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TORONTO - The Toronto football team scored 14 points in the final minute of the second quarter to cap a 35-point period and eventually went on to beat visiting Hundred 62-22 Friday at Clarke Hinkle Field.
Chez Glenn had an 84-yard touchdown run and not long after, Billy Solomon picked up a fumble and scored from the 5 to take a 49-0 lead into the break.
Glenn ran the ball three times for 121 yards and two scores. The only pass he caught from brother Blaze went for 52 yards and opened the Red Knights scoring.
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TO THE HOUSE — Toronto's Charles Ross III takes a punt back 67 yards for a touchdown during the first quarter of Friday's 62-22 win over Hundred at Clarke Hinkle Field on senior night.
-- Mike Mathison
"We've been moving the ball well all year except for a couple of ballgames," said Toronto coach Eric Meek. "It was good to get out to a big lead at half. Our JV kids came in and did a really good job. It was great to send our five seniors out as winners in their final home game."
Hundred's Nick Varner finished with 19 carries for 189 yards and two scores.
"We went down and saw him last week," Meek said of Varner. "We were very concerned about him. He ran hard. He's a pretty good player."
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Toronto 62, Hundred 22
Hundred 0 0 16 6 - 22
Toronto 14 35 13 0 - 62
T: C. Glenn 52 pass from B. Glenn (kick failed)
T: Ross III 67 punt return (Stewart pass from B. Glenn)
T: C. Glenn 9 run (Chadwick kick)
T: Chadwick 19 run (Chadwick kick)
T: White 39 pass from B. Glenn (Chadwick kick)
T: C. Glenn 84 run (Chadwick kick)
T: Solomon 5 fumble recovery (Chadwick kick)
H: White 30 run (Varner run)
T: King 4 run (kick failed)
H: Varner 66 run (White run)
T: Cassella 6 run (Lowery kick)
H: Varner 53 run (run failed)
RUSHING: Hundred 34-264-3td (Varner 19-189-2, White 9-88-1, Koontz 1-4, Efaw 3-(-8), Hennen 2-(-9). Toronto 32-393-5td (Cassella 11-131-1, C. Glenn 3-121-2, B. Glenn 3-38, Chadwick 2-35-1, Ross III 2-34, King 6-28-1, Rawson 5-6).
PASSING: Hundred 2-6-(-2)-0-1x (all by Varner); Toronto 4-6-122-2td-0 (all by B. Glenn).
RECEIVING: Hundred White 2-(-2); Toronto Chadwick 2-31, C. Glenn 1-52-1, White 1-39-1.
FIRST DOWNS: Hundred 7, Toronto 19
PENALTIES: Hundred 4-22, Toronto 5-46.
FUMBLES: Hundred 4-1, Toronto 3-1.
Charles Ross III returned a punt 67 yards to paydirt, Joey Chadwick scored on a 19-yard run and Kyle White hauled in a 39-yard scoring pass from Blaze Glenn rounding out the Red Knights' 49 first-half points.
Freshmen Cody King scored from the 4 and Chantz Cassella from the 6 for Toronto's second-half touchdowns.
Cassella finished with 131 yards on 11 attempts.
"We have a lot of young kids on this team with only five seniors," said Meek. "We were able to play six JV games this year, which I am happy about. Most schools our size, with the numbers down all over the Ohio Valley, are not able to do that. This year our younger kids got an awful lot of experience, which will only help us in the future.
"A lot of those younger kids saw varsity time. We are a very young and small team. We don't have a lot of big kids. We are not where we need to be in the weight room yet.
"I really can't be concerned with what everyone considers success and failure. We are a couple of plays away from being a .500 team this year with a lot of young kids. We utilized our speed by switching offenses this year. It gave us a chance."
Toronto finishes its season Oct. 27 against Madonna at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
"Now, we have to get ready for Madonna, which is an awfully good team," said the coach. "We'll see how we stack up with them."
The Red Knights (3-6) finished with 515 yards of offense.


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TEMPLE (January 2, 2013)—A Central Texas man is facing charges of criminal mischief after breaking windows at a local restaurant and police station.
Just before 5:30 a.m. on Sunday morning Temple Police responded to a report that a man had damaged windows at The Olive Garden, at 3625 South General Bruce Dr.
After officers arrived on scene, they were told that the man threw rocks through two windows, damaging both.
The man then walked to a nearby McDonald's and admitted to damaging the windows, police said.
According to reports, he asked employees to call police because he wanted to go to jail.
Officers detained Danny Wayne Gilkey, 35, of Temple for the offense of criminal mischief.
Gilkey went with officers to the police station to provide a statement about the damage to The Olive Garden. Police attempted to contact a representative of the restaurant, but were unable to locate one.
Because police were unable to locate a victim to represent the restaurant, officers were required to release Gilkey from custody and a warrant had to be obtained.
After being released, Gilkey went to the front of the station and threw rocks at the windows, police said, damaging three before officers took him into custody.
Damage to the police department is estimated to be $1,983.50.
Estimates for the damage to the Olive Garden windows are pending.

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Consider the extension Q(a,b) of the field of rationals, where a,b are algebraically independent transcendentals. To Q(a,b) adjoin the roots of the polynomials x^5+a^5=1 and y^5+b^5=1. The resulting field Q(a,b)[x,y] is a radical extension of Q(a,b).
Is it true that the only solutions to the equation X^5+Y^5=1 in the field Q(a,b)[x,y] are {0,1},{a,x}, {b,y}, {1/a,-x/a) and (1/b, -y/b)?
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ITALY (CNN) -- An Italian couple burdened by their country's economic downturn hanged themselves, and the woman's brother -- after learning of their deaths -- threw himself into the Adriatic Sea and died, CNN affiliate RAI reported Friday.
Romeo Dionisi, 62, and his wife, Annamaria Sopranzi, 68, were found by neighbors in the coastal city of Civitanova Marche, and police told RAI that the family's financial difficulties led to the suicides.
Rescuers pulled Joseph Sopranzi, the woman's brother, from the water but could not revive him, according to RAI.
Civitanova Marche Mayor Thomas Claudio Corvatta has declared Saturday a day of mourning.
"This bereavement affects the community in a time of particular economic and social difficulties, which involves the entire national community," Corvatta said on his website.
Laura Boldrini, speaker of Italy's lower house of parliament, said on her website that the tragedy illustrates "the despair of many due to the shame of poverty."
Italy is mired in its longest economic recession in 20 years.


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We STILL seem to have a RANDOM ARCHIVE GLITCH where clicking on the next comic will take you to the next comic page, but oddly display a comic from a totally different date. Hitting Refresh sometimes helps.
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Both the captioned words mean "enroll, register".
"matricular" is a transitive verb and "matricularse" is a reflexive verb. But they have no difference in meaning but just "matricular" follows a noun and "matricularse" needs the reflexive pronouns, right?
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Both the captioned words mean "enroll, register".
Actually more like:
Me matriculé en el curso. — I've enrolled for the class.
Matriculé mi coche. — I've registered my car.
Matricular has 3 meanings:
The first one is to register the name of somebody to take part in an event. It is typically used for academic events like courses or subjects.
almost the same meaning is the third one (which is used in a pronominal way). In that case you're stating that the person is registered (though we don't know who registered the person).
if I say that it means that my name is registered in that subject, but it can be that I registered by myself (for example by doing it in a website) or I just went to the office and asked there to be registered by the secretary.
