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I told a stranger her husband was a cheat
And my shit decisions just keep on coming. Seriously, I am like a fucking magnet for arseholes at the moment and this morning, I potentially ruined some woman's life.
Now, we all know dobbing on married men isn't something I do. I have no leg to stand on when it comes to that. But this guy … he had it coming. After he sent me an unsolicited message on POF yesterday, I told him I wasn't in the right head space for a chat. Told him I'd let an arsehole make a fool of me on Friday night. And this guy, haha, this guy made out like not all guys are bad and you just have to chat to the right ones.
"There are some arseholes out there but remember sometimes arseholes get fucked by dicks and maybe that arseholes will get fucked by a dick."
He went on to tell me that my "arsehole radar" needed an adjustment. Oh, he was so fucking right!
Back and forth we went until he asked me why I was single. I asked him the same question. He said:
"Was married, was working overseas with family and pretty gruelling and neglected my wife and she cheated on me."
I said I was divorced too. Too. Not, I'm divorced. I'm divorced TOO. The conversation moved on until he asked me to tell him something interesting about me. I mentioned this blog. I asked him to tell me something interesting.
"I'm a little bi," he said. He went on to say it was more a curious, fantasy thing and that he hadn't acted on it. Then this:
"I have played around with crossdressing a bit. I've done the whole dress up thing, that I find very sexy. Hair, make-up, lingerie. Just feel super sexy in it all."
As we kept talking, he told me he wanted to dress up for me right now. That he wanted to be my sex object. That he wanted to meet me today to have some fantasies come true.
By the way, to all this I was telling him I was more than a vagina, that there was actually a person attached and I wasn't interested in being more sex to some random. I ended the conversation.
This morning, he messaged me again, asking to start over.
"Sorry, I'm overly sensitive at the moment to being objectified by men," I wrote.
"No, look, I totally understand, as soon as we went to sex the lower half of my body took over and I should have kept him in check. It was not very gentleman of me and that is something I strive to be. I think all women are beautiful inside and out. You deserve much more than to be objectified."
"I know it's not all men, but the run I've had lately of first date suggests otherwise."
And this from him: "No, we are all aresholes, don't forget that. We just have to learn to keep it in check."
PS, I have tidied up all his spelling and grammar because it was APPALLING.
We then switched to kik and this is where he came unstuck. He had already told me where he worked and I knew his first name. But his kik name included, what I discovered, was part of his surname. I did a quick Google and found his full name and ran it through Facebook.
And as I've said, turns out he was married … with two kids. His POF profile said he had none. It was like waving a red flag at a bull.
"Your Facebook says you're married," I wrote.
"Wasn't trying to be deceitful," he said. "I haven't changed it. You're so going to think I'm full of shit aren't you?"
"So you are married?" I asked.
"I am. Does that change anything?"
"And you have kids?"
"I do, I have two."
"So, you're married with kids and you lied about your name. And yes of course it changes things. I'm not interested in married men."
"I completely understand."
"You're right, all men are arseholes."
"We are," he replied.
Now, I never do this, ever. Of all the married men I've messaged, been with, known, I have never outed them. But this … fuckhead, it was the last straw in a really bad run of dating.
So, I messaged his wife on Facebook. She was easy to find being they were tagged together in a million pics. It felt awful to do and I was very apologetic.
However, based on her cool and calm response I suspect she either already knew or had suspicions.
She thanked me more than once. Then asked me for the screenshots.
So, I guess now she also knows he's a little bi and into cross-dressing, if she didn't already know he was a lying dick.
She seemed nice. Or maybe she really did cheat on him and this is him getting his own back.
Can we all just stop fucking lying to each other please? This is doing my head in.
cheating, dating, divorce, infidelity, kink, marriage, online dating, Plenty of Fish (POF), relationships, sex
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The self-appointed "Justice Journalist" of the New York Daily News' sports staff, Chuck Modiano, went ballistic about white privilege in the NFL. While mentioning whites 29 times in less than flattering terms, he claims the so-called blackballing of Colin Kaepernick is due to economic racism, and says the majority of NFL owners are incompetent Trumpian clones who are selling whiteness to a white fan base.
This was all part of a lengthy expose on Saturday by Modiano on white nepotism within the NFL's coaching ranks, where alleged kinship is keeping African-Americans down. Whites are getting hired for head coaching positions, offensive and defensive coordinator and other assistant coaching positions, by white fathers and grandfathers, while blacks are getting passed over.
"Part of it is economic racism. In blackballing Colin Kaepernick, NFL owners already made it crystal clear winning is not their top priority. Pleasing their overwhelmingly white fan base is. ... "
The real issue to what Modiano perceives as a lack of black advancement in NFL coaching is a "blind belief in white male superiority."
Modiano says there is a lot of talk about forming pipelines for black coach advancement, "But is this really about a 'pipeline' or another 'white line'"?
Exalting himself as "a real genius," Modiano says white owners are "insane" people who meet Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same things over and over again while expecting different results.
The Next Belichick Awards (Proximity to White Genius Pipeline). In this category, Modiano refers to recent white NFL coaching hires like the Arizona Cardinals' Kliff Kingsbury as the "most untested, unproven, and unqualified batch of white coaches in modern NFL history."
Modiano asserts the NFL had a "Jim Crow Coaching Era" that ended in 1990 when the Raiders hired Hall of Famer Art Shell as the league's first black head coach. Modiano also writes that if teams prioritized winning over whiteness, they'd examine the mentorship methods of former Bucs' and Colts' head coach Tony Dungy. His former assistant coaches Lovie Smith, Mike Tomlin and Jim Caldwell have all been to Super Bowls, whereas Patriots' coach Bill Belichick's white former assistants have been disastrous in head coaching roles.
One final Modiano complaint: he writes that the prior performance and experience of black coaches doesn't matter nearly as much as "proximity to perceived white genius."


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Q: Select Union SQL I am using the following query  :
select 8 Union Select 0 Union Select 15

to populate the these 3 number in a column.  The result I get is:
0
8
15

But I want 8 to come first and then 0 and then 15, e.g.
8
0
15

How do I do this?

