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5 Historic Artifacts You Won't Believe Still Work
Unless you're talking about diamonds, Twinkies or vampires, lasting forever usually isn't in the cards. Yet all over the world -- and universe -- there are machines, engineering feats and pieces of meat that never got the memo that we all have a use-by date. If we didn't know any better, we'd think these things were actually taunting us with their tenacity.
#5. The Light Bulb That Has Been Shining for 110 Years
In 1901, the Livermore Fire Department in California decided it was time to try that newfangled "electricity" thing all the kids were jabbering about. So they installed electrical lighting in the station, complete with modern light bulbs and everything.
And 110 years later, one of those original bulbs is still doing its thing.
Via Cenennialbulb.org
"OK, now point to it; otherwise, people won't be able to tell the bulb from the ceiling."
When you look at the statistics, this is truly mind-boggling: Old-style incandescent light bulbs should only last a few thousand hours, while newer bulbs can go up to 25,000 hours with moderate use. The Livermore bulb, by comparison, has been in near-continuous use for over 110 years, and hasn't been turned off since 1976. That time period alone is well over 300,000 hours.
Via Cenennialbulb.org
"Sometimes I miss the days when we fought fires instead of worshiping the Incandescent Savior."
In the early '70s, a reporter (who was apparently going through one hell of a slow news day) found out about the old bulb and started digging around. Instead of printing a half-assed article filled with light bulb jokes, he decided to go all out and contact the Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It or Not and General Electric. When they all verified that the bulb was actually the oldest functioning one in the world, the town went nuts, even giving the bulb a police escort when it was switched between the old fire station and a new one in 1976.
Via Cenennialbulb.org
"Awesome. Now, can we get some actual lighting in here so we don't have to hope all the fires start in the daytime?"
Since then, it has gained widespread attention and the media friendly, in-no-way-pompous nickname of Centennial Light.
#4. The 2,000-Year-Old Tomb ... With Working Booby Traps
If there's anything that adventure movies have taught us, besides the importance of sports bras, it's that tombs are tricky business. Yes, they hold rich stuff and hidden pirate ships and badass skeletons sporting diamond eyes, and yes, those facts are totally scientific and not stolen from The Goonies, but they're also rigged with things that will kill you. One misstep on an ancient tripwire or floor tile, and BAM! Decapitating blades, giant spikes and crushing drop ceilings for everyone!
Of course, that's just what the movies would have us believe. In reality, the burden of countless centuries would easily obliterate such delicate designs, as wood and rope and other old-time building supplies would have rotted to dust by now. Right?
"Careful, don't step in that crossbow."
Well ...
The mausoleum of the ancient Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang was discovered in the 1970s. You might have heard about the fantastic, world famous army of terra cotta soldiers found guarding it. A less known fact is that to this day, the site remains largely unexplored. This is largely because of pressing moral questions about preserving the past and a shitload of cunning booby traps that might still totally work.
Ancient writings about intricate traps and contraptions such as pressure-sensitive crossbows and murderous mini-oceans full of mercury were dismissed as fairy tales ... that is, until scientists ran probes into the tomb, just on the off chance that there was something to the legends of mercury rivers guarding the long-dead emperor. What did they find? A fire-breathing dragon! Just kidding. A lot of mercury is what they found -- at levels 100 times the natural rate. The scientists couldn't help but think there might be something to the ancient warnings.
Via Cultural-China.com
Would you build a mountain-sized tomb without throwing in some booby traps?
But what about the automatic crossbow contraptions? Those would be long rusted by now, right? Nope -- other weapons excavated in the tomb were coated with something called chromate, which made them rust-resistant. So it only makes sense that the hair-trigger crossbows were also coated with the stuff, since they were the ones guarding the emperor and all. And according to science, "it is highly likely that the automatic crossbows may function well even after thousands of years."
After this find, the excavation staff was naturally pretty reluctant to venture farther into the tomb. They were still willing to do some further research, perhaps eventually going as far as opening the tomb itself. However, the Chinese government flipped out at the idea and, presumably not wanting to become the first nation to host a reenactment of the opening scenes of Raiders of the Lost Ark, vetoed further excavations. This ban lasted until 25 years later ... and even today, archaeologists must remain well away from the tomb itself, probably so that a giant rolling rock doesn't crush them.
Or that the woman already inside doesn't shoot them.
#3. The "Temporary" Dam ... Built 2,000 Years Ago
Via Wikipedia
In the second century, the Indian Chola government decided that a local river needed to be dammed to divert water for irrigation. However, due to the river diverging on the decided spot, the area was particularly prone to floods. So before they could actually get around to building a real dam, a rough, makeshift stone-block version was hastily constructed for the oncoming rainy season, with the reasoning that they would build a new one in about 20 years when this one inevitably failed.
However, like so many government-funded projects, the construction of a better dam was delayed again and again and again. So the makeshift dam did what it could, then finally fell apart and gave the people of the plains below the gift of a watery grave.
"Daaaaaam!" Sorry, we'll stop that.
Ha, no, not really. No matter how much water came, the dam held. Decade after decade, century after century, millennium after millennium. In fact, up until the British came bossing around 1,500 years later, the supposedly temporary construct -- now known as the Grand Anicut -- was the area's only line of defense against the huge floods that attempted to kill everyone on a yearly basis. In photos, you see some modern additions to the dam, but make no mistake: The original structure is still there, doing its job.
Via Wikipedia
Though we admit that those women actively laughing in the face of fate may be taking it a bit too far.
It turned out the Grand Anicut's unique "just build it however" design was, by sheer stupid luck, actually one of the best ways to build a dam, ever. It was so efficient and cost-effective that the British engineers ended up copying the designs of the ancestors of the people they were supposed to be governing.


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Skip the Line: Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St Peter's Basilica Half-Day Walking Tour
Besucheralle Vatikan
Fred H, August 2013
Anhand eines Modells zeigen die Guides den Besuchern die wichtigsten Gebäude im Vatikan.
St. Peters
Jose M, USA, August 2010
Last stop in the tour.
Museum Garden
Anonymous, USA, December 2009
In the Garden. This was just wonderful to visit the gardens on a beautiful sunny day.
Map gallery, Vatican Museums
James P, United Kingdom, January 2009
Taken during our tour. Quite apart from the colorful frescoes depicting early maps, the ceiling was truly breathtaking. Stopping to take the picture did not mean losing any of the commentary of our guide because we were receiving this over earphones.
Notice anything missing?
Anonymous, United Kingdom, April 2008
Popes had male statues either castrated or covered their maleness with leaves.
Gallery of Maps
Brian C, United Kingdom, January 2008
This gallery has a beautiful ceiling and maps of Rome going from South to North.
Inside St Peters
Siovhan M, July 2016
Photos do not do it justice


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He reincarnates anyway. In different BioWare games.
He reincarnates anyway. In different BioWare games.
Team Ash's power is far reaching.
Satan be praised.
God damn, I wish I could read those comments.
What did the spoiler tag just do to itself.
Oh poop. Ah well. Call it a throwback to good ol' no spoiler tag DTOID. ME3 has been out for awhile anyways.
@ Mr. Andy Dixon
perfect...simply perfect
I'm collecting my brain from the walls.
The Squirtle thingy is something I'd never noticed until a little while ago. Could be because I only watched Pokemon when I was a kid and English is not my first language. Maybe.


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Are You a Sucker at Sephora?
9 insider secrets cosmetics companies use to get us to buy stuff we don't really need
Skip to see the 9 insider secrets now.
