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Are there any services that 'for a reasonable price' will give and provide good and technical advice on applications. On a lot of projects, I'm usually the only developer, and sometimes, I think some of my work needs to be improved for efficiency, better MVC interactions, etc. It would be great if there was a professional service that actually can and will do such reviews
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Find someone else who's an indie and needs their code reviewing, and buddy up with them. Sitting next to each other in an office or pub is best, but you can use online paste bin services and videoconferencing if there's no one in your town.
There are a lot of software consulting companies out there which will do this kind of service for you. They're not free of course (and often not cheap) but I am working with one now and I find what I learn from them is worth the price.
Not really for lone developers, but as a silo programmer working with other programmers I was able to convince management to allow for cross-training time where we would review each other's code on a rotating basis.
I claimed it would ease problems if a contractor left and there was no one ready to take over his projects.
We did peer 4:1 reviews once a week. It kind of worked and I did get some good advice from the others. And learned what projects to stay away from.
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The Rev. Frank Schaefer met briefly with the Board of Ordained Ministry at church offices in suburban Philadelphia. Schaefer apparently made good on an earlier vow that he wouldn't voluntarily surrender his credentials as ordered by a religious jury.
Officials had no choice but to terminate his ministerial office, church spokesman John Coleman said afterward.
"When asked to surrender his credentials as required by the verdict, he refused to do so," Coleman said. "Therefore, because of his decision, the board was compelled by the jury's decision to deem his credentials surrendered."
Schaefer left the building without commenting. He planned to hold a news conference Thursday afternoon at a Methodist church in Philadelphia where an associate minister was defrocked in 2005 for being in a lesbian relationship.
Last month, a church jury suspended Schaefer for 30 days for performing the 2007 wedding of his gay son in Massachusetts, where same-sex unions are legal. Although the Methodist church accepts gay and lesbian members, it rejects the practice of homosexuality as "incompatible with Christian teaching" and bars clergy from performing same-sex unions.
The issue has split the nation's largest mainline Protestant denomination amid a rapid shift in public opinion. Same-sex marriage will soon be legal in 16 states, and opinion polls show that a majority of Americans now support it. Hundreds of Methodist ministers have publicly rejected church doctrine on homosexuality, and some of them face discipline for presiding over same-sex unions. Last month, in a public challenge to church rules, a retired Methodist bishop officiated at a wedding for two men in Alabama.
Most other Protestant denominations have decided their position on the issue one way or another. But the Methodists, with about 7.7 million members in the U.S. and many more members overseas, remain divided. At their last national meeting in 2012, delegates reaffirmed the church's 40-year-old policy on gays.
Jurors who convicted Schaefer said he should use the suspension time to decide whether he could uphold the church's Book of Discipline. If he decided he could not, he was told to give up his pulpit in Lebanon by Thursday.
Schaefer gave his answer publicly Monday during a news conference in Philadelphia, surrounded by dozens of sympathetic ministers and laity. Schaefer described the Book of Discipline as contradictory and biased against gay people, said he would not go quietly.
"I cannot voluntarily surrender my credentials because I am a voice now for many - for tens of thousands - of LGBT members in our church," he said then.
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I've made a bit of progress & I couldn't resist snapping this photo:The yarn is Ultra Alpaca Light, worked rather firmly on size 2(US) needles.
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Cute cozy! but now that song is stuck in my head!December 28, 2007
This egg holder is a work of Art. I lived in Germany for a few years and everyone had 3 minute eggs in the morning with their breakfast bread and wonderful coffee. This would have been perfect ..what a great table deco. I am just learning to knit and this is something I will keep in mind for a later project. Thank you for sharing. Rowena Tank, Prescott, ArizonaJanuary 4, 2008
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Have begun to knit again as I have a great niece and nephew and baby knits are faster!
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A Carmi man was booked at the City-County Jail in Carmi on a preliminary DUI charge following a single vehicle crash at Kerney and Church streets in Carmi Friday night.
A Carmi Police Department incident report identified the man as 51-year-old Terry L. Holland.
The report said officers responded to a report of a crash at the intersection and found a white Isuzu Hombre off the roadway with Holland inside. The driver's door was against a utility pole, preventing Holland from exiting the vehicle on the driver's side.
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- Cubs take Series at Miller Park 5:26pm Jul 23
- Nieuwenhuis and Davies lead Brewers Past the Cubs 10:06pm Jul 22
- Cubs top the Brewers 10:23pm Jul 21
- Brewers lose series to the Pirates 9:48pm Jul 20
- Brewers sink the Pirates 10:02pm Jul 19
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Armchair Ted Thompson
In Green Bay, it HAS to be worse than any other city (probably not, but I like to think so) because Ted Thompson virtually treats free agency like the plague. Could this year be different? Maybe? The sense of urgency seems to be at a recent high by fans as the team has not recaptured the success they had in 2010 when people praised them and their future like the Seahawks are being praised now.
I thought it would be fun do this for the "Fantasy GMs" that are out there. Monday on my show, I had people call in a make 3-moves for Green Bay; resigning players, trades, and (of course) free agents. Here is what everyone came up with!
ME (of course I had to play):
1.) Resign Sam Sheilds (I grandfathered this move in becaue I came up with this idea last week, before he was resigned).
2.) Sign ILB Brandon Spikes - bolster a weak position
3.) Sign KR/PR Devin Hester - they want Randall Cobb off the field, he would do that
Rex in Little Chute (email)
1.) Sign a safety (I asked for specific players, didn't get a response)
2.) Resign John Kuhn
3.) Late Free Agency, sign Jared Allen
Cecil (phone)
1.) sign Donte Whitner
2.) Draft well (cop out, didn't want anymore)
Joe in Appleton (phone)
1.) sign Demarcus Ware
2.) sign Jared Allen
3.) sign Chris Clemons
Tony (phone)
1.) sign Lamar Houston (with resigning Pickett)
2.) resign Evan Dietrich-Smith
3.) resign Andrew Quarless
Richie (phone)
1.) resign B.J Raji and move him inside
2.) sign Linval Joesph
3.) sign Chris Clemons
3A.) resign Evan Dietrich-Smith
Scott in Appleton (phone with the assumption Raji resigns)
1.) sign Malcolm Jenkins
2.) resign Mike Neal
3.) sign Garrett Graham
Jim in Neenah (email)
1.) sign Malcom Jenkins or Mike Mitchell
2.) resign Evan Dietrich-Smith
3.) sign Jon Beason
also points to Sheilds move
Kullin in Kimberly (phone)
1.) resign Sam Shields (allowed)
2.) sign T.J Ward
3.) deal for Jimmy Graham
Dennis in Appleton (email)
1.) resign B.J Raji
2.) sign Devin Hester
3.) sign Jared Allen
Chris in Appleton (email)
1.) sign Tyson Jackson
2.) sign Malcom Jenkins
3.) sign Devin Hester
Mark (phone)
1.) resign Sam Sheilds
2.) resign Raji to the one year deal
3.) sign Arthur Jones and Antoine Bethea
@JustinHullRadio ok. easy. finley. eds. james jones. all offense. all the time. #divisionchamps #8and8 #packers
— Mike McCarthy (@fakmikemccarthy) March 10, 2014
@JustinHullRadio Lamarr Houston, Michael Mitchell, EDS
— cam mccarthy (@cmccarthy12) March 10, 2014
@JustinHullRadio Resign Raji, go get Woodley, and get ready to trade down and around for more pics. And maybe Dietrich Smith as a wildcard.
