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I've been a bit slow in responding to the new math drama Suugaku♥Joshi Gakuen starring a whole bunch of H!P members, but now that the first episode is out, here's a post.
H!P math drama??!!! I've been waiting for this my whole life! (Never mind that my life predates H!P.) And of course I'm happy to see Sayu starring as a math geek, given the interest she's expressed in the subject.
I don't have time right now to do a full review of the first episode, but I've found it quite awesome so far, with respect to the geekiness, though the number of typos I've spotted have been quite a distraction. The series has apparently been developed in cooperation with the Mathematical Olympiad Foundation of Japan, so the math is essentially correct, as far as I can tell so far (I haven't dissected most of it yet), though the editing work seems to have been rather sloppy.
Also, I'm not sure who's planning to fansub this drama, but I would like to volunteer as a math consultant. So if you are working on this, please sign me up. I think the kinds of mistakes that have slipped through the editing can also pop up in translation, and I can help look over the translations and correct any possible math errors.
Here are some typos (and non-typos) I've found:
The first equation is given as . This says that the limit of f(x) as x approaches a is equal to a. As written, this is only correct for all values of a if f is the identity function. This should probably be , which is true for all continuous functions.
The second equation says . There is an extra equal sign here. It should be . This is the derivative of ax respect to x.
The third equation is fine as is, and expresses linearity of integration.
This clock is just awesome. It has expressions evaluating to or otherwise indicating each of the integers from 1 to 12, which we would see on a normal clock.
- — the tangent of 45°, equal to 1.
- — this is a typo; should be , an infinite series converging to 2.
- 3i — this is another typo; should be 3, an HTML code for the character 3.
- — the modular multiplicative inverse of 2 (mod 7); 4 and 2 multiply to 8, which is congruent to 1 (mod 7), so 4 is an inverse of 2 (though not the only inverse; 11 is the other integer on the clock that satisfies this property, which makes this a flawed clock).
- — solve for X, which can be either 5 or -5.
- — the factorial of 3, which is 6.
- — this repeating decimal is equal to 7.
- — the square root of 64 is 8.
- — since π is irrational, this is actually 9.004777960769…, but it's approximately 9.
- — solve for X, which is 10.
- 0x0B — hexadecimal for 11, with the standard hexadecimal prefix of "0x" used in Unix-like shells and C.
- — the cube root of 1728 is 12.
This is given as , but the radical should extend over the entire right-hand side: .
In context, Nina (Reina's character) swings on a rope into the classroom. This expresses her velocity at the lowest point of her trajectory.
Nina starts out with a gravitational potential energy of mgh (m is mass, g is gravitational acceleration, and h is height, measured relative to the lowest point of her trajectory) and no kinetic energy prior to swinging on the rope. At the lowest point, she has a kinetic energy of (m is mass and v is velocity) and no potential energy. Due to conservation of energy, these two are equal:
It seems Tsunku♂ has joined the eminent ranks of Napier, Fermat, Gauss, Cauchy, Lagrange, et al…. :o


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Via Dan Riehl, people are going nuts over this in the Headlines thread but I don't know why. He's not endorsing her over some tea-party primary opponent. She has no primary opponent. He's endorsing her over the Democrat in the race, Shenna Bellows (whose civil-libertarian cred from working at the ACLU evidently gave Paul no pause).
Even Jim DeMint, who once said he'd rather have 30 principled conservatives in the Senate than a 60-seat majority of RINOs, saw fit to endorse Scott Brown on the eve of his big special election upset in 2010. If Rand can hold an extra Senate seat for the GOP in 2014 by nudging Maine tea partiers to pull the lever for Collins, what's the harm?
Q: You're going to join U.S. Sen. Susan Collins for a state party fundraiser today. She's defended National Security Agency spying programs you oppose, and she's also running against a Democrat, Shenna Bellows, who comes pretty close to sharing your views on that and other privacy issues. Do you support her, despite disagreement on many of those issues?
A: I wholeheartedly endorse Senator Collins for re-election. I think she's doing a great job for Maine and for the country. … I don't really know, exactly, what her position is on the NSA; you'd have to ask her about that.
I just know my position, but I think we're a big political party. There's room for not-entire agreement on every issue.
So why are grassroots righties annoyed? Here's a representative comment from Headlines:
Well, since Collins is running unopposed on the Republican side, it's logical for Paul to support her over her democrat opponent. However, this is less about "GOP unity" than it is about Rand Paul being desperate to publicly secure his position within the GOP establishment ranks – Republicans would have supported Collins without Rand Paul's endorsement, so, it's all pretty meaningless as far as the Maine election goes.
Rand Paul wants to make that everyone knows that he has shifted from the conservative side, to the establishment side – and his 'wholehearted' support for Collins is just one more box checked.
Yeah, the "wholehearted" Collins endorsement is interesting mainly as a temperature check on how Paul's effort to mainstream-ize himself before 2016 is going. Nearly every GOP candidate has a problem with either the establishment or with grassroots conservatives. (The only major contender I can think of who really doesn't is Scott Walker.) Paul's problem, needless to say, is with the establishment, who think he's too dovish, too much like dad, and just too anti-status quo to be a safe pick, so he's been at pains lately to try to solve it. At some point, between endorsing Mitch McConnell and shifting to a hawkish posture on Russia and running away from Cliven Bundy and making status-quo noises on abortion and ObamaCare, he risks pandering a bit too much to the donor class and thereby irritating his base of righties and libertarians. Backing Collins so effusively when he could have demurred with a simple "I always support Republicans over Democrats" might have been the last straw, definitive proof that he's "over-correcting." Bad enough that he'd back McConnell, tea-party enemy number one for the moment, over a grassroots favorite, but to cheer on someone who voted for the stimulus? C'mon.
