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On Friday, October 5, Post 4 Trooper, Jack Baumgardner, responded to the old Detention Center in downtown Elizabethtown to investigate an inmate who had escaped.
Staff at the jail advised Tpr. Baumgardner that 23-year-old Robert W. Wilson was being moved from the old facility to the facility on U.S. 31W.
A Sergeant with the Detention Center left Wilson downstairs in a chair, and went upstairs to retrieve Wilson's belongings for the transport to the other facility. When the Sergeant returned Wilson was gone.
The door to the outside activity area was not locked. The outside gate was locked, but could still be opened and closed. It is believed Wilson simply walked away.
Wilson is described as a white male, 6'1", 150 lbs., blonde hair, blue eyes, with a light complexion and thin build. Wilson was serving time for Rape 2nd degree. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information on Wilson's whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Kentucky State Police at (270) 766-5078 or (800) 222-5555.


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6 Mind-Blowing Substances That Laugh in the Face of Physics
We can laugh at our ancestors who thought gunpowder was sorcery, or rappers who don't understand what magnets are. But we're telling you right now, there are materials created by science that absolutely look like fucking witchcraft. These materials are often hard to get and/or incredibly dangerous, but they're worth it for the cool factor alone.
#6. Gallium, the Metal That Melts in Your Hand
Sure, everybody knows there's such a thing as liquid metal (mercury, duh) and that all metal will melt if you get it hot enough. What you presumably have not run into is solid metal that will melt in your hand like ice cream. But all you need to do is find some gallium, the awesome metal that, when warmed up just a little, becomes a non-murderous version of Robert Patrick in Terminator 2.
Gallium melts at just past room temperature, so it isn't very useful for building anything, unless that thing is intended to be both short-lived and hilarious. But it can make for a neat party trick when you, for instance, stir hot liquid with a gallium spoon and watch it dissolve before your eyes.
Disappearing Spoons
There is no spoon.
Wait, it gets weirder. For some reason, gallium doesn't play well with aluminum, by which we mean it reduces a Coke can to tissue paper:
Just dab a little drop on the top of a can ...
... and it will make the entire area around it brittle. You can shove your finger through it ...
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"Now you can open beer cans with the same ease of gouging out the eyes of those who would defy you!"
... and easily pull it apart, tearing the pieces to chunks like the whole thing was made of flower petals:
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"A little more work, and this can could be a Fleshlight."
There are videos on YouTube of people wrecking aluminum objects like computer heat sinks with a splash of gallium and being amazed at how they can crush formerly solid objects like a handful of crackers. We can think of much better pranks, like dribbling some onto our neighbor's bicycle before he takes it out onto the freeway, but that's probably why the law says that we're not allowed near chemicals.
#5. The Gas That's Heavy Enough to Float Solid Objects
Saying that a substance is "heavier than air" doesn't sound too exciting, until you see the borderline terrifying shit sulfur hexafluoride can do. For instance, most of us have, at some point, huffed on a helium balloon so that we can pretend we're the Chipmunks and make them say swear words. But helium isn't the only substance that will mess with your vocal range. Sulfur hexafluoride is helium's evil twin, like Bizarro is to Superman, or Lady Gaga is to Madonna. Huff a balloon full of this stuff and your voice will take on an ominous baritone, as demonstrated hilariously by Kelly Ripa and Neil Patrick Harris:
This happens precisely because sulphur hexafluoride is several times heavier than regular air, so it lowers the frequency of any sound passing through it, which is exactly how helium works, except, you know, in reverse. But once you know that the stuff is heavier than air, you can start to do really cool things with it. For instance, if poured into a glass, sulfur hexafluoride sinks through normal air and pools invisibly at the bottom of the container. Just like water, it can support the weight of less dense objects on top of it.
Putting us one step closer to a fart-powered hovercraft.
Like a boat made of aluminum foil, which will levitate in midair as if by magic:
Now watch as the guy takes a glass, scoops up the nothing that the boat is floating on ...
If you squint, you can see a tiny toothpick Leonardo DiCaprio drawing Kate Winslet.
... pours the nothing into the foil boat ...
... and makes it float gently to the bottom of the nothing, due to the weight of the nothing.
Rock-biter, you failed us yet again.
#4. Hydrophobic (Water-Repelling) Surfaces
This is another one that sounds unspectacular until you see it in action. For instance, above is not a slab of lime Jell-O or green rock candy. That's green-colored water, sitting on a slab of glass. You can splash it around with your finger ...
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"Mr. Jensen, will you please jab your finger into this creepy, unknown green substance so we can see what happens?"
... but it will return to that perfect square shape above. That's because the dry area around the edge has been treated with a hydrophobic coating, meaning it repels water so hard that droplets actually arch away from it. There is a perfect untreated square in the middle, and the water piles up there. Put a droplet out on the treated part, and it will actively flee to the untreated area.
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Like an Irish T-1000.
If you coat your finger in the stuff, you can dip it into a jar of water and not only will your finger stay completely dry, but the substance will form a bubble around it like a tiny condom -- the result of the water desperately trying to get away from you.
The idea behind these chemicals is to create a line of waterproof and stain-proof coatings for clothes, windshields, you name it. But we just wish we had some of the stuff to play with. Here's some hydrophobic sand in action:
Hold a spoon under water, pour the sand into the water, and catch it with the spoon ...
Not the melting spoon we showed you before, though.
... and then lift out a spoon of perfectly dry sand:
"Just try and make a sand castle out of this, you little shits!"

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So, I have been playing Xbox 360 for a while now, and have collected quite a few points towards my Gamerscore. It seems like each player has their own points, and they are cumulative across all games. Is there anything I can actually do with them, or are they just for bragging rights?
It's pretty much just for the bragging rights, you can't "cash in" your score.
But you can get freebees for using your Xbox. If you are
Although it used to mean nothing but how "eleet" you are, the Xbox Live Rewards system has announced that you will get increasing benefits based on your gamerscore, including discounts and free gifts, with the highest tier unlocking at 25,000 gamerscore. There's nothing particularly exciting on offer, but signing up is free.
Beyond this, there are a few other things you can do with the Xbox gamerscore/achievement system:
Gamerscore doesn't have any function other than bragging rights. Each account keeps a running total of Gamerscore earned across all games using that account.
