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It is acceptable, but you should use it with care. Generally, you should avoid having long texts in parentheses, as the reader will eventually forget that he is inside a parentheses block.
In serious papers and letters, you should avoid it completely, and rather find a way of re-phrase it.
In conversational e-mails, blog posts, StackExchange posts etc. it might be more natural to use it, but the inner parenthesis should never be long (just a couple of words). The most important is to make sure that the reader don't get confused of where the parenthesis start and end.
With nested parentheses
This is a quick example on how to rephrase a potential problematic use of nested parenthesis. (It can be a less important section like this (which is quite long, even if it is not important), and when you continue, the reader might be lost in where in the parenthesized text he is, and might wonder if he still is inside any parentheses.) Anyway, the main text continues here.
Re-phrased to remove nesting
This is a quick example on how to rephrase a potential problematic use of nested parenthesis.
(It can be a less important section like this. It is quite long, even if it is not important. Now when you continue, the reader is not lost anymore because the long section is taken out in a separate paragraph, and no inner parentheses can be mistaken for an early termination of the outer section.)
Anyway, the main text continues here.
I believe it's acceptable, but vaguely considered poor form, and I tend to avoid it (often by restructuring a sentence and busting out some emdashes) unless I'm intentionally using it to be cute.
My English Composition professor told us that if you ever feel you need to use nested parentheses, that is one sure sign you need to rewrite the sentence instead.
Here's what one technical editor has to say on the topic:
Well I do it, but then I spend a lot of time as a mathematician.
If it gets confusing I think using alternative bracket glyphs assists
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I have found that people who appreciate stressing thoroughly the logical construction of their sentences to make them totally unambiguous tend to use parentheses a lot, and to nest them, even though (see other answers) it's considered poor form. In particular, scientists (especially mathematicians and logicians) seem to do that more commonly than other people.
In looking at this question, I was immediately reminded of the work of William Faulkner, an undoubtedly well-known author in the United States. He is notorious for his complex sentences that can go on for pages. In some of them, he unapologetically uses nested parentheses.
While Faulkner sets a precedent doing this, it is not at all proof of the 'correct' usage. His motivation is quite different. I like the way Louis Rubin puts it in his essay The Dixie Special: William Faulkner and the Southern Literary Renascence:
I bring Faulkner's example up for the sake of introducing a different angle on the OP's question. It may not be the best choice stylistically to nest parentheses, but there have been literary precedents that show the practice. The example of Faulkner's usage of the nested parentheses shows that there is a purpose in his writing to convey a sense of complexity and to leave nothing out.
Parentheses are a way to stuff more ideas into a sentence than it could otherwise bear. They make life easier for the writer who is trying to capture all his ideas as they bubble up, but harder for the reader trying to make sense of it all. If you nest your parentheses, you risk losing your reader entirely.
So I'd say, in your first draft, go ahead and use as many parentheses as you want, but in later drafts you should try to eliminate them — especially the nested ones.
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I asked a question about what I could add to homemade bread to stop it going off so fast and someone suggested trying "a poolish starter". I've never heard of this before, so what is it?
Poolish is a type of sponge. You prepare it before mixing your dough. As in 16 hours before. Then, you mix it with the rest of the ingredients.
What I usually do is mix 150g of flour and 150g of water with a pinch of yeast (less than 1g) and no salt at all the night before the day I'm going to use it. The idea is to use the same amount, in weight, of flour and water, and the least amount possible of yeast and let it work as slow as possible.
This will depend on many factors. I'm giving you my quantities, but it changes from winter to summer, you will have to experiment. That's half of the fun. For the mixing I use a fork and a 1 litter/quarter container and 30 seconds of work, it shouldn't take you more. The poolish usually gets almost to the top in 14-18 hours. Once I put 5g of yeast and got to the top in 1 hour. This is not bad but defies the purpose of the poolish taking a lot of time. Some people even put in the refrigerator to make it take longer.
Why would you want it to take time? This is what I was told and makes sense to me: when you mix water, flour and yeast two things happen: the yeast transform the sugars and some good bacteria starts creating acids that will determine flavour. The yeast work depends on the temperature and amount of yeast (among other things, like water, salt, fat, etc). The bacteria doesn't. Also, the bacteria and the acids help preserve the bread.
Once it has reached the top you have 1 hour approx to use it. If not, it will collapse and you better start with a new one. If you think you are not going to use it in 1 hour, use a fork to degass it before it collapses and let it rise again. It will rise faster this time, but that will buy you some time. You can see what it looks like.
If you have a recipe you like, try replacing 150g flour and 150g water with the poolish and see what happens. You may replace between 10% and 50% of the final dough. You'll see changes in color and flavor.
I'm not sure what you mean by "stop it from going off so fast."
A poolish is a pre-ferment that is made of equal parts flour and water. If you are familiar with a biga or sponge, it is a close relative.
You can learn more about starters in general from The Bread Baker's Apprentice, one of the best books for learning about the science behind bread out there. He covers pre-ferments, bigas, and poolish as well as sourdough starters. Poolish is a more wet starter than many of the other kinds.
A poolish is somewhat similar to a sourdough starter that isn't strong enough to provide the yeast all on its own.


