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We go to the theater for all kinds of thrills -- suspense, romance, and unexpected plot twists. But the theaters themselves, with their long histories of players, staff, and audience members coming and going, are often the stuff of legend. Maybe it's just because the buildings are old and creaky, maybe it's because we expect our emotions to get cranked up to 11 when we walk into a performance space, but these 10 theaters all come with at least one resident spirit.
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Belasco Theatre in New York City
David Belasco was one of the most colorful of the early 20th-century Broadway producers, known both for being a lady's man and, in a move that was oddly flamboyant even for a theater producer, dressing in a monk's flowing robes. His ghost is said to haunt this theater-district gem. Originally named the Stuyvesant when it opened in 1907, the theater featured a duplex apartment for the producer. The Belasco has played host to some of the greatest Broadway productions, including Clifford Odets's play Awake and Sing in 1935, the nude review Oh, Calcutta! In 1971, and a revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone in 2009 that was attended by President and Mrs. Obama. But theater pedigree has not kept the space from some unsettling sightings. David Belasco's robe-clad figure has been reported in the office space that now occupies his old apartment and in the theater's balcony. Some women have even reported feeling a mysterious ghostly pinch, which theater folk attribute to (who else?) the randy producer.
Palace Theatre in New York City
Many ghosts lay claim to the title "famous," but the Palace is home to the spirit of a superstar, Judy Garland, who blew audiences away in her 1960s comeback performances here with heart-stopping renditions of hits like "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "The Man That Got Away" before descending back into the addictions that would take her life. The theater started as a vaudeville house in 1913 and "playing the Palace" was regarded as the pinnacle for touring singers, dancers, and comics. The stage has been graced by Harry Houdini, Will Rogers, Ethel Merman, and other stars, and has played host to groundbreaking musicals, including Man of La Mancha, La Cage aux Folles, and Beauty and the Beast. But musicians playing in the orchestra pit may not feel as lucky as audience members: Legend has it that a special door was built in the pit for Garland's entrances and exits, and that the ghostly figure of the troubled star is sometimes seen in the doorway.
Palais Garnier (Paris Opera House) in Paris
Yup, the Phantom of the Opera is rooted in legend. In the early 20th century a mysterious apartment (and, by some accounts, a male corpse) were found in the opera theater, the Palais Garnier, inspiring the 1910 novel that in turn inspired a silent film and the smash Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. The theater, which has been renovated several times since the 19th century, acquired a reputation for lavish productions and sets. But, curiously, although the well-known Phantom has brought the Paris Opera worldwide fame, there are no serious Phantom sightings on record. (A chandelier did fall in 1896, killing a construction worker and supplying the famous scene in the novel.) The theater's resident ghost is an older woman who committed suicide in the 19th century and is said to roam the streets outside the opera house searching for the man who jilted her.
Palace Theatre in Los Angeles
The oldest movie theater in L.A., the Palace has a "third balcony" that was once closed off from the rest of the theater for racial segregation and became legendary as the site of ghost sightings, with onstage performers seeing mysterious figures in the balcony when locked doors should have prevented anyone from appearing up there. The Palace, known until 1926 as the Orpheum, was once one of the premier theaters on the famed "Orpheum circuit" of vaudeville houses and saw its share of live performances before transforming itself into a silent-movie venue. Over the years, audience members and theater staff reported the figure of a woman dressed in white lace crossing the stage during performances, then disappearing into the wings, never to be seen again.
Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London
Standing on a spot that's been occupied by three previous theaters since 1663, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (known as "Drury Lane" to Londoners), should be one of the likeliest spots for a spook. Sure enough, one of London's most famous ghosts, the "man in gray," is regularly reported here, wearing riding boots, a powdered wig, and tricorn hat. The story goes that the apparition is the spirit of the fellow whose skeletal remains were found in a walled-up passageway here in the late 19th century. Kind of makes you wonder what else might be lurking in the walls, no? On a much more positive note, the Drury Lane is where Rodgers and Hammerstein's golden-age musicals had their London premieres, including Oklahoma!, South Pacific, and The King and I.
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Man injects snake venom into his arm for fun, for 20 years straight.
No words aptly describe his awesome.
WARNING: IT'S DANGEROUS TO INJECT VENOM - DON'T TRY IT!Injecting snake venom will make your flesh melt off; it'll make you bleed through your eyeballs, your dick and your gums. You'll turn into a $#@!ing zombie." Coming from Steve Ludwin, a 40-year-old Californian rocker who's about to inject 18ml of deadly venom collected from six snakes - including a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake, whose haemoxtoxins can cause severe tissue damage, circulatory failure and death - this warning comes with a nod and a wink.
Steve, who used to be the frontman of bands Little Hell and Carrie, and recently wrote 'Ashtray Heart' for Placebo, is one of just a handful of people known to regularly inject venom from the world's most dangerous snakes, in the belief he'll become immune to it. Steve's been shooting up every week for the past 20 years, and met five others like him in America for The Man Who Injects Snake Venom, a Channel Five documentary about him that aired a year ago.
An estimated 100,000 people worldwide die from snakebites each year and another 250,000 are permanently disabled. Yet Steve believes that what can kill you can also save you; by gradually increasing the frequency and quantity of venom he puts into his body, his blood has built up antibodies that fight off the poison - and illness. "Injecting venom is like your immune system doing the Jane Fonda workout video," he says. "When a cold or any of those pussy swine flu things enter my body, my white blood cells laugh it off." Does he have superpowers like Peter Parker in Spider-Man? "Yeah, I have an amazing ability," he jokes. "I can swallow a rat whole."
Reaching for a bottle of Evian from the fridge in his cosy north London home, Steve is well-groomed, healthy, and surprisingly relaxed given that in a few hours he'll be injecting a cocktail of haemotoxic snake venoms - or as he describes it, "highly evolved reptilian saliva" - designed to immobilise and kill its prey.
Sunlight pours in through the windows, illuminating luscious green foliage draped over the fireplace, and an iguana called Fiji who's camouflaged against a wooden branch in a tank in the kitchen. Eminem's Relapse album plays quietly in the background, and a framed poster for the 1971 film Carrie reads, "If you've got a taste for terror..." Steve does, and an inconspicuous white door in the hallway leads to a dimly-lit lair, which houses his 28 potential killers in heated glass tanks furnished with tropical plants and fresh wood chippings.
Steve's bursting with excitement. He's expecting two new snakes later today, including a desert horned viper - the species that Cleopatra used to kill herself. A self-confessed snake geek, Steve scours Europe for the rarest creatures and goes to a huge reptile exhibition in Germany every year. "It's like being in a room with 10,000 Star Trek fans," he quips.
But for now, Steve's working with the serpents he already has in his collection. It's injection day, and he starts extracting yellow poison from the fangs of his most dangerous slitherers. With careful precision, he brings out his demonic, slit-eyed North American Copperhead. Expertly gripping the snake's head with his fingers, Steve forces out the fangs from its stretched mouth, and places them through a piece of cling film sealed over a shot glass. Several drops of poison fall into the phial, but Steve notices that a fang has dropped in there, too. "$#@!, I gotta shoot that venom up later," he says, before calmly removing it with a set of tweezers.
Later, Steve'll travel to his weekly meeting with immunologist Dirk Budka at the Immune Clinic in London to inject most of the toxic cocktail into his body - 3ml will be retained for medical testing. Within minutes, the muscles in Steve's arm will quadruple in size for around 24 hours as his white blood cells fight off the poison. "If it's a new reaction, I'll look like Popeye," he explains. But while anyone else would subsequently die a gruesome death, Steve's going to an Ash concert shortly afterwards.
Looking over his snakes, Steve quietly expresses his love for them: "I admire them for their design and cold-bloodedness. I admire their strength and success as a species, but I can't explain my obsession - I've loved snakes since I was born."
Steve first squared up to a serpent when he was six. His family had moved from Long Island to Connecticut, due to his dad's job as a Pan Am pilot, and he spotted a garter snake at the school bus stop and instinctively grabbed it. The snake turned and bit Steve on the thumb, but he couldn't let go, and walked down a dirt road, crying in pain, still clutching the snake.
Two years later, Steve's father took him to Miami Serpentarium where he met Dr Bill Haast, the first Westerner to inject snake venom in 1948, who now, aged 100, is a 'picture of health' according to local newspaper, the Miami Herald. Bill blew Steve's mind and fuelled his obsession with danger. When Steve was 17 he vowed to follow the doctor's example. "I was alone at home, listening to AC/DC, and I suddenly felt as though a lightbulb or an atom had exploded in my brain," he says. "Something told me I had to inject snake venom. It was a feeling I can't explain."
But Steve didn't get going straight away. After dropping out of university in 1987 with "no musical ability," Steve took up the guitar. Following terrible advice from a friend that London was cheap, Steve packed his bags and arrived 48 hours later. "I had this card that my father had given me and as long as I was wearing a tie, I could board any plane and fly first class anywhere in the world for free," he says. After deciding in less than two weeks that learning the bass guitar was too hard, he became a singer and auditioned for My Bloody Valentine. "I was fresh off the plane in London and I rocked up with a backwards baseball cap on. Amazingly, I got a callback," he laughs.
Still searching for access to the venom he wanted to inject, Steve took a £1.60-an-hour day job at a lab in Walthamstow, which sold reptiles to zoos and universities. He started taking snakes home at night to experiment with. "It was as natural as discovering masturbation," he says. "It felt like instinct. I started with small amounts, although I can't say I wasn't afraid. I prickedmy skin then rubbed venom on to it. I felt the corrosive burning immediately and washed it off." But even these small quantities of venom made his skin swell and turn purple, brown and green for two or three weeks. "It was like learning to drink booze," he says. "I'd have a little bit more until I $#@!ed up and had to back off."
Around 10 years ago, Steve's reaction to venom become less dramatic, so he drastically upped the amount and frequency that he injected. But two years ago, his weird science went wrong. After milking three of his most deadly snakes - a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake, a Pope's Tree Viper and an Eyelash Viper - he loaded a syringe full of the undiluted poison and tried to inject a small amount into his left arm. When the syringe plunger got stuck, Steve accidentally pushed the lot straight into his body. "It felt like a shotgun went off in my arm," he remembers.
Within 15 minutes his hand had doubled in size and "looked like a baseball mitt". Soon his lips and tongue were numb as the corrosive haemotoxins attacked his internal organs. Convinced he was immune enough to fight it, Steve refused to go to hospital and instead - suffering and unable to ignore the irony - watched David Attenborough's TV series on reptiles, Life In Cold Blood.
Snake venom contains toxins that calm down bite victims, helping them to accept their impending death, and that night Steve conceded that he'd pushed himself too far. "I felt I'd had an amazing life and was happy to die," he says. The next morning, after a night of indescribable pain, drifting in and out of shallow sleep, he woke up to find that his arm was black with a sagging sack of fluid at the elbow. He gave in and went to hospital, but medics there didn't have enough anti-venom to cover all three snakes. Venom expert Professor David Warrell from Oxford University issued Steve with a death sentence, saying, "You're going to lose your arm, and you're going to die."
After three days in intensive care, fully conscious and aware of car crash victims around him, Steve ripped out the IVs in his (still attached) arm and discharged himself against doctors' orders. Steve recently underwent medical testing to find out whether he'd damaged his internal organs and was given a clean bill of health.
Steve's blood was recently tested against a number of infectious bacteria including MRSA and E.coli, with staggering results. Initially sceptical of Steve's claims, Budka - who met Steve at London's Hale Clinic during the making of the Channel Five documentary - was stunned when the blood, in most cases, destroyed 70-100 per cent of bacteria. "He's amazing," said Budka. "His immune system may be strong enough to develop a medicine for the future."
The pair are now working together, and although Budka hasn't published their findings yet, some of the biggest pharmaceutical companies have asked for first dibs on the research paper when it comes out.
But Steve has some detractors. He doesn't sterilise the venom before he injects it, and Dr Robert Harrison, head of the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit at Liverpool School Of Tropical Medicine explains that "bacteria could be delivered into his bloodstream with the venom, potentially causing many adverse medical conditions, including septicaemia."
Harrison explains that someone could develop immunity to venom by taking it into their blood stream. Antivenom is manufactured from the antibodies of horses who've been administered venom and developed resistance to it. The animals don't suffer any effects from the procedure because the venom is delivered slowly, giving their antibodies a chance to respond to it. "But other self-immunisers have been hospitalised, suggesting that their experiments aren't effective at stimulating antibodies capable of neutralising the effects of the venom," he says. "It's potentially very dangerous and they shouldn't do it."
Unperturbed, Steve thrives on criticism. "Being in a band, I'm hardened to all that negative $#@!," he shrugs. "This is just the beginning. I'm going to continue on this path. I'm going to inject all kinds of crazy bacteria and see if my body can take it. I want to see if I can fight off malaria, I want to swallow a tapeworm egg and see what parasites do to my body." Eugh, we're keeping our fingers crossed for you, Steve.
WARNING: IT'S DANGEROUS TO INJECT VENOM - DON'T TRY IT!Some people live long, meaningful lives.
Other people eat shit and die.
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He may be crazy but the interesting part is about the strength of his immune system as a result.
Haha that is awesome.
Too bad I can't use it to my advantage... Like building up an immunity to being shot in the face.
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he was, they said so in the video....Some people live long, meaningful lives.
Other people eat shit and die.
I'm not racist, I hate everybody equally; especially fat people.
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He looks 30 and acts vibrant and alive. I dunno man, maybe there is something there.Some people live long, meaningful lives.
I'm not racist, I hate everybody equally; especially fat people.