While Achievements do not provide benefits for most games, you can link Ubisoft games such as Assassin's Creed: Revelations to your Ubisoft uPlay account to earn rewards for gaining certain achievements. There are often a few achievements that provide credits that you can spend on new character appearances, missions, abilities, and other nice items.
As Tycho points out, while you think Gamerscore and achievements are for you, they are more likely a very cunning way of tracking your gaming demographics. Consider the fact that Microsoft makes them a requirement for all games (except Indie). While many folks (such as myself), love to collect "cheavos" by the stack - they provide a feedback mechanism to hardware and software developers better than any survey. From such statistics you can determine how many hours into a game a typical player plays, what the historical mix of game genres has been (FPS/RPG/Sports/etc), if more players choose the "good" options or "evil" options, among other things. Sinister, isn't it? :)
They are of no use. They're just to show your friends how good you are at gaming.
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WASHINGTON and ROME — Italy-based Alenia Aermacchi has fired the head of its North American aircraft business and plans to downsize its presence in the U.S. following the loss of two major Pentagon contracts.
Alan Calegari, the president and CEO of the Alenia's U.S. business, was dismissed on Monday, according to sources, along with many of the company's 60 U.S. employees. An Alenia spokesman in Rome confirmed Calegari's departure on Tuesday and said a new CEO would be appointed within days.
The Alenia North American business falls under Alenia CEO Giuseppe Giordo in Rome.
Ben Stone — who served as Alenia North America chief of staff under Giordo from 2005 to 2010 and more recently as Alenia Aermacchi's vice president for special projects — is expected to play a significant role in the realignment, sources said.
Sources said the move to scale back in Washington is intended to consolidate operations and save money following Alenia's loss of two major U.S. Air Force contracts, one for 38 new C-27J cargo planes for the Air National Guard and the other for 20 remanufactured G222 aircraft for the Afghan Air Force.
"The company was sized for the C-27J contract and the G222 contract," the Alenia spokesman said. "There will be a reduction but it is not closing, it remains on the market in the U.S., there is no withdrawal."
Calegari had been president and CEO of the North American wing of the company for a little more than a year. He joined the company at a turbulent time after the U.S. Air Force had already planned to cancel the C-27J cargo program due to U.S. defense spending cuts.
Calegari's firing comes amid a tumultuous 24 hours for Alenia and parent Finmeccanica, whose CEO, Guiseppe Orsi, was arrested Tuesday in connection with allegations of corruption at the firm involving the sale of helicopters to India. In addition, Bruno Spagnolini, the head of Finmeccanica helicopter unit AgustaWestland, was placed under house arrest.
Besides the C-27J and G222 deals, Alenia has been heavily pursuing the U.S. Air Force T-X jet trainer contract and had recently announced a partnership with General Dynamics.
A General Dynamics spokesman said the company does not anticipate any changes to its partnering agreement for the program in the wake of the downsizing plans.
Alenia still plans to display its T-100 cockpit demonstrator at a major Air Force Association trade show in Florida next week.
The spokesman said the company still plans to compete for the T-X program. Sources said much of the effort will now be lead out of Italy.
"All of Alenia is reducing staff, Italy included," the spokesman said. "The change in the U.S. is linked to Alenia's general organization; we are not offloading American staff and we are not cutting out the role of CEO. There is a full commitment to the U.S. market and the T-100."
A U.S.-based Alenia spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.
In 2008, Finmeccanica made a move to become a far larger player in the lucrative U.S. market, acquiring DRS technologies. DRS added former Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn as its new chief executive at the beginning of 2012 as part of a move to reorganize its North American assets under his leadership. The intent was to consolidate its business holdings to improve efficiency and provide a unified direction, Lynn told Defense News in a May interview.
"We need to pull things together and manage it from a single headquarters with a single set of priorities and a unified voice to our customers," Lynn said.
At the time Lynn said that he anticipated completing the reorganization in 2013.
"We haven't landed completely on names, but Finmeccanica itself has an overarching brand, and then AgustaWestland Helicopters, Alenia Aircraft and so on," Lynn said. "We'll have the same construct in the United States."
But the decision to eliminate the business unit, instead of focusing on centralizing management of Finmeccanica's North American properties, moves the company away from its original reorganization plan.
Analysts viewed that plan as an effort to fix a branding issue, as Finmeccanica's name didn't carry as much weight with the U.S. customer as other large contractors. The hiring of Lynn, a significant figure in defense circles, was meant to help elevate the company's U.S. profile.
A spokesman for DRS in Washington could not provide a comment.
The name Alenia Aermacchi North America was bestowed on the company's U.S. based subsidiary in April 2012. Previously the division was known as Alenia North America.
The change coincided with a reorganization of Finmeccanica's aerospace business, and with the consolidation of Alenia Aermacchi from Alenia Aeronautica and its subsidiaries Alenia, Aermacchi and Alenia SIA.
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7 Incredible Ways Sports Improved (And Even Saved) Lives
Everyone knows that athletes are conceited jerks who coast through life on a magic carpet constructed of full ride scholarships and billion dollar contracts. It's enough to make a person put down their gigantic foam finger and pick up a stupid book or something. And maybe you should--if you want to die.
Seriously, sports can save your life in a whole bunch of unexpected ways. Don't believe us? Keep reading.
#7. Man Sells Blood for NFL Tickets, Saves Own Life
NFL tickets are expensive as hell. You can usually save some coin by scoring season tickets, but unless you're rooting for, say, Jacksonville, the waiting list to actually get season tickets can sometimes border on unbearable. The Green Bay Packers, for instance, have been sold out of season tickets since 1960.
But so worth it
A reasonable person might shrug and move on with their life, but sports fandom is not about being reasonable. Thus we have the case of Jim Becker, a 2010 inductee into the Packers Fan Hall of Fame. He bought season tickets from 1952-2008. During those years he was raising eleven kids and had little money to spare for tickets. When he found he could sell his blood for money, he donated as often as he could just so he could afford to eventually be shit on by Brett Favre. These are the kind of screwed-up priorities that make non-sports fans hate sports fans.
But here's the twist to this story:
During one donation prescreening doctors discovered Becker's father died at age 43 of hemochromatosis, a disease causing excessive amount of iron in the blood. They tested Becker and discovered he too had the disease. However, discovering the disease wasn't what saved Becker's life. The most common treatment for hemochromatosis is phlebotomy treatments, which in laymen's terms means donating lots of blood.
