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First of all, why is there no reason provided for a deletion?
Second, isn't -100 penalty for a deletion on the answerer too excessive?
Third, isn't SO getting "too sensitive" in general?
;; The sample I'm referring to is this answer.
First of all, why is there no reason provided for a deletion?
Second, isn't -100 penalty for a deletion on the answerer too excessive?
Third, isn't SO getting "too sensitive" in general?
Well, you do start off:
Additionally, the answer doesn't actually seem to contain anything helpful or relevant to the question; so it isn't even mitigated by valuable content (in which case I would hope someone would just edit out the diatribe).
So I'm guessing the reason is that multiple people flagged it as "Offensive, Abusive or Hate Speech". The only other reason for "Community" to delete it is "Spam", and it isn't spam.
Re getting "too sensitive" - no, I think it is about right. We expect civility. It would perhaps have been wiser to rephrase your answer (when you saw it being received negatively) to be a little less... obnoxious.
Re "too excessive" - no, not really. It is designed to be a small sting, which it is. You've taken notice! Great! It worked exactly to design.
In the general case (I'm not talking about you specifically here), if such is part of a pattern of abusive behaviour, then I would expect the ♦ moderators to step in at some point, recommending a change of approach/attitude re the site.
I'd like to digress for a minute and take note of the text you have opted to put in your profile OTC...
Now, maybe it's just me, but you seem to be glorying in rubbing people the wrong way. I can't say I'm the least bit surprised that people are not responding positively.
You've been with us for three months (two when you wrote the answer we are discussing); that's time enough to get a feel for the culture of this place, and for most people that culture is "nice and helpful". Your answer was not nice; it might have been helpful for users that happened to have
You seem to like to tweak people. Well, now you're learned what provisions are in place for when you really succeed.
After reading the whole discussion in the comments, I cannot but wonder whether
For what it's worth, the public at SO is rather civilized, and in general passed the teenage years already. This has implications for what is considered acceptable behaviour. For one, the way some kids talk to their highschool friends is frowned upon on this site. It might be acceptable on some fora and websites like 4Chan, but this isn't 4Chan. This is SO, and if you don't like it, nobody obliges you to participate. But if you participate, you play it by the SO-rules.
Your answer was deleted because 6 people thought it was offensive, abusive, hate speech or just spam.
No. People thought you were a jerk. That's why you earned a nice -100 rep.
6 closes and 9 downvotes, that's a total of 15 people who thought your answer was just plain bad. I can't read the answer but I'm going to err on the side of safety and say no, it isn't. From thine FAQ:


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The SWD rules give no suggestion for the length of a round in a Mass Battle are there any rules or hints for how long this should be for a battle type and size anywhere?
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Mass battles are very abstract and cinematic in nature, and the length of individual rounds can and should vary depending on the size and type of forces involved, and may also change from round to round depending on the situation and what each side is trying to acheive.
The example in SWD describes a planetary invasion where one turn lasts a couple of hours. I've also seen and run examples where turn lengths have been between 15 and 30 minutes. These tend to be where there are two smaller armies facing off against each other. The formula for working out how much ammo/power points characters use also hints at this. 3d6 shots for a ranged weapon, trebled for burst or full auto indicates an extended period of time.


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In Martin Luther's Biography, In his final hour, Justus Jonas and Michael Coelius who were his companions shouted loudly and asked this question:
"Reverend father, are you ready to die trusting in your Lord Jesus Christ and to confess the doctrine which you have taught in his name?"
Luther was known to say Yes to this question. How should I understand this situation?


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Oracle Database Appliance Performance White Paper Released
By Ravi.Sharma-Oracle on Feb 12, 2013
A new white paper titled "Evaluating and Comparing Oracle Database Appliance Performance" was recently released. This white paper outlines a quick and simple process to evaluate the performance of Oracle Database Appliance for both OLTP and DSS workloads and compare it to the same workloads when run in your local environment. The testing for this paper was conducted using Swingbench's Order Entry (OLTP) and Sales History (DSS) workloads. Users can review already the documented results and conduct a reverse-POC (proof-of-concept) in their legacy environment by running Swingbench and then simply compare relative performance.
For the testing conducted during the course of writing this white paper, Oracle Database Appliance was able to support up to 10,000 Swingbench users for the OLTP workload (while maintaining sub-second response times) and provided throughput of more than 2400 MB/Second for the DSS workload. Both are significant numbers. The white paper provides the results of various core configurations tests (related to the pay-as-you-grow feature) in a matrix form.
The paper also covers some minor tweaks to the standard configuration that can enable even greater workload performance. I invite you to take a look at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/engineered-systems/database-appliance/documentation/oda-eval-comparing-performance-1895230.pdf


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On the eve of May 4, 2003, events were underway that would lead to the brutal rape and murder of Western Kentucky University Freshman Katie Autry.
Autry was at a party at the Phi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Sometime after she left and returned to her dorm room, she was attacked, raped, set on fire, and left for dead in her dorm room. She died three days later.
The impact of Autry's death is still felt on campus, one year after her brutal attack. The incident has also raised questions about Western's safety policies and procedures.
Students seem to agree things have changed on Western's campus, but some wonder, is it safe enough?
While some tell us the safety of the dorms has dramatically increased, others tell us identification checks aren't done thoroughly, and uninvited guests could potentially slip through the cracks.
Several changes have come about since that deadly night last May. Western now has a permanent committee set up to look at campus safety issues. Single gender dormitories will now be the standard for all freshmen (with the option of continued single gender dormitories for female upperclassmen), there are more emergency phones, a new anonymous tip line, more resident assistants, and a more visible presence by the WKU Police. The importance of common sense on the part of the students has also been emphasized.
Hugh Poland Hall housed freshmen this past fall semester, but it is now vacant for renovations.
While most of Hugh Poland Hall will be renovated, Katie Autry's dorm room is under control of the courts right now. When Poland Hall re-opens in the fall as an all-female residence hall, Autry's room will likely remain untouched, at least until the case is resolved.
One of the men accused of her murder, Stephen Soules, has since pleaded guilty.
He is expected to testify against the other defendant, Lucas Goodrum, when that trial begins at the end of July.


