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- n. The state or characteristic of being incommensurable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The quality or state of being incommensurable.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The property of being incommensurable.
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One of the knottiest dimensions of Berlin's pluralism is the idea of incommensurability, which has been open to diverging interpretations.
Kant's thesis that rational agents have a dignity and not a price is often taken to be a thesis about a kind of incommensurability, as well.
Hippasus of Metapontum, who was thought by many to have demonstrated this kind of incommensurability, is held by legend to have been drowned by the gods for revealing his discovery (Heath 1921, 154; von Fritz 1970, 407).
A realist response to this kind of incommensurability may appeal to externalist or naturalized epistemology.
Incommensurability between values must be distinguished from the kind of incommensurability associated with Paul Feyerabend (1978,
But, interestingly, the whole question of incommensurability and incomparability is at the center of a new paper I am completing on the vexed issue of proportionality in the laws of war.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mallaby on Soros and the Pound, and Some Other Summer Reading in Philosophy and Economics
In Berlin's hands, as Gellner saw it, "the history of ideas," Mr. Hall writes, "became something of a game, in which thinkers were damned as dangerous because anti-pluralist or praised for endorsing the incommensurability of values."
To my disappointment, his book ends up being more a primer on eight major world religions -- a useful and generally reliable primer, it should be said -- than a sustained examination of the incommensurability of the world's religions.
Life — exploits the confrontation with thought and feeling for all it's worth, an exploitation that subsequent years and thinkers will take in unimagined and unthinkable ways, in order to make all kinds of cultural profit, yet also to confront the incommensurability of thought itself, the place where our embodied experience of the world becomes the site of an uncanny, traumatic, apparitional encounter.
That is to say, the external conditions of nightlife continually revert to the material ambiguity of verbal reality, thereby betraying the essential inwardness and incommensurability of its primary substance.


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Ricky Hatton, after eight months of agonising but to the surprise of few, has announced he is returning to the ring "for one more fight". He did not name an opponent, date or venue but suggested it would take place "some time in the summer".
The options are limited. There is no chance of his returning to the upper echelons against the likes of Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather Jr, the only men to beat him, or flirt with the risk of taking on any of the several rising young stars at or about his 10-stone division.
"It's got to be a top-10, pound-for-pound fighter or a world champion," he said on HattonTV. "I've fought at such a high level I couldn't have people look at me and say, 'well, he's just fought someone to knock them over.' If I'm going to end my career, I want to end my career at the top."
The contest that would generate the most domestic interest, against Bolton's world light-welterweight champion Amir Khan, is also dangerous for the 31-year-old Hatton, whose punch resistance has clearly diminished.
Khan last week repeated his willingness to fight Hatton and that seems the logical contest for both of them, if Hatton is not to have a warm-up fight.
When Pacquiao brutally knocked out Hatton in round two of their fight in May there seemed little likelihood the former world light-welterweight and welterweight champion would fight again. "It's nice to hear people who say they're worried for your health," he conceded, "but a lot of these people said I shouldn't have fought Kostya Tzsyu [in 2005].
"I've listened to the people who are closest to me and know Ricky Hatton best. You don't want your last fight to be like [the knockout by Pacquiao]."
Hatton feels he has been able to "really get over it and put my mind straight".
He added: "There's been no opponent that's been confirmed yet, there's been no date confirmed yet, but I have made my mind up."

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In the comments on our editorial about language purism and the Psystar case, it became quite clear that language is a subject almost everyone has an opinion on - not odd if you consider that language is at the very centre of what makes us "human". Since this appears to be a popular subject, let's talk about the influence computing has had on two very minor aspects of the Dutch language.
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You should try learning a language other than American and then maybe you would understand. English doesn't really have a case system any more, if it did you see why it is useful.
And if you used your brain and visited my profile, I am from New Zealand.
For the Americans out there, New Zealand isn't located in Europe. I wish it were, but it isn't.
I also know another language than English; I took Maori when I was at college.


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How to be an elite Bruce Springsteen fan
Hardcore Springsteen fans know that if you want the most from your moment with the Boss, you need to work hard and know the ropes.
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Fleur Kaeding is an elite Bruce Springsteen fan. Like an elite athlete, she's committed to her passion, and will be attending all eleven Australian concerts on the Boss's world tour. But she's not spending her money and long-service leave, hard-earned teaching in a Kimberley Aboriginal community, and just hoping for a good time.
Fleur has learnt from previous tours that getting close to Springsteen is more than just good luck.
"I didn't know anything of all this queueing stuff when I did go to the tour last year. And I did five concerts last year, of which one was a mosh pit, or a 'GA standing'. And I was like 'Oh, what's that like? How do you do it?' The first Brisbane concert was that, and I think I was number 136, but it still got me centre-back from the stage. So he went past, he picked out the girl for Sunny Days in front of me and I was like, 'Oh wow, that's amazing!'"
Being an elite Springsteen fan is a competitive world. You need to be prepared to be there first and be able to queue longer than the rest. But the hard work can produce a big payoff if Bruce is your thing.
"I got to be centre-mic on the 26th of March. A girl we call 'Number One' 'cause she was number one that night, Angela, she was next to me, and then I was just off centre-mic. It is a long process, there's that whole thing about queueing and different things, but it's something that a lot of people are prepared to do."
If you're thinking that Fleur is extreme, then you probably haven't met the fans that follow Bruce Springsteen on his entire world tour.
"I'm not the maddest one. There is a spectrum they believe, of Bruce Springsteen [fans]. Like the people behind me, there was a guy from Milan, there was a guy from London, there was a girl from Holland that he recognised that had just done the tours. A lot had been doing the whole tour, like South Africa pre-Australia, and post they're going to go to Auckland as well. So in that spectrum, I'm not quite down that path yet, but I'm probably heading there," says Fleur.
