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This image of Cape Town's Wheel of Excellence at the V&A Waterfront was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Janet Prentice, aka Janet.
Janet says: "My family and I were walking around Cape Town, and as we got to the V&A Waterfront I noticed this great scene, and decided to capture it on film."
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5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong
A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in the field do have their exciting, and even shocking, days at the office. Mainly, these occur when they discover baffling artifacts that are half a planet away from where they should be, proving that a whole lot of what we thought about history was dead wrong. Like ...
#5. Cocaine Discovered in Egyptian Mummies
When Columbus and his buddies made it to the New World, aka not India, they found more than just future smallpox sufferers waiting for them. There was a whole cornucopia of never-before-seen plants and animals growing in the Americas, not to mention new and interesting ways to use beads. So while the natives came away from their first European encounter with raging infectious diseases and honeybees, Europeans were introduced to the glories of tobacco, narcotics made from the coca leaf and a whole mess of open-air nudity. If you've ever needed evidence that history is unfair, there it is.
"This is great, we'll take it. These guys don't have squatters' rights, do they?"
At least that's the story we know. And if that's true, then how did some Egyptian mummies wind up with traces of cocaine in their bodies?
The Finds:
In 1992, German scientists were testing their mummies when they found remnants of hashish, tobacco and cocaine in their hair, skin and bones. Now, hashish comes from Asia, so it's not unfathomable that a royal Egyptian would know a guy who could get him the hook-up. But tobacco and cocaine were strictly New World plants at the time of the mummification. It'd be like if some celebrity today tested positive for heroin that could only have been grown on Venus.
"I've been nodding for the last two millenniums. This shit is incredible."
So how did it happen? All we have are theories. Maybe the sites were contaminated by hard-partying archaeologists (although you'd think that if somebody had old pics of themselves snorting coke off of a mummy's ass, they'd have uploaded that shit to Facebook by now). Or maybe the mummies themselves were fake, like maybe they were disco-era archaeologists who just took their love of mummification too far.
"Four excavators came down with the disco fever before a priest released the curse."
So the German scientists did what anyone trying to protect their reputation would do -- they had an independent lab test the mummies themselves. They found the same dope. The Germans then went to work testing hundreds of ancient mummies, finding nicotine in a third of them. Not only that, but actual tobacco leaves were discovered in the guts of Ramses II (of Exodus fame, maybe). And among those leaves, an actual dead tobacco beetle was found, which means that some ancient Egyptian just smoked the hell out of his cigarettes.
Only a lazy beatnik would have that beard.
#4. Ancient Hebrew Inscribed on a Rock in New Mexico
Picture this: You're an archaeologist minding your own business in New Mexico when a guy comes up and tells you he's got something to show you. Once you check to make sure he's wearing pants and double check to make sure you've got a gun, you follow him to this town outside Albuquerque called Los Lunas. And there he shows you a 90-ton rock inscribed with ancient writing. No big deal, right? Everyone knows Native Americans have lived in the area since at least the 1850s, it's only natural they'd scratch some graffiti up every now and then. People get bored.
Things to do in Old New Mexico: Die, watch other people die, make pottery.
This is exactly what happened to archaeology professor Frank Hibben in 1933. Only he had the sense to recognize that the scribbling wasn't Native American writing -- it was Hebrew. Ancient Hebrew. And the message wasn't "Custer sux balls," it was the Ten Commandments.
The Find:
Believe it or not, while people in the 1930s were gullible enough to think Martians were invading Earth in the most melodramatic way possible, they were cynical enough to call bullshit at the claim that anyone in ancient America knew Hebrew. Yet when experts took a look, they were confounded. For one thing, the script included some Greek letters, which indicated that the script was etched by someone comfortable with mixing Greek and Hebrew (if no one comes to mind, ancient Samaritans fit that bill perfectly).
They're the ones who didn't cross the road to get to the other side because their religion bans jokes.
So that was weird. And the rock was the same basalt of the mountain right behind it, so it was definitely local. But that doesn't mean that the ancient script on the rock was ancient, right? Any old American with a theology degree and a chisel could have done it (again, there was literally nothing else to do for entertainment back then). It also doesn't help that the guy who discovered the rock in the first place was later implicated in artifact fraud (though the allegations were never proven). The whole thing was just too weird to be anything but a hoax.
"Oh sure, but if we wrote 'Elvis lives' in Latin, everyone would believe it."
Yet when a modern geologist examined the inscriptions and compared them with carvings nearby, he concluded that the scratchings could be between 500 and 2,000 years old. And that's as much as we'll presumably ever know -- by this point, too many people have handled the artifact for dating tests to get any kind of accurate results.
If legit, it would explain why the local tribes have such kickass bagels.
#3. Ancient Roman Statues in Mexico
Anyone with a third grade understanding of world geography (or access to Google Maps) knows that Rome and Latin America aren't neighbors (fiery tempers and flat bread recipes don't count as proximity in the map world). Even when Rome was at its apex and was conquering Africa, England and everyone's hearts, places like Mexico were nowhere on their radar. Not just because radar didn't exist, but because as far as the Old World was concerned, the Western Hemisphere didn't exist. Once you got past Portugal, it was nothing but Neptune, water dragons and the edge of the planet.
Standing somewhere high and noticing the curve of the Earth was just too much for the Romans.
Which was why scholars were baffled when an ancient statue of a Roman head popped up in an old temple in Mexico.
The Finds:
In 1933, an archaeologist was digging around a burial ground about 40 miles away from Mexico City when he discovered this tiny little figure among the other offerings. And we should mention that this wasn't just a typical out-in-the-open burial dumping ground. The spot he was digging was previously under not one, but two undisturbed cement floors that were untouched since the 1500s. So it's not like a jokester could have purchased it at the nearest Roman-centered novelty store and dumped it in a cemetery to be hilarious.
"I left an ancient Egyptian dildo in there for him to find, but wait until he realizes it's from the wrong dynasty!"
And yes, we're aware that Columbus touched ground a few years before that, but white guys didn't make it to Mexico until 1519, and even then, it's unlikely they would have been carrying around Roman artifacts. And yes, they know it was Roman -- the beehive bouffant (or hat) and facial features match Roman artifacts of the second century.
Romans clearly went through a difficult puberty before becoming masters of the world.
So how did it get there? No one knows. But another discovery might shed some light on the mystery.
In 1982, an underwater archaeologist discovered a buttload of third century Roman vases in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. A little more digging around led to the discovery of two rotting Roman-style ships, which were then promptly buried with sand by the Brazilian government. Apparently Brazil hates adventure, and also the idea of anyone messing with their version of history, which was that their land was discovered by the Portuguese, not the Romans. Seems like it'd be cooler to have been discovered by the Romans, but whatever.
"We don't want a bunch of unruly Italians covering everything in marinara sauce and pictures of the Pope."

