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Background: I became interested in cars from an early age and motorcycles not much later. I spotted the
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only on appearance. There seem to be 27 vehicles facing toward the camera and one facing
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Karl Mahlburg, a young mathematician, has solved a crucial chunk of a puzzle that has haunted number theorists since the math legend Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his revolutionary notions into a tattered notebook.
"In a nutshell, this [work] is the final chapter in one of the most famous subjects in the story of Ramanujan," says Ken Ono, Mahlburg's graduate advisor and an expert on Ramanujan's work. Ono is a Manasse Professor of Letters and Science in mathematics.
"Mahlburg's achievement is a striking one, " agrees George Andrews, a mathematics professor at Penn State University who has also worked deeply with Ramanujan's ideas.
The father of modern number theory, Ramanujan died prematurely in 1920 at the age of 32. The Indian mathematician's work is vast but he is particularly famous for noticing curious patterns in the way whole numbers can be broken down into sums of smaller numbers, or "partitions." The number 4, for example, has five partitions because it can be expressed in five ways, including 4, 3+1, 2+2, 1+1+2, and 1+1+1+1.
Ramanujan, who had little formal training in mathematics, made partition lists for the first 200 integers and observed a peculiar regularity. For any number that ends in 4 or 9, he found, the number of partitions is always divisible by 5. Similarly, starting at 5, the number of partitions for every seventh integer is a multiple of 7, and, starting with 6, the partitions for every 11th integer are a multiple of 11.
The finding was an intriguing one, says Richard Askey a emeritus mathematics professor who also works with aspects of Ramanujan's work. "There was no reason at all that multiplicative behaviors should have anything to do with additive structures involved in partitions."
The strange numerical relationships Ramanujan discovered, now called the three Ramanujan "congruences," mystified scores of number theorists. During the Second World War, one mathematician and physicist named Freeman Dyson began to search for more elementary ways to prove Ramanujan's congruences. He developed a tool, called a "rank," that allowed him to split partitions of whole numbers into numerical groups of equal sizes. The idea worked with 5 and 7 but did not extend to 11. Dyson postulated that there must be a mathematical tool--what he jokingly called a "crank"--that could apply to all three congruences.
Four decades later, Andrews and fellow mathematician Frank Garvan discovered the elusive crank function and for the moment, at least, the congruence chapter seemed complete.
But in a chance turn of events in the late nineties, Ono came upon one of Ramanujan's original notebooks. Looking through the illegible scrawl, he noticed an obscure numerical formula that seemed to have no connection to partitions, but was strangely associated with unrelated work Ono was doing at the time.
"I was floored," recalls Ono.
Following the lead, Ono quickly made the startling discovery that partition congruences not only exist for the prime number 5, 7 and 11, but can be found for all larger primes. To prove this, Ono found a connection between partition numbers and special mathematical relationships called modular forms.
But now that Ono had unveiled infinite numbers of partition congruences, the obvious question was whether the crank universally applied to all of them. In what Ono calls "a fantastically clever argument," Mahlburg has shown that it does.
A UW-Madison doctoral student, Mahlburg says he spent a year manipulating "ugly, horribly complicated" numerical formulae, or functions, that emerged when he applied the crank tool to various prime numbers. "Though I was working with a large collection of functions, under the surface I slowly began to see a uniformity between them," says Mahlburg.
Building on Ono's work with modular forms, Mahlburg found that instead of dividing numbers into equal groups, such as putting the number 115 into five equal groups of 23 (which are not multiples of 5), the partition congruence idea still holds if numbers are broken down differently. In other words, 115 could also break down as 25, 25, 25, 10 and 30. Since each part is a multiple of 5, it follows that the sum of the parts is also a multiple of 5. Mahlburg shows the idea extends to every prime number.
"This is an incredible result," says Askey.
Mahlburg's work completes the hunt for the crank function, says Penn State's Andrews, but is only a "tidy beginning" to the quest for simpler proofs of Ramanujan's findings. "Mahlburg has shown the great depth of one particular well that Ramanujan drew interesting things out of," Andrews adds, "but there are still plenty of wells we don't understand."
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:07 am
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I bought what was labeled as an 11.5 pound turkey. Inside the neck cavity were the standard giblets. So what was in the two bags tucked in the plastic with it?
More giblets!
1 1/2 more livers, a second heart, a CHICKEN heart, and two more gizzards. Sigh. So the cats have lots of gizzards for treats (and the chicken heart), the turkey hearts went into the stuffing/dressing, and I made pate.
I unwrapped the turkey on Tuesday, dried it thoroughly, rubbed it lightly with salt and Bell's poultry seasoning, and put it in the fridge draped with paper towels. Today I stuffed it, brushed it with olive oil and more herbs, foil-wrapped the wings, and baked it, the first 20 minutes at 425F, followed by 2 1/2 hours at 325F. The first 45 minutes I had it on its side (wing up), then 45 on the other side, then I turned it breast up and unwrapped the wings. It came out a with the skin a deep red/gold color, and the meat was lusciously moist.
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:57 pm
Post subject: convection oven turkey
i use my convection oven for the best roast chicken ever. i rub it with kosher salt and butter and cook it on 400-425 for an hour or so, yielding crisp skin and moist meat.
is there any reason this wouldn't work for a turkey if it is cooked for a longer time?
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:43 am
Post subject: 40 lb turkey
I came to this site because I noticed the comment on the 40lb turkey back in 05'. No one ever replied to that person, and I have the same problem. We raised this turkey from spring till nov.23 and it is 40lbs! No we didn't try to make it this big, we just fed it everyday with pellets and fruit and veggie scraps. So still nobody knows how you cook a bird so big? I guess we will have to cut it in half... Hope it doesn't come out to dry. -Lily New Hampshire
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:07 am
Post subject: Turkey roast
A great help for me - an unenthusiastic cook. The best turkey I have ever had. I covered the bird with foil for the first 3 hours, cooked for most of the time breast side down. I took off the foil and browned it then rested it for about an hour on the bench while the vegies cooked and browned. It was great to have Christmas dinner in early December on a coolish day in a Sydney summer.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 3:42 pm
Post subject: Simple roast turkey
Can't understand all this fuss over such a simple dish. I learned this recipe from my mom, and I have been using it for over thirty years without ever having a mishap.
I don't bother with brining. I do stuff my turkey with a sausage/bread/onion mix, but I
the sausage first separately to ensure it's done (I throw the onions in with the sausage as well). No one has ever gotten sick. I don't even find it necessary to truss the turkey - there's usually a flap of skin at the back you can tuck the drumsticks under, and using a V-rack, I don't see a need to tie up the wings either. I do use a skewer to close off the front cavity (which I also stuff).
Here's where I change from what everyone else has posted - first, I rub the bird all over with a mix of butter and canola oil. Next, I soak a triple layer of cheesecloth in canola oil, and spread that over the breast, making sure it's completely covered. This slows down the breast, and lets the dark meat and white meat be ready at the same time. Roast depending on weight, basting every 30-40 minutes, but with 30 minutes to go, slowly (you don't want to tear the skin!) remove the cheesecloth. This allows the breast skin to brown and crisp up. I baste every ten minutes after that (and if the breast isn't browning, I'll turn on the broiler for the last five minutes, but you'll have to watch it like a hawk during that time so that it doesn't burn). As recommended, remove from the oven, tent with foil, and let rest for at least 20-30 minutes. (Remove stuffing first, if you stuffed your bird.) The only drawback I've found is the pan juices are full of fat (from both the bird and the oil), so you need to get a good "fat separator" pot, and/or refrigerate the juices for a few minutes to encourage the fat to rise to the surface. The leftover juice makes a great pan gravy.
The result - crispy skin, juicy breast meat, succulent dark meat, flavourful stuffing (and I always make too much, so I cook a batch separately in the toaster oven - this gives people a choice between a "wet" and "dry" stuffing), and a beautiful presentation. I've probably cooked turkey this way over 50 times, and it has never failed me.
Oh, and I don't bother with kosher, organic, Butterball, or other special turkeys - I just get a regular Canada Grade "A" frozen bird, thaw, and cook.
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:21 am
Post subject: re: brine
an easy way to prepare a brine is by placing an egg in the bottom of your nonreactive container (i use a five gallon bucket for turkeys). Slowly stir salt into the solution until the egg begins to float. That's it!
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:27 pm
Post subject: The BEST!
