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Basically, we have to shift education from focusing mainly on the acquisition of knowledge (the central underpinning of most adaptive learning software today) to the development of learner states of being (affect, emotion, self-regulation, goal setting, and so on). Adaptive learners are central to the future of work and society, whereas adaptive learning is more an attempt to make more efficient a system of learning that is no longer needed.
Even after they're obsolete, technologies can take a long time to fully die out. It was only in 2011, after all, that the last typewriter factory shutdown. And now, at long last, it appears the videocassette recorder is suffering the same fate: Funai Electric, the last company known to make VCRs, is ceasing production.
Sky-high suspension rates, bullied kids and underfunded schools — those are some of the hot education topics in the United States. But in other parts of the world, teachers, parents and policymakers are grappling with challenges such as a lack of school buildings or teachers, scarce electricity, and extreme poverty, which often forces young people out of the classroom and into the workforce.
The solutions to some of these issues might be found with the finalists for the WISE Awards, an annual competition for innovative organizations and projects that address global educational problems. It was started in 2009 by the Qatar Foundation, a private, nonprofit organization based in Doha, Qatar, as an offshoot of the World Innovation Summit for Education. The competition awards six winning organizations or projects $20,000 — funding that helps expand their ability to make a difference.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos now worth slightly more than Warren Buffett.
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Police in Michigan have a new tool for unlocking phones: 3D printing. According to a new report from Flash Forward creator Rose Eveleth, law enforcement officers approached a professor a
Dysfunction and incoherence are so built into government systems that you'd think it was a contract provision. (We know it isn't, because vendors seldom live up to their contracts.) For many years, a sense of despondency and hopelessness permeated the world of government information technology (IT), as contractors pocketed billions for systems that didn't work, and many agencies relied on legacy systems predating the internet.
"Meanwhile, the private sector makes technology accessible and routine. The gap kept widening between government sites and the ridiculously easy-to-use apps people accessed on their phones every day. The pot finally boiled over with the healthcare.gov debacle. The epic fail of the site, intended to implement the centerpiece legislation of the Obama administration, was a tire-fire political crisis, not to mention a threat to the medical well-being of millions of citizens.
"Miraculously, that low point became a turning point. Some techies in the White House, including the nation's CTO (chief technology officer) Todd Park, readied a rescue plan — recruiting a small team of coders, steeped in the best practices of Silicon Valley, to save the project. Against all expectations, it worked, and in the first enrollment period over eight million people used the site to get insurance. Building on that effort, on August 11, 2014, the White House formed the United States Digital Service. The USDS intends to replicate, assembly-line-style, the sprint that saved healthcare.gov. Using talent recruited on the basis of patriotism and the promise of impactful work, USDS tries to target similar moribund projects, or problems that could be addressed by modern tech practices, and produce stuff that works, at a fraction of the traditional cost.
"To do that, the USDS needs to fan out from the White House and embed its Silicon Valley hacker recruits into the major government agencies, to get direct access to a select set of projects that would make a difference in citizens' lives.
And it is doing just that."
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Who knew? This is such a hopeful development! Must read.
"HILT and our Grants Program began three years ago
when Rita and Gus Hauser generously provided funds to President Faust for teaching and learning innovation. From the beginning we've defined successful grants as those that scale or extend to other areas of the university, but there is much more to say about both success and failure. We would like with this document to spark a rich and authentic exchange about the outcomes of educational innovation.
HILT has funded 60 projects to date. These have ranged from the simple to the very complex, from easy wins to high-risk, and from no- or low-tech, to high-tech. Awardees represent every Harvard school and include faculty, students, and academic professional staff. Our review committees have deliberated over 400 proposals from nearly 1,100 applicants....
As a first step, we offer some emerging insights and themes drawn from the work and from conversations with grant recipients. The projects highlighted here provide a few concrete exemplars, with many more available, and much more documentation to come in multimedia and non-static forms. Our hope is that these examples and themes will encourage grantees and others to keep asking the tough questions and sharing results, whether expected or unexpected, unqualified successes or so-called failures."
This 2014 report from the Harvard Institute for Learning and Teaching documents 3 years of well-funded grants aimed at spurring innovation at the university. Many of the descriptions are very interesting and provide rich food for thought in numerous dimensions.
This 2014 report from the Harvard Institute for Learning and Teaching documents 3 years of well-funded grants aimed at spurring innovation at the university. Many of the descriptions are very interesting and provide rich food for thought in numerous dimensions. Some of the projects are ripe for transformation into VR and/or AR.
When building a positive school climate, it's important to remember that there is no magic formula—much will depend on the leaders' values and vision and how much everyone else gets on board with those things.
It starts with trust, which researchers say is an essential prerequisite to a more positive climate. The following steps are in part designed to build trust, mainly by giving teachers, staff, and students some say in the process—and leaders who guide the process must never miss an opportunity to prove themselves trustworthy and to facilitate trust-building between stakeholders.