Far from being repetitive, Fleur says every Springsteen concert is unique.
"A Springsteen concert, you can never go to one that's going to ever be the same. He draws on the audience, whether it be signs etcetera. Or alternatively he just mixes it up to keep it fresh for himself. And also he's got a huge repertoire of songs that he can draw from... I think that if I don't go to eleven I sort of think 'maybe I'll miss out on something'. So that's why I'm doing the crazy thing of taking a lot of long-service leave and cruising the country."
Fleur has invested tens of thousands of dollars and months of her life into her passion for Bruce Springsteen. But like all good relationships, it's both give and take.
"People could have a face lift I suppose, and look like they're a lot younger, but he can actually make you feel like you're younger. And I think that's quite amazing; I don't know what money-figure you'd put on that."
Listen to Fleur Kaeding describe her extreme Springsteen passion on Kimberley Mornings with Vanessa Mills.


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Advocates working to change state laws by initiative have less than 90 days to collect the 23,285 signatures needed to make it onto the 2004 ballot.
Six ballot initiatives have been filed with the state Division of Elections: Campaign finance reform, marijuana decriminalization, filling U.S. Senate vacancies through election, taxation of cruise ships, prohibiting bear baiting, and exempting Alaskans from registering for Selective Service.
The application for an initiative to tax and enforce stricter environmental standards on cruise ships was submitted to Leman on April 29, and rejected on Aug. 19, because it did not apply to a single subject. Two days later, sponsors submitted a new version of the initiative, which was certified Oct. 8.
Sponsors Joe Geldhof, Gershon Cohen and Norman Sarabia now are scrambling to make up for lost time.
To get 30,000 signatures - enough to cover invalid entries - the sponsors must collect about 337 signatures a day up until the Jan. 12 deadline.
Although it took more than five months of review and rewrites to get started, Geldhof, of Juneau, said the complexity of the initiative likely contributed to the long review.
The initiative would institute a $50 tax on passengers, a corporate income tax on the industry and a 33 percent tax on onboard gambling. It also requires cruise ships to have a certified marine engineer onboard to monitor wastewater treatment practices, and increases the fines for dumping wastewater from $500 to $5,000.
With less than three months to collect the signatures, Geldhof, who worked on the 1996 campaign finance reform initiative, said there is about a 25 percent to 50 percent chance they'll have enough in time.
"We're working against weather, a short time frame and other initiatives," said Geldhof, a lawyer for the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association.
Geldhof said the signature booklets will not be distributed until next week.
Steve Cleary, executive director of the Anchorage-based Alaska Public Interest Research Group, said AkPIRG is helping coordinate the signature-gathering effort for the cruise ship head tax, campaign finance reform and Senate vacancy initiatives.
"It's late in the game to not have the booklets and not have people out there collecting the signatures," Cleary said.
He said a trip to Juneau last week attracted about 15 volunteers for the campaign finance reform initiative.
Certified by Leman on Sept. 19, the proposal aims to reverse campaign finance laws passed this year by the Legislature.
Sponsored by House Democrats Harry Crawford and Eric Croft of Anchorage and David Guttenberg of Fairbanks, it would reduce the amount:
individuals can donate to candidates from $1,000 to $500.
individuals can donate to a political party from $10,000 to $5,000.
political action committees can contribute to candidates from $2,000 to $1,000.
political action committees can contribute to political parties from $4,000 to $1,000.
It also would require lobbyists to register with the state after spending more than 10 hours a month directly influencing lawmakers.
Another initiative filed by the three House Democrats would require a special election to fill U.S. Senate vacancies. The existing law allows the governor to appoint a replacement to the position.
The initiative was first submitted on Aug. 6 but has not been certified by Leman. Last week, initiative sponsors sued Leman, and Anchorage Superior Court Judge Mark Rindner ordered him to make a decision by Oct. 27.
Initiatives on bear baiting and decriminalizing marijuana have the best chance of making it onto the 2004 ballot.
The bear baiting initiative would make it illegal to bait or intentionally feed bears for the purposes of hunting, photography or wildlife-viewing.
Soren Wuerth, a coordinator for Citizens United Against Bear Baiting, said the group had collected more than 26,000 signatures by the beginning of October. The petition for the initiative was certified on June 18, just in time to collect signatures at the state fair in Palmer.
"You're missing at least 5,000 signatures if you miss the state fair," Wuerth said.
An initiative to decriminalize marijuana for those over 21 was rejected by Leman in January over what an Anchorage Superior Court judge called "trivial rule violations."
The court ordered the state Division of Elections to count 188 signature booklets that had been rejected because those who collected the signatures did not fill out sponsor accountability reports, identifying who collected them.
The state attorney general's office said Tuesday that a decision has not been made on whether to appeal the case to the state Supreme Court.
An initiative that is not likely to make it onto the 2004 ballot would require Gov. Frank Murkowski to study the effects of exempting Alaskans from registering with the Selective Service System.
Initiative sponsor Scott Kohlhaas, of Anchorage, said the group has about six people "collecting signatures at their own pace." It was certified June 20.
Kohlhaas estimated that the group has about 2,000 signatures so far.
"We are trying to finish it in the spring of next year," he said.