I love roasting a turkey every year. It is the most work of anything else I make probably. Well, maybe not the Italian Easter Pies! It's my stuffing that takes a lot of prep. I follow my grandma's recipe. It's THE BEST!! (lots of eggs and butter and hand broken Italian-French bread, plus a much more....) I tried the Diestel one year. I thought it no better than any previous. Then came last year. I discovered the brined turkey at Trader Joes. AND I followed someone's tip, on food show, on how to gently separate the skin and rub in some herbed butter. So between these two new changes, WOW! that was some turkey. Never has the breast meat been so moist, and I'm talking about the left overs, as well. Days later... still moist. Unbelievably wonderful!! So, I'm just hoping I can repeat what I did last year and nothing less. Brined turkey and getting under the skin. I was really hesitant to do the under skin thing. And I roasted it, not in my traditional deep Magnalite roaster, but my large, square Magnalite 2" deep roast pan. Only wish I could remember who gave it as a wedding gift...48 years ago. So, that's the deal of the "BEST EVER".
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:01 am
Post subject: Forget the bags, forget the brine forget everything you read
Look people, all you need to do is forget about all that worrying about whether the turkey should be brined in a bag or a bucket or whatever! I jus put er in the toilet downstairs for a day or so and flush it a few times to keep it cool. No fuss no mess! you can add salt to the water if you want, but again, it's no problem! Just make sure that your family knows that the turkeys downstairs and not to use the toilet. I remember that one year.....
Anyway, seriously though, it's great. It works fine and as long as you wash it out really good beforehand, it's totally good.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:07 pm
Post subject: Branigan's Turkey Farm Free Range Turkey
If you live in Northern California, you owe it to yourself to try a Branigan's Turkey Farm free range turkey.
I've done turkeys in my convection oven the past 5 years. I've used Tony Chaceres Cajun Butter and Jalapeno Butter injected marinades instead of brining, and wound up with tasty, juicy turkeys each year. I've settled on the Tony Chaceres Jalapeno Butter as my favorite, and had no complaints from the dozens of people who have tried my turkey.
The past 3 years, I've used Diestel turkeys, which are superb, and pretty widely available.
The method I've evolved to is to inject the marinade 12 hours before roasting. Just before roasting, I dust the turkey with Tony Chaceres and spray it with olive oil. I put it on a V-Rack over a very shallow pan, so that airflow is unimpeded. More traditional deep pans impede airflow and the result is an unevenly cooked turkey.
I cook it on at 300F using the Convection Roast setting, and rotate the turkey 180 halfway thru cooking. I do not baste or cover the turkey.
I use a remote probe to measure the internal temp. Got it at Walmart for $10 and it has an alarm for when the setpoint temp is reached.
I pull the turkey when it hits 160F in the coldest spot. This results in a beautiful bird with a golden brown coloring and some crispy skin. The meat is always juicy and tasty.
This year, I purchased a Branigan's Turkey Farm Free Range Turkey at Nugget in Vacaville, CA. Other locations are listed here;
Nugget also had several varieties of injectable marinade, including my Tony's Jalapeno Butter.
They claim to raise the turkey about 10 weeks longer than others do, resulting in a juicier and tastier bird. I found that to be true.
This year, I cooked a 18Lb Branigan's turkey for 3 hours and 15 minutes, bringing it to 160F in the coldest place. This turkey was, hands down, the best I've ever had. It was much more flavorful than any other turkey I've ever had, and the juice that flowed upon carving has to be seen to be believed.
I brought some in for lunchtime sandwiches today, and could not wait, but had them for breakfast. The meat was still juicy. The flavor was even better.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:31 pm
Post subject: Roast Turkey
Hey, my mom always makes the best-tasting, moist turkey by baking it covered tightly in foil and basting it every 30 minutes or so. I am sure she rubs it with butter or oil and salts it really well first. I bought a smaller, fresh turkey to try the "right" way and followed the directions on the turkey bag exactly. Which says to wash, dry, rub with oil, salt and pepper, roast on a rack til done. Yuck! The pop off thermometer was out but the turkey had NO flavor and was not moist or tender. It may have needed to cook a little longer. I am throwing it away. But, I have to say, my mother's "wrong" way sure tastes great! It is more like the method used by the Penn. Dutch lady. I brined chicken once and did not like the change in meat texture. I cooked a turkey breast last year and am guessing it was pre-brined because the meat texture was almost like pickled-kind of slimy and gelatinous. Definitely moist, but wierd.
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:45 am
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Should I need to season the turkey with salt and pepper before I put it in the oven, or was the brining enough? I'm looking at some other recipes and it says to brine and season afterwards.
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:47 am
Post subject: stuffing a turkey
We have been eating stuffed turkey in our home for thirty years and no one has ever been sickened from it.
I line the cavity with cheese cloth, stuff the bird loosely, and when the roasting is done, remove the cheesecloth bag and empty into an oven-proof serving dish. While the turkey is "resting", the stuffing is returned to the oven to continue heating through.
The cavity remains free of stuffing for its second life as leftovers and the wonderful rich flavor of in-the-bird stuffing is still part of the meal.
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:13 am
Post subject: turkey roasting
Always buy a natural or organic bird that hasn't been frozen.
Supermarket brands inject stock (and who knows what else) into the meat, and when the meat roasts, the stock turns to steam and dries out the breasts. If you cook a turkey in a baking bag or wrapped in foil, you're actually steaming the turkey. Expect a stewy flavor, even if you manage to keep the breast moist. I like turkey roasted.
Freezing bursts the cells in the tissue in meats, so there's no way to get a good, fresh texture from a frozen turkey.
Brining is good! I've used stock pots, ice tubs, plastic bags, etc, without problems. The most important ingredients are salt/sugar. Other spices and herbs (except maybe rosemary) won't be very discernible, and flavorings mask the flavor of the turkey. If you want a more herbal brine, dissolve the salt/sugar in a couple quarts of water and add some spices and simmer for 15-20 minutes. Let this cool, pour over the turkey and then add the rest of the water and chill overnight.
Don't be afraid of brown! Some people put a foil tent on the turkey. I've never found that it makes a flavor difference. Dark is OK. Just don't burn it!
You can make little foil "booties" for the drumsticks to prevent the meat from separating from the bone if that bothers you.
Always use an instant-read thermometer to check the thigh meat. I remove the bird @ 160-170 b/c it will continue to cook while it's resting.
Putting cut-up vegetables in the pan makes the juices taste better when you baste. I don't tend to baste as often as is usually recommended b/c it cools the oven.
Bacon? If you use it, put it under the skin. You'll definitely taste it!
Lastly, use a carving or slicing knife. In the photos above the carver is using a chef's or chopping knife. The blade is too thick and wide and will tend to tear up the slices. I have an old Sabatier carbon steel slicing knife that does a great job. Julia Child and I don't like stainless knives.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:51 pm
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This recipe worked great! I will use it again next year.
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:33 am
Post subject: Never Ending Brining Saga...
I have always used garbage bags to brine my birds. I never gave consideration to leaching. Great info. I went out and got a 15 gallon tub. Thanks to all for the tip. Have a Merry.
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March 9, 2010
Editor's note: Get Ventura's book, American Conspiracy, that the libs at Huffington Post would rather you not read.
As I noted in an item yesterday, Jesse Ventura has a new book out, co-authored with Dick Russell, called American Conspiracies, which includes an excellent chapter on election fraud and its connection to the likely murder of Mike Connell.
|Jesse Ventura is the former governor of Minnesota and author of several bestselling books, including Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! He lives in Dellwood, Minnesota and Baja, Mexico.
Well, this morning, Jesse had a front-page piece on 9/11 up at HuffPost: a front-page piece that quickly slipped off that front page — and then completely disappeared.
Here's what you'll find there now (or will, until they take that down as well):
Jesse Ventura
Author, American Conspiracies
Posted: March 9, 2010 11:00 AM
Editor's Note: The Huffington Post's editorial policy, laid out in our blogger guidelines, prohibits the promotion and promulgation of conspiracy theories — including those about 9/11. As such, we have removed this post.
All that's up there now are the comments left by 65 of HuffPost's readers.
It's worth noting that HuffPost already ran an excerpt from another chapter of American Conspiracies, about the US "war on drugs," and they had no problem with that subject.
But this one is, as we all know, taboo. Clearly, even to question the official story of 9/11 is to engage in "conspiracy theories" (as if the official story is not itself a "conspiracy theory," and a preposterous one at that). Such is always the response of the US mainstream media (the foreign media tends to be more open-minded) — and it's also the response of our left/liberal media, as this amazing act of censorship makes clear.
So here is the offending piece. Please read it; and let's all try to locate the particular points that are so obviously wild and baseless that HuffPost had to kill the whole piece insantly.
