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Since the early 1980s, Jean-Luc Moulène has developed a body of work informed
by a critical investigation of authorship as well as issues of autonomy, immanence,
and anarchic politics. Although he is best known for his enigmatic, large-format
photographs, over the course of the past decades, Moulène has maintained a parallel
exploration of materials—manufactured and found, industrial and organic—that he has
collectively titled Opus.
Traditionally, the Latin word opus, meaning "work," has been used to identify musical compositions, providing a system for ordering the complete output of an artist. Although in Moulène's case individual pieces are identified with precise titles and accompanied by the month, year, and city in which the object was fabricated, his use of the term opus alludes to the unique characteristics these works hold within his practice, as well as to the process of production and recurrence of these objects, which total just under one hundred to date. Although selections from the Opus series have been exhibited—first in 2007 in Lisbon, and again in 2009 in Paris and Nîmes— the full scope of their resonance and correspondence with Moulène's broader artistic enterprise has not been examined until now.
After obtaining a degree in art and literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1976, Moulène worked on and off with performance, although photography and drawing, because of their portability and compactness, were his most practiced mediums throughout the 1990s. Yet another form of creative output took form in the early 1980s, when he worked as an "artistic consultant" for the military manufacturer Thomson-Sintra. Moulène would spend almost a decade designing product presentations and learning about organizational hierarchies and industrial secrets. There, surrounded by engineers and factory workers rather than by artists, he retooled a slightly altered definition of what it means to be an artist. Meanwhile, his authorial voice was pointedly influenced through his encounters with the poetry of René Daumal and the irreverent work of Michel Journiac.
Opus + One brings together thirty-nine objects from the Opus series (1995–present) and the photographic work La Vigie (2004–11), part of a broader series titled Documents (1985–present), which also includes Objets de grève (1999–2000) and 48 Palestinian Products (2002–5), in which Moulène strategically depicted, respectively, inventories of personal collections of artifacts manufactured by workers on strike and assortments of consumer goods illegally imported from Palestine. The pairing of these two bodies of work reveals, among other things, Moulène's interest in the overlaps of the social and the political, and in systems and orders—geometry, mathematics, social sciences, and human behavior—as well as his inquiry into the plasticity of materials.
The main gallery at Dia:Beacon is dedicated to the Opus works. Beginning with the wall piece Head Box (2004) to the left, the installation starts with an acknowledgment of the viewer's body as part of a collective body. Emphasizing a horizontal scanning of the room on the part of the viewer, the works have been installed in a grid of tables whose interrelating axes undermine predictable classifications of figuration and abstraction. Moulène's objects—some handmade and some industrially manufactured— employ a diverse array of natural and manmade materials, including bronze, cement, fiberglass, plaster, tobacco, and wood. The physical experience of Moulène's Opus is highly informed by the materials and also by their scale. His decision to display each object on a table or a slab of concrete on the floor, rejecting the common pedestal or plinth, accentuates a relationship to prototypes or scale models. Indeed, the objects' tabletop dimensions in certain instances grant them the quality of being maquettes, or architectural models for potential monuments (Tricolore, 2009) or buildings (Model for Sharing, 2007).
A certain sense of abstraction may be found in Moulène's three-dimensional work, which is predicated on a set of speculative principles. Once constructed these works provide ambitious, unimaginable forms that playfully compromise representation. Like many of his predecessors, from Donald Judd to Michelangelo Pistoletto, Moulène has declined to use the term sculpture, choosing object instead. This semantic preference affirms Moulène's kinship with the common and the habitual in his quest for an alternative process of creation that relates most closely to the act of issuing a manifesto. Each of the Opus works offer a different formal response from the alternative that preceded it. "People have spoken of the image-object," Moulène says. "I speak of image and object, of photograph and product, both transformed. What interests me are the functions of transformation. What then is an ordinary object? What orders organize it, construct and transform it? In concrete terms, the question comes down to: can one produce any nondescript ['quelconque'] object with exactitude?"1 Moulène's interest in transformation takes on new dimensions in the next gallery, which is dedicated to a single oversized Opus titled Body (2011). The colossal scale of the form—an exception to the majority of Moulène's proposals—masks the modesty of its origins. According to sketches and three-dimensional renderings in the artist's studio, Body was generated by Moulène's recent focus on topological structures or what is known in mathematics as bifurcation theory (an interest that appears also in Fig. Bifur. [Bifurcated Figure] and Etude pour Body—maquette III, 2009). Moulène worked closely with a group of automotive engineers at the Renault manufacturing plant in Guyancourt, France, to generate the molds for the twelve bands that together produce the overall form.
"Making a work from cuts," as the artist describes it, has been a recurring method and process whereby Moulène interrogates the notion of a unifying whole. In this instance, the lines that "cut" apart the whole are joined together without the need for an interior structure. The space inside Body is implicitly empty, and for Moulène it recalls Antonin Artaud's "body without organs," from his infamous 1947 radio play To Have Done with the Judgment of God.2 Moulène's Body is a vehicle without a motor—a shell, an autonomous carcass freed from function, and therefore infused with inevitable subjectivity and receptivity. It is not incidental that there are no visible openings in Body that might allow a peek into its interior. On the contrary, there are only seamless cuts that merge so tightly into one another as to become illegible, creating a plasticity of surface that is at once familiar and yet uncanny. Moulène has frequently maintained that "negation is the founding act of creation," arguing that "you need to be able to articulate a negative position with a position of affirmation in the outside world: if creating is negation, showing is an act of affirmation."3 The manufactured surface of Body, which infuses the artwork with the technical semantics of automobiles and with the alienated labor of assembly-line workers, offers the "negation" that Moulène considers to be a condition of art.
The third gallery at Dia:Beacon contains La Vigie, a photographic work centered on a single subject: Paulownia tomentosa, an ornamental plant generally known as the "Princess Tree," which grows in the cracks of sidewalks and buildings. Comprising 299 photographs, printed in color and in black-and-white, the work chronicles, over the span of seven years, the evolving appearance of one such plant in the Parisian neighborhood surrounding the Ministry for the Economy, Industry, and Employment. La Vigie, which roughly translates as "The Lookout Man," borrows part of its title from the official name of France's national security system known as the Vigipirate. Parallel to Moulène's documentation of the ever-shifting urban landscape of barricades, stanchions, and bollards is the reciprocal "gaze" of the plant: an outsider, camouflaged within the topography of the city, and growing despite the hostility of its environs. The images are organized in two rows: the top one focusing chronologically and continuously on the plant, and the bottom one focusing randomly and discontinuously on the plant's surroundings. This strategy of opposition recalls the artist's earlier work Disjonctions (Disjunctions) (1985–89), which employed an operation of "disjunctions that declare a rupture with continuity in favor of discontinuity and ultimately difference,"4 the idea being that knowledge in the street and knowledge in the studio are the same: formulations, prophesies, and proposals that generate new forms in real time and space. The systematic classification and documentation found in La Vigie resonate with the overriding principle governing the installation in the Opus gallery.
The last section of the exhibition, located at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, New York, is dedicated to a newly commissioned work titled Monochromes/Samples (2011), which is part of an ongoing series of single-color wall-objects painted in signature hues (black, blue, red, green) that examine the notion of industrial "standards." Using a palette knife to apply the "paint," in this instance Bic® liquid ink, and treating the physical qualities of the ink as malleable matter, Moulène renders glossy surfaces of furtive tactility. Moulène's inked boards appear to pay homage to Flavin's own study of the standardized products—fluorescent lamps—that would become his preferred medium in the creation of his light environments. The monochrome, nevertheless, is a recurring motif in Moulène's work, dating back to the Disjonctions series, when he made Le grand monochrome rouge and Le monochrome jaune Kodak, and later on in the multipart Opus entitled Bleu Gauloises bleus (2000), included in the presentation at Dia:Beacon.
