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I'm dual booting W7 and Ubuntu (installed from Wubi). I've had it up and running a few times but today I'm getting a message from Windows Boot Manager when I select Ubuntu that wubildr.mbr is missing or corrupt. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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It is a general problem that happens with WUBI.Since Ubuntu is installed to a file inside windows partition,it becomes susceptible to corruptions that generally happen in Windows.You can reinstall Ubuntu but I recommend a full install.
I can't test this but first use
I encountered that error in one of my Wubi installations on Windows 7. Near as I can tell, it was just a hardware quirk, since I don't see that error anymore now that I've installed on a different (desktop instead of a laptop) machine.
And even when the error popped up, everything still worked fine. It just took a couple minutes to work past the error message and then the boot process continued as normal.
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I had a similar problem.
I had installed:
When it comes to the BOOT panel, I choosed Ubuntu directly and got this message. BUT!! When I whent to "Windows xp" to could try the suggested option by: "enzotib" about moving it to another Directory inside Windows.
Following happened:
Hopes helps someone in the future to "Don't freak out"! Best regards, from Barcelona


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Beyonce 2 of 10Recent rumors say Beyonce's pregnancy is just an elaborate publicity stunt and that she actually has a surrogate who's carrying her baby. We know it can be hard to believe that an idol as major and fabulous as Beyonce is in fact human (gasp!) and can birth a child just like any other woman, but so far, Beyonce is doing her best on media appearances to convince everyone that the bump
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Anyone else lose their free shipping from free Amazon prime?
I just noticed I did and as with all companies that cut off the freebies you have just lost another customer.
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It's a free trial. Trial means it doesn't last forever. You should be grateful that it only expired at the end of the free trial. So many companies automatically renew for you and charge your credit card when the trial expires. Amazon has too much class for that.
And, BTW, if you were only there for the freebies, they didn't actually lose a customer. They lost a panhandler.
@quadconpana: I'm not 100% that you're right. Here is the verbiage right from Amazon's website when ordering prime: "Click the button below to start your 1-month Free Trial - you won't be charged now. If you want to continue after your Free Trial, do nothing. Your Amazon Prime membership will automatically continue and we'll charge your card (Credit Card -) $79 for the next year and annually after that." Although you do have the option after purchasing to go in your settings and click "do not auto renew." I would think that @andrewhallze would know whether or not they clicked auto-renew.
I know Amazon Prime doesn't cover free shipping on everything, so maybe that's the case here if not the auto-renewal?
Either way @andrewhallze, maybe since you think that you're the only the one experiencing this problem, you should contact Amazon's customer support instead of complaining on a mostly unrelated forum. But that's only a maybe.
Not every item sold on Amazon is eligible for their Prime service. It has the "prime" logo at the top of every item description that is part of their prime service.
Amazon isn't just 1 large store, it's a compilation of giant corporations to mom and pop shops that sell through the amazon site. Some of these smaller shops may often do not ship for free through prime.
Why so angry?
I misread this question, thinking Amazon was doing away with free shipping for Prime members or something. Phew! I am in my second year of paid Prime membership and I am happy with it. You do have to make sure the item is prime-eligible first though. And my post office offers street addresses for your po box to get around the 'no Prime shipping to po box' rule. YMMV
One gripe I do have: when the auto renew, they just do it, boom, no warning. It would be nice if a at least a few weeks ahead of time they let you know your card is going to be charged $79.
I'm sure they're devastated by losing your business. God knows that Amazon has so very very few customers anymore that they can hardly make a profit...
@mtrlgrl: When my Prime subscription renewed I received an e-mail about a month before letting me know it was going to renew and my card would be charged $79. Maybe a YMMV e-mail?
I lost mine when my trial expired, but it was expected.
I am on my fourth year f free prime thanks to my student email address :) My school lets you have different 'alias' email address that you can use to send emails... for example:
let's say my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
I can register 3 aliases (111, 222, and 333) and still use the account for 000 to send out emails with the address for email@example.com.
TLDR: I have 3 additional emails linked to the same email account but with different address so that I can use it to extend my Prime membership each year :D
@hirshy: rightious, I just remembered with our email system at the college we can do something similar...
yea the thing that gets me about them cutting off my freebies is I signed up during the beta for that program, and upon doing that it said I was eligible for free shipping for the life of my account. I knew it wouldn't last forever but I figured they'd just leave it as a prime account w/o VOD access, or access to whatever else they are charging for these days.
@quadconpana: actually it was a lifetime membership, and now all it means is I get to see the amazon prime logo in place of the regular one.
@quadconpana: So I'm a panhandler for not wanting to line their pockets for their less than stellar shipping services? I guess it's better to be a sheep like you and just pay it huh?
@andrewhallze: You are upset that you're not getting something that costs money for free? You quite clearly don't know how Amazon prime works. You are either buying goods not sold directly by Amazon and therefore are not Prime eligible or you signed up for a free trial and are arrogant and self righteous enough to believe they should have let you continue the service for free. That's awesome.
There's no evidence that a lifetime Prime membership ever existed. I've certainly never heard of one and a google search yields nothing but a wish list from many different websites. Good try though.
@meh3884: Summed up everything I was thinking.
Do I wish I had lifetime prime for free? Yes.
Am I happy paying for it? No.
Do I get my money's worth every year that I do it? Absolutely. And just because I don't want to pay $79 a year, doesn't mean that it's not worth it.
I'd also like to add that Amazon's customer service in regards to it's Prime membership is pretty awesome. I know you hear a lot of people complaining but one of my items took four days to get here instead of the two (probably post office's fault since it was the only item that came from them instead of UPS) so they gave me a $5 credit in my account.
If you don't find value, don't pay it. Don't whine like a little girl because you can't get everything you want handed to you on a silver platter by screaming how important you are as a customer.
You aren't important to Amazon. You are in the vast minority. They won't miss you and neither will their 3rd party merchants. If you want to pay more to feel superior or because your panties wadded, go for it.
Boohoo you want it free. :( Uh no. You keep feeling superior paying B&M's and online retailers who fork you over as hard as possible for shipping. Woe unto you the big bad merchant charges you to make profits.
@orphicdragon: are you retarded? if i'm complaining about shipping from amazon that should of been free, why in the wide world of sports would i go pay some other asshats company for shipping and handling fees?