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As of right now, I'm around 1350 ELO and I am winning a lot more than I had before as jungling seems to fit my playstyle and I enjoy it more than most roles in the game.
Yet, I feel like I could always be doing more than just warding for my team, counter-jungling when necessary, and ganking for my lanes to help keep them ahead.
Anyone got any extra tips or anything I could pick up to help sharpen my skills and rise that ladder that everyone desperately wants to do?


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As I bundled up this morning for my daily walk in my typical four winter layers of head to toe fleece & gortex, I realized that today is the March Equinox-7:02 am EDT to be exact. For those of us living in the northern hemisphere, believe it or not, spring has sprung. I've had a longtime interest in astrology and today marks the start of the zodiac calendar and is the most important astronomical event of the year (don't take my word for it, just ask the builders of Stonehenge).
On a personal level I like to celebrate this 24 hours of equal day and night by reconnecting with my personal life goals. I stay away from making the usual January New Year's resolutions (too trendy) so March is the start of my New Year. An ongoing challenge for me is to find balance in my life. I tend to throw myself into activites that I love--fitness, travel, learning, often to the exclusion of other important but mundane areas of life--paying bills, grocery shopping, cleaning the cat box. One of the many things to love about yoga is that it can help with the process of negotiating the struggle of finding balance without judging ourselves too harshly. I tend to get irritable when I feel overwhelmed by my to do list, and I don't like myself when I'm irritable. Rather than only staring daggers at the woman standing behind me in line at the bank yapping on her cell phone, I'm more likely to open my mouth and say something sassily regrettable (which unfortunately also makes me just as rude as her). My wonderfully fulfilling job as an educator and researcher can feel exhausting when I've fallen behind on grading or conference deadlines. The "fun life" strategy of saying YES to everything can lead to too much fun, and you know what they say about too much of a good thing...
The three sides of my exercise triangle are usually completed by Spinning® and Zumba (cardiovascular), Pilates & weight lifting (strength), and yoga (flexibility). Part of balance for me translates to trying new and different exercise forms because in fitness, a comfort zone is not necessarily a good place to be for achieving new levels of performance.
For Spring 2013 I have set 3 new personal fitness goals:
1. Cardiovascular: The launch of the Spinner® Blade ION this week at the IRSHA convention is a personal sign that I need to return to the concept of training with power. I dabbled in this years ago when I was a competitive cyclist with a cycling coach and was intimidated by the sheer awesome potential of it. Watts don't lie! I'm looking forward to training with power again and can't wait to take several new workshops about it at WSSC 2013. My goal is to be well versed and comfortable enough with it to apply it to both my own outdoor and indoor training over the next 6 months. I can't wait for local Spinning® facilities to start to offer power based training programs to the masses. Check it out here: http://spinning.com/nl/spinpower#.UUshBCLv4bE.facebook
2. Strength: For more than 10 years I trained with western New York's top personal trainer (Bob Alessi) and had amazing results. Some years ago, in the midst of a health crisis, I had to discontinue my weekly sessions with him. While Pilates is amazing and I love teaching/practicing it, for me it's time for a return to the basics of strength training & muscle conditioning. Fortunately, I still have Bob's number on speed dial. I enjoy TRX and toyed with getting a home suspension kit, but I'm a classic gym rat when it comes to doing better when working out with others. I also think a personal trainer is one of the best investments you can make in yourself. Goals are one thing, but results are another and good PTs tend to be results-oriented and hold their clients accountable for the quality of time spent training.
3. Flexibility: As we often say with Spinning®, yoga is not a workout, it's a philosophy. While I'm excited about continuing & deepening my practice I'd like to explore other ways of incorporating flexibility into my day to day life. A friend of mine recently introduced me to the barre3 workout & we have immediate plans to try an Ultra Barre class at a local dance studio. One doesn't need to be built like a ballet dancer to move with the grace, flow and fluidity of one--and think of how well those principles translate to the Spinner®!
So, there's my 6 month plan. Anyone else care to join me with an equinoxolution? We can take stock of how we're progressing on September 22nd, and celebrate the tangibly productive use made of more and more sunlight welcoming us every day.


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I am very excited to share the news the Pentaho is cited as the only 'Strong Performer' in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Hadoop Solutions, Q1 2012 (February 2012).
The best way to summarize Pentaho's position in the market is straight from the report by James G. Kobielus, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research:
"Pentaho is a strong performer with an impressive Hadoop data integration tool. Among data integration vendors that have added Hadoop functionality to their products over the past year, it has the richest functionality and the most extensive integration with open source Apache Hadoop."
We believe that the inclusion of the Pentaho Kettle data integration product in the first Forrester Wave: Enterprise Hadoop Solutions report is a strong testimonial to Pentaho's first mover status in this space. The scores awarded to Pentaho are a testimonial to the fact that Pentaho is helping companies operationalize Big Data by addressing critical pain points associated with Hadoop Data Integration and easy analysis of Big Data.
I encourage you to access the full report and see why Pentaho was named a strong performer and how we stack up against other vendors.
About the report
The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Hadoop Solutions, Q1 2012 included 13 enterprise Hadoop solution providers in its assessment for its Enterprise Hadoop Solutions report. The firm examined past research and user needs assessment and conducted vendor and expert interviews in order to formulate a comprehensive set of 15 evaluation criteria, which Forrester grouped into the three high level buckets of current offering, strategy and market presence.


