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The 7 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Movies of the Decade
#3. The Room
First: If you still haven't seen The Room, for the love of all that is good and cheesy watch it now. No, I'm not kidding, I mean NOW. Come on, it's time, my friend. Do your duty and finally watch this thing. Go ahead, I'll wait.
And so will Tommy Wiseau.
There, now you've watched The Room. Welcome to the other side! I'm here with your complimentary cocktail of whiskey and vodka (mixed), football in hand, ready to say to you, Dear Reader: right?!?! Isn't that one of the weirdest, most inexplicable things you've ever seen? YES, you say. Of course you do!
But is it unintentionally funny? Oh hell yes, with a few disclaimers up front: The funny might be mixed with a fair amount of revulsion, especially at the scenes of star/writer/director/producer/alien being Tommy Wiseau's stringy nakedness. He loves to show his gnarled beef-jerky-looking ass, and that is an unfortunate fact of the The Room experience. It's rough for all of us.
That football spent six months in therapy after shooting wrapped.
And yes, if you stop and think for too long that people -- real, carbon-based fellow human beings! -- actually assembled in a specific location on Earth for more than one day in a row to make this movie happen, a kind of existential despair can overtake you. We've all been there.
Beyond that, though, The Room is purely hilarious. We start with the obvious: watching everyone in the movie trying to pretend that the leading man (Wiseau) is NOT a non-specifically-Eastern-European-accented freakshow with unwashed rock-roadie hair. He is simply "Johnny," good ol' American Johnny, who works doing something profitable in a "bank." His mother-in-law loves him because he's a good provider, rendering her blind to the fact that he does not behave, or speak, like any person who ever existed. Even allowing for the strong accent, Wiseau's version of English seems to defy all linguistic rules and rhythms, making no simple sentence safe from druggy weirdness.
"I did not hit her. It's not true. It's bullshit, I did not hit her! I did not. Oh, hi Mark!"
Nothing makes sense in this movie. Nothing, not a damned thing. An old woman announces to her beloved daughter that she has breast cancer and the daughter's reaction is casual annoyance. They literally replace an actor halfway through the movie with someone else, and we're not supposed to notice. Everyone flips the hells out when a creepy little bastard named Denny -- who I guess is supposed to be a sweet 13-year-old in the movie but looks more like a budding sexual offender in his mid-late 20s -- gets involved with a drug dealer. Then that story is dropped like a hot rock, and nobody gives a damn. Everyone throws a football around playing "catch," but only from distances of less than five feet. A terrible comic-relief actor is allowed to hijack an already terrible scene, babbling about "me underwears." Every single goddamned thing is wrong with this movie, and it is hilarious.
And looming over it all: Tommy Wiseau, a colossus of terrible movie making; a mystery to this very day; a man who made such an exquisitely awful movie that countless articles have been written about it AND THIS IS ONE MORE; a man who occasionally tries to hint that this was his intention all along -- to make a "comedy!" He is some sort of twisted marketing genius, and his money may well have come from selling Serbian children's kidneys on the black market. But no, The Room was not an intentional comedy. You cannot fake stuff this bad. It is a relationship melodrama gone unimaginably wrong, and one of the funniest movies you'll ever see.
Just don't stare directly into Tommy's eyes, lest you forfeit your soul.
#2. The Happening
With The Happening, M. Night Shyamalyanalayalan seals his place in movie firmament as the most prolifically and consistently unintentionally funny director since Ed Wood. The creepier he tries to be, the sillier he gets, so I nominate him to direct the relaunch of House of a Thousand Corpses.
Assuming his cameo involves getting skinned alive by Doctor Satan.
It's the future, I think, by maybe five minutes or so, when in New York City a mysterious wind carrying -- I dunno, pollen or leaf mold or something -- causes people to start stabbing themselves, blowing their own brains out, hurling themselves off buildings, eating at Arby's, just a big bunch of fun suicides.
Enter Markulus (E Markus) Wahlberg, an earnest, soft-spoken science teacher, who first shows his foolhardy courage in the face of insanity by being a friend to John Leguizamo. Mark's wife, an intelligent, nattering lemur played by Zooey Deschanel, tells them that there is a happening happening and that she has an old boyfriend, and they need to leave but she can't find her ukulele.
"If the whole world commits suicide, who will appreciate my quirkiness?"
Off they go, running from the evil Oak Wilt, or Corn Smut, or whatever the hell it is. Mr. E. Mark's odd whiny delivery perfectly complements his oversized block of a head, prominent in Shyamalan's many Spielbergian closeups. Ms. Deschanel's numb line delivery makes her sound like she's constantly telling her iPhone to order her tomato soup. John Leguizamo seems to spit all his lines in a continuous rubber-mouthed issue of saliva and incomprehension.
A cast of increasingly loony characters parade on screen and swiftly die, including two perfectly innocent kids, culminating with a star turn by the formerly dignified Betty Buckley, who delivers the movie's most memorable line: "Why you eyein' my lemon drink?"
Knowing Marky Mark, that's not all he was eying.
You'll see a man lie down in front of a self-propelled lawn mower and mow himself to death. You'll see extreme closeups of a deformed troglodyte obsess over hot dogs. And you'll see John Leguizamo crash into a tree in a Jeep. What's not to love?
#1. Birdemic
It's no exaggeration to say that Birdemic delivers more laughs than Adam Sandler's last 15 movies combined (I realize that analogy lacks explanatory power because a typical grease fire delivers more laughs than Adam Sandler's last 15 movies, but you get the point). It's something you would not expect from a Hitchcock homage made by a Vietnamese immigrant, one whose female lead doubled as the film's makeup artist, whose male lead acts as though he'd just been through some unspeakable trauma and given a powerful sedative, and that, though shot in 2009, looks to have been done on a camera that would have been out of date the year that Doogie Howser, M.D. was in its second season.
And yet despite the bad writing, bad acting, bad sound, bad directing, bad casting, bad editing and bad craft services (I assume), it is one of the most sublime experiences you'll ever have at the cinema. This is mostly due to the fact that the reach of its director, James Nguyen, so exceeded his grasp that they really aren't even in the same plane of existence.
Taking his cue from the Hitchcock masterpiece The Birds, which is about a romance that takes place during an unexplained bird attack in Half Moon Bay, Nguyen weaves the tale of a romance that takes place during an unexplained bird attack in Half Moon Bay. Unlike Hitchcock, however, in lieu of actual birds, Nguyen substituted badly done animated GIFs of birds that look like they flew out of an e-card your great aunt Dora sent you in 1996.
Hilariously, the birds make sounds like dive-bombing planes -- and in fact they do appear to drop bombs of some sort, as well as, quite memorably, several buckets of caustic liquid. But not to worry, our heroes are able to fend them off easily enough with coat hangers borrowed from their cheap hotel.
It's positively Hitchcockian. Assuming Hitchcock went senile in his later years.
To describe it in any more detail would be to rob you of the joy of experiencing every exquisitely bad frame.
For more accidental humor, check out 4 Unintentionally Hilarious Guides for Depressing Situations and 5 Unintentionally Hilarious Soviet Versions of Good Ideas.


