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The 5 Biggest Badass Popes
It used to be that to become pope, you had to sit pantsless in a horseshoe-shaped chair and let a couple of cardinals see if you had the goods. If you passed, they'd yell "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes!" (He has testicles, and they hang well!) It's true, in those days it took balls to become pope.
Back then, the Papacy was reserved for the hardasses, guys you wouldn't mess with--the gangsters, the demon-summoners, the corpse-digger-uppers. Here are the ones we consider the biggest badasses. And, no, we didn't make any of this up.
#5. Alexander VI (1492-1503)
Alexander VI blazed the trail for Biggie Smalls, Kingpin and Jabba the Hutt as obese badasses who didn't let their man-boobs and tendency to sweat while they ate stop them from amassing a huge fortune, slaughtering their enemies, and getting sweatily busy with the ladies.
Any story you've ever heard about crooked popes started with this guy. He bought the papacy with four mule loads of silver. He nailed Rome's most eligible bachelorettes. He made his 17-year-old bastard son an archbishop. He started wars, poisoned cardinals and took their money, and probably ate live frogs while feeding people to the Rancor.
His greatest accomplishment--as a host if not as a pope--was the Banquet of Chestnuts held in 1501. This sounds nice enough until you learn that the chestnuts were merely a pretext to have a pack of naked hookers crawling around the ground collecting them. But that wasn't the evening's only nut-related activity. Trained observers were present to keep track of the total number and quality of the party-goers' ejaculations. That's exactly the kind of information you need when a bishopric comes open.
Alexander's death was followed by further hijinks. His ham-stuffed corpse couldn't fit in the coffin and began belching sulfur. His successor forbade anyone from saying prayers for his lardy soul. Finally, almost 400 years later, he was reborn as Aleister Crowley (at least that's what he said), who shocked the world by ... taking a lot of drugs and drawing naked pictures of himself.
#4. Pius II (1458-1464)
Pius II proves that appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, he'd seem to be in the running for biggest fancy lad in the history of the Papacy. He was a "humanist," which means that he read every bit of fruity Latin poetry he could get his hands on and then made ever-so-clever jokes about it with his similarly overeducated friends. Oh, how they giggled!
He seems like the kind of guy whose head you'd like to flush in a toilet, doesn't he? Well, it's a damn good thing you didn't try it, because Pius had a very powerful, very spooky man who was willing to do whatever the pope told him: fucking Dracula. Seriously.
You see, Pius had Turk problems. The Ottoman Empire was invading various European countries, taking Christian children from their families and subjecting them to strict training in order to create an army of super-soldiers (yes, really). Drastic action was called for.
Pius wrote a letter to Vlad III Tepes, aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad fucking Dracula, a guy so bloodthirsty his name became synonymous with "vampire."
Hey, did we mention Vlad impaled about 30,000 people on huge-ass spikes? When Pope Pius took "drastic" action, he didn't fuck around.
In spite of the overwhelming odds--thousands of fanatical super-soldiers versus whatever mustached Wallachian turnip-farmers Vlad hadn't gotten around to impaling yet-- Vlad took on the Turks and even sort of won.
Whatever quality Pius had that caused Vlad the Impaler to put his own Transylvanian ass on the line to do his bidding, it makes him one of history's best-disguised badasses. The lesson: Resist the urge to assault the next tweedy little sissy you see reciting something in elegiac couplet, because it's quite possible that he has an undead bloodsucking fiend watching his back.
#3. Honorius III (1216-1227)
Honorius III would seem to be one of hundreds of relatively uninteresting popes who fill in the years between the badass ones. But, like a furry with an erotic squirrel costume so convincing that against all odds it gives you an erection, Honorius was one of those guys who was so good at something lame that it actually made him a badass.
In this case, Honorius was so pious that the temptations of this world were too easy for him, so he routinely summoned demons just to challenge himself. He even wrote a book about it so that your local parish priest could test himself against the denizens of the netherworld by opening some kind of flaming portal to hell.
After a hard day of "reforming the clergy" (i.e., forcing them to be as unlike Alexander VI as possible), the meek and saintly old man retired to his chambers. His lackeys no doubt thought he was busily devising new ways to bore the hell out of them. Actually, he was drawing pentagrams on the floor and interrupting the slumber of various imps, cacodemons and even the final boss of his spiritual exercises, the terrifying spider mastermind.
What could be more frustrating for the demons? When one of these monstrosities is forcibly brought to the earthly realm, at least it usually gets to disembowel someone; depending on the skill of summoner, either the wizard's enemies or the wizard himself.
How do you think they felt when they came face to face with a bossy and spiritually invincible pope? "God be with you, my cacodemon. Now, do my dishes. After you're done, you can help yourself to a hard candy from the dish and then go back to hell."


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One of the main sources of subtlety in the AdS/CFT correspondence is the role played by boundary terms in the action. For example, for a scalar field in AdS there is range of masses just above the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound where there are two possible quantizations and which one you get depends on what boundary terms you add to the action. Boundary terms are also essential in the treatment of first-order Lagrangians for fermions and self-dual tensor fields. These all involve the "UV" boundary as $z \rightarrow 0$ in Poincare coordinates. Then there are dual models of QCD like the hard-wall model where one imposes an IR cutoff and imposes boundary conditions at the IR boundary and/or adds IR boundary terms to the action. My question is a bit vague, but basically I would like references to reviews, books or papers that give a good general treatment of the variational principle when one has to be careful about boundary terms. It would help if they clearly distinguish the requirements that follow from mathematical consistency from those that are imposed because of a desire to model the physics in a certain way.
