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When the government discovers the breakers' secret—and its potential as a weapon—Shame and Terric suddenly become wanted men, the only ones who can stop the deadly gift from landing in the wrong hands. If only a pair of those wrong hands didn't belong to a drop-dead-gorgeous assassin Shame is falling for as if it were the end of the world. And if he gets too close to her, it very well could be….
"Fiendishly original."—#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Patricia Briggs
"Monk's writing is addictive, and the only cure is more, more, more."— New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Vincent
"Urban fantasy at its finest."—Sacramento Book Review
Dear Reader Letter
Dear Reader,
Here's the thing: I loved writing the Allie Beckstrom urban fantasy series. It filled me with writerly glee to follow her and her friends as they navigated a modern world where everyone can use magic. Of course there was one little catch about magic in Allie's world. When anyone used it, it used them right back, dealing out pain for every magical act committed.
After nine books of prices paid, disasters almost always averted, and rewards earned, Allie's adventures were completed, her loves lost, her joys found. So I reluctantly said my farewells to Allie Beckstrom and the magic-fueled world of Portland, Oregon.
And then a funny thing happened. Readers wanted to know more. More about the world, more about magic, and certainly more about the sarcastic, fatalistic Death magic user, Shame Flynn who had given up his life and so very much more for his good friend Allie. Readers wanted to know how he was going to deal with being soul-tied and magic-bound to his ex-best friend Terric Conley, a man he'd vowed to avoid so as not to repeat his previous mistake of killing him.
When readers ask questions, I listen. Soon the answers, the twists and turns, the adventures of Death magic user, Shame and Life magic user, Terric took shape. It's only been three years since the events in the last Allie book, but Shame Flynn's magic-fueled Portland Oregon is not at all the same world we've seen.
Old vendettas take on deadly forms, friends and enemies choose new sides, and even magic isn't what it used to be. It is a gritty world, it is a broken world, it is a hopeful world. It is Shame's world.
Thank you, readers for your notes, tweets, emails, questions and comments. Your curiosity made me curious, your excitement made me even more excited. I hope you'll enjoy the books if you get a chance to read them. Because here's the thing: I loved writing the Shame Flynn urban fantasy series and I am grateful for the chance to share his world with you.


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Hi everyone,
I have a question which I am quite stumped on. Consider the linear functional $l(f) = f(0)$ defined on $C([-1,1])$. By Hahn-Banach this linear functional can be extended to one on all of $L^{\infty}([-1,1])$. Now the space $(L^{\infty})^*$ is the set of all finitely additive measures which are absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue. Therefore $l$ must be a finitely additive measure $<< dx$ on $[0,1]$.
I apparently do not understand what this means for finitely additive measures since this element of $(L^{\infty})^*$ does not appear to be absolutely continuous; it is just dirac measure. Can someone help clarify this apparent inconsistency? Are the finitely additive functionals only defined on intervals $[a,b)$ or something of this nature?
Best, Dorian

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5 Hilariously Bizarre Early Careers of Famous People
Unless they're lucky enough to tumble out of a Kardashian, most people aren't born celebrities. Before your favorite actors, musicians, and TV personalities got their big break, they had to work for a living just like the rest of us schlubs. And for the most part, these were not romantic careers: waiting tables, pumping gas, artisting sandwiches, taming lions ...
Wait, what?
#5. Christopher Walken Started Out as a Lion Tamer
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With one glance, you know that Christopher Walken has never had a normal life. You don't come out looking like a man-ferret and sounding like a bridge troll who received elocution lessons from the Lost in Space robot after a lifetime spent slinging horse meat at Arby's. So while it was certainly unexpected, we can't really say we were surprised to learn that Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer in a traveling circus as a teenager.
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He was also a clown as a child. Seriously. That's him.
Actually, he was more of a lion tamer's assistant -- not even Christopher "Makes Broadway Dance Moves Intimidating" Walken could leap, unharmed, directly into the mouth of a great cat straight out of junior high. But that doesn't mean he just did the sweeping up -- it only means that he trained one lion at a time instead of several. According to Walken, it was "more like a big dog than anything."
Think that's an understatement?
Walken found the position advertised in the help wanted section and applied simply because "I've always liked cats."
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Young Walken, pictured here with other things he "likes."
That's like saying you jumped into the volcano because you do well with heat.
Apparently, most of the heavy lion wrangling was done by the owner of the circus, with Walken posing as his son. When the tamer was finished, he'd leave the teenage Walken alone with "Sheba" and Walken would crack his whip to make her do tricks. But as much as you'd like to envision Christopher Walken fighting a lion with nothing but a bit of fancy rope, it was all for show: In reality, Walken and Sheba were best friends. And that's ... actually way more fun to envision anyway. Get on it, screenwriters.
Here's one of Walken during his lion tamer days. You're welcome.
By the way, Christopher Walken isn't the only actor Hollywood dragged out of the circus ...
#4. Pierce Brosnan Started as a Fire Eater
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Pierce Brosnan was a damn fine James Bond in a series of god-awful James Bond films. But that wasn't so much Brosnan's fault as that of the writers who decided to give him an invisible car and have him fight Madonna. But being one-quarter badass and three-quarters ridiculous wasn't a new turn of events for Brosnan: He first got his start in showbiz by swallowing fire in the circus.
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Circus work is one of the more dignified moments on his resume.
Brosnan was studying acting in London's Oval House Theatre as a youth when he happened to pass by a fire-eating workshop. While the more rational of us might have walked away from the class on how best to light your own face on fire, Brosnan saw that there was a bunch of topless women in the class and signed right up. Apparently, part of the act was that the participants would drag the flames across their bare chests, and wearing a bra just got in the way of things. So if you come away from this article with only one interesting bit of trivia, let it be this: Pierce Brosnan loves himself some flaming tits.
Eventually, his talents were noticed by the owner of a circus, who gave him a job and jump-started his career as an entertainer. Brosnan had no more use for the circus life after he started getting film roles, but he did get to display his fire-eating talents a few more times. He did it once in an episode of his pre-Bond TV show Remington Steele, and after GoldenEye, he was invited to do it again on an episode of The Muppet Show. Because breathing fire in a room full of cloth puppets and children couldn't possibly go wrong.
And go wrong it did.
The fact that he never killed anyone this way as 007 is a crime against cinema.
No, Pierce Brosnan didn't spit fire on Miss Piggy as the children screamed; the show's prop department gave him the wrong kind of fuel, so when he attempted the trick, he burned the inside of his mouth out. However, he carried on with his duties valiantly, even though he was dying inside. Much like he did on the set of Die Another Day.
#3. Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs Was an Opera Singer
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As the host of Dirty Jobs for seven straight years, Mike Rowe is the Bear Grylls of raw sewage. He has traveled the country, trying his hand at hundreds of the most unsavory occupations known to humanity. He's learned firsthand the dangers of skyscraper window cleaning, the drudgery of salt mining, and the finer points of castrating lambs with his teeth.
That's a pretty interesting career turn for someone who is, by profession, an opera singer.
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Opera singing, oral lamb castration. Two sides of the same coin.
If you're having trouble imagining the Dirty Jobs guy busting out baritone Italian arias while dressed as a blushing Viking, just give this performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" a listen. Rowe's musical career didn't follow what you'd call a conventional trajectory: He initially had no interest in singing -- he wanted to be an actor. But he had a lot of trouble getting a union card, so he found a loophole. He could easily get his card if he did some work singing in the opera. But it's not like you can just go up to the opera master and be like "I want to opera, please."
... right?
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This is clearly decades of training at work.
Wrong: Rowe practiced his chops for a bit, crashed a random audition, and bam! He was all rouged up and singing about murder in Italian faster than you can say Die Fledermaus.
So did he drop opera like a crusty sock as soon as he got his union card? Nope. Rowe stayed on in the Baltimore Opera Company for six years. Even after he got his first gig as a television host for the home shopping network QVC, he found a way to use his talents to move a few karaoke machines. Finally, he got his really big break and started swimming in raw sewage for a living.
We guess that's a step up?
It's at least a lateral move.


