusion.
Dramatic, intensely rendered, and always provocative, Dear Husband, provides an unsettling and fascinating look into the mysterious heart of America.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Sausage Girl. Ok so you're outfit isn't actually all that bad only it's "A FEW SIZES TOO SMALL!" Wasn't the muffin' top just below your high-waisted belt an indication? Are those jeans or are they leggings? I didn't know they started making tights in jean cut. Your friend over there is appropriately dressed…great top and jacket and I'm loving her wide leg pants…the whole look is kinda nautical which suits the area…Gastown by the docks. I wonder how she even got those jeans on? Did she put them on while they were still wet? Yikes!


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Kimbell McCurry finds the western way of life and Western art work very interesting from the western landscape to wildlife, horses, cowboys, Indians and frontiersmen.
"It is a whole way of life that is so American," he said.
McCurry is the featured artist for the 20th annual Western Art Show that is currently taking place at Landmark National Bank, Central and Spruce, now through Friday, Aug. 2.
McCurry, a native Texan who now resides in the Kansas City area, paints in a representational impressionistic style depicting many subjects but has found a particular interest in western and rural motifs. He received a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Midwestern State University, then worked as a graphic artist and owned a screen printing business for many years. After his children went away to college, he took a drawing class that flourished into a passion for oil painting.
"I always had a knack for drawing and I always said that I was not going to be competitive -- was just going to paint for my own enjoyment," McCurry said. "But the next thing I knew I was entering art shows."
Just recently he won first place and best of show at STEMS Plein Air, the Kansas City area's premier outdoor painting event.
McCurry was influenced by television such as "Gunsmoke," "Wagon Train," and "Roy Rogers." It is these shows as well as studying art work from other western artists that helps him create his own unique style with oil painting. He said he likes oil painting over pastel painting because you can create many different colors from mixing just a few colors.
"I like the tactile feel of oil, it is a loose style without a lot of hard edges," he said. McCurry has been oil painting for 10 years. In that time he has also helped with organizations near to his and his wife Linda's heart. Painting for Cancer Action and St. Luke's Cardiovascular Research.
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While in Dodge City this week they are looking forward to learning about the history of the community, touring the area and going to the rodeo.
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5 Famous Works That Were Just Half-Assed Copyright Abuses
When faced with a terrible movie, song, or book, try to take some consolation from the fact that nobody sets out to make something god-awful. You can sleep at night knowing that, at the very least, Batman & Robin had good intentions. But that's not true of every property: Sometimes suck is a byproduct of honest effort gone bad, and sometimes suck is a direct result of cynical copyright shenanigans. Consider ...
#5. The Unused Star Trek Lyrics Were Created to Screw the Composer
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Star Trek's flighty, loopy theme song is one of the most memorable in TV history. Too bad it only came about as a means for show creator Gene Roddenberry to screw the composer out of money.
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To boldly go where many a dickbag producer has gone before.
Composer Alexander Courage (who is almost certainly the secret identity of Captain Bravery) wrote and conducted the theme song himself, going so far as to perform the Enterprise's "whooshing" sound with his mouth to save Roddenberry money. Courage was a busy guy (his movie credits as a composer range from My Fair Lady to Jurassic Park), but he agreed to work on this then-obscure show about space malarkey and what have you on the understanding that he would get royalties every time an episode aired using the song. Obviously, thanks to the many spinoffs and feature films, Courage is now neck deep in cash and green-skinned strippers of the gender of his fancy.
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"Hey, can I dye those things when you're done? I've got ideas ..."
Or he would be, if there wasn't a small note in one of the contracts he signed stating that if Gene Roddenberry ever added lyrics to the song, they'd have to split the royalties. Good thing there are no lyrics, then! That would not only shaft a talented composer, but utterly ruin that classic instrumental theme. Ah, but here's the rub: Nobody said the lyrics had to be used. Roddenberry exploited the loophole and wrote these bullshit lyrics anyway, just to snatch away half of Courage's royalties.