The risk here isn't that righties won't forgive him. He's already hard at work on a remedial pander, floating a bill to cut foreign aid to the Palestinians unless they recognize Israel's right to exist. The risk is that he's putting himself at a disadvantage against Cruz in the battle for tea-party hearts and minds while not reaping any concomitant benefits among the establishmentarians he's trying to impress. Paul doesn't expect to win their votes; all he wants is for them to see him as an acceptable nominee, sufficiently status-quo that they won't unite to destroy him if he pulls an upset in Iowa or New Hampshire. He even met with Romney's donor network recently, the creme de la creme of the GOP donor class, to make nice. How's it going so far? You tell me:
The darkest secret in the big money world of the Republican coastal elite is that the most palatable alternative to a nominee such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas or Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky would be Clinton, a familiar face on Wall Street following her tenure as a New York senator with relatively moderate views on taxation and financial regulation.
"If it turns out to be Jeb versus Hillary we would love that and either outcome would be fine," one top Republican-leaning Wall Street lawyer said over lunch in midtown Manhattan last week. "We could live with either one. Jeb versus Joe Biden would also be fine. It's Rand Paul or Ted Cruz versus someone like Elizabeth Warren that would be everybody's worst nightmare."…
Ted Cruz, whose wife works at Goldman Sachs, is viewed negatively by many in the industry for his support of last year's government shutdown and scorched earth approach to political battle. Cruz fired up an activist gathering in New Hampshire earlier this month with the kind of provocative populist message that makes bankers very nervous. "The rich and powerful, those who walk the corridors of power, are getting fat and happy," Cruz thundered. At the same event, Paul argued that the GOP "cannot be the party of fat cats, rich people and Wall Street."
As a wise man recently said, the first duty of establishmentarians is to the establishment, meaning that stopping Paul (or Cruz) will almost certainly take precedence for rich Republicans in 2016 over stopping Hillary. I guess, in theory, with enough pandering Rand could convince them that he's marginally better than her, but how much pandering could he realistically do before convincing his grassroots fans that he's sold out and would be as disappointing to righties as president as Obama was to hardcore lefties? Maybe there's no way out of this bind.


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The Raven is a fictionalized account of the final days of gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe as he tracks a serial killer whose crimes mirror works by the famous author.
Peter Bradshaw
"It's a nice touch to give Baltimore a serial killer over a century before Dr Hannibal Lecter was employed by the Johns Hopkins Medical Centre in that city. It runs out of steam in the final 10 minutes, but there's some gruesome drama and Cusack is on decent form."
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Jonathan Romney
"he screenplay, by Hannah Shakespeare and Ben Livingston, is one of the better things here. There's much ripe dialogue, especially in the mouth of Poe, played by Cusack as a manic proto-hipster (with a snazzy goatee, rather than the real Poe's merely functional 'tache). His voice an impassioned rasp, his face usually fixed in wild-eyed bafflement, Cusack comes on like a true melodrama barnstormer – especially when ranting at all comers about his overlooked genius ... The rest, however, just fills in the gaps in a routine way ..."
Philip French
"It's a moderately entertaining thriller that (contrary to the claims of its writers and director) throws little light on Poe's character and none on the mystery surrounding his death. "
Mark Adams
"Director James McTeigue favours bombastic direction and an unsuitable rock soundtrack though is not aided by a rather unfocussed script that seems to be aiming for a period version of Se7en but feels more like 'CSI Baltimore' circa 1849."
Kim Newman
"From the first crashing chords of the disastrously inappropriate rock score to the frankly dumb punchline, this consistently misses the mark – mostly thanks to haphazard scriptwriting which suggests a wikipedia level of Poe scholarship and a failure to grasp the concept of the whodunit."
Tom Huddleston
"Take a dash of 'Theatre of Blood', a splash of Seven and a fistful of From Hell, give it a good shake, drain out all the juice and you've got The Raven a bizarre, deeply unsatisfying fictionalised account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe."
Wendy Ide
"McTeigue figures that periodically chucking a crow at the camera and shrouding the set in dry ice will do to create a Poe-ish atmosphere. But he's just burying the film with baroque set dressing and manufactured tension. "
Neil Smith
"As implausible as the stars' gleaming choppers. Who knew they had such great dentistry in 1840s Baltimore?"
Cosmo Landesman
"There's a downside of literary fame for you: being travestied in hack work such as this. "
Nigel Andrews
"Poor Edgar Allan Poe. For years he groomed that personality-defining black moustache sitting like a mournful raven on his upper lip. Then along comes John Cusack in The Raven wearing a full-order goatee. Can't Hollywood get anything right? "
Robbie Collin
"Edgar Allan Poe's acidic wit and flair for brevity are both in perilously short supply in this torpid, rackety whodunit."
Chris Tookey
"Cusack has been publicising the film with the revelation that he suffered dreadful sleeping problems while making it. No such difficulties are likely to be experienced by the audience. The title echoes Poe's most famous poem - and the only sensible response is a horrified cry of 'Nevermore!'"


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Bayern Munich drop points against Dortmund as lead at top of Bundesliga cut to eight points
Bayer Leverkusen beat Nuremburg 1-0; Schalke drop more points as poor league run continues
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Bayern Munich dropped points for only the third time this season on Saturday as Borussia Dortmund held the Bundesliga's runaway leaders to a 1-1 draw at the Allianz Arena.
Reigning champions Dortmund have beaten Bayern in their previous four league meetings but had to come from behind to steal a point on this occasion.
Some tight defending by the visitors frustrated the home side in the first half, but the deadlock was broken in the 67th minute when Toni Kroos swept past two defenders before firing home a low left-foot shot into the right corner.
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Google Calendar rocks--except when it doesn't. For example, the managers of my daughter's soccer team use the free service to share a practice, game, and event schedule with all the parents--a much more practical solution than sending out endless e-mails or making photocopies of a paper schedule.
However, upon receiving and clicking the invitation link for the shared calendar, several parents reported this error: "The one time calendar access transfer key is invalid." But for other parents, the link worked just fine. Hmmmm.