— Jordan Steger (@jsteger11) March 10, 2014
@JustinHullRadio Devin Hester (return man and adds x-factor to O), Arthur Jones (helps terrible d-line), Donte Witner (adds physical element
— Andy Vanderloop (@lc_atv) March 10, 2014
@JustinHullRadio Eh whatever, I'm going with: C EDS, OLB Mike Neal, and ILB Daryl Smith (if he wasn't already signed, which I haven't seen)
— Steve Hurley (@StevieHurls) March 10, 2014
@JustinHullRadio Brandon Spikes Brandon Pettigrew & TJ Ward! 3 locks for FA
— Ryan Gullickson (@ryangully11) March 10, 2014
@JustinHullRadio Shields as u know was my 1... Then give up the 2 first rounds for Graham... 3rd: J Byrd for a nose for the ball...
— Bryan Moen (@MoenBryan) March 10, 2014
So who did well? We will look back as the season goes on and see who the best "Armchair Ted Thompson" was!
@JustinHullRadio KR/PR - Dexter McCluster, DE - Tyson Jackson and LB - Brandon Spikes or Rolando McClain
— Brian Rammer (@bramm31) March 11, 2014
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Older consumers do. The young read privacy statements, but don't worry about privacy.
Amazon's Privacy Statement and Terms of Use run about 6,200 words—that's about 14 single-spaced pages. To make a purchase on Amazon.com, you are not required to read these terms, but you are required to agree to them.
Amazon is by no means unique in this area—all e-commerce sites include acceptance of terms and conditions as part of doing business. The question is: Do consumers understand what they are agreeing to? Moreover, do they care?
Etailing Solutions recently conducted a survey of 176 online shoppers to better understand consumer attitudes about privacy and online shopping. Here are some key takeaways:
privacy statements on websites where they shop.
Some of these findings make sense. Digital-from-birth Millennials are understandably comfortable with the idea of sharing personal information. After all, they are the ones whose fondness for living in public have made Facebook and Twitter household names.
Conversely, Baby Boomers who have been around long before WWW and "@" were commonplace might be a bit skeptical of marketers that claim to be collecting personal information in order to "provide a more relevant shopping experience." Boomers have enough real-world experience to understand how the lack of vigilance over their personal information can lead to credit card fraud, identity theft and a host of other really nasty experiences.
What is as interesting as it is concerning is that the strong privacy sentiments of Boomers does not necessarily translate into action. (Wasn't this the group that railed against apathy in the 60's?) This group should be savvy enough to understand what is at stake. But for many, the debate about whether or not marketers should be able to use personal data is akin to whether or not there is life on Mars: Everyone has an opinion, but few actually take any action as a result of that opinion.
So for now, the majority of consumers rely on the hope that marketers will go about their business carefully and ethically. It makes me wonder if I am the only person who took the time to read Google's comment at the end of its Terms of Service Update:
"Thank you for making it to the end of this page – we know this stuff can be dry, but we think it is important."
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Obviously acoustic and classical guitars don't have external pickups that need to be setup, but are there any other adjustments that need to be done on a regular basis? There doesn't seem to be a bolt at the head of the guitar to adjust the neck like there is in my electric, and such. I can't imagine that one should just do nothing and expect the neck to not warp and the guitar to play well forever.
Good question. A nylon strung instrument exerts a lot less tension through the strings than a steel strung instrument, and as a result a well made guitar doesn't need to have the extra reinforcement in the neck of a truss rod (the job of which is to counteract the forces trying to bow the neck toward the fretboard). Having said that, though, if your steel strung instrument needs regular adjustment to the truss rod I'd take that as a warning sign that something is not right (poor quality instrument, exposure to rapid changes in temperature or humidity, etc.) I have a dozen or so guitars that hardly ever need any adjustment, unless I change string gauge.
In short, there are very few reasons you'd need to make adjustments - the art and science of constructing well made instruments has had hundreds of years of development, and most instruments you can buy these days will give many years of service with little or no need to tweak.
Many acoustic guitars have a truss rod that is accessed via the inside of the body of the guitar. There are some guitars that do not have them, and there are also some acoustic guitars that have them accessible via the headstock.
Sometimes the action is so bad that sufficient adjustments cannot be made via the truss rod alone.
If the adjustments aren't too severe, shaving down the saddle can lower the action (if it is too high), and adding shims under the saddle can bring it up (if it is too low).
If adjusting the saddle is not enough, you have to do what is called a "neck reset". This involves having a repair person remove the neck of the guitar and reshape the joint where it connects with the body.
Yes, all guitars need to setup or adjusted over their lifetime. Check the following and have your guitar checked out by someone who knows what they are doing if you are not comfortable:
Proper adjustments over time will never hurt an instrument, and may indeed make them play better and last longer. Each instrument needs to be set up from time to time, and someone who really knows what their doing and can "read" what the wood does or may do over a course of a year will provide a great instrument no matter what original condition or price was paid. A good guitar setup is best viewed as an investment in its fulfilling life.
Often guitarists will perform these setups themselves since they know what tension or size of string they use, how they play, where they play, and what kind of buzz they can get away with (or lack there-of). Major repairs that require special tools are often left for the luthiers and guitar techs.
There is a system in place to keep the guitar's physics from counteracting in a negative way. This is usually, and most importantly the straightness of the neck and fingerboard and its relation to the truss rod, which as you said, has an adjustment at the headstock, or adjustment at the end of the neck near or at the neck heel.
However, with an occasional setup, and keeping the guitar comfortable (meaning, not leaving it anywhere you wouldn't want to be left) in a proper case and humidified environment it will tend to stay exactly in its happy zone for nearly the entirety of its life. It is very much up to the owner just how far it gets out of it's happy place or not though, unfortunately.
Speaking of proper care:
I'm currently working on readjusting and resetting necks in two cheap Epiphones that were haphazardly left unattended and out of their case. The necks or fingerboards snapped apart and the action of the strings - and therefore the delicate balance with the truss rod - had drifted to an uncomfortable zone. And just one unfortunate event caused these guitars to significantly play worse (and therefore "harder") from where they were at before, off the assembly line. With time, these guitars may be back to similar original condition and playable for someone who cares enough for them.