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This chickpea bean and tahini dip is one of the most widely recognized of all Middle Eastern dishes
Prep Time: 10M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 15oz ( 420g) can chickpeas
- 6 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 3 tbsp tahini
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1/2 tsp salt
- paprika, for garnish
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- Drain the chickpeas, reserving about 5 tbsp of the canning liquid in a small bowl. Carefully rinse the chickpeas under cold running water. Drain well and transfer to a food processor or a blender along with half of the reserved canning liquid.
- Add the lemon juice, tahini, and garlic and blend until smooth and creamy, adding a little more of the canning liquid as needed.
- Season to taste with salt. Transfer the hummus to a small serving bowl, sprinkle with paprika, and serve at room temperature.
- Prepare ahead: Make the dip up to 24 hours in advance. Store in the refrigerator, covered with plastic wrap. Remove the hummus from the refrigerator at least 30 minutes before serving.
- Good with warm pita bread and sticks of carrot, cucumber, and sweet pepper. For a traditional finish, drizzle with olive oil in addition to the paprika garnish.
Red Pepper Hummus: Position a broiler rack about 6in (15cm) from the source of heat and preheat the broiler. Cut in half lengthwise and seed a small red pepper. Grill, skin side up, until lightly charred. Cool, peel, and roughly chop the pepper. Add to the blender along with the chickpeas. If the pepper is juicy, add less canning liquid. Add 1 tsp ground cumin for a spicier flavor.
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@stereo55: Forgot to mention that inventory varies by zip or store location you are shopping.
Local Pickup Only at the only K-Mart within 50 miles of me. Not a deal if you have to pick it up. Out of stock everywhere else.
@kkd01: They also ship to Fedex locations..have you checked into that? I did that recently because Fedex is less than a mile away.
Staples has the same price right now $11.99 , but you'd have to use a coupon ($25 off $75 , etc) to get the price down to the op's posted deal with the added %15 percent off code he supplied ($25 off $75 coupons usually found on ebay or in the Staples catalogue) .
Not sure , but there was a $15% off Staples break-room supply coupon floating around a few days ago . Not sure if its still valid , but its for instore only purchases
@webgenie: The ONLY option available in the seven stores that I checked was local pickup only. Not a deal if you have to drive to get them.
I was surprised that they didn't charge me tax on my order that I picked up in the store. Great price.
This is both cheaper then Sams club members mark brand and POM brand. I usually buy the members mark sams club brand. Stock up the pantry time. There is a Kmart in my local town, so no real loss at having to drive to pick them up.


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I want to know this, because I deleted some ncf/gcf files for portal 2, because the updating was stuck. And now it wants to download it all (11GB) again, so it would be nice if I could copy the content to the download location, without Steam noticing.
I would let Steam download whatever it wants to right now and reach a stable point.
(or you could rollback from your Time Machine backup).
When you have something that works, then consider asking Steam to back up your files to external media so you have working files next time you want to restore something.
Game files are stored in
Copying and pasting files there might work as expected but - as "The Annoying Pyro" mentions above - is prone to (existing) file corruption. So I would recommend the following procedure:
Please note that this might not work as well as I might look in the first place. Steam might want to download all files again when it thinks they are corrupt. But it's worth a try.


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Let $R$ be a ring, $f(X)$ be a polynomial with coefficients in $R$ of degree $n$. It's known that for any $\alpha \in R$, one can evaluate $f$ at $\alpha$, i.e compute $f( \alpha) $ in $O(n)$ operations in $R$ for some $k >0$ . But could we compute $ f( X + \alpha ) $, or more generally compute $ f( \alpha X + \beta)$ in $O(n)$ or $O(n * ( \mathrm{log} \; n)^k )$ operations in $R$. Since the result is a polynomial in $X$ of degree at most $n$, I would guess there is a such way. But from the naive way, I can't just figure out a $O(n^2)$ algorithm to do this as follows: If $f(X) = \sum_{i=1}^n a_i X^i$, then one compute $g \leftarrow a_0, h \leftarrow \alpha X + \beta, g \leftarrow g+ a_{i+1} * h, h \leftarrow h* (\alpha X + \beta) $ for $0 \leq i \leq n-1$. In the $i$-th step, $g$ is a polynomial of degree $i$ and $h$ is a polynomial of degree $i+1$, so we need $O(i)$ operations in $R$ to compute $ g+ a_{i+1} * h$ and $h* (\alpha X + \beta) $, so the total operations needed is $O(n^2)$.
Is there any way to do so in $O(n)$ or $O(n * ( \mathrm{log} \; n)^k )$ operations in $R$? I don't really need to know how the algorithm works, I just need an explicit reference which says this is possible.


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I assembled a new machine on Asus P9X79 motherboard, using its RAID controller to create a RAID1 array of two 500Gb drives.
When booting Arch from an external drive I am able to work fine with
/dev/md126 which corresponds to the array. This way I created the partitions and filesystems on it, then chrooted and installed Arch Linux on the drive.
However, I am not able to boot from RAID successfully:
/boot and
/home cannot be remounted in read-write mode (
mount returns
32), and I end up in emergency console. Trying to remount from there also fails, saying the drive is write-protected.
I figured that some necessary kernel modules were not loaded at boot and played with
mkinitcpio.conf. I have
mdadm_udev as a hook (after
udev, before
filesystems). To my understanding, this should be enough, but I also tried adding
ext2 and
ext4 to the
MODULES array, this didn't change anything.
The RAID1 itself is recognized in the initial environment thanks to the
mdadm_udev hook (the devices are there).
raid1 is, I think, also loaded by this hook automatically.
I am still able to boot from external drive and mount the RAID1 device just fine; so I did
lsmod on it and compared to
lsmod on the "native" system. Nothing seems suspicious to me:
$ diff <(sort lsmod.old | cut -f1 -d ' ') <(sort lsmod.new | cut -f1 -d ' ')
> async_memcpy
> async_pq
> async_raid6_recov
> async_tx
> async_xor
> drm
> drm_kms_helper
> i2c_algo_bit
< nvidia
> nouveau
> raid456
> raid6_pq
> ttm
> uas
> xor
old is the one that works. As you can see, the only line starting with
< is
< nvidia. So all the necessary modules are loaded (some of the additional modules in
new are dependencies of
raid456 that I tried loading).
What am I missing here? What can be the possible differences between two systems? Kernel versions are the same: 3.6.8. (BTW the installation medium I first tried to use had 3.6.6 and didn't work with this array; all operations ended up hanging endlessly).