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As soon as I come back home I will try your script. I have struggles with softap as well. However I use airbase-ng. Maybe I will be successful with your script. I will report soon.
hi every one. i have been trying to set up a soft ap for the last few days with varying degrees of success. first i tried airsnarf for about 2 days but then realised that it wouldnt put my card into ap mode! i am now using this script:-
# airsnarf.sh
# A rogue AP setup utility.
echo "Airsnarf - A rogue AP setup utility."
echo "0.2"
echo "The Shmoo Group"
echo "------------------------------------"
# here are some variables you may want to edit
# specify another config dir with a command line arg if you want
if [ $1 ]
source $LOCAL_CFG/airsnarf.cfg
# create the dhcpd.conf
echo -n "Creating dhcpd.conf..."
sed s/AIRSNARF/$ROGUE_NET/g ./etc/dhcpd.src > /etc/dhcpd.conf
echo "Done."
# copy over the www stuff
echo -n "Building the captive portal..."
cp $LOCAL_CFG/html/* $WWW_ROOT
cp $LOCAL_CFG/cgi-bin/* $CGI_ROOT
chmod +x $CGI_ROOT/*
echo "Done."
# set our wireless parameters
echo -n "Setting the wireless parameters..."
ifconfig $ROGUE_INTERFACE down
wlanconfig $ROGUE_INTERFACE destroy
wlanconfig $ROGUE_INTERFACE create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
ifconfig $ROGUE_INTERFACE up
iwconfig $ROGUE_INTERFACE essid $ROGUE_SSID mode master
#iwconfig $ROGUE_INTERFACE essid $ROGUE_SSID mode master
echo "Done."
# set our ip and default route
echo -n "Setting the ip address and default route..."
ifconfig $ROGUE_INTERFACE $ROGUE_GW
route add -net 0.0.0.0 gw $ROGUE_GW
echo "Done."
# restart some services
/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
# /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
# set up the firewall to redirect
echo -n "Setting up firewall to redirect DNS..."
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
modprobe iptable_nat
iptables -F -t nat
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT \
--to $ROGUE_GW
# dammit, I swear this used to work with just an OUTPUT rule...
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT \
--to $ROGUE_GW
echo "Done."
# start the local dns resolver
echo "Starting local DNS resolver..."
chmod +x ./bin/airsnarf_dns.pl
it will make the AP no problem. and my ipod touch sees it and can connect but it wont get a ip address from it.
can any one please try the above script and see if it works on theirs. thanks in advance
As soon as I come back home I will try your script. I have struggles with softap as well. However I use airbase-ng. Maybe I will be successful with your script. I will report soon.