I'm not sure how far back you want to go, but one of the earliest "careful" treatments (in the Hamiltonian formalism) is in the paper by Regge and Teitelboim:
Analogous work in the Lagrangian formalism didn't happen until much more recently. See the paper by Mann and Marolf, or the treatment in this relevant but shameless self-promotion:
As far as calculations specific to AAdS spacetimes there is the paper by Skenderis and Papadimitriou
which attempts to formulate things in a language similar to the Wald paper referenced by Moshe. All of these papers are concerned with the consistent treatment of the variational problem on spacetimes with a spatial infinity. The references of the last two will turn up additional relevant works.
You should immediately discount any paper which claims that the inclusion of the Gibbons-Hawking-York surface term gives a good variational problem for a gravitational theory.
This topic -- the proper variational formulation of gravitational theories -- is one of my main interests. I'm trying to take the Red Line from Loyola down to U of C for seminars this term (as teaching allows), so perhaps we can talk about it some time.
Here is a general treatment, Ishibashi and Wald, in a slightly more formal language than normal in this type of discussion. Not sure if this is what you are looking for though.

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The couple found the three ballots while going out for a walk two weeks ago.
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Amy Gerstler's books and chapbooks of poems include Ghost Girl, Medicine, Crown of Weeds, Nerve Storm, Bitter Angel, White Marriage & Recovery, and Yonder. Bitter Angel was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1991, and Crown of Weeds received the California Book Award in 1998. Her chapbooks of fiction are Primitive Man and Martine's Mouth. She received a Durfee Artist Award in 2003. Ms. Gerstler holds an MFA from Bennington College.
Amy Hempel's most recent book, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2006. She has published four other collections of stories: The Dog of the Marriage, Tumble Home, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, and Reasons to Live. Ms. Hempel received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 and the PEN/Malamud Award in 2007. She is currently a contributing editor to Bomb magazine.
Friday, June 12
Timothy Liu's books of poems include Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse; Polytheogamy; For Dust Thou Art; Of Thee I Sing, named a 2004 Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly; Hard Evidence; Say Goodnight; Burnt Offerings; and Vox Angelica, winner of the 1992 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He holds a BA from Brigham Young University and an MA from the University of Houston and currently teaches at William Paterson University.
Brian Morton is the author of the novels Breakable You, The Dylanist, A Window Across the River, and Starting Out in the Evening, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and was made into a motion picture. Mr. Morton has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Foundation Award. He teaches at New York University and Sarah Lawrence College, where he also directs the graduate program in fiction.
Saturday, June 13
Bret Anthony Johnston is the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and the author of Corpus Christi: Stories. His many honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a National Book Award for writers under 35. His fiction and essays have been published in The Paris Review, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Tin House. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is the director of creative writing at Harvard University.
Sunday, June 14
Sheila Kohler's most recent book is the historical novel, Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness. Her new novel, Becoming Jane Eyre, will be published in January 2010. Ms. Kohler is the author of five other novels and three books of short stories. She has received the O. Henry Award, the Open Voice Prize, the Smart Family Foundation Prize, and the Willa Cather Prize. She currently teaches at Princeton.
Ed Ochester's books of poetry include Unreconstructed: Poems Selected & New, The Republic of Lies, The Land of Cockaigne, Changing the Name to Ochester, Miracle Mile, and Dancing on the Edges of Knives. Mr. Ochester has received fellowships in poetry from the NEA and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Ochester has taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Pittsburgh.
Monday, June 15
Michael Burkard's books of poems include Envelope of Night, Selected and Uncollected Poems 19661990, Unsleeping, Pennsylvania Collection Agency, Entire Dilemma, My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems, and In a White Light. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a fellowship in poetry from the NEA. He holds a BA from Hobart College and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He currently teaches at Syracuse University.
David Shields's most recent book, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, was a New York Times bestseller. His new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, is forthcoming in January 2010. Mr. Shields is the author of eight previous books and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He currently teaches at the University of Washington.
Wednesday, June 17
Susan Cheever's newest book is Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction. Her previous book, American Bloomsbury was on The Boston Globe bestseller list for three months. Ms. Cheever's work has been nominated for a National Book Circle Award and won The Boston Globe Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Authors Guild Council, and a director of the Yaddo Corporation. Ms. Cheever holds a BA from Brown and has taught at Yale, Hunter College, and elsewhere.
Donald Hall is a writer, anthologist, and editor. He has published numerous books of poems and prose and last September, on his eightieth birthday, he published a memoir, Unpacking the Boxes. He has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for The One Day, and he has received Guggenheim Fellowships, the Lamont Prize, and many other awards for his work. In June 2006, Hall was appointed the Library of Congress's fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Thursday, June 18, 7:30 pm (note later start time)
Bernard Cooper's books of memoir are The Bill from My Father and Truth Serum. Maps to Anywhere, a book of essays, was published in 1991. Mr. Cooper has also published a novel and a book of short stories. He has received writing fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation as well as the PEN/Hemmingway Award and an O. Henry Award. He holds a BA and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir. She has taught acting at various institutions and currently teaches nonfiction at the University of Southern California and the Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington. A working actor, she's played in film, theatre, and primetime television. She holds a BA in American Studies from Yale, a certificate of acting from the Neighborhood Playhouse School, and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Friday, June 19
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica and the story collections Don't Cry, Bad Behavior, and Because They Wanted To. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. Ms. Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and her novel Veronica was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critic's Circle Award.