At least, that's what we did until we met Ben Bennett, founder and creative director of Hatch Beauty, a Los Angeles-based branding, packaging, and product development company. Bennett has spent years in the beauty biz as the creative mastermind behind top cosmetics, skin care, and fragrance companies, so he knows a thing or two about the tactics manufacturers use to lure us in to buy beauty products we don't really need.
"Companies spend a lot of time and money researching the right words and colors that will subconsciously attract consumers to buy their products," says Bennett. And those tactics work, says Lars Perner, PhD, assistant professor of clinical marketing at the University of Southern California. "Our subconscious mind is quite powerful. Well thought-out word choices, fonts, package colors, and where products are placed on a shelf make a bigger difference than you might think in how drawn to a product you are," says Perner.
Because we're not ones to get duped -- especially when it comes to our beauty stash -- we asked Bennett to tag along on our next trip to Sephora. We pointed out the products that called to us like long-lost lovers and let Bennett fill us in on exactly what tricks those companies used to hook us hard enough to head to the cash register.
Turns out they've got some nifty tricks up their sleeves. Will it stop us from our monthly (OK, weekly) beauty counter buys? Probably not. But hey, knowledge is power, right?
Here, the 9 insider secrets beauty companies use to get us to buy their products.
SEE NEXT PAGE: They slap a dermatologist's name on the bottle
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What a GREAT article! One of my degrees is in marketing, yet I find myself being taken in by these advertising ploys. The description of colors of containers was fascinating. Yes, I am a sucker at Sephora--and elsewhere!
by GigiSD Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 09:43PM Report as inappropriate
so true. I like sephora though.
by butterfly11 Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 02:26PM Report as inappropriate
When someone's job/profession/career or even hobby is to have you part with your money, always question their motives and be mindful that everything said or done is a tactic that is employed to have your money end up in their bank account. Knowing what you are purchasing and why you are purchasing it goes a long way in being a savvy shopper. Unless of course, you don't care what you put in someone else's bank account and like unnecessarily depleting yours. I really liked selling in a major retail store when I was in college. People were and still are so easy to figure out, hence all the "tactics" employed by Sephora or any other retailer. Even though I was a part-time employee, I was the top seller in every department I worked in. I can spot weaknesses(back then I called them pulse points) almost immediately and I still get a kick out of how easy it is to 'sell' people on just about anything.
by Hackett Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 12:39PM Report as inappropriate
that was very informative
by LittleBunny Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 05:55PM Report as inappropriate
They make everything look so important, like it's a must have. I do tend to go for the pretty packaging myself.
by EricaF123 Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 12:28PM Report as inappropriate
extremely true. i totally agree. very informative. you can spend so much money at sephora even though many people may not need that extra stuff
by Nicole2814 Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 11:06AM Report as inappropriate
oh so very helpful! I have fallen prey to these tactics, at more places than just Sephora.
by tulipsarebetter Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 09:07PM Report as inappropriate
True story. Only thing is a lot of the products they pictured in this story aren't even sold at Sephora.
by Nicole1021 Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 07:34PM Report as inappropriate
Very informative and true. I like to research & make a list of what I want to purchase, but always walk out with something extra :(
by DTalksAll Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 03:07PM Report as inappropriate
Sephora is my biggest weakness. If I set foot in there, my bank account is about to be liquidated! I could spend hours (and $$) there...it is my happy place :)
by glamgirlseven Friday, April 6, 2012 at 07:52PM Report as inappropriate
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Linear patterns in subset of the integers (for example, primes) such as arithmetical progressions is a hot topic in mathematics. Recently, much progress has been made in this area. For example, the next result of T. Sanders(in the paper "On Roth's theorem on progressions") gives a estimate of how large can a set be to make sure that it does not contain no non-trivial three-term arithmetic progressions.
Suppose that $A \subset \lbrace 1,\dots,N\rbrace$ contains no non-trivial three-term arithmetic progressions. Then \begin{equation*} |A| = O\left(\frac{N (\log \log N)^5 }{\log N}\right). \end{equation*}
My question is related to this result. For Roth's theorem we consider a linear equation. If we consider nonlinear equation, such as $x^2+y^2=z^2$ or $x^2-2y^2=1$, we can ask the same problems: Suppose that $A \subset \lbrace 1,\dots,N\rbrace$, if a nonlinear equation has no non-trivial solution in $A$, how large can it be. So my question is that whether there is any result about this problem.
Note: For equation $x^2+y^2=z^2$, it is not hard to prove that $A$ can have $N/2$ numbers. (Thank Mark Sapir for reminding me of this fact) So $|A|$ can be $O(N)$. But maybe we can consider this problem: for $b$ close to 1, if $N$ is sufficiently large and $|A|\geq bN$, can there be no non-trivial solution in $A$?


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What would Russell Kirk say during Shutdown Week?
Here we are: Government Shutdown Week, a new biannual tradition. If you're just tuning in, the House Republicans are holding the global economy hostage unless President Obama repudiates the Affordable Care Act, his administration's signature domestic policy achievement.
That law was passed by Congress, signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court. Its passage was not a surprise to anyone paying attention, having been preceded by very open debate going back decades. Its basic principles were developed by a conservative think tank, a similar plan was tried at the state level by a Republican governor of a large state, and its details were debated repeatedly in the Democratic primaries of 2008. It was debated so much during those debates that most viewers were bored. Everyone watching knew that a Democratic president would seek health care reform. Most people thought it would be more left-wing than the final product. Far from being "pushed through" or "rammed through" or whatever other tyrannical metaphor one might choose, the road to the Affordable Care Act was in reality a model of procedural governance in a modern democracy.
A small band of Republicans now will shutdown the government because they are mad that they lost. But they are pitching it as a prophetic action to call attention to the federal government's spending problem. The problem with that analysis of the spending problem is that deficits have been going down under Obama (handy charts here). A further problem is that not raising the debt ceiling will have no effect on any of the issues that they want to address. It won't change the prior commitments Congress has made, in terms of expenses or revenues.
This morning Henry J. Aaron of the Brookings Institution offered an utterly clear analysis in the New York Times of what this week brings: the House Republicans are forcing the President to break the law. He has to -- it's just a matter of which law. He breaks a law by autocratically raising taxes against the will of Congress, stopping payments legislated by Congress, or borrowing money against the will of Congress. Aaron says the choice is clear: he must disregard the debt ceiling. It's the least dangerous option for the global economy.
The only defensible option for the president if the debt ceiling is not raised is to disregard the debt ceiling. The action would be unconstitutional because it would be illegal. Financial markets might react negatively, but not nearly so negatively as if the United States failed to redeem bonds or to pay interest on its debt.
The president would be attacked. He might even be impeached by the House. But maybe not: the House would then be saying that the president should have illegally failed to pay F.B.I. agents, or school districts, or Medicare doctors. In any case, he would not be convicted by the Senate. And he would have saved the nation from much agony.
Disregarding the debt ceiling would have one additional, thoroughly benign effect. It would end the capacity of Congressional minorities to precipitate crises in order to accomplish goals for which they lacked the votes. Today, a minority is holding hostage all federal programs in an attempt to eviscerate a law that Congress passed, the president signed and the Supreme Court upheld — the Affordable Care Act. In the future, an imaginative and irresponsible minority could use the threat not to raise the debt ceiling for any purpose — to shape tax policy, or foreign policy, or civil rights policy.
The actions of the Radical Prophets caucus of the House GOP have even caused yet another of the conservative opinion-makers to consider defecting from the party. David Frum, former Bush speechwriter, famously did so in 2011, and many others have in the past few years. It's a kind of intellectual "brain drain" from the party, which is a tragic thing to watch.
Now popular author and blogger Rod Dreher (The American Conservative, a great publication by the way), while certainly not a party-line Republican, mind you, has also become exasperated because of Shutdown Week.