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Vice City For Lovers (VCFL) is a radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. The VCFL Logo is patterned after the sculpture at LOVE Park in Philadelphia. The DJ for the station is Tina Jane. Wil Wheaton, Rob Cross, Nataly Wilson, and Brandi Chaney-Giles call in requests to the station. One of Jane's song introductions references the Epsilon Program, a cult featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The station's abbreviation may also be a reference to the name of the city and the state in which it is located (Vice City, Florida).
- Marvin Gaye - "Sexual Healing" (1982)
- Earth, Wind & Fire - "Fantasy" (1977)
- Hot Chocolate - "It Started with a Kiss" (1982)
- Rick James - "Mary Jane" (1978)
- The Commodores - "Nightshift" (1984)
- Wally Badarou - "Mambo" (1983)
- Barry White - "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me" (1977)
- Sylvia Striplin - "You Can't Turn Me Away" (1981)
- Roy Ayers - "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" (1976)
- Keni Burke - "Keep Rising to the Top" (1982)
- Teddy Pendergrass - "Love T.K.O. " (1980)


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I've been looking at SR's new book, "Man Made Meals," for the past week or so and I thought it might be fun to have a post showing recipes from the book we've tried. Hopefully others will contribute, too!
First, I gotta say I absolutely love this book. It's the book I wish my parents would have given me before I moved out. Seriously, my life would have been different if I read it in college. My sons will have a copy. I learned to grill by reading "How to Grill." This book might as well be called "How to Cook." It appears to cover every important aspect of cooking and cooking techniques, and the recipes are great. It seems to cover everything from breakfast to dinner with recipes for everything from vegetable dishes to cocktails. And there are good photos to illustrate techniques that kinda reminded me of being at BBQ U and watching the TV screens to see how certain things are done.
So far I've just picked the recipes based on what food we have on hand. We get a CSA basket each week with different meats and produce from local farmers, so we'll just look for suitable recipes each week and see how it goes.


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The rhetoric over cookie legislation ratcheted up a notch on Tuesday, as the Information Commissioner's Office told companies they "must try harder" in working out how to comply with the new rules on online privacy.
Christopher Graham, the commissioner, suggested that very few companies had yet come up with ways to get permission from online users to collect their details, as required by the new law. Read more


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The Eight Annual Shopping Cart Parade is here!!
For the past seven years we have participated in this fun and unique food drive.
All proceeds benefit United Against Poverty which not only provides hunger relief, but also provides crisis counseling, education and employment training for our local community.
We're looking for local businesses and organizations to get involved!!
It's so simple!!
First, fill out and submit the form below.
Next, we'll deliver a shopping cart to you.
After that, raise enough food to fill the shopping cart. Make it overflow!
Then, decorate the cart. Go crazy! Let those creative flags fly!
Finally, show it off!! March with us in the Eight Annual Shopping Cart Parade at the Hibiscus Festival on April 8th!!
This is a magnificent opportunity to help needy residents here on the Treasure Coast.
We look forward to sharing this wonderful experience with you!!


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The Cooking Photographer: Blueberry Mint Lemonade or a Pitcher of Mojitos
There's something special about lemon, blueberries and mint together. Tangy, sweet, tart, and refreshing this lemonade is wonderful on a hot afternoon. The recipe also works well with limes instead of lemons. At that point though, you're awfully close to making a pitcher of blueberry mojitos. So if you feel you need to take the next step, add a cup of white rum to the pitcher.


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THREE outstanding students from a Blackburn school will be performing with some of the best dancers in the North West.
Molly McKeown, Nicola Caton and Phoebe Wigglesworth are among the elite dancers who have successfully auditioned for this year's St Mary's College Youth Dance Festival.
Elissa Best, head of dance at St Mary's, said the girls have shown tremendous dedication to the art and regularly travelled around the country to train and perform.
Every weekend Molly, 16, from Accrington, travels to Scotland to develop her specialist dance training in Ayre and travels the country to perform. She is currently the Scottish International Dance Festival youth champion 2012.
Nicola Caton, 17, from Blackburn, travels to Manchester four nights a week for training at Centre Pointe.
She was recently selected from hundreds of dancers to perform at the Dance Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Phoebe Wigglesworth, 16, from Burnley, travels to Manchester every weekend to train at The Lowry, Salford.
She auditioned to become one of only 20 dancers to be offered a place on the Centre for Advanced Training programme.
Elissa said: "It is very exciting for St Mary's College to have such a range of talented dancers."


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Gorman: The catch that tied a record held by many
When a New Brighton punt pinned Beaver Falls inside its own 1-yard line with the Tigers trailing, 31-26, late in the game, Sage Curry was worried that they would lose.
Beaver Falls had cut a 24-point halftime deficit to five, but the idea of pulling off a 99-yard scoring drive in the final five minutes appeared unimaginable.
Little did Curry know the Tigers would win the Little Brown Jug, 34-31, or that he would provide the heroics in record fashion.
But only after first serving as the game's goat.
On first down, Beaver Falls ran for a short gain, getting the ball to the 1. On second down, quarterback Dan Stratton found Curry alone in the middle, but his pass bounced off the junior tight end's fingertips.
The pass, Curry said, hit the ring finger on his right hand, which was shattered after being crushed between two helmets a few weeks earlier at Beaver.
"The doctor said he only sees that from construction workers," Beaver Falls coach Ryan Matsook said. "They set it, and he'd been in a cast for two weeks."
Beaver Falls offensive coordinator Ron Shiro noticed that New Brighton was double-covering junior receiver Elijah Cottrill, leaving one man wide open. Shiro urged Matsook to call the same play, out of a different formation.
"He said, 'They're doubling Elijah. They're scared to death of him,' " Matsook said. "So we came back to it."
This time, instead of using a formation with one tight end, the Tigers tried a two-tight end set with two flankers. The play, 42 Counter Go, involved what Matsook called a "cheapie" play-action fake upon which all four receivers release on fly patterns.
Curry understood the gravity of the stakes.
"I was like, it's third-and-10. I've got to do something," Curry said. "If we didn't do anything, we probably would have lost the game."
Stratton rolled left and found Curry open again. The 6-foot-4, 215-pounder, who has been timed at 4.6 seconds in the 40-yard dash, caught it and then exceeded everyone's expectations.
"We really were not looking to score a touchdown. We were looking for the first down," Matsook said. "Sage did the rest on his own. He broke a couple tackles, turned into the Incredible Hulk at the 35 and ran away from the rest of them after that."
Yes, Curry scored a 99-yard touchdown reception, tying a record held by many for longest offensive play in WPIAL history.
It was his only catch of the game, yet provided the winning points. Curry has four receptions for 290 yards this season, an astounding average of 72.5 yards per catch.
Curry never thought he would score on the play. He broke the first two tackles and shrugged off a third defender but started to slow down and figured he would get caught from behind.
No one came close.
"As soon as I got in the end zone," Curry said, "I was like, 'Wow, that was 99 yards.' That never happens in high school — or any level of football — especially with a tight end."
Curry learned to never say never, even when 99 yards from the end zone.