I've yet to uncover the cause of the problem, but I do have a solution: manually add the calendar based on its ID code. Here's how:
1. The person sharing the calendar needs to look up its ID. Start by signing into Google Calendar (hereafter "GCal"), clicking the Settings icon (the little gear in the upper-right corner), then choosing Calendar settings.
2. Click the Calendars link.
3. Find the calendar you're trying to share and click it.
4. In this Calendar Details screen, you should see a Calendar Address line with some colorful icons and a Calendar ID. That ID will look like a big string of gibberish, followed by @group.calendar.google.com. Select and copy the whole ID.
5. E-mail that ID to the people who are having trouble.
Now the action switches to the users who want to add the calendar:
1. Select and copy the calendar ID.
2. Sign into your GCal account.
3. On the left side, under Other Calendars, you'll see a field marked Add a friend's calendar. (You may have to expand the Other Calendars section to reveal the field.)
4. Paste the code into that field and press Enter.
That should do the trick! Note that this will work only if the sharer has already added your registered Google Calendar e-mail address to the list of "sharees."
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Longtime men's basketball coach died last week
Funeral services have been announced for former Miami University basketball coach Charlie Coles, the school's all-time leader in victories who died at age 71.
Visitation will be 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday at Millett Hall on the Miami campus in southwest Ohio. Funeral services will follow at Millett at 1 p.m.
A reception is planned afterward, to begin while his family is at a private graveside service. Coles is survived by his wife Delores, son Chris and daughter Mary Bennett, and four grandchildren. He died in Oxford last Friday.
The two-time Mid-American Conference coach of the year had 263 victories at Miami. He also was the Mid-American Conference's all-time leader in conference wins with 218. Coles had a career record of 355-308 over 22 seasons at Miami and Central Michigan.


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"I am somewhat sheepishly concerned that it was my preventing one of my early spring allergic coughs," she said. "So, it may have no great meaning whatsoever."
She also said today, "Those were 38 of the most intense minutes. I have no idea what any of us were looking at at that particular millisecond when the picture was taken."
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Last September Intel unveiled its highly regarded Core i5 processor along with the new LGA1156 platform, delivering a brand new chipset aimed at the all-important mainstream market. As you learned from our previous coverage the Core i5 700 and Core i7 800 parts are based on the "Lynnfield" architecture, while the Intel P55 chipset goes by the codename "Ibex Peak".
Despite having just released this platform, Intel has set a shipment goal of one million Lynnfield processors by the end of 2009. You do the math, that gives them short of four months to make the mark. With so many parts expected to ship by year's end, it stands to reason that just as many compatible motherboards will be moved as well.
Asus anticipates selling nearly half a million P55 motherboards by the end of the year. If this is the case, it will mean that P55 products alone will have accounted for 10% of the annual motherboard shipments for the Taiwanese manufacturer.
In other words, there is quite a bit on the line for both Asus and its competitors. In an effort to meet the diverse demand expected for P55 products, Asus released a total of nine P55-based motherboards on the platform's launch day, ranging in price from $135 for the basic P7P55D LE to ~$250 for the Maximus III Formula and P7P55 WS SuperComputer.
The P7P55D series sits at the center of Asus' P55 line-up, and the $220 P7P55D Deluxe we are reviewing today is meant to be your no-nonsense choice if you are looking for an integral P55 solution. Then the obvious question has to be what exactly makes this motherboard special?
Right out of the box you will spot a few unique and interesting features, such as TurboV Remote, described by Asus to be a versatile real-time overclocking hardware controller. There's also an innovative 24 hybrid phase design and something Asus calls T.Probe that controls the power phase temperatures across the board.
Among other things the P7P55D Deluxe ships with Express Gate, Asus' instant-on OS, the ability to save BIOS OC profiles, a heat-pipe based fanless cooling, and the guarantee of an enthusiast-friendly installation. You get your on-board power on switch, additional protection against static electricity and a module to connect your chassis front panel cables with a single plug.
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Red Sox outright Aceves to Triple-A Pawtucket
Righty will have to be placed back on 40-man roster to pitch again for Boston
NEW YORK -- Alfredo Aceves, whose time with the Red Sox has seemed tenuous for a while, could effectively be done with the big league club.
The Red Sox continued to phase out the controversial right-hander when they took him off the 40-man roster Sunday night and outrighted him to Triple-A Pawtucket.
Aceves had been optioned to Pawtucket on Wednesday, a day after he pitched two-thirds of an inning against the Mariners.
There appeared to be disagreement between Aceves and the Red Sox if an injury led to that stint being shortened.
Red Sox manager John Farrell said the club thought Aceves was healthy. However, Aceves told Masslive.com that he had an oblique injury and might not be able to pitch for weeks.
Aceves hasn't pitched since his return to Pawtucket.
To pitch again for the Red Sox this season, Aceves would have to be put back on the 40-man roster, something that does not seem likely.
The team suspended the right-hander for three games last season for a tirade that occurred when then-manager Bobby Valentine removed him from the closer's role.
Farrell had started this season by giving Aceves a clean slate, but the manager's patience was tested as early as Spring Training, when the righty went through the motions during pitchers' batting practice.
Things quieted for a while, but Aceves again annoyed the Red Sox with a lackluster effort against the A's on April 23, when he was hammered for eight runs and seven hits over 3 1/3 innings and didn't seem to be pitching with a lot of intensity.
He was optioned back to the Minors after that start, but returned to pitch well in spot starts on May 27, June 12 and June 18.


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Created under the Environmental Quality Act of 1986, the Water Quality Assurance Revolving Fund (WQARF) program supports ADEQ in identifying, prioritizing, assessing and resolving the threat of contaminated soil and groundwater sites in the state. The program conducts statewide efforts using state funds and oversees privately funded cleanups as well.
