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One of the most obvious applications of neuroscience is in the leadership of a business. This article pulls together the elements that make a leader successful. We talk about these elements through the lens of what we know about how the brain functions.
David Hain's insight:
How much do you know about neuroscience? It could improve your leadership. A brief 101 here!
Most people want to work for a caring boss. Not only is it more enjoyable, it's good for your health, according to research by Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer. Compassion is certainly a hallmark of leadership effectiveness. But can a leader care too much? Shelley Row, a professional engineer and former transportation executive believes that caring for one's employees, while admirable, does have its drawbacks. It can stunt your team members' professional and personal growth. Moreover, misplaced concern and worry can overload leaders.
David Hain's insight:
It seems leaders can care too much? Do you agree? how do you find the balance?
In an essay published in the July 2016 issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, argues that the "leadership industry's" focus on single individuals has hampered its ability to improve the human condition. The title of Kellerman's essay, "Leadership—It's a System, Not a Person!," sums up both her main thrust and her frustration with the industry's constant elevation of single leaders at the expense of other important facets of leadership.
David Hain's insight:
Leadership - systemic approach needed rather than the search for heroes! Right on, Barbara Kellerman!
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Businesses are growing larger by the day. Unfortunately, the number of effective leaders ready to take the reins is dwindling. After adjusting for inflation, the 500th-ranked company in the Fortune 500 is nearly five times bigger in terms of revenue than it was in 1990. That means more leaders with much larger spans of control are crucial for success. Yet, only 25% of organizations say they have the leaders ready to meet tomorrow's business challenges. Time and again, corporate executives are finding themselves delaying or withdrawing strategic priorities because they don't have leaders ready to take them on. That's bad news for these businesses and our economies.
David Hain's insight:
Getting leaders ready quicker by giving them real responsibility, challenge and support...
The facts are startling and the data is clear—no matter where you look and regardless of what research you read, between 30–70% of transitioning leaders fail. Nearly 40% of internal job moves made by people identified by their companies as "high potentials" end in failure (Martin & Schmidt, 2010) and 40% of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or quit within 18 months (Bradt, Check & Lawler, 2016). Commonly, this is caused by failure to step into the role at anticipated proficiency levels and generate the expected results.
David Hain's insight:
Valuable insights from Linkage on how to navigate leadership transitions successfully!
Back in 2007 I ran a session for senior traders in a financial services organisation.
David Hain's insight:
How a monoculture can lead to group think - and danger!
"There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts," Vladimir Nabokov famously proclaimed. Today, hardly anyone embodies this sentiment more fully than Brené Brown, who came of age as a social scientist in an era when the tyranny of facts trivialized the richness of fancy and the human experience was squeezed out of the qualitative in the service of the quantitative, the two pitted as polarities. But like Susan Sontag, who recognized how polarities limit and imprison us, Brown defied these dogmatic dichotomies and went on to become what she calls a "researcher-storyteller" — a social scientist who studies the complexities and nuances of the human experience with equal regard for data and story, enriching story with data and ennobling data with story in a quest to "find knowledge and truth in a full range of sources."
David Hain's insight:
Resilience - it's a buzz word for a reason. Brene Brown and Brain Pickings on why - excellent!
Ron McIntyre's curator insight, July 19, 2:21 PM
Thanks for sharing David Hain - Excellent article. You're correct in stating that "resilience" is a buzzword today.
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Overly tough bosses create stress, and lots of it, as the research shows: A University of London study found an especially strong link between heart disease and boss-inflicted stress, while a University of Concordia study found that employees who rate themselves as highly stressed added 46% to their employer's health care costs. Research from the Institute of Naval Medicine found that overly tough bosses cause people to seek jobs elsewhere, to perform at a lower level, to decline promotions, and even to quit. Finally, a survey from Randstad Consulting showed that most employees would trade in their bosses for better ones rather than receive a $5,000 pay raise. People don't leave jobs; they leave bad bosses.
David Hain's insight:
If you're a boss, play nice to win. We'll, don't play, just bring out your best and others will follow...
David Hain's curator insight, July 19, 5:15 AM
If you're a boss, play nice to win. We'll, don't play, just bring out your best and others will follow...
Ian Berry's curator insight, July 22, 12:48 AM
Great list of leadership characterisitics and love the John Maxwell quote too
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
David Hain's insight:
If we celebrate difference, we need to get good at managing different views. Welcome conflict, don't bury it! Nice piece form @kjcoach!
Ron McIntyre's curator insight, July 19, 2:23 PM
Seeking conflict can be a good thing but how you approach it and deal with it can be explosive if not handled correctly.
A team of researchers at the University of Michigan's Steven M. Ross School of Business led by business professor Dr. Gretchen Spreitzer, who also directs the Center for Positive Organizations, has spent the last four years studying coworking. In the process, they've interviewed the founders of coworking companies around the U.S. and surveyed more than 200 workers from dozens of coworking spaces; one team member spent six months as a coworking member.
Their research uncovered two key benefits to the coworking experience, both of which have been linked to improved employee performance. Simplified somewhat, it comes down to flexibility and autonomy without dispensing with meaningful community.
It turns out that coworking spaces' hallmarks—like funky design features—are far less important than their social structures, where workers feel a sense of individual autonomy that's still linked to a sense of collaboration, the Michigan team told me in interviews. Most coworking spaces, for all their variation, tend to strike that careful balance between those crucial needs—in ways that neither solo freelancing nor the traditional office experience usually provide.
David Hain's insight:
Cowering is booming as people increasingly discover the benefits of collaboration!
According to Shawn Achor, positive psychology expert and New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage, "data now abounds showing that happy workers produce higher sales, perform better in leadership, and earn higher job performance ratings and pay. Study after study shows that feelings of happiness lead people to excel in their jobs."
David Hain's insight:
Are you working on the Losada Ratio in your organisation? Maybe you should be...
Jose Luis Yañez's curator insight, July 19, 4:46 AM
3 Uncommon Ways To Drive Happiness In The Workplace
Ron McIntyre's curator insight, July 19, 2:27 PM
Thanks for sharing David Hain. I agree the Losada Ratio should be embraced by many companies but in our negative world a 6:1 positive communication ratio will be difficult to muster.
How often have you been in what you call "a conversation" (for lack of a better word) that is completely one-sided? For example, one of the people in the conversation is doing 90% of the talking and even if the other person manages to get in a word or two, the other person either responds immediately or continues on their rant. One of my favourite life lessons is to "listen to understand, not to respond". Unfortunately, in my experience, 90% of the population does not do this. They want to help. They want to respond. They want to be heard. They want their opinion to be heard. They want their opinion to be adapted…..
David Hain's insight:
We all benefit form a good listening to! And we tend to get what we give...Go figure!
The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above. For much of the 20th century this was how the left conceived the first stage of an economy beyond capitalism. The force would be applied by the working class, either at the ballot box or on the barricades. The lever would be the state. The opportunity would come through frequent episodes of economic collapse.
David Hain's insight:
The brilliant Paul Mason explains postcapitalism as lucidly as ever. A MUST READ!
