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Is there a compelling reason (besides convention) why a user's typical default view of a long sorted list is always the beginning of the list and not the middle? Assuming a random distribution of selection targets, it would be more efficient to start in the middle and scroll up or down to find the target selection. For example, when I open my contacts, starting in the median position would halve the average distance I need to scroll. The idea came to me when reading about recursive binary search algorithms. Is there something different in the way that humans perform searching a sorted list that would make the beginning a better place to start than the middle?
The human brain and a computer algorithm work quite differently.
Your assumption that it should be easier to start in the middle of a list is wrong.
In those cases you would first need to figure out what the middle point of your list was. Then you would need to figure out whether the item you are searching for would be above or below this middle point. Then you could start scrolling in the right direction. If the thing you're looking for would be above the middle, then you would have to search backwards - a pretty complicated mental operation.
I'm not even sure if I know the alphabet backwards... :-P
A few reasons:
If you have a long sorted list, you shouldn't have to swipe to your destination anyways. There should be some way to accelerate the scrolling. For example in contacts, you usually have a scroller on the side with letters so you can jump to a specific letter.
It's a bit hard to substantiate this claim, but I think starting at the top feels cleaner. It's hard to describe; it may even be a bit of OCD. I would be quite annoyed by an app that starts me off mid-list. Maybe it's that I've come to expect them. When I look at lists in general, I start at the top. I don't binary search my lists. I don't binary search my way to page 248 of a book. I jump to roughly the right spot then linearly make my way to 248.
I think you dismiss convention a little bit in your question; I think its valuable. Convention ensures that skills learned in one situation (one app's list view) transfer to a different situation (another app's list view). This decreases the amount of time people spend learning new things that don't significantly improve their lives.
Putting my personal feelings aside though you bring an interesting problem up though. You made the assumption of a random distribution for selection targets. But in reality people look certain folks more than others in a contact directory. People look up some words more than others in a dictionary, and they look up some recipes in a book more than others when cooking dinner.
So what about putting you in a place in the list with the minimum cost of scrolling using a cost function that takes into account the probability distribution of you wanting to select each list item.

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Just weeks ago Solange Knowles caused an internet buzz when she shaved off her long hair into a natural, closely-cropped cut. And now Tyra Banks reveals on her Twitter that she is gearing up to go natural and lose her extensions. "Guess What! I'm rockin' my REAL hair on my talk show September 8th." she says. "No fake hair at all! Will be the hair coming out of my scalp! 4 all 2 C!" She continues, "no ponytails, no ballet bun head. hair will be out and free!" We are setting our TVs to record now! Tell us: Will you tune in to see Tyra's natural look?


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The firefighters are unpaid, but their training and equipment costs thousands of dollars a year. In the past, the departments have collected voluntary dues from county property owners to recoup that cost. The new ordinance will put a $30 charge for homeowners and $50 charge for businesses on your tax bill. That charge only applies to property outside the Bowling Green city limits.
Property owners will have the option to "opt-out" of the dues charge, but risk a $500-$1,000 charge if a volunteer fire department is called to their property to fight a fire.
Firefighters had asked for $10 charge for privately owned vacant lots and wooded areas, but that charge was opposed by some magistrates. Firefighters compromised once a deadline for putting the dues fee on property bills loomed.
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Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway has sued Spencerian College for allegedly misrepresenting job placement numbers to consumers.
Conway said Wednesday at a news conference in Frankfort that the for-profit school violated the Kentucky Consumer Protection Act by making unfair, false and deceptive statements regarding the hiring rates of its students.
Spencerian operates two Kentucky campuses — one in Lexington and one in Louisville.
Conway says in some cases, Spencerian's advertised rate of job placements was 30 or 40 percent higher than the rates reported to its accreditor.
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7 Awesomely Insane Guns People Actually Used
Once we invented the gun, that was pretty much it, right? Sure, all technology advances, new features are added and the design gets tweaked a little over time, but it usually stays more or less the same. Cars always have four wheels, a couple of pedals and some seats, no matter how much we end up fussing with them. So guns consist of one handle, one trigger, one barrel and then the bit that kills people. It's a tube of death; why mess with the concept? Because you're a crazy person, that's why. And that's how we got these:
#7. The Duck's Foot Pistol
The duck's foot pistol, so named because its four splayed barrels were shaped like the foot of a duck (back in the 18th century, when ducks were gargantuan, terrifying steampunk monstrosities with pistols for toes), was designed to take on large groups at close range. It was most popular with officers on sailing ships, who often carried a pair of them to, uh, "discourage" potential mutineers in the cramped quarters.
Advantage: Skinny guy standing between two fat guys.
The immediately apparent problem here -- that the rational person would've spotted instantly, but the completely insane gun maniac clearly missed because he was too busy firing indiscriminately into crowds -- is that you can never hit what you're actually aiming at with a standard duck's foot pistol. You can only hit everything else around it, because none of the four barrels point straight ahead. But that just means you have to remember to think a little differently when handling one: Instead of aiming at the thing you want to kill, you just aim at the one thing you like and kill the rest of the world around it.
#6. Key Guns
First used in the 16th century, key guns allowed a jailer to keep his weapon throughout the entire extremely vulnerable process of opening a cell door, thus never leaving him unprotected. Well, all except for the times when he's actually using the key/barrel end of the pistol to disengage the lock. That's right, key guns weren't just shaped like keys to throw people off or disguise their nature as pistols -- they're both functional keys and functional pistols (presumably so that if some uppity lock ever has the balls to stick on your watch, you can just shoot it off like a Renaissance Bruce Willis).