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when I am trying to access the server through ssh it says:
ssh: connect to host xx.yyy.zzz.x port 22: Connection refused
and on the server in
auth.log it shows following log entry:
Address xx.yyy.zzz.x maps to xx.yyy.zzz.x.static-pune-vsnl.net.in, but this does not map back to the address - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
I have created a user account for that user and it is also in enabled status.
Requested info
- It is Ubuntu 11.10
- It is configured as SSH Server using openssh-server
- I am trying to connect to this server using Putty from Windows 7 i.e. My Desktop
- I have also asked this in superuser as per the request of @zpletan and link to that question is given below.
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KILLEEN (October 24, 2012) --- Ronald Singh, 27, was free on bond Thursday after he was arrested and charged with assault, resisting arrest and burglary in an incident in Killeen involving a break-in, an assault and the death of a dog.
Singh was arrested on Oct. 19 at a home in the 4200 Block of Telluride Drive in Killeen.
According to an arrest affidavit, officers arrived at the home and found a broken window and smoke coming out of the home.
When they entered they put out a small fire in a closet.
They took Singh into custody when he came out of the home, but not without some difficulty, the affidavit said.
Officers ordered Singh to get on the ground before they detained him and he refused, the affidavit said.
Two officers had to force Singh's hands behind his back to put handcuffs on him, the affidavit said.
Officers reported smelling lighter fluid on Singh, who later said his genitals were burning because he had poured lighter fluid on himself, the affidavit said.
Officers also found traces of blood on Singh, the affidavit said.
Inside the home, officers found blood on the wall and carpet and saw blood coming from a small black dog that appeared to be dead inside a cage, the affidavit said.
Animal control officers were called after the dog was found.
A woman who told officers she was Singh's ex-wife said she had been choked and assaulted, the affidavit said.
A judge set bond for Singh at $110,000 and jail records show he bonded out of jail on Monday.


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Just finished making and eating this for dinner. Was delicious, just what I was hoping for. Followed the recipe as is except didn't add the water. I cannot wait to have more tomorrow!!! Lots of leftovers.
Skillet Gnocchi with Chard & White Beans
From EatingWell: January/February 2009
In this one-skillet supper, we toss dark leafy greens, diced tomatoes and white beans with gnocchi and top it all with gooey mozzarella. Serve with a mixed green salad with vinaigrette.
419 Reviews for Skillet Gnocchi with Chard & White Beans
This just did not turn out as I expected. Apparently, 7 minutes was too long to cook the gnocchi, so mine were extremely mushy. There was far too much liquid, so the whole thing was soupy. And, because I used swiss chard, the whole dish had an appalling pink color that made it look like vomit. The taste wasn't bad, but between the looks and the texture, most of it went into the trash. And I did make the recipe exactly as listed.
I was disappointed, since the ingredients sounded great; but this was a mushy mess. I used Trader Joe's whole-wheat gnocchi and wondered if using traditional would have made a difference, but this was nearly inedible. I ended up composting most of it.
Great recipe to incorporate loads of vitamin A and potassium into your diet, while still tasting good. I do however have a few suggestions. First, use Vegetable Broth instead of water. This makes this recipe at least twice as good compared to plain water. Choose to lowered sodium variety to stay within the healthy realm. Second, use your senses to decide when the Kale has been wilted down enough. From my experience the cook times were at least twice as long to get the right texture and consistency needed in a proper vegetarian dish. Third, try the Whole Wheat with Sweet Potato gnocchi for an added degree of complexity coupled with extra health benefits. So would I cook this again? You betcha!
Made this tonight for the first time. I followed the recipe exactly as written (using spinach instead of chard), and It was delicious! Low ratings for this recipe are from spammers and people who didn't follow the recipe. I hate it when people don't follow a recipe as it is written, and then give it a low rating. This was fast, easy, and delicious!
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This is amazing! I use baby
This is amazing! I use baby spinach because I love it and always have it on hand. We have made this three times now.... I would have to say It's a keeper!!!
No offense, but some folks
No offense, but some folks have different tastes. They may not be able to put to words exactly their experience, but some have legit complaints/concerns. One of the most common reviews is the recipe is bland. For people who are used to using a lot of spice and herbs in dishes this recipe would be bland and boring; there are no herbs or even salt used in the recipe. Salt livens flavor. Gnocci are potatoes and need salt or they are often bland, especially the crappy dried ones that need reconstituting. Peeps that don't agree with you aren't always idiots.


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It's no coincidence that so many of our modern gadgets seem to have come from Star Trek -- our inventors and engineers all grew up watching it. In many ways, science fiction, not science, leads the way.
But while it's easy to imagine watching the hopeful utopia of Star Trek and saying, "Let's make that real!" it's a little stranger to think the same after watching Blade Runner or Gattaca. Yet ...
#5. A Lab Is Brewing Apocalyptic Superdiseases
The Sci-Fi Premise:
Movies about a worldwide superplague seem to come along every few years (see: last year's Contagion), but within that genre is the more cynical and outlandish "Lab creates and accidentally releases a pandemic" subgenre, like Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Stephen King's The Stand.
The premise is flawed from the start, as is typical of apocalyptic movies. Why in the hell would the government allow a top-secret lab to create a world-killing microbe in the first place? In terms of movie logic, it falls right into the category of "Hey, let's turn our nuclear arsenal over to Skynet" and "We should absolutely take this huge, destructive monkey back to New York."
"Tyrannosaurs are the new house cats!"
The Reality:
And thankfully, for once, we're right! There's no top-secret lab creating an apocalyptic disease. Because the lab is not secret at all, and it's located in Rotterdam.
"It's down past the open-air asbestos dump. If you see the puppy slaughterhouse, you've gone too far."
That's right, in a lab comfortably decorated with a disco ball and functional beer tap -- because if you're going to be working with ridiculously dangerous viruses, it's best to do it while drunk and listening to the one genre of music most likely to destroy your faith in humanity -- virologist Ron Fouchier has experimented on the feared bird flu virus, creating a new mutation that's more dangerous and potentially more contagious than the already-deadly original. In his experiments infecting ferrets with the virus, it eventually became airborne, so direct contact was no longer necessary for infection. The victim just needs to breathe the same air.
At least if he ultimately causes the apocalypse, we can call him Ron "Douchier."
The details of Fouchier's work remain unclear, mainly because the voice of reason that is America's National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has said, "Hey, guys? What you're doing is cool and all, but couldn't terrorists get hold of this and kill basically everyone?" Even if they couldn't break into the lab, there's already evidence that groups like al-Qaida are trying to recruit college-educated members who majored in mad science with a minor in playing with deadly viruses -- so what can't be stolen can still be replicated.