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I get an error message which tells me,
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print(x+=2) NOTE: There's an arrow which points at the equivalent char :)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I'm really new to this and i don't know what to do, haha . My teacher told me to just use print(x+2) (beacuase this also works) instead of print(x+=2). But i don't think that print(x+2) is the same as print(x+=2). If i got this right, if you only use print(x+2), you give x a temporary new value but if you use print(x+=2) you give x a new value everytime you use that function. In this case, first time you use it, x will turn out to be 17. And next time i use the same function x will become 19 etc...
Perhaps this is a bug? My teacher also told me i could do it something like this and it will also work:
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But even if this works, i don't want any bugs in python
Any kind people who are willing to give it a try and help me?
Best regards, Joel
(This is an example from my schoolbook.)


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Posts Tagged 'paleo'
Eating Real Food
I recently had an interesting epiphany regarding food. I have the interesting fortune to work in the kind of company that always has a fully stocked kitchen. I remember starting my first week and hearing "Everyone gains 15 pounds when they start here." Great – exactly what any young woman wants to hear…
I've been here well over a year and while I haven't gained 15 big ones I definitely have seen an increase in the numbers on the scale and a few more curves where there were none before. I'm pretty good at working out, choosing to walk places, and in general have a high energy level but there is one thing that I can't control – I'm an eater. I love food and I have a huge appetite for someone my size (often to the complete astonishment of everyone around me). So what's a girl to do? Starving isn't an option.
Well, in an office full of candies, sodas, and chips, I knew the solution had to come from a different angle. I had to stop eating junk food. The temptation of going in the kitchen and grabbing one (or 6) Starbursts or a handful of chips is really high. Since the kitchen is also home to our printer, avoiding it isn't an option.
The only way to really make a change is just to say 100% no junk food. If you read the label and there is anything you didn't expect to be in it – it's not food, it's chemicals. This experiment has been more interesting that I'd originally thought it would be. It's always fun to look at a food item and wonder if the ingredients line up with what you'd expect. The bag of almonds we get buy discount cialis online at work? One ingredient – almonds. Chocolate covered fruit? More chemicals than in a high school labratory. Egg Beaters – only have eggs.
While cutting out the junk food has been a good start to capping the weight gain, it does leave another problem – what can I snack on? Snacking is healthy and natural. It's good for the metabolism and keeps people from over-eating at regular meals so I needed to find other things to eat. The best solutions have been nuts and a lot of fresh fruit. I've ordered some other natural snacks too and I'm excited to try them out.
Today I was sitting at my desk with a carton of blueberries happily munching away and thinking about how healthy can also mean delicious. That's not what inspired this post though. As a bit of a messy eater, I unsurprisingly dropped one of my berries and watched it roll under my desk. I have no idea how many M&Ms have had the same fate but for the first time ever I stopped to think "I need to find that berry or it's going to rot." And then it dawned on me… isn't there something wrong with the fact that I never thought about that with the other snacks I've dropped? Shouldn't we be a little worried that we are eating things that don't decompose? I've seen the forces of nature do everything from caving my expertly carved pumpkins a week before Halloween to tearing down buildings. If nature can't handle an M&M – then what's that candy doing in my stomach?
Food is amazing and delicious but some of the things we are eating – can we really call it food? It's been interesting to take a step back and try to get food closer to where it comes from, with as little added to it as possible. Tying out this new way of eating started out an an experiment of sorts but it's quickly becoming a mindset, maybe even a lifestyle change.


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Birthday PartyLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
At Zach's birthday party, Zach is seated along with 7 guests at a rectangular table. Zach knows Gabe and Brooks from Cub Scouts, Christopher is his cousin, and Emily, Ian, Julie, and Lafern are from Zach's class. Zach is sitting at the head of the table, with the girls all sitting on one side, to Zach's right. His cousin is sitting at the opposite end of the table between Julie and Ian. Brooks is in the middle, opposite Emily.
Where is everyone sitting at the party?
AnswerStarting with Christopher at the head of the table and moving clockwise around the table, the seating plan is as follows: Christopher, Julie, Emily, Lafern, Zach (opposite Christopher), Gabe, Brooks, and Ian.
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Anybody on here have any experience with the First Lite stuff? I see them mentioned in the latest issue of EBHJ and they sound like a good option but with that price tag I would like to hear some reviews.
I'm also curios about the sizing of the pants. I just ordered some Russell pants in a large (which I usually wear) and they are two sizes too big. Hate to waste another $10 on return shipping! If you use the First Lite what size do you wear in comparison to blue jeans?
Thanks for any feedback!