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"Firepower is the key to victory. Did you get that? Was it too subtle?"
We get the feeling that not all implications were fully considered here. For example: Where do you keep your keys? If you said "dangerously close to my crotch," well, that's a weird way of saying "pocket," but no less technically correct. Plenty of people keep guns in their crotch area, sure, but what separates this is that the loop of the key (i.e., the place where you hold or pick it up) usually serves as the trigger for a key gun as well. So what are your Weaponized Door Access storage options? You could always hang it from one of those giant old-timey key rings that medieval jailers use in the movies. But then wouldn't you be suspending the pistol by its trigger and shooting yourself in the thigh with every jangle? Shit, we give up: If you have a convenient way to handle this thing without turning your own legs into gunshot-wound pie, speak up, because we're drawing a blank (unlike that unstable key gun pointed at your crotch).
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This one had to be lit with a cigar, because any cigarless man in the 1850s deserved to die.
#5. The LeMat Revolver
So hey, pistol lunatic, what's the biggest problem with guns in general? That's right: You just can't hold as many of them as you want. Barring extensive inbreeding or light to moderate Doctor Octopussing, you only have two hands with which to wield fiery death, and that's infinity less guns than your insatiable bloodrage demands. Enter the LeMat revolver: Invented in 1856 by Jean LeMat, a New Orleans doctor (who apparently considered that whole "first, do no harm" thing more of a suggestion, really), the LeMat was actually two guns in one:
Above: 100 percent medically sound.
The top barrel fires .42 caliber pistol rounds, while the second, smaller barrel on the bottom holds a load of buckshot. When he was all finished packing guns into his guns, LeMat brought the prototype to his cousin, a U.S. Army major named Beauregard. Beauregard also thought the gun was a great idea, because gun madness is a hereditary disease passed down along bloodlines, and tried unsuccessfully to get the Army to equip all of their cavalrymen with it. Though it was powerful, the LeMat was deemed too superfluous and not reliable enough for field use. And man, when the Army turns down your weapon for being too kill-hungry, it's probably time to take a step back and reevaluate your life choices. Maybe also take some vitamin C (it's a common treatment for gun madness).
It's hard to keep a tight grouping when you're grabbing your crotch.
#4. The Turbiaux Palm-Squeezer Pistol
The French love their tiny, tiny pistols, presumably because they enjoy the sophisticated dichotomy of adorableness and lethality. One of the smallest ever made was the Turbiaux Palm-Squeezer: Designed mostly for ease of concealment rather than range or stopping power, the Palm-Squeezer was meant to be held with the barrel in between your fingers and the trigger squeezed with the palm.
Because shooting someone in the face goes with any outfit.
The Turbiaux could hold anywhere from eight to 10 bullets in its "turret cylinder," which, combined with its stealthy nature, would seem to make it one hell of an assassin's weapon.
Or the basis of the greatest wrestling federation ever.
However, the Turbiaux's bullets fell much closer to the "cute" axis of the French Firearms Scale of Preciousness and Death, so shooting a fellow with it was more a means of expressing your general displeasure with his choice of hat than a viable method of actual assassination. Plus, if the victim didn't die from the initial hail of micro-bullets, you had to fully dismantle the gun just to reload. So if you combine all of those facets -- limited lethality, easy to conceal in the palm, practically zero range -- it wasn't really a gun at all. It was more of a precursor to the joy buzzer, back in an era when men were men, bullet wounds were a funny prank and electricity only happened when God was displeased with something.


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What is the history of Hnefatafl in relation to Chess and/or Go? Which was developed first and what if anything influenced the development of Hnefatafl?
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History of these ancient boardgames is a bit murky due to their really old age.
The wikipedia article on Hnefatafl is a good starting point, but you can already see from that how vague the information is. Hnefatafl being played since around 400 is certainly older than Chess. In fact, it can be considered a predecessor of Chess.
A not so easy relation is that between Hnefatafl and Go - if it exists at all.
What can be said for certain is that written documents on these three games can placed in a timeline like this:
What is particularly interesting is that Chess is believed to have originated in India, from where it basically traveled to Europe. By around 1000 Chess was far-spread in Europe.
As for the initial development of Hnefatafl, I am not aware of the influences. What is known is that Hnefatafl is tied very closely to the Vikings. Due to their enterprising nature they traveled through most of Europe helping to spread Hnefatafl. Also note that the end of the Viking age coincides with the time of the introduction of Chess, so it is not surprising that the latter continued to dominate the European scene for centuries to come.
Edit: In terms of influence between Hnefatafl and Chess, I'd wager neither significantly influenced the other. From the mere timeline it is possible that Hnefatafl may have influenced the development of Chess. But that would be a risky theory, as I am not aware of any written connection between these two and the spacial separation between Vikings and Indians makes it ever so unlikely.
Others have already mentioned the general history of the three games, but I can add a bit about hnefatafl itself. The game seems to have similarities to an earlier Roman game, ludus latrunculorum, which was descended from an ancient Greek game, petteia. Both of these older games shared hnefatafl's straight-line move and its capture method of surrounding enemy pieces on opposite sides.
The Roman game made its way as far as Denmark, and this is where the A.D. 400 date that everybody quotes comes from. It's actually the date of a Roman ludus latrunculorum board dug up in Vimose, Denmark, in 1848, rather than a hnefatafl board (the back of the board bore the squares for ludus duodecim scriptorum, a Roman predecessor to backgammon). Hnefatafl was developed, probably from ludus latrunculorum, some time between A.D. 400 and A.D. 750 which is when the first clear hnefatafl evidence shows up (a set of pieces in Salmo, Estonia).