Huffington Post/Jesse Ventura – Article #2 ("American Conspiracies")
You didn't see anything about it in the mainstream media, but two weeks ago at a conference in San Francisco, more than one thousand architects and engineers signed a petition demanding that Congress begin a new investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11.
That's right, these people put their reputations in potential jeopardy – because they don't buy the government's version of events. They want to know how 200,000 tons of steel disintegrated and fell to the ground in 11 seconds. They question whether the hijacked planes were responsible – or whether it could have been a controlled demolition from inside that brought down the Twin Towers and Building 7.
Richard Gage, a member of the American Institute of Architects and the founder of Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth, put it like this: "The official Federal Emergency Management [Agency] and National Institute of Standards and Technology reports provide insufficient, contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers' destruction." He's especially disturbed by Building 7, whose 447 stories came down in "pure free-fall acceleration" that afternoon – even though it was never hit by an aircraft.
This is a subject I take up in my new book, American Conspiracies , published this week by Skyhorse. An excerpt follows:
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Some people have argued that the twin towers went down, within a half hour of one another, because of the way they were constructed. Well, those 425,000 cubic yards of concrete and 200,000 tons of steel were designed to hold up against a Boeing 707, the largest plane built at the time the towers were completed in 1973. Analysis had shown that a 707 traveling at 600 miles an hour (and those had four engines) would not cause major damage. The twin-engine Boeing 757s that hit on 9/11 were going 440 and 550 miles an hour.
Still, we are told that a molten, highly intense fuel mixture from the planes brought down these two steel-framed skyscrapers. Keep in mind that no other such skyscraper in history had ever been known to collapse completely due to fire damage. So could it actually have been the result of a controlled demolition from inside the buildings? I don't claim expertise about this, but I did work four years as part of the Navy's underwater demolition teams, where we were trained to blow things to hell and high water. And my staff talked at some length with a prominent physicist, Steven E. Jones, who says that a "gravity driven collapse" without demolition charges defies the laws of physics. These buildings fell, at nearly the rate of free-fall, straight down into their own footprint, in approximately ten seconds. An object dropped from the roof of the 110-story-tall towers would reach the ground in about 9.2 seconds. Then there's the fact that steel beams that weighed as much as 200,000 pounds got tossed laterally as far as 500 feet.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) started its investigation on August 21, 2002. When their 10,000-page-long report came out three years later, the spokesman said there was no evidence to suggest a controlled demolition. But Steven E. Jones also says that molten metal found underground weeks later is proof that jet fuel couldn't have been all that was responsible. I visited the site about three weeks after 9/11, with Governor Pataki and my wife Terry. It didn't mean anything to me at the time, but they had to suspend digging that day because they were running into heat pockets of huge temperatures. These fires kept burning for more than three months, the longest-burning structure blaze ever. And this was all due to jet fuel? We're talking molten metal more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Probably the most conclusive evidence about a controlled demolition is a research paper (two years, nine authors) published in the peer-reviewed Open Chemical Physics Journal , in April 2009. In studying dust samples from the site, these scientists found chips of nano-thermite, which is a high-tech incendiary/explosive. Here's what the paper's lead author, Dr. Niels Harrit of the University of Copenhagen's chemistry department, had to say about the explosive that he's convinced brought down the Twin Towers and the nearby Building 7:
"Thermite itself dates back to 1893. It is a mixture of aluminum and rust-powder, which react to create intense heat. The reaction produces iron, heated to 2500 degrees Centigrade. This can be used to do welding. It can also be used to melt other iron. So in nano-thermite, this powder from 1893 is reduced to tiny particles, perfectly mixed. When these react, the intense heat develops much more quickly. Nano-thermite can be mixed with additives to give off intense heat, or serve as a very effective explosive. It contains more energy than dynamite, and can be used as rocket fuel." [i]
Richard Gage is one of hundreds of credentialed architects and structural engineers who have put their careers on the line to point out the detailed anomalies and many implications of controlled demolition in the building collapses. As he puts it bluntly: "Once you get to the science, it's indisputable."
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I recently had a need to set up a Rails 2 environment that used Ruby EE, and although I had documented that process elsewhere, I decided to share on my blog as well, in hopes it could help others.
Using Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS)
Make sure your install is fully patched:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Getting everything installed and in place:
Do a quick install of git and curl so we can install RVM:
$ sudo apt-get install git-core curl
Install RVM:
$ bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
Now, setup RVM function sorucing to your .bashrc
$ echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bashrc
And...reload your .bashrc (or just reopen your terminal):
$ . .bashrc
Next add this additional repository:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-on-rails && sudo apt-get update
Install a few packages:
$ sudo apt-get install libruby1.8 zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev build-essential ruby irb rdoc rake ruby gems rubygems1.8 ruby1.8-dev mysql-common mysql-client mysql-server mysql-admin libfreeimage3 memcached libopenssl-ruby libmysqlclient15-dev libimage-science-ruby libimage-science-ruby-doc libmagickcore-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libsasl2-dev zip libopenssl-ruby rdoc
Install Ruby. I found that I had to install 1.8.7 before I could install REE.
$ rvm install 1.8.7
$ rvm use 1.8.7
$ rvm install ree-1.8.7
$ rvm use ree-1.8.7
$ rvm install rubygems latest
Set up MySQL:
$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> create database <database_name>;
mysql> create database <database_name_development>;
mysql> GRANT ALL ON *.* TO '<username>'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<username>';
Install Gems:
$ gem install bundler;
$ bundle


text: {-# LANGUAGE ExistentialQuantification, GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-} {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-name-shadowing #-} {-| This is the core module of Elerea, which contains the signal implementation and the atomic constructors. The basic idea is to create a dataflow network whose structure closely resembles the user's definitions by turning each combinator into a mutable variable (an 'IORef'). In other words, each signal is represented by a variable. Such a variable contains information about the operation to perform and (depending on the operation) references to other signals. For instance, a pointwise function application created by the '<*>' operator contains an 'SNA' node, which holds two references: one to the function signal and another to the argument signal. In order to have a pure(-looking) applicative interface for the most part, the library relies on 'unsafePerformIO' to create the references of stateless signals, while stateful signals have to be obtained from a special 'SignalMonad', which is just a wrapping of 'IO' that doesn't allow any other action to be performed. The execution of the network is explicitly marked as an IO operation. The core library exposes a single function to animate the network called 