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15366 Highway 13 South,
Hurricane Mills, Tennessee
zip code: 37078-2347
We have driven by this place a few times on our travels over the last couple of years and it was never a good time to stop and chow down. I had heard good things from people about the quality of the country cooking. Finally we were able to stop and get a bite to eat.
The weather was horrible and rainy when we stopped in. I tried to take a picture of the HUGE buffalo statue out front but it just did not come out.
The restaurant is located right beside a touristy type of gift shop with everything in it from music to hillbilly accessories. Fun to walk around and check out all the kitschy stuff. It was entertaining to see all the Loretta Lynn souvenirs. It always amazes me how many things they will put a famous persons face and or signature on.
It was just approaching noon as we walked in and place was filing up with folks that looked like they had just come from church and some other tourists from all over the US, Canada and Great Britain. I always feel better when I see some locals in the mix.
They have a full menu full of Southern Fare:
We decided to have the Sunday buffet. It was filled with lots of choices, full salad bar, fried chicken, fried catfish, chicken tenders, beans, turnip greens, hush-puppies, corn bread muffins, buns, butter, coleslaw, green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy and sweet potatoes.
This was my plate:
The food was really decent. Nothing wrong with any of it. Just good country cooking. However I will say the turnip greens were exceptional. I went back for seconds. They had beautiful big chunks of pork in them. Lots and lots of pork flavor which was a nice balance against the greens. They also were not overcooked and still had great texture.
I didn't take a picture of my salad plate however their macaroni salad was something I would go back for in an instant as well. Great flavor. Nice crunch and properly cooked pasta.
For dessert they had banana pudding on the buffet. It was not memorable. Skip it. Also the staff here are really genuinely nice. Not overly syrupy nice just really nice efficient warm and friendly.
This is a great place to go and eat – we highly recommend it.

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| Blume, Adrienne , Hydrocarbon Processing Staff, Houston, TX
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Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Rome
Rome, GA 30161
This beautifully renovated 1890s warehouse, with original wood floors, brick walls and large sky-lit atrium, is Rome's most unique hotel property. Each of our well-appointed studios and suites has a charming, individual character that is slightly different from the next. We offer free parking, wired and wireless Internet access, a business center, and laundry facilities. There are several retail shops located in our lobby, including a salon, boutique shop and art studio. A recent expansion of riverside guest rooms (Spring 2014) offer beautiful views of the Oostanaula River. The Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham is adjacent to historic Broad Street and the confluence of three rivers. Guests may experience the best of Rome with only a short walk from the comfort of our hotel. Our unique combination of historic charm, modern amenities, and the best location in town makes Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham the ideal choice for every traveler.
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Hours of Operation
Sunday: All Day
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Given a database of GPS points, a center GPS location, and a radius R (in meters), how can I find all points in the database that are within a distance of R of the center point? Will the distance iso-lines be an ellipse?
For such short distances and since you are doing the coding yourself, the flat earth equations would probably be a good enough approximation but it depends on your accuracy requirements.
Compute the distance from latp,lonp to lat1/lon1 via the equirectangular projection:
Latp/Lonp will be your reference lat/lon (in radians!). Lat1/Lon1 will be the point you are testing. Once you have distance, it is an easy test to determine if the point lies within your circle.
Reference: section Equirectangular approximation at the site: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
Vincenty's formulae devised by Thaddeus Vincenty is also worth it.
You can head to the page entitled Vincenty formula for distance between two Latitude/Longitude points.
Other implementations:
For a spherical earth I have found that the formulas in the Aviation Formulary. For the distances you are working these distance calculations are more than adequate.
Unless of course your GIS package includes these calculations, or tools to select by buffering and intersecting.


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How do I have my plugin pop up with that
New version available. Upgrade Automatically dialog to appear when my plugin has a new version? Specifically for plugins not hosted on the WP.org repository.
How do I have my plugin pop up with that
This library integrates auto-updates for privately hosted plugins. Looks great.
The easiest way I can think of to do this is to have your plugin "phone home" to check a URL on your website that returns the current version of your plugin.
That way, your plugin (installed on another website) can check its version against the "current" version on your website to see if it's the same or newer.
Edit: sample code
I should point out before you implement this: this will add a banner across the top of the screen. If you're just looking to have your plugin show an update available in the menu down the left, I think it automagically does that when you upload the new version to the Wordpress repository. If you do want the banner across the top, proceed.
I would create a template specifically for this page so that the header and footer were not included:
That way, all that will get printed is the page content, which is good for what we're doing.
Next, set up a page that uses this template, say, "latest-plugin-version". If you view this page in your browser now, all it should say is the text from the page with no extra html.
In your plugin, create a function that prints out your notice. I've used inline styles in the example, you can use classes if you want.
And then, to tie it in so that it runs the function:
Now, in your installation function, you should add an option for the version number to be saved in the user's Wordpress:
You can use update_option instead of add_option, as it will add the option if it doesn't already exist.
That should about do it.
There is a free plugin that allows autoupgrade for privately hosted plugins: https://github.com/meglio/wp-upgrademe