Amazon has set the standard in customer relations. service,price,and fairness. That most large companies pretend to practice.. They are the best! And no i don't work for them.like anything else.. don't assume.... Read the fine print.


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We started by thoroughly cleaning the area with PPG DX320 Wax and Grease Remover and then carefully ground out the area with a 3M 3-inch 36-grit Roloc disc. Watch out that you don't allow the disc to touch another finished part of the car or a piece of chrome trim. A 3M Roloc bristle disc will help you to clean out the hard-to-reach places without removing any sheetmetal.A small screwdriver or pick was required to clean out the crevices. What was uncovered was a seam that was brazed together at the factory. Perhaps the body filler didn't stick to the brass properly or maybe the brass just wasn't holding the seam together anymore. Whatever the reason, the seam must now be welded to prevent any future issues.After removing the old factory brass, we started to weld up the seam. This kind of welding can be a little delicate in that you must get good penetration while avoiding overheating the surrounding metal. The trick is to slowly build up the area with small beads while quickly quenching each one with compressed air.The photo shows you the most red you ever want to see at one time. Think of it as building up the area with a series of tack welds. Never run a complete bead. If you are welding for more than about one second at a time, you are taking too long, so you might want to practice on some scrap to get your settings right before you attempt this for real. Your goal is the minimum heat that still yields good penetration. Wire in the 0.023-inch range works well.After we filled in the area, we cleaned it out with a bristle disc and then used a 3M 3-inch weld grinding wheel (a worn-down one is easier to control in tight spaces) to smooth out the area so we could see where the low spots were.We added whatever additional beads were necessary to fill in any holes and ground it smooth again. When you are close, a rotary grinder will make it easier to contour the surface and finish the edges. It's important that you don't leave any high spots. You want some room for body filler or you will end up using the grinder again.Lately, we've been using Evercoat Rage Xtreme for most of our bodywork. We've found that it dries quickly and is self-leveling, so it needs less sanding. The old-school stuff usually requires heavy-grit sandpaper to finish the job. The Rage sands with 80-grit, saving time and fingerprints.We used 80-grit to shape the filler and then finished and blended or feathered with 400-grit about 3 inches out from the edge of the filler. Then we wiped the area down with the cleaner again.
After the primer dried, we feathered it with 400-grit until we couldn't feel the edge with a finger and then wet-sanded it with 1,500-grit.The final step before sealer and then paint is to use a wet, fine Scotch-Brite pad. We worked the pad a few inches farther out around the repair and scrubbed the paint just enough to take the shine off the clearcoat.Of course, we cleaned the area again and then sprayed sealer over the repaired area and just a little beyond. After the sealer was dry, we used nonsilicon rubbing compound to remove excess overspray. This will reduce how far you have to feather out the color. We degreased again and were ready for the basecoat.Two coats of base color are a good idea, and you may even need three depending on how your color covers the sealer. After the base dried, we sprayed one coat of clear just far enough to cover the color.Here's the secret to getting a perfect blending of the new color with the old. PPG produces a color blender that we sprayed on the edges of the clear to essentially melt everything together. Then we followed that up with another coat of clear, this time applying it out a little farther. After one more application of the blender on the edges of the last coat of clear, you can put the spray gun away. Be sure you understand all of PPG's instructions when using the company's products. All that remained was to follow standard color-sanding and buffing procedures and we were good.


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Given the active development in LaTeX and ConTeXt, and how LaTeX insulates the writer from typographical details and ConTeXt gives the user extensive control over formatting thus taking useful complementary approaches (see ConTeXt wiki), are there any reasons to use plain TeX?
Without disagreeing with the other answers, let my try to give an answer to your actual question.
I think that the best reason by far to use Plain TeX is that it will compile in 20 years and produce exactly the same output as it does now and as it did 20 years ago. (Okay, Knuth has fixed some extremely minor bugs.)
Consider the situation with LaTeX today. Various versions of packages can give wildly different results. I've written papers with people and in the 15 minutes before the deadline, we had three different looking PDFs, one of which was over the page limit, from the same code because the page breaking decision had been changed by something. And that's with everybody using LaTeX 2e. Try compiling a LaTeX 2.09 file today. What about Lamport's original LaTeX?
The situation with ConTeXt seems to be worse. It is still in heavy, active development.
Two words: output routines.
LaTeX does much of its heavy lifting in its enormously complex output routine, which leaves essentially no room for user customization. With plain TeX, you can override the default output routine with minimal fuss, giving you a tremendous amount of power over the precise output.
This is just one example of a more general experience that I've had with plain TeX vs. LaTeX. (I haven't used ConTeXt, but I would imagine the situation is similar.) If the core team or package author has anticipated your needs, either explicitly or via parametrization, then everything's fine. But if not, you're totally out of luck. Things tend to be set up in such a way that you can't override them without re-implementing a huge amount of scaffolding. One might say it's the inverse problem of leaky abstractions: the abstractions often prevent you from getting down to the lower levels, even when that's what you need to do.
Plain TeX takes exactly the opposite approach. Everything is low-level, and so is easy to change or override when you need to. The downside of this is obvious: it tends to be more work for the document or format author, since you generally can't just reach for an already prepared package to do X for you. But the advantage is that you can have vastly more control over how your document is typeset. If you don't care about that (and there are perfectly defensible reasons not to care), that's fine; but if you do, plain TeX makes it much easier to achieve.
Since I moved away from LaTeX and to plain TeX, I've noticed another thing that's rarely mentioned. There's a very elegant kind of 'minimal markup' (I got this term from Kees van der Laan [PDF]) that tends to be used in plain TeX documents, which I find to be much nicer than the fairly verbose LaTeX commands and environments. Essentially, you end up with very many tiny domain-specific languages that allow you to clearly and concisely express the structure and style of your document. This makes automatic processing of plain TeX documents almost impossible, but it makes working on them as a human very pleasant. There's simply less clutter; the commands sort of fade into the background, leaving just the text.
There are plenty of other reasons I prefer plain Tex, but others have already raised many of them. Keep in mind, though, that the learning curve is steep, and the TeXbook (still the best way to master TeX) is not easy going. But, for me at least, it was—and continues to be—a thoroughly worthwhile and enjoyable experience. Making LaTeX do what I wanted always seemed frustrating and annoying; making plain TeX behave as I want it to is sometimes difficult, but vastly more satisfying.