Nicholas Montemarano is the author of the short story collection If the Sky Falls and the novel A Fine Place. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Zoetrope: AllStory, AGNI, and The Pushcart Prize (2003), among others. He has received fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Mr. Montemarano holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently teaches at Franklin & Marshall College.
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text: Four Steps to Breastfeeding Success By Dr Jed VanDenBerghe January 08, 2013 In recent years, I've been impressed by many of the new mothers who express a desire to breastfeed. Most are successful, but unfortunately, many struggle and decide not to breastfeed despite the well-known benefits associated with nursing. I believe that if doctors, nurses, and new mothers work together in four critical areas, there will be an increased likelihood for breastfeeding success. 1. The first step consists of doctors and nurses discussing the many benefits of breastfeeding with mothers. I like to give new mothers a "pep talk" when I first see them in the hospital (unless they have already decided not to nurse, or it appears they won't be successful because of health considerations). I tell them that besides the development of vaccines and the advent of indoor plumbing, breast milk may provide more health benefits than any other medical or social intervention. breast-fed babies have better intestinal development; are less prone to various types of infections, including pneumonia, sepsis, and diarrhea; and will have as much as 50 percent fewer ear infections. And these benefits occur just beyond the breastfeeding stage. Amazingly, other numerous health benefits persist long after nursing has ended and into adolescence and even adulthood including: lower rates of asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, food allergies, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, crohn's disease, appendicitis, celiac disease, arthritis, and cholesterol triglycerides. breast-fed babies also benefit from better vision, hearing, and higher IQs. In addition, breastfeeding is economical and convenient: There are no bottles to wash, the milk is always the right temperature, and there is an estimated cost savings of between $1000 to $2000 in formula and sick visits during the first year of life. exclusive breastfeeding for the first five to six months of a baby's life produces most of these benefits. 2. The next step healthcare professionals can take is to offer help, support, and encouragement in initiating nursing. In my experience, the number one reason mothers are not successful at breastfeeding is an early introduction of the bottle. Well-meaning doctors and nurses often discourage nursing by letting the mother sleep through initial feedings and offering a bottle instead. Or, a mother may worry she won't have enough milk to satisfy the baby. However, the majority of babies are well sustained with the colostrum a mother produces in the first few days following birth. For this reason, doctors and nurses need to reassure mothers that their babies will be adequately fed with only breast milk and encourage them to nurse on demand. Obvious exceptions to this rule include babies with hypoglycemia, excess weight loss, or other serious conditions. 3. A third and crucial step to ensure continued breastfeeding includes educating mothers who plan on returning to work about effective pumping and bottle-feeding. Bottles of pumped breast milk should be introduced to the baby no earlier than two weeks of age when breastfeeding routines are well established. At this point, a baby can then learn to take breast milk from a bottle and continue to nurse the majority of the time. This gradual introduction of the bottle enables both mother and baby to prepare for her return to work, where she can continue to pump. 4. Finally, successful breastfeeding depends on a mother's ability to avoid the loss of breast milk after a baby's demands change. Many mothers don't realize a baby's feedings will increase during a growth spurt, which in turn increases the mother's milk supply if she continues to nurse on demand. Instead, some mothers often feel they can't satisfy the baby because he or she wants to nurse again only an hour or two after the last feeding. This leads many mothers to believe that the baby requires supplementation with a bottle of formula. But offering formula during a growth spurt has the consequence of decreasing the number of feedings per day and causing a decrease in milk production, which can cause a total loss of breast milk. Mothers need to understand that during certain growth phases, the baby needs to eat every one to two hours, which in turn increases her milk supply after a few days. A woman's body will normally regulate to the baby's changing needs. Simple interventions and encouragement like these at birth, the two-week checkup, and in the ensuing months can mean the difference between breastfeeding success and discouragement. Both mother and child can reap long-term benefits from breastfeeding. For more information about breastfeeding, talk to your pediatrician. Also, feel free to join the Intermountain Moms Facebook page to join other mothers in sharing advice asking questions. Join the conversation Full Name Name is shown in comment. * Email Address We do not publish or share your email address. * Comment Please be nice. * Verification *


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quote: Regardless of Lucas' reasons though, it was a bad idea to invent midichlorians. Heck, even episodes 5 and 6 backed away from the actual mysticist aspect of the force, maybe to "not create controversy" I dunno
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Is there any elementary argument showing that there exist uncountably many distinct quasi-isometry classes of elementary amenable groups? How about solvable groups?
For amenable groups it follows from the result of Grigorchuk (proved in the 80's) stating that there are uncountably many groups of intermediate growth with pairwise incomparable growth functions.


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I gone through the new Guide and found it more complet. Its like having taste of all flavours in one spoon.
It's a must read.
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I have been fascinated by this problem since I first heard about it in high school. From the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_problem:
Take any natural number $n$. If $n$ is even, divide it by $2$ to get $n / 2$, if $n$ is odd multiply it by $3$ and add $1$ to obtain $3n + 1$. Repeat the process indefinitely. The conjecture is that no matter what number you start with, you will always eventually reach $1$. [...]