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WEIRTON - The way John Fazi sees it, if you don't love what you're doing there's no point doing it - which may say a lot about why, in just a few weeks, he'll be passing the 50-year mark as a hair stylist.
"Fifty years, that's a long time," said Fazi, a Follansbee resident and co-owner of the johnmichael salon on Three Springs Drive. "You know what? When I decided to move the salon up here, my wife said to me, 'You're like that Beatles song, "When I'm '64'" You're 64 and you're doing this new adventure ' I never thought about it until she brought it up."
Fazi actually started in the business in 1962, after graduating from Wheeling Barber College. He worked for "someone else" for eight years before they had a parting of ways.
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GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY — John Fazi styles the hair of one of his longtime customers. Come September, Fazi, co-owner of the johnmichael salon in Weirton, will have been in the hair business for 50 years. - Linda Harris
"We had a difference of philosophy and I quit," he says with a laugh. "I named my first salon, 'Mi Place,' what's that tell you? That was in 1970."
Back then Fazi said he was one of only two male stylists in the Tri-State Area - not that that stopped him from making his mark in his chosen profession.
He'd trained in Roffler, a technique for styling mens' hair, in 1968. "I took a two-day class that cost me $350," he said, pointing out that was a pretty hefty price tag at a time when haircuts "were only $1.75."
In 1974 he entered an international hair competition in New York City - and won.
"I competed against 80 hairdressers from around the world," he said. "I entered it, I put my name in the contest - I knew I was good."
After that, he became a platform artist for men's and women's hairstyles and did shows. "That's when you know you hit the big time -your peers come see you and learn from you," he said. "It's like you've hit the pinnacle of your career."
In 1992, he took on a business partner and changed the name of the shop from "Mi Place" to "Hair by Fazi." Six years ago they decided to move from the original downtown Weirton location to the Three Springs Drive storefront, renaming the salon "johnmichael."
"My wife told me, 'You should be thinking about retiring, but you're not, you're not retiring. You're thinking about going back in debt and starting over again," he said.
But Fazi insists it's been a good fit for him, allowing him to make a good living, put three children through college and make a lot of friends in the five decades he's been in the hair business.
"I have clients who've been with me 40 years, some since I started 50 years ago," he said, though he concedes the profession isn't or everyone.
"It's a job (to have) between being single and getting married or finding another job. But the ones who make it, the ones who do well in it, they love it and they love coming to work."


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Weir High School Class of '59
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WEIRTON?- The Weir High School Class of 1959 will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Three Springs Drive Eat'n Park.
For information, contact Edith Barber at (304) 723-0761.
Football boosters holding fundraising
WEIRTON - The Weir Football Boosters will hold a night at the races fundraiser from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., with doors opening at 6 p.m., March 22 at the Weirton Veterans of Foreign War hall located at 3435 Main St.
The event will include a 50/50 drawing, auction and Weir football items.
The cost to sponsor a horse is $30, and that includes a ticket, food and beverages. The cost to sponsor a race is $50, including one ticket, food and beverages. All sponsors will be announced before the first race, between races and at the end of the event and listed on the boosters' social media. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Proceeds benefit the high school's weight room.
To purchase a ticket, make an auction donation or become a sponsor, call (304) 670-6289.
Library to show film
WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Public Library will show the rated PG animated film, "Rise of the Guardians" at 11 a.m. March 23.
When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
Call (304) 737-1551 to reserve a seat and popcorn for the free screening.
Book discussion group meeting
WEIRTON - The Saturday Afternoon Book Discussion Group will discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning "March" by Geraldine Brooks at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Mary H. Weir Public Library located on Main Street.
"March" follows the father of the Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" during his deployment in the Civil War. The library has additional copies on loan from the West Virginia Library Commission available; inquire at the assistant director's office.
April's book will be "Lifeboat," by Charlotte Rogan. Copies will be available at the March meeting. The book discussion group meets the fourth Saturday of each month. All are welcome to attend.
Second Division looking for members
FOX LAKE, Ill. - The Second (Indianhead) Division Association is searching for anyone who ever served in the Army's Second Infantry Division at any time.
For information about the national association and annual reunion set for Sept. 17-21 in Columbus, Ga., contact Secretary-Treasurer Bob Haynes at firstname.lastname@example.com or (224) 225-1202.