Fouchier's work hasn't been published, mainly to prevent someone from copying it and using it less in the pursuit of science and more in the pursuit of the end of the world as we know it. Meanwhile, we hope they've got some amazing locks on that place.
"Eh, that should be good."
#4. The U.S. Military Is Paying to Re-Create Avatar, Only With Deadly Killbots
The Sci-Fi Premise:
James Cameron's obscenely successful film Avatar involves soldiers traveling to a distant world in search of a valuable resource. The environment and the natives are hostile, however, so they train soldiers to remotely operate avatars: They hook their brains up to a machine and effectively become the artificial person on the other end (you may also remember a similar "humans control avatars with their minds" scenario in the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates, except you probably don't, because who the hell saw Surrogates?).
However, you might have been too caught up in the 3-D and fighting cat people to stop and realize what an amazingly useful (if creepy) technology this would be for a military that wants to keep its "real" soldiers out of harm's way.
"Careful. Last week, I thought I was playing Warcraft and accidentally wiped out half of Russia."
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But the Pentagon sure as hell realized it, as evidenced by their aptly named Project Avatar. That's the thing about having R&D budgets in the billions: If you see a movie you like, you can just call up a few scientists and say, "Make all the badass parts actually happen." Thus DARPA, the hive of batshit insane supervillainy that develops cutting-edge tech for America's armies, has budgeted $7 million to fund robots that work just like avatars.
"Also, we'll all need Fast & Furious cars."
We're not talking about remote-controlled drones, either. Those are old news. No, DARPA wants to "develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bipedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier's surrogate."
"Bipedal" is the key word there. That means they want a walking humanoid robot to do all of the things a soldier would do if he or she were there. And no, it doesn't sound like they're talking about handing the soldier a control pad and letting him play his robot like a video game. They refer to developing the technology of "telepresence" and letting the robot act as a "surrogate" body (damn it, Bruce Willis, if your movie had only grossed more you could have gotten this whole thing named for you).
For some reason, they only want it to say "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker."
How would that work? Well, as this Wired article points out, DARPA has already been developing robots that can work on mind control alone. Whether or not you think any of this is creepy depends entirely on whether you're imagining a platoon of mind-controlled robots with red glowing eyes kicking down a terrorist's door or kicking down yours.
While we're on Avatar, we should probably bring up ...
#3. Investors Are Already Funding Off-World Mining
The Sci-Fi Premise:
The idea of mining other planets/moons/asteroids for minerals not found on Earth wasn't invented by Avatar -- that's what the robots in Blade Runner were built for, after all. But it's never good news -- these movies are always about a dying Earth sending astronauts to go exploit space rocks for the resources we've drained from our own planet. It's what the ship in Alien was doing before the aliens arrived, and it's the backdrop for the video game franchise Dead Space.
"Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to death we go!"
Note that it always ends in a horrific massacre at the hands of otherworldly monsters.
The Reality:
James Cameron, not content to get his hands on just one Ridley Scott sci-fi franchise, has partnered with several other mega-rich investors to bring Blade Runner's dystopia one step closer to reality. Planetary Resources -- a company that was founded two years ago but kept secret until very recently (because that's completely normal and shouldn't creep you out in the slightest) -- plans to make up for our severe shortage of unobtainium here on Earth by sending robots to mine nearby asteroids.
Steve Jurvetson
Seriously, Jim, a $237 million budget and "unobtainium" was the best you could come up with?
With guys like Ross Perot Jr. and Google's Larry Page also pelting the venture with obscene wads of cash, the company isn't wasting any time: They plan to launch their first test craft within two years, and from there, they're looking to aim for near-Earth asteroids, with on-board robots (sorry, they probably won't look like Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah) setting up bases to get down to some off-world mining.
And no, this isn't just a case of bajillionaires not realizing when they can't accomplish something just by tossing cash around: The company was co-founded by Peter Diamandis, who helped start the X-Prize competition to spur nongovernmental space flight -- remember how that turned out? And MIT Professor of Planetary Science Richard Binzel agrees that seeking out things like water and metals on asteroids is a step that humanity must take sooner or later, especially if we want to stake our claim to more of the cosmos. A trip to Mars, for example, might be made possible by stopping at the occasional asteroid to refuel the ship and pick up a latte at Starbucks (come on, you know it'll happen).
On Mars, Apple Stores already outnumber the aliens 3 to 1.
Of course, some of the comments by people involved with the project break away from "progressive, forward-thinking science" and veer more toward "Holy shit, that's totally batshit insane" territory. For example, one of the company's apparent goals is to "capture" a small asteroid and draw it into the moon's orbit so that we can have our very own dangerously-close-to-Earth asteroid to study whenever we want. That can't go wrong, right?
But don't worry, it'll probably be at least a few years before we have to worry about the robots that they send up to live on our new pet asteroid going all psycho when they discover their own mortality. We'll have accidentally opened the portal to hell long before then.
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The description of the Type B tripod adapter states that it "can be adapter to 28mm or 26mm with a plastic fitting"
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What are the laws that define when should someone do only one day of Yom Tov (Shavuot for example) or 2 days?
For example, how long do you have to stay in Israel? Are there other factors?
What are the laws that define when should someone do only one day of Yom Tov (Shavuot for example) or 2 days?
For example, how long do you have to stay in Israel? Are there other factors?
Read this moving story which I find very relevant to your question.
The story is told by a holocaust survivor who came to deeply regret not heeding to Rav Kook's begging of him to make Aliyah in the 20's.
The story suggests that the Halachic criterion for a Ben Eretz Yisrael is only the wholehearted decision to live in Eretz Yisrael.
As has been pointed out in the comments a story (even by the great Simchah Raz) is not a viable Halachic source. It is however something to start with to seek out the source for this opinion.
My assumption is that even those who hold this opinion would require a person who has made the decision to make Aliyah to actually be in Israel for the chag, but maybe not.
Again, according to Rabbi Yaakov Emden, you keep 1 day if you're in Israel right now, no matter where you come from or where you intend to be. If you follow his opinion, this question is moot. The prevalence of this opinion has had a resurgence in recent years, especially as we all move around so much, no one really is "of" a specific place like they used to be. (Also, 300 years ago, you'd maybe have a small handful of non-Israelis visiting for yomtov. Today it's a giant industry; as Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach said, the walls of Jerusalem cry every time the non-Israelis make a second-day yomtov minyan here.)