Anticipation plays a crucial role both in the creative process and in the viewing experience. Between the poles of an intuitive pursuit of the unknown and the precision of a premeditated approach lies a type of work that is ever-pending and in a state of constant calibration. In Moulène's work, anticipation extends beyond the working process into what appears to be an uninterrupted state of perpetual becoming—a continuous event that postpones resolution on the part of the viewer. In all its forms— still and moving images, tabletop objects, and freestanding floor pieces—Moulène's work is informed by a vigorous investigation into the realm of the possible, animated by, as the artist has stated, "the desire to attempt to describe the world" yet without authorizing a finite conclusion.5
—Yasmil Raymond, Curator, Dia Art Foundation
1 Jean-Luc Moulène, interview with Briony Fer, in Jean-Luc Moulène (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König; Nîmes: Carré d'art—Museé d'art contemporain de Nîmes, 2009), p. 139.
2 See To Have Done with the Judgment of God (Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu) in Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings, ed. Susan Sontag, trans. Helen Weaver (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).
3 Moulène, interview with Fer, p. 134.
4 Jean-Luc Moulène, in conversation with the author in New York, November 21, 2011.
5 Jean-Luc Moulène, in conversation with the author in New York, November 11, 2010


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Setting the Table
- Plates
- Silverware
- Napkins
- Glasses
- When you aren't using your best china, have your child help you set the table.
- Have her count the number of people who will be eating, then count out the same number of knives, forks, spoons, plates, napkins, and so on.
- Show her how to place everything on the table properly.
- For younger children, you may want to set the plates and other breakables yourself, and have your child help you with silverware and napkins-- unless, of course, you are using paper plates!
Copyright © 1998 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Preschooler's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.
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NEW YORK � Hey, Mr. Mom.
What�s up, Workaholic?
Whether they say it out loud or acknowledge it at all, that work-home divide traditionally reserved for the Mommy Wars can also rear between dads who go off to the office every day and the kind in the trenches with the kids.
There are bound to be rifts, given the growing league of dads staying home at least part-time. But do the paths of work dads and home dads intertwine enough to make them care quite so deeply as the ladies? How exactly are they perceived, not by researchers or journalists, but by each other?
�To be a stay-at-home dad requires a lot of confidence in who you are,� said Paxton Helms, 41, in Washington, D.C.
He became one about four years ago, when his daughter was 3 months old. A son followed, and he now takes part-time contracts as an international development consultant, with flexible hours. His wife also works part-time.
�The strangest thing that ever happened to me as a (stay-at-home dad) was riding on the Metro with both my kids and a guy asking me, �So where�s Mom?� I couldn�t even think why in the world somebody would be asking me that question, so I couldn�t even muster an answer,� he said.
Other at-home dads worry about jealousy from working brethren (What are they really thinking about all that time spent with the women?). Or suspicion that they�re out of work. And dads on both sides of the divide report the occasional cold shoulder.
�It seems that they try to avoid me or don�t want to talk about what life is like for them,� said dad-of-one Donald DeLong, 55, a Bloomfield Township, Mich., attorney who acknowledges a �deeply rooted need to work and `earn a living.��
�When I do talk to them, the topics stay guy-safe. That is, sports, cars. After all, we�re both still guys. We don�t talk about that sensitive touchy-feely stuff.�
Other at-home dads, those by choice or pushed out of the job market, said they�ve endured some snark, but they consider it more of a dad-on-dad discomfort than a serious divide.
Martin Weckerlein, 33, is among them. He simply doesn�t have the time to care. He was a tank commander in the Germany military, then a bank worker for six years before he gave it up to be an at-home for his three kids, ages 8, 3 and 9 months. The family lives in suburban Washington, D.C., where his wife has a government job.
�When I�m with other dads who are my age, whether they work or stay at home, they tend to be pretty accepting and even curious as to how that works that we can afford me staying home, what I do during the day with the kids, and they say it must be nice to have that time,� he said.
�When I am talking with men who aren�t fathers or who are older, their questions usually focus on what my career goals are after I am done being home with my kids. They seem to assume this is only a temporary thing for our family, a pause in my career for a few years, instead of an investment in our family,� Weckerlein explained.
Yes, Mr. Mom comes up, the newest iteration in the shape of Chris Rock and his goofy band of dads with infants strapped to their chests in the movie �What to Expect When You�re Expecting.�
It�s been nearly 30 years since Michael Keaton was that guy on screen, setting the kitchen on fire and making his kids miserable in �Mr. Mom,� but the lingering moniker feels more like yesterday for Weckerlein and other at-home dads.
�I hate that phrase, Mr. Mom. I can�t imagine my wife going into the office and saying, �Hi everyone, it�s Mrs. Dad,�� said Dan Zevin, a humorist, at-home dad to two and author of a new book, �Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad.�
In Boston, 32-year-old Nolan Kido is no stereotype. He�s the exhausted at-home dad of an 11-week-old daughter as his wife completes her dental education. He deferred work on his Ph.D in accounting after doing some recession-era math: his earning power versus her earning power in the face of more than $360,000 in student loans.
�At the very beginning they were a little weirded out, like what do we talk about, what�s the common themes, but now the impression that I get more is actually jealousy,� he said of his working dad friends. �It�s not, like, mean kinds of things but just, �Oh, I wish I could stay home� or �Oh, I�d love to go to that park.��
The number of at-home dads who are primary caregivers for their children reached nearly 2 million in 2010, or one in 15 fathers, according to one estimate. Al Watts, president of the National At-Home Dad Network, believes a more accurate count is about 7 million, using broader definitions that include part-time workers. That amounts to one-third of married fathers in the U.S.
Most, he said, want to be there, as opposed to the kind who never thought about it until the ax fell on their careers. And more often than women, they do earn a bit of income at the same time, he said.
Watts, in Omaha, Neb., has been home with kids for a decade, since the oldest of his four was a baby. He sees a subtle shift in attitudes emanating from working dads.
�Eight years ago, one of my wife�s customers, when he found out that I was an at-home dad he said, �Oh you know, I�d really love to do that.� I knew what he really meant was that he assumed he could then just hang out at home and play video games and watch TV and not have to go to work anymore,� Watts said.
�Now when I have those conversations, they�re generally like, �You know, I really wish I could do that� But then they find out I have four kids and they�re like, �Well, I couldn�t do that��
The raised eyebrows, pregnant pauses and need to hide their real interests � shopping, crossing guard duty, laundry � for more generic work-dad friendly fare is tedious sometimes for Trey Parker, 32, in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta.
With a full-time working wife and two boys, ages 2 and 9 months to care for, a trip to Costco holds more allure than last night�s game or chatter about sales quotas.
�It�s a little harder to speak with guys who are corporate dads,� Parker said. �At Christmas parties and stuff like that, there�s absolutely nothing in common with them. They�re either talking about sports or whatever sales or whatnot they have going on at the office, and you can�t comment on any of that stuff. You�re naturally drawn to the women because they�re talking about the kids and the family.�
Weckerlein wasn�t used to the idea that wanting to stay home with the kids was something other than perfectly natural: �It�s kind of surprising that this is really a big deal because in the 21st century I thought we could think a little bit different. But yes, I get that `Mr. Mom.��
There won�t be any of that from 41-year-old Marty Guise in St. Louis, but he does feel the distance.
He has a full-time job and a part-time one to pay the bills. The consultant for nonprofit organizations has two kids, ages 13 and 11. His wife quit her teaching job to be home but now works as a substitute.
�`What do you do for a living?� is a pretty common ice breaker,� he said. �When a man tells me that he stays at home, it�s usually preceded by or followed quickly with a justification, like `I lost my job.� I receive that as a defense for staying at home. Right or wrong, men like to be the breadwinners.�
He quickly adds: �I think it�s devaluing of men or women to say that staying at home is any less important than working 40-plus hours a week.�
Do you miss having a real job?
