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Well, the technical staff HAD an idea of Saturday's starting 11 in mind.
But courtesy of the 34 players in camp all vying not to be the odd man out, John Hackworth and Co. had to scrap getting a jump on that notion ahead of the first preseason match of 2013 against Orlando City (6 p.m., www.philadelphiaunion.com/live)
In his weekly presser Wednesday from sunny Deltona (where it was 76 degrees at the time of this post) Hackworth informed the media members assembled via conference call that a definitive 11 hasn't been easy to construct.
"I would've told you yes, a week ago, but now…long story short…no," Hackworth revealed. "The competition within the players has made for some very difficult decisions. We'll be using these games as a true evaluation test."
The game against Orlando City is one of six the Union will play during its two-week stay in the Orlando-Deltona region. The remaining five mark the first time the Union will play MLS competition in preseason.
Hackworth opened up on the injury front, revealing forward Aaron Wheeler (illness) and midfielder Cristhian Hernandez (high ankle sprain) are on the mend. Hernandez was fitted with a boot and has been staying fit via resistance band and stretching exercises with strength and conditioning coach Kevin Miller. While the timeline for Wheeler's return is sometime next week, as for Hernandez the prognosis is still cloudy.
"We are hoping he'll be back before the end of this Florida trip," Hackworth said of Hernandez. "Aaron Wheeler hasn't been in training with us and has been out for a bit but when he was here he was fantastic."
So with the gameplan up in the air on who will play, what is the overall desire of the coaching staff to get out of everyone in these upcoming matches?
"We have six games here and what we want to do is slowly build up all the players so that we feel they are ready to play 90 minutes," Hackworth said. "We want to make sure that we go into that March 2 and that everything we have worked on [this preseason] is accounted for. The games are a really good evaluation tool and in general, we are looking to instill what we have worked on at both sides of the ball mainly on attack. and know their position defensively and when we lose the ball."
Moving on…
For those of you that are Keon Daniel, Roger Torres and Raymon Gaddis aficionados, Hackworth noted that all three are playing well in camp right now. Arguably, three who are proponents of what has made the decisions tough for technical while conversely Hack noted that some of the newbies need to quick adapt to the system and that the progession is slower for some that others.
This is typical for most rookies when you think about it.
"Guys like Keon Daniel and Roger Torres…Ray Gaddis have come in and played well," Hackworth said. But really as a whole, it's been healthy competition and everyone is in tune with what we are trying to do and how we are trying to play."
In the news…
USSoccer.com caught up with Union forward Conor Casey and picked his brain about the last time the Americans played Honduras in a match that fueled the path to a berth in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The win came in San Pedro Sula; the site of today's match and according to the New York Daily News the murder capital of the world.
Scary thought, but one that makes for a whole ton of intrigue.
Enjoy the match, if you don't get BeIn Sport or couldn't make it down to San Pedro Sula and live in the area here's a rundown of Union pub partners that will be hosting the match slated for a 4 p.m. kickoff.
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Zac Efron has been cast in the big-screen adaptation of John Grisham's novel The Associate.
The That Awkward Moment star will also serve as a producer on the legal thriller, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Efron replaces Shia LeBeouf who was previously attached to the lead role in the Paramount movie in 2008.
He will play a Yale Law School graduate who finds himself the victim of blackmail and is forced to work at the world's largest law firm. He has to spy on a dispute between two powerful defence contractors worth billions.
Red Wagon Entertainment's Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce alongside Efron's company Ninjas Runnin' Wild.
They are currently looking for a writer to pen the screenplay.
Previous adaptation of Grisham's books include The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill and The Rainmaker.
Efron can next by seen opposite Seth Rogan in The Neighbours, which is due to be released this May.


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Hi i have to create a SavingsAccount class. Use a static data members to contain the annualIntrestRate for each of the server. each member of class contains a private data member savingBalance includin the amount the saver currently has on deposit. provide a calculateMonthlyIntrest member function that calculates the monthly intrest by multiplying the balance by annualIntrestRate divided bye 12; this intrest should be added to savingBalance. provide a static data member function modifyIntrestRate that sets the static annualIntrestRate to a new value. write a driver program to test class SavingsAccounts. Instantiate two diffrent savingBalance objects, saver1 and saver2, with balance of $2000.00 and $3000.00, respectively. set annualIntrestRate to 3%, then calculate the monthly intrest and print the new balance for each of the saver. then set the annualIntrestRate to 4% and calculate the new month intrest and print the new balances for each of the saver.
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Stephen Brackett's intuition was unbelievably strong when it came to Jamie Laurie, anyway. On his first day at Bradley Elementary, the wide-eyed fourth-grader took one look at the fifth-grader across the schoolyard and whispered to his father, "Hey, Dad, that guy's going to be my friend."
"And then," Brackett says, looking over at Laurie, "you introduced yourself to me, didn't you?"
"Uh," Laurie demurs, "that part I don't remember."
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Clearly, Laurie, aka Jonny 5, isn't as sentimental about their first encounter. Nonetheless, his friendship with Brackett, who performs alongside him under the name Brer Rabbit, is the foundation on which Flobots built their insurgent hip-hop crew. Beneath the passionate words calling for social change, railing against injustice and decrying the current war effort, there's a kinship and a deep, sincere mutual admiration.
"The music that we make is pretty weighted with messages," Brackett declares. "And it wouldn't be effective if it was just Jamie's vision and the rest of us were just like session guys. That's another thing that's really helped us we have people that we already knew, so we could trust each other to make the music, and in that way, like, we've sort of become the musicians that we needed to be to do what we wanted."
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Carnahan's death shocked his home state. At his campaign office, aides wandered listlessly. After last week's presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri, several hundred mourners massed in a nearby park in the chill air. Condolences filled talk radio. An officeholder since 1960, when he was 26, Carnahan was a beloved two-term Governor. A self-styled New Democrat, he had some of the Midwestern twang and even a bit of the look of Harry Truman, who once held the Senate seat Carnahan was seeking. His death not only cut short his career but dimmed Democratic hopes. Al Gore's shot at carrying this battleground state is weakened now. So are the Democrats' chances of taking control of the Senate. Ironically, they had that opportunity only because two G.O.P. Senators Georgia's Paul Coverdell and Rhode Island's John Chaffee died unexpectedly while in office. Carnahan's death would seem to all but guarantee the re-election of John Ashcroft, a conservative Republican he had feuded with since serving as his Lieutenant Governor back in the '80s.