To learn more about each WQARF site, see the WQARF Registry | View Registry >
Reform Legislation
The program underwent significant revisions as a result of the WQARF Reform Legislation of 1997 (Laws 1997, Chapter 287). Major provisions include:
• Proportionate Liability — Liability for the contaminated site's cleanup costs is proportionate rather than joint (as it is in federal regulations). These cleanup costs are proportionally allocated among responsible parties by ADEQ using a process defined in statute. ADEQ is responsible for identifying responsible parties and allocating cleanup costs. A non-judicial allocation hearing process is available for dispute resolution.
• Settlements — To provide a favorable alternative to litigation, ADEQ is authorized to offer a 25 percent discount to responsible parties who settle after they've been notified of their proportionate share of liability.
• Program Funding — The adoption of a proportionate liability system increased the need for adequate and dedicated program funding. To ensure such funding and pay allocated, non-collectable orphan shares, WQARF reform legislation provides for an annual $18 million expenditure. The program is dependent upon the direct transfer of funds from legislative appropriations, corporate income tax, cost recovery and special fees.
• Site Prioritization — Sites are prioritized with a greater emphasis on risk to human health. The statute provides a process to score sites according to actual and potential exposure to hazardous substances. This score and other factors are considered when prioritizing the expenditure of WQARF funds.
• Cleanup Methods and Goals — WQARF reform provides increased flexibility in selecting groundwater cleanup methods and levels. ADEQ adopted and applies remedy selection rules that incorporate an analysis of a range of cleanup options. The statute clarifies that the cleanup need not always result in achieving drinking water standards within the aquifer.
• Community Involvement — Enhanced community involvement is required at all stages of cleanup. The statute establishes a process to encourage active community involvement, including provisions for notices, plans and the formation of a Community Advisory Board (CAB) for each site.
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Here is the task:
Create a program that allows a user to enter 10 words.
The program will prompt each user to show how far she has come, for example: "Enter the word number 6:"
The program will then print all the words forwards, backwards and every other word.
Program code should have high cohesion. It should therefore consist of three classes. Class names should be the start point, Dialog and Printing.
One class will be responsible for being the entry point.
The second class will be responsible for the dialogue with the user entering keywords, and to manage printing.
The third class will be responsible for printing.
Clarification: By "backwards" here means "in reverse" in relation to the order of the words were written in.
My code:
public class Startpunkt { public static void main(String[] args) { new Dialog(); } } import javahjelp.Konsoll; public class Dialog { public Dialog(){ String[] rekke = new String[10]; for (int i=0;i<10;i++) rekke[i] = Konsoll.readLine("Write a word "+i); int i; for (i=0;i<10;i++) new Print(); } } public class Print { System.out.println("You wrote " +rekke[i]) }
The last class is my problem. How do i print something from class Dialog ? And print the other way I'm supposed to (watch task)? I need help


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Montrezl Harrell scored 14 points to lead five Louisville players in double figures as the seventh-ranked Cardinals routed Missouri-Kansas City 90-62 on Wednesday night.
Facing first-year Kangaroos coach Kareem Richardson, Louisville reminded the former Cardinals assistant what he left behind to take the UMKC job. Though less dominant on offense than in last December's 99-47 victory over the Kangaroos, the Cardinals (7-1) controlled the game throughout and steadily pulled away in the second half.
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>> Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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Date: 2 July 2009, Thursday
Venue: Hoi Peng Seafood Restaurant, SS2 Petaling Jaya
Occasion: Sister's 21st birthday
Overall comment: This place is said to be famous for their crab dishes. However, PerutBesi doesn't think that it's all that "wow"...the crabs were actually fresh & meaty - nice...sweet...but the sauce wasn't up to my expectations. As for the other dishes, it was moderately good only la...oh btw, it's my 1st time here, so erm...I may not consider this place as THE place for crabs after all :P Perhaps we didn't order their signature dishes? Or perhaps their standards dropped...? :S Precious Pea & Food4Thot said this place has good food...maybe I went there on a bad day...? Oh yes, it was rather pricey as well...
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It's been a pleasure seeing and hearing him regularly on Rove and radio, (not to mention his regular turn as Strauchanie), but it's been a few years since Peter Helliar has properly graced a stand-up stage - although the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala is a nice gig to have remembered as your last before taking a break to make a feature film. Back, if not with a vengeance, then at least with a new bunch of stand-up, Pete's playing the Sydney Opera House from Jan 5th with his Dreamboat Tour. In the meantime, here's an interview from a Sydney visit ages ago. It is from a time when Merrick & Rosso ruled drivetime radio with their shift on Triple J, and if it's too long ago for you to remember, rest assured, it seems like a life time ago for me, too. But even at the time, it felt like a particularly golden age of Oz comedy - Tripod appearing regularly with Peter on Merrick & Rosso's Triple J show. I know one day people will look back at a golden period just ended, when Ben Ellwood and Dave Jory would appear regularly on Dools's drivetime show. As it happens, Dools is now hosting Breakfast at Nova with Merrick Watts, all of which deserve a whole other bunch of blogs... for now, here's an early interview with Peter Helliar.
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"I saw Greg Fleet at the Comedy Club in Melbourne when I was 15 and I thought that that would be a kind of cool thing to do," Peter Helliar offers as explanation of his comedic inspiration. "That, of course, was when I thought everyone was making huge amounts of money doing comedy."
A deep desire to perform, too many beers, boisterous mates and the refusal to "get a proper job" actually led Helliar to adopt this 'cool' way of life. Eventually.
"It took me a good seven years to get off to it," he admits, having opted for travel after finishing school. In fact, Helliar almost worked up enough nerve to have a go at comedy overseas: "I was in London and thought, 'maybe I'll try here, where I won't be humiliated in front of people I know." The London debut never eventuated. Helliar instead returned to Australia where he finally got up on stage to start telling jokes at Melbourne's legendary Espy comedy club (in St Kilda's Esplanade Hotel). "The rest," Peter assures me, "is history. Not an awfully interesting history, but a history nonetheless." Helliar finishes his story by revealing just how huge the amounts of money to be made in comedy are: "The harsh reality is that it's only a couple of million a year."