Here are some research-based suggestions for school leaders on how to start cultivating a positive school climate:
A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has examined gender differences in education, particularly discussing underperformance among boys, a lack of self confidence in girls, and influences that stem from family life, school, and society.
The report, "The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence," attempts to uncover the reason why 15-year-old boys are typically more likely than girls to not become proficient in reading, math, and science, as well as why 15-year-old girls, who are high-achieving in other areas, are unable to do so in the areas of math, science, and problem-solving in comparison to underachieving boys. PISA results from 2012 indicate 14% of boys and 9% of girls were unable to attain the PISA level of proficiency in any of the three core subjects.
"...Robert J Shiller and George Akerlof's recent Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception. In their short book the authors examine the myriad of ways all of us are "phished" – probed by con-artists looking for "phools" to take advantage of and manipulate.
"The techniques have become increasingly sophisticated as psychologists have gotten a clearer handle on the typology of irrationality otherwise known as human nature. Gains in knowledge always come with tradeoffs:
"But theory of mind also has its downside. It also means we can figure out how to lure people into doing things that are in our interest, but not in theirs. As a result, many new ideas are not just technological. They are not ways to deliver good-for-you/good-for-me's. They are, instead, new uses of the theory of mind, regarding how to deliver good-for-me/bad-for-you's." (98)
"This it seems would be the very opposite of a world dominated by non- zero sum games that were heralded in the 1990's, rather it's the construction of an entire society around the logic of the casino, where psychological knowledge is turned into a tool against consumers to make choices contrary to their own long term interest.
"This type of manipulation, of course, has been the basis of our economies for quite sometime. What is different is the level of sophistication and resources being thrown at the problem of how to sustain human consumption in a world drowning in stuff. The solution has been to sell things that simply disappear after use- like experiences- which are made to take on the qualities of the ultimate version of such consumables, namely addictive drugs."
My search, these days, is to understand better what is happening around us, perhaps most recently symbolized in the West by Brexit, Trump's coup of the Republican party leadership, Isis, the torrent of worldwide corruption represented most graphically by the "culture" of addictive drugs, and "Kimye". This piece seems to shine a bit of light, at least to me.
For your next classes, go beyond getting students to read and learn only from worksheets and books. Integrate virtual reality, augmented reality, or wearables to create meaningful learning experiments for students. Below is a slide presentation (free to download) followed by bookmarks filled with activities and resources.
Slide show, activities, and resources; Terrell gives us a lot of useful material here.
Slide show, activities, and resources; Terrell gives us a lot of useful material here.
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What are the similarities and differences between how users of Facebook and Instagram feel about both social networks?
Facebook IQ released a new study in which more than 5,500 users of Facebook and Instagram in six countries—Australia, Brazil, France, Japan, U.K. and U.S.—were polled on their "behavior and emotions across the two platforms." Its findings included:
"Celebrity women are absolutely dominating social media when it comes to personal branding nowadays, and Selena Gomez is the queen bee of digital buzz. According to measurement company D'Marie Analytics, the top six social influencers are either female pop stars like Gomez, Rihanna, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift—or their last name is Jenner, and first name is either Kendall or Kylie.
"Gomez currently stands in the No. 1 slot and, per D'Marie, is worth $550,000 per social media post when the messaging appears across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. That's $300,000 more than the analytics company said Kendall Jenner, Gomez, Swift and Cara Delevingne could probably charge last December."
What does this tell us about ourselves? (and isn't that an incredible photo?)
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The Art of the Deal" made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.
This might be somewhat off-topic, but it is also quite relevant.
description from The Scout Project
"Launched in January 2016 by a group of scholars at the American Assembly at Columbia University, the Open Syllabus Project contains data from over one million university syllabi. Using publicly available syllabi along with faculty contributions, the Open Syllabus team enters every text assigned to students into a database. Faculty, librarians, and students can then search for a text using the Syllabus Explorer tool to see a list of other works assigned alongside that text and discover its "Teaching Score" - a score developed by the team to reflect how frequently a text is assigned. While this tool is useful for university instructors considering what to include on their own syllabi, it also provides insight for anyone interested in examining trends in scholarship and higher education. Open Syllabus team members David McClure and Joe Karaganis noted in a recent New York Times article about the site's launch, "Teaching captures a very different set of judgments about what is important than [scholarly] publication does." The Open Syllabus Project provides insight into what faculty judge important to teach to undergraduate students."
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Your smartphone's radio can be used to spy on you. The exiled NSA leaker teamed up with renowned hardware hacker Bunnie Huang to stop it.
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"Facebook has a drone plan: to bring the Internet to hard-to-reach places by dispatching a network of high-altitude autonomous aircraft. Yesterday, the company announced that it had flown its ambitious experimental drone, Aquila, for the first time, on an army airfield in Arizona. Mark Zuckerberg was on hand to witness.
"It's been a year since Facebook announced that it had designed and built a high-altitude solar-powered drone in just 14 months. I was there in person the day after they finished building the prototype of that first aircraft."
Great article.