By obsessively giving blood so he could buy his damned Packer tickets, Becker normalized the levels of iron in his blood and saved his life. When he was inducted into the Fan Hall of Fame, he was a ripe 79 years old. And Brett Favre was still an asshole.
#6. Overpriced Soccer Jersey Blocks Fence Post, Saves Kids Life
Anyone who has ever taken out a second mortgage on their house in order to buy an "authentic" team jersey knows one thing: them shits is expensive. But when you think about it, it makes sense. An authentic jersey is worn during some of the most brutal contests of skill and strength known to man (and baseball). They have to put up with a lot of wear and tear. But still, who among us hasn't at least one time thought, "$150 for a jersey? It better stop a bullet for that price."
It won't, but that doesn't mean a jersey can't save your life.
In 2006 ten year old John Hugh was wearing an overpriced soccer jersey when he decided to look over a fence at a trampoline next door. Because kids are uncoordinated fools, he of course slipped and fell on a fence post, nearly impaling himself in the chest. However, the ridiculously expensive shirt was also ridiculously strong and didn't rip, sparing John his life.
According to the boy's mother, "If the spike had gone in any further, it would have damaged his lungs and heart. He could've been killed and, if he hadn't been wearing his Arsenal strip, he probably would have." Ha! Arsenal strip. Foreigners talk funny.
What's more amazing was the shirt, while a little bloody and stretched from the incident, was restored to new. According to John "The only thing wrong with the shirt was there was blood on it and a dint where the spike stretched it. But my Mam put it through the wash and it is back to normal, as good as new. It must be really good quality."
Yeah, more than we can say for your decision making skills, kid. Stay in your damn yard next time.
#5. Hockey Ref Attacked By Player, Life Saved as Result
Hockey is one of the few sports where outright violence is not only tolerated, but expected. How else are they going to make a game that last for hours and often ends with a 1-0 score seem interesting? Maybe take some notes, baseball.
There are those who would argue that hockey thus teaches impressionable youths that violence is the only way to get ahead in life. We have two problems with that argument. First, shut up, pussy. Second, just as it is in the real world, in hockey, sometimes violence leads to good things. Such was the case for amateur hockey referee Dale Neudorf.
Yes, not even the refs are safe in hockey, and during a game Neudorf was checked hard across the face, and slammed into a wall. It was bad enough he had to be carried off and taken to a hospital. There Doctors did an MRI scan of his head to check for bleeding. The scan showed a tumor growing in the middle of his brain.
Had Neudorf not been refereeing for a less violent sport and not brutally smashed in the head, his tumor may have grown unchecked for much longer and made treatment much more difficult. You win this time, socialized medicine!
#4. Hours of Pointless Gymnastics Training Saves Teenager's Life
Between the international political scheming, doping, cheating and downright abuse of athletes by their nations, the Olympics is a much darker event than the choreographed opening ceremonies would have you believe, and gymnastics may be the worst offender. China was recently stripped of a medal for using underage athletes in its gymnastics team. According to the Huffington Post, the training regiments for gymnasts are downright brutal. But even outside of the scandals, there's something very creepy about taking a small child, carefully controlling their diet and forcing them to practice every waking hour while sacrificing anything that looks like a normal childhood. Especially if the resulting skill is utterly useless in every day life.
Not completely useless...
But maybe we spoke too soon on that one. After all, gymnastics training does allow for better balance and response times on the rare occasion when you may need such things, like when you're plummeting 30 feet to a certain death at the hands of the unforgiving ground below you.
That happened to 16 year old British gymnast Steven Jehu. While in Ljubljana, Slovenia for a meet, he went to look out a window at his hotel. When he opened the window and rested his hands on the safety bar (cue the Benny Hill music!) it gave way, causing him to fall out the fourth story window.
This story could have ended with Eric Clapton singing "Tears in Heaven" at his funeral; instead Steven used his training to somersault and execute a gymnast landing on a corrugated metal roof four stories below. He suffered only a broken ankle and a cut on his armpit.
Doctors say had he landed another way there is a good chance he would be dead. At least that's what most doctors said. The Russian doctor remained unimpressed.


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I almost feel embarrassed to ask, but I always struggle with how to organize exception definitions. The three ways I've done this before are:
- Use the file-per-class rule. I'm not crazy about this because it clutters up my directory structure and namespaces. I could organize them into subdirectories and segment namespaces for them, but I don't really like that, and that's not how the standard libraries usually do it.
- put the definitions in a file containing the related class(es). I don't really like this either because then exception definitions are scattered about and may be hard to find without the aid of a code navigation tool.
- One file with all the exception definitions for a namespace or "package" of related classes. This is kind of a compromise between the above two, but it may leave situations in which it's hard to tell which exceptions "belong" to a particular group of classes or set of functionality.
I don't really like any of the above, but is there a sort of best-practice that I haven't picked up on that would be better?
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For convenience and maintainability, deploy application exceptions as a group in a separate assembly. (p. 426)
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I have some floats (tables) that i would like to use in several spots in the document.
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I have a circular image that I want to print over a cone. That is, over a circle with a wedge cut out, and then assembled into a cone.
However, if I just print my image and then cut the wedge, not only that part will be removed, but also the proportions will be messed up, and straight lines become curved.
I would like to do some processing to my image so when printed and assembled, the image will look as designed, when looked straight from the front (the tip of the cone pointing at the observer). Optimally, the processing should wrap the image in the wedge so I can have some freedom when assembling the cone.
Are there any tools that do this for me? or any processing I can do to achieve this effect?
I actually want to do this over a shallow cone (the wedge cut goes around some 5 degrees), but knowing a general solution for sharper cones would be optimal.
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BELLAIRE- VFW Post #626 of Bellaire is raising money to purchase Action Track Chairs for wounded warriors. These chairs will go to the LEEK Hunting and Mountain Preserve, which is located in Potter County, Pa.
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VFW?Post 626'S John Fodor takes a quick seat in an Action Track Chair to test it out.
LEEK Hunting and Mountain Reserve sets on 256 acres and has another 24,315 acres available for additional activities. LEEK is a charitable, non-profit organization that is ran by volunteers.
The Action Track Chairs are all-terrain chairs that allows disabled veterans to hunt, fish and go anywhere of the LEEK Hunting and Mountain Preserve.