LaTeX does 90% of what I need, but there are times when I just need to get under the hood. It's the whole leaky abstraction thing. So although I don't recommend learning plain TeX the format, I think learning the core TeX language can make you a much better LaTeX or ConTeXt user.
I like all of the other answers, as well. This is one of those questions that gets into individual needs, philosophies, time, brains and opinion. It's like arguing about rock 'n' roll. Fun, but you're not going actually settle the question: Is Mark Knopfler a better guitarist than Eric Clapton, or not?
I'll throw out my strategy for TeX's place in my world. It might be useful to others
Learning TeX, for the average person, can ben be very, very difficult. This is especially true if you try to learn via the TeXBook by the creator of TeX, Donald Knuth. For me, it was impenetrable. The man is on a different plain than I am. I actually got offended when I realized that the majority of his examples were not actually useful in real life, and only constructed for their compact brilliance at showing how complicated life can be in TeXland.
Thankfully there is TeX By Topic, by Victor Eijkhout. It's a far easier read and is very useful to have around, even if you choose to ignore TeX. (I'd also buy TeXBook, if only as a "thank you" to Mr. Knuth for starting all of this.)
Anyway, what worked for me was to go ahead and use LaTeX for everything, including some 20 page-long macros. It's easy enough to keep throwing packages at a problem, and get quick results. You might discover that something just isn't quite right here or there, but you'll get fast results and you'll marvel at all that you are able to do.
Then, you'll discover a package or two that have more momentum behind them than the one's you're using. You'll build them into your macros and you'll fix some of your problems. You'll also understand a bit more about what you are doing and you'll add more capability to your output and automation to your workflow.
Inevitably, you'll run into something that is just killing you, like trying to pass an argument to a macro without having TeX unpack it first, or trying to use certain commands inside of a longtable environment. You won't have any idea why it's not working and you'll find yourself reading a bunch of documentation with
Somewhere around that point, you'll start to get interested in TeX and realize that much of what you thought was easier in LaTeX is actually just more characters of typing. Some stuff is easier in TeX and sometimes it's really important to understand how it works in order to know why it's not working for you.
So, in short, I suggest ignoring TeX when you start. Just enjoy the output that you get with LaTeX, or ConTeXt, and ask for help when you get stuck. If you're a the kind of person that wants to keep going and learning new things, then you'll naturally come to TeX when all of the layers on top of it reveal that, in the end, they are only their author's semi-walled gardens of abstraction. If you hit the walls and try to drag something in from the outside, it's time to learn you some TeX.
Helpful Guidelines
Most important: Abstract macro commands away from your main document!
Think carefully before you put a LaTeX command directly into your document, especially if that command has options or requires a lot of typing, such as the figure environment. Instead, wrap those commands up into your own macros.
The main advantage of this is that you can change your own macros later and easily add capability to your existing documents without too much editing of those documents.
I've found that the fact that I abstracted my figure, references and all other formatting commands, I've been able to evolve my documents with me. Also, if a future change to the rendering engine is made or I switch to ConTeXt, it's easier for me to refractor my work than if I had used the base commands.
Picking an Engine: XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX
I'd start with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX as your engine and use the fontspec package to change font definitions. It will create output that most printers (Lulu) can work with, where you'd have trouble with pdflatex.
If you're making illustrations (not bitmap pictures), build them in LaTeX
If you're using an arrow to point at something or label a picture with text, it might be initially faster to crank that out in Illustrator or Photoshop and saveas a PDF file, but you're making headaches for yourself and your document will not look as nice.
Eventually, you'll learn that it is more maintainable, prettier and headache-free to use LaTeX for all vector artwork and text.
Get to know PGF/TiKz. They make great graphics together.
Some other useful macro-bulding packages
Get to know PGF and TiKz, again. :) Use its utility macros when you need things that other packages do, such as foreach loops, key/value pairs, and math functions. PGF has excellent documentation, a ton of development behind it and is, overall, a great tool. On top of all of this, it makes the excellent aforementioned graphics.
You'll need the Graphicx package for inserting external pdf/png graphics, even though PGF can do this. It doesn't do it very well and even the PGF author suggests sticking with Graphicx.
Get to know etoolbox. It's a nice, lightweight little set of macros that will keep you away from a lot of other, older packages. If you need a case statement, you can add
If you are compiling documents conditionally, the optional package is excellent, even though etoolbox exposes some of that functionality. I like the syntax of optional and you can easily extend it to give you an ifthenelse and case version (with boolexpr).
Why use Plain? This is why I do:
I have always used Plain TeX, starting for historical reasons (my original computer didn't have enough memory to support LaTeX).
Now, it is for aesthetic reasons, similar to some of those mentioned by others above: the document is easier to read and type (at least in my mind). And I have a file of Plain macros to provide document structure (title, part, chapter, section, subsection, colour support, double/triple columns, font sizing [includes text and math fonts and fixes line spacing & relative size of eg headings etc as well], graphic inclusion. (many of these I've generated and many use macros published by others.).
I admit it was an effort learning TeX, but the reward for me is an intuitive way to control the document and "tweak" it.
Sadly, integrated environments for editing TeX often do not provide an easy Plain Tex option, requiring a bit more effort to support Plain Tex.
It is TeX rather than LaTeX that insulates the writer from typographical details. LaTeX provides a
LaTeX provides another advantage over the original plain TeX macros, in that it provides a better human interface - and IMHO its main strength. There are also a substantial amount of packages that work with it, whereas the same is not true for plain TeX.
If the OP means using plain TeX over LaTeX, most users will opt for the latter. Macro writers continue to use a mixture of TeX and LaTeX commands in packages - even if this is frowned upon and this is perhaps unavoidable.
Compared to other computer languages one would never dream of producing a serious amount of programming by using only the libraries of the language - in our case LaTeX.
To summarize the answer - use LaTeX but do not be afraid to mingle a bit of TeX. Use TeX only if you have a few commands to test and just saying
PS: Knuth still typesets all his books using plain TeX, so maybe he knows something!
For me, I like to know what's on my plate, so to speak. I can think of a couple of reasons:
In general, from how I've understood things, LaTeX "enforces" a specific way to format a document, and when you need to break away from that (in a way that LaTeX doesn't provide), you use a package designed for those specific needs. Usually this is what you want; a standard way to format documents. Note, however, that for the most part, you can just use Plain-commands inside a LaTeX document if need be.