But there's still a slim chance that Carnahan might win a posthumous victory. Under Missouri law, Carnahan's name will remain on the ballot despite his death. If he were somehow to defeat Ashcroft the race had been very close a series of odd but formidable events would unfold. On Jan. 3, Ashcroft's Senate term would expire. Missouri law requires the seat to be declared "vacant," since the victor in the election would be dead. The state's interim Governor, Roger Wilson, who took office last week upon Carnahan's death, would appoint an interim Senator, who would stand for re-election in two years. On Jan. 8, a new Governor will be sworn in as well, but it's still Wilson who makes the appointment, according to the Missouri secretary of state's office. Since Wilson would undoubtedly pick a fellow Democrat, the G.O.P. would lose the seat.
About the only way the late Carnahan can beat a living Ashcroft is if Wilson announces in advance whom he intends to appoint should Ashcroft lose. The problem for Wilson, and the Democrats, is that the choices are few. The state's leading member of Congress, House minority leader Richard Gephardt, doesn't want the job. Attorney General Jay Nixon and former Senator Thomas Eagleton probably can't beat Ashcroft. The only Democrat with a shot at doing that would be Carnahan's widow, Jean. But since she also lost a son, Roger, in the crash an aide to the Governor, Chris Sifford, also died friends say it will be hard to muster the strength. William Clay Jr., a leading state Democrat, advises his party to "tailor a message in memory of Mel: 'Come out; he would have wanted you to vote.'" For Missourians and Americans, the Carnahan death was tragedy. For Democrats, though, it was tragedy times two.


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When school started, Teagle and Prather, already best buddies, walked into La Jolla High School as sophomores. "Ed and I were so close that sometimes the teachers would call us by each other's names." Both were athletes, Teagle starring on the football and track squads, Prather excelling at basketball as well. As a junior, footballer Teagle was selected as All-City First Team and Second Team Southern California. With the arrival of June, says Prather, "the athletes from all the San Diego high schools and San Diego State came down to the beach. That brought the girls." For the active, it was take your pick: Touch football on the sand was the game du jour, but there were rings and bars and even bodybuilding to impress the females. Beach volleyball and bodysurfing were favorites of the locals.
In 1941, graduating high schoolers began trading in their trunks for GI khakis or navy bell-bottoms. As World War II turned life upside down, more able-bodied men joined up, leaving job vacancies for women and teenagers. In the summer of '43, the age for San Diego County lifeguards was dropped from 21 to 17, and Teagle and Prather were two of the chosen ones; already star athletes, the affable duo's stock went up further as they stalked the beaches in their official garb and lifesaving gear. Not for long. Soon after graduation in 1944, Phil Prather enlisted in the Navy. Needing extra credits, Teagle graduated the following semester in January, then found himself on a U.S. Navy ship headed to the Pacific. The war ended within a year and both returned to San Diego to resume their lives. Prather found a job. Ed Teagle entered San Diego State. Not that they abandoned San Diego's golden summers. In fact, fun in the sun and sea reached a new level after the horrors of war. "There was a lot more drinking and smoking," Prather recalls.
Ed Teagle married his sweetheart Evie Parchen in 1946; she'd been prom queen their senior year. Says Prather, "She was Ed's girl all through high school." Also the product of a rough-and-tumble childhood, bounced from relative to relative all over San Diego, the winsome girl shared her boyfriend's sunny outlook. As a young father, Teagle juggled a lot of balls: a college student, he also worked afternoons at Criscola's liquor store, then life-guarded at night, using dead time to pore over his textbooks. By 1950, he was supporting a wife and two kids. He still pursued his love of track and field at SDSU, excelling in pole vault, javelin, and hurdles. To feed his sports addiction, those college summers were spent diving and spiking volleyballs in the sand of Old Mission Beach.
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The tradition of staying on the court until you lost was in effect even back then and Teagle was seldom off. In 1949, the first San Diego Open was held at La Jolla Shores and won by Teagle and partner Danny Prall.
Yet there was a problem with beach volleyball for a lot of Teagle's cronies. Four people on a couple of courts left a lot of guys on the sidelines, watching and waiting. According to an interview given by Teagle in Over-the-Line magazine in 1976, this problem became the impetus for a new game. The accounts vary as to where and who invented Over-the-Line, but before long, near the next volleyball court down (which was called "JV Beach," the place where the less-skilled volleyballers played), the smack of smaller balls caroming off baseball bats could be heard. In his interview, Teagle testified:
Several guys were bored from doing nothing… including Royal Clarke (Sports Illustrated described him as an OTLer who is never sober) and Ron LaPolice (his stride was the official unit of measure for terminal OTL courts). People watched with fascination these guys trying to catch hard softballs that were lining right into their family jewels…with bare hands. Spectators were also amazed when they saw the batter reaching for a beer instead of running the bases. As the volleyball courts began to get crowded and the competition tougher, many OMBers joined the OTLers down the beach.
For those who were there (and still around today), 1949 seems the best guess for the year when a dozen locals decided to establish an informal sports club and name it Old Mission Beach Athletic Club, or OMBAC. No rules were adopted as the group considered themselves freethinkers, but they did come to feel a need for a place to think…and drink. The official clubhouse on Bayside Lane was called the Vine Covered Cottage, "which was where we lived," recalls Terry Curren, an original OMBAC member. "Guys would gather there after a day at the beach to drink beer." The subsequent free exchange of ideas engendered the sobering realization that a sports club should entrain a purpose other than drinking beer, so the first San Diego Open Volleyball Tournament was organized by the crew. The tournament grew to the point that a legal entity was called for, and in 1954 a charter membership of 35 men launched the club. Such a serious endeavor called for a stately leader. Looking around at the diverse merrymakers, Ed Teagle — one of the oldest, winner of the first volleyball event, and now a father of three with his first teaching job — seemed almost overqualified to act as president, but he gladly accepted.
That signal year of 1954 also saw the initiation of the Over-the-Line Tournament at Old Mission Beach on July 4. But for Teagle, with a full family and his college degree achieved, time for revelry was limited. In 1953, his first teaching-coaching post was at San Dieguito High School. Faced with an absence of sprinters, Teagle decided to concentrate on other events where points in a meet could be earned: field events and the hurdles. "He won a lot of championships with inferior talent," Southworth says. "What was unique about him is that he could look at a kid and convince him to try an event Ed thought he'd be good at. And since Ed had competed in most of the events, he knew how to coach them well. If he didn't, he'd find an expert and pick his brain."