Only a couple, Peter?
"Um. Slightly less."
Although he's only been joking for the last two and a half years, Peter has been to Sydney about six or seven times. However, if you have yet to see him live, you may be more familiar with the contributions he regularly makes to Merrick and Rosso's Triple J drivetime slot as Peter Helliar, PI. Merrick Watts and Peter Helliar were already familiar with each other by the time Helliar had started making with the funny business; they'd been introduced by a mutual friend. However, a "mutual admiration society" quickly developed between Helliar and the grouse duo, Merrick and Rosso soon inviting Peter along to fill the support slot at their Christmas and grand final shows in Melbourne.
"They were the first people who could give me a real break," Peter acknowledges.
Recognising, no doubt, a kindred spirit as well as talent, Merrick and Rosso continued to send breaks in Peter's direction. Last year they asked him to contribute to Hair of the Dog, the Triple J Sunday slot they were then filling while Roy and HG were overseas. When they had landed the drivetime shift, they likewise brought him on board.
Merrick and Rosso left Pete's exact role on the show pretty much up to him; their first question was, 'do you have any ideas?' Peter confessed to harbouring only the one and it involved him being "a 'PI' kind of guy," mainly because the idea of 'a race against time' appealed. Thus, each week, Peter pits his wits against all manner of challenges within certain time constraints, for the entertainment of the Triple J-listening masses.
"It opens itself up to so many different possibilities," he explains, "from tracking various people down to professing my love to certain people to singing songs like the one I did with Steven Gates from Tripod recently." Part of the attraction that such a role held was that it would be so different; it would not require Helliar to either pen ten minutes of new material or use up dependable chunks of his stage show each week.
In his capacity as 'Peter Helliar, PI' Peter has established a very good track record, having 'failed his mission' only once, and even then, under "reasonably dubious" circumstances.
"I had to write a poem about the town of Orange, NSW, to the tune of 'The Man from Snowy River'. 'Orange' had to rhyme four times within that poem. For those who don't know, 'Orange' is one of few English words that has no rhyme."
Geez, I offer, if that's the only time you've failed, don't be too hard on yourself. It was a pretty hard ask to begin with.
"Oh, thanks mate," Peter replies, "but I do strive for a one hundred percent record."
It appears that the "other hiccup" Peter Helliar, PI encountered involved Olympics commentator Bruce McAvaney. "We wanted Bruce to sing 'Islands in the Stream' because I'm a big fan of Bruce's work. He refused. But Matthew White from Sports Tonight was great enough to step in and take over the mantle and he loved it."
According to Peter, Sydney crowds often emanate "the right kind of vibes" for comedians who would otherwise avoid trying out fresh material. Thus, Helliar's Sydney shows will be an amalgam of his recent Melbourne Comedy Festival show, This Much is True, and what will eventually become next year's Comedy Festival piece.
"Just on the topic of this year's show, This Much is True, Peter," I ask. "How much of it was actually true?"
"Three percent," Peter answers without pausing.
"That's pretty good," I acknowledge. "There are reconstituted orange fruit drinks that cannot boast as high a content of actual orange juice." And it's certainly greater than the comic's - or, let's face it, anyone's - hit rate at rhyming the town Orange in a parody of 'Man From Snowy River'...


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Weirdie-indie-rockers The Apples In Stereo have put pen to paper on a deal with Simian Records, the label operated by actor Elijah Wood in conjunction with Yep Roc.
The band's new album, New Magnetic Wonder, has been scheduled for a March 2007 release. DiS editor Colin Roberts has been overheard calling it "joyous pop glee". And he's a man who knows his glee, alright.
The four-piece are expected to play May's ATP Festival - ATP vs The Fans (May 18-10, Minehead Butlins) - alongside the likes of Sparklehorse, Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies (or Youthmovies, if you like), and Modest Mouse. We know of a few other confired acts that we can't tell you about, too; we'd best keep quiet 'til ATP have listed said bands on their site.


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Virgin Mobile officially announced the Samsung Intercept's pricing and availability today. After small updates through Facebook and our showing it to your first at Target, we finally know that the Intercept is officially available beginning today at Target stores across the country. The Intercept will retail at $249.99 -- just like we saw earlier. The phone will make its way into other major retailers by mid-October. Full press release after the break.
Virgin Mobile Energizes Mobile Marketplace by Introducing Android Handset on a Nationwide, No-Contract Plan
Samsung Intercept Delivers Smartphone Luxuries
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WARREN, N.J. – Oct. 4, 2010 – The line between prepaid and postpaid mobile offerings has become even more blurred as Virgin Mobile USA enters the Android™ smartphone market. Beginning today at Target stores nationwide, Virgin Mobile adds the Samsung Intercept™, running on the Android mobile operating system, to its affordable, no-contract lineup of handset and service offerings. The Intercept will roll out to other major retailers throughout the month and will be available for purchase at virginmobileusa.com by mid-October for $249.99.
"As smartphone users come up for contract renewal and examine their monthly costs, they will start to wonder why they are paying more each month when they can get similar services from Virgin Mobile at a fraction of the price," said Bob Stohrer, vice president-Marketing, Virgin Mobile USA. "With the Samsung Intercept on Android, Virgin Mobile is leading its customers into new, eagerly awaited territory while expanding our potential customer base."
The Android device gives Virgin Mobile customers full integration of social networking apps, Microsoft Outlook Exchange e-mail and advanced messaging capabilities. Users of the Samsung Intercept also have access to more than 80,000 applications currently available on the Android Market™, and can sign up for one of Virgin Mobile's Beyond Talk™ plans which include e-mail, data and Web along with 300, 1200 or unlimited voices minutes per month and are perfect for the person always on the go.