They are a barking-mad pack of ideologues, is what they are. I haven't written much about the Obamacare thing because I don't follow policy closely. As far as I know, Obamacare is a bad idea. But here's the thing: it's the law. It was passed, signed by the president, and upheld in the Supreme Court. There is no way the House Republicans, or Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, is going to overturn it. The best they can do is to delay it. And then what? Guess what: the 2012 elections were their last, best chance to overturn Obamacare, and the country didn't go for it.
He quotes conservative luminary Russell Kirk on the cardinal virtue of conservatism: prudence.
Conservatives are guided by their principle of prudence. Burke agrees with Plato that in the statesman, prudence is chief among virtues. Any public measure ought to be judged by its probable long-run consequences, not merely by temporary advantage or popularity. Liberals and radicals, the conservative says, are imprudent: for they dash at their objectives without giving much heed to the risk of new abuses worse than the evils they hope to sweep away. As John Randolph of Roanoke put it, Providence moves slowly, but the devil always hurries. Human society being complex, remedies cannot be simple if they are to be efficacious. The conservative declares that he acts only after sufficient reflection, having weighed the consequences. Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
But the current display is reckless, the opposite of prudence. Dreher concludes:
The Republicans cannot govern. These people aren't conservatives. They are radicals. What on earth would Russell Kirk say if he were alive to see this?
About the Author
Michael Peppard is associate professor of theology at Fordham University, author of The World's Oldest Church and The Son of God in the Roman World, and on Twitter @MichaelPeppard.
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I told a friend recently that if this were, say, 1856, the Republican Party would pretty much dissolve itself and two or three new parties would spring up to try to capture a critical mass of voters. Is it possible that, in 2013, the GOP is close to an irrevocable crack-up?
I think the larger problem is that too few people who support the House's Hell No! Caucus have read Kirk or could recognize his name.
Here is George Will in 1984:
Which is more amusing, the number of Marxists who have never cracked a volume of Das Kapital, or the number of today's soi-disant conservatives who have been so busy praising Burke that they have not taken the time to read, or at least comprehend him? It is perhaps marvelous that people who preach disdain for government can consider themselves the intellectual descendants of Burke, the author of a celebration of the state. But surely it is peculiar--worse, it is larcenous--for people to expropriate the name "conservative" while remaining utterly unsympathetic to the central tenet of the greatest modern conservative.
Thirty years later, we've gone several steps farther down this ugly road. Forget Burke, forget Kirk. Something calling itself conservatism today has become merely the negation of political ideas. Politics presumes community. Conservatism presumes community. All now is egoism.
I would not be in favour of a government shut down if I were in that caucus for the reason mentioned above. It was passed legally, debated at the presidential level and the president one so the will of the people, inasmuch as the AFHA was passed needs to be respected.
I do understand the concern and I would have much preferred a government run single payer system paid for by the federal government through tax revenue than forcing private people into the private run insurance market. I see that as problematic and it will be difficult to control rates, fees, and scheduling costs.
Chief Justice Roberts argued that the individual mandate is actually a "tax" which is a stretch on the definition of "tax" but whatever - 5 - 4 and it is in.
That said, if the Republicans really feel, in conscience, that this is wrong public policy, they are perfectly within their rights to use every democratic means at their disposal to change it. The Democrats could have done that when they controlled some of the chambers during the Iraq wars.
I think prudence dictates that all parties sit down and try to hash this out responsibly. The blame game is not constructive or helpful. Ensure that essential services like medicare and social security are funded and discuss how to make this work in everybody's interest.
My understanding is, and I do not follow it closely, is that Obama has delayed the implementation of some of it already for certain sectors so it is not like the law is being rolled out as originally passed anyway!
George D. So what you are advising is that people cater to those who want to break the law. Like all new things the Affordable Care Act will have to work out its kinks. But to get away from the FACT that this is blatantly political is to miss the point . This is just the like the Kenneth Starr fiasco which was to bring down the president. At that time Congressman Henry Hyde, that hypocritical favorite of Catholic bishops, shamelessly acted like he was serving the country in his assault on the president. Notwithstanding his "youthful indiscretions." These guys lost the election. How clear is that!
Now we have Ted Cruz who has the best health coverage in the country via his wife who is a banker for Goldman Sachs. Why should he care about others.
A certain objectivity seems to be breaking out among some of the younger conservatives. Here's Rod Dreher commenting on the Republicans in the House:
"They are a barking-mad pack of ideologues, is what they are."
But in spite of this latter day awakening of some Republicas, things remain scary. Here's Paul Krugman on the grim consequences if the U. S. is forced to slash spending:
"If the feds are forced to slash spending, one way or another (and probably semi-randomly) to match receipts, that's about $600 billion in cuts at an annual rate, or 4 percent of GDP. That's a huge case of unintended austerity, quite aside from the disruptions, surely enough to push us back into recession if it lasts for any length of time.
"And a double-dip recession would, in turn, push back the date of Fed rate increases far into the future, which would normally cause a big drop in long-term rates.
"So I'm not at all sure that we're looking at an interest rate spike; maybe even the opposite.
"But for sure we should be looking at a plunging dollar, and probably carnage in the stock market too."
Thanks - interesting.
My only reservation is quoting Rod Dreher - here is his latest in his on-going journery towards maturity: http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/29/im-still-not-going-back-to-the-catholic-church/
Dreher needs a few years of psycho-analysis. His approach to any form of organized religion is to try to fit the church into his self-defined spirituality box. So much for what Jesus said in his parables; so much for any adult notion of *metanoia* or *conversion* in which God calls or invites; and we respond.
Dreher - seems to be on a constant search for a new religion, church, etc. His conversion to catholicism didn't last long...he says because of sexual abuse (and, fact check, he did not reveal any abuse - he merely copied and repeated what his colleagues at the Dallas Morning News were investigating). He then knee jerked to a small, weird catholic monastic group in south Texas - which, in a matter of months, was rocked by multiple abuse convictions from the prior on down. So much for Dreher's powers of discernment.
Now is no longer catholic but hey - he criticizes certain homilies for being too therapeutic...but his negative reactions sound more like his focus in masochistic; he needs some type of *parent* to threaten him with punishment or he is unable to have faith; he sees faith as a set of rules, punishments, etc. (following Fowler's Stages of Faith - Dreher is stuck on level three or four - equivalent of an 8th grade or early high school understanding of faith - no internal direction; has to be focused from the outside. Notice he never mentions anything to do with mission, service, social justice, etc. It is all about personal sin.
Really, what his writings remind me of is someone laying on a couch during a psychoanalysis and his stream of consciousness ramblings.
Can't believe folks actually pay him for his opinions.
Yellow dog democrat though I be, (even when exasperated at times when I want the Dems to be more progressive,) I do think there's a need for a sane and responsible conservative voice in US politics. Where are the fiscal conservatives? Has the unholy selling-out of the conservative movement to the social-issues rightwingers (and their foaming-at-the-mouth Tea Party progeny,) doomed the GOP as a party capable of participating in governance?
Boehner can end this simply with a vote in the House on the Senate bill, yes? Wouldn't the sane Republicans with the Deomcrats outnumber the extremists? Hastert rule be damned...
And who will hold the extremists to account for the enormous financial costs of defaulting on the debt, should it come to that? For the stalling or reversal of the recovery that might ensue? Besides us Dems, that is...
And wouldn't this be a great opportunity for centrist Dem's to run lots of ads in Tea Party country, telling folks just how much their GOP House reps are costing us all?
Let me note a couple of things and make a comment, then I'll retire so as not to get too splattered by rotten tomatoes.