Ron McIntyre's curator insight, July 16, 4:28 PM
Post capitalism is something most people don't understand nor do they want to but it is an important discussion.
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Using the sinking of the Titanic as an example and contrasting it with the story of the Shackleton expedition to Antarctica, this paper describes how project managers can take specific leadership actions that will contribute to project success. Detailing the different types and styles of leadership, the paper draws from a large body of research and from the fields of ethics, trust, and professional conduct and gives emphasis to high-performance teams. Project managers can reduce project risk and become successful project leaders by taking the actions identified.
David Hain's insight:
Useful paper on leadership encompassing many sources.
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"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to lead your organization to success. Should you or any member of your team fail, the CEO (or Board of Directors, or stockholders) will disavow you. Then you will self-destruct in five seconds."
David Hain's insight:
Is being a CEO like having Mission Impossible? Yes, but Tom Cruise has made many films showing how to succeed...
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Watch Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explain a contested and complex phenomenon: globalization.
David Hain's insight:
This is the world we have to make sense of...need for leadership recognising and making sense of complexity!
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To serve as effective thought partners, boards must move beyond an arms-length relationship with digital issues (exhibit). Board members need better knowledge about the technology environment, its potential impact on different parts of the company and its value chain, and thus about how digital can undermine existing strategies and stimulate the need for new ones. They also need faster, more effective ways to engage the organization and operate as a governing body and, critically, new means of attracting digital talent. Indeed, some CEOs and board members we know argue that the far-reaching nature of today's digital disruptions—which can necessitate long-term business-model changes with large, short-term costs—means boards must view themselves as the ultimate catalysts for digital transformation efforts. Otherwise, CEOs may be tempted to pass on to their successors the tackling of digital challenges.
David Hain's insight:
Why you need your Board to be a strong digital sparring partner!
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When the theory of emotional intelligence at work began to receive widespread attention, we frequently heard executives say—in the same breath, mind you—"That's incredible," and, "Well, I've known that all along." They were responding to our research that showed an incontrovertible link between an executive's emotional maturity, exemplified by such capabilities as self-awareness and empathy, and his or her financial performance. Simply put, the research showed that "good guys"—that is, emotionally intelligent men and women—finish first.
David Hain's insight:
Old but gold! Coleman, Boyatzis and McKee on the findings that led to EQ. Worth reviewing!
Jose Luis Yañez's curator insight, July 19, 4:56 AM
Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance
If you are wondering how to decrease stress—for you and everyone in your circle of influence—the answer lies in a simple shift of perception. Become aware of how you're impacting others, correct your shortfalls, and you'll inspire people to be innovative and productive. Your business and families can then thrive.
David Hain's insight:
Reframing time horizons helps with stress - useful concept!
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In the last ten years neuroscientists have learned more about storytelling than we've known since our ancestors drew story pictures on cave walls. We know what stories work, how they work and we can prove it. As the House of Cards actor Kevin Spacey once told an audience of marketing leaders, "We know how this [marketing] works; story is everything."
David Hain's insight:
Seems to me that storytelling is largely about marrying content with context - a challenging and sophisticated skill to learn!
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While many CEOs decry bureaucracy, few can claim success in defeating it. In practice, tactical victories—like cutting out a layer of management, trimming head office staff, or simplifying a cumbersome process—are usually small and quickly reversed. In this regard, look again at Figure 1. Notice how rapidly the thicket of bureaucracy grew back after being pruned in the wake of the 2008 recession.
David Hain's insight:
Is bureaucracy inevitable? not with imagination and a reframing of attitudes....
Jose Luis Yañez's curator insight, July 19, 4:53 AM
More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before
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Enter improvisation. The art of conscious impulse surrender. At Second City in Chicago, the improv comedy troupe that has launched the careers of celebrities like Jim Belushi and Tina Fey, scientists and engineers and nurses and psychologists now practice the art of impulse surrender. It's been a total change from left-brain attorney to right-brain class-taker, says Second City student and retired attorney Irv Levinson. In a recent episode of "The Simpsons," Homer recovers from giving a disastrous speech by taking an improv class. Yes, improvisation has left the theatre vault.
David Hain's insight:
Regimented by your meetings regime? Or do you practise Improv? @Achim Novak has some very persuasive reasons why you should!
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How do you give feedback to a CEO who's twice your age? I was 25, a new professor called in as a last-ditch, Hail Mary effort to save a dying company. They had already fired three consultants, so why not try me?
David Hain's insight:
Feedback is a critical component of achievement - buttony if it is delivered skilfully!
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Recently, I discovered how much we overlook, not just about the world, but also about the full potential of our inner life, when our mind is cluttered. In a study published in this month's Psychological Science, the graduate student Shira Baror and I demonstrate that the capacity for original and creative thinking is markedly stymied by stray thoughts, obsessive ruminations and other forms of "mental load." Many psychologists assume that the mind, left to its own devices, is inclined to follow a well-worn path of familiar associations. But our findings suggest that innovative thinking, not routine ideation, is our default cognitive mode when our minds are clear.
David Hain's insight:
More evidence for the value of mindfulness, meditation and other mind freezing practices!
One of the common themes I've written about over the past few years is the importance of building and nurturing relationships with your employees in order to bring out the best in those under your care. While we can appreciate what this means in abstract terms, I'd like to share the recent experiences of two leaders that helps to illustrate the benefit in bringing this approach to your leadership.
David Hain's insight:
In the end, relationships are all we have - or don't! See Brexit, Tories, Labour, etc...
Ron McIntyre's curator insight, July 10, 8:18 AM
Honest & caring relationships are the solution to our issues today but egos keep getting in the way.
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Have you seen Woot's postcard collection?
http://dearwoot.tumblr.com/ (no Dallas ones, YET!)
Tips: if you click on the slash on the bottom of the page you can search by username. Hovering over any postcard- if you click the plus sign, you can see the tags/username. And if you click on the very top one, you can see both the weird back and front, side by side.
You can still send some in! Our ultimate goal will be to have a wall of these when we move into our new Seattle building. They're getting to me a few days off when you think I should, but I'll update the link above with photos once I get new ones. Here are the addresses:
Kristy Tye
207 Boren Ave. N., 5th Floor
Seattle, WA 98109
Woot Inc.
4121 International Parkway
Carrollton, TX 75007
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Thanks for posting! I got caught up in family drama and the Wootizen BOC exchange and never sent mine. Now I am inspired!
That's really neat!
(I'm hoping if I kiss up enough that I can help arrange the postcards after we move on the new wall.)
Thanks for sharing! I was wondering how many you received, I just sent mine on Monday :)
As soon as I figure out where to buy a postcard around here I'll be sending one.
@agingdragqueen: Hopefully your postcard came in a box with a monkey mailbag...if not, you need to put some hurt on your mailroom!
I have got to send mine in this week, I too got caught up in the Wootizen BOC
Wow really....what idiot would send you a TMNT postcard? I mean this is a place of business! Really the audacity of some people! What was that idiot thinking! :)
@gwendyw: yes! I got all of it! And I feel awful, at the time I was too busy to personally thank you and then I lost track of everything I was doing. So, here's a very small thank you thank you thank you!