Paul Erdős said about the Collatz conjecture: "Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems." He offered $500 USD for its solution.
My question is: how important do you consider the answer to this question, and why?
And would you speculate on what might have possessed Paul Erdős to make such an offer?
EDIT: Is there any reason to think that a proof of the Collatz Conjecture would be complex (like FLT) rather than simple (like PRIMES is in P)? And can this characterization of FLT vs. PRIMES is in P be made more specific than a bit-length comparison?


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In one of the great Super Bowl upsets, the Giants defeated the Patriots 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Ariz.
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My family eats a lot of stir fries and sesame oil is a critical ingredient in many of them. Unfortunately, my wife is allergic to sesame so we need an alternative. Has anyone had success recreating the sesame oil flavor with a non-sesame-based food?
Sesame oil has such a distinctive flavour, I'm afraid there's nothing that will give you exactly the same taste. Many sites suggest peanut oil, but this is more or less tasteless in my experience.
I would suggest toasting some unsalted peanuts or cashews and adding them to the stir fry, to get that roasted, slightly smoky flavour. Just add them to a warm, dry pan and toss frequently to prevent burning.
If you're feeling really adventurous you might even try smoking some peanuts (you can do this in a wok with certain wood chips and a bamboo steamer, plenty of instructions online).
You can simply omit the sesame oil, and most recipes should work just fine. The sesame flavor is pleasant but not required.
You might also consider substituting a nut oil such as walnut oil for some of the rich flavor of sesame oil. Drizzle it on at the end of cooking, and stir it in.
I recommend roasted pumpkin seed oil, which has a number of similar qualities, but tends to be expensive and may require refrigeration after opening.
I have this issue, as my son is very allergic to sesame, and also to peanuts and basically all tree nuts (precluding the nut-based suggestions above). When I make fried rice I like to use chopped-up pancetta at the appropriate point in the recipe (give it enough time to render much of its fat). No, it's not a match, but it seems to fill a somewhat comparable role in the flavor, perhaps because of the smokiness. You could probably substitute bacon if you lack pancetta.
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Under current law, a DUI is a felony only if there are four or more prior offenses within 10 years. Reducing that threshold was an idea that lawmakers considered last year but ultimately decided would be too expensive. The Senate Law & Justice Committee could vote on Senate Bill 6090 in the coming days.
Dan Schulte told lawmakers that the crash that has left his wife and son with brain damage and other lifelong injuries "was a preventable crime."
"It's impossible to ensure the community's safety when these repeat offenders are out on the road with easy access to alcohol," he said. "We give these repeat offenders far too many chances."
Mark Mullan, who had five previous DUI arrests, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault for the crash in which his pickup truck hit four members of the family as they crossed a street. Mullan had a blood-alcohol content about three times the legal limit when he hit the family as they crossed a street in the Wedgwood neighborhood in broad daylight.
The crash killed Schulte's parents, Dennis and Judith Schulte, retired teachers from Kokomo, Ind., who had recently moved to Seattle to be closer to their new grandson, Elias. In November, Mullan was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
A fiscal note has not yet been put together for what the measure would cost, but officials last year, when considering lowering the felony threshold to the third or fourth conviction, had said that lowering it to the third conviction would cost about $200 million for construction of a new prison to confine the number of drunken drivers.
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Schulte said that that while the Legislature has to consider the costs of lowering the threshold for felony DUIs, "it's hard to quantify the cost that my family has paid."
"Here we're talking about saving lives first, not just saving dollars," he said. "Let's ask, can we do both for the community?"
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If I had say a dozen or so small bar magnets and I wanted to used them to trip the traffic light sensors (which are a coil embedded in the road where a vehicle would stop for the lights), what would be the best layout? Would it be best to put them all end-to-end to create one long 'super' magnet? Or should I separate them into say a 3 by 4 grid with them all orientated the same way? Or is there some other optimal layout?
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Hey just wondering if its possible to just start up and patch the beta client or do you need to reinstall the new client?
Depends on which Beta client you have. If it was the "open" stress test weekend you should be good to go. Otherwise, re-install.
Just reinstall it. A lot of people have problems with it, and the best way to avoid having any problems is just to start from a clean slate.
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"If the moment is right, I'll say 'do you want to come inside and see it?' I'll show them the main stage, then return them to 57th Street and they go on their merry way."
No one could be better at such a show-and-tell than Mr. Francesconi, 59, the venerable hall's first and only archivist and director of its Rose Museum.
Hired in 1986 to gather memorabilia for Carnegie's 1991 centennial, he stayed on after the festivities, first as a solo act, then as head of a four-person department. And now the boyishly enthusiastic Mr. Francesconi has a new challenge: orchestrating the preservation and digitization of the 300,000 programs, fliers, ticket stubs, photographs, letters, albums, scrapbooks and recordings that have been amassed from 50,000 events in Carnegie's three concert spaces.
Mr. Francesconi had always hoped Carnegie would figure prominently in his career, but he'd been thinking more along the lines of conducting Respighi than conducting research. A San Francisco native, he came to New York in 1974 to further his musical studies and began working part time at the hall as an usher, a job that led to a 10-year stint as backstage attendant—seeing to the pre- and postperformance needs of Ella Fitzgerald, Helen Hayes, Vladimir Horowitz, Yo-Yo Ma and Frank Sinatra, among others. In the process, said Mr. Francesconi, "I made the history of the hall my hobby."