'superstep', which takes a signal and a time interval, and mutates all the variables the signal depends on. It is supposed to be called repeatedly in a loop that also takes care of user input. To ensure consistency, a superstep has three phases: sampling, aging and finalisation. Each signal reachable from the top-level signal passed to 'superstep' is sampled at the current point of time ('sample'), and the sample is stored along with the old signal in its reference. If the value of a signal is requested multiple times, the sample is simply reused. After successfully sampling the top-level signal, the network is traversed again to advance by the desired time ('advance'), and when that's completed, the finalisation process throws away the intermediate samples and marks the aged signals as the current ones, ready to be sampled again. If there is a dependency loop, the system tries to use the 'sampleDelayed' function instead of 'sample' to get a useful value at the problematic spot instead of entering an infinite loop. Evaluation is initiated by the 'signalValue' function (which is used in both the sampling and the aging phase to calculate samples and retrieve the cached values if they are requested again), aging is performed by 'age', while finalisation is done by 'commit'. Since these functions are invoked recursively on a data structure with existential types, their types also need to be explicity quantified. As a bonus, applicative nodes are automatically collapsed into lifted functions of up to five arguments. This optimisation significantly reduces the number of nodes in the network. -} module FRP.Elerea.Legacy.Internal where import Control.Applicative import Control.Monad import Control.Monad.Fix import Data.IORef import System.IO.Unsafe -- * Implementation -- ** Some type synonyms {-| Time is continuous. Nothing fancy. -} type DTime = Double {-| Sinks are used when feeding input into peripheral-bound signals. -} type Sink a = a -> IO () -- ** The data structures behind signals {-| A restricted monad to create stateful signals in. -} newtype SignalMonad a = SM { createSignal :: IO a } deriving (Monad,Applicative,Functor,MonadFix) {-| A printing function that can be used in the 'SignalMonad'. Provided for debugging purposes. -} signalDebug :: Show a => a -> SignalMonad () signalDebug = SM . print {-| A signal is conceptually a time-varying value. -} newtype Signal a = S (IORef (SignalTrans a)) {-| A node can have four states that distinguish various stages of sampling and aging. -} data SignalTrans a -- | @Ready s@ is simply the signal @s@ that was not sampled yet = Ready (SignalNode a) -- | @Sampling s@ is signal @s@ after its current value was -- requested, but not yet delivered | Sampling (SignalNode a) -- | @Sampled x s@ is signal @s@ paired with its current value @x@ | Sampled a (SignalNode a) -- | @Aged x s@ is the aged version of signal @s@ paired with its -- current value @x@ | Aged a (SignalNode a) {-| The possible structures of a node are defined by the 'SignalNode' type. Note that the @SNFx@ nodes are only needed to optimise applicatives, they can all be expressed in terms of @SNK@ and @SNA@. -} data SignalNode a -- | @SNK x@: constantly @x@ = SNK a -- | @SNS x t@: stateful generator, where @x@ is current state and -- @t@ is the update function | SNS a (DTime -> a -> a) -- | @SNT s x t@: stateful transfer function, which also depends -- on an input signal @s@ | forall t . SNT (Signal t) a (DTime -> t -> a -> a) -- | @SNA sf sx@: pointwise function application | forall t . SNA (Signal (t -> a)) (Signal t) -- | @SNH ss r@: the higher-order signal @ss@ collapsed into a -- signal cached in reference @r@; @r@ is used during the aging -- phase | SNH (Signal (Signal a)) (IORef (Signal a)) -- | @SNM b sm@: signal generator that executes the monad carried -- by @sm@ whenever @b@ is true, and outputs the result (or -- undefined when @b@ is false) | SNM (Signal Bool) (Signal (SignalMonad a)) -- | @SNE r@: opaque reference to connect peripherals | SNE (IORef a) -- | @SND s@: the @s@ signal delayed by one superstep | SND a (Signal a) -- | @SNKA s l@: equivalent to @s@ while aging signal @l@ | forall t . SNKA (Signal a) (Signal t) -- | @SNF1 f@: @fmap f@ | forall t . SNF1 (t -> a) (Signal t) -- | @SNF2 f@: @liftA2 f@ | forall t1 t2 . SNF2 (t1 -> t2 -> a) (Signal t1) (Signal t2) -- | @SNF3 f@: @liftA3 f@ | forall t1 t2 t3 . SNF3 (t1 -> t2 -> t3 -> a) (Signal t1) (Signal t2) (Signal t3) -- | @SNF4 f@: @liftA4 f@ | forall t1 t2 t3 t4 . SNF4 (t1 -> t2 -> t3 -> t4 -> a) (Signal t1) (Signal t2) (Signal t3) (Signal t4) -- | @SNF5 f@: @liftA5 f@ | forall t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 . SNF5 (t1 -> t2 -> t3 -> t4 -> t5 -> a) (Signal t1) (Signal t2) (Signal t3) (Signal t4) (Signal t5) {-| You can uncomment the verbose version of this function to see the applicative optimisations in action. -} debugLog :: String -> IO a -> IO a --debugLog s io = putStrLn s >> io debugLog _ io = io instance Functor Signal where fmap = (<*>) . pure {-| The 'Applicative' instance with run-time optimisation. The '<*>' operator tries to move all the pure parts to its left side in order to flatten the structure, hence cutting down on book-keeping costs. Since applicatives are used with pure functions and lifted values most of the time, one can gain a lot by merging these nodes. -} instance Applicative Signal where -- | A constant signal pure = makeSignalUnsafe . SNK -- | Point-wise application of a function and a data signal (like @ZipList@) -- --mf <*> mx = sampler (fmap (\f -> sampler (fmap (pure . f) mx)) mf) -- sf <*> sx = sampler (makeSignalUnsafe (SNF1 (\f -> sampler (makeSignalUnsafe (SNF1 (pure . f) sx))) sf)) f@(S rf) <*> x@(S rx) = unsafePerformIO $ do -- General fall-back case c <- newIORef (Ready (SNA f x)) let opt s = writeIORef c (Ready s) -- Optimisations might go haywire in the presence of loops, -- so we need to prepare to meeting undefined references by -- wrapping reads into exception handlers. flip catch (const (debugLog "no_fun" $ return ())) $ do Ready nf <- readIORef rf merged <- flip catch (const (debugLog "no_arg" $ return False)) $ do -- Merging constant branches from the two sides Ready nx <- readIORef rx case (nf,nx) of (SNK g,SNK y) -> debugLog "merge_00" $ opt (SNK (g y)) (SNK g,SNF1 h y1) -> debugLog "merge_01" $ opt (SNF1 (g.h) y1) (SNK g,SNF2 h y1 y2) -> debugLog "merge_02" $ opt (SNF2 (\y1 y2 -> g (h y1 y2)) y1 y2) (SNK g,SNF3 h y1 y2 y3) -> debugLog "merge_03" $ opt (SNF3 (\y1 y2 y3 -> g (h y1 y2 y3)) y1 y2 y3) (SNK g,SNF4 h y1 y2 y3 y4) -> debugLog "merge_04" $ opt (SNF4 (\y1 y2 y3 y4 -> g (h y1 y2 y3 y4)) y1 y2 y3 y4) (SNK g,SNF5 h y1 y2 y3 y4 y5) -> debugLog "merge_05" $ opt (SNF5 (\y1 y2 y3 y4 y5 -> g (h y1 y2 y3 y4 y5)) y1 y2 y3 y4 y5) (SNK g,_) -> debugLog "lift_1x" $ opt (SNF1 g x) (SNF1 g x1,SNK y) -> debugLog "merge_10" $ opt (SNF1 (\x1 -> g x1 y) x1) (SNF1 g x1,SNF1 h y1) -> debugLog "merge_11" $ opt (SNF2 (\x1 y1 -> g x1 (h y1)) x1 y1) (SNF1 g x1,SNF2 h y1 y2) -> debugLog "merge_12" $ opt (SNF3 (\x1 y1 y2 -> g x1 (h y1 y2)) x1 y1 y2) (SNF1 g x1,SNF3 h y1 y2 y3) -> debugLog "merge_13" $ opt (SNF4 (\x1 y1 y2 y3 -> g x1 (h y1 y2 y3)) x1 y1 y2 y3) (SNF1 g x1,SNF4 h y1 y2 y3 y4) -> debugLog "merge_14" $ opt (SNF5 (\x1 y1 y2 y3 y4 -> g x1 (h y1 y2 y3 y4)) x1 y1 y2 y3 y4) (SNF1 g x1,_) -> debugLog "lift_2x" $ opt (SNF2 g x1 x) (SNF2 g x1 x2,SNK y) -> debugLog "merge_20" $ opt (SNF2 (\x1 x2 -> g x1 x2 y) x1 x2) (SNF2 g x1 x2,SNF1 h y1) -> debugLog "merge_21" $ opt (SNF3 (\x1 x2 y1 -> g x1 x2 (h y1)) x1 x2 y1) (SNF2 g x1 x2,SNF2 h y1 y2) -> debugLog "merge_22" $ opt (SNF4 (\x1 x2 y1 y2 -> g x1 x2 (h y1 y2)) x1 x2 y1 y2) (SNF2 g x1 x2,SNF3 h y1 y2 y3) -> debugLog "merge_23" $ opt (SNF5 (\x1 x2 y1 y2 y3 -> g x1 x2 (h y1 y2 y3)) x1 x2 y1 y2 y3) (SNF2 g x1 x2,_) -> debugLog "lift_3x" $ opt (SNF3 g x1 x2 x) (SNF3 g x1 x2 x3,SNK y) -> debugLog "merge_30" $ opt (SNF3 (\x1 x2 x3 -> g x1 x2 x3 y) x1 x2 x3) (SNF3 g x1 x2 x3,SNF1 h y1) -> debugLog "merge_31" $ opt (SNF4 (\x1 x2 x3 y1 -> g x1 x2 x3 (h y1)) x1 x2 x3 y1) (SNF3 g x1 x2 x3,SNF2 h y1 y2) -> debugLog "merge_32" $ opt (SNF5 (\x1 x2 x3 y1 y2 -> g x1 x2 x3 (h y1 y2)) x1 x2 x3 y1 y2) (SNF3 g x1 x2 x3,_) -> debugLog "lift_4x" $ opt (SNF4 g x1 x2 x3 x) (SNF4 g x1 x2 x3 x4,SNK y) -> debugLog "merge_40" $ opt (SNF4 (\x1 x2 x3 x4 -> g x1 x2 x3 x4 y) x1 x2 x3 x4) (SNF4 g x1 x2 x3 x4,SNF1 h y1) -> debugLog "merge_41" $ opt (SNF5 (\x1 x2 x3 x4 y1 -> g x1 x2 x3 x4 (h y1)) x1 x2 x3 x4 y1) (SNF4 g x1 x2 x3 x4,_) -> debugLog "lift_5x" $ opt (SNF5 g x1 x2 x3 x4 x) (SNF5 g x1 x2 x3 x4 x5,SNK y) -> debugLog "merge_50" $ opt (SNF5 (\x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 -> g x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 y) x1 x2 x3 x4 x5) _ -> return () return True -- Lifting into higher arity not knowing the argument when (not merged) $ case nf of SNK g -> debugLog "lift_1" $ opt (SNF1 g x) SNF1 g x1 -> debugLog "lift_2" $ opt (SNF2 g x1 x) SNF2 g x1 x2 -> debugLog "lift_3" $ opt (SNF3 g x1 x2 x) SNF3 g x1 x2 x3 -> debugLog "lift_4" $ opt (SNF4 g x1 x2 x3 x) SNF4 g x1 x2 x3 x4 -> debugLog "lift_5" $ opt (SNF5 g x1 x2 x3 x4 x) _ -> return () -- The final version return (S c) {-| The @Show@ instance is only defined for the sake of 'Num'... -} instance Show (Signal a) where showsPrec _ _ s = "<SIGNAL>" ++ s {-| The equality test checks whether two signals are physically the same. -} instance Eq (Signal a) where S s1 == S s2 = s1 == s2 {-| Error message for unimplemented instance functions. -} unimp :: String -> a unimp = error . ("Signal: "++) instance Ord t => Ord (Signal t) where compare = unimp "compare" min = liftA2 min max = liftA2 max instance Enum t => Enum (Signal t) where succ = fmap succ pred = fmap pred toEnum = pure . toEnum fromEnum = unimp "fromEnum" enumFrom = unimp "enumFrom" enumFromThen = unimp "enumFromThen" enumFromTo = unimp "enumFromTo" enumFromThenTo = unimp "enumFromThenTo" instance Bounded t => Bounded (Signal t) where minBound = pure minBound maxBound = pure maxBound instance Num t => Num (Signal t) where (+) = liftA2 (+) (-) = liftA2 (-) (*) = liftA2 (*) signum = fmap signum abs = fmap abs negate = fmap negate fromInteger = pure . fromInteger instance Real t => Real (Signal t) where toRational = unimp "toRational" instance Integral t => Integral (Signal t) where quot = liftA2 quot rem = liftA2 rem div = liftA2 div mod = liftA2 mod quotRem a b = (fst <$> qrab,snd <$> qrab) where qrab = quotRem <$> a <*> b divMod a b = (fst <$> dmab,snd <$> dmab) where dmab = divMod <$> a <*> b toInteger = unimp "toInteger" instance Fractional t => Fractional (Signal t) where (/) = liftA2 (/) recip = fmap recip fromRational = pure . fromRational instance Floating t => Floating (Signal t) where pi = pure pi exp = fmap exp sqrt = fmap sqrt log = fmap log (**) = liftA2 (**) logBase = liftA2 logBase sin = fmap sin tan = fmap tan cos = fmap cos asin = fmap asin atan = fmap atan acos = fmap acos sinh = fmap sinh tanh = fmap tanh cosh = fmap cosh asinh = fmap asinh atanh = fmap atanh acosh = fmap acosh -- ** Internal functions to run the network {-| Creating a reference within the 'SignalMonad'. Used for stateful signals. -} makeSignal :: SignalNode a -> SignalMonad (Signal a) makeSignal node = SM $ do ref <- newIORef (Ready node) return (S ref) {-| Creating a reference as a pure value. Used for stateless signals. -} makeSignalUnsafe :: SignalNode a -> Signal a makeSignalUnsafe = S . unsafePerformIO . newIORef . Ready {-| Sampling the signal and all of its dependencies, at the same time. We don't need the aged signal in the current superstep, only the current value, so we sample before propagating the changes, which might require the fresh sample because of recursive definitions. -} signalValue :: forall a . Signal a -> DTime -> IO a signalValue (S r) dt = do t <- readIORef r case t of Ready s -> do writeIORef r (Sampling s) -- TODO: advance can be evaluated in a separate -- thread, since we don't need its result right -- away, only in the next superstep. v <- sample s dt -- We memorise the sample to handle loops -- nicely. The undefined future signal cannot -- bite us, because we don't need it during the -- evaluation phase. writeIORef r (Sampled v s) return v Sampling s -> do -- We started sampling this already, so there is -- a dependency cycle we have to resolve by -- adding a delay to stateful signals. Stateless -- signals should not form a loop, which is -- obvious... v <- sampleDelayed s dt writeIORef r (Sampled v s) -- Since we are sampling it already, this node -- will be overwritten by the case above when -- the loop is closed. return v Sampled v _ -> return v Aged v _ -> return v {-| Aging the network of signals the given signal depends on. -} age :: forall a . Signal a -> DTime -> IO () age (S r) dt = do t <- readIORef r case t of Sampled v s -> do s' <- advance s v dt writeIORef r (Aged v s') -- TODO: branching can be trivially parallelised case s' of SNT s _ _ -> age s dt SNA sf sx -> age sf dt >> age sx dt SNH ss r -> age ss dt >> readIORef r >>= \s -> age s dt SNM b sm -> age b dt >> age sm dt SND _ s -> age s dt SNKA s l -> age s dt >> age l dt SNF1 _ s -> age s dt SNF2 _ s1 s2 -> age s1 dt >> age s2 dt SNF3 _ s1 s2 s3 -> age s1 dt >> age s2 dt >> age s3 dt SNF4 _ s1 s2 s3 s4 -> age s1 dt >> age s2 dt >> age s3 dt >> age s4 dt SNF5 _ s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 -> age s1 dt >> age s2 dt >> age s3 dt >> age s4 dt >> age s5 dt _ -> return () Aged _ _ -> return () _ -> error "Inconsistent state: signal not sampled properly!" {-| Finalising aged signals for the next round. -} commit :: forall a . Signal a -> IO () commit (S r) = do t <- readIORef r case t of Aged _ s -> do writeIORef r (Ready s) -- TODO: branching can be trivially parallelised case s of SNT s _ _ -> commit s SNA sf sx -> commit sf >> commit sx SNH ss r -> commit ss >> readIORef r >>= \s -> commit s SNM b sm -> commit b >> commit sm SND _ s -> commit s SNKA s l -> commit s >> commit l SNF1 _ s -> commit s SNF2 _ s1 s2 -> commit s1 >> commit s2 SNF3 _ s1 s2 s3 -> commit s1 >> commit s2 >> commit s3 SNF4 _ s1 s2 s3 s4 -> commit s1 >> commit s2 >> commit s3 >> commit s4 SNF5 _ s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 -> commit s1 >> commit s2 >> commit s3 >> commit s4 >> commit s5 _ -> return () Ready _ -> return () _ -> error "Inconsistent state: signal not aged properly!" {-| Aging the signal. Stateful signals have their state forced to prevent building up big thunks. The other nodes are structurally static. -} advance :: SignalNode a -> a -> DTime -> IO (SignalNode a) advance (SNS x f) _ dt = x `seq` return (SNS (f dt x) f) advance (SNT s _ f) v _ = v `seq` return (SNT s v f) advance (SND _ s) _ dt = do x <- signalValue s dt return (SND x s) advance s _ _ = return s {-| Sampling the signal at the current moment. This is where static nodes propagate changes to those they depend on. Transfer functions ('SNT') work without delay, i.e. the effects of their input signals can be observed in the same superstep. -} sample :: SignalNode a -> DTime -> IO a sample (SNK x) _ = return x sample (SNS x _) _ = return x sample (SNT s x f) dt = do t <- signalValue s dt return $! f dt t x sample (SNA sf sx) dt = signalValue sf dt <*> signalValue sx dt sample (SNH ss r) dt = do s <- signalValue ss dt writeIORef r s signalValue s dt sample (SNM b sm) dt = do c <- signalValue b dt SM m <- signalValue sm dt if c then m else return undefined sample (SNE r) _ = readIORef r sample (SND v _) _ = return v sample (SNKA s l) dt = do _ <- signalValue l dt signalValue s dt sample (SNF1 f s) dt = f <$> signalValue s dt sample (SNF2 f s1 s2) dt = liftM2 f (signalValue s1 dt) (signalValue s2 dt) sample (SNF3 f s1 s2 s3) dt = liftM3 f (signalValue s1 dt) (signalValue s2 dt) (signalValue s3 dt) sample (SNF4 f s1 s2 s3 s4) dt = liftM4 f (signalValue s1 dt) (signalValue s2 dt) (signalValue s3 dt) (signalValue s4 dt) sample (SNF5 f s1 s2 s3 s4 s5) dt = liftM5 f (signalValue s1 dt) (signalValue s2 dt) (signalValue s3 dt) (signalValue s4 dt) (signalValue s5 dt) {-| Sampling the signal with some kind of delay in order to resolve dependency loops. Transfer functions simply return their previous output (delays can be considered a special case, because they always do that, so 'sampleDelayed' is never called with them), while other types of signals are always handled by the 'sample' function, so it is not possible to create a working stateful loop composed of solely stateless combinators. -} sampleDelayed :: SignalNode a -> DTime -> IO a sampleDelayed (SNT _ x _) _ = return x sampleDelayed sn dt = sample sn dt -- ** Userland combinators {-| Advancing the whole network that the given signal depends on by the amount of time given in the second argument. -} superstep :: Signal a -- ^ the top-level signal -> DTime -- ^ the amount of