text: 18 February 2012 archive See all show photos "IT'S Mork and Mindy do the Tour de France," Henry Holland explained before his House of Holland show this afternoon. Having forfeited his love of the Eighties for a little Seventies sportswear – infused with bright pink, fuchsia and red silk and wool houndstooth or contrasting blue and navy for flippy skater dresses, flared leggings, jersey all-in-ones and, later, evening dresses of navy or red with the houndstooth flecks picked out in metallic green or purple – the show was as much fun as ever. His loyal posse were there – Jade Parfitt (in a Henry Holland spring/summer 2012 mini dress with thigh high boots by Zoe Lee, for whose debut collection she co-hosted a tea party yesterday), Alexa Chung (in JW Anderson silk paisley trousers), Leigh Lezark, Nick Grimshaw, Poppy Delevingne and Pixie Geldof, whooping and cheering as usual. But Holland is about more than just disco chicks in the front row. The presence of Lulu Kennedy, who first put his rhyming slang T-shirts on her talent-spotting Fashion East catwalk in 2006, and Patrick Grant, whose girlfriend Katie Hillier works with Holland on accessories (as well as Victoria Beckham and Marc Jacobs), shows that – for all the jokes and tweets and fun, he's serious about this fashion game. "She's getting a bit older this season," he told us beforehand of the House of Holland woman. "It's all really beautifully made and there are some really classic pieces – I've always made clothes for the girls I spend time with and as we grow up and live life, she always needs something to wear." But high quality doesn't mean it's any less sassy - or funny for that matter. From the first striped leggings matching tunics – in red and black or yellow and black hoops and topped with leather caps – to the shaggy goat hair coat in zig zags of black and blue, to flared red denim all-in-ones, to the multicoloured zig zags that scattered in red, purple, pink, blue and navy over cardigans with matching scarves over sexily hip-skimming dresses, everything was impeccably fitted. While the oversized houndstooth looked glaring on an attention-grabbing trouser suit, it was less of a caricature on a beautifully tailored princess coat worn with dark navy leather flares. Girly dresses with scooped, frilled necklines were easy to wear and just as well cut, while iridescent versions with a shiny overlay meant we could play the tomboy too. "Isn't he a clever boy," said Hilary Alexander as we left – and it's hard not to agree. With his starry friends on the front row and his eye on serious quality he's as much a hot tip for 2012 as Azealia Banks on his soundtrack. Join Henry Holland at the first ever Vogue Festival in April. Buy your tickets here. SEE THE HOUSE OF HOLLAND SHOW ARCHIVE With thanks to Range Rover. Dolly Jones Continue reading Back to top


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This time of year, commercials and telemarketers are out in full force, hoping to convince you they can help you get thousands of dollars back on your tax return, but keep a close eye on your money, because not all of those businesses have your best interests at heart.
Not long ago, one area woman picked up on several classic "red flag" indicators, when a telemarketer from the National Audit Defense Network called her house. The first problem, she said, was the caller wouldn't identify himself. According to Margaret Lockhart, when she asked the representative to tell her his name, he told her it wasn't important. What was important was for her to start a portfolio and let one of his top lawyers get on the case to help her get the thousands of dollars she deserved.
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STEUBENVILLE - The Jefferson County commissioners and county auditor's office Tuesday began budget hearings with county departments in preparation of the 2013 general fund budget.
As has happened during the past several years, the budget amount will be the same, and departments submitted proposed budgets asking for modest increases.
The auditor's office reported the county is expecting $11,779,000 in revenue for next year, with an anticipated $1 million in carryover funds from this year to next.
The county will have to cut about $1.4 million from proposed budgets to get a balanced budget.
The county is anticipating losing money in local government funds from the state, but that loss will be made up with income from casinos distributed around the state. The county this year has seen a 14 percent increase in sales and use tax (piggyback tax) collections.
County Commissioner Thomas Graham said the county's self-funded hospitalization program will see an increase of about 15 percent to the share of hospitalizations costs of employees and the departments.
Graham said the county had a surplus of $6 million, which the county allowed to be trimmed down without having to pass costs onto employees and departments. He said the county is required to maintain a minimum of a $3 million surplus to cover the costs of catastrophic illnesses.
The county this year didn't grant a two-month waiver in hospitalization costs to employees and departments as it had during the past several years because the surplus was being spent down.
Graham said the county budget should be OK going into next year if departments keep spending the same as this year.
Graham said the increase in sales and use tax collections should benefit townships and villages with recreation projects.
County Auditor Patrick Marshall said he is concerned about the overall economy in the country going into next year with the "fiscal cliff" issue and possible recession.
Marshall said the county lost revenue from various sources but was able to recoup the money in other areas, including real estate conveyance fee collections, which are up because of the and gas industry leases.
Marshall said the county still hasn't seen a large number of jobs being created.
Marshall said hospitalization costs will increase, but Workers' Compensation rates for county workers will be going down next year.
County Commissioner David Maple said the county will still have challenges come 2013.
"We need to be conservative in spending and have good budget management," he said.
The gap between proposed budgets and anticipated revenue going into the 2013 budget isn't as large as in previous years when the county has faced with cutting $2 million to $3 million out of proposed budgets, Maple said.
"We will be able to manage through it as long as we are conservative in spending," he said.
County Commissioner Tom Gentile said he was glad to see county departments submitting proposed budgets similar to actual budgets for 2012.
"I don't think it will be easy, but we are losing and gaining revenue at the same time. The biggest challenge will be increasing costs and not having an increase in revenue. I feel more comfortable with this budget cycle. (In previous years) we had to make cuts," Gentile said.
Gentile said the county had a $15.1 million budget in 2008, compared to a $13.4 million budget in 2012.
Commissioners will be meeting with department heads throughout the week to go over individual department budget requests. Commissioners during the next month will trim the proposed budgets down to meet expected revenue before approving a 2013 budget.


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Graduating senior chemistry major Miriam Barnett received a highly competitive Eli Lilly Travel Award from the Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society to present her research on electrophoresis at the recent ACS national meeting in California.
Barnett, from Lewiston, N.Y., was one of 12 in the country to receive the award, which provides funding for female undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend the meeting. She was one of the few undergraduates among the 12 awardees. She also received travel funds from the Rochester ACS chapter and from the Geneseo Foundation.
"It was an amazing conference and I'm so appreciative of the support I received," said Barnett. "The opportunity to present my research before this scientific audience was an experience that allowed me to form new connections. I also developed invaluable skills as well as an increased appreciation for the discipline. It was truly a life-changing experience."
Barnett will begin graduate work in bioinformatics next fall at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her academic adviser at Geneseo was Jeffrey Peterson, assistant professor of chemistry.
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If I have a city with a fortress but no units inside it, and my opponent moves armies into that city, does my opponent have to defeat the fortress to win? In other words, do fortresses behave like a unit during battle? Can they take a hit and be removed?
Does having a settler in the city (but still no army units) change the situation at all?


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The 8 Most Badass Make-A-Wish Foundation Wishes
Since its inception in 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has been responsible for granting the wishes of thousands of children with life threatening illnesses all across the United States. While the vast majority of wishes involve taking vacations, meeting celebrities or going to Disneyland, occasionally kids go off-prompter, and things get awesome. For example ...
#8. Sam Gets the Big-League Treatment
Like so many other young boys who enjoy standing around doing nothing for hours at a time, 11-year-old Sam loved to play baseball. However, in recent years, neuroblastoma, a cancer that affects the nervous system, had tragically left him unable to take the field with his team. Despite his illness, Sam wanted a place to watch and cheer on his friends, leading to his wish for a baseball field to be built in his backyard.
"Just the field. You can keep Kevin Costner."
And it worked. The community got together and totally Field of Dreams'ed the shit out of little Sam and built a baseball field. Such an enormous task required help and donations from numerous sources. First, grounds crews from the University of Mississippi and Itawamba Community College dedicated hundreds of hours to the project. Next, numerous local groups donated, among other things, sod, fencing, a backstop, an irrigation system and a scoreboard.
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It's actually nicer than where the Oakland A's play.
Sam chose 18 friends for him to manage, and on the day of the grand opening, a police-escorted limo drove him to the field where a crowd of hundreds cheered him on. Brought in to face Sam's team was a local junior varsity team -- all of whom must have just felt like dicks.
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"What do you mean, 'No trash talking'?"