From this I'd say that hnefatafl doesn't have any direct relationship to chess. Petteia may have made its way to the borders of India with Alexander the Great, and thus seeded chess as well as hnefatafl, but there's no evidence for this. Hnefatafl was chess's predecessor only in its social position, not through any line of descent - chess was a usurper.
As for go, I can't imagine that there's any connection. It wasn't known in Europe till after hnefatafl had passed out of general knowledge. There is a coincidence of the standard size of the modern go board, at 19x19 intersections, with ONE old form of hnefatafl (the alea evangelii, c. A.D. 924-939), and that board from Vimose had 18 squares along one edge, but probably fewer along the other axis.
I do not know about the others, but I can tell a little about the history of Go, one of the oldest board games in existence. There are various sources on Go history, but especially the early stages are widely different in each. The source used here is generally well accepted among Go players.
It is certain that Go was invented in China (called weiqi there). According to legend, an ancient Chinese Emperor invented the game to enlighten his son, though it is unsure if it was Emperor Yao (2357-2255 BC) or Emperor Shun (2255-2205 BC). Other sources (Encyclopedia Britannica) state 2356 BC.
Some even claim Go was developed as a game in China perhaps 4000 years before present time, but this date has been questioned by many. Either way, Go, a game that resembles a war and involves terms such as "territory" and "killing" has always been a popular game to be played at the court, slowly spreading to the people from there.
The oldest surviving reference is found in "Analects" by Confucius from the 6th century BC. Starting in the first century AD, there are texts specifically devoted to Go, namely "Yi Zhi" (Essence of Go) by Ban Gu. The earliest recorded games ("Wu Diagrams") stem from around 250 AD.
Starting 1050 AD, various books (for instance Qijing Shisanpian, the 13-Chapter Classic of Go), some still well known today, were created. Among them were problem collections as well as early works on joseki (patterns that are used frequently), some of those patterns are still in use by professional players today.
Go was imported at an unknown point in time (sometime before the early 7th century AD) to Japan, and gained popularity there as well as in China. About 600 years ago, Go became a widespread phenomenon with Go houses (elite study circles) becoming more and more important, later also gaining increased social and political relevance.
To end this boring story and return to the question: Hnefatafl, from what I gather, is purely Western and was in no way influenced by Go. I also never encountered either Hnefatafl nor Western chess in any texts on early Go history.
However, it is worth noting that there is a chess variant very popular in China. It is called Xianqi and probably originated from the same ancestor, the old Indian Chaturanga, as "Western Chess". It is actually said to be the most popular game in the world with half a billion players. However, it sprung into existence too late to interact with Go.
I see you ask about the origins of Hnefatafl, which are obviously hard to trace since the Vikings had effectively no written history. It is possible that Chaturanga, a precursor of Chess, had some influence; it was certainly played in Persia and Iraq at the time when Viking traders reached there. There really isn't much likeness, though, particularly since it is believed that Chaturanga queens moved like Chess kings.
More likely is Nine Mens Morris, a game with visible similarities to tafl, and which was well known throughout the Roman Empire. (An early version, Three Mens Morris, was known in Ancient Egypt.) I would guess that the long winter evenings in Scandinavia also had something to do with it.


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SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Engineering Drawing/CAD, Principles of Engineering
Major Concepts/Content: The architectural drawing course is designed to provide students with instruction and skills in computer aided drawing (CAD) fundamentals commonly used in the production of residential and commercial buildings. The course includes the study of the basic fundamentals of design, and the skills related to the production of architectural designs. The content includes, but is not limited to, designing interior and exterior elements of structures in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations. Students will prepare presentations of designs created using CAD technology. It is recommended that aspiring architects, designers, engineers, CAD technicians, interior decorators take this course. This course may be used as an Applied Engineering Technology major as part of the School-to-Work transition program.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities are provided in the applied engineering technology laboratory setting, using hands-on experiences with tools, equipment, and materials related to course content. Students will use the Internet as one of many tools in researching their project designs. CAD software will be used in developing a presentation of a final project.
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The 10 Most Shameless Product Placements in Movie History
#5. You've Got Mail: All You Need is Love, AOL and Starbucks
It would be easy to point to Cast Away as Tom Hank's biggest corporate whoring effort, but FedEx never paid for it (they were worried about the plane crash sequence). No, for the real crime against cinema we present You've Got Mail, a remake of a crappy romantic comedy from 1940.
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Here, a dial-up AOL modem and Meg Ryan's unruined face compete to make the movie feel older than it actually is. The whines of the connecting modem are almost as grating as Tom Hanks giving a step by step tutorial on how to order at Starbucks.
The speech tries passing itself off as cynical social commentary, but Hanks refers to the products by their Starbucks-endorsed size names of "tall and short," and his main complaint seems to be that Starbucks makes ordering too easy. Those bastards! While it may not enhance the story or, y'know, offer character insight, the speech probably kept the production crew swimming in free (burnt) coffee grounds. And how else were they going to stay awake while making You've Got Mail?
#4. I, Robot: "Vintage 2004"
Will Smith is trying to unravel a robot conspiracy but all anyone can talk about is his goddamn shoes. The product placement in this adaptation of I, Robot is just one reason it had Isaac Asimov spinning in his grave so furiously he accidentally created a wormhole in China.