These chairs cost anywhere from $14,000 to $18,000.
VFW Post #626 will take donations until April of next year (2014). Their goal is to be able to purchase one or two of these chairs. All donations are tax deductible. To make a donation, please contact VFW Post #626.
"We hope everybody will do what they can to help," said Post #626 member John Fodor. "They have supported us, not it is our time to support and give back to them. They remembered us, now let's remember them."
Fodor along with fellow member Kevin West started to raise money for these chairs after they were given a tour of the LEEK Preserve.
LEEK sponsors four hunts a year. They start with a open house that will be held in June and from there, they will host four separate events throughout the year:
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Wow! Here we are in February. Some might be saying 'already?', but to those of us in the so called 'Great White North' it has already been a long, long winter. We are certainly living up to the 'white' description with all the snow. Add the frigid minus 30 degree Celsius temperatures, not including wind chill, and many of us would simply like to hunker down under a blanket in front of the fire and wait it out till Spring.
Each morning as I roll my car out of the garage the clock reading 5:25 am, the external temperature reading minus some double digit (does it really matter once it gets below minus 10?) I see my bike hanging from the garage ceiling. It hangs right over my car, a symbol that despite what it is like right now there is a time in when the roads will not be snow covered and it won't be so dark and cold.
It is tough to stick with it and find inspiration during the winter months and not just for the class participants but for instructors as well. What keeps me inspired is the challenge of creating an effective periodization program. As an instructor I find thinking about and planning not just one class but a series over a longer period provides both me and my participants a goal which helps keep us on track. This longer term plan helps me approach each class with purpose knowing that it is one piece of a puzzle that will have me ready in a couple of months when the snow is gone and I take my bike down from the garage ceiling. Sharing that plan with my participants helps them stay inspired and come to class even on the coldest mornings.
If you are looking to create a plan for periodization, start by deciding where you would like a group to be after a specific time period. This doesn't have to be complicated. It can be as simple as building or maintaining endurance. Once you have decided on the longer term goal choose the rides that support the goal. The obvious question is 'Not everyone comes every week so why create a plan that spans weeks?' True, you don't always have the same exact group from class to class, but when participants are aware that there is a longer term plan and understand each session is a step towards a specific goal participants adherence tends to increase.
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Aura and Archie Bell of Hannibal will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, with an open house from 2 to 5 p.m.
Laura Hayden and Archie Bell were married on Sept. 4, 1954, at the Fist Christian Church in Hannibal with Dr. Kenneth A. Kuntz officiating. Their attendants were friends, Lera and Bob Mosley, formerly of Hull, Ill., now residing in Hannibal.
Archie is the son of the late Mary and Chester Bell, and Laura is the daughter of the late Carrie Ruth and Paul Hayden.
Their marriage was blessed with two children, David Owen Bell, deceased in 2005, and Denise Diane Bell of Madison, Wis.; three grandchildren, Erin Bell Mosley, Emily Bell of Nashville, Tenn., and Hayden Bell of the U.S. Army; and one great-grandson, Eben Mosley.
Laura and Archie are retired and moved back home in 2005 after being gone 42 years.
Friends and relatives are invited to come by their home to celebrate with them. Your presence is enough to give our hearts a lift, therefore, please do not bring a gift.
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China to Hit Bo Hard, Official Signals
DAVOS, Switzerland—Former Chinese Communist Party star Bo Xilai could be subject to severe punishment, according to a senior party official, as China's new leaders face increasing public pressure to clamp down on corruption.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Li Jingtian, the executive vice president of China's Central Party School and a former member of the party's powerful Central Committee, said he also saw a role for online social media in holding officials to account.
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"We have always had severe punishment for corrupt officials," Mr. Li said during the interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, in response to a question about the fate of Mr. Bo. Such interviews are rare for senior party officials.
He cited the examples of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, two leaders in the party's early days who were executed in the 1950s following accusations of embezzlement and other crimes in one of the party's first anticorruption campaigns.
The party school, which trains cadres and helps develop the party's ideology, has no role in determining punishment of corrupt officials. But Mr. Li has access to top party leaders, having worked with new party chief Xi Jinping when Mr. Xi headed the school. Until last year Mr. Li, who is near retirement age, was also a member of the Central Committee, a main policy-making body.
Mr. Bo presents one of the biggest tests yet of the new leadership's efforts to tamp down on corruption. Mr. Bo is the son of a legendary early leader of the Communist Party, Bo Yibo, and was considered a candidate for a powerful national party position.
Mr. Bo was ousted in 2012, accused of a litany of alleged criminal and other offenses, including bribe-taking and abuse of power. His wife, Gu Kailai, was convicted in August of killing a British businessman in 2011 in the southwestern city of Chongqing, where Mr. Bo was then party chief.
Mr. Bo is currently awaiting trial. He hasn't commented on the accusations against him in the past and isn't reachable. Harsh punishment would signal a tough stance against corruption. New leaders installed in November have publicly worried that graft threatens the party's hold on power. At the same time, throwing the book at a senior official with a familiar name could leave the perception that other top leaders are vulnerable.
Mr. Li's comments don't mean Mr. Bo is likely to face execution if found guilty. While he cited the case of another execution—that of Cheng Kejie, a former top legislator who was executed in 2000—he also cited the case of Chen Xitong, a former party chief of Beijing convicted on corruption charges in 1998 but released from prison on medical parole in 2006. He also named Chen Liangyu, the former party secretary of Shanghai who was dismissed in 2006 and later sentenced to 18 years in prison on corruption charges.
Mr. Li said China's vibrant online social media sphere has played a positive role in combating corruption, and added, "To fight against corruption we need to strengthen supervision" within the party and from society and the media.
Mr. Bo's downfall early last year sparked furious discussion on China's social media, which often serve as a forum for public debate in a country where television and newspapers are tightly controlled. Platforms such as Sina Corp.'s SINA -2.05 % Weibo microblogging service have played direct roles in the ouster of lower-level officials caught with their hands in the till.
Social media still face scrutiny from an army of censors and officials have worried about their role in spreading rumors. Authorities clamped down on Weibo last spring when discussion of Mr. Bo's ouster developed into rumors of a potential coup. Since then, the government has renewed efforts to tie anonymous accounts to the identities of users and required Internet firms to take tougher steps to weed out unwanted content.