A: Use UNION ALL
E.g.
select 8 UNION ALL Select 0 UNION ALL Select 15

A: @SimonMartin's answer works for the exact data set you give, but be aware that if your data set contains duplicate values, the UNION ALL will produce different results than UNION.
The UNION operator removes duplicates, whereas the UNION ALL will preserve them (as well as their order, as noted in @SimonMartin's answer).
If you want to combine the functionality of your UNION operator with the ordering capabilities provided by UNION ALL, then you need to start with UNION ALL then filter out the duplicate values yourself:
-- baseline query + 1 duplicate record at the end
with query as
(
    select 8 as Val
        UNION ALL
    Select 0 as Val
        UNION ALL
    Select 15 as Val
        UNION ALL
    Select 0 as Val
)
-- now add row numbers
, queryWithRowNumbers as
(
    select row_number() over (order by (select 0)) as rn, Val
    from query
)
-- finally, get rid of the duplicates
select Val from (
    select Val, min(rn) as minRn
    from querywithrownumbers
    group by val
) q
order by minRn

This will give results of
8
0
15

whereas if you ONLY use UNION ALL you will end up with
8
0
15
0

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After a power struggle at her university, math professor Nela Sambashivan returns to her native India to think. She is drawn, instead, into the lives of ten year old Ranu, the cunning motel-keeper who exploits her, and an unscrupulous Uncle who believes that everything is for sale. Nela's transformation from abstract thinker to selfless guardian begins when she and her lover rescue Ranu from a forced marriage, but only when the child unexpectedly fails to thrive does Nela confront her miscalculations about sacrifice, survival, and the mysterious alchemy of love.


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Netflix Video Streaming Coming to the iPhone?
Monday August 3, 2009 2:35 pm PDT by Marianne Schultz
According to a report from Multichannel News, the iPhone may be next in line to gain the ability to stream video via Netflix's "Watch Instantly" feature. The feature is currently available on Mac and PC for all Netflix members, but subscribers with an unlimited membership plan may also take advantage of "Watch Instantly" on compatible devices other than a computer, such as an Xbox 360 or Roku Digital Video Player.
Netflix, ahead of pay-TV providers, continues extending its own "TV Everywhere" strategy to more devices.
Next up: The company will soon offer the Watch Instantly video-streaming feature on Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices and the Nintendo Wii gaming console, according to an industry executive familiar with Netflix's plans. (Netflix wouldn't confirm the info, with a rep saying it declines to comment on "rumors or speculation.")
While some iPhone applications such as YouTube offer video streaming over Wi-Fi or a cellular network data connection, other apps such as SlingPlayer Mobile are only capable of streaming video when connected to a Wi-Fi network, purportedly to avoid over-taxing cellular data networks. The report notes that a similar restriction is likely for any Netflix video streaming on the iPhone.
Nintendo's Wii is also on the list of devices rumored to get "Watch Instantly" capability. No official word is available on when this feature may become available or the form in which it might arrive an official app in the App Store or a special web portal. Netflix has declined to comment on this rumor.


Specifically for Sri Lanka we offer administrative basemaps at two different levels and a 2-digit postcode basemap, to be used with Mapgrove Studio.
• Sri Lanka in 331 DS-Divisions (LK_DS-DIVISIONS(331r-2017)).
• Sri Lanka in 26 2-digit postcode areas (LK_POSTCODE2(26r-2017)).


SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — A sick puppy was treated back to health thanks to the Monterey Bay Dog Training Club's "Gifts from the Heart" project.
For the past 12 years around Valentine's Day, the Monterey Bay Dog Training Club has made a monetary donation to a local veterinarian clinic on behalf of a recipient/pet owner for the "Gifts from the Heart" project.
The donation came from holiday photos taken in November and goes directly to the project. The project was started by Marilyn Runyan, a long-time member and continues today in her memory.
This year, the Pacific Veterinary Specialist and Emergency Services in Capitola had a very sick dog come through the doors with canine parvovirus, a treatable, lengthy, but expensive service. The owners relinquished the puppy to Sarah Weagle, a nurse with Pacific Veterinary who took on the care for the sick pup and the financial burden. It was her intent that when the puppy was healthy, she would find a forever home for it.
She didn't have to wait long as Amanda White, who also works at the clinic, fell in love with the pup, adopted it and named it Jean.
Jean is the recipient of the 2018 Gifts from the Heart project.
The nonprofit club has been part of the community for 52 years, offering dog obedience training classes at two locations in the Santa Cruz and Watsonville areas. Philanthropy projects include a yearly scholarship at the UC Davis School of Veterinarian Medicine, the Morris Animal Foundation, and funds for many rescue organizations for emergencies.
The Monterey Dog Club is always looking for new involved dog owners who want to participate in responsible, professional dog training. For information, visit montereybaydog.org.