This edited book represents a sliver, albeit a substantial one, of the scholarship on the science of learning and its application in educational settings. Most of the work described in this book is based on theory and research in cognitive psychology. Although much, but not all, of what is presented is focused on learning in college and university settings, teachers of all academic levels may find the recommendations made by chapter authors of service. Authors wrote their chapters with nonexperts as the target audience – teachers who may have little or no background in science of learning, research-based approaches to teaching and learning, or even general principles of psychological science. The book is organized in three sections. The 14 chapters in Part 1 address important concepts, principles, theories, and research findings, and applications related to the science of learning. The four chapters in Part 2 focus on preparing faculty to apply science of learning principles in their courses. Finally, the six chapters in Part 3 provide examples of research that have been done in real academic settings and that have applied one or more science of learning principles.
Free download of entire book.
"Full lecture video ~ Presentation Slides ~ Dr. Mayer Bio ~ Background reading
One of Dr. Mayer's primary research interests is multimedia learning. In his work, he applies basic findings from cognitive psychology to practical questions in learning, teaching, and communication, most notably: How can individuals effectively design visual content (e.g., PowerPoint presentations) to accompany their verbal presentations and written text?"
Multimedia instruction helps learners understand concepts with the use of words and images. Dr. Mayer explained that there are three cognitive processes required for meaningful learning: selecting, organizing, and integrating. The multimedia techniques of his research aim to prime these processes
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We're very proud to be posting the first draft of our book Structuring Equality: A Handbook to Student-Centered Learning and Teaching Practices by the Graduate Center Learning Collective.
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Sometimes at work I have an immediate need to get an answer for a question. I have 3,000 points at my disposal so I'd like to just put a bounty on the question as soon as I post it to give it the highest possible chance of being seen. Why do I have to wait?
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I'm for cutting the necessary waiting period for a bounty in half. 48 hours is too long.
In Podcasts #26 and #34, Joel and Jeff talked about this. They didn't want a bounty to interfere with the 'normal' method of asking/answering questions. If you're allowed to offer it right away, then it has the potential to create an economy where people only focus on questions with bounties.
It's important to note that it's very rare (over 90% of questions are answered) for your question not to be answered. As far as getting it answered quickly, well that depends on what time you ask your question (All times UTC).
There is another issue here... IIRC, some of the voting options are disabled for posts with bounty - which has potential for abuse (although I believe ♦ moderators can still kill it if needed).
OK, in reality even under the current process somebody could radically edit their original post just before adding bounty, but it would be an obvious abuse, making it much easier for us to justify hitting delete.
However; I can easily imagine "what is your favourite pet's name for programming?" with a +50 bounty to prevent regular voting.
I'm in favor of being able to offer a bounty from the start. I think this will yield more quality answers.
Why should you get to give your question "the highest possible chance of being seen" right away? Does your 3K reputation make you more important than users with lower rep? You shouldn't think of the rep you've accumulated as currency that you can use to buy a better position for your questions.
The right way to draw attention to your question is to spend some time writing a question that's clear, concise, and well-researched. High quality questions get voted up, which raises their visibility, improves your chance of getting solid answers, and increases your reputation all at the same time.
Bounties are fine for giving an extra incentive for people to spend time to help you find an answer to a difficult or obscure question, but only after time has shown that extra incentive is required.
Why not allow a +100 bounty with no contributions on behalf of SO (not 50:50). Sometimes if you ask a difficult or complicated question you just plain want to reward whoever gives you the answer (plus encourage people to invest the time). At the moment complex or difficult questions just drop off a lot of the time as there is less motivation to answer them.
Because you then get even more questions like http://superuser.com/questions/12442/where-i-can-get-free-cd-dvd-of-any-linux-distribution
I mean really? was the 100 rep bounty even necessary?
Its because there aren't enough people to intelligently use the feature that it shouldn't get implemented as you suggest. I'm probably one of the few who think that while the bounty thing was a good idea on paper, human nature just kinda makes it not work right. (still on the first cup of coffee - for a more detailed and coherent answer see my answer to one of the initial bounty questions - or it might have been the blog post.)
That said, I've not seen many questions that don't get answers in the first 6-12 hours. The few that don't tend to be esoteric, or very technology specific, and in any case wouldn't significantly benefit from the bounty - except to attract people trying to post something to at least score the default position.
I don't ask many questions (3 in 7 months); I mostly answer them. That said, the reasons George (posting for the SO team) outlines are IMHO garbage.
Regarding people focusing only on bounties. All you have to do is look at the current list of bounty questions to know that's bollocks. There are a lot of bounty questions, there are also a lot of non-bounty questions. People answer both now, why would they change? Answer: they wouldn't.
Also, the graph shown doesn't really matter. So what if most questions are answered during those time periods. So what if most questions are answered within an hour or two of posting?
At the time of this writing I have over 40k of rep. Once I passed the 10k mark, there apparently is zero Rep related reason to keep answering questions. I do so simply because I like to help others; which I was doing anyway.