In addition to a 3.2-inch touch-screen display, a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2 MP camera and video, the Samsung Intercept also comes preloaded with multiple applications, including such favorite social apps such as You Tube®, Facebook® and Google Talk™ as well as the Virgin Mobile Live app used to access Virgin Mobile's branded music stream. Additional features include:
· Contact and calendar sync via ActiveSync
· Android Web browser
· Access to the Amazon® MP3 store
· Full integration of Google Apps™, such as Google Maps™, Google Talk, Gmail™ and Google Navigation™
· Document file viewer
· Portrait and landscape screen orientation
· Dedicated keys for quick access to social networking
· Numerous video and music file types supported
· Built-in music player
The Samsung Intercept, paired with Virgin Mobile's no contract Beyond Talk service options at $25, $40 and $60 a month, offers one of the best smartphone values in the industry.
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EVERETT — A former Monroe police sergeant was ordered to post $50,000 bail Monday out of concern that he may again try to track down the woman who alleges he began sexually abusing her a decade ago.
Carlos Martinez, 58, appeared in Snohomish County Superior Court for a hearing about conditions of his release while he awaits trial on six different sex crimes.
Prosecutors asked for $50,000 bail out of concern that Martinez appeared to be searching for the woman who has accused him of sexually abusing her when she was underage.
Martinez's inquiries about the woman's whereabouts, including a recent attempt to get her address from the state Department of Licensing, led the state to suspend his private investigator's license in July.
The case against Martinez alleges that in 2003 he began a sexual relationship with a then-14 year old girl. At the time, Martinez was a Monroe police officer and had earlier taught drug education in the girl's fourth- and fifth-grade classes.
Prosecutors allege that Martinez groomed the girl for abuse. On Aug. 30, they charged him with multiple sex crimes, including child rape, molestation and voyeurism.
He pleaded not guilty, and insisted that the sex only began after the girl reached 18.
The Washington State Patrol began investigating Martinez in March 2012 after it was contacted by an FBI task force based in San Antonio, Texas. Martinez was arrested there on suspicion of possessing child pornography involving the same girl, but charges were never filed. Now 24, she told investigators that the pair would sometimes have sex while Martinez was on duty.
In court on Monday, public defender Sarah Silbovitz, told the Judge Anita Farris that Martinez was looking for the woman's whereabouts to make certain she is properly served in a civil case.
She said there is no reason to believe Martinez represents a flight risk, and that $10,000 bail was more appropriate.
Deputy prosecutor Lisa Paul said she's more concerned about Martinez potentially attempting to intimidate witnesses in the case. Not only has he been trying to track down his accuser, he also has told his ex wife that she shouldn't speak with detectives because she could wind up in trouble, too, Paul said.
Farris said she was ordering the $50,000 bail in response to concerns about Martinez's conduct.
The defendant then asked to leave the state for a trip to Texas so he can celebrate his birthday with friends. Farris turned him down flat.
Martinez left the Monroe Police Department in 2009. He was about to be fired after being accused of assaulting his wife.
That same year, Martinez separated from his wife and he moved to Texas with the girl he'd been molesting for six years, prosecutors allege. She went to police in Texas in 2011.
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We certainly enjoyed the model changes to Varian Wrynn and Sylvanas Windrunner, and now Blizzard's finished the unique models for Alexstrasza (human form, that is; you can see her dragon model update here) and Varimathras, as befits their key roles in the storyline for Wrath. I'm a tiny bit disappointed with Alexstrasza's model; her armor is mostly a red copy of Sylvanas' new threads, which are admittedly all sorts of awesome but makes me wonder if there's some kind of Armor Barn in Azeroth for hipster bosses. Alexstrasza does, however, show even more skin than Sylvanas does, so from some peoples' perspectives this might be a feature rather than a bug.
Varimathras is a nice update although he retains his old animations and emotes (you can't really see it from the perspective of the screenshot above, but I think his legs and hooves are a significant improvement on the shaky anatomy of the current dreadlord model). Both he and Alexstrasza's changes are somewhat less shocking than the complete overhaul to Wrynn and Sylvanas, but we're still pleased to see Blizzard taking an interest in the visual badassery of major faction leaders and NPC's. I would tend to agree with Zach Yonzon's contention that it would be amazing to see an update to all the faction leaders if Blizzard could swing it at some point, although I have the sneaking suspicion, judging from what CM's have said about the difficulty of programming in new Druid forms, that this is a fairly lengthy process. However, after seeing the model changes in the beta, I don't think anyone's going to argue it's not worth it, and a number of people have argued for player model changes as well. The extraordinary design work in Northrend will probably add fuel to that fire.


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Editor's note: Ever since the US Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, abortion has been legal in every state of the union.
But that's to say nothing of the rest of the world. We asked GlobalPost correspondents from Cairo to Caracas to assess abortion rights where they are.
United States
At the time of Roe v. Wade, women all over the US rejoiced that it would no longer be necessary to risk death with an illegal procedure or make a mad dash to New York – which in 1970 legalized abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy.
Today, abortion is, for the majority of Americans, a settled question. According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade.
But the controversy lives on. With the rise of the Tea Party in 2009, nearly every major political candidate is vetted on his or her stance toward abortion.
Conservative groups have ensured that no federal funds may be used for abortion, and have mounted an active campaign to defund reproductive care providers such as Planned Parenthood.
The furor may be testimony to the power of a small conservative minority to influence the political debate, but is unlikely to change the status quo. Candidates with a hard-line anti-abortion stance, such as Senate hopefuls Richard Mourdock of Indiana or Todd Akin of Missouri, lost soundly in recent elections.
The public has spoken.
– Jean MacKenzie in Buzzards Bay, Mass.