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Unhealthy Fats That Should Be Eaten Sparingly
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Vitamins are organic nutrients that function as enzymes and regulators of important chemical reactions in the body. Vitamin deficiencies can result in diseases and problems with certain body structures and functions. Vitamins are either water or fat soluble. Water-soluble vitamins are not stored by the body, and, therefore, have less risk of overdose and more risk of deficiency. Because fat-soluble vitamins are stored (in fat), it is possible to overdose, causing liver damage. Studies have shown that athletic, active women do not get enough vitamins B, D, and E through their diet.
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The fat-soluble vitamins include A, D, E, and K. Vitamin A is important for night vision, skin, and hormone regulation and is found in milk, butter, and eggs. Beta-carotene is a building block of vitamin A that has cancer-fighting properties, but only when eaten from food sources. Beta-carotene supplements are not recommended as studies have shown that high doses may actually increase certain cancer risks. Healthy natural sources of beta carotene include leafy greens and orange-colored fruits and vegetables (cantaloupe, squash, carrots, sweet potatoes). Vitamin D is essential to women because it acts as a hormone that aids in bone building and calcium absorption. Vitamin D can be made by your body cells through sun exposure; 15 minutes of direct sun (not through sunscreen or glass) on your face and hands daily will allow your body to make enough. Vitamin D is found in egg yolks, saltwater fish, and liver and is added to most milk and milk products. Vitamin E is well known as an antioxidant that can prevent cancer and prevent cell damage including damage to blood cells and muscle tissue during exercise, so it is important to exercising women. It is found in vegetable oils, nuts, beans, and green leafy vegetables. Vitamin K is important for blood clotting and also regulates calcium.
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Vitamin C is necessary for muscle, bone, and soft tissue health. It also helps wound healing and immunity and is an antioxidant that has cancer-fighting properties. Vitamin C is found in orange juice and citrus fruits, tomatoes, strawberries, and red, orange, and yellow bell peppers. Vitamin C aids the absorption of iron. At least 60 milligrams of vitamin C should be obtained through foods or drinks daily.
The B vitamins are important for energy metabolism. B vitamins are also known as the "stress" vitamins, because the body needs them for repair and higher function in times of stress or illness. Important B vitamins to women are folate, which helps prevent anemia and birth defects in pregnancy, and vitamin B6, which is important to nerves, hemoglobin, and antibodies. B6 can also improve mood and help with PMS. B12 is also important for nerves and blood cell formation. Thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin are involved in energy metabolism and are needed at higher doses also during times of high activity. It is common for active and athletic women to not consume enough B vitamins.
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Aside from digital thermometers, what are some other clever uses of the Arduino platform as applied to homebrewing? Anything such as novel gadgetry, process automation and/or DIY equipment is especially interesting to me?
I believe the Brewtroller project http://www.brewtroller.com/wiki/doku.php is based on the arduino platform. It has grown into custom boards, interfaces and such but I think it still has a stock arduino package that you can use as well.
I have seen a light gate used to sense bubbling in an airlock to measure fermentation rates. Very slick implementation and obviously useful data.
Paired with a temp-controlled environment, one could control the rate of fermentation by adjusting the temperature, instead of just relying on a set temperature.
I never did it, but I was poking around with using one to adjust the flow-rate of my strike water, so I could maintain a particular temperature while mashing in.
I have heard that Corsair uses one in their distillery, but I don't know if that's for the distillation process, the brewing process, or both.
I've seen one used as a temperature controller for mashing. Basically turning a water heating element on and off to maintain a constant temperature.
There's another pretty nice board out there LPC1769 LPCXpresso board (LPCTools.com).
It's an ARM Cortex-3 processor with a complete development environment, all the software is free, including and Eclipse-based IDE (that's integrated development environment for the non-coders out there). The board itself costs 30 bucks, and all you need is a USB cable to plug it into a Windows, a Mac, or a Linux machine. It actually has two processors. The LPC 1768 is the interface for USB. And then the LPC 1769 is the actual target processor on this little board. And you'd be coding on a processor that is used in smart phones, so maybe could be useful skills, and not just for brewing, hehe.


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5 Ridiculous Archaeological Frauds (That Fooled the World)
#2. The Tiara of Saitaphernes
As any cultured individual will tell you, the Louvre is one of the world's most respected museums, so it would be safe to assume its collections are bullshit-free. In addition to housing things like the Mona Lisa and that armless statue, they also adopted a mint-condition third century crown from a Greek colony near Russia in 1896, scoring big when less French places like the Imperial Court and British Museum passed on it for some weird reason. The Louvre, assuming these dumbasses had made a huge mistake, immediately rushed in to claim it in the name of their proud nation. After analyzing it for a total time of "Fuck it, why bother?" hours, their leading experts tossed 200,000 francs at the tiara's owner, put it on display and toasted each other for their genius decision-making skills.
"No one will ever make fun of us now!"
But Wait ...
But no one else was congratulating the museum on their awesome deal, mostly because the world was too busy laughing in their faces. Among the people waiting in line to spit on France's dreams was Adolf Furtwangler, a specialist of Greek archaeology and professor from Germany, who found this flawless tiara business to be kind of suspicious. When he called it out as a hoax, the Louvre responded in the extremely mature manner you'd expect from a world-class institution: by crying "RACIST!" and telling the press how this German guy was a baguette-hating, uncouth dick.
Also, we're pretty sure "Furtwangler" translates to "sausage wrestler."
But aside from being covered in obvious traces from modern tools and soldering, there was also the problem of the ancient third century artifact not looking the tiniest bit disheveled after so many centuries supposedly spent in a crumbling cave.
So where did the tiara actually come from? It was made by a Russian guy named Israel Rouchomovski, whose buddy had asked him to whip up a fresh fake antiquity "as a gift for an archaeologist friend."
You can make a fake Taj Mahal this way if you have a spare hot air balloon.
Once Rouchomovski proved his tiara-faking skills, the Louvre finally fessed up to their error. The embarrassing crown was hidden away in a back room and spoken of only in hushed tones of total humiliation for years, until they decided that putting it on display in the 1954 Salon of Fakes exhibit was the best way to save face.
It's a dumb tiara anyway. Hand us our glitter glue.
#1. The Persian Mummy Princess
Digging up a mummy is just about the biggest deal in the dick-measuring contest that is archaeology. So when the 2,600-year-old body of a Persian princess turned up in Pakistan wearing a kickass golden crown and a breastplate with an inscription that translated to "I am the daughter of the great King Xerxes," people got pretty excited, because until then, making mummies was thought to be purely an Egyptian hobby.
"Also, I'm totally not fake. Ask Dave, he'll tell you."
The Persian princess became an instant worldwide celebrity, causing an international incident about whose museum would get to take her home. Iran and Pakistan both wanted to claim it, and even the freaking Taliban wanted it. But while everyone was bickering over ownership of a really old rotted corpse, some scientists decided they wanted to take a look at it, and that's where things started to really get strange.
Moving in single file with both hands visible turned out not to be a purely Egyptian habit.
But Wait ...
Somebody who was an expert at this kind of thing happened to notice that the grammar in the mummy's inscription was terrible, like it was written by someone from a first year undergraduate course on ancient Persian. Deciding that this warranted deeper investigation, researchers began to uncover some more interesting facts about the princess:
1) The coffin was not ancient, but a modern forgery no more than 250 years old.
2) The mummification process was hack work, like someone cobbled the process together from what they remembered from school classes on ancient Egypt and Brendan Fraser movies.
"When fighting a poorly CGIed mummy, never focus on the same thing as your sidekick."
3) The woman had only actually been dead for two years.
4) She'd been murdered, possibly for the purpose of making her into a fake mummy.
In what was the weirdest black market scheme ever concocted, it appears that someone actually murdered a person in an effort to make money from mummy fraud. That kind of dedication makes us wonder why they didn't go to the effort of studying the Persian language and how to mummify people. Once you've killed someone, we'd say you're well past the point of half-assing it.
"This is officially a murder investigation. Somebody whip off a pair of sunglasses and scream 'YEAAAAAAH'."
The victim hasn't yet been identified, nor have the perpetrators of what resembles a rejected plot outline for a Weekend at Bernie's sequel.
When she's not writing comical tales and drinking her weight in tea, you can find Josie making fun of/studying hipsters at Obscurity in the Wilderness.
For more hoaxes that people won't let go of, check out 5 Myths That People Don't Realize Are Admitted Hoaxes and The 6 Most Bizarre Medical Hoaxes People Actually Believed.


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Publications: Rowland, Andrew Jay
Rowland, Andrew Jay (2009) The biology of Samson Fish Seriola hippos with emphasis on the sportfishery in Western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
Thorburn, D.C., Morgan, D.L., Rowland, A.J., Gill, H.S. and Paling, E. (2008) Life history notes of the critically endangered dwarf sawfish, Pristis clavata, Garman 1906 from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 83 (2). pp. 139-145.
Thorburn, D.C., Morgan, D.L., Rowland, A.J. and Gill, H.S. (2007) Freshwater sawfish Pristis microdon Latham, 1794 (Chondrichthyes: Pristidae) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Zootaxa, 1471 . pp. 27-41.
Gill, H.S., Morgan, D.L., Doupé, R.G. and Rowland, A.J. (2006) The fishes of Lake Kununurra, a highly regulated section of the Ord River in northern Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 23 (1). pp. 1-6.
Morgan, D., Beatty, S., Gill, H., Thorburn, D.C. and Rowland, A.J. (2004) Assessment of the impact of groundwater discharge from the Yarragadee Aquifer on the fish and decapod fauna of Rosa Brook. Murdoch University. Centre for Fish & Fisheries Research, Western Australia.
Doupé, R.G., Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. and Rowland, A.J. (2004) Introduction of redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens) to Lake Kununurra, Ord River, Western Australia: Prospects for a 'yabby' in the Kimberley. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 87 (4). pp. 187-191.
Morgan, D.L., Rowland, A.J., Gill, H.S. and Doupé, R.G. (2004) The implications of introducing a large piscivore (Lates calcarifer) into a regulated northern Australian river (Lake Kununurra, Western Australia). Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management, 9 (3-4). pp. 181-193.