ConTeXt, on the other hand, in addition to the above about LaTeX, is basically a re-implementation of the TeX programming language done in Lua (over-simplification for MkIV, sorry! ;-) ). Watching this years TUG-conference talk of Hans Hagen reveals the "why": their specific needs included fully automated, non-attended builds of documents.


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I've got a pair of Sennheiser HD555 headphones and I'm trying to wire on a 3.5mm connector to the end, and there are 4 wires in the cable. Black, White, Red, Blue. Which ones to I connect to the tip, ring, and sleeve of the connector? I can't really find much around the internet, but I'm probably not looking in the right spot. All I can find is explanations of what T.R.S. are/is.
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If you still have the original 1/8" TRS with a bit of wire coming out, you can test with a multimeter or any other tool with a continuity test of some sort which wire goes to which pin. I am guessing that 2 of them will go to the shield or 1 not even connected at all
I'm not sure if you can find this where you are, but I have this nifty little cable with a 3.5mm on one side and aligator clips on the other side. It's a nice thing for any technicians to have and will help solve your question.
Take your multimeter, put it on the resistance setting, and figure out what is connected to what. Put one lead on one wire, and one on the other wire. You are looking for something that will measure somewhere between 8 and 120 ohms or so. Basically, anything that is not 0 ohms, and not completely open.
Chances are your white and black wires will be the speaker on one side, and the red and blue will be the speaker on the other. From there, it is likely that the black and blue wires are ground, and the red and white are hot.
Connect the tip to the L+, the ring to the R+, and both grounds to the sleeve.
The only thing wrong is that if this is wrong, you may either invert the polarity, or the L/R. Neither will break anything, but if one ear is of one polarity, and the other is of the other, it may sound interesting. That's why it is best to reference the original plug, if you still have it.


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STEUBENVILLE - An attorney representing Trent Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale said Friday he will petition a juvenile judge to release Mays early from state custody if Mays successfully completes a nine-month program for juvenile sex offenders.
In March, Mays was found delinquent of a charge of rape in connection with an incident involving an underage girl that happened last August. He also was found delinquent of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for having a picture of the 16-year-old victim in an outgoing text message on his cell phone. He was sentenced to a minimum of one year in a Department of Youth Services facility on each charge, with the sentences to be served consecutively.
A hearing for co-defendant Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville was continued because of motions filed by his attorney, Walter Madison.
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Trent Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale signed paperwork stating he was informed of his reporting requirements as a Tier II juvenile sex offender in Jefferson County Juvenile Court on Friday, while his attorney, Adam Nemann looked on. Visiting Judge Thomas Lipps gave his OK for Mays to be transferred to a youth facility specializing in juvenile sex offenders after the hearing. The Ohio Department of Youth Services has the final say in the matter. -- Mark Law
Visiting Judge Thomas Lipps on Friday ruled that Mays is a Tier II sex offender requiring him to report his address to the sheriff of the county where he lives every 180 days for 20 years.
Prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter of the Ohio Attorney General's Office wanted Lipps to give Mays a lifetime sex offender reporting requirement, which would have required him to report every 90 days for the rest of his life. Defense attorney Adam Nemann had asked for the least restrictive Tier I sex offender status, which would have required Mays to report annually for 10 years.
Lipps said he will recommend Mays be sent to the Paint Creek Lighthouse Youth Center, a privately run facility for juvenile sex offenders. Lipps said the facility has a "superior" program for youth sex offenders.
Lipps said the sexual offender classification for Mays will be reviewed once Mays is released from state custody. The classification can either be made less severe or eliminated. If no action is taken at the first hearing, Mays can petition the court in three years for a reclassification. If no action was taken then, Mays would be able to file a petition every five years for a reclassification.
Nemann said the program at Paint Creek lasts for nine months. If Mays is accepted and completes the program, Nemann said he will file a motion for an early release for his client.
Nemann said no appeal was filed in Mays' convictions.
"The family is accepting responsibility and interested in complying with the court's orders so (Mays) can return to society and back to the family," he said.
According to testimony at the trial, the victim, a teenager from Weirton, brought alcohol to a party in Steubenville in August and became highly intoxicated. When that party was shut down, the victim was taken by the two defendants to another Steubenville house, where she threw up at least twice, testimony revealed. She then was driven to a house outside Wintersville.
Witnesses at trial said Mays digitally penetrated the victim in the car and Richmond did the same while at the house outside Wintersville.
Mays is currently being housed in the Cuyahoga Hills DYS facility. Mays told Lipps it is a dormitory-like setting with 15 bunk beds in a unit. Lipps said Mays would have his own room at Paint Creek.
"It is nicer but harder," Lipps said. "You just can't sit there and wait for your time to go by. You need to work on rehabilitation and think about the boundaries of society in regards to sex."
The hearing Friday focused on whether Mays was remorseful for his actions.
Hemmeter said the act Mays was charged with was bad enough, but Mays joked about it at least 17 times in text messages and then sent naked pictures of the victim to at least six people.
Mays underwent an assessment about seven weeks after his conviction. Lipps said the report noted Mays wasn't taking responsibility for his actions.
Nemann said Mays didn't know he was undergoing an assessment at DYS when a doctor asked him to open up about the incident.
"You are talking about a child who doesn't know how to express himself like an adult," Nemann said.
But Hemmeter said Mays should understand by now what he did was wrong.
"After sitting through the trial, he still doesn't understand how serious it is. Here is a smart boy, a good student, quarterback of the football team. He is still blaming the victim," Hemmeter said.
Hemmeter wanted Mays to start with a lifetime reporting requirement to force him to work harder at rehabilitation.
Hemmeter said the victim was isolated as she laid there passed out, and Mays took advantage of her and let others take advantage of her, she said.
Hemmeter said the victim as a result of the naked photos will for the rest of her life wonder if anyone she meets has seen the pictures.
"It will haunt her the rest of her life," she said.
"(Mays) is one boy who knew her and knew her well and took advantage of her and exploited her for his benefit. That is the hallmark of a sociopath," she said.
As for the placement at Paint Creek, Hemmeter said, "Let's hold him accountable and hold his toes to the fire and make him jump through hoops. At the end of this dark tunnel, maybe something good will happen."