Mr. Li also responded to a question on his experience working with Mr. Xi, who is widely expected to succeed Hu Jintao as president in March. "He doesn't offer empty words. He fights against formalism. That has already changed the government's work style," he said. His comments echo Mr. Xi's portrayal in state media as a plain-spoken leader less concerned with ceremony.
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Hey Guys, i want to make a 2d game. I know C++, C#, javascript.
I want my game to run in a browser so a user doesnt need to run an exe. I want the game to be multiplayer so it needs server communication (and not do it through AJAX or p2p). So what are my options? From what i know unity3d, flash, silverlight and java can run in the browser but can they communicate efficiently to the server? Are there any known problems doing a multiplayer browser 2d game with any of these tech? I hear unity isnt easy/overkill for 2d but i get a language i am familiar with and more power?


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Abstract Measure
Date: 1957
Creator: Bridges, Robert Miller
Description: This study of abstract measure covers classes of sets, measures and outer measures, extension of measures, and planer measure.
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Abstract Vector Spaces and Certain Related Systems
Date: August 1961
Creator: Goddard, Alton Ray
Description: The purpose of this paper is to make a detailed study of vector spaces and a certain vector-like system.
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Additive Functions
Date: June 1963
Creator: McNeir, Ridge W.
Description: The purpose of this paper is the analysis of functions of real numbers which have a special additive property, namely, f(x+y) = f(x)+f(y).
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Algebraic Integers
Date: August 1969
Creator: Black, Alvin M.
Description: The primary purpose of this thesis is to give a substantial generalization of the set of integers Z, where particular emphasis is given to number theoretic questions such as that of unique factorization. The origin of the thesis came from a study of a special case of generalized integers called the Gaussian Integers, namely the set of all complex numbers in the form n + mi, for m,n in Z. The main generalization involves what are called algebraic integers.
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Algebraic Properties of Semigroups
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Algebraically Determined Rings of Functions
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Description: Let R be any of the following rings: the smooth functions on R^2n with the Poisson bracket, the Hamiltonian vector fields on a symplectic manifold, the Lie algebra of smooth complex vector fields on C, or a variety of rings of functions (real or complex valued) over 2nd countable spaces. Then if H is any other Polish ring and φ:H →R is an algebraic isomorphism, then it is also a topological isomorphism (i.e. a homeomorphism). Moreover, many such isomorphisms between function rings induce a homeomorphism of the underlying spaces. It is also shown that there is no topology in which the ring of real analytic functions on R is a Polish ring.
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Date: May 2011
Creator: Jasim, We'am Muhammad
Description: Let G be a Polish group. We say that G is an algebraically determined Polish group if given any Polish group L and any algebraic isomorphism from L to G, then the algebraic isomorphism is a topological isomorphism. We will prove a general theorem that gives useful sufficient conditions for a semidirect product of two Polish groups to be algebraically determined. This will smooth the way for the proofs for some special groups. For example, let H be a separable Hilbert space and let G be a subset of the unitary group U(H) acting transitively on the unit sphere. Assume that -I in G and G is a Polish topological group in some topology such that H x G to H, (x,U) to U(x) is continuous, then H x G is a Polish topological group. Hence H x G is an algebraically determined Polish group. In addition, we apply the above the above result on the unitary group U(A) of a separable irreducible C*-algebra A with identity acting transitively on the unit sphere in a separable Hilbert space H and proved that the natural semidirect product H x U(A) is an algebraically determined Polish group. A similar theorem is true ...
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Analysis Of Sequential Barycenter Random Probability Measures via Discrete Constructions
Date: December 2002
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In New Era's 84 year history it has developed and introduced many different innovative concepts and pieces of headwear to the market and is proud of its heritage; setting the standard in product development and headwear manufacturing technology. New Era has supported Major League Baseball's strategy to build their own brand by only allowing the Club mark and the MLB mark to be visible on the outside of the Authentic Collection caps and in 1994 New Era became the global manufacturer, distributor and marketer of the Authentic Collection headwear. This exclusive agreement has been in place ever since and both parties have enjoyed the fruits of this partnership. New Era headwear is developed to serve its many core markets; Action Sport, Children, Corporate, Fan, Performance, Suburban, Urban and Women - enabling the company to meet the demand for headwear for the most unique individuals in the world, each wearing it to express their own style.


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AggregationRow Displays Below Scrollbar in Grid
I am implementing an AggregationRow as the last row in a Grid with simple integer data. Given only a limited amount of horizontal space, however, the Grid displays a horizontal scrollbar. But the AggregationRow is displayed below the scrollbar, and I find this very undesirable. Is there a parameter I'm missing or some sort of hack to move the AggregationRow above the scrollbar?
28 Jun 2011 8:28 AM #2
I've looked in the LayoutContainer, Container, and GridView class files in hopes of changing where the AggregationRow and scrollbar are placed in the layout, but I haven't had any luck. Does anyone know where I might be able to find these sorts of layout details?
27 Jul 2011 7:15 AM #3
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I am having this issue as well. I have an aggregation grid to group columns, but do not have any aggregation rows. I do not see an aggregation row, but the grid scroll bar has a space below it, behaving as if the aggregation row(s) was present.


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Are there any general results on the (integral) cohomology of fiber bundle, where the fiber is a compact group $H$ (continuous or discrete) and the base space is the classifying space $BG$ of another compact group $G$ (continuous or discrete). Any literature references is much appreciated.
Since we have two groups $G$ and $H$. I wonder if the result can be expressed as group cohomology of the two groups.


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Hyland Software created OnBase that automates business processes through document imaging, content management and workflow solutions. Ron McClellan, Director of Hosting and Online Services for Hyland, talks with Larry Gregory, Director of Partner Evangelism with Microsoft. McClelland describes how Hyland Software moved to a software plus services business model and offers advice for companies making the transition from on-premises licensing to hosted licenses. For more information, see Software plus Services.
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I'm looking for specific guidance on how to locate a user on SO by email address. I'll use this information to work with the API and determine how many points they have on the site.
NOTE: this code has been quickly evolving into the functionality presented here. Eventually I will break it out into a simple exe such as listed below, but for now......
Currently the only way to find a user by the MD5 hash of a lowercased email address (user.email_hash as well as gravatar key) is to maintain a local datastore containing the users you are interested in servicing, which you may index and query for this and other information.