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Fact: For any (continuous) $S^1$-action on the closed unit disk $\mathbb{D}^n$, there is a fixed point $x_0\in\mathbb{D}^n$.
I have thought of a possible argument that re-proves this, but am not sure how to complete it:
Let $U_p\subset S^1$ be the subgroup of $p^\text{th}$-roots of unity ($p$ prime). An $S^1$-action on a compact contractible space $X$ will induce a $U_p$-action on $X$. Smith Theory then implies that $X^{U_p}$ is nonempty, i.e. there is a fixed point $x_p\in X$ under $U_p$, for any given prime $p$. Now here is where I want to say: Taking $p$ sufficiently large, we find a fixed point $x_\infty$ under $S^1$. (The intuition is that $\lim_{p\to\infty}U_p\approx S^1$, and denseness will be sufficient by continuity of the action.)
1) Is it possible to fill this gap, i.e. can this 'proof' make sense? Not sure how to make sense of this limit/sequence of $U_p$'s, and whether the fixed points hop back and forth forever.
2) Is such a sequence $\lbrace x_p\rbrace_{p=\text{prime}}$ Cauchy? Or, does there exist a prime $p_0$ where $x_p=x_{p_0}$ for all primes $p>p_0$?


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A four-year letterwinner at Union, Beal recorded 101 points (27 goals, 74 assists) in four seasons with the Dutchmen. A native of Brantford, Ontario, Beal is one of 19 student-athletes to reach 100 points in the history of the men's ice hockey program. As an assistant captain in 2004-05, Beal led Union to its first regular season sweep of Rensselaer, and its first playoff win in nearly 11 years. He holds the school single-season assists mark (matched by Kelly Zajac in 2010-11) after recording 29 assists in 2002-03, and he is second on the career assists list.


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Does there exist a (meromorphic) elementary function $f(z)$ that is zero at all the positive integers $z = 1, 2, 3, \ldots$ and only at those points?
Edit: an elementary function can be written as a finite composition of constants, rational functions, exponentials and logarithms.
Obviously a function with those zeros can be constructed using the gamma function or a Weierstrass product, but the question is whether there is an elementary function.


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October, 2013
The October issue of FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) Policy News reports the inspector general for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, finds they have been avoiding billions of dollars of potential long-term losses by neglecting to write off appropriate amounts of delinquent mortgages they own or backstop.
Also in this issue:
- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the Dodd-Frank financial reform law Congress enacted after the credit crisis of 2008. And in a separate ruling, a different federal judge ordered the Federal Reserve to set sharply lower limits on debit card transaction fees that card issuers may charge retailers.
- In what may be one of the most important rulings of the recently completed session of the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District declared governments' demands for money, land, or other concessions may be subject to heightened judicial review.
- One of the great financial innovations of the 1990s was the now-ubiquitous debit card. But its salad days may well be coming to an end because of two events. First, the Federal Reserve in 2011 set much lower rates for debit card transactions, at $0.21 per transaction. Second, Judge Richard Leon of the Southern District of New York set recently aside two of the Fed's regulations and imposed even-more-drastic rate cuts.
- Only 40 percent of individuals with direct federal student loans are currently repaying their debt. Many of the rest are taking advantage of a grace period before repayment, but 14 percent are in forbearance (delayed default), and 8 percent are in default.
- When firms compete for government subsidies and regulatory advantages, economists call it "rent seeking." As Washington considers how to replace Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in the mortgage market, we can expect the policy process to be dominated by rent-seekers.
- Under the guise of catching tax evaders--a dubious claim given the law lacks any targeting of people or places prone to evasion--the federal law known as FATCA treats anyone who invests overseas as a criminal. Without need for a warrant, the U.S. government demands foreign institutions spy on their U.S. clients, while expecting individuals to report their entire holdings to the government.
Newspaper Articles in this Issue
Gold Prices Have People Wondering: What's in the Vault?– August 27, 2013
Credit Cardholder Satisfaction Improves for Fourth Consecutive Year– August 23, 2013
North Carolina Policyholders Confronted With 'Consent to Rate'– August 23, 2013
Your Mortgage, Their Rent– August 22, 2013
Inspector General Warns of Fannie and Freddie Losses– August 22, 2013
The Dangers of California's 'Investment Authority' Bill– August 20, 2013
Who Will Protect the Fleeced?– August 19, 2013
Seven Illinois Public Universities Hit With Credit Downgrades– August 14, 2013
22% of Federal Student Loans Are In Default or Delayed Default– August 12, 2013
The Dick Durbin Debit Card Fiasco– August 6, 2013
Separate Courts Dismiss Dodd-Frank Lawsuit, Reject Debit Card Limits– August 2, 2013
Latest Delay Exposes FATCA's Fatal Flaws– July 26, 2013
Census: State, Local Government Tax Collections Hit Record High– July 25, 2013
Skilling Resentencing: The Other Side of the Story– July 8, 2013
Huge Supreme Court Win for Property Owners– July 5, 2013