The victim's mother read a statement to Lipps asking Mays be given a lifetime sex offender reporting requirement.
"We realize that we have no choice but to accept the light sentence awarded to these boys, but we strongly feel that Trent Mays made a very conscious choice to publicly shame my daughter by posting and sending pornographic pictures of her unconscious body to the public. Due to the fact that these pictures can never possibly be removed from public access, this has become a life sentence for her. We encourage the judge to consider the choice of a lifetime sexual offender registration for Trent. My child's name and face will forever remain attached to his crime because of his actions. Since this crime, she has endured countless ridiculing comments from all public avenues that have caused her great pain and stress. This will never leave my daughter, therefore it should never leave him," the mother said.
The mother said Mays may have had a stellar past but he can't decipher simple right from wrong and how it has affected numerous people.
Nemann said Mays has had a positive attitude since his sentence to the Department of Youth Services. He said Mays was named "Youth of the Week" twice at the Cuyahoga Hills facility, and has received positive comments from teachers.
"Since he has entered the facility, he has done well. I will bet my very life he will do well. He wants to show the court and society he has been rehabilitated," Nemann said.
Mays told Lipps he was "wrong multiple times," and was remorseful, even though he doesn't show it.
Lipps said Mays hasn't shown any remorse, but also hasn't hadn't any rehabilitation treatment yet. The judge said Mays needs to look inside himself to realize what is right.
At the sentencing hearing for Mays and Richmond, Lipps said he would make the recommendation for Paint Creek admittance for both teens.
But, Madison, Richmond's attorney, filed a motion challenging the constitutionality of the juvenile sex offender law. As a result, Richmond's sex offender classification hearing has been indefinitely postponed.
"The new motion contains issues that are constitutional and substantial. The issues are applicable to all juvenile defendants in this state. The motion questions the constitutionality of Ohio's juvenile sex offender classification laws, the jurisdiction of all Ohio juvenile courts and the wisdom of the statutory scheme set out by the Ohio legislature," Lipps said in a court entry.
The judge said the Ohio Attorney General's Office has not had the opportunity to review, research and respond to Madison's motion.
The Ohio Supreme Court in 2012 ruled that juveniles classified as Tier III offenders can't have their names placed on an Internet registry for sex offenders. Neighbors will still be notified by mail or residents can go to the sheriff's department to request a list of registered sex offenders in the county. The name of the juvenile offender can be released.
A special grand jury was called by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to investigate all aspects of the case and whether additional people should be charged.
The grand jury has only met five days since it was seated on April 15. The delays were needed to interview people and analyze computers seized from Steubenville City School facilities in April.
The grand jury was scheduled to reconvene on Monday, but that has been postponed.
No date has been set for when the special grand jury will again meet, according to the attorney general's office.
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The calculation for even-dimensional manifolds, and in particular the torus, is carried out by Felix-Thomas in their paper "Rational Betti numbers of configuration spaces."
For ordered configuration spaces, see Fred Cohen's paper(s), including On configuration spaces, their homology, and Lie algebras ☆ F.R. Cohen E-mail the corresponding author Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA (J of pure and applied algebrac, 1995, availabe for free on line).
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Bezrukavnikov, R. Koszul DG-algebras arising from configuration spaces. Geom. Funct. Anal. 4 (1994), no. 2, 119–135. (http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF01895836.pdf)


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We're all familiar with the idea that science fiction often predicts science fact. But every once in a while the universe gets its wires so crossed that something we tend to think of as the far-fetched brainchild of some science fiction writer actually happened in the real world well before we ever saw it on a movie or TV screen.
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#5. The First Hacker Predates the First Computer
The Sci-Fi Trope:
From WarGames to The Matrix and, um, Hackers? We guess? 3L337x0rz hackers have been sticking it to The Man ever since the Web was invented.
"Sticking it to The Man" just happens to be identical to "pissing everyone else off."
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One afternoon in June of 1903, John Ambrose Fleming and his boss, Italian radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, were about to demonstrate Marconi's new high-tech wireless telegraph system to a crowded theater in London. But right before Fleming was scheduled to receive a wireless message from Marconi, the equipment started tapping out the word "rats" over and over, followed by the Edwardian era equivalent of a rap battle diss:
There was a young fellow of Italy
Who diddled the public quite prettily
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"Verily, I say 'Snap,' good sir."
And all the ladies swooned while the gentlemen got their flummox on, loudly exclaiming things like "I say!" and "Why I never!" Fleming and Marconi were understandably furious that someone would so lewdly interrupt their demonstration -- Marconi actually went on record describing it as "scientific hooliganism" (dibs on the Tumblr name!). But who could have possessed the resources and know-how to hack into wireless technology that had barely even been invented yet?
The answer came four days later when Nevil Maskelyne, a fabulously mustachioed magician whose grandson you may have heard of, confessed to the prank in a letter to The Times. When Marconi arrogantly started bragging about not only the efficacy but also the impenetrable security of his new wireless system, Maskelyne, being a proud member of his multigenerational anachronistic scientist/battle-magician bloodline, did the only reasonable thing: He promptly whipped up his own homemade radio tower and proceeded to hack into Marconi's "secure" signal.
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We don't know why, but we feel it's worth mentioning that he invented the pay toilet.
Maskelyne justified his actions by stating that he simply wanted to expose the security risks of the new wireless technology to the public -- which is basically word for word what modern hackers say when you ask them why they replaced every uppercase "I" on the CIA website with a crude cartoon dick. Funny, though: It seems so much more plausible coming from the smirking space directly beneath an old-timey magician's mustache than from the Twitter account of an acne-pocked teenager in Denmark.
#4. Charles Darwin Terraformed a Barren Island
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From Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan to Aliens to Firefly, terraforming is a staple of most space-based science fiction. It's the process of taking barren, uninhabitable terrain and re-engineering it to support life. You know, like Detroit, but in reverse.
And we're using the word "life" a little loosely.
But Previously, in the Real World ...
Ascension Island, plopped right smack in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between South America and Africa, was basically a barren volcanic rock, with minimal plant life and no fresh water supplies. But all that changed one day when Charles Darwin swung by the island during his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle and casually decided to make nature his bitch.
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He used to have a mustache, but then it moved up to live on his eyebrows.