Tony Reynolds, 47 and at-home dad for 11 years, has heard it all since a downsize at a large insurance company solidified his decision to be home in suburban Columbus, Ohio, with his two youngest boys from a second marriage.
�The other dads make snide comments or ask bizarre questions sometimes,� he said. �I say it IS a real job and I bet you couldn�t do it.�
Once pretty much by himself with the moms all day, the economy has driven some of his former dad doubters his way.
�One used to say `I wish my wife made so much money so I could stay home,� then he lost his job and started taking care of the kids and was like, `Wow, this is a lot of work,�� Reynolds said.
�Another used to drive a Mercedes,� he added. �He�s now a crossing guard at the school. I got him the gig.�


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Happy New Year! It shouldn't only be thought of as a new year, rather, a time that you really put your mind at ease by dumping your thoughts out of your head and taking action. No more contemplating about eating healthier. No more trying to get to the gym. Make it your way of life and start uncluttering your mind (Tool #1 in Breaking the Chains of Obesity, 107 Tools) by physically planning out your day, your meals, your exercise time, and all the things pertaining to yourself. Life is a very precious gift. Your body is even more precious. Allow yourself the ability to be successful this year by planning your lifestyle and then working the plan. If going to your favorite Spin teacher's class every Tuesday night, for example, puts you in the best of moods, then why wouldn't you give yourself that reward after a hard day's work? You are the only one who can make it happen! No more excuses. Just as you show up to business meetings, show up to your scheduled exercise program time and fuel your body with Mother Nature's best! Remember, you are number one!
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Fort Rucker - As General Crutchfield took to the air Friday afternoon for his last flight, there was a mixture of wind, cheers, and tears amongst those waiting to bid farewell to the Fort Rucker commanding general.
Crutchfield said he's sad to see his time run out in the Wiregrass.
"It's like a security blanket being here. The people around us are wonderful and they're genuine. When they say they support us and they love us, they mean it," he said.
Crutchfield has been flying the Apache helicopter since 1986. He said during his last flight, all he thought about was flying, but once he landed it was a different story.
"I was thinking about how sad it is that I'm leaving. I was thinking about not being drowned. I was thinking about I hope I was nice to my wife yesterday," he said.
For those waiting in line to shake his hand or hug his neck, they were thinking about the difference Crutchfield has made at Fort Rucker in the past two years.
"He got us back in the right direction as far as the development of our officers go. Other than that he's just a good person who is truly sincere and passionate about his career and his people," said Chief Warrant Officer Mike Reese.
With soldiers waiting to be trained, Crutchfield is most proud of eliminating the backlog that had existed for nearly 8 years. He said getting soldiers trained rapidly kept others from extra deployments.
However, he was quick to point out Fort Rucker is being left in great hands.
"This place will continue to run without Tony Crutchfield. I am not naive to think it won't. It will continue to be a great place. That's what the army is about. It's about change," said Crutchfield.
As part of that change, Crutchfield now heads to Hawaii as the chief of staff of U.S. Pacific Command. Crutchfield is the first army officer to ever hold this position.
As for his legacy at Fort Rucker, he had one last thing to say.
"I hope to be remembered for my positive attitude, being upbeat, and taking care of soldiers' families. That's what I tried to do," said Crutchfield.
He will relinquish command to Major General Kevin Magnum August 10.


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Is there an explicit construction of a Hamel basis of the vector space of real numbers $\mathbb R $ over the field of rational numbers $\mathbb Q $?
It is consistent with the axioms of ZFC that there is a Hamel basis of $\mathbb{R}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ with complexity $\Delta^1_2$ in the descriptive set theoretic hierarchy. This is true, for example, in the constructible universe $L$, where there is a $\Delta^1_2$ well-ordering of the reals, as I explain in this MO answer, which is closely related to this question. Complexity $\Delta^1_2$ is a surprisingly low complexity, since such a set (and its complement) can both be obtained by starting with a certain closed set in $\mathbb{R}^3$, projecting it to $\mathbb{R}^2$, taking the complement, and projecting down to $\mathbb{R}$, and so it would seem to count as fairly explicit.
Meanwhile, there can never be a Hamel basis of $\mathbb{R}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ that is Borel, that is, with complexity $\Delta^1_1$, since from any Borel Hamel basis one can produce a non-Lebesgue measurable set of the same complexity by the Vitali argument (remove an element, take the span of the other elements, and consider its cosets). But of course every Borel set is Lebesgue measurable.
At the same time, it is a consequence of the existence of large cardinals that every projective set of reals is Lebesgue measurable, and in this case, there can be no projective Hamel basis for $\mathbb{R}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$, again by the Vitali argument. The projective hierarchy of sets arises by closing the Borel sets under continuous images, as well as complements, countable unions and intersections. Thus, in such a situation, there can be no easily-described Hamel basis for $\mathbb{R}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$.
If you have such a basis, you also have a subspace of co-dimension 1, and this turns out to be a Vitali set, that is quite a non-constructible object. For details, e.g. check this answer and this.
Arnie Miller has shown that if V=L then one can do a bit better than what Joel said; there will be a $\Pi^1_1$ Hamel basis for the reals over the rationals. The reference is "Infinite combinatorics and definability," Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 41 (1989) 179-203. This paper also improves the complexity bound from $\Delta^1_2$ to $\Pi^1_1$ for several other constructions under the hypothesis V=L.


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The 6 Most Overhyped Technologies
Contrary to what you learned in your economics classes, the market isn't always about supply and demand. Sometimes it's the opposite: supplying some technology nobody wanted, then trying to create the demand for it with hype.
Ultimately it's the technology that suffers, as the public slowly gets more and more pissed off that it isn't as awesome as USA Today or the salesman at Best Buy told them it would be.
These are some of the most egregious examples.
#6. High-Definition TVs
Last year Best Buy reported huge numbers of unexpected returns of high-definition TVs because many who bought the sets thought the picture looked "like someone rubbed cat shit on the screen." How is this possible? That's the entire point of HD TV--its ability to render today's most visually intense shows in crystal-clear detail.
Root Problems:
Consumer confusion, slow adoption.
It turns out the problem doesn't lie with the televisions; it lies with the people who buy them. Or, you could say it lies in the industry's inability to explain to those people what they're buying. It seems obvious to us computer- literate and sexually confident Internet users that if you buy an HDTV you still need an HD source--a special box from your cable company or satellite provider--to get an HD picture. But to your average Joe, who's used to plugging one wire into the back of his TV, this can be a frustrating realization.
"What do you mean I need special cables?"
"What do you mean I need to rent a little box with it?"
"What do you mean I'll have to pay more monthly for the HD plan?"
"What do you mean my DVD player isn't high definition? What's 'Blu-ray?'"
Then he goes into the other room and kicks his dog. This is the true face of animal abuse in America today: frustrated A/V installations.
from FlatPanelTV.org
According to a recent Nielsen study half of the people who own HD television sets don't use them with a high-definition source. Many of them don't even know.
That's a problem, because if you happen to watch any standard definition channels on your HD TV, you'll find the picture is now distorted on your widescreen set. If we wanted to see what Katie Couric looks like 40 pounds heavier, we'd Photoshop her head onto a fat guy's body, like any normal person.
Sure you can fiddle with the picture settings to sort of resolve this; it'll likely require a couple of hours on the phone with a support center in India, and the resulting picture will still be a grainy mess. This is why Best Buy is getting irate customers dragging in returned sets with shattered holes in the screen the exact size and shape of an angry fist.