Before the game, a local neighbor belted out "The Star Spangled Banner." Soon after, 370 fans cheered Sam and his team on as they took the field while the opening theme from Rocky blared. Sam threw out the first pitch, and the game was on. A local sports announcer called the action as donated snacks and drinks circled the stands.
Sam's club picked up the 11-6 victory in a hard fought battle, and anyone in Sam's neighborhood is now free to use that field whenever they want.
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It's a good thing he wasn't a NASCAR fan.
#7. Craig Gets More Than He Asked For
Some people are simply born with the spirit of a warrior. They need to win. If Michael Jordan was content with just being a good basketball player -- if he wasn't obsessed with success -- then he'd never be Michael Jordan. Donald Trump doesn't just want money; he wants all the money, and he wants everyone's attention, now and forever, and that's what makes him Donald Trump (and also terrible). It's the warrior spirit that separates Achilles from other soldiers. In 1989, 9-year-old Craig Shergold had such a spirit. He was suffering from a brain tumor, but he didn't just want a few get-well cards. He wanted every last one on the planet. Shergold wanted to win.
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"Bring it, other sick kids."
You might have even heard of Shergold. He was the subject of a massive chain letter campaign, wherein he wished for as many people as possible to send him get-well cards so as to get more cards than anyone else had ever gotten. In a seemingly insignificant detail that will become important later in the story (that's called foreshadowing, ladies and gents) this is the only wish on the list that wasn't granted by the actual Make-A-Wish foundation, which note on their website, we do not participate in these kinds of wishes.
Seeing nothing ominous in that policy, the similar Children's Wish Foundation stepped in like the "cool" parent and made Craig's wish happen. The chain letter became a smash hit, and by the end of 1991, Craig had shattered the Guinness World Record with 35 million get-well cards having been sent to the boy's home in Britain.
In a mini-miracle, a rich businessman took notice of Craig's wish adventure and contacted him about covering the cost of his surgery. Craig received proper surgery soon after the record was reached, and is still alive and healthy today. With the record beaten and cancer gone, Craig officially announced he wished for the cards to stop. Wow, way to go, mankind!
The boy survived, but dozens of mailmen threw their backs out.
Then shit got nuts. It turns out there's a reason the Make-A-Wish foundation doesn't traffic in chain letters. Millions of them were already out there being circulated, and they didn't disappear with Craig's cancer. The wonderful people who sent get-well cards didn't stop forwarding them to other wonderful people, no matter how much Craig and his family told the public, "We're good over here, you can stop now! Seriously it's getting hard to breath in here." Eventually, Craig's family abandoned their home, unable to tolerate the daily volume of mail. With an address that was no longer current, the post office quickly grew wise and began forwarding any Children's Wish Foundation related mail to the company headquarters in Phoenix. Eventually, the company had to begin storing them in a massive holding-area staffed by 40 volunteers -- just enough to handle the 300,000 messages received each week. Hey, slow down, mankind!
By 1993, over 100 million cards made their way to the warehouse. Some were just standard get-well cards, and at least one was creepily addressed "To the Boy Who Is Sick in the Hospital, in Arizona, or Colorado." Whoa, holy shit, at least learn the kid's name and where he is, mankind!
"Can't stop to read! MUST SEND MORE LETTERS!"
#6. Gilligan Gets Off the Island
Gilligan's Island was abruptly cancelled after its third season in 1967, leaving Gilligan and crew trapped on the island with no real conclusion to their predicament. The viewer was left to assume that they'd died there after having resorted to cannibalism, or maybe they'd stayed there a few years until the Skipper went crazy and tried to unplug the island in an attempt to release pure evil into the world and undo existence before getting stopped by the Professor and Sideways Ginger.
Although a series of movies were released after the fact -- including one with the goddamn Harlem Globetrotters -- they went mostly unseen, and in most people's minds, Gilligan was stuck on that island forever.
For some reason, people didn't want to watch this.
And some people were happy to accept this, but those people are awful. A group of Make-A-Wish children in 1992 decided to crank their badass levels up to 11, get on a cruise ship and rescue Gilligan. These little champions never leave a man behind, even if he is fictional.
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And responsible for getting a whole boat full of innocent people stranded.
For one day, Gilligan actor Bob Denver donned his classic red shirt and white hat and parked down on a deserted island off the coast of West Virginia. Make-A-Wish officials alerted the sick children aboard the West Virginia Bell -- renamed the S.S. Minnow for that day -- that Gilligan was still out there and needed their help. Soon, the children took off to "save" him.
When they'd reached the island, the children spotted Gilligan, who quickly hopped on board and spent the rest of the day signing autographs and playing games with the children. So there you have it. Next time you find yourself sad that Gilligan never made it off the island, realize that he totally did -- it just took 25 years, and presumably everyone else died.
Or were eaten.
#5. Enzo Says "Too Late"
6-year-old Enzo's wish started innocently enough. He wanted to spend the afternoon with "celebrity" chef Ina Garten, better known as the Barefoot Contessa. The young boy, suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, would often watch Garten's show while sick in his bed. Enzo's wish simply involved meeting with the chef and cooking one of the Contessa's many French dishes with her. No big deal, right?
She told the kid no.
Enzo was told to try again later that year due to a book tour conflict. On his next attempt to reach the cooking star, he was given an answer of "definite no" from Contessa's PR team, who are all apparently awful at their jobs. "Barefoot Contessa? More like Piece-of-Shit-You're-a-Bitch Contessa," Enzo probably never said.
He's much more polite than we are.
Enzo was devastated by the news that his favorite chef had turned him down, and his family quickly turned to the Web to air their displeasure. In a blog post earlier this year, Enzo's mom noted that her son had wanted to meet the chef for the past three years, and had publicly wondered, "Why doesn't she want to meet me?" We're very sorry to everyone else who entered, but we officially have a winner for saddest thing ever.
No doubt thrilled by the easiest news story of all time, nearly every major news group hopped on the story, and soon the Contessa found herself the number one enemy of people who support sick children over millionaire chefs. ABC News noted that the refusal was out of step with the much more charity-friendly image she put out in public.
And here she is wearing shoes. Do her lies know no end?
In a panic move, Contessa contacted Enzo and personally invited him to join her. He would get to cook with her just like he wanted all along! No big deal, right?
He told the lady no.
"I've moved on to Rachael Ray."
See, Enzo had spent the weeks since his rejection doing two things: booking a different wish and being sick of the Barefoot Contessa's bullshit. He alerted the chef that her apologies were too little too late, and instead of cooking a simple meal with a terrible person, decided he was going to go out and swim with some motherfucking dolphins. Nice upgrade, Enzo.


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STEUBENVILLE - The city's Urban Projects Office is facilitating a five-day training course in November for area contractors interested in lead abatement.
According to Craig Creamer, construction specialist and rehabilitation coordinator for the city, the five-day training program is designed for residential housing rehabilitation contractors, general contractors, project designers and policy makers.
"Anyone who works with lead abatement and every contractor should have the lead abatement training. The reason we are facilitating the training is to help local contractors to be eligible for state certification and to generate a longer list for our contractor list. The qualified contractors will be eligible for government projects and will comply with the U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency rules and regulations," said Creamer.