My first note is this editorial in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Without endorsing its policy recommendation - for the record, I oppose shutting down the government - the litany of ObamaCare issues and perverse incentives that it compiles does not bode well for a good first impression of the insurance exchanges.
My second note is to address a common meme. It is often pointed out, semi-rightly, that Republicans should accept ObamaCare because Republicans lost the 2012 election. But there is also a sense in which Republicans won the right to stop ObamaCare because Republicans won the 2012 election. Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Darrell Issa and all of the other House GOP stalwarts whom y'all just love to hate and despise are answerable only to their constituents in their tiny little districts. And presumably they are doing their constituents' bidding. There is a very real sense in which Republican intrasigence toward ObamaCare is a direct function of intrasigence toward ObamaCare on the part of a very big part of the electorate.
My comment is that both of the things I note here are haunted by the legislative process that created ObamaCare. A straight-party vote for social legislation this momentous could only sow seeds of discord, obstructionism and political exploitation for many years to come - and everyone on both sides of the aisles in both chambers of Congress knew this. But they passed it anyway on straight party votes. And now we're starting to see some of the fruits of that foolish process, before ObamaCare really even gets up and running. Those issues chronicled by the Review-Journal are amenable to legislative correction - if the legislature has the will to correct them; but manifestly it doesn't. Those obstructionist GOP House members are vulnerable to voter backlash in House elections next year - if voters in districts held by GOP members have the will to send their current representatives packing. A long and painful government shutdown may bring that about, but history tells us that nearly all incumbents are re-elected, and many districts are gerrymandered to ensure that outcome.
"On January 1, the subsidies are scheduled to kick in. And President Obama's strategy is very simple. He wants to get as many Americans as possible addicted to the subsidies, addicted to the sugar because he knows that, in modern times, no major entitlement has been implemented and then unwound." Ted Cruz to Rush Limbaugh. He used the same addiction metaphor in an interview with Sean Hannity. What Republicans like Cruz really fear isn't that the Affordable Care Act won't work, but that it will. The Ted Cruzes of yesteryear were against Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. (They're still trying to cut Medicaid and food stamps, because those programs are for poor people and not a lot of poor people vote Republican.)
Jim Pauwels is right to lament that the ACA passed on a straight-party vote, wrong to suggest that this is the Democrats' fault. As Michael points out in his post, "Obamacare" was an idea first proposed by conservatives and supported by Republican lawmakers as an alternative to some kind of single-payer plan. The GOP started hating the idea the moment Obama picked it up and actually tried to make it work. There are two possible interpretations of this sequence of events: Either Republicans really would like Obamacare if only it weren't associated with Obama—because they hate him more than they like their own proposal—or they never really liked the proposal but were only pretending to so that they wouldn't appear to be empty-handed when they bitched about the menace of socialized medicine.
The Kenneth Starr fiasco actually had a factual basis. Whatever you think of Paula Jones's sexual harrasment lawsuit (or sexual harrassment laws in general), she had, at a minimum, the right to a fair, transparent, hearing of relevant facts. Lewinsky was one of those facts that the judge felt permissable and Clinton, when asked, committed perjury. When this was discovered as opposed to taking responsibility, Clinton said "prove it". So Starr did.
You might not like the sordid details but that is the way sexual harrasment and sexual kinds of criminal proceeedings work. It was never about adultery (plenty of cheaters and perverts in congress and elsewhere - as long as they are not harming children or impacting other what do we care), it was about perjury and I don't think we can build a system where the powerful get to lie with impunity even if the lie is in relation to a dodgy, at best, sexual harrasment suit from Paula Jones
Yes, the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. But the Republicans are not acting illegally. They are acting within their power. As I said, I think it is wrong because it is an act that was passed legitimately. But they are acting using whatever levers they have available. They can be shamed, they can be ridiculed but until they are actually voted out of office by their consituents, we can assume that they are, in fact, representing their constituents as Jim said. That is their job.
But it is an academic point for me. I am troubled by the two tiered health care system in the US. As I said, the solution, is a government run health care system to make sure it is fair for everyone and not just those with the means to afford care.
All members of Congress swear to uphold the laws. The Constitution requires that the House shall initiate the funding of duly enacted laws. Obamacare is a duly enacted law, and the members of Congress who refuse to fund it are thereby breaking their oaths by not upholding the Constitution. That is sedition by omission. Recall them.
Jim Pauwels is right to lament that the ACA passed on a straight-party vote, wrong to suggest that this is the Democrats' fault.
Well, inasmuch as they actually wrote, passed and signed the darned thing, I think they deserve at least some of the credit.
Having said that, Senate Democrats did attempt in good faith to build a bipartisan consensus around what eventually became ObamaCare - there was some bipartisan Gang Of X (sorry, can't remember if it was 8, 9 or some other number). I believe that some of the conservative-originating features of what is now ObamaCare were built into the Senate bill to make it palatable to Republicans. My recollection is that after many months of negotiating, Baucus and the other Democrats decided that the Republicans weren't operating in good faith. (I believe the Republican senators would retort that they heard from their constituents). And at that time, the House had passed its own plan that still seemed viable (and which was more to the White House's liking, if I'm not mistaken). The expectation was that some conference committeeing would marry the two bills. Scott Brown's special election screwed up a lot of plans.
FWIW, I don't believe the GOP as a whole was ever very serious about running with health care reform as federal legislation. And more importantly, the GOP has changed since the days of GWB's compassionate conservatism. Some of Republican opposition to ObamaCare is Obama Derangement Syndrome, but more fundamentally, the GOP - or at least wide swaths of it - has become rabidly anti-government. This configuration of Republicans in the House and Senate wouldn't pass the Bush Medicare prescription drug plan, either.
Re : the law
I just tuned in to CNN and some Republican commentators claim that Obama actually delayed the implementation of the employer side of the mandate even though that was in the legislation. The Repubs claim that they are just asking the individual mandate be given the same deferrment. And surprisingly to me, this whole thing does not even apply to members of Congress. They opted out! LOL
Plus then there is this interesting side debate around whether the executive branch can change legislation (they are supposed to execute legislation)
What a mess!!
FWIW, I think this whole individual mandate is foolish. Completely unenforceable. Who is going to "fine" people if they do not have health care (emergency rooms?). And what if they don't pay...then what? Bottom line is that one way or the other the government is going to be paying for people's health care if they can't afford it. Might as well just face reality and expand medicare.
George D, --
If someone doesn't have insurance the hospitals will be able to refuse them care, won't they? And won't that force compliance when the word gets out that you really need insurance to be treated in a hospital?
Who is going to "fine" people if they do not have health care (emergency rooms?). And what if they don't pay...then what? Bottom line is that one way or the other the government is going to be paying for people's health care if they can't afford it.
If you can't prove you have a health-insurance policy when you file your income taxes, then you pay a penalty. The government uses some of that money to reimburse hospitals for treatment of the uninsured. "Completely unenforceable," says George. How does George know?
I agree with George that it would have been more rational to expand Medicare so that it covers everyone, but such a plan would have gored too many oxes. If our irrational, complicated health-care system costs too much, it's because powerful interests are profiting from it, and they aren't about to surrender their profit without a fight—a fight that, in our current political climate, they'd almost certainly win. A single-payer plan would mean the disappearance, or at least the drastic diminishment, of the private health insurance industry. Does George imagine this multi-billion dollar industry was ever going to volunteer for extinction?