But assuming we follow the somewhat more mainstream approach, that a non-Israeli keeps 2 days; ask a rabbi. But often the criterion is either:
The flipside is the sincere yeshiva boy who swears on a Bible (not literally) that he's never leaving Israel -- but keeps calling his parents in Cedarhurst for money, and if they put their foot down, he'd have to go home. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein told a young R' Asher Zelig Rubinstein that he should have kept 2 days in this case.
Just to add to the many opinions already brought down, Hacham Ovadia Yosef, in Hazon Ovadia Hilchot Yom Tov footnote 22 of Hilchot Yom Tov Sheni Shel Galuyot (and likely elsewhere) writes that a single man or woman from Chutz La'aretz who is old enough to get married can keep one day while in Israel.
He combines the shita of the Hacham Tzvi and Shulchan Aruch Harav, which says that everyone keeps one day in Israel, with the logic that if one doesn't have a family, he isn't tied down to a single location. He says that since, hypothetically, if one would find a shidduch in Israel, a source of income, he would be willing to settle there, he is no longer considered 'tied down' to chutz la'aretz. Even if his parents would object, he argues that a child does not need to heed his parents when it comes to a shidduch.
There's a popular story that generally accompanies this pesak din: a young man once came to Hacham Ovadia and told him that he isn't ready to marry, and therefore should keep two days. Hacham Ovadia asked him, "What if you found the perfect girl, who was willing to marry you today? Wouldn't you marry her?" The boy asserted that he would not. He asked him, "What if I offer you my granddaughter? wouldn't you marry her??" Again, the boy asserted that he would not. Hacham Ovadia concluded, "in that case you're completely patur from all mizvot: you're a shoteh gamur!"
Many Sepharadic students who study in Israel after High School (who the footnote is actually addressed to) rely on this pesak din (but of course CYLOR).
To clarify AviD's answer above - R Shlomo Zalman Auerbach says if you are in Israel for the 3 festivals (that's not just pesach and sukkot) you take on the customs of a person from Israel. So as soon you commit you will keep one day. The Chocham Zvi holds that even passing through Israel you would keep one day, but he asks many questions on this opinion, but since he said it, there is room to be lenient in the matter.
If however you cannot make it to Israel because of circumstances out of your control, you have to keep the full 2 days, and do not put tephilin on 2nd day etc, because you do not become a 1 day person through this, just that you are not relevant to keeping 2 days, because you are never out of Israel for the festival.
51% of days of year will decide if you live in Israel or not for being a 1 day person or not.
Look up Hilchos Shlomo for Yomtov....
I've seen so many different variations on this halacha, some that border on the absurd. On one hand, on the second day of Shavuot I once ate by a family who had lived in Jerusalem for 8 years, kept intending to leave, but had never quite managed to do it -- nevertheless, their rav told them to keep 2 days. On the other hand, I've met people who lived in chutz l'aretz for just as long (or longer) and only kept 1 day of Yom Tov.
I'll try to post the psak found in Yalkut Yosef in another answer, but this really is a question where you need to consult your rav, even if you think you know the answer.
Sorry, I can't find the source right now, but I'll try to come back and fix this up later...
But the defining requirement here is 3 regalim in a row - Sukkot-Pesach-Shavuot. (I think there might be a sub-requirement that they start in the right order, e.g. not starting from Shavuot-Sukkot-Pesach, but if/when I find th source I'm sure that will clear up.)
There is also an opinion that it is based on the source of your income - e.g. even if you live in U.S. "temporarily", but e.g. your parents live in Israel and are financing you whil you're in college, or something - then you'd still keep only 1 day (with certain restrictions on the 2nd day, different question).
However, as others have said - consult with your own Rav.


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The concrete floor in my garage had been home to a large dog for several years. There is a visible stain and strong smell in one area of the garage floor. The concrete does not appear to be sealed or painted. What is the best way to remove the odor?
Let me save you some time. Forget the pet store products, just go to Home Depot or Lowe's and get yourself a can of primer/sealer, I think Kilz brand is the best.
I had a really bad cat urine odor problem in my townhome many years ago (from previous owners). Like you, I went to the Internet and I tried a lot of suggestions I found there. NONE of those specialty pet odor removal products worked. They just temporarily covered up the smell and during hot weather it came back. Big waste of money and time.
Finally someone suggested the Kilz brand primer/sealer and it worked. The smell never ever came back, and there was a clean "new home" smell. I used it on drywall but I'm sure they have stuff for concrete as well.
Enzymes. Go to your local pet store, they should have quite a few products to remove "pet odor". Stay away from products that are just a perfume, all they will do is mask the oder.
I use Anti Icky Poo: http://antiickypoo.com/ It works great. It's important to remove the odor to prevent repeat offenses. I recommend blocking the area off for a few months in addition.
You could also try Drylok, http://www.ugl.com/drylokMasonry/masonryWaterproofer/latex.php. You probably won't be able to remove anything that is causing the odor in the concrete so I'd try to seal it in instead. I believe they also sell something that will etch the surface of the concrete so the Drylok will adhere better.
I haven't had any luck with enzyme products once the stain is dried and set-in over a long period of time.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – Anderson University women's tennis head coach Joey Eskridge has announced his incoming class for the 2014-15 season, which includes two Division I transfers and two players from the state of South Carolina.
The class includes Ana Baran (Brusque, Brazil / USC Upstate), Mairead Cleary (Sydney, Australia / Oral Roberts), Abigail Gregory (Simpsonville, S.C. / J.L. Mann H.S.) and Ivey Welborn (Anderson, S.C. / T.L. Hanna H.S.). Eskridge will look for production right away from the incoming class as the Trojans look to fill a starting position left by then-senior, Avery Owens.
Name: Ana Baran
Hometown: Brusque, Brazil
Previous School: USC Upstate
Baran comes to Anderson after spending last season at USC Upstate where she appeared in one match during the spring slate, which included a doubles win. During the fall season, the Brazil native advanced to the semifinals of the Terrier Fall Invitational at Wofford College. In doubles, Baron advanced to the finals of the B-2 doubles flight at the Elon Invitational.
Name: Mairead Cleary
Hometown: Sydney, Australia
Previous School: Oral Roberts
Cleary closed out her freshman season at Oral Roberts splitting time between the No. 5 and No. 6 singles positions and the No. 3 doubles slot. Before coming to ORU, the Australia native was the Catholic school singles junior champion in 2008, intermediate champion in 2010 and doubles champion in 2011 and 2012 in her native country. Cleary's brother, Dylan, currently plays tennis for Alabama State and her sister, Shannon, is a member of the UMBC Tennis team.
Name: Abigail Gregory
Hometown: Simpsonville, S.C.
Previous School: J.L. Mann H.S.
Sister of current Trojan, Lindsay Gregory, Abigail Gregory was a former standout at J.L. Mann High School where led her team to a Final Four appearance in the state tournament in 2010. Gregory also posted a victory in the Class AAAA-AAA Singles Tournament in 2011.