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5 Iconic Symbols You Associate With the Wrong Country
Every nation has cherished icons, symbols that represent its unique individuality. Australia has cork hats and spiders. Colombia has cocaine and gangsters. Ireland has leprechauns and alcoholism. But you'd be surprised to learn that some of these icons represent only the ability for one nation to shamelessly rip off somebody else. For example ...
#5. Chinese Fortune Cookies Aren't Chinese
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On some level, we all know that fast food isn't a great snapshot of a foreign culture (try going to a restaurant in Mexico and asking for a Crunchwrap Supreme). Yet if you ask the average American to name the most Chinese thing they can think of, many if not most will say "fortune cookies." So of course here is where we find out that they don't actually have them in China.
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"You're looking for fortune cookies? No, ours are all two for a dollar."
The story goes that back before World War II Japanese immigrants to America did a good trade bringing cheap, delicious rice-based cuisine to their Western neighbors, and with it, they introduced the bland, gimmicky treat that was mostly associated with religious shrines in Japan. Prewar Americans took to the fortune cookie like modern-day Americans have taken to anime, and an institution was born.
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Just like anime, but with MSG in place of borderline-illegal pornography.
But unfortunately for prosperous Japanese restaurant owners, after their motherland bombed Pearl Harbor, America went into a racist frenzy of rounding up Japanese immigrants and putting them in internment camps, operating under the assumption that they came with some kind of "kill all Americans" switch.
Realizing that a vacuum had just opened up in the "watered-down Asian food for white people" market, Chinese Americans started moving in to take over the vacant Japanese restaurants, because to most Westerners, Asian was Asian, and customers needed a way to indulge in exotic cuisine without being arrested for treason. Because Americans loved their fortune cookies, the Chinese faux-Japanese restaurants kept making them.
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They're as culturally significant as koi ponds full of nickels and fat guys eating alone.
Ironically, fortune cookies are now served in Chinese restaurants everywhere in the world except China. An American firm did try to introduce them, but failed after three years of Chinese patrons refusing to eat this bizarre foreign crap ("Also, somebody accidentally left a hunk of paper in here").
#4. Mexican Pinatas Are Italian Toys Ripped Off from the Chinese
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When people think of Mexico, or at least when racist people think of Mexico, they probably picture sombreros, tacos, tequila, and children hitting colorful papier-mache donkeys with sticks. The pinata is one of those definitively Mexican creations that Americans now use as a way to appropriate Mexican culture while at the same time trying desperately to keep actual Mexicans out of our country.
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"GO HOME, FOREIGNERS! ... but leave the salsa, if you don't mind."
Actually, the pinata, like the candy and cheap plastic toys we put in them today, is originally from China. When Marco Polo visited the country around the 14th century (presumably by shouting his first name and then heading in the direction he heard his last name shouted back from), he saw Chinese people celebrating the New Year by creating animal figures stuffed with seeds. The figures were smashed and people collected the seeds, which were then burned, and the ashes would be kept to bring good luck.
Responsible for more questionable culture than Yoplait.
Marco Polo brought this puppet-bashing idea back to Italy, where they decided to fill it with the only thing less exciting to kids than seeds: religious symbolism! It became an Italian tradition to create a seven-coned pignatta for Lent that was representative of the seven deadly sins. Soon the Spanish picked up this custom, added a tilde and some treats, and took it over to the New World to try to convert the Mayans to Christianity. Oddly enough, they found that the Mayans already had a "bash an object until shit falls out" party game -- they celebrated the birth of Huitzilopochtli, the god of war, by watching blindfolded priests break a feather-filled pot over an altar. The Spanish missionaries saw this as an opportunity to co-opt the Mayan ritual by replacing the feathers with delicious candy, letting everyone take a whack at it, and covering the whole thing with hastily justified Christian symbolism.
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Although it seems like the more obvious message is "beating an animal with a stick is wholesome fun."
Since candy trumps feathers any day, it became a popular tradition. Eventually the pinata became less a religious exercise and more a socially acceptable excuse to smash something at a party and then eat food off the ground.
#3. Budweiser Is Not an American Beer
Budweiser, the "king of beers," is surely an American national icon. It was introduced in 1876, not long after brothers and fathers were blowing each other away with old-timey cannons in the Civil War, and since then it has been the patriotic intoxicant of choice for everything from Independence Day celebrations to NASCAR races. You'd be forgiven for thinking that "Bud" is about the most American name you could give to a beer, but you'd also be forgiven for thinking that "Budweiser" sounds suspiciously European.
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These crafty bastards just keep popping up.
Not only would you be right, but you'd have stumbled across a very bitter subject for the people who actually invented "Budweiser." See, the original Budweiser is actually from the Czech Republic, specifically from a city called Budweis that has been brewing beer since the freaking 1400s. And in the local language, anything brewed in Budweis is called "Budweiser." So you can see how brewing a beer somewhere else and calling it "Budweiser" would be something of a dick move.
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And sticking the name "Budweiser" on this might as well be an act of war.
That brings us to two German immigrants, Carl Conrad and Adolphus Busch, who were responsible for bringing Budweiser to the United States. They wanted to brew a beer similar to what was available back in their homeland and the Czech Republic, so they ripped off not only the name but also the taste and the style of the beer. At one point, the original brewers from Europe had the rights to call their beer the "original Budweiser," because it was the original, but they eventually sold away the rights around 1939, as Nazi troops were on their way to conquer Czechoslovakia. The Czechs are still bitter about the sale, claiming that it was done out of desperation and that the payment they received was modest at best.
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Great, now we feel guilty and hung over.
The dispute continues to this day, as Anheuser-Busch has been fighting the Czech brewers for over 100 years over the rights to the name. In America, Anheuser-Busch can legally call their brew "Budweiser," but ironically, brewers who actually make beer in Budweis are forced to sell it under the name "Czechvar" in the USA. Hey, just consider yourself lucky that Budweiser's corporate lawyers don't force you to change the name of your town.


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The kids and I doubled up on zoos over the weekend, going to the Pittsburgh Zoo Saturday and Oglebay Good Zoo Sunday. By Monday, I never wanted to leave the house again.
We joined forces with Sassy Saint's Girl Scout Leader and her daughter to hit the Pittsburgh Zoo. This time, we managed to make it to our destination and back without being lost for more than a few minutes (we did make a couple of circles through the Strip District) which was a huge improvement over our last visit. I'm still not sure how we ended up in Westmoreland County, but I do know Leader's inability to work a GPS was at least partially to blame. We did end up getting home around midnight ... after leaving after dinner.
My Little Professor, armed with a map and a "Zoo Key" was our unofficial tour guide, and he was set on visiting the penguin exhibit. He wanted to know which ones were named after Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. I had no idea, so I told him "the really tall, quiet one" and "the one obsessively and repeatedly practicing his belly flop into the water."
Some day, he's going to realize I've been faking all along and I'll really be in trouble.
Since you can never get enough hiking on hot, humid afternoons while small children beg for drinks/ice cream/to go home, interspersed with complaints that they're hot/hungry/bored/have aching feet, we went to the Good Zoo with my Sister Foo-Dog, her boys the Heathenish and Fatty Lumpkins, and Grandmama.
The Good Zoo no longer has ocelots - a type of large cat - and for that, I am grateful. When Sassy was about 6 years old, I took her to the Good Zoo and we went to see the ocelot. I thought she'd enjoy it, because she's a cat lover.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. She read the educational description and burst into tears because the ocelot is endangered. Not a quiet weeping, but an out-and-out heartbroken sobbing. People were staring.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"Oh, Momma, the ocelot is endangered!"
"This ocelot is cool! Look, it's just hanging out on a branch and chilling! It's fine, this ocelot is OK!" (Honestly, though, it hadn't moved the entire time and could have very well been dead for all I knew.)
"But ... but ... there are ... " (sob) " ... ocelots being hunted ... in the wild!"
She wailed for a good 10 minutes, while other people stared at us and wondered what kind of horrible mother made her child cry so hard. I'm still amazed no one called Child Protective Services.
So, when I saw the zoo no longer had the ocelot on exhibit, I did a little soft-shoe shuffle, hoping it had been released into the wild or transferred to another zoo. Otherwise, Sassy might have another break down.
However, we didn't completely escape animal-inspired emotional scarring. Fatty Lumpkins - he's almost 6 years old now, and we're going to have to give him another nickname - was fascinated by the black swans, which roam free around their pond.
"Hey, Foo, remember when you were Fatty Lumpkins' age and were bitten by a goose here?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Check out Fatty Lumpkins."
Fatty Lumpkins stomped up to the swans and struck a body builder-style pose. "I'm not afraid of you, swans!"
The swans, who were probably tormented and teased by small children on a daily basis, ignored him.
"Hey, swans!"
The swans honked at each other. They were probably saying something along the lines of "can you believe this kid? Pfft, he's delusional."
"Hey, swans!" He stomped his feet in his best sumo wrestler imitation.
One of the swans moved half a step closer. Maybe it was preparing to launch itself in feathery vengeance. Maybe it was just shifting position.
We'll never know, because Fatty Lumpkins went white as a sheet and ran. "Grandmama!"
So much for not being afraid of the swans.
(Wallace-Minger, The Weirton Daily Times community editor, is a Weirton resident and can be contacted at email@example.com)