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Is it possible to deduce the law of conservation of angular momentum from the law of conservation of energy? If possible, by what sense the conservation of angular momentum has the status of law, if it can be deduced from other law (and therefore, strictly speaking, would be a theorem)?
No. Angular momentum and energy are two different quantities. In fact, angular momentum can be conserved when energy is not. See, for instance, the famous case of the figure skater pulling their arms in and spinning more quickly.
Let's say our figure skater reduces their moment of inertia to some fraction $n$ of their original moment of inertia. Then:
$$\begin{align} I_{0}\omega_{0} &= I_{f}\omega_{f}\\ I_{0}\omega_{0} &= nI_{0}\omega_{f}\\ \omega_{f} &= \frac{1}{n}\omega_{0} \end{align}$$
However, we have:
$$KE_{i} = \frac{1}{2}I_{0}\omega_{0}^{2}$$
$$\begin{align} KE_{f} &= \frac{1}{2}I_{f}\omega_{f}^{2}\\ &= \frac{1}{2}nI_{0}\left(\frac{1}{n}\omega_{0}\right)^{2}\\ &= \frac{1}{2n}I_{0}\omega_{0}^{2}\\ &= \frac{1}{n}KE_{i} \end{align}$$
So, the final kinetic energy of our figure skater is greater than their initial kinetic energy! Angular momentum is conserved, but energy is not.
(of course, we know that overall energy is conserved, so you may ask where this extra energy came from--the answer is that it requires net work in order to pull your hands in while you're spinning. So no violation of the rules of physics here.)
The conservation of angular momentum and energy in a mechanical system are distinct, independent conservation laws. The deep reason for this is that, because of Noether's theorem, conservation laws are in correspondence with the symmetries of the system. Thus if a system is time-translation invariant - if experiments behave the same no matter what the starting time is - then energy is conserved. Analogously, if a system is rotation invariant - if the outcome of experiments is independent of the system's orientation - then angular momentum is conserved.
Because of that, angular momentum conservation can no more be derived from energy conservation than it is possible to derive rotation invariance from time-translation invariance.
To be clear: This answer explains the fundamental reason why the two conservation laws are independent, and why it would be useless to even try. This argument can be strengthened using this converse to Noether's theorem: conservation of energy and of angular momentum are equivalent to time-translation and rotation invariance. These symmetries are independent, and contribute independent dimensions to the Lie symmetry group of the system's evolution, so they cannot be derived from each other.
As Jerry Schirmer said, it is trivial to construct a counterexample, which is what his answer contains.
Further, this independence argument does also extend to linear momentum. (For a simple counterexample, try a particle in a box - conserved energy but not momentum - or a free particle in a time-dependent but spatially homogeneous electrostatic potential - conserved momentum but not energy.) Of course, neither of these systems obeys boost invariance.
The underlying theme is this. If I have two different conserved quantities, $A$ and $B$, then I can sometimes find a third conserved quantity by taking their Poisson bracket (or their commutator in QM), so long as that is not zero. For example, conservation of $p_x$ and $L_z$ implies conservation of $p_y$. The key to this is that the associated symmetries are also related: translation invariance along $x$ and rotation invariance about the $z$ axis, together, imply translation invariance along the $y$ axis. Similarly, space translation invariance and boost invariance imply time translation invariance.
Some conservation laws are related to conservation of angular momentum.
There is a famous example (from Feynman if I recall correctly), where you assume an infinite flat space and conservation of angular momentum about any point, and then you get conservation of linear momentum for free.
Intuitively, to get say the $x$ component of linear momentum is conserved in a region you consider a coordinate system centered at the region, and consider the angular momentum about a point way off in the $y$ (or $z$, or any direction orthogonal to $x$) such a super great distance away and then effectively conservation of angular momentum about that distance point requires conservation of the $x$ component of linear momentum.
There is also a conservation law for angular momentum:
$0 = (x^{\alpha} T^{\mu \nu} - x^{\mu} T^{\alpha \nu})_{,\nu}$,
from flat space Special Relativity and the symmetries of the stress-energy tensor. In fairness, this might be considered cheating (as a derivation) since most derivations of the symmetry of the stress-energy tensor assume that little bits of matter don't spin arbitrary fast as you look at smaller and smaller bits of them.


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GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) _ Police have arrested four teenagers after a vandalism spree at a Garden City store, including dumping nearly 100 cans of paint on a concrete floor.
Garden City police say they arrested a 17-year-old, a 14-year-old and two 13-year-old boys on Tuesday.
Investigators entered the Menard's store overnight Saturday. The store is still under construction. The suspects apparently rode their bicycles through the store before using forklifts to spill five-gallon and one-gallon containers of industrial paint throughout the store.
The forklifts were damaged and cardboard boxes were set on fire. And some support beams might have to be replaced.
Police had estimated the damage between $30,000 and $300,000, depending on whether the paint can be removed from the floors.
The teenagers are being held at the Southwest Kansas Juvenile Detention Center.


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In Poland, there is a region called Silesia, which is inhabited by people speaking a distinct dialect, which can be quite different from the Polish language at times. One of the Silesians decided to write a book about interpretation of chosen Biblical tales (mainly from the New Testament) inspired by his grandmother's tales. The book is called "Biblia Ślązoka" (which can be translated to "Silesian's Bible," although the English Wiki does not have an article on it). This adaptation is aimed mainly to show similarities between Biblical events and history of Silesia and is written in the distinct dialect. I've heard about criticism for calling this book a "Bible," because it isn't a translation of the Biblical texts from their original language but rather from the Millennium Bible.
In light of all this, who is an authority of what should and what should not be called a "Bible," and what can they do in the matter? As the texts themselves are in public domain, from a legal standpoint anyone can make any derived works from it without any repercussions, or perhaps even title a totally unrelated work as "Bible."


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Cobras Rally to Defeat Anderson in Men's BasketballJanuary 11, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Coker rallied from a second-half double-digit deficit and the Trojans misfired on seven-of-eight free throws inside the final 22 seconds, as the Cobras edged Anderson, 83-81, in South Atlantic Conference men's basketball action Saturday afternoon at the Abney Athletic Center.
Anderson (9-5, 4-4 SAC) has suffered back-to-back home setbacks for the first time since suffering three consecutive losses during the 2007-08 season, while Coker (7-5, 4-4 SAC) has won two of its last three outings.
The Trojans' drained a season-high 11 treys, but their prolific 3-point shooting was offset by their second-most turnovers (17) of the campaign and led to 24 points by Coker. Anderson held a 31-30 edge on the boards and shot 52.8 percent on the afternoon, compared to 46.8 percent by Coker.
Senior guard Chandler Hash poured in a game-high 32 points on the strength of a season-best six 3-pointers and was 10-of-11 from the free throw line. Senior guard CJ Gleaton, who has reached double figures in five of the last six games, added 22 points. Senior Kyle Sledge recorded a game-high eight rebounds.
Coker senior guard Julian Nelson paced the Cobra attack with 25 points, with junior guard Larry Felder tossing in 15 points. Senior guard Teon Beckett and sophomore guard Trey Marshall each added 14 points apiece.
"We had stretches where turnovers really hurt us," said Anderson head coach Jason Taylor. "[Coker] is tough and we did not make plays at the end."
Meeting for the first time since the 2009-10 season, Gleaton and Hash struck early by draining back-to-back 3-pointers as Anderson jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead, while the Trojan defense held Coker scoreless for the opening four minutes of the contest. Nelson netted one-of-two from the line with exactly 16 minutes left in the first half to get the Cobras on the scoreboard.
Leading, 8-3, the Trojans opened a double-digit lead behind a 10-2 spurt and claimed the game's largest lead, at 33-19, on Hash's long-range trey with 6:29 left in the opening frame.
But Coker Countered with a 13-3 outburst of its own over the next 5:31 to trim Anderson's advantage to just four with just more than two minutes on the clock. Hash and Gleaton combined to notch the final four points of the half, with the Trojans holding a 42-34 lead at the break.
Gleaton scored four of AU's first nine points coming out of the break, as the Trojans claimed a 51-38 lead with 17:27 remaining in the game. Anderson maintained the double-digit edge, and led 70-59 on Hash's sixth trey of the afternoon at the 8:45 mark. Twelve seconds later, Coker's Felder triggered an 8-0 surge by the Cobras and trimmed AU's lead to three. Gleaton answered with three straight for the Trojans to rebuild the advantage to 73-67 with less than six minutes left.
But Felder's one-of-two from the line with 3:31 showing gave the Cobras their first lead of the game. The visitor's advantage was brief, however, as the contest featured two ties and four lead changes inside the final three minutes.
With Anderson leading, 77-76, Marshall connected on his lone 3-pointer of the afternoon from the left side with less than 40 ticks on the clock to give the Cobras a lead they would not relinquish. The Trojans, who entered the game leading the league in free throw accuracy, misfired on seven-of-eight from the line inside the final 23 seconds.
Gleaton's free throw with 13 seconds on the clock pulled Anderson within 79-78, but Coker's James Brown answered with two on the other end of the court. The Cobras added another free throw moments later and Gleaton's long trey pulled the Trojans within 82-81, but Felder hit one-of-two from the line with 1.9 remaining to set the final score, as Gleaton's desperation heave at the buzzer fell short.
Anderson will get back on the hardwood with a brief one-game road swing by visiting Mars Hill on Wednesday in the first meeting this season between the two squads. Tipoff versus the Lions is scheduled for 8 p.m.