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Truman Cheerleader Brings Unmatched Enthusiasm
by Justin Sampson from St. Joe Channel:
(ST. JOSEPH) Fourteen-year-old Aliyah Hall, an eighth grader at Truman Middle School, enjoys staying active, like many teenagers, with things like swimming and basketball.
Also like many children, she was born with down sydnrome.
"I really can't explain it to you, but it was something that I just knew," Aliyah's mother, Laurie, said. "After she was born, it was more of a confirmation for me."
An avid dancer as well, Aliyah quickly took a shine to the Truman cheer squad when she got to middle school and wanted to be a part of it. It was something Laurie wasn't sure about at first, given that Truman had never had a special needs cheerleader before.
"I shared my concerns because not everyone deals with special needs children the say way. They were awesome. They really embraced her."
"(Her teammates) really want her to be a part of it," Truman Cheer Coach Samantha Mott said. "They're always pulling her into the squad, making her feel she's a part of the squad because she is a part of the squad a hundred percent."
Aliyah now takes center stage in her second year as a cheerleader, bringing an infectious smile and enthusiasm to games that quickly caught on with fans.
"It's unbelievable. I have people come up to me that I don't even know come up to me and stop me and say: 'I just love to come to the games and watch Aliyah,'" Laurie said.
"When you see her, you always see her smile," Mott added. "You know she has a true joy and true passion for cheerleading. I'm grateful she knows she can be a part of it."
As she gets ready to become a freshman at Central High School next year, there's no telling yet what the future holds for her as a cheerleader. But whatever she decides to take up next, there's no doubt she'll keep wearing that smile and bringing one to the face of those around her.
"You could spend five minutes with her and be having the worst day and come out with a smile," Laurie said. "They tell you everything, that your daughter has down syndrome and it's going to be difficult this way and this way, but she's amazing."
"She's a blesing and I wouldn't have her any other way."
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Proceedings Computational Techniques and Applications Conference
Porting a sphere optimization program from LAPACK to ScaLAPACK
Paul Charles Leopardi
Robert S. Womersley
https://doi.org/10.21914/anziamj.v50i0.1442
The sphere optimization program sphopt was originally written as a sequential program using LAPACK, and was converted to use ScaLAPACK, primarily to overcome memory limitations. The conversion was relatively straightforward, using a small number of organizing principles which are widely applicable to the ScaLAPACK parallelization of serial code. The main innovation is the use of a compressed block cyclic storage scheme to store two symmetric matrices in little more than the storage needed for one matrix. The resulting sphopt program scales at least as well as the ScaLAPACK Cholesky decomposition routine which it uses. References
E. Anderson, Z. Bai, C. Bischof, L. S. Blackford, J. Demmel, J. E. Dongarra, J. D. Croz, A. Greenbaum, S. Hammarling, A. McKenney, and D. Sorensen. LAPACK Users' Guide (third ed.). SIAM, Philadelphia, 1999. http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/
G. E. Andrews, R. Askey, and R. Roy. Special Functions, volume 71 of Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000.
L. S. Blackford, J. Choi, A. Cleary, E. D'Azevedo, J. Demmel, I. Dhillon, J. Dongarra, S. Hammarling, G. Henry, A. Petitet, K. Stanley, D. Walker, and R. C. Whaley. ScaLAPACK Users' Guide. SIAM, Philadelphia, 1997. http://www.netlib.org/scalapack/slug/
J. Choi, J. J. Dongarra, L. S. Ostrouchov, A. P. Petitet, D. W. Walker, and R. C. Whaley. The design and implementation of the ScaLAPACK LU, QR, and Cholesky factorization routines. Technical Report 80, LAPACK Working Note, Knoxville, September 1994. http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawnspdf/lawn80.pdf
J. Choi, J. J. Dongarra, R. Pozo, and D. W. Walker. ScaLAPACK: A scalable linear algebra for distributed memory concurrent computers. Technical Report 55, LAPACK Working Note, Knoxville, November 1992. http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawnspdf/lawn55.pdf
E. F. D'Azevedo and J. J. Dongarra. Packed storage extensions for ScaLAPACK. Technical Report 135, LAPACK Working Note, Knoxville, April 1998. http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawnspdf/lawn135.pdf
J. J. Dongarra, R. A. Vandegeijn, and D. W. Walker. Scalability issues affecting the design of a dense linear algebra library, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 22 (3):523--537, September 1994. doi:10.1006/jpdc.1994.1108
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Business development calculations and utilities in Erlang.  Heavily ScUtil dependant.  :shit:

This library offers a small collection of simple modelling tools, like time for investment return, minimum break-even, and other similar tasks.

Polemic :neckbeard:
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`sc_bizdev` is MIT licensed, because viral licenses and newspeak language modification are evil.  Free is ***only*** free when it's free for everyone.

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Just Loud Releases New Music Video For "Electrified"
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If you want to listen to an artist with MGMT and Foster the People influences, electro-pop visuals, and The Weeknd-styled hair then Just Loud is your favorite ever-changing act. He has gathered a wide variety of musical influences which has created the perfect alternative-meets-pop sound. Producer Dave "Sluggo" Katz describes it as "sometimes I'd feel Bowie, sometimes I'd feel Gnarls Barkley- I was using sound and music, not just one particular artist." Just Loud is everything that makes the indie genre distinct, bringing a revitalized energy to the genre.
Just Loud released his debut single "Electrified" on May 18th, 2018 and it is sure to impress. Coming from New York City, he certainly knows how to put on a show. Just Loud wasn't always in the spotlight though: the artist stated that he struggled with finding himself for years, stuck in his own limitations of being an outsider. He found comfort in self-expression and finally found his voice to not only speak up about how he felt but also to accentuate those struggles in his music. Eleven Seven Label Group's Five Seven imprint gave him a voice and "Electrified" shows that he wants to go beyond trends to make music that carries a meaning. The light production and heavy lyrics are subtle but strong. Pulling from such a variety of influences, the visual effects don't imitate but rather add to the music that Just Loud creates.
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\section{I. Microscopic models}
Figure 1 of the main text shows typical examples of inhomogeneous
structures found in polar flocking models. Fig.~1a and 1b stem from a
Vicsek model with vectorial noise~\cite{ChatePRE} while Fig. 1c comes
from an active Ising model \cite{Solon}.  We recall below the definition of these models, while more details can be found
in the original publications~\cite{ChatePRE,Solon}.

\subsection{A. Vicsek model}
$N$ point-like particles are moving off-lattice in 2d at constant speed
$v_0$. At each time step, the direction along which each particle moves
is updated in parallel, according to the rule
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:vicsek_angular}
  \theta_i(t+1)=\arg \left(\sum_{j\in \mathcal{S}_i} \vec{v_j}(t)+\eta \mathcal{N}_i\vec{\xi}\right)
\end{equation}
where $\theta_i$ is the angle made by the velocity $\bf v_i$ of the $i^{\rm th}$ particle and, say the $x$-axis. The sum runs on particles in
$\mathcal{S}_i$, the neighborhood of $i$ of radius $r_0$. $\mathcal{N}_i$ is the number of particles in $\mathcal S_i$ and
$\vec{\xi}$ is a random unit vector with no angular correlation.   This equation defines
so-called vectorial noise version of the Vicsek model~\cite{Vicsek,ChatePRE}.
\subsection{B. Active Ising model}
$N$ particles carrying a spin $\pm 1$ move and interact on a 2d
lattice, an arbitrary number of particles being allowed on each
site. The particles can hop to any adjacent sites or flip theirs spins
according to Monte-Carlo rates. The spin-flipping results from an
on-site ferromagnetic interaction, a particle reverses its spin $S$ on site $i$ at rate
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:ising_interaction}
  W(S\to -S)=\exp\left(-\beta S \frac{m_i}{\rho_i}\right)
\end{equation}
where $m_i$ and $\rho_i$ are the magnetization and the number of
particles on site $i$ and $\beta$ plays the role of an inverse
temperature.
The ``self-propulsion'' of the particles stems from a bias on the
hopping direction: particle $k$ hop to the left (resp. right) with
rates $D(1+\varepsilon S_k)$ (resp. $D(1-\varepsilon S_k)$) and to the
top and bottom with rate $D$. This sets an effective self-propulsion
at speed $2D\varepsilon S_k$ in the horizontal direction.