At first blush, this task seems straight forward. And it is. You surely can point a firehose at the API and get what you want. If you wish to piss off people you don't really want to piss off ;-) Not to mention poorly shepherding your rate-limit quota, network, disk and CPU saturation.
With a bit of planning and a measured approach this task can be broken down into a handful of not-long and not-short running processes that can gently provide you with a valuable dataset with many uses, one of which will be included in the following example.
Enough talk, let me introduce you to a simple Soapi spike named UserDatabase.exe, a windows console app that you may re-purpose to your heart's content.
The purpose of this app is to responsibly and efficiently maintain a local database of all (or most) Stack Exchange users above an arbitrary reputation threshold.
This implementation will use a System.Data.SQLite data store the code is quite easily ported to any RDBMS.
There are 2 modes of use for this application:
At the completion of each mode, users will be ranked ordered by siteUrl, rep desc, creation, and userId. (this is the little bit extra I was talking about).
Additionally we will explore using Site.Aliases to migrate users when a site moves.
What to pull
For most use cases, you are only interested in users above a certain reputation.
The minimum recommended reputation is 100 as the vast majority of users on the larger sites are both under 100, anonymous and/or inactive.
If you pull >= 1000 rep, the cycle will be very prompt, less than 5 minutes for ALL stackexchange users with rep >=1000 and result in a SQLite file around 10mb with around 220 total requests.
If you pull >= 100 rep, the cycle will be lest prompt, around 25 minutes to finish the sequential trickle pull of Stack Overflow and result in a SQLite file around 50mb.
This is at max 1 request per second. If you open the firehose and pull at full speed you will save only a very small percentage of time, so being conservative is the best approach all the way around.
A full pull will take several hours to complete the sites with larger user bases such as Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Overflow.
In the case of Stack Overflow, this means 3000+ requests vs 100 requests for rep 1000 and 400 requests for rep 100. The choice is up to you.
If there is a valid use case for a pull to 0, I would suggest performing it but once a week at a time when you know you have 3000 extra stack overflow requests to burn.
The command line for this app is as follows:
e.g. the debug command line of the sample project is
to top-off or refresh just those users that have been created since last pull:
NOTE: Pull processes are throttled at a very low rate, max 1 request per second, and full pulls should be considered long running processes. The upside is that the impact on your overall throttle quota will be negligible as will network and CPU usage. Another compelling reason to restrict request rate as such is the fact that many threads will be in contention for a lock on the database file. This restricted rate gives those threads a good chance at the lock and actually adds to efficiency.
The code:
SQLiteDataAccessHelper .cs
And thats it. Soapi.CS, making the Stack Exchange API easy peasy since 2010. ;-)
find the runnable project in the latest Soapi source code on BitBucket
Shhhh.. don't tell anyone but I just gave away the functional core of the upcoming V2 of SOREP. ;-)
Existing Service
You may use this interactive service to find a user by email address or username.
You may call this API to find a user by email address or username.
the UserDatabase sample provides a means to maintain a local user database and as described you may filter this dataset by
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That is, if $f: X \rightarrow Y$ and $g:Y \rightarrow Z$ are bundle projections, is $g \circ f: X \rightarrow Z$ a bundle projection? Assume $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ are manifolds.
Here is what I know. The answer is affirmative when (1) $f$ is a covering map and $g$ is bundle projection; (2) $f$ is a bundle projection and $g$ is a covering map of finite degree. What can we say about the most general situation?


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Bioshock Infinite – Burial at Sea: Episode Two dated for March with new screenshotWritten by: / / 2 Comments
Irrational Games has just sent out word that the second episode of the intriguing Bioshock Infinite downloadable content, Burial at Sea, will become available starting March 25th.
Bioshock Infinite – Burial at Sea: Episode Two will focus on stealth as you take on the role of Elizabeth with new weapons available to you, all while continuing to investigate the mysteries of Rapture, why you're there and how you might be able to escape the ocean-bound city. Creative director of Irrational Games, Ken Levine, said of the content:
"In Burial at Sea – Episode Two, we are delivering a story that involves nearly every major character from the original BioShock and BioShock Infinite. It is a story that will give gamers a new perspective on the BioShock universe and conclude the story of BioShock Infinite and Burial at Sea."
You can watch a spoilery snippet of gameplay from Episode Two over here, should you wish, or else you can just wait until March 25th when it's out on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Are you excited to continue from the events of Episode One, or are you yet to jump into the mysterious DLC?
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In the NBA, a Quarter Can Be Worth Plenty
Who is the best scorer in the NBA playoffs? It depends on the quarter.
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has wowed with amazing third quarters this spring, including a 22-point third quarter in a Game 1 loss to the Spurs earlier this week. He's averaged 11.1 points per third quarter in these playoffs, up from 5.4 points in the regular season. But that isn't even the only dramatic difference for players in this year's postseason.
Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant has nearly doubled his output in the first quarter, averaging 10.1 points, up from 5.6 during the season. Durant is likely trying to make up for the loss of injured Thunder teammate Russell Westbrook. Durant's scoring, however, is down in the second quarter (6.6 points), after he averaged 7.6 in the regular season.
The Knicks' J.R. Smith, this year's sixth-man award winner, usually comes off the bench and sparks his team in the second quarter (5.4 points). But in this year's playoffs, he's only averaged 2.7 points in the second quarter.
Curry, of course, leads all players in third-quarter scoring, but Durant (9.5 points per third quarter) isn't far behind.
When it comes to the fourth quarter, there are some surprises. Chicago Bulls guard Nate Robinson is 8.3 points in the fourth quarter in the postseason, up from only 4.8 points during the regular season, when he played sparingly. Miami's Ray Allen, no doubt helped by his role as sharpshooting closer, has been heating it up in the last stanza, scoring 6.8 points per fourth quarter, up from 4.5 during the regular season.
Carmelo Anthony, long criticized for his play when the game is on the line, can throw this at his critics: his 8.1 average point tally in the fourth quarter is up from the 6.9 he scored during the regular season and second behind all scorers left in the playoffs.
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are stove top griddle only for gas top stoves?
The stove top griddles I have used worked equally poorly on electric as on gas.
I have a cast iron 'griddle' for stove top use. I use it on my electric range and it works fairly well, but if there is any foodstuff on the stove it gets baked on and is hard to clean, so I have to scrupulously clean the stovetop first.