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STEUBENVILLE — City Manager Cathy Davison asked City Council Monday night to consider closing the Pleasant Heights fire station and laying off five firefighters in order to balance the proposed 2013......
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Get rid of those un-needed city workers. I just am aghast at how many unproductive city jobs are not needed, yet the unions continue to fight for them. Meanwhile, the union contract will not allow a pool to be open in the summer for the kids to enjoy. Foobar on these public unions!
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TomSays....which jobs would you get rid of? they are already at a bare minimum with staffing. Maybe? street dept, water or filtration workers? Do you need clean water? streets? running water to your house . Maybe firefighters? hope your house is never on fire. Police?
This has nothing to do with the Pool, there is no money for the pool (which doesn't make money). Come to a meeting and give your input , since you have all the answers! City Manager is a disgrace. We do not need her or a counsel. That would save some money. The good ole boys days are coming to an end! If anyone has a gripe with the city manager, council or union.....Go to the meetings!
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As the provisional Formula One calendar for 2014 takes shape, it has caught many of the sport's fans off-guard. Usually the shocks come from the addition of races in new countries away from F1's traditional heartland, such as Singapore which will host a night race through its streets on Sunday. But this time, the surprise was the return of some familiar locations.
After a 10-year hiatus, the Austrian Grand Prix is due to return to the calendar, as will Mexico City, which last held a Grand Prix in 1992. They will replace a planned race on the streets of New Jersey and the Indian Grand Prix, which joined the calendar in 2011.
Another recent addition, the Bahrain Grand Prix, was also expected to become the 2014 opener, but the season will now begin elsewhere because the circuit needs more time to adapt for a night race.
That leaves the Australian Grand Prix in the coveted spot at the start of the season. It has been F1's opener for the past 16 years with only two exceptions, 2006 and 2010, due to scheduling conflicts. And there is good reason why the race has stood its ground.
A Grand Prix can be a powerful tool to drive tourism. This year's race in Australia attracted 103,000 spectators as well as an estimated 500 members of the media, 800 officials, 700 support race staff and 1,500 F1 personnel.
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In addition to putting Melbourne on display for future tourists, the track is lined with advertising hoardings displaying the city's name. In 2009, research firm Comperio concluded that the brand exposure was worth $319.5 million to the city. In other words, it's the amount Melbourne would have had to spend to buy advertising with a similar level of exposure for a similar length of time.
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Australian politicians are still keen to reduce their overheads and their window of opportunity is coming up at the end of 2015 when the Australian GP contract expires. The race's biggest single expense is believed to be the hosting fee paid to the U.K.-based F1 Group, which is controlled by private equity firm CVC.
The second-largest shareholder is New York-listed fund manager Waddell & Reed followed by other financial institutions and management including the F1 Group's chief executive Bernie Ecclestone.
In January, reports in Australian media said the fee came to $32.6 million in 2012 and escalates by 5% annually. "I think the event is terrific, but at the moment it's costing too much money," Victoria state Tourism and Major Events Minister Louise Asher told the Herald Sun newspaper.
But in fact, the fee is only slightly above the sport's average of $27 million, as disclosed in the F1 Group's most recent accounts (for 2011). They show that the F1 Group's biggest source of revenue was race hosting fees which generated $512 million. The more races it adds, the more it stands to earn.
And interest in hosting a Grand Prix is accelerating as more countries grasp F1's power to drive tourism with an annual audience of 500 million, according to its 2012 broadcast report. But it takes deep-pocketed backers to fund them.
Key to the return of the Austrian GP is energy drinks giant Red Bull, which owns the 2.7-mile track hosting the race. The race at Mexico City's Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez is also believed to be fully funded. These two will compensate for the loss of New Jersey and India.
The organizers of the planned Grand Prix of America in New Jersey have a 15-year contract to host the race from 2014. Ecclestone, however, said in August that he wasn't holding his breath.
New events generally need funding in place about a year beforehand to ensure that they are on the schedule, but Ecclestone said recently that the race in New Jersey still lacks financial support. It's why he added in a recent interview that it "is not on the cards for next year."
Likewise, the Indian GP will skip 2014 and return for the start of 2015. This is due to a desire to shift the race from its current slot in October to March which would make it too much of a challenge to hold two events in six months.
There are even question marks over next year's inaugural Russian GP. It is due to take place on the Winter Olympics site in Sochi, but despite massive investment in the Olympics site, there is still a funding dispute over the F1 race.
When the race was announced in 2010, Russia's deputy prime minister suggested that the earliest it could take place would be 2015, due to the challenge of managing both F1 and the Winter Olympics. Ecclestone brought this forward by a year following a visit in February, but it hasn't been smooth running since then.
In early August, the Russian Automobile Federation (RAF) missed the deadline to submit a formal application for the race and failed to pay its hosting fee.In August the RAF released a statement saying that it was ready to submit the application "as soon as the promoter fulfils all the necessary formalities."
Still, the race is expected to be included, thus giving F1 the biggest calendar in its 63-year history.
But a 21-race season poses a problem. This is because F1's contracts with the teams stipulate that majority consent from Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull Racing is required if there are more than 20 races. The clause was inserted to prevent teams being put under too much financial pressure to compete.
It may not come to that. Widespread reports suggest that the loss-making Korean Grand Prix will not make it to 2014, leaving the calendar at 20.