To indicate the name of the subject or course, I've often heard after "matricularse" prepositions "de" and "en" (at least In Spain both of them are very common) so you can hear things like:
The second meaning is to register the number plate of a car.


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les taylor wrote:....... The clue is its written on the glass. Its amazing how many people don't notice.
Mr Fjeld wrote:Ah thanks lbacha! I bought four from the Ardbeg webshop and thought they looked similar. I haven't used mine yet, they look great though - but fragile?
Di Blasi wrote:I always use the Glencairn, rarely a proper nosing glass. But that Glencairn glass is damn durable too, as it's taken a bit of a beating, falling in the sink.
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ZANESVILLE - There were many people who wondered how St. Clairsville's football team would respond when it faced its first real challenge.
Through the first 12 weeks, the Red Devils breezed to victories, but the Red Devils received a solid test Friday night at John D. Sulsberger Memorial Stadium and passed with flying colors.
The Red Devils had an answer for each jab the Johnstown-Monroe Johnnies threw in their Division IV, Region 15 championship game and celebrated the school's first regional football championship since 1986 with a cherished 37-29 vicotory.
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"Awesome ... just awesome!" said St. Clairsville head coach Brett McLean as he received the championship trophy. "We haven't celebrated anything to this point. We've just stayed focused the entire time, and we're still focused, but we told the kids that this is one of the biggest goals we had all year and we had to come out and fight tooth and nail to get it. This was our first four-quarter, grind-it-out victory all year."
The victory sends the Red Devils to the Division IV State semifinals, which will open next Friday at a venue to be determined Sunday by the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
The Red Devils will take on defending state champion Creston Norwayne, which easily dispatched previously undefeated Brookfield in the Region 13 title game.
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MEMBERS OF the St. Clairsville Red Devils senior class, including Brandon Westlake (56), Jerrid Marhefka (6), Luke Smith (22) and Titus Lepic (1), accept the Regional Championship Trophy after St. C. prevailed against Johnstown-Monroe Friday night at Zanesville Sulsberger Memorial Stadium. Additional images may be found at cu.timesleaderonline.com
Senior wide receiver Dan Monteroso makes a move in the open field after making one of his three catches.
"I told the kids that the best teams in the state practice on Thanksgiving," McLean said. "We're going to be practicing Thanksgiving morning and it's a great feeling."
St. Clairsville appeared as if it was headed for another laugher when it scored the first 17 points of the game.
Senior quarterback Matt Kinnick darted 13 yards untouched, junior kicker Zach Musilli was perfect on a 21-yard field goal and Michigan-bound junior Michael Ferns hauled in a 12-yard touchdown from Kinnick all in the first quarter for the Red Devils' lead.
"To get up early was huge," McLean said. "We had to get our nerves and jitters out, too. That put them behind the 8-ball, but they stayed patient. Once they got a score on us and had some momentum, they just ran what they run."
St. Clairsville carried what seemed like a commanding 24-7 lead into the lockerroom at halftime after Kinnick found senior standout Jerrid Marhefka on a fourth-down play for a 21-yard touchdown. Musilli was again perfect on the PAT.
Johnstown-Monroe, the defending Region 15 champion, cut the lead to 24-21 early in the fourth quarter when quarterback Tyler Thompson darted into the end zone from 23 yards out for his third rushing touchdown of the contest.
"It got tight there," McLean said. "No one faltered and everyone just went out and executed what they were supposed to do and stayed focused. I've never seen doubt in these kids."
The Johnnies' momentum was short lived.
Two plays into the next drive, Kinnick found Marhefka across the middle on what appeared to be headed for a short gain.
"How about JMar?," McLean said. "That play was probably the biggest play of our season. It was senior to senior and it was well executed."
Marhefka, who was a part of St. C.'s regional championship squads in basketball and track last school year, picked up a couple of blocks and was off to the races for a 66-yard touchdown.
"Matt put the ball out there for me and Dan (Monteroso) made a couple of blocks down the the field to spring it," Marhefka said. "We saw the linebacker coming, it was a quick call and we adjusted to it. This is just an unbelievable feeling especially the way we pulled together and came together in the second half."
Kinnick, who finished the game 14-of-30 for 260 yards and four scores through the air, knew it was just a matter of staying patient down the stretch.
"We just had to keep doing what we do because we knew we needed a score at that point," Kinnick said. "JMar came up huge in the clutch."
Zach Musilli - the steady Red Devils' placekicker - was perfect once again on a PAT, making it 31-21.
"We had seniors make big plays," McLean said. "But, we also had sophomores and juniors who did big things for us. Like it's been all season, this was a total team effort. We had some guys play and come up big who hadn't played much all season in different spots, so that's huge."
The St. Clairsville defense held the Johnnies' well below their average on the ground. Both Thompson and sophomore standout Cody Farley surpassed the 100-yard mark with 129 and 102, respectively.
"We put our defense in some tough situations all night, but they stood tall," McLean said.
The Red Devils' defense was led by senior defensive end Jay Gossett, who was in the Johnnies' backfield seemingly all night long. Ferns, Luke Smith, Colby Lindsay and Marhefka all turned in brilliant performances on the defensive side of the ball.
"Jay Gossett was a man all night long defensively," McLean said. "Plus, he blocked his rear end off for us on offense."
Gossett got into the act on offense to cap the Red Devils' scoring when he went high in the air to bring down Kinnick's fourth touchdown pass of the game from 7 yards out.
"We just had to make plays (on both sides of the ball)," Gossett said. "Defensively, we just had to make reads (against the option) and then go make the play."
The Red Devils' offense received another outstanding effort from junior jet Jaylon Brown. Though he didn't reach the end zone for the first time all season, Brown finished with 142 yards on 26 carries. He also caught three passes for 38 yards.


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Roy Welch, W0SL, has provided these historical audio recordings of several "first" satellites as monitored at his station (then W5SLL).
Oscar 1 was launched on an Agena B rocket from Vandenberg AFB in California along with a Discoverer series satellite. KC4USA in Antarctica first reported signals as it passed over there after being launched. Oscar 1 was battery powered. Its signals lasted for about two weeks. The batteries were not rechargeable. The transmissions were on 145.00 MHz. The CW signal repeatedly sent HI in morse code. The number of HIs per minute, or the "HI Rate" was the only telemetry sent. The HI Rate gave the internal package temperature. Amateurs were asked to report the HI rate.
At W5SLL, there was no tracking antenna available. The antenna was cut for 108 MHz for listening to the new USA satellites. It was a six element colinear array constructed on a 13 by 13 foot wooden frame and suspended above a "chicken wire" reflector. The whole array was placed on the roof of the house looking up at about 75 degrees above the southern horizon. Satellites were captured as they flew through the main lobe of the antenna.
Listen to the normal speed recording (.WAV (113K) or RealAudio (14K)). Each HI is too fast to make out, and sounds more like a cricket chirping. Now listen to the half speed recording (.WAV (226K) or RealAudio (21K)), or if all that noise hurts your ears, listen to this filtered version (.WAV (226K) or RealAudio (21K)). You can distinctly read the HIs being sent. This recording was made in Dallas, Texas on December 14, 1961, at 0722Z using a Tecraft converter in front of a National NC-300 receiver.