First you have the Audi concept car that got 4 1/2 minutes of screen time. But he had to drive something, right?
But then, you've got the fucking shoes.
Most Shameless Scene:
Someone has helpfully spliced together the film's attempt to stomp us in the face with its Converse All-Stars, Vintage 2004:
It's all just too depressing, especially considering how long it took to get this complex, murder mystery/sci-fi thriller made, undergoing several rewrites along the way. Once Will Smith was attached, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman dumbed it down perfectly. Using "find and replace" he was able to swap depth of story with big ass robot fights.
For the product placement, however, we can thank Nike, which bought Converse in 2003 and was looking to re-energize the brand. The entire film plays like a live action billboard and we don't think even Michael Bay could have topped it for sheer whoredom.
#3. The Island: Michael Bay Tops It
We stand corrected. With The Island, Michael Bay just decided once and for all he'd find out where the line is on product placements (meaning "the line beyond which the audience rises up and burns down the theater"). This explosion-filled ad-fest featured no fewer than 35 paid-for placements.
Michael Bay staunchly defends his placements in the film on the DVD commentary, saying, "Let's face it, guys. The world is focused on products. Products surround us. And for us to think, in the year 2019, that we're not gonna still be focused, and still have products and labels flying at us from every different vantage point, is just unreal. It's just not a true world."
So you see, it makes sense that an uneducated race of clones living in an underground society would be shown logos for Puma, Speedo, Aquafina and Xbox. Those moneyless organ donors are a very hot demographic.
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Sci-fi action flicks like The Island have to pick their products carefully, lest they wind up like the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The 6th Day, which is forever stuck portraying the XFL as the sport of the future. To avoid such embarrassment, Bay just threw in a real Calvin Klein ad that the real Scarlett Johansson was starring in at the time the movie was made. In the movie, her character escapes into the real world and finds out she's the clone of a famous model/actress, who happens to be starring in the ads.
So here's the movie:
And here's the commercial:
This is what happens when Michael Bay tries to blow your mind. We'll give you a moment to wipe your brains off your monitor.
#2. The Wizard: "It's So Bad."
In the late 80s there was a screenwriter, who moved to Hollywood with big dreams. Then, one day he was told that Universal Studios and Nintendo had partnered to create a 90-minute theatrical commercial and that his job was to write a movie around it. Thus he sat down at his typewriter, probably surrounded by several cases of liquor, and The Wizard was born.
The finished product is a convoluted plot involving a boy (Fred Savage) who kidnaps his disabled half-brother and travels cross-country with him, Rainman-style. It turns out the boy has an uncanny talent for playing Nintendo games, and through a series of accidents they wind up competing in a $50,000 video game tournament which happens to be held at Universal Studios.
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A young man explains that all it takes to become a video game master is to spend a little more on the right Nintendo accessories:
In the course of the movie we wind up with endorsements for the Nintendo Power Glove, the Nintendo Game Hint Line, the Nintendo Power magazine and countless games, until the whole thing culminates in the unveiling of Super Mario Bros. 3.
By the way, if you want to know just how drunk that writer got in the course of churning out this corporate turd, check out the below scene. Here, the parents of the young boy Fred Savage kidnapped hire a private detective to track him down. Our heroes thwart the detective when the 13 year-old girl they're traveling with falsely accuses him of fondling her breasts:
This sequence of child molestation-related entertainment was brought to you by Universal Studios and Nintendo.
#1. Mac and Me: All the Evidence an Atheist Needs
We come full circle now, from the godfather of product placement, E.T., to this atrocious low budget rip-off that would represent the nadir of product placement, if the movie wasn't so unintentionally awesome.
(Big) Mac and Me was completely backed by McDonald's and Coca-Cola. Using the "more-is-more" strategy, this film features an entire family of aliens badly injured and stranded on earth. Somehow, their recovery is literally dependent on drinking Coca-Cola. Fortunately, since this movie was made by them, there's plenty to go around.
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Still, that can't quite top Ronald McDonald's cameo, in this bizarre song and dance sequence:
This film is not a musical. Nor is it ever explained why everyone is dancing and flipping through the air at this McDonalds. But it does have a repulsive alien doing the jitterbug in a bear suit on a fast food counter, which is pretty funny in a nightmarish way.
In fact, you could say that about the whole film. The alien's have assholes for mouths, the crippled boy keeps throwing hissy fits, there are terrible production values and the film ends with an intentionally terrifying superimposed "We'll be Back!".
All of this combined incompetence forms something that's almost genius, in an accidental way. We could go on and on, but instead we'll just leave you with this clip of a handicapped boy getting flung off a 500-foot cliff.
For more Will Smith movies that were ruined by idiots other than Will Smith, check out 5 Awesome Movies Ruined By Last-Minute Changes. Or for more reasons to fear corporations, read about Third Reich to Fortune 500: Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us.


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HIPPY, headquartered in Arkansas, was one of seven home-visiting programs selected for this honor because they have proven success demonstrated by measurable results. The designation means HIPPY, sponsored by Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) and located on its campus, meets rigorous criteria that deem it eligible for funding under the federal Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs.
A study published in the Early Education and Development Journal indicated that in Arkansas, children involved in HIPPY demonstrated better performance in school, experienced fewer suspensions, were less likely to be placed in special education and performed better in reading, language arts and math than their peers. In addition, teachers who rated children on an 11-item classroom adaptability scale gave HIPPY graduates higher marks for their overall adjustment and academic performance.