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Best Firesuit - Driver's Suit SafetyWritten by on March 5, 2012
Did you know that you get roughly twice as much fire protection from an SFI-5 rated suit versus an SFI-1 rated suit?
Did you also know that there's about a $200 spread between a single-layer and double-layer suit?
Now let me ask you this: How many square inches of skin graft can you buy for $200?
Think about that for a minute. By spending a little extra money on a good quality suit you can save yourself a ton of money in medical bills if, God forbid, you experience a flash fire.
While nobody ever wants to talk about it, ours is a dangerous sport; fires can and do happen and a good firesuit is your first line of defense. There are essentially three types of suits; single-layer, double-layer, and triple-layer. In addition you have one-, two-, and even three-piece suits. Our opinion here at Circle Track is that drivers need to be wearing one-piece suits, crewmen can choose from any of the three multi-pieces depending upon their race day duty.
What Do All Those Ratings Mean?The quality of any fire-retardant material can be determined by looking closely at two measuring factors: LOI which stands for Limiting Oxygen Index, and TPP or Thermal Protective Performance. LOI is the most commonly used measurement for flame retardancy and refers to the amount of oxygen needed in the atmosphere to support combustion. If a fiber or fabric has an LOI of 25, that means that at least 25 percent oxygen needs to be present for the fabric to burn. Consequently, a higher rating equals more fire protection. You won't often see LOI in race suit literature, but it's an important factor in good fire protection.
TPP on the other hand refers to the garment's ability to provide thermal protection when exposed to both direct flame and radiant heat while taking into account the length of time before a person is subject to second-degree burns. While that's a mouthful, TPP is the second most important number you need to know when firesuit shopping. The TPP rating is derived from a mathematical calculation performed with the results of a sophisticated test procedure that utilizes two different heat sources, sensors, and the fabric to be tested. The TPP rating is divided in half to determine the number of seconds until the human tissue reaches a second degree burn. For example, if a particular fabric has a TPP rating of 35, it takes 17.5 seconds until a second-degree burn occurs in a flashover situation.
The only way to increase a TPP rating is through adding multiple layers. However, as you increase layers, suits get bulkier; and bulk doesn't equal comfort. Your goal in selecting a firesuit should be the balance of comfort with maximum protection.
Mom always told you to wear clean undies, now we know why. A great way to increase the TPP without jumping up to a three-layer drag racing suit is to wear fire-retardant underwear beneath your suit. If you're budget doesn't allow for FR underwear, even a cotton sweatshirt adds some protection.
Now, some suit manufacturers will promote the TPP rating of their suits alongside the SFI rating. Check out the chart on this page to determine which rating fits your particular needs.
OK, now here's a great question to ask yourself after looking at that chart. How fast can the safety crew at your local track get you out of a burning car? If they can do it in 3 seconds, go ahead and buy that $99 single-layer special and drop me a note telling me your home track because I want to race there.
Which SFI Rating Should I Choose?Safety manufacturers who advertise in Circle Track produce products that carry SFI ratings. A typical rating looks like this: SFI 3.2A/5 where 3.2A is the foundation's standard for firesuits and 5 is the rating. The higher that rating number, the better the protection. In this example, the number 5 is the most important number you will see, especially if the manufacturer doesn't release TPP numbers. Most sanctioning bodies and tracks will require you to have a firesuit with a minimum SFI-rating in order to compete. However, that does not mean that you should buy only their minimum.
How Do I Measure For a Suit?A properly fitted racing suit not only provides protection against injury, it's a vital component to maximize your performance behind the wheel. If a race suit doesn't fit properly and is uncomfortable, your performance could be adversely affected. Accurate measurement of the driver is critical to ensure that the racing suit fits properly and is comfortable throughout a long night of racing.
Drivers come in all shapes and sizes so racing suit manufacturers offer a wide variety of standard sizes as well as custom "MTO" (made-to-order) racing suits. Most drivers can find a standard sized suit that will meet their performance and fit requirements, while other drivers are harder to fit and will require a custom suit.
Getting the proper measurement for standard racing suits require a few basic measurements of the driver. Standard racing suit measurements include the chest, waist, inseam, neck, height, and weight. Custom MTO race suits require additional measurements such as sleeve length, center back length, natural waist circumference, rise, thigh, hip, collar bone-to-crotch inseam (and bra size for female racers). Getting accurate measurements is critical to getting a racing suit that is comfortable and fits you properly.
There are a few important guidelines to follow to get an accurate measurement for your new racing suit. First and foremost, do not measure by yourself. Be sure to use a cloth measuring tape, commonly called a seamstress or tailor's tape measure. It is recommended that you take all measurements over well-fitting fireproof underwear or snug-fitting clothing. Do not take measurements over baggy or loose fitting clothing as you will not get accurate measurements. Be careful to not pull the tape too snug or too loose for the best accuracy. Finally, do not adjust measurements or make estimates or allowances in any way and be sure to take each measurement several times to ensure they are accurate.
It's important to note that some racing suit manufacturers use common sizing that we are familiar with in the United States (Small through XX-Large) while many others utilize Euro sizing (Euro 48 through 60) that are less familiar to most racers. Typically, the Euro sized racing suits are offered in an athletic cut that makes accurate measurement even more critical. There are also several more sizes available in Euro sizing range which provides the opportunity for a better fit. Unfortunately, many stocky drivers may find the athletic cut of Euro sized products to be too snug of a fit.
To demonstrate the correct method of measuring for a new racing suit, we asked Sprint Car drivers JoJo Helberg and Alissa Geving to help us with some photos to illustrate the measurement process. Photos 1-4 cover measurements for a standard suit while photos 5-12 are what you'll need to do for a custom-made suit.
In either case, you'll also need to provide your height which is easy to get an accurate measurement of. Without shoes on, stand against a wall, place a ruler on top of your head and make a mark with a pencil on the wall then measure the distance to the floor. Weight is important as well. Don't guess on this one, or put the weight you think you are going to be after that crash diet or the few weeks of brutal workouts you have been meaning to do at the gym. Get on an accurate scale and use your real weight.
Now that you have accurate measurements you can select the new racing suit of your choice that meets design and most importantly the safety requirements for your type of racing. We highly recommend a minimum of SFI 3.2A/5 Certification (SFI-5) when selecting a racing suit. We also highly recommend that you wear a fire-resistant base layer under your racing suit for added protection. This is especially important if you select a single-layer suit with an SFI 3.2A/1 certification (SFI-1) as these suits offer minimal protection. Many of today's choices of fire-resistant underwear feature fabrics that wick away moisture from the body and help to keep the driver cooler while providing enhanced protection from injury.
Got My Measurements, Now What?Now it's time to buy your suit. While there are numerous different fire- retardant materials on the market, three that are often seen in the motorsports industry are fire-retardant cottons, Nomex, and Carbon-X. All of those FR materials perform admirably when tested and in many cases you will find that manufacturers offer suits made from several different materials or a combination of multiple materials. Here's a step by step guide to selecting a firesuit.
Step 1: Determine your budgetA quality SFI 3.2A/5 two-layer firesuit starts just under $300 and can exceed $1,000 if you go the custom route. When figuring out what to spend remember Bill Simpson's words, "One day in the hospital is 5 grand and a good suit will last you 3-4 years." As a side note a really good quality suit will run you about $450, divide that over four years and you've got a little over a C-note per year.
Step 2: Contact the manufacturers directlyOnce your measurements have been taken, it is very important to refer to the sizing chart specifically provided by the manufacturer to ensure that you purchase a suit that will fit you correctly. Sizing charts can vary significantly from brand to brand so be sure to use the correct chart from your chosen brand when ordering your race suit.
Tell them your ideal budget, the type of cars you race, your height, weight, and so on. They will be happy to talk with you and their technical people can suggest which suit best fits your application and price range. Do not forget to ask about TPP ratings. By simply asking you might find a little bonus. For example, in order to receive an SFI rating of 3.2A/5 you must achieve at least a TPP rating of 19. The key word there is "at least." It's not unheard of for a firesuit manufacturer to exceed the minimum rating and that's bonus fire protection.
Step 3: Go shopping and look at the suitsThis may seem time consuming but it's important to look at different suits. Ideally, you do this at an event or a storefront where you can compare different manufacturers side by side. Turn the suits inside out and compare them, seam to seam. Look for a three needle stitch with overlap in the critical areas such as the crotch. Remember if the car is on its side or roof you're moving in ways you don't normally move just to get out. Think about the consequences of having the crotch of your cheaply made suit split open while you're trying to wiggle out of a burning car. Not a pretty thought I assure you.
Once you've determined that the stitching is three needle and high quality, try it on! While that sounds painfully obvious, I know guys who have bought suits without trying them on only to be disappointed in the fit when they get to the track. Squat down, move your arms and legs in a variety of positions. Who cares if you look stupid, remember that you're feeling for movement in a worst case scenario, getting out of a burning car fast!
Finally, remember the only way to increase the TPP rating is to add layers. You've got two choices here, thin layers of high-tech material add cost but deliver max comfort, thicker layers of lower-tech material add protection without more cost but increase bulk. That's why you need to try it on. What is comfortable on me may not feel good at all to you.
Anything Else?So you followed our instructions and now you've got a brand-new SFI 3.2A/5 rated double-layer firesuit that fits perfectly. Nice work, but you're not done. Perhaps the most important part of owning a firesuit is its care. That's right I said care. We understand that not everybody's budget allows them to spend an unlimited amount of dough on a firesuit. But regardless of what you spent on your suit, treat it like it was a $2,000 custom-made, top-of-the-line price tag. Don't crawl under your car while wearing your suit. Check with the manufacturer of your suit for its recommended care instructions and then follow them! Your suit will last far longer and perform much better, giving you plenty of protection on your way to the winner's circle.
The difference between surviving a fire in your race car is your firesuit. choose the right one.
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2 Waist: This is the waist circumference at the top of the hip bones. This is typically about 1-1/2 inches below the navel for most drivers. Do not use your pant's waist size! You must measure to ensure a correct fit.3 Inseam: This is the measured from the crotch seam (bottom of rise) to the ankle bone. This measurement will not be accurate if measured with loose or baggy fitting clothing.4 Neck: This is the measurement of your neck size at the collar level. Justt don't choke the driver.5 Sleeve Length: This is the measurement from the center of the neck bone where your collar meets your spine measured around the outside of your elbow to your wrist. This measurement is taken with your elbow bent and arms forward simulating a natural driving position.6 Center Back Length: This measurement is taken from the center of the neck bone where your collar meets the spine, to your waist.7 Collar Bone to Inseam: This measurement is taken from the collar bone to the height of where the crotch seams meet. This measurement will not be accurate if measured with loose or baggy fitting clothing.8 Natural Waist: This is the measurement of your natural waist circumference taken across the navel and level across your back not your waist at the beltline.9 Shoulders: This is the measurement across the back of your shoulders from the top of the sleeve.