By law, er rooms must treat people who come in. The billing is figured out later. For alternative care, they might be referred to their GP which would be through a clinic and here someone would need insurance.
i worked for years with people if not on the streets close to it. Few were organized enough to even fill our or have someone fill out income tax. Mind you, most of these were on government disability so even in the US they would be covered. But there is a large swath of the population, the working poor, who will not be able to afford insurance. And my hunch is that these working poor are fairly disorganized and it would not be unusual for them to not fill out income tax. And I bet that they might be higher end users (less education, poverty and other social determinants of health issues)
When I worked in health care, and this is in Canada with "socialized" medicine, there was a big push on containing costs. A big part of that involved inventorying who were going to be the largest users. The stat I recall was that 20 percent use of eighty percent of the money. So who are your high end users and how can you reduce er visits and other uses of the system. Complicated for sure.
The problem with private insurance is that you need a wide pool of customers to offset the increasing demands of the few. But I just don't see the math working out so rates somehow are going to have to be raised and it is going to be unaffordable. That is already happening so employers asked for deferment as they just cannot afford it. It will be even worse when it hits the individual.
If you want universal coverage you need everyone sharing the costs to that those who are infrequent users offset the cost for the rest. The simplest and most efficient way for this to occur is through taxation as that is the only way you can be absolutely certain that revenues come in. That might mean federal sales tax or other kinds of taxes on tobacco and alcohol.
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Starr and the gang sought out Paula Jones. That is the point.
The very poor, including most people living on the streets, already qualify for Medicaid. Under the Affordable Care Act, more of the working poor will also qualify for Medicaid. (If not Medicare for all, why not Medicaid for more?) You write, "If you want universal coverage you need everyone sharing the costs to that those who are infrequent users offset the cost for the rest." This is precisely why there is an individual mandate, enforced through the tax code. The enforcement won't be perfect, though it will no doubt improve over time. But perfection is the wrong measure. This law will make it possible for many more people to get health insurance, and it will distribute the expense associated with unforseeable illness more equitably. You think a tax-funed single-payer system would do this better; so do I. But a system that uses tax penalties to get as many people on board as possible is a step in the right direction, and probably the biggest step we could take given the political circumstances.
Jim P - to take a few examples of gerrymandering and drawing district lines in various states:
- Michigan - total Democratic votes last election exceeded total Republican votes by more than 1/2 million; yet, Republicans picked up more than twice as many house seats
This pattern can be found in probably 20 other states. (so, yes, you cite this to a degree but to say that the Republicans won the 2012 election....that is a stretch that needs to be nuanced. In fact, the Democratic candidate for president won re-election (that seems to say just as much about the validity of the Affordable Care Act and Democrats actually won a couple of more Senate seats)
So, the election that determined this mess was in 2010 - that allowed for majority Republican states to redraw districts and gerrymand.
Some other points of fact - currently 50% of all Republican House members have been in the House only since 2010 or 2012. They were elected from these heavily anglo (average 75% anglo) and conservatice, gerrymandered districts. What is interesting about these facts is that indicates the level of inexperience among Republican House members; something like 80% were not in the House during the last federal government shut down.
So, to describe this as an overwhelmingly majority movement doesn't fit the facts. Fact - we have a small group (est. 40-50 Republican members) dictating to the House which is only about 15% of the House; and the House is only 1/3 of the government - Executive, Senate, House.
Senate passed a budget bill 6 months ago and Boehner has refused to appoint conference folks to work with a Senate conference. Oh yeah, Boehner just did that at 11PM EST on 9/30/13.
Please.....legislative process......happened per the rules from 2008 until 2011 with the advent of the Tea Party. Facts - compare the significant legislation that was passed in 2009/2010 and compare to what the House has passed in the last two years.....sort of like 50 to zero.
Bill Mazzella:
Bill Clinton was convicted of perjury and disbarred for a year or so. He looked into a TV camera and lied to the American people, to his wife, and to his daughter. He subjected his wife and daughter to emotional devastation, and when the blue dress made it's appearance it was all over.
But Hollywood loved it, all of it. The libertine blowflies of the entertainment industry love Bill's kind of guy; he's so human don't you know? Starr was appointed by Democrats, and he simply pursued the evidence, and now you glorify Clinton and vilify Starr. You're upside down on this, Bill.
All this shutdown talk is overshadowing that this is a momentous day: the health care exchanges are open (or are supposed to be). I'm currently on another tab in my browser, going into healthcare.gov (the health care exchange URL for residents of Illinois and many (all?) other states) to get an idea of what the user experience is like. Right now, I'm getting a message, "The System is down at the moment". But that's the kind of thing that is fixable.
Michael Barone compares and contrasts the straight-party-line passage of Obamacare with the process that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Jim P_ - interesting article by Barone. Think he has missed many other points of fact.
Comparing Congress 1964 to Congress 2013 - vastly different with different rules, processes, etc.
He also downplays the impact of LBJ who arm twisted and threatened southern democrats to back civil rights legislation. Obama tried to play this role during the passage of Obamacare but Republicans had closed their minds. (and it is ironic that most of the foundations of Obamacare came from or started with Republicans and then you have Massachusetts and a Republican governor)
Then, you have to compare LBJ to Obama - again, there is little comparison if for no other reason than that most House Republicans will not even consider listening or negotiating with Obama - their minds are made up.
Again, district drawings/gerrymandering have completely shifted the alliances of the House (nothing like it in 1964)....and it leaves Obama with little to negotiate and no ability to threaten (they have safe seats no matter how egregious their behaviors or votes).
Finally, Barone spends paragraphs on how certain political figures eventually mellowed or became reconciled. But, he ignores the fact that LBJ's methods led to 50 years of southern states going Republican after 100 years being Democratic. Skipping over this fact alone makes his article a *suspect* comparison. Part of the trouble today is because of the political fall out over the civil rights act and LBJ's methods.


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If "errored" is not a valid word, then how should I say:
The program errored at line 44
I guess I could say:
The program threw an error at line 44
But why is "errored" wrong? Is there a better alternative?
If "errored" is not a valid word, then how should I say:
I guess I could say:
But why is "errored" wrong? Is there a better alternative?
You can actually say "The program erred at line 44", but it's not very idiomatic. "Err" also occurs in the saying "To err is human, to forgive is divine".
If you're looking for the correct idiom, you could say "the program encountered an error at line 44" or "the program hit an error at line 44", etc.
I'd say errored IS a valid word. It's the past tense of the verb "to error". I've seen (well, mostly heard) this word used to mean
This is a relatively recent usage of the word (I can't find any authoritative samples of it) it might be considered too informal or slangy. Also, some people might not be sure what precisely you are trying to say. Thus, you should describe more fully what the program is doing.
Merriam-Webster (new words, slang)
The verb 'to error' has a different meaning than 'to err'. An "error" in a computer program isn't necessarily a mistake, but can be an exceptional circumstance. For example, if a program tried to open its configuration file, but you deleted it, the program might fail by displaying an error for this unexpected circumstance. You could say "the program errored." You can't say "the program erred" because the program isn't making a mistake here.
I've seen it enough in computing contexts that I consider it acceptable there. I wouldn't use it in other domains myself, though, except possibly in a geeky tongue-in-cheek way (e.g., "my DVD player errored out on that scratched disk.")
To use "errored" you would have to consider error a verb, but the dictionary doesn't. "Error" is a noun, used to mean mistake. You wouldn't say "The program mistaked at line 44."
Your usage "threw an error" is correct, because it uses error as a noun.
You may choose one of the following options:
Within programming circles, I'd say that "errored" is a perfectly fine term to use. It seems to be fairly widely understood as a verb form for "error". Outside of computing, I'd probably avoid it. You generally won't hear someone say "Todd errored on his test". It's a field-specific bit of terminology.
That being said, while discussing things within the field of computing, I'd prefer "the program errored/failed/crashed" over "erred", as some others have suggested. Any of those would be concise and make sense.