Heady stuff, meeting and greeting the great and near-great, but, in 1984, his ambitions on hold long enough, Mr. Francesconi went to Italy to study conducting with Franco Ferrara, a tutorial cut short by the maestro's death. A replacement mentor would be available in a year, but meanwhile Mr. Francesconi needed a job. Back it was to Carnegie, where plans were afoot for the 100th anniversary, a celebration that would include an exhibit on the hall's history. But who would take charge of it? More to the point, what was going to be on display? At the time, the Carnegie historical record was minimal—a few volumes of programs, at best.
"Judith had an uncanny talent for spotting unique talent in others," Mr. Francesconi said, referring to Judith Arron, the hall's late general manager and artistic director. "She must have seen something in me. We agreed that I would see them through the centennial."
While he had no training as an archivist, a situation later remedied with courses at the Library of Congress and elsewhere. "Judith said it would be easier to teach me about gray boxes and acid-free folders than it would be to teach a real archivist the 96-year history of this place."
Mr. Francesconi was a quick study. When he learned, for example, that the magazine Modern Maturity (now AARP the Magazine) reached 27 million people—and, by the way, his target demographic, the over-50 crowd who might have some choice old Carnegie souvenirs—he called to see about placing an ad.
"The editor and I started talking," Mr. Francesconi recalled, "and he said, 'You mean Carnegie Hall doesn't have an archive?'" Because for decades the hall had been a rental facility and in more recent years the focus had been on saving and restoring it rather than memorializing it, no, Carnegie didn't have an archive. "And the editor said 'this isn't an ad; it's a story.'"
Ah, the power of the press. "Overnight," Mr. Francesconi said, "I started getting posters, photographs, programs." All told, some 15,000 pieces. He also started getting the handwritten memories of countless couples who met at a Carnegie concert, of the man who, as a 10-year-old, was sitting in the hall's balcony on Dec. 7, 1941, when Arthur Rubinstein was playing Brahms and the Japanese were attacking Pearl Harbor.
A while later, Benny Goodman's daughters donated Dad's clarinet. It occupies a place of honor in the 1,200-square-foot Rose Museum on the hall's second floor, not far from Fitzgerald's spectacles, the trowel used to lay Carnegie's cornerstone and—most precious—a ticket from the opening-night concert, May 5, 1891.
"I was on a quest to get that for 20 years. I finally found it," said Mr. Francesconi, who's hoping similar determination will produce the original drawings and renderings by Carnegie's architect, William Burnet Tuthill. "You hear those stories about someone going up in an attic or opening a door that hasn't been opened in years—and bingo."
He checks eBay EBAY 0.97 % twice a day, knowing that you can't always get what you want. Carnegie was outbid on a limited-edition series of jazz recordings signed by impresario Norman Granz and outbid twice on a flier heralding a lecture on spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle. "He could have sold out more nights than Liza," observed Mr. Francesconi, who, at some point bowed to the fact that while making music was well and good, his future lay in Carnegie's past.
"Every year I would say, 'I'm going back to Italy to conduct.' But I kept postponing it. I was having too much fun," he said. "My grandmother finally said: 'You're not coming back. You're doing what you're born to do.' Sometimes you don't realize it until it's staring you in the face.
"At one point I said to my conducting teacher: 'I don't know what to do. If I stay in Italy there's a chance that my career will take off. But if I don't do that archiving job, I don't think anyone else will do it.'
"And he said: 'Let me ask you something. How many conductors have there been at Carnegie?'" Four thousand, maybe five, Mr. Francesconi guessed.
"And how many historians have there been?" the teacher persisted.
"I said 'none,' and my teacher said, 'Well, think about that.'"
A chunk of a girder stamped "Carnegie" sits in Mr. Francesconi's office near a photo inscribed "To Gino, Best Wishes, Benny Goodman." It's a quick elevator ride down to the Isaac Stern auditorium, where Mr. Francesconi led a visitor to one of his favorite perches, the second-tier stage right, box number four. "From here you can experience the stage and the audience. You get the whole package," he said. "A week doesn't go by without people calling our office and saying they were on the stage. They were part of a student recital or a student concert or their graduation was here. It all adds to the patina of the place."
Collectibles are still showing up. In a recent batch of mail were two programs from the 1940s and the 1960s. "And I needed both of them," said Mr. Francesconi, who has his own plans for adding to the historical record.
For years, during his term as the backstage attendant, he asked performers to sign a poster-size photo of the hall. "And someday," Mr. Francesconi said, "I'm going to donate it to Carnegie. That will be my gift, a memento of a wonderful time."
Ms. Kaufman writes about culture for the Journal.
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We've decided to offer Kids'Player free of charge. Probably was a bad idea to try and grab a couple of cents in the first place, but we wanted to experiment and see how something like this would fare.
Anyway, we haven't updated the app since its release, even though we got some ideas we'll be implementing once we find the time. But it's still a nice little player for kids, especially for audio books and the like, or really anything where skipping sucks. Which of course means that it's just as great for these famous concept albums you used to enjoy when you were a kid. ;)
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How Cool Is This? -- TACC Ranger Model
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Check out these photos of TACC's Ranger supercomputer. Granted, this
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The 7 Most Irritating Characters From Otherwise Great Movies
No movie is perfect. But maybe the most frustrating films to watch are the ones that are one character away from being perfect. Everything works except for that one wacky sidekick, or sassy kid, or crude stereotype who sticks out like a fart at a press conference.