Eventually these problems will fade away, once the only type of television on store shelves is HD, and the only type of cable is HD, and the only type of DVD players for sale is HD. Mr. Johnny Average Consumer Idiot* won't have to take a six-week course to figure out what terms like HDMI and 1080p mean, because everything will be figured out for him.
*Not a real person. If this is your real name, we are sorry. For a couple reasons.
#5. eBooks
Sometime in the late 1990s, when seemingly every noun in the English language was getting prefixed with an "e" or an "i" by clever marketing types, some young firebrand decided that the book, an invention that had served mankind faithfully for several decades, wasn't good enough anymore. These visionaries reasoned that people would much rather read everything on a computer screen all the time, because computers were rad ("rad" still being used in its un-ironic sense at the time).
Root Problems:
Bad screens, bad batteries, l337 W@rez Pir@te5.
As it turns out, computer screens are miserable, hateful things to read on. People read on computers because they have to, not because they want to. Modern "electronic-ink" technology had improved the readability of ebooks somewhat, but other technological challenges remain--most notably, battery life. As an example, our favorite book here in the Cracked offices--the novelization of Batman Begins--never needs its batteries recharged. Can an ebook ever make that claim?
Actually, what exactly is the advantage to carrying an ebook? An MP3 player is great because it prevents us from having to carry a backpack with 100 CDs in it. An ebook isn't any more convenient to carry around than a paperback, and you can use the latter to swat a fly if you need to.
Probably the biggest obstacle, though, is piracy. We all know what happened when MP3s arrived on the scene. Internet pirates began treating the music industry in a delicate manner normally reserved for prison rapes. Wherever publishers are offering content for download, there is someone out on Gnutella offering it for free. As it is for music and movies and software, it will be for books.
Given the hurdles, we can't imagine ebooks taking off any time in the near future, even if they are probably inevitable in the long run (when we run out of trees, if nothing else). What seems most likely is that "ebooks" won't be separate devices at all, just a way to read the books on the next generation of all-in-one devices (a cell phone/MP3 player/PDA/taser). Why people in the future will still choose to read novels when they're constantly bombarded with opportunities to download clips of the popular future television show "Fisting With The Stars" is harder to say.
#4. Municipal Wi-Fi
"Muncipal Wi-Fi" is the idea that if Wi-Fi hotspots could be carefully laid out in a city--say, one on every lamppost--then everyone in that city would have free (or cheap) Internet access. This has made the news a few times over the last couple years as various cities have announced they were going to roll it out, in an effort to fulfill an oft-forgotten part of the American Dream.
Root Problems:
Nobody wants to pay for it.
Obviously to get that kind of ubiquitous Wi-Fi signal, someone (specifically, someone else) has to actually set up and maintain all of these Wi-Fi hotspots. That means the local government has to hire a company to do it, which would be great if that company was willing to do it for free (like if it was owned by a kind old billionaire who just likes giving things to people).
Otherwise, the money has to come from somewhere and nobody is quite sure where. Everything from monthly user fees, to tax increases to ad-supported access has been suggested.
Compounding these problems is that it costs way more than was anticipated to get the cities wired up. The ones who'd actually maintain the hotspots, network engineers, generally don't like being outdoors in the first place and so they probably charge extra.
Even Google, which is fully capable of buying and selling our comedy-writing asses several billion times over, was only willing to set up Municipal Wi-Fi in their own idyllic small town. What hope does an unpopular and unattractive city like, say, Chicago, have? In most cities, the people will take to the street with torches and pitchforks when a tax increase is imposed to put a new roof on the school. What will they do when they're asked to fork over money to give everyone in the city free access to YouTube?


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Almond Fruit Whip
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Simmered fruit whipped up in a blender and topped with yogurt and nuts is a healthy and delicious dessert.
Serves: serves 4
- 2/3 cup fresh orange juice
- 2 oz (60 g) dried apricots
- 4 oz (125 g) raisins
- 1 lb (500 g) fresh ripe apricots, nectarines, or peaches
- juice of 1 lemon
- 6 oz (150 g) natural yogurt
- 2 oz (60 g) sliced almonds
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- Simmer gently over low heat until the fruit is soft and plump.
- Wash the apricots, nectarines, or peaches, cut into chunks, and purée in a blender or food-processor with the lemon juice.
- Mix the fresh fruit purée with the dried fruit purée and stir in the yogurt.
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Certainly a nice set, but is all the extra content and pretty box worth an extra $200? And that's the discounted price. Really? Really?
@tgall45: I have seen this in person at a friend's house who collects these sort of sets and it is by far one of the most impressive cases I've seen. It is huge, like the size of a microwave, and has secret compartments for all the extra stuff. If you collect HP stuff it is totally worth that much.
Although It may not be worth it for the average fan It also includes all the the extra special features which don't come on the normal box sets.


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Four athletes from the Men's Soccer team, and one Women's Soccer player were recognized with All-Conference honors this week from the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference, as the conference named their All-Conference teams.
Two Pratt Community College defenders received Second Team recognition, Joe Pena (sophomore from Liberal, Kan.), and Dominic Swindler (freshman from Wichita, Kan.), as well as goalkeeper Scott Robertson (sophomore from Burnley, England).
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We are drowning in a sea of information overload. Every day, television channels, email, books and music assault our senses with far too much content. The volume of content on the internet and generated by applications is literally exploding. Not only traditional media but millions of individual users are putting their own content on the web. The massive popularity of YouTube is just one example of this phenomenon. In this flood, how do you distinguish between content that matters to you from all the rest? How can you easily discover information, multimedia content and entertainment that matches your interests or preferences? How do you deal with this crisis of choice?
Well, Software Engineers at the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) are working on a project that allows for the quick creation of prototype solutions that help people solve this crisis of choice.
In this video, Ron Mevissen, Lead Developer of the EMIC Home team, gives an introduction to the topic of information overload and the project that he and colleagues are working on. He also demonstrates the Media Center recommender prototype that helps you find interesting TV programs. After that, Stefan Hirtbach shows a recommender for Outlook that helps you decide the importance of email - which email should I read now, which one can wait. Rich Hanbidge shows a recommender for Xbox Live that helps you find interesting items such as downloadable videos, games, etc. offered by Xbox Live. Rene Hülswitt demos the Virtual Earth recommender that helps find interesting POI (points of interests) such as restaurants or tourist attractions near you.
The EMIC in Aachen, Germany was founded in 2003 and is a Microsoft Research & Development facility. The German lab is unique to Microsoft in its focus on collaborative applied research in Europe. EMIC works in the context of development programs sponsored by the European Commission and the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Its research is focused on enterprise, mobility, home, security, software verification and embedded systems.
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Both sound intesity and pressure level are measured in dB. Given a specific sound, are these two dB values the same?
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Both sound intesity and pressure level are measured in dB. Given a specific sound, are these two dB values the same?
The first thing to understand is that dB is a logarithm of a ratio. More specifically, a logarithm of a ratio of power/power (which is why dB has no units). A Bel is the base-10 logarithm of a power ratio. A decibel slices each Bel into ten parts.
Power is power. It does not matter whether it is sound or electricity or whatever. And dB always refers to a ratio of power.
In most sound references, "dB" means "dB in reference to (as a ratio over) 'X'." Where 'X' is a reference level. I think the reference used is the sound pressure which is the threshold of human hearing. So a sound with 10 times the POWER of that reference would be 10 dB. A sound with POWER 100 times the reference would be 20 dB.
The answer to your question is: It can be. Sound intensity (if expressed as a pressure) and Sound Pressure Level (SPL) are the same. But neither is power. Sound power is proportional to sound pressure squared. Thus, if you increase sound PRESSURE by a factor of 10, you have increased POWER by a factor of 10^2 = 100. These two actions are synonomous, and result in a 20dB increase. Note that I did not explicitly state what increased by 20dB in that last sentence... because it is ALWAYS power.