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I have heard that you can leave a pizza stone in the oven all the time, essentially storing it there. What are the considerations to keep in mind when doing this (type of oven, placement of stone, etc.)? I currently have a gas oven with the element located inside the broiler drawer below. Can I put the stone directly on the bottom of the oven, or should I keep it on the lowest rack? Are there reasons to remove the stone from the oven, if you're cooking certain things?
Actually I do this, and I do it because my oven is old and tempermental.
Adding a heavy heat-sink (like a pizza stone, or a half dozen fire bricks) to your oven will increase your pre-heat time, but it makes your ovens temperature much more stable. It's a good thing to do if you're planning on cooking anything that is really temperature sensitive.
If you're cooking something that is likely to spill over, you might want to remove it. They can be difficult to clean.
Otherwise, just make sure it isn't blocking airflow (possibly a problem with the very bottom of the oven, but depends on the design). I leave mine on the bottom rack all the time...
See also: What are other uses for a pizza stone?
Note that storing a pizza stone in your oven permanently will rack up your energy bill. As Satanicpuppy says, it's a heat sink that you need to heat up every time.
I do this as well. It's a good idea for ovens which have hotspots, or which are small/cheap and may drop too much in temperature when you open the door.
For a gas oven like yours, you want to put a rack in the lowest position and put the stone on the rack. Do not put the stone directly on the bottom metal of the stove; it will get thermal shock from rapid heating and crack. The baking stone will get a lot of carbon on it from food dripping and burning on its surface; turn it over about once every to months to minimize carbon accumulation.


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My daughter, my Sassy Saint, is a Girl Scout, and we're very familiar with the story of Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low, Girl Scouts founder and general all-round amazing chick.
Daisy had moxie and guts to spare from an early age. As a small child, she gave family friend and Civil War Gen. William Sherman the side-eye during a visit. (Sherman took a break from burning his way to the sea to check in with the Lows.) When Sherman asked Daisy why she was giving him the stink eye, she replied she was looking for his horns because she'd heard he was a devil.
Like I said: Moxie.
Add to that a rich family history of strong women and community service and it's no wonder Daisy founded the Girl Scouts and made it inclusive from the beginning. (Please excuse my hero worship.)
So, when we were creeping down the coast on our summer vacation and I realized we were going to pass Savannah, Ga., I couldn't pass up the chance to visit The Birthplace - Daisy's childhood home and current Girl Scouts of the USA headquarters.
The Long Suffering Husband and the Little Professor weren't as keen, but the Professor is a history buff and The Birthplace is an old, historic house, so I thought he'd enjoy himself. (Side note: the Little Professor told me Savannah was spared a sacking because Sherman made a Christmas gift of the captured city to President Abraham Lincoln.) Besides, it's never a bad thing for children to be exposed to the exploits of history's rock stars.
And the LSH ... well, he's long-suffering.
And besides, it wasn't as damp as the dungeons I dragged him to in Charleston, S.C. (You will note that I didn't leave him there, although I was tempted.)
I spent the entire tour poking and hissing at Sassy. (In between all-caps, exclamation-point riddled texting to our Girl Scout troop leader.)
"Sassy, we're in Daisy's house!"
"Sassy, we're in Daisy's library!"
"Sassy, I see Daisy's Presidential Medal of Honor! Sassy, loooook at it!"
"Sassy, Daisy painted that! Look, look!"
"Saaaassy, look, it's Daisy's (hat/bedroom/Girl Scout uniform/insert object here)! We are in the same room as Daisy's stuff!"
Honestly, it's a minor miracle she didn't come out of it black-and-blue from the poking.
Supremely poised and wise at 13, she would only say quietly (and repeatedly), "mother, behave yourself."
Of course, Leader and I were exchanging increasingly excited texts about how we should round all of our Scouts up for a weekend visit to Savannah, crowned with a pilgrimage to The Birthplace.
"Sass, would you like to go back to Savannah and take a little more time to sight-see? We could go to The Birthplace again," I said.
"With you?" She was quiet for a long moment. "I'll think about it - if you promise to behave next time."
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Take Charge - Be Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Free
Why Be Drug-Free
Each year in the U.S. tobacco-related deaths outnumber deaths from AIDS, car accidents, murders, suicides and fires combined.
Lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause of death among females.
Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Smoking causes many diseases and reduces the overall health of smokers.
Before the age of 21, drinking alcohol on a regular basis or binge drinking will stunt the development of the liver and the brain.
Using drugs can lead to abuse, addictions, serious health problems and even death.
Although students in Fairfax County report lower rates of smoking cigarettes than students nationally, the percentage more than doubles for each grade level surveyed from 0.2% of 6th-graders up through 10.1% of 12th-graders.
- More than 1 in 5 (21%) of 12th-graders in Fairfax County report using marijuana.
Fairfax County Youth Survey Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Use Presentation
Fairfax County Youth Survey Drug Use Fact Sheet
Quick Links
Fairfax County Prevention System Toolkit: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens - The Science Behind Drug Abuse
What is "Take Charge"
"Take Charge" is a free alcohol, tobacco and other drug use prevention program for youth ages 10 - 19 offered by Neighborhood and Community Services, Prevention. Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs can harm a person physically, mentally, spiritually and even financially. That is why today's youth need to "Take Charge" of their minds and bodies to avoid the control that substances can have over their lives.
Project Towards No Tobacco Use (TNT) and
Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND).
The best solution to the drug problem
is education.
The program is FREE and all participants receive:
- Prevention Materials
- Pledge Cards
- Anti-tobacco/Anti-drug branded incentives
- Certificate of Completion
Program Information
Take Charge is a group-based program being implemented in:
- Public, Private and Alternative Schools
- Faith-Based Organizations
- Teen and Community Centers
- Youth Outpatient or Residential Programs
Find out more about starting a group, or how to become trained as a Take Charge facilitator.
Call the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth Prevention Specialist at 703-324-5213, TTY 711.
Accommodations can be made for group size, knowledge level, group focus, or ability level. Requests must be made 10 days prior to the start of the program.
Take Charge is a grant-funded program underwritten by the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth. These resources ensure the continuation of the alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse prevention program through June 30, 2018.