#7. The Fifth Element - Ruby Rhod
The Character:
If you've seen this movie, you know damned well what character we're talking about.
Ruby Rhod, played by Chris Tucker on what seems like a near-lethal amount of cocaine, is the radio show host of the future. He teams up with Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) and LeeLoo (Milla Jovovich) against a (literal) big ball of evil.
And its lieutenant, Captain Plastic-hair.
How He Nearly Ruined The Movie:
OK, so he comes on screen and you figure it's just Chris Tucker being Chris Tucker, talking in that Chris Tucker tone. He's loud and speaks in a nasally, unintelligible, hyperactive voice. He has a wardrobe that makes Lady Gaga's look it was purchased from an outlet mall. His hair is shaped like a dick. We get it, he's supposed to be wacky and annoying.
"Alright guys, what if we made Jar Jar Binks an actual black guy?"
And, if he passed through one scene and spent, say, 40 seconds on screen, we would have chuckled and moved on with our lives. But he sticks around. And around. It's not that the rest of the entire movie was about Ruby Rhod and nothing else... it just felt that way.
We knew we were in trouble when the guns start blazing and it becomes apparent the screeching comic relief is going to hang around for the pivotal action scene. During the battle with the aliens, Rhod's role expands from flamboyant and mildly amusing radio show host to incredibly loud and useless sidekick. Check the scene out below, for instance, featuring Chris Tucker's lungs drowning out a bomb Bruce Willis sets off.
Or, let us transcribe it for you:
Rhod: "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee!!!!" Cough, cough, cough. "Whu-whu-whu-whu-whu-whu-WHATCHUDOIN'?!?!?"
Korben: "Count to 10."
Rhod: "CUBBEH! WAS THAT A BOMB?"
Korben: "Shut up and count!"
Rhod: "ONE TWO THREE-HUH-HUH FOUR HUH-HUH FI-HUH-IVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NIIIIHUN-HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!"
Bomb explodes
Rhod: "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(Screech continues for approximately 27 minutes.)
This is how he spends roughly 84 percent of the film.
Not only is his screeching irritating to listen to, but the scene itself is really the pinnacle fight of the movie, so you'd think there'd be some kind of drama or sense of danger required. It's exactly the wrong time to have comic relief front and center, though there's probably never a good time to for comic relief that could have been swapped out for a car alarm for many scenes without us noticing.
Holy shit, we almost wrote a whole entry about The Fifth Element without using this image! That was close.
Hey, speaking of which...
#6. War of the Worlds - Rachel
The Character:
In the War of the Worlds remake, Dakota Fanning plays Rachel, the daughter of Ray (Tom Cruise). They spend roughly 90 minutes evading alien invaders intent on eradicating humanity. Or rather, Tom evades them, while Dakota screams.
How She Nearly Ruined The Movie:
Dakota Fanning is a good actress, probably great even. She's convincing in virtually every role she's been given. War of the Worlds is no exception. As a screaming piece of luggage, possibly containing an angry howler monkey, Dakota's portrayal is peerless.
"Miss Fanning! Can we get a quote? Or some flung feces?"
Rachel just screams whenever. Loudly. Driving away from the alien scourge, relatively safe while others walk, she screams, at a testicle-shattering level, "I want my mom!" and "Take me home!" Her shrill screams are the soundtrack to every chase scene.
Also, Spielberg writes Fanning's character as a pure load--someone who creates plot points due to her utter helplessness. Seriously, Rachel rarely walks. If she needs to move, there'd better be a vehicle or a pair of arms to ride in. In fact, when the van is taken by force by a mob of refugees, Rachel just sits in her seat, while her dad and brother, Robbie, take beatings from the crowd. Worn out from all this not helping at all, she makes Tom Cruise carry her for the rest of the damn movie.
They're walking to Boston from New York. She's 10 years-old. You know who else was 10 years-old in his own fantastical and sometimes frightening adventure? Harry Potter. And nobody carried his ass around. You know why? Because he was 10.
Although he did grow up fast.
This helplessness only has greater consequences later on. When's she's told to wait by a tree so Ray can catch up to Robbie, Rachel's nearly taken by kindly strangers who don't believe her when she says her dad's coming back. He's within sight. Ray ends up having let Robbie go to a certain death, all because she couldn't move like 20 feet. You get one of the best child actresses in Hollywood and that's what you do with her?
Of course, everyone, including Robbie, survives, and Rachel sees her mom. To celebrate, she screams. Seriously. She does.
It is the only tongue she knows.
#5. Jurassic Park - The Kids
The Characters:
Lex (the girl) and, to a lesser extent, Tim, are the irritating grandchildren of billionaire, John Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park. Together, their job is to be precocious, smug and to continually advance the plot by doing and saying stupid things at exactly the wrong time.
We can't help but think the money for child actors would have been better spent on more fucking dinosaurs.
How They Nearly Ruined The Movie:
So the point we're driving at here is that Spielberg hates children. A lot. These kids aren't the dead weight that Fanning's character is, but they're the kind of "always one-upping the grownups" smart-alecky kids that we were constantly getting in 90s movies (thank you, Home Alone).
Thus little Tim starts off by asking Alan Grant, a paleontologist, all kinds of dinosaur questions, then proceeds quickly to criticizing Grant's book and the notion that raptors were like birds.