I would also prefer the options above over "The program threw an error" in informal settings, simply for the fact that it's less wordy, unless the focus of the statement was how exactly the program did the throwing. In technical documents, "threw an error" might be preferable to "errored".
You can say
though I'd be more inclined to use "caused", as "threw" sounds a little odd (though it is used in the context of exceptions in C++).
(You might also want to provide a more information than merely saying that an error has occurred!)
Personally, I prefer to say "the program failed at line 44", although I really like "the program erred at line 44" as suggested by Shinto Sherlock above :).
Outside of the context of computer programs. errored is common expression in legal documents. For example, "We find the lower court erred in finding Larry Flint guilty of causing undue pain and suffering of Jerry Falwell"
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Lets pretend I have no experience with statistics...
what books, in what order, will get me to the point of being able to understand Bayesian probability fastest.
Lets pretend I have no experience with statistics...
what books, in what order, will get me to the point of being able to understand Bayesian probability fastest.
The folks at LessWrong have put together a couple of resources that can be helpful for the complete beginner. They are also useful if you've only taken a single course in probability and basically just memorized formulas to get through it.
For two more advanced books that cover practical matters in great detail (and require a bit more mathematical maturity) see:
My own opinion is that learning the formula for Bayes' theorem is elementary; it's something that almost always precedes even a first introduction to common discrete random variables. The real "starting point" for seeing the difference in Bayesian methods is when you start needing to compute Maximum Likelihood Estimators (MLE). Then you can directly compare the output of an MLE with the alternative output if you had set up a prior and chased the computation out all the way to a posterior distribution.
There's nothing special about MLEs, of course, but that just happens to be one of the first places where a student is really forced to say, "Gee, I'd really like to have the whole posterior distribution, but it's really hard to compute." Once a student sees the value in that, they are usually ready to start learning about acceptance/rejection, Metropolis-Hastings, and Gibbs sampling, which are the gateway drugs of Bayesian analysis.
EE, Peter M., 2004. Bayesian Statistics: An Introduction, Hodder Arnold.
Reference Book: Bayesian Theory by José M. Bernardo and Adrian F. M. Smith
Read: Notes from MIT OCW
Presentation: Tutorial from Stanford
Watch videos on Youtube (about Bayesian Probability)
Here is a good list. There are lots of material online too, and some excellent q&a right here on stackexchange.


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Here's my code:
- First I assign some htm code where there's a table in it.
- (the table is not visible)
- then I dump the height: it is 0 for each row.
- then I fadeIn() the table
- then I dump the height: it is 320px for each row.
Have you any idea how I could do to compute height before rendering?
My goal is to "cut" some information in the rows if their height is too big.
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I know it sounds like here but it's not exactly the same problem.
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Matza with a certification you consider reliable which is marked Kosher for Passover.
Firstly: ALWAYS DOUBLE-CHECK THE PACKAGE for Passover certification. They make "not for Passover" matza, too. So watch out!
If you have gluten intolerance, spelt or (if that's also a problem) oat matza.
For the seders, "shmurah matzah." If your ancestral customs are German, or if you have a connection with the old-time Jews of Jerusalem, get machine shmurah matzah. If you're Hassidic, get hand-made shmurah matzah. (To the very best of my knowledge, all commercially available hand-made matza happens to be shmurah anyhow.) If you're anything else, ask your local rabbi what's preferable between the two. (R' Ovadya Yosef shlit'a expresses mild preference for hand-made.) If you want whole wheat, I don't think it's available in machine shmurah, so get hand-made.
For the rest of yomtov, if you have a custom to only consume shmurah, then shmurah. (Here Rabbi Yosef allows machine shmurah as well, but if you're Hassidic, stick with hand matza.) Otherwise, non-shmurah is okay too (and available in machine whole wheat, or a whole wheat / rye blend for extra fiber).
My family serves hand matza with meat meals (including the seders), machine matza with dairy meals (e.g. breakfast). That way you don't have confusion as to which matza is "meaty" or "milky."
Egg matza can't be used for seders. For the rest of the holiday, it's not recommended for Ashkenazic Jews (unless someone's ill or the like -- ask your rabbi).
I'm told that some Sephardic Jews make soft (almost pita-like) matza. If that's your custom, and you can find it, go for it. I assume it's only available handmade; don't know if it comes in whole wheat. If it's not your custom, ask your rabbi first. Rabbi Hershel Schachter thinks it's okay for Ashkenazic Jews too.
The NY Post did a taste test last year and recommended Pupa-Tzelim Matza as number 1. As someone that has been using their Matzos for years I agree.
Go with whole wheat Shemurah - it's delicious!


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Good patches
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Got these to throw back in the alloy kit I already have. Seem to hold fine at around 75-90psi from my experience and referencing other reviews. It's nice not to have to mess around with glue and waiting for it to dry, the trade off seems to be not quite as good of a seal especially with higher psi
The adhesive doesn't hold
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Coming from the the square Park Tool self adhesive patches, I thought I'd give the fancy Lezyne kit a try.
Bottom line, two of the four patches I've applied have failed. I followed the directions exactly, cleaning the area, roughing it, holding for 30s, but after about a day or two at 120psi, you end up with a crinkled patch that doesn't hold air. Forget about removing it and reapplying a new one...it's not coming off gracefully and your tube is trashed. Granted, the Park patches will give out eventually, but that's expected and you can generally replace them as the adhesive has degraded.
Great patch kit. Small, easy to use, does the job (patches a tube so you can get home).
IMHO, a patch should do more than just get you home given how infrequently flats occur and the effort involved. From my experience (see review), the Lezyne patches are hit and miss at high pressure (120psi). I typically don't even patch on the road. I replace the tube and patch at home. Which, I'm guessing, may contribute more to the failure rate when putting 120psi into a tube that was patched moments ago.
Is this product as easy to use as it...
Is this product as easy to use as it sounds?? Just stick the patch over the hole and no more waiting 5 min for glue to dry??? How long before the patch dries/seals to the tub before you can inflate and get back to riding? Sounds like a huge improvement.
Ultimately, yes, it will save you some time and it is not as messy as a tube of glue. They work very well, just be sure to rough up the area around the puncture before applying the patch or it won't hold.
how does this patch hold up in heat? i...
how does this patch hold up in heat? i jumped on the park patches back when. great patch, but couldn't handle 95+ degree weather in ga.
I live in Moscow ID and we get like 95 degree weather in the summer. I haven't had a problem yet. And just as a sales pitch, I use these patched for my cross bike and they handle 80psi no problem. Many times patches have a hard time with the higher pressures. In fact, I'd forgotten that I'd patched the tube until I punctured it again and saw the patch. That's the only reason I pay this much for a patch kit (I got the fancier Alloy one. Only dif is the bling case). : )


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11 Dec 2006 4:59 AM #1
I have installed ActivePerl and JSDoc. But when building my project i receive the following error message:
JS Builder
JSDoc was skipped because the path to JSDoc (C:\Programfiler\JSDoc-1.10.1\jsdoc.pl) is invalid or perl.exe was not found.
You can change the path by selecting Build->Options and entering a new path.
Perl is installed under c:\Perl.
Any settings I need to change before using JSDoc?
11 Dec 2006 8:36 AM #2
Under "Build > Options..." set the path to JSDoc as needed. To check that the perl path is correct, try running JSDoc manually and make sure that it can find perl from where it's installed. You may need to add the perl installation folder to your system path if JSDoc cannot find it.
22 Jan 2007 7:21 PM #3
Installing and configuring JSDoc was big pain for me. But the biggest pain was the continuous writing in the console. :cry:
That is why I developed JSDocumenter- a free GUI for JSDoc.