Name: Ivey Welborn
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Previous School: T.L. Hanna H.S.
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Mariinsky: NYCCApril 1-20, 2008
Posted 02 April 2008 - 12:01 PM
I also must mention Vishneva's mesmerizing arms in the "harp variation" in "Paquita" - she was weaving dreams out of the air.
Posted 02 April 2008 - 01:26 PM
Posted 02 April 2008 - 01:47 PM
sorry, it's in Russian, but
WITH wonderful glimpses into the performance ;-))
Adorable Lopatkina, greatest chores dancers, those spinning jumps by male chorus
.... and no SOMOVA - thank god.....
PS: should probably quote where I found the link
Thank you Natalia from that forum toooooooo
Posted 02 April 2008 - 02:28 PM
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Posted 02 April 2008 - 08:25 PM
she would look better doing contemporary ballet or something like "Don Quixote" - at the Bolshoi.
Don't you need musicality for those? She is the most unmusical star dancer I have ever seen just from YouTubes alone. Having just watched Aurelie Dupont, an extraordinarily musical dancer, in 'Don Quixote', I don't see why Somova would be good in that. That POB production let me know what 'Don Quixote' could really be--a lot more than just hokey.
b) kick her out to dance in the provinces.
Yes, it might even work in a low way with squawky orchestras which lag in rhythm and can't stay together, because she's one dancer they could keep up with 'in the hard parts.'
She does lack taste and musicality
I can't even get to the 'taste' part. Musically, she should dance without music, so that whatever she does, it could be like a musical improv in dance. Because, in one of the Odette pieces, she not only is not a musical dancer, she just barely keeps with what poorly-played music there is.
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Posted 03 April 2008 - 05:10 AM
Also, I really went in trying to think positive about Somova. I kind of thought, "she can't be that bad." But she wasn't that bad. She was worse.
I was at City Center tuesday night too and haven't posted because most of the earlier posts already reflected my own thoughts.
But Somova? She was worse than I thought too and one of the ideas I came away with is how much she stuck out like a sore thumb.
She stood apart from the rest of the company which had a uniform level of standards (schooling, technique, polish, musicality) and just didn't belong.
I also thought it is a pretty bad reflection of the current management of the company (soon to change???) that she has been placed in such a position of prominence...i.e closing number on opening night. Something like "what ARE they thinking?"
Posted 03 April 2008 - 06:06 AM
Novikova is a lovely and very talented dancer but for me she simply didnt have the authority or attitude for Raymonda. Her dancing was pristine but the character infused arm movements just didnt seem natural or have any meaning attached to them (no hauteur, there was no hint of the young noblewoman ascending to her lofty position at her wedding celebration). She could have been dancing the Rose Adagio, and I wished she had been...
Paquita was fabulous again, Tereshkina is such a strong, beautiful dancer I cannot wait for her Raymonda tonight. Im afraid I have to report that the audience again went wild for Somovas solo - unfortunately there does seem to be a demand for her type of dancing.
My revelation last night - Danila Korsuntsev. Ive seen him 4-5 times before and was never impressed with him as a soloist. He is a tall, handsome man, a great partner with a perfectly proportioned body - but his dancing always seemed perfunctory to me. Last night he partnered Lopatkina in Bayadere and I saw a passion in him Ive never seen before. He was engaged with his ballerina, searching for his Nikiya with desperation, passion and regret and suddenly I noticed what amplitude his leaps had, how perfectly positioned & stretched his line was, the pointed feet and pliant back. Could the hiring of Ivan Kozlov have lit a fire in him, or was it just that at City Center I was sitting much closer to the stage than I usually do for the Kirov?
Lopatkina was, of course gorgeous in Bayadere, though I noticed that in the scarf duet she does all the turns in the same direction. That was irrelevant to me, what mattered was the beauty of her legato flow, the perfection of her line and technique and her warm, passionate Nikiya. Some ballerinas dance this with a coolness suggesting that (even in Solars hallucinogenic dream) she hasnt forgiven him. Lopatkinas Nikiya was warm and passionate, there was still a strong bond of love between them.
I was sitting much closer to the stage last night than I had been on opening night, and from this vantage point it was far more apparent how cramped it is. You could sense that the dancers were mentally calculating how much room they had to work with, in fact Kondaurova finished one of her variations at the very front edge by the wings, just about one step from going over into the pit. This is in no way meant to be a criticism of the dancers, they are doing a fabulous job, but they would be even more fabulous if they had enough room to dance full out without having to re-calibrate every move to fit this stage.
Posted 03 April 2008 - 06:32 AM
totally agree. Been to both, Tuesday & Wednesday. Loved the chemistry between Lopatkina & Korzuntsev (much better than with Kozlov in DC), and their tenderness, you could sense it, when they tilted their heads, almost touching each other, almost caressing without a touch.
Tereshkina, I loved her, her fluidity, her perfection, her classicism ;-))
.... and whoof, I refused to clap to Ms. Acrobat - can someone talk to the company about her ;-(((((
.... going tonight as well ;-))
Posted 03 April 2008 - 07:03 AM
He also has critical words for Somova but is also giving backhanded compliments to Lopatkina and throwing cold water on Vishneva's success. Sounds all very jaded and been there done that. I mean, this is a mixed program of Petipa showpieces - not an evening of Balanchine or Antony Tudor. These are three classical showpieces engineered to show off virtuoso dancers and dazzle the crowd - the "Bayadere" shades working on a higher level as well (though maybe not with Tuesday night's cast). A certain amount of virtuosity for virtuosity's sake is a given considering the repertoire and the gala opening night occasion.
Posted 03 April 2008 - 08:58 AM
Alastair Macauley weighs in via the NY Times:
He also has critical words for Somova but is also giving backhanded compliments to Lopatkina and throwing cold water on Vishneva's success. Sounds all very jaded and been there done that. I mean, this is a mixed program of Petipa showpieces - not an evening of Balanchine or Antony Tudor. These are three classical showpieces engineered to show off virtuoso dancers and dazzle the crowd - the "Bayadere" shades working on a higher level as well (though maybe not with Tuesday night's cast). A certain amount of virtuosity for virtuosity's sake is a given considering the repertoire and the gala opening night occasion.
I agree, Macauleys review was predictably jaded. His editors must be very pleased to see that he keeps coming up with new and ever so erudite ways to be bitchy.
Apollionaire Scherrs brief take on her blog was almost as disappointing.
I disagree strongly with her opinion that everything on opening night before Novikovas shades variation was so studied, but its her opinion and shes entitled to it. However some of her other comments just seem inexplicable. And Im not talking about the fact that she thinks Novikova was the top shade or that Somova is doll like (well, her movement is mechanical).
