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5 Badass Movie Heroes (Who Were Actually Just Really Lucky)
Hollywood movies are an alternate reality where every law of the universe operates differently from our own, from the amount of damage a human body can take to the dating standards of hot girls who inexplicably fall for clumsy nerds. In this dimension, even a hero who is specifically described as "down on his luck" will routinely defeat the overwhelming odds thanks to a long list of coincidences falling his way. Like ...
#5. Die Hard -- John McClane Blindly Throws C4 Down an Elevator Shaft, Hits Terrorists
We all know/have attempted to re-enact the scene: About halfway through the first Die Hard, John McClane has successfully contacted the police, and they're making their way to the office building where Hans Gruber and his group of long-haired German terrorists have set up camp. However, their raid is cut short when Gruber unleashes his secret weapon: a rocket launcher that his goons use to blast missiles at the SWAT cars.
"Is there a way we could make them die a little softer?"
The cops can't get anywhere near the building without getting blown to shit. But John McClane is nothing if not resourceful: He grabs a load of C-4 explosive that he borrowed from a dead terrorist, secures it to a chair using an old school computer monitor and drops it down an elevator shaft. What follows is one of the great moments in classic cinema:
The C-4 explodes upon impact at the floor where the missile-launching terrorists are, killing them and making the building a little less insanely dangerous. Thank God for John McClane, right?
The Blind Luck:
How did McClane know the C-4 would explode on that exact floor? He is on the 38th floor when he drops the explosives, and the hostages (including his wife) are on the 30th or so. He doesn't have a detonator switch to set the bomb off, so how did he know the chair would blow on the terrorists' floor as opposed to, say, landing on an elevator and getting carried up to some other random floor (like, say, the one where all the hostages are)? Hell, what's to say it doesn't bounce off the walls of the shaft at some point on the way down, blowing some key structural support and bringing the whole building down? Or at least a huge part of it?
Or, best case scenario, it goes straight to the basement and kills Argyle.
McClane does briefly look down the shaft to make sure the coast is clear, presumably, but one thing elevators tend to do is move up and down in a matter of seconds; he knows there are terrorists using the elevators because he just heard them. In fact, that's his entire knowledge of the situation: He heard an elevator go past, and from that somehow assumed that a) it had to be boarded by the terrorists who would later shoot those missiles and b) they stopped close enough to the ground level that the explosion wouldn't do any serious damage on the top floors where all the innocent people are.
"So ... dyin' hard or hardly dyin'?"
Wait a second, look at that screen shot -- how did that not set the building on fire?
McClane is visibly angry and talking to himself while he does his bomb drop, muttering profanity-laden one-liners at no one in particular -- clearly this guy wasn't in a right state of mind and didn't think things through, at all. We're guessing he woke up in his bed like two weeks later and said, "Did I really fucking do that?" then cried for the rest of the night. He was incredibly lucky that it worked out, but we guess we're all entitled to one moment of unbelievable luck in our lifetimes ... it's not like he went on to shoot down a helicopter with a car or something.
#4. 300 -- The Evil Politician Happens to Be Carrying His Bribe Money Around
Near the end of 300, the plot of the movie takes a break from all the slow-motion homoeroticism (slomoeroticism) to show the Spartan Council deciding whether or not to send King Leonidas the reinforcements that he desperately needs to stop the Persians from marching into Greece and killing everything there. As a reminder, there are currently only three hundred Spartans fighting off an army of over a million Persian warriors at Thermopylae.
Luckily, they have a dude who can hold aggro.
While Leonidas' wife, Queen Gorgo, is explaining to the council the painfully simple logic of "We should send the reinforcements or we're all gonna die," some douchebag called Theron accuses her of trying to seduce him into agreeing with her at this meeting, and also of sleeping with some old guy. The council is appalled and disgusted, judging by the series of gasps and mouth-hands that follow. A guard stands behind the queen, and everything indicates that she'll be taken away and Leonidas won't be getting his reinforcements.
However, Queen Gorgo diffuses the situation by stabbing Theron in the dick, causing a bundle of Persian coins to spill onto the floor. The council recognizes that he was a traitor, and Leonidas has his reinforcements sent. (And then he dies anyway, but that's beside the point.)
"We always knew you'd die from hogging all the dick money, McNulty."
The Blind Luck:
So, wait, Theron was accusing the queen of being devious ... and her response was to literally stab him with a sword, right in front of everyone else? Um, OK.
There's no way the queen could have known that Theron had chosen to bring his bribe to the meeting, and she sure as hell didn't know that he was carrying the coins in the general vicinity of his penis, otherwise she could have just said, "Hey, check out this guy's dick, it's stuffed with Persian gold!"
His hubris was an expensive crotch bulge.
If the council had any doubts that she was guilty, this should have been enough to clear that up, since it probably looked like she was just trying to shut him up before he said anything else. Sure, she could have tried to explain her innocence afterward, but it wouldn't have looked very convincing with the guy bleeding to death in front of her.
It was only the queen's astonishing luck -- and the fact that Theron was an idiot with a cock purse -- that saved the situation. Why would Theron carry the evidence of his treason into the meeting where he was planning to accuse someone else of being the traitor? Did he come straight from his treason deal? Was he between banks? Of course, the luckiest part wasn't that Theron was carrying the money, because that could have been from anything -- it's that he happened to be paid in coins that had the face of the King of Persia on them.
How exactly was he planning to spend these?
It's important to note that this scene appears only in the 300 movie by Zack Snyder and not in the comic it's based on. As much as we'd like to keep picking on Snyder, though, the next one was all in the comic ...
#3. Watchmen -- Nite Owl Guesses Adrian's Password
Toward the end of Watchmen, we learn that the recent string of superhero murders at the center of the plot is actually a tiny byproduct of a vast conspiracy headed by one of the heroes, Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias, aka "the smartest man on the planet." Even the extremely powerful and extremely naked Dr. Manhattan has been manipulated by Veidt, who tricked him into leaving the Earth by convincing him that his blue dong was giving people cancer.
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"I'm gonna have to go back for toilet paper."
The only two remaining heroes who aren't either the bad guy or on Mars decide to check out Veidt's office for clues about what the fuck is going on. After logging in to Veidt's computer, Nite Owl and Rorschach find evidence that Veidt is behind everything and travel to his Antarctic hideout to confront him -- leaving New York just in time to avoid an attack that kills half the city's population. This, too, was part of Veidt's elaborate plan to ensure world peace by uniting the countries against a fictional enemy (aliens in the comic, Dr. Manhattan in the movie).
Watchmen #12
"I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish
if we were facing a vagina from outside this world." -- Ronald Reagan
Of course, Nite Owl didn't just power on Veidt's computer and find the evidence right there in the desktop: He had to type a password first. Veidt wasn't stupid. The password turned out to be "Rameses II," the Egyptian pharaoh also known as Ozymandias.
The Blind Luck:
Hold on, Veidt used his own superhero name as his password?! The smartest man on the planet? Yep, and it took Nite Owl literally two tries to get it right.
Watchmen #10
"OK dude, now get on his Facebook and fill it with pictures of dicks."
In the movie it's even worse, because Owl gets the word from a book on Rameses that's right there on the desk. Right fucking there on the same desk as the computer loaded with incriminating files, sort of defeating the purpose of even having a password.
"Smartest and most careless man on the planet."
The luckiest part here is that Nite Owl even bothered trying to guess the password, when there was absolutely no reason for him to believe that it would be anything less than 500 special characters mixed into some sort of complex symbol sequence. We would have just said "Fuck it" and focused on trying to force his top desk drawer open.
Some fans believe that Veidt intentionally chose a shitty password so that his friends would find out about the conspiracy and leave New York before the attack, but there are two problems with that theory: a) It would require risking the entire conspiracy, since Nite Owl and Rorschach could have easily sent the incriminating info to the government or something and undermined the "alien attack" story, and b) this guy just killed 3 million people. He doesn't give a shit about killing two more.
You don't put your trust in a guy who dresses like that. You just don't.