time to advance -> IO a -- ^ the current value of the signal superstep world dt = do snapshot <- signalValue world dt age world dt commit world return snapshot {-| A pure stateful signal. The initial state is the first output. -} stateful :: a -- ^ initial state -> (DTime -> a -> a) -- ^ state transformation -> SignalMonad (Signal a) stateful x0 f = makeSignal (SNS x0 f) {-| A stateful transfer function. The current input affects the current output, i.e. the initial state given in the first argument is considered to appear before the first output, and can only be directly observed by the `sampleDelayed` function. -} transfer :: a -- ^ initial internal state -> (DTime -> t -> a -> a) -- ^ state updater function -> Signal t -- ^ input signal -> SignalMonad (Signal a) transfer x0 f s = makeSignal (SNT s x0 f) {-| A continuous sampler that flattens a higher-order signal by outputting its current snapshots. -} sampler :: Signal (Signal a) -- ^ signal to flatten -> Signal a sampler ss = makeSignalUnsafe (SNH ss (unsafePerformIO (newIORef undefined))) {-| A reactive signal that takes the value to output from a monad carried by its input when a boolean control signal is true, otherwise it outputs 'Nothing'. It is possible to create new signals in the monad and also to print debug messages. -} generator :: Signal Bool -- ^ control (trigger) signal -> Signal (SignalMonad a) -- ^ a stream of monads to potentially run -> Signal (Maybe a) generator b sm = toMaybe <$> b <*> makeSignalUnsafe (SNM b sm) {-| A helper function to wrap any value in a 'Maybe' depending on a boolean condition. -} toMaybe :: Bool -> a -> Maybe a toMaybe c v = if c then Just v else Nothing {-| A signal that can be directly fed through the sink function returned. This can be used to attach the network to the outer world. -} external :: a -- ^ initial value -> IO (Signal a, Sink a) -- ^ the signal and an IO function to feed it external x0 = do ref <- newIORef x0 snr <- newIORef (Ready (SNE ref)) return (S snr,writeIORef ref) {-| The `delay` transfer function emits the value of a signal from the previous superstep, starting with the filler value given in the first argument. It has to be a primitive, otherwise it could not be used to prevent automatic delays. -} delay :: a -- ^ initial output -> Signal a -- ^ the signal to delay -> SignalMonad (Signal a) delay x0 s = makeSignal (SND x0 s) {-| Dependency injection to allow aging signals whose output is not necessarily needed to produce the current sample of the first argument. It's equivalent to @(flip . liftA2 . flip) const@, as it evaluates its second argument first. -} keepAlive :: Signal a -- ^ the actual output -> Signal t -- ^ a signal guaranteed to age when this one is sampled -> Signal a keepAlive s l = makeSignalUnsafe (SNKA s l)


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Boost your energy: Holistic pick-me-ups
You're utterly exhausted and still have a full to-do list to get through. Rather than reach for another cup of coffee, try some holistic healing, which focuses on the whole person—not just the part of you that's not feeling well. Here are five whole-body ways to recharge your batteries and boost your energy:
Get moving. It's the last thing you feel like doing when you're wiped out, but physical activity can wake you up and improve your mood. Even a 10- or 15-minute walk will help you power through the rest of your day. Bonus: Exercise can also reduce stress, keep blood pressure and cholesterol in check and help you maintain a healthy weight. Aim for at least 30 minutes a day most days of the week.
Eat breakfast. It's tempting to skip your morning meal, especially when you're in a rush, but a healthy breakfast refuels your body and jump-starts your day. There's even evidence that eating in the a.m. can improve productivity and concentration and help with weight control. Ward off midday fatigue with a bowl of oatmeal or high-fiber, low-sugar cereal or a fruit smoothie (toss frozen fruit, low-fat yogurt and juice in the blender for a few seconds).
Lighten up! Laughing quickens your pulse, stimulates blood circulation, increases oxygen intake and activates your muscles. Studies show that laughter also boosts levels of endorphins, your body's "feel-good" hormones. So when you feel like you're about to crash, give a funny friend a call or check out an amusing video online.
Snack wisely. Avoid sugary snacks—they'll make you sleepy. Instead, opt for foods with a good balance of carbohydrates and protein, which can help maintain blood sugar levels and boost energy throughout the day. Try low-fat yogurt topped with cereal, whole-wheat crackers with cheese or half a peanut butter sandwich on whole-wheat bread.
Seek calm. It may be stress that's sapping your energy. Ease your tension—and get energized—with alternative therapies such as aromatherapy or massage.


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personalised superhero stickers
A set of 10 fun personalised superhero stickers. These are perfect for party favours, personalising party bags, stocking fillers, or as a set of stickers for children to label their little belongings.
Stickers can be personalised in 2 ways :
A) all 10 stickers with the same personalised message or name, or
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Please confirm personalisation choices on ordering.
Stickers come in 2 sizes : 4.4cm circlular stickers, or as a rectangular sticker on a 11.5 x 6.5cm kraft tag with red twine & mini pegs.
We know how important it is to receive your parcels quickly & so we aim to dispatch all orders received by 11am on the same day. This will not always be possible during our very busy times, but we guarantee that all orders are dispatched within 1 working day.
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Interagency Teams Formed to Implement Five-Year Arctic Research Plan
The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) has formed 14 interagency teams to implement the Administration's five-year Arctic Research Plan: FY2013-2017. The plan, released in February 2013, outlines key areas of study the federal government will undertake to better understand and predict environmental changes in the Arctic. The plan was developed by a team of experts representing the 14 federal agencies that comprise IARPC and is based on input from collaborators including the Alaska Governor's Office, indigenous Arctic communities, local organizations, and universities. It highlights seven research areas that are both important to the development of national policies and well poised to benefit from interagency collaboration. Among the seven priority research areas are regional climate models, human health studies, and adaptation tools for communities.
The IARPC implementation teams, listed below, meet regularly to chart progress on meeting objectives outlined in the plan.
IARPC Implementation Teams, Chairs, and Agencies
|Implementation Team
|Chair(s), Agency
|Sea Ice (SIIT)
|Martin Jeffries, ARC; Tom Wagner, NASA
|Distributed Biological Observatory (DBOIT)
|Sue Moore, NOAA
|Chukchi/Beaufort Ecosystems (CBIT)
|Brendan Kelly, OSTP
|Glaciers and Fjords (GFIT)
|William Wiseman and Hedy Edmonds, NSF
|Terrestrial Ecosystems (TEIT)
|Carl Markon, DOI; John Payne, NSSI
|Wildfires (WIT)
|Kent Slaughter, DOI
|Atmosphere (AIT)
|Wanda Ferrell and Ashley Williamson, DOE
|Arctic Observing Systems (AOSIT)
|Erica Key, NSF
|Arctic Data (ADIT)
|Marco Tedesco, NSF
|Modeling (MIT)
|Mike Kuperberg, DOE
|Human Health (HHIT)
|Alan Parkinson, CDC
|Arctic Communities,
|Local Priorities (ACIT-SG1)
|Anna Kerttula, NSF
|Arctic Communities,
|Scenarios and Food Security (ACIT-SG2)
|Bill Fitzhugh, Smithsonian Institution
|Arctic Communities,
|Language and Culture (ACIT-SG3)
|Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution
The five-year Arctic Research Plan intentionally builds on the strong intellectual accomplishments and ideas of the research community at the federal, state, local, and tribal levels. It also includes ideas from the academic community, non-governmental organizations, and industry. The challenge is to continue to harness this scientific talent wherever it exists to address national Arctic research needs. Harnessing talent requires broad community participation and, therefore, the implementation teams will hold regular open meetings to coordinate domestic and international research in their focal areas.