\section{II. Expressions of $H$ and $F$}

Using the functional dependences of $a_2(\rho)$ and $a_4(\rho)$ that
we introduced in the main text, we find the following expressions for
the friction $F$ and the potential $H$:
\begin{align}
	&F(W) = \left(c-\lambda c^{-1}  \right) W - \frac{1}{2} \xi W^2,\\
	&\frac{\d H}{\d W} = \left[ -(\rho_c - \rho^\star) + \frac{W}{c} - \frac{c W^2}{P_0^2 (c \rho^\star + W)} \right] W.
\end{align}
The latter equation can be integrated over $W$ and yields
\begin{align}
	H(W) =& -\frac{1}{2} (\rho_c - \rho^\star) W^2 + \frac{1}{3c} W^3 - \frac{c^3 {\rho^*}^2}{P_0^2} W + \frac{c^2 \rho^*}{2P_0^2} W^2 \nonumber \\& \quad- \frac{c}{3P_0^2} W^3 + \frac{c^4 {\rho^*}^3} {P_0^2} \log \left( 1 + \frac{W}{c \rho^\star} \right).
\end{align}
\section{III. Eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix}
The eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix evaluated at the fixed point $(W_H,F(W_H))$ are plotted in Fig.~\ref{eigenvalues}. The signs of their real and imaginary parts are only set by the difference $W_H - W_F$, hence a Hopf bifurcation occurs at $W_H = W_F$.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.45]{eigenvalues.pdf}
\caption{Eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix at the fixed point $(W_H,F(W_H))$, as a function of $W_H-W_F$. The curves were plotted for fixed $c = 0.9$ by varying $\rho^\star$. Blue solid line: real part. Red dashed line: imaginary part.}
\label{eigenvalues}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\section{IV. Polar liquid domains/Heteroclinic cycles}
We compute analytically the shape of the heteroclinic orbits, {\it i.e.}
the boundary between a  polar-liquid droplet and the surrounding  isotropic gas, in the limit of small $P_0$.
Since the magnetization scale is set by $P_0$, when $P_0\to 0$, $W\ll
\rho^*$ so that the Hamiltonian reduces to
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:dH_cubic}
  \frac{dH}{dW}=\left[-(\rho_c-\rho^*)+\frac{W}{c}-\frac{W^2}{P_0^2\rho^*}\right]W
\end{equation}
Note that this cubic expression becomes exact if we assume the coefficient $a_4$ to be independent of $\rho$ and $W^2$, in the hydrodynamic equations (Eq.~(2) main text).
With this potential, solutions can be found using the Ansatz
\begin{equation}
\label{profile_wall}
	W_\pm(x - ct) = \frac{W_H'}{2} \left[ 1 + \tanh \left( \Lambda_\pm (x-ct) \right) \right] ,
\end{equation}
which yields excellent agreement with the numerical solution of the ODE, see Fig.~\ref{hetero}.
For a given set of parameters, only one heteroclinic cycle is found in
the ($\rho^*$, $c$) plane and indeed, inserting
Eq.~(\ref{profile_wall}) in the ODE with the potential given by
Eq.~(\ref{eq:dH_cubic}) we obtain a unique solution ($\rho^*$,
$c$) given by
\begin{align}
  \label{eq:ch}
  c&=\frac{1}{3\sqrt{2}} \sqrt{\tilde P_0+9 \lambda +\sqrt{72 P_0^2 \lambda + (9 \lambda + \tilde P_0^2)^2}} \\
  \rho^*&=\frac{9c^2\rho_c}{9c^2+2 P_0^2} \\
\label{WH'}	W_H' &= \frac{2 P_0^2 \rho^\star}{3c} \\
  \Lambda_\pm &=\frac{(c-\frac{\lambda }{c})}{4D} \left (-1 \pm \sqrt{1+\frac{4 D (\rho_c-\rho^*)}{(c-\frac{\lambda }{c})^2}}\right)
\end{align}
where $\tilde P_0=P_0^2(3\xi\rho_c-2)$.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{heterocline.pdf}
\caption{Heteroclinic orbit obtained by numerical integration (plain
  red line) and fit with Ansatz (\ref{profile_wall}) (dashed blue
  lines). Fitting parameters are the width of the front $\Lambda_\pm$
  and the position of the front.  Parameters: $P_0=0.1$, $\rho_c=1$,
  $\xi=10$, $\lambda=0.01$, $D=50$, $c=0.218$, $\rho^*=0.9502$.}
\label{hetero}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Table~\ref{tab:comparison} compares the five parameters $c$, $\rho^\star$, $W_H'$, $\Lambda_+$ and  $\Lambda_-$ found analytically to the best fit. The agreement is excellent.
\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
    \hline
    & Numerical & Analytical \\\hline\hline
   c & 0.218 & 0.2041 \\\hline
   $\rho^*$ & 0.9502 & 0.949 \\\hline
   $W_H'$ & 0.0348 & 0.0310 \\\hline
   $\Lambda_+$ & 0.0144  & 0.0152 \\\hline
   $\Lambda_-$ &  -0.0162 & -0.0167 \\\hline
 \end{tabular}
 \caption{Comparison between numerical and analytical values obtained in the limit $P_0\to 0$. Parameters: $P_0=0.1$, $\rho_c=1$, $\xi=10$, $\lambda=0.01$, $D=50$. Numerically, $\Lambda_\pm$ are obtained
   by fitting the profile with Ansatz (\ref{profile_wall}).}
  \label{tab:comparison}
\end{table}\\

\begin{acknowledgments}
We thank J. Toner for a careful reading of the supplementary document and for suggesting the compact formula shown in Eq.~\eqref{WH'}.
\end{acknowledgments}