See also this newspaper article (120K GIF) on OSCAR 1.
Sputnik 1 was the Soviet Union's and the world's first orbiting satellite. The signals heard in this recording are weak, over the horizon signals, recorded on a frequency of 20.007 MHz. Other recordings were made with signals strong enough to permit hearing the oscillator feeding through during key up periods. These were made with the satellite in line of sight. The weaker signal recording is presented to show a time when the keying of the signal was interrupted and a steady carrier was transmitted. There are two such instances in this excerpt. WWV which was nearby in frequency shut down their transmitters with each pass on this evening.
Roy and his two-year-old daughter would put the radio speaker in a window and then go outside and listen to the strong signals while they watched the third stage booster tumbling end over end like a bright pulsating star as it passed over in the evening sky. Listen with them to this recording of Sputnik 1 (.WAV (113K) or RealAudio (10K)). This recording was made in Dallas, Texas on October 7, 1957 at 0457Z using a military surplus AN/FRR3A HF RTTY receiver.
Here is a strong signal from Sputnik 1 (.WAV (116K) or RealAudio (11K)).
Here is a newspaper photograph (234K GIF) of Roy playing Sputnik signals at the State Fair of Texas on October 9, 1957.
Explorer 1 was America's first orbiting satellite, launched on an Army Redstone rocket after several failures to launch the Vanguard Satellite with the Navy's Vanguard rocket. The telemetry heard in this recording consists of a combination of three or more relatively stable audio tones and two alternating audio tones. The alternating tones were indications of cosmic particle collisions detected by an on board counter. The tones shift from one to the other when the detector has counted sixteen particles. It shifts back again with the detection of the next sixteen particles and so on.
The satellite had two RF frequencies, 108.0 MHz and 108.03 MHz. This recording is from the 108.0 MHz frequency. The 108.03 MHz frequency had a similar sounding telemetry, but without the alternating tones.
Listen to the recording of Explorer 1 (.WAV (110K) or RealAudio (10K)). This recording was made in Dallas, Texas on February 11, 1958 at 0100Z using a home-made VHF converter in front of a National NC-300 receiver. The antenna was as described above for Oscar 1.
The receiving setup at W5SLL/0 was assembled quickly after the plans were announced. The antenna was a home made 32 element colinear array from the ARRL Antenna Handbook design. The individual small booms were completed, but they were not mounted on a metal frame. A 2X4 wooden frame was hastily built and holes drilled to accept the 16 individual element booms. The transmission feedline was 75 feet of plain old 300 ohm TV twinlead, terminating in a coax 4:1 balun.
The output of the balun fed the input of a homemade 432 MHz converter described in the July 1963 QST magazine article, "All Nuvistor Converter." The Nuvistor was a small vacuum tube, for those of you who don't remember the Nuvistors. The noise figure was not worth mentioning in view of today's technology. The output of the converter fed the input of a National NC-300 Amateur Band receiver.
The antenna was aimed by leaning the wooden frame against a kitchen chair in the back yard and eyeballing it toward the crescent moon in broad daylight. Not exactly an ideal Oscar 0 station. What a signal! Just imagine what it would sound like today with our low noise preamps in front of our high performance converters and radios with steerable circular polarized antennas.
Listen to the EME signals (.WAV (150K) or RealAudio (14K)). This recording was made in Florissant, Missouri on Saturday, July 3, 1965.
Vanguard 1 was launched aboard the oft-troubled Vanguard rocket in March 1958. The transmitters were approximately 10 mW in power and transmitted on 108.0 MHz and 108.3 MHz. The only telemetry transmitted was the package temperature. This was indicated by the difference between the two transmitter frequencies which varied with temperature. The solar cells were manufactured by Bell Laboratories.
The signals were received on a homemade VHF converter in front of a National NC-300 Amateur Band receiver. The signals were continuous carrier with no apparent audio modulation. Therefore, the recordings were made with the receiver Beat Frequency Oscillator (BFO) turned on in order to produce an audible tone heard in the recordings.
Listen to these two recordings. In this recording made shortly after launch (.WAV (115K) or RealAudio (11K)) you can detect a rapid spin modulation on the signal and can determine that the satellite seemed to be spinning fairly rapidly. In this recording made approximately one year after launch (.WAV (115K) or RealAudio (11K)) you can tell the satellite is turning very slowly. By this time the batteries had failed and the satellite was powered only by the few solar cells on the surface of the satellite. The satellite was very small, not much larger than a large grapefruit, so there wasn't room for many solar cells. The transmitter frequency varies as the solar cells slowly turn into and out of the sunlight.
Sometimes the signal would disappear when no solar cells were exposed to the sun. It was easy to determine when Vanguard 1 went into the shadow of the earth, by the rapid change in frequency and abrupt loss of the signal altogether. This is not demonstrated in this recording.
OSCAR 10 was the first Phase 3 OSCAR to reach orbit. This SSB recording from OSCAR 10 (.WAV (113K) or RealAudio (10K)) demonstrates the long propagation delay experienced with high orbits.
Updated 15 December, 1996. Feedback to KB5MU. The RealAudio sounds on this page are encoded in the 14.4kbps mode, but you can listen to them over any speed link, since they are being sent to you as files and not as RealAudio streams. The RealAudio Player is available for free from RealAudio.


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I am working on a project for school, a balancing lego robot.
But i run into a problem that keeps coming back.
The motor's freeze for a couple of seconds and goes on.
this only happens when it is actually on the ground and try's to balance.
when I hold it in the air, and move it around a bit it does not happen.
It is very annoying because it trips the robot over every time it happens.
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Can Business and IT finally live in harmony when it comes to BI?
This is not a new concept or question. In fact, for the last several years pretty much all BI vendors claimed that they have solved the "Business and IT Collaboration" needs. Or, at least their marketing departments did!
To truly solve a problem, we must first fully understand it. In this case it is important to ask questions such as: Why is there a lack of collaboration between these two groups? What is so drastically different about these two groups that have forced such a gap between them?
The truth is that IT needs a central ownership to information to streamline processes and ensure sustainability, while business users want their own self-service and ownership to gain results faster. After all business users have become a lot more analysis and data savvy these days as compared to the past; so, an old-school approach of letting IT do the work and just being the consumers of canned reports doesn't cut it anymore.
Perhaps this picture illustrates the differences more clearly.
As you can see, these two groups are clearly in conflict when it comes to how they like to manage their information. So, we ask: What will help these two groups to start working in harmony?
The truth is that it won't happen… unless there is a 'balance' between their needs.
As much as business users want quick time to value out of their BI projects, one-off applications are not sustainable overtime. They become monsters that are too hard to keep up-to-date, considering all the changes that happen to business requirements over time. Sooner or later, business users will need to reach to their IT friends for help.
The 'balance' lies in letting the business users get fast time to value, but still building applications that are sustainable to change. We define this 'balance' with an Agile BI approach:
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- Having a strong 'shared' metadata foundation across the board to adjust to changes quickly and to scale up with cumulative iterations
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The System.map file is mainly used to debug kernel crashes. It's not actually necessary, but it's best to keep it around if you're going to use that kernel. If you've decided you don't need that kernel, then it's safe to delete the corresponding map file.
If you're really low on disk space, you could compress the map files. They aren't that big, so this won't save much space, but bzip2 will squeeze them down to about 25% of the original size. Then you can uncompress one if you discover that you need it.