I'd love to put this into use.
How about having the MINIMUM bounty start at something like 1000 rep points. Every hour that goes by drop it by 20 points until 48 hours is up. This would certainly limit the number of people even willing to consider making an immediate bounty; unless it was critical to them.
One additional thing: George mentioned that 90% of questions get answered. Which is great; however I believe that 90% of questions out there are fairly simple ones. It's the hard ones that don't get answered. The hard questions generally involve a little more research plus domain knowledge. That should be worth something.
For example, if I have a question about an issue that is a high priority to me which may involve a responder writing code to solve then I would like to be able to reward them quickly on it. I know I've certainly had problems that if a solution was available within an hour then it would have been worth 2000+ rep points to me. In short, I'd rather trade rep points to get difficult problems solved faster than expending real cash on my own research time.
Perhaps something could be worked here so that the you could offer an initial bounty, but they would be featured differently, it wouldn't affect their front page rating and the site wouldn't match the bounty points, something like that. I agree you've earned the points and it would be nice if you could "put that to work", but I also understand what I think (from memory here) was Joel's point that you wouldn't want the site to become people camping for questions with bounty points, so I don't think it should be overly encourage. Maybe even the person could incur a penalty. I think the key if the feature was added would be to disinsentivise it to the point that it would be used sparingly.
I'm going to pull something that RLH said earlier in a comment out into an answer, because I think it deserves notice. Let immediate bounties happen, but put some sort of an overhead on it - enough so that the bounty transaction itself is a net rep consumer. (Say, twice as many points for the bounty as it's worth, minimum bounty of 100). If you wait the two days, you can go under standard bounty rules. This has the following effects.
...and in response to those who say "well, just hire a consultant" or suggest that we go to pay sites, it's not that simple. First, I honestly don't trust the resources at pay sites as much as I do the resources here. I know SO and use it frequently. I don't know the other sites. Second, I do not have money to spend elsewhere. I can build rep here, and then spend it just fine, but as soon a actual cash comes into the equation, the situation becomes far more complicated. Third, if it's a problem that's confusing and finicky enough that I can't figure it out after a bunch of poking at it, asking my coworkers, and a thorough web search or two, I feel like it would be better to have the answer out there - make life easier for the next coder who tries that web search.

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I know it has something to do with 2's complement and adding 1, but I don't really get how you can encode one more number with the same amount of bits when it comes to negative numbers.
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Think about it in these terms. Take a 2-bit number with a preceding sign:
Now let's have some negatives:
Wait, we also have
It has to be negative, because the sign-bit is 1. So, logically, it must be -4.
(Edit: As WorldEngineer rightly points out, not all numbering systems work this way -- but the ones you're asking about do.)
Because there are not two classes of numbers in the integer range, but three: negative numbers, zero, and positive numbers. Zero has to take up a slot (would be rather impractical not to be able to represent zero...), so either the positive or the negative class has to give up a slot. The fact that it's usually the positive range that has to make that sacrifice is to a certain extent arbitrary, but on the level of bit manipulations there are some things that this decision makes more convenient.
There are BASICALLY three ways to represent signed integers in binary: 2's complement, 1's complement, and sign-magnitude. (Biquinary went the way of the Dodo Bird a long time ago.)
1's complement and sign-magnitude have two zero values, +0 and -0, each with a unique representation. 2's complement only has one zero value, and one representation.
Now, a field of N bits can encode 2^N values. Subtract one in 2's complement, and you have 2^N-1 = 2^(N-1) + 2^(N-1) + 1. Since the representation for zero is all zero bits, and a + sign is zero, there will be one more possible nonzero representation with the sign bit set to 1.
This is a very long-winded way of saying 2's complement represents values in the range -(2^(N-1)) .. +(2^(N-1) - 1).
1's complement actually has an advantage over 2's complement if you are doing integer digital signal processing computations. 1's complement operations inherently truncate toward zero. 2's complement truncates toward -infinity. I learned this one the HARD way...


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News about Steven Brill, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Anatomy of a Health Care Mess
Steven Brill has written a comprehensive chronicle of the politicking behind the Affordable Care Act, spiced by personal insights stemming from his own surgery.
January 27, 2015, Tuesday
'America's Bitter Pill,' by Steven Brill
Zephyr Teachout reviews Steven Brill's new book, a guide to the maze of issues in American health care and health care reform.
January 11, 2015, Sunday
Huffington Post Is Said to Be in Talks to Host a Jill Abramson Journalism Start-Up
Ms. Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, and the journalist Steven Brill are said to be in talks with Arianna Huffington.
November 21, 2014, Friday
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Teaching With the Enemy
Charter schools are one thing, but broad reform won't happen without working with teachers' unions.
November 8, 2011, Tuesday
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Teachers Get Little Say in a Book About Them
Steven Brill's new book, "Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools," takes a largely critical eye toward teachers unions.
August 29, 2011, Monday
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Steve Brill's Report Card on School Reform
In "Class Warfare," Steven Brill brings a sharp legal mind to the world of education reform and mounts a zealous case against America's teachers' unions.