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text: The research community is well aware that it is not a beta amyloid thing, and in things biological whether or not one can talk about any specific starting point for any specific condition is becoming increasingly problematic. Beta amyloid is essential, in itself not a problem, only when it take on particular structures leading to the phosphorylation of Tau (which is a caspase effector) does neurodegeneration really get a swing on. Interestingly, at least according to one review I read recently these plagues begin in the extracellular spaces but I believe beta is produced in the ER. Antioxidants have some benefit in Alz but are not the answer, the effect is limited and by the time symptoms appear the low level inflammatory response is well underway, a self propagating process perhaps via il1 prodn by microglia and il1 itselt stimulates beta a prodn, though there are obviously precursors to this activation that lead to the pathology occurring. "Making predictions on the molecular stuff" is a crock. Nothing in my, theirs, or your current understanding permits such exuberant extrapolations. We still don't even understand calcium waves for brains' sake and I think the presumption that one can create a set of principles that will determine all neural states and conditions betrays an under appreciation of just how indeterminate biological processes are and more importantly just how bloody ignorant we are. Make this prediction: A person under chronic personal stress working on a high cognitive load for many months, foregoing sleep, maintaining dietary restriction but not sufficient supplementation, relying on coffee too much and refuses to sleep until exhausted, has failing source and primary memory and is demonstrating increased attentional difficulties combined with increasing social isolation who spends one's days playing computer games rather than attending to the approx 250 pdfs to be read(hopeless, he'll never make it) and an urgent MSS re-submission. How will such behaviour impact on Nfkb-cox 2- pge2 /transcription -synthesis in the hippocampus with respect to LTP, EAA, and the differential expression of iNos and nNos, assuming that nNos is requisite for LTP induction and maintenance while iNos has potentially deleterious consequences on cell viability. And just to make it interesting, see if you can invoke an explanation for the dopaminergic failure in the pfc and why this has attentional implications. Will the subject get the reading done and the MSS rewritten or will the editors tell him to piss off and what will be the state of his pfcs and hippocampus at the end of it all? John H. "Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:AAbT8.66991$UT.4611034 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > anyway, the main thing i'm doing in this thread is just working to get the > 'point' across that =nothing= in molecular dynamics is disconnected from the > neural-activation dynamics that're driven 'experientially'. > > to the degree that they do so, all experiments that treat molecular stuff as > being some sort of self-containing-code produce False results. > > this's =not= saying the data they produce isn't Valuable. it is. > > it's just that the data is 'disconnected' from reality in a way that > 'steers' folks away from being able to understand nervous system function. > > it's like Functional Neuroanatomy before NDT's explication of > "decussation' - all 'disconnected', and subject to widely-varying false > hypotheses. > > i understand that this stuff must seem 'offensive', but that's only be-cause > it's unfamiliar [even though i've been discussing it, in one form or > another, since the early 1990s.] > > consider it until you get a 'handle' on it, and you'll see that it's an > extraordinarily-useful organizing principle because it rigorously couples > everything physically-internal with everything physically-external. one > thing permeates everything: the one-way flow of energy from order to > disorder that is what's described by 2nd Thermo [WDB2T]. > > what this stuff does is lift the molecular stuff up from consisting of a > bunch of abstract-ruleset stuff to being physically-coupled with external > physical reality. > > once you See-it, you'll be able to make predictions re. the molecular stuff, > do the experiments, and voila! > > eliminates a lot of the 'hunting-and-pecking', > 'throwing-stuff-up-in-the-air-to-see-how-they-land, stuff. > > still, i understand that this stuff is, initially, 'offensive'. > > i mean no 'offense'. > > just the opposite. > > ken [k. p. collins] > >


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Growing More in Love
October 31, 2011
When Tom Hanks accepted the Golden Globe award for Big in 1989, he closed his lighthearted speech with a nod to hisnew wife, Rita Wilson. "I married a Greek babe…. Her folks are great; she's marvelous. Thank you babe for marrying me; you made my year already."
Fast-forward through the years. As their credits and fame grew, both for acting and producing, so did their family, with two sons in addition to a daughter and son from Hanks' previous marriage. Last April, they celebrated their 22nd anniversary, a feat that's rare for any couple, celebrity or not.
How do they make it work? "By not letting it fail," Hanks told a reporter—letting being the operative word.
Wilson's take: "We have a great time together; we have shared values and a desire to be committed to each other."
Hanks and Wilson haven't been shy about expressing the intensity of that commitment, either.
When Hanks accepted the AFI Life Achievement Award, he said, "I have been blessed beyond deserving. Since 1988, I have been happy in the warm embrace of a big, fat Greek family. I'm here because of my wife, Rita Wilson. She is the motivation of my best work. I wish everyone could share their life with as good a friend, as passionate a lover, as close a partner and as beautiful a woman as I have been able to with the mate of my soul, Rita Wilson."
The couple's life demonstrates that a happy, successful marriage requires ample servings of love, laughter and commitment. A little baklava now and then makes it even sweeter.
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For the second time in 13 years, Argentina has defaulted on its debt. Since the 2001 Argentine sovereign debt default, the country has experienced more than an aftermath of lawsuits and bond restructures, with the U.S. Supreme Court most recently siding with "holdout" hedge funds NML Capital and Aurelius Capital in a 7-1 ruling, ordering that Argentina pay the hedge funds full principal plus interest, amounting to a payment of $1.5 billion dollars. Until now, the entire saga has been nothing but dramatic, with Elliott Associates, the parent company of NML Capital, making attempts to impound Argentina's national assets, including an Argentine warship and even the Presidential plane. Following the Supreme Court Ruling, a U.S. District Judge barred Argentina from paying interest to investors who own restructured bonds (who previously accepted 33 cents on the dollar from 2005 or 2010 restructurings) until it pays the hedge funds $1.5bn in compliance with the ruling. Since the parties failed to reach an agreement by July 30, the country entered a "technical" default on its restructured debt.