Beyond the rim of the star-light
My love is wand'ring in star-flight
I know he'll find in star-clustered reaches
Love, strange love a star woman teaches
I know his journey ends never
His star trek will go on forever
But tell him while he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me
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Roddenberry would later steal half of Jonathan Frakes' paychecks before he noticed the "Riker beard" clause.
According to Courage, Roddenberry tried to excuse himself, saying he had to make money from the show somehow. Clearly, that profit could come only from pilfering theme-song royalties via junior high school-caliber cosmic poetry. It's not like this space-exploring nonsense would ever take off and drown the world in spinoffs and action figures.
#4. Hellraiser 9 Was Made in Two Weeks So the Studio Could Keep the Rights
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Hellraiser: Revelations is a remarkably shitty horror flick, even considering that it's the ninth installment in the series -- well past the obligatory "Set it in space" and "What if he's a good guy this time?" plot twists. The movie is from 2011, yet somehow managed to have shoddier costumes and effects than the 1987 original. The whole thing looks like it was made in two weeks with a script the makeup guy wrote on the budget of a single episode of Jersey Shore.
Which makes sense, because that's exactly what happened.
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Not a shitty deviantART cosplay photo.
In 2010, faced with the terrifying prospect of losing the rights to make the inevitably disappointing Hellraiser remake, the Weinstein Company rounded up a small crew of filmmakers, gave them $300,000, and told them to produce a sequel in about two weeks. They approached the original actor for Pinhead a month before the shoot, but after reading the script (which, seriously, was written by the makeup artist for the other films), he said no -- again, this was the guy who once read a script about Pinhead in space and said "Sign me up!" but everyone has a limit.
Just to be completely clear, this he was OK with.
As seen in the hilariously bad trailer, the movie has elements of the "found footage" genre, which we suspect is less for artistic reasons and more because somebody hawked the camera for sandwich money. Hellraiser: Revelations was screened at exactly one theater in Los Angeles, for free, before jumping to DVD. So what does Pinhead's creator, Clive Barker, make out of all this? We're not sure; it's not too clear from this tweet:
They had to rush to add "From the butt-hole of Clive Barker" to all the posters.
#3. Bob Dylan Released a Limited-Edition Album Just to Exploit a Loophole
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Bob Dylan has sold millions of albums around the world, and yet one of his albums only managed to move 100 copies. That's probably because only 100 exist. Why such a limited run, when even his half-assed Christmas album sold tens of thousands of copies? Let's look at the lavish cover art and see if it provides any clues:
Vol. II comes in used Taco Bell wrappers.
According to the track listing, half the album is pure repetition, including three versions of the transcendental "Milk Cow Blues" and seven consecutive repeats of "Mixed Up Confusion" (we're pretty sure even the most die-hard Dylan fan could have lived with just the one). There are no liner notes or anything, just a brown piece of paper and a list of songs.
As the title suggests, The Copyright Extension Collection exists solely to exploit a loophole in European copyright law, proving that after all these years, Bob Dylan is still an outlaw (of intellectual property governance). European IP laws extended copyright from 50 to 70 years, but only for songs that have seen release, meaning that a bunch of Dylan's outtakes, live versions, and other such "bonus material" fodder were about to become free for everyone, and he couldn't have that.
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"In my case, make money."
To prevent this, Sony distributed 100 CD box sets containing nine hours' worth of stuff Dylan recorded between 1962 and 1963 that they never released because they didn't think they could make money off of it (but didn't want fans to actually have for free in case they might pay money for it). The recordings ranged from alternate versions of well-known songs to a bunch of rejects Dylan recorded at a friend's house. They gave so few shits about the songs that you can actually hear a phone ringing in the background while they were being recorded -- but God forbid they enter public domain. Can you imagine what would happen if people could just get that shit for free?
The album was massively pirated on the Internet within days.