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The admission that Connecticut was running a deficit large enough to require Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to submit a deficit-mitigation plan came nine days after votes were tallied in Connecticut. Members of the legislature no doubt were shocked — shocked! — to hear the governor's budget chief, Ben Barnes, report to the Appropriations Committee on Nov. 14 that the deficit was a startling $365 million.
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September 19, 2011
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz began the weekly Cabinet meeting at Al-Yamamah palace in Riyadh today with a briefing on his contacts last week with foreign officials. These included talks with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani; a message sent to Tunisian Interim President Foued Mebazaa; a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel; and audiences with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Chang Qow Lee.
The King congratulated the Saudi people in advance of Saudi National Day, which falls on Friday this year. "The celebration of this day reminds us of the great achievements made by the founder of this country, the late King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al-Saud, whose approach was followed by his sons," he said. "This achievement was based on firm fundamental principles, including adherence to the Holy Quran and the Sunnah, exerting efforts, overcoming all challenges, pursuit of development to achieve growth and development in various fields throughout the country while preserving the values and fundamentals, and living in security and stability in light of a national unity that has become a unique model in appreciation and cohesion between the leaders of this country and its loyal people."
Afterwards, the Cabinet heard a number of reports on the latest Arab and international developments. The ministers reviewed the final statement issued by the 136th Arab League Ministerial Council meeting, as well as the decisions issued by the 88th session of the Arab League's Economic and Social Council.
Turning to its remaining agenda items, the Cabinet approved the Headquarters Agreement and the attached Protocol between the Kingdom and the Muslim World League; approved a number of measures regarding the implementation of the Second Phase of the school transportation project; approved measures aimed at alleviating the difficulties faced by directors of internal audits in government bodies; approved measures related to fish investment; and authorized the Ministry of Transportation to set engineering designs for railway networks between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states.
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Can avocado be used to replace the eggs to make a bread vegan. I have seen very little information regard avocado as an egg replacement and was hoping to find advice from anyone who has tried baking with avocados before.
I think this is not possible. Avocado is a great source of high quality fat, but does not contain any protein. Egg contains copious amount of protein which enables it as 'binding' agent. When protein coagulates it 'binds' the ingredients together, giving them a different texture.
So, avocado - having a completely different taste, texture and macro nutrient composition could not act as egg substitute anywhere.
On a side note - egg is not a vital ingredient in bread. Bread gets it's elastic consistency from wheat protein, while the CO2 bubbles from yeast make it spongy and airy. If anything, adding the avocado would be like adding potato and oil to your bread. It would have a harder time rising and the texture would be moister. Don't know about the taste, though...
It really depends on the kind of bread you're making, and what the eggs are used for (leavening, binding, etc). For example, a pizza dough or baguette doesn't need egg. A quick bread such as banana bread might call for eggs in the recipe, and may or may not need an egg replacer (the bananas themselves are actually are a great egg replacer in that case). A bread recipe calling for an egg wash can just have that step skipped. Other recipes might have have eggs serving another function. This website and this website both have lists of egg replacements and their function.
Egg replacers I've used include: silken tofu, applesauce, bananas (usually in baked goods like muffins or quick breads); flax seeds, commercial egg replacer (Ener-G), and tapioca starch.
The best egg replacement is ground flax seed. Mix one tsp of ground flax with three tsp of water. Let sit for 5-10 minutes. You'll get the consistency you need and will still be vegan.


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The Figure in Flack seems to be guarding the secrets of the ruins. Cute shot.
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grate shot
nice shot.the darkness is beautiful as well as haunting.
Nice shot.
the beauty of black & white ... dramatic !
It has a ghostly quality.
Very beautiful and magnanimous picture of great IRI. Just wonderful and so classic, serene and peaceful.
congratulations to you
not my style
Preciosa fotografía, enhorabuena
Good job Bahareh
I don't profess to know much if anything about the culture of Iran or its people, but just looking at the photo from a photographers point of view, I think that it is an excellent photo and especially in B&W ... has just emphasized the starkness of the land in this particular photo. The cloud formation and the ruins including the figure who ever it might be makes for a good composition. But thats just my 2 cents worth of info.
IRAN, the Land of Wonders
Viva Iran
Viva Bahareh
Wonderful image. Strong composition.
Well done Bahare, thanks to publishing photo from Iran.
good shot,but the power lines do not fit in this kind of picture!
Amazing! Everything so good... composition.. light management...subject!
impressive place !!!
This photo is breathtaking. I feel like I am "seeing" this scene with my own eyes.
Very Nice
Love the way your captured this photo. Great work.
nice shot , mr. bahareh , keep up the good work !
Great work Bahareh.Thank you.
Why did you have to show the Hizbolli veiled woman who represents a small fraction of Iranian women? Nice picture except the witch in black ruined the picture.
Cielo y tierra, con la mano del hombre, se juntan para ofrecernos una imagen llena de misterio. Felicidades al fotógrafo por esta maravillosa foto y enseñarnos un poco de este bello país.
good e good
An outstanding black/and white photograph. The caped figure seems almost 3D in its effect. The old ruined castle just stands out clearly against the beautiful sky. The top story, In the middle of the frame, shows a spot of light through a hole or a small window. Altogether an eye catching picture. j.e.s.