"We haven't had this type of training available locally for some time. So we requested the Corporation for Ohio Appalachian Development set up the training here in Steubenville. The cost of the five-day training is only $100, which is a very good price. Similar training by a for-profit training instructor could cost between $700 and $900 for the same five-day course. The training will be held at the Historic Fort Steuben Convention and Visitors Bureau," explained Urban Projects Director Chris Petrossi.
"All contractors interested in signing up for the training should contact the COAD office in Athens at (740) -594-8499 or e-mail the office at firstname.lastname@example.com," added Petrossi.
"Obtaining this training is the first step toward receiving a late abatement certification from the state of Ohio. That increases the contractor's qualifications and provides the contractor with more qualifications when they are seeking work," noted Petrossi.
"All residents built prior to 1978 are considered to have lead paint that requires a certified abatement contractor. This is substantial training that will help contractors be able to do additional work," said Creamer.
"By holding the training here in Steubenville our area contractors won't have to travel and to lodge their employees overnight for a week," added Creamer.
Petrossi urged interested contractors to register for the program as soon as possible because space is limited.
"The contact representatives at the COAD office are G. H. Runevitch and Michelle Turner. They will be able to answer questions about the training program," Petrossi said.


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5 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Songs
Rock stars are all but required by federal law to be weird and out there. It's not just part of the act, either -- being creative usually just means a person's brain is broken in an interesting way. You need to be able to think outside the proverbial box.
For example, you have tunes like the following, where the secret ingredient was pure insanity.
#5. Axl Rose Records Himself Having Sex for "Rocket Queen"
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Axl Rose is known for two things: utter perfectionism and batshit insanity. The former is the reason he spent 15 years and $13 million to complete an album that, ultimately, only he and his dog cared about. The latter explains such acts of silliness as punching out fans who commit the cardinal sin of taking pictures, walking out on a show after their co-headliner set himself on fire, regularly showing up hours late for concerts with no good explanation whatsoever, and threatening to kill himself unless his girlfriend married him.
But what happens when the two sides of Axl's head come together? Well, you get "Rocket Queen." The closing track on the Appetite for Destruction album sounded OK enough, but Axl felt the mid-song breakdown needed a little something extra. Most people would have suggested something musical, it being a song and all. Did Axl call for a drum fill? A second guitar solo? Nope. He decided to insert sex sounds, and we're not talking about recording a snippet of some random porn movie.
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"Hey, Steve, remember that favor you owe me?"
No, Axl decided to bang a real woman in the studio, for sound-effects purposes. He found a willing woman -- Adriana Smith, the girlfriend of Steven Adler (the band's drummer). Apparently, Adler had just cheated on her, so her version of revenge was to bang the lead singer, with an engineer looking on and recording the whole thing.
And Axl didn't even get her excited. No, he had a backup harmonica player do that. Axl allowed him to strip down with Smith and get her wet and willing, and only then did he step in and perform the ultimate cockblock, saying, "I'm sorry, but I'm gonna fuck this girl now. It's for the record. We're putting it on the record." Because, to Axl Rose, a day without utter douchebaggery is like a day without sunshine.
Hear those moans starting at the 2:40 mark? That's Adriana Smith. Her vocal acrobatics extend throughout the entire break and into the chorus, which makes it seem like Axl was singing the damn song while attempting to "take her down to Paradise City" with "his boner." Sadly, for all of her hard work, Smith didn't even get a songwriting credit. She did, however, develop a drug and alcohol habit, due to all the "extreme shame and guilt and stuff." We can't help but wonder what they did when it came time to play the song live on stage -- we're guessing they just had Izzy make moaning sounds into the mic.
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"No, leave the cigarette in. It'll make it sound like there's some oral going on."
#4. The Beach Boys Plagiarize Charles Manson
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For such a legendary band, the Beach Boys sure do enjoy their plagiarism. But while their defrauding of Chuck Berry resulted in a mere lawsuit and forfeiture of royalties, another act of blatant song lifting could well have gotten one of them killed. We're talking about the time the band ripped off Charles Manson.
Drummer Dennis Wilson was driving around one night in 1968 when he happened across a couple of smoking-hot hitchhikers. Being a sex-crazed rock star, of course he brought them home. Then he left to go record, because how much trouble could a couple of total strangers, alone in your house, possibly get into?
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"Goddammit. This is the fifth cult you've brought home this week!"
Turns out these hitchhikers were members of the Manson Family, which you may have heard about in passing. About a dozen of them invited themselves to Wilson's home, including ol' Chuck himself. But Wilson was cool with it, since many of them were hot, and he and Manson ended up striking up a fast friendship. Yep, this infamous, murderous cult leader was best buds with a dude from that band that sang about cars and surfing.
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That's Wilson on the left. Manson on the right ... are we sure they didn't switch places at some point?
Manson had learned to play guitar during his various stints in prison (good luck on bringing a blunt instrument to jail these days) and shared some of his songs with Wilson. The Beach Boy liked the material very much -- so much that he took one tune, called "Cease to Exist," and decided to cover it. Well, not so much "cover" as "change the name, rewrite a few lines, and claim full credit." Pure semantics, really.
Luckily, he waited until Manson was good and imprisoned before blatantly stealing his stuff. See, he had also promised Manson that he would secure him a recording contract. When Wilson failed to do so, a miffed Manson started to show potential for a very murdery future. After realizing that Manson was not even close to right in the head, Wilson skipped town. Manson responded by sending him a bullet with a cryptic warning. Being Manson, this warning likely made no sense whatsoever, but was still spooky as shit.
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"I hear pineapples."
After Manson proved to be a very naughty boy indeed, the Beach Boys were safe to record their plagiarized version of his song, releasing it as "Never Learn Not to Love." As the B-side to their "Bluebirds Over the Mountain" single, it reached No. 61 on the U.S. pop charts, as well as No. 33 in the U.K. Other than the part where he isn't credited, Charles Manson is technically a pop star with a Top 40 hit. Shockingly, the Beach Boys have never gotten sued for this one.
#3. Otis Redding Dies Before He Can Finish "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay"
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For a guy renowned for his soulful energy on songs like "Respect" and "Satisfaction," it's almost ironic that Otis Redding's biggest claim to fame is "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," a gentle song about sitting around and doing jack shit. It's so mellow that for the last bit of the song, Redding just starts whistling. You might have thought that it was great symbolism, showcasing how at peace he is, just relaxing and watching ships instead of continuing with this "singing" bullshit.
But the whistling wasn't supposed to be there -- it's meaningless filler. Redding's usual modus operandi was to ad lib at the end of his songs, and he wanted to do the same with "Dock." So his guitarist recorded 10 instrumental bars, allowing Otis to go on about love or sandwiches or whatever else was on his mind that day.
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"Otis, we've talked about this. You can't keep turning every single into your personal grocery list."
So what was on his mind? Nothing, apparently. He stepped up to the mic and couldn't think of a damn thing to say. So, he started whistling instead. It sounded nice and all, but Redding really wanted actual words there. He was out of time, however, since he had TV and concerts to do. So, he figured he would just think up something and come back later to finish the track.
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"Hey, how about we record me banging the drummer's girlfriend?"
Sadly, he never got to -- two days later, he was killed in a plane crash.