Latin America
Latin America could be the worst place in the world for a woman wishing to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
Five of the six nations with blanket bans on abortion are in the region, according to New York's Center for Reproductive Rights: Chile, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Meanwhile, abortion on demand in the first weeks of pregnancy is only available in Cuba, Guyana, the US territory of Puerto Rico, Mexico City and, since last October, Uruguay.
Peru also recently accepted recommendations from the United Nations' Human Rights Council that it guarantee the right, established in law but in practice frequently flouted, to allow abortions for women pregnant from rape.
If the issue of abortion seems divisive in the United States, then it may be even more so in Latin America, with both the Catholic Church and, increasingly, evangelical Christians heavily influencing public policies regarding reproductive rights.
The result is that an estimated 1 million women a year in Latin America and the Caribbean need hospital treatment as a result of complications from backstreet abortions.
– Simeon Tegel in Lima
Despite 14 years of left-wing government under President Hugo Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution, Venezuela's abortion laws remain governed by the ideology of the Catholic Church, with the practice being banned here unless the mother's life is in danger. Voluntary abortion is punishable by up to two years in prison, though there is little chance of conviction.
Women in need of abortions either pay inflated prices to doctors on a black market or take under-the-counter pills bought for a few dollars at home. This, according to the Central University of Venezuela, leads to about 16 percent of all maternal deaths.
"Abortion isn't a hypothetical situation, it's a reality, it's being done by women every day our sisters, our neighbours; it's a reality that we have to deal with," said campaigner Tatiana Rojas, of the group Skirts in Revolution, in a television interview in November, adding that rich and poor were impacted very differently.
"[Wealthy women] can access foreign treatment or pay a private clinic," she said, "whereas poor women are exposed to a clandestine market, irregular clinics, [or] they perform it upon themselves."
Campaigns, however, have failed to gain any traction here. Skirts in Revolution's abortionhelpline was off the hook last week, its website is down and the group has not updated itsTwitter feed for two months. In Venezuela, campaigns such as this are often overshadowed by a loud-mouthed political polarization rarely seen in the Western world.
– Girish Gupta in Caracas
South Africa liberalized abortion in 1997, after the first post-apartheid government passed a law allowing any woman of any age to get an abortion with no reason required during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Up to 20 weeks, it is legal if there are extenuating circumstances, such as socio-economic or health reasons, or if the pregnancy was the result of rape.
The annual number of abortion-related deaths dropped by 91 percent in the years that followed. But access is a serious and some say worsening problem.
South Africa has a shortage of state facilities able to provide abortion services, and for many women government clinics aren't readily accessible, making it easier to get an illegal procedure.
Advertisements for dodgy clinics are rife in the townships and downtowns of big cities. A significant number of women aren't even aware that abortion is legal.
South Africa is the only country in southern Africa, and one of only three on the entire continent (along with Cape Verde and Tunisia), where abortion is legal without restriction as to the reason. Zambia permits abortion on socio-economic grounds, though there, too, unsafe abortions remain common, and a major cause of maternal death.
– Erin Conway-Smith in Johannesburg
The earliest known description of an abortion is said to come from an ancient Egyptian medical text, which outlined a procedure where the female inserted into her vagina a type of plant coated with honey and dates. But today, a procedure like that is punishable by law.
Egypt's penal code bans abortions in all circumstances, while allowing flexibility in certain – and sometimes difficult to prove – circumstances of "necessity."
A doctor can abort if the woman's life is in danger, but must write a detailed report explaining the circumstances. If a woman's health is at risk, the treating doctor is required to obtain written approval from other specialists in order to carry out the procedure.
The legal obstacles have led some doctors to stop performing abortions for fear of criminal prosecution, leaving Egyptian women to seek out alternative methods – some dangerous and some self-induced. A woman herself can be imprisoned for up to three years for performing an abortion on her on fetus.
Rights groups are fighting back to have abortion decriminalized and for the government to carry out a nationwide survey on the number of unsafe abortions. There is currently no national database. But a government survey in 2005 said at least 1 in 5 births in Egypt are unplanned.
Still pro-choice advocates in Egypt face an uphill battle against religious officials who are growing in prominence under Egypt's new Islamist government. The country's premier religious institution, Al Azhar, has declared abortion "an intervention against God's will."
– Erin Cunningham in Cairo
China is, in many respects, the world leader in abortions. It was the first country to legalize mifepristone – the abortion pill – in 1988.
Abortions are cheap (around $88) and widely available. And Chinese clinics perform more abortions per year – at least 13 million in 2011 – than anywhere else on Earth.
Compared to the US, there is relatively little cultural opposition to the practice. But what is controversial is the policy that lies behind it. The one-child policy, which restricts most couples to having only one child, has led to numerous instances of forced abortions, particularly in the Chinese countryside.
Last June, the case of a seven-month-pregnant woman who was held down and forcibly given an abortion because she could not pay the $6,300 fine sparked outrage across China, leading to calls from academics and officials to abandon the one-child policy.
Yet change still does not seem imminent. Wang Xia, the head of China's family-planning commission, said that restrictions on having children will not be abolished anytime soon. "The policy should be a long-term one," she said.
– Benjamin Carlson in Hong Kong
India legalized abortion in 1971. Prior to that, abortion doctors could be sentenced to up to three years in prison, while women undergoing abortions could do as much as seven years of hard time.
Currently, under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy act, no girl under the age of 18 may seek an abortion without the permission of a parent or guardian. An adult woman may seek an abortion up to 12 weeks after conception if her doctor deems that taking the pregnancy to term presents a risk to the life of the mother or the threat of grave injury. Pregnancies that are the result of rape or the failure of contraception both qualify as presenting a strong risk to the mother's mental health. Abortion is also legal up to 12 weeks after conception if the doctor deems that there is a strong chance that the child would suffer from "such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped," according to the law.
Those same conditions apply up to 20 weeks, if two doctors agree that they apply to the case.