Yu can test it here: http://remiya.com/cms/index.php?uid=12. Unfortunately it is for Windows only.
Hope that helps.
22 Jan 2007 8:06 PM #4Originally Posted by IDEA
I didn't fully understand from your site whether or not your utility provides a GUI for actually authoring JS Doc style comments, which might be somewhat useful, but I assume that most people here already use an IDE of some sort to do their javascript, and have no need for a separate IDE just for docs. And JSDoc style comments aren't that hard to write manually...
So... thanks for the link, but can you please further explain what value your utility would provide over simply using JS Builder + JS Doc? Maybe I'm missing something.
22 Jan 2007 8:52 PM #5
Hey, no need to get crazy on me. In all the cases thank you for that. Because it is the argument that leads us through the paths of the truth.
I learnt about JSBuilder just 2 hours ago.
However I tested it and it seems JSBuilder is like another GUI for JSDoc with the ability to do some JS compression, which is great.
You ask me what is good about JSDocumenter. The good about JSDocumenter is that it comes with JSDoc and Active Perl pre-installed, and with an uninstaller included (unlike JSBuilder :P )
However I am not going to argue, because I have come to one conclusion. The more tools a developer has, the more productive he is. That is why I am grateful about the YUI-EXT and JSBuilder.
22 Jan 2007 10:22 PM #6
I don't think I went "crazy" on you... Just honestly asking what benefits you were offering beyond pre-bundled JS Doc/Perl installation. Sounds like if JS Doc is all that someone needs, then your tool might be a good choice. If they need to also build their javascript files and/or automate the build process (or use Jack's pre-made .jsb project files to easily build Ext with), then they might do better to use JSB.
We've actually considered bundling JSDoc and Perl in the installer also -- the main reason we have not is because of size, and because many people might only want to build their js and don't care about outputting docs. For those people it would be a waste. We may at some point beef up the installer so that those pieces can be included conditionally (it's currently using a basic .NET setup project, which is not very flexible), but there hasn't been any demand to add it, so there's no point spending time on it unless it's needed by our audience.
By the way (as an aside to current or prospective JSB users), there are more features planned to make JSB even better in terms of file/project management. Also, I keep bugging Jack about getting him to release his newest doc template and parser, but he hasn't had time to clean it up yet. Once that happens, then hopefully we'll all get nice pretty docs Ext-style It should also support the same extended doc syntax elements that have made his docs so nice to work with.
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At the very least I always uncomment "syntax on" in /etc/vim/vimrc
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Our CTO has a pretty feature-filled Vim configuration on GitHub.
I find it great for Ruby coding, as our system administration tools are written in Ruby.
First, if you have more than a couple machines you work with, consider putting your
My current config files are available in my darcs repository,
Essential ViM scripts for sysadmins
Syntax files
I haven't seen many useful syntax in the wild, most files sysadmins work with are configs in
Useful tip with syntax: if a configuration file isn't recognized (has a weird name, like
# vim:filetype=apache
ViM configuration options
Most of the configuraion options is very popular, like
Functions, keyboard mappings
You can easily modify it for other comment systems (
Ending touch
If you have your configuration files in RCS system, you might want to sometimes include configuration options specific to a certain machine. For that, it's good to have
if filereadable(expand("~/.vimrc.local")) source ~/.vimrc.local endif
Not really sure what part of this is specifically sysadmin related, but my essentials are:
I also always ensure the machine has access to the nginx syntax highlighting file.
If you are usually working at a user, than this make it possible to "pipe" a file to sudo so it can be saved.
use the command:
to envoke sudo and save the file.
You can also look at this SO question: What's in your vimrc?
Shameless plug. This is not really a .vimrc change but rather a VIM plugin. I use RCSVers on every installed version of VIM. Basically it uses the RCS command to save off a version of any file you edit. You don't know how many times I've screwed up a config file only to have RCSVers save me by showing me the changes I've made.
Don't use .vimrc to avoid learning VIM
Since I know that a lot of VIM new comers will read this, the best suggestion I have is: "Do not get lazy and put map entries in your .vimrc" Learning non-standard ways of doing things in VIM will make you feel like a total gimp when you are without your vimrc. The learning curve for vi is steep, but you are not doing yourself any favors by choosing not to learn.
At least a portion of my answer is the same as my programming .vimrc:
If at least some files that you're editing aren't in RCS, they should be! :)
Disabling all the "smart" indentation modes. Great for programming, hell for config file.
I often end up using strace to track down odd issues. As a result, trying to syntax highlight some of the lines can get ridiculous with a large string string. This being the case, I use set synmaxcol=2048 to limit the syntax highlighting to 2048 columns.
I'm also quite a fan of the taglist plugin which uses exuberant tags. So far I've been able to push around the compiled ctags binary around and haven't come across any library issues. This quickly allows me to navigate among any of the code I work with. Those generally being Perl, Python, or C.


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A 5,000 sq. ft. laser tag arena and a 2,500 sq. ft. game arcade is conveniently located by hotels and restaurants off I-64.
Gateway features mini-golf, go-karts, an arcade, bumper boats, a kiddie track and Rudy's Restaurant.
This multi-sport, Olympic-style festival showcases the finest amateur athletic talent in Illinois each year on the last weekend in June.
CITY:Fairview Heights
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds & Exposition Center
Home to the annual St. Clair County Fair, several craft shows and monthly flea markets, the complex also includes the Belle-Clair Speedway, with stock car races and demolition derbies.
The bright lights of Vegas have nothing on the Casino Queen, home of the loosest slots! The Queen has had the loosest slots in the entire country for six years running, plus the hottest table games in town. Hungry? The Queen has you covered from fine dining to casual. The best view in town is from the Casino Queen Hotel.
CITY:East St. Louis
Gateway Grizzlies at GCS Ballpark
The Gateway Grizzlies are a professional baseball team based in Sauget, IL. The Grizzlies are a member of the West Division of the Frontier League – which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. The Grizzlies played their home games during their inaugural 2001 season at Sauget Field. In 2002, GCS Ballpark, (formerly GMC Stadium) opened and has remained the club's home since. This 5,000-seat stadium, home to the Gateway Grizzlies minor league baseball team, has reserved box seats, lawn seats and a hot tub.
Fairmount Park is home to live thoroughbred horse racing action. From March through September, the horses run on the one-mile oval dirt track Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
The largest laser tag arena in the region also includes mini-golf, a big video arcade with the coolest games on the market, and food at D.S.Vespers Sports Pub and Eatery.
Indian Mound offers an 18-hole golf course.
CITY:Fairmont City
Stock car races, drag races and demolition derbies are regular events at this speedway.
Spend the day tackling go-karts, miniature golf, batting cages, bumper boats and a video arcade.
Located in Maryville, this facility has an indoor arcade, batting cages and lots more fun for kids. Alfonzo's Restaurant is right next door for pizza lovers.
This 18-hole golf course opened in 1990.
CITY:Granite City
Acorns Golf Links is located in Waterloo, Illinois featuring 6,701 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72 . The course rating is 72.3 and it has a slope rating of 125. You will not find subdivision golf at Acorns; just nature, beautiful scenery, challenging design, and you. Making Acorns the premier public course to test your game, have fun with good friends, or to get away from your daily hussle and bussle. Acorns features zoysia fairways, five tee boxes; matching every level of golf and large bent grass greens. Designed by William Ebeler, the Acorns golf course opened in 1997.
Ranked seventh-best golf course in the state of Illinois, Annbriar is an 18-hole, par 72 course. Photo Credit-Annibriar-Golf-Course
This nine-hole golf course has two on-site restaurants.