Together, Darwin and Hooker kicked off an elaborate experiment in which they spent decades shipping every type of plant they could think of to the island, just to see what would take.
And shotgunning an island with random, invasive species not only didn't Jurassic Park back on their asses; it totally worked!
Today, instead of being a bare rock, Ascension Island hosts a tropical "cloud forest" of wholly incongruous non-native species like eucalyptus, Norfolk Island pine, bamboo and bananas. In mere decades, Big Pimpin' Darwin and his pal Lil' Hooker created a self-sustaining and self-reproducing ecosystem that would have taken millions of freaking years to develop naturally through co-evolution.
Via Biologie.uni-hamburg.de
And we don't have time for that shit. We want our nature now.
Dr. David Wilkinson, who has spent many years studying Ascension, thinks that these principles could one day be used to transform colonies on Mars. In fact, if you want to get an idea of what the first space station on a freshly terraformed planet looks like, look no further than Ascension and the Deep Space Station that NASA built there in the 1960s:
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Is that Aunt Beru's smoking corpse we smell?
So there you have it, folks. Let's start firing rockets full of palm trees at Mercury; we've figured this space shit out.
#3. The First Wireless Telephone Communication Happened Before Most People Had Wired Phones
The Sci-Fi Trope:
It seems like a given in today's world, where kindergarteners spend most of recess bitching about the spotty service they get on the monkey bars, but wireless communication devices like Star Trek's communicators were once relegated to the same fictional space as death rays and time machines.
"We've given him too much leeway. When he gets to the bottom, take his fucking head."
But Previously, in the Real World ...
Way back in 1880, Alexander Graham Bell and the unfortunately named Sumner Tainter first tested out Bell's new invention, the photophone, a device that used a series of mirrors, lenses and selenium crystals to wirelessly transmit voice signals via a beam of light. How Science is that shit?! It's like a cellphone that works via ray gun!
Via Wikipedia (US Public Domain)
It also doubled as a really complex bong.
Unfortunately, the device's range never extended beyond a few hundred yards, and it was way too susceptible to interference and James Bond attacks to be a viable method of communication ... problems that E.C. Hanson's wireless telephone from 1913 did not share. He used his invention to successfully make voice calls over a distance of 35 miles. There was just one little drawback -- Hanson's system consisted of an array of telephone poles and high-voltage wires strapped to a car. So no, sorry, he didn't really make the first functioning cellphone; he just invented the car phone almost a century in advance.
Via Popular Mechanics
"I don't know why, but I have a feeling that someday this invention's going to kill a ton of people."
We guess that's still technically impressive.
Sort of.
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This has been on my belt for the entire time I own it. Cleans easy.
Used at least once a week.
You never know when you will need a spork!
@sch3nk2k4: According to the product page, these also have a black, non-stick finish.
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Shrinking a Linux OEL 6 virtual Box image (vdi) hosted on Windows 7
By AndyBaker on Oct 18, 2013
After copying over all the binaries and performing all the installations the virtual box became in the region of 80Gb used size on the host operating system, however internally it only really needed around 20Gb. This meant 60Gb had been used when copying over all the binaries and although now free was not returned to the host operating system due to the growth of the virtual box storage '.vdi' file. Once the 'vdi' storage had grown it is not shrunk automatically afterwards.
Space is always tight on the laptop so it was desirable to shrink the virtual box back to a minimal size and here is the process that was followed.
Install 'zerofree' Linux
package into the OEL6 virtual box
The RPM was downloaded and installed from a site similar to below;
A simple internet search for 'zerofree Linux rpm' was easy to perform and find the required rpm.
Execute 'zerofree' package on the desired Linux file system
To execute this package the desired file system needs to be mounted read only. The following steps outline this process.
As root: # umount /u01
As root:# mount –o ro –t ext4 /u01
NOTE: The –o is options and the –t is the file system type found in the /etc/fstab.
Next run zerofree against the required storage, this is located by a simple 'df –h' command to see the device associated with the mount.
As root:# zerofree –v /dev/sda11
NOTE: This takes a while to run but the '-v' option gives feedback on the process.
What does Zerofree do?
Zerofree's purpose is to go through the file system and zero out any unused sectors on the volume so that the later stages can shrink the virtual box storage obtaining the free space back.
When zerofree has completed the virtual box can be shutdown as the last stage is performed on the physical host where the virtual box vdi files are located.
Compact the virtual box '.vdi' files
The final stage is to get virtual box to shrink back the storage that has been correctly flagged as free space after executing zerofree.
On the physical host in this case a windows 7 laptop a DOS window was opened.
At the prompt the first step is to put the virtual box binaries onto the PATH.
C:\ >echo %PATH%
The above shows the current value of the PATH environment variable.
C:\ >set PATH=%PATH%;c:\program files\Oracle\Virtual Box;
The above adds onto the existing path the virtual box binary location.
C:\>cd c:\Users\xxxx\OEL6.1
The above changes directory to where the VDI files are located for the required virtual box machine.
C:\Users\xxxxx\OEL6.1>VBoxManage.exe modifyhd zzzzzz.vdi compact
NOTE: The zzzzzz.vdi is the name of the required vdi file to shrink.
Finally the above command is executed to perform the compact operation on the '.vdi' file(s). This also takes a long time to complete but shrinks the VDI file back to a minimum size. In the case of the demonstration virtual box OEM12c this reduced the virtual box to 20Gb from 80Gb which was a great outcome to achieve.


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SHADYSIDE - Steubenville set out to curtail Shadyside's two big offensive threats in Karli Bonar and Hayley Holenka Monday, and, for a half, did an admirable job.
Holenka had a quiet nine points and Bonar was limited to five on 2 of 5 shooting at the half.
There were two problems to Big Red's strategy. They didn't plan on the remaining Tigers picking up the slack. And they certainly didn't count on a team-wide cold streak to start the game.
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LOOKING FOR A TEAMMATE — Steubenville's Mytia Barker looks for a teammate after a defensive rebound during Big Red's 64-39 loss at Shadyside Monday.
-- Seth Staskey
Led by Bonar's 16 third-quarter points, Shadyside pulled away in the second half and never faltered in downing visiting Steubenville 64-39 in girls' basketball action in Shadyside.
Defensively, Big Red fared well early. Offensively, the visitors couldn't buy a bucket, hitting only 3 of 27 attempts in the first half.