Partly due to India's concerns over its massive population, in practice, those rules are flouted so frequently that one might say abortion is effectively allowed in India up to 12 weeks after conception without any restrictions. The leading reason for termination is all-too likely female feticide, which UNICEF estimates is a $250 million industry for (law-flouting) ultrasound labs and abortion doctors.
– Jason Overdorf in New Delhi
In the poorer regions of North Korea, a growing number of women are turning to illegal and risky back-alley abortions, or under-the-radar operations performed after bribing the country's rickety hospitals. Contraceptives are difficult to find in the hermit state. Meanwhile, sex outside of marriage is not uncommon. Ever since the economy was crippled in the 1990s, prostitution has been on the rise, too, creating a greater need for abortion services.
For the most part, North Korea has banned abortion, unless the government approves the procedure by special request. What does that mean, exactly? Well, the government keeps it vague, but the reality is dark. Defectors have reported witnessing forced abortions in the country's prison camps. They're often carried out in cases where the mother is Korean and the father is Chinese – a stigma for a regime that takes pride in pure blood.
In South Korea, the situation is different. Pragmatic concerns over low birth rates, combined with a powerful Protestant lobby, mean that abortion is illegal except in cases of rape, incest, and severe genetic disorders. Last April, the South Korean Constitutional Court even upheld a 60-year-old abortion ban. Government data estimated that more than 340,000 abortions were conducted in 2005, the most recent year data are available – 95 percent of them illegally.
Abortions here are incredibly common, with countless doctors willing to perform them in clean and safe clinics for jacked-up fees given the risks. Police, too, seem to tolerate the underground market, in the same way prostitution is outlawed but rampant in Seoul. One middle-aged South Korean mother of two tells me she and three of her friends aborted their fetuses and don't feel any taboo talking openly about it.
– Geoffrey Cain in Seoul
Southeast Asia remains a hostile place for women seeking abortions. Only communist Vietnam and secular Singapore allow women to terminate pregnancies at will. Throughout the rest of region – in which varied societies take moral cues from Buddhism, Catholicism or Islam – abortion is largely prohibited. In the Muslim-majority nations Malaysia and Indonesia, the government even forces women to carry out pregnancies caused by rape.
But no Southeast Asian nation can match the Philippines when it comes to fervid debates over women's reproductive rights. Obeying the Vatican, bishops and priests in the heavily Catholic nation have sought to equate condoms and birth control pills with abortion. In recent weeks, their movement was derailed by a hard-won new law, more than 10 years in the making, that allows government-sponsored contraception. Abortion is still highly forbidden in the Philippines; suggesting a change to this standard still amounts to political suicide.
But just because abortions are illegal doesn't mean Southeast Asian women aren't having them. In September, a GlobalPost investigation uncovered herbal abortion cocktails sold for $3.60 outside one of Manila's most revered churches. As many as 2 million abortions per year may occur in populous Indonesia, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which monitors reproductive health. Many of these underground operations end in death, according to the institute, which calls Indonesia's abortions a "common occurrence" that are "often unsafe."
– Patrick Winn in Bangkok
The European Union has no common abortion policy but all of its 27 member nations, except Malta, allow abortions in some circumstances. Restrictions placed on the procedure vary from country to country.
Britain's abortion laws are relatively liberal with women able to end pregnancies of up to 24 weeks on medical, psychological or social grounds.
Most other countries, including France and Germany, permit abortion on request, or when the woman is "in distress," up to 12 weeks into the pregnancy. For abortions beyond 12 weeks, special approval must be sought. In some EU countries, government health-care systems cover some or all of the costs.
Ireland has some of the strictest abortion legislation. The procedure is legal only in cases where the woman's life is clearly endangered. Calls for changes in the law have intensified since the death in October of Savita Halappanavar, 31, after medical staff refused to carry out an abortion despite the risk to her life.
Poland limits abortions to rape victims and cases where there is a serious health risk.
Spain's conservative government has pushed to tighten Spanish abortion laws after the previous Socialist administration legalized it in 2010.
The World Health Organization says abortion statistics are generally low in Western Europe, but remain high in the East, even though numbers have fallen since Soviet times when abortion was used as a form of birth control. In 2003, there were more abortions than live births.
A WHO review in 2007 showed that in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, each woman will on average have close to three abortions in her lifetime.
Recently concerns have been raised that abortion is being used selectively on female fetuses in some parts of Europe – notably Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro.
– Barry Neild in London; Paul Ames in Brussels


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Top Canadian prospect Jordan Mein (22-7 MMA, 0-0 SF) is Strikeforce-bound.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has confirmed with sources close to the promotion that Mein has signed a four-fight deal with the organization and is expected to debut at an as-yet-unannounced Sept. 10 event.
Mein's opponent has yet to be determined.
Just 21 years old, Mein is already a seasoned veteran of the sport with 29 fights under his belt. "Young Gun" currently carries a five-fight win streak – a run that includes victories over big-show veterans Josh Burkman, Joe Riggs and Marius Zaromskis.
Mein has been fighting professionally since 2006, and while he opened his career just 3-4, he has since won 19 of his past 22 contests. Nineteen of Mein's 22 career victories have come via stoppage, including 12 by knockout.
A second-generation fighter, Mein is the product of the Canadian Martial Arts Centre, a gym owned and operated his father, Lee Mein, and that first operated out of the basement of the Mein house.
To learn more about Mein, see this "Fight Path" feature that in June ran on MMAjunkie.com.
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The last decade has demonstrated that threats to security vary greatly in their causes and manifestations and that they invite interest and demand responses from the social sciences, civil society, and a very broad policy community. In the past, the avoidance of war was the primary objective, but with the end of the Cold War the retention of military defence as the centrepiece of international security agenda became untenable. There has been, therefore, a significant shift in emphasis away from traditional approaches to security to a new agenda that talks of the softer side of security, in terms of human security, economic security, and environmental security. The topical New Security Challenges series reflects this pressing political and research agenda.