Shortly afterward, Stax Records put the song out the way he'd left it, whistle and all. It jumped all the way to No. 1, becoming the first posthumous record to do so. The beautiful whistling played a large role in this, leaving us to wonder what Redding could possibly have sung that would've been better.
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Pineda gets promotion to 40-man roster
The Mariners will make some additions to their 40-man roster this afternoon in order to protect some youngsters from the upcoming Rule 5 draft. And GM Jack Zduriencik already acknowledged the not-surprising news on KJR-AM this morning that one of those players will be top pitching prospect Michael Pineda.
Given that Pineda will be brought to Spring Training with the chance to compete for a spot in the Mariners rotation next season, it's a given that the youngster would be protected this year, which is the first time he would have been exposed to the Rule 5 draft after five years in Seattle's system.
Pineda, 21, was the Mariners Minor League Pitcher of the Year after splitting time between AA West Tenn (8-1, 2.22 ERA) and AAA Tacoma (3-3, 4.76). He racked up 154 strikeouts in 139 1/3 innings.
The Mariners have just 29 players on their current 40-man roster, so expect a good number of promotions today.
Here's a link to the current 40-man roster as it stands.
The Rule 5 draft is held on the final day of the Winter Meetings on Dec. 9.
UPDATE (4:39 p.m.): The Mariners just released the names of all 10 players who've been added. Here's the list and I'll update with full story after a conference call with Jack Zduriencik.
· OF Johermyn Chávez
· RHP Maikel Cleto
· LHP César Jiménez
· INF Alex Liddi
· RHP Josh Lueke
· RHP Yoervis Medina
· OF Carlos Peguero
· RHP Michael Pineda
· LHP Mauricio Robles
· RHP Tom Wilhelmsen
There's a couple interesting names on that list. Jimenez is a 26-year-old lefty who pitched 31 games of relief for the Mariners in 2008 and four games in 2006, but missed most of 2009 with a torn labrum.
He made a nice start on his comeback this past year and is pitching well enough in the Venezuelan League right now that the Mariners chose to protect him.
Wilhelmsen is another 26-year-old who pitched very well in the Mariners' low-minor system after coming back from a six-year absence from baseball.
Most of the others are promising young prospects. Only three of the 10 were position players. Liddi is a third baseman from Italy with good power, Chavez is an outfielder they got in the Brandon Morrow-Brandon League trade who hit 32 home runs in A ball this year and Peguero is a big (6-5, 247) kid from the Dominican who played in the Futures Game.
Zduriencik said he didn't know how soon any of these kids would make the big club, but they all are in position to get a chance in what appears a good situation for young prospects to make a name for themselves.
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I arrived one hour late, but luckily it had not ruined the nice meal my Daughter had got for one of the girls birthday.
The visiting company were The Moscow City Ballet, the peformance was The Sleeping Beauty.
and it was really excellent. They had their own 60 piece orchestra, and the scenery and costumes were very lovely.
It was reasonable size stage, there was enough room for a fair size corp de ballet, and all the soloists.
The leading Ballerina Alevtina Lapshina was very good, with a high standard of technique, musicality and the beautiful lyrical Port de Bra of the Russian style. From the moment the curtains parted both the girls were enthrawled, barely taking their eyes off the stage. At end of every variation they joined in clapping like mad, smiling all over their faces. The only problem was it was so very cold in the auditorium, we nearly froze to death, having to put on our coats to keep warm. We later found out the heating system was on it's last legs, which despite be fully turned on, it just did not heat the fast area sufficiently.All the same it did not spoil the event, and now two very happy little girls keep asking "When are you going to take us to the ballet again Nanna?" Horefully it will not be too long.
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...and hence my name! I don't know why I live in northern New England as I am NOT a fan of snow, ice, cold, skiing, snowshoeing...I could go on, but you get the idea! ANyhow, here I am, looking at the snow flying and reading Ballet Talk. My 15 yr. old is a dancer; I hate to call her "recreational" as she trains solidly for 20 hours a week, but she won't be moving into a pre-pro program, although she aspires to teaching. I have always been surrounded by ballet. I grew up in the Boston area, took what was definitely recreational/Dinkle ballet growing up during the 1960's and 1970's, but had the good fortune to have a cousin whose cousin by marriage (and therefore NO relation to me!) was E. Virginia Williams- so there was definitely a "real" ballet influence in my youth, as well as numerous trips into town to see the Ballet. Ballet moves me in a way nothing else can! I am a fan of watching ballets although not well-versed in specific dancers and their careers; a recreational fan, perhaps? No matter; it will be enjoyable to read and learn from other adults interested in ballet from the seats and not from behind the footlights (not that I don't love that also, but with my DD's involvement sometimes I am overwhelmed with production details and don't have the opportunity to discuss, read, and reflect- too busy sewing and painting and managing!).
Hello Snowbound.
I am also new to this wonderful site. I am also from the Boston area (Braintree) but now live in Tucson, Arizona. It would be a great pleasure to hear about E. Virginia Williams and your connection to her and the Boston Ballet. I saw them several years ago at the Wang Center while visiting my sister, but I'm afraid I did not enjoy the performance. I think because it was a wrong choice of a ballet that they did on that Saturday matinee, yet the theater was full. I wished they had done one of their full length ballets instead, that I know would have been much more enjoyed. I have a CD disc of a discussion about Virginia by Sydney Leanard who I was a long time teacher with Virginia in the early days of Boston Ballet. She is very old now and I wrote to her but she never answered.
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Just to advise you tht Ms. Williams died in May, 1984, at her home in Malden, Mass. She had retired from the BB due to poor health, and Violette Verdy, who had been co-Artistic Director with Ms. Williams, assumed the duties of Artistic Director - but only for a short time after Ms. Williams' retirement.
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Just to advise you tht Ms. Williams died in May, 1984, at her home in Malden, Mass. She had retired from the BB due to poor health, and Violette Verdy, who had been co-Artistic Director with Ms. Williams, assumed the duties of Artistic Director - but only for a short time after Ms. Williams' retirement.
I was referring to Sydney Leonard, not V. Williams who I know had died some time ago. Sydney lives in Cambridge, MA, so I am told by Rochelle Zide, who was with Boston Ballet long ago and now lives here in Tucson as well. The disc or rather two discs, is released, with Sydney speaking about the beginnings of BB. Very interesting and she tells a lot about E. Virginia Williams. I forgot who sent it to me but no doubt one of the former BB members. I did write to Sydney (not Ms Williams) for information about early teachers in Boston who she might have known, as I'm writing a book about history of dance in Boston. But she never answered. Too old or forgetful I imagine.
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Yesterday, I began my serialised guide to Irish Whiskey with a rundown of its turbulent history through some difficult times, becoming the most popular spirit in the world before nearly disappearing altogether in the 20th century! Fortunately, it has been on a road to recovery in the last few decades and is now thriving.
Despite this resurgence, which has made Irish Whisky the fastest growing drinks category in the world, Scotch whisky still comfortably sells 15 times more cases worldwide, and has about as many times more active distilleries too. With Scotch whisky's dominance since the 1930s, there's perhaps understandably still some confusion, even amongst whisk(e)y enthusiasts, surrounding the styles of Irish whiskey available.
Fret not, however! In this second instalment I'll be looking at each style in turn, complete with a number of yummy examples of each!