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happiness in life and death.. a celebration of moving to the other side with love and purity... i wish my funeral would be the same....
Foarte frumos....
Does anyone know what this cemetery is called?
don't forget the position of the people's hands
Great shot but I feel like I'm nosing in on someone's grief.
Felicitari :)
Felicitari! Bravo!
What I want to know is what the camera was doing up there.
Brilliant and thought-provoking photograph! The contrast of dark and light, colorful and somber. The loveliness of flowers softening life as well as this picture.
felicitari Remus !!!
I love how colorful it is.
Never,ever thought I'd see a camera shot like this one. There is beauty in most everything, and tho' hearts are aching at loss on a somber occasion, there is the color of lovely flowers to lift up spirits of those there. Thanks, Ionita Andrei for your insite into what is a tradition that is faithfully kept up in Romania. j.e.s.
there's a beauty in the photo, as well as the sadness they have
bravo, Remus :)
The living, most in solid black, contract with the departed ,mostly covered in white and vibrant flowers. There seems to be a lot of new graves because the grass has not grown back. It really makes me wonder.
Peacful!thx n.geo
Congrats man!
Tiplea Remus — 'The Funeral Party' Photo of the Day. Remus' gallery describes Romanian farm life. 'The Cake' (photo title) may be the first photo in Remus' YourShot gallery, but the photographer depicts just about anything except a funeral. I see a photograph about the living and time. There are vignettes, probably from a film camera lens. Humorously, are the people waiting to exit the tombs into life, or waiting to enter another life? Does this photograph remind you of a timeclock at work? Flowers and decorations create a party scene. Gary Conn
Sad but beautifull!
@Mohamed Azeez it is just a day when we go together there and remember all our dears ...simple...
@Cristian Munteanu multumesc Cristian,tu esti de vina
@Bev Hennager In Romania, we usualy don't keep grass or weeds on the tombs, because it means that the family has forgoten the dead one or don't care about him or they are lazy... We put only flowers and pull out all the weeds and grass
It's very important in my country and orthodox religion to take care of the tombs, mourne and put flowers and candles at your relatives and friends tombs every sunday.
It's a very elaborate proces in Romania to mourne the dead, for 1 year you have to make food and some special kind of dishes only made for the dead and give them to the poor in a very strict period: 1 week, 4 weeks... 6 months and 1 year.
Then you have to make this special food just on the holydays that celebrate the dead.
here is some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alms#Christianity
@Bev Hennager There are not new graves.It's autumn or almost winter so the grass is gone.
@Ionita AndreiThanks for the information, Ionita! It helps to put the photo into perspective and makes it even more beautiful!
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Can't help but think of the parallels between Bob Bradley and Tom Coughlin this morning as the roster is unveiled.
After the 2007 season, the Giants head coach was bashed both by player (Tiki Barber) and the media as being too strict in his coaching and failing to change with the times (most specifically, a hard core displine-focused game and practice methodolgy and an inability to connect with his players).
Much like Coughlin, Bradley has gotten another shot this year after seemingly being passed over (before re-signed) for the national team role.
While I'm not sure Bradley has "changed" all the appreciably much in his first few months under his new contract (just like Coughlin only moved a little bit, I think with today's roster there is an acknowledgement that fresh game planning and player selection is important to having success in his second term.
In the October friendlies, you got a look at a 4-3-3 with new players deployed in new roles.
With today's annoucement you're seeing a departure from Bradley's reliance exclusively on veterans and his long standing notion of introducing younger players during a longer camp as oppose to one off friendly. Most specifically, you're seeing Bradley change his thinking on the striker role.
Whereas 2006-2010 saw Bradley continue to focus on veterans in the role that would adhere to the system and only play a "youngster" (Charlie Davies, Robbie Findley) when their ability hits him over the head–yes I just used Findley and ability in the same sentence.
Today's perhaps most exciting call-up is that of New York Red Bulls tyke Juan Agudelo who had only flashed ability during the MLS regular season before issuing some fine technical ability in the Red Bulls playoff series loss to San Jose.
But not only Agudelo, Bradley went for youth with KC forward Teal Bunbury who one time was considered all but lost to his Canadian heritage.
Kudos to Bradley for taking a shot on a youngsters up top.
The roster:
G: Brad Guzan, Dominic Cervi
DEF: Tim Ream, Clarence Goodson, Gale Agbossoumonde, Jonathan Bornstein, Nat Borchers, Eric Lichaj, Jonathan Spector
MID: Mix Diskerud, Ale Bedoya, Robbie Rogers, Logan Pause, Eddie Gaven, Brian Carroll
STR: Robbie Findley, Teal Bunbury, Juan Agudelo
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• Look all I'm saying is that Tim Ream played leftback in college and Bob Bradley has a history of playing defenders in positions other than the ones they play for their clubs.
• Can't wait to see where Mix Diskerud fits in and plays. I've watched him a play a handful of game on the interior for his club team Stabæk and I think he's got the ability to play both inside and out.
• Interestingly selection of Agbossumunde here, if only because Bob Bradley insistence on using more veteran types (Jimmy Conrad) at centerback. Where will the 'Boss play?
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A term used for a man that is half man half pansy. A man that is not a complete pansy, but he does have his moments.
You'd light you're ass hair on fire, but you wont jump off this cliff. You Mansy!!
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Everyone watch out, John's having his mansies! Someone get him a tampon!
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(1) A boy who THINKS he's a man, but has very girly tendencies such as: watching Gilmore Girls, having little armpit hair, not being able to play sports or video games, can't face his problems and doesn't act like a gentleman.
(2) Cross between a man and a pansy.
(2) Cross between a man and a pansy.
I can't believe he thinks he's mature, he's the biggest mansy ever!
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4 Theatre Professionals came together to work on pieces about childhood, the Troubles in Ireland, and fidelity. After our first rehearsal, we discovered that we were victims of sexual assault. What has resulted is our theatre piece, Mum's [Not] the Word. Incest, clergy molestation, rape and abuse and how we cope all rolled into an hour and 15 minutes of truth, honesty and humor.
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By Samuel D. Hunter, directed by David R. Gammons. Performed by the SpeakEasy Stage Company, through April 5 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St.,Boston....