Mysterious and rather eerie, but at the same time, beautiful and awesome in it's starkness!
certainly a sensation of timelessness, and desolation - strong shot captured there, where b+w emphasises once again
La Convicción Es La Verdad Del Sueño. Hace Suya La Realidad Del Soñador. Bajo La Firmeza En La Espera. Por Historia De Verdades Ocultas. Qué Abundancia De Belleza... Exitos!
تبریک میگم . به امید موفقیت روزافزون
awesome congratulations
My best wishes dear Bahar! This is wonderful
dramatic image of a dramatic place.
Beautiful image! Did you use HDR to capture this contrast range? Nice composition!
Photo of the day??? not my kettle of fish.
This pic is amazing. It's so peaceful and powerful at the same time..
Magnificent photography. Superb performance picture. Black and white, on photography tell the story of the same. Not even need to add anything more. Only even magnificent.
It would be unusual for these ruins to be not haunted by antique fantoms._ Silence is a gateway into the thoughts of anonymous._ The sleep and the dream is absolutely necesary , so is the human brain - need comtinuity..
@muntasir abdo zaroug she :D Bahareh is a girl name
Because it is part of the culture nevertheless and calling her a witch shows your hatred towards something that's part of the culture. Nothing wrong with this picture.
@Garrick Meyers Thank you so much .. no . its not HDR
@Armin NasirianIt is NOT A part of our culture. It is a part of a small minority of Hizbollis that have hijacked Iran. This is an ancient ruin - a PRE-ISLAMIC site. This is part of our culture. Our New Years (Nowruz) is part of our culture. These Hizbolli witches are NOT a part of Iranian culture. They are a part of the small minority of terrorists that have ruined and destroyed Iran.
@Sassan Darian You're just disgusting.
@Sassan Darian @Armin Nasirian Wow...I'm not saying I disagree with you in the sense that there is a foundational culture that existed pre-Islamic times that constituted what many would describe as Iran's riches, but calling a woman who you don't know a witch (regardless if she is Islamic or not) is just disrespectful.
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StackOverflow recently removed the power to delete arbitrary comments from your post once you reach 5000 rep.
The change itself makes perfect sense, but it leaves those of us who strove to reach 5k rep feeling lost and without a milestone.
Therefore, I propose, as a consolation prize to keep the morale up for people pathetic enough to care (like myself) - a new badge for reaching 5k (may be remove it past 6k or something).
Proposed names:
"T-Shirt" (I reached 5k rep and all I got was a lousy T-Shirt badge)
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That would seem to preclude its use for an RTI. Unless you have a card up your sleeve?---John_______________________________________________On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Ralph Castain <email@example.com> wrote:
It isn't the fact that there are multiple programs being used - we support that just fine. The problem with HLA/RTI is that it allows programs to come/go at will - i.e., not every program has to start at the same time, nor complete at the same time. MPI requires that all programs be executing at the beginning, and that all call finalize prior to anyone exiting.On Apr 15, 2013, at 8:14 AM, John Chludzinski <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
I just received an e-mail notifying me that MPI-2 supports MPMD. This would seen to be just what the doctor ordered?---John_______________________________________________On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Ralph Castain <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:FWIW: some of us are working on a variant of MPI that would indeed support what you describe - it would support send/recv (i.e., MPI-1), but not collectives, and so would allow communication between arbitrary programs.
Not specifically targeting HLA/RTI, though I suppose a wrapper that conformed to that standard could be created.
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On Apr 15, 2013, at 7:50 AM, John Chludzinski <email@example.com> wrote:
> This would be a departure from the SPMD paradigm that seems central to
> MPI's design. Each process would be a completely different program
> (piece of code) and I'm not sure how well that would working using
> BTW, MPI is commonly used in the parallel discrete even world for
> communication between LPs (federates in HLA). But these LPs are
> usually the same program.
> ---John
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:22 AM, John Chludzinski
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>> Is anyone aware of an MPI based HLA/RTI (DoD High Level Architecture
>> (HLA) / Runtime Infrastructure)?
>> ---John
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6 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Remakes
As we recently pointed out, a lack of creativity in the entertainment world is nothing new -- people have been doing adaptations, reboots and remakes since the first stories were told. What you may not have realized, however, is that some of the great landmark motion pictures were themselves just remakes of originals that nobody remembers.
#6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
We're guessing there are zero-point-zero people reading this who don't know about the multiple award winning classic children's tale of a lion, tin man, flying monkeys and witchslaughter with young Judy Garland in her star-making performance as Dorothy. But a remake? The thing was made in freaking 1939. Were there even movies before that?
We mean besides pornos.
The Original:
Yep. And a bunch of them were The Wizard of Oz remakes.
All of them are based on the children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, published in 1900. And by "all of them" we mean there were at least 10 freaking movie versions before the quintessential 1939 film. Perhaps none captured the roiling sexual subtext NOT EVEN REMOTELY found in the book better than the major 1925 silent adaptation by Baum's son Frank Joslyn Baum.
Hold on to your hats, because things are about to get freaky.
Some might even say "nightmarish."