This question isn't straight forward as there are so many types of electric stove/cooker tops. It would depend on whether you have radiant rings, sealed plates, halogen, ceramic or induction hobs.
Induction rings will heat any ferrous material (iron pan) but works better with a flat bottom.
Other than in the case of induction if the griddle fitted well and had a flat bottom for good thermal contact it would work fine but the shape of your cooker top might make this difficult to find.
Many types of hob would get scratched by an ill fitting griddle where as gas fittings tend to be quite heavy duty.


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As $\pi$ has infinite digits in its decimal expansion, one could argue that its digits will repeat after a finite number of digits. If so, it is a rational number. What's wrong with this argument?
There's nothing wrong with the argument
in the same way that there's nothing wrong with the argument
But in both cases the left side is false so the implication is true only trivially. $\pi$ is known to be irrational (in fact, transcendental).
I am guessing that you are mixing up the fact that some digit will have to reappear infinitely many times in the expansion (since there are infinitely many decimal places to fill and only 10 choices for each) - this is correct - with the (incorrect) idea that this means the expansion will be repeating.
(Addendum: actually it occurs to me you may have been thinking about the idea that some block of digits will reappear infinitely often. This is also correct. In fact, for the same reason that at least one digit will appear infinitely often, there will be a block of digits of length $n$, for any $n$, that repeats infinitely many times. But as I hope the comments below show, this is still different from settling into a repeating pattern.)
Since the argument does not make use of any special features of $\pi$, to see what's going on we could consider any irrational number. Here is one manufactured to make it clear what's going on with the digits in the long run:
This number was designed so that I could make sure the decimal expansion is not eventually repeating. There is no segment of the decimals such that eventually the expansion consists of this segment over and over again, because the sequences of 1's and 0's get longer and longer.
Now, what I took you to be saying is that because there are infinitely many places in the expansion, some digits have to happen infinitely often. This is correct. (It's a consequence of the pigeonhole principle.) However, they don't happen in a repeating pattern. In the case at hand, the digits 0 and 1 both occur infinitely often, but not in a repeating way. Similarly, in $\pi$, some digit must occur infinitely often, but they never settle into a cycle that repeats itself.
$$ 3.1415926535\ldots $$ The digit $1$ "repeats" since it appears in the third place after the decimal point after appearing earlier in the first place after the decimal point; likewise $3$ repeats since it appears in the ninth place after the decimal point after appearing earlier before the decimal point, and $5$ similarly repeats.
The pigeonhole principle says that kind of "repetition" must happen no later than the 11th digit, since only $10$ digits can be distinct.
But that's not the sort of "repetition" from which one can infer that a number is rational. That involves periodicity.
Consider the Champernowne constant: $$ 0\ .\ 1\ 2\ 3\ 4\ 5\ 6\ 7\ 8\ 9\ 10\ 11\ 12\ 13\ \dots $$
It is made by counting out loud and writing down whatever number you are saying. (Notice I don't intend for the number "13" to occupy a single place value, but rather I write down a "1" and then a "3".)
This number has infinitely-many digits, since there are infinitely-many counting numbers. The number cannot be expressed as some finite string of digits repeating infinitely-often, since you won't find a repeat in the set of counting numbers.
I struggled with this theory until I read an article similar to the one listed below outlining the reality of infinity.
"Take, for instance, the so-called natural numbers: 1, 2, 3 and so on. These numbers are unbounded, and so the collection, or set, of all the natural numbers is infinite in size. But just how infinite is it? Cantor used an elegant argument to show that the naturals, although infinitely numerous, are actually less numerous than another common family of numbers, the "reals." (This set comprises all numbers that can be represented as a decimal, even if that decimal representation is infinite in length. Hence, 27 is a real number, as is π, or 3.14159….)
In fact, Cantor showed, there are more real numbers packed in between zero and one than there are numbers in the entire range of naturals. He did this by contradiction, logically: He assumes that these infinite sets are the same size, then follows a series of logical steps to find a flaw that undermines that assumption. He reasons that the naturals and this zero-to-one subset of the reals having equally many members implies that the two sets can be put into a one-to-one correspondence. That is, the two sets can be paired so that every element in each set has one—and only one—"partner" in the other set."


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Visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal, MFA faculty member Major Jackson, and alumna Kiran Desai '93 are among the 175 artists, scholars, and scientists—out of nearly 3,000 applicants—to receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Ann Pibal's abstract paintings have been exhibited widely at venues in the United States and Europe (including, currently, at the Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston). Her work is displayed in many public collections, including The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She has received awards from the Tiffany Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, and others.
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I'm working on a series of NPC cards but I'm having trouble finding good pictures. Is there a good source for public domain/creative commons fantasy-themed art out there? Is there another good way to get art other than Google Images?
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You can do a search on deviant art for creative commons art work. The quality will vary though.
EDIT: You could also search flickr. if you got o flickr then click search -> advanced search then in there type what ever you are looking for (elf in the example link below), rather you want photo's or drawn art and click the creative common's check box.
Example looking for elf, photo's only, Illustration/Art / Animation/CGI, and creative commons only.
Google's Image search also works really well, I searched for creative commons fantasy art and got back a large number of hits.
If you are willing to go for a certain feel, there is a huge body of illustration in the public domain.
When I laid out Love in the Time of Seið, which Matthijs Holter and I co-wrote, I found wonderful nordic fantasy illustrations using Google Books. I limited the time frame for results to pre-1910 and then scanned domestic American children's books for illustrations. In that case what I found was a pair of great books, so our illustrations are by Victor R. Lambdin and E. Boyd Smith, from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall (Rand McNally & Co, 1902) and In the Days of the Giants by Abbie Farwell-Brown (Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1902) respectively. The .pdf versions were of high enough resolution that I could extract 300 dpi images.
Generating 60 CC-licensed black-and-white character portraits was the goal of the Kickstarter project "60 Terrible Character Portraits For Creative Commons Release". The project ended with enough funding to commision 108 character portraits, and the high-resolution images are available for download.
Just to help address the above,
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ , http://www.oldbookart.com/
Generally when searching looking for Public Domain or Royalty Free (as opposed to creative commons, which while certainly works, I find has a much smaller body of stuff in it due to it being a license as opposed to a state like Public Domain in which things fall after so much time).
I used Liam's from old books (the first link) quite a bit and it works well. Its hard to find specifically fantasy stuff on it, but there is a great deal of victorian and 1910's children illustrations that work fantasically i find.