While this is all history now, what remains are the lessons to be learned and much interest in what happens next: a possible deal where third-party banks like J.P. Morgan and Citigroup buy the defaulted debt owned by the holdout investors.
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Economy Minister Axel Kicillof look on during a ceremony at the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace (Photo Credit: Reuters)
Why Did Argentina Refuse To Pay The "Holdout" Investors?
Argentina has continually refused to pay the remaining "holdouts" (roughly 7% of bondholders who did not accept the terms of a 2005 or 2010 bond restructure that offered 33 cents on the dollar to creditors), citing that its central bank foreign reserves of $29 billion would be depleted by such a payment that could set precedent for further lawsuits and payments of other holdouts who hold approximately $15 billion in defaulted debt.
Argentina's Hypothetical Debt Obligations After Triggering Rights Upon Future Offer Clause (in $ billions)
Argentina also argues that its debt obligations would be compounded by a Rights Upon Future Offers (RUFO) clause in the 2005 and 2010 restructured bonds, which prohibits the country from voluntarily offering a better deal to the holdouts without also extending the same deal to restructured bondholders, which would be triggered by the $1.5bn payment to other creditors to NML Capital and Aurelius Capital. Violating the clause would trigger claims of potentially more than $120 billion. One standing issue is that the RUFO clause expires at the end of 2014. If Argentina were able to negotiate a delayed payment of the $1.5bn with NML and Aurelius for 2015, they could hypothetically avoid the additional debt obligations triggered by the RUFO clause.
Buenos Aires Graffiti Says "No to the payment of the debt" (Photo Credit: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)
Lessons From The Past 13 Years Since the 2001 Argentine Default
This may just be the beginning for new Argentine economic woes, unless they begin to learn the lessons of dire economic consequences of defaults, better-informed sovereign debt underwriting, and honesty when it comes to reporting official economic statistics:
Lesson #1: Defaulting On Sovereign Debt Is Almost Always Associated With Significant Declines in GDP, Serious Currency Devaluation and High Rates of Inflation


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A's Keep It Young in Oakland, Decline Alan Embree's Club OptionNovember 1, 2008
Now presenting, the youngest ball club in Major League Baseball: The Oakland Athletics.
On Friday, the A's declined a $3 million option on 38-year-old reliever Alan Embree, one of the oldest players left on the roster. When the A's said they were rebuilding, they certainly weren't kidding. Being the youngest club could help the A's in future seasons, but it also hurt their postseason chances this past season.
Over past seasons, the A's were slowly filtering out the oldies and bringing in the rookies. Management relies so much on building a (winning) farm system that they aren't even considering wins.
No one should even have postseason on the brain for the '09 season.
It isn't going to happen.
With a whole new crop of 20-somethings leading the team next season, it is hard to deny that the best players on the field will also be the youngest.
Take 23-year-old outfielder Ryan Sweeney, who was the first player named to a starting spot for the '09 season.
Or 23-year-old first baseman Daric Barton, who, despite a disappointing slump, showed an incredible comeback at the end of the season, will be a stud next season and live up to all of his rookie hype.
The '09 A's will rely heavily on their young players, being anchored by only a few seasoned veterans, including second baseman Mark Ellis, 31, and Eric Chavez, 31, at the hot corner. But there are huge downfalls to having so much young blood on the field.
The injuries. The mistakes. The inexperience.
All those things proved to be a huge problem for the A's. They used the disabled list a franchise record of 25 times in 2008. They also used an Oakland-record of 21 rookies, with more on the way in '09, for sure.
The team is sure to get even younger, too. Also on Friday, DH Frank Thomas, 40, right-handed pitcher Keith Foulke, 36, and outfielder Emil Brown, 34, filed for free agency and are expect not to return.
Either way, the slogan for the Oakland A's shouldn't be 100 percent baseball. It should be Oakland: where the babies play.


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More than 20 players are separated by only four strokes at the halfway stage of the European Tour's Andalucia Open, but the event has lost many of its big names.
Sweden's Rikard Karlberg, who doesn't even have a European Tour card, shares the top spot on 8 under par with Denmark's Jeppe Huldahl and Dutchman Maarten Lafeber.
European Tour star Miguel Angel Jimenez is the promoter of the Andalucia Open, which is played in his hometown of Malaga, Spain.
However, Colin Montgomerie, Jose Maria Olazabal, Darren Clarke and tournament promoter Miguel Angel Jimenez all failed to survive the cut, along with Australian Richard Green, who had to win to have a chance of qualifying for the Masters in two weeks.
Karlberg, who is playing on an invite, followed up his opening 65 with a 67 and would have led on his own but for three-putting the 16th late in the day.
Former Wales Open champion Huldahl had set the mark with a second successive 66 while Lafeber, whose only Tour win came in the 2003 Dutch Open, shot 65.
Scotland's 1999 British Open champion Paul Lawrie is one behind along with England's Jamie Elson and five-time Japanese Tour winner Tetsuji Hiratsuka, another of the invited players.
Green's chances of climbing into the world's top 50 and so earning a second appearance at Augusta National were slim even if he had taken the title on Sunday. But the left-hander had a second successive 71 for 2 over and missed the cut by three, as did Montgomerie after a 72 that means the 47-year-old's search for a first top-10 finish since June 2008 goes on.
Olazabal, the Scot's successor as Ryder Cup captain, and Clarke bowed out on 1 over and Jimenez on 5 over.
Karlberg's third-place finish in the Singapore Open last November would normally have earned him a card for this season. But because he had joined the Challenge Tour and didn't play the required seven events, he didn't qualify for inclusion on the Order of Merit and so was left seeking invitations.