The 1925 version of The Wizard of Oz opens with Dorothy openly flirting with her uncle's farmhands in the days leading up to her 18th birthday. The farmhands in question are played by Oliver Hardy and the self-cast director Larry Semon. Sooo ... the 35-year-old director cast himself as the frustrated suitor of a family farm Lolita. And, yes, his name was Semon. But don't worry guys. The two actors were married in real life, so everything was totally kosher.
A match born in the deepest nightmares of the most composed serial killer.
So a tornado carries Dorothy to the Land of Oz, where the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion characters are introduced. But it isn't really the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion -- it's the horny farmhands in disguise, hiding from Ambassador Wikked and Prime Minister Kruel, presumably while President Badd Guye and Emperor Stok Kharakter Villun were vacationing in Helll. Dorothy is crowned Queen of Oz and marries Prince Kynd (sigh) and decides to stay in Oz forever, because hey, why not?
Meanwhile, the Tin Man turns evil and tries to kill the Lion and the Scarecrow. Then the Scarecrow falls out of an airplane and dies.
Doesn't matter. You cannot kill what dwells within that.
This celluloid travesty bankrupted its studio and shockingly never got a wide release. Which is probably a good thing, considering how much sooner fan fiction would have gotten off the ground if it had.
#5. Scarface (1983)
If you were a teenage boy at any time in the past 30 years, odds are good that you have seen the gloriously overwrought cokehead Mafioso epic Scarface. Al Pacino is Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who rises through the ranks of a Miami drug kingdom with nothing but an aloha shirt, an accent cranked to 11 and an M-damn-16 assault rifle with a miraculous supply of bullets.
A movie that could have also been Pacino's personal biography.
Pacino, writer Oliver Stone and director Brian De Palma earn every morally ambiguous hip hop ode that has been spat in honor of this both Golden Globe and Razzie nominated crime classic. More specifically, Al Pacino earned the honor of teaching Spanish speakers how to roll their R's like they mean it.
The Original:
The original Scarface was based on the 1929 novel also called Scarface, which was a thinly disguised biography of dermatologically challenged real-world gangster, Al Capone.
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"Blood Acne Face" was already taken by another gangster.
It was such a grisly film that censors delayed its release and multiple versions resulted. You might even say it was the Scarface of its era.
When producer Martin Bregman set out to remake it in the 1980s, his intention was to do a gangster period piece faithful to the original. Ironically, the the filmmakers found the Prohibition-era Chicago setting too "melodramatic" so Sidney Lumet suggested changing the backdrop to the modern Miami cocaine cartel world.
Needs more cocaine
Oliver Stone, who had just kicked a wicked coke habit, was hired to rewrite the screenplay and boom! A million ethnic stereotypes and college dorm posters were simultaneously born. All because Oliver Stone is really good at reining in melodrama.
#4. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Quick! What comes to mind when you think of Clint Eastwood in a classic western? A poncho? A cigarillo? How about a bunch of non-English speaking Europeans on location in Spain with their lines overdubbed like a kung fu movie? Boom. You win the jackpot.
If you are familiar with the term Spaghetti Western, you can thank the wild popularity of A Fistful of Dollars. Shot in Spain by an Italian crew with an international cast, Dollars sets grizzled American Clint Eastwood against rival gangs in a "Mexican" border town. The only thing missing from this melting pot of a movie was some Asians.
The Original:
Oh wait, never mind. Because A Fistful of Dollars was a Japanese movie before it was an Euromerican one. Specifically, it was a frame-for-frame remake of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture Yojimbo. Only when Kurosawa made it, he used robes instead of panchos and swords instead of guns.
And princess buns instead of hats.
Ripping off foreign movies had been done before, but Sergio Leone didn't bother to get the rights to Yojimbo before he set about remaking it, which was why Yojimbo's producers were eventually awarded 15 percent of the remake's worldwide gross in a successful lawsuit. Kurosawa later claimed that he earned more money off of A Fistful of Dollars than he did from his original movie.
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Stay Well doing well after 40 years
Waterbury health center celebrates anniversary with new logo
"We have been the best-kept secret in Waterbury and we are proud of the great things we do and want to look good, too," said Bianchi of StayWell. The new logo will be unveiled to StayWell's 147 staff members at 8 a.m. Thursday, followed that evening by a dinner at La Bella Vista Pavilion in Waterbury.
In 2011, StayWell saw 20,500 patients, 97 percent of whom live below the federal poverty level. StayWell offers health and social services, including preventive medical, dental and mental health services. Nineteen percent of its patients last year were uninsured and 70 percent were on Medicaid.
StayWell is a federally qualified health center, a designation it receives for adhering to federal regulations on scope and quality of services provided to anyone regardless of their ability to pay. Nationally, there are more than 1,200 such community health centers, including 14 in Connecticut and two in Waterbury. Middletown-based Community Health Center opened a Waterbury location in 2011.
The centers were created by President Lyndon B. Johnson's Model Cities initiative as an effort to bring health services to the medically underserved.
Originally, the city operated StayWell, which was housed in the New Opportunities building on North Elm Street. In 1994, it became a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. It was designated as a federally qualified health center in 2000. In 2006, StayWell purchased and moved into the Phoenix Professional Plaza in the city's North End. The center now has seven sites in the city, including three for the homeless.