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The yogurt which I purchase from the market looks too perfect and intact. Is there some special trick which prevents the home made yogurt from getting watery?
Many of the commercial yoghurts use stabilizers like pectin to prevent the yoghurt from separating during transport. All fruits naturally contain pectin (some more than others), so one option, if you are making your own yoghurt at home, is to add some fruit to it. Here in the US, supermarkets carry small bags of dry pectin powder; if you can get some of that, you could try adding it to your yoghurt.
Another option is to initially heat your milk to 85°C for a half hour before cooling it and adding your yoghurt starter. This heating serves two purposes: (1) it gets rid of some of the excess moisture through evaporation, and (2) the heating will denature (i.e., stretch out and relax) some of the milk's proteins. Denatured proteins will be able retain more of the liquid that is in the final product.
Finally, you can add powdered milk to the mix (about 125ml of powdered milk per liter of milk). Powdered milk is basically just milk protein, so the added protein will help contain some of the final liquid.
The type of milk, the milk fat content, the heat, the type of acid or rennet you use all have an effect on how the curds form
Two things to try are:
Some commercially packaged cottage cheese has carrageen, locust bean gum or similar added to make the casein/whey slurry a bit thicker
Commercial cottage cheese is usually made with cultures and rennet, and not acid. They also have a higher fat content than normal cows milk would have, i.e. they have added extra cream to the milk


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Do you prefer the Ropers, or Mr. Furley?
Three's Company, one of the best shows ever is still in syndication. I watch it on TV Land, and they mix in some eps with the Ropers, and some with Mr. Furley. When the show was originally airing, I remember I didn't care much for the Ropers.. at least I think Mrs. Roper annoyed me. But, I was young and she always seemed to put down Mr. Roper, so maybe I just didn't "get it". Mr. Furley, I always enjoyed.
Watching the show again, I think I still prefer Mr. Furley. I have a new appreciation of the Ropers, but Mr. Furley still seems better overall.
How about you? For those of you who saw the show when it originally aired, has your opinion of them changed like mind? Still the same?
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I'm old enough to never get past "that's Barney Fife, not Mr. Furley," when I used to watch it. That was the same time Mary Tyler Moore was Mary Richards who worked in a newsroom in Minneapolis & wasn't Laura Petrie who was married to comedy show writer Rob & lived next door to Millie & Jerry.
Mrs Roper was pre cougar, but not too attractive.
Furley all the way. The amount of machismo Don Knotts put into that character was awesome, from the lounge suits to the kung fu stances to the animal print decor in his apartment. And then there's the comedy...
That may be my favorite show to this day. I remember crying when it ended. Even as a kid, I felt a sense of despair when Janet turned off the light for the last time.
I'll take one Roper over Furley. I liked Mr. Roper way better than Mr. Furley. Furley was way too bumbling and goofy, whereas Roper was more laid-back yet dumb. If you throw Mrs. Roper into the mix, though, forget it. She was just annoying.
The Ropers.
Mr. Furley
Another vote for the Ropers....the early shows were better.
RF was an awful character. The show went downhill after the Roepers left. I have the box sets and I honestly try to stick to the first few seasons.
The way Don Knotts played Furley was just TOO stupid. Even then, he was better than the Ropers.
Mr. Furley...
Thought they both subtracted from the show. But Mr. Furley sucked less. I mean, who could complain about having Barney Fife as their landlord?
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The 6 Most Absurd Product Placements in Video Game History
#3. Darkened Skye, the Skittles Game
Darkened Skye follows the adventures of a young sorceress named Skye as she wanders the land collecting magic Skittles to do battle with the villainous Lord Necroth and restore the Great Rainbow, because for some inexplicable reason a roomful of adults decided that this was a bulletproof investment of both time and money that would guarantee their continued employment for years to come.
Loosely based on Skittles' "Taste the Rainbow" ad campaign, the game has players sprint around fighting monsters and gathering up different-colored Skittles while a gargoyle delivers painfully unfunny observations. A Skittle meter displays how much Skittle energy you have for each color of the candy, which determines what kind of magic you can perform. But here's the best part: Notice that it's impossible to tell from the game's title that it has any connection to Skittles, and that Skittles neither are mentioned nor appear anywhere on the cover.
Via Giantbomb.com
"Ah, finally a game I can buy that has nothing to do with corporate interference."
Yes, despite the embarrassingly ridiculous "candy magic" system, the makers of Darkened Skye deliberately tried to minimize the presence of Skittles in the game. While this is admittedly a good rule of thumb for game design in general, it maybe wasn't the best plan for the only game in history created for the explicit purpose of advertising Skittles. Seriously, check it out:
Via Giantbomb.com
Oh, wait, we see it now. There's a Ski- no. No, there isn't.
What the hell does any of that have to do with fruit-flavored candy? We combed the Internet for some Skittle-laden screenshots, and this is the best we could come up with:
Via Gameological.com
Now that's a fucking Skittle.
The only way you'd be able to tell that this was anything other than a generic bargain-bin game would be if you happened to read the small print on the back and noticed the Skittles trademark, which, given the candy's absence from any of the art or descriptions, would probably just confuse you into placing it gently back down for the rest of eternity:
Via Giantbomb.com
Bottom left. That's all you get.
Despite being produced in a direct partnership with M&M/Mars specifically to promote the Skittles brand, Darkened Skye somehow managed to be worse at selling Skittles than it is at being a game (and it is a terrible, terrible game).
#2. Chase the Chuck Wagon by Purina Dog Chow
In case you thought product tie-in advergames were a new invention of a crass and commercialized gaming culture, let's go old school. Chase the Chuck Wagon blazed onto video game consoles back in the early 1980s to place joyously eager players in the role of a dog that chased a miniature covered wagon, which was the basis for a series of pet food commercials that were made when half of the Marx brothers were still alive.
Without a doubt, the first thought that tore screaming through your mind after watching that clip was why in the hell is this not a video game? Indeed, being able to experience that dog's undeniably exciting pursuit of the Indian in the Cupboard's Oregon Trail-mobile as it claymations its way across the dining room floor would be at the very top of every child's Christmas list. Luckily, Purina (owner of the Chuck Wagon brand) produced Chase the Chuck Wagon for the Atari 2600 in 1983, to the delight of an entire nation.
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"No, it'll be fine. These mindless fucking idiots will buy absolutely anything in video game form."
The game itself was technically free, but to get it, you had to buy an assload of Chuck Wagon and mail Purina the proof-of-purchase tab on each box. However, contrary to the advertising campaign that birthed it and the one and only promise made by the game's title, you don't actually chase any chuck wagons. The chuck wagon in question just sits there at the top of the screen like a Life Alert subscriber waiting for the ambulance to show up. Your job as the player is to move a vaguely dog-shaped block through the most terrible maze ever drawn by non-blind human beings to reach the chuck wagon, avoiding dog catchers that will detonate your canine body with a single touch.
Via Umma6umma
The exact way they do it in real life.
There are also random bones and things that phase through the walls like poltergeists to try and throw you off the chase (though we must once again point out that it isn't much of a "chase" when the object of your pursuit is stationary). Make it through all that, and you're rewarded with another fucking maze. At least the dog in the ad got to eat something after his hero's trial. The game should be called Find the Chuck Wagon (and Don't Explode), which admittedly would've made an amazing commercial.
#1. King Games by Burger King
Burger King released three different Xbox 360 games featuring their glazed-face King mascot that you could buy for an extra $4 with any value meal. Surprisingly, the games caught on and managed to sell as many copies as Gears of War the year they were released, because apparently people couldn't get enough of the mute hijinks of a faux-plastic monarch who looked like he escaped from a Primus video.
Sneak King has you guide the King on a Solid Snake series of missions, hiding in bushes and trash cans scattered throughout suburbia with the ultimate goal of ambushing people with delicious Burger King menu items, all while trying to ignore the fact that commanding a flamboyantly dressed bearded man as he spies on an entire neighborhood blurs the line between food ninja and sexual predator to the point of non-distinction.
Via Gamesradar.com
"Time to slip somebody a Whopper."
You actually get more points for waiting until the last possible moment to present the food to your targets before they pass out from hunger, which is a bizarre device to begin with but is made even worse by the fact that the game is meant to be promoting a restaurant. This seems to suggest that only people teetering on the maddening brink of starvation would be happy to see the King and his terrible food.
Via Gamesradar.com
"Hey, you didn't have to eat a dead raccoon! High-five!"
The other Burger King games inexplicably took the main concepts of Mario Kart (item-based car battles and straightforward racing) and split them into two different games -- Big Bumpin' and PocketBike Racing, respectively. Burger King used the rest of its mascot roster (which admittedly isn't a very deep bench) to fill out the cast of playable racers in both games, along with the baffling addition of Brooke Burke, because what the hell do you care, you got this game with a chicken sandwich at 1 o'clock in the morning.
Via Joystiq.com
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Georgia is home to a world champion elementary school archery team after this month's National Archery in the Schools Program World Tournament. Woodlawn Elementary is the first Georgia school to compete on the World Competition level, which saw more than 950 student archers from 21 states compete in the elementary, middle and high school divisions.
"The students were awesome and really showed what hard work and determination can do," said Coach Brad Bates, teacher and NASP coordinator for Woodlawn Elementary. "These kids haven't stopped practicing since try-outs for the state tournament a year ago. Each one on the team has a story and they pulled together in Florida to win a World Championship."
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Woodlawn Elementary School in Chatsworth finished first in the competition in the elementary division with a team score of 3,240. Woodlawn won the Georgia-NASP elementary school title during the state tournament in February 2010 and took third place at the NASP National Tournament in May 2010. Additionally, they were the highest scoring team at the State Tournament.
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Enjoy it while it lasts. It's being shutdown after the Jan 30th.
Hey, subby, got any good prices on 2011 calendars too?
It's a shame they are closing down the game..Just like anything else in the free market, if it isn't profitable it doesn't stick around. I think Lego probably was short sighted shutting this down and I think it will leave a bad taste in kids and parent's mouths for some time to come. Lego will undoubtedly lose customers over this. They could have saved face by allowing a third party to host the game and design more content..But Who am I. I have only been playing online games for 2 decades...I don't know anything about it..
Too bad it's being shut down. I liked the game, but not enough to pay the monthly fee. I guess that makes me part of the problem. Still, I would have liked to see it move to a free to play model and move to someone else to run the servers. It's fun.
@bundarules: It should have been a free-to-play game from the start. That probably would have helped. They made the change too little and too late.
@bundarules: I started my own car company using that same logic, I've been driving for twenty years.
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By a lattice, we mean a finitely generated, free $\mathbb{Z}$-module together with a symmetric bilinear form. Typical examples are the hyperbolic lattices $U$ and the root lattices $A_{n}, D_{n}, E_{n}$ associated to Dynkin matrices. In general we cannot say that for lattices $L,M$ and $N$ $$ L\oplus M \cong L\oplus N \Longrightarrow M\cong N. $$ In other words, cancellation does not hold over $\mathbb{Z}$.
I wonder when this cancellation holds. Are there any criteria? I am particularly interested in the case $L=U$.