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Are there any language relics in French from the names of the months and days in the republican calendar?
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Probably not much. Still, there is a famous book named Germinal by Émile Zola, which is named after a month of the republican calendar. Some people may (very rarely) use the expression « C'est Germinal » to depict something as horrific.
There are still some historical events referred to by their 'republican calendar' name, see coup d'état du 18 brumaire' for an example.
In works about history, events that happened when the Republican calendar was in force often have their dates stated with respect to that calendar. This is true even of modern texts.
Language as such, maybe not, but I believe laws passed during that time would still bear the republican date. The month names have been reused by some cities as street names, too.

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Three local teenagers returned from the July 7-12 Hall of Fame National Dance Challenge in Sandusky, Ohio, carrying home national championship hardware.
Morgan McElveny of Lake Odessa earned three national titles, while Ionia's Anna VanSyckle won two and Heather Simon won yet another.
Along with winning awards for first-place individual performances throughout the week long competition, all three performed together and won a national championship in the large group teen contemporary for "Will You Be There?"
The three dancers were part of the Studio Dance team headquartered in Kentwood.
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Several years ago, at the eGovOS summit, Microsoft desperately tried to introduce its form of "Shared Source" as if it were a valid form of "Open Source". And to claim their new licensing strategy they offered "freedom" to others. This effort met with extreme skepticism from me, and I wasn't the only one. Since then, they have appeared at many free software related advocacy events, as well as using their own closed and special government conferences, and have been desperately trying to sell this idea: that "Shared Source" is "Open Source". At last, they may have found a way to make this claim and thereby confuse and deceive the marketplace. They may even accomplish this with the full help of OSI (Open Source Initiative) and even the Free Software Foundation—simply by writing three software licenses that nothing important will ever be released under.
I think Microsoft believes it is important because they fear that "Open Source" or free software licensing will be used as a checklist for approved public purchases. Indeed, some nations are doing this today. Peru, for example, just introduced a public procurement policy that explicitly states that vendors who offer freedom will be preferred in public sector purchasing.
There are many valid reasons for preferring freedom. Government procurement has meant, and in fact many nations have laws that require, that no goods or services are procured from a "sole source provider". Doing so leaves a government and public policy potentially hostage to the whims of a single vendor. Governments also often make decisions about the kind of environment they desire and the kind of society they wish to promote. Free software specific procurement laws are a natural part of this processes.
Previously, in order to get around a government purchasing requirement for posix compatible operating systems, Microsoft offered a broken "posix" subsystem that is almost never used. In the same way, Microsoft can now say to those governments with procurement requirements which may mention free or open source licensing, "Yes sir, we offer that too. Hey our 'Shared Source' program is even OSI approved". What they will not mention is that the products that they are actually offering through the Shared Source program to governments are under licensing terms so restrictive that they amount to indentured intellectual servitude. Those products will not be offered under their three shiny new licenses. This is known as bait and switch.
As in the posix example, Microsoft's governmental sales force has a long and distinguished history of deceptive sales practices, as well as misusing federal procurement law to harass and intimidate, or try and have fired federal workers who dare choose alternate products. This problem was so severe a number of years back, that when I was invited to speak at the National Science Foundation to various agency directors on software freedom and the principles of scientific software, the whole event had to be arranged by the NSF director virtually in secret. Nobody was notified until the day prior and there was no official attendance list kept, because even directors of US federal agencies personally felt threatened, and feared retaliation by Microsoft. This fear was real, and was communicated by various attendees at the event. Of course, given that their sales force operates in a corporate culture where executive management choose to knowingly engage in illegal business practices, this is not that surprising.
If these new licenses do offer and meet the OSI definition for "Open Source", or the free software definition for freedom, then certainly they can be recognized as such. The problem is that neither OSI, nor even the FSF, are fully able to handle an organization being deliberately deceptive in this way. However, it is very important not to allow such a recognition about these three licenses to in any way become an endorsement of Shared Source branding and licensing program. This is what Microsoft desperately seeks—not to release important software under these new licenses—but rather to deliberately confuse the meaning of their "Shared Source" branding as a whole with open source. And it looks to me like OSI is all too ready to fall into that very trap.
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Comment from: CD Baric [Visitor]
10/25/05 @ 00:01
Microsoft is a convicted predatory monopoly that lies, cheats and steals.
The fact that they are trying to create a Three Card Monty of procurement guidelines is totally within Microsoft policy.
Further, the Bush administration is so corrupt that I often think they are taking a page from Microsoft's playbook - talk about an evil regime.
When you think of Microsoft, think Lie Cheat & Steal.
Comment from: k12linux [Visitor]
10/25/05 @ 04:05
To be clear, MS is calling ANYTHING that gives others even the most fleeting and restricted glimpse of their source code "Shared Source"
It's all lumped together on their web site as "Shared Source" and refered to that way in their press releases. A few small utilities that appear to be under an actually "open" license and source code that only extremely large companies or governments can view (but not change or compile) all fall under the same name.
I suspect you are right on target when you guess why this is being done. Confusion and misdirection seem to be the goals.
Comment from: Defenestrator [Visitor]
10/25/05 @ 11:49
The second to last paragraph is quite interesting. It would be very interesting to read more details about events that created the need for secrecy, especially the pressure to fire people.
Some years ago a colleague was also invited to speak at a national level to government decision makers on the topics of Free and Open Source software, though not in the US. There was great expressed interest from the group, but at the last minute the organizer made a great effort to cancel the talk, finally 'compromising' with a delay of several months. A couple months after the postponement a large contract was signed with MS and the talk cancelled altogether.
Comment from: David Sugar [Member] · http://www.gnutelephony.org
10/25/05 @ 12:39
Def, I did not elaborate further simply because that was not the original focus of this article, although perhaps I should in a future one. At the time, curiously, I was also a last minute substitute speaker, for the original free software advocate who was going to give that presentation was snowbound in Connecticut. So I ended up giving a presentation of a working Open Office system on a GNU/Linux desktop using one of my own work computers to people who had been told adamently through their various and regular contacts with Microsoft federal sales people that either no such thing exists or that it simply does not work :).


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- SUNY Geneseo is among 40 campuses in the United States to receive the JedCampus Seal for promoting the emotional health of its students.
The award comes from The Jed Foundation, a leading organization working to promote emotional health and prevent suicide among college and university students. The seal recognizes schools that exhibit comprehensive mental health promotion and suicide prevention programming on campus. The seal is part of the foundation's JedCampus program, the first nationwide program to facilitate a school's ability to assess and enhance their mental health support system from a campus-wide perspective. The recognition is valid for two years.
"At Geneseo, we are very proud of our efforts to support our students' well-being," said Melinda DuBois, administrative director for student health and counseling. "We understand the importance of providing a safe place for our students to learn and grow, which is why we strive for excellence in making Geneseo a healthy and supportive community. We also acknowledge that the feedback we have received from the Jed Foundation will enable us to focus our efforts for improving our student support services, and we look forward to working with the entire campus community to foster the well being of our students," she said.
As part of the process to earn the Seal, SUNY Geneseo took a voluntary, online self-assessment reviewing campus mental health and suicide prevention programming. The Jed Foundation then compared the school's responses to the recommended practices outlined in "The Comprehensive Approach to Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention on College and University Campuses" developed by The Jed Foundation and Suicide Prevention Resource Center. As part of this process, SUNY Geneseo received confidential feedback designed to help enhance its programming and resources.
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6 Mind Blowing Ways 'Starship Troopers' Predicted the Future
We really hope the war ends soon. For one, we want our troops home and safe, as soon as possible. But, as an on-the-side benefit, we'd really like to put an end to those damn war movies that keep coming out. From dramas like Lions For Lambs and The Hurt Locker, to gritty documentaries like Restrepo and No End In Sight, to savagely critical works like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Starship Troopers, it seems like more and more sandy and depressing war movies are taking over our cine-
Yes, Starship Troopers. The campy anti-war satire about a race from a distant, desert land, who out of nowhere strikes a civilian target in a way we didn't think was possible, leading to heavy-handed patriotic propaganda, and a headlong rush into a war with a poorly thought-out strategy that results in a quagmire. You don't have to agree with the message to get that it's clearly a satirical send-up of the War on Terror. If anything, it's too on-the-nose.