"We felt we did a good job defensively on (Bonar and Holenka) but their other girls did a nice job of stepping up," Steubenville coach Phil Casinelli said. "And offensively, we had opportunities, but we couldn't get them to drop. We felt good at the half about our defense but it got away from us in the second half."
In particular, it was Bonar who got away from the defensive pressure that had been hounding her early.
She was near perfect in the third, going 6 of 7 and 3 of 4 at the line. She finished with 21 points and three assists.
Early on, it was the inspired play of Tori Andes that fueled the Tigers.
Andes had five points, five rebounds and two assists in the first, twice driving the paint and dishing to Kenzi Fielding for easy 2-footers. Fielding finished with eight.
"The other girls did a nice job of stepping up," Shadyside coach Tina Yates noted. "Once we got settled down offensively, we were OK."
Another key for the Tigers was their work on the boards.
Big Red had a decent height advantage overall, but a smaller Shadyside club wasn't afraid to crash the boards with reckless abandon.
Andes and Fielding tied for team-high with seven rebounds apiece while Kristen Fijalkowski added six. Bonar had four.
"We worked extremely hard on boxing out," Yates said. "We're not the tallest team and are usually smaller than most teams we play so we have to play smarter and more fundamentally sound and box out and it's starting to show."
Steubenville briefly started to connect midway through the third.
Amy Taylor finally got dialed in from the perimeter, canning two 3-pointers en route to 10 points.
Mytia Barker, who finished with a team-high 14 points, had six in the third, four in the fourth.
Barker also snagged a game-high 13 rebounds, a fact lauded by Casinelli.
"She hustled very well tonight," Casinelli said. "She was aggressive and didn't back down and played real well."
Big Red was without leading scorer Emiley Masloski, who injured her knee in its previous game against Weir. The loss dropped the visitors to 11-2 with a Wednesday meeting at home against Linsly looming.
Shadyside 64, Steubenville 39
Steubenville 10 2 10 17 - 39
Shadyside 17 10 25 12 - 64
STEUBENVILLE: Young 1 0-0 2; Wilson 0 2-6 2; Barker 4 6-8 14; Bodo 1 0-0 2; Taylor 3 2-2 10; H.Masloski 1 1-4 3; Poole 0 0-2 0; Rice 2 2-2 6; Totals: 12-48 13-24 39.
SHADYSIDE: Holenka 6 4-6 19; Fielding 4 0-0 8; Andes 3 1-1 7; Fijalkowski 1 0-0 2; Bonar 8 3-4 21; Johnson 1 0-1 2; Jackson 1 0-0 2; Gulley 1 0-0 3; Benedetta 0 0-0 0; Rossen 0 0-0 0; Totals: 25-56 8-12 64.
Three-point Goals: Taylor (2). Holenka (3), Bonar (2), Gulley.


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What term did Avraham ben haRambam use when referring to his father in his writings? (Compare to R' Ya'akov ben Asher (the Tur), referring to his father (the Rosh), as Adoni Avi or A"A.) Did he use a similar term, or did he call him 'Rambam'?
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He calls him אבא מרי (or מורי). Examples include a letter of his printed in Toldos Rabbeinu Avraham ben Ha-Rambam, and numerous places in his commentary on the Torah.
I can't find a pdf online, but many of his responsa mention his father the same way. Consider the opening of responsa #2:
תשובה: פירוש אבא מארי זצ"ל...


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I have custom post type called staff that has custom taxonomy called departments. I wanted the frontpage of the staff (archive-staff.php) to not show ALL the staff members, but actually the first department (lets say there are 3 departments.)
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Across Newark Liberty International, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, there are more than 16,000 employed full-time in passenger service positions vital to the region's safety and economic health, but they earn less in wages and benefits than the federal poverty threshold.
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What steps do I have to take in order to make sure that I keep my search engine rankings after I redesign or update my site?
From practical experience we've found that beyond the usual 301 redirecting these following actions have resulted in a shorter (and on one occasion non-existent) Search Engine fluctuation:
Remember that if you find that there will be duplicate URL paths, use the
HTTP Header to signal your correct destination (there is a META tag version too).
If your linking structure/position is changing drastically the best advice is to ask "is it in the users best interest?"
If your URLs are changing be sure to do a 301 redirect so the search engines know that the old URL has moved to a new location and all incoming links for the old URL should be transferred to the new URL. A sample 301 redirect in .htaccess would look like this:
That's about all you can control when you redesign a web site. Because your HTML will be changing your rankings may change, too, as semantic markup very much affects your rankings. The best you can do is make sure you properly markup your content (use heading tags, etc) take advantage of every internal linking opportunity.
The biggest thing is to make sure that you know what all your current URLs are and then redirect them to the new URLs using a 301 redirect when you redesign. You may find that your rankings take a slight dip temporarily, but don't panic, that can sometimes happen as Google readjusts itself to your site. Wait it out a few weeks before doing anything drastic.
If you are able, you could also change your anchor href's to match the new URLs.
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Roy McChristian Ross, 41, was listed Tuesday on the McLennan County Jail roster as awaiting bond and facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, evading arrest, possession of marijuana less than 2 ounces and was being held on two traffic warrants.
The argument resulted in a stabbing and led to a neighborhood search during which a middle school was locked down as a precaution.
The stabbing, which was reported at around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday in the area of Clifton Street and East Waco Drive, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.
Omora Rashad Giles, 34, who had been stabbed repeatedly in the hands, arm, neck and head, was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center for treatment of what police said were non-life-threatening injuries.
As officers first arrived at the scene, one saw the victim get into a vehicle and leave as another vehicle gave chase.
Officers stopped the second vehicle at Lenox and Turner Streets and arrested a 40-year-old man.
Several minutes later officers were notified that the victim had called for paramedics and was with the ambulance at the intersection of North 18th Street and Reuter Avenue.
The stabbing happened in the vicinity of Carver Middle School, which was locked down while officers secured the area, Waco Independent School District spokesman Dale Caffey said.


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From the libraries' homepage, you can also access the TRLN catalog, which will search for materials in the Triangle Research Libraries Network, as well as WorldCat, a union catalog containing the records of thousands of libraries.