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I would like to be able to select a contiguous set of horizontal cells in a row, take a copy, then paste the values into another row at the same position in the same table. I do not want to copy all the attributes, only a subset, but they are at least contiguous. At the moment I am doing a simple copy-paste cell-by-cell, and it is very time consuming, not to mention frought with error. If it were in a spreadsheet, it would be as simple as highlighting the group of horizontal cells, taking a copy, move the cell cursor down one cell, and then doing a paste. Is this possible without going through an export/edit/import process. Thoughts greatly appreciated. Barrie
There is an existing ArcGIS Idea covering this functionality that you can vote for.
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Personally, I would be more inclined to use the export/edit/import via Excel route that you suggested.


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Ousted Tax-Agency Head to Testify at Hearings
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Lawmakers prepared to grill the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service as well as an IRS watchdog Friday as they seek to understand officials' motivations for the targeting of conservative groups and the failure to disclose those actions.
The hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee is likely to expand into other issues, including the disclosure of confidential IRS application forms and private tax information last year. Some lawmakers also are interested in finding out whether agency officials were influenced by political motivations, despite prior IRS denials.
Seeking to restore order at the troubled agency and gain a measure of control over the sprawling controversy, President Barack Obama on Thursday named a new acting IRS commissioner, a day after sacking the current one, Steven Miller.
Mr. Obama chose Daniel Werfel, the controller of the Office of Management and Budget, equivalent to the government's chief financial officer. His appointment is effective Wednesday, and Mr. Werfel has agreed to serve through the end of fiscal year on Sept. 30.
Multiple investigations into the IRS—by congressional committees, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration and the Justice Department—are likely to keep the focus on what went wrong. In the latest twist that is generating interest among lawmakers, Joseph Grant, the commissioner of tax exempt and government entities, announced Thursday that he plans to retire June 3. Mr. Grant helped oversee the unit where the targeting problems occurred. He wasn't immediately available for comment. He took over his current post from another official who now runs the IRS Affordable Care Act office.
An overarching question in the hearings will be whether the misdeeds were influenced by political winds, particularly from Washington, or resulted from bureaucratic snafus.
Many Republicans believe the problems ultimately trace to senior officials, despite IRS denials. "I just simply refuse to believe that lower-level IRS personnel were making these kinds of decisions," said Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R., La.), who chairs the Ways and Means subcommittee that oversees the IRS.
GOP lawmakers are particularly interested in the role of Lois Lerner, the director of the exempt organizations unit, who knew of the problems at least as early as 2011 but failed to disclose the problems to Congress in letters during 2012.
Democrats, while acknowledging the problems, said the hearings shouldn't become a partisan sideshow. "We started on a bipartisan basis; I hope it continues," said Rep. Sander Levin (D., Mich.), the panel's top Democrat. "Politicizing this is a serious mistake."
On Thursday, Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee asked for an investigation into recent unauthorized disclosures of confidential tax information by the IRS, including from Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, which spent heavily in the 2012 elections. Its confidential application for tax-exempt status was among a number the IRS sent to ProPublica, a news organization investigating whether such groups were entitled to that status.
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"There's going to be a complete and thorough investigation of this in Congress—not only who above may have known about it but what the rank-and-file believed was their mission," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said at a news conference with tea-party groups.
ProPublica said in a news article earlier this week it obtained the applications from the Cincinnati office of the IRS, the same office at the center of the broader controversy, which singled out for extra scrutiny applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status from groups with names like "tea party" and "patriot."
Republicans also are questioning whether the IRS improperly released donor information of the National Organization for Marriage, a nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization.
The IRS said it "takes its role to protect confidential tax information very seriously," and that the "unauthorized disclosures" were reviewed by the inspector general, who found them to be "inadvertent and unintentional."
A Crossroads GPS spokesman has said the group has been told the IRS is investigating. Its application is still pending.
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"Shocked it's huge for our school, to be able to get someone like him, and to have him come here to help keep us on the rise," said WKU sophomore Mason Holloran.
Western officially hired Bobby Petrino on Monday, and those in the community are excited.
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Not a "set theory" guru (apologies if my terms are imprecise), but I have heard that it is an elementary result that the set of rational numbers has a measure of zero - intuitively meaning that the set of rationals is "less dense" than the set of real numbers (or equivalently than the set of irrational numbers).
However, I read this article which seems to provide a rather simple proof showing that the rationals have a cardinality at least as big as the irrationals, which would contradict the above paragraph. So at least one of the results should be wrong? However I cannot find the fallacy in the reasoning in the article - the author places the blame on the axiom of choice (bit of a whipping boy of set theory I think).
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Comforting Rachel
Several years ago I had a miscarriage about five months into pregnancy. My husband and I had brought our two daughters to a routine ultrasound to get a glimpse of their growing sibling-to-be. We were devastated when neither sonographer nor obstetrician could detect a fetal heartbeat. My husband talked to the girls while I waited numbly in the doctor's office for explanation, repair, or the next step. The OB sent us home with a prescription and an appointment for Monday morning in the hospital.
That day was devoted to delivering a dead baby, with most of the accouterments of American hospital birth present: labor-and-delivery ward, beeping electronic monitors, anesthesiologist offering an epidural. It looked and felt, in many respects, just the way our previous live births had, a resemblance to happier occasions that seemed to mock our loss. The hospital nurses were kind, if not quite what was wanted: one absentmindedly put fetal-monitor belts on my belly before the doctor told her to take them off, and another described a Zen garden nearby where I could meditate if I ever wished to "process" it all. The environment of the workaday labor-and-delivery ward made delivering a lost child even harder. Then and after, I sometimes thought a surgery would have been easier: to be unconscious for the removal of the baby, to remember none of it, to have it be as much unlike normal delivery as possible. But at some level what we did felt necessary, as though the process of delivery honored the child. It was the last thing my body could do for the baby, and I was willing to do it. Nurses wrapped up the body of our son and we held him for a moment. My husband and I cried together. We were visited by our priest. With warmth and prayer, he gave care there in the hospital and later at the gravesite, but there was a provisional sense about his gestures, as though he were improvising out of his own kindness rather than acting on long liturgical practice that the church had devised in meeting these crises from time immemorial.
Death before birth brings a profound grief to a family. It blunts hope and forces mothers, in a very immediate, physical way, to confront death. It is a problem of public health, but also a theological problem—"Why does God let this happen?"—and a searing one in the lives of many parents and families.
Christian churches have been strong defenders of the unborn, with Catholics particularly active in opposing abortion and embryo destruction. These positions demonstrate a strong commitment to life before and after birth. But perhaps insufficient care—both in teaching and pastoral settings—has been given to the puzzle of children not aborted who nonetheless die before birth. About twenty percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage (and, given the difficulty of counting early-term loss, the actual rate is higher). Churches that locate life's beginning at conception ought to meet these losses with gravity, both for the benefit of grieving families and for the witness to life it demonstrates. Difficult questions of science and theology stand in the way of easy answers or comfort. Yet the problem is big enough and occurs frequently enough to require more sustained attention. Churches should do a better job of recognizing this as a theological problem and offering liturgical and pastoral support to those affected by it.