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Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelican category with enough injectives, let $K^\bullet \in Kom^+(\mathcal{A})$ be a complex, where $Kom^+(\mathcal{A})$ is the category of cochain complexes over $\mathcal{A}$ bounded on the left. I read in Weibel's Homological algebra book that the Hyper(co)homology $\mathbb{H}^n(K^\bullet)$ of an exact complex $K^\bullet$ is $0$ for all $n$, I also read somewhere else that the hyper(co)homology of an acyclic complex is $0$, but I didn't find a proof for both cases.
Now let's say that I got a complex $K^\bullet$ and that the cohomology of this complex $H^n(K^\bullet) = 0$ for $n \geq m$, for some $m$. I want to know if this implies that $\mathbb{H}^n(K^\bullet) = 0$ for $n \geq m$? I couldn't find a reference for either case (exact and acyclic), can anybody help me?


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This job posting have surprised me a lot. It states that
HTML/CSS Web Developers (female/male) are needed.
I do understand that in theory this depends on local laws, but out of my head I hardly can name a European country where it is legal to constraint sex, gender or age at all. You can not write something like "Python developer, blonde woman in twenties, heavily needed to join our team of seasoned professionals".
So the question is - shouldn't we just ban gender (as well as any non-professional characteristics) indication in job postings? Even if one is so generous that clearly states that he allows females as well :)


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How to setup a cloud with a bunch of computer running Ubuntu server connected in a LAN.. is it possible to access the cloud outside the LAN through internet..?
Well, the "cloud" is more an idea rather than some kind of strict protocol.
So, first you need to ask your self what exactly do you want. Do you want some kind of data storage, or data processing or something else.
Once you know what kind of "cloud computing" service you need you can ask how to set it up.
I found the answer to my question.. http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3858961/Grow-Your-Own-Cloud-Servers-With-Ubuntu.htm has the information to build the cloud
What you are describing (i.e. accessing the cloud infrastructure from the Internet) is commonly called a public cloud infrastructure.
A good start would be to to visit the Openstack Project's Getting started page located here.
This should give you first hand information on the Openstack projects.


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Honeywell will be the main automation contractor (MAC) for this project, providing Linde and other engineering, procurement and construction contractors involved in the project with integrated control and safety systems. Honeywell's technologies were previously implemented at the Borouge UAE site.
Honeywell on Tuesday was awarded four contracts worth a
combined $40 million over an 18-month duration for the
Borouge petrochemicals complex in Ruwais,
Abu Dhabi.
Honeywell will be the main automation contractor (MAC) for this
project, providing Linde and other
engineering, procurement and construction (EPCs) contractors
involved in the project with integrated control and
safety systems.
The installation of Honeywell's control and safety systems,
Experion Process Knowledge System C300, Safety
Manager, and Advanced Process Control will allow
for operational integration, improved production,
increased safety and reliability, and maximum operability
and profitability, according to the company.
The Real Time Information Management System will
provide Borouge 3 with business solutions that streamline,
centralize and optimize operations, allowing for further
profitability and productivity, officials said.
Borouge 3 is the latest expansion of Borouges
polyolefins plant in Abu Dhabi. It aims to manufacture
ethylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, and low-density
polyethylene (LDPE), alongside associated butane, utilities and
offsite facilities.
Honeywells technologies have previously been implemented
in the Borouge 1 project in 1999 and the Borouge 2 project in 2010, and will continue
to help Borouge meet its goal of expanding capacity of the
plant, making it the largest integrated polyolefins site in the
We continue to see countries in the Middle East, such as
the UAE, invest in growing their petrochemical capacity, as part of
economic diversification
strategies, said Mansour Belhadj, Middle East
sales director for Honeywell Process Solutions.
With the Gulf regions share in the global petrochemical market expected to
grow to 20% by 2015, there is also a corresponding need for
reliable, cost-effective processes, such as the solutions
selected for Borouge 3, which can ensure that operational
efficiencies are an integral part of the growth process," he
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