I realize that this is a brief comment on a blog, not a Newsday review but shes still a professional critic. Youd think shed feel compelled to give her comments some context for her readers. Im not entirely at odds with her opinion, I too would have preferred a full length Raymonda to a single act but its clear from the constricted appearance of these tidbits on the City Center stage that deciding not to stage the Kirovs productions of full length classics here was a wise choice. I feel very luck to live in a city that is home to 2 world class opera companies, 2 world class ballet companies and stages for dozens, if not hundreds of smaller contemporary dance troupes. But its still a shame that New York, once the world capital of Ballet only has one stage large enough to accommodate these grand productions. Its also unfortunate that the Met has so little availability but it is what it is. I certainly prefer seeing one act from each of these grand ballets (carefully staged to fit as well as possible on the small stage) than waiting till 2020, or whenever the Met has a window of opportunity to make available to the great classical ballet companies of the world. Would that the Paris Opera Ballet, Bolshoi etc. were so determined to perform in NY.
Take a look at Joel Lobenthals NY Sun review for the most thoughtful and balanced opinion in the mainstream press so far:
Posted 03 April 2008 - 09:22 AM
Its also unfortunate that the Met has so little availability but it is what it is. I certainly prefer seeing one act from each of these grand ballets (carefully staged to fit as well as possible on the small stage) than waiting till 2020, or whenever the Met has a window of opportunity to make available to the great classical ballet companies of the world.
I think it's a shame that there is no 'second house' besides City Center. I'll be there next week at one of these performances (fortunately, my Somova experience won't have to be in public, or she's not scheduled for that day), but I hate it every time I go there. This is one 'historical treasure' that ought to have been razed, or either build a new auditorium with decent raking already. That the choice is either the Met or City Center is what I find strange for this city--the Met is hardly at fault, being only one house and it's for opera mainly and should be.
It's probably common knowledge, but I don't understand why the State Theater in the summer--July and August at least--is not used for other ballet companies besides the Reverend Moon's company (or it used to be, I don't think I noticed this past summer). Aren't there fairly long periods when NYCO and NYCB aren't using the place? I just called the theater and, due to renovations, NYCO is not having its fall season, but the person said that July and August usually have only occasionally Lincoln Center Festivals. There must be a simple reason why big ballet companies don't use the theater, but I don't know what it is. Would be so much better than NYCC.
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For a while now I have been trying to reduce my intake of fried food, or food otherwise cooked with oil. However I still make a lot of things with onions, and I end up sautéeing them with vegetable oil. If I use a non-stick pan, can I sautée onions without oil? What are some techniques to cook onions without oil?
I would not recommend attempting to cook onions on the stove top without oil.
Another answer suggests that it's a bit like grilling; in theory, it is, but a traditional outdoor grill has a minimal contact surface. That minimizes sticking and makes it fairly difficult to burn food by contact alone. Using a dry fry pan for onions is more akin to searing, except that you generally only sear meat or fish. If you try with an onion, you are likely going to burn it before you ever get to the sweated/caramelized consistency you want.
You really have two options here. The first, and the one I highly recommend, is dry roasting in the oven. Cooking an onion involves the Maillard reaction and the dry, radiant heat of an oven is great for promoting it. Simply toss the onion on a baking sheet and roast it inside the skin for about 20 minutes at 450° F / 230° C. It will peel easily and you'll have a nice, soft, roasted onion. Don't overdo it or it will burn - the skin will help prevent this but keep an eye on it!
Your other option is to simmer or steam it, which will soften them substantially and cook some of the volatiles out (make it less pungent) but won't brown them because the Maillard reaction requires high temperatures and the boiling point of water is too low. Simmering should be obvious, just toss it in some water or stock. For steaming, either use a steamer basket or just put a small amount of liquid in a pan, heat it up to a simmer, place the onion in and cover it until cooked to your desired consistency.
Those are pretty much your only fat-free options. If you want to use a frying pan and expect to get them browned, then you'd better use at least a little bit of oil. If you're concerned about trans, saturated or polyunsaturated fats, use olive oil. If you're on an ultra-low-fat diet, use a blast of cooking spray. If you're avoiding "fried" foods out of an assumption that even a tiny amount of oil is unhealthy, I suggest consulting a dietician (if you haven't already) to validate that assumption first.
Aaronut's answer to a related question outlined the differences between non-oil methods of cooking onions (such as steaming or sweating). The taste will be different because different chemical reactions are occurring.
If you want to sauté onions without a lot of oil, try oil sprayers (Pam, or hand-pump sprayers loaded with your favourite oil). This will minimise the amount of oil you use. Using less oil means you have to move them around more often to prevent burning. (If you fry onions by themselves, they will probably just dehydrate and burn.)
There are plenty of ways to cook onions without oil. It sounds like you're trying to mimic the effects of a sauté without actually using any oil though. Cooking onions in a non stick pan without oil would probably be more akin to grilling.
Use a very small amount of stock to soften the onions (although as per Aaronut's linked answer above, you'll get a different taste).
Alternatively, if the rest of your recipe includes any meat, fry the onions when you brown the meat to take advantage of the oils which are already going to be present in your dish.
As an alternative to onions, try roasting some garlic cloves (or a whole bulb!) in it's skin and 20mins or so and use the resulting pulp in place of onion. It will lose a lot of harsh garlic flavour but still give plenty of onion quality (same/similar plant family?).
It might be worth drizzling a bit of oil when baking garlic to protect the skin, but I doubt too much would be absorbed.
A good quality nonstick saucier pan is a good choice to brown onions without oil. Start with a very fresh onion that has lots of it's own juice. Older dryer onions are not a good choice for this method.
Preheat the pan on medium. Let the onions sit untouched for a couple minutes on medium heat so that they may sear. Stir and let them sit again for a couple minutes. Repeat until onions are relatively dry and onion fond starts to build up on the pan. Deglaze with just a teaspoon of water to lift the fond off the pan just before it burns. At this point you cannot let the onions sit for long and you will have to stir often. Continue browning and deglazing until the onion reaches the desired consistency. If you want the onions dryer, you can reduce the heat to low and cover with a paper towel in between the pan and the cover to absorb the steam.
The pan should be small enough so that you cannot see the bottom of the pan. Otherwise the onions may burn rather than brown. I use a 2-1/2 qt Analon anodized copper saucier pan for one medium onion.
But I must say that just a spray of olive oil will make the onions darker with richer flavor and it will enable you to use stainless steel for better control.
For browned onions, I'd suggest cooking in a pan or a griddle with just the bare minimum of oil -- enough to stop it sticking.
To cook onions without browning, blitzing them in the microwave works well.