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what is the point of z? FOR Z IN XXX? is there anything that can be done with z? why is for loops written like this?
EDIT, now i am getting an error
xxx = ['dd','ddss'.'dsaa']
for z in xxx:
print ('xxx', )
execfile(filename, namespace)
File "/home/dux/untitled1.py", line 9
xxx =['dd','ddss'.'dsaa']
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
xxx =['dd','ddss','dsaa']
for z in xxx:
print (xxx, )
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xxx = ['dd','ddss'.'dsaa']
xxx = 'I','hate'
for z in xxx:
print xxx,"kittens"
>>> runfile(r'/home/dux/untitled1.py', wdir=r'/home/dux')
('I', 'hate') kittens
('I', 'hate') kittens
words = 'I', 'hate'
for word in words:
print word,
print "kittens"
print ' '.join(words), 'kittens'
a = 'i love'
for z in a:
print z,
print " kittens"
danfan wrote:str() won't work on letters? only numbers? so i can't do str(i love)
i love
"i love"
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The SCOTUS Taxing-Power Argument That WSJ's Henninger Missed
On this afternoon's episode of Fox News' Journal Editorial Report, Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger said Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion upholding the health care reform legislation's individual mandate under Congress' taxing power rewrote the statute, because the taxing-power argument had "virtually not been made in the oral arguments before the court."
This is untrue. It may have been subordinate to the (ultimately unsuccessful) argument that the mandate was justified under the Commerce Clause, but Solicitor General Donald Verrilli devoted significant time to the taxing-power argument.
Here's Henninger on the Journal Editorial Report:
And here's NPR's transcript [1] of the March 27 oral arguments before the Supreme Court -- specifically the portion dealing with the tax argument that Henninger said had "virtually not been made."
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: General, could you turn to the tax clause?
GENERAL VERRILLI: Yes.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I have to look for a case that involves the issue of whether something denominated by Congress as a penalty was nevertheless treated as a tax, except in those situations where the code itself or the statute itself said treat the penalty as a tax.
Do you know of any case where we've done that?
GENERAL VERRILLI: Well, I think I would point the Court to the License Tax Case, where it was -- was denominated a fee and nontax, and the Court upheld it as an exercise of the taxing power, in a situation in which the structure of the law was very much the structure of this law, in that there was a separate stand-alone provision that set the predicate and then a separate provision in closing --
JUSTICE SCALIA: But fees, you know, license fees, fees for a hunting license, everybody knows those are taxes. I mean, I don't think there is as much of a difference between a fee and a tax as there is between a penalty and a tax.
GENERAL VERRILLI: And that, and -- and I think in terms of the tax part, I think it's useful to separate this into two questions. One is a question of characterization. Can this be characterized as a tax; and second, is it a constitutional exercise of the power?
With respect to the question of characterization, the -- this is -- in the Internal Revenue Code, it is administered by the IRS, it is paid on your Form 1040 on April 15th, I think --
JUSTICE GINSBURG: But yesterday you told me -- you listed a number of penalties that are enforced through the tax code that are not taxes and they are not penalties related to taxes.
GENERAL VERRILLI: They may still be exercise of the tax -- exercises of the taxing power, Justice Ginsburg, as -- as this is, and I think there isn't a case in which the Court has, to my mind, suggested anything that bears this many indicia of a tax can't be considered as an exercise of the taxing power. In fact, it seems to me the License Tax Cases point you in the opposite direction. And beyond that your -- the -- it seems to me the right way to think about this question is whether it is capable of being understood as an exercise of the tax.
JUSTICE SCALIA: The President said it wasn't a tax, didn't he?
GENERAL VERRILLI: Well, Justice Scalia, what the -- two things about that, first, as it seems to me, what matters is what power Congress was exercising. And they were -- and I think it's clear that -- that the -- the -- they were exercising the tax power as well as --
JUSTICE SCALIA: You're making two arguments. Number one, it's a tax; and number two, even if it isn't a tax, it's within the taxing power. I'm just addressing the first.
GENERAL VERRILLI: If the President said -
JUSTICE SCALIA: Is it a tax or not a tax? The President didn't think it was.
GENERAL VERRILLI: The President said it wasn't a tax increase because it ought to be understood as an incentive to get people to have insurance.
I don't think it's fair to infer from that anything about whether that is an exercise of the tax power or not.
JUSTICE GINSBURG: A tax is to raise revenue, tax is a revenue-raising device, and the purpose of this exaction is to get people into the health care risk -- risk pool before they need medical care, and so it will be successful. If it doesn't raise any revenue, if it gets people to buy the insurance, that's -- that's what this penalty is -- this penalty is designed to affect conduct.
The conduct is buy health protection, buy health insurance before you have a need for medical care. That's what the penalty is designed to do, not to raise revenue.
GENERAL VERRILLI: That -- that is true, Justice Ginsburg. This is also true of the marijuana tax that was withheld in Sanchez. That's commonly true of penalties under the Code. They do -- if they raise revenue, they are exercises of the taxing power, but their purpose is not to raise revenue. Their purpose is to discourage behavior.
I mean, the -- the mortgage deduction works that way. When the mortgage deduction is -- it's clearly an exercise of the taxing power. When it's successful it raises less revenue for the Federal Government. It's still an exercise of the taxing power. So, I don't --
JUSTICE KAGAN: I suppose, though, General, one question is whether the determined efforts of Congress not to refer to this as a tax make a difference. I mean, you're suggesting we should just look to the practical operation. We shouldn't look at labels. And that seems right, except that here we have a case in which Congress determinedly said this is not a tax, and the question is why should that be irrelevant?
GENERAL VERRILLI: I don't think that that's a fair characterization of the actions of Congress here, Justice Kagan. On the -- December 23rd, a point of constitutional order was called to, in fact, with respect to this law. The floor sponsor, Senator Baucus, defended it as an exercise of the taxing power. In his response to the point of order, the Senate voted 60 to39 on that proposition.
The legislative history is replete with members of Congress explaining that this law is constitutional as an exercise of the taxing power. It was attacked as a tax by its opponents. So I don't think this is a situation where you can say that
Congress was avoiding any mention of the tax power.
It would be one thing if Congress explicitly disavowed an exercise of the tax power. But given that it hasn't done so, it seems to me that it's -- not only is it fair to read this as an exercise of the tax power, but this Court has got an obligation to construe it as an exercise of the tax power, if it can be upheld on that basis.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Why didn't Congress call it a tax, then?
GENERAL VERRILLI: Well -
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: You're telling me they thought of it as a tax, they defended it on the tax power. Why didn't they say it was a tax?
GENERAL VERRILLI: They might have thought, Your Honor, that calling it a penalty as they did would make it more effective in accomplishing its objective. But it is -- in the Internal Revenue Code it is collected by the IRS on April 15th. I don't think this is a situation in which you can say -
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Well, that's the reason. They thought it might be more effective if they called it a penalty.
GENERAL VERRILLI: Well, I -- you know, I don't -- there is nothing that I know of that -- that illuminates that, but certainly -
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: General, the problem goes back to the limiting principle. Is this simply anything that raises revenue that Congress can do?
GENERAL VERRILLI: No. There are certain limiting principles under the -
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So there has to be a limiting principle -
GENERAL VERRILLI: -- taxing power, and they -- and I think, of course, the Constitution imposes some, got to be uniform, can't be taxed on exports, if it's a direct tax, it's got to be apportioned. Beyond that, the limiting principle, as the Court has identified from Drexel Furniture to Kurth Ranch, is that it can't be punishment, punitive in the guise of a tax. And there are three factors of Court has identified to look at that.
The first is the sanction and how disproportionate it is to the conduct; the second is whether there is scienter; and the third is whether there is an -- an -- an administrative apparatus out there to enforce the tax.
Now in -- in Bailey v. Drexel Furniture, for example, the tax was 10 percent of the company's profits, even if they had only one child laborer for one day. There was a scienter requirement, and it was enforced by the Department of Labor. It wasn't just collected by the Internal Revenue Service.
Here you don't have any of those things. This -- the -- the penalty is calculated to be no more than, at most, the equivalent of what one would have paid for insurance if you forgone. There is no scienter requirement, there is no enforcement apparatus out there. So, certain -
JUSTICE ALITO: Can the -- can the mandate be viewed as tax if it does impose a requirement on people who are not subject to the penalty or the tax?
GENERAL VERRILLI: I think it could, for the reasons I -- I discussed yesterday. I don't think it can or should be read that way. But if there is any doubt about that, Your Honor, if there is -- if -- if it is the view of the Court that it can't be, then I think the -- the right way to handle this case is by analogy to New York v. United States, in which the -- the Court read the shall provision, shall handle the level of radioactive waste as setting the predicate, and then the other provisions were merely incentives to get the predicate met, and
JUSTICE SCALIA: You're saying that all the discussion we had earlier about how this is one big uniform scheme and the Commerce Clause blah, blah, blah, it really doesn't matter. This is a tax and the Federal Government could simply have said, without all of the rest of this legislation, could simply have said everybody who doesn't buy health insurance at a certain age will be taxed so much money, right?
GENERAL VERRILLI: It -- it used its powers together to solve the problem of the market not --
JUSTICE SCALIA: Yes, but you didn't need that.
GENERAL VERRILLI -- providing for the -
JUSTICE SCALIA: You didn't need that. If it's a tax, it's only -- raising money is enough.
GENERAL VERRILLI: It's justifiable under its tax power.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Extraordinary.
GENERAL VERRILLI: If I may reserve the balance of my time.
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Home > Patients & Visitors > Health Library > Stroke: Speech and Language Problems
Some people have speech and language problems after a
stroke. These problems may involve any or all aspects
of language use, such as speaking, reading, writing, and understanding the
spoken word. Speech and language problems (aphasia) usually occur when a stroke
affects the right side of the body. Trouble communicating can be very
frustrating. When you talk to someone who has had a stroke, be patient,
understanding, and supportive.
The following are tips for helping
someone who has speech and language problems:
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ST. CLOUD, Fla. - Police say they were called to a home on Friday after a report of a fight between a father and his daughter.
Officers arrived at the home on Holden Drive in the Deer Creek subdivision and discovered 46-year-old Juan Lovine stabbed his daughter with a sword.
The sword penetrated the daughter's right forearm into her chest cavity, according to St. Cloud police.
The daughter was airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center where police said she is in stable condition and expected to recover.
Police said Lovine was initially transported to St. Cloud Hospital, but later had to be transferred to Orlando Regional Medical Center due to an eye injury.
Lovine will be charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and domestic violence, police said.
Meanwhile, Lovine's mother, 74-year-old Isabel Rego, who was present during the altercation, was also arrested for resisting a law enforcement officer and taken to the Osceola County Jail, where police said she bonded out.
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Welcome to Fair Trade Month
Chances are, if you woke up this morning, on the last day of September, and felt the slight chill in the air that marks the end of summer and the beginning of fall you thought first of brewing a hot cup of coffee. The same moment you awoke, a banana farmer in Ecuador wiped the morning dew from bunch of green bananas as he took his machete to the stem, a farmer on a cooperative in Ghana tended to a cocoa tree in the afternoon heat, and on a tea estate in India a worker watched the sun set over a sprawling field of tea. These seemingly disparate events, people, and places are actually closely intertwined. Your daily routine can help determine the destinies of people the world over, and every purchase you make matters.
Today also marks the beginning of Fair Trade Month 2010. This year's Fair Trade Month is more interactive and more connective than ever before. The theme is Every Purchase Matters, and our goals are to help you connect with the people that produce the things you buy, and to hear what aspect of Fair Trade matters most to you. All of the food we consume was grown by someone's hands, someone's family. Fair Trade creates a kind of mindfulness in people's lives about what they buy, a way for people to connect, a window into another reality.
This brand new Fair Trade Month website lets you voice your opinion on what you think are the most important benefits of Fair Trade: Fighting Poverty, Protecting the Environment, Building Sustainable Business, Empowering Women or Supporting Education. Every time you purchase a Fair Trade product, you are voting with your dollars and supporting these causes. We want to hear from you about why you support Fair Trade.
That's just the beginning. Every day of October we will be highlighting several of the great companies that bring Fair Trade products to your grocer's shelves, as well some of the international organizations that work closely with Fair Trade on the ground. Each company or organization is sponsoring a day during Fair Trade Month, so stay connected in order to learn more about these groups and win one of dozens of Fair Trade Certified product giveaways that they've generously donated.
Check back daily to hear directly from Fair Trade farmers and workers from around the world, talking about how Fair Trade has impacted them and their families. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter, where each day we will feature fun and easy actions that you can take to support Fair Trade far beyond your every day purchases.
Help us spread the word and meet our 2010 Fair Trade Month goals of:
* 1000 donations for Fair Trade
* 100 new Fair Trade Towns campaigns
* 200 events throughout the country
* 8,000 followers on Twitter
* 60,000 supporters on Facebook
Like the Fair Trade movement itself, Fair Trade Month is a partnership between the producers of Fair Trade goods, the companies that sell the products, and everyone who buys Fair Trade. Please join in the fun. Welcome to Fair Trade Month.