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As "It's a White County Christmas" gets into gear this weekend with various activities, area businesses are urged to get in the Christmas spirit through the Winter Wonderland Decorated Storefront Window Contest. All merchants in White County are invited to participate.
This year's theme, "Winter Wonderland," should be incorporated into all entries for the contest. All entries should be submitted to the Chamber of Commerce by Monday, Nov. 19. Winners will be announced before the Christmas Parade at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 24.
For more information, contact Ashleigh Knight at the Carmi Chamber of Commerce at 382-7606 or Kim Gwaltney at 384-3033.
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4. Click
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reading and accepting the License Agreement, click Continue if you agree
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9. You will be
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administrator for assistance.
10. If
prompted, choose your machine and click OK.
11. The
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have already registered your Brother machine, click Close.
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STEUBENVILLE - Two second half scoring bursts made the difference Tuesday as Big Red's girls knocked off Oak Glen 53-39 and advanced to the finals of the Wheeling Hospital Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Class 4A Tournament.
Phil Casinelli's top-seeded crew will play the survivor of tonight's Martins Ferry-Union Local clash at 3 p.m. Saturday for the conference crown. The title game is scheduled for Ohio University's Eastern campus in St. Clairsville.
"It definitely is a nice win for our program," Casinelli said. "I'm so proud of our girls. This is a great accomplishment for them. They work hard and they earned it.
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OVAC TOURNAMENT — Steubenville Big Red's Taylor Young scores two points against Oak Glen's Logan Andrews during the first half of Tuesday's 53-39 win by Big Red inside the Crimson Center in the Wheeling Hospital Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Class 4A semifinals.
-- Mike Mathison
TOURNAMENT ACTION — Oak Glen's Casey Patterson drives past Steubenville Big Red's Lysaih Rice during the second half of Tuesday's 53-39 win by Big Red inside the Crimson Center in the Wheeling Hospital Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Class 4A semifinals.
-- Mike Mathison
"We'll enjoy this for maybe a day. We'll find who our opponent will be tonight then we'll get to work and come up with a game plan."
The trip to the OVAC championship contest will be Big Red's first in four years.
Big Red, now 14-7, and Oak Glen went toe-to-toe during the first 16 minutes. The Golden Bears used baskets by Jessica Stivason, Casey Patterson and Kaitlyn Herstine to grab a 14-10 advantage after one quarter.
Lysiah Rice and Hannah Masloski recorded back-to-back hoops to give Big Red a 22-20 lead at the intermission. The contest, played inside the Crimson Center, featured five opening-half lead changes. Scott Wiley's Oak Glen club knocked seven of its first 12 field goal tries and shot 50 percent (10 for 20) for the half.
The hosts led 30-27 midway through the third before staging their initial scoring run. Rice got things rolling when she scored from the lane. The Masloski sisters (Hannah and Emiley) then drained consecutive triples and Big Red was up 38-27. It was 38-29 Big Red heading into the final eight minutes.
Oak Glen wasn't about to go away quietly. Vanessa Hissam, Stivason and Tori Feicht all scored to open the fourth and slice the Big Red lead to 38-35. Points by Mytia Baker and Emiley Masloski put the score at 43-35. OG's Alex Arnott recorded a pair before Big Red put the semifinal win on ice with a second 8-0 burst.
Barker turned consecutive Emiley Masloski passes into points then the two juniors each sank a pair of free throws. Barker scored 10 of her team's 17 fourth stanza markers.
After shooting well in the first half, the Golden Bears were just seven for 24 during the final quarters and were guilty of 12 turnovers.
"Their pressure hurt us and we didn't handle the ball well," Wiley noted. "We had some open shots but we couldn't get the ball in the hole. They play tough man-to-man defense and we knew that coming. There's a reason why they're number one in the OVAC."
Casinelli pointed out his team did make some defensive adjustments at the half.
"We were getting beat on back-door plays on the baseline in the first half," he said. "The girls responded to the changes made by the coaching staff and did a great job in the second.
"Any time you can hit the three that definitely is a plus. We haven't been able to hit three's recently but tonight a few fell at the right time. We hit some shots, got a couple of defensive stops and that's how you get those 8-0 runs."
Barker led Big Red in scoring with 18 and also collected nine of her team's 22 rebounds.
"I think playing the last two weeks without Emiley, Mytia really stepped up and played," her coach noted.
"She gained confidence in herself and it showed tonight. She knew she had to pick up her game and she did a great job of rebounding, attacking the basket and getting to the foul line."
Emiley Masloski, still not at full strength due to an injury, added 10 and dished out five assists. Hannah Masloski added nine and three assists.
"Emiley's presence on the court helps our girls," Casinelli added. "She is still our leader and knows her limitations. She played within those limitations and did a great job.
"Hannah likes to distribute the ball to her teammates and defensively she does a great job on the ball. Tonight, she caused a few turnovers as did the rest of our girls."
Stivason, who canned her first four shots, paced Oak Glen, now 9-8, with 10 points. Feicht and Hissam each had eight. The Golden Bears had 30 rebounds, Hissam getting nine and also blocking five shots.
"We made it to the semifinals the last three years and it definitely is a good experience for our girls," Wiley said. "We need to keep them hungry and work to get a higher seed. We have always been the number four seed.
"We still have a few games left before our tournament. We'll fight back and keep working."
Oak Glen will play the loser of the Martins Ferry-Union Local game, probably on Thursday.
Big Red 53, Oak Glen 39
Oak Glen 14 6 9 10 - 39
Big Red 10 12 16 17 - 53
OAK GLEN (9-8): Arnott 1 0-0 2; Snow 0 0-0 0; Patterson 1 0-0 2; Evans 1 2-2 4; Andrews 1 1-2 3; Herstine 1 0-0 2; Feicht 4 0-0 8; Hissam 4 0-3 8; Wiley 0 0-0 0; Stivason 4 2-2 10. TOTALS: 17 5-9 39. 3-pointers: none; Rebounds 30 (Hissam 9); Turnovers 24.
BIG RED (14-7): E. Masloski 3 3-4 10; H. Masloski 3 1-2 9; Young 3 0-0 6; Wilson 0 0-0 0; Barker 7 4-11 18; Rice 2 0-0 4; Bodo 0 1-2 1; Taylor 2 0-0 5. TOTALS: 20 9-19 53. 3-pointers: H, Masloski (2), E. Masloski, Taylor; Rebounds: 22 (Barker 9); Turnovers: 16.


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Caribbean Travel Destinations
Plan a family vacation to the Caribbean. Visit all-inclusive resorts, swim along pristine beaches, or take a family-friendly cruise.
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Riviera Maya
The Riviera Maya, a stretch of beaches along the eastern edge of Mexico, is packed with resorts for families with kids of all ages and interests. Cancun is world famous as a party destination, and Playa del Carmen is a slower-paced, more family-friendly resort town. Nearby Cozumel island is a great home base for snorkeling and diving among the reefs.
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December 11, 2013
CenterLine (Windsor) Ltd., Windsor, Ont., has launched a redesigned website at www.cntrline.com. Updated to improve navigation and functionality, the site provides improved access to downloadable content and simplifies searches for specific information about the company's products and services, from consumable electrodes to custom automated production systems.
Foreign-language versions of the site are scheduled to be updated in 2014.


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Comedies That Should Have Been Awesome (And Weren't)
All of our favorite comedians phone it in for the paycheck once and a while. We can look the other way when Will Ferrell slums it up in loose, runny stool like Bewitched, so long as he's still writing and starring in great stuff like Talladega Nights. Sacha Baron Cohen made Borat: if he wants to pay for a new pool with a shitty cameo in Madagascar, who are we to judge?
But what happens when it's not a "phone it in" comedy? What if it's a labor of love? What if the comedian wrote, directed and starred in the thing? What if, essentially, it looked like everyone involved was trying to make a good movie, and it was stool anyway?
Well, then you get snarky no-talents like us picking apart your crappy movie in this article, apparently. Read on![subtitle]#11. School for Scoundrels (2006)[/subtitle]
THE PITCH: Scot Armstrong and Todd Phillips, the writer and director of Old School, reteam for this black comedy! Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder gets lessons in self-confidence from Bad Santa's Billy Bob Thornton... but they end up competing for the same girl!
THE PAYOFF: Jon Heder and Billy Bob Thornton aren't masters of improvisation. They need a fun, sharp script to play off of, and they don't get it here. In one scene early in the film, for instance, Heder's character gets ambushed by two thugs who threaten to kill him. They then shoot at him while he tries to escape, and rob him after he passes out from a panic attack. Scoundrels wants us to take from this that Heder is a big pussy with no self-confidence-but the scene's played so straight, who wouldn't be fucking terrified in that situation? Welcome to every scene in this movie: mean-spirited, played straight, and about as funny as a guy shooting at you.
THE PROBLEM: Scoundrels makes the mistake of thinking anybody watches a comedy for its plot, spending one dull scene after another spelling out who's doing what to who and why. When your comedy has talents like Ben Stiller, David Cross and Sarah Silverman standing around explaining characters' back stories like there's going to be a quiz when the movie's over, you might be overthinking things.
Was anyone who liked Old School on the edge of their seats over whether or not the stars would graduate? Scot "Shakespeare" Armstrong and Todd "Bergman" Phillips seem to think we were. Guys-comedies are retarded. When a character slips face-first into a pile of cow shit, we don't need to know which cow it came from.[subtitle]#10. Nothing But Trouble (1991)[/subtitle]
THE PITCH: Dan Aykroyd writes, directs AND stars in a new comedy with John Candy and Chevy Chase! (This was back when then name "Dan Ackroyd" still meant "the guy who wrote Ghostbusters and Blues Brothers," not "that really fat guy playing Britney Spears' dad in Crossroads.")
THE PAYOFF: Either Aykroyd has a different sense of humor from other humans, or it's possible he just vastly miscalculated the hilarity that would ensue by having grotesque, freakish psychotics attempt to viciously murder people in a nightmarish premise involving transvestites, cannibals with detachable penises for noses and Demi Moore attempting to act. John Waters would have looked at this script and thought, "Wow, that's fucking insane."
THE PROBLEM: Aykroyd apparently based the concept of the film around a real-life incident where he was pulled over for speeding in the back woods, then taken in the middle of the night to the mayor's house to be terrorized by hicks. If you're thinking, "That actually sounds kind of unsettling and horrible, and not a good idea for a laugh-romp comedy," you probably would have come in handy patiently explaining this to Aykroyd before he filmed a joyless, Deliverance-like movie about people getting pulled over for speeding in the back woods, then taken in the middle of the night to the mayor's house to be terrorized by hicks.[subtitle]#9. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)[/subtitle]
THE PITCH: the Greatest Band of All Time roars to the big screen in a hilarious musical comedy where they fight The Devil with the awesome power of their rock! Watch for funny cameos from Ben Stiller and Tim Robbins!
THE PAYOFF: After an inspired opening musical number involving a young Jack Black, Ronnie James Dio and Meatloaf, you can almost hear Black and co-star Kyle Gass put on the brakes and think, "Shit, that was our only idea." Tenacious D's premise (two fat guys with acoustic guitars think they're heavy metal rock gods) is, while pretty damn funny in short sketches, a bit of a thin idea for a feature-length comedy. Black and Gass figure this out about a half hour in, resorting to tired Cheech and Chong stoner gags to pad out the running time.
THE PROBLEM: Nobody involved in the making of Pick of Destiny seems to have the first clue why people like Tenacious D. Fans loved Jack Black as a chubby, lovable loser with big metal dreams. Let's turn him into a dumbassed pothead! Fans loved Kyle Gass as the quiet, mopey yin to Jack Black's hyper yang. Let's make him an unlikable asshole for the first hour of the film! (Gass himself complains about this on the DVD commentary.) Fans really dug the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl in his cheesy Devil cameos. Let's bring him back for the movie, then bury him in so much make-up you can't even tell it's Grohl, and give him big stupid fake teeth he can't talk through! It feels like everyone making this turkey was too baked to pay attention. The only way to enjoy Pick would be to follow their lead.