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I've always thought that referring to the syntax of a language was the same as referring to the semantics of a language. But I've been informed that apparently that's not the case. What's the difference?
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Semantics ~ Meaning
Syntax ~ Symbolic representation
So two programs written in different languages could do the same thing (semantics) but the symbols used to write the program would be different (syntax).
A compiler will check your syntax for you (compile-time errors), and derive the semantics from the language rules (mapping the syntax to machine instructions say), but won't find all the semantic errors (run-time errors, e.g. calculating the wrong result because the code says add 1 instead of add 2).
Actually there are not two levels but three:
Semantics describe the logical entities of a programming language and their interactions. Syntax defines how these are expressed in characters.
For example, the concept of pointer arithmetic is part of C's semantics; the way the
Sometimes, two languages share part of their semantics, but the syntax differs wildly (e.g. C# and VB.NET - both use value types and reference types, but the characters you type to define them are different); in other cases, two languages are syntactically similar, but the semantics don't match up (consider Java vs. JavaScript, where the similarities often confuse beginners).
I will explain it to you with a simple example in the language
Is a syntactically correct statement. It has a noun, a verb, etc.
But semantically it is wrong, because this statement has no conceivable or correct meaning.
Syntax is how you arrange a language's tokens. Semantics is what those tokens mean (usually, what a particular arrangement of tokens means).
You did not specify whether you only refer to programming languages or to general languages used in programming, so my answer is about data languages (such as XML, RDF, data type systems etc.):
Brian L. Meek in his seven golden rules for producing language-independent standards (1995) writes that "one language's syntax can be another's semantics". He refers to the words "syntax" and "semantic" used in data description: so if you stumble upon these words in a specification of some data format, you should better replace both words with "Potrzebie" to make clear that you must work out the meaning for yourself.
The relation between syntax and semantic, at least in exactly specified data, can better be described by the term "encoding". Semantic is encoded in syntax. As recordings can be nested, one language's syntax is another's semantics. If one goes beyond the realm of data, this nesting can be virtually infinite, as described by Umberto Eco as "unlimited semiosis".
To give a an example:
People usually stop at some level and take it as semantic, but in the end there is no final semantic unless some human being interprets the data in his mind. As soon as one tries to express semantic in form of data, it becomes syntax.
If it can be described in BNF (Backus-Naur Form) or something similar, it's syntax. If it can't, it's not.
Semantics, on the other hand, is about the meaning of a program (or other chunk of source code).
And sometimes the line between the two can be blurry.
One way to understand the distinction is to look at the kinds of errors you get when your program's syntax or semantics is incorrect.
A syntax error is a failure of the source code to match the language grammar, for example, not having a semicolon where one is required.
A semantic error is a failure to satisfy other language requirements (what C, for example, calls "constraints"); an example might be writing
(Logical errors, such as using 1 where 2 would be correct, are not generally detectable by the compiler -- though in some cases a compiler can warn about questionable code.)
Syntax is what the (lexical) symbols say. Semantics is what they mean.
Syntax and semantics is like strategy and tactics or left and right.
They are not really independent universal concepts, but a related pair of words that, when you are in a particular context, indicate opposite directions. But the same thing that is strategy on one scale is tactics on another.
So if you are writing code in a language, the syntax is the language you are using and the desired behaviour is the semantics. But if you are implementing, or discussing, the compiler for that language, then the syntax is the grammar and perhaps type system and the semantics everything built on that. And so on.
Syntax is what the computer understands, semantics is what the human understands.
A compiler/interpreter doesn't care a whit about your design, and in any code compiled down to machine level you'd have a hard time deducing the design. Developers care about design because a good design is about reducing complexity by abstracting complex behaviors and interactions, and different kinds of problems lend themselves to different semantics. The choice of language is largely about how easily and efficiently the semantics you want to use can be expressed in its syntax.
Very short example with "plain c":
In this example, the syntax for the "-" token is the same, but, it has a different meaning ("semantic), depending where its used.
In the "x" assignament, "-" means the "substraction" operation, In the "y" assignament, "-" means the "negative sign" operation.


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'Tookah' is Emiliana Torrini's fourth album and follows 2008's fantastically received 'Me And Armini'. It sees Emiliana back in the studio with her long-term producer / collaborator Dan Carey. As well as Emiliana's three previous albums the pair co-wrote and produced Kylie Minogue's Grammy award-nominated track 'Slow' which went straight to number 1 upon release. 'Jungle Drum' from Emiliana's last album 'Me And Armini' also charted at number 1 in several countries including Germany where it stayed for 9 weeks.
The first single to be taken from 'Tookah' is 'Speed of Dark', which you can listen to HERE.
Of the album Emiliana says:
"For me the first album was learning to write songs, the second was working on my own melodies and lyrics and the last album 'Me and Armini' was about learning to let go. With this record, it's much more about the exploration of sonics and visual landscaping in order to find my own sound. I am a craftswoman and for me this record has been about Dan (Carey) and I evolving and going on a sound journey."
'Tookah' is a made up name or word, which I connected with in a very deep and blissful way. It is the core of you, the you when you were born before life decorated you like a Christmas tree with all your baggage. It is what connects us with everyone and everything. It is what the Sufis spin for. It is the sudden thankfulness you feel when doing nothing in particular, where everything is gently perfect for a moment. Some call it god. I call mine 'Tookah'."
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Is it a violation of halakah to pick your nose (unrefined act, possibly a violation of being a holy nation)? Would there be a difference in halakah if it were the sabbath (possible violation of smoothing)?
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The Gemara (Shabbos 12a) says:
The trend of this passage suggests to me that the halacha would say that if it isn't common decency to pick one's nose in public, one shouldn't do so.
It isn't.
Shulchan Aruch HaRav 92:7 says that one should not touch the Tzoas Ha'Af during Tefila only through a handkerchief (Beged). This would indicate to me that there is no prohibition against picking a nose, since if was prohibited outright then why would it be mentioned as prohibited by Tefila.
Regarding Shabbos - I have heard that HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita has said it is permitted, however I have been unable to source it.
Rabbi Ari Enkin (in the article "Disgusting Behavior") rules not to pick your nose in public. (Though his source is Chagigah 5a, which says a person is judged for doing something disgusting by which his friend is disgusted, and it doesn't single out picking your nose.)
Chacham Ovadia Yosef in Yabia Omer 5:30 writes that picking ones nose is a davar she'eino mitkavein for pulling out hairs and should be permissible, but we are stringent and forbid it when it's a p'sik reisha. He also brings a case of rubbing ones beard is also a p'sik reisha seemingly. He then brings a story of the Arizal who on shabbas touched his beard and left it there until the end of shabbas because of this issue of ripping out hairs. See there.
Perhaps this Medrash can help. The Medrash 67:9 says that whilst Rivka described her animosity for the Bnos Ches to Yitzchok she picked her nose and then flicked the away the booty in order to show her revulsion for them. The language of the Medrash sounds as if she did it by hand. It would seem therefore that this is an acceptable thing to do otherwise Rivka wouldnt have done it. One could say that she permitted herself to do it in order to persuade Yitzchok to send away Yaakov, but seeing that he was blind he wouldnt have been able to see.
The Gemara (Pesahim 112a), as Rashi explains, says that someone who regularly places his hands between his upper lip and his nostrils creates a ladder for Ruah Ra'ah to bring fear into him.