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I've been using planks to increase my trunk strength, and am getting OK at holding the plank for 1 1/2 minutes. Will I get more benefit by starting to increase that time, or adding a different exercise (and which one do you recommend)?
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Dr. Stuart McGill suggests everybody should be able to hold the plank position for two minutes.
Once you are comfortable with this, I vary my routine with
One more plank variation you can try is to do them with one arm: get into the normal position and then raise one hand and keep it in front of you (or anywhere else, just not flailing about). The idea is to keep the same position like usual, not to shift your body weight so that your center of mass is above the arm you use. Holding your body in such a way is sure to activate some stabilizer muscles you don't normally use. As with any unilateral exercise, though, don't forget to exercise both arms evenly. You can combine these with "side planks" for a very complete core workout. You can also try to spice up your planks by balancing on a medicine ball (or a basketball).
Beyond this, you can add weight or increase the length of the hold. I wouldn't recommend adding weight as it can cause injuries down the line (you have to be very careful not to overexert some small muscle somewhere and you'll probably need a partner to help you); if you really must add weight use something like a weighted vest (ie. something that distributes the weight evenly, don't just plop it on your back). Increasing the hold length is a worthy goal, but if your goal is just general fitness then holding one of the advanced variations mentioned above for 1-2 minutes is more than enough.
Finally, planks are a great exercise but you'll want to mix it up. Check out V-ups, straight leg raises (lying, hanging) or the lying hip swing. These are not isometric exercises and so will probably be a different kind of challenge to you. Remember, variety is the spice of life. :)
In general, it is a good idea to mix up the type of exercise to give your body some new stimulus every few weeks (8-10). So, do crunches or planks on the side or other variations, you should be able to find a ton of exercises online.
Oh, and try to increase your plank time to over three minutes :)
You should always mix up exercise types, as each different exercise targets different areas and muscles and stresses/strengthens different tendons and joints. After a period of doing the same exercise with the same resistance, you will no longer be gaining strength, but rather endurance. Increasing time will gain you additional endurance, but I doubt seriously that it will benefit you significantly in raw usable strength.
A good idea to spice up your plank is to spread your elbows a little with you hands facing forward (not inward).
Rippetoe (of Starting Strength) has book of essays entitled Strong Enough? . Maybe you are for your current needs. I gave all the answers an up, they're all good. One thing I might add is that the plank is very easy to do kind of wrong. Has anyone put a yardstick on you to check your 'plankiness'?


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In her newest role, Mad Men star Christina Hendricks bares her heart as the face of Vivienne Westwood's 'Get a Life' Palladium Jewelry Collection. In conjunction with The Palladium Alliance International, Westwood created a line of environmentally-conscious pieces made entirely of the lightweight precious metal. "I admire that Vivienne uses her designs to inspire change," Hendricks, a lifelong Westwood fan, says of the line, which features symbols of hope including trees, acorns and hearts. "As Palladium is a naturally white metal, the pieces really sparkle under the lights," she continues. "I cannot wait to wear them on the red carpet!" And the feeling is mutual, with Westwood proffering, "Christina is the embodiment of beauty and we were delighted to have been able to involve her with this new jewelry collection." Westwood's husband and collaborator, Andreas Kronthaler, agrees. "She's got something, this American sweetheart beauty … you'd do anything to go out with her," he told PEOPLE at the line's recent launch party in London. "She's magnificent — a bit like Marilyn Monroe. In front of the camera there's something very sensual." Available this month at Vivienne Westwood boutiques in London and Los Angeles, prices range from $445 to $900. And while the collection may not put a stop to global warming, it's certainly a sterling start! —Justine Harman
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I'm playing towns and have got a nice little town sorted out. Each time I've mined down a few layers I uncover a sprawling dungeon, which my heros dutifully explore, killing enemies as they go.
The problem is that once the first enemy is killed the townies decide to collect the loot and bring it back. Because they start this so soon there's often more enemies around making the collection run pretty dangerous.


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I need my pre-installed version of Windows 7 (or any other version of Windows), how could I install Ubuntu without erasing it?
The instructions below are for Ubuntu 11.10. Other versions will be similar but might have a slightly different appearance or order. You must make sure that Windows is correctly shutdown (no Hibernation, no Suspend, no Fast Boot) and your NTFS drive is healthy.
You can do it either with Wubi or you can install it in a separate partition.
These links may be useful:
Resize your Windows 7 partition by going to Start > My Computer > Right Click and select Manage > Disk Management > Right click your Windows Partition and Select Shrink Volume. Just shrink to whatever Windows suggests and leave it Unallocated.
On the Ubuntu install you select your Unallocated partition and click "New" and select the file system as a "EXT3" and select the mount point as "/" and click Okay (If you dont want swap)
If you do want swap type in the amount you want (in MB) select the file system as a "Swap Partition" and there is no mount point. Click Okay then you do the step in the paragraph above
After Install, Windows will now be in your GRUB menu with Ubuntu as default but that can be fixed by editing your /boot/menu.lst
Did you consider virtualization ?
If you just need an execution environment for command line unix tools (programming), virtualization is great !
The other advantage is that you have no more risk to wreck your Windows install.
You can use Virtualbox which is free, or vmware server, which is also free.
As for myself, I'm doing web development with ubuntu 10.4 LTS virtualized with vmware/Win7
One way would be to do a Wubi install. That way you would basically install Ubuntu as an application that you run from within Windows. More information on that can be found here and here, as well as here.
The other way would be to resize your Windows partition to allow room for Ubuntu. There's a comphrehensive guide on that here.