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NBA Draft: There's No Shoo-In at No. 1
The opening sequence of the NBA Draft is usually the most predictable. Last year, when the New Orleans Hornets owned the No. 1 pick, Anthony Davis already had a nice corner table waiting for him at Café du Monde.
Kyrie Irving, John Wall, Blake Griffin and Derrick Rose were also slam-dunk No. 1 picks in previous years.
But ahead of Thursday's draft (7 p.m. ET, ESPN), no one has any clue what's going to happen. The uncertainty is fascinating because the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft is the most valuable such commodity in all of sports. Winning in the NBA, unlike the NFL or MLB, can be as simple as drafting one transformational talent. The Cleveland Cavaliers, who hold the No. 1, also hit the lottery in 2003 when they selected an 18-year-old kid from Akron named LeBron.
No one like James is available this year, which is why Cleveland's selection is anyone's guess. The two names mentioned most are Kentucky center Nerlens Noel and Maryland center Alex Len, both of whom are riskier than most No. 1 picks. Noel (above) is coming off an ACL injury and scared off teams by weighing in at 206 pounds before the draft. The 7-foot-1 Len, who is also nursing an ankle injury, has soared up draft boards despite an underwhelming college career.
There is one more option available to Cleveland, which is almost unheard of in the NBA: trading the No. 1 pick away before the draft. That hasn't happened since 1984.
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It's 36 Years and Counting...
Virginia Wade was the last British woman to win a Wimbledon singles title. That happened in 1977. But after 19-year-old Laura Robson's upset of No. 10 seed Maria Kirilenko Tuesday, Wade, who was broadcasting the match for the BBC, said Robson could be the one to do something special at the All England Club. Robson (pictured) will have to carry the hopes of the nation—the other six British women who were i the draw Monday morning have departed. "It's unfortunate that no one else made the second round, but that happens sometimes," Robson said. "Last year, I lost in the first round." Robson plays Mariana Duque-Marino in the second round.
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Beautiful...an amazing story
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love this haunting pix
I told a S.African old man that I wanted to visit Namibia. He responded, twice; "Why? There's nothing there!" It's the kind of nothing I'm drawn to.
A private desert...
Wow, that is a lot of sand...
Beautiful :)
that is an awesome shot
so deep
continue through the openning door.
beautiful picture
Nice photo
scape in scape
Beautiful frame. I had an odd thought after studying the photograph and wondered if the sand inside the dwelling was cool.
Awesome picture but sad story..
impressive, congrats!!
I love the colors and texture
Amazing picture woooow love it !
Not even a mouse track disturbs that sand. It is truly abandoned, which is sad because ti looks to be restorable. makes me want to get cleaning. I love old things and especially old buildings. They have so much presence, you can feel the lives that have been and gone.
Is there any way to order a print of this photo from the photographer?
Beautiful picture...has an idea ...great!
Awesome photo....
Fantastic, congratulation!
sad and inevitable, stirring shot
A very ghostly yet beautiful image and photo. The appearance seems incongruent as in a dream, unexpected, uncomfortable, terrifiying. The opened door that once framed lives now abandoned and yet inhabited by a powerful non-human occupant.
A land of dreams.
There's a magical
land where a
whisper of life
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beginning to
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that appears in
the youth.
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The dog barks yet the camel train moves on.
nice one !!!!!!
Life is like photography, with the footprints, and the years passing by, congratulations is a perfect shot.
Beutiful shot of nature claiming the land back in Namibia.
totally worth watching pic and caption too
variety shot...!
Totally amazing photo. What a story and a pic. Love the light, shadow, and composition. The presentation is superb. Cheers and congrats.
just a scene from documentary movie called Samsara
Saw this many times on "awesome pictures"......But great to see it again here on NATGEO.
Was there last year, Awesome ghost town
The diamond is the shot!
Its boring ╮(╯_╰)╭
perfect light
Its not fun to have a beach in your home! But to find a diamond there would have been wonderful! Alas, its all sand, and no diamonds left to find. But the picture is something else. A shot worth taking and worth looking at. j.e.s..........
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The 2011-2012 Alan Lutkus International Film Series season begins tonight on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 7p.m. in Newton 204 with the film "Pelisky." The screening is free and open to the public.
Directed by Jan Hrebejk, "Pelisky" is the story of a Czech teenager, Michal, who has a crush on his neighbor Jindriska; however, conflicting family views threaten to interfere in their relationship. Michael's father Sebek has a strong commitment to Communism while Jindriska's father Kraus is a supporter of his country's nationalism. The events of the film occur in the spring of 1968 right before the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia with tensions amongst the country's citizens running high.
The Alan Lutkus International Film Series was established in 2003 in response to SUNY Geneseo's need for a venue solely dedicated to the screening of alternative films.


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The movie is in color and probably from the 1960s. I don't think it is Mysterious Island or Captain Nemo and the Underwater City.
The only scene I remember involves characters in a room, with wooden planks on the floor and the walls. The center is bare and prisoners face a group questioning them.
They are wearing what looks like pirate or sailor costumes from an earlier century.
At the center of the room is a trap door. After questioning one of the prisoners, one of the men opens the trap door, revealing the mouth of a monster. The prisoner is thrown into the trap door and is eaten by the monster, feet first.


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Interesting Times (Mass Market Paperback)
"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's he who's sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire's current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. (Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls.) However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.
About the Author
Sir Terry Pratchett's many honors include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Printz Honor, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Britain's Carnegie Medal, the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for lasting contribution to young adult literature, and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. His books have sold more than 75 million copies worldwide. Knighted for his "services to literature," Sir Terry lives in England with his wife and many cats.