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A wiki is a website intended to be edited by its readers. Tim Berners-Lee considers wikis the realisation of his original peer-to-peer vision for the World Wide Web. They were invented in 1995 by programmer Ward Cunningham; the first wiki was the Portland Pattern Repository,[1] a site to document computer programming design patterns. He derived the word "wiki" from the Hawaiian word wiki wiki, meaning "fast".
- 1 Efficacy
- 2 Notable wikis
- 3 Crank wikis
- 4 Us!
- 5 Wikiwikis
- 6 Comparison chart
- 7 Wiki software
- 8 See also
- 9 External links
- 10 Notes
- 11 References
Among the various methods available to get your point across on the internet, the wiki is possibly the most cunning, if it can be kept up. Blogs need you to write something witty, incisive or thought provoking. Podcasts need you to say something witty, incisive and original and read it out convincingly (useful for people who like the sound of their own voice). Wikis, however, don't need that. All you have to do is start it up... and other people write your content for you. This means that you can pretend your point of view has wide support, without doing any work at all!
Notable wikis[edit]
There are thousands of wikis in existence, varying hugely in quality and scale. These are a few of the most well-known examples.
The 800-pound gorilla of wikis, Wikipedia consists of over five million articles. (And that's just the English version. There are another 19 million in various other languages.[2]) It is specifically an encyclopedia dedicated to amassing all the knowledge of the human race in one place. Its goals are not only to get this information together, but also to make it freely available. As a result, it makes extensive use of Creative Commons licensing to allow its content to be distributed. It is serious and quite dry in tone, but at least it's mostly accurate.[citation NOT needed]
Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia written and maintained by scholarly experts from around the world. Scholarpedia is inspired by Wikipedia and aims to complement it by providing in-depth scholarly treatments of academic topics — although its licence is CC by-nc-sa, so material can't be reused by wikis under a CC-by-sa licence. Their specific peer-review process is found here and articles accepted are published in the Scholarpedia journal. Recently, Scholarpedia has had rather few edits.
Citizendium was the original challenger to the crown of Wikipedia. Its main difference was that its editing policy was less open, requiring all users to register under their real name and allowing only "experts" to approve articles. While a decent enough idea, its attempts to define "expert" soon fell prey to credentialism — the academics were rapidly repelled, leaving room for cranks with spurious qualifications to hijack prominent articles, leading to pseudoscience topics being covered in a less than critical light. Launched at the start of 2007 with considerable mainstream publicity and claims that it would grow to rival Wikipedia's size, it grew slightly during its first year and then fizzled out. Although still limping along, it has far fewer contributors than the wiki you are reading now, RationalWiki.
Uncyclopedia, "the content-free encyclopedia", is a parody of Wikipedia. Inevitably, for a collaborative work of comedy, the quality and humour varies markedly, from some patches of excellent satire to lame nonsense propped up with tired internet memes.
There was originally one, independently operated, Uncyclopedia hosted at uncyclopedia.org. It was bought by Wikia, and slowly assimilated over the years. It can still be found at uncyclopedia.wikia.com. Some users got sick of the ads, content warnings and lack of site stats and they created a fork, also called Uncyclopedia, which is now at uncyclopedia.co. Some users stayed at the Wikia site. Both sites are active.
Uncyclopedia has an article about us, here (or here), which appears to satirise a RationalWiki page, with vandalized edits from Conservapedians in Uncyclopedia's usual fashion.
A right-wing blog masquerading as a neutral election information site. Mostly written by paid staff, with some edits by "carefully vetted" members of the public, each reviewed by staff before going live.
Encyclopædia Dramatica[edit]
Encyclopædia Dramatica is a "lulz"-related wiki, populated largely by trolls. Article subjects included internet memes, users of various sites and forums, and their online dramas. NSFW!
Despite being full of flashing porn ads, the site's owner claimed it failed to make much money, and it was unilaterally taken down without warning in April 2011 and replaced with Oh Internet, a worksafe version of the same idea. ED itself was resurrected by hacker Ryan Cleary soon after.
SourceWatch documents corporate and industry front groups and their FUD campaigns. It tends to concentrate on environmental issues like global warming denialism, however it covers a wide range of issues related to government and corporate PR.
TV Tropes[edit]
TV Tropes catalogues and celebrates the many conventions, idioms, motifs, clichés, memes and writing tools used in television, film, literature and other fiction. Entries for each "trope" link to many others, and come with an extensive list of examples, since there is no notability barrier. It has a very strong love of almost everything, but especially Joss Whedon (the wiki grew out of a fansite for Buffy the Vampire Slayer), anime and the word "egregious". It is almost impossible to visit the website for less than
three six hours, a fact of which they themselves are quite boastful.[3] They also have quite a few nice things to say about us.
WikiLeaks leaks things - embarrassing or incriminating documents and correspondence which governments or corporations do not wish to be published. Although it uses MediaWiki as its content management system and so looks a bit like Wikipedia, it is not really a wiki and is not publicly editable. All content is compiled by professional journalists, though anybody can submit evidence they want leaked.
This is what Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales actually does for a living. Originally called WikiCities and currently branded as "FANDOM powered by Wikia", it hosts over a hundred thousand wikis,[4] almost all of which are for obsessive fans of a particular work of fiction or game. There is almost nothing that doesn't get a wiki. (Tropers call this The Wiki Rule.) Some are quite popular, while some have only two or three obsessive basement-dwelling editors.
All Wikia wikis are under free content licenses.[note 1] Wikia wikis are not deleted if the community gets up and leaves. Several of them were abandoned when Wikia introduced a bloody awful new skin in October 2010 and their users created new wikis elsewhere, but the ad-filled, outdated, and vandalized Wikia-hosted versions remain higher ranked on Google.
Wikia is home to Liberapedia and one of the Uncyclopedias.
The original travel wiki. After it was purchased by Internet Brands (IB) and was converted into a for-profit advertising hellhole with corporate admins who don't give a crap about the community, it became more and more outdated and irrelevant. Nowadays it is mostly used by spambots, touts and IB's paid admins trying to sweep the desert.
Irrelevant fork of even more obscure "Wikitravel" - claims to be about travel but has "travel topics" pages about basically anything and everything even very remotely related to it.[note 2] The main difference from Wikitravel is that it is run by the Wikimedia Foundation (the same folks who run Wikipedia) and is not for profit or advertisement driven. Unsurprisingly the Wikivoyage community is bigger than that at Wikitravel. However, due to Google slapping it with a huge "fork penalty" for initially having a lot of copied content from Wikitravel, you are unlikely to find its articles - even the good ones - through most search engines. In case you want to see for yourself here is a link for you.
Crank wikis[edit]
There are many obscure and dubious sites run by various cranks, far from the public radar, although many are well-known among RationalWiki editors, in relation to our site's mission.
Communpedia describes itself as "communism, socialism and leftism-related free encyclopedia,",[5] and lives up to its name. Communpedia intends to reflect the "Common Point of View" of all leftists, and not a single perspective, such as Trotskyism or Stalinism. A small site, it consists mostly of articles about "heroic" communists and socialists, with some articles discussing problems in capitalist societies and others discussing the glorious lack of problems in communist societies. It has
atrocity-denying complimentary articles about North Korea[6] and heaps disgustingly infatuated piles of praise upon Hugo Chavez,[7] Vladimir Lenin,[8] Leon Trotsky,[9] Josef Stalin,[10] and Mao Zedong.[11]
Founded in November 2010, it is currently the largest "active" wiki on socialism and/or communism, which isn't saying much. Currently, the vast majority of edits at Communpedia are done by just one editor, "Tribal",[12], with between 1 and 20 edits a day.
Communpedia doesn't mind RationalWiki,[13] probably because they really hate Conservapedia.[14]
The wiki appears to be offline, though another wiki named Communpedia is online on Wikia.
Conservapedia, a very small project aiming to emulate Wikipedia from a socially conservative, American, and fundamentalist Christian point of view, involves several editors and administrators who had previously faced opposition to inserting their heavily biased point of view into Wikipedia articles.[15][16] Some appear under aliases, apparently in order to distance themselves from their prior involvement with Wikipedia[17] or possibly to fit in more with a common Conservapedia username scheme.[18] As a whole, the site appears to have an unhealthy fascination with Wikipedia and its supposed faults.[19][20] It is significant to note that many of what Conservapedia administrators consider faults in Wikipedia are often repeated, to a greater degree, on their own site. Just like Encyclopædia Dramatica, many of the editors are trolls. Unlike the trolls in ED, they are unwelcome, but it's hard to tell them apart from the real editors.
While being frustrated in their attempts to insert a respect for real world scientific facts at Conservapedia, the founders and most of the original editors of RationalWiki "met" each other.
A Storehouse of Knowledge[edit]
Just as Citizendium was a personal competitor to Wikipedia, A Storehouse of Knowledge was set up as a personal competitor to Conservapedia, promoting a "biblical worldview". Founded by (now ex-) Conservapedia user Philip J. Rayment in March 2009. It's like everyone wants their own pet wiki project. When will it end!?!?
Ameriwiki was another Conservapedia offshoot, founded by people fed up with the hostile control-freakery at CP.[21] It was created in June 2011 by the user "George Fitzgerald" following a visit to RationalWiki discussing the concept for a right-wing American Christian website that wasn't as embarrassing as Conservapedia "by being much more tolerant and accepting to editors of other worldviews, and having a radically different blocking policy".[22][23] It had over 1000 articles.[24] The last project was apparently a drive to create actual encyclopaedic content; an Ameriwiki admin pirated Wikipedia's list of required articles and encouraged people to create the whole list. It initially became the latest haven for Conservapedia refugees, ranging from longtime editors such as Rob Smith to new users who were upset with Conservapedia's Conservative and his edit spree on bestiality.[25]
The wiki was moved to its own domain, chaos ensued due to a single troll, the founder left and came back and left again, and three different offshoot wikis resulted in this chaos. Site owner "Sam Coulter," who took over after Fitzgerald left, ran the site until its demise, which was probably because Coulter stopped paying the bills. Only a few pages of this wiki have been archived.