So, you need to watch your units, and make sure the other guy is watching his. If he doubles his POWER level, that is a 3 dB increase. If he doubles his sound PRESSURE, that is a 6dB increase. If he doubles his sound INTENSITY, you need to nail down whether that is in units of pressure or power.
I hope that helped.
I think so, yes. They are both measures of the loudness of what we hear. If $L_p$ is the sound pressure level and $L_i$ is the sound intensity, then: \begin{equation} L_p =20 \log_{10}\left(\frac{p_{\mathrm{rms}}}{p_{\mathrm{ref}}}\right)\mbox{ dB} = 10 \log_{10}\left(\frac{{p_{\mathrm{{rms}}}}^2}{{p_{\mathrm{ref}}}^2}\right)\mbox{ dB} \end{equation} The intensity of the sound wave, however, is proportional to the square of the sound pressure, or $I \propto p_{\mathrm{rms}}^2$. This gives: \begin{equation} L_p = 10 \log_{10}\left(\frac{{p_{\mathrm{{rms}}}}^2}{{p_{\mathrm{ref}}}^2}\right)\mbox{ dB} = 10 \log_{10}\left(\frac{{I_{\mathrm{{rms}}}}}{{I_{\mathrm{ref}}}}\right)\mbox{ dB} = L_i \end{equation}


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12 Oct 2012 11:24 AM #31
I would encourage Sencha to seriously evaluate TypeScript and not dismiss it outright. We recognize you need to push the plugin and sell it to the Eclipse crew to recoup your investment but don't ignore the entire MS use case...that's just bad business.
13 Oct 2012 1:54 AM #32
+1, for typescript definition files!
13 Oct 2012 9:43 AM #33
14 Oct 2012 6:48 PM #34
We have been discussing this internally for some time, so we are definitely not just dismissing this potentially significant development in the JS world. The fact that the definition files can be separated from the core of the framework is also a big plus, obviously.
No decisions yet, but stay tuned.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
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14 Oct 2012 6:58 PM #35
Strong type?? Just good for IDE Intellisense...Ext Every Day!
15 Oct 2012 12:18 AM #36
15 Oct 2012 1:48 AM #37
The way I see it, commenting conventions, syntax subsets and appropriate tooling can cover 99% of the use case of typescript.
15 Oct 2012 3:18 AM #38
Seriously though, I don't care if it's done via comment annotations or language extensions like TS. I just want:
a) robust static analysis that will identify incorrect properties / methods etc (JSLint on steroids)
b) better intellisense that will help especially with a)
JS is mature technology but so far no one has stepped forward with a working solution. Hence I'm very interested in TS.
15 Oct 2012 6:24 AM #39
For me PHPStorm is "JSLint on steroids". It's pretty smart about interpreting code, and I believe it also parses doc comments to analyse types. But I wouldn't say it's good enough yet (it often gets things wrong in my ExtJS code).
16 Oct 2012 2:03 AM #40
Time to lift the bar Sencha
I am very dissapointed in the dismissive attitude from Sencha to, but not surprised, ExtJs is a great framework but the coding environment is one of the worst I have seen and Ive been in the game for 30 years, and have built a lot of complex commercial products in that time on a number of OS's and languages.
I can understand why Sencha are pushing back, they are likely to get some decent editors that people like me will move to if they dont make something that provides basic functionality. The comment just write correct javascript reinforces this feeling, I have spent a lot of time learning what Sencha think is correct, there is not common thread. Make it easier to code what you call correct javascript.
All I needed was a class browser, syntax checking, code completion, doesnt need to to full static types... just something that tells me all of the overloaded operators for the methods etc.
If you guys are so good at making the framework why not make a simple set of tools to navigate the framework. I tried the tools in your toolkits, they were not worth paying for.
If Sencha don't embrace typescript and lift the bar and do better than Microsoft, Microsoft will eat into your customer base.
BTW I was prepared to buy the Sencha support but to be honest it did not give me the help I needed to get my app to where I need it to be.
I am still sad about that, as it the framwork is great.
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Is it ok not to have a regular color when presenting my logo?
I am thinking about having a defined list of colors for different use cases but will this take away from my brand?
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When we have enough players, should we separate the players into club groups depending on where they have played in their careers eg. Crewe to find the players easier?
Not imo, that would be A LOT of work and wouldn't make it much easier imo - its in alphabetical order anyway.
Regarding the Scott Sinclair page, I've put a little bit on about the Chelsea one so it is clear why there was a new page made.
I'd like to have sub-categories for the player profiles.
But having a page per club would take AGES surely?
I would prefer a page per club, as it would look neater. It don't think it would take as long as you would think.
We could also split that page into Current Players and Past Players.
So, for example, Robinho would be in the current players section for Man City but in the past players section for Real Madrid.
I don't think we'll have enough pages to have one per club in ages - Sorting them by nationality would be a start.
Although, judging by the speed that they are going up, we may need it in clubs quite soon.
Another idea that we could do is sort them by clubs but focus on getting all the Premiership, Seria A and La Liga players done first so, that we have the three 'biggest' leagues in the world's players done.
I did do that but i'm just adding players from certain clubs atm. I'll go back to the DOB system if that would be better.
I never knew that was how he added players
Interesting system.
Any way suits me. To be fair I'm in no position to comment because I never really contribute to the player profiles.
I'm not really too familiar with the Wiki, but it seems like there's no LLM page on it. Is there a place for this, should I add one? Or try to get a more experienced LLMer to add one?
Will do
Sorry for no participating at all on the wiki for the past few months, but can the creators of the small club to big club challenges start making articles on the wiki?
Just for clarification, I've started writing an "LLM" article. This is purely based on the LLM Forum on these boards. Is that wrong? Well, not so much wrong, but in your opinion should it still have the title LLM? I ask this because most people seem to regard LLM as managing in a lower division, but according to the LLM board, it isn't.
There may be a problem with that, I don't really know what 'regular' LLM is.
Did you ask Iajafer for permission?
No... gulp.
Probably best you ask him can we use his stuff (assuming that you took it from a previous thread in LLM). If he doesn't want this info on the wiki well then so be it, not much we can do about it.
I've made a 'Premier League' page, with links to the English, Scottish, Russian and Ukranian Premier Leagues. Does it look alright?
Looks good mate.
I've added a rename user tool for Admin so that you have something in place now should idiots join up with stupid names again
Cool, thanks JJay
Done pages for various players, uploaded the other screenies from the 'request a screenie' thread in gptg and added club profiles for Fluminese and both Milan clubs.
All of the screenies i've uploaded have no accents, circumflexes etc. and have no capitals in the name of the files.
Good work!
Keep it up!
692 articles now, good work guys.
I'd like to ask, does the "Selected Article" change? Because it has been MLS for a while now.
Also, you could make the bold print at the start of the selected article link to the actual article itself.
I think we can change it outselves, by editing this page of the main page;
It would be do able to edit it - shall I give it a go? If it doesn't work I'll just undo the edit.
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Selected Article
| style="color:#000;" |[[Image:MajorLeagueSoccer.png | right | Major League Soccer|150px]]
'''Major League Soccer (MLS)''' is the top flight professional soccer league in the [[America|United States]] and [[Canada]]. There are currently 14 teams in the MLS, 13 from the [[America|U.S.]] and 1 from [[Canada]], in [[Football Manager 2009]] (Currently, there are 15 teams, with the addition of Seattle Sounders FC. However, this team is unplayable in [[Football Manager 2009]]). The MLS season runs from April to November, and the season lasts for 30 games. After the season, the MLS Cup Playoffs commence, ending with the MLS Cup at a neutral venue to determine the MLS Champion. '''([[Major League Soccer|more...]])'''
So, for skins, it would be;
I think.
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{| id="mp-right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top; background:#f5faff;"
Selected Article
| style="color:#000;" |[[Image:Kwon jae-hyun.jpg|180px|thumb|right|steklo09 skin]]
A '''skin''' changes the layout & general look & feel of your Football Manager game. Skins can change the colour and layout of things like the buttons, menus, panels and text. Changing the layout of a skin is one of the most challenging things to do with Football Manager. It involves editing lots of files, mostly those in the panels or graphics folders in the skin folder.'''([[Skins|more...]])'''
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Yeah, that's how you do it.
I'm intending to write some more competition/league guides at some point, do you think they would be better like this or this?
The 1st one is for an invididual league and is shorter, but contains all the required FM info, as well as a brief history of the league and the teams in it this season. The 2nd is for both leagues in the country, doesn't contain any history and doesn't list the teams. I don't think any of the ones from FM-Britain list the teams, shall I add them in?
Any other details anyone can think of that I should include?
No point on changing the selected article unless we can agree on what to change it to.
I prefer the Ligue 1 page JSalter.
Personally I think that, after having a league for so long, we should go for a more informative page rather than a player, non player, team or league page.
I suggest either;
Skins or
Youth Development (with the intro slightly reworded to make it more, introducing.)
I guess they are too short, but there aren't actually too many that are long articles.
You got any suggestions as to what could be used?
I'll nominate my tips on making the game run faster well... because my ego is huge. I'll go with whatever you guys recommend, not all that bothered about it myself tbh.
Yeah, that would be a good one. May need to bulk out the intro a bit though, to make it fit the page. That, or list a couple of ways without explaining.
Any suggestions as to what should be made the featured article?
Hippity Hoppity's page.
I don't think there is anyone who would disagree with that tbh.
Alternatively, we could start a CAMTGROG page and use that?
What on earth were you trying to do with your profile page Jammy?
I was wondering that, whatever he tried clearly didn't work.
I think there should be a CAMTGROG page regardless, purely because of a) the way it rolls off your tongue and b) how funny it was.
Was trying to put on a cool picture, but it didn't work *sniffle*
And I agree about CAMTGROG.
What do you guys think of having individual pages on popular CSE forum projects like Wallace vs Roberts and Neppo's Youth Project? I asked Nep for permission to use some of his posts but I'm still undecided as to whether we should have them on the wiki or not. Just looking for some opinions.
I'll have plenty of time to work on the wiki now - I'm sure I'll get around to writing up a fair few articles when I feel up to it. 3 months off now
I wouldn't mind, I don't really have an opinion either way though tbh.
Lucky you! I get 3 and a half months off after June 18th
Right, I'm on post count. Do you reckon any mods would half mine for me? ;D
I'll put up something on Neppo's Youth Project later tonight. I'm asking Gundo for permission to have a page on his challenge seeing that our *official* representative is missing.
I think I looked quite pretty
Yeah, that 'representative'. Doing an awful job :'(
Re-election time anyone?
Good luck with your exams JSalter - what are you taking atm? My sisters looking to do Business at Bristol uni, she's so nervous about it!
I've sent a few PMs to CSE challenge makers.
Rob - You're a regular in CSE, aren't you? Could you list a few popular projects in that forum for me? So far I've got:
- Wallace vs Roberts
- Neppo's Youth Project
- Dafuge's Challenge
- Gundo's Challenge
- Rancer's Challenge
- JoseRR's Challenge
- Razer82's Challenge
Do one guys. I am working
*Shakes head at "Representative" *
Can't believe no-one noticed I had added Burnley as a player (Note to self: Use the 'swishy' thing between your ears that you [may] use to think )
The San Marino "Double" Challenge
The 1000 Appearence Challenge
DodgeeD's Ten Year Career Challenge
"To Basque in Glory" - The Athletico Bilbao Challenge
The Athletico Bilbao Challenge only started yesterday but looks interesting and apparently, is around most years with a different user running it each time.
I will do the two bolded articles, if you don't mind.
Just a few useless facts to share with you that I found while messing around with some controls.
Our Competition: Wiki 1 Wiki 2Most Popular Pages
- Tips on making your game run faster (PC Edition) (1,810 views)
- Fake Players (1,618 views)
- Football Manager 2009 (1,334 views)
- Regen (1,233 views)
- Bojan Bug (1,100 views)
- Manchester United (956 views)
- Barclays Premier League (899 views)
- Current and Potential Ability (894 views)
- Regen Editing - How to add your own regen (865 views)
- Board Takeovers (833 views)
- Wonderkids (824 views)
- Tactics (820 views)
- Tó Madeira (817 views)
- Arsenal (805 views)
- USA - Major League Soccer (782 views)
- Fake National Team (782 views)
- Database Editor Guide (767 views)
- Graphics Packs (760 views)
- Attributes (732 views)
- General Stadium Information (706 views)
I'd like to think that we're at very least on par with those two sites at this stage.
Oh, and if you type "FM Wiki" into google it comes up as the fifth/sixth result - but if you type in "Football Manager Wiki" it's nowhere to be seen. That gives me the idea that it might be in our best interests to change the official name of the site to "Football Manager Wiki". Does anyone know if this would help us go up the page on the google searches?
DodgeeD has given me permission to do a page on his challenge, and he'll be helping me out a bit on the page. Hopefully I'll be able to get some other challenge makers to add a bit more background info to their challenge pages. Also, a challenges sub-category has been set up as suggested earlier.
Looking at those other 2 sites, I agree, we're at least on a par with them. We've got a lot more articles as well. Although quantity doesn't necessarily mean quality, most of our pages are fairly good
Looking at both of those sites, we are a lot better than site 1 and site 2 we are better than but we should include what they do on player profiles.
A strengths and weaknesses section etc.
Pretty much what I posted in the discussion page on the wiki for player profiles.
My page is the selected article, yet only 15th on most popular pages.
And the things you put about my challenge ahmufcwafc are good, although I'll make more changes (no I won't delete the stuff you wrote ) when I have the time after exams.
*That's a neoseeker wiki you see - and neoseeker do forum software as well as wiki software.
The layout's been changed, new sections created and there was a small thread purge. It's now open to guests.
fwiw, I thought that the forum and wiki together on the wiki 2 looked unprofessional.
Just a few thoughts:
1. As above, delete the community portal sidebar and replace it with a link to the forum.
2. What about a featured content page? I think it'd be a good way of promoting our best pages.
3. Delete the privacy policy and disclaimer links on the main page. They don't have any content and are utterly useless imho.
4. Do you think we should have some competitions? When signing us up as an official affiliate, Joe from SEGA told me that one of the benefits was that we'd be eligible to get some merchandise to raffle off. Looking at posts in the affiliates forum, they have some pretty cool stuff - free copies of FM09 are the most valuable prizes we can get in. I realise it's not very wiki-like to run competitions, but it might generate some interest if we ran a competition every quarter or half of a year.
Thoughts? Any other ideas on the layout of the main page would be welcome.
Last edited by ahmufcwafc; 31-05-2009 at 23:10. Reason: Added the bit on competitions
Anyone else having trouble accessing the site? It times out every time I try to load up the page.
2. Yeah, I like that idea. Would have to extend some articles a lot to make them suitable though.
3. Haven't seen them, can't access the site atm. I'm sure it'll work again soon.
4. I like this idea - even if we only got a few entries it would be worth it. What other prizes are there, bar the game? I don't have access to the affiliates forum I reckon do one, make it last three months and if it goes well do another one. It'd also give us an idea of how many people actually use the wiki.
How would people enter the competition? The hotmail would work fine, but I reckon we need an firstname.lastname@example.com address tbh
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I've found a place where we can get @fmwiki.co.uk email adresses free - shall I try it?
If yes, what shall I put as the alternate email adress? The hotmail one? If so, what was it again?
Damn, you have to be American/Canadian to use it, which is a bit of a pain. Was this;
I'll have a look for another one.
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That's the only one I could find weeks ago.
Could Rancer maybe do it? I think he's Canadian.
Alternatively we could just make up the information


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Will keeping my belly "tucked in" or taut help strengthen my abdominal muscles? Are there any negative sides to doing this? I used to do this in high school but gave up doing it when I started working and the sedentary life kicked in.
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No. A muscle won't get stronger unless you make it do work: crunches, or keeping a tight core during a lift, for example. I suppose your abs do a bit of work if you just keep them tight, but they'll adapt to that really quickly and you won't see any extra strength or size come from it.
However, in the context of lifting (squats, deadlifts, pressing, cleaning), your abs will be doing a significant amount of stabilization work, and that will make them stronger. Here's a really good article by Mark Rippetoe on the subject of abs.
Also the tag of bellyfat suggests a link between the strength of your abdominal muscles and the amount of fat around your belly. There isn't any.
I don't think anyone is giving you the answer you're looking for. If I understand this question correctly, you are asking about keeping your abs engaged or taut at ALL times. Yes this most definitely works! I started "holding in" my stomach in high school, and I always had ab definition without much effort. Lately, I've stopped and there is a huge difference. I am training myself to start doing it again. Keep your abs tight as if you were doing crunches. It is challenging at first, as you have to train yourself but eventually it becomes something you just do without thinking.


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I know death and cancer doesn't hurt humans' reproductive success. It's not helping either.
Why do we die? Why dying humans (all of us) are common? What's the point of dying?
I know death and cancer doesn't hurt humans' reproductive success. It's not helping either.
Why do we die? Why dying humans (all of us) are common? What's the point of dying?
Death is not only for humans. All 'complicated enough' organisms die (with a notable exception of Hydra, tough you may argue when it comes to the complexity). It is is easier to create a new organism from scratch than to repair both internal factors (free radicals, metabolic by-products, ...) and external (physical damage, exposure to toxins, ...).
Underlying causes of death actually can be evolutionary beneficial. For example, telomere offers protection against cancer (on a cellular level) but also bounds lifespan.
So actually they may be evolutionary competition (within the same species) of young and old. Mutations helping young but harming older may be preferred to the opposite ones.
Who is to say that having living Humans isn't hurting our reproductive success? Older non-reproducing humans cost the human network valuable resources and take up a sizeable portion of our living niche. Metabolically unstreamlined aged organisms are certainly not the most efficient and could potentially get in the way of better suited young'uns.
From a systemic point of view, if we wish to evolutionarily induce our descendants (descendants of the current human race on the whole) to live longer lives, we would need to pro-create later.
If the whole of human race enforced a statute that prohibits pro-creation before the age of 40, then two pronged dynamics would happen
Since, there is a high tendency of abnormality and low survival of off-springs born to parents of older ages, absence of resource contention and genetic dynamics would encourage the initial propagation of the rare few fit off-springs.
Hence, unnatural "natural selection" would encourage the propagation of humans of longer life-spans. Perhaps, a natural disaster or viral outbreak could discourage humans from pro-creating before age 40. Perhaps, high rates of abortion. So long as the human race does not die out due to such restrictions. Perhaps, to the satisfaction of conspiracy lovers, a secretive organisation carries out a plan every 100K years to raise the bar for child-bearing age.
Therefore, it might be less of a question of advantage and more of the effects of motivation. That current status where
Therefore, since no such secret organisation exists, there is infinitesimally little motivation for the existence of a "super-virus" type of humans to exist.
There is no motivation for super-humans to exist, because the distribution of life-spans have crowded out the food and survival resources of any possible primeval super-human.
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I have read three different words with seemingly no difference in meaning: panza, barriga, and vientre. Are there regional differences in usage? Or do they differ in degrees of formality? I am not referring to estómago because it's the external body part that I am talking about here.
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"Vientre" is the most formal or technical. It's also quite ample: it can be used for the external as for the internal ("dolor de vientre" = "dolor de estómago") and also for the viscera. "Ir de vientre" is an euphemism (usual in medical conversation) for "defecate". It can even mean "womb" (but this is an archaism, from the latin: the christian prayer "Ave Maria" reads "Bendito el fruto de tu vientre").
"Barriga" is most informal-coloquial. It refers mainly to the visible exterior, specially when it's prominent (belly).
"Panza" is similar to "barriga", it's more used here (Argentina; I rarely say or hear "barriga"). In case of a stomach-ache, a kid would say "Me duele la panza".
For example: one might say "Juan tiene panza" as an equivalent "Juan tiene mucha panza" (John is fat - abdominally obese). One would never use "vientre" here.
In some places (Spain, I believe) the word "tripa" is used instead of "panza". That sounds strange in Argentina, where "tripa" means basically "viscera" or "intestine".
I would use «vientre» as the anatomical description of the area (both interior and exterior and without consideration of size), similar to «abdomen», while «barriga» and «panza» would be more used for a slightly rounded or greatly over-sized one from an external point of view.
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So «vientre» does refer to the anatomical cavity (1.), the external anatomical region (3.), and the bowels in the abdomen (2.), although I have not seen much or would use this meaning.
So meanings 2. and 3. of «barriga» refer to a bulky part or a warp in some objects., while meanings 1. and 4. refer to anatomical «vientre» (meanings 1. and 2. respectively). Personally I would seldom use them in those anatomical contexts but mainly as in meaning 5.: "external region of the human body equivalent to abdomen, especially if bulky." - the fact that is the fifth meaning might suggest a regional variation but I have probably heard it in rather this context than referring to the bowels or the anatomical cavity.
So «panza» does mean the bulky «barriga» or «vientre», as well as the bulky part of other objects. (and the cow's stomachs.)
Here in Chile we often refers as "Guata"; very informal and very common.
"Me duele la guata" (referring to stomach ache).
"Le pegó un combo en la guata" (referring to a punch in the stomach).


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In the NSA's document, "The Case for Elliptic Curve Cryptography" (archived), we have
+---------------+-------------------------+-----------------+ | Symmetric Key | RSA and Diffie-Hellman | Elliptic Curve | | Size (bits) | Key Size (bits) | Key Size (bits) | +---------------+-------------------------+-----------------+ | 80 | 1024 | 160 | | 112 | 2048 | 224 | | 128 | 3072 | 256 | | 192 | 7680 | 384 | | 256 | 15360 | 521 | +---------------+-------------------------+-----------------+ Table 1: NIST Recommended Key Sizes
In NSA Suite B, we do have AES-256 (for TS), however the the ECC is limited to P-384, despite P-521 officially codified in NIST FIPS-186-4. This appears to introduce an entropic choke point if we're have a cryptographic "pipeline".
Example: If we're doing ECDH off P-384 keys to then AES-256 encrypt, we're effectively passing just 192 bits of keying entropy into the AES-256 engine.
Reading the only known response (that I know) on this IETF thread, the statement reads
Regarding NSA's omission of P-521, P-256 and P-384 will satisfy all of the U.S. Government's requirements so only these are included in Suite B. We don't have a requirement that warrants the inclusion of P-521.
I'm not able to piece these seemingly contradictory pieces of data, so I thought I'd ask other here. Why was P-521 excluded? Is it technical or non-technical? Additional info would be appreciated.
Not very directly related but I checked some empirical testing results. Seems compute times roughly double going from P-256 => P-386 => P-521, for almost any EC operation. Take for example signing a short (1200 bytes) message.
P-256: 8ms ( 64 byte signature)
P-384: 15ms ( 96 byte signature)
P-521: 30ms (132 byte signature)
It's not directly representative of the entropic bottleneck above, more aligned towards the "good enough" line of thought. But then, AES-192 should have also sufficed...