What's that, you say? The movie was made in 1997, four years before 9/11? Hmmm. That is a problem. We mean, we're not saying Paul Verhoeven traveled forward in time and then traveled back to film a commentary on a future war (because that would be an absolutely HORRIBLE waste of time travel), but... well, yeah, maybe we're saying he did that. Look how they line up:
#6. The Attack
In The Film:
The movie follows Johnny Rico, a dumb jock from a weirdly Aryan-looking Buenos Aires of the future, as he signs up for the Mobile Infantry to protect the human race from the Arachnids, hive-minded, insectoid aliens. The war Johnny is training for is purely theoretical for the first 50 minutes of the film and then, suddenly, war is declared. What's the trigger? An asteroid strike on Johnny's home city of Bueno Aires, which destroys the city and kills over eight and a half million people. This, for the humans, is an absolute shock to the system, a blow made all the more devastating by the fact that the Arachnids don't have a colony within fifty thousand light years of Earth.
In space terms, that's this much.
That they shot an asteroid from halfway across the galaxy and managed to hit, not only another planet, but the planet they actually aimed at, is not just impressive, its goddamned miraculous. Especially considering that the Arachnids don't seem to have much knowledge of math and interstellar travel -- their species spreads to other planets by shooting their spores into space and hoping for the best. In fact it's so amazing that it's either a plot hole or a surprisingly subtle plot point- there's a theory among Starship Troopers fans that the attack was either a random collision that the government used as an excuse for war, or a deliberate attack by the government on its own people to justify attacking the bugs.
Either way, humanity promptly loses its shit and declares war on all bugs everywhere.
"Well this seems easy enough."
In Real Life:
You can see right away how the plot mimics real events. Before 9/11, the threat of Islamic terror was lingering out there, but wasn't immediate -- just like the bugs in the movie. Then there's an attack on a civilian target that comes as just as much a shock to the system, as it demonstrated a capability no one thought the terrorists had. The US promptly lost its shit and declared war on the very notion of terrorism, entering into an armed conflict against an abstract concept like only America can.
"And after we beat Terrorism, we're gonna beat Drugs! Then we're going to take on Sadness!"
There are some crucial differences between the movie and real life. For one thing, plus, in war time here on Real Earth, Denise Richards is probably the last person we'd call for support, (assuming the war was not being fought by boners).
"We need at least six more boners to the frontline. Richards, get out there!"
Also, 9/11 was obviously not some random coincidence or inside job. Sure, in a shitty movie, fans will wildly speculate all the time and talk about how the government attacked Buenos Aires on purpose and blamed the bugs, but no one in real life would look at 9/11 and whip up a bunch of crazy, nonsensical, conspiracy theories about "what really happened, right?
#5. The First Assault
In The Film:
The humans quickly mobilize to destroy the Arachnids, sending their space fleet to the Arachnid homeworld of Klendathu. They recklessly charge in, with little thought given to tactics or battle plans. And so what? The enemy is bugs. Who needs tactics?
"I need a really big magnifying glass, stat!"
Well, the bugs have other ideas. Turns out there is one breed of Arachnid that can unload a huge, steaming pile of blue plasma right on into space. Though they don't have sophisticated aiming capabilities, just squirting plasma upwards makes short work of a few human spaceships, while the Arachnid foot soldiers for the Mobile Infantry to retreat in panic from an enemy who was better prepared, better armed and in greater numbers than they expected.
"The giant, armored bugs are defending themselves somehow!"
But this movie is crazy, it was directed by the guy who directed Showgirls. No real military would be as misinformed and unprepared as the military in a move about fighting massive, shrieking bug-monsters, right?
In Real Life:
Operation Anaconda was the first major engagement of the War On Terror. The idea was to attack a force of around 200 Al Qaeda soldiers in the Shahi-Kot Valley from the west, causing them to flee into the waiting arms of more US soldiers in the east, in what's known as a "Hammer and Anvil" strategy.
Just one problem: Al Qaeda did not flee, but stood their ground.
Just one other problem: There were not 200 enemy soldiers in the valley; there were up to five times that amount.
Just one further other problem: the US military planners had assumed the enemy were armed with machine guns; they actually had mortars, rifles and rockets, and the planners assumed that Al Qaeda were in the valley, (they were in caves in the mountains surrounding the valley), and a convoy broke off from the main "TF Hammer" force to reach an observation point they'd been assigned to. And an AC-130, which was supposed to be providing firing and recon support during the battle thought they were an Al Qaeda convoy and attacked them. This friendly fire battle resulted in the first casualty of the operation.
The rest of TF Hammer came under heavy mortar fire from the prepared and entrenched Al Qaeda, and their air support turned out to consist of six bombs, and their attack didn't actually make it into the valley, meaning that TF Anvil, arriving via helicopter, did not close the trap as had been intended, but instead found a trap closing around them, as they were attacked by an enemy who was better prepared, better armed, in greater numbers, and from a better-fortified position than they expected.
No word on whether they had massive pincers and exoskeletons.
#4. Shock and Awe
In The Film:
After being unpleasantly surprised by the Arachnids' willingness to fight back and defend their home, the human military in Starship Troopers come up with a new battle plan: "Fleet glasses the planet, MI mops up." Basically, rather than wading in and fighting whatever they find, they first bombard the planet with explosives, making it easier for the Mobile Infantry to take out the survivors. We see one of these aerial bombardments in action, not on the planet they invaded originally, but on a completely different planet called Tango Urilla. The jet fighters fly overhead and drop bombs, the bugs scream in terror and try to run away, but get blown to pieces in their thousands.
Space travel has obviously not yet equipped them with super-nukes.
Johnny and his squad then walk in and successfully wipe out the remnants, before being sent off to yet another planet called Planet P, where the rest of the film takes place.
In Real Life:
Oh come on. You already know the real-life version of this, it's part of America's national language by now. Basically, after being unpleasantly surprised by the enemy's willingness to fight back in Afghanistan, the American military came up with a new battle plan for their invasion of Iraq: Shock and Awe. Essentially, they bombarded Baghdad with explosives, with the intention of demoralizing Saddam Hussein's military out of actually fighting.
In both cases, that's a disastrous first engagement as a result of underestimating the enemy, and an attempt to compensate next time around with heavy aerial bombardment.
Also? Here are those planets the military attacked in Troopers...
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Should I be buying workstations and servers from Dell/HP or build them myself?
What exactly are we paying these companies extra for?
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It depends on the value of your time, and your exact needs. If your time is not a concern, or if you need something very specific, then build away. Otherwise, buying a complete, tested, supported system is probably a better move.
Without a doubt, buy them already built. Your time is too valuable to waste building them. With Dell, HP, etc you'll get a standard, tested configuration and, more importantly, you'll get support in the form of someone to come out with spare parts to fix your server when things go wrong.
You will find that when it comes to very cheap low-end configurations the prices from Dell/HP/etc are very competitive because of the remorseless competition at this level.
But as soon as you start creating a high-end system they make big margins. Upgrading with extra memory, graphics card and hard drives and the will notice price soon skyrockets. Completely out of proportion to the cost of the components themselves. So my advice...
If you want cheap commodity level machines then they are a good source. For high-end machines then they are very expensive and you can save alot of money buying the components and putting them together yourself.
Warranty and tech support. The value of the time spent to assemble them.
If you're doing this at any kind of large scale, you'll probably want to buy, if for no reason other than the fact that you might want support down the line if a lot of issues start popping up.
For personal use, though, I always build. As far as geek pleasures go, there's nothing like knowing exactly how tight each screw is fastened in your system and how many of each port/slot you have available. Beyond that, there's the fact that you are able to choose each and every component to best suit your needs, and you're the one who makes the decision on where to skimp. Once you choose your parts, build your machine, and start using and upgrading it, it really becomes your "baby" in much the same way a lovable car or pet would. I always find that hand-built machines, even one's that aren't mine, have a certain "soul" that you just don't get in a Dell or HP.