Christian bioethicists critical of some embryo experimentation are often accused of hypocrisy, on the grounds that failure to mourn miscarriages belies their insistence that the embryo (the product of conception in the first eight weeks) is a person. Michael Sandel contends that "the way we respond to the natural loss of embryos suggests that we do not regard this event as the moral or religious equivalent of the death of infants." Robert George and Christopher Tollefsen take up that argument in their book Embryo: A Defense of Human Life. Parents do mourn miscarriages, they argue, but they note that other factors might condition mourning: misinformation about the nature of the embryo, a shorter and different relationship than what might have been had with a child the parents had seen and held, or limited emotional bonding. These possible parental responses do not determine the embryo's status. Further, the authors point out, unsuccessful pregnancies may result from incomplete fertilization or chromosomal defects, so what was lost may not have been a human embryo at all.
These arguments, while reasonable, seem emotionally flat. Of course there are differences in the experience of having one's baby die during delivery and losing a pregnancy when the mother had barely begun to show, but by a prolife logic that names the six-week embryo and the five-month fetus both human children, the losses share common grief. Many churches teach women to value the life inside the womb from its earliest stages, and to view the developing fetus as a child God made, but offer very little in the way of comfort, explanation, or even acknowledgement when that child dies through no act or intent of the parent.
Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians all indicate hope that a child who dies before birth has gone to be with God. They offer prayer for hurting families. Yet consolation butts up against other primary points of theology, especially teaching on baptism, since these children did not have access to that sacrament. Christian institutions have an uneven history of figuring out what to do for these children, making sense of their deaths and prospects for salvation. Perhaps most famously, St. Augustine posited that without baptism infants could not go to heaven, though they would be spared the extreme punishments of hell as their guilt consisted only of original sin, not personal sin. Later, medieval theologians indicated that unbaptized babies would spend eternity in limbus puerorum, the Limbo of Children, neither heaven nor hell. Doctrines of infant damnation, connoting a harshness people did not want to attribute to God, fell out of favor with many Protestants through the nineteenth century. But in various Christian traditions, uncertainty about the eternal fate of the child has limited the consolation offered to parents.
Before the Second Vatican Council, there was no regular memorial Catholic rite for unbaptized infants, and they were buried in unconsecrated ground (whereas baptized babies were given a Mass of the Angels and a Christian burial). Concern with the problem yielded new pastoral solutions in the years following the council. The 1970 Roman Missal included directions for a funeral for those who had died before birth. And in 2007 the International Theological Commission issued an important report, "The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die without Being Baptized." The reason for the inquiry was itself noteworthy: "In these times, the number of infants who die unbaptized is growing greatly. This is partly because of parents…who are nonpracticing, but it is also partly a consequence of in vitro fertilization and abortion. Given these developments, the question of the destiny of such infants is raised with new urgency." Miscarriages we always had with us, but advanced embryology had made it possible to fully perceive the genetically distinct life that was begun and lost. The question called for rethinking in light of the church's witness to life at a time when prenatal life is often discarded. Upholding the high importance of baptism and choosing an idiom of hope rather than assurance, "The Hope of Salvation" suggests that infants who die without the sacrament might, indeed, be received into heaven rather than hell or limbo. The commission found "serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and enjoy the beatific vision," but added: "We emphasize that these are reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge."
The doctrines at issue touch big questions about sin—original and personal—and the way of salvation, the meaning of baptism, even the character of God. While the report recognizes that parents grieve for babies who die before birth, and though it gives thoughtful consideration to their chances of salvation, it hardly engages the dark night of the soul experienced by those who have a miscarriage or a stillbirth. Again, doctrine is its primary concern, yet as the report itself notes, the pastoral context is pressing: "The notion that infants who die without baptism are deprived of the beatific vision, which has for so long been regarded as the common doctrine of the church, gives rise to numerous pastoral problems, so much so that many pastors of souls have asked for a deeper reflection on the ways of salvation."
One of the painful aspects of losing a baby before its birth, whether to miscarriage or stillbirth, is uncertainty of the meaning of the loss. We might say in general that the death of a child is always painful and sad, parents feel bereaved, and many share their mourning. If prenatal life is more than just potential, then a miscarriage or a stillbirth is not just something that didn't work out, a nonstarter, something not to be; it is the death of a child before she has had a chance to live. It is a waste. With the loss of a child in the womb, questions come up and stay unanswered at every point. Why did this happen? Was it my fault, a mother might ask, or something I failed to prevent, or did it happen in me but outside my control? Is it a baby or not? If a baby, do I name him, bury him, tell people, mourn in public? This last is not obvious. The loss of a child is worth public sorrow, but if others did not know of the pregnancy in the first place, revealing it after its end can produce a sort of emotional whiplash. Those who did know have to be told, but this is hard, too. As for burial, distressing as it must have been to consign the fruit of one's womb to unconsecrated ground, a woman may get even less than that in a hospital context, when fetal remains sometimes simply disappear unto disposal.
Our culture of choice contributes to this pain and awkwardness. Arguments about abortion go on, but they proceed within a culture that has adapted to the possibility of "choice" where pregnancy is concerned. We have learned a dual vocabulary to approve wanted pregnancies, rejoice with those who talk about feeling babies kick or scheduling ultrasounds or picking names and nursery décor, while at the same time behaving—linguistically if not in all ways—as though abortion did not concern that kind of creature but just the possibility of a baby that was decided against, a proto-baby rather than a real one. This produces agonizing confusion in the case of pregnancy loss. What is the script for response to someone whose pregnancy ends without a living child? Ready words do not exist either for announcement or condolence.
Thus churches meet an aching need when they offer a service, a public place, recognition, and prayers for those who have lost children in the womb. This can take the form of a memorial service at the time of the loss, helping individual families through the sadness. Churches also may hold other services occasionally, to minister to those who have gone through miscarriage or stillbirth and also to hold up this grief in the congregation as a whole. The church I attend, Christ the Redeemer Anglican in Danvers, Massachusetts, holds an annual service called "Rachel Weeping," for all who have lost life in the womb. Participants read Psalm 139 ("You formed me in my inmost being; / you knit me in my mother's womb… / Your eyes saw me unformed; / in your book all are written down; / my days were shaped, before one came to be"). They sing together, though some voices waver audibly in and out. They have a chance if desired to write a note or reflection, to give a name to the child if they have not already done so, to bring along a rose and prayers. The priest later buries the flowers and messages. It is a service that allows important things to be said by the bereaved: I know we lost a baby. Others know we lost a baby. Others mourn with us. God knows we lost a baby, and we trust God receives our babies into His care.
If we hope doctors act to prevent pregnancy loss, addressing risk factors and providing emergency aid and so forth, we should also expect churches to use resources available within the Body of Christ to comfort those so afflicted. Not doing so aggravates the suffering of those who have lost children in the womb and undermines our claims to value and care for prenatal life. Comforting a friend who had miscarried, the theologian L. Serene Jones looked for a way to help her and others bring their sorrow to God. She offers a reflection on the Trinity as a way of making sense of the loss. Considering the pain within God the Father at the death of Jesus, Jones suggests comparison with "the image of the woman who, in the grips of a stillbirth, has death inside her and yet does not die. Consider the power of this as an image for the Trinity. When Christ is crucified, God's own child dies.... And perhaps most wrenching, this is a death that happens deep within God, not outside of God but in the very heart—perhaps the womb—of God."