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Nepal announces plan to attract hydropower investors
KATHMANDU, Nepal 6/18/12 (PennWell) — The Nepali Investment Board is hoping a recently approved hydropower development plan will help attract more than US$6 billion in investments.
The Project Development Agreement (PDA) would apply to projects larger than 500 MW in capacity and would be immediately applicable to four large hydroelectric facility proposals.
Nepalese officials say they hope the PDA will result in as much as 3,000 MW of added capacity and fuel industrial development.
"Harnessing Nepal's hydro resources for Nepal's socio-economic transformation has always been my number one economic priority," says Prime Minister Baburam Bhattari.
The new PDA template is a response to a previous model that was rejected by developers and financiers in 2010. The recent plan is intended to rectify the previous one by including provisions to expedite projects through bureaucratic delays.
"We are now on a fast track to move on project agreements that will unlock the country's vast hydro potential and solve the load shedding problem," says Investment Board executive Radhesh Pant.
HydroWorld.com reported in July 2011 that a unit of the World Bank was seeking expressions of interest from consultants to oversee two run-of-river projects in the country's Lamjung District.
Nepal's government adopted a proposal in June 2011 that says the country will not approve any hydropower projects that would export the bulk of their generated power.
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It's that time of the year Dear Listeners, when the goblins, ghoulies, witches, wizards, monsters, vampires, werewolves, wraiths, poltergeists, demons, golems, landsharks, weredragons, living dolls, homunculi, lizardmen, banshees, reanimated corpses, killer robots, giant rats, zombies, and razor-wielding monkeys all troupe down to the pound shop and get themselves dressed up as office-workers. That's right! It's HALLLLOOOOOOOWWEEEEENN. And what could be better than a special nearly 3 hours of SILENCE! with your undead (from the waist down) hosts The Beast Must Die, Gary Lactus and the Bobsy from Beyond the Grave!
<ITEM> Some gladminadminsadmin and sponsorshazammery from the boys, with some discussion of The Red Ghost, Goat Rider and anarchic kids comic OINK!
<ITEM> Bobsy arrives just in time to rip open a hole in the skein of timespace and climb into the intestines of the Reviewniverse…there's some words and they form themselves into sentient opinions about the following: Arkham Manor, The Green Arrow, Flash and Gotham TV Shows, Lisa Bonet, Dothraki, The Just, The 90s, Seven Soldiers, Starlight, GI Joe, Punt & Stick Job, Crystal Ball, Joe Hill, Transformers UK, The Diary Of Nam Frank, Wicked & The Divine, Proust, Pop, Tharg, Stray Bullets, Zero, Wolverine: Logan's Legacy, Dinner With Lady Deathstrike, She Hulk, Aliens, Predator, Prometheus and Naughty Universe Touching.
<ITEM> But that's not all! Our Halloween sextacular continues with a ready made TV Terror marathon from the boys (with associated commentary):
10. Nigel Kneale's Beasts
9. Threads
8. Shalcker the Painter
7. Twilight Zone "The After Hours"
6. children of Green Knowe
5. Children of the Stones
4. Apaches
3. Robin Redbreast
2. Tales From The Crypt "Naughty Or Nice
1. Ghostwatch
Guaranteed to scare the pants off your willies and all the way out of your bejeezuses. You're welcome.
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Head of Iron, Arse of Steel – A very Mindless trip to the movies
Dir. by Kiss Kiss, starring Bang Bang, written by the pretty drones of north america
It's important to remember that everything that happens in this film takes place while Tony Stark is trapped in the wormhole in The Avengers. All of that talk about demons in the opening voice-over? Not metaphorical. This is the story of a man whose self has been shattered, trying to work out which shards to save and which ones to cast away. That's why none of the characters feel real, except from Tony – they're all figments, fragments of his essence, their nature and actions defined purely by the gaps in his form.
Having touched heaven, Our Hero sees the way back down to Earth, and realises that it's angels and demons all the way down:
The kid represents true self love, while Pepper represents tough self love, and having embraced these twin fictions and annihilated his monstrous reflections Stark is free to imagine himself to be healed.
The movie? Oh, it's a decent enough post-Iron Man action movie, better than the second film, probably just about as good as the first, and if you find yourself wondering how a movie that gleefully burlesques the absurdity of The War Against Terror (lol TWAT! lol foreigns! shout outs to Ben Kingsley!) can also rel on the redemptive power of drones for its ending, just watch old Droney Starks as he swans off into the sunset, wrapped in his latest and most impressive invention – a suit of armour made out of a microscopically thin layer of lies. That should tell you everything you need to know.
Dir. by Captain America, starring your special friends, adapted for the screen by the reanimated head of William Shakespeare
Joss Whedon and co's Much Ado About Nothing is a goofy, enjoyable movie that's made just that little big bit sexier by the absence of what you might call Mouse Muscle. Don't get me wrong, Whedon organised all of the Mouse Muscle at his disposal well in The Avengers – he even managed to keep yon blockheeded cock who plays Hawkeye out the way for the most part! - but it was always clear who and what was being serviced.
The priorities are different in Much Ado About Nothing, a luxurious indulgence in which Whedon services the script, cast and audience equally. One of those is you, and another is yours, if you want it to be, and it's hard not to be flattered in such generous company, but let's not act like everyone has access to the friends and production values that Whedon makes use of here because the lush setting gives lie to that notion. Whedon's house is big, and the shadows it casts are long and dark, so by filling this setting with crisp suits and gun holsters and presenting it in black and white, Whedon successfully dresses up this screwball romance in noir clothing.
Amy Acker's Beatrice is the main draw here, though Fran Kranz deserves props for managing to make top creeper Claudio's sudden swings from infatuation to rage seem like the product of a genuine (if unstable) consciousness, and the duo of Tom Lenk and Nathon Fillion deliver the shaky comedy double act of Dogberry and Verges with admirably steady hands. This story is still Beatrice's if it's anyone's though, and Acker plays her like someone whose "merry" manner is a tightrope, a thin line of barbed jibes from which she cannot imagine herself departing. It's her role to poke fun at the conventions of the compound she lives in, and also to make the violence that underwrites her existence obvious, to draw it back into the foreground when she feels her cousin wronged. Alexis Denisof's Benedict might make the transition from striking hero to total goof in record time, but note how quick he is to agree to violence when Beatrice demands it of him and try to remember that this is a movie about what spooks do on their time off.
Of course, having made it explicit that she lives in a world full of merry killers (a grand house that, like this whole project, has been made possible by the brute force of The Mouse and The Fox and other such creatures) Beatrice then allows herself to be tricked into a happy ending.
Ask yourself, in all honesty: would you do any less?
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You must have an excellent understanding of London market practices, procedures and systems (PPL, ATLAS, BARS, DASATS); MRC and Xchanging processes; binding authority and lineslip management; Lloyd's broker systems and associated processes/reporting as well as a broad knowledge of the FCA, Lloyd's and other regulatory requirements. Our client is seeking a pro-active, confident and enthusiastic person, who is a team player and can build and foster relationships with clients, the FCA and other regulatory bodies. You will work closely with the Owner and supervise a small team. Excellent prospects.


30 Days of Watercolor- Completed!
For those of you wondering how I did on my 30 days of watercolor challenge, I wanted to let you know that I finished it! And I successfully did one watercolor every day in October!
Alright guys, I have almost (the month isn't quite over!) successfully completed 30 days of watercolors this month. It's been really fun and I've realized just how much I love doing monthly challenges like this.
30 Days of Watercolor- Want to join me?


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We Cannot Rest: Information & Inspiration to Make Good Trouble
By Michele Mackey
Forward Community Investments Interim CEO, Kids Forward COO (on loan), and honored alum and colleague of COWS
"In the Delta of Mississippi, in Southwest Georgia, in the Black Belt of Alabama, in Harlem, in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and all over this nation the black masses are on a march for jobs and freedom." – John Lewis, March on Washington, 1963
2020 has proven the fallacy of a post-racial America. Our healthcare, economic, justice, educational, electoral, and democratic systems have all buckled under the weight of racism. This comes as no surprise to Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). Despite the penchant for anecdotal case studies and participant profiles of success to the contrary, these systems were not built to advance, and have repeatedly failed, non-white people. The foundational defect of American society – racism – did not merely spread through these systems, it was baked into their structure, policies, administration, and regulation. 2020 has proven the intransigent, destructive power of systems constructed to uphold white supremacy.
Multi-generational, multi-racial masses have again taken to the streets for freedom and jobs. Organizers, advocates, activists, and freedom fighters had in fact never left. Through the slave revolts and free Black communities of the 1830's to the Southern Freedom Rides and Selma's Edmund Pettis Bridge to #BLM, Ferguson and the Fight for 15 an intersectional infrastructure was built to secure Black social and economic liberation. Upon this foundation, the fight for freedom has spread to rural country roads, corporate town halls, and across the world. The spark was lit by the murder of Mr. George Floyd at the knee of a racist criminal justice system. The conditions were set by systemic state and federal failure to address COVID-19's disproportionate impact on BIPOC communities and their economic security.
Wisconsin has long held the reprehensible distinction of having among the worst racial disparities in the nation (Wisconsin's Extreme Racial Disparity), and for African American children to grow up (Investment is Needed for Wisconsin's African American Children and Families to Thrive, Erica Nelson, Kids Count Director). The chasm of Wisconsin's racial divide was vast before 2020. COWS' web-based State of Working Wisconsin seeks to provide a real-time view on the potential impact of this year's interrelated health, economic, and societal crises.
This is not new work for COWS. For thirty years, the think-and-do tank has fought to secure a future of prosperity, sustainability, and democracy shared by all. This work is done by engaging in solidarity with those marginalized by oppressive systems and by leveraging access to those with systemic power. Through the launch of the 2020 State of Working Wisconsin, COWS yet again leans into the opportunity of a movement moment (see COWS history at similar moments New Cities/Urban Revival, the Green Economy, and the Fight for 15).
The 2020 State of Working Wisconsin will not dismantle oppressive systems. Nor will data, policy, or even access to power. We must take intentional and concerted action. Whatever role brings us to the State of Working Wisconsin – academic, policy maker, advocate, organizational leader, activist, or funder – we must do better. Jacquie Bogess in a recent blog article speaks to the use of privilege in support of today's movement moment:
"Consider programs, policy, and philanthropies in Wisconsin, and in Madison, specifically.
How do we prioritize our resources and deploy white privilege in our community?
Are we more likely to challenge anti-black policies or to create hoops that black people are too tired and too angry to jump through?
Do our philanthropic projects and government social services create protocols and outcome measures that invade black people's privacy and restrict their options?"
– Jaquie Bogess, nINA Collective Director and UW School of Social Work Lecturer, Using White Privilege to End White Privilege, June 2020
Start with the State of Working Wisconsin then dig deeper, follow the leadership of impacted BIPOC like Michael Chapple, Demetrica Shipp, Anthony Steward, and think beyond what we have inherited. Envision a prosperous, sustainable, democratic future shared by all. What would our healthcare, economic, justice, educational, electoral, and democratic systems look like? Take the data, the policy, and the access to name oppressive structures, actively dismantle them, and design something new.
"We all recognize the fact that if any radical social, political and economic changes are to take place in our society, the people, the masses, must bring them about. In the struggle, we must seek more than civil rights; we must work for the community of love, peace and true brotherhood. Our minds, souls and hearts cannot rest until freedom and justice exist for all people." – John Lewis, Original and Uncensored March for Washington Speech, 1963
In Memoriam: Rest in Power, Representative Lewis. May we do justice to your legacy as a non-violent warrior for the freedom of Black people and the unfulfilled promise of a nation.
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Populism, global crisis, and modernity have rendered citizenship a fluid and troubled concept.
Even as millions of migrants from poorer countries struggle for citizenship in places like Canada, Europe, and the United States, wealthy families and individuals often have the means to purchase legal citizenship rights in a new country. In the United States, prominent court cases have granted the legal rights of citizens to corporations, which are themselves created by the government. Meanwhile, indigenous peoples frequently find their citizenship regulated by nation-states as well as tribal governments. In country after country, ethnic majorities are seeking laws to define citizenship based on race, language, and religion. In other settings, nations seek an ideal of citizenship that potentially erases biological, racial, and religious difference.
This conference will explore all of these themes. In the first panel, we will debate the concept of economic citizenship, asking to what extent citizenship can be bought, constituted, or even lost by means of variation in wealth. Our second panel will explore how states, tribes, and other communities regulate belonging. And in the third panel, we will examine how migration and cross-border identity challenge the concept of citizenship.
For additional information and to register, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-unsettled-citizens-conference.
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Q: multicore::sapply? Is there anything like sapply in the multicore library? Or do I have to unlist(mclapply(..)) in order to achieve this?
If it does not exist: what would the reasoning be?
Thanks in advance and sorry if this is a stupid question!

A: In the library parallel, you have mcmapply which, like mapply in base, takes a SIMPLIFY argument. It is TRUE by default. Here is an example use:
library(parallel)
mcmapply(sqrt,split(1:8,1:8))
#        1        2        3        4        5        6        7        8
# 1.000000 1.414214 1.732051 2.000000 2.236068 2.449490 2.645751 2.828427

Compare this to the use of mclapply.
mclapply(split(1:8,1:8),sqrt)
# $`1`
# [1] 1
#
# $`2`
# [1] 1.414214
# ...

A: If you look at the code of sapply (and its helper function simplify2array) you will see that unlist(obj) is exactly what will be done in the case where obj is a list of items all of length==1. sapply is a lot more complex than just unlisting lists, however. What is still very unclear is what problem you are trying to solve.

A: just like IRTFM mentionned, looking at source code of sapply is the answer. But since I was still a bit confused after reading his answer, maybe it's me, so if you were too then hopefully following precision will make it clearer :
code of sapply :
sapply<-function (X, FUN, ..., simplify = TRUE, USE.NAMES = TRUE)
{
  FUN <- match.fun(FUN)
  answer <- lapply(X = X, FUN = FUN, ...)
  if (USE.NAMES && is.character(X) && is.null(names(answer)))
    names(answer) <- X
  if (!isFALSE(simplify) && length(answer))
    simplify2array(answer, higher = (simplify == "array"))
  else answer
}

so a homemade implementation of mcsapply would be :
mcsapply<-function (X, FUN, ..., simplify = TRUE, USE.NAMES = TRUE, mc.preschedule = TRUE,
 mc.set.seed = TRUE, mc.silent = FALSE, mc.cores = getOption("mc.cores", 2L),
  mc.cleanup = TRUE, mc.allow.recursive = TRUE, affinity.list = NULL )
{
  answer <- mclapply(X = X, FUN = FUN, ...,mc.preschedule = mc.preschedule,
mc.set.seed = mc.set.seed, mc.silent = mc.silent, mc.cores = mc.cores,
  mc.cleanup = mc.cleanup, mc.allow.recursive = mc.allow.recursive, affinity.list = affinity.list)
  if (USE.NAMES && is.character(X) && is.null(names(answer)))
    names(answer) <- X
  if (!isFALSE(simplify) && length(answer))
    simplify2array(answer, higher = (simplify == "array"))
  else answer
}

I am using similar implementation and it works just fine.


When a man is loyal to his woman, she will adore him.
When a woman respects her man, he will adore her.
I think that most of us aspire to have that kind of love that Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sung about in those duets like "Your Precious Love" and "If This World Were Mine". We wonder if adoration indeed exists between a man and woman anymore in our society with the escalating divorce rate. It seems internal relational factors (respect, loyalty) are superseded with external societal factors (money, status, agendas).
Adoration is developed over time in a relationship. It is not something that will be present in the initial stages. However, you need to determine that your prospective mate is capable of respect and loyalty. Family background is relevant to this determination. It is important to know the health of the relationship between a man and his mother. Also, it is important to understand the health of the relationship between a woman and her father.
Sharing a deep love is wonderful. I have experienced it in my relational life. What I have discovered is that it is all of the natural, effortless acts of adoration that I appreciate most. Once, my guy and I were at a buffet-style BBQ with some of his friends. He was very attentive to me, so one of his friends commented to me, "He treats you like a queen." Before I could reply my guy walks up with a plate of food and a drink for me. He overhears the comment and says to his friend, "Elaine isn't a queen, she's a goddess." I smiled.
Do you want to be adored?
What will it take for you to adore your mate?


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Rocket League's success even surprised its developers
By Matt Kamen
An arena sports game where you play futuristic football with rocket powered cars seems an unlikely candidate for success. Contrary to appearances though, Rocket League has been so popular even developer Psyonix has been taken by surprise.
The game launched on 7 July on PS4 and PC (it's even free at present for PlayStation Plus subscribers), a follow-up to the little-known 2008 title Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. While its predecessor met a luke-warm response, Rocket League has been embraced by fans and critics alike, and is currently the top selling game on Steam.
The downside is, the incredible popularity of the game has meant the studio has had problems keeping servers online -- a problem when competitive multiplayer is a key component. "It's been crazy. It was very strange having such success, and then having such a big problem to fix at the same time," Psyonix founder Dave Hagewood told industry site Gamasutra. "We were kind of scrambling to get things working. Demand was just so much higher than we expected it to be! We really needed to build a better system to handle that level of load. Funny thing is, we build bigger systems for bigger companies all the time; we just didn't expect to need something like that for this particular game."
Although Rocket League doesn't deviate hugely from the formula of the earlier Battle-Cars, the response this time has been significantly better. While the rise of esports and the popularity of gaming broadcasts on Twitch and YouTube are important factors, allowing the new game to tap into markets and audiences that barely existed seven years ago, Hagewood pointed out another element to its success. "I think there's a lot of lessons to be learned there, in terms of how much polishing a gameplay concept can make a difference, and how much your timing makes a difference," he said. "If you have a game concept that doesn't do well, it's not necessarily true that the concept is a failure. It's not necessarily worth dropping that idea. Maybe it just needs to be done in a better way, or at a better time."
With the game's recent online woes seemingly fixed -- matchmaking is working now, and server stability appears much improved -- players are able to get some serious time in on it. While it being temporarily free on PS4 does skew the numbers slightly, both in terms of numbers of people who would play otherwise and potentially lost sales, Hagewood seems pleased with the community response and is looking to play the long game. "I'm a very patient person, and I'd rather build this brand and make it become a thing than make piles of cash. I look at it as a long-term strategy: even if we have to wait until we make Rocket League 2, if it's become a thing, that's the most important thing for me. That it becomes this phenomenon."
In the meantime, planned DLC should give Psyonix a nice boost to its coffers, while providing players even more vehicular sports carnage to engage in.
Love Island's real genius is in its money-making app
By Alex Lee
Thursday briefing: SpaceX has test-fired its new Falcon Heavy rocket
Inside Belarus as Europe's last dictatorship struggles to restyle itself as a Silicon Valley rival
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Facebook's plan to make its apps even more 'thumb-stopping'
By Maureen McDonagh


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Craig Boddington is a hunter par excellence. As a veteran hunter of Africa's gamelands, he has hunted one animal more than any other, the buffalo. Not only has he shot more buffalo than most professional hunters, but he also has hunted them in every place in Africa where a huntable population exists. During his career, he has shot numerous bulls over forty inches and a few approaching fifty inches. As a writer par excellence, Craig tells his readers where to hunt, how and when to hunt, and what will happen when they do hunt. He describes what it means to rush the herd, one of his favorite methods of hunting these worthy opponents. He tells of the great bull in Masailand that he almost got, of the perfect hunt he had in Zambia, and of the charge he experienced in Tanzania. His entertaining stories of encounters of the black, mean, and nasty kind will keep you riveted. Published entirely in color, this book has it all: rifles, bullets, scopes, methods, and stories. Whether it is in West Africa, East Africa, or below the Zambezi River, Boddington has hunted buffalo north to south and east to west—in rain forest, savanna brush, or the Okavango Swamp. Follow Craig as he pursues the animal that Ruark described as "looking as though you owe him money." Nobody does buffalo better than Boddington.
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Etymology is always an interesting subject. We often don't give a second thought to the words we use in everyday life, but many of them have fascinating origins and have survived as part of our language for centuries. There are countless examples of words which have unexpected origins and represented very different things in societies and cultures of centuries past. Our language has changed considerably over the years and the original meanings of some of these words are far removed from our modern day usage.
We owe many of our favourite insults and quips to popular culture, and sometimes it doesn't take long for a word – whether it's a new one or a reappropriation of an existing word – to enter our modern lexicon. Quite surprisingly, one of the more interesting examples of this comes from Bugs Bunny. In a 1932 cartoon featuring the character, Bugs derogatorily calls his hunter archnemesis Elmer Fudd a 'nimrod'. This is actually a biblical reference as nimrod was a great hunter and described as a "mighty one on earth", so old Bugs is having a sarcastic dig at the incompetent hunting skills of Fudd. However, the reference flew over the heads of most people and, over time, it became a popular insult meaning idiot or nincompoop. It's also thanks to Bugs Bunny and his penchant for carrots that most people think that rabbits love root vegetables, when they actually prefer greens.
Decimate is typically used as an off-hand way to describe the great removal or loss of something, e.g. the death of troops on a battlefield or the great loss of buildings during a natural disaster. However, the word has a much more precise meaning. Decimate is Latin for "removal of a tenth" and refers to a method of punishment used by the Roman army. Typically used to punish large groups of offenders for capital crimes such as mutiny or desertion, units were divided into ten and each soldier drew straws (or participated in some other similar 'lottery-like' system). The unlucky person who lost in this selection process was executed by the other nine men, typically by stoning or clubbing. The other men were still punished by the experience (and they usually had to suffer with reduced rations afterwards), but the large guilty group was only diminished by a tenth and the army didn't have to lose a considerable portion of its ranks as a result.
Although it's usually used as a way to describe an unwinnable situation or to claim a strategic victory, the vast majority of us know that checkmate originally comes from chess. Declared by the winner, checkmate describes the final move when the King has been captured and cannot move. Checking and checkmate is thought to have been introduced to the game by Persians sometime during the 8th century, and the term is derived from the Persian phrase 'shah mat' which means 'the King is helpless' or 'the King is defeated'.
Usually used to describe an evil person or a heinous act, the word sinister actually has some seemingly innocent origins. Well, more innocent to our modern outlook, anyway. Sinister is derived from the Latin word 'sinastra', which means left-hand or left-side. Left-handed people used to be discriminated against for being untrustworthy, awkward, clumsy or even malicious, which led to the negative connotations of our modern word 'sinister'. These prejudices were held against 'lefties' in many different cultures and societies throughout history, and this bias still technically exists as most tools and utensils are designed with right-handed people in mind (until fairly recently in Mainland China and Taiwan, left-handed children were encouraged to force themselves to learn how to write with their right hand because their language relies on stroke order – which is very difficult to write with a left hand). Interestingly, a person who is skillful with their hands is said to be dextrous, which is derived from the Latin word 'dexter' meaning right and proper. Ambi means both, so an ambidextrous person is someone who can write with both hands – both right. Meanwhile, someone who is clumsy is said to be ambisinistrous – both left.
The advent of Gutenberg's printing press forever changed the way we communicated with each other and disseminated information. As this new technology was being refined, Italian typesetters realised that they were able to use less space by slanting the words. The text was still readable, but they could print much more on a single page. These slanted type pieces became known as Italics simply because they came from Italy. Similarly, because these metal type pieces were cast and created in foundries, the creations came to be known as fonts.
The origin of the word 'dord' is truly interesting because it is a word which doesn't exist. Dord was first printed in Webster's New International Dictionary in 1934 with the definition 'Physics & Chem. Density" and it remained in further editions for five years until an editor noticed its presence. 'Dord' had somehow managed to make it past countless fastidious dictionary writers and checkers, but there was a good reason for its inclusion. This edition of Webster's compiled abbreviations in a separate section at the back of the dictionary and 'dord' should have been there as an abbreviation for density ('D or d, cont/ density"). Somehow, the entry managed to find its way into the 'words' section when the dictionary was being compiled. It was finally removed years later and cannot be found in printings from 1947 onwards. Ironically, dord is now listed in some encyclopedias and dictionaries with its definition being a non-word or a 'ghost word'.
The word salary is derived from the Latin word 'salarium'. The prefix 'sal' means salt and the suffix 'arium' means a receptacle, so salarium is thought to have originated because soldiers were once paid in salt (or they at least received some sort of separate payment for the purchase of it). Salt was a hugely valuable commodity as it was essential for preserving food, but it was also expensive because it was costly to mine. So as part of their scheduled wages they received this salt allowance. This is also thought to have been the origin of the popular idiom "he's worth his weight in salt".
The word maverick conjures up images of bold, independently-minded folk who refuse to play by anyone's rules but their own. However, the origin of the word is considerably more boring. Samuel Maverick (1803 – 1870) was an interesting figure in the Texas Revolution which led to the state being annexed into the United States. This dispute between Mexico and its Texan colonists led to Maverick, a politician and landowner, being one of the signees on the Texas Declaration of Independence (he was also at the Siege of the Alamo, but he left to rally reinforcements before its bloody conclusion). However, Maverick's name has not come to be widely used because of the man's political tenacity. Maverick was known for refusing to brand his cattle, stating that he didn't want to cause pain to the animals. Although other ranchers suspected at the time that this was so Maverick could claim any wandering strays as his own, historical evidence does suggest that the man simply had no interest in herding cattle and that he was more interested in real estate. Thus, any wandering stray calves were said to be mavericks and the term became one of the most enduring words to come out of the American Wild West.
Samuel Maverick isn't the only member of the family who has left a lasting impression on our language. In 1944 his grandson Maury Maverick, a congressman from Texas who chaired the US Congress Smaller War Plants Committee, complained in a memo about about fellow committee members using pompous gibberish-sounding words which tripped people up. Maverick called it '"gobbledygook language" and likened it to the "gobbledy gobbling" of a turkey call. The word quickly caught on and even President Nixon himself was heard using it in his Oval Office tape recordings less than 30 years later.
The word berserk is often reserved for people who have completely lost control of themselves and flown off into a rage. This is quite apt as the word was originally used by Norsemen to describe "raging warrior[s] of superhuman strength". The term is derived from Old Norse ber – meaning bear – and serk – meaning shirt. These warriors typically clothed themselves in bear skins as the animal was said to represent Odin, an important, warrior-like God in Norse mythology. These berserker soldiers worked themselves into manic, frenzied states because they believed that they could acquire levels of strength which were outside the limits of their own bodies, and these 'Odin's warriors' (or 'Odin's son's') were rumoured to be able to fight with the strength and frenzy of a wild bear.