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More Information: I am absent minded. I keep thinking of the events which have happened in past and may happen in the future (not any particularly sad or emotional events, just any event). I have had the same problem in high school too. This happens in all the classes, only occasionally this does not happens in my favourite class. I have not concentrated in so so many classes of the courses that I do not understand anything even if I concentrate.
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The 6 Most Spectacularly Failed Attempts to Look Cool
No one likes a showoff. Not even fate, apparently -- because every once in a while it sees fit to prick someone's inflated ego balloon with its embarrassment needle, resulting in a spectacular backfire like ...
#6. Russian Wedding Roulette Lands on Red
Weddings are known for fun little activities such as the conga line, bouquet toss and Russian roulette. What, you've never played that last one at a wedding? Well, at a wedding in (where else?) Russia, a friend of the groom was giving a toast when he decided that the best way to really impress the other guests with his unsurpassed wedding-toast skills would be to whip out a handgun, point it at his own head and pull the trigger.
Russian weddings are known to be a favorite haunt of Darwin's ghost.
Now if you're at all familiar with guns, you might have noticed the first clue that this guy maybe isn't the sharpest tool in the shed: He's using a semiautomatic pistol to play Russian roulette -- a game that requires a revolver so that you can spin the cylinder like, you know, a roulette wheel. But he'd emptied the gun of bullets beforehand, so rather than redecorating the wedding cake with douchebrains, when he pulled the trigger it resulted in nothing more than an anticlimactic click. The whole thing was just a harmless little wedding prank, a quaint memory for him and his friends to laugh about in the years to come. Right?
The Backfire:
Unfortunately, the virus Dumbassviridae is highly contagious (particularly at parties), and this guy didn't want to be the only one riding the self-inflicted-gunshot-wound train that night. So he recocked the gun and looked around as if to ask who else had the balls to step up to the plate and act like a total jackass, and then a second guy grabbed the gun and repeated the action -- only this time the supposedly empty gun fired a live round into the man's skull.
It's basically Deer Hunter meets Jackass.
Fortunately for him, it was only a rubber bullet. Unfortunately for him, it wasn't exactly a NERF gun firing that rubber bullet, and the man had to be hospitalized due to his severe head wound. Meanwhile, the guy who brought a pistol to a freaking wedding was arrested and charged with hooliganism, since -- even in Russia -- being a complete douche isn't a crime yet.
#5. Cop/Aspiring Porn Star Gets Citation
It was just an ordinary day for Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper James Moss -- that is, until a hot-pink Honda Accord money-shot past his speed trap at 20 mph over the posted limit. Moss pulled the car over, and inside he found alcohol, a bottle of Vicodin and one innocent-looking young gal by the innocent-sounding name of Barbie Cummings.
Michael Patrick via knoxnews.com
Spoiler: Not an astrophysicist.
Apparently being no stranger to traffic stop protocol, Barbie got straight to conveniently mentioning that she was a purveyor of the pornographic arts. Intrigued, Moss had her sit in the front seat of his patrol car while he used his (state-issued) laptop to pull up her website, the contents of which (lots of Pomeranians, probably) were apparently the digital equivalent of a "Get Out of Jail Free" card.
So he tossed the pills and booze into some nearby bushes and invited Cummings to join him for some backseat shenanigans in his patrol car. And if that sounds like routine corrupt cop stuff rather than showing off, you should know that Moss captured the entire incident on his cellphone, and afterward he had the bright idea to ask Cummings to post the photos on her blog so his friends couldn't call bullshit when he bragged about banging a porn star.
The Backfire:
Cummings obliged him by posting the photos and blogging about the incident in detail.
Excruciating detail.
But unlike most employers, it appears that the Tennessee Highway Patrol isn't too keen on its employees using work hours to film self-starring porn. They put Moss on paid leave and launched an immediate investigation -- "investigation" in this case meaning "repeated awkward viewings of your co-worker's sex tape."
When the event hit the headlines, it didn't take long for other women to come forward to report inappropriate traffic stops by Moss, and he was indicted on six counts of official misconduct, two counts of official oppression, two counts of tampering with evidence and several counts of grossing out other highway patrolmen. He resigned just before the Tennessee Highway Patrol could fire him, and his going-away gift was four years of probation.
And how did Cummings come out in this whole deal, you ask? Moss still gave her the speeding ticket.
#4. Man Has Badass Competition With Gator, Loses
Wallace Weatherholt, or Captain Wally as he's known in the biz, was a tour boat guide in the Florida Everglades. His job was to take groups of tourists too cheap to spring for Disney World out for swamp tours and to not get more than, like, a couple per month eaten by alligators. But ol' Captain Wally apparently wasn't too clear on that last point, as he often tried to impress his customers by luring alligators to his airboat.
In the summer of 2012, Wally took a group of six people (including children) out to show them city slickers a thing or two about what they do for fun in the wetlands. Weatherholt lured an alligator to the boat by dangling a fish over the side.
You know you really should rethink things when your plans are essentially the same as the van/candy thing child molesters do.
When the alligator asked permission to board -- one of the passengers reported that he "had his front feet in the boat" -- Weatherholt put his boot on the alligator's snout and shoved it back into the water to demonstrate just how much of a badass he was (and, just to be fair, that does sound pretty badass). Then he slapped the water with his hand, encouraging the gator to come back for a second round.
The Backfire:
Well, all we can say is that it's a good thing Wally didn't decide to truly degrade the gator by taunting it with his "Lil Captain." Because the tourists suddenly found themselves smack in the middle of a SyFy original movie when the swamp monster, seemingly having just then realized that it was a goddamn swamp monster, rose up again and clamped down on the Wallster's hand, leaving nothing behind but a stump and "bone and skin hanging down." On second thought, the effects were probably far too realistic for our SyFy movie comparison.
"Shit, I just bought that watch."
Officials later managed to track the alligator down, presumably picking it out of the thousands-strong lineup based on which one rushed the boat when it saw a fresh delivery of scrumptious humans headed its way. They recovered Weatherholt's partially digested hand from its belly -- a process that probably didn't end too comfortably for the gator -- and then rushed it to the hospital, where doctors tried unsuccessfully to reattach it.
And now in addition to one hand, Captain Wally looks to be out 500 bucks -- apparently it's a second-degree misdemeanor to feed parts of yourself to an alligator.


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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
Temporary Visas and Wage Pressure
The debate over how many immigrants should be permitted to enter the country each year under a new temporary worker program is clouded by a common misconception: that the greater the number of temporary workers admitted, the greater the downward pressure on the wages of native-born workers. However, this assumption is not supported by the facts.
There is no evidence that decreasing the number of immigrant workers in the U.S. labor market will automatically increase the wages of native-born workers.
- Foreign-born workers do not compete with most native-born workers. They have different levels of education, different skills and abilities, and fill different types of jobs. Instead, foreign-born workers complement their native-born counterparts. This increases the productivity and the wages of most native-born workers.
- Immigration fuels the growth of the labor force. This stimulates investment, creates new businesses and new jobs, and tends to increase wages.
- According to economists Giovanni Peri and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, immigration raised the average yearly wages of native-born workers by about 1.8 percent between 1990 and 2004.
- The wages of native-born workers with at least a high-school diploma (who comprised nearly 90 percent of the native-born population age 25 and older in 2005), increased between 0.7 percent and 3.4 percent, depending on education level.
- The wages of the declining number of native-born workers without a high-school diploma declined by roughly 1.1 percent.
There is no evidence that the wages of native-born workers are undermined by the presence of immigrants in the labor market.
- Immigration is essential to the growth of the U.S. labor force, especially in jobs that require little education. This is because the native-born workforce is growing older and becoming better educated at the same time the U.S. economy continues to create large numbers of jobs for less-skilled workers.
- According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of workers in the labor force who are 55 and older will grow by an average of 4.1 percent per year between 2004 and 2014. The growth rate for workers aged 25-54 will be approximately 0.3 percent per year.
- Total employment in service occupations will increase by 19 percent between 2004 and 2014, second only to the increase in professional and related occupations. There will be about 25 million job openings (new jobs plus job turnover) during this period for workers with no more than a high-school education. This amounts to 45 percent of all job openings.
- Immigrants are heavily concentrated among workers with the lowest and highest levels of education (those without a high-school diploma or with a Ph.D.). Most native-born workers have intermediate levels of education. In 2005, 36 percent of all workers age 15 and older with less than a high-school diploma were immigrants and 26 percent of workers with a Ph.D. were immigrants.
- The fact that immigrants are concentrated at the extreme ends of the skill spectrum is evidence that they are arriving to fill gaps in the native-born workforce. In 2005, about 15 percent of the labor force age 16 and older (or 22 million workers) was foreign-born. However, foreign-born workers accounted for roughly 39 percent of workers in farming, fishing, and forestry; 33 percent in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance; 26 percent in construction and extraction; and 21 percent in computer and mathematical occupations.
In its current form, the immigration reform proposal before the Senate would do little, if anything, to alleviate the problems that cripple the current immigration system and is unlikely to meet the future labor needs of the U.S. economy.
- In each of the first five years after enactment, the proposal would raise the annual limit on permanent, employment-based visas from the current limit of 140,000 to approximately 247,000.
- However, 90,000 of these 247,000 visas would be used to reduce the backlog of green-card applications by immigrants who, for the most part, already are in the United States and who are working in high-skilled and less-skilled jobs. As a result, the proposal actually would provide for as few as 157,000 new workers per year.
- Moreover, only 10,000 of these 157,000 slots for "new" workers would be reserved exclusively for the workers needed to fill the growing number of less-skilled jobs that require little formal education. This is little more than the current system, which reserves only 5,000 employment-based green cards for less-skilled workers.
- Since the Senate proposal would establish a "point system" for employment-based visas, it is highly unlikely that any of the less-skilled workers could get employment-based visas beyond the 10,000 that are reserved for them. This number is clearly inadequate to meet the current labor demand for less-skilled workers.
- The Senate proposal would provide at best a modest increase in the number of permanent, employment-based immigrants entering the United States each year. And it would eliminate the categories of family-based immigration that are most likely to introduce new, working-age adults into the U.S. economy: the unmarried adult children of U.S. citizens and LPRs; the married adult children of U.S. citizens; and the adult siblings of U.S. citizens.
- In FY 2006, 64,167 adult, family-based immigrants (and 20,091 of their spouses) entered the United States under these four categories. If the current Senate proposal had been in place in 2006, more that 84,000 adult, working-age immigrants would have been denied entry into the United States through family-based preference categories.
- In other words, the current Senate proposal would have admitted only about 73,000 new, permanent immigrants to fill available jobs in FY 2006; a number hardly sufficient to meet the growing demand for immigrant workers—especially if only 10,000 of those workers were admitted to fill less-skilled jobs.
The proposed temporary worker program can not compensate for the flaws inherent in the other provisions of the Senate plan.
- Under the immigration-reform proposal now being debated in the Senate, 200,000 workers would be admitted into the United States each year on two-year visas. This number is far less than the estimated net increase in the size of the undocumented population in the United States of about 500,000 per year.
- A temporary worker program that limits the number of workers entering the country each year for only a two-year stay to 200,000 would provide no net increase in the number of immigrant workers. By the third year, new temporary workers would simply be replacing those temporary workers who had left.
- As currently formulated, the Senate immigration reform proposal is unlikely to meet the growing demand for immigrant workers in the United States, particularly in occupations requiring less-skilled workers. At best, the proposal would maintain the dysfunctional status quo.
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This is with reference to theorem 5.20 in Vasconcelos book linked (google books) here: http://tinyurl.com/2967eov
I shall restate the theorem here for easy reference: "If $A=k[[x_1,x_2,...,x_n]]/I$ is a complete intersection and $dim_k A$ is not divisible by $char(k)$ then the Jacobian ideal generates the socle of $A$".
I am looking for a proof of this theorem. Vasconcelos references three places to look for one. One is a result of Tate - I have looked at this. One is supposed to be in Kunz's - Introduction to commutative algebra and algebraic geometry" - I could not find a result similar to this in there (it's not a pointed reference). Finally there is a Scheja-Storch paper linked below. http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/crll.1975.278-279.174 I am specifically looking for a proof similar to Scheja-Storch (Tate seems to use a different approach), but the above paper is in German and I am not fluent at it. It's probably unlikely, but if anyone has an english reference on this proof, I would really appreciate it.