Byron, You did a great article on Ed. He was my coach and P.E. teacher in 1955 at Earl Warren Junior High. In 1956 he started teaching at San Dieguito. I always looked up to him as a teacher and a man. He motivated people like no one else could. In 1959 I was on the San Dieguito football team and when we traveled down to play Mar Vista, that is when I saw Ed again. Time went by, then in 1969 I went down to the Shores by the "White House" and there on the court playing a great game of volleyball was Ed. From 1969 until he passed away in 1986 I played VB and drank beer with Ed and the gang that hung out at the Shores. He was a great man. Even today I have a picture of him hanging in my house. He was an inspiration to me, with his never say die attitude. One time Ed and I were playing a VB game at the Shores and we were behind in the score (14 to 2). I look at Ed and said "We are in trouble" and he responded "No we're not". So we played on for two or three more sideouts, then they scored the final point and we lost 15 to 2. He turned to me and said "Now we are in trouble". I am 67 years old now and I will never forget that moment as long as I live. "Ed I love ya" signing off for now Boydd Galland


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Subject: Re: [Lon] Census Thoughts [slightly off London topic]
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:48:55 +0100
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>I have seen somewhere that the integrity is suspect at times, the enumerator
>sitting in the local pub asking who lived in the local farm etc. In fact I
>did see a reference that some enumerators were illiterate,
this is not at all likely, in the proper sense, since every one of them
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enumerators were not VERY literate - in other words, they could write
and read, but spelling was not their thing. You do get phonetic types of
spelling at times, often simple variants like Henery for Henry and Gorge
for George. And quite often you get odd versions of birthplaces - stands
to sense, if people come from foreign parts like the next county, or
even the wrong end of the home county, the enumerator is not likely to
have seen the word written down and does his best to render what may
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KANO (AFP) – Islamist group Ansaru on Monday claimed the kidnapping of seven foreigners in a deadly weekend raid on a construction site in restive northern Nigeria.
The attack in Bauchi state late Saturday was the one of the worst incidents targeting foreigners in northern Nigeria, a region that has seen waves of violence by extremist Islamist groups, but relatively few kidnappings.
Ansaru is considered a new group with a rising profile after it claimed the abduction of a French national in December.
Some view it as being directly linked to Boko Haram, the Islamist insurgents blamed for killing hundreds of people in northern Nigeria since 2009.
In an email statement sent to journalists, Ansaru said it has "the custody of seven persons, which include Lebanese and their European counterparts working with Setraco," the Lebanese-owned company targeted in the attack.
Police in Bauchi said four Lebanese, one Briton, a Greek citizen and an Italian were among those taken hostage by gunmen who stormed the site in the town of Jama'are in Bauchi state. The assailants shot dead a security guard.
Ansaru's two-paragraph statement cites "the transgressions and atrocities done to the religion of Allah… by the European countries in many places such as Afghanistan and Mali".
The group previously listed French support for the military offensive against Islamist rebels in Mali as a justification for the December kidnapping.
The document was written in English, like some past statements. However, others have been written in Hausa, a language used widely across west Africa.
Residents in Jama'are, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the state capital, said Setraco evacuated all of its staff from the company compound on Sunday and a company spokesman told AFP its road project had been stopped.
"There is no way will continue to work there because the lives of our colleagues are in danger," John Ogbamgba said Monday. "We are all in tears."
There were separate attacks on a police station and a prison in Jama'are before the abductions, but no deaths were reported.
The kidnapping of expatriates has typically occurred in Nigeria's oil-rich south, with the hostages released following a ransom payment.
But such incidents in the north have been isolated and some analysts fear that Ansaru's emergence may be a sign of changing tactics among the Islamist group's operating in northern Nigeria.
The Setraco spokesman said the firm was particularly worried by the location of the abductions, noting that if the attack had occurred in the south, "maybe there would be a ransom demand."
In the north however, "you don't get information," Ogbamgba said.
Aside from the French national kidnapped in December whose whereabouts remain unknown, the three others Westerners kidnapped in the north since 2011 have all been killed.
They include a German engineer abducted last year as well as a Briton and an Italian seized in 2011, in an attack the British government linked to Ansaru.
In November, Britain declared the group a terrorist organisation.
Some experts say that Ansaru's leader may be Khalid al-Barnawi, one of three Nigerian extremists labeled a "global terrorist" by the United States last year.
The State Department described Barnawi as tied to Boko Haram, "with close links to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," Al-Qaeda's North Africa branch. The governments of Greece and Italy have confirmed that their citizens were among those taken hostage. Beirut has acknowledged that two Lebanese nationals were seized, but has not matched the police figure of four.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday that London was in touch with Nigerian authorities but did not confirm reports that a Briton was among the hostages.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and top oil producer, roughly divided between a mainly Muslim north and mostly Christian south.
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New frontiers in Wild West for Jew who became Sioux
If you thought the Wild West was no country for Jews, you haven't heard of Julius Meyer.
Meyer emigrated to America from Prussia, washed up in Nebraska in 1867 and became a frontier-land legend. Captured by Sioux during a buffalo hunt, he lived with the tribe for several years. A speaker of six Indian languages, Meyer was known by the Indians as "Curly-Headed White Chief with One Tongue" because of his honesty. Later in his life, he served as an Indian interpreter to Congress and as an Indian agent.
According to St Louis writer Jim
Winnerman, who, until a few years ago, thought his grandparents were virtually the only Jews to strike out for the Wild West, such stories are missing from the American-Jewish narrative.
"Yiddish and Cherokee is an unusual combination of languages, but my grandparents, Abe and Goldie Winnerman spoke both," says Winnerman. In 1900, Abe and Goldie opened up the New York General Store in Cherokee Indian territory that, in 1907, would become Oklahoma state.
Spurred by the discovery of the book Pioneer Jews: A new life in the Far West, by Harriet and Fred Rochlin, Winnerman began to piece together a remarkable story of pioneering Jews who ranched cattle, prospected for gold and married into the native Indian communities.
"Prospective single Jewish women were almost non-existent. Many men who had ventured west would take a trip to New York or even Europe to meet a bride and convince her to return as a frontier wife," says Winnerman.
But one man, Solomon Bibo, a wagon driver originally from Prussia, ingratiated himself with the chief of the Acoma pueblo and eventually married the chief's granddaughter. Later he became the first non-Indian governor of a North American Indian tribe. His children were raised as Jews.