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since Ubuntu 12.10 ships only Python 3 by default, I wanted to ask, what steps should be taken to get my »Quickly« application ready for python 3?
I already know about
2to3, but I don't know how to start quickly's
quickly run command with python 3 support or how to run my applicaton without quickly. Actually right now I use quickly merely to start my application, because I could'nt figure out how to run a quickly application without
quickly run.
I appreciate every answer!


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I really like playing Mag but have only played on Valor. What are the differences in the different teams?
For instance, I've heard that Raven has a bad shotgun and S.V.E.R. has bad grenade launchers. What are the rest of the weapon differences and is there any weapon or speed(of running etc) between the different teams?


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5 Cobra Commander Terror Plots That Might Actually Work
#2. Eau de Cobra
"It was the formula for a love potion! One whiff and a man would fall in love with the woman who wore it!"
The Plot:
Following a recipe found on stolen hieroglyphics, Cobra, having noticed that all great revolutions start with cosmetics, synthesizes a mind-control perfume and sets about getting the Baroness to seduce a millionaire to gain control of his fortune. Why they chose to do this on a crowded yacht that was also host to a couple of G.I. Joes, why they didn't just drive a squadron of HISS tanks up to the guy's house while he was at a party and just take the money and why they thought that the Baroness--whose appearance ensured that a generation of young men would grow up with a thing for brunettes in glasses and leather pants--would need mind-control perfume to help her seduction, the world may never know.
We also become aroused in the presence of needless exposition.
Why It Might've Worked:
Putting aside the perfume, this is essentially just a story of using a pretty girl to gain control of an asset. And while you might not think that would work on the kind of world-dominating scale Cobra Commander was shooting for, we'd like you to meet Carla Bruni.
She's the one on the right.
Bruni, a former underwear model, songwriter and noted brunette with a sexy accent, met Nicolas Sarkozy at a dinner party and married him less than four months later. Sarkozy, for those of you don't know, is the President of France, which--and this is the crucial part here--is a country in possession of at least 30 nuclear weapons.
Just to be clear, we're not trying to imply that Carla Bruni is actually a criminal mastermind working for a shadowy organization, because if she were, we'd all be living in Cobra-La by now.
#1. Cold Slither
"Destro has designed a program that creates rock 'n' roll music!"
The Plot:
Undoubtedly inspired by a pair of suicides attributed to Satanic Messages on Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengeance, Cobra Commander slapped some glam-rock wigs on Zartan and the Dreadnoks and produced his own hypnotic single. Unfortunately, Cold Slither (with their #1 hit "Cold Slither" from the album Cold Slither) only made it as far as the State Fair before the plot was uncovered by G.I. Joe, most likely because they forgot to make the messages subliminal and instead put lines like, "Do not resist, 'cause Cobra is strong" right there in the actual song.
Why It Might've Worked:
One word, folks: Juggalos.
If Cobra Commander was trying to inspire fanatical, violent devotion from an otherwise shiftless and apathetic bunch of kids with extremely poor taste in music, then maybe Cold Slither's problem wasn't that they were stupid and terrible, but that they weren't stupid and terrible ENOUGH.
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We've taken the time here at Sports Interactive, along with SEGA, to create an FAQ to try and help you with any issues you may encounter. What we've tried to do this year is to make sure we don't have numerous links for different issues. We want all the available information accessible from the same place.
The main FAQ with pictures can be found on SEGA's website via the following links:
PC - http://help.sega.com/index.php?_m=kn...pcid=6&nav=0,6
MAC - http://help.sega.com/index.php?_m=kn...pcid=5&nav=0,5
We've also posted the same information below for those of you who don't like to leave the SI forums!
Since the game first came out we have released two main patches to help with certain issues and bugs found in the game. Please make sure you are running the latest version of the game. If you are running via Steam this will do so automatically, for anyone running via DVD or digital download, the most up-to-date patches can be found here:
10.3 Patch
STEAM Issues
We've got a big Steam FAQ thread helpfully created by user Aim_Less for us - this can be found here - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=156429
If you have any other issues not answered here, please use our Technical Support Forums for assistance. They can be found at the following link:
Likewise if you think you've come across a bug of any kind, please post the information in our bugs forum in the relevant place. This can be found via the link below:
For people wanting information about the new Editor which comes with the game, we've created a FAQ in the Editors Forum. This can be found via the link shown below:
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Dr. Sa'id Al Harithi, Chief of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Relief Campaign for Palestinians in Gaza, oversaw the launching today of an overland convoy that will deliver Saudi aid to the Palestinians.
The land deliveries are the third major piece of the Saudi effort to assist the people of Gaza. The Kingdom is also running an emergency airlift to deliver relief supplies, while Medevac aircrafts are transporting the wounded to Saudi hospitals.
The first overland convoy, launched today from Riyadh, consisted of 59 trucks laden with over 760 tons of food and aid as well as 30 new ambulances.
The relief campaign will be delivering aid over the next 30 days for more than 850,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.


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I have my Dell R310 server to install CentOS latest version, it has 2 hot plug disk drive, about 250GB of each. - But i need to install RAID1 on it.
My question is for RAID1 installation with CentOS is there any special ISO? Or i can use the regular one? Anyone can recommend some working document/screenshot/video links, for RAID1 installation only (i do not want to go with RAID0 or RAID5 etc tutorial, makes more confuse, i decided to only use RAID1 and learn from it)?