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Are resource nodes (e.g. ore veins, trees, bushes...) instanced? I mean, does each player get his/her own set? On other MMOs resources are first come first serve, and I am under the impression that in this game everyone can gather resources from the same source (i.e. eveyone gets their own instanced copy) but I am not sure, and I couldn't find it on the GW2 wiki.
Resources are instanced per player - my party and I harvest from the same nodes all the time.


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Interview with our own USBC Semifinalist Philip Search!
In a little over a week, we're thrilled to cheer our own Philip Search on to Houston, Texas, where he will compete as a semifinalist in the United States Barista Championship among the best of his profession. Philip took home regional title in this month's Northeast Regional Barista Competition, and we couldn't be prouder. We persuaded him to take a break from rigorous training and rehearsal to give the world a bigger preview of what he'll be doing up there on the USBC stage.
What inspired you to compete in 2011?
I think there are multiple reasons I ended up competing. Every year I go through an internal debate with myself about whether or not I will do this all over again. The truth is though, I love coffee, I love being able to highlight it in this format. It excites me to be able to have unique conversations, and a chance to learn with other coffee professionals. I have to say though, I was truly inspired this competition. It started when I tasted the Liquid Ambar and the Don Mayo in a cupping. They both are compete coffees, unique in their own rights, and totally representative of the work of the families at origin, the cultivars, and the terroir of their regions.
The first time I roasted the Liquid Ambar as espresso, I pulled a shot and we were all floored. Pillowy body, a mind blowing espresso with a unique honey malt flavor I've only tasted a few times in 16 years. The Don Mayo was equally impressive. The spice note reminded us all of an Indian curry dessert. These coffees together create a unique combination of flavors that nearly brought me to tears. Completely unique to anything I had ever worked with before. After this, I was hooked. I wanted this coffee, and the risks the farmers took in producing it to be showcased to the world. There were other circumstances that came to light about the coffee. As you know there is a shortage of super high quality coffees in the current market. The coffee from the Don Mayo mill is part of what I believe is a solution to this issue. It is a Villa Sarchi Cultivar, a natural mutation of old Bourbon plants that happened in Costa Rica quite a few years ago. In showing off this coffee as a microlot separated out with its unique cultivar, I hope to encourage farms to begin producing more of this coffee in the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica where the climate and soil lend its self to its best potential.
I also enjoy being able to push our industry forward in unique ways. In the past this involved adding special dose control to things like the Anfim grinder. In this case, I wanted to show people a grinder platform that doesn't have most of the existing flaws of current espresso grinders, and that there is a different way to pull shots even in a tight time frame. I also believe that in life, and all things coffee, we should aspire to our daily tools being functional works of art. This grinder reflects that aesthetic belief.
You use an unusual grinder setup. What is it?
I wanted a grinder that looks good, and avoids a lot of the dosing, heat, and grind spectrum issues of existing espresso grinders.
What goes into your signature drink, and how did you come up with it?
The sig drink is an infusion that mirrors the flavors of the two coffees I used. This allowed me to stretch out the flavor profile and make the complexities of the coffee more accessible. It involves using nitrogen cavitation, a common tool in the arsenal of cutting-edge mixology, to infuse flavors into liquids. I used a slice of orange, grapefruit peel, tamarind, smoked sea salt, sucrinate (dried unprocessed cane juice), raw orange blossom honey, and lapsong souchong tea, and infused this into water. Then I poured this "deconstructed flavor infusion" into champagne flutes and served it alongside the espresso. This helps people better understand the coffee. The cool thing is that, along with each ingredient as a flavor, there is a chemical reason I used them as well, each represent an acid or other chemical piece of the flavor that is in the coffee as espresso. For example, the Don Mayo had a unique tropical flavor from tartaric acid, this was then achieved in the deconstruction using the tamarind.
Do you find it easy to explain "nitrogen cavitation" to people at parties?
Sure! But I can be a bit of a nerd. Nitrogen bubbles are small, and when put with ingredients under pressure, they attach themselves to cell walls and weaken the cells, when you rapidly release this pressure, the cells burst and you have and instant infusion. Pretty simple really.
Who else are you watching closely in this year's United States Barista Championship in Houston, TX?
Well, really there are always a lot of great coffee people, and it can be any ones game, But Pete Licata, from Honolulu Coffee, is another long term veteran with a lot of experience. He is solid, and his coffee has a great story.
What are you doing to refine and perfect your routine before you compete in Texas?
Practice, and trying to master the skills of being a coffee whisperer, also trying to get as much time in talking to people about the coffees as possible. This is key for me, because my routine, and everything I do is based more on being a practicing coffee professional than in just a routine for the great game that Barista Competitions are. I desire to be a coffee ambassador, both to the professional community at large, and to customers. That is my passion, and what I live for.
Follow Philip at the USBC on the road to the World Barista Championship this June in Bogota! And follow him personally on Twitter at @phineas984.
Thanks to all of those involved in the NERBC 2011
Congratulations to Philip Search and the Dallis Bros. Coffee team for the victory in the NERBC 2011! See you all at the USBC nationals in Houston, Texas!
Reposting: Philip Search's winning presentations at NERBC 2011
The presentations that gave Philip Search from Dallis Bros. Coffee the 1st place in the NERBC 2011.
North East Regional Barista Championship (NERBC) 2011
First Phase:
Kate from Berkli Parc
Kate, pastry chef from Berkli Parc, tells Dan Mueller the story behind the Oreo cookie, what it has to do with the Chelsea Market, and her take on it.
He version of that cookie is delicious, as I could attest myself during the NERBC 2011 event (hmmm… I had three of them 😉 ) and also having a bite at their shop in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Stop by their place for a cookie and a cup of Dallis Bros. Coffee!
Berkli Parc
63 Delancey St (between Eldridge St & Allen St)
New York, NY 10002
P.S.: Here's what Mike D has to say about those cookies. 'Nuff said!
History of Coffee in New York City – And you thought it all started in Seattle!
Another one from the "And you thought it all started in Seattle!" series.
During the North East Regional Barista Championship (NERBC) 2011, guest speaker Donald Schoenholt from Gillies Coffee gave a long and inspired speech on the history of coffee in New York City – and North America in many ways.
Too bad we couldn't film the entire presentation, but about 90% of it is here in a 5-part video:
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Philip Search's winning presentation at NERBC 2011 finals
The presentation that gave Philip Search from Dallis Bros. Coffee the 1st place in the NERBC 2011.
North East Regional Barista Championship (NERBC) 2011
Philip Search of Dallis Bros. Coffee WINS THE NERBC 2011
Sam Penix of Everyman Espresso just slam dunked his NERBC Finals Spot
Yes indeed, the East Village is being righteously represented when Mr. Sam Penix of Everyman Espresso hits center stage. Great job Sam – that flip sig bev was amazing! While challenging the culinary world to up the ante with coffee programming Sam put the BAR in barista with his mixology classic – incorporating an egg yolk into his "Apollo Flip".
This was Sam's second presentation in the NERBC 2011 finals, as he had a technical difficulty in the first one (a problem with the screens at the espresso machine).
Wiggles from Irving Farm one of the final 6
Wiggles of Irving Farms is interviewed by our own Dan Mueller (Dallis Brothers Coffee). Wiggles is part of the final 6 contestants who will be awaiting their fate shortly as the NERBC 2011 Barista winners are announced. Good luck Wiggles and the rest of the Finalists.
Paul Perry from Bunn
Dan Mueller interviews Paul Perry from Bunn and gets the latest on the soon-to-be-released Bunn Trifecta brewer. Check it out!
P.S.: check here for more info on the Bunn Trifecta.