Some early accomplishments of IARPC teams include hosting a workshop to develop a conceptual model of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas ecosystems, developing a mechanism for real-time data sharing within the Distributed Biological Observatory, developing tools for strategic querying of cross-cutting research investments, and contributing to the "Stewardship Line of Effort" of the National Strategy for the Arctic Region.
On 9 December 2013, IARPC and SEARCH will co-host an Arctic Research Town Hall meeting at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. In early 2014, IARPC will roll out a new website which will serve as a public forum for learning about Arctic research as well as provide a moderated workspace for the implementation teams.
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External media 'deliberately destroyed' Oakey: Mayor
"WHY do I love Oakey so much?" father Michael Hartin asked crowds at today's rally to change negative attitudes surrounding the town.
"It's the town my daughter went to kindergarten in, it's the town I brought my son home to from hospital where I saw him take his first steps, it's the town I love very much and shall always remain in my heart," he said.
The town was a sea of black and yellow this morning as about 100 people rallied to showcase the town's positives during its battle with groundwater contamination.
Residents took turns to talk about what they loved most about being an "Oakeyite".
Mr Hartin, who also represented New Acland, said residents needed to remind everyone that the town was still open for business.
"This is a big issue and it certainly isn't going away but one thing that was discussed in the senate on Thursday was this issue and it looks like it has bypardison support so it is going to be rectified and dealt with in the appropriate manner," he said.
"So what we have to do is make sure we don't speculate, we don't make unjustified comments and stay Oakey proud.
Mayor Paul Antonio slammed external media for the town's toxic image.
"What's happened here is external media, and I won't go much further in case I get sued, but external media has very clearly gone out there deliberately to destroy," he said.
Earlier this year an Oakey farmer whose watermelons were labelled toxic by state media said the story was completely wrong.
"What's happened to Oakey by external media, not local media, is probably one of the worst events I've seen," Cr Antonio added.
Cr Antonio said council planned to invest more money into Oakey and was also in talks to get the town to utilise upcoming smart technologies.
Co-rally organiser Craig Commens said: "nobody disputes that we have a problem with contamination with our bore water in this area but it is a very small area".
Today residents dressed in "anything Oakey" including work and school uniforms and even had a best-dressed prize.
Many wore black shirts that read "Oakey fights back" in yellow, which were sponsored by Black Toyota, Oakey Gym and Fitness Centre and Total Diversified Services.
Oakey Beef Exports, Kerrytown meats and Super IGA put on a free sausage sizzle.
The background music for the rally included fitting songs We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister, We Can't Be Broken by Twin Forks, My Little Town by Simon and Garfunkel and more.


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Aberfeldy Cottages Scotland
Covid-19 has affected us all but we would like to reassure you that here, at Aberfeldy Cottages, we are taking every precaution to ensure your stay with us will be as safe as possible.
We will refund all payments if travel is restricted or, for whatever reason, the cottages are not allowed to open.
Welcome to Aberfeldy Cottages Scotland – luxury, highland holiday cottages, providing award winning self catering accommodation in Aberfeldy, the heart of glorious Highland Perthshire.
Self catering Perthshire – Two luxury, traditional, country cottages in Highland Perthshire, Scotland
Aberfeldy Cottages is a family business offering self catering, country holiday home accommodation for vacations and short breaks in the highlands of Perthshire, Scotland. A stay in one of our luxury cottages in Perthshire will provide an unforgettable holiday experience. Our cottages are ideal for family holidays and dogs are welcome. Close to the park, golf course and river, with easy access and parking at the door. The cottages have secure gardens and splendid open views of the hills and surrounding countryside and, with no passing traffic, offer quietness and privacy.
Both cottages sleep 6, with king size beds and zip and link twin beds.
Both cottages have a downstairs toilet.
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From the cottages, it is a short, 200m, quiet, level walk to the centre of Aberfeldy, where there are shops, pubs and restaurants. A large play park, golf course, putting green, tennis courts, swimming pool and climbing wall are all within a 10 minute walk of the cottages.
Walk or cycle Highland Perthshire, tour the wonderful countryside by car, play on some of Scotland's finest golf courses and fish the rivers and lochs for trout or salmon – including the River Tay and Loch Tay. Visit malt whisky distilleries, historic houses and castles – enjoy an amazing range of adventure and outdoor activities in Highland Perthshire, so rightly named 'The Adventure Playground of Scotland', or simply soak in the scenery, peace and tranquillity.
Our 2 self-catering holiday homes offer luxury country cottage accommodation to rent in beautiful surroundings. These holiday rental properties are fully equipped and maintained to a very high standard.
Both Cottages sleep 6, with king size beds and zip and link twin beds.
Both cottages have a downstairs toilet.
Dogs welcome
Whether you are looking for a country cottage in Scotland, a romantic hideaway for a honeymoon in the Highlands, an activity holiday, a family vacation, a short break, or somewhere for a get together for a group of friends we have the ideal cottage for you here in Highland Perthshire.
Our normal rental period is weekly, running Saturday – Saturday; however short breaks can be arranged from November to March.
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They may have just been used cars back in 1962, but the lineup in front of Lancaster Lincoln Mercury has certainly aged well. Given the opportunity, the chances of us leaving Lancaster Lincoln Mercury without at least the red '58 Desoto and the '57 Plymouth wagon shown here would have been slim to none.
Interestingly enough, unlike many car dealerships of the 50s and 60s, the pictured location is actually still a car dealership. These days it's no longer franchised but the dealership goes by LLM Motors and proudly advertises the fact they have been doing business in the same place for over 60 years.
One look at the dealership's current inventory begs the question of what—if anything—future car bloggers will be lusting after 49 years from now. It also reminds us of a desperate need for a garage sized time machine.
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A long-discussed matchup between UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture (19-10 MMA, 16-7 UFC) and former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida (16-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) will take place at UFC 129.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has independently confirmed with sources close to the event that both fighters have now verbally agreed to the matchup, which was first reported by MMAFighting.com.
While the UFC has yet to officially announce any bouts for UFC 129, the event is slated for April 30 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.
UFC president Dana White also confirmed the matchup today to MMAFighting.com, reportedly calling the Couture-Machida clash a "done deal."
UFC 129 is also expected to feature a welterweight title clash between current champion Georges St-Pierre and top contender Jake Shields.
This past October, Couture cast some doubt as to his fighting future by admitting he was focused more on potential acting roles than future in-cage matchups. However, "The Natural" never claimed he was completely finished with fighting.
Couture is currently enjoying a three-fight win streak that includes a heavyweight win over James Toney at this past August's UFC 118 event, as well as two light heavyweight wins over Mark Coleman and Brandon Vera.
Meanwhile, after opening his career with 16-straight wins, Machida has now lost back-to-back fights. "The Dragon" surrendered the UFC light heavyweight title to Mauricio "Shogun" Rua this past May and then dropped a heartbreaking split decision to Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in November.
For more on UFC 129, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Kev Orkian the Guilty Pianist - The Closed Venues Tour - One4Review
5 stars
7th August show.
What can I say? Kev is a musical comedian and does it superbly. He has a quick wit and a great rapport with the audience. He is very funny and a very good player to boot. Not much more to say other than this is a fantastic show which had the audience in stitches. Superb!
The only niggle is that the piano was a bit too loud, I assume that will get fixed and it didn't spoil the show. The world needs more Kevs! Also do yourselves a favour when you're booking for Kev by also booking for Sharron Matthews who is on right after him. A fantastic night!
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Slightly healthier than your traditional sugar cookie and still delicious.
½ cup (1 stick) margarine, softened
½ cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup sugar for rolling
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream together sugar, margarine and shortening until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. On low speed, add flours, baking powder and baking soda until well combined. Shape dough into balls and roll in sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheets and bake for about 13 minutes. Cool for 1 minute on cookie sheets before removing to wire rack to finish cooling.
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Still Wondering What Adaptive Design is? This Website Will Help
Adaptive Design
Adaptive design. It's one of the big buzzwords in digital media right now, but what does it mean?
Nick Davison, director of web development for ad firm Digitaria, has come up with the quickest explanation we've ever seen, not only for adaptive design, but for static, liquid and responsive designs as well. Best of all, it's almost completely visual.
Still confused? Then check out Mashable CTO Robyn Peterson's explanation here.
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You ever notice that no matter where you go, people always say, "The drivers here are terrible"?
When it comes to their fellow motorists, people always have something to complain about. No one ever says, "Yeah, man, everyone around here is really courteous, cautious, and skilled enough to run in autocross. I'm really happy with the way everyone drives."
There's a very simple reason why this is the case: Most people are horrible drivers. They drive too fast, too slow, above their abilities, they give in to distractions, they don't know the law or choose to ignore it, and they just don't care that there are other people on the road.
You want flying cars like we were promised in Back to the Future Part II? It would be a horrendously bad idea. Most people suck at driving on the ground, let alone in the air.
But I have noticed that people in different places tend to pick up the same bad driving habits as their neighbors. Maybe they see one person get away with something, so they do it too, and it spreads from there. I don't know why.
When I lived in Austin, I'd say the biggest problem I saw was red-light running. Not speeding through a yellow, mind you, but blowing through the light after it changed. It was especially bad downtown and it drove me nuts.
I've only been in D.C. for a few weeks, but already I've noticed that people just kind of slow down at stop signs, rather than, you know, stop. I've even seen cops do it. This really pisses me off because I once had to deal with a (bullshit) ticket for that reason in Texas. Also, the pedestrians in the District seem to jaywalk like there's no tomorrow, and drivers just seem to let them get away with it. If you tried that in, say, New York, you'd be roadkill.
Your turn, Jalops — what to the bad drivers in your area do that drive you insane?
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We provide an extensive variety of offers like energy consultations, energy certificates and several services for ensuring a high building quality.
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We offer a great number of events and educational programmes. Take the opportunity to build connections and update your knowlegde.
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We work on several challenges in different fields of action. You will get an overview of current and completed projects, as wells as publications of the Energy Agency Styria.
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We support local and regional authorities and provide information at smartly tackling challenges related to climate change, renewable energies, mobility and other issues.


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The art of building is alive and well at Kalu Yala, as we construct the homes and spaces needed for people and businesses to thrive in our valley.learn more
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Used 2014 NissanFrontier
- Stock: P7804A
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- Fuel Economy
- 16.0/21.0 mpg City/Hwy
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- Fuel tank capacity: 21
- Horsepower: 261
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have owned seven pickups,this is the best ever
By chencha on Wednesday, July 25, 2012Value wise, can't be beat.After two and a half years is still vaued at what I paid for it. I could sell it easily in one day, if I wished.
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By Ken on Wednesday, May 22, 2019I'm 6'3" and I had no problem in this truck. Thought I would regret getting a smaller truck, but I honestly forgot how small it was. The interior is real nice too. Especially loved the seats and the lumbar support. Very pragmatic interior design, I gotta say. And 5jay goes for the outside too. There's nothing too flashy about the truck, but the little but of chrome against a waxed black paint, and it was a beauty. The alloy wheels looked great too. Drove good. It like a Cadillac, but I never had any problems with it. The only thing I didnt lole driving wise was the turning radius. God awful. Anyhow, gotta say that I never even heard the engine make one out of normal noise. Ran like a clock. Never had any mechanical issues put of it. Loved the bed rails and the roof rack. Very handy. Just a great little truck. Gonna miss it.
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This pickup is AMAZING, everyone should have it!
By Mtn Giant on Friday, March 01, 2013I spent a good 30 minutes putting together an awesomely detailed review for the pickup, but apparently this website doesn't like detailed reviews because it wouldn't let me post it til I shortened it to nothing. Long story short, this truck is freaking awesome! Go buy one if you are looking at midsize or even large size pickups unless you need the larger hauling capacities of full size pickups. At 15 city/20 highway, the gas mileage could be better but I think it is acceptable for the capabilities of the vehicle.
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In memory and honor of the artist, songwriter, singer, musician, arranger and instrumentalist of some many I lost count. I was in shock when I heard the news on Thursday 21, 2016, It seems like we are loosing so many great
Prince Rogers Nelson was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor. Prince was renowned as an innovator and was widely known for his eclectic work and flamboyant stage presence and wide vocal rage which was amazing. He was widely regarded as the pioneer of Minneapolis sound. His music integrates a wide variety of styles, including funk, rock, R&B, soul, hip hop,
Born June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, MN
Sadly Died April 21, 2016
Height 5'2''
Spouse Manuela Testolini Married from 2001-2006
Spouse Mayte Garcia Married 1996-1999
Partner Bria Valente since 2007
I child born 1996 Died 1week 1996 Boy Gregory Nelson.
Prince was amazing at playing the guitar. He could play it just like Carlos Santana
Prince made the dance music that rocked the 80's that had a bristling, funky backbone to it. From the very beginning Prince and his music were androgynous, sly, sexy and provocative. But
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So many folks love Prince from the very famous to just simple folks like us doing blogs like us... Mick Jagger was among the numerous musicians, actors and other public figures praising the artist, tweeting him too. Prince's talent was limitless/timeless. He was one of the most unique and talented artists of the last 30years." Even Madonna had called him saying he is a true visionary. While Oprah Winfrey tweeted: 'Prince the doves really are crying now. Listening to your music. Remembering you" Then there was even President Barack Obama - for whom Prince was a White House guest last year-released a statement saying he and his wife '
'Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent," said Obama. "A strong spirit transcends rules,' Prince once said - and nobody spirit was stronger, bolder or creative than his!'
He was Born as Prince Rogers Nelson, Yet in the late
He also made his acting debut in 'Purple Rain' by playing a sexy androgynous young musician on the cusp of fame. The film amplified
Over the years in his career he started to become fiercely protective of his independence, battling his record company over the control of his material lyrics and even his name. Anxious to get out of his contract with Warner Bros. He identified himself by a key-like symbol with an unpronounceable name.. Brilliant in my opinion The Journalists and news people called him 'TAFKAP' OR 'THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE' Prince also once wrote 'SLAVE ON HIS FACE IN PROTEST OF NOT OWNING HIS OWN MUSIC AND FAMOUSLY FOUGHT AND THEN DEPARTED WARNER, BEFORE RETURNING A FEW YEARS AGO.
So you all are probably wondering what happened?
So now I thought I would give you a little of Prince pass up bringing. Music was always in his blood. Prince father played in a Jazz band in Minneapolis, under the name 'Prince Rogers,' and his mother was the singer. The precocious young Prince taught himself to play the piano at the tender age of only 7, the guitar at 13 and the drums at 14. But his home life was also very trouble life for him. Well, you see his parent separated when he was at a tender age of 10, and
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Sight words are a little more fun when you can decorate them! Little kids won't mind learning the word "help" with this activity-packed printable. Kids get to color the word and deck it out using the decorations on the following page. As they have fun coloring, cutting, and pasting, they won't even realize they're learning.
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There are three Force User factions in the SWRPG galaxy: Students of the Light (Jedi), The Sith Empire (Sith), and The Sovereign Principality of Ruusan (Dark Jedi). The mercenaries, bounty hunters, smugglers and pirates are alive and well in Drifter's Paradise and the fleets are active with The New Republic and The Sovereign Galactic Empire.
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A body of top Afro-Cuban priests recommended Wednesday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seek their help as he recovers from his fourth recent cancer-related surgery.
In their annual New Year's forecast known as the "Letter of the Year," the Santeria priests, or "babalawo," expressed hope that Chavez would ask for their assistance in getting well.
"I hope, God willing, that he decides to knock on the door of a Cuban priest and that God will allow for the possibility of this individual to do something for him," said Lazaro Cuesta, one of the "babalawo."
"Whichever house he knocks upon, I expect he will receive the help he requires," Cuesta said.
He said priests had not performed a ceremony in Chavez's name, because they only do so if asked.
Chavez has been convalescing in Cuba since his operation last month for an undisclosed cancer. The secrecy surrounding the precise nature of his ailment and treatment has led to speculation about his health, which Venezuelan officials characterize as "delicate."
Santeria, a blend of Roman Catholicism and the African Yoruba faith, is followed by many in Cuba, where about a third of the island's 11.2 million people are of African descent. Each year thousands look for the priests' "Letter," which is obtained in a ceremony in October and released around the new year.
In their message for 2013, the priests predicted mass discontent and social uprisings if nations do not "change their ways" and help those less fortunate.
"If the different governments of the world … do not seek an equilibrium and some comprehension in terms of this subject, it is possible that things could end in a strong conflict," Cuesta said.
The priests have a mixed track record despite keeping their predictions vague.
Last year they warned that the world could see more earthquakes. But after devastating temblors in 2010 (Haiti) and 2011 (Japan), the Earth's tectonic faults were relatively gentle to humankind in 2012, killing just 768 people around the globe — far below the 342,000 quake deaths during the previous two years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
However, the priests did predict correctly that the world would not end in apocalypse upon the conclusion of a Mayan calendar cycle on Dec. 21, 2012.


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