Dance: The ÂNutcrackerÂ Test and Other Apprentice Trials
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Teenagers with only their entire futures on the line experience living the apprenticed life at New York City Ballet.
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Using mental tricks, or dissociating, can get you to the finish line faster.
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This is really cool!  I finally get my own comment spam!  For some reason I felt left out of the party.  I just wasn't cool enough for the spammers to consider me worthy of their spam.  Anyway.  I implemented my own little turing test.  Now the comments say:  {{{  Turing Test: Are you a human? (required. Just type yes... this is for automated spam prevention)  }}}  While this wouldn't work for all blogs in the wild I'm sure it will work just fine here in my little corner of the blogosphere.  If spammers really want my blog enough then I'll deploy a captcha.  If they solve the captcha I'll deploy a sentient robot  which will traceroute packets back to the host and then terminate with prejudic ...
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I heard a report on NPR a couple of weeks ago, and thought it was very interesting.  A study of a group hotel maids found that even though they lead active lives, get lots of exercise, their health isn't good. High blood pressure, overweight, body-mass index, the usual signs of a sedentary life.  They interviewed them, asking if they were active -- no. Did they get exercise? No. (The correct answer was yes to both.) So they formed two groups, with one group they did nothing, with the other they had a series of classes where they showed them how doing maid work compared to other forms of exercise. The kept going until they understood that they were active and living a healhty lifestyle. A few months later they checked blood pressure, weight, BMI and amazingly the group they had educated had become healthy!
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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NEW YORK  - Before starting a new fitness  program or exercise, men and women would do well to determine  which activity best suits their personality, according to a  Canadian researcher.
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Nick Halstead has posted the runners up in the PHP programming competition he conducted:   Finally we have a result, it has taken weeks of judging and lots of hard work. The scores are ready and today I will first announce the runners up from the Top 6. I will then tomorrow announce the 3rd place, then day after that second, you get the idea. The scoring was based upon a point system in which each judge had to rank the top 6 in order. The points from each judge were then compiled and the final scores calculated.   The project was to write a script that helped a user find the shortest "distance" between two words by replacing one letter at a time. The three that were the runners up were created by:   JB Maurice Fonk Rob Haynes   Come of the judges comments are also included in the post to get a feel for the thinking behind the rankings.
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By Wijma, Barbro Engman, Maria; Wijma, Klaas  Abstract In this article we present a behavioral model for the critical review of the literature within a certain research field, using vaginismus as an example.
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Arts & entertainment: Visionary choreographer Mark Morris used to think Mozart and dance didn't mix. Not any more, finds Judith Mackrell.
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Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts so far. And in this piece I will be discussing about SenseBot, a search tool that has the added feature of summarizing results. Very often, the intent of a user is to obtain brief information on a concept or a keyword. In [...]
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Stagers, those who teach the dancers the steps, timing, architecture and intention of a ballet, share their experiences.
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Dancers in the VÃ­ctor Manuel Ruiz explain the mechanics and the emotions involved in taking a running leap and waiting to be caught.
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Nick Halstead has posted the winner of the PHP programming competition - Todd Pinel:   Where do I start with my praise for ToddÃ¢ÂÂs entry? So much effort has been put into this entry its amazing. As a starting point you should first go have a look yourselves, Todd has helpfully already hosted it here. Let the praise begin..   Nick goes through the presentation of the application, the documentation provided with it, some sample code of the main portion of the app (a priorityQueue class) and the rankings that each judge gave it.   You can download your application and try it out for yourself.
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Finger-twistin' fun, it says here We thought real dance mat games were bad enough, but at least players can argue it keeps 'em fit. Not so the miniature, USB-powered version that's just been released.â¦
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Here's a way to test your Web savvy: Have you  searched for the word Bebo?
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The ground rules of the tests of Cisco and Avaya systems.