"It was not too nice," said the 24-year-old from Gothenburg, twice a winner on the Asian Tour and that circuit's rookie of the year last season. "I didn't have a category at all."
Victory on Sunday would make him exempt, while Huldahl is fully aware that his exemption for winning at Celtic Manor in 2009 runs out at the end of the year. The 28-year-old slumped outside Europe's top 150 last season and has embarked on swing changes to try to secure his future.
"To be a more stable player I had to have a better swing," he said.
Lafeber is the most experienced of the trio out in front, but the 36-year-old has only one title in nearly 340 appearances on the circuit.
Lawrie, round in 67, will sense a big chance to end nearly nine years without a win, while at 3 under after posting the same score, England's 50-year-old Barry Lane is still in the hunt to become the oldest winner in Tour history.


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From Analog Circuits: World Class Designs
Marc Thompson
Here, Marc explains why a resistance and a capacitance are not trivial items. Real resistors and real capacitors have several reactive or lossy components. Is this part of our circuit design work? Yeah. So we have to engineer to get the system working despite component imperfections. Sometimes wise component choice is a very important part of our job./rap
In This Chapter
Here we consider some of the subtleties of passive components, including construction techniques of these devices and parasitic effects. We'll cover some details about resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Then we'll use what we've learned in an illustrative discussion of PC board layout issues.
At first blush, a resistor is a resistor is a resistor. However, we'll now delve into some of the subtleties of these devices. The impedance of an ideal resistor is not dependent on operating frequency, [1] and is:
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Dirk Nowitzki is getting his game back into form following an extended offseason, but the wins just aren't coming for the Dallas Mavericks. Perhaps a visit by the lowly New Orleans Hornets will change that. Nowitzki and the Mavericks will try to avoid their first four-game home losing streak in four seasons on Saturday night when they face a Hornets team that's won just once in its last 20 visits to Dallas. Out the first 27 games of 2012-13 following offseason right knee surgery, Nowitzki is averaging 10.0 points off the bench in six games back. The former MVP set season highs for points (19) and minutes (29) on Wednesday in Miami, but the Mavericks lost for the 10th time in 12 games, 119-109 in overtime. Dallas (13-20) was outscored 9-3 in the final 3:37 after Nowitzki's 3-pointer. "Execution down the stretch has been one of our problems all year,'' he said. "We're 0-6 in overtime (this season) and lost a lot of close ones during the season in regulation. We've got to work on that.'' Actually, only two of the Mavericks' 14 regulation defeats have been by fewer than 10 points, and they have lost nine games by at least 19. The previous two times the latter happened came in their last two home games - 106-85 to Denver on Dec. 28 and 111-86 to San Antonio on Sunday. However, if the Hornets' history in Dallas is any indication, the Mavericks should be in good position to prevent their first four-game home skid since starting 0-4 at home in 2008-09. New Orleans (7-25) has dropped six straight as the road team in this series following a 96-81 loss on Jan. 7. A 104-97 victory on Jan. 14, 2009, is the Hornets' only win at the Mavericks since 1998, when the team was based in Charlotte. Having Eric Gordon back in the lineup could definitely help New Orleans' chances of winning before it heads home for three straight, but it's uncertain if he'll be ready to go. The fifth-year guard, who missed the first 29 games this season following arthroscopic right knee surgery, did not play in Wednesday's 104-92 loss at Houston as coach Monty Williams rested him as a precautionary measure. Gordon scored 11 points in Tuesday's 95-86 loss to Atlanta after finishing with 24 in his season debut, last Saturday's 98-95 win at Charlotte. "He's getting more and more game ready each day," Williams, whose team has lost 14 of 16, said Friday. "It's tough to go from not playing at all to jumping right in and playing in an NBA game. Even if Gordon plays, rookie Austin Rivers will likely make a 14th straight alongside point guard Greivis Vasquez, who is averaging 16.9 and 10.5 assists in the last 11 contests. Rivers has struggled with his shot - he's hitting 34.3 percent - but a bigger concern could be on the defensive end against O.J. Mayo. Dallas' leading scorer poured in 30 points on Wednesday after averaging 9.8 in Nowitzki's first five games back. While with Memphis, Mayo averaged 12.8 points in four games against New Orleans last season. Mavericks center Chris Kaman, who spent last season with the Hornets after being acquired from the Los Angeles Clippers, will try to build off his second double-double of the season (14 points, 10 rebounds). New Orleans' big man Anthony Davis is among the rookie leaders with five double-doubles despite missing 13 games due to injury.
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Having just finished a documentary, journalist Andrew Worth heads to the artificial island of Stateless to cover a physics convention, where African Nobel Laureate Violet Masala is about to present her Theory of Everything. But the island idyll turns out to be anything but, as Stateless has been inundated with anti-science protestors who want to unleash a deadly disease that may destroy the world. Adam Epstein has a methodical approach that allows Greg Egan's impressive world-building to breathe and take shape, but Epstein is best at inhabiting the diverse characters whose clashes and conflict drive the drama in Distress.
Investigative reporter Andrew Worth turns down a documentary on a mysterious new mental illness - "Distress," or acute clinical anxiety syndrome, for another assignment. He's on his way to the artificial island of Stateless, where the world's top physicists are gathering to decide on a new TOE, or Theory of Everything, to replace Einstein's outmoded legacy.
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As to extending your probationary period, usually that can only happen if the contract allows for it. You have a 6 month probationary period in place so if they want to keep you on probation beyond that period they must really have the contractual right to do so. Sadly it does not give you many new rights if no such clause exis6ts and they try to extend it – they can still dismiss you regardless and the only thing you can claim in the circumstances would be if you are missing out on certain benefits by being held on probation for longer than the contract, for example any increase in pay, or other benefits which employees who have passed their probation may get.