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NYC May Close Subway System Sunday Night
New York state officials said that they will decide on Sunday whether to proceed with a shutdown of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in advance of the approaching Hurricane Sandy.
Warning of potential high winds and flooding that could trigger a decision to shutter all or part of the system, MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said such a move would start at 7 p.m. on Sunday if necessary.
On its current course, Sandy appears likely to make landfall south of New York City, which could generate storm surges of 4 to 8 feet and major flooding in low-lying areas of the city and the subway system.
The MTA and the state aren't yet ordering a shutdown, but are making preparations for that possibility, and seeking to prompt rail and bus riders to make plans for cuts in service leading into the work week.
"Try to be home or be where you need to be at 7 p.m., because there is no guarantee of service after that," Mr. Lhota said in a televised briefing from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office in Midtown.
"We're planning for the worst, we're hoping for the best, and all decisions will be made on this tomorrow," Mr. Lhota said.
Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, said flight operations were continuing as normal at LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark Liberty international airports. But passengers should check with airlines before traveling to the airport as the storm approaches.
Major effects of Sandy are expected to begin reaching the New York region Monday morning.
State Health Commissioner Nirav Shah said the state has begun a limited evacuation of ventilator-dependent patients in "a few facilities" located in the storm's "slosh zone"—a term connoting "sea, lake and overland surges from hurricanes."
The MTA is seeking to avoid a repeat of its shutdown during Hurricane Irene, Mr. Lhota said, adding, "We don't want that to happen."
But the agency has no choice but to prepare. In addition to a shutdown of the transit system, which would be called for in the event of a storm with sustained winds of 39 miles per hour or higher, the MTA will call for a slowdown order on its bridges in the event of high winds. Every MTA bridge will be shut down in the event that winds reach 60 miles per hour, Mr. Lhota said.


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I have had Ubuntu 11.10 installed on my computer on one hard disk. On another disk, there is Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I've been able to dual-boot with my BIOS's HDD selector. When I updated my Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04, it included the new version of GRUB, which had an entry for Windows 8, as expected.
However, whenever I try to boot into Windows 8, I can see the fish for a second or two and then a few lines of error code as follows:
Your computer needs to restart. Please hold down the power button. Error code: 0x00000050 Parameters: 0xFFFFFAB006800000 0X0000000000000000 0XFFFFF801D09B6C90 0X0000000000000002
Can anyone help me chainload the Windows MBR to GRUB correctly to avoid a boot problem, or suggest a new bootloader to replace (or run along side of) GRUB so I can boot Windows 8 without problems?


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WEIRTON - Madonna battled its way to a 29-14 come-from-behind victory over St. Marys Friday night to earn a spot in the West Virginia Class A semifinials next week. The Blue Dons will move on to play the winner of today's game between top ranked Tucker County and No. 8 Clay-Battelle.
St. Marys (10-2), ranked fifth, took it to the Blue Dons early, but Madonna (11-1) was able to capitalize on Blue Devil turnovers in the fast paced game.
"We knew they were a physical football team and that they wanted to run the ball and eat up the clock," said victorious Blue Don coach, Doug Taylor. "That's pretty much what they did."
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DEFENSE — The Madonna defense swarms a St. Marys' ballcarrier during the Blue Dons 29-14 win Friday at Jimmy?Carey Stadium.
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DEFENSE — Madonna's Ross Comis reacts after recovering a St. Marys' fumble during the Blue Dons 29-14 win Friday at Jimmy?Carey Stadium.
Ross Comis, Madonna's junior quarterback and defensive safety, was in the middle of just about everything. He had a hand in all four Blue Dons touchdowns offensively and on the defensive side he thwarted two Blue Devil forays deep in Madonna territory when he recovered a fumble in the first half and intercepted a pass in the fourth quarter.
Comis scored on two 1-yard runs and threw touchdown passes to Elliott Nero for 2 and 60 yards. The 60-yarder came with 2:51 left in the fourth quarter and put the game away for the Blue Dons.
The Blue Devils drove 93 yards in 17 plays the first time they got possession of the ball with senior quarterback, Andrew Cosper, getting into the end zone on a keeper. Hard-running junior halfback, David Gray, who led all rushers with 143 yards, blasted into the end zone for the two-point conversion to arm the visitors with an 8-0 lead.
Fact Box
Madonna 29, St. Marys 14
St. Marys 8 0 6 0 - 14
Madonna 0 15 7 7 - 29
SM: Cosper 1 (Gray run)
M: Nero 2 pass from Comis (Comis run)
M: Comis 1 run (Green kick)
SM: Barnhart 4 run (pass failed)
M: Comis 1 run (Green kick)
M: Nero 60 pass from Comis (Green kick)
RUSHING: St. Marys, 55-250-2TD (Gray 22-143, Spitzer 9-25, Barnhart 11-54-TD, Cosper 13-28-TD; Madonna, 32-121 (Ossman 12-63, Nero 2-2, Comis 18-56-2TD.
PASSING: St. Marys, 1-5-31-INT (Cosper 1-4-31, Gray 0-1-INT; Madonna, 7-10-126-2TD (all by Comis).
RECEIVING: St. Marys, Gray 1-31; Madonna, Nero 4-89-2TD, Ewusiak 2-7, Bowser 1-30.
FIRST DOWNS: St. Marys, 15; Madonna, 11.
PENALTIES: St. Marys, 4-51; Madonna, 5-47.
FUMBLES-LOST: St. Marys, 3-1; Madonna, 0-0.
That drive consumed 7:31 of the clock and with the score coming at 2:21 of the first period, the Blue Dons found themselves with the first period nearly over and they had run just three offensive plays and a punt.
Madonna's offense struggled early, but after the St. Marys score, the Blue Dons got into a long drive of their own.
It began at their own 36 after Anthony Antinone returned the St. Marys kickoff 21 yards. Eleven plays later, Nero took a third down swing pass to the left side from Comis and pranced into the end zone. The play only covered two yards, but it seemed to shift some of the momentum into Madonna's favor.
The Blue Dons lined up to have sophomore Matt Green kick the extra point, but a Blue Devil jumped off side so coach Taylor hurried his offense onto the field and Comis hit Nero on the right side with a pass for the two-pointer that tied the game at 8-8.
The Blue Devils put the ensuing kickoff into play at their own 33 and began to exert their will against the Madonna defense again. They drove 11 plays to the Blue Don 25. On first down, Noah Spitzer got loose over the right side for eight yards, but fumbled when Comis came up from his safety spot to make the tackle. The alert Comis grabbed the football to halt the Blue Devil assault.
It didn't take the Blue Dons long to turn that mistake into seven points as they drove the 73 yards in just six plays. Junior running back Nick Ossman, who led the Blue Dons rushers with 63 yards on 12 carries, churned his way for 13 yards then Comis reeled off 30 yards with a keeper.
Two plays later, Comis hit junior Will Bowser over the middle for 30 yards and on the next play he found another junior, Tyler Ewusiak, again over the middle for 11 more. That gave the Blue Dons a first down at the St. Marys one yard line from where Comis scored on a keeper over right tackle.
Green's extra point gave the Blue Dons a 15-8 halftime lead.
"Turnovers were the key," said Jodi Mote, veteran St. Marys coach. "You get in a ballgame like this and you get in the red zone you got to put it in and we just struggled with that tonight in key situations.
"Obviously, we're not a passing team so when we got down late in the game it was difficult. Comis can make you look silly. Our tackling was great in the first half, but he was a little bit better in the second half."
Comis, who went into the game with 1,359 rushing yards, was held to 56 yards on the ground by the staunch Blue Devil defense.
Like they did in the first half, the Blue Devils were first to score in the second half. Senior Derek Barnhart, the Blue Devil 213-pound battering ram of a fullback, blasted up the middle from four yards out for the touchdown that made the score 15-14.
The Blue Devil attempted a trick play for the extra points with Cosper handing off to Gray on an apparent run play. However, Gray abruptly stopped and threw a jump pass into the end zone that didn't find its mark.
On the ensuing possession, the Blue Dons got into the St. Marys end zone again.
Marcello Biondillo returned the kickoff 11 yards to the Madonna 42, but a Blue Devil tackler hit him late out of bounds. The 15-yard penalty allowed Madonna to set up shop at the St. Marys 43.
Madonna scored eight plays later with Comis spinning his way into the end zone from the 1. The big play in the drive was a 22-yard pass from Comis to Nero with a half the distance penalty of 11 yards tacked on to give Madonna a first down at the St. Marys 11-yard line.
Green's kick made the score 22-14.
The Blue Devils went on another long drive with the ensuing kickoff relentlessly pounding the Madonna defense with running plays. St. Marys only threw the ball five times. They completed one and one was intercepted.
The interception came on this St. Marys drive. The Blue Devils ran the ball down to the Madonna 12 and suddenly on third down attempted a pass. The Cosper aerial was incomplete.
On fourth down, Cosper lateraled the ball to Gray, who threw the football into the waiting arms of Comis near the 5-yard line.
"When they threw the football back to the back, I did a quick look over my shoulder to see if there was a receiver crossing," Comis explained. "I basically baited him into throwing and he threw it low, but I was able to go down and make the play."
The Blue Dons were able to move the ball to the St. Marys 36, but were forced to give up the ball on downs when the Blue Devils broke up a long pass down the middle to Nero.
That play was important, because the Blue Dons went right back to it the next time they got the football and this time Nero caught the ball in stride and raced to pay dirt in a play that covered 60 yards. With Green's kick, Madonna put the game away.
"On a play early in the game we ran Tyler, our tight end across the middle and I saw their safety come up and bite on it," said Comis. "So I told coach at halftime to run Elliott on a seam route. The possession before I under threw him on fourth down so I knew he was going to be open again so I just threw it and Elliott made the play.
"St. Marys is a tough team. They fought to the whistle and they hit very hard. They're probably one of the hardest hitting teams we played all year."