"There is a huge demand for our services and Waterbury is really becoming more of a town of need," said Don Thompson Jr., president and CEO of StayWell. "We are celebrating our success of surviving 40 years in this business and we are preparing for the changes in health care coming down the pike."
Bianchi said she is proud that one-third of StayWell's employees live in Waterbury, ensuring direct roots to the community. The center tries to educate and advocate for the patients it serves.
Staff members speak many languages. Among its community programs are Healthy Start, which provides emotional support, health education and links to services for pregnant women and new mothers, and participation in the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency Act, which offers a full range of medical, dental, mental health and support services for patients infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
"It's not enough that people come to the doctor and like them. We send our patients out of the office with a plan of action to improve their health and we are very focused on quality measures," Bianchi said. "And we meet or exceed all national quality measures. And our patients in Waterbury are very sick."
As for the future, Bianchi said StayWell will continue to improve patient care for the underserved.
"There is a need for greater access to care. We are open nights and weekends, but how do we extend that so that our patients don't end up in the emergency room," she asked.
In 2011, almost 330,000 patients from across Connecticut received their care from Connecticut's community health centers.
Nearly 23 percent of these patients are uninsured. All health centers offer a sliding fee scale for the uninsured and lower-income patients to enable patients of all income levels to get services. Nearly one-third of patients are women and one-third are children.
If you go
StayWell Health Care will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a "summer end fete" Thursday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at La Bella Vista Pavilion, 380 Farmwood Road, Waterbury. Tickets are $50 and include buffet dinner, beverages including sangria and bottled beer. Dress is business casual. Guests are asked to bring a new or gently used book for the center's Reach Out & Read literacy advocacy program. Proceeds will support StayWell's patient fund, for the uninsured who can't afford lab tests, X-rays, prescriptions and other medical needs.
For tickets call Amy at 203-756-8021, ext. 3013. For information on StayWell, visit www.staywellhealth.org.
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Saturday's letters: Different plans
Published: Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 2, 2012 at 5:20 p.m.
To the editor: The election Tuesday is going to be the most significant in our nations history. While ostensibly just between two men, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the election is truly between two very different plans for our country, as President Obama himself says.
Do we return to the country of our Founders vision of liberty, opportunity and constitutional self-government? Or do we continue, and accelerate, the fundamental transformation of America into the current government by executive orders and regulations imposed by nameless, unvetted czars and bureaucrats?
The radical, lawless Obama administration has a total disregard for and enmity toward our Constitution the Constitution that has made the United States unique in the history of the world by having a government that secures the individuals rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Instead we have under this administration centralized command and control policies, and a burden of debt that will require confiscatory taxes to repay.
In this election, we are for or against our Constitution, whether we have a R or D or I after our name. To again quote President Obama, The choice you make couldnt be bigger.
Audrey Buozas
A great asset
To the editor: As an eighth-generation native of Transylvania County, Chris Whitmire is dedicated to our areas needs and assets. Improving employment, high gas taxes and corporate rates, as well as protecting our property rights, are among his top priorities. Whitmire also understands firsthand the concerns of our local farmers and small businesses due to years of working with his familys farm and real estate business.
Whitmires experience includes Transylvania County School Board chairman (four times) and more than 26 years of military leadership. In 2011, Transylvania County was recognized as the most fiscally responsible county in the state as well as being a top academic school system in North Carolina. These accomplishments took place during one of the toughest budget cuts in our countys history.
Whitmires experience as a pilot, combat veteran and military leader will also serve him well as our state representative. Currently, Whitmire serves as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve, where he leads and works with local, state and federal organizations during recovery and disaster operations.
The character, hard work, dedication and integrity Chris Whitmire will bring to our district will be a great asset to Transylvania, Polk and southern Henderson counties.
Janet Crain
Your vote counts
To the editor: Elections have consequences. For example, in 2010 when many Democrats neglected to vote, the Republicans gained control of the state legislature for the first time in more than 100 years.
One consequence of that election was the new gerrymandered state legislative and congressional districts. Our District 11 is a perfect example of giving the Republicans more safe districts. Another consequence was that the Republican legislature made large cuts in the state budget for education and overrode Gov. Beverly Perdues veto of the budget. What might the Republicans do if they continue as the majority in the legislature and if they take over the governors mansion or the White House?
If you are a Democrat or a Democratic-leaning independent, your vote counts but you must cast it. It is as easy as one, two and three. First, vote for President Barack Obama, Second, vote a straight Democratic ballot so all Democrats in partisan races get a vote. And three, vote for each of the fair, impartial judges (get a Democratic sample ballot to see who they are).
Vote. Vote Democratic. We are counting on you.
Doug Freeman
Pot, meet kettle
To the editor: In the letter Not better off, published in Saturdays paper, the writer claims the national debt in two years will be 80.4 percent of GDP and asks, Do you handle your own finances that recklessly?
Apparently so since the median household debt in the U.S. today is $75,600 and the median household income is $50,900, giving a debt-to-income ratio of about 150 percent. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
By the way, the national debt is either 68 percent of GDP or 103 percent of GDP, depending on whether you believe the CIA or the International Monetary Fund. For comparison, the UK is at 87 percent, Germany is at 82 percent and France is at 86 percent. And those countries have universal health care, lower infant mortality, longer life spans and functioning democracies. They also have higher levels of income equality by obliging their top 1 percent to pay a fair share.