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TITLE: The day I never forget
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Blurred eyed I turned out of bed rushing to get dressed for me to leave home and get to the airport on time.
A long awaited holiday was about to happen and excitement took hold of me that I barely slept. It was as if I was almost a child looking forward to something rather exciting.
I was so heavily stressed from work and family that all I wanted to do was to get away as soon as possible from them all.
The car I hired from the previous day turned up earlier than expected, buzzing with the thought that I am about to be free from problems, I grabbed my bags and hurried to the waiting car not bothering to check whether or not I had the correct bags.
It was a magnificent morning, as we cruise along the road the rising sun spread its beautiful glow across the sky, the feelings of joy and peace flooded my being releasing all the years of burden that weighed me down. It was the first time in many years that I was alone, drinking the early morning's fresh air and could concentrate on the beauty of God's creation. My dream came to an abrupt end when the driver announced that we are nearing the airport and wanted to know which terminal we had to go too.
A few minutes later he put me off at the airport and left. It was early in the morning so the airport was not crowded. My flight was due to leave in another hour so we had to check in immediately. Being light and free in my spirit I hurried to the check out and waited patiently in line for my turn to check in.
When I got to the desk and looked into my bag for my passport, I could not believe that I took the wrong bag and left the bag with my passport at home.
To express the anguish and disappointment that I went through is impossible, as I headed to rebook another flight and to organise a way to retrieve the right handbag that contained my passport. I was fortunate to get another flight later that day.
As I have already indicated my last holiday with my young children had been a number of years ago. I was aware that I was heavily stressed but thought that my young family around me was enough and did not see a holiday as an important part of my life. However, I became over burdened and knew I must get away from it all or I might not be able too manage.
What a relief it was when I finally sat comfortable in the aircraft and it was really coasting along the runway to take off.
As the aircraft settle nicely in the sky with little or no indication that I am flying, I ignored my two companions that were sitting next to me, closed my eyes and began to dream.
I saw the greatness of God. I thought if man could create a machine that could take us in hours across the oceans, which is great, how about the greatness of the creator? He made the universe with us like him able to create stuff almost to perfection. I thought what a great privilege we have. I thought of us turning our backs on him. How broken hearted he must have been. Then I thought about the passport that I left behind. How fortunate I was to be on the aircraft that day.
Then I thought about my relationship with God. I realised that I was concentrating more on myself and forgetting he was there ready to take care of me if I let him. I did let him take me over from then.
My holiday was different, I returned home being thoroughly renewed and really strong ready to take on any battle that came my way and there were no shortage of battles too date.
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Rumours from the City Ground have revealed Laws has been chasing the former Wolves and Chesterfield man since his arrival at S6 - and is keen on a cash plus player deal to bring the Northern Ireland international to Hillsborough in the pre-season.
Laws has a good knowledge of the player from his time in League One managing Scunthorpe United - and the 23 year old is well known to Northern Ireland team-mate Chris Brunt who is already a key figure at S6.
And it is thought the Owls will offer two players plus cash to Forest boss Colin Calderwood to entice the midfielder away from Forest - with the deal dependent on whether the reds are in League One or the Championship next season.
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Independent testing laboratory Polymer Solutions Inc. (PSI; Blacksburg, VA) announced four new staffers. Brandon Jeffery has joined PSI as a gas chromatography chemist, a role involving data analysis, sample preparation, method development, method validation, report writing and instrument maintenance.
Jeffery has a M.S. in Chemistry from Virginia Tech and a B.S. in Chemistry from Allegheny College. John Winebarger is a laboratory support specialist. His role supports the day-to-day functions of the various PSI labs, including work within the robust quality system. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry and a B.A. in Chemistry. Megan Flora is a technical quality specialist. Her responsibilities are to support technical quality in the laboratories by working closely with the lab managers and project managers. Flora received her B.S. in Biology from Radford University. Judy Sink is a lab technician within the Applied Chemistry and Spectroscopy (ACS) Laboratory. Sink has 20 years experience in laboratory settings. She attended Manchester Community College in Connecticut and has also taken classes at New River Community College in Dublin, VA.
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Now that we know the ninth season of The Office will be the last, the road is clear for Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) to leave Dunder Mifflin for his spinoff series, tentatively titled The Farm, coming in 2013. The roles of Dwight's sister and nephew recently went to Majandra Delfino and Blake Garrett respectively and now, two more family members have been cast.
First, Deadline reports veteran actor and Die Hard 2 star Tom Bower has landed the role of Dwight's great uncle Heinrich, a charming but greedy and manipulative man who may have been forced to spend some time in Argentina following World War II because of his roots in the National Socialist German Workers' Party (yes, that's the Nazi Party). Second, THR has word that Matt Jones (Breaking Bad) will play Dwight's mysterious cousin Zeke.
The two join a growing cast that also includes Thomas Middleditch as Dwight's brother in the new series that centers on Dwight and his siblings inheriting their family's beet farm, a farm which also doubles as a bed and breakfast. Many of the characters in the spinoff may be introduced in the upcoming ninth and final season of The Office as a way to lead viewers into Dwight's next adventure.
With the addition of these two actors, all the roles in The Farm pilot we learned about last month have now been filled. However, there hasn't been any word as to whether Schrute Farms regular, Dwight's weirdo cousin Mose (played by The Office co-executive producer Michael Schur), is going to show up at all. It would be a shame if he didn't at least pop up in the pilot and maybe run away when the rest of the family arrives. Then again, if Schur doesn't reprise his role for the series, they could explain him away in the ninth season of The Office.