Then there was the circuit-riding mohel, Dr John Elsner, who travelled on horseback to perform circumcisions in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska from 1887 to 1905. Elsner, who had emigrated from Austria, left records which reveal he carried out 169 circumcisions in that period.
Fenced-off sections of local cemeteries was a common final resting place for frontier Jews. "I discovered such a plot in 2001 at Boot Hill, the famous 1879 cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, where some of the West's most notorious characters died violently and lay buried in the boots they were wearing," says Winnerman.
He adds: "Decades after the cemetery had closed in the 1880s, the Jewish gravestones disappeared, and the section was forgotten by most. Then, almost a century later, in 1982, an Arizona historian with knowledge of the plot invited Israel Rubin, an economist and prominent communal figure from Maryland, to see the site. With them was Judge C Lawrence Huerta, a full-blooded Yaqui Indian from Tucson.
"As Rubin recited the Kaddish, Huerta was so moved that he vowed to restore the graveyard in honour of the Jewish pioneers. 'In honouring my Jewish brothers, I feel I am also honouring the lost and forgotten bones of my people who lay where they fell when the West was being settled,' he said."
A memorial placed in the cemetery in February 1984 reads: "Dedicated to the Jewish Pioneers and Their Indian Friends." Inscribed into the stone are the Star of David and an Indian sun-symbol, meaning "those who vanished", and a rabbi re-dedicates the site each year.
Recently, Dave Askey, the owner of Boot Hill, reported stones left at the 4ft-high memorial were several layers deep. In life, as in death, pioneer Jews were everywhere on the American frontier.
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The average enterprise IT team has lived without these systems until now, observes Jake McTigue, IT manager for Carwild and author of the InformationWeek report, Strategy: Predictive Analytics for IT. What has changed, he writes, is "the push toward private clouds and service-oriented IT, combined with an unprecedented number of data sources. A highly virtualized infrastructure, big data and analytics go together." McTigue notes that collecting operational data has generally not been IT's strong suit, but that this needs to change "because a cloud architecture--public, private or hybrid--brings complexity, which is the enemy of uptime. And this is at the core of why we believe predictive analytics will become a must-have for enterprise IT sooner rather than later."
Besides the ability to provide preemptive warning of failure, these systems also address issues around uptime, application availability and trouble-free scaling, he says. Tools such as Hewlett-Packard's Service Health Analyzer, IBM's SPSS-powered Tivoli product, and systems from vendors like Netuitive, CA and EMC depend most on lots of big data, says McTigue. "Big, clean, fast-moving flows of real-time information are the lifeblood of predictive analytics systems."
Previously, predictive analytics systems were available in the form of SDKs only for IT infrastructure, he says. Now, vendors are now designing, building and marketing predictive analytics systems specifically for IT infrastructure use, "which takes a huge bite out of the time to deployment, development effort and cost,'" McTigue says. "The new canned systems start running pretty much out of the box, which is why they're suddenly a much better value proposition than developing your own system used to be."
Predictive analytics is still a new concept for IT, though, and McTigue says there are latency issues in getting the word out. One of the downsides is that the cost of these systems is high, and they require "good metric streams from all levels of the infrastructure," meaning that only large organizations are ready for immediate adoption and that, like any new technology, there is a learning curve involved. "The primary barrier to adoption is having metric streams that you can trust available to the system from the entire infrastructure," he says, as well as integrating the system into day-to-day business processes so that IT is actually acting on the predictive capabilities.
McTigue points out that in an InformationWeek Virtualization Management survey, respondents were asked to rate a dozen features based on importance, and that high availability was the No. 1 criterion. Predictive analytics can achieve that by helping overcome complexity, he writes. But McTigue also warns that organizations need to get a handle on this soon, since data is climbing exponentially and complexity "will only increase as we adopt ever more advanced converged architectures."
Automation is the ultimate goal of predictive analytics systems, since "all the predictive data in the world does us no good if we can't act on it, fast." Yet, McTigue says the survey also found that fewer than half (40%) of respondents characterize their use of data center automation tools as significant or extensive. At the same time, 27% report network problems every day or week, and 32% say they have server problem just as often. He cites trust issues as another barrier to adoption.
The technology is in its infancy, he says, but the level of development in the last year alone proves that the technology is here to stay. And that makes sense, says McTigue, because as companies continue to launch more data-intensive, Internet-only businesses and business operations, "they'll need to monitor IT closely since it's a huge ingredient in both profitability and viability."
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For several hours over the weekend, 14 Cartoonstitute shorts were posted on You Tube. Monday morning they were all gone. However, one of them – Derek Drymon's Danger Planet – has escaped and I'm pleased to post it below. Watch it while you can:
after watching dana snyder in so many shows, you'd think i'd be sick of him by now.
nope, hes great! "THAT WAS THE ALIEEEN"
this short is hilarious. i hope it makes it to series and they can form some kind of great linear arc plot for it too.
some great toons in those 14 cartoonstitute shorts. i just wish they had the money to make the 39 that were originally planned.
Danger Planet had some fun stuff in it – I never thought I'd dig a video game as a main character. Woo!
Pretty good origin episode. Great premise. Minimal nonsense.
JG Quintel's short, REGULAR SHOW, is still on YouTube.
This is probably the best of the bunch. I love the art design and how it's laid back (yet still weird at the same time). Cartoon Network must've loved it, too, because this actually got greenlit into an actual series (see? This shorts program wasn't a total waste).
Gio Renna
Wish I could watch the other 13. Sounds like a cool experiment. I wonder what convinced the Cartoon Network execs to go through with it.
Dock Miles
Pretty durn entertaining — didn't laff out loud once, but never stopped smiling. Don't know if it could be stretched into a series. Would like to see somebody try. Curse you, constrained budgets!!
doug holverson
Kind of retro-'80s. Although, I suppose that the genuine '80s item would be stiffer, more listless and hokier, with blander humor. I like it, with the morphing alien providing a bit of an unhinged comedic foe.
Any reason why CN posted and yanked these so fast? I throw out the cynical conspiracy WAG that the Cartoonless Network suits didn't want any short-changed cartoons to possibly upstage their precious Real.
All gone?
CN must really hate Cartoonstitute!
The only other ones I saw before Monday were the ones from Genndy Tartakovsky and Paul Rudish. Rudish's cartoon has cool background and character designs, great music, and creative use of sound effects.
I really like the setting of this. Hope it gets picked up. Or anything, really.
"Cartoonstitute is a Cartoon Network project created by Cartoon Network executive Rob Sorcher that would have been a showcase for animated shorts created without the interference of network executives and focus testing. " -Wikipedia.