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#3. Thomas Swindal Rides the Snake
In the summer of 2011, brothers Kenneth and Thomas Swindal were fishing near the town of Marathon in the Florida Keys when they noticed a strange, squarish white object floating in the water nearby. These were mature men (Thomas was 53), and being from the Florida Keys, long a popular destination for drug runners and smugglers, they were pretty certain they'd just found a kilo of cocaine. The brothers hauled the brick onto the hull, looked at it for a few minutes, and then put it in the bait well for safekeeping. What Kenneth planned to do with it when he got back to shore probably depended on whether or not he'd seen No Country for Old Men, but for now, he continued to fish. Thomas, it turned out, had some of the Coen brothers' trippier scenes in mind.
We hope it's more a Lebowski Saddam in a bowling alley than a Burn After Reading dick chair.
A short while later, Kenneth looked over and noticed his brother, who was old enough to be a grandfather, had been possessed by the ghost of Keith Moon. That's the only way to explain why Thomas had not only opened the package of white powder, but was eating and snorting it like a starving man who just found a box of Krispy Kremes.
In a development that surprised nobody except him, the fisherman in his fifties couldn't handle his drugs. Less than a half hour later, Kenneth said his brother started going berserk. First, he threw their portable VHF radio and cellphones over the side. Next, he started stabbing the boat's engine with a gaffing hook and removed the cowling, causing the engine to sink into the sea, effectively stranding them.
"The fire dragon is dead! Flock to me, my harem!"
In an effort to speak the only language his brother now understood -- the language of tossing shit overboard -- Kenneth tossed all the sharp objects and the giant brick of drugs off the boat. He climbed to the top of the vessel and screamed for help until his cries were noticed by a fellow boater, and the brothers were towed to shore.
"Here's your rope. What? Woah no, I'll stay on my boat, thanks."
Thomas was taken to the nearest hospital, where he died of what was later conclusively determined to be a cocaine overdose. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office felt the need to remind the public that pulling suspected contraband from the water is ill advised, and that, "It certainly is never safe to ingest any substance if you do not know what the substance is or what the potency of the substance might be." That is, unless your midlife-crisis-based bad decision of choice happens to be going out like the worst kind of rockstar.
#2. Maine Lobsterman Catches Chimera
When Alan Robinson headed out to sea in Bar Harbor, Maine, in July of 2006, he, like all commercial fishermen, was hoping for a little luck. What he hauled into his boat that day was a 1 in 50 million discovery.
We meet again, Two-Shell.
It looks like a Japanese fish-torture delicacy, where only half of the lobster is boiled so you can hear the other half scream, but it's actually a natural phenomenon. Well ... if you consider something that happens practically never a natural phenomenon.
Natural phenomenon.
A chimera occurs when two zygotes with different cells, and sometimes from different species, combine together to form a single creature ... or person. Yes, there have been human chimeras, who are the genetic equivalent of having non-identical twins in one body. Unfortunately, the human versions are far less dramatic-looking than what you might expect based on the lobster.
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Lobsters carry a variety of pigments, usually yellow, red and blue. According to National Geographic, lobsters "grow symmetrically, with each half of the body developing independently of the other" (but hardly ever in this perfect of a fashion), and the chimera lobster captured by Robinson was lacking the blue and yellow pigment on one side, which caused it to look halfway delicious.
His red side says "Eat me." His black side says "You will lose your nose."
The amazing crustacean is currently living out the remainder of its life in Maine's Mount Desert Oceanarium. While chimeras are extremely rare, the uneven distribution of the three lobster pigments is less uncommon, and can occasionally result in other abnormalities like blue and even harlequin lobsters:
Unfortunately for any Dungeons and Dragons fans who have made it this far based on the header, science says that as rare as the chimera lobsters and humans are, they're not even close to as rare as the ones with a hit dice of 9d10+27 (76 hp) and armor class of 19 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +9 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 18.
Add a pack of dire wolves with trip to seriously fuck up a cocky mid-level party's day.
#1. A Sailfish and the Sanctity of Marriage
In December 2002, Jamie Artzt and Blake Liebeskind were looking to take their friend's mind off the fact that his marriage was on the rocks. Their buddy, Eric Bartos, loved deep sea fishing, and so they took him out off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. The outing was a success for Bartos, as he was able to land a trophy-sized sailfish. But like John McClane with a hangover, no matter how much ass he was kicking, he couldn't get his mind off his wife.
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In an act that probably got his buddies' secondhand embarrassment glands working over time, Bartos slid his soon-to-be meaningless wedding band onto the bill of the fish. Bartos would later claim it was meant to symbolize the start of his new life as a bachelor, which we believe translates to "I was drunk."
If we know anything about the kind of guys who stick rings on fish, there are about 70 empty cans of Keystone just out of frame.
Figuring the fish would get the symbolism and take it off once he and his fish friends were done laughing at the silly new "nose ring," Bartos and his friends returned the fish to the waves with its new bling still in place.
In 2005, the three friends found themselves together once again on a fishing vessel off the Florida coast, two-thirds of them presumably hoping Bartos wouldn't queer up the day with his sad panda antics. As the day wound down, there was finally a big hit on one of the lines, and Bartos grabbed the reel, saving the day via 10 minutes of working a beauty of a sailfish toward the boat. Once the fish was close enough, Liebeskind grabbed the line and noticed something shiny around its bill. It was the wedding ring that Bartos had wedged onto the bill of the sailfish in December of 2002, now back and staring him in the face with a fishy wriggling hatred. After an awkward stunned silence, the men came to their senses and immediately set about snapping photos of the ridiculous coincidence. The fish's bill had clearly grown in girth around the ring, securing it firmly in place.
Just like your mom's pantsuit.
When news of the bizarre coincidence reached the media, their bullshit-detecting equipment buried the needle. Bartos agreed to a lie detector test and passed with flying colors, the results of the test being described as "overwhelmingly truthful." While lie detector tests are notoriously fallible, there's also the question of why Bartos would make up a story in which he tortures a giant fish to get back at his wife.
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When returned to the water she turns back into a woman, like a reverse Daryl Hannah in Splash.
Mistaking the intentions of the sword-faced fish clearly bent on revenge, Bartos took it as a "compliment that some people don't believe us. Iit just shows us how miraculous this story is." Dr. Eric Prince of the National Marine Fisheries Service said, "I have no reason to disbelieve these guys and the fact that there is a picture that shows that notch, that indentation, where that ring was on the bill even further convinces me this is the truth." He also noted that there have been other instances of fisherman tagging and releasing billfish only to capture the same one later, but emphasized that it's extremely rare, and the equivalent of winning the lottery. Except that instead of winning millions, Bartos lost money while giving his ex-wife another reason to think she was right about him and his idiot friends after all.
No matter what you think about fate, a stupid fish will never reconcile a marriage.
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By default the Back/Next gesture works with two fingers (in e.g. Safari) on the trackpad. Now it often happens to me when scrolling through iframes (with two fingers) I accidentally activate the back gesture. Now I changed it in settings to 3 fingers, but the animation is gone, and in Safari it's not anymore like dragging the page before from the left to center but like hitting the back-button (without animation)... Is it possible to use the real 2-fingers gesture with 3-fingers?
All you can have is to activate both the 2-finger and the 3-finger gestures. They work differently, though.
With two fingers you scroll the page to the sides revealing the page "below" it or the page "above" it according to the tag history.
With three fingers you just tell the browser to "go back" (swipe left) or "go forward" (swipe right) without any animation at all. At least this 3-finger gesture is consistent in many apps, including Finder.
If you download a program. But you should use 2 fingers. This is because you can use 3 fingers to move between desktop screens. I hope you take advantage of that awesome feature. you know mission control and screens


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