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ANDERSON, S.C. – During last fall's season, the Anderson men's golf team improved its' position from each event's opening round to the next day's closing 18 holes and head coach Danny Neal is looking to get consistency from his squad this spring.
After struggling to a ninth-place finish at the Anderson Invitational last September, the Trojans regrouped at the Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate four weeks later to finish 14th among the 20 teams competing. Collectively, the Trojans slashed a combined 18 strokes from their team score and moved up two spots over the two-day span. AU followed up by claiming sixth at Lincoln Memorial's State Farm Intercollegiate in mid-October and closed the season by moving from 11th to eighth during Lenoir-Rhyne's two-day Rock Barn Invitational.
"We want to focus on getting a [good] fourth score," said Neal. "We have not had a consistently good score at the bottom of the order and it really hurt us in the fall."
The senior duo of Sean Shelton and Arran Setro led the Trojans during the fall campaign, carding averages of 151 and 152, respectively over the course of four tourneys. Shelton fired a season-best 143 to finish in a tie for 10th at the State Farm Intercollegiate and followed up by sharing seventh with a two-day total 149 at the Rock Barn Invite. Setro posted a 141 to claim a share of sixth at the State Farm Intercollegiate.
"Arran and Sean have both played well at the top," noted Neal.
David Wachter, a sophomore from Hickory, N.C., was just behind the seniors with a 153 average over the four-event span. He carded a low score of 150 to lead the Trojans at the Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate, while finishing tied for 34th.
"I am very excited about what David has been able to accomplish," said Neal. "He has developed into a solid No. 3 player and turned in some good scores. I am pleased with his performance and hope he continues to do well."
CJ Messana, one of two juniors on the roster, averaged 159 in four tourneys, while carding a 151 en route to a share of 46th at the Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate. Freshman Rob Warren notched a season-low 161 and placed 58th at the State Farm Intercollegiate, with newcomer Payden Parrish earning 46th at the AU Invitational.
"I am looking forward to seeing that improvement," added Neal. "I want to see a couple of the guys get a little fire in them and try to take that mantle and say I'm going to be that fourth score and step up and play like I'm capable of playing and score like I know I can."
The Trojans open the season on Feb. 10-11 at the Spring Kickoff Intercollegiate, hosted by Lincoln Memorial and Wingate at the Fleming Island Golf Club and follow up three weeks later at Catawba's Richard Rendleman Memorial.
Shelton posted a two-round total 145 and shared sixth place, pacing Anderson to an eighth-place finish at last year's event.
AU competes at the Tusculum College Invitational on March 8-9, and saw Shelton and former Trojan John Moore each card a two-day four-over par 146 to share 20th, while leading Anderson to seventh a year ago.
The Trojans travel to the Tennessee National Golf Club in early April for the Tennessee River Rumble, hosted by LMU.
"This is a new event on the schedule," said Neal. "The course will be nice I'm sure it'll be a tough field. We are excited about every tournament on the schedule and they always have a good solid field."
"I like the competition," concluded Neal. "We have the potential, but are not reaching it yet. Golf is such an objective sport and it's impersonal – either you score or you don't. We need that consistent fourth score but have not been able to find that consistency. All of our guys have good golf skills and all can get it done but just haven't played up to their potential yet on a consistent basis. We need it in order to compete."
The South Atlantic Conference Tournament is slated for April 13-15 at the Sevierville Country Club in Sevierville, Tenn. for the second consecutive year with the identical three-day format.
"I am in favor of the three-day format," concluded Neal. "It's a very challenging golf course and a very competitive tournament. We have a very strong conference and [the tournament] will be a challenge for us.