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Does it work
Yes, for the most part!
What does it scan
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Where does it live
Currently on top of the black help in the darkroom.
What belongs to the scanner
- Scanner!
- AC/DC adapter (labeled)
- USB cable
- Built in 35mm loader
- Replacement loaders for 35mm, slides, medium format
The built in loader is white, it's built in, you'll know what I mean when see it. This particular loader I found to be about 2-4mm too skinny, so I took a Dremel to it. That was a dumb idea and it's kind of crap tastic now.
I ordered a replacement loader from a site that said should work, words from HP apparently. When I got the loader, loaders actually, they're totally not specifically made for the G4010, but it lines up right, it just might work. Haven't tested.
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How would I describe something as "sketchy" in Spanish? In Spain I was told that the closest thing was "perro y fluta" referring to how the homeless have dogs and play flutes, but that didn't seem to translate back here in Texas. Can anyone confirm/deny or offer another translation that is more localized to Latin American Spanish?
I mean sketchy in the sense of something questiionable or unsavory. Like dark alley ways or the wrong part of town


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The space between
I just finished reading David Plantes old (1991) novel, The Accident, having also delved a few days ago into Jens Peter Jacobsens older (1880) Danish novel, Niels Lyhne. Plantes short book takes place in Leuven in the days when it was still known as Louvain. Its central character is an American undergraduate spending a year abroad, uncomfortable in the Catholic atmosphere of the city because he is, he says, an atheist. In much the way, sincere and yet posturing, that many a young person tried it on in those days. Today its not so clear that anyone cares enough to be so clear about it. And of course the unnamed young man isn't really clear at all. Which is where the story gets interesting. In contrast to the conventionally religious Tom, he doesnt go to mass but he seems occasionally to pray. And his biggest argument with Tom is about the conventionality of belief. A real God, he suggests, would be much stronger. Shades of Elie Wiesels famous comment in Night that there rose in my heart a prayer to that God in whom I no longer believed." And the young Niels in Jacobsens novel seems to be an atheist malgr lui, or at least one who would find the blanket rejection of religion that is the calling card of the new atheism to be simply boring.When you put these two together with more accessible works like Dostoevskys The Brothers Karamazov and Rilkes charming Stories of God, it seems clear that fiction about belief and unbelief is interesting when it focuses on the space between the two. I suppose this is because good fiction thrives on ambiguity. Theres nothing so dull as a believer without doubts or an atheist withoutdare I say ita soul. Imperfection makes a person interesting. Thats why I always used to sit among the smokers in the bad old days when airlines allowed it (and gave you free food); you were simply more likely to meet someone worth talking to. The whisky priest or the lieutenant or Scobie would never show up in the no-smoking section.
There is now a word for this in-betweenness. Anatheism, a coinage of the Irish philosopher Richard Kearney in a book of the same name, is the return to God after God, which put that ways sounds like it leans a bit more towards belief than unbelief. But he also describes it as that which follows in the wake of our letting go of God, which might just push it back into the middle again. Of course, this kind of word-play has been around at least since Meister Eckhart who wrote of denying God for Gods sake. What we dont seem to have here is pure nihilism, again perhaps because it is just too dull to hold the readers attention. The interesting atheist feels the pull of belief, and the interesting theist deals, surely, with doubt on a daily basis. Which theist would argue if s/he wants to be considered interesting?Plantes Accident reads like a French novel, not only because it is set in a Francophone culture and is about the same lengthshortof many of the works of Bernanos or Mauriac. Somehow the French seem to have the lock on serious works that explore the space between belief and unbelief, even if they have a little trouble injecting any humor. Even Greene was deeply influence by these two, and Plante also owes them a lot. So whats wrong with the Anglo-Saxon here? Has Anglophone literature failed to match the French in this regard because it just never took God seriously enough to doubt? Or just because it wouldnt take itself too seriously? What do you think?
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So whats wrong with the Anglo-Saxon here? Has Anglophone literature failed to match the French in this regard because it just never took God seriously enough to doubt? Or just because it wouldnt take itself too seriously? What do you think?
Anglo-Saxon writers do that in essays and in books on politics and philosophy, don't they? Perhaps there's something about the French mind that isn't particularly fond of story lines and character development. Or maybe it's just in contemporary French novelists' minds, not necessarily French readers' minds. Just because ninety-five percent of contemporary American composers make dissonant and arrhythmic music doesn't mean that ninety-five percent of the American musical audience likes it.
Maybe it's the influence of Shakespeare. Sure, he's the greatest modern playwright, but it seems to me he does lack one thing -- consideration of the question of God. Dostoievsky he was not. Yes, scholars are saying these days he was a Catholic, but does that mean just a cultural Catholic? Hamlet does ponder the question of his own existence, but not in a religious context. He does wonder about life after death, but this is not an essentially religious question. God is conspicuously absent from the 'To be or not to be" soliloquy, I think. Had Hamlet/Shakespeare given up on God already -- offstage? Given his influence in England (the schools there are still required by law to teach him, or so I've read), maybe, because Shakespeare didn't consider the question, the British authors generally don't feel the necessity to wrestle with it either, not publicly anyway. (Then there's Dawkins, . . .) (And Terry Eagleton . . .)
My vague sense from reading just a smattering of modern French fiction is that it's generally a lot more introspective than its American or English cousins. Sometimes, that can be entertaining, as with, for example, Andr Maurois, and at other times it can be horribly sterile and boring, as with Marguerite Duras. Purely personal tastes and opinions, of course. On the other hand, back before modern, we have the wonderful mile Zola. Perhaps what I experience as sterility and navel gazing is at least partly a product of early- and mid-century European nihilism and communism, which, it's my sense, see everything through bitter and angry ideological filters.