By Samuel D. Hunter, directed by David R. Gammons. Performed by the SpeakEasy Stage Company, through April 5 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St.,Boston. $25 to $55; bostontheatrescene.com
Charlie, the 600-pound man who is the central character in Samuel D. Hunter's play, "The Whale" is dying of sorrow and guilt. Saddened by the death of his lover and still angst-ridden over leaving his wife and small child 10 years earlier for him, Charlie is literally suffering death from over-consumption of sub sandwiches, Pringles and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
SpeakEasy Stage is presenting the New England premiere of "The Whale," starring Cohasset native John Kuntz. The drama is affecting, but flawed and in the titular role, Kuntz shows why he is a master actor. Stuffed into a bulbous fat-suit, Kuntz delivers a virtuoso performance as Charlie. Allowed only his eyes and facial expressions to convey his anguish and self-disgust, he hopes to leave behind a legacy. Unfortunately, he considers his daughter, Ellie, the one good thing he has produced. However, Ellie is a 17-year old bag of angry bones using blackmail, lying and seduction to get what she wants, but Charlie is blinded to her bad-seed behavior.
Director, David R. Gammons has too many stage smarts to let the two-and-a-half-hour long play ride only on Kuntz, despite his amazing acting skills. Besides Josephine Elwood, the Emerson College student who plays Ellie as a cross between Gidget and the Wicked Witch of the West, Charlie has the nurse, Liz, to care for him, and his ex-wife, Mary, to come by – finally – to see what he has become.
The Elliot Norton Award-winning actress, Georgia Lyman, makes Liz into a smart-talking but compassionate friend who enables Charlie's compulsive eating by supplying him with junk-food along with his blood pressure reports. As Charlie's former wife, Maureen Keiller, who lives in Hull, bonds with him to punch home their mutual need for human connection in one of the most memorable scenes of the production.
The last character in the play, the 19-year old Mormon missionary, Elder Thomas, is written as a link to Charlie's lover, Alan, who was also a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Alan had fallen from grace when he moved in with Charlie. Thomas rings Charlie's doorbell by chance, or so we are led to believe. However it's hard to tell whether he represents a plot device or a sub-plot. Ryan O'Connor as Thomas finds all the clichés to portray in this nerdy young man, but makes a startling transformation by the end. Charlie's long-time job as an online instructor of creative writing, adds a second sub-plot that gives him some provocative dialogue about searching for truth.
Gammons sets the play amidst a sea of junk-food wrappings – thousands of grease-stained discards over a decade of morbid indulgence – a stage design of enormous visual impact by Cristina Todesco, and lighted with an eerie, other-world glow by Jeff Adelberg. Kuntz is seated on a broken down couch floating in the midst of the debris, as if he were indeed Captain Ahab on a personal quest, which brings us to the central problem of Hunter's thought-provoking play: its title. To be sure, Charlie is a whale of a man, and the long, confused description of how Alan died is mixed up with the Biblical tale of Jonah and the whale, but the metaphor is an uneasy fit for the final revelations. In addition, Charlie, as well as the other characters might be considered real people, but could also be the fantastic extensions of our worst nightmares. For all the clarity of Kuntz's performance, coupled with the excellence of the cast surrounding him, the play fails to explain his character's dilemma.
Page 2 of 2 - Despite these concerns, "The Whale" is rich with questions about an individual's life on earth and fears of leaving it, presented by as fine an ensemble of actors as you are likely to see on the Boston stage this season. If this were Japan, Kuntz would have been declared a national treasure long ago, now capped by his performance as Charlie, a compassionate and sympathetic man trapped by his own hand and mouth.
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Do you have a CD down at your local bank? Do you consider yourself a conservative investor? If so, you may want to take a look at a tax-deferred fixed annuity – a popular investment choice for many retirees and pre-retirees.
A fixed rate of return … and so much more. A fixed annuity is another traditional way to earn relatively high accumulation rates. Like a CD, an annuity offers you a guarantee of principal and interest. At the moment, CDs commonly earn 3.5-5% interest.1 Fixed annuities offer you comparable or better rates of return plus other advantages.
The big advantage is tax deferral. You get tax-deferred growth with a fixed annuity: you earn interest on your money, interest on your interest, and interest on the money that you would have paid to the tax man. You only pay taxes on the money in a fixed annuity when you withdraw that money. Contrast that with a CD, where the interest you earn is taxed every year.
The assets in a tax-deferred fixed annuity accumulate at a set rate of growth over a specified or adjustable period. Some fixed annuities even have a first-year "bonus rate". Accumulations can be paid to you periodically, or you can let them compound. The investment risk is assumed by the insurance company, which by law has to have the dollar-for-dollar liquidity to fulfill scheduled payouts.
A check in the mail for the rest of your life. Really? Yes, that is often the case. Fixed annuities commonly offer you the option of guaranteed lifelong income through annuitization, in the form of monthly or annual payments. Many fixed annuities also offer a guaranteed death benefit. Fixed annuity proceeds are even exempt from probate.
Now you see why fixed annuities can be very attractive. When you compare the advantages of a tax-deferred fixed annuity to the advantages of a CD, the fixed annuity may very well appear to be a viable option. (You can even transfer a CD to an annuity.) Please call me if you would like to know more about a tax-deferred fixed annuity – a relatively conservative investment that could be a great choice for you financially.
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A steady increase in enrollment with no additional funding from the state prompts Western's Board of Regents to approve a significant tuition increase. Some regents say a four-year tuition and campus enhancement plan is forward thinking and eliminates the guesswork for people wondering how much an education is going to cost.
The proposal calls for a ten percent increase over the next two fall semesters and a seven point five percent increase the next two spring semesters. The University is hopeful state funding will resume in 2006, allowing rates to return to about a five percent increase per year.
Dr. Ransdell says one option is paying a lump sum total of $21,141, which guarantees the cost of a four-year degree won't change.
The student regent was the only dissenting vote. The board also approved an eight percent raise for University President Dr. Gary Ransdell, bringing him to $250,000 per year.