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6 Mind-Blowing Ways Poop Created the Modern World
#3. Poop Sabotaged the Dead Sea Scrolls
Via Twu.ca
The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important archaeological finds of all time. In addition to being incredibly old, they also contain the earliest copies of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, making them a treasure trove for religious scholars. Most archeologists agree that the scrolls were written by a group of monks living in a place called Qumran who went by the awesome name the Essenes, presumably because it looked super badass embossed on the back of a leather jacket.
"Man, that monk sho' is one mad mutha'-"
And most theories agree that the Essenes had isolated themselves for one purpose: to copy the Bible into as many languages as possible, thus preserving it for a time centuries later when it could be recorded as a book-on-tape by Denzel Washington. Unfortunately, before they could accomplish the task, they were all wiped out, and no one was sure why.
Spoiler alert: They were killed by poop. This historic attempt to translate the Bible for the world was thwarted by the monks' own shit.
Via Wikipedia
To give you some perspective, those aren't walls.
Archeologists with the University of North Carolina followed directions in the Dead Sea Scrolls in order to locate the monks' latrines, because for some reason they wanted to do this. Over there, they found traces of ancient roundworms, tapeworms and pinworms -- all of which are human parasites.
To make matters worse, the waste sites were located near a canal, making the surrounding area where they lived the perfect moist breeding ground for the killer worms. You see, the monks would bury their poop, and this allowed the worms to fester and grow, as opposed to just dying in the sun. In fact, there were so many parasites where the Essenes lived, it was likely that fewer than 6 percent of the group survived to see 40.
They forgot the 11th Commandment, "Thou shalt not hide thy poop from the eyes of the Lord."
If the monks had left their poop out to dry in the sun like spring laundry, they might have survived to complete their task, or at least lived long enough to get stomped into oblivion by the Romans, which is what happened to everybody else at around that time.
#2. Poop Wins Wars and Turns the Tides of History
Back in the 11th century when the Mongols were invading China, Kublai Khan (sort of like the Maggie Gyllenhaal to Katie Holmes' Genghis Kahn) was besieging various cities with a literal shit bomb -- an old Chinese recipe that called for powdered human or wolf feces with effects similar to mustard gas, causing terrible blisters and infection. The use of this crap-mentation grenade helped Kublai overrun China and solidify his reputation as one of the most powerful men in history.
Later, during the first World War, the usage of poop as an explosive really took off. Back then, the British government was really desperate for cheaper alternatives to traditional gunpowder.
Via Murdoconline.net
"Eh, let's just start stuffing it with poor people."
That's when they discovered the power of coprolites, known by the archeology community as fossilized dinosaur poop, which contains phosphate that can be used in munitions. That's right: Even dinosaur poop is badass.
For a bit, England went berserk trying to mine for coprolites, to the point of hiring thousands of men to scavenge for it. There are streets named after the stuff to this day.
Via Schmunda.blogspot
There's no reason to not have a bar on that street named Dinosaur Buttholes.
But even that pales in comparison to what the United States did for guano. It turns out that guano, or bat poop, makes a great fertilizer. It was for that reason that the people of Peru began mining for it. But guano turned into something much more. Just like coprolites, guano has a large amount of phosphorus -- the key element used in explosives. When word leaked out, the surrounding superpowers went into dick-swinging war mode, trying everything they could to bully Peru into giving them access.
In fact, in America laws were even passed saying that if any citizen so much as stumbled across some guano, the military could confiscate it. Shortly afterward, America had a light bulb moment and realized that bullying countries both a) came naturally and b) was excruciatingly easy. Thus, U.S. imperialism was born. All thanks to bat shit.
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This is an actual shit mine. We're assuming none of its workers ever saw a second date in their lives.
#1. Poop Cures Modern Diseases
Look, medical science isn't always a pretty thing. Cures aren't always born from the epiphany of some genius scientist in a laboratory. Sometimes they come from Nazis and shit.
For instance, we have the story of dysentery. During World War II, Nazi high command became aware of a very serious problem with their officers stationed in North Africa. They were all dying.
"Hans, why aren't you -- no! Hans, NOOO! This would be so much more emotionally engaging if we weren't both Nazis!"
The culprit was acute dysentery, which apparently was so bad that the German medical corps concluded it was killing more soldiers than Allied attacks. In a state of emergency, Germany sent over their best chemists and doctors to find a cure (history does not indicate whether they were aware of the pun-rife irony of a bunch of assholes shitting themselves to death). Despite the Third Reich's greatest minds all working in unison, they were initially unable to make any progress.
In desperation, they looked to the Bedouins, who seemed immune to the disease. What they discovered was that whenever a Bedouin caught dysentery, he or she would immediately eat a fistful of steaming camel droppings.
This made the camels much happier than it had any right to.
This somehow cured the disease, presumably because, while dysentery may be a malignant stomach-shredding condition, even it has standards. The Nazi scientists went to work on the camel poop and discovered the presence of Bacillus subtilis, a bacterium that seemed to be the only thing that could directly counter dysentery, sort of the Luke to its Anakin or the Batman to its Joker.
B. subtilis is still used today to combat virulent bacteria. In fact, it's used much in the same way as before. Doctors in Tampa, Florida, were able to cure a woman from a fatal bacterium by literally straining a healthy person's poop and then feeding it to her. The practice, known as a fecal transplant, is becoming more and more common to kill bacteria that have evolved to be immune to antibiotics, though we imagine the bedside discussion must be something to see.
"We're going to fill this entire area with shit. Then maybe you can reconsider the tone you take with our nurses."
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Is there any reliable ferry connection between Crimea on Ukraine and Georgia? Does anyone have any information on that?
You can do such trip by "UkrFerry" company:
According to official forum, schedule is set at the start of each month, so you should call there before you came in Kerch. Also there is a line Batumi - Ilyichevsk, which is more popular line (ferry goes each 2-3 days), and you have more chances to use it than Poti - Kerch.
A Dutch friend of mine just took this ferry in the Georgia→Ukraine direction so I asked him for some details:
There were also 4-bed cabins that were only a few dollars cheaper.
Apparently nobody at the office speaks any English and even when taking a Georgian friend to help a lot of details including which night the ferry departed were very unclear - so be prepared! For instance he was told to be at the ferry at 10pm but it didn't actually leave until about 8am!
There are three good quality meals per day included in the price but nobody speaks English. All announcements etc are in Russian only.
Also there is nothing at all to do on the ferry. Just one TV which is in Russian, and it's hard to go above deck.
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The USA TODAY national best high school mascot competition has been extended by a couple of days due to technical difficulties. Members of Greenback nation who attempted to vote on Thursday, the original closing day for regional competition, found themselves thwarted by an uncooperative USA TODAY website.
According to information posted on the voting website on Friday, a flurry of last-minute voting nationwide had swamped the website's technical capabilities, slowing it to a crawl— with the result that most who attempted to vote on Friday found themselves unable to do so.
After fielding numerous complaints from frustrated mascot supporters, USA TODAY decided to reopen the voting for a few days next week to try to give everyone who wanted to vote the opportunity to do so.
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Greenback supporters are urged to vote as much as possible when voting reopens. The Greenback was still ahead of its nearest competitor as of the last vote count, but only by less 1%—29,000 votes out of the 4 million+ votes that have been cast.
With Pratt High School on Spring Break next week and the nearest competitor not, it may be up to Greenback Nation to put the Fighting Frog over the top.
Gary Eppler, PHS Class of '60, has issued a challenge to everyone who believes in "Once a Greenback": "Here's what I would like to challenge each of you to do: recruit friends and family members of all ages to vote (when voting reopens.). Let's show the PHS community that we are here to support them even in trying times. If everyone would recruit at least 10 people who will each vote 100 times for the three days, we should come out on top— which is where all of us want PHS to be with our unique mascot. Consider people of all ages, younger children could probably do this level of voting many times faster than some of us. However, us older folks may have more time to devote to this. Don't over look anyone."
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There's a guide on Rooting Xperia S ICS and GB over at XDAs. Not having any XPeria device, I cannot verify -- but the comments on the thread confirm it working. It does not even require the bootloader to be unlocked.
Requirements for that method:
It also mentions a Root Toolkit.
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Alternative: Unlocking the Bootloader
An alternative method involves the SDK, and is described at AndroidPit (German; Google Translate 2 English here). this method, however, involves unlocking the bootloader -- so be aware of Sony's harsh politics when it comes to warranty in this case.
Ok, at last, the mighty user of XDA, Bin4ary, has released a very nice and easy toolkit to root ICS JB roms of most sony phones, including Xperia S.
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my blog is 6 months old, with frequently updated content. Yet, not a single page is indexed by Google. Why is that so? isn't wordpress set up for SEO by default?
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Actually your site is indexed all 176 pages. It would probably help your search results if you changed your permalink structure to something other than default.
You should also get a yourself a Google Webmaster Tools account so you can see how your site gets indexed and crawled.
I have to ask the obvious here; have you changed your privacy settings to allow the blog to be accessible by search engines. Blogs in general and WordPress blogs are typically well crawled by Google and the other search engines. If you have already made the blog visible, you may want to create a sitemap and submit it to the search engines. You can use the plugin Google XML Sitemap to create the sitemap with almost no configuration. The plugin is available here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/. Hope this helps.
Check under Settings/Privacy. Is the site marked as private by accident? It's happened to me. I'd also suggest installing the Google XML sitemaps plugin which will update your sitemap as well as ping relevant services when content is updated.
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They were #1 seeded at 10-1 while Arkansas was 7-4
They were #1 seeded at 10-1 while Arkansas was 7-4
Hey! did you hear that Arkansas beat LSU on the last game of the season, knocking LSU out of the #1 ranking!
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LSU won the football game convincigly and then all of the students gathered together and partied because they realized how superior they were compared to their opponent.
by Doombot October 26, 2003
A University in Baton Rouge,Louisiana that is by far the flagship school in Louisiana and better than any other school in the gulf south including alabama and those ole miss assholes.Ole miss is genrally jealous of LSU and everybody can see why.Prooduces very attractive brunettes for some reason.Also known as a great partying school and is climbing the ranks in academics.
LSU is far superior than alabama and Ole Miss in any category.
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Winners of the National Championship.
LSU has the crystal trophy, not USC. Mwahahahahahaha!
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Look at that slorch, walkin around like she owns the place.
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Slorch = Slut Whore Bitch
Slorch = Slut Whore Bitch
hey that chick was such a Slorch
Hey your a slorch
Hey your mom is a slorch
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Slorch is a conjoined adjective that comes from mixing the words Slut, Whore, and Bitch. It utilizes the specific parts "sl" from Slut, "or" from Whore, and "ch" from Bitch in that specific order. It is used to describe someone who exhibits all of those behaviors at once, acting easy to get, comfortable with sexual situations, and unable to stay logical.
Emily was such a slorch the other night!
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The princess of the skank kingdom. A cognate of the words SLut, whORe, and bitCH.
That SLORCH screwed another guy while in a 1 year relationship.
by The Secretary December 18, 2009
A demeaning slang term that combines slut, whore and bitch.
Joe's new girlfriend is a real slorch.
by Communist Dan November 17, 2004
a shortened version of slut whore bitch. can be used as an insult or as a term of endearment between girlfriends.
Oh my gosh! I can't believe she was all over that guy at that party. She is such a slorch!!
Hey slorch! Love ya!
Hey slorch! Love ya!
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slut, whore, and snitch combined
She called me a Slorch yesterday!
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STEUBENVILLE - Another rally to protest the handling of the criminal case surrounding the alleged rape of a teenage girl is set for noon Saturday in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse....
The ultra corrupt Steubenville culture will hold another rally of their own as they did last month's " Stand Up For Steubenville ". The school system there has clearly demonstrated how corrupt and morally bankrupt it is by allowing the head football coach to call the shots on administrative actions against the alcohol drinking athletes and threatening a New York Times reporter. Remember when you see RRR, it's Rape red Rape !!
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Input: set of bricks, each one is made of 1x1x1 cubes glued together face to face, like tetris pieces.
Problem: find the way of putting together those pieces to make a solid that contains biggest full cubical subsolid.
Is there any smart algorithm I could use in this kind of problem? The only solution that comes to mind is ordinary brute force. I'm looking for ideas for an accurate algorithm as well as an approximation algorithm.