Somehow, Grant forgets that he already knows how to deal with kids who ask questions: threaten to slice their belly open.
Lex, meanwhile, is a vegetarian, which she announces with a kind of judgmental superiority that is grating coming from anyone, and is the kind of shit you're especially not looking to take from a 12-year-old. But dietary choices and smugness aside, Lex is also saddled with the most thankless task in the world of movie plots: being The Character Who is Always Screwing Things Up And Almost Getting Everyone Killed.
So, when a T-Rex bursts out of its pen and there is clearly nothing between the good guys and the most dangerous predator in the history of the planet, Lex finds the nearest flashlight and turns it on. Then she waves it around just to make sure she really gets the attention of the enormous carnivore. Even worse, she won't or can't turn it off, even after her brother tells her to. Their jeep is attacked, and Ian Malcolm is forced to lure the monster to a nearby bathroom, which collapses on him and reveals another one of the gang (the lawyer) hiding on a toilet.
Not the most dignified death in movie history.
And it doesn't end there. Long after she caused the lawyer's horrific death and everyone has forgotten about it (the next day), Lex and the others struggle to hold a door shut against a ravenous raptor. Only the computer in the room can lock it. Fortunately, Lex is a hacker (because movies in the 90s legally required one) and says that she "knows" the system because it's UNIX. Oh really, little girl? You're a hacker, so that means you can use a computer security system designed for a theme park only a few people even know about? But you don't know how to use an everyday flashlight? Is that right?
But really, both here and in War of the Worlds, what is irritating is Spielberg deploying the cheapest trick in the book: using children as monster bait. We're supposed to immediately feel more danger because there are kids at stake, dammit! Unfortunately that only works if we don't hate the children with a passion and regard them as nothing more than obstacles to our enjoyment of the awesome dinosaur effects.
Admit it. Every one of you was rooting for the raptors.
#4. Aliens - Private Hudson
The Character:
Private Hudson, played by Bill Paxton, is one of the space marines Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) joins to investigate a colony that, spoiler alert, aliens have attacked. The marines are killed off one by one and each horrifying death ups the horror a notch.
The exception is Hudson, whose onscreen death comes as a welcome relief to the audience.
Game over indeed.
How He Nearly Ruined The Movie:
When you were a kid, did you have that one friend who, every time you were caught doing something wrong, panicked and started crying and babbling over and over about how, "OH MY GOD WE ARE SO DEAD MY MOM IS GOING TO KILL ME YOU GUYS WE ARE SO DEAD" until you actually preferred the punishment to listening to him?
That's Hudson's role in this movie. He flies into a panic the moment the aliens appear, constantly expressing loudly how doomed the group is. Hudson remains in that state for the rest of his life.
Rest in Peace.
The thing is, we're pretty sure that's exactly the way we would act if we were thrust into a situation where we were isolated, away from home and insectile aliens were crawling out of the walls to impregnate us. Sure, we'd start whining and pissing our pants and demanding our mothers. But it turns out that's not a mirror we want held up to ourselves, because it's actually pretty horrible to watch on screen.
Do we even want to kill and eat this pussy?
In the face of danger, Hudson screams, "THIS IS JUST FUCKIN' GREAT! NOW WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO?! " and "THEY'RE GONNA COME IN HERE JUST LIKE THEY DID BEFORE! THEY'RE GONNA COME IN HERE AND THEY'RE GONNA KILL US!" When told it'll be 17 days until help can arrive, he howls, "17 DAYS? WE'RE NOT GONNA LAST 17 HOURS!"
When you're right, you're right.
And on and on like that. All of his lines have to be expressed in all caps. It's like everybody else in the movie is going about business in the way you'd expect space marines to act in any piece of entertainment featuring space marines (even Newt, the little girl). But not Hudson; it's like he was never told this was a horror movie and can't quite come to terms with it.
In James Cameron's world, children deal with stress far better than trained marines.
In real life? Totally understandable. In a sci-fi/horror/action movie we paid to watch? You wind up enjoying the peace that follows after he's torn to pieces by alien monsters.


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Photography Highlights
Our Spring 2012 photo shoots were a success! We kept our locations close to the ocean in southern Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and the weather graciously cooperated with us.
I snapped a few in-progress pictures… No peeking at the sweaters though! I blurred them out, since it's still too early to show them.
Here we are in an old stone ruin by the beach – Norah (in the lower right corner) is keeping a close eye on the sweater, while our wonderful stylist Mary Jane Mucklestone (to the left of Norah) is busy providing a human-powered breeze for our model in the doorway.
Now we've moved further inland. Our model is cheerfully standing in a particularly muddy and sludgy patch of grass. Norah has been excitedly identifying a number of different shore birds.
On our third day of shooting, we've returned to the beach. Mary Jane (in the left corner) is carefully monitoring our model's outfit. After seeing many signs warning us about ticks in the area, we are all avoiding wandering off the trails.
Back on the sand, we watch as another model tries out some poses. We've been admiring how calm the water looks, and jokingly wondering why we didn't rent a boat for the day…
We had a fun time and got some great photographs. Things are looking good for 2012!
Looks like a really fun photo shoot!September 26, 2011
I see my favorite photo assistant Did you find a dead bird? That's tradition! Can't wait to see the finished photos.September 27, 2011
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Some very pretty photographs. Those blurred out sections on the models will keep me guessing!September 28, 2011
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Hmm! No mention of the wonderful photographer.October 9, 2011
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What word would mean "a grand, symbolic action" more specifically, taken in an attempt to prove a point?