1) You download the ISO of the desired Linux distro
2) Use the free UNetbootin to write the ISO to a USB key
3) boot from the USB key
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5) follow the straight-forward install instructions
Install Ubuntu in an ext4 partition you created, and GRUB will do the rest for you.
I went to ubuntu.com and downloaded the desired OS I wanted.More than likely if your computer is new then it has a 64bit system but check and make sure. Windows 7 allowed me to put the OS onto a flash drive just as you would burn it to a cd. I restarted the computer and the loader started and gave me a choice of installing along side of windows. Choose that and you are good to go. I did it on the day I bought my Acer laptop and both run smoothly. It is easier than it sounds, just follow the prompts and you will not have any problems. Good Luck
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problem wirh extjx 3.0 and displaying date picket in google chrome
hello, i have a problem in extjs 3.0.0 with chrome and the display of the date picket selection, when i click a datefield control to select the date, then the date picket form show with a very big with size , he show at all the window anchor, and the numbers of the day don'ts looks at once.
how can i fix it????? this only happen in chrome, in FF and IE it looks good.
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If you look at the generated CSS with the developer tools in Chrome you can remidy the problem by setting the correct width.
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spoiler:The clinching point for me was at the end, where Connor, after everything he has been through, realises that even though he fought for his village's continued existence, his own people just moved shop, and Juno had never intended him to fight for them. That made me feel really sorry for the poor, straight man.


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Maple Leafs Force a Game 7
TORONTO—It's down to the wire for the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Leafs won their first playoff game at home in nine years after defeating the Bruins 2-1 in Game 6 of the NHL Eastern Conference quarter-final Sunday night, pushing the series to a final game on Monday.
Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf scored after 1:48 in the third period, while Phil Kessel netted the eventual game winner later in the period.
Boston came within one after pulling Tuukka Rask from net in the dying seconds of the third that allowed Milan Lucic to score in front of the Toronto net from a deft pass from future Hall of Famer Jaromir Jagr.
Notwithstanding Lucic's goal, Toronto goalie James Reimer's looked unbeatable in net, narrowly missing a shutout after stopping 30 shots for the win.
"It's a special situation and one of those memories that you'll look back on when this is all over," said Reimer. "But we're definitely focussing on tomorrow and not how this one feels."
After a few stumbles early in the series, both Boston and Toronto cranked up the intensity in Game 6. It was a must-win game for the Leafs, who were down 3-2 in the series after winning Game 5 in Boston.
"We felt like we were generating some opportunities and we were making good smart plays that were allowing us to get some zone time," Phaneuf said. "And when you get zone time, good things happen."
Playing at home—and with their season on the line—seemed to invigorate the Leafs, who opened up the first period with some strong forechecking in the Boston zone. Boston quickly caught up, paring back some of Toronto's momentum midway into the period.
Both teams failed to get on the scoreboard in the first period, playing somewhat cautiously to avoid spending any time in the penalty box. The second period wasn't much better, although both Boston and Toronto starting to scrap earnestly for the puck at both ends of the ice.
Reimer was unstoppable in the first half of the game, stopping a couple point blank shots off Bruins center Gregory Campbell, while diving to save a Patrice Bergeron wraparound attempt. Meanwhile, Rask flashed the glove to steal away a sure goal from Phanuef in the dying seconds of the second period.
The scoreless draw ended early in the third period when Phaneuf deflected a slapshot from Nazem Kadri that bounced into the Boston net.
With the series now tied 3-3, the teams now head back to Boston for the deciding game of the series. The winner will face either the Washington Capitals or New York Rangers, who forced a Game 7 of their own with a 1-0 victory Sunday night.
"It's one game that decides your season," said Rask. "We just have to try to play our best game of the year. We've played some great games this season and we've played some awful games. The past two games have not been in the [first] category, so tomorrow is are only chance to end the season with a great game."
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Anybody living up in Scotland? Feel a little lonely up here, haha! That does sound like some sort of online dating chat up line
"Scotland's answer to Deadpool" is just two posts above you.
Whereabouts in Scotland are you hoping for? We've three in the Glasgow-ish area and one in Edinburgh. All lovely folk. Mostly. They meet up semi-regularly in either of the aforementioned places. Or Largs, on the rare occasion I get my half-breed butt up north.
I'm all the way up in Aberdeen, will have to keep an eye open for meet ups!
We do actually have a dude up in Aberdeen, though he's not around much these days. But yeah, keep an eye out.
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That is all.
She steals the duvet too.
I saw her punch a baby in the throat.
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She's French.
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In the Pews: Mount Moriah hosting ministers' wives event
Published: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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It's not a club, it's a sisterhood.
That's how Sheila Snoody, a Spartanburg resident, describes the South Carolina Association of Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows.
The organization will hold its annual conference at Mount Moriah Baptist Church, 445 S. Church St., this weekend. The two-day event will bring more than 250 women, of all denominations, to Spartanburg.
Virginia Smith, president of the Spartanburg Interdenominational Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows Auxiliary (SIMWMWA) and Melva Bruton, president of the South Carolina Association of Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows will be in attendance.
Snoody encourages ministers' wives and widows in the area to attend.
"It's a chance to be around like-minded sisters who walk in their shoes," she said. "It's just about supporting each other."
The conference begins with a luncheon at noon today. A banquet will take place at 7 tonight. On Saturday, events will begin at 9 a.m.
The Spartanburg Interdenominational Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows Auxiliary has been in existence for 40 years.