CITY:Granite City
Regular racing events, including UMP Late Models, UMP Modifies, Sportsman, Street Stocks and Factory Stocks, are held on the 1/4-mile oval. Special events like the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars are raced on the 1/2-mile track.
CITY:Pontoon Beach
The 18-hole, par 72 Stonewolf is one of only four Jack Nicklaus Signature courses in Illinois and Missouri.
CITY:Fairview Heights
Designed by golf legends Pete Dye and Bob Goalby, Yorktown offers an 18-hole lit par 3 golf course.
The Orchards offers an 18-hole golf course.
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Pete Dye.
Gateway National offers an 18-hole, par 71 course made up of rolling links, separated by gentle mounds that meander through lush, green pasturelands.
Everett Moody Park at Longacre
This park is a ball player's dream with two lighted diamonds, including one with grandstand seating and a concessions stand. In the late 1990s this park hosted the Pan-American Games Junior Baseball Tournaments.
CITY:Fairview Heights
Grand Marais includes an on-site restaurant and pro shop.


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Bat Battle: Who's The Best Movie Batman?
#4. GEORGE CLOONEY - Batman & Robin (1997)
BatClooney, with assists from Robin (Chris O'Donnell) and Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), does battle here with Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a supervillain whose sole superpower is the ability to turn water into ice, making him about as menacing as the cube-making feature in your refrigerator; and Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), a supervillainess who can grow plants and make men fall in love with her (essentially, the superpowers of an attractive woman with a garden).
Coolness of Costume
BatClooney abandons the yellow Batsymbol and somber blacks, adopting a showy silver look not unlike a crime-fighting tuna fish. Improvements abound in the cowl region, which trades in the cumbersome ceramic headpiece of earlier incarnations for a large-nosed latex rubber mask, meaning Batman can now blow his nose in-costume and possesses peripheral vision of at least an inch on either side. Watch out, criminals standing very slightly to his left or right!
Also worth noting: Against all reason and decency, the Batsuit now features nipples, possibly as part of some new Bat-lactation feature. (Theory: They squirt Gatorade when he's thirsty?)
Those Wonderful Toys
Mr. Freeze uses his only superpower to turn the floor into an ice rink just as Batman and Robin are about to apprehend him. Luckily, our crimefighters yell "Batskates!", at which point, yes, Batskates pop out of their boots and they proceed to play ice hockey with Mr. Freeze's hockey stick-toting goons. Observant Batman fans might notice that being able to make things appear suddenly from the recesses of his body isn't Batman's power; it's Inspector Gadget's (or, failing that, Richard Gere's).
Elsewhere, BatClooney and Robin pull out Batsurfboards and surf down a building, which is actually more ridiculous than Bat-shark repellent, in that it actually manages to break the laws of physics with its brute idiocy.
Smoothness with the Ladies
BatClooney briefly engages in a competitive romantic rivalry with Robin over who gets to date Poison Ivy first, but since they're both under her love potion spell, it's hard to count. Otherwise, Batman & Robin seems more preoccupied with getting Robin some action with the newly arrived Batgirl than scoring anything for the Dark Knight. Lots of lonely nights home alone for BatClooney, it seems: No wonder he had the time to invent the Batskates.
BatClooney sees no problems whatsoever with suiting Chris O'Donnell and Alicia Silverstone up in benippled costumes and enlisting the idiots in his war on crime, despite the fact that no right-thinking person would trust Chris O'Donnell or Alicia Silverstone to lick stamps without turning purple and asphyxiating themselves.
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The college years are full of tough assignments, hectic schedules, and challenging social situations. It's easy to shrink back and become overwhelmed in that environment, but that can lead to regret later. Inspiring TED talks are always a good go-to for anyone who needs a bit of thought-provoking insight. The following eight talks are particularly helpful to college students.
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October 2013
Restaurant Tchaikovsky was announced The 50 Best Restaurants in Estonia.Restaurant is the 1st choice in Tallinn and the 2nd best in Estonia.
January 2013
TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice 2013 - Estonia
Telegraaf is nr. 1 Hotel according to the Trip Advisor Travelers' Choice in Estonia.
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Silverspoon award - Best Gourmet Restaurant 2011/2012
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Culture friendly company award
Minister of Cultural affairs acknowledged Hotel Telegraaf as a culturally friendly company in Estonia.
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Restaurant Tchaikovsky got the 2nd place in the "Fine Dining" category out of 50 best Estonia's restaurants!
16 May 2011
Telegraaf Named to World's Top Hotel List
Expedia.com customers have named their top 500 hotels in the world, and Hotel Telegraaf is among them. Telegraaf was the only hotel in Estonia to receive the honor.
Expedia Insiders' Select is a list of the best hotels in terms of value and quality, as determined by their "experts" — hundreds of thousands of travellers.
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Hotel Telegraaf was chosen as a Best Top 10 Luxury Hotel in Europe by TripAdvisor® in its 2011 Travelers' Choice® awards. Now in its ninth year, the annual TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice awards honor the world's best hotels, earning their distinction from those who know them best – real travelers.
Tchaikovsky Named Estonia's Third Best 2010
The e-zine Flavours of Estonia has ranked Telegraaf's Tchaikovsky as Estonia's third best restaurant in the fine dining category in its annual 50 Best Restaurants in Estonia Award
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(Columbia, Mo.) - Jeffrey Einhorn has been selected as the director of Columbia College-Guantanamo Bay. In his new position, Einhorn is responsible for all day-to-day operations of the Guantanamo Bay campus, including class scheduling and student and faculty recruitment and retention.
Einhorn holds a bachelor's degree in computer information systems from Columbus College (Ga.) and a master's degree in information technology management from Mercer University in Atlanta.
Prior to joining Columbia College, Einhorn served eight years in the United States Army at duty stations within the U.S. and Europe, including a position as an infantry squad leader during Desert Storm.
Einhorn also worked for Holiday Inn for more than nine years as a supervisor for the worldwide help desk and developed Holiday Inn training programs. As a consultant, he provided IT training to the U.S. Navy. He has held sales or managerial positions in the insurance, restaurant, automotive and hotel industries.
Einhorn can relate well to his adult students. "It took me 23 years to complete my undergraduate degree and three more years to get my master's. I'm just now fully seeing the benefits of what education can do for me," he said. "I care about the people I work for and with, and because of my own personal experiences, I am very student-driven. I'll do anything I can to help them because I've been there, done that." Einhorn's wife, Dr. Kathy Einhorn, is the principal at W.T. Sampson, a school for military dependents and children of Department of Defense employees in Guantanamo Bay. W.T. Sampson is the oldest overseas Department of Defense Dependents School (DoDDS) in the world and the only DoDDS located on communist soil.
Einhorn loves Cuba. "I can sit on my patio with my cup of coffee and see the sunrise in the morning," he said. "And then I come home and sit on the beach at the end of the day and watch the sunset."
Columbia College-Guantanamo Bay is one of the college's 34 nationwide campuses, including 17 on military bases. The Guantanamo Bay campus was established in 2003 and began offering courses to civilian and military adult learners in January 2004.
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What's the best way to carve poutry so that you get the most amount of meat? Are there any tricks you've found that will make this easier?
This is difficult to describe without pictures or diagrams. However I have found a great video on YouTube courtesy of Gourmet magazine.
After you have carved the meat from the bones, use the carcass to make stock. After the carcass has boiled for several hours, the connective tissue dissolves into the liquid, and this makes the meat literally fall off the bone, as there is nothing left to hold it. You can usually get a fair amount of meat off of even the most picked over carcass.
Another chicken cutting video; this one is in raw form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iODAToI6_-o
There are 3 ways to use almost all the chicken meat.
As far as technique: