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Inside the Mind
10 Really Smart People Who Did Really Dumb Things
CIA director Gen. Davis Petraeus poses with his biographer Paula Broadwell, with whom he had an extra-marital affair that was discovered through an e-mail trail. See more historical couples pictures.
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Do you have a friend who's super smart, but when it comes to street smarts he's ... let's say "lacking"? Even the smartest people pull dumb moves sometimes, and for some reason it's extra surprising and disappointing when a smart person screws up. How could that president or general carry on an affair knowing it could easily get out? How did that company CEO think he could embezzle millions and no one would find out?
The truth is that book smarts or business savvy don't make a person perfect. Or streetwise. In fact, smart people seem prone to spectacular lapses in judgment more so than "average" people.
Why? One study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology gave logic problems to people to solve and found that smart people tended to make more mistakes than those of average intellect, because smart people were more likely to take shortcuts or make assumptions due to overconfidence. This is called the bias blind spot [source: West et al].
Of course, overconfidence isn't the only road to a dumb decision. Many of the dumb choices you'll see on this list were motivated by greed, pride, stress, and even sheer laziness. Let's look at 10 memorable moments of "what were you thinking?"
Bill Clinton Has Affair with Intern, Lies Under Oath About it
Gary Hart Dares the Media to Follow Him Around
Robert McCormick Uses the Company Card for Strippers
Stephen Glass Fabricates Most of his Journalistic Work
Andrew Wakefield's Autism-Vaccine Hoax
Thomas Edison Electrocutes an Elephant
Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim Gives Herself Radiation Poisoning
Jonah Lehrer Plagiarizes ... Himself
Orly Taitz Tries to Prove Obama Ineligible for Office
CIA Head David Petraeus Has Affair, Busted by Unsecured E-Mail
10: Bill Clinton Has Affair with Intern, Lies Under Oath About it
President Bill Clinton pauses as he apologizes to the U.S. on Dec. 11, 1998 for his conduct in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
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After serving two terms in the U.S.'s highest office, President Bill Clinton started the Clinton Foundation to address some of the most pressing issues affecting the world today, from childhood obesity and climate change to global health. So, how did such a charitable and intelligent guy become part of one of the most notorious presidential sex scandals?
In 1999, President Clinton faced impeachment after details of an affair with 21-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky. While the affair itself was a pretty dumb move -- if you're going to have an affair, maybe don't choose someone that works for you -- the even dumber thing Clinton did was lie under oath.
The affair came to light in 1998 as part of a sexual harassment investigation filed by Paula Jones against Clinton [source: Linder]. In January 1998, Clinton was questioned about it formally by Jones's lawyers and lied under oath, saying the affair with Lewinsky never happened. Who can forget Clinton wagging his finger at the press and saying, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"? He stuck to that lie until that August when her infamous blue dress -- stained with Clinton's semen -- came to light. Clinton later said they "only" had oral sex so he had not lied when he said they did not have sexual relations.
If Clinton hadn't lied under oath about his affair with Lewinsky, there would have been much less fodder for an impeachment case later on, but Clinton was acting out of fear and stress that the revelation would hurt his political career [source: Linder].
Whether it did is debatable. While Clinton was found not guilty in his impeachment trial, some say the whole ordeal damaged the mystique of the presidency [source: Linder]. However, Clinton's other acts as president -- like ending the war in Bosnia and balancing the federal budget -- helped save his reputation. In fact, he left office with the highest approval rating of any postwar president [source: American Experience].
9: Gary Hart Dares the Media to Follow Him Around
The famous photo of Gary Hart wearing an unfortunately named "Monkey Business" T-shirt (the name of his boat) with mistress Donna Rice on his lap.
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Gary Hart was a married politician, lawyer, author, and college professor whose hubris led him to making an incredibly dumb move: provoking the media.
Hart's pitfall -- besides having an affair with a model named Donna Rice while running for office -- was assuming that he was smarter than reporters. Hart must have thought that he could count on absolute discretion from Rice and everyone else who knew about the relationship. And with his background he should have known better.
Hart was a campaign manager-turned-politician, and in 1987, the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination [source: Currie]. Reporters suspected an affair between Hart and Rice, but it was Hart's arrogance that did him in. When rumors surfaced that he was cheating on his wife, rather than dodging the questions or coming clean, Hart adamantly denied the rumors, and dared the media to follow him around. ("You'll be bored," was his actual comment.)
Surprise! Reporters did just that, and that same day, they spotted Rice leaving Hart's house. Then they discovered that Hart had taken a romantic cruise with Rice, on a boat called -- no, seriously -- "Monkey Business." Then, reporters began hounding Rice's close friend (and "Monkey Business" shipmate) Lynn Armandt about the relationship. Armandt dodged reporters for weeks before she finally caved and confessed to knowing first-hand about the Hart-Rice affair [source: Green]. From the account of the affair that Armandt later shared with People Magazine, the biggest surprise in this scandal is that it didn't break sooner. Neither party was very discreet, and Rice had told several friends about her tryst.
The Rice scandal rocked Hart's presidential bid, and he withdrew from the race in May of 1988 [source: Sabato].
8: Robert McCormick Uses the Company Card for Strippers
I think we can all agree that large bills racked up at strip clubs should never be placed on the company credit card.
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Robert McCormick was CEO of an Internet technology company Savvis, but that position didn't prevent him from making a colossal blunder in the common sense department.
McCormick went to an exclusive "gentlemen's" club -- appropriately named Scores -- and managed to ring up a $241,000 tab on his company credit card [source: Maull]. Yes, we said the company credit card. Scores is known for its high prices: $10,000 lap dances, bottles of champagne that cost thousands of dollars, and -- McCormick claims -- for fraud.
When McCormick received the extravagant bill, he disputed almost all of the charges, telling American Express that he rang up no more than a paltry $20,000. Scores countered that the club has a policy in place to verify any charge over $10,000. They take cardholder's fingerprints and even have the customer call their credit card company to verify the charges over the phone. After two years without payment, and McCormick unable to produce any documentation showing fraud, American Express sued McCormick for the money [source: Maull].
Savvis, McCormick and American Express eventually settled the case confidentially and out of the courtroom, but not before McCormick resigned from the company over the scandal [source: Rivera].
7: Stephen Glass Fabricates Most of his Journalistic Work
Stephen Glass performs comedy at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles -- one of the ways he's kept busy after leaving journalism.
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At just 25 years old, Stephen Glass was already an associate editor at the prestigious publication The New Republic. He was a journalist wunderkind with a promising career ahead of him, but in May 1998, that came crashing down when Forbes reporter Adam L. Penenberg outed Glass for making up the facts in his piece "Hack Heaven" [source: Peneberg]
"Hack Heaven" was about a teenaged computer hacker who busted into a major software company's system, and posted internal information on the company Web site. According to the riveting story, rather than prosecute the teen, the company offered him a job. It's a dream scenario for any young hacker, but the problem is none of it was true.
Probably the most damning detail Penenberg uncovered was that the company in the story, Jukt Micronics, didn't exist. Glass's editor at The New Republic launched an investigation into the rest of Glass's work and discovered that 27 of his 41 pieces for the magazine were total fabrications or contained some made-up facts [source: Bissinger]. Glass even faked backup notes, phone numbers and created false Web sites to get through the fact checking process at the magazine. He also falsified articles that appeared in George and Rolling Stone magazines. Vanity Fair called it "the most sustained fraud in the history of modern journalism."
So, what drove such a talented young reporter to do this?
Glass said he felt extreme pressure to succeed at any cost. He was a social outsider growing up who never felt that he had his parents' approval. Those childhood anxieties followed him into his career, and stress and a fear of failure drove him to do anything -- even violating journalistic ethics at elaborate lengths -- to succeed [source: O'Neill and Karas]. While his rocky childhood doesn't totally excuse Glass's actions, we can all identify a little bit with the pressure to perform.
The scandal haunted Glass even after he left journalism. In 2000 he graduated from law school, but despite passing the California and New York state bar exams, in 2012 he was still fighting for the right to practice law because of the plagiarism in his past [source: O'Neill and Karas].
6: Andrew Wakefield's Autism-Vaccine Hoax
Surrounded by supporters, Dr. Andrew Wakefield (C) walks with his wife Carmel after speaking to reporters at the British General Medical Council in Jan. 2010. His medical license was revoked by that body later in the year.
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In 1998, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a well-regarded scientist, published an article in the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, claiming that there was a link between autism and the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine.
The trouble is, Wakefield falsified much of the data in that paper.
Investigative reporters and the medical community have since discovered that Wakefield's paper was a complete fraud. He faked his patients' medical histories and published the results of his fraudulent study all in the name of money. What Wakefield didn't count on was that payoff coming to light.
The British Medical Journal discovered that Wakefield had received $674,000 from lawyers who were hoping to sue vaccine companies [source: CNN]. In order to get the results that the lawyers wanted, Wakefield faked his data in a couple of different ways: He chose some patients in his 12-person study who already had signs of autism and lied about others developing autism after getting the MMR vaccine [source: CNN].
In 2004, some of his fellow researchers found out about the law firm backing the research and withdrew their names as study co-authors [source: CNN]. The Lancet retracted the paper in 2010 and Wakefield was stripped of his medical license.
Wakefield and some of his fellow scientists continue to defend the study, saying that there was a scheme to cover up the link between vaccines and autism, but no peer-reviewed study has been able to replicate Wakefield's results [source: CNN].
That faked paper from the '90s is having real public health effects to this day. Some parents -- fearing for their children's safety -- are still opting not to get the MMR vaccine. This drop in vaccination rates has caused a spike in cases of measles, a dangerous childhood illness [source: CNN].
5: Thomas Edison Electrocutes an Elephant
A 1929 photo of American inventor Thomas Edison in his laboratory in Orange, N.J.
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Thomas Edison was the quintessential genius -- a self-made man, inventor, and scientist, but even geniuses screw up sometimes.
Around the turn of the last century, Edison researched and developed electricity, specifically direct current (DC) electricity. There are two types of electricity that we use today: direct current and alternating current (AC). In the U.S., AC is the standard, but that wasn't always the case.
Back in the early 1900s, the AC/DC debate was similar to the VHS or Beta videotape wars of the 1980s. Which type would win out? Scientists got pretty competitive. Edison was making big money off of his DC patents, since it was the standard in the U.S. at the time, so when George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla discovered a competing form of electricity -- that happened to be more efficient and less expensive -- things got ugly [sources: Long,PBS].
In an effort to discredit Westinghouse's and Tesla's AC electricity, Edison did what any level-headed scientist would do: He electrocuted a bunch of animals to show that AC current was more dangerous than DC. He even called these electrocutions "getting Westinghoused" [source: Long]. He started these "experiments" on smaller animals, like dogs and cats, but when the Luna Park Zoo on Coney Island had an elephant named Topsy that they were planning to put down, Edison jumped at the chance to electrocute her [source: Long].
All of those cruel animal deaths turned out to be for naught. Because of some complications with DC, the U.S. ended up adopting AC as the electrical standard despite Edison's wrong-headed efforts [source: Long].
4: Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim Gives Herself Radiation Poisoning
One of the first X-ray photographs, taken by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen, showing his wife's hand and wedding ring. It wasn't much later that people learned how dangerous prolonged exposure to X-rays could be.
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When Wilhelm Rontgen discovered the X-ray in 1895, the news swept not just the medical community, but the media as well. That's how 30-year-old Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim learned about the discovery that captivated her imagination. Though she never completed high school, she decided to learn all about radiophotography and became a very skilled radiographer in just a year, thanks to help from her brother-in-law, who was a physician [source: Palmquist].
Fleischmann opened California's very first X-ray laboratory, making her the first radiographer in the state [source: Palmquist]. These accomplishments were no small feat in the late 1800s, especially for a woman.
Fleischmann and her brother-in-law performed many X-ray experiments, sometimes involving hours of radiation exposure [source: Breyer]. But from early on, it was clear that X-ray exposure was dangerous: More than 20 radiologists and X-ray manufacturers had reported severe injuries after repeated or long-term exposure by the end of 1896 [source: Palmquist].
Despite the evidence that radiologists should take safety precautions, Fleischmann refused to wear protective gear, because she was afraid it would scare off her patients. She paid for that stubbornness with her life. In 1905 she died from radiation poisoning when she was only 46 years old [source: Breyer].
3: Jonah Lehrer Plagiarizes ... Himself
Shown in happier days, Jonah Lehrer participates in the "You and Your Irrational Brain" panel discussion at the 2008 World Science Festival in New York City.
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Journalist Jonah Lehrer rose to stardom by age 31. He wrote for prestigious publications like the Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker and was a published author. His books focused on neuroscience, including "Imagine: How Creativity Works," about how the creative brain works [source: Harris].
In June of 2012, Lehrer got caught plagiarizing, a cardinal sin in journalism. Unlike most cases of plagiarism, though, Lehrer actually copied ... himself. He reused whole paragraphs from his Wall Street Journal pieces in blog posts that he wrote for The New Yorker [source: Kaufman]. In a New York Times interview, Lehrer apologized for the plagiarism, saying it was just plain laziness that drove him to duplicate his work across the two publications [source: Kaufman].
That alone might not have been enough to permanently damage his career -- the words he copied were his own, even if it was unethical to recycle them without his publisher's knowledge -- but just a month later, the magazine Tablet outed him for making up Bob Dylan quotes for "Imagine" and then lying about it [source: Kaufman].
Tablet reporter Michael C. Moynihan questioned Lehrer about some of the quotes in "Imagine," and Lehrer told him that the quotes came from an old interview that had not been made public. Lehrer later admitted that he made up the quotes, and that when Moynihan questioned their veracity, he panicked and lied about the source [source: Kaufman].
When the story broke, "Imagine" publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt pulled the e-book and stopped all shipments of the book's physical copy [source: Kaufman]. Lehrer also resigned in disgrace as a writer for The New Yorker.
2: Orly Taitz Tries to Prove Obama Ineligible for Office
A reporter holds a copy of President Barack Obama's long form birth certificate in the briefing room of the White House in 2011. Obama released this after extended criticism by those who do not believe he was born in the United States
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Sometimes, being an attorney just makes you do things that other people wouldn't bother with. Exhibit A: Orly Taitz, lawyer and dentist. Proof that lots of education doesn't necessarily lead to smart decisions.
In 2009, Taitz got busted for posting a fake Barack Obama birth certificate from Kenya online. Critics immediately pointed out that Kenya was not a republic in 1961, the year of Obama's birth, as the false document purported [source: PolitiFact.com]. But that was just the beginning. In February 2012, she sued the Mississippi secretary of state and Democratic Party for including President's Obama's name on the ballot, saying that candidates must be U.S. citizens. The Party came back with a signed and sealed Certificate of Live Birth from the state of Hawaii that included a verification of Obama's birth date [source: Seitz-Wald]. Undaunted, Taitz filed similar failed suits in Kansas and Vermont [sources: Reilly, Seitz-Wald].
Taitz has become something of a joke in the media, where she's often called "the birther queen." She probably has many motivations for these attacks, but one is fierce political fervor. Taitz grew up in communist Moldova and believes that Obama is a communist that must be stopped [source: Fletcher]. An avid GOP supporter, Taitz feels that the party didn't do enough to fight Obama, even calling the GOP leadership "spineless" in a post on her blog [source: Taitz]. These suits didn't anything for her credibility as a lawyer. And they didn't help with her failed run for California senator in 2012 either.
1: CIA Head David Petraeus Has Affair, Busted by Unsecured E-Mail
A July 13, 2011 photograph of Gen. Davis Petraeus shaking hands with his biographer and paramour, Paula Broadwell.
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For David Petraeus, keeping secrets was part of his job. But this one didn't stay hidden. Petraeus is a retired four-star general in the U.S. military who was serving as director of the CIA when an FBI investigation discovered his affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. The affair led to Petraeus's eventual resignation [source: Raddatz].
The pair's big mistake was thinking that personal information would stay personal, which is seldom the case. To keep their correspondence on the down-low, Petraeus and Broadwell (both married to other people) shared a Gmail account, and rather than sending e-mails to each other, they only saved their messages as drafts. That didn't turn out to be as secure a plan as they thought [source: Gorodyansky].
The trouble began when Broadwell used the same computer to harass another woman -- Jill Kelley -- who Broadwell suspected of having her eye on Petraeus.
Kelley forwarded those anonymous e-mails to a friend at the FBI, launching the investigation that ended Petraeus's tenure at the CIA [source: Lush]. Investigators were able to use the IP address attached to the Kelley e-mails to trace the e-mail account back to Broadwell's computer, where they discovered the drafts from both Broadwell and Petraeus in another email account [source: Gorodyansky]. The jig was up. An IP address is a unique identifier that your computer uses to talk to a computer network. There are ways to mask an IP address, but Petraeus apparently did not take those precautions. Surprising for the head of the CIA!
There are all kinds of intelligence, but no amount of smarts makes a person immune to pulling dumb moves from time to time. Sometimes, these mistakes are career-ending catastrophes and sometimes they're little mistakes that we all make on a daily basis. None of us gets it right 100 percent of the time, and people that we look up to as smart and savvy are no different.
Author's Note: 10 Really Smart People Who Did Really Dumb Things
Just like my Sports Cheating Scandals article, this one was a lot of fun to research! There's something cathartic that comes with learning that even someone you'd consider a role model has made some bad choices. It certainly puts your own bad choices in perspective!
The dumb decision that hit me closest to home was Edison electricity tests on elephants. I'd run across videos of those "experiments" before, and they disturb me every time. Edison is one of my heroes, and knowing that even he has the capacity to lose sight of the big picture humanized him just a little bit, even if it did tarnish my image of him at the same time.
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Masticating juicers are also very popular because they are able to handle more types of foods. For instance, nuts and frozen berries can be handles by most masticating juicers. If you like to juice green leafy vegetables or wheat grass, masticating juicers are likely to be the best option for you. These juicers are also referred to as slow juicers, meaning that many people regard them as producing juice at a slower rate. In all reality, masticating juicers produce juice just about as quickly as any other juicers, but their internal parts move more slowly. Slower moving parts usually mean less chance of breaking, and wider margins of error when trying difficult foods.
A twin-gear juicer such as one of those in the Tribest Greenstar series can extract the most juice from greens like kale, spinach, and wheatgrass, but isn't good at juicing fruit. The juicers in this series are specialty machines usually used in professional juice bars; they're also quite expensive. We did not test any twin-gear juicers for this review.
The gist: If you immediately think "Jamba Juice" when you see this juicer, good call. It's the brainchild of the widely-known juice chain. Since Jamba Juice knows a thing or two about juicing, they made sure to give this baby a *super* wide chute— three and a half inches wide, to be exact, which is the largest available of any juicer. This basically eliminates the need for pre-cutting. It comes with an impressive 1100-watt motor and two speed settings, so you can adjust speed depending on what you're juicing in order to maximize juice output. The Jamba Juicer comes with a few little extra goodies, like a clean sweep cleaning brush and a recipe book filled with juice and pulp recipes.
No matter what type of juicer you purchase, you'll end up facing the issue of dealing with the fibrous pulp that is left over. There are many juicers that are marketed specifically as containing 'pulp-ejection systems'. While this is by no means a lie, it is a bit of an exaggeration of the truth. It would be like a car salesman advertising a car by saying it had an engine exhaust system. Sure, it does, in fact, have such a system—but so does every other car. In reality, every juicer has some sort of 'pulp ejection' system. The same can be said for nearly every product for sale to consumers, and marketers will often cling to anything before they fail to mention something that makes their product unique. You shouldn't avoid juicers marketed as having 'pulp ejection systems', but it's also not advisable to buy based on that label.
Dietitian and nutrition writer Sharon Palmer told us that a juicer "should be easy to use, take apart, clean, and store." Most of the juicers took about 10 minutes to assemble. The $300 Breville and the $400 Hurom both came mostly assembled, but the Tribest ($250) didn't — and we found its instructions confusing and difficult to follow. KitchenAid's $300 juicer attachment was hands-down the worst, requiring a full 20 minutes to assemble and almost causing injury thanks to its exposed blade.
No matter what type of juicer you purchase, you'll end up facing the issue of dealing with the fibrous pulp that is left over. There are many juicers that are marketed specifically as containing 'pulp-ejection systems'. While this is by no means a lie, it is a bit of an exaggeration of the truth. It would be like a car salesman advertising a car by saying it had an engine exhaust system. Sure, it does, in fact, have such a system—but so does every other car. In reality, every juicer has some sort of 'pulp ejection' system. The same can be said for nearly every product for sale to consumers, and marketers will often cling to anything before they fail to mention something that makes their product unique. You shouldn't avoid juicers marketed as having 'pulp ejection systems', but it's also not advisable to buy based on that label.
It is very good unit for juicing carrots, apples and similar harder veggies. We used it today (03/15/2016) for large amount of carrot juice (over one gallon, with breaks every liter and to empty pulp container) and it came out with minimum foam, good consistency and reasonably dry pulp. Position of the chute is good, no leaks, no splatter, no mess, regardless it is 1000 watts on highest speed. Unit's cutting basket has very minimal vibrations which disappear more of less at normal speed and there is floating mechanism added to electric motor that works out the vibrations quite nicely. Well, after all it is a centrifugal juicer not a satellite guiding system, therefore little thing like this is expected and not bothersome. Locking mechanism on this juicer is very well designed, and base is actually made from magnesium like casting, which makes it bottom heavy and quite sturdy. The opening on top is large, so I would be very careful and never leave this unit unattended if one has little child of the kind that can get into trouble in split second.. Granted this is not a grinder, but I feel compelled to mention this - we all should know that little kids, active cell phones, laud TV's and tired parents when all on can become potentially harmful combination.
The Omega J8006 Nutrition Center Juicer is one of the best juicers available on the market and offers a unique approach for extracting nutrient-dense juices from fruits and vegetables. The Omega J8006 is a masticating juicer, which means it operates at lower power ratings, runs quieter, and produces less heat. With its high-quality manufacturing and targeting masticating design, the Omega J8006 delivers some of the most high-quality juices you'll find.
Juicing advocates advise that you start with a basic, centrifugal juicer-only model so you can get the hang out of juicing. You can then move on to the multitasking masticating and triturating ones as soon as you become adept at juice extraction. If your looking for more in-depth juicer reviews or juicer comparisons, click here to check out the top reviews.
Whereas the Omega J8004 is a commercial-quality machine, the Omega NC800 is designed for household use. When it came to green juice, the output was almost identical. The carrot juice was a different story, though. The NC800 yielded only 12.3 ounces. John Kohler at DiscountJuicers.com said that this machine put out 15 percent more juice than its predecessor, but we found that it actually put out 25 percent less carrot juice than the J8004. The nice feature of this juicer is that it boasts a larger feed tube than its predecessor, which makes prep a little easier.

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Q: Apache .htaccess works fine, 404 with Litespeed I'm using litespeed on shared hosting (unfortunately), and I'm trying to use .htaccess to rewrite http to https NON www - and change domain.com/index to domain.com/my-string for SEO purposes.
This is working fine in Apache, and I didn't know my shared host was using Litespeed. I use the same .htaccess on litespeed which results in a 404, despite my filename being correct.
Here is my htaccess:
DirectoryIndex my-string.php

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^$ my-string [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^my-string$ /my-string.php [L]

# php -- BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
# Set the "ea-php56" package as the default "PHP" programming language.
<IfModule mime_module>
  AddType application/x-httpd-ea-php56 .php .php5 .phtml
</IfModule>
# php -- END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit

The bottom section was added by my host.
This is working correctly in Apache, performs the 301 redirect from http non www, or http www to https non www with my string at the end of the URL, instead of index.
My understanding was litespeed uses the same syntax as Apache, so why is this happening?

A: The comments section is full so I'm linking my related answer:
https://serverfault.com/a/1083495/144798

To get local .htaccess working on Openlitespeed you first must
generate those files AND then also point to those files within each
virtual host AND ensure correct permissions. If you fail to do this,
your websites might crash (fatal errors and/or 404 errors like this).
Plus, you must reboot the Litespeed server every time you change
.htaccess rules.

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BOSTON (Sept. 26, 2018) – The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation today announced the 10th group of emerging community health leaders selected for the Massachusetts Institute for Community Health Leadership program. The MICHL program brings together professionals who currently direct or manage programs at a variety of health care organizations across Massachusetts for a series of classroom, peer-to-peer and professional learning opportunities.
"The goal for the MICHL program is to help participants increase their own personal impact, strengthen their effectiveness in their organization, and enhance their respective organization's influence in addressing challenges and opportunities in today's increasingly complex health care environment," said Audrey Shelto, president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
The MICHL class of 2018-19 – sponsored in part by a new partner, The Boston Foundation – is comprised of 18 participants from state agencies, hospitals, nonprofit community health centers, mental health providers, and advocacy groups serving low-income and uninsured individuals and families. The participants, selected through an application process, represent the 10th MICHL cohort since the program began in 2006. The program has more than 150 graduates.
In addition to connecting with leaders in community health and local hospitals, MICHL participants gain access to expert and committed faculty who introduce new practices, strategies and leadership skills. In recent years, the MICHL program has explored the impact of racism in the nation's health care system.


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Арнольд Эрик Севарейд (; 26 ноября 1912 года — 9 июля 1992 года) — тележурналист компании CBS c 1939 по 1977 годы. Входил в группу элиты военных корреспондентов, принятых на работу выдающимся журналистом Эдвардом Мэроу (так называемые «Парни Мэроу»). Стал первым, кто сообщил о взятии Парижа немецкими войсками во время Второй мировой войны. Во время перелёта в Бирму самолёт Севарейда был сбит, и его пришлось спасать американским военным из-за линии фронта. Севарейд стал последним журналистом, взявшим интервью у Эдлая Стивенсона перед его смертью. В конце карьеры последовал примеру Мэроу и выступал в качестве телекомментатора в вечерних новостях CBS течение 12 лет, за что был удостоен Премии Пибоди и «Эмми».

Ранние годы
Арнольд Эрик Севарейд родился в городе  (штат Северная Дакота) в семье Альфреда и Клары Севарейд. Он имел норвежское происхождение и всю жизнь ощущал связь с Норвегией. После банкротства городского банка его семья в 1925 году переселилась в Майнот, а затем — в Миннеаполис, штат Миннесота. В 1935 году Эрик Севарейд закончил Миннесотский университет.

Любовь к путешествиям проявилась в Севарейде с юного возраста. Сразу после окончания школы он с другом Уолтером Портом отправился в поездку в Йорк-Фэктори на побережье Гудзонова залива, профинансированную газетой Minneapolis Star. Друзья прошли на каноэ вверх по реке Миннесоте и её притоку Малой Миннесоте до Браунс-Валли, перешли в озеро Траверз и по рекам Буа-де-Сис и Ред-Ривер спустились в озеро Виннипег. Отсюда по рекам Нельсон, Годс и Хейс они добрались до Гудзонова залива и цели их путешествия, преодолев в общей сложности 3620 км. В результате на свет появилась книга Canoeing with the Cree, которая до сих пор востребована читателями.

Начало карьеры
Первую работу журналиста Севарейд получил в 18 лет, будучи студентом Миннесотского университета. Он писал статьи по политической науке для Minneapolis Journal. Обучение Севарейд продолжил в Лондоне, а затем — в парижской Сорбонне, где также работал в качестве редактора в
United Press. Затем он получил раздел городских новостей в газете Paris Herald Tribune.

Вторая мировая война
Эрик Севарейд оставил работу в Paris Herald Tribune после того, как был приглашён в качестве парижского корреспондента на CBS. В 1940 году он сообщил в эфире о падении Парижа и последовал за французским правительством в Бордо и Виши, после чего покинул Францию, направившись в Лондон. Севарейд вместе с Эдвардом Мэроу освещал Битву за Британию и впоследствии называл Мэроу человеком «который его открыл».

Вскоре Севарейд вернулся в Вашингтон. Здесь в июле 1942 года Севарейда назначили главой вашингтонского бюро CBS .

2 августа 1943 года Севарейд на борту самолёта Кёртисс-Райт C-46 летел над Бирмой вместе с грузом для китайских союзников. Из-за неполадок с двигателем экипаж был вынужден покинуть машину. Севарейд, вооружившись бутылкой джина, выпрыгнул с парашютом. Чтобы эвакуировать группу из-за линии фронта, был создан специальный отряд, который успешно выполнил задание.

Позднее Севарейд направился в Югославию, где освещал борьбу партизан под руководством Броз Тито.

Послевоенная карьера
Севарейд продолжил работу на СBS по окончании войны. В 1946 году он вёл репортаж об образовании ООН, а затем написал автобиографическую книгу Not So Wild a Dream. Книга выдержала 11 переизданий и стала главным источником сведений о жизни поколения американцев, прошедших через Великую депрессию и ужасы Второй мировой войны
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Севарейд всегда считал себя пишущим журналистом и испытывал дискомфорт перед микрофоном, и ещё больший — перед телекамерой. Тем не менее, он часто появлялся в новостных телепередачах CBS в послевоенные годы, а в середине 1950-х вёл научную передачу Conquest. С 1946 по 1954 годы он также возглавлял вашингтонское бюро CBS и был одним из критиков антикоммунистической политики сенатора Джозефа Маккарти. В этот период журналистом заинтересовалось ФБР.

Обязательными репортажами Севарейда стало освещение президентских выборов с 1948 по 1976 годы.

Расследование ФБР
Внутренние документы ФБР, рассекреченные в 1996 году, показали, что агентство пристально изучало репортажи Севарейда в 1940-е и начале 1950-х годов. За это время Севарейд был замечен на мероприятиях, проведённых различными коммунистическими организациями, а также в деятельности, которую признали нелояльной. Однако к апрелю 1953 года ФБР заключило, что дополнительных изысканий в отношении Севарейда проводить не требуется.

Европейский корреспондент
С 1959 по 1961 годы Севарейд выступал в роли европейского корреспондента CBS. Он подготовил несколько передач и в нескольких выступил в качестве комментатора, среди них были Town Meeting of the World, The Great Challenge, Where We Stand и Years of Crisis.

Последнее интервью Эдлая Стивенсона
Одним из величайших достижений Севарейда стало эксклюзивное интервью Эдлая Стивенсона, которое тот дал незадолго до смерти. По странному стечению обстоятельств, интервью не пошло в эфир, а было опубликовано в журнале Look. Тем не менее, интервью познакомило зрителей всего мира с Севарейдом.

CBS Evening News

22 ноября 1963 года Севарейд присоединился в телевизионном эфире к Уолтеру Кронкайту с комментарием об убийстве Джона Кеннеди. С 1964 до отставки в 1977 году Севарейд появлялся в вечерних новостях С Уолтером Кронкайтом, предлагая двухминутный обзор событий, за что был прозван своим коллегой «серым кардиналом». За работу комментатора Севарейд был удостоен Премии Пибоди и «Эмми».

В своих обзорах Севарейд касался различных важных тем дня. После поездки в 1966 году в Южный Вьетнам, он указал, что продолжение войны не будет мудрым решением и Соединённым Штатам следует искать пути к переговорам. Он также приложил усилия, чтобы сохранить традицию, заложенную Мэроу в передаче Person to Person. В аналогичной программе Conversations with Eric Sevareid журналист брал интервью у таких известных лиц, как канцлер Западной Германии Вилли Брандт и романист Лео Ростен. А в самопародии на передачу Севарейд взял интервью у короля Георга III, в роли которого выступил Питер Устинов.

В 1983 году Севарейд появился на PBS, представив документальный сериал Enterprise, посвящённый тому, как в Америке рассказывают о бизнесе.

В кино
В 1980-е годы Эрик Севарейд несколько раз появлялся в кино и телефильмах в роли самого себя. Его фильмография включает телесериал «Такси» (1980), фильм «Парни что надо» (1983) и телесериал Call to Glory (1985).

Чрезмерно патриотичный орёл Сэм из «Маппет-шоу» страдает севарейдианским комплексом.

Смерть
Эрик Севарейд умер от рака желудка 9 июля 1992 года в возрасте 79 лет. Речь на его похоронах произнёс Дэн Разер. У Севарейда остались жена, два сына от первого брака и дочь от второго брака.

Признание
 Rough Rider Award — премия штата Северная Дакота.
 Премия Пибоди (1950)
 Премия Альфреда дю Пона (1954)
 Overseas Press Club Award (Lowell Thomas Award, 1955)
 «Эмми» (1955)
 «Эмми» (1958)
 Премия Пибоди (1964)
 New York Newspaper Guild Page One Award (1965)
 Overseas Press Club Award (1966)
 Overseas Press Club Award (1967)
 Премия Пибоди (1976)
 Harry S. Truman Award (1981)

В 1984 году Эрик Севарейд включён а Зал славы Американской телевизионной академии.

5 октября 2007 года Почтовая служба США объявила о выпуске в честь пяти выдающихся американских журналистов серии почтовых марок, на одной из которых изображён Эрик Севарейд.

Примечания

Библиография
 Canoeing with the Cree, 1935, reprinted 1968 ISBN 0-87351-152-2
 Not So Wild a Dream (абтобиография), 1946, reissued 1976 ISBN 0-8262-1014-7
 In One Ear: 107 Snapshots of Men and Events which Make a Far-Reaching Panorama of the American Situation at Mid-Century (эссе), Knopf, 1952.
 Small Sounds in the Night: A Collection of Capsule Commentaries on the American Scene, Knopf, 1956.
 This is Eric Sevareid (эссе), McGraw, 1964.
 Washington: Magnificent Capital, Doubleday, 1965 (в соавторстве с Робертом Смитом).
 Enterprise: The Making of Business in America, McGraw-Hill, 1983 (в соавторстве с Джоном Кейсом).

Выпускники Миннесотского университета
Выпускники Школы журналистики и массовых коммуникаций Миннесотского университета

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Posted on June 17, 2020 by Tracey Arbon
Interview With Hypnotic Soul Singer Amanda St John
Amanda St John is a soulful singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland. She is a mainstay on the Irish radio, festival and gig circuit and has been described as a "Head-turning vocalist with serious song writing prowess………a sensational artist" (Visit Dublin). She has worked with artists like Brian Kennedy, Eddi Reader, Mary Coughlan, Gareth Dunlop, Ciaran Gribbin (of INXS) and Jon Tiven (Grammy winning Nashville writer/producer whose CV has included BB King, Van Morrison and The Rolling Stones etc…).
After hearing Amanda's voice, I had to find out more about her. Read the interview below and of course, take a listen to her music.
Enchanting, Beautiful & Delicate Music from Young Indie Artist, Sage
MT: Hello Amanda, nice to cyber meet you. Wow, what a voice! Your voice and style, inclusive of the BV's, are reminiscent of the real soul music from the good ol' days. Who did you grow up listening to?
Amanda: Hey there, and thanks so much for the feedback. I actually grew up listening to Irish folk music, it wasn't until I was about 18 that I started listening to soul music. I heard Marvin Gaye's 'What's going On' album and it blew my mind. I started exploring the classics then like Bill Withers, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Roberts Flack and was so moved by the power and expression of these artists.
MT: Having been the 1st Independent Irish artist to record in the 'Fame' studios in Alabama, can you share your experience and the differences recording there as opposed to other studios you had previously recorded?
Amanda: It was like a dream come true walking in those doors and standing in the same vocal booth with the same mics and same musicians as my heros. At one point I had this really overwhelming thought and was like "Aretha was here!" It was a very different experience than my 1st album as I took my time with that and recorded it over a 6 month period here in a studio in Northern Ireland (with producer Mike Mormecha). This album was all live tracked (bass, guitar, drums and keys) and we were really on the clock as we had just 5 days to record the whole album. I traveled there with co-writer/drummer/producer Mike Mormecha and co-writer/guitar player Paul Tierney and I hired 2 of the original 'swampers' session musicians to complete the band. It was an absolute joy to work with David Hood (Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Percy Sledge, Paul Simon, Alesha Keys etc.) and Clayton Ivey (James Brown, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Joss Stone etc) who welcomed us with open hearts and shared their wisdom and expertise so generously.
MT: Who do you now enjoy listening to as a fan?
Amanda: I'm listening to Gregory Porter, Lianne La Havas, Erika Badu and Leif Vollebekk a lot at the moment. I'm starting to write again for my next album so I've been revisiting classic songwriters like Joni Mitchel and Carole King for inspiration.
MT: When was your very first recording and release?
Amanda: I released my debut Ep 'Where is The Man' in 2012. I was late committing to myself and my music career to be honest.
MT: Your recent track of 'Made Myself a Name' indicates the struggles of trying to make it as a singer. Can you tell us what you find has been the most frustrating aspect of trying to make it in this business?
Amanda: The most frustrating part is getting your music to the right people. There are some playlists and DJ's that I know my music would suit but without a budget for a radio plugger it's difficult to reach these people. Finances are definitely the biggest struggle overall. It's so expensive to produce good quality recordings, then you need a massive amount more for quality videos and promo material. I just wish a had a digital marketing budget too. Lol. Without big budgets everything just takes more time and you have to keep plugging away to build your fanbase organically.
MT: I believe you are a household name in Ireland, I apologise for not knowing you here in Australia, however, that will soon change ☺ Where are you based at the moment and where do you plan and hope to take your music?
Amanda: Lol, you're very kind and I wish I was but like so many artists I'm still building my name here too. I do have a good following in certain circles though and I'm grateful for that. I am based in Co.Antrim in a small rural seaside village, it's such a lovely place to live and create. Belfast is my closest city. I've been very lucky to tour across the Uk & Ireland and also in the USA the last few years. I'd love to take my music to the European market and festival scene now, though I'm open to anywhere that receives my music well.
MT: Can you explain a little bit about your song-writing process, who you have collaborated with and what it's like to collaborate with such music royalty?
Amanda: I've been very lucky to write with some super talented Grammy award winning writers over the years but for this album most of it was written with my 2 main collaborators Paul Tierney and Mike Mormecha. I love collaborating as it helps bring a song to a new level when other writers add their ideas and creativity. It's such a rewarding process to see an idea grow and take life.
MT: As an artist myself (way back), no matter how many releases you have, there is always excitement around each new release. Do you feel that each time you release something new, given the times we are in, (in regards to streaming and fans attempting to find new music); do you try and think of new ways/strategies with each new release?
Amanda: Yes it really is exciting but also very nerve wrecking. I write very autobiographically and these songs in particular are very raw emotionally in parts. It's quite a vulnerable experience releasing your innermost thoughts and feelings into the world and sharing yourself at this level. The release strategy and business side of it is so important as every artist wants people to hear their music and reach press if you are to have any impact. I do find this the hardest part of things. Spotify and streaming has changed the game slightly too as it has really meant that music is more about numbers than sales these days. Everybody is literally learning to adapt and change to a very quick moving industry and figures suggest that less people are listening to albums so I released a lot more singles ahead of the full album this time to try and slowly increase fan base and listeners with each song. It's all a bit trial and error to be honest but I am learning a lot.
MT: When you record, do you produce or arrange all the vocal parts, and do you naturally progress to the classic soul sounds of the likes of Aretha Franklin or Dusty Springfield; Is this a part of your nature and soul?
Amanda: That soul sound is very much at my core so I don't have to think about it too much. I do all my own vocal parts and arrangements and a large majority if the backing vocal parts too. I actually had very severe vocal damage during production time and I had some good vocalist friends Matt McGinn and Siobhan Brown (who I've collaborated with a lot in the past and is so gifted at soul harmonies) who stepped in to help get the final bv parts recorded. I also love gospel choirs so had a small choir which I arranged parts for and led the recordings for a few songs.
MT: What has been your biggest challenge in your music career so far? How did you overcome that obstacle?
Amanda: I've had a lot of life challenges the last few years which make my music career hard to focus on and put me under immense pressure financially. During the production period with this album I lost a large amount of money when Pledge Music went bankrupt and I had a lot of time off earning due to caring for my father (who was terminally ill) and then soon after that the vocal damage I talked about. That was an extremely difficult period of life for me. I had just invested my life's work into an album, was so broke I had no money to finish it and was told after 4 months of vocal treatment that the damage was so bad I might never sing again. I had so much work to do to heal and get back on my feet, and raise the funds I needed before I could release this album, it just makes me all the more proud though that I've finally got it out there into the world despite some very difficult obstacles.
MT: From what you have learned about your challenges in the music business, what advice would you like to give upcoming independent artists?
Amanda: Have a vision outside of success that you want to achieve and appreciate the small victories. You will get more rejections than successes but if you believe in yourself and that your music has a purpose then you will keep moving towards your goal even if it is taking longer than you hoped. Sometimes I get caught up in the business side of things and forget how far I've come as well as the joy of creating and touching audiences.
MT: Besides singing, do you play any musical instruments and How long have you been playing them?
Amanda: I have played guitar since I was a teenager, though I'm much more confident as the singer.
MT: What's a typical day for you? Do you work on your music every day? What other activities or hobbies besides music do you like to do that your fans may like to know about?
Amanda: First and foremost I am a mum, I have a 12 year old daughter) who is my main focus in life. I also teach workshops on personal development, vocals and songwriting. I work with a lot of community and charity projects (mostly with teenagers) and am so committed to other people having belief in themselves and reaching their full potential. On my downtime I live by the beach and am very into nature and the outdoors.
MT: You have some major performances under your belt, including the prestigious Folk Alliance Festival, performing for the US president among many; Do you have any specific rituals or do anything specific before you head out on stage or even before you record your vocals in the studio?
Amanda: Yeah I do have to get into the zone and try to filter out all the nerves and inner noise. I usually do some vocal warm ups and deep breathing techniques to ground me and make me present to the moment.
MT: In these horrid times of Covid 19, what are your music plans for this year and how has this current climate affected you both musically and personally?
Amanda: My plans have obviously changed drastically due to Covid. I had to cancel my US, UK & Irish Album release tour as well as all my festival dates for the summer. I've had to completely restructure my plans and focus on reaching people digitally. I've been doing Facebook Lives as well as Zoom concerts and have been working hard on creating new digital content. It's been a huge blow financially but so many people are in the same boat so I can't complain, I'm just grateful to be healthy at this point.
Personally I've really enjoyed the slower pace of life and appreciate the extra time with my daughter. We're lucky to live in the countryside and the weather has been great so I feel like I'm getting a chance to recharge my batteries after such a stressful couple of years.
MT: Thank you so much for your time Amanda, I really appreciate it.
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Q: Formatted text in the command window I know of the cprintf Undocumented Matlab way of changing the color and other font properties in the command window but I also saw this symbols in plots.  This shows that Matlab supports TeX markup in plots at least.  I played with it for a while and found it very useful.  So much so that I wanted to find a way to include this in the command window.
I first tried sprintf('\color{red} Something\n') and was rewarded with an error that \c is not a recognized escape sequence.  Google was no help either.
This is a way to use the some of the other formatting options in the command window?

A: The command window doesn't support TeX. Sorry. The TeX support is part of the routines that generate the figures, not the code that displays the command window.
In essence, the command window is, by modern standards, a pretty boring terminal emulator. There's not much you can do with it.
If you're looking for something to do math in that generates fancy notebooks on the fly that combine the commands you type and their results in a nice-to-read, modern way, you might just want to avoid Matlab and have a look at Jupyter (formerly IPython) Notebooks, which of course support MathJax (and thus, LaTeX math syntax): https://try.jupyter.org/