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23 Jul 2010 3:12 AM #1
Sencha + Phonegap orientation problem
For sencha team thank you for this beautiful tools ! Sencha is the best way for webapp !
So my problem. My web app work perfectily and whan i change the orientation, no problem.
But when i embed my webapp via phone gap the orientation change keep the initial position.
I found this solution then i use with a onOrientationChange of panel :
but doesn't work ! any pist or way where i can find a solution ?
23 Jul 2010 7:02 AM #2
I am having the same problem. I am using the Kitchen Sink demo and PhoneGap. The orientation adjustment happens in the browser fine but when you run it on an iPad or the simulator with PhoneGap, the onOrientationChange function/listener does not seem to work, except on first load. Please help!
26 Jul 2010 7:01 AM #3
so the phonegap don't send the onorientationchange event and use the orientationchanged event init by the phonegap.js.
But phonegap.js gave error with sencha.
i found this solution : http://groups.google.com/group/phone...438ccb9111c2ca
if i have more information i post the solution here.
see you.
30 Jul 2010 7:27 AM #4
Hey Fabien,
I have been following your threads since yesterday. I am also trying to launch an iPad app into the app store and my final step is getting the orientation to change on the ipad with Sencha and PhoneGap.
So far, this is the only thing that has worked for me:
<script> document.addEventListener("orientationChanged", yourCallbackFunction, false); </script>
Sencha app.js
function yourCallbackFunction() { //alert("PhoneGap has triggered the event!"); // Now I need to have Sencha refresh the Panel? }
If you have some luck with this let me know.
30 Jul 2010 1:27 PM #5
I finally got this to work. I had the same problem you were having with PhoneGap and Sencha. Apparently Sencha, does recognize the WindowResize event so I used that event to manually resize my main Panel.
new Ext.setup({ glossOnIcon: false, onReady: function() { // Regular EXT JS application code here // ...... // Setup a callback for WindowResize Event Ext.EventManager.onWindowResize( senchaChangeOrientation ); } }); // Callback function senchaChangeOrientation() { if(Ext.getOrientation()=="landscape") { mainPanel.setSize(1024,748); mainPanel.doLayout(); }else { mainPanel.setSize(768,1004); mainPanel.doLayout(); } }
3 Aug 2010 12:19 AM #6
Many thanks for your answers ! i test these solution and it work fine !
10 Aug 2010 11:14 PM #7
hi, i'm a newbie sencha user so probably my question is very "dummy"...
i have a similar problem using sencha-phonegap.
my application should display 2 different view:
- in portrait, i want a long test with scrolling enabled
- in landscape, i need to display an image that fits the screen bounds with no scrolling at all
I created an html with 2 'divs' containing the 2 views: they are included in a container 'div' called my-div and are made visible/invisible using css media queries.
then i created a fullscreen panel with the content of my-div and tried to catch window resize event in order to set the panel size as in the example above. but it didn't worked...
When i'm in portrait and scroll to bottom and then i rotate to landscape, the scrolling is still active and the image is not visible because is on the top and i have to scroll to view it...
new Ext.setup({ onReady: function(){ mainPanel = new Ext.Panel { contentEl: 'my-div', scroll: 'vertical', fullscreen: true // Setup a callback for WindowResize Event Ext.EventManager.onWindowResize( senchaChangeOrientation ); } }); // Callback function senchaChangeOrientation() { if(Ext.getOrientation()=="landscape") { mainPanel.setSize(480,320); mainPanel.setScrollable('false'); mainPanel.doLayout(); } else { mainPanel.setSize(320,480); mainPanel.setScrollable('vertical'); mainPanel.doLayout(); } };
thanks in advance for any help.
11 Aug 2010 5:48 AM #8
Although this is not the fix you are looking for, I have suggested some syntax correction from the code you provided. I believe the callback was not working before, because of where you had that line of code.
new Ext.setup({ onReady: function(){ mainPanel = new Ext.Panel({ contentEl: 'my-div', scroll: 'vertical', fullscreen: true }); // Setup a callback for WindowResize Event Ext.EventManager.onWindowResize( senchaChangeOrientation ); }); // Callback function senchaChangeOrientation() { if(Ext.getOrientation()=="landscape") { mainPanel.setSize(480,320); mainPanel.setScrollable('false'); mainPanel.doLayout(); } else { mainPanel.setSize(320,480); mainPanel.setScrollable('vertical'); mainPanel.doLayout(); } };
11 Aug 2010 8:27 AM #9
yes. it was a typing error...there is also a missing curly bracket after the line:
Ext.EventManager.onWindowResize( senchaChangeOrientation );
by the way, the event is catched by senchaChangeOrientation function (i tried to display an alert and worked...) but after few seconds the application crashes...
11 Aug 2010 9:11 AM #10
finally i got it to work!
it was simpler than i believed...simply declared 2 panel with a card layout and set active item on window resize
here's the code i used.
Ext.setup({ onReady: function() { panel = new Ext.Panel({ fullscreen: true, layout: 'card', items:[{xtype:'panel',contentEl:'portrait-container',scroll:'vertical'}, {xtype:'panel',contentEl:'landscape-container',scroll:'false'}] }); Ext.EventManager.onWindowResize(setActivePanel); } }); function setActivePanel(){ if (Ext.getOrientation()=="landscape") { panel.getLayout().setActiveItem(1); } else { panel.getLayout().setActiveItem(0); } };
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BISBEE — A special report issued earlier this month by the Immigration Policy Center called "Discrediting 'Self Deportation' as Immigration Policy" argues that forcing all illegal immigrants to leave the United States would make life difficult for everyone.