Maybe the executives saw the shorts, realized how good they were, and pulled the plug since this would serve as a solid example that they contribute nothing to the cartoon creation process.
Pure fun and uniquely entertaining! :) Love the writing in this short as well. Hope they keep this on YouTube for a long time (though doubt it).
By the looks of it there are still 4 of them up!
JG Quintel's is our fav of the bunch!
Dig the arcade cabinet as the main character 9why hasn't anyone done that before?) but all i can think of when I hear his voice is master Shake from Aqua Teen, I presume it's the same actor. The animation on that morphing alien was fantastic! Really enjoyed it.
The really nice thing about these is how little they resemble the rest of CN lineup…
Now that's a character driven cartoon. The way it should be done. Of course it doesn't fit on CN schedule. They only play "conceptual" cartoons with annoying screaming kids and dumb parents.
There's a torrent floating around of the other Cartoonstitute shorts, ripped from YouTube.
This is great.
is it just a short?
Or a tv series Pitch pilot?
This was awesome. I had seen a drawing of that human character somewhere, so I loved seeing the cartoon it's a part of. If only there were enough grace in the world to produce more of these pieces independently…
Charles Thompson
Loved the cartoon! Great work.
That was fantastic! Loved the shape shifting alien, all the characters were well done and had great performances. Very inspiring!
here's another cartoonstitute short…
That was fantastic!
(Love the homage to John Carpenter's "The Thing")
WOWOW! I liked Danger Planet. But I really really really liked the UNCLE GRANDPA short. I wish I knew who worked on it so I could give them a hearty congrats. TONS of laughs, lots of cartoony logic, and most importantly it's SUPER FUNNY and pretty appealing. Love the obvious Basil Wolverton influence. Check out Uncle Grandpa, guys! We should try to get that greenlit!
Highlight this show, too, Jerry! It deserves it!
I really enjoyed that and I hate damn near everything. Cool short!
I liked how different it was from the rest of current schedules, and how nonsense driven the premise was, but I didn't like IT. Didn't find it funny. Guess that's me.
Can't help thinking that between 1987 and 1992, this would have felt as tired and familiar as the things it is now dissimilar to. Removing it from that context is not enough to make it seem fresh to me.
@ Chris Allison:
Pete Browngardt created, wrote and storyboarded Uncle Grandpa. He was a writer/storyboard artist from Chowder and now he is working on Flapjack. A very talented dude.
Derek is quite a talent… he's now the producer on the highly anticipated Adventure Time.
@ Mike Milo:
Thanks dude! I tried to find a blog of his or something but to no avail. He's got a great sense of humor and I'd like to see more of his stuff!
Today would be (the channel formerly known as) Cartoon Network's 17th birthday.
"Cartoonstitute … would have been a showcase for animated shorts created without the interference of network executives and focus testing. " -Wikipedia.
"Maybe the executives realised the shorts proved their obsolescence." -previous anon
There is literally no other explanation for why they would make these and not show them. No level of financial return is less than the zero of hiding the shorts away.
Why am I able to accept that this level of insane evil is how businesses work? Was it ever thus? Why can't some rich maverick step in, finance good stuff, and wipe flash-based focus-tested crap off the earth?
Someone should do more reporting on this, it's criminalinexplicable for this stuff to be completed and shelved.
I'm guessing they plan to role these out at some distant point, and the whole put-them-up-no-take-them-down thing is to seed a sense of intrigue, thereby adding to the shorts' desirability and giving them a legendary status.
That, or the execs are just stupid.
At least six of the fourteen are on YouTube right now. Just search for cartoonstitute.
If these were viewed as pilots, I have a feeling Uncle Grandpa would wear thin very quickly. Spleenstab could work a la Korgoth (if only that had happened). The Regular Show characters could be more than a one-off as well.
Regardless, loved how inventive most of these were, if not always laugh-out-loud funny. More please.
"Why am I able to accept that this level of insane evil is how businesses work?"
'Evil' would be the best way to describe this charade. No sane businessman would purposely hide a winning product just to keep up with their agenda of mediocrity.
you know you probaly never heard of this but it actually reminds me of a manga series called space family carlvinson though it may be merely a coincidence but here's the opening and ending to it's one-episode ova which is to date the only anime adaptation of it
dave Smith
I made a short. It's called "YES". No one liked it. It's not on youtube.
Oh Well. By the way. once i made a cartoon for disney called "bozzelbags zip" and Amid hated it. I'll never make it.
That was wonderful for so many reasons!
I liked Yes and Bozzelbags and I like you too Dave.
Bozzelbags Zip is awesome!
robert alvarez
Dave Smith is one of the funniest guys working in animation today. I would be happy to work with him on any project he does.
Dave Smith
you like me… you really like me!
Thanks friends!
robert alvarez
I was very lucky to work with Derek on Danger Planet. He is an amazing talent. The end result of Danger Planet shows why he was chosen to be one of the core members of the Cartoonsitute program.
thats was AWESOME ? why take it down ? the heartbreak never ends.
voice of duck from peep in the big world, right ? i love that guy.
fantastic. creepy, funny, exceptional.
I would buy a Cartoonstitute DVD.
Thanks for the other link to "Regular Show". That was amazing. Both these cartoons are excellent and a great testament to what can be done if animation lovers are left to their own devices without corporate interference.
Derek Drymon just posted a whole lot of great development sketches and paintings from the show at Danger Planet Blog
Not sure why that link didn't post, but Derek Drymon's Danger Planet blog is at: http://dplift.blogspot.com/
Hey there it's me again so after couple of months I finally manage to finish a piece of fanart i working on.
So here it is.
just watched bozzlebags zip and its awsome i dont understand why he didnt like it


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Usually, if something "grows on trees," it's considered plentiful. Oddly, Taxol, a potent chemotherapeutic agent for treating breast, ovarian, and other cancers, does grow on trees. But it's scarce—and getting scarcer all the time.
That may change now, thanks to a new process, developed by Agricultural Research Service scientists and their collaborators, that promises to dramatically boost manufactured supplies of Taxol.
ARS plant physiologist Donna M. Gibson, in Ithaca, New York, says paclitaxel, the generic term for Taxol, originally came from the bark of the rare Pacific yew tree, Taxus brevifolia Nutt. "However, supplies of yew bark are scarce, and current extraction procedures are inadequate for providing enough of the chemical to meet increasing demand," says Gibson.