August 21, 2011, Sunday
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Brill Sells Journalism Online to R.R. Donnelley
Journalism Online, a media company that has tried to pave the way for newspapers to charge for their content on the Web, has sold itself to R.R. Donnelley.
March 24, 2011, Thursday
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Some News Outlets Ready to Try Charging Online Readers
A new Steven Brill endeavor enables news outlets to charge their online readers. The tattered news industry may be ready to give it a whirl.
February 3, 2010, Wednesday
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'Clear' Security Service May Return at Airports
Verified Identity Pass, which offered a service to send airline passengers to the head of the security line for a fee, has been sold.
September 30, 2009, Wednesday
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Journalism Online says it is just months away from having a payment system in place and that there is broad interest.
September 11, 2009, Friday
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I spent the last week trying to convince a group of people to use a cloud based word processor instead of the traditional desktop in order to avoid common problems of email exchange. What I thought would be time-consuming - being online to offer assistance should they find any problem using it - turned out to consume a lot of my time to actually make them use it.
Although they did end up using the cloud based tool, and even liking doing so, it required a couple of Scarlett Johanssonn pictures as - what I like to call - illustrative argument, which was awesome to add some humor to the heavy atmosphere caused by all the arguing.
I don't think I can keep using the same strategy in future attempts with different people, especially with those who fit in the late adopters and laggards in the Everett Rogers diffusion of innovation scale. So what kind of strategies could have been used to convince a group of people to at least try the new system with one project? Assuming, of course, that you didn't have the authority to impose it.


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COLUMBUS - Braxton Miller didn't make any headlines during the offseason, at least not for anything he did off the field.
The Ohio State quarterback has been under a microscope for the past two years, ever since he first took over as the Buckeyes' starting quarterback.
About the last thing he wants to do is be a focal point for what he does on his own time.
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COMFORTABLE — Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller passes under pressure from defensive lineman Adolphus Washington during Ohio State's annual spring game in Cincinnati.
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"Oh, no. I try to stay out of all that stuff. I'm good on that," he says, when asked if he learned anything from all the travails Heisman winner Johnny Manziel went through in his private life this past offseason.
Miller is a celebrity, make no mistake about that. He's downright famous around Ohio. But he has no intention of letting that change who he is.
"I'll just be the same guy I am right now, humble and talking to you guys," he said, an average 20-year-old kid surrounded by maybe 100 reporters and photographers hanging on his every word. "When I leave here, I'm just like a regular person. I'll just keep it level-headed and go about my business when I go on the field. When I leave the field, I'm just this ... guy."
The junior says he doesn't mind all the attention, even though almost everyone would classify him as soft-spoken bordering on shy. At the very least, he's grown used to being sought out by fans and media. It comes with putting up these numbers: 1,271 yards rushing, 2,039 passing and 28 total touchdowns.
His teammates notice the change in him.
"That's a really cool thing to see out of a guy that's a superstar talent," offensive lineman Jack Mewhort said. "I tell people all the time, his best quality is his humility. He's not one of those guys who'll be in the headlines. That's really a cool thing as a quarterback, especially a guy of his caliber."
Now, with Ohio State on the cusp of what could be a memorable season, the junior is trying hard to be a more forceful leader. He may never be the guy who gets in a teammate's grill and chews him out, but there's no reason why he can't get other players to produce just because he plays so hard and wants to win so badly.
It's been a bit of a struggle to get Miller to be more assertive but he's making progress.
"He's never been a bad guy, he's always been a great guy," coach Urban Meyer said. "But now he's got a little confidence to him. I call (quarterback) the most unique position in sport, where you're allowed to be a little introverted but you have to be able to lead. I don't want to give him an A yet, but he's pushing A work."
Miller's position coach, Tom Herman, has worked hard to try to help bring out Miller's personality.
"I think he was and still is and will continue to be a tough nut to crack," Herman said. "He's very guarded, as has been well documented. He's a very introverted person. That's not bad; none of that is bad. But it lends itself to a much tougher job for a guy like me to come in and say, 'Hey, since high school I'm your fourth offensive coordinator in four years or whatever the case may be and, oh by the way, you've got to trust me 100 percent.'
"It takes time. Trust is earned, it's not just given."
There is no question that his teammates respect Miller. They see how he applies himself, the extra time he puts in, how much he cares.
"He's more mature, he's more of a leader, he's more vocal," running back Jordan Hall said. "He was one of our hardest workers in the offseason, too."
Miller is considered one a handful of top candidates for the Heisman Trophy.
It wasn't so long ago that the Ohio State signal-caller might have dreaded facing the prospect of the interminable national spotlight that comes with a Heisman campaign. Now, he may not welcome it, but at least he's at ease. He trusts others to make it as effortless for him as possible.
"Coach Meyer does a good job about that (Heisman talk)," Miller said. "He always tells us how good we are, how bad we did this day and blah blah blah.