Though saner than Conservapedia (though that's not saying much) the site still promoted some nonsense and shouldn't have been used as a trustworthy source. For instance: rampant New Deal denialism; Global warming denialism and violation of Gore's Law, which included saying that Al Gore believes "the life of human beings is comparable to that of trees", and treating environmentalism like a Gaia-worshiping secular religion; being hilariously anti-Obama, such as immediately bringing up Solyndra when talking about the stimulus package and calling him "pro-abortion". At least they weren't Birthers though.[26]
CreationWiki is, as the name would seem to suggest, a creationist wiki. Editing is by approved members only, and non-creationists, if they are permitted access at all, are barred from contributing to articles. The number of active editors is, unsurprisingly, very small.
Metapedia describes itself as "an electronic encyclopedia about culture, art, science, philosophy and politics", but could be more accurately described as an echo chamber for neo-Nazis to rant in. It covers somewhat controversial subjects, such as why homosexuality is a mental illness, how race is certainly a real thing, how science proves that people with dark skin are a bunch of damn dirty apes, and how Adolf Hitler was an under-appreciated visionary. It also seems to be all but dead. How sad.
RationalWiki is a
large and well respected very small project that was originally established to address and refute the likes of CreationWiki and Conservapedia from a rationalist point of view. As well as a wiki in an encyclopedic sense (with over 6000 content articles), it also doubles as a discussion forum. Although still primarily attracting traffic due to its commentary on Conservapedia, RationalWiki does have a few articles that appear in the top of Google's search rankings, thanks to its almost complete lack of notability requirements to write articles about any form of crank idea — the equivalent criterion at RW is "missionality."
A meta wiki about RationalWiki, which spawned other metawikis.[27] RationalWikiWiki was closed to the public on November 14, 2012 but you can still keep track of its once furious editing pace at RationalWikiWikiWiki. A few of its pages and talk pages were copied to here and can be found in Category:RationalWikiWiki.
Comparison chart[edit]
|All humankind
|All nerdkind
|All humankind
|All humankind (with internet access)
|Home-schooling conservatives
|About 3 guys and parodists
|Home-schooled pupils
|People looking for laughs
|Ten guys and some fringe pseudoscientists
|All humankind
|The authors
|TV Tropes
|Amateur literary analysts
|Fanfic enthusiasts and self-professed otaku
|All nerdkind
|The authors
|Encyclopaedia Dramatica
|Internet nerdkind
|Funny people
|Unfunny people
|Funny people
|Unfunny people
|Proxima Centauri
|Proxima Centauri
|Community-minded people who like writing wikis
|Drooling monomaniacal fanboys
|Community-minded people who like writing wikis
|Drooling monomaniacal fanboys
|Communists of the world
|Communists of the world
|Probably not even Tribal
|A Storehouse of Knowledge
|Philip J. Rayment
|Philip J. Rayment
|All Christiankind
|Not even the RationalWikians
|Vetted creationists
|Almost no-one
|All Christiankind
|Alternative medicine practitioners
|Alternative medicine users
|Very few Nazis, possibly some parodists
|Concerned citizens
|Amateur journalists, moonbats, alties, PETA nuts
|Citizens in Western democracies
|A few German skeptics
|Christians of the world
|Almost nobody
|Christians and soon-to-be-converted heathens
|People who don't like providing sources; touts
|Business travellers and tourists
|People who are too cheap for Lonely Planet
|Touts spambots paid admins, people with limited English, trolls
|People who don't know about the Wikivoyage fork
|One ranting skeptic, with the occasional odd author
|General public
|Those that search for Dutch/Belgian conspiracist material and stumble upon this site
|Drunk rationalists, goat fetishists
|Fledgling rationalists
|Cynics, goat fetishists
Wiki software[edit]
There are lots of wiki engines out there, but most public wikis of any note use MediaWiki. (The only one listed above that doesn't is TV Tropes, which uses a version of PMWiki that has been altered and stretched over time.) This is why almost every wiki out there looks more-or-less like Wikipedia.
Some prominent open source software sites (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, X.org) favour MoinMoin, for some reason. (In the case of X.org, because it's written in Python rather than PHP.)
See also[edit]
- Category:Wikis: Wikis we have articles about.
- Category:Wiki_logos: Wikis we have logos from.
- RationalWiki:Websites: Good, mostly nonwiki websites.
- RationalWiki:Webshites: Bad, mostly nonwiki websites.
External links[edit]
- WikiIndex.org: A larger list of irrelevant wikis.
- ↑ Except Uncyclopedia, which was CC by-nc-sa before it joined Wikia and so kept that license.
- ↑ For example, Wikivoyage has pages on the Roman Empire and the the British Raj and a lengthy discussion of sunscreen that was even previously featured on the wiki's main page.
- ↑ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki - still going, eighteen years later!
- ↑ http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm
- ↑ Munroe, R. "Tab explosion." XKCD 609.
- ↑ http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Sarah_Manley/100,000_wikis_on_Wikia
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/Communpedia
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/Democratic_People%E2%80%99s_Republic_of_Korea
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/Vladimir_Lenin
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/Leon_Trotsky
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/Joseph_Stalin
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/Mao_Zedong
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=1000&days=365
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/RationalWiki
- ↑ http://en.communpedia.org/Conservapedia
- ↑ Roger Schlafly
- ↑ Ed Poor
- ↑ Conservative/kdbuffalo
- ↑ RobS/Nobs/Nobs01
- ↑ Examples of Bias in Wikipedia
- ↑ How Conservapedia Differs from Wikipedia
- ↑ Ameriwiki main page, Revision as of 13:36, 11 November 2011 by SamCoulter (Archived)
- ↑ Forum:Ameripedia?
- ↑ User:Ameripedia/Ameriwiki
- ↑ and counting
- ↑ See screenshot here.
- ↑ See their article on Barack Obama: "Some conservatives have argued that there is doubt as to whether Obama was really born in the USA and therefore question his eligibility to be President, despite overwhelming evidence that he was born in Hawaii and is the legal President."
- ↑ See, RationalWikiWiki and RationalWikiWikiWiki and maybe even RationalWikiWikiWikisWiki...
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THE CAMPAIGN to get the Labour Party's representative elected as the Member of Parliament for the Stroud district in 2015 has got underway.
Around 150 people came through the door of Stonehouse Community Centre on Sunday, July 27 to pledge their support for David Drew.
Stroud Labour chairman, Dick Dreenslade, said there was a lot of support for the former teacher and vice-chairman of Forest Green Rovers FC.
"So many people said to me, 'We need David back'," he said.
"We collected a large number of promises of support and help from everyone who turned up.
"We're building a great team who will be working their socks off to elect David, because they want an MP who is working for the Stroud area at Westminster, instead of an MP who only represents Westminster's views down to us."
Mr Greenslade said that David continues to get calls from members of the public who still turn to him when they need help with issues from housing problems to tax credits - even though David has not been a MP for four years.
"Local people know how hard David worked for individuals and local organisations, how he stood up for us here and wasn't afraid to stick his head above the parapet if local interests meant disagreeing with national policy from time to time," said Mr Greenslade.
"That loyalty to the people he represented, that habit of going the extra mile, of knowing what was going on because he turned up to events and meetings all that is still missed and the message came over to us loud and clear on Sunday."
The 62-year-old father of four was the MP for the district from 1997 until 2010, losing out narrowly to Conservative candidate Neil Carmichael.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 10/1/2013 (1684 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Over the next three months, we will have several articles aimed at helping you reduce your taxes for 2012 and 2013, as you prepare your material for your 2012 tax filings.
One of these articles will help you decide if an RRSP contribution is the right strategy for you, or if the TFSA should be your priority.
Today, though, I want to review some of the keys to making 2013 your most successful year ever, and also look at the potential storm clouds that could affect the investment markets over the short term related to the machinations of U.S. legislators and their budget deliberations.
I am repeating what I have said over the last few weeks, as these are likely the most important things we will share all year.
Step 1 -- Have you written down the specific, measurable goals you want to achieve in 2013? Ideally, all of these goals are steps toward achieving your long-term vision of where you want to be in three years, five years and beyond.
On the other hand, some goals -- like taking a two-week vacation in February, pre-paid from savings -- may simply be a goal in itself, or a step toward your objective of being more relaxed and leading a more balanced life.
In my book, Managing the Bull, there are some guides and exercises to lead you through this process and make it more real and effective for you.
Research shows that people who set specific, measurable goals (and build specific plans to reach them) achieve almost infinitely higher rates of success.
Step 2 -- Successful investing will be a key to you achieving your long-term financial goals.
Last week, we suggested you take advantage of the current positive market conditions to review your portfolio asset mix. This is the proportion of your investments that are in short-term (under one year) guaranteed investments, the amount in longer-term fixed-income investments and the amount you have invested in equities: shares, trust units, real estate and business ownership.
Your particular asset mix should be based on your personal situation, including your ability to withstand fluctuations, your current need for income and liquidity for the portfolio and your time horizon for these investments.
Now, while the markets are at a relatively high level, make sure your mix is appropriate for you. This means you will be able to withstand the inevitable market corrections and provide you with "dry powder" in the form of cash reserves or bonds you can use to rebalance toward equities when a market correction leaves you underweighted in equities.
The other advantage to this system of measuring and rebalancing your asset mix is that this discipline automatically forces you to sell a small portion of your portfolio when it's high and buy the other sectors when they are low.
If you take those two steps this weekend, you will radically increase your chances of success and potentially protect yourself from having to sell equities at a low point in the future to cover off cash needs you might have predicted now.
My gut feeling is that we will see some corrections in the market over the short term, but mostly caused by U.S. legislators making outrageous statements to explain why they are so intransigent in the face of facts that seem obvious to the rest of us.
However, after that, we may see a bull market fuelled by economic recovery and a gradual warming toward equities by risk-averse investors that will make our heads swim. Let's hope for that, but still be prepared for the inevitable surprises along the way.
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For the many people who have been asking, we will be having a launch of my book, Managing the Bull, at McNally Robinson on Feb. 7. I hope you will drop by and let me inscribe and sign a book for you.
David Christianson, BA, CFP, R.F.P., TEP, is a financial planner in Winnipeg and author of Managing the Bull.