Synthetic methods of producing paclitaxel have been tried. But the chemical's molecular structure is so complex that commercial production is unfeasible.
"So production of adequate supplies of paclitaxel and precursors used in semi-synthetic processes may ultimately rely on biological processes like cell culture," Gibson says.
She was one of the first scientists to demonstrate that cell cultures from the yew tree can be used to produce the anticancer compound. Now, along with coinventors at Washington State University at Pullman and Cornell Research Foundation, Inc., at Ithaca, Gibson has filed for a new patent (09/126,229) on a process for enhancing production of paclitaxel.
"The technology screens yew cell lines to determine their potential for producing the chemical," she says. "Using it, producers will be better able to identify and select yew tree cell lines that are 5 to 10 times more productive than those currently being used."
The technique enables Gibson to screen multiple cell lines of all five known Taxus species for their ability to produce paclitaxel in vitro. She has also developed a method that uses an elicitor compound, methyl jasmonate, which, when added to the appropriate culture line, greatly increases the amounts of paclitaxel obtained from the selected cell lines.
Gibson's invention could significantly expand commercial production of taxanes to levels higher than any previously reported—welcome news for cancer patients whose doctors are prescribing this promising drug.—By Hank Becker, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
Donna M. Gibson is in the USDA-ARS Plant Protection Research Unit, U.S. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Research Laboratory, Tower Rd., Ithaca, NY 14853; phone (607) 255-2359, fax (607) 255-1132.
"New Technique Could Boost Taxol Production" was published in the April 1999 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.


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Chapter 1: Surviving.The stack of wood in my arms gives me splinters, but that's nothing new to me. It's either splinters or no fire. Fire is what we live on in my house. Cooking, bathing, even purifying the water so we don't die.
I trudge up to our little shack of a house. It may be small, but I'm grateful. Most people nowadays don't even have a house. It's two sticks and a sheet for them. My two sisters, Jessa and Elisa, play with a rubber ball. I smile to them, but it's not genuine. I haven't smiled a real smile in a very long time.
I push the door open with my boot, carrying in the wood and dumping a few pieces in the dying fire. The flames lick the wood, and I stare at it for a minute. I cock my head to the right and see the sun setting.
"Jessa! Elisa! Jeremy!" I go outside. "Hey, can you guys help me cook? Jeremy, I need you to help Mom." They have always helped. I don't raise this family on my own. After Dad died in another bloody war, Mom took care of us. But then she was shot in town. Hit her right behind the brain. She was extremely lucky she didn't die. She lost all vision and hearing, and she barely can do anything.
I turn on my heel and go back inside. Jessa brings in the bucket of wild onions. I pull out the bunny carcass from the ice box. We got this before all of the shops either got bombed, burned, or just abandoned completely. We were very lucky.
I watch as Elisa boils a bucket of water over the fire. Once the water is bubbling, Jessa throws some onions in. I cut up the rabbit with a long knife, the same knife my father used to cut meat with. I pull off the fur and the fat, leaving the best parts. Jessa puts the pieces of cut-up bunny on an iron skillet and hooks it over the fire. I sit on a wooden stool, moving around the rabbit chunks.
When everything finishes cooking, I put it on old chipped plates that survived years. I put the food on the plates, and the kids start eating. I look at them and sigh. They could have had amazing lives, futures with lovers, but they are stuck to cooking and cleaning and trying to stay alive. These children are very near malnourished. But I keep food on the table. I keep them alive.
I carry a plate to the bedroom. We all would share this room if I didn't sleep on the rug near the fireplace. Anything to keep them comfortable and happy. Mom lays there, limp and possibly asleep. I stroke my hand on her arm, and she jerks, but relaxes. I tap her chin, to let her know I brought food. She opens her mouth and I push a chunk of rabbit in. She chews it up. It takes maybe 10 minutes to do this.
When I finally get a chance to eat, it's dark. I put more logs in the fire and eat my dinner. I scarf it down, like the animals.
Jessa cleans up; she's the oldest next to me. She just turned 13 two months ago. Elisa runs her fingers through my matted hair, attempting to get the twigs and leaves out. She is only 8. Jeremy is 11, and quite handsome. He would easily find a loved, if these wars would end.
"Kia..." Elisa stops with my hair. I feel it and see the knots are gone. "You don't think you'll have to fight, do you?"
I smile up at her. "No, we'll be fine. And if I did, Liana would help take care of you guys." Liana has been my best, and only, friend for as long as I can remember. We made a promise to each other that no matter what happened to the other we would keep each others' families alive.
"Okay." Elisa stands and stalks off to the bedroom. Jeremy an Jessa follow. I sigh, curl up on the rug, and let myself drift off.
The sun peaks through the window. That's my cue to wake up. I pull on my boots and jacket and head out the door. The soft ground squishes beneath the soles of my shoes. I walk into the silent forest, and look at my snares. I have one set up here, another 50 paces east, and the last 60 paces west. The first one is empty, but the other two each contain a brown rabbit with white spots. I grab them and carry them back to the house.
After I leave, once again, I make my way to Liana's house. Her house is the exact same as mine, besides the people inside. I walk along her dirt drive, dust trailing me. I walk up to her door.
"Hey, Li, open up!" I bang on the door. Liana opens the door, standing in her boots and leather jacket. Her brown hair, cut short to make hunting a little bit easier, is untidy. Her wide brown eyes are alert. Why wouldn't they be? It's the last day before we are sent in to battle. I just know they're going to take both of us, or at least one of us.
"Kia, Mom told me that they're taking us. All of us. Anyone 15 or older, but only up to 27." She sighs, and it's not a relieved sigh, it's more of a trying-to-breathe sigh.
"I knew it. Markam said it was soon," I say, thinking back to a few days ago when a town's boy named Markam told me that they would take all of us.
We go behind Liana's house, grabbing the bow-and-arrow set. I pick up mine, the one with my name engraved write where my fingers grasp it. She grabs hers, and we take off running for the woods. It could have been like a normal day, racing, but now it's running because that's how I escape my fear. That's how I hold myself together. But the only thing on my mind isn't my own fears, but it's for the safety of my family and the fact that I'm going to die in less than a week.


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Scott A. Hundahl, M.D.