"We have to keep the momentum how it was last year, just keep that going. All the things that are going on outside of the (practice facility), you can't pay any attention to that stuff."


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Some time ago, in connection with trying to understand a construction of Amitsur (Embeddings of matrix rings, Pac JM 36 (1971), I stumbled across a short paper which considered some variant of the following question:
given (forgetful) functors $H: {\mathcal C} \to {\mathcal B}$ and $G:{\mathcal B}\to {\mathcal A}$, such that $GH:{\mathcal C}\to {\mathcal A}$ and $G:{\mathcal B}\to {\mathcal A}$ both have left adjoints, when can we deduce that $H$ has a left adjoint?
I think in the intended application ${\mathcal A}$ was the category of sets and ${\mathcal B}$ was the category of rings; the idea being that it is easier or more transparent to construct "the free widget on a generating set" than "the free widget on a generating ring".
Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the author nor the title of the paper. Does this sound familiar to anyone? and if not, does anyone have an alternative reference? Sorry to ask such a vague question, but I have been racking my brains and searching on MathSciNet to no avail.
UPDATE: while reading Todd Trimble's answer below, the veil inexplicably lifted and I was able to remember the author's surname, from which a quick Google turned up what I was after:
An Interpolation Theorem for Adjoint Functors S. A. Huq, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society Vol. 25, No. 4 (Aug., 1970), pp. 880-883
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Santorum competed fiercely with Romney in the primaries and has seemed unready to endorse him in the month since he dropped out of the race. His endorsement could pave the way for social conservatives to embrace Romney.
"The primary campaign certainly made it clear that Governor Romney and I have some differences. But there are many significant areas in which we agree: the need for lower taxes, smaller government, and a reduction in out-of-control spending. We certainly agree that abortion is wrong and marriage should be between one man and one woman.
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'Brighton Beach Memoirs' opens Friday at Little Theater
Published: Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 1:36 p.m.
"Brighton Beach Memoirs" by Neil Simon will open at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Hendersonville Little Theater, 229 S. Washington St.
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What: "Brighton Beach Memoirs" by Neil Simon
Where: Hendersonville Little Theater, 229 S. Washington St.
When: Opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Other performances 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sundays, through April 21.
Tickets: $20 adults, $15 students 18-25, and $10 students younger than 18
Information: 828-692-1082 or hendersonvillelittletheater.org
The central character in the play is Eugene, a bright, imaginative teenager living with his family (mother, father, brother, aunt and two cousins) in a lower-middle-class Brooklyn home in 1937.
In "Memoirs," Eugene is the narrator for an account of a few days in his family's life. His dreams of being a professional baseball player and of learning something about the opposite sex conflict with the real problems facing his struggling Jewish household.
Eugene will be played by Dion Mills, who is new to HLT, but audiences will have seen him at Flat Rock Playhouse. Lyn French O'Hare will portray Eugene's mother, Kate. O'Hare is a veteran performer for both HLT and Brevard Little Theatre.
Eugene's brother, Stanley, is played by Daniel Fritog, fresh from the cast of HLT's "Romeo and Juliet." Phillip Packer, known both at HLT and Asheville Community Theatre, will portray the boys' father, Jack. Carole Avery, last seen in "The Trip to Bountiful," plays Blanche, Kate's sister. Blanche's daughters are played by Jessica Donahue, who appeared in "The Trip to Bountiful," and 12-year-old Skylan Rayne.
Jonathan Forrester is directing "Brighton Beach Memoirs." Forrester directed last season's "The Glass Menagerie" and appeared as Benvolio in "Romeo and Juliet." Beth Norris and Jim Walker share duties as producers. Sandy Newman is stage manager, and Bobby Foster is set designer.
HLT is sponsoring a drawing for a dinner for two at The Inn on Church at the opening-night champagne gala.
The play runs through April 21. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students 18–25, and $10 for students under 18.
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If Zabriske and White were involved with doping this offers them a free pass to say, "yes, I did it." In the current enviornment Many former dopers might be afraid to speak out and potentially lose a contract. Garmin standing up and saying, "no big deal, as long as you tell the truth," might lead to more riders stepping up and saying what everyone suspects; pro-cycling was dirty, it's getting cleaner and we need to do better.


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I am interested in computing direct sum decomposition of modules over some quotients of polynomial rings over a field (do not care much about the field at this point). Does any one know a package which does that? I tried searching Macaulay 2 but could not find any. Thanks.
EDIT: Perhaps the question was a bit vague, so I will add a specific example. Let $R=k[X_{11},...X_{33}]/I$, with $k$ say, $\mathbb Q$ or $\mathbb Z/(p)$ with $p>3$ and $I$ generated by the 2x2 minors. Let $M=(x_{11},x_{12},x_{13})$. I would like to be able to understand the direct summands of syzygies of $M$. They are all maximal Cohen-Macaulay, but that's all I know.


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I have the following question as part of a lab intro to explain the more complicated stuff I'l actually have to submit in the lab. I put all the questions here just to show my thought pattern/what I'm supposed to be working through.