Dover Books has sold compilations of royalty-free art for decades. Very affordable books, no additional costs. Be sure to review the extensive list on the left side of:
Notable: Fantastic Ornament: 110 Designs and Motifs "Swirling with gargoyles, devils, dragons, griffins, and other images that haunt both dreams and nightmares..." (their blurb)
Take a look at a new book called "Fantasy Art Characters To Copy." It features original "conditional" copyright free fantasy characters. The conditions of use are very liberal.I have the book - it's incredible.
The images are high quality, they are not stock pics. They are on blank backgrounds and you can copy them for RPGs or use them in your own artwork or as-is. And it says you can use the images for profit (no comp to the artist) as long as they're not used via commercial retail distribution, then comp and permission is required. And there's supposed to be more books in the series coming to include more characters. Here's the link:
For NPCs there is our ePic Character Generator (for PC). It generates customized NPC images and map tokens. We have human, elf, orc and cat add-on packages available, and modern coming soon.
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Confinement of antihydrogen might help provide a future answer. http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4982
You're of course right. Experimentally established, known laws of physics - especially the equivalence principle - are enough to be certain that antimatter has the same gravitational properties - including universal attraction - as ordinary matter.
The justification of further experiments by "tests of antimatter's gravity" is partly based on ignorance and partly on deliberate deception to get funding.
Never seen any good reason to think that antimatter is affected any differently.
Light and anti neutrinos (from supernovas) seem to be affected by gravity the same as regular mass, and the theory of gravity (general relativity) doesn't distinguish mass and any other energy. If we beam a gamma photon down the gravitational well (from space to ground, for example), it gets blue shifted a little bit - it gains energy. If we use that gamma photon to produce matter antimatter pair and send the pair up the gravitational well, unless the antimatter is affected by gravity exactly the same as matter (and light), the conservation of energy will be violated. It makes absolutely no sense for antimatter to be affected by gravity differently than light, when the matter is affected by gravity the same as light. (note: no, there is no anti-light)
I guess it is the usual opportunistic fundraising, exploiting the ignorance. It is hard to raise funds for real research, realistically presented - it sounds obscure and layman has no idea what it is for - and it is easy to raise funds for something that layman thinks is a huge question with good likehood of something extremely awesome, like antigravity. When one is perfectly ignorant then the likehood is fifty-fifty.
See the paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4937 by M. Villata for an argument for antimatter falling up. However, see D.J. Cross at http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5117 for powerful rebuttal arguments, asserting that Villata misapplied the CPT theorem, resulting in an incorrect sign for the matter-antimatter gravitational interaction.
See http://lss.fnal.gov/archive/test-fn/0000/fermilab-fn-0822-cd-t.pdf for a general review of the previously existing experimental evidence from Etvos and other experiments such as accelerometers, Kaons, astrophysical neutrino's from SN1987A.


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This is another patent that reveals much more about the inventor than what he actually invented. This guy proposed a Saw-style contraption to tell when people are sexually excited by sensing genital swelling. Because the penis is normally so subtle about that. The device involves copper wiring, hinges, electricity and harnesses -- he only needs hissing spiders to complete our "things we don't want on our dick" list.He's also convinced that this baby is the Swiss army knife of genital measurement.
Because apparently, it works on boobs, too. Anything claiming to fit both penis and breast is either a human mouth or lying (and not nearly as much fun). He also suggests it could be used by federal agencies to detect "deviant sexual tendencies," which is pretty ballsy for someone who built an electrical cock-collar and then told the government, "THIS IS MINE. I DID THIS."
#2. The Eureka Cock-Measuring Bath
Patent # US 20060111650A1 (Note: Do NOT offer to wash the dishes in this man's house.)
The very first line of this patent is "A volumetric device for measuring a body part," which is a bit shy for a man who invented a way to stick his dick in a water hole that wasn't his wife.
Was that offensive to women? Shit, we don't even know anymore.
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b) are at the lower end of that scale. This inventor might be the worst of all because he's not just insecure enough to care about penis size, he's pedantic enough to say "Actually we should measure it like this."
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Except this aquatic genital measurement kit has more configurations than the average Transformer and requires a magic watertight barrier that doesn't actually exist. There's absolutely no thought given to removing it without a mess, presumably because as far as Turner is concerned, once you've got your dick in something AND you know how big it is, there's nothing else you could possibly care about. Enjoy cleaning out a sink of penis water, Mrs. Turner.
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Leave it to the French to come up with a sex outfit that will protect you from every STD ever, including AIDS, dignity and air. This is the ultimate in safe sex, and that's "ultimate" as in "last," because anything you need this to screw is going to just kill you anyway. It's like someone was commanded to have a threesome with Tila Tequila and Charlie Sheen and had five minutes to design some way to survive.
The result looks like Tony Stark was stuck in a cave full of Wellington boots instead of weapons.
It's sexy talk taken much too far -- it's one thing to call her a dirty girl, but another to spend an hour clambering into a more ridiculous suit than a Captain Planet villain. You'd also feel more if you stuck your dick in a tractor tire, and at least then there are probably Internet groups you can hang out with.
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- Rubin's proposal for donations (junk) (Rachel or Rubin)
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I think this might be a fun one if some people want to join in. We could read one of Lucian's works each week for some four or five weeks and discuss it. The books are easy to read, short. and very witty. The old Loeb translations are all available for free on the internet. So, anyone up for it?
Nice that you're participating. Icaromenippus is good to begin with.
Participants thus far: (feel free to join)-Severian-TheMathematician-CyrillicWeek 1 (18 till 25 June): IcaromenippusJust read the pages on the right unless you like a challange
Just read it on the computer
So do we have one week or until June 25th? I don't understand.
We should be done by June 25th. It isn't much text, so it isn't too difficult.
I'm in because I need more of a challenge than working a full time job, a part time job, and being a full time student.
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Let $G$ be the group of transformations generated by $T_2$ and $S$.
In my complex analysis textbook, there is a proof that for each point $\tau$ in the upper half-plane, there exists a mapping $g \in G$ such that $g(\tau) \in \mathcal F = \{\tau \in \mathbb C: |\Re(\tau)| \leq 1 \text{ and } \Im(\tau) \geq 0 \text{ and } |\tau| \geq 1 \}$.
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