For everyone else, look in awe at what this lovely woman is capable of making:
A bag... made out of our bags! Mind blown. We have it hanging up where everyone who walks by can see it. We absolutely love it!
@agingdragqueen: I am envious every time I walk by that bag. :D SO cool.
Saw mine :) I sent one to each office, so no one would feel left out. Glad you enjoyed.
I'll do my best, but postcards here in the boonies are pretty much nil. I'll try harder!
can someone help me out? i click the link and look. i see several, however i know that the night they were being posted i saw some other ones up. is there a multi-page set up or something i'm not seeing?
@moosezilla: if you keep scrolling and scrolling, more should continue to load- if not let me know and I can try to troubleshoot with you.
Hmm, I see a bunch, but I don't see mine. Did you not get around to taking pictures of the tons of pictures and several postcards I sent yet? Worse yet, did they not arrive!?!
@baybei: eep! When did you send them?
@agingdragqueen: A couple weeks ago now. They would have been in a star print padded envelope. I had a bunch of pictures I had printed out, and then some postcards and I tucked them all in a photo envelope from Walgreens...before I stuffed them in a star print padded envelope from the Post Office. The guy was laughing at me for asking to mark it "Do not bend" because there were so many pictures in there, there was no way to bend it! In fact, I believe they should have been delivered this past Saturday...
@baybei: oh man, yeah, I woulda seen that. I'll ask them in the mailroom tomorrow.
I have to remember to buy some postcards while I'm on vacation.
Haven't seen any as exciting as those.
@agingdragqueen: I hope they turn up, I'll be disappointed if they got lost. I wrote something on all of them, and it took a while, lol!~ Hopefully, they are hiding in the mail room somewhere :)
oooo, someone sent a postcard of the man.
greetings fellow burner!
Mine went in the mail on the 10th; I hope you get it soon!
So I have special ordered a few from the very first building built in our city which will come in tomorrow and I am going to swing by the Cal State school in our city tomorrow for some more.
@agingdragqueen: Did you ever find them? Or do I start crying now?
@agingdragqueen: I totally want your monkey bag. That is awesome!

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Learn to fix it yourself
Clinics defy throwaway economy
|Jimmy Lynch, left, and Paul Dingels fix a lamp belonging to Molly Ross at a Fix-It Clinic sponsored by Hennepin County in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The clinics are staffed by volunteers who help resurrect appliances to keep them from going in the trash. (Bruce Bisping/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)
Reason enough for Molly Ross of Edina, Minn., to set it before a group of people who know how to fix fizzling lamps and recalcitrant toasters and unpredictable boomboxes.
They're the volunteers for a Fix-It Clinic, an effort begun last year by Hennepin County, Minn. Clinics have a three-pronged approach: One, a repaired gadget is one less gadget tossed in the trash. Two, you can learn to do your own troubleshooting and repair work. Three, you get to meet some really smart and generous people, and that's not a wasted Saturday, even if your toaster never works again.
The effort is itself part of an international movement that began about four years ago in the Netherlands. A similar group called the Fixers Collective started in the New York borough of Brooklyn.
Here's how they work: Bring in small appliances, electronics, mobile devices, even clothing that needs mending. Volunteers guide you through the repair process, helping you figure out where the problem may lie and the possible solutions.
"I already do this all the time," said Jimmy Lynch, a volunteer who also is a member of Twin Cities Maker, a community group that, in a nutshell, makes stuff and shares skills. "I like the idea of self-reliance," he said, adding that his dad taught him most of what he knows. "Every weekend, we'd be dumpster-diving or going to garage sales to find stuff to fix."
Lynch nabbed the challenge of Ross' fizzling lamp, whose two bulbs wouldn't stay lit at once. Lynch and Paul Dingels removed the base, but the problem wasn't there.
Then, to the sockets, which stymied them at first. Finally, they reached the innards. "Looks like someone did a good job of splicing at one time," Dingels said. They tested the charge with a meter, then rewound the wiring, resembling surgeons bent over a patient. Dingels placed a probe on one socket, unexpectedly sending a small arcs of sparks across the table.
"Science!" Lynch declared, before he and Dingels agreed to better communicate when the lamp was plugged in. Within a few minutes, they'd achieved success.
Around the room, other resuscitation projects were underway.
Anita Urvina-Davis gave Kelly Wilder a lesson in mending a rip in a pair of sturdy Carhartt jeans. It's a skill she'd learned years ago when her father brought home an old sewing machine from the Salvation Army — evidence that parents modeling good behavior actually works.
Not everything proved salvageable. A toaster with a disobedient lever was eventually decreed, well, toast. The same fate loomed for a boombox that Daniel Runion of Minneapolis brought, complaining that its volume would inexplicably fade.
Tyler Cooper set about removing 17 screws, which led to the first rule of home repair: Keep track of the tiny stuff.
Cooper figured the problem was in the switch, but doubted that a replacement was available, given the boombox's age. (Once, when the volume came up, the room filled with the Doobie Brothers' "China Grove." "Does that only play tunes from the '70s?" someone cracked. Runion just nodded.)
Cooper considered soldering the switch in place, but kept worrying over the contacts board until finally surmising that the sound vibrations eventually were causing the switch to shift. At this point, it was clear that some repair tips are beyond the realm of being casually passed from expert to owner. Cooper made a fine-tuned fix, then set about complexity of reassembly.
"You are the man!" Runion told him, later explaining that while he knows he's gotten fair use from his boombox, "I hate to throw away anything that still has a function. My kids think I'm a pack rat, but really, I just hate consumerism."
Nancy Lo, who coordinates the clinics, said that the fix-it movement is growing nationwide, with similar efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and Seattle. In St. Paul, a business called the Fixity (gofixity.com) opened last year, with the motto, "Fix it, don't nix it!"
Lo said that while her goal is to see landfills filled less quickly, "I really think the main value is that people are leaving with the confidence to try and see if something can be fixed."
She talked about a couple who brought in an antique radio that, having been dropped, no longer worked. "He watched the whole process, getting to see the inside of the radio and how they got it working again using the spring of a ballpoint pen," Lo said.
Later, when the radio again stopped working, he felt like he knew enough to open it up and nose around. That time, the problem simply was a loose speaker wire, which he easily fixed.
"But if he hadn't worked on it before, he wouldn't be any the wiser," Lo said. "We just gave him the confidence."
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WHEELING - It was Ali-Frazier on the Island.
Haymaker here. Uppercut there.
Straight left jab to end the round and an overhand right to start the next.
In the end, Wahama quarterback Trenton Gibbs covered the final 4 feet to find the end zone on a two-point conversion in the first overtime period for a 43-42 victory over Weirton Madonna Saturday evening in the West Virginia Class A state championship game.
"I've not seen a game like this to this extent," said second-year Blue Dons coach Doug Taylor. "That was a good one. We just came out on the short end of it.
"We just kept telling our kids that every time they (the White Falcons) scored, that good teams have to answer and we did that, for the most part.
"It was one of those games.
"I feel badly for our seniors. I really wanted to send them (Garrett Hypes, Quinton Hukill, Charlie Kotten and James Fulciniti) out winning a state title."
The teams combined to score the most points in a Class A state championship game.
It was the first overtime game in the Super Six since 2005 and the first in Class A since 2002.
Madonna quarterback Ross Comis found Marcello Biondillo on a 21-yard touchdown pass with 47.6 seconds left in the game to close the gap to 35-34.
There was then a discussion on the Madonna sideline whether to have Matthew Green kick his fifth extra point of the game, or go for two to end it.
"We talked about it," said Taylor. "Half our coaching staff was saying 'kick it,' half our coaching staff was saying 'end it.' We decided to kick it, then I said, 'the heck with it, let's go for it.' By that time, we had two receivers who had already gone up to the kick coverage team. That's on me. We decided to kick it for the tie."
Comis scored from the 9 on the first overtime possession and Green's PAT made it 42-35.
And, like it had done all evening, Wahama answered the knock on the door.
"I felt good in the overtime after we scored," sayd Taylor. "Our defense hadn't come up with a stop yet in the second half, one to hang their hat on. I thought that this is the one that's going to be.
"We thought we had that strip (on first down) and didn't get it. Then they got that little swing-hitch on us and got it inside the 5."
The White Falcons' Zack Wamsley scored from the 1 and they called a timeout to discuss their options.
"I wanted to go for it," said Gibbs. "If we were going to lose, I wanted to go down fighting."
"We were in an argument actually, whether to go for two or go for one," said Wamsley. "I wanted to win it."
"Personally, I wanted the ball," said Kane Roush, who was named Wahama's game MVP. "But, it's alright. I trust Gibbs. I trust Wamsley. I trust everybody on this team."
"That's a gusty move on their part," said Taylor.
Madonna held a 14-12 lead at halftime.
Roush scored from the 17 and a two-point convertion made it 20-14.
Madonna recovered an onside kick and Comis ran in from the 12 for a 21-20 advantage.
Roush scored from the 2 and another two-pointer made it 28-21.
A Comis-to-Garrett Hypes 41-yarder on third-and-19 from the 49 put the ball at first and goal from the 8 and Comis scored on third-and-goal from the 6 and it was 28-all.
Roush answered by going 42 to paydirt and Wamsley's PAT made it 35-28 with 6:45 left in the contest.
The Blue Dons had a foruth-and-3 from the 26 and an out pattern to Hypes was caught for a first down at the 21, setting up the touchdown pass to Biondillo.
Comis' six touchdowns (five rushing, one throwing) ties an all-class state championship game record, set last year by Wheeling Central's Geno Bianconi.
"He's a great athlete," Wamsley said of Comis. "We went back and forth at it all night long. We had some real good ones (hits). A couple cleared my sinuses up.
"It was a great game. One of the best I've ever played in."
"Madonna is a great team and Comis is a great player," said Roush. "This was an amazing game. I figured both defenses would be a lot better than they were tonight. The offenses just had things going. I know we were clicking all night."
"He's just so tough," Gibbs said of Comis. "You can't hardly stop him. You're lucky if you get a stop on him. He can run, throw. He can do anything. I especially noticed how well he can read the defense. I give him his props and wish him well in the future."
Madonna scored 10 touchdowns in the semfinal and final contests. Comis ran for seven and passed for three.
Comis was named the Blue Dons' game MVP.
"They did smack me a couple of times." Comis said of Wahama's defense. "They're definitely one of the hardest hitting teams we've played. They played hard until the end. They kept fighting. They got the last crack at it in the second overtime and scored.
"We kept fighting, too.
"I didn't think this game would have over 30 points scored. I never had this in my mind. I thought our defense was going to play well.
"They have a good offense. They kept getting a push on us.
"We just kept answering."
Wahama finsihed with 338 yards on 56 carries and 416 yards ot total offense on 65 plays. Rouch had 23 carries for 170 yards and Wamsley 21 attempts for 113 yards. Both scored three times.
Comis led Madonna's offense with 145 yards on 27 chances and was 8 for 9 for 131 yards through the air. The Blue Dons had 357 yards on 50 plays.
The White Falcons held the ball almost 18 minutes more than the Blue Dons.
"I think both offenses played well, I also thought both defenses played poorly at times," said Comis. "I know we didn't do what we usually do."


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Is there a specific reason to collect all of these car keys, or all of the dog tags? To put it simply, are these only in the game for those try-hard gamers that think they have to get everything in a game in order to actually beat it? (No offense to anyone)
Dog tags in Crysis 2 multiplayer serve two functions:
e-mails only give you more detail about what is happening as you play the story.
Vehicle keys to my knowledge don't give you anything except the reason to play game once more to find all of them.
No, there is no benefit. They're are simply there as collectables.


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The 7 Most Offensive Adaptations of Classic Comic Books
Since its earliest days, Hollywood has known that comic books are a fertile source to steal ideas from, since everyone knows the characters but nobody actually reads the stories (right?).
But Hollywood hasn't always treated the source material with the same respect and reverence that it gave characters like Iron Man, Scott Pilgrim or even Howard the Duck. For example ...
#7. Legends of the Superheroes, or the Live-Action SuperFriends Turn Racist
Yes. Yes, you can go wrong with a bunch of well-known superheroes. Horribly, horribly wrong.
Legends of the Superheroes was the name of two one-hour specials inspired by The SuperFriends, the cartoon loosely based on the Justice League comics. And it was a variety show. With a laugh track.
The cast included Batman, Robin, Captain Marvel, Green Lantern (the better-known one this time), Hawkman and The Flash. The only reason Superman and Wonder Woman didn't show up is that they had a movie and a series in production. Adam West and Burt Ward reprised their roles as Batman and Robin -- except that this was in 1979, more than 10 years after their show went off the air, which means that Batman is now over 50 and the "Boy Wonder" is in his mid-30s. The unintentional result was a Dynamic Duo that looked like it had fallen on some hard times.
"One more crack about the new Batmobile and you're walking home."
The first episode features the heroes trying to discover the location of a doomsday device, but then the second one was, inexplicably, a celebrity roast of the superheroes hosted by Ed McMahon.
But it gets worse: At one point, McMahon tells the audience that there are other less well-known superheroes, "especially in the minority area." From that point the show spirals into a politically incorrect nightmare:
That's right, the only black superhero in the entire show had to be called Ghetto Man and come from the projects. After he's done performing his sassy stand-up act ("I'm sorry, but we don't feel the Green Lantern qualifies as 'colored people' "), he flies away by opening his arms and legs and shouting "KAREEEEEEEEM!"
We'd say that 1979 was a different time, but we're pretty sure that episode qualified as a hate crime even then.
#6. Archie Returns to Riverdale, Deals With Depression
Most of the (puzzlingly enduring) charm of Archie Comics lies in their complete inability to change with the times, retaining the same innocent view of teenagers since the 1940's. That's also what makes Archie: Return to Riverdale, a TV movie that aired in 1990, so amazing: It takes a massive turn to the dark side by featuring Archie and the gang decades later, as a group of badly adjusted adults dealing with their depressing lives.
Wait until the first kid from Boy Meets World turns 50.
The story shows the characters reuniting for the 15th anniversary of their graduation from Riverdale High -- because if there's one thing more depressing than high school itself, it's high school reunions. All their lives have taken turns for the worse: Betty is a small-time schoolteacher trapped in an abusive relationship; Veronica is a four-time divorcee with an implied sex addiction problem; and the once fun-lovin' Jughead had his soul crushed by his ex-wife and now struggles to connect with his son.
It's all downhill from here, guys.
Archie himself was doing fine, with a hot fiance and a promising career as a lawyer in the big city, until he came back to Riverdale and saw this:
Like an addict falling off the wagon (and being run over by it, then defecated on by the horse it's tied to), Archie finds that his feelings for both Betty and Veronica resurface, putting in jeopardy the only healthy relationship he's ever had. It doesn't help that the home-wreckers don't give a crap about ruining his life and openly pursue Archie despite being fully aware of the existence of his fiance.
Veronica, propositioning Archie for illicit hotel sex.
Betty, kicking things up a notch.
Archie ends up being dumped and throwing his career away to move back to Riverdale, which is the most depressing outcome we could think of. But there are also some light hearted moments, like this scene where Jughead and his son finally bond over a 90s hip-hop remix of The Archies' "Sugar Sugar" ...
... but, of course, that only serves to highlight the song's inappropriate sexual overtones, with lines like "You laid your ever-lovin' stuff on me" and "I'm gonna rock your world complete." Yeah, we're thinking the people who made this thing freaking hated the Archie comics.
They apparently hoped it would spin off into a series, which thankfully never happened. If it did, we're pretty sure Jughead would have hanged himself by the fifth episode, and the season finale would have involved Veronica being convicted for gutting a hobo.
Archie ends up in prison after a botched convenience store robbery costs 14 people their lives.
#5. Coming Out of Their Shells: The Ninja Turtles Form a Boy Band
After the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles utterly dominated the 80s, getting their likenesses plastered on lunch boxes, pajamas, sleeping bags, action figures and basically everything else outside of feminine hygiene products, their makers were almost out of ways to really run the franchise into the ground.
"OK, so how about we reboot the whole series and give every character fetal alcohol syndrome?"
Thus in 1990, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles released their first and only pop-rock/rap album, kicking off a nationwide tour that must have been attended primarily by curious people wondering how the fuck that was possible.
It was the worst possible answer:
The show featured actors dressed in turtle suits, like the ones from the movies, except cheaper-looking and now featuring denim jackets. They were lip-syncing to 90s pop-rock while pretending to play instruments like guitars, bass, drums and, as if this whole thing wasn't horrible enough already, keytars. During other songs they simply forgot about the instruments and performed elaborate choreographed dances, like in a Madonna concert.
Except with more natural-looking skin.
The venerable Master Splinter makes an appearance to tell his pupils that they "can do more good with music than with any pair of nunchuks" -- because apparently real ninjas are less about violence and more about ripping off the New Kids on the Block. Later, the Shredder crashes the concert to tell everyone how much he hates music, which he does by performing a song called "I Hate Music."
"Wait ... shit."
The Turtles even appeared on Regis and Kathie Lee to promote the show, in what must be the lowest point in two separate franchises.
The whole concert was released on VHS, but even stranger was the "making of" documentary included. What could have been an interesting look at the behind-the-scenes stuff (because, seriously, how the fuck does this happen) turned out to be a bizarre Spinal Tap-style mockumentary that pretends the Turtles are an actual rock band. While this could have been clever idea for a five-minute sketch, unfortunately it goes on for 30 minutes. It includes interviews with real-life managers and producers who somehow had nothing better to do, plus a scene with the Turtles in the studio laying down a track for their album.
The ambiance was tense because Michelangelo showed up with a hangover again.
The recording engineers even go out of their way to explain how the turtles can play instruments with only three fingers. Donatello, we learn, has extra-thick keys on his keytar, while Leonardo plays a one-string bass.
It's the same one the guy from Radiohead uses.
Because if there's anything fans of the Ninja Turtles crave, it's logic. Sure, a quartet of turtles exposed to ambiguous radioactive goop can be trained as ninjas and speak like California surfers, but if those same turtles also learned how to play musical instruments? Well, that's a little far-fetched.
#4. Justice League of America: The World's Greatest Superheroes (Minus The World's Greatest Superheroes)
Like most entries on this list, this low-budget movie was produced in the hopes of creating a live-action series. Unlike the other entries, this one was considered so bad that it has never aired in the U.S. But that's why the Internet exists. So we can watch awful things.
Awful, awful things.
Justice League of America (1997) shortens the teams' all-star roster by getting rid of dead weight like Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, and keeping guys like The Atom (whose power is making himself little), Green Lantern (not even the most famous one) and the Martian Manhunter. The Flash is also on the team, but he looks like this:
The movie features costumes that look like they were designed by nerds to wear at Comic-Con and sewn together by their mothers.
The main character is Tori, a meteorologist who gains superpowers by being the worst lab assistant ever and spilling water on an experimental device, electrocuting herself. She's abducted by the Justice League and soon given a membership on the team. Yes, all it takes to get an invitation to join the mighty Justice League of America is proving that Darwin was wrong.
The poor guy just can't catch a break.
It's an odd mixture of superhero story and sitcom, and the script awkwardly tries to balance drama with comedy by showing the characters' dull normal lives side by side with their dull superhero exploits. One reviewer called it "Friends with superpowers," but that's giving it too much credit. It's more like "Perfect Strangers with superpowers," and with every character played by Bronson Pinchot.
The whole thing is intercut with interviews with the characters, implying that this is a documentary and that these guys are incredibly bad at keeping their secret identities.
"So I put on my costume an- hey, this isn't, like, going on TV, right?"
The secret underwater headquarters of the Justice League is accessible only through an elevator located under a bridge, where no one could ever notice a group of brightly costumed individuals walking together and disappearing.
"Aaaagggh, they pissed on the handle again, Aaaaagggghhhhh"
Once they're down there, they meet the Martian Manhunter, who is pretty much a full-bodied version of Zordon from the Power Rangers here. Despite having telepathic powers, the Manhunter summons the members of the Justice League only through beepers, a technology that was already outdated by the time this movie came out.
"Listen. You guys. Beepers are coming back. I'm telling you."
The villain is a guy called "Weather Man." Out of the 500 villains the Justice League has fought in the comics, they had to choose the one who sounds about as menacing as Al Roker. We'd like to think that if they didn't use better characters it's only because they weren't available, because otherwise the choices that led to this thing are pretty puzzling. We've seen plenty of examples of adaptations where for some reason they leave a lot of important characters out of the movie, but you couldn't possibly go wrong if you had a bunch of well-known superheroes, right?


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SENIOR?SERVICES of Belmont?County and its 10 senior centers are planning a month-long membership drive for August.
According to Lori Bittengle with SSBC, membership is already on the upswing at most centers but this effort is geared county-wide.
"Our numbers are up," Bittengle said. "Centerville had five new members last month, all on the same day.
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AS?PART?of its membership drive, the senior centers in Belmont County are utilizing a Luau theme throughout the month of August, culminating Aug. 24 with an 'Aloha Luau' scheduled at each center to welcome new members. Front row, from left, are: Donna Steadman, Centerville Senior Center, Lori Bittengle with Senior Services of Belmont County, Tina Burkhart, Senior Services Nutrition Supervisor, Linda Wells, Barnesville and Sue Hines, Bethesda. Back row, from left, are: Tish Kinney, Flushing; Karen Titonis, Bellaire; Linda Sadowksi, Martins Ferry; Daisy Braun, St. Clairsville and Shirley Jo Case, Colerain. Absent: Mike McBride, Powhatan.
"And Martins Ferry is up 17 members."
Bittengle also reported that the Flushing Senior Center has seen 10 of its inactive members rejoin the fold.
Most of the centers will be distributing information about the month's activities the first week to get the word out and drum up interest.
The second week will see a Luau luncheon to welcome new members.
The third week of the month each center will host a cornhole tournament, complete with prizes and give-a-ways.
The events come to a conclusion on Friday, Aug. 24 as each center will host an Aloha Luau.
The nutrition department of SSBC will be serving up Hawaiian-themed meals to transport to the centers, including: Musubi, pineapple upside down cake, Hawaiian welcoming bread and tropical drinks.
"We wanted to do some type of pulled pork, but it doesn't hold up as well when transporting it in smaller containers," said Tina Burkhart, the SSBC? Nutrition Supervisor.
Usually the center members get together a few times per year at a particular location for a big, festive party.
That idea was thought about for the Luau, but it was determined that since the ultimate goal is to boost membership, having a party at each center is a better idea.
"Since we want to increase membership, we want to show off each individual senior center," Burkhart said.
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Does it seem like a lifetime, or has it flown by? At least from now on, you really will be counting down. Hopefully, at this halfway point you are feeling fine physically. You're not yet encumbered by a large belly and probably have a reasonable amount of energy. Psychologically, you may still be very emotional, although you will no doubt have gotten used to any mood swings by now (as will your partner).
At this stage you will continue going to prenatal appointments around every four weeks. Remember, your doctor is there to monitor your health and your baby's progress, but also to help, so get her advice on how to deal with some of the discomforts you might experience as you grow bigger.
Good posture can help to minimize pregnancy discomforts, including backaches (see Banish backaches page). When seated, make sure your lower back is supported by the back of the chair and keep your feet flat on the floor.
Yoga is a great way to learn to hold your body correctly, including how to keep your spine aligned and your lower back supported.
The gestation period for an elephant is an incredible 22 months, making it the longest of any land animal.
In addition to this, the common birth weight for elephants is 260 lb (120 kg). So, if your pregnancy is already starting to feel long, and your baby a tad heavy, spare a thought for our large-eared friends!
While you understandably want to feel your baby's movements, there is no cause for concern yet since your recent scan should have shown you that all is well with your baby.
If it's your first baby, you may not notice the early movements since you won't know what to expect. Also, if you're an active person, these slight flutters may be missed. Women with a placenta lying at the front of the uterus may feel movements later, as may larger women since the movement may not be detected through the flesh.
Once you do feel movements, don't become too focused on every one. It's not until around 28 weeks that it becomes important to monitor the pattern. From this stage, the amount your baby moves, as well as the type of movement and when it happens, are relevant since these indicate that the placenta is sustaining the pregnancy and your baby's muscles are developing.
If you're concerned about lack of movement from your baby at any stage, speak to your doctor.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Circa Zero, featuring legendary Police guitarist Andy Summers and singer songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Rob Giles (The Rescues), are celebrating the premiere of the video for their first single from their debut album Circus Hero, "Levitation," on USA Today.com. View the video at: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/04/04/circa-zero-levitate-video-premiere/7261705/
Circa Zero recorded Circus Hero at Summers' studio Bowl of Cherries in Venice, CA and signed a worldwide deal with 429 Records. Produced by Summers and Giles, Circus Hero is an exhilarating musical ride created by musicians dead set on launching a long term vibrant endeavor. Circus Hero is available everywhere on 429 Records, including Best Buy where fans can purchase a CD plus DVD Combo pack.
Fresh off of The Police reunion tour, Summers was intent on remaining in the rock world after years of pushing the boundaries with his solo projects. The two-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was energized to record again and his search for a musical cohort ended when he discovered Rob Giles performing with his band The Rescues at the Troubadour. Circa Zero is an exciting new chapter for both of them—the name referring to starting with a blank musical slate to create a wholly unique sound, a sound with few if any ties to the past.
To order Circus Hero visit:
Amazon CD: http://smarturl.it/CircaZero_Amazon
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/CircaZero_iTunes
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Amazon MP3: http://smarturl.it/CircaZero_AmazonMP3
For more information visit: http://www.429records.com/sites/429records/429details/d_circazero.asp
429 Records is a unit of The Savoy Label Group (SLG). SLG is the North American based division of Nippon Columbia the oldest music company in Japan. The Savoy Label Group has evolved into a Grammy Award winning and chart topping independent music company consistently outperforming competitors in key music categories as monitored by Billboard Magazine. The Savoy Label Group is led by Steve Vining and is based in Los Angeles, CA.
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GENESEO, N.Y. – Two SUNY Geneseo faculty members released open-access publications this week – a textbook on learning the Chinese language and an essay on Bob Dylan, both accessible online and free to anyone.
The release coincides with both International Open Access Week and the release of two publications from two other SUNY colleges developed through the Open SUNY Textbook Program, a collaboration among SUNY libraries and faculty members to develop free online textbooks.
The Geneseo authors are Jasmine Tang, distinguished lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literatures, who published the textbook "Let's Speak Chinese!," and Eugene Stelzig, distinguished teaching professor of English at the college, who wrote the essay "Bob Dylan's Career as a Blakean Visionary and Romantic." They are part of a growing number of faculty members authoring open educational materials to help reduce the cost of education.
Stelzig's essay has taken a circuitous pathway to worldwide availability. He completed the work in 1976 after being invited to submit it for a volume of scholarly essays on Dylan, but the publisher backed out of the venture, deciding it would have limited appeal. Since then, faculty and students have frequently requested copies of Stelzig's article for inclusion in dissertations or courses involving Dylan. Stelzig's original manuscript was typewritten, before the advent of word processing.
"I'm delighted to participate as an open-access author and to have the essay available to anyone who wants to see it, either in print or online," said Stelzig. "The piece has led a sort of underground life for decades in the wake of Robert Shelton listing it in the bibliography of his biography of Dylan, so I'm delighted that Milne Library is making it available and easily accessible to anyone."
Tang will begin using her online textbook, which focuses on conversation, in conjunctions with a previous textbook she authored for beginning students of the Chinese language, "Taking Off With Chinese." The online version contains an audio component that allows the student to listen to word pronunciations. Tang has 51 students enrolled in her Chinese language courses this semester.
"The reason for open-access is such that anyone who has interest can learn the language, building confidence in making communication in Chinese at their own pace with the guidance from this book," said Tang. "The goal is to reach a global audience and a harmonious environment in learning Chinese as a new language."
Cyril Oberlander, library director at SUNY Geneseo, is principal investigator and project editor for the Open SUNY Textbook Program, developed through a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant and library funding. The program also draws upon the expertise of SUNY librarians and SUNY Press.
"It's very gratifying to see all of these publications reach the virtual bookshelves, and the authors have my esteem," said Oberlander. "We continue to work with other SUNY faculty members in the production of additional open-access textbooks in support of the Open SUNY initiative."
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Some famous quotes often give interesting insights into the vision of mathematics that certain mathematicians have. Which ones are you particularly fond of?
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"This remarkable conjecture relates the behaviour of a function L, at a point where it is not at present known to be defined, to the order of a group \Sha, which is not known to be finite."
-John Tate on the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
"The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance." Norbert Wiener.
— Richard Hamming (1962)
– Richard W. Hamming, Introduction to applied numerical analysis, McGraw-Hill 1971, p.31.
"As every mathematician knows, nothing is more fruitful than these obscure analogies, these indistinct reflections of one theory into another, these furtive caresses, these inexplicable disagreements; also nothing gives the researcher greater pleasure... The day dawns when the illusion vanishes; intuition turns to certitude; the twin theories reveal their common source before disappearing; as the Gita teaches us, knowledge and indifference are attained at the same moment. Metaphysics has become mathematics, ready to form the material for a treatise whose icy beauty no longer has the power to move us." - Andre Weil
Greg Kuperberg, in a comment to a MO question
(Caveat for all of mine: I've not hunted down primary sources to check that they're properly attributed)
"Manifolds are a bit like pornography: hard to define, but you know one when you see one." -S. Weinberger
"Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is."- Paul Erdős
C. G. J. Jacobi, writing to von Humboldt, in 1846.
Without pretty ßs: Only Dirichlet, Not I, not Cauchy, not Gauss, knows what a perfectly rigourous proof is, but we learn it only from him. When Gauss says he has proved something, I think it is very likely; when Cauchy says it, it is a fifty-fifty bet; when Dirichlet says it, it is certain; I prefer not to go into these delicate matters.
"Later mathematicians will regard set theory as a disease from which one has recovered." Henri Poincaré.
P. Turan, "The Work of Alfred Renyi", Matematikai Lapok 21, 1970, pp 199-210
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite!" -- Paul Dirac (some people attribute it to Franz Kafka!?)
This one has to do with the quote by Rota that appears in the first post of C. Siegel:
" The essence of Mathematics is proving theorems and so, that is what mathematicians do: they prove theorems. But to tell the truth, what they really want to prove once in their lifetime, is a lemma, like the one by Fatou in Analysis, the lemma of Gauss in Number Theory, or the Burnside-Frobenius lemma in Combinatorics.
Now what makes a mathematical statement a true lemma? First, it should be applicable to a wide variety of instances, even seemingly unrelated problems. Secondly, the statement should, once you have seen it, be completely obvious. The reaction of the reader might well be one of faint envy: Why haven't I noticed this before? And thirdly, on an esthetic level, the lemma including its proof should be beautiful!"
"[Mathematics consists of] true facts about imaginary objects." Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh.
"Having thus refreshed ourselves in the oasis of a proof, we now turn again into the desert of definitions."
– Th. Bröcker & K. Jänich, Introduction to differential topology (p.25)
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. —Alfréd Rényi, but often attributed also to Paul Erdős
"A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a perfect mathematician"- Karl Weierstraß
"You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book." --- Paul Erdős. describing the Book held by the God that contains the most beautiful proofs to all the theorems
Farkas Bolyai to his son Janos, speaking about attempts to study Euclid's Vth postulate on parallel lines:
"You must not attempt this approach to parallels. I know this way to its very end. I have traversed this bottomless night, which extinguished all light and joy of my life. I entreat you, leave the science of the parallels alone... I thought I would sacrifice myself for the sake of truth. I was ready to become a martyr who would remove the flaw from geometry and return it purified to mankind. I accomplished monstrous, enormous labors; my creations are far better than those of others and yet I have not achieved complete satisfaction.... I turned back when I saw that no man can reach the bottom of the night. I turned back unconsoled, pitying myself and all mankind.
I admit that I expect little from the deviation of your lines. It seems to me that I have been in these regions; that I have traveled past all reefs of this infernal Dead Sea and have always come back with broken mast and torn sail. The ruin of my disposition and my fall date back to this time. I thoughtlessly risked my life and happiness - aut Caesar aut nihil."
Free translation: keep going, faith will come later.
Jean-le-Rond D'Alembert, to his students (quoted by Florian Cajori in A history of mathematics)
In the biographical piece on Grothendieck a couple of years ago in the Notices <<http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf>> the author says "One thing Grothendieck said was that one should never try to prove anything that is not almost obvious". It's not a quote, but it is a nice succinct way of putting his 'nut' analogy given above.
«Jusqu'à quand les pauvres jeunes gens seront-ils obligés d'écouter ou de répéter toute la journée? Quand leur laissera-t-on du temps pour méditer sur cet amas de connaissances, pour coordonner cette foule de propositions sans suite, de calculs sans liaison? … Mais non, on enseigne minutieusement des théories tronquées et chargées de réflexions inutiles, tandis qu'on omet les propositions les plus brillantes de l'algèbre…». Evariste Galois
(My poor translation: For how long will young people be forced to listening or memorizing during whole days? When will they be allowed time to ponder on this mass of knowledge, to coordinate the multitude of unconnected propositions, of unrelated calculations? … Instead, they are carefully taught truncated theories, loaded with unnecessary reflections, while omitting the most brilliant propositions of algebra…)
"Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine." - Kurt Gödel
A declaration of war by a Platonist.
My favorite math quote will probably always be Paul Gordan's response to Hilbert's proof of his Basis Theorem: "This is not Mathematics. This is Theology."
Along with his redaction after he came to accept the method: "I have convinced myself that even theology has its merits."
"So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." - Albert Einstein
(Personally, I'd take certainty over being about reality any day)
Attributed to Charles Darwin
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
John von Neumann
"There are five elementary arithmetical operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and… modular forms." - Eichler
"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics."- Godfrey Harold Hardy
I have put this quote in the front of my thesis:


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Daniel Parker, 26, appeared in Riley County court Thursday for a scheduling hearing.
Parker is accused of opening fire outside of a New Year's party at a Manhattan motorcycle club.
Frederick Beverly, 21, a Kansas National Guardsman, was caught in the crossfire and killed.
On January 1, 2012 around 4 AM, officers were called to 1827 Fair Lane, just south of the intersection of Fort Riley Boulevard and South Delaware Avenue.
At that location, members of the "Assassin Street Rydaz," a Manhattan motorcycle club, were having an after-hours New Year's party at their club house.
Beverly, a member of the motorcycle club, was shot outside, receiving a fatal gunshot wound to the head. He was later pronounced dead at Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan.
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Daniel Parker has been assigned a new attorney- Ron Evans- from Topeka to represent him. Evans is the head of the Death Penalty Defense Unit for the State of Kansas. Parker is not charged with capital murder but Evans will still represent him due to the conflict. Parker remains in custody at the Riley County Jail.
His preliminary hearing has been rescheduled for November 14, 2012 at 9 AM at the Riley County Courthouse.


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- BSO Case Number: DR12-11-02748
- PIO Number: 12-11-19
- Date: November 17, 2012
- Time: 2:27 p.m.
- Place of Occurrence: 39 Centennial Ct., Deerfield Beach
- Jurisdiction: Deerfield Beach
- Julianna Lacerda, 2, female, 05/05/10, 43 Centennial Ct., Deerfield Beach (DECEASED)
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A two-year-old Deerfield Beach toddler died after being pulled from a community pool near her home Saturday afternoon.
Julianna Lacerda, 2, was at home with her mother when she apparently slipped out of the house undetected. It wasn't until awhile later, when Julianna's father returned home, that he noticed the little girl wasn't there. The parents began looking for the child and called 9-1-1 to report her missing.
BSO deputies were dispatched and a subsequent 9-1-1 call reported the child was found, unresponsive, by her father in the community pool several houses down from theirs. The child's father attempted CPR and BSO deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue units arrived on the scene. BSFR firefighter/paramedics initiated aggressive resuscitative efforts and flew the victim via BSO Air Rescue to Broward Health Medical Center. Lacerda was pronounced dead at 3:34 p.m.
At this time, BSO Homicide Unit detectives are conducting an investigation however, it appears that this was a sad tragedy and no foul play is suspected. The Broward County Medical Examiner's Office will confirm the cause of death, presumed to be drowning.
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The only "useful" thing I've been able to find after Google-ing is this, on the cPanel website, which has no context whatsoever.
Does anyone know how to do this?
My version of cPanel is 11.32.2 (build 28).
Manually modifying cpanel.config is HIGHLY DISCOURAGED and can produce unexpected behaviors. WHM provides the necessary UI for setting DB Prefixing to "0," "Off" but forr Cpanel you have to do it manually .
Operating cPanel systems with Prefixing "Off" can introduce an artificially frequent occurrence of "name collision" when creating cPanel accounts and cpuser database resources. Because arbitrary names are allowed, the probability that common names are requested will increase and therefore the denial to use those names will also increase
In WHM, there's a section of the menu called
Go into it, and then find:
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STEUBENVILLE - Claymont put on a "great" performance Wednesday inside the Crimson Center to claim the Division II, Region 12 team championship.
The Mustangs won nine matches to outscore Big Red 40-19 and earn a berth in the state quarterfinals, set for Saturday at St. John Arena on the campus of the Ohio State University.
"They wrestled great," Big Red's Mike Blackburn said. "They changed some people around in the lineup and took some bonus points away from us. That's a great team representing Region 12 in the state event."
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THAT'S ALL FOLKS — Steubenville's Greg Moray pins Claymont's Garrett Harding during the dual meet between Big Red and the Mustangs Wednesday at the Crimson Center.
-- Fred Younce
In January, Eric Toukenon's grapplers rallied for a 31-25 victory over the Big Red.
"We definitely made some mistakes tonight that we didn't make in the first match," Blackburn continued. "When you do that against a real good team like Claymont, it's hard to make up any points or dig out of a hole like we had to.
"But, even in a couple of the losses, we wrestled better than we did the first time around. It's all about bonus points and they definitely were able to get more than us."
Claymont jumped out to a 19-0 lead after the initial four matches. Anthony Parada got Big Red on the board when he earned a 12-6 decision over Drew Dillon at 132 pounds. The Mustangs increased their advantage to 28-3 thanks to a decision and a pin. Then, the O'Dell twins went to work for the hosts.
Zack O'Dell rallied in the third period to score a 7-5 win over John Gray at 152. Andrew O'Dell followed with a 14-8 victory against Tanner Peters at 160.
"Both O'Dells wrestled different guys than they did in the first match," Blackburn noted. "They both won the first time around and they wrestled hard tonight. Zack came from behind which was a huge momentum boost for us."
Andrew O'Dell's win put Big Red within striking distance at 28-9 with five matches remaining. Unfortunately, Mark Cole dropped a 6-5 heartbreaker at 170 and Brandon Jones fell to Claymont's Colt Crall at 182 to put the match out of reach.
Charlie Keenan registered a major decision at 195 and Greg Moray recorded Big Red's only pin of the evening at 220. He needed just 1:19 to put Garrett Harding on his back.
"Charlie got us a major this time which gave us some bonus points," Blackburn pointed out. "As far as Greg goes, that's something he can do all the time when he keeps wrestling."
This is the first time the OHSAA has conducted the team dual tournament in this format.
Blackburn and company will be back in action tonight, hosting the Bill Hinegardner OVAC Dual Meet Championships. Big Red, which claimed the conference team crown earlier in the season, will tangle with Martins Ferry in one Class 4A semifinal with Harrison Central and Oak Glen going at it in the other. Championship and consolation action will follow.
In the Class 2A/1A event, also set for the Crimson Center, Catholic Central will go against Caldwell and Shadyside will test Toronto.
The semifinals begin at 6 p.m.
"With the schedule we've had this year, there have been some ups and downs," Blackburn noted. "Our guys have to understand they need to stick together. I thought during OVAC time they stuck together as a team and we probably did some of the best wrestling we've done all year.
"They need to get focused and understand this is the last time we get to wrestle before sectionals. We need to go out there and make a statement tomorrow."
Claymont 40, Big Red 19
106 Tyler Warner 9 (Claymont) major decision Tariq Wilson 9 (Big Red) 10-1
113 Dustin Warner 11 (Claymont) pinned Dakota Goff 9 (Big Red) 3:14
120 Kollin Clark 11 (Claymont) forfeit
126 Cody Burcher 11 (Claymont) d. Anthony Craig 12 (Big Red) 10-6
132 Anthony Parada 12 (Big Red) d. Drew Dillon 12 (Claymont) 12-6
138 Drew Avery 12 (Claymont) d. Jacob McKitrick 12 (Big Red) 5-4
145 Caden Herron 11 (Claymont) pinned Nico Moray 9 (Big Red) 3:20
152 Zach O'Dell 12 (Big Red) d. John Gray 11 (Claymont) 7-5
160 Andrew O'Dell 12 (Big Red) d. Tanner Peters 11 (Claymont) 14-8
170 Matt Dennis 11 (Claymont) d. Mark Cole 12 (Big Red) 6-5
182 Colt Crall 11 (Claymont) pinned Brandon Jones 10 (Big Red) 0:40
195 Charlie Keenan 12 (Big Red) major decision Nate Gray 10 (Claymont) 9-1
220 Greg Moray 12 (Big Red) pinned Garrett Harding 11 (Claymont) 1:19
285 Kyle Henry 11 (Claymont) d. Ryan Wood 12 (Big Red) 4-3