NBC is hoping The Farm will fill a void left by the conclusion of The Office, and with showrunner Paul Lieberstein (who also plays Toby on The Office) taking on the series as his new full-time job, maybe it will have some of the magic that the earlier seasons of the mockumentary comedy series had. However, we're not sure if the show will employ the same documentary shooting style, or if it will appear as a more traditional comedy series.
Frankly, I'm not thrilled with this spinoff series and wish Rainn Wilson would just move on to bigger and better things. He's shown promise in lower key films like Super and Hesher (even if his leading role in The Rocker didn't really take off), and I think it's time to leave Dwight Schrute behind. Obviously leading (and producing) a comedy series is a step up for the actor, but I think Dwight only works in small doses as a supporting character. Perhaps the integration of his peculiar family (most of whom have previous TV comedy experience) will make this work, but I'm still skeptical for the time being.
If picked up for a series, The Farm will debute on NBC sometime in 2013. Stay tuned.
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HAVANA, Cuba -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned Monday from a weekend visit to ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Upbeat after the trip, Chavez described it as "a hilarious two days of hijinks and camaraderie." The two presidents have been friends for years, sharing both a hatred for the United States and a love for 1960s era automobiles.
All of Cuba was in shock last week when Castro underwent surgery for breast cancer and hadn't been seen for days afterwards. Some even suggested he may have died, but Chavez laughed off such speculation, assuring the public that, "Good old Fidel is recovering quite nicely, and can even sit up when we prop him up against the bed frame." Castro himself was unavailable for comment, with Cuban officials saying he was "resting peacefully" and needn't be disturbed.
The socialist couple engaged in a variety of activities, including eating yogurt, rolling cigars, and trimming Fidel's beard. On condition of anonymity, one presidential aide said Friday evening the two may have had, "a little too much fun," and were reportedly seen on Fidel's porch downing tequila and yelling "Viva la Revolucion!"
Sunday happened to be Castro's 80th birthday, and Chavez presented him with a few gifts. The most valuable was a dagger once owned by Simon Bolivar, which Fidel promised to symbolically "thrust in the backs of capitalists." But his favorite gift was shirt from Chavez, made in his favorite communist color - red. The Venezuelan president sported one of his own, prompting hospital staff to dub them "the red-colored team of patriotic revolutionary leaders," which in Spanish is apparently much shorter and rhymes.
Fidel's brother Raul also joined in on the fun while taking a break from his duties as defense minister. The 75 year old Raul Castro was hand-picked as the Cuban leader's successor, being the only member of the family still alive and not in exile. But the younger brother claims his leadership won't be needed for a long time to come because "Fidel is as strong as caguairin." Confused reporters later had to research that a "caguairin" is some sort of tropical hardwood.
There is little doubt that Chavez truly enjoyed his visit, and he even hinted at returning to the island nation in the near future. "Yes, there will definitely be a sequel to my weekend at Fidel's," he explained. Fellow Socialist Bolivian President Evo Moralez also expressed interest in visiting Cuba(aparently he is jeaulous), saying he too loves "hilarious hijinks" that bourgeois capitalists so despise.
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My husband accomplished another big goal this year: Finishing Paris-Brest-Paris or PBP, a long-distance ride of 1,200km (approximately 750 miles) within the required time limit of 90 hours. This year, 5,321 participants who qualified, including 606 Americans, gathered from 42 countries in Paris. My husband was one of the 60 members of Seattle International Randonneur who participated, and he became one of the 70% of the participants who completed despite a series of unexpected mechanical issues. When a pastry called "Paris Brest" is sold at numerous patisseries and some kids came to the starting point and asked my husband and other cyclists for their autograph, you can tell that it's a very popular and respected event there.
When we went to the bike check a day before the event began at Gymnase des Droits de l'Homme in Saint-Quentin, I met many riders who have been riding with my husband at numerous local events and also met a participant who came all the way from Japan (Actually, there were 112 participants from Japan. They were the 11th largest group, and there were 12 women!). I felt the comradeship that thousands of people from all over the world shared about cycling. It is not a race, so you are supposed to enjoy it. Some participants do have a support team following to help with food and such, and there are mechanics on the course who help participants with mechanical problems. But it's basically self-supported: You have qualified yourself to ride, so you are supposed to be able to ride on your own.
While my husband was cycling, I flew to Stockholm to see a friend of mine and her family. She and I have been friends since 1989 when we studied in Australia for a year, and she visited me in Seattle in 1997, attended my wedding reception luncheon in Japan in 1999 and even came to London when I vacationed there with my husband and my mom in 2004. So it was my turn to visit her in her hometown for the first time. The trip turned out to be a nice break from a big and old city like Paris. Stockholm is spacious and smaller with views of the beautiful Baltic Sea, lakes and trees. There weren't that many people like in Paris, smoking was prohibited in public spaces, people spoke English without much effort, and the subway my friend and I took every day was new and clean. We went everywhere with her eighteen-month-old son, Elmer. He has very beautiful Scandinavian features — very fair blond hair and very blue eyes like his mom — and some Japanese tourists screamed "Kawaii!!" (cute!) and snapped photos of him when we walked around in the old town, Gamlastan. I guess it happens a lot to them, and my friend didn't even pay attention although she can speak some Japanese after studying there for six months or so. I don't particularly enjoy being with kids, but he was definitely one of the very few I enjoy playing with even in a sandbox! Foodwise, I loved the local Swedish cheese that my friend's partner brought back for dinner one night. We also enjoyed local Chantelle mushroom, which costs about half the price we pay here, and local rhubarb juice made without sugar. We also enjoyed the same ice cream as the one served at the Nobel Prize reception at the Nobel Museum. On the third day, I went to see the apartment where my favorite Swedish author, Astrid Lindgren, lived at 46 Dalagatan in Stockholm. She was born in 1907 and moved to Stockholm after graduating from high school and lived in the apartment with her family for 63 years until she passed away in 2002 at the age of 95. She wrote so many stories while she lived there with her family such as "Mio, min Mio," my favorite story of hers.