The strategy called "attrition through enforcement" was conceived by national immigration restrictionist organizations, including the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Center for Immigration Studies and Numbers USA.
"While these groups favor severe restrictions on all immigration and support mass deportation, they are also proponents of this strategy. Recognizing the current political reality, they have sought to market the idea of attrition through enforcement as a kinder, gentler alternative to the harsh, expensive, and unworkable strategy of mass deportation," states the Immigration Policy Center report.
"According to CIS (Center for Immigration Studies), attrition through enforcement involves reducing the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S., and deterring future unauthorized immigrants from coming, by stepping up enforcement of existing laws and increasing the incentives for immigrants to 'deport themselves.' As Numbers USA puts it: 'There is no need for taxpayers to watch the government spend billions of their dollars to round up and deport illegal aliens; they will buy their own bus or plane tickets back home if they can no longer earn a living here,'" it continues.
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"Is making our communities so thoroughly inhospitable that people will choose to leave really in line with our values as Americans? If we go this route, how do we distinguish ourselves from those immigrant‐sending countries where crime, terrorism, economic turmoil, and political violence make living conditions unbearable, causing migrants to leave?" the report asks.
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#2. Taking Tylenol to Heal Emotional Pain
Everyone at some point experiences what's referred to as social pain (bullying, rejection, debilitating awkwardness, etc.) that leaves them feeling crushingly vulnerable. Granted, it's often not the type of thing that's severe enough to need a huge dose of antidepressants, so you wind up just locking yourself in your room and listening to some angry music for the rest of the night. It's not like you can go to your medicine cabinet and swallow a pill for your hurt feelings, right?
Wrong, jerkloser. It turns out there's a pill you can take for the pains of social failure, and it's been right in front of our picked-last-for-kickball faces this whole time. The wonder drug in question is standard, over the counter, any-asshat-can-buy-it Tylenol.
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"I am so pissed off right now. Hand me a razor blade and a straw."
In 2009, a research team at the University of Kentucky conducted two experiments to see whether acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol and other over-the-counter pain relievers) could be used to treat psychological pain as well as physical. In the first experiment, a group of 62 volunteers were given either 1,000 milligrams of acetaminophen or a placebo and were then asked to provide daily reports on the amount of social pain they'd suffered by making notations on the "Hurt Feelings Scale." The level of social pain steadily decreased over time in the group taking the actual drug, whereas the control group experienced no change whatsoever.
The second experiment gathered a smaller group of volunteers, again split into treatment and control groups, with the treatment group receiving twice the dose of acetaminophen from the previous experiment. Both groups were then made to play a computer game that simulated feelings of social rejection (like a version of The Sims where your character does nothing but sit in an empty house and stare at the telephone). MRI scans of their brains were taken during the course of the game, which we assume did nothing but enhance everyone's comfort level.
"It looks like he may be immune. Let's put him on World of Warcraft."
As the experiment went on, the areas of the brain associated with pain (both psychological/social and physical) lit up like a barren, giftless Christmas tree for the placebo group. However, those same areas remained politely Zen in the acetaminophen-treated group -- their experience of emotional pain had been dulled to the level of robots and serial killers (not mutually exclusive). Keep in mind, physical and social pain activate the same brain regions -- when Surly Jim calls you "dickpigeon" in homeroom, your brain processes it in the exact same way as when Surly Jim punches you in the stomach (and then calls you "dickpigeon").
The researchers concluded that drugs such as Tylenol, typically prescribed as painkillers, could just as effectively be used to combat abstract pain like loneliness and embarrassment, in addition to treating headaches and punches in the face.
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#1. Treating a Heart Attack by Getting a Little Sun
Considering America's collective decision to embrace obesity-related heart disease by enjoying diets consisting largely of deep-fried mayonnaise, we're surprised that McDonald's doesn't hand out chewable aspirin and rib spreaders with every value meal. Or, we could just start eating all of our cheeseburgers outside, because heart attacks and a host of their nasty consequences can be foiled by copious amounts of sunlight, apparently.
A team of researchers from the University of Colorado discovered this effect after inducing heart attacks in groups of laboratory mice, presumably by feeding them nothing but selections from Guy Fieri's cookbook.
"Put him in the beaker in preparation for the sputtering angry napalm shit that is sure to follow."
Prior to their coronary episodes, one group of mice spent their time bathed in the warm glow of sunlamps, while the other group existed entirely under the gray and depleted indoor lighting enjoyed by most prisons and mental institutions. The scientists observed that the mice who had been exposed to sunlight recuperated from their heart attacks much more quickly than their less-illuminated counterparts (after accounting for a control group that had been eaten by someone's cat).
Why such a difference in recovery periods? The sun-blanketed rodents produced higher amounts of a type of protein that plays an important role in preventing tissue damage and keeping the heart metabolized during a heart attack. As for why the sun would make you produce more of those proteins, it has to do with your sleep cycle. The circadian rhythms that determine when you get up and when you go to sleep also make your organs produce specific proteins at certain times of day. Turn on a sun lamp and your body will think it's daytime. Or if it is daytime, get some goddamned sun so that your body knows.
But for God's sake, first put on some clothes that don't make you look like a total fucking embarrassment.
A scientist involved in the study felt that their findings could influence treatment in the future, suggesting that "... daylight exposure inside of the hospital could reduce the damage that is caused by a heart attack," which seems like a polite way of saying that maybe they should just move patients closer to the damned window.
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