The image has limits, of course, but speaks powerfully of the experience of miscarriage or stillbirth. Caring for a child in utero and then marking her death before birth can be devastating. Many mothers have done it more than once. Openness to motherhood means wide openness to loss. While it is true that some women become pregnant easily when ready, carry happily to term, deliver without extraordinary peril, and settle into parenting, this is not a default story line. Even setting aside struggles of infertility or of children born with great debility, childbearing is a process with suffering built in. Given rates of miscarriage and stillbirth, even for women in the United States, there is a reasonable likelihood that embarking on childbearing will mean losing a pregnancy. In the early days of amniocentesis, sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman's important study The Tentative Pregnancy showed that women tended to view the expected baby as provisional until prenatal testing yielded healthy results. The perils of birth do not have to make each pregnancy "tentative" until it brings forth a healthy newborn. Instead, they might make us more careful and attentive.
Pregnancy is a great work. Being willing to carry around a new person requires commitment, care, love. It can go badly awry. It requires willingness to see things through when things go wrong. It deserves support. Even if the mystery of death in the womb cannot be answered, still, churches insisting on respect for life should care very much when babies die in miscarriage or stillbirth. They should take seriously the call to comfort Rachel, who weeps because her children are no more. What families struggling with miscarriage and stillbirth seek from the church, beyond the hope for lost children and recognition of their death—if not knowledge of why it happened—is healing and blessing.
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Thank you for this article. Much in it needed to be said, and I think parishes as well as the larger church need to cogitate on how to confront miscarriage. The fact remains that the Church can offer only so much comfort as theology will support. To confront the possibility that one's much-wanted children have been cut off from the God who made them adds a good deal to the guilt and misery of women who have already been through the physical and emotional pain of losing a pregnancy. For that reason, I think I would have found the "Weeping Rachel" service described above, while very lovely, utterly unendurable.
I carve out private time on All Soul's Day, say a rosary, light two white candles, and and think about these words by Stacey Dinner-Levin:
Let me recognize the gift in my ability to conceive and carry life however briefly.
Let me take joy in my ability to love so deeply and desire to nurture a soul unbeknownst to me.
Let me find healing in the belief that this soul knew my love for it and that that love helped it to pass to another place.
Let me honor this short life not only with my love but in finding meaning in its existence.
Let me recognize this meaning in my fullest appreciation of all the moments motherhood will bring me, along with my deeper compassion and sisterhood to other women who've experienced loss.
Let a part of this soul be reflected in the spirit of my future children, born or adopted, so that I may know it through them.
I will listen to and trust the place in my deepest heart that tells me I will once again be reunited with this soul and will fulfill the need to hold it in my arms.
I will help myself to feel comfort in the knowledge that there is a star in heaven that belongs to me.
Thank you for your article and I am so sorry that your son died.
My son would have been 31 years old today. He was [email protected] weeks and lived for 5 days.
We ended up having to remove him from the vent due to the severity of brain damage from several cerebral hemorrages.
It was so far, the worst experience of my life.
Each time I do a baptism preparation class, I address the issues of "limbo" so thoroughly learned and passed on from generation to generation. My own sister had a baby born dead from strangulation by the umbilical cord and then two subsequent miscarriages. Se then went on to have 5 healthy children. My wife had at least one miscarriage that we know about. The loss is amplified by the incipient fear from our older church teachings about the necessity of baptism for salvation. This lingering concept afflicts many women men. My teaching simply says, there is no such place as Limbo. Your babies are all safe with God in heaven and are specially your own angelic saints, praying for you and their family and watching over your lives. I tell them to inscribe the name they would have given that lost child in the family bible, with the appelation of 'Saint." Let your other surviving children know of the death and understand why you continue to both grieve and honor the name of their lost brother or sister. In my opinion the insensitive teaching about Limbo is one of the church's great sins for which it needs to apologize to all parents.
A nice article, and very sorry for your loss. When my brother and sister-in-law lost my nephew two days before his due date, because of an umbilical cord injury, it was one of the saddest and most bewildering experiences our family has ever experienced. My sister-in-law had been scheduled for a C-section due to her prior history - a history which in itself had been pretty terrifying - and now had to endure a C-section to deliver a stillborn child. Needless to say, the parents were utterly unprepared for this disaster. To his credit, I think their parish priest did his best to help them spiritually navigate these stormy waters. However, to our complete befuddlement, there was at first some kind of "problem" in arranging for a funeral Mass, if you will, for the still born child. The priest in the end obtained what we heard was special permission from the bishop to conduct a Mass of the Angels service. I was shaken by this. Although our entire family spent 16 years (including college) in Catholic education, it strains the mental faculties as well as the spiritual to imagine that a child two days away from delivery is somehow less of a sentient being than a child two days after delivery. I know, I know: Baptism, baptism. You can't baptize a dead person - unless you're a Mormon. But it still seemed to me, and does to this day, that the Jesus of the Gospels, the Jesus who performed miracles on the Sabbath, who did not condemn the adulterous woman, who ate with tax collectors and prostitutes, would just know that there needed to be a funeral for that child - no questions asked. The details and questions, I believe, He would leave to the Scribes and Pharisees.
"The fact remains that the Church can offer only so much comfort as theology will support."
Any theology that limits the comfort we can offer to another is a theology not worth having or discussing.
Rick, talk to any priest about this, and he'll be more or less sympathetic and offer to pray for you. But if you ask about the infant's soul, he can only tell you to hope for the best.
Agnes suggests that the Church could offer more healing and blessing to mothers who have miscarried, and I agree. The local parish used to offer a Mass of healing for the sick every Thursday night, which was well attended. Why couldn't there be a similar Mass each year for the healing of body and mind of women who have miscarried? Maybe also for fathers? Miscarriage can cause marital divisions when husbands don't share or understand the sense of loss their wives feel.
Surely there are numerous research projects underway at Catholic hospitals and universities to find a way to prevent spontaneous abortions.
Surely the bishops are sparing no expense to fund those studies.
Mike Evans,
You say:
My teaching simply says, there is no such place as Limbo. Your babies are all safe with God in heaven and are specially your own angelic saints, praying for you and their family and watching over your lives.
But that is your teaching, not the Church's teaching. I lean toward Bohan's observation: "Any theology that limits the comfort we can offer to another is a theology not worth having or discussing." I wonder if the Church has not painted itself into a corner on this issue of Original Sin and also the alleged necessity of Baptism. The doctrine of Original Sin seems to force the Church to maintain that the human race descended from two people. The Catechism says,
390 The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man. Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents.
So a man and a woman named Adam and Eve did not get tempted by a serpent and eat forbidden fruit. Some other man and woman whose names we don't know did some other "deed" that is symbolically represented by Adam and Eve's eating forbidden fruit, and those unnamed people our our "first parents." One could argue that it make more sense just to believe that Adam and Eve ate some forbidden fruit.
As I have mentioned before, my mother told me many years afterwards that sometime in the 1950s she thought she may have had a very early miscarriage, and when she called the parish priest to ask what she should do with what possibly was an embryo, he told her to flush it down the toilet. Little children often treat dead goldfish with more dignity. If there were some formal requirements, at least it might prevent individual priests from behaving like clods.