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PNCA offers evening and weekend classes for adults and young people. For adults we offer courses in art, craft, and design, as well as professional development classes. For children we have Saturday classes during the school year and week-long camps during the summer. In addition to our regular teen classes, we also offer immersive summer Pre-College Studios. Our blog below gives you an idea of some of the goings on, and you can see our full course catalogue online here.
Last Class of 2012 Winter Term
We'll, it's that time again. We have to say goodbye to another session of Youth classes at PNCA. The last 8 weeks have been amazing! We've had the pleasure of working with some exceptional students, and been witness to some incredibly creative responses to the projects that our instructors present. Here are some moments we will remember.
If you would like to see some of the awesome artwork that our students have made this term you can visit our Online Exhibition Venue on Flickr. If you would like to see more images from our classrooms you can do so by visiting our In the Classroom Collection.
Spring and Summer with PNCA Continuing Education features a number of Printmaking classes including Etching and the return Master Printmaker Jim Reid's summer workshop. Printmaking classes are taught by artists working in the medium that they teach and are held in the Gordon Gilkey Print Center with a full range of printing presses and screenprinting equipment.
- Collagraphy -the art of making printing matrixies from found materials;
- Etching – this class explores a variety of basic intaglio techniques including drypoint, line etching, soft-ground, aquatint and simple approaches to color printing;
- Printmaking: Inside + Outside the Frame – a unique opportunity to work with Jim Reid on idea generation and print proofing, not editioning, and to develop your creative process and work;
- Screenprinting – an immediate process, carries a rich serial range and unique possibilities for translating drawn, painted, photographic and digital images into complex explorations of color and composition;
- Screenprinting Pre-College – for ages 15-18, this class introduces this popular printmaking technique;
- Textile Design + Printing – bring imaginative fabrics to life by using a variety of handprinting methods.
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8 Characters You Won't Believe Are Based on Real People
Some characters are so bizarre, improbable, or flat-out impossible that you have to wonder how their creators ever came up with them. In a surprising amount of cases, the answer is that they didn't: They just copied a real person and called it a day. Like ...
#8. Kramer (Seinfeld)
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Cosmo Kramer was the most far-fetched character in a show that included a woman who died after licking too many wedding invitations and a guy who talked like Jerry Seinfeld and had sex with a different woman every week. For the entire duration of the series, Kramer never had a real job and was always trying to make money from his ridiculous schemes -- like that time he rented a bus and charged people $37.50 to take them on a "reality tour" of his life. Who the hell would do that?
The Real-Life Inspiration: Kenny Kramer
Kenny Kramer
Meet Kenny Kramer, the real-life former neighbor of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David who does exactly what we just described, right down to the price of the tour. Like Cosmo, Kenny enjoys cigars, golf, and, more importantly, trying to make money in ridiculous ways. In his case, this actually worked: During the disco years, Kenny came up with electronic jewelry that sold like hotcakes, allowing him to live a life of leisure.
In a Season 5 episode, Cosmo wants to play himself on the show-within-the-show, but Jerry says no. That actually happened with Kenny and David, who didn't even let him play the guy who plays Kramer playing Kramer on Seinfeld.
Kenny Kramer
This is getting rather Inception-y.
Eventually, Kenny figured out how to profit from his connection to the show anyway thanks to his reality tour, which apparently is going way better than Michael Richards' career.
#7. Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (The Big Lebowski)
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Did you know there's a whole movie made out of The Big Lebowski quotes? It's called The Big Lebowski, and it's about a laid-back slacker known as the Dude who finds himself involved in a complex kidnapping case but spends most of the movie bowling, drinking White Russians, and talking about his carpet. The Dude's relaxed attitude has inspired a philosophical movement called Dudeism and a yearly festival, Lebowski Fest.
The Real-Life Inspiration: Jeff Dowd
The Coen brothers have a habit of putting real people in their movies, then being hailed as geniuses for creating them. The Dude, for example, is inspired by their friend Jeff Dowd, and by "inspired" we mean "it's the same guy." The main difference is that Dowd actually has a job (he's a film producer), but the Dude's personality, drink of choice, nickname, and even biography (some parts, anyway) are all borrowed from Dowd. In the movie, the Dude mentions that he was a member of the Seattle Seven, a group of political activists who were arrested in 1970 -- in real life, that was Dowd.
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He's the hippie with the curly hair.
Meanwhile, some of the Dude's misadventures were based on anecdotes told to the Coens by fellow screenwriter Peter Exline, who once had his car stolen and found a teenager's homework inside when it was recovered. Exline and a friend tracked down the teenager and interrogated him in his living room, where his sick father (a Hollywood veteran) lived in a hospital bed. That whole story appears pretty much verbatim in the film.
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Perhaps Exline can finally explain to us what "find a stranger in the Alps" means.
#6. Edna Mode (The Incredibles)
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According to Pixar's The Incredibles, Edna Mode is the woman who designed the costume for pretty much every superhero ever, meaning that despite being a self-described fashion expert, she never actually learned how underpants work. Edna was a quirky, no-nonsense character who ended up being of great use to our heroes -- she's the one who insists that no one in the family wear a cape, which is exactly what ended up causing the villain's gruesome death.