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5 Animals That Can Do Amazing Things ... With Their Penises
#2. Barnacles Are Freakishly Well-Endowed
When asked what they want to be reincarnated as, almost nobody says "barnacle." That's because they don't know enough about barnacles.
As a barnacle you don't have to work a day in your life, you get to travel around the world for free (assuming you're smart enough to live on the hull of a ship or a whale and not some lame-assed rock) and you have largest proportional penis in the known universe. They employ said penis frequently in massive barnacle orgies.
The thing is, barnacles can't move (every day's a Sunday!) so you can see how that would normally stand in the way of an active sex life. Their solution is to all lump themselves together in colonies. But who would want to be stuck mating with the barnacle that just happened to set down roots next to them?
Barnacles are the Bruce Campbell's of the sea.
To solve this problem, evolution and/or the Lord God Almighty teamed up to bless these already lucky little bastards with a really big penis. Like really big.
Can you spot the barnacle in this picture?
Like eight times the length of their body. That's like if you had a 50-foot penis. Scientists say that an equivalent human could, in a threesome, stand on opposite sides of the house from one partner while the other used your looped member like a double-dutch jump rope.
To make the whole barnacle sex scene just a little freakier, they are all hermaphrodites. So if they wanted to they could just mate with themselves, but this is considered to be "for pussies" in barnacle culture.
No, they prefer to mate with anyone and everyone around them using their gigantic junk. If you're thinking that this involves a barnacle reaching out with his lengthy dong and just slapping it around the colony blindly until it lands in a vagina, well, that's pretty much it.
And, of course, if somehow nobody else within their (impressive) dong radius is in the mood, they can always have sex with themselves. And you wanted to be reincarnated as a bald eagle? They don't even have penises.
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#1. Ducks Have Swiss Army Dongs
Ducks are a pretty amazingly boring species until you consider their fantastic genitals. We're talking about junk whose claims to fame includes spikes, corkscrews, booby trapped vaginas and, as far as size goes, well, they can hold their own.
Though that last one raises a question: ducks aren't like barnacles, they don't need a huge spool of penis to reach their mates. They can walk or swim right up to them. Scientists are just as puzzled by this excess you are, and right now their best guess goes by the batshit-insane title of The Penis Lasso Theory.
Ducks, sadly, are assholes who really really like to rape. It's estimated that at least one third of all duck sex is forced, so it's important for ducks to have a way of catching their victims. Hence a cock so long that some scientists honestly believe they wield it like a bull whip.
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The rapey nature of duck mating has led to a bizarre sort of duck genital arms race, with females building greater and more complex vaginal defenses over time. Thus, some duck species' have vaginas that corkscrew in the opposite direction of the males' corkscrew penises, and even have up to eight false pathways to make the intrusive penis take a wrong turn.
Of course, the mere fact that ducks still exist as a species is testament to the increasing ingenuity and dedication of the males' genitals. No one can say for sure how long it will be before ducks abandon flying and take to swinging through the trees like the well-endowed characters in some disturbing furry fan-art, but absolutely everyone agrees that it's only a matter of time. And every sports team in the world will fight to switch their mascot.
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The U.S. smartphone operating system market has solidified into a two-horse race between the Android and iOS platforms. The two platforms now combine for 93 percent of the smartphone market, with Android holding onto a majority share at 51 percent and Apple not far behind at 42 percent. Notably, Apple nearly halved the market share gap over the past... En savoir plus
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#3. Pushball
If you're not familiar with rugby, basically the aim of the sport is to score points by advancing the ball into the opponent's endzone via a series of backward or lateral passes as the opposing team attempts to impede the ball carrier's progress by dog-stomping him into oblivion. Oh, and it's played without pads. If that sounds awesome, just imagine how much more awesome it would be if instead of a ball, they were playing with that boulder from the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Now you're playing Pushball, bitches! Pushball can be played by any number of people, sometimes expanding into the hundreds, with a massive six-foot, 50-pound medicine ball that crushes anything in its path.
The object of the game is to push/roll the ball-slash-boulder into the opponent's endzone, but with the staggering number of players involved, most games eventually dissolve into a full scale riot.
Also, as if regular Pushball wasn't extreme enough, variants of the sport are played on horseback and even on ice, presumably because people in Europe were running out of exciting new ways to paralyze themselves.
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#2. Car Soccer
If that picture looks like a bunch of cars playing soccer with a comically oversized ball, well, let's just assure you that it's not Photoshop.
The one reason soccer (yes, we're an American website) is the most popular sport in the world is because it's the one game anyone can afford to play. All you need is a ball. That means it's clearly time to modify the sport so that it can only be played by people who have a dozen cars they can destroy for each match.
Fortunately we have Car Soccer, which combines the thrill of competitive sport with the excitement of widespread vehicular manslaughter. Demonstrated famously on Top Gear and on the aptly named Carpocalypse TV show, matches in this sport follow the same basic rules of soccer in that players must move a ball up the field in an attempt to score a goal. Only everybody is in cars and smashing into one another.
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#1. Motorcycle Polo
Polo is widely renowned as the sport of kings, and for good reason: It features majestic steeds, graceful plays and a unique synergy between man and animal that is unmatched in any other sport.
Also, mallets.
Throughout most of history only wealthy noblemen could afford to participate, which pretty much guarantees everyone currently reading this article would've been banned from even watching the sport. Luckily, the modern world has found a way to make this contest more accessible and needlessly dangerous.
It's not new; it was back in the 1920s when they decided to replace the four-legged animal with a two-wheeled rumbler and call it Motorcycle Polo. The first such record of the sport being organized and played came from a motorcycle club in Camden, New Jersey where it became a popular attraction among flappers and wiseguys for at least a few years. Since then, Motopolo has caught on and is still being played in Europe and Africa alongside its cousin, Motoball, which is basically soccer for motorcycle gangs who don't like to run.
We could make fun of it, but we're too busy trying to find a sport that wouldn't be improved if played entirely on motorcycles. Imagine how much more exciting baseball would be if every player straddled a custom chopper and base runners did a controlled slide into home plate at 150-mph.
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S&P High Is a Show of Faith in Fed
Investors nudged the broad, widely followed Standard & Poor's 500-stock index into record territory Thursday for the first time since 2007.
The index is closely tracked by professional investors and its four-year recovery since 2009 reflects a growing belief that the Federal Reserve's continuing support for markets and the economy will overcome modest U.S. growth and lingering economic and political weakness in Europe.
Thursday's action—coming on the final trading day of the first quarter—was a small-scale model of the broad debate currently dominating financial markets.
On one side, Italy's difficulty in forming a new government stoked fears that Europe still hasn't dealt with its financial problems, despite the reopening of Cyprus's banks. In addition, new U.S. weekly unemployment claims surprised economists by ticking higher while another report showed soft manufacturing activity in the Midwest.
Offsetting those factors was an upgrade to economists' estimates of economic growth late last year. The revision reinforced a broad investor conviction that Fed stimulus is helping and that the slow improvement will prompt Chairman Ben Bernanke to continue supporting markets for months to come.