By the time I learned how to say "hej!"(hi!) and "tack tack!" (Thank you!), it was time to fly back to Paris. Coming back to Paris from Stockholm was like going to Tokyo from Seattle. More people, more cars, narrower streets and definitely more smokers! Although my husband was obviously exhausted from the cycling and slept until noon the following day, we hit various world-famous historic sites and museums as well as a famous Marche over the next four days. I really appreciated my husband taking me to see things that I had only read about in books and comics and seen in movies and TV shows. We went to Givernney to visit Monet's garden and the house where he spent the last 43 years of his life. And, most importantly, the food in Paris was just great. Even a brasserie and a patisserie that are not famous served great coffee and food…. The dinner we had at Ze Kitchen Galerie was just amazing. I will miss it until the next time we go to Paris.


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The latest ad format plays to Google's strengths and provides automotive companies with an innovative way to feature their cars and to more quickly pull users into their dealerships.
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"Kumon may appear to be additional 'homework,' but think about it this way: Kumon should be to you what batting practice is to a baseball player. The more exposure you have to different kinds of problems, the more ready you will be," Steven said. "Walking the path toward program completion is hard and frustrating, but it can be done and is very rewarding."
The UC Berkeley sophomore certainly took his own advice. While the 19-year-old had constant support from his family and instructor, Barbara Leung, he was never forced to continue. It was always his own decision, which wasn't always easy. Sometimes he had to fit his Kumon worksheets into his free time and, even then, wasn't always able to do them every day. Despite this, Steven witnessed the rewards of program completion through his improved schoolwork and greater self-confidence.
"It is not so much about the math but rather the knowledge of how to approach a problem," Steven said about the rewards he gained through Kumon. "Math is not just about numbers; it is an art of thinking."
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West Ham 0 - Manchester United 2: Wayne's wonder! Halfway-line stunner gives Utd victory
ANYTHING David Beckham can do Wayne Rooney can do just as well.
With Becks watching from the stand, Rooney produced a carbon copy of that wonder goal Posh Spice's fella scored against Wimbledon 18 years ago to put an even bigger smile back on United's faces.
It might not be quite worth the £300,000 a week he is reportedly being paid, but given the sort of Premier League season David Moyes and co have had so far, it was priceless.
Their stand-in skipper built on that Champions League turnaround last week with a second goal and a man-of-the-match performance that made the injury of Robin van Persie just a little easier to bear.
It also gave a suggestion that they might be turning the corner at last as well.
A United team-sheet showing six changes from the side that knocked Olympiakos out of the Champions League in midweek suggested Moyes had both eyes on Tuesday's derby against Manchester City rather than just one.
The win over Olympiakos gave us all a big lift and you could see the confidence in the team today
Not that it mattered that much. Rooney made sure of that with the 211th goal of his career after just eight minutes - and what a goal!
United's lone striker on the day took a leaf out of the David Beckham history book with a corker of a strike from just over the halfway line - like the old master did so memorably at Selhurst Park all those years ago.
Rooney got a helping hand thanks to some hapless defending by James Tomkins, but there was no doubting the quality or the way he spotted Adrian well off his line and lobbed his long-distance effort over the head of West Ham's hopelessly-stranded Spanish keeper.
Moyes made no attempt to conceal his glee. Suddenly, what had seemed like a miserable month of March a few days ago was looking decidedly brighter, and Rooney himself declared it was "just as good as Beckham's!"
He said: "I took a quick look and saw the keeper was off his line. Thankfully, it went in. It's certainly up there among the best I've scored."
United could have been two up when Shinji Kagawa was through one-on-one with Adrian 15 minutes later, but this time the keeper was more suitably placed to stop his effort.
Same story when Juan Mata had another pop soon afterwards. But not for long, though. United's ability to counter attack quickly was used to devastating effect on 34 minutes when - after surviving a penalty appeal at one end, they broke straight up to the other - and Rooney bagged his second, started and finished by the man himself.
This one, however, was rather simpler than the first in that Mark Noble diverted Ashley Young's teasing cross straight into Rooney's path and it went into the gaping goal accordingly.
The first-half match stats suggested West Ham had rather more of the possession, but the scoreline told a very different story.
And the TV cameras showed Becks and his boy leaving for their half-time cuppa beaming broadly.
All credit to the Hammers, they came out like an express train after the break. Trouble was, they kept crashing into United's buffers. And it was a sign of manager Moyes' growing confi dence that he felt able to take off Rooney and Mata at a time when West Ham still looked in with a shout.
Rooney said: "The win over Olympiakos gave us all a big lift and you could see the confidence in the team today.
"Now we have City on Tuesday and it is a massive game for the city, for the fans, for all of us. It will be another big challenge for us."
MAN OF MATCH: WAYNE ROONEY - No contest. A wonder goal, a second and a show that inspired his side
WEST HAM: Adrian; Demel, Tomkins, Collins, McCartney; Downing, Noble, Diame (Jarvis 58), Taylor (Nocerino 82); Nolan (Cole 72); Carroll.
MAN UNITED: De Gea; Rafael, Jones, Carrick, Buttner; Young, Fellaini, Fletcher, Kagawa, Mata (Welbeck 77) Rooney (Hernandez 77).
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