But really, the centuries-old belief in Limbo and the continued stance of "we can hope, but we really can't say" regarding infants who die without baptism indicate to me a flaw somewhere in the whole system. The Church has, of course, done some fiddling with the absolute requirement for baptism before, in inventing "Baptism of Blood" and "Baptism of Desire" basically out of whole cloth. It is not that the reasoning doesn't make a good deal of sense. It's just that either baptism is necessary or it isn't. The invention of Baptism of Blood and Baptism of Desire is a tacit admission that baptism is indeed not necessary, in which case maybe the Church—for the sake of the appearance of consistency—ought to invent something along the lines of "Spiritual Baptism of Infants Who Die Without Physical Baptism."
So many pregnancies end early one—probably more than half, many of them never even detected by the pregnant woman herself—that there is a gaping hole in the explanatory power of Catholicism right now. It admits to being ignorant of the fate of more than half of the people who have ever been conceived.
Mike, I understand that it was frustrating what your mother was told but in no way does that excuse your prejudice. You cited the catechism and yet on the case of Limbo you tell another commenter that what he says is his teaching, yet don't provide the catechism paragraph to prove him wrong. The Catholic Church has no teaching on Limbo, as the writer correctly states it was theologians and not the Pope or councils that deduced a Limbo and it was them that spread it. It has never been an official doctrine of the Church and to spout otherwise is decieving. The Baptism of Blood and Desire are not made up things they have biblical references, case in point the theif next to Jesus on the cross that would go to paradise, he obviously wasn't baptised physically.
As for what happened to your mother, that is really unfortunate and that priest should be talked to if he hasn't since that time by his bishop, if he is even alive. We are told through the beaitudes to comfort one another and to have hope (hope in the religious sense not the secular) in God (just 2 of the 8), so the idea that there is some "lacking" in theology is only in your theological viewpoint.
Lastly, as a statastician it is appalling the liberties you take in your " probably more than half" statement. That is mere speculation on your part and then you use that speculation to attack the Church's lack of explanatory power. That is an unjust comparison and wrong. that number is more towards 30%. That also cannot be weighted on the Church. They don't have our (myself included) view of the best answer but that also comes back to the 1st beaitude in hoping in God and it is in that hope where we should live our lives, not complaining that everything we have a question about isn't being answered in the here and now with perfect clarity.
And so pastors seem to be constrained to mumble something about hope, leaving the bereaved mother and father and family to grieve without any comfort from the church. Clearly Limbo has never been an official teaching of the church. We have jumped thru all kinds of theological contortions to exempt certain unbaptized folk from the Holy Innocents to the billions of folk born and living all over our planet who have never even been offerred baptism through the church. In fact, the church with its existing scarcity and shortage of clergy is itself responsible for the failure of so many to have the opportunity for baptism. Unless we somehow bless the annual rainfall and believe that it constitutes some kind of official baptism even for the unaware, we must abandon all concepts of Limbo, or even worse, loss of salvation for failure to be baptized. And it was Pope Francis who admonished his fellow Jesuit priests about refusing baptism for bastard children born out of wedlock. Why refuse baptism even when it is sought? Because it might legitimize the parentage and bring about rights of inheritance. Whose side is the church on, God's or the rights of the rancho?
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Is there a way to get the icon or the IconUrl of the site so I can put it in my app like the DisplayName?
The http://stackauth.com/sites method returns a list of all sites in the network, and
The methods stated in the comments are great for pre-defined sites, but in the future there will be new sites that people may want to add to your application immediately (if you have the facility for user-defined sites).
What I did in my app is inspect the index page of the site and scour it for logos (like a favicon, or iPad icon). It works OK, but an official mechanism for this would be better (somewhere in the
A policy about the use of said icon would also help, stating that you have to write it to your own hosting rather than hotlinking, etc.
(I'm posting this an an answer so that it will bump the question and hopefully get it some attention from the powers-that-be).
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10 Feb 2011 10:36 PM #1
Access Web SQL storage from sencha Application
I would like to know if its possible to access and use data from Web SQL storage from the Sencha Touch Application? If yes are there any sample applications or examples.
9 May 2011 1:57 PM #2
have you figured it out? I'm trying to find a solution for this too.
Thank You,
9 May 2011 7:13 PM #3
I'm using WebSql in my current project, so yes it can be done. ST provides no built-in support for WebSql, so we're pretty much on our own. Perhaps they are waiting for IndexedDB, but I'm not. No native support for joins, complex where clauses, aggregate functions? No thanks!
I ended up writing some custom objects to make working with the db and creating SQL statements a bit easier. I find the concept of proxies that only do CRUD to be a bit too simplistic when I have queries with all kinds of joins, where clauses, and aggregate functions, as well as business objects with methods that do more than one operation on more than one table in a transaction. I guess proxies work well with LocalStorage for fairly trivial things, but I ended up bypassing proxies, and instead opted to have methods on my models and stores with custom ad-hoc SQL.
Maybe others have had different approaches? I'll see if I can post some example code soon.
9 May 2011 7:33 PM #4
I for one would be very grateful for some example code as well.
9 May 2011 11:11 PM #5
The basics:
Good tutorial into versioning:
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hello friends..
what is difference between Websql and Sqlite data base..??
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Suppose $f$ has at least two continuous derivatives, $f'$ is monotonically increasing, and $f' \geq \lambda$ for some $\lambda > 0$. How might one find the upper bound $|\int_a^b \cos(f(x))| \leq 2/\lambda$?
I've tried a number of basic approaches and none have worked. For instance, I've tried rewriting $\cos(f(x))$ as $(\sin(f(x)))' / f'(x)$, which seemed promising until I realized that I cannot justify the inequality $|\int_a^b (\sin(f(x)))' / f'(x)| \leq (1/\lambda) |\int_a^b (\sin(f(x)))'|$. Of course, were that true, then the result would follow quickly by evaluating the new integral, applying the triangle inequality, and finally noting that $|\sin(x)| \leq 1$.
I've tried a similar approach using the mean value theorem for integrals but was only able to show that there is some $\theta$, $a < \theta < b$, so that
$|\int_a^b \cos(f(x))| \leq \frac{1}{\lambda} (|f(\theta) - f(a)| + |f(b) - f(\theta)|)$,
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When I login, nothing happens.
I am presented with my desktop wallpaper.
No Dash, no Launcher, nothing.
When I login, nothing happens.
I am presented with my desktop wallpaper.
No Dash, no Launcher, nothing.
You just need to turn the Unity plugin back on. The problem is this is a pain in the bottom because you've now got no graphical method to do this. So:
A solution good for me (has solved the same problem):
in a terminal:
and then
I hope it'll be useful.
For 12.10 and below:
Press Ctrl+Alt+T for a terminal and run
You also may then need to run a
In 13.04:
Reboot if it doesn't work right away.
It is a good idea to check your graphics driver is configured to use hardware acceleration and it is configured to use opengl. Try searching Ask Ubuntu and Ubuntu Forums for information specific to your gpu/'s and Ubuntu flavour. For hybrid graphics users see the last section "Hybrid Graphics" below.
You might want to run the compizconfig-settings-manager package and make sure that the Unity plugin is checked.
For 12.04 And Newer
If unity still does not load try:
Reboot if it doesn't work right away.
For 11.10 And Older
If you hope into a tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F6) and run:
It will reset Unity back on tty 7 (Ctrl+Alt++F7).
You can also try just:
But that won't work if a windows manager is already running on display 0 (it will give you an error, just use
If Unity absolutely refuses to restart try this:
Than run it on display 0:
You should then have Gnome 2 style panels on your desktop, which you can use to logout.