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B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977
Board Certifications:
National Board of Medical Examiners, 1982
Professional Memberships:
American Head & Neck Society, Fellow
International Gastric Cancer Association
Pacific Coast Surgical Association
Pan-Pacific Surgical Association
Sacramento Surgical Society
Society of Surgical Oncology, Fellow
Western Surgical Association
Select Honors and Awards:
UC Davis Joan Oettinger Memorial Award (for "outstanding contributions to research on cancer"), 2009
Nishi Award (best paper in Gastric Cancer), 2008
Wisdom Hall of Fame, Wisdom Award of Honor, 1999
Commission on Cancer, State Chairman of the Year, 1995
World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centers For Primary Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastric Cancer. 5th General Meeting, Sept. 13-15, 1994, Munich, Germany. "Best Presentation" Award, 1994
Junior Basic Science Award, American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Educational Foundation, 1982
Hobart Keese Award (for best graduate thesis), Yale University School of Medicine, 1981
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut M.D., cum laude, 1981
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts B.A., magna cum laude, 1977
Select Recent Publications:
Hundahl SA. Surgery for gastric cancer: what the trials indicate. Surg Oncol Clin N Am. 2012 Jan;21(1):79-97.
Hundahl SA. The potential value of bursectomy in operations for trans-serosal gastric adenocarcinoma. Gastric Cancer. 2012 Jan;15(1):3-4.
Hundahl, S.A. Tumors of the Stomach. In: Conn's Current Therapy 2011. Bope, Rakel, and Kellerman (eds), Philadelphia: Elsevier.
MacDonald, JS, Hundahl, S.A., Smalley SR, O'Dea D, Mitchell, EP. Chapter 5 - Gastric Cancer. In: Blanke, Talamonti, and Roedel (eds), Gastrointestinal Oncology-Therapeutic Principles. New York, Heidelberg , 2011
Hundahl SA, Peeters KCMJ, Kranenbarg, EK, Hartgrink H, van de Velde, CJH. Autopsy analysis of failure in the Dutch D1-D2 Trial. Further support for "low Maruyama Index" surgery. Gastric Cancer, 2007; 10: 84-86.
Hundahl SA. Surgical Treatment of Gastric Cancer. In: Perry MC, Govindan R (eds.), ASCO Educational Book - 2006, Alexandria: American Society of Clinical Oncology, pp. 226-229, 2006.
Hundahl SA, Wanebo HJ. Changing gastric cancer treatment in the United States and the pursuit of quality. European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 31:605-615, 2005.
Hundahl SA, MacDonald J, Smalley S. Chapter 45 – Stomach. In: Chang AE, Ganz PA, Hayes DF, et al. (eds.), Oncology: An Evidence Based Approach, New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 680-703, Dec 2005.
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I followed the guide from beginning to finish and managed to run nand on my USB. Most of the games I got works but there seems to be some problems with some of my N64 VC games.
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It gets stuck on the "you need the classic controller" screen and it gets stuck. I also have other N64 games but they work ok, its just those two.
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The Bachelor: Same Thing, Different Guy
Monday's premiere of the Bachelor was, as expected, like every other season. Thankfully, ABC did not drag the premiere out for 2 hours like they had in the past. That's just cruel punishment and makes me want to quit early so I'm glad they started off short and sweet - leaving me wanting a little more.
Crazy egg lady, Allie, deserved to get the boot on the first episode. I actually think since she realized she was eliminated so quickly that she wanted going to become the crazy one so she could try to come back for a guest appearance later - or at-least make a lasting impression. As for early front-runners, the obvious was the Canadian cutie, Sarah B. I think Jennifer the model who thinks they will have hot kids, Elizabeth the social worker who seems the most grounded, Susan the Teri Hatcher look-alike and and Sarah from Tennessee (the Bachelor's hometown too) will also make it pretty far.
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I should have shared this story sooner, but I forgot about it. Where I used to work, we had a software contractor that came in to work with us and I went out to lunch with him one day. Over the hour that we were gone, he told me about his problems with sleep deprivation after I saw him take a pill.Quote:
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When he was younger (late teens/early 20s), he used to get no more than 1-2 hours of sleep per nite, and he said that he thought sleeping was a waste of time and he could learn so much more as a programmer if he stayed up practicing and reading all nite instead of sleeping. This seemed to work for him for a while, and he said that he got into a routine and he felt perfectly normal.
He also said that over a period of time, his system started to degrade and he actually ended up going to the doctor because his heart couldn't take it. He started having health problems and his doctor told him that it was because of his lack of sleep.
Now he gets 4-6 hours of sleep per nite and he's on medication to get him back on track. By the way, he's in his late 30s/early 40s now and he still feels the effects.
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Home » Community » Blog » April 2013 » Remodels and Recouping Costs
If you're thinking about doing a few home improvements, you may want to consider what will give you the best return on your investment down the road.
According to the Remodeling 2013 Cost vs. Value Report (www.costvsvalue.com)*, you will recoup the most cost from a steel entry door replacement and a garage door replacement in the Indianapolis area. These two improvements may not be at the top of your list, but you'll recover about 79.3% of the entry door cost and 68.7% of the garage door replacement cost. Entry door replacement even ranks as the number one project in the U.S. for a return on remodeling. Third runner up is a minor kitchen remodel. You'll potentially earn around 66.1% of the amount you put into it (ex. paying around $18,433 with a resale value of $12,193).
So, what should you stay away from? In the Indianapolis area and in the nation, a home office remodel in the midrange ranks last in a list of 22 project types for resale value. It might be functional for you, but not your future buyer. You may also want to nix that sunroom addition, too – you could pay up to $71,000 for the addition and only get back roughly $31,000. If you're in the upscale demographic, avoid a master suite addition (in this report, it would be adding a 32-by-20-foot master bedroom suite over a crawlspace). You would only earn back around 44.3% of what you paid. Many people also tend to think a bathroom remodel will be a great investment. However, the numbers tell a different story. In Indianapolis, a bathroom remodel is ranked 17 out of 22 midrange projects for recouping costs. You would only receive around 49.5% of your money back.
It's your choice what home improvements you make, but if you think there's a potential you'll move in the future it's worth considering what a prospective buyer will pay a higher price for.
* © 2013 Hanley Wood, LLC. Complete data from the Remodeling 2013 Cost vs. Value Report can be downloaded free at www.costvsvalue.com.
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2.5.2 Reducing Expressions to Their Standard Form
The built-in functions in Mathematica operate in a wide variety of ways. But many of the mathematical functions share an important approach: they are set up so as to reduce classes of mathematical expressions to standard forms.
The built-in definitions for the Plus function, for example, are set up to write any sum of terms in a standard unparenthesized form. The associativity of addition means that expressions like (a + b) + c, a + (b + c) and a + b + c are all equivalent. But for many purposes it is convenient for all these forms to be reduced to the single standard form a + b + c. The built-in definitions for Plus are set up to do this.