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Winding yarn into a ball suggests some mathematical questions:
- Under some natural model, what paths should the yarn follow to achieve the most dense ball? One model is that used by Henryk Gerlach and Heiko von der Mosel in their paper "On sphere-filling ropes" arXiv:1005.4609v1 (math.GT). (This is the same model I suggested in a MO question.) I expect it would be difficult to extend the optimal solutions of the above paper to the multiple layers for a ball of yarn. (Below is shown part of Fig.6 from their paper.)
What paths should the yarn follow to achieve the least dense ball? Here I imagine layers forming a grid that suspends the yarn above as much empty space as possible.
Random winding. Typical instructions for how to do this by hand say, "Change directions every once in a while while you are winding," or "As you wrap, slowly rotate the ball counterclockwise to keep the distribution even." What density is achieved by random winding?
I ask these questions primarily out of curiosity. Perhaps there is an analogous process (winding the interior of a golf ball or baseball?) that has been studied mathematically.


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We're a small software company, developing projects for manufacturing facilities about analysis, traceability, reporting etc. We're using Access for front end, SQL Server for back end. We've quite big customers too and our company is growing. So far it is working fine but I wonder should we move to more influential technologies, such as web based solutions. What do you think about the future of Access?
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Applications written with Access and especially Excel tend to pop up in organizations whenever very specific business problems need to be solved quickly and in an ad-hoc manner with zero to minimal support from professional developers. These are GOOD and POWERFUL tools and this is a perfectly valid way to use them.
The problems start when requirements and problems become more complex and the existing ad-hoc systems based on Access or Excel can no longer keep up either because no one is maintaining them or the scale is just getting too large to handle.
I don't think your organization has these problems. Why? Because you probably have people dedicated to the development and maintenance of this product who presumably have strong control of the application and the way it scales. In the right hands and in the right context, Access is perfectly capable.
I think the real problem is finding people to develop/maintain this application in the long term. Access is just not as attractive/glamorous as other technologies. That alone could be enough to at least consider migrating to other application platforms.
Access, the application, will be around for a long, long time. It has value and a place in the IT world but Access is NOT an Enterprise level solution. Period.
You need to build a front end in C# or VB.NET (assuming you're keeping in the MS stack). You have a lot of choices, WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight. And which one you choose will really depend upon your business, your application and the direction you want move towards.
If you are building your company on this application then it is time for the company to mature and grow up into a mature front end.
Access will serve you fine as a front end, even for "Enterprise" applications. I'm not sure what you mean by "influential technologies", but more likely than not it is just hogwash. Tons of really massive companies use Access and (shudder) Excel to drive mission critical functionality, they won't balk at it one bit. Hell, SharePoint is considered way more Enterprisey, and I'd pick Access over that lump of *&$(&$# anyday.
Web, desktop and other front end technologies should be employed when they meet a business need, not imbue your solution with some notion of worthiness. The whole issue sounds like a red herring.
Access can be a great for inter-office application and small scale production applications but the fact of the matter is it just does not scale to enterprise level.
You mentioned that your company is growing and with that growth you need a better front end that represents the cutting edge of technology, and instills confidence in your clients about the technical expertise that your company provides.
Some options:
1) If you are considering a two-tier desktop based application then look at .NET Entity Framework as a persistence framework for your data access with SQLServer. Your views can be designed using WPF. It is one of the best combinations I have seen for two-tier desktop applications.
2) Web-Based, If you are considering the web based approach and you are not too keen on .NET technologies, then look at the J2EE framework and JSF with Hibernate as the persistence framework to SQLServer. There are numerous component libararies available to create rich web applications with clean minimalist code.
Enterprises care about solutions that work, are usable, can scale to their needs, and that the company behind them are responsive to change and can support the product.
General programming languages like C# or Java tend to get picked because they are assumed to be more flexible, but if you already have a solution in Access, it suggests to me that Access is a fine solution.
Here are some things I would consider:
There are good and bad C#/Java solutions, and there are also good and bad Access solutions. Personally speaking, I think more of the CRUD/reporting apps we write with WPF/WinForms/Silverlight should be built with Access.
If you are confident your Access solution will meet the needs of your customers, don't let technical biases peer pressure you into rebuilding something that works.
What you may want to consider is how your product will change to meet enterprise demands. Instead of forms and data, would you like to build more intuitive and task-based user interfaces? If there are features you'd like to add that would be difficult or impossible to do in Access, then that may justify a switch.
(I say this as a WPF/ASP.NET programmer by day)
If it is not broken don't fix it. I have used this phrase 2 times this day, and I am not sure it is professional enough but reality proves it is correct time after time...
It is good to anticipate change and be ready for it, but first, you need to clearly define your problem, for example:
Without answering those questions, you will not be able to pick the right solution for the problem.
Fact: Any technology you pick today will be history in few years time. For example, WPF is now not as fancy as it was promised to be because Silverlight is the new kid in town and even that is being challenged by HTML5+JavaScript and the story goes on and on.
Make sure you add to the above list, the time you anticipate the change is need for and the ability of your staff or your organization to invest in human intellect needed for the migration.
I'm guessing that you know that your organisation isn't particularly mature and that you want to improve things and become more professional. So, you will want to ensure you have bug tracking, version control, release control etc.
Given what you have & what you know I'd suggest dropping Access and moving to .NET winforms using VB as the programming language because that will be close to what you have at the moment but will be a lot easier to support - I don't think Access integrates well with version control for example. Stick with SQL Server, it's a fine product. Consider moving to C# instead of VB because C# is a better language & Microsoft is developing C# more actively. It will be harder to make that jump though so you may want to start with VB.
Microsoft Access no longer supports direct interaction with SQL Server (Access Data Projects) it's been removed from Access 2013- the only option is to go through a SharePoint enterprise external connector license which is literally $60 grand.
OpenOffice / LibreOffice has some great abilities to connect directly to mySQL. I haven't used them for a couple of years, but I'll go out on a limb and say that they're easier to use than Access / Jet / Linked Tables. Client-Server is a more efficient algorithm, it always has been.. and it always will be.
Also, Microsoft "Visual Studio Lightswitch" is a great alternative to Access. It allows simple web-based data entry.. I've never integrated Reporting Services with lightswitch, but it seems like a dream come true.