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1) The article above your comment 2) the reason we say this is not the right place is that if you post a forum topic you will get the attention of the staff (and we aren't trying to be mean we are just trying to help solve their problem)
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Почему нет?
Как оказалось при включенном в яндекс-браузере переводчики ключевые слова не добавляются. Теперь уже разобрался, все ок
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you should post this as a forum topic instead of as a comment
Thanks for your help!
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Check the licence of the project, but the default licence means you can use them freely, as long as you do not benefit commercially.
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why do many of the pictures that I try to upload not come out and I get a picture that says undefined instead?
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The vast majority of projects shared here are open source.
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Look to the top-right of the page. The "Let's make" box searches the instructables, and the "Search forums" box searches the forums.
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Hola como busco mis instructables?gracias
At the top, click 'create'
Is there any tour available for a large family at instructables HQ in the following few years?
Hello, all.
Who can help me with a good image program for picture optimization for my website? Thanks in advance.
Have you tried Pixlr or GIMP?
Maybe you know some good programs for picture compressing?
Thanks a lot in advance. )
Sorry, but Google is your friend...
Right :), there are a lot of programs there a I have already found one, XnView, thanks Kiteman, for your kind help.
You're welcome.
Oh, not yet, thanks Kiteman for your kind advice, I will :)
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Intro: IT IS ONLY A REQUEST .
Pranaam to all .......................
I am research scholar and a small painter . I need a old computer to complete my research work .
Please give an information that how to get free old computer to me .
Thank you ..............................
Krishna kumar K.V. ( email@example.com )
Click that, and you're away.
If that doesn't work (and, so far, it has), I would contact the software publisher directly, and at the same time put a question in the Answers section here.
Start posting instructables, then at least you'll have a photographic archive!
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I just finish watching season three of Game of Thrones. In this season many character seen referring ongoing war as war of five kings. I haven't read any books just watched TV series. As per series this kings IMO are:
- King Joffery who take over iron throne after his father King Robert Baratheon
- King Robb Stark - King of the North
- King Stannis Baratheon
But I failed to find out other two king. Who are they? and what are their claims?


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7 Theories on Time That Would Make Doc Brown's Head Explode
#3. Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Could Mean Time Travel Is Possible
Laws of physics and our general understanding of how the world works hinge on the principle that nothing can actually travel faster than the speed of light, except maybe mall Chinese food through your digestive tract. But prepare to shit your pants a second time, because the most fundamental principle of the universe may no longer be on the table. Scientists at CERN (the ones responsible for the Large Hadron Collider) and OPERA may have accidentally discovered that, under certain circumstances, subatomic particles known as neutrinos can maybe, possibly, potentially travel faster than the speed of light.
We got all pissed off when we heard it, too, Angry Scientist.
Right now there are ongoing slapfights in the scientific community over the validity of this discovery, so until the dust settles, we can't know for certain if the results were right. Sadly, the most we can do at Cracked is sit on the sidelines with zero doctorate degrees in our hands and heckle. What we do know, however, because scientists have pointed it out, is that an interesting side effect of these faster-than-light neutrinos is that it might mean we can get our motherfucking time travel on.
All we have to do is get them to fly around the Earth really fast so our rotation reverses, and ..."
But before you start deciding which dinosaurs you want to see, or which episodes of Dinosaurs you want to see (depending on how lazy you are), keep in mind that we're not talking about time machines, unfortunately. Scientists say that, at least at first, we'd probably only be able to send short messages back in time and not people or sports almanacs.
Think Twitter instead of Terminator. But even then, neutrinos are invisible and pass right through matter, so it wouldn't be all that useful for things in the distant past, where they wouldn't even be noticed. With no way to detect or read the messages, it'd be pointless to send them much further than the recent past. But that brings up an important question of why we're not getting hundreds of microscopic messages today from our future selves ...
#2. Time Stops Outside of a Black Hole
A common misconception with black holes is that they suck up everything around them like a vacuum, but that's not entirely accurate. What's really going on is that black holes are so incredibly dense that there is a point of infinite gravity at the center, called a gravitational singularity, and that's what pulls stuff in -- everything from asteroids to light itself. And we've already established that gravity and time don't play well together. So what happens to time when it gets tangled up with a gravitational force so extreme that not even light itself can get free of it?
'80s music gets redefined, that's what.
It stops. Encircling any given black hole is an area known as the event horizon. It is, for all intents and purposes, the point of no return for a black hole. After the event horizon, the gravitational forces are so powerful that nothing can ever escape.
And because of that insane amount of gravity, an interesting quirk of reality emerges when someone outside an event horizon watches someone inside of one. Imagine your astronaut buddy is David Bowie. Now, say David Bowie calls you (your name is Ground Control for the purposes of this exercise) and tells you he's floating in the most peculiar way -- directly into a black hole.
Don't worry, the hair will most definitely survive the trip.
If you were watching David Bowie from a safe distance away, you'd see something really weird as he crosses the event horizon: David Bowie's descent would get slower and slower, and then he'd just stop, and he'd appear to be floating there forever.
From your perspective, it would actually take him an infinite amount of time to fall into the black hole. David Bowie, meanwhile, would notice nothing different, assuming he hadn't been ripped apart yet. Time would pass normally for him, and he'd still be a snappy dresser to boot.
In fact, if you could somehow exit the event horizon of a black hole after entering it, you'd find that the universe outside had probably aged a significant amount while a much shorter time had passed for you. It's a foolproof way to travel into the future, except that a black hole can be as small as a tennis ball, and you'd surely be crushed to death.
Shrink rays, Science. Get on it.
Though there's just as good a chance that we may never have the opportunity to wander through time willy-nilly, because ...
#1. One Day, Time Itself Must Die
Time waits for no man, as the old proverb says. It can get all weird under certain circumstances, sure, but that steady beat will keep on going long after we're dead.
But not too long.
At least not until Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt have a chance to fix it all.
See, the way scientists determine various formulas for how the universe works is via probabilities. The problem is that, if you assume that space-time is infinite, everything -- from the mail arriving on time to our sun going supernova and wiping us all out -- suddenly has an equal probability on a universal scale.
Since the universe doesn't work like that and it was fucking with all their formulas, scientists have decided that there must be another answer, and the best they could come up with is that time isn't infinite.
We have six and a half minutes. Get busy.
So how long have we got? In four out of five possible calculated scenarios, time is most likely to end in about 3.3 to 3.7 billion years. Whew. But in the fifth scenario, time could end before you finish this sentence.
So it turns out we live in a reality that's like an old pocket watch, and one day it's just going to wind down. In fact, when it happens, we won't even see it coming. The scientists describe it like watching someone falling into the event horizon of a black hole, like we covered earlier. Things slow down and eventually just ... stop.
Oh, irony, you are a cruel minx.
The whole of reality will just turn into one big Zach Morris time stop, minus a sassy teenaged guy speaking directly to an implied television audience. We won't even be aware of what's happened. Everything will work one second and won't the next. We'll all just be frozen in place, completely still. Forever and ever. If nothing else, this should be good incentive for you to literally shit or get off the pot, because you run the risk of being immortalized like that forever.
Maxwell Yezpitelok lives in Chile, and you can bother him on Twitter. To read more from Ashe, check out Weird Shit Blog on Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook.
For more facts that will rock your friggin' world, check out 6 Time Travel Realities Doc Brown Didn't Warn Us About and The 6 Weirdest Dangers of Space Travel.