As for the time argument, it only takes on the order of an hour to build a system anyway, so I don't think there's any reason for people on this site not to.
You're paying for support for your parts until the server is EOL'ed. If under warranty, they come onsite to exchange the fault part and replace with another one (I won't say it's a new one).
Systems for myself I always build from components, but that's because I'm picky about exactly what components go into my systems. Systems for people who don't care about performance I'll sometimes purchase pre-built, but just as often I'll build it myself. (I enjoy the work.) For my own machines, I will normally go for higher-end memory, a CPU that is at the peak of performance per dollar, a carefully chosen motherboard, and so on. This is significantly more expensive to purchase relative to the low-end machines.
I am completely comfortable supporting myself should any problem arise, and in any case I am more likely to be able to support myself than most companies are.
People who are not so comfortable supporting themselves -- and businesses who have different needs than I do as an individual -- pay for warrantee and support as much as for the hardware. Also, when you're a corporation, you want a collection of cookie-cutter identical machines to ease support. It's also easier to let someone else assemble them when talking about the numbers a corporation might use.
Service. When the hardware fails, make sure you can have them there and replacing it for you with working stuff within a day. Dell has always been good with me for this.


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We're calling on people to submit their photographs of ordinary people doing extraordinary things – in the name of creating better places for people to live in, and better places to visit – to our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group! You can also get involved by logging on to the global journal of practical ecotourism, Planeta.com's wiki and registering.
You can also read our responsible tourism tips and take the online pledge at www.capetown.travel/responsibletourism.
Information on Cape Town's journey to becoming a responsible destination can be found at www.responsiblecapetown.co.za. The Mother City won the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award in the best destination category in 2009.
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The 6 Manliest Ways People Still Hunt for Food
In a world where you can have hot food delivered to you within minutes even if you're in the middle of the wilderness, many of you probably believe that there are no more hunter-gatherers left. You would be wrong. There are still some places where buying a meal simply isn't an option. Fortunately, there are also still badasses who plunge through ice caverns, stare down lions and pop live testicles between their teeth just to survive another season.
#6. The Nepalese Dangle from Cliffs for Honey
The Bee Photographer – Eric Tourneret
Endangering oneself for the sake of honey is a task normally left to stuffed bears, but there are people from isolated villages in Nepal who routinely scale towering cliff faces to pilfer the homes of millions of bees for the sweet golden reward. The tremendous risk involved is unspoken, but understood by every villager (sort of like Grandma's racism at Thanksgiving), as is evidenced by the fact that many of the cliffs are named after people who fell to their deaths while trying to collect honey.
The Bee Photographer – Eric Tourneret
For example, this one is named "Tensu the Drunk."
The gathering is done by highly coordinated teams of insect-robbing specialists, each tasked with a specific duty, sort of like if the A-Team recruited a bunch of sugar-thieving cereal mascots to steal breakfast from withholding children. Presumably each group is prepped with a sobering viewing of Macaulay Culkin's bee sting death scene in My Girl before going out into the field.
Once at the cliff, the first step is pissing off hundreds of thousands of bees by igniting a massive blaze at its base. The logic here is to get all of the bees out of the hive -- if the bees are swirling around in a homicidal frenzy, they will sting the shit out of everyone, as opposed to just converging on whoever climbs up to take the honey and annihilating him. While the fire is being started, another squad lowers a ladder laden with buckets and ropes from the top of the cliff. Once it is in place, a team member called the guru carries two long bamboo poles up the ladder to stick his face into a one-ton gigafuck explosion of angry bees.
The Bee Photographer – Eric Tourneret
"Oh God, I think the EpiPen fell out of my pocket."
The guru ties himself to the ladder with one of the ropes and begins to blindly smash the poles into the beehive, following instructions being shouted at him from both above and below. The goal is to dislodge pieces of honeycomb into the buckets, which are then hoisted up by the team at the top of the cliff. The team at the bottom is responsible for moving the ladder around to reposition the guru as needed. Keep in mind that all of this is done via coordinated instructo-screams between the two teams -- the hurricane of furious bees keeps anyone from seeing what the hell they are doing for themselves.
The Bee Photographer – Eric Tourneret
The Deadliest Catch seems somehow less impressive now.
Meanwhile, the guru is being helplessly dragged across the cliff face and getting stabbed in the face and hands by the venomous ass-daggers of thousands of merciless insects. Most of the time, he's just covering up as best he can, but whenever there is a break in the bees, he maneuvers the dangling bucket into place with one pole while chopping away at the hive with the other.
An entire gathering usually takes over four hours, without a break, hanging from a cliff in a cloud of smoke while being stung by the world's biggest bees. Because honey is delicious.
#5. The Masai Steal Food from Lions
At some point in history, the Masai people of Africa decided that hunting would be way easier if they just stole all their food from lions (to be fair, there are definitely fewer steps involved). Before you dismiss this as hollow bravado, watch this video as three guys roll up on 15 blood-soaked lions and send them scattering into the underbrush:
It takes more people to successfully cover a Radiohead song, yet these dudes stroll in like they're booting a bunch of 12-year-olds off of a basketball court, and it totally works. The trick, according to the crusty English narrator who has never done anything like this before in his entire life, is to both maintain and project confidence, which is advice typically reserved for dating blogs, not situations where you're confronting a giant ravenous machine that sees you as a delicious walking hot dog.
"Don't worry: He won't hurt us. I brought confidence."
At any rate, the men stand straight and shoulder to shoulder, marching purposefully toward the lions without faltering, slowing or hesitating in any way, letting the lions know beyond a doubt that they mean business. They don't shout or brandish their weapons or make any obvious threats, but the lions are thoroughly intimidated and suddenly take off, abandoning their hard-earned kill to the three awesomest guys on the continent of Africa.
Now, the sobering reality is that this bluff won't last long -- it won't take but a minute or two for the routed jungle cats to figure out that 15 goddamn lions have an absurd advantage over three men with knives and arrows. But that's long enough for the men to hack off what they need and carry it back to feed their people, allowing the lions to return and sheepishly drag the carcass off to a more secure location to conceal their embarrassment.
"I swear to the great kings of the past, this had better not end up on YouTube."
#4. Percebeiros Free-Climb Ocean Cliffs for Barnacles
In the deepest, darkest depths of Spain's picturesque, tourist-friendly coastline, intrepid individuals risk their lives for goose barnacles, a kind of mollusk apparently named by someone who had never seen a goose before.
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The barnacles are known locally as percebes, and they're a popular delicacy, selling for around 200 Euros a kilogram. This is incentive enough for professional percebes gatherers, called percebeiros, because people will do absolutely anything for money. Percebeiros work in teams of at least two -- they head down to the rocky coast of Galicia, Spain (where the barnacles live), and take turns scrambling along the jagged outcroppings to scrape off bagfuls of the slimy sea boogers, scuttling up a safety line or leaping into cover as massive waves come crashing violently through like Jack Nicholson in a hedge maze.
At best, they have less than a minute between the surging blasts of ocean, which at first may not seem so bad, what with the safety line and all. The trouble is, if they want to get at the larger (and consequently more valuable) barnacles that grow lower down toward the base of the rocks, they can't use the rope. They just have to parkour their asses from stone to stone and hope that they don't slip and bust their skulls open or get hammerpunched by Poseidon's rage and carried out to sea.
The incentive actually increases in rougher conditions -- as fewer percebeiros are willing to risk a mangled drowning, the available supply of percebes dwindles, elevating both the demand and the price of the barnacles. And the risk of death is very real, with about five percebeiros dying every year so that restaurants across Europe can feed the slimy creatures to rich people.
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5 Seemingly Harmful Things That Make You Live Longer
Thanks to Oprah and pharmaceutical commercials, we're all pretty aware of what it takes to live a healthy life: vitamins, exercise and colon-cleansing yogurt. Unless you pay attention to a little thing called science, which says that there are plenty of random and even bad habits that will help us live longer. For example ...