When you conduct a catalog search, the catalog automatically searches for all the words that you enter across the most common fields, including author, title, and subject. The main catalog page also has a drop-down menu that allows you to specify which fields you want to search. For example, you could search for "Jane Austen" in the author field if you wanted books by Jane Austen instead of all the books about Jane Austen, which is what you will get if you do a subject search. A search anywhere will bring up all the books by and about Jane Austen.
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I can't find a solution for my problem online:
I'm running Unity 2D in Ubuntu 11.10 and want to enable compiz effects. I installed compiz config settings manager, and Fusion-Icon, but when I start Fusion-Icon nothing happens. When I execute it from terminal it stucks at lines like "setting update 'command'" or "setting update 'next_key'"
I already set the whitelist for the panel to 'all'.
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First of all, as much as I love Team Fortress 2, I hate what it has become. All these new updates with items you can buy for your character and stuff? It feels like it's just turning into some sort of MMO.
Now? Steam/Valve have announced Team Fortress 2 is now free to play. Sounds good, right? Well, no. I actually think it's a mega insult to those dedicated fans who actually spent money on the game. It's like releasing Call of Duty for free It's stupid. Now, we're gonna have all the n00b gamers getting involved.
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FREEPRESS wrote on Oct 24, 2012 5:44 AM:
" Let's see: Biggest tax increase in the state's history under Malloy. High corporate taxes including the "Business Entity Tax", which has to be paid whether you have income or make a profit or not. Highest gasoline and fuel taxes in the country and consequently the second highest gas price (except for Hawaii, which has to have all fuel shipped thousands of miles by tanker). An income tax where, even if your federal income tax liability is zero, you may still owe CT income tax. A doubling of countless fees (a tax by another name) e.g. for copies of birth and death certificates. A tax on real estate transfers, in addition to the tax on any realized capitol gains. Sales taxes on almost everything that can be taxed, even if it was not previously. A tax on essentials like utility bills. Here a tax, there a tax, everywhere a tax tax.
Gosh, hard to convince me we are not the most heavily taxed state, let alone only third! "
Gosh, hard to convince me we are not the most heavily taxed state, let alone only third! "
Bob wrote on Oct 24, 2012 6:31 AM:
" What tax burden? With barely any industry most people, even those who work a Mcjob with a family are getting something like foodstamps, SS, medicaid, etc. If anything most of the Waterbury area is a reverse tax dream. Maybe in Greenwich they feel a burden, but in Waterbury either you are on State or you work for an agency that processes state, or in service fields paid for mostly with benefits and salary from state. The only thriving business besides social work in Waterbury is drugs. "
mathlady wrote on Oct 24, 2012 7:38 AM:
" And this was from 2010 - before the increase in the income tax. What's Malloy's next comment? "We're number one!" "
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10 Surefire Ways to Save Energy and Stay Warm This Winterby Lindsay Hutton
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average American household will spend more than $1,600 on home utility bills in 2008. What's even more discouraging is that a large portion of that energy will be wasted. With a worsening economy and rising energy costs, many people are looking to save a few dollars wherever they can. We've come up with a list of the top 10 ways to save money (and energy) this winter.
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Turn Down Your Thermostat
For every degree you lower your thermostat in the 60-70 degree range, you save about 5% on heating costs. Set your thermostat to 68 degrees or lower during the day and evening, and 55 degrees at night and when you are leaving home for an extended amount of time. By setting the thermostat lower while sleeping or away, you can save anywhere from 5-20% on heating costs. Along the same lines, lower your hot water temperature. Set the water heater to the normal setting, or 120 degrees Fahrenheit. (Check the owner's manual for your dishwasher to see whether it requires a higher setting.)
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5 Reasons George Washington Was Either Lucky or a Wizard
#2. He Controlled the Weather?
We just touched on this briefly, but Washington's weather-related luck actually came up a lot. In August of 1776, America had declared itself a nation, and the first major battle of the Revolutionary War was underway. George Washington didn't have nearly as many men as the British, and that's before you take into account how many were ill or unprepared. Washington set up shop at a Manhattan harbor and waited for the British there, knowing that the harbor would be important. When the British did arrive, Washington got his ass spanked, as he was wont to do.
And then British Army Commander in Chief William Howe decided to stop attacking Washington's troops, even though they were basically stranded and Howe had a giant ship with lots of firepower. Just fucking because. Because George Washington was 70 percent leprechaun.
The Washington family crest.
Washington, meanwhile, fed spies bad information to make the British believe that he was asking for reinforcements, when really he sent for every ship and boat in the area to enable the entire army to retreat. Obviously all of the boats coming would most likely clue Howe in to some general happenings, but this is George Washington we're talking about, so he saw no flaw in the plan.
Because Washington was destined to win the war and be president, it began to pour rain so hard that Howe wasn't able to see the boats or the men packing up camp. By dawn, most of the troops had sailed off for Manhattan, and to make sure the rest of the troops joined them, Washington let his pupils go all white and flew up into the sky with lightning shooting out his fingertips. What happened is described as a dense, providential fog settling over the land, allowing the rest of the men to evacuate unseen. By the time the fog lifted and Howe saw the men sailing away, it was too late to try and catch them.
"I'm sure this won't come back to bite me in the ass."
#1. He Was Magic (Part 1 of 234-Part Series)
Washington's crossing of the Delaware and subsequent Christmas conquering of the Hessian enemies is famous by now, but what a lot of people might not know is just how ass-backwardsly Washington stumbled into victory.
Washington's plan, of course, was to sail across the Delaware on December 24 and attack on Christmas. When Washington's men sailed out, a British sympathizer saw the men and sent a servant to deliver a warning message. The note actually got to Colonel Johann Rall, the leader of the Hessian men, who promptly put the note in his pocket instead of reading it and continued playing cards and drinking. We haven't been in a lot of wars, but we're pretty sure that "reading urgent notes regarding the whereabouts of your enemies" is probably one of the first things they teach you to know (assuming you needed to even be taught that). Maybe Rall skipped that day of army training, or maybe the part of his brain that deals with reason is made of poop, or maybe George Washington is just cosmically, unfairly, inexplicably lucky. Whatever the reason, Rall never read the note.
"Not now, I've got the captain down to his boxers!"
Or, not never. Rall eventually read it the next day, after he had been forced to surrender.
For more presidents who were probably terminators, check out Abraham Lincoln: Portrait of a Crazy Badass and How to Fight Andrew Jackson: The Deadliest President Ever.