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Is there a way to extract this information from a Gmail account, preferably without having to copy a significant chunk of my inbox over IMAP?


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9 Words You've Used Today With Bizarre Criminal Origins
We like to think there's something poetic and beautiful about the English language, as it was slowly pieced together over the centuries by Shakespeare, Chaucer, Wordsworth and James Joyce.
Look closer, however, and you'll see that English is actually just a mishmash of grunts and shrieks assembled haphazardly from the crude dialects of hobos, gypsies and rapists. For example:
#9. "Tip" Used to Mean Paying a Man to Not Beat You
Today's Usage:
"I better tip that waitress so I don't feel bad about that thing with the vomit."
Past Usage:
"I better tip this man so that he doesn't start wearing my face as a warning to others."
From the start, to tip meant to give somebody money, but four hundred years ago the money was given for a slightly different reason. It was part of the thieves' cant, a language used by the criminal underworld in Britain. You've probably used some of their secret code words today. The verb to "tout," which now means "praise something highly" started out meaning "to keep lookout and warn everybody if you saw the one time coming." They even gave us the idea to use "kid" to mean to joke with somebody (to them, it was treating somebody like a child).
"My buddy 'touted' the cops to me when he saw 'em coming. I was 'kidding' you as a distraction. I'm 'seriously' stealing your car."
The 1737 Thieving Slang Dictionary lists "tip" with the example sentence "tip your Lour or I'll mill ye," which means something along the lines of "Give me your money, or I'll kill you with this woolly-mammoth tusk" (OK, we're not sure what weapons they used). The word eventually acquired the meaning to give a gratuity, apparently after someone had the most terrifying waiter in the history of the service industry.
There's a reason waiters keep one hand hidden when handing you the check.
What we're trying to say is, 200 years from now, educated people will be using gangster rap slang in everyday conversation, and they will have absolutely no clue where it came from.
"My dearest ho, I believe my bling has slipped out of my pants. How pimp of me."
#8. "Punk" Meant Whore, Criminal or Rape Slave
Today's Usage:
"I figure you're a punk because of your anti-establishment hairstyle and piercings."
Past Usage:
"I figure you're a punk because I saw what White Power Mike did to you behind cell-block 5."
Punk's long history starts back in the 1600s, when it meant "female prostitute." In Measure for Measure, one of Shakespeare's less open-minded characters proclaims that "marrying a punk" is worse than being tortured and killed. By the turn of the 20th century, the meaning had changed to refer to the, uh, more unfortunate partner in the prison love arrangement. Until recently, punk as a verb was still widely used to refer to the act of prison rape, which forces us to see Ashton Kutcher in an entirely new light.
But not necessarily a surprising one.
But the word's out-of-prison use is mostly due to hobo slang, the dialect used by the vagabonds who once traveled the country, stealthily hitching rides on cargo trains. This dialect also gave us flophouse, handout and moniker, as well as the phrase "Man, maybe we shouldn't have locked the grizzly bear transport carriage from the outside."
The beard is for blending in with the bears. The leather gloves are for the wrasslin'.
In Hobo, punk meant a boy who worked as a criminal apprentice for a much older hobo, with or without the NAMBLA-ish implications. By the time the word crossed over into general usage, it had mostly lost these overtones altogether, and was instead a general insult for young criminals, rebels and anyone disliked by Clint Eastwood. In 1970, a music critic decided to use the word to describe a new type of rock music, and it went from there.
Viz., "this terrible band raped my ears and called my skull a whore."
#7. "Flaky" Meant You Were Addicted to Coke
Today's Usage:
"Man, Bill left the lab monkey's cage open again and now there's Ebola everywhere. He's so flaky."
Past Usage:
"Bill is so flaky. I can tell by the way he has more cocaine on his desk than Scarface."
In the 1950s, "flaky" made its way into baseball slang as an affectionate term meaning "eccentric." As in, "Oh, Doc just likes to do that with his bat sometimes. Don't worry about him, he's kind of flaky." But the word originated in criminal slang: flake was a word for cocaine, and flaky meant you were acting like you were addicted to it.
Rodney is so high, he's actually levitating seven feet above the ground.
Compared to the seedy underworlds of hobos and carnies, baseball jargon might seem positively mainstream. It makes up for it, though, by the wildly disproportionate amount of language it has given us for use as sex euphemisms: "Amanda thought she was going to score with her new boyfriend, but did not even make it to first base before she struck out, after which she accused him of playing for the other team. You know, swinging from the other side of the plate."
"Her next boyfriend threw her a curve ball when he hit a line drive straight into her forehead."
Hey, speaking of which ...
#6. "Gay" Used to Mean a Heterosexual Who Has Lots of Sex
Today's Usage:
"Tom sure has been sleeping with a lot of men lately. I guess he must be gay."
Past Usage:
"Jane sure has been sleeping with a lot of men lately, and she just bought that new diamond-studded car. I guess she must be gay."
You're a bitch, Jane.
Today, we often make fun of people in the past using the word "gay." After all, right up until recently it was a totally innocent word meaning "cheerful," right?
In fact, "gay" lost its innocence centuries ago. Starting in the 1700s, the word was used as a euphemism for pretty much anything sexual -- and in a surprising twist, it used to label anybody who was outrageously straight. In the late 1800s, "gay lady" meant prostitute, and "gay house" was a brothel. In fact, if you were a womanizer, you would have been called "gay." If that's not strange enough, a dictionary from 1811 listed "gaying instrument" as a slang term for "penis."
We're so sorry, band geeks.
The shift in meaning, which started around the beginning of the 20th century, started to take hold thanks to Polari, an underground dialect used in Britain among gay men and the theatrical scene back when most forms of homosexuality were still illegal. Polari also gave us the euphemistic terms flaming and camp (from an old French term meaning "to pose"). By the 1960s, "gay" was already established in some circles as meaning a man who prefers the company of men. So it turns out those old Batman comics really have no excuse after all.
We bet Gordon's instrument plays a happy tune.
#5. "Jock" Meant "Penis"
Today's Usage:
"I had a dream in which I was surrounded by huge jocks. I think I am nervous about football tryouts tomorrow."
Past Usage:
"I had a dream in which I was surrounded by huge jocks. I've never seen so much anthropomorphic foreskin. I think I need to speak to my therapist."
"Jock" started out as a common nickname for John, and was used in the past as a generic term for "man," the same way we say "John Doe" or "Jack of all trades" today. Around 1650, due to the apparently timeless human tendency toward naming male genitalia after people we admire, it became a slang term for "penis."
Calling this guy a dick is linguistically justified.
Hobos, who we're now convinced did nothing but travel around the country on trains thinking up new words for pederasty, even used jocker as a term for the older partner in the now-familiar unequal hobo love arrangement. Later, in the 1960s, people started using the word as a name for young athletes: this came from the shortened version of jockstrap, a fancy word for "penis-holster." Given the fact that "jockstrap" is still in common usage, it's pretty amazing that, since then, we've been able to get away with basically calling America's strongest teenagers "giant, walking cocks."
The day they gain sentience is the day we all lose.


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Checking out San Diego Zoo's newest baby panda
Xiao Liwu, a 5 1/2-month-old male panda, gets weekly checkups at the San Diego Zoo. Xiao Liwu was born at the zoo and has been on display for a limited number of hours since last week.
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