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7 Theories on Time That Would Make Doc Brown's Head Explode
There are a few things in this world that we can always rely on as constants: The sun will always rise each morning, the seasons will always change and time will inevitably march forward at its predictable clip. Except the sun doesn't actually rise, seasons are disappearing and time ... well, see, time is tricky, too.
For example ...
#7. We May Not Live in the Present
What if we told you that what you think of as "the present" is actually slightly in the past? Basically, your life isn't a live feed: It's a delayed broadcast that your brain is constantly editing and censoring for your convenience.
The delay isn't much -- what's 80 milliseconds between you and your brain? Nothing, right? Well, a group of neuroscientists disagree. They've come up with some freaky time-altering experiments to prove that this difference can change your perspective of cause and effect. For example, in one experiment the volunteers were told to press a button that would cause a light to flash, with a short delay. After 10 or so tries, the volunteers were beginning to see the flash immediately after they pressed the button -- their brains had gotten used to the delay and decided to edit it out. Yes, that's a thing your brain can do.
"Being a brain is kind of boring, but we've got lots of time for pranks."
But that's not the freaky part. When the scientists removed the delay, the volunteers reported seeing the flash before they pressed the button. Their brains, in trying to reconstruct the events, messed up and switched the order. They were seeing the consequence first and the action second.
"You really don't want to see the copies."
Not convinced? Try this: Touch your nose and your toe at the same time. Logic says that you should feel your nose first, because it's right there in your face (hopefully) and therefore the sensory signal doesn't have to travel too long before reaching the brain, whereas your toe is at the extreme opposite end. The physical distance a message has to travel on neurological pathways is much longer from toes than from nose, and yet you feel both things at the same time. According to neuroscientist David Eagleman, that's because your brain always tries to synchronize the sensory information that it gets from your body in a way that will make sense to you, but it can only do that by pushing your consciousness slightly into the past, like a radio station that's always on a five-second delay in case somebody curses on air.
The bizarre real-world implication is that the taller you are, the further back you live in the past, since it takes longer for the information to travel through your body -- and if you're a little person, you live closer to the present.
The shortened reflex time gives them an enormous advantage at bull fighting.
But we're only talking about our perception of time here. It's not like time itself can actually slow down or speed up in reality ... right?
#6. The Higher You Live, the Faster You Age
If you want to experience a real time warp, simply walk up some stairs. It turns out that time isn't the same all over -- it actually runs faster in higher places. In a recent experiment, scientists placed two atomic clocks on two tables, then raised one of the tables by 33 centimeters ... and found out that the higher clock was running faster than the lower one at a rate of a 90-billionth of a second in 79 years.
"Timmy, you get down from there before you get cataracts!"
These are the most precise clocks ever made, and the only difference between them was their distance from the Earth. That means people who live in higher places age slightly faster than people at the ground level. So for anyone keeping score, that's giant people 0, dwarfs 2.
This is called time dilation, and it happens because (as Einstein's theory of relativity predicted) gravity warps time as well as space. The closer you are to the ground, the more you are affected by the Earth's gravity and the slower time moves. On the other hand, as you get higher, gravity's pull weakens and time speeds up.
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Keep in mind that this is an insignificant amount of time we're talking about here. It has absolutely no bearing on your life -- unless you rely on GPS equipment, that is. Because a clock inside a GPS satellite runs at 38 microseconds per day faster than the same clock would run on Earth, a computer has to constantly adjust everything to make up for that difference. Otherwise the consequences would be disastrous: In only one day, the entire system would be off by 10 kilometers, and it would just get worse from then on.
"You have arrived in Calgary. Probably."
Oh, and by the way, gravity isn't the only thing that can mess up time ...
#5. The Faster You Go, the Slower Time Moves
Another thing GPS satellites have to take into account is speed: The faster you travel, the slower time moves. Now you almost certainly knew that already, thanks to Einstein -- if you're going the speed of light, time pretty much stops. But it turns out that you don't need an ultra fast spaceship to slow down time -- your shitty car will do.
Seriously, man, just let it go. It's time to move on.
Using the extremely precise atomic clocks we just mentioned, scientists have proven that the same thing happens to you every day, on a much smaller scale. Making one of the clocks move at only 36 kilometers per hour (around 20 mph) caused it to slow down its tick by almost 6 x 10-16. In numbers we can understand, that translates to "Not a whole lot, but still, holy shit, you guys."
So, let's say you're driving to work at around 40 mph -- that right there is apparently enough to cause time to move 0.0000000000000002 percent slower than it would if you were standing still.
And, no, that doesn't explain the actions of the asshole in front of you.
In another experiment, one atomic clock was taken on a plane trip around the world while the other one stayed home (admit it -- if you had an atomic clock, you'd constantly be thinking up shit like this). Even though the clocks were perfectly synchronized at first, the traveling clock came back from its 50-hour, 800-kilometer trip missing 230 or so nanoseconds.
And it transformed into a beautiful, majestic moose.
So the clock gained time from being farther from the Earth than the other one, but it lost even more just by going faster. What's even weirder is that from the perspective of the clock on the plane, the clock back home is the one that's running faster than normal. You don't actually feel time slowing down or speeding up: Only someone outside your conditions can tell the difference. And that leads us a little further down this rabbit hole ...
#4. Time Doesn't Run at the Same Speed for Everyone
A trippy consequence of the stuff we just explained is that, apparently, different people can witness the same events happening at different speeds. Einstein claimed that events that appear simultaneous to a person in motion may not look simultaneous to someone who is standing still. So reality may actually be a mess of people walking around in slightly different timelines that sometimes synch up or intersect, depending on their conditions. This would help explain why everyone from Cream looks like a mummy now except for Eric Clapton.
Via Classicrock.about.com
And why he's dressing as if he thinks it's still 1978.
Neuroscientist Warren Meck conducted studies to prove that brain time is relative. In one experiment, he trained lab rats to push a small lever after a certain period of time -- and found out that the exact same interval could be timed differently depending on the rats' conditions. This means that 10 seconds can sometimes seem like 30 seconds, and 30 seconds can sometimes seem like 90 seconds, and so on. But you didn't need lab rats to know that: Surely you've been cornered at parties by someone who wants to tell you what really happened on 9/11.
Well, according to Meck, this happens because there isn't a single "clock" that tells the time in our brains: There are multiple brain clocks, all running at different speeds. So basically, the guy in the speeding train, the guy way up in the GPS satellite and the guy at the party working out an exit strategy all coexist inside our heads and our brain decides which one to believe at any given time.
"It's been six minutes. Man, science is a dick."
There are lots of other things that can alter our perception of time, like drugs, mental disorders, old age or even distance. With all these variables, time is constantly in flux for everyone. So the next time you're late for something, just lay that nugget of truth on anyone waiting for you. They may think you're an asshole, but at least it won't be for your tardiness.