The S&P 500 rose just 6.34 points, or 0.41%, to 1569.19, but that was enough to push it past the record 1565.15 hit in October 2007. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 52.38 points, or 0.36%, to 14578.54, also ending the quarter at a new high. The Dow returned to record territory on March 5, ahead of the S&P by three weeks.
"It's a symbolic day…it does mean we've recovered from the experience of the past five years," said Jim Baird, chief investment strategist for Plante Moran Financial Advisors, which manages $7.2 billion in assets. "But I don't think anyone should look at today's move and think it suggests an all-clear, and that there are no worries in the market going forward."
This week, New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley said that at some undetermined point, he will favor scaling back the Fed's $85 billion-a-month bond purchases, the backbone of its stimulus.
But Mr. Dudley and Mr. Bernanke remain committed to supporting markets and the economy as long as needed, which makes many investors shrug off the other comments. Eventually, investor complacency could blind them to signals that the rally is ending, but stock buyers are betting that this will happen later.
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The Dow is up 11% this year—its best first quarter in 15 years—and some money managers have been selling stocks or hedging positions for fear that stocks are overdue for a pullback. But those trying to show stronger gains than competitors say they must either keep buying stocks or risk falling behind. On Thursday, Wells Fargo Advisors said it was projecting that the S&P 500 could rise as high as 1625 this year.
The firm, an affiliate of Wells Fargo WFC -0.33 % & Co., said it was optimistic about economic prospects. It also was in danger of being overtaken by events: Its previous year-end forecast was for the S&P to go as high as 1575. Wells Fargo's strategists joined those of Goldman Sachs GS -1.07 % and Morgan Stanley MS -0.45 % in increasing their forecasts.
The Nasdaq Composite Index, dominated by technology stocks, rose 0.34% to 3267.52 Thursday. It has recovered all its losses from the financial crisis, but remains more than 50% below the record of 5048.62 hit in 2000, during the tech-stock bubble.
The single strongest explanation for stocks' "renaissance" of the past six years has been easy money from the world's central banks, Michael Hartnett, an investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told clients on Thursday.
"Over the past six years there have been 503 global rate cuts, $11.6 trillion of new central-bank liquidity and irrational exuberance in bond markets blessed by policy makers," he said. How much longer will stocks rise "will depend on whether European and Chinese growth expectations recover before reflation in the U.S. and Japan" forces authorities to slow the flow of easy money and kill the rally.
So far, annual inflation has been benign enough that policy makers have largely ignored it, but U.S. consumer prices nevertheless are up 13% since 2007. Stock indexes only recently have moved above their levels of that period, meaning they remain far from records after adjusting for inflation.
Ordinary investors began pushing money back into U.S. stock mutual funds in January and February. Many had sold during the crisis and some appeared to regain confidence as indexes neared records, meaning some had sold low and bought high.
But data from the Investment Company Institute, a mutual-fund trade group, show that net U.S.-stock mutual-fund purchases in March have been inconsistent and weak, raising questions about how enthusiastic the public really is.
The S&P took longer to return to record territory than the Dow partly because the conservatively composed Dow never fell as far at the S&P, which includes a variety of younger, smaller and more-volatile companies. The S&P also is influenced by Apple shares, which have fallen 17% this year.
Because so much of the recovery has depended on the Fed, investors continue to worry that the stock recovery will dry up once the Fed stops pumping money into financial markets.
One reason for investor concern is that the S&P 500, along with most other indexes, has been exceptionally volatile since 2000. In the wake of the financial crisis, it fell to 676.53 on March 9, 2009, down 57% in just 17 months. Just four years later, it has recouped all of that and more.
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Tempting Tuna Casserole
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Everyone is happy when they see a bubbling tuna casserole coming to the table. It'll be gone in no time!
Serves: 5 servings
- 8 ounces small seashell pasta (about 2 3/4 cups)
- 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) low-fat cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
- 1/2 cup nonfat or light sour cream
- 1/2 cup skim or low-fat milk
- 3/4 cup frozen (thawed) green peas
- 1 can (9 ounces) water-packed solid white or albacore tuna, drained
- 1/2 cup shredded nonfat or reduced-fat Cheddar cheese
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- Cook the pasta al dente according to package directions. Drain well, return to the pot, and set aside.
- Place the mushroom soup, sour cream, and milk in a medium-sized bowl, and stir to mix well. Add the soup mixture to the pasta, and toss to mix well. Add the peas, and toss gently to mix. Add the tuna, and toss gently to mix.
- Coat a 2-quart casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray, and spread the mixture evenly in the dish. Cover the dish with aluminum foil.
- Bake at 375°F for 25 minutes, or until the dish is heated through. Remove the foil, spread the cheese over the top, and bake uncovered for 5 additional minutes, or until the cheese is melted. Serve hot.
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5 Jun 2012 11:47 AM #1
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I have a chart with a scatter series within a panel. Depending on my browser's window size, sometimes the panel doesn't fit into the screen -- and a scroll bar appears on the browser. When I scroll down the browser's scrollbars, then the SeriesSelectionEvent or SeriesItemOverEvent does not work properly -- point selections do not seem to be taking into account the outer browser's scroll displacement. I suppose a temporary work-around would be for me to build a scroll bar within the panel, which would likely be detected by the chart? Thanks.
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It's been almost two years since a construction worker became trapped under rubble from a wall collapse at the old U.S. Disciplinary Barracks complex at Fort Leavenworth.
Today, the man is alive and doing well, according to a fort official.
And members of the Fort Leavenworth Fire Department have been honored with an award for their work in rescuing the man.
"This is an honor to recognize you guys," Col. Timothy Wulff, garrison commander of Fort Leavenworth, said Tuesday to firefighters who had assembled for the presentation of the award.
The Fire Department received a Department of the Army Heroism Award.
According to an inscription, the award is for superior service, recognizing the firefighters' life saving efforts.
The construction worker, Kevin Butterfield, reportedly became trapped under four feet of rubble when a portion of an exterior collapsed Aug. 29, 2011, at the old site of the USDB.
Fort Leavenworth Fire Chief J.T. Adair said there was a piece of block hanging from the building as firefighters worked below to rescue Butterfield. Three hours later, after firefighters already had rescued Butterfield, the block fell from the building
Adair said the Fort Leavenworth firefighters put their lives on the line to save someone else's life.
Mac McCowen, director of emergency services at Fort Leavenworth, read comments posted to Facebook by Butterfield that expressed thanks to the Fire Department.
"I could never really thank you enough," McCowen said, reading the Facebook comments.
The award was presented to Adair by Lt. Gen. David Perkins, commander of the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth.
Perkins said Americans take their Army for granted. But he tells soldiers this is a badge of honor. He said people elsewhere in the world don't have the luxury of taking their armies for granted because they don't know what those armies will do.
He said Americans also take their firefighters for granted.
Perkins said the Fort Leavenworth Fire Department has a well earned reputation, and this allows people on post to sleep at night without worry.
Adair noted that other agencies provided assistance the day of the rescue including the Leavenworth Fire Department and Leavenworth County Fire District No. 1. Leavenworth County EMS also responded.
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I had only ubuntu on my laptop, then I installed Windows 7 on other partition. I thought that I will be choosing OS when computer boots, but it always loads Windows 7 and don't give any choose option.
From ancient times it was normal to have XP, then install Linux, it always give choose option, but now I don't know how to configure that things.