Hybrid Graphics
Some very useful information and further reading can be found at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics for hybrid graphics users.
Once gpu's are configured appropriately for 3d acceleration and opengl you can:
If you chose the stable PPA in step 1, install the Bumblebee stable PPA as follows:
The easiest way to do this is to press Ctrl+Alt+T to get a terminal and then issue:
and your unity session will come back before your eyes..
This technique is better than re-launching ccsm, because you can get into OP's error condition without even accidentally de-selecting unity in ccsm; you can get it simply by accidentally pressing the "preferences" button in ccsm.
I had this problem too. I solved it with deleting the content of the ~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig file and relog.
I have had exactly the same issue.
If you have Compiz Config Settings Manager installed it may be that the Unity Desktop Plugin is disabled.
Log in to a Unity 2D desktop and check that it is enabled in CCSM like this,
Unity Shell will not load in the default desktop if the tickbox is not checked and you will get the session in your picture.
Developers are always fixing bugs, so an alternative is to wait, and to follow progress on bug fixing (subscribe to Unity development in Launchpad).
UPDATE: I was able to resolve this by using
(This is adapted from this Ubuntu Forums post.)
I have an Asus U36SD using an "Optimus" (Intel + Nvidia GPUs) set-up. I had Ubuntu 12.04 working just fine, but upgrading to 12.10, this problem appeared and persisted in 13.04. I have managed to fix it trough the following steps:
The original poster of the duplicate question, solved in editing his own question:
For 13.10:
Just to insure everything is installed:
Next, reload everything:
I just tried this and it works!
If all else fails:
Remember, always make backups! However, sometimes a fresh install is good, reinstall Ubuntu?
It seems there's a problem with 12.04 Unity 3D and the current Nvidia drivers.
See this post (Unity 3d no longer works after installing 12.04) for details of how to work round the problem.
I have a 32 bit Pentium 4 3.06 GHz Compaq D520SFF, with an Nvidia GeForce 6200, running kernel 3.2.0-24-generic-pae, and had exactly the same problem (2D works, 3D doesn't), and downgrading the Nvidia drivers got 3D working for me in a couple of minutes.
For the icons, it is due to Nautilus. Write
EDIT 10/10/2013: for Nautilus you can also type Alt + F2 to open Unity command line prompt and write
I had a similar problem:
unity with 14.04 in combination with IBM Notes9 resulted in some strange behavior (mouse clicks would stop working). My workaround for that was to open a terminal and restart unity by typing
The last time I did that, it totally corrupted unity - the no dash, no launcher no nothing. I think I tried EVERY suggestion that is listed on this page - none of it did help.
But a coworker finally had the answer that worked for me:
Afterwards, unity was back alive. Obviously all prior configuration changes to unity were gone, but that is what
And the big advantage of this solution: it requires you to only add a single package and to redo your unity config changes - but you do not have to reset compiz, install ccsm, or follow all the other lengthy activities.
If you hope into a tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F6) and run:
It will reset Unity back on tty 7 (Ctrl+Alt++F7).
You can also try just:
But that won't work if a windows manager is already running on display 0 (it will give you an error, just use
If Unity absolutely refuses to restart try this:
Than run it on display 0:
You should then have Gnome 2 style panels on your desktop, which you can use to logout.
I find Unity to be really buggy on 13.04 with my Nvidia card.. YMMV.
I have had about 3 times where I needed the Ctrl+Alt+F1 to not loose work and it messed up... I have nvidia also. I would like to suggest this:
Ctrl+Alt+F1 (ok, blank screen) Type your login, hit Enter, then password (all in blank screen) type this now:
will have to type password again and Enter
this will open a X session at Ctrl+Alt+F8 (will jump to it automatically)
now create a new empty text file called
save it, change its permissions to executable, and run it, you will get a truly relieving terminal that makes you remember why Linux is good ! :D
after you finish, remember to Ctrl+Alt+F1, hit Ctrl+C (will end the new X session), type exit, Enter, will end the terminal (blank screen) session. if you think you missed typing exit, just hit Ctrl+C and type again, don't do it too fast.
so you can improve it, make a script to let you type as little as possible, but anyway you will still have to type a lot while the screen is blank, but it is better than nothing :)
Still looking for definitive Ctrl+Alt+F1 proper solution Ubuntu 12.04 + nvidia.
If you use an acceleration graphics card alongside the default graphics card, it's possibly due to the installation of their drivers. A few updates of acceleration graphics cards drivers in systems that have two graphics card tend to present unstable behavior in some systems. I have an Nvidia card and an Intel card. It used to happen with me when I installed Nvidia drivers. Launcher and panel would disappear from the the desktop. If you use an Nvidia card, installing Bumblebee could be a temporary solution: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee
The first answer works fine, except I needed to install Unity itself:
then run:
and enable Unity :)
I had pretty much the same problem under 12.04. Unity was slow with my aged GPU, so I was using Unity 2d as my desktop for months. For no apparent reason, it suddenly refused to display launchpad and title bar (for all users). Reenabling Unity in CCSM as sugggested here was part of the solution, but none of the other measures suggested here, there or in several other related threads, including, but not limited to:
helped me to completely resolve these symptoms under 12.04 (64 bit).
would not work for me. After delivering a variety of error and information messages, it would always hang at:
as shown in the log posted in the thread titled "unity has vanished" for unity run with no arguments.
I noticed that the error message delivered by:
was similar to some of the errors reported by
error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
After extensive searching, I found the following solution:
This not only allowed both unity_support_test-p and
When I accidentally upgraded from 12.04 LTS Ubuntu to 13.04, I too had to face the same issues such as missing side menu bar, no window options, not being able to switch between applications (alt-tab) and I couldn't even drag windows on the screen. After following so many options I ended up with the following set of commands to fix these issues.
reboot (you can use
reboot (you can use
I actually removed aspell because of conflicting dependency. This might not have any correlation between this issue. I think re-installing lightdm and resetting compiz helped me in fixing this.
It happens when you login with another tty and try, as the same user, to start X (with startx or initx) .
For example, Ubuntu runs in tty7. With Ctrl+Alt+F1 tty1 opens. Log in as the same user, and run startx. Go back to tty7, logout and login. You only get the desktop wall paper.
To solve the problem, choose tty1, login, remove the .Xauthority file in your home directory, logout, login. Solved.
I am having the same issue, and solved by following using
I tried many of the solutions mentioned in this thread as well as others. Finally this worked for me:
Thanks everybody for contributing.
Today I've encountered situation where user of my script has decided to launch it by placing the call to script into his
Scripts by nature are sequential, so
I've done the same thing,called the script from
The solution was to remove appropriate line from the
Link to original script and discussion here: http://askubuntu.com/a/739631/295286
I had the same problem and all the suggestions above failed for me.
I made the following steps:
Then, you don't need KDE anymore. ;-)
I had recently edited my
So if you've recently modified your
I just had a black background with a mouse cursor. The following worked for me in addition to enabling the unity plugin again via ccsm, but first I had to do the following because it didn't even properly show the desktop: When doing unity --reset, it stopped at "show session" and some lines before it said "error loading plugin opengl", so i figured this must be related.. and it was! (just be sure to load your specific .so my nvidia installation had a different number of course, just do ls in the folder in described in the link
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