I can get into that "in-between place" just by reflecting on life and Scripture and I am a Catholic priest. I walk through the street carrying a little girl who died of dysentery and a thousand people follow me and I go to the house but can't put the burden down. Then I stumble out of the house and above the city is a great statue of Cristo Rey touched by a dazzling white streak of sun against a black sky. A miracle? A sign of hope. No, I just got mad and got on the wrong bus and took a tour of the slums with little kids with death on their faces and a barrio where guys in black Mercedes and Cadillacs are buying little girls. Who is this God? In his weakness? In his decision not to intervene with lightning bolts. In his choice to leave the little ones to pray, suffer, and die?I have to say it is the cross that does it for me...it leads me to a mystery where God does not give the answer but simply becomes one of the least and most loss as if to say I went down there with you and I won't let you go. But I still rage for revenge and justice. Well, I am an old man now and I am looking forward to seeing what it was all about. Sometimes God seems as close to me as the other side of a piece of paper or closer, but I still don't understand. Came to see that faith also means loyalty and so I am loyal and will be. But I wish it was the God Wiesell longed for and how all this really looks in the eyes of the maker of galaxies and black holes.
In contrast to the conventionally religious Tom, he doesnt go to mass but he seems occasionally to pray. And his biggest argument with Tom is about the conventionality of belief. A real God, he suggests, would be much stronger. Shades of Elie Wiesels famous comment in Night that there rose in my heart a prayer to that God in whom I no longer believed.
Such ego! To be so confused and yet so confident that he matters at all. Very modern - me, me, me - superior to all those "conventional" existences - I the artist, the sensitive one, the only one truly longing for enlightenment. Foof.
"... it leads me to a mystery where God does not give the answer but simply becomes one of the least and most loss as if to say I went down there with you and I wont let you go."What a wonderful line! While most Americans have not experienced the horrorscapes described by Fr. Taylor, I think those of us faced with life's more mundane sorrows--the difficult illness of a parent, the death of a child, the loss of a livlihood--know that there are no answers, only that Presence of Christ on the cross holding us all up. That's all we get in this life, and part of maturing in the faith is the ability to see how precious it is.
Perhaps we should give up trying to define God. It just leads to bad novels and to good minds wasted on the study of philosophy and theology.
Philosophers and especially theologians are not in the business, not any more, of defining God. More commonly, they explore the space between belief and unbelief, which is exactly where the good novels go. Bad novels tend to be didactic, whether for God or against. Just look at how Flannery O'Connor dismisses a certain kind of Catholic novel in some of her essays.
I'm reading Dame Rose Macaulay's "The Towers of Trebizond," which explores those spaces. It's ostensibly a travelogue about her trip to Turkey, but she ruminates with unpitying precision about the state of her soul, especially re her affair with a married man. Macaulay came back to the C of E late in life, but this reflection on her youthful sins deserves more notice. One wishes the author of the dreadful "Eat, Pray, Love" had read Dame Rose.
What's the difference between "the space between belief and unbelief" and "the human condition"? Aren't they much the same thing - a space in which God is either absent or present mainly as a punching bag?For example, taking perhaps my favorite novel, La peste, God's not there at all, as I recall (it's time for another reading). Instead, you have the tragedy of life and man's moral obligation to follow his conscience into hell, so to speak. Deep enough, but no God.
I'm afraid I'm just too stupid to understand whatever's got David Smith's bile ducts working overtime about this particular topic.
Can't the difference between French and Anglo literature (British/American...lets leave the Irish out of this one) reflect something of the difference between Continental and Analytic philosophy?And I am afraid our consumer society has abandoned meaningful searches for prefabricated BS. "The Secret", "Eat, Pray, Love", "The Alchemist" even "Life of Pi". It seems society at large has the same tastes in literature as most 15 year old girls.


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There is for sure frozen water on mars.
What they are trying to figure out is if there was ever flowing or liquid water.
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So if there is ice on Mars, can they do that thing they did on Total Recall where they had huge heaters and melted the ice to create air?
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So if there is ice on Mars, can they do that thing they did on Total Recall where they had huge heaters and melted the ice to create air?
Umm... no.
well theyre almost positive water used to flow, there are too many valleys and channels up there, there really coulnt be another explination.
we would stand a much greater chance of colonizing mars if there is huge glaciers still frozen underneath the caps....
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well theyre almost positive water used to flow, there are too many valleys and channels up there, there really coulnt be another explination.
Sure there could. It's called wind, and sand.
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From a geologists point of view channels like those found on mars could be formed also by lava channels. The moon for instance has the same kind of channels that look just like a river flowed there once but in fact it was a lava river. Methane and other liquified gasses can flow also forming channels like that.
Here are some channels found on Titan that is much too cold for water to flow.
Here are some lava channels on the moon.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks advanced Tuesday, rebounding from the previous day's pullback, as investors geared up for key decisions out of Europe and from the Federal Reserve later this week.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.5% and the S&P 500 rose 0.3%. The day's gains put the Dow back at its highest level since December 2007, while the S&P 500 is within spitting distance of the multi-year high it reached last week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq finished flat.
Financial stocks were among the biggest gainers, with JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500), Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500), Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) and Morgan Stanley (MS, Fortune 500) all finishing higher.
Europe is also in focus ahead of Wednesday's ruling from Germany's Constitutional Court on the legality of the European Stability Mechanism, a permanent bailout fund that's expected to have a maximum lending capacity of €500 billion.
Investors are waiting to see how the ruling may impact the European Central Bank's plans to preserve the euro, which remains near its highest level against the U.S. dollar since May. Global markets finished mixed ahead of the decision.
"I think we'll see ratification, but it could come with conditions that would result in the diminution of its horsepower, which would be something the market is not prepared for," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.
On the domestic front, investors are waiting to hear whether the Fed will announce new stimulus measures when it wraps up its two-day policy meeting Thursday afternoon. It's expected that the weak August jobs report gives the central bank even more reason to enact a third round of quantitative easing.
"There's a better-than-even probability for QE3, but it's not guaranteed," said Luschini. "We will get something."
Luschini expects the Fed is more likely to alter the language of its current policy of keeping interest rates low through 2014.
He said the central bank could either extend the date of its program, such as through 2015, or change the policy, from being date-dependent to state-dependent. For example, Luschini said the Fed could pledge to keep low rates until the unemployment rate decreases to a certain level, so that the market has a clear signal.