The Real-Life Inspiration: Edith Head
Mode is apparently a Pixar reboot of Edith Head, the legendary movie costume designer who, in the course of her career, was nominated for a whopping 35 Academy Awards, taking eight of them home.
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"I let my kids use them as G.I. Joes."
Like Edna Mode, Head was incredibly prolific: She's listed as costume designer in 436 freaking movies, including Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and eight other Hitchcock classics. Incredibles director Brad Bird (who also voiced Mode) has never confirmed that they based the character on Head ... but come on, just look at them. It's also been observed that Mode's behavior is basically an exaggeration of Head's real personality. Head once said, "I hate modesty," while Mode admitted that she was "the best of the best."
#5. Popeye the Sailor
Popeye is the classic cartoon character who teaches children that they too can be strong and powerful if they get tattoos, smoke a lot, and get into fights. He's also quite possibly the ugliest face that has ever decorated a nursery -- Popeye's impossibly deformed mug suggests that his creator only decided halfway through that he was drawing a person, not a butt. How did his mouth get all the way up there, anyway?
The Real-Life Inspiration: Frank "Rocky" Fiegel
Popeye's creator, E.C. Segar, apparently based several of his characters on real people from his hometown of Chester, Illinois: Wimpy was supposedly inspired by his former boss, J. William Schuchert, Olive Oyl looked suspiciously like one Mrs. Dora Paskel ... and Popeye himself was a local tough guy called Frank "Rocky" Fiegel. Fiegel may not have been as supernaturally strong as his cartoon counterpart, but he made up for it by being twice as ugly. The Popeye cartoon they drew on his headstone is actually doing him a favor.
"A stone for me bones, heh-heh, a post for me ghost."
Fiegel was something of a local legend in Chester while Segar was growing up: He was known for always being prepared to dish out an ass whooping and taking on several opponents at the same time. He even acted exactly like Popeye -- locals claim that children would startle him while he napped and he would "jump out of his chair, arms flailing, ready for a fight." His official cause of death was "warships grew out of his biceps."
So he died doing what he loved.


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I made a Venn Diagram so I know that this is true. Now I just need some help on getting the proof right.
What I did first was obviously assume the premises, and then I tried to unpack them. So now I have $x\in A \to x\in B$ because $A \subseteq B$ and $x\in A \to x\in C$ because $A \subseteq C$.
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If you have useful tools to help you when you are writing an answer on a WPSE question, please list them here so we can all benefit from them!
I wrote a small script that creates a new plugin, based on the question ID. It uses the Stack Exchange API to get the question info, puts that in the plugin header, and opens the file in an editor.
I created a local setup with all WP versions since 1.5, with a plugin dir that has a symlink called
I modified Jan Fabry's plugin above and created a mini-app of sorts that spits out a plugin file based on the question ID.
Here's what the front-end form looks like:
Here's a sample of what is generated.
All you need to do is:
Here's a simple workflow I use to identify answers to difficult questions that aren't obvious in the Codex or from previous experience: http://3-3.me/eMTF
Here's my local setup for researching/testing/etc...
As a caveat, if difficult questions pertain to specific plugins, I rarely answer them and usually direct users to the plugin author via the WordPress.org forums. I am also careful not to do the entire work for the user, but give them a functional proof-of-concept.
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I'd like to resize a group of n-objects -- either circles or rectangles -- all at once and fit them into the newly resized area with newly calculated x,y coordinates and width/height dimensions. The resizing originates in the CENTER of the resized area. It probably helps with some visuals, so please take a quick look at this video:
And here is an image where I'm trying to distill the question as simply as I can. Based on the resizing from the center, I need to know how to calculate the new coordinates and dimensions for "A" "B" and "C" below -- I've given the dimensions of the bounding box, both in its original form, and its resized form.
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Hi guys, Took this picture of a crow a few months ago. Would love some feed back!
QuoteHi guys, Took this picture of a crow a few months ago. Would love some feed back!The photo lacks definition especially on the breast of the crow. We are unable to see any detail of the plumage and the lighting on your subject is not optimum. Since this bird is difficult in the first place to properly photograph and has very reflective shiny feather properties, its best not photo'd in any direct sun but more even or shaded light. I would also avoid using B&W processing with this subject as it buries it even more into the limited 256 gray colors that are available in your image. Stick with color.
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One of the little utility packages I use needs to convert Mathematica expressions to
InputForm text that is interpolated into a custom file format which is then parsed by another tool. That other tool, for various reasons, has to actually parse the
InputForm expressions, but uses its own parser to do so, and that parser doesn't deal very will with commas in Mathematica expressions. It will choke on something like this:
{{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}}
but works fine with this:
By default,
ToString, with the
InputForm format, will stick spaces in after the commas. Currently, I use
StringReplace to work around the problem:
stringifyForExport[form_] :=
ToString[form, InputString, PageWidth -> Infinity,
CharacterEncoding -> "ASCII"],
" " -> ""];
I'm not very satisfied with this solution because it won't work if we have any strings in
form that contain spaces. So far this hasn't caused serious problems, but I know it's just a matter of time. Is there a better way to get rid of those spaces?