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Suppose that X is Banach space. How to prove that the center of algebra B(X)( bounded operators on X) consists only of operators aI, where a is scalar and I is identity operator?
Maybe this is hw ? Anyway, you always have rank one operators $x\mapsto L(x)v$, $v\in X$, $L\in X^*$, and any operator which commutes with all of them is easily seen to be scalar.
The argument of BS works also in the case where $X$ is a Hausdorff locally convex space since the topological dual still separates points (by Hahn-Banach). This is enough to show that the (continuous) finite rank operators act transitively on non-zero vectors from which it follows that their center is already trivial. But then all bounded operators have at most the center of the finite rank ones and the multiples of the identity.
So if you want to go beyond trivial center you have to consider topological vector spaces which are not lc, pretty weird ones ;) I don't know the answer for $L^p$ spaces with $p < 1$...?
I guess the more interesting problem is whether there are more bounded operators than the continuous finite rank operators and the multiples of the identity...
If I see it correctly, then take a Hamel basis $(v_i)$ with $i \in I$ of the Banach space $X$. Then the coordinate switch $T_{i,j}:v_k \mapsto \delta_{i,k}v_j$ is bounded, because finite dimensional subspaces have a complement in a Banach space. Writing down any $S$ in the centre of $\mathscr{B}(X)$ as a matrix with rows and columns indexed by $I$, commutativity of $S$ and $T_{i,i}$ shows that is must be diagonal and commutativity of $S$ and $T_{i,j}$ shows that all diagonal entries must be the same. Hence $S$ is a scalar multiple of the identity.
The essence of the argument is that finite dimensional subspaces are complemented in Banach spaces.


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Not afraid to show some ass.
We'll take our pants off. Even if you don't ask us to. It'll happen. Seriously. Our pants are coming off.
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International Styling
We have a super elite international squad that sweats profundity and does everything in grainy shades of grey. And they're super fucking serious.
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We stop frequently
We only ride fast until something more fun comes along. If you're not interested in stopping to take a picture of baby piglets, you should probably find someone else to ride with.
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Jens Voigt Soundboard
We don't want to be a one trick pony. We're a cycling team, not a fan club. But this is probably what you came here for.
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This is what we're doing.