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Synthetic Marijuana
Synthetic Marijuana
Information from Bradley Student Health Services
What is synthetic marijuana?
Synthetic marijuana, otherwise known as "K2" or "Spice" among others, is a commercially available product that have been sprayed with research chemicals. These research chemical concoctions attach to the same places in the brain that marijuana does, causing a similar high. More than 100 difference products have been created thus far, sometimes with a warning label "NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION".
What are the dangers of smoking synthetic marijuana?
Synthetic marijuana has not been tested for human consumption and cannot be considered safe. Due to the fact that these substances are added to another substance it is impossible to tell how much a person is consuming. This produces a wide range of "effect" from the drug. The "high" from these drugs can be similar to marijuana, although synthetic marijuana has tested 5 times more potent than the strongest marijuana. Other effects from these drugs include but are not limited to agitation, anxiety, fast heartbeat, elevated blood pressure, respiratory complications, hallucinations, seizures and death. There have also been links to heart disease and cancer.
How long do the effects of synthetic marijuana last?
Due to the high variability of the amount of drug consumed, it is difficult to say how long the effects last. Drug testing shows that the remnants of the drug can stay in your system for several weeks.
Is smoking synthetic marijuana illegal?
A national ban was placed on 5 of the most common synthetic marijuana concoctions on March 1, 2011. K2 and Spice are both currently banned in Illinois. Possession and/or use of synthetic marijuana is a violation of the University's Standards of Conduct.


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Lovin' this homage to Dali by Damon Soule! He's currently showing new work at Fecal Face. I really need to clone myself and move one of myselves to San Francisco, assuming clones telepathically share thoughts/experiences? If they don't I guess I could just fly there (or take a plane).


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