For example, I am trying to figure out the word that would fill in the following sentence using the above definition:
"Charlie gave every last dime he had to charity, just to prove that he didn't care about material possessions. That's one hell of a [word-for-grand-symbolic-action]!"


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How is possible for current to flow so fast when charge flows so slow?
We know electrons travel very slowly while charge travels at ~the speed of light.
How is possible for current to flow so fast when charge flows so slow?
We know electrons travel very slowly while charge travels at ~the speed of light.
It seems you are contrasting the speed of propagation of current with the speed of the individual charge carriers.
These two things are clearly separate. There are many examples. Consider sound.
A fire cracker goes off at the other end of a football field from you. You hear the sound a few 100 ms later. The air molecules that were by the firecracker didn't end up by you. They didn't travel far at all. However, they pushed on their neighbors, which pushed on their neighbors, etc, all the way to your ears. This pushing can propagate a lot faster than individual molecules can move.
Think of a long hollow cardboard tube filled with small balls just a little smaller than the inside diameter of the tube. All the balls are touching each other. You push on one ball on one end and move it 1 mm. The ball at the other end then moves 1 mm. However, none of the balls themselves moved more than 1 mm and they did that as slowly as you pushed, yet the propagation of the push was instantaneous on your human scale.
One needs to distinguish between two things when it comes to electricity, electric currents and voltages.
1) The electric current is flow of electrons in metal wires, (or in fluids like electrolytes). The electrons are moving in the wire at the drift velocity
where: $I$ is the electric current; $e$ is the elctric charge on the electron; $n$ is the electron number density in the metal material of the wire; $A$ the cross section area of the wire.
Depending on the values of $I$, $n$ and $A$, the speed $v$ has a typical value of several cms$^{-1}$!
2) However, the cause of the motion of the electrons is the electric field, that you set in the wire when you switch on the light say, that travells along the wire at the speed of light. As the field travells along the wire so fast, it sets the electrons along the way into motion all along the wire. So it appears as if the electrons are moving very fast, when in fact they don't. I hope this clarifies your point you were trying to make?
The moving charged particles within a conductor move constantly in random directions, like the particles of a gas. In order for there to be a net flow of charge, the particles must also move together with an average drift rate.That's what drift velocity is called.The drift velocity deals with the average velocity that a particle, such as an electron, attains due to an electric field. In general, an electron will move in a conductor randomly. Free electrons in a conductor vibrate randomly, but without the presence of an electric field there is no net velocity. When a DC voltage is applied the electrons will increase in speed proportional to the strength of the electric field. These speeds are on the order of millimeters per hour. AC voltages cause no net movement; the electrons oscillate back and forth in response to the alternating electric field Electrons are the charge carriers in metals and they follow a random path, bouncing from atom to atom, but generally drifting in the opposite direction of the electric field. The speed at which they drift can be calculated from the equation: I=nAvQ where I is the electric current n is number of charged particles per unit volume (or charge carrier density) A is the cross-sectional area of the conductor v is the drift velocity, and Q is the charge on each particle. Similarly when we tak about the speed of electricity we generally talk about the flow of signal not about the velocity of electrons.


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In the embedded world some (unit) tests have minimal value when they run as standalone test, like unit tests should. We have many tests that run on the embedded device, as part of the embedded operating system but with most of the surrounding functionality disabled. The scope of those tests is very "white" and close to real unit tests, but the environment is very "system". How would you call such tests ? Who do you think should be responsible for them ?
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You say they're close to unit tests, and running on the device, but with most of the surrounding functionality disabled. So I'd call them unit tests.
You've isolated as much as you can of the embedded device, and if you're testing each class and method in isolation with as much mocking and stubbing as possible, then they're unit tests.
The fact you're using the embedded device doesn't really matter. Compare with writing code for a PC and running unit tests on a PC. So what? They're still unit tests.
Developers are responsible for writing and maintaining unit tests. They should be runnable by anyone, ideally you should get it done as part of continuous integration if possible, but this may be a challenge as it's not always easy to hook up a device to the CI. Otherwise you should make it the responsibility of developers to run them to make sure their new/changed functionality doesn't break anything. QA/testers should be responsible for confirming the unit tests all pass before accepting the new code.
We're in a similar situation (with Symbian). We use a unit test framework that runs on the device and we mock and stub as much as possible. At first, we ran our unit tests on the actual device, running after a normal bootup. Our CI made the installation file for us.
Next, we started running them on the emulator, after a full boot up. This meant we could include the run and results as part of our CI loop for every commit (it also calculates code coverage).
Next we ran them with the emulator booting directly into textshell mode, so most of the environment isn't up and running. It's also a LOT quicker that way. In fact, when we first ran in textshell, some unit tests failed because we discovered some dependencies that hadn't been stubbed; in textshell they weren't available.
We called those the BIST : Built-In Self-Test.
The main "customer" from our viewpoint was manufacturing. They needed a suite of tests that they could run to verify that the hardware coming off the end of the line was good. The development team was responsible for implementing the tests, manufacturing was responsible for defining and running the tests.
Depending on the project I've worked on, these tests are called Unit Tests on Target or HW/SW Integration Tests. Their purpose is to test hardware features such as watchdog or ISR. Some tests deserve their own category, such as Boot Tests.