Measurement 1 (fan off):
Micrometer reading = -0.010 inches
Transducer reading = 3.000 volts
Measurement 2 (fan on):
Micrometer reading = +0.500 inches
Transducer reading = 3.586 volts
(a) The relationship between pressure and voltage is linear, calculate an equation which relates the transducer voltage (in volts) to the pressure difference (in Pa) - I understand this, as this is simply do a linear interpretation two points, etc.
(b) Port #8 in the test section is displayed as 3.450V on the meter. Use (a) equation to convert this value to a pressure differentialin Pascal. Calculate the air velocity at this point - Plug and chug the answer from part (a)
(c) The average velocity through the test section at Port #8 is equal to the point velocity in (b). What is the Mach number? Is this incompressible flow? - this I don't know how to find I know M = V/a though
(d) Apply continuity to determine theaverage velocity at Port #2. Based on the same assumption as (c) the average velocity through the test section at Port #8 is equal to the point velocity - and since I don't understand (c) I don't understand this either


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People of a certain age are tempted to worry about what is to come, and if the worry becomes too great, they may give whatever ailments may come an earlier power over them than they would otherwise have. Its a phenomenon wonderfully described by John Donne in his "Devotions":
O miserable condition of man! which was not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it out by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after false riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge. So that now, we do not only die, but die upon the rack, die by the torment of sickness; nor that only, but are pre-afflicted, super-afflicted with these jealousies and suspicions and apprehensions of sickness, before we can call it a sickness: we are not sure we are ill; one hand asks the other by the pulse, and our eye asks our own urine how we do. O multiplied misery! we die, and cannot enjoy death, because we die in this torment of sickness; we are tormented with sickness, and cannot stay till the torment come, but pre-apprehensions and presages prophesy those torments which induce that death before either come; and our dissolution is conceived in these first changes, quickened in the sickness itself, and born in death, which bears date from these first changes.Is this the honour which man hath by being a little world, that he hath these earthquakes in himself, sudden shakings; these lightnings, sudden flashes; these thunders, sudden noises; these eclipses, sudden offuscations and darkening of his senses; these blazing stars, sudden fiery exhalations; these rivers of blood, sudden red waters? Is he a world to himself only therefore, that he hath enough in himself, not only to destroy and execute himself, but to presage that execution upon himself; to assist the sickness, to antedate the sickness, to make the sickness the more irremediable by sad apprehensions, and, as if he would make a fire the more vehement by sprinkling water upon the coals, so to wrap a hot fever in cold melancholy, lest the fever alone should not destroy fast enough without this contribution, nor perfect the work (which is destruction) except we joined an artificial sickness of our own melancholy, to our natural, our unnatural fever. O perplexed discomposition, O riddling distemper, O miserable condition of man!
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Ah, Rev. Donne at his exaggerating, paradoxical best. Marvelous. It's not *really* funny, though it is. I wonder what a conversation between him and Mr. Shakespeare would sound like. Mr. Racine and Mr. James would would stand by cringing if they heard it, though no doubt Mr. James would admire the sentence structures.
What a wonderful piece! But I'd never tbought of reading Donne as a hypochondriac. As for Mr. James, he would probably find Donne too direct, and rewrite the piece so that it peeked shyly through a veil of allusions and illusions (I've just finished reading the Ambassadors out loud, so late James is much on my mind).
I think that people of a certain age are so encumbered by various medical problems that they have time for little else besides the constant vocation of working to rid themselves of these ailments. Obviously, it is a losing battle.I sometimes think that at that age if I can do even a little something in God's service, I will at least have the satisfaction that I am "cheating death" somewhat.
An old friend used to tell me,"Bob, after you're 50 and you wake up in the mornin gand don't feel anything, --- you're dead."
I rush to explain: I didn't think of Donne here as a hypochondriac. "The "Devotions" were written when Donne was in fact ill in 1623, and this one describes its onset. Each of the devotions is set out in three parts: one describes the human condition, the second offers a spiritual "expostulation" in the form of a debate with God about it, and the third a prayer. The "expostulation" that follows the paragraphs above includes this: "My God, my God, why is not my soul as sensible as my body? Why hath not my soul these apprehensions, these presages, these changes, these antidates, these jealousies, these suspicions of a sin, as well as my body of a sickness? Why is there not always a pulse in my soul to beat at the approach of a temptation to sin? Why are there not always waters in mine eyes, to testify my spiritual sickness?" And the prayer ends thus: "Deliver me, therefore, O my God, from these vain imaginations; that it is an over-curious thing, a dangerous thing, to come to that tenderness, that rawness, that scrupulousness, to fear every concupiscence, every offer of sin, that this suspicious and jealous diligence will turn to an inordinate dejection of spirit, and a diffidence in thy care and providence; but keep me still established, both in a constant assurance, that thou wilt speak to me at the beginning of every such sickness, at the approach of every such sin; and that, if I take knowledge of that voice then, and fly to thee, thou wilt preserve me from failling, or raise me again, when by natural infirmity I am fallen. Do this, O Lord, for his sake, who knows our natural infirmities, for he had them, and knows the weight of our sins, for he paid a dear price for them, thy Son, our Saviour, Christ Jesus. Amen."That last sentence is spectacular!
Yes, I was merely chaffing Donne -- if one can chaff a long-departed Anglican divine and great writer. And I know the devotions, which I much admire, were written from the sickbed. Perhaps, because I'm very much of a "certain age" (well over fifty). I read them too personally. Particularly since I'd been shoveling some heavy wet snow, and later wondering how good an idea that was.
My guess is that fear of loss is much more effective in promoting personal and even social change than the prospect of gain. The sense of crisis, when it doesnt produce paralysis, is often at the root of profound conversion. Counterwishful thinking (believing that what we fear will come about) is more productive than wishful thinking, except for those few who are able to calmly and rationally contemplate alternatives at their leisure.
Mr. DiMauro --Indeed, in old age attending to assorted little physical ills does become the equivalent of a vocation. Be forewarned that when you're very old it will take a lot, lot, lot of time just tending to your body. And I don't even have any life=threatening illness that aren't under control. Just when time is running out, we need more of it. Sigh.
I had a pacemaker installed 4 weeks ago: totally unexpected!Talk about a "come to Jesus" moment!
Jimmy Mac, you "write young"! I trust the auto-ticker will do the trick and not be intrusive. You may get a pass at airport pat-downs and find yourself beating that robot on "Jeopardy!"
A few years before my mother's passing in 1993, my younger brother once asked her, "What's it like to grow old?"Mom, raised in a "proper" setting and always careful with her language, replied, "Growing old is a bitch!"
David G: "writing young" is a product of the bile ducts, not the age.And if anyone tells you that 70 is the new 50, they are wrong! 70 is 70 is 70.


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I have written the following script which you may find useful if running Ubuntu on VirtualBox and make use of NetBeans. The scripts may even be used for other VirtualBox needs as it tries to:
- Install an application (NetBeans).
- Tests if Ubuntu is running with guest additions.
- Tries to mount a shared folder based on the default project name which typically remains the same on any system (host or guest).
- Writes the mount to
rc.localfor use friendliness.
- Creates and/or appends to a file in the users bin to allow the folder to be unmounted.
The script works flawlessly unless you upgrade. In such a scenario, multiple mounts will be done and the unmount script will not function as intended as there will be multiple entries in
This cannot be solved with use of
umount flags like
-f -l -a -t as typically this may result in all mounts being unmounted.
umount -a -t vboxsf on the
/target Is not the desired solution either as it may not be necessary to unmount all shared folders.
I have come up with a solution, but am new to bash/scripting and don't know how to implement it. My solution is to test
rc.local for potential duplicate lines to avoid duplicate mounting:
#Author: Yucca Nel http://thejarbar.org
#Will restart system
export PATH
#Modify these variables as needed...
echo "Provide NetBeans version (7.0.1 is default) then hit [Enter] :"
read NetBeansVersion
if [ -z "$NetBeansVersion" ]
mkdir -p /$tempWork;
cd /$tempWork;
wget http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/netbeans/7.0.1/final/bundles/netbeans-$NetBeansVersion-ml-javase-linux.sh;
sh $tempWork/*sh;
#Add Netbeans launcher to your PATH. Doing so allows you to run 'netbeans' command from the terminal
#This line will need to be changed if you changed the default install location (IOW Netbeans is not in ~/)
sudo ln -f -s ~/netbeans-$NetBeansVersion/bin/netbeans /usr/bin/;
#If you use VirtualBox , you can share your projects between Host and guest. Name of shared
#folder must match 'NetBeansProjects'
mkdir -p $HOME/NetBeansProjects
if [ -f /sbin/mount.vboxsf ]
sudo /sbin/umount /home/$HOME/NetBeansProjects
sudo /sbin/mount.vboxsf NetBeansProjects $HOME/NetBeansProjects
if mountpoint -q ~/NetBeansProjects
#Add it to the universal start script to automate process...
sudo sed -ie '$d' $startupScript
echo "sudo /sbin/mount.vboxsf NetBeansProjects $HOME/NetBeansProjects"| sudo tee -a $startupScript
echo "exit 0"| sudo tee -a $startupScript
sudo chmod +x $startupScript
#Create a mount and unmount script file and add it to users local bin
rm -rf $tempWork/*
echo '#!/bin/bash' > $tempWork/netbeans-mount.sh
echo '#!/bin/bash' > $tempWork/netbeans-umount.sh
echo '#!/bin/bash' > $tempWork/mount-from-host.sh
echo '#!/bin/bash' > $tempWork/unmount-from-host.sh
echo "sudo /sbin/mount.vboxsf NetBeansProjects $HOME/NetBeansProjects" >> $tempWork/netbeans-mount.sh
echo "sudo /sbin/