text: Hi Sam I wish I had the time to dive into this, but I don't right now. Understanding the existing ranking algorithm took a while and these new routines are even more complex. One thing that did help me out when I was in there was to make a spreadsheet that implemented the ranking algorithms, make sure it works, and then compare it to swish as it is running. I added a new trace level (4) that dumps the bits I needed during the index process so I could plug those numbers into my spreadsheet model and see if it was working. Sorry I can't be of more help right now. Mark At 07:35 AM 2/25/99 -0800, firstname.lastname@example.com wrote: >Mark, > >Thanks a lot for getting back to me! > >Sorry for taking so log to respond but I've >been obsessed with the swish ranking function ;-) >- > >I had "IgnoreTotalWordCountWhenRanking = yes" > >..when I sent my last email. Your additional >code does make a Huge improvement over not using >it! > >But as you know my results where still unfavorable. > >So I decided to dive into the code myself and >see if I could improve the rank function. > >I searched the web for a rank function and found >a couple of resources. > >It appears that Dr. Dik L. Lee: >http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/dlee/bio.html > >.. had a large part in "Document Ranking and the >Vector-Space Mode" ( see his page above for >downloadable publications on the topic. > >There is also another page authored in part by >Dr. Lee on the topic of ranking which I found >at W3C: >http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/66/ > >I got lucky when I found that page because the >image of the scientific notation for the >"ranking algorithm" has the algebraic equation >as it's <Alt> text. ( My math skill are no longer >up to par ;-) > >Here is Dr. Lee's equation and some explanation of the >variables ( as taken from the www.w3.org page ): > >----------- >R(i,Q) = Sum (for all term(j) in Q)(0.5 + 0.5 IDF(j)TF(i,j)/TF(i,max) > >where >TF(i,j) is the term frequency of term(j) in document(i), and > >TF(i,max) is: >the maximum term frequency of a keyword in document(i) and > >IDF(j) is the inverse document frequency of term(j), >which is defined as in Equation 2 below: >IDF(j) = log(N/DF(j)) > >where N is the number of documents in the collection, and >DF(j) is the number of documents containing term(j) > >------------- > >I think the above equation is a bit different than the one >already used already in Swish.. The current getrank >function does not include the "total number of files" >and the " total number of files containg only the query word" > >So here is what I added/changed to the Swish index.c and >index.h files...: > ><BEGIN NEW GETRANK FUNCTION>: >int getrank(totlfiles, nmfileswithword, freq, tfreq, words, emphasized) > >/* totlfiles=total number of files */ >int totlfiles; >/* nmfileswithword=sum of only files containing query word*/ >int nmfileswithword; >/* freq=sum of queryword in this ONE file containing queryword */ >int freq; >/* tfreq=sum of queryword in ALL files containing queryword */ >int tfreq; > >int words; >int emphasized; >{ > >double inversefreq, f; > int tmprank; > >/* >**my redering of the function found on >**http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/66/ >*/ >inversefreq = log(totlfiles/nmfileswithword); >f = ((tfreq) * (0.5 + (0.5 * (freq/50)))) * inversefreq; > >tmprank = (int) f; > if (tmprank <= 0) > tmprank = 1; > if (emphasized) > tmprank *= emphasized; > if (!(tmprank % 128)) > tmprank++; > > return tmprank; >} ><END NEW GETRANK FUNCTION> > >So I also added/changed the following to the printindex function: > ><BEGIN PRINTINDEX FUNCTION changes/additions>: > > int numfileswithword, myfilep thetotalfiles; > >/*added this loop to count only the number of files containg the queryword */ > >numfileswithword = 0; >while (lp != NULL) { > numfileswithword++; > lp = lp->next; > } > >/* Here I set lp back to what it was before my loop */ > >lp = ep->locationlist; > >/* Here I try to get the total number of files/pages >** in the whole document structure... >** I really don't know if my variable "thetotalfiles" >** is being set because I don't know if the variable >** "filelist" is set here inside the printindex function. >** I don't do anything with filelist other than include >** it here: >*/ > > myfilep = filelist; > thetotalfiles = getfilecount(myfilep); > >/*Here I added the new parameters to the getrank function call */ > >rank = getrank(thetotalfiles, numfileswithword, lp->frequency, >ep->tfrequency, totalWords, lp->emphasized); > ><END PRINTINDEX FUNCTION changes/additions> > >And finally I added a couple of variable declarations to the >index.h file getrank declaration: > >int getrank _AP ((int, int, int, int, int, int)); > >So, As you can see My C skills are lacking :-0 > >I might have made some stupid errors but it did compile. >The ranking has NOT improved! Maybe the index file >is totally screwed up ( it does look a lot different than >the old one) > >As you can see I have left out a bit of stuff from the rank >function... including "IgnoreTotalWordCountWhenRanking". >I thought I'd test it raw. > >Mark, can you ( or anyone else reading this ) see my >mistakes? Or could make improvements? > >Also Dr. Lee has a WEALTH of information on >ranking algorithms on his page avaliable for download. >(in Postscript format) >Especially the following: > >1) "Document Ranking and the Vector-Space Model" >2) "Search and Ranking Algorithms for Locating Resources >on the World Wide Web" >3) "Implementation of Partial Document Ranking Using >Inverted Files" > >Dr Lee's ranking equations in those files mentioned >above are much more complicated than the one I used. >( well I can't figure them out anyway ;-) > >If there are any math whiz's out their maybe you could take >a look and convert the equations into "simple" equations for >me. > >Dr. lee's files are in postscript so you need a viewer to >view them. Download Ghostscript at: >http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/cd.html > >I look forward to hearing from you all. > >Thanks, > >Sam > > > ---- you wrote: >> Hi >> The ranking is "complex". It uses the total number of words in >> a file to spread out the "weight" of any given word more "evenly." >> This behavior did not work for me so I added a new directive >> called "IgnoreTotalWordCountWhenRanking". You should see t >> this (commented out) in your config file. Uncomment it and >> set it to "yes", then reindex. This will cause the rank to be more >> in line with word count. Try this and see if it helps. >> Mark >> >> >> At 03:39 PM 2/20/99 -0800, email@example.com wrote: >> >Hello, >> > >> >Sorry for posting what may be a blatantly newbie >> >comment/question ;-) but for some reason a search >> >on a particular keyword always returns an inaccurate >> >ranking. This keyword "gmc" occurs at least twice >> >on every page ( once in a metatag and once in a link ) >> >but more than ten times on a particular page. >> >( I have a search box on every page, and why >> >people search for this word when there is a link is >> >beyond me but they do anyway ;-) >> > >> >It is a small site with only a few dozen pages >> >and if I search for this keyword that I know >> >for sure occurs on a certain page more >> >times than other pages, the said page is >> >ranked far down the list. >> > >> >The command line is simple with just >> >the -f -w and -m options specified. >> > >> >I've read in the mailing list that the ran >> >algorithm takes a few things into account >> >when ranking but I just can't see why it >> >would override the total number of >> >occurrences of a keyword as the most important >> >criteria. >> > >> >I've been using Swish ( not Swish-e ) and have >> >been logging the visitors search keywords >> >( and this keyword is a popular one... hence >> >the reason for me testing it ). I'm not obsessed >> >with this keyword ;-) i'm just curious how often the >> >same inacurate ranking is occurring on other words also. >> > >> >Oh, by the way. This bad ranking is NOT occurring >> >with the old Swish. >> > >> >Comments anyone? >> > >> >Thanks, >> > >> >Sam >> > >> > >> > >> >---------------------------------------------------------------- >> >Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com >> > >> > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com >Received on Thu Feb 25 08:20:22 1999


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My laptop developed a bad sectors and not working well. It was with ubutuntu 12.04 LTS operating system. Now, I want to install ubuntu in an relatively old desktop with the following specifications
Hp compaq dx 2390
Intel ® Pentium Dual Core CPU, E2180 @ 2.00 GHZ, 1.20 GHz, 1 GB Ram, 160 GB Hard Drive
Which k/x/ubuntu version is suitable to this desktop?
PS. I am working in my final thesis and I need a stable k/x/ubuntu to this specification. Thank u


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Individuals of all ages who want to know more about horses are invited to "A Day at Horse College," a free clinic Saturday, April 6 at Black Hawk College East Campus.
The event will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is sponsored by Black Hawk College and the Illinois Quarter Horse Youth Association.
Pre-registration is not needed. Admission is free. Door prizes will be awarded and a lunch stand will be available.
Lecture hall
- 10-11 a.m. – Careers in the Equine Industry. Get a "leg up" on opportunities in the equine industry and meet Black Hawk College recruiter Ashley Middleswarth.
- 11 a.m. to noon – Illinois Quarter Horse Youth Association membership sessionNoon to 1 p.m. – Lunch/entertainment
- 1-2 p.m. – Work out with the Black Hawk College horse judging champions placing halter and performance classes.
- 2-3 p.m. – Nutrena will present "Feed Lab"Arena
- 10-11 a.m. – Showmanship presentation by Jennifer Burton
- 11 a.m. to noon – Barrel Racing 101 presentation by Donna Irvin
- Learn the foundation to a consistent, efficient barrel run.Noon to 1 p.m. – Break
- 1-2 p.m. – Horsemanship presentation by Jeff Greaves
- Bring your notebook for tips on rider position and pattern precision.
- 2-3 p.m. – Reining presentation by Doug Bogart
- Homework techniques to achieve correct reining pattern maneuvers.Bring your cowboy hat for free hat shaping by John Irvin from 11 a.m. to noon and 1-2 p.m.First 50 youth who purchase a ILQHYA membership will receive a gift basket.
For more information, contact Donna Irvin at email@example.com or 309-854-1840 or Drew Cotton at email@example.com or 309-854-1842.
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