Through the built-in definitions for Plus, this expression is reduced to a standard unparenthesized form.
In[1]:= (a + b) + c
Whenever Mathematica knows that a function is associative, it tries to remove parentheses (or nested invocations of the function) to get the function into a standard "flattened" form.
A function like addition is not only associative, but also commutative, which means that expressions like a + c + b and a + b + c with terms in different orders are equal. Once again, Mathematica tries to put all such expressions into a "standard" form. The standard form it chooses is the one in which all the terms are in a definite order, corresponding roughly to alphabetical order.
Mathematica sorts the terms in this sum into a standard order.
In[2]:= c + a + b
Two important properties that Mathematica uses in reducing certain functions to standard form.
There are several reasons to try to put expressions into standard forms. The most important is that if two expressions are really in standard form, it is obvious whether or not they are equal.
When the two sums are put into standard order, they are immediately seen to be equal, so that two f's cancel, leaving the result 0.
In[3]:= f[a + c + b] - f[c + a + b]
You could imagine finding out whether a + c + b was equal to c + a + b by testing all possible orderings of each sum. It is clear that simply reducing both sums to standard form is a much more efficient procedure.
One might think that Mathematica should somehow automatically reduce all mathematical expressions to a single standard canonical form. With all but the simplest kinds of expressions, however, it is quite easy to see that you do not want the same standard form for all purposes.
For polynomials, for example, there are two obvious standard forms, which are good for different purposes. The first standard form for a polynomial is a simple sum of terms, as would be generated in Mathematica by applying the function Expand. This standard form is most appropriate if you need to add and subtract polynomials.
There is, however, another possible standard form that you can use for polynomials. By applying Factor, you can write any polynomial as a product of irreducible factors. This canonical form is useful if you want to do operations like division.
Expanded and factored forms are in a sense both equally good standard forms for polynomials. Which one you decide to use simply depends on what you want to use it for. As a result, Mathematica does not automatically put polynomials into one of these two forms. Instead, it gives you functions like Expand and Factor that allow you explicitly to put polynomials in whatever form you want.
Here is a list of two polynomials that are mathematically equal.
In[4]:= t = {x^2 - 1, (x + 1)(x - 1)}
You can write both of them in expanded form just by applying Expand. In this form, the equality of the polynomials is obvious.
In[5]:= Expand[t]
You can also see that the polynomials are equal by writing them both in factored form.
In[6]:= Factor[t]
Although it is clear that you do not always want expressions reduced to the same standard form, you may wonder whether it is at least possible to reduce all expressions to some standard form.
There is a basic result in the mathematical theory of computation which shows that this is, in fact, not always possible. You cannot guarantee that any finite sequence of transformations will take any two arbitrarily chosen expressions to a standard form.
In a sense, this is not particularly surprising. If you could in fact reduce all mathematical expressions to a standard form, then it would be quite easy to tell whether any two expressions were equal. The fact that so many of the difficult problems of mathematics can be stated as questions about the equality of expressions suggests that this can in fact be difficult.


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A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
A Prairie Home Companion presents the Rhubarb Show, a late-night variety show hosted by Garrison Keillor, live at The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota. This week, music from soul singer, songwriter and producer Dan Penn and the Minnesota country twang of Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers, plus improv with Fred Newman, magic and comedy from Bill Arnold and a few tunes on the Mighty Wurlitzer.
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Taxes are on everyone's minds, and the Obama campaign is calling on Mitt Romney to release his taxes to the press. As a great example of why Mitt Romney doesn't want to release his taxes to the press, Slog tipper Raphael sent along this great Timothy Egan editorial from the New York Times, in which Egan compares his taxes with Mitt Romney's taxes:
I'm going to pay double Romney's rate on a mere fraction of his income. But you won't get any class-war envy from me about a man worth upward of $250 million paying the same rate as someone earning, say, $55,000 a year. Nope. There's a larger point here than the inequality one, compelling though it is.
Remember: The tax return is a blueprint for how to earn and spend money. It encourages us to do some things and discourages us from doing others.
One disincentive, comparing Romney's taxes to mine: don't work. The tax code discourages work, certainly for the rich.
You really should read the whole thing. Here's another taste:
The other place to report money earned by doing actual work is on Schedule C. That's where I put income from books, talks, pamphleteering. And so does Romney. Under the profession category, he doesn't report himself as a businessman or a politician. He's listed as "independent artists, writers or performers" — just like a mime, or Carrot Top.
Egan's a great writer, and he makes reading about taxes—and what a President Romney would do to all our taxes—a joy. (Even if the realities are incredibly depressing.) I tell you again: Go read the article.


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"I was just cleaning it" undoubtedly ranks highest among excuses for shotgun accidents. For Dave "Dixie" Collins, the routine maintenance of his favorite firearm resulted in erasing his big toe. Dixie is lucky to have lost only a digit, though lucky doesn't necessarily describe the track record for his band Weedeater. Torn ligaments, a messed-up meniscus, and broken bones recently plagued their ranks, causing canceled tour dates and delays to their fourth album, Jason... the Dragon. Is the self-described "cave metal" band cursed? Or do they bring it upon themselves? When asked this question via telephone, Dixie ponders for a moment as he pours a glass of bourbon and gets ready to go jump in the ocean. "Crazy shit happens to us all the time," he answers in a slow Southern drawl, without the faintest hint of party-hard bragging. "We put ourselves in situations where those kinds of things happen, I guess."
But that's part of the allure of Weedeater. There's something dangerously wild in their bombardment of skuzzy bass and squelching guitar that's missing from so many precise and polished metal bands. Mentioning this to Dixie, you can almost hear his shoulders shrug over the phone. He refuses to say anything negative about his more pristine musical peers, and he reflects on the parallels between their rough living and violent music as if it's never occurred to him before. Again, there's nothing boastful in his voice when he admits: "I guess we are a bit reckless. We've been a band now for 16 years, so I guess it is what is."
The few moments of respite on Jason... the Dragon come when the band channels old American roots music, such as on the Delta blues–inspired "Palms of Opium." "That was written because I was stuck on my couch after my shotgun incident, and I was bored and fucked up on pain pills," explains Dixie. So apparently the only moments of calm for Weedeater come when they're hobbled. Barring any future calamity—say, a band member getting drunkenly swept out to sea—the Highline should be in for a rowdy and raucous night.


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