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I don't know why ESRI licensing is so complicated, has so many options, and is so very poorly explained. The cynic in me says this is to force any potential customer to start a conversation with a sales rep. and ultimately prompt more purchases.
Yes I've seen the documentation but it's next to useless in any real world scenario that doesn't involve a county government.
So if anyone can provide assistance with my specific needs I'd be extremely grateful. Unfortunately this is unlikely to help many others as slight variations in requirements could tip the scale in another direction.
My requirements:
- ArcGIS Server (10) and ArcSDE installed on separate machines
- ArcSDE enterprise geodatabase on Oracle 10gR2
- Up to 100 concurrent web users requesting a mix of cached and non-cached data from ArcGIS Server
- Single map server machine (at first) with 16 CPU cores - SOCs and SOM both on one machine
From the documentation I've seen restrictions that prevent deployments on multiple machines, but it doesn't specify if this means SOCs and SOM distributed across machines or ArcGIS Server and SDE on separate machines.
There are also limitations on the number of concurrent users, but if I have 100 web users accessing pooled services does this mean 100 users or as many users as pooled services?
I would be really happy if anyone can tell me what I need in this scenario. I currently have access to ArcGIS Server Enterprise Standard and I need to know in advance if it will support the scenario described above. (I think) I've already figured out that the 'Workgroup' option is no good for me.


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the ugliest spoiledest faggots in the whole country. home of d-bagers is the rich town of darien. they suck at sports and thier rival town, new canaan is 10 times better and they know it they just cant admit it. new canaan actually knows how to play football and lacrosse unlike the d-bagers. although they might be richer than new canaan, they're town is ugly as well as the people and the people are 10000 times more stuck up. d baggers are wannabe new canaaners
yeah...oh god how i wish i lived in new canaan- d-bager
by DAIRENSUCKSMYBALLS September 06, 2010
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Some of the most credible people in the world. They reside in Darien, CT and love to lavish themselves and those around them. Though not always true, they are almost always the richest, high-society folks who own more than one house, some boats, mansions, expensive cars and other luxuries. Those who don't live in Darien tend to be wildly jealous. Teens in Darien tend to spend their free time shopping for $200 jeans and drinking. Adults spend their time working, finding more houses and trying to figure out how to be better than everyone else. Darien is one of the richest towns in the United States. It rivals in sports with New Canaan, CT, which is equally as rich but not nearly as competant in sports or academics. Many celebrities are d-bagers, they reside in Darien.
Hey look, it's a really rich guy with 7 houses!
He must live in Darien!
Oh...he's a D-Bager-i love those guys!
Yea, me too they're like 100 times better than new canaan. Everyone hates new canaan!
He must live in Darien!
Oh...he's a D-Bager-i love those guys!
Yea, me too they're like 100 times better than new canaan. Everyone hates new canaan!
by iAmADbager March 10, 2005
Someone who doesn't want that guy before, "Lex", hanging out in their town. Hey dude, ever notice how those kids looked at you? You don't belong.
The D-Bagers noticed the trashballs hanging out at their Dunkin Donuts and thought, "Please go back to Stamford, riffraff."
by bernie the lama February 24, 2005
WATERFRONT REAL ESTATE BITCHES. Know your place you NC losers. D-bagers aka people from Darien, CT are obviously superior.
"I would have moved to New Canaan but then I wouldn't get to be a rich d-bager who lives on the water."
by RICH DARIEN BRAT May 06, 2005
Someone from Darien that can acutally spell words like FAGGOT or PROBABLY, unlike people from New Canaan who might spell them faget and probaly. D-bagers are much smarter than people from New Canaan.
I'm a d-bager and I can spell unlike people from New Canaan.
Wow! D-bagers are much smarter and much better people than anyone from New Canaan.
Wow! D-bagers are much smarter and much better people than anyone from New Canaan.
by i'm smart April 06, 2005
Alright majority of these posts are used for a rivalry between Darien CT, or another nearby town. D-Bagers are kids from Darien, usually D-Bag is used as an insult calling teens rich preppy kids who are fairly snobby. In truth D-Bagger can be used to describe both the person insulting and the person being insulted. Dariens preppy, New Cannan is preppy, Norwalk not so much, Wilton is preppy, and Greenwich is preppy too get used to it.
P.S Im from Darien and i know both sides of this argument.
P.S Im from Darien and i know both sides of this argument.
John:Hey Jerry look at those D-bagers, im so happy to be from New Cannan.
Jerry: Shut up and get in the porche.
Jerry: Shut up and get in the porche.
by Deal with it you're a prep too July 10, 2008
Anyone from Darien. They tend to be affluent. Their main rival is New Cannan. People from New Cannan are gay. They are so gay that they lose in every sport they try...see you at the turkey bowl next year ladies.
Wow, Darien's awesome, new cannan blows
by guess who April 26, 2005


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