#5. Living in a Recession
It doesn't seem possible that a recession would make you live longer. After all, while life is more important than money, you need money to buy the things that keep you alive. So in turbulent economic times, you would expect the life expectancy of the population to lower as unemployment increases and nobody can afford to pay for doctors and Flintstones vitamins. Also, instead of eating expensive fresh fruit and vegetables, we subsist on the warm bowl of salt and fat we call ramen noodles. But the statistics show that, incredibly, economic hardship actually increases life expectancy.
"My sewer rat and cigar butt soup is a natural elixir."
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the death rate in the U.S. declined and life expectancy rose during the whole financial collapse from 2007 to 2010. And it's not just coincidence, either. According to one expert, the numbers are oddly specific -- every percentage point increase in unemployment translates to 12,000 fewer deaths per year. And we've seen it in the past, too -- during the peak years of the Great Depression, life expectancy grew by six years. That's not 0.6 years; we mean six actual years.
So what's going on here? Are people actually dying but opting for a fireplace cremation so their deaths go unreported? Does God hate poors and not want them in heaven?
"He told me to come back when I have a job, then called me a hippie and threw change in my face."
None of the above. While suicide rates do rise during tough times, just about every other kind of fatality drops. Fewer people can afford to go out, so fewer cars are on the road. Boom -- fewer traffic fatalities. Unhealthy vices like cigarettes, liquor and restaurant food become luxuries.
Plus, staying home means forming stronger bonds with family, which is universally known to be good for you, even accounting for the families who wind up murdering each other after the 10th consecutive argument about which way the toilet paper should hang. Even the thing that's causing the recession -- unemployment itself -- is good for your stress levels, and fewer people suffer heart attacks.
Whatever, pussy. Should have quit your job.
See, unemployed college grads? If everything goes right, you could be living in crushing poverty until you're 80 or 90 years old.
#4. Drinking
This is another one that seems impossible. We all know of at least one famous person (or a dozen) who drank himself to death, or who died in a drunken accident. Hell, it seems like drunk driving alone would push the mortality rate for drinkers through the roof. For all of the reasons that Prohibition was a terrible idea, they did have one part right: Drinking alcohol is bad for you. Right?
Wrong. People who totally abstain from alcohol have a higher mortality rate than those who occasionally imbibe.
"And that, my friends, is why I'm always drunk at work."
Now, we know what you're thinking: Some of those abstainers are probably abstaining after a lifetime of constant boozing. Of course they're one sneeze from meeting their maker when their livers are ticking time bombs -- hell, they probably only stopped drinking because their doctors made them. But no, even when you factor the former heavy drinkers out of the equation, non-drinkers are still more likely to die younger than moderate drinkers.
In a 20-year study of 1,824 participants, people who had one to three drinks a day were two times more likely to live longer than those who stuck with water and soda pop.
Alcoholic CPR.
So moderate drinking isn't bad for you. But now get ready for this newsflash: Even drunks live longer than teetotalers. Yep, during the 20 years of this study, 69 percent of the non-drinkers dropped dead, 60 percent of the heavy drinkers died and only 41 percent of the moderate drinkers went to that moderate bar in the sky.
Why? Experts think there are a few behavioral things at play here. One is that non-drinkers tend to have fewer social ties and less family support than casual drinkers. Surprisingly, people who don't drink also skew toward having lower income and education levels, in addition to fewer friends, all of which are factors in the longevity game.
"Two more shots of tequila and you can call me the goddamn Highlander."
#3. Having a Large Family
You'd think that with all the body-ripping and stress associated with pregnancy, childbirth and babies that each kid would knock a few years off a woman's life. In what kind of world would varicose veins in the vagina be a good thing, after all? This one, it turns out. Women who have more kids tend to add years to their life as they have them. Dads, too. For proof, look no further than the Amish.
Researchers studied 937 mothers and 1,078 fathers from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, going back to 1749. What they found was that for every kid up to baby No. 14, lifespan increased for the mom by 0.32 years and for dad by 0.23 years. In other words, every four kids bought dads almost a year of life! Finally, a good reason for having sex!
"Hey, I was thinking maybe you could come over later and we could add eight minutes to each others' lives."
So, you're probably thinking "Hey, the Amish are a hearty, clean-living folk. That's not me!" Fine. A 20-year study in another part of the world came to the same conclusions. In 1988 and 1989, over 2,800 elderly people from Dubbo, Australia, agreed to check in with researchers until the day they died. Old ladies who never had children experienced the highest mortality rate, but old ladies who had farted out six or more kids had a 40 percent lower death risk than those who kept their legs crossed every now and then. Does that mean there's a whole colony of immortal Australian women? We'll never know.
We also don't know why women who have more kids live longer. It could be that moms with bigger families have stronger social networks that keep them going longer. Or maybe the more kids you have, the greater chance you have of getting cool and helpful microchimeric fetal cells that benefit your body. Or maybe they just have more motivation to cling to life, to see how their kids turn out. You're not paying attention to any of this anyway, because you're still too busy imagining Amish people fucking.
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Want to use Cara Pils-Dextrine in my next brew to add body and aid in head retention. I have not made the jump to all grain yet, and I am doing a partial mash. Will steeping/mini-mashing Cara Pils like a specialty grain work, or do I need to do a full mash to get my desired results?
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Steeping CaraPils is fine.
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One of the goals of mashing is conversion, which breaks down starches present in grain to sugars that yeast can eat. Some malts are converted in the malting process making it unnecessary to mash for conversion. The HomebrewTalk wiki lists "mash req'd" column on their malts chart indicating which malts must be mashed to convert.
I think its important to point out the differences between steeping and mini/partial mashing.
You can steep cara-pils, but keep it to less than 5% of the grain bill as you'll probably add too much uncoverted starch.
However, if you really mean mash the carapils, then you can go whole hog and use what ever % you want.
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There are a lot of games based on ancient myths and legends that developers either use as a backdrop for the adventure, and sometimes (as in the case of Uncharted) the story is based on real historical events but is then twisted with more fantastical elements.
Do you ever further investigate the legends, myths and history that games are based upon?
I remember becoming very interested in the Aztecs and ancient South American civilizations (… and the alien conspiracies surrounding them, too) after playing the Tex Murphy FMV adventure games (specifically The Pandora Directive after Under a Killing Moon).
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Every time I go Forge FE against a Zerg player recently, my opponent goes for the 7-Roach push on one base, followed by streaming Zerglings and Roaches into my base repeatedly. For some reason, I can't seem to hold this off even if I manage to hold on to my nexus in the early game. What's the trick to holding off this kind of all-in play? Since I went for the Forge FE, I don't have enough time to get warp-gate technology, and by the time the attack hits, I'm usually on 3 gateways, trying to chronoboost out Warpgate and Stalkers.
As you already mentioned this is an all-in! This means if he fails killing you, he is done for. After you scout his all in stop probe production and build more cannons to buy time. You do not need Warp gate technology. Just add more Warp gates and create Stalkers.
Your goal is to stay alive then you win.
Like with every strategy you struggle against: Watch some pro replays that include your scenario. It is important to watch many of those to extract the key elements. Get a buddy that plays this strategy and try to beat it. First try to counter it blind, as if you knew it would come. Then try to react after you scout him. If you feel comfortable make your friend switch between multiple builds. Your friend should be at your level of play or better.
Sometimes it helps if you are in voice chat and he warns you like:
Ask him what you could do better and repeat it all over again. This way you learn how to counter a certain strategy.
On maps with ramps into your natural, sentries to FF your ramp will stop this attack dead. If you place a FF every 15s, the zerg cannot attack up your ramp. If you have two gates producing sentries, you should have enough to keep it perma-FF until you have 5 sentries, which can keep the FFs up indefinitely.
On other maps, some extra cannons and stalkers should help. Stalkers outrange roaches, so keep them behind your cannons to kill the roaches who attack your cannons. If they try to move forward and attack your stalkers, you can pull injured stalkers back slightly to let the shields regenerate. A well placed FF can cut the 7 roaches into a 4 and a 3, where your stalkers and cannon should clean up the 3 roaches with ease.
You should have sufficient notice this attack is happening, the hallmarks are an early pool (11), gas at 15, and no expo. Then only a single pair of lings created with no zergling speed being researched. (Although some zergs will start ling speed, then cancel to build the roaches so you can't use that as a guarantee.)


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STEUBENVILLE - Steubenville High School's Greg Moray was a nearly unstoppable force on the wrestling mat during a high school career that saw him win 132 matches.
During his college mat career he'll be a Bobcat.
Moray signed to continue his academic and athletic careers at Ohio University as a part of head coach Joel Greenlee's wrestling program.
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BECOMING A BOBCAT — Steubenville High School's Greg Moray, flanked by his parents Greg and Missy Moray, signed to continue his academic and athletic careers at Ohio University. Also on hand were Steubenville High School principal Shawn Crosier, assistant wrestling coach Cornell Birden, and head wrestling coach Mike Blackburn. - Contributed
"I have focused on wrestling all through high school," said Moray. "I have always dreamed about wrestling at the college level and now I am privileged to go to Ohio University and prove myself.
"Getting this great opportunity to continue with wrestling and get a great education will be a dream come true."
Big Red's head wrestling coach, Mike Blackburn, believes Moray made a good choice with Ohio University and expects him to thrive.
"I think OU will be a great fit for Greg," Blackburn said. "OU has great academics, great athletic facilities, and has done a great job recruiting in the last couple years.
"OU has a returning all-American at heavy weight (Jeremy Johnson from Brecksville High School) that will be a senior. He will be a great partner to learn from and help get acclimated to college wrestling."
Moray was recruited by a number of universities such as Notre Dame of Ohio, Arizona State, Edinboro, and Wheeling Jesuit to name a few, but, in the end, Ohio just stood out to the two-time Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Champion.
"The diversity at OU and the location has been a great incentive," Moray said. "The focus on education combined with my future as a wrestler has been a great motivator."
Added Blackburn of the recruitment process, "He had interest from many great programs but I think Greg felt like OU was a great fit for him."
For Moray the opportunity to wrestle on the collegiate level is the culmination of years of sacrifice, and he's quick to point out he wouldn't be here if not for the support of many people.
"I have wrestled since I was five years old," said Moray. "Since that time my mother and father have always encouraged me and supported me. All my family has always been there for me at all of my tournaments. Even my grandparents have been there.
"My coaches in high school have been great in their support and encouragement. Coaches Blackburn, (Cornell) Birden, (Chuck) Spencer and Tubbo (Yetts) have been my High School models.
"I look forward to my future under the guidance of Coach Greenlee at Ohio University."
Moray, a two-time state placer, including 2013 runner up at 220 pounds, has been a game-changer for Blackburn's team during his time in crimson and black.
"Greg is the kind of wrestler, when the team needs a win, he's going to get it," said Blackburn. "He has been dominate for us."
Moray was quick to turn the praise upon the program that helped him get where he is today.
"Big Red has given me the best platform to succeed both in my academic carrier and my wrestling career," said Moray. "I feel that the coaching staff has prepared me to achieve even greater goal in college.
"I will miss my coaches at Big Red yet feel they will continue to follow my career."
Moray isn't only a success on the wrestling mat, his work ethic carries over into his schoolwork as well.
"Greg is honor student," said Blackburn. "He is a hard worker in the wrestling room, weight room and in the classroom."
Again Moray isn't shy about crediting others for the person he has become.
"As a young man I feel who I am today is a result of my parents and my close family," he said. "Also I have been blessed with great friends who have been a great support group.
"I will miss my years in Steubenville, but look forward to success in the next adventure of my life."


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I am working on a clean install of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. I am trying to use vivu.tv's webinar features, but I am consistently getting a connection error. This occurs on both Lucid and Maverick, using both Chrome and Firefox. We were able to test with the support team for vivu.tv, and we confirmed that it worked fine with http tunneling, but broke when they switched to rtmp. (Them using http tunneling is not an option, so I got to get my system to work with rtmp.)
You should be able to replicate this problem by going to this link:
A box will begin a Startup Check, will stall on Connecting to Media Servers, and then will display an error stating that it was unable to connect to the media server.
This is a time sensitive issue for me, as I require access to several archived webinars for an important course I am developing.
Any help?


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I really don't have much experience with Terminal and I believe I may have caused a problem when trying to download and use wine on my Mac. If I try to type in anything I simply get "Command not found". After reading many forum posts I believe this has something to do with my PATH, but again, I don't really know exactly what that means.
Looking at the link and also your path it looks like you have installed Macports. Its installer will change in ~/.profile the path but not in the way you show. See macports document for the correct way to do this.
Editing /etc/profile is not the correct way as it affects all users and is also more complex to deal with as requires root permission and is also an Apple supplied file that could be changed in Apple system upgrades
This explains two of your /opt/local/bin ... etc in your path (/etc/profile and ~/.profile) More and the
I would restore /etc/profile from a backup to be as Apple set it up, and check that .profile has the lines as per the macports document. Also check to see if you have ~/.bash_profile or ~/.login and check they do not have any alterations to the PATH
If you are not used to Terminal (e.g. if you do not understand what these .profile files are) then it mght be better to install wine via a GUI method e.g. Wineskin or Crossover (Even if you do understand Terminal and shells t is easier to use these)


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An act of kindness touched Hendersonville's Dennis Berman in a way that made his diet Dr. Pepper especially good the other day. It happened on a Saturday, around noon, when he was in the drive-thru at McDonald's on Spartanburg Highway. "I was shaken to my bones by an event from a very kind stranger," he says. "I placed my order and drove up to the window to pay. The young lady taking the money has always been very nice and business-like with me, and this time she said to me, 'Your order has been paid for!' I said, 'By whom?' She replied it was the person in the car in front of me. I couldn't believe my ears. I didn't even have a chance to thank her — I think it was a her. All I could do is toot my horn before she was gone. Nobody has ever done that for me before. I was really touched. I don't know whether it was out of the kindness of her heart or a beautiful gesture of Christmas spirit. Now, I want to tell you something that will warm the giver's heart even more. Those drinks and french fries she paid for all went to residents at Sunnybrook Assisted Living. The mocha frappe went to my sister-in-law, Janet, who can neither speak nor move. She loves mocha frappes. The iced coffee went to Robert, a very nice man who sort of helps take care of my relative, and the fries went to dear Margaret, a sweet lady down here from Franklin. All sit at the same table. I got the large diet Dr. Pepper. It was especially good this time, not because it was free but because of a stranger's thoughtfulness. The only way that I can identify this person is from a strange window sticker she had on her car. It probably was from Harry Potter. It read, 'Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberry leaves.' Thank you."
'THE WORST': Assessing United States presidents from Herbert Hoover forward, Don Stalker of Flat Rock says "the worst" of the bunch is living in the White House. "I was born when Hoover was president, and we currently have the worst president we have had in the history of our country," says Mr. Stalker. One more thing: "That guy in Syria is going down shortly."
'TALK ABOUT WOMEN': Jim Foster of Mills River shares a chuckle about the conversation between two stockbrokers at lunch. One looked at the other and said, "Let's relax while we eat and talk about something other than the market or any kind of business at all." "Good idea," said the other stockbroker. "Let's talk about women." "OK," said the first, "common or preferred?"
OOPS!: A couple expecting their first child agreed to participate in a new experiment that would transfer a portion of the mother's labor pains to the father. The doctor set the dial on the machine to transfer 10 percent of the pain, but it was nothing to the father. The doctor increased it to 20 percent, and the father still felt fine. After bumping it up to 50 percent, the father amazingly felt quite well. Since it was obviously helping his wife through delivery, the husband insisted on having all of her pain transferred to him. She delivered a healthy baby and never had a pain. The couple were ecstatic, until they got home and found the mailman passed out on their porch.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Here's Friends of The Mountains Branch Library Books and Bites luncheon schedule for the new year: Jan. 24, Mark deCastrique, author of the thriller "The Thirteenth Target." Feb. 21, Wayne Caldwell, Civil War novelist, "Cataloochee & Requiem by Fire." March 14, Tommy Hayes, "The Pleasure Was Mine," about a family facing Alzheimer's. April 25, Pamela Duncan, "The Big Beautiful", about real life and friendships. All luncheons with the authors are on Thursdays from 11:30 a.m to 2 p.m. in the Lake Lure Inn and benefit the Mountains Branch Library. For reservations, call 625-0456 or send a $25 check to The Friends of The Mountain Branch Library, Bills Creek Road, Lake Lure, 28746.
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Let $\theta \in \mathbb{R}\backslash\mathbb{Q}$. The irrational rotation C*-algebra $\mathcal{A}_{\theta}$ is the universal C*-algebra generated by unitary elements $u$ and $v$ with $vu=e^{2\pi i \theta}uv$.
What is the spectrum of u+v?
(Note: in the case where the unitary elements u and v are the standard generators of a free group factor, the spectrum of u+v is computable by work of Haagerup and Larsen.)


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Benford's law has been applied in various ways for detecting fraud (e.g. elections or accounting). But what are the most useful applications of Benford in quantitative finance? Are there any? I have seen papers trying to apply Benford in this context but it often feels a bit "forced".
By accident i stumbled upon a new work submitted yesterday (http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5896).
It seems most papers are talking about a specific dataset following Benfords law. But that seems not to be what you are looking for.
You should look into this bibliography here ( about Benford's law in general): http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607168
There are also some (quantitative) finance related works in there (although rare). Most publications are pure mathematics though...
Here are some references out of the bibliography related to the subject
On the hypothesis of psychological barriers in stock markets and Benford's Law http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927539897000248
Doucouliagos, C. (2004). Number preference in Australian stocks. Applied Financial Economics 14(1), 43-54.
Herrmann, D. and W.B. Thomas (2005). Rounding of analyst forecasts. The Accounting Review
Those were the first i found. Ley, E. (1996). On the peculiar distribution of the U.S. Stock Indices Digits. The American Statistician 50(4), 311-313. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2684926?uid=3738032&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21101183172427
Several more interesting sources can be found in there - but they are more method-related (i found time series, machine learning and various other mathematical subjects).
Most of the publications seem to deal with fraud in reporting/accounting and experimental data though.


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Political Cartoons: The Lowest Form of Communication
#2. Why Do You Need A Picture?
Ever since Plato, people have been putting their boring ideas into dialogue form to try to interest people in reading them. While Plato spiced up works like his Symposium with a lot of sexual innuendo and explicit man-on-man flirting (I'm not exaggerating, look it up), modern political comics often just have two people sitting there with big speech bubbles that the artist can put his opinion in.
This one has an entire essay listing everything that is wrong with the Democrats, in the speech bubbles of one man who I believe is cooking or something. I myself often memorize pre-written blog posts and recite them in their entirety to people I'm doing chores with, but I didn't realize how common it was.
If you think the entire comic can't be a straight-out essay and he must be using the conversation to make some kind of point, feel free to take a look at the original.
Meanwhile, here's a man who is so proud of the song parody he has written about the BP oil spill that he posts the entire song in unreadable size, including repeated choruses.
He didn't even bother to draw a picture because you don't need a picture when you've got dazzling wordplay that would make Weird Al shit his pants.
This is the same cartoonist with a shorter deadline:
For this next one, I've taken the liberty of replacing the original punch line (don't worry, you're not missing anything) with one that I think makes more sense in the context of a comic where two characters are supposedly talking to each other.
After his loyal straw man donkey does him the courtesy of setting him up, the elephant abolishes him from his mind and drifts off into reciting what appears to be the artist's compiled notes about Obama's unsavory associations. His friend becomes a distant and unfocused memory as he focuses on the daunting task of jamming as many talking points as he can into a speech balloon that had only been designed to contain realistic conversation.
#1. A Child's Wisdom
To top that, sometimes these straight political speeches are put into the mouths of cute animals or small children, to try to give the vibe of wisdom coming from the mouths of babes. One particularly terrible offender is Diversity Lane, a comic where a hateful female child with the face of an ageless malevolent being is able to see through the foolishness of her liberal hippie parents (guardians) with the clarity of a child's innocence. Or possibly using the power of the elder god incarnated in her.
In the first two comics, the children use simple, innocent questions to handily demolish common claims by climate scientists: that global warming models predict no snowstorms ever again, and that specific models of cars cause local weather patterns. In the last strip, the she-beast scores a point against Obama using a complexly worded tenuous analogy, in that charming way young children often do.
This strip appears to be implying that three major religious groups are retarded and naturally inclined to violence. Which religions I'm not entirely sure because I'm not clear what major religion wants to blow up the entire planet. Probably Presbyterians. Never trusted them.
You can see why they used the technique here: If an adult said this, they would just be an asshole maliciously stereotyping people with broad generalizations. But a kid and her horse, they're just calling things like they see them.
In the real world, kids that say actual childishly misunderstood things get indulgent chuckles. Kids that try to make smug pseudo-deep statements, whether about politics or anything else, are usually going be less endearing to adults:
Yes, I acknowledge that there are political cartoons out there that don't hit any of these pitfalls and get their message across clearly and intelligently. I don't want to say you'll have better odds of being struck by lightning, but I will anyway.
Check out more from Christina, in The 5 Biggest Mistakes Women (Like Me!) Make On The Internet and The 5 Miserable VFX Jobs That Make Movies Possible.


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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Overview
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The term inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) covers a group of disorders in which the intestines become inflamed (red and swollen), probably as a result of an immune reaction of the body against its own intestinal tissue.
Two major types of IBD are described: ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD). As the name suggests, ulcerative colitis is limited to the colon (large intestine). Although Crohn's disease can involve any part of the gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to the anus, it most commonly affects the small intestine and/or the colon.
Both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease usually run a waxing and waning course in the intensity and severity of illness. When there is severe inflammation, the disease is considered to be in an active stage, and the person experiences a flare-up of the condition. When the degree of inflammation is less (or absent), the person usually is without symptoms, and the disease is considered to be in remission.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Causes
Researchers do not yet know what causes inflammatory bowel disease. Therefore, IBD is called an idiopathic disease (disease with an unknown cause).
An unknown factor/agent (or a combination of factors) triggers the body's immune system to produce an inflammatory reaction in the intestinal tract that continues without control. As a result of the inflammatory reaction, the intestinal wall is damaged leading to bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain.
Genetic, infectious, immunologic, and psychological factors have all been implicated in influencing the development of IBD.
There is a genetic predisposition (or perhaps susceptibility) to the development of IBD. However, the triggering factor for activation of the body's immune system has yet to be identified. Factors that can turn on the body's immune system include an infectious agent (as yet unidentified), an immune response to an antigen (for example, protein from cow milk), or an autoimmune process. As the intestines are always exposed to things that can cause immune reactions, more recent thinking is that there is a failure of the body to turn off normal immune responses.
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AVELLA - The Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village will examine the everyday lives of 16th and 18th century American Indians during the fifth-annual American Indian Heritage Weekend from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the museum located at 401 Meadowcroft Road.
The weekend features a variety of re-enactors who demonstrate traditional skills. Special presentations in the new 1770s frontier American Indian cabin will spotlight the similarities and differences between the lives of American Indians and European settlers in the Upper Ohio Valley and how they influenced each other.
Re-enactors also will explain the prehistoric and colonial era skills used by the American Indians, including hunting, fur-trading, cooking, weaving, decorative porcupine quill work, hide-tanning, tool-making and a creek-side demonstration of native fishing techniques.
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Meadowcroft's American Indian Heritage Weekend Saturday and Sunday will feature a variety of re-enactors who will demonstrate traditional American Indian skills and bring Meadowcroft's 16th century American Indian village to life. - Contributed
Visitors can explore the interior of a wigwam, inspect carefully prehistoric tools, learn about American Indian agriculture and use an atlatl, a prehistoric spear thrower.
The visitor's center also will host a special exhibit with works by local artist Andrew Knez Jr., who is known for his frontier paintings that illustrate the lives of American Indians and backwoodsmen from the Ohio Valley.
Included in admission are tours of the Meadowcroft Rockshelter, a National Historic Landmark and the oldest site of human habitation in North America, featuring a 16,000-year-old rock overhang used by the region's earliest inhabitants for shelter. Visitors also can step back in time at Meadowcroft's Historic Village, a recreated Upper Ohio Valley Village from the mid-19th century.
The American Indian Heritage Weekend event is included with regular admission, which is $12 for adults, $11 for senior citizens and $6 for children ages 6-17.
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Cookie Hill
Persha "Cookie" Faye Hill, a lifetime resident of Northeast Washington, passed away on June 11, 2011 in Colville. Cookie was born on Jan. 21, 1953 in Colville, the daughter of Robert and Geneva (Montgomery) Coleman.Cookie was raised and attended school in Northport and was a graduate of Northport High School. On Jan. 2, 1981, she married Joe Hill. Together they moved to coast of Washington where they raised two sons, Joe and Sam. Cookie loved her role as a mother and took great pride in her boys. She also opened her home to several kids who were down on their luck and always offered a helping hand to others in need. Cookie had recently moved to Colville to be near her ailing mother. Cookie was managing the North Hill Apartments and had developed a wonderful relationship with her tenants. Cookie will be remembered for her wonderful character and infectious laugh. She had a golden heart which she shared with all people, especially children. Cookie loved to watch the joy in a child's eyes and inspired many smiles with her candy jar that was available to the neighborhood children. She touched the lives of many people and she will be dearly missed. Those close to her left her with these words, "Goodbye sweet angel, we will see you in time. God be with you until we meet again." Cookie is survived by her husband, Joe Hill, Seattle; her sons, Joe and Sam Hill, Seattle; her mother, Geneva Kenerson Coleman; brother, Allen Coleman; sister, Linda Hunt; several nieces and nephews.A funeral service for Mrs. Persha "Cookie" Faye Hill, will begin at 1 p.m., Friday, June 17 at the Danekas Funeral Chapel in Colville. A graveside service and vault interment will follow at the Forest Home Cemetery in Northport. Elder Terry Hunt will officiate the services. Memorial contributions may be given to the Stevens County Homeless Shelter, c/o Rita Garrison @ Rural Resources Community Action Agency (509) 685-6056. Please visit the on-line memorial and sign the guestbook at HYPERLINK "http://www.danekasfuneralchapel.com" www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory has been entrusted with the arrangements.


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(I apologize that this is a vague question).
I seems to me somehow that homotopy groups behave well with respect to (Serre)-fibrations. For example you get a long exact sequence of homotopy groups from it. On the other hand cofibrations and homotopy groups seems to be no good friends at all (e.g. $S^1\to D^2\to S^2$).
But then again, the situation in homology seems to be the other way round. They behave well with respect to cofibrations (you get a long exact sequence) and fibrations are harder to investigate (Serre spectral sequence etc.).
My question is: What is the intuition behind this difference? (in particular with respect to the fact that homology is just homotopy of another space.)


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Buffalo Bills' Everett May Walk Again
Sept. 12, 2007 -- Hospitalized Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett has moved his arms and legs, raising hopes that he may one day walk again.
Everett sustained a severe spinal cord injury in Sunday night's game against the Denver Broncos. Minutes later, Everett got what's called modest or moderate hypothermia treatment from Andrew Cappuccino, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon for the Buffalo Bills.
Everett, 25, is being treated in Buffalo at the Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital, where he had surgery for his injuries. Everett is awake and asking questions, and he is no longer on a ventilation (breathing) machine. Everett is being fed through a feeding tube and is taking medication to try to prevent clots from forming in this legs, doctors said at a news conference today.
When Everett arrived at the hospital on Sunday, he couldn't move his arms or legs. Since then, he has been able to move his legs and ankles, bend his hip, wiggle his toes, and move some arm muscles.
WebMD spoke with professor Barth Green, MD, FACS, about Everett's hypothermia treatment. Green chairs the neurosurgery department at the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. He's also the president and co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, which is part of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.
Everett's prognosis is "very good," Green tells WebMD. Having talked with Everett's doctors, Green predicts that Everett will walk again.
"He's got good movement in his arms and legs, and his legs are moving better than his arms," says Green. "That's wonderful."
Kevin Everett's Treatment
Green explained the hypothermia treatment Everett received on Sunday.
"He received ice-cold saline, which is a salt solution, into the veins of his arm. That lowered his whole body temperature," Green says.
"This is just a minimal drop in temperature from 98.6 to to 92 degrees Fahrenheit, for example," Green says. "What this does is just like putting an ice pack on a bruised arm. It prevents the hemorrhage and swelling that would occur if you didn't put an ice pack on. It's as simple as that. So it prevents the spinal cord from self-destructing" after the initial injury, says Green.


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Or equivalently, if $G$ is a group, do the projective and injective dimension of $Z$ (viewed as a $ZG$-module) agree?
Or equivalently, if $G$ is a group, do the projective and injective dimension of $Z$ (viewed as a $ZG$-module) agree?
The cohomological and homological dimension of a group do not agree in general. For example, the homological dimension of the group $Z[\frac{1}{2}]$ is one, while its cohomological dimension is 2. However, if |G| is countable, then cohomological dimension is either equal to the homological dimension or one dimension greater.
Also , cohomological dimension of a group is defined by the highest dimension n such that $H^n(G,M)$ is nonzero, where M is a G-module. It is important to use a G-module instead of the usual cofficient. For example, the cohomological dimension for any nontrivial knot group is 2, while its cohomology with $Z$ cofficient, or any G-module with trivial group action is always the same as the cohomology of $S^1$.
So, Simon Wadsley's comment clearly answers this question but a hypothetical future user will not have his/her eye drawn to that answer. That's why I'm posting this, which is all Simon's idea, in the hope that the OP will come back on at some point and accept this answer (thus preventing this problem from being bumped up to the front-page by the Mathoverflowbot). If the OP is reading this, please click the check mark next to this box so it'll count as being answered. I'm giving a CW answer so I don't get rep (in line with the recommended procedure on meta)
The homological and cohomological dimensions of a group do NOT have to agree. As you point out, if they did agree then the projective and injective dimensions of $\mathbb{Z}$ as a $\mathbb{Z}[G]$ module would agree (this is basically just the definition of Ext). An example that this could fail, take $G$ to be the trivial group. Then the projective dimension of $\mathbb{Z}$ as a $\mathbb{Z}$-module is zero because any ring is projective over itself. But the injective dimension is not zero because $\mathbb{Z}$ is not a divisible abelian group. Indeed, the injective dimension is 1, as can be seen from the fact that $\mathbb{Z}$ is a PID and hence has global dimension 1. Or you can just write down an injective resolution. Or you can read Dummit-Foote for their treatment.
I like to think of group (co)homology topologically, so I would say the integral (co)homological dimension of G is the integral (co)homological dimension of BG. Thinking this way there are lots of geometric examples in which the integral homological dimension is less than the integral cohomological dimension: for example, non-orientable surfaces are classifying spaces for their fundamental groups. Their integral homological dimension is 1, and their integral cohomological dimension is 2.
Of course for other coefficient systems, this will no longer be the case (as Tom points out in his comment below). Note, for example, that the rational cohomological dimension of a non-orientable surface is 1.
[Okay, I'm going to admit some confusion in regards to the comments on the original question. Am I thinking of the flat or the injective dimension here, when I take homology of BG? From the comments, it sounds like this must correspond to the flat dimension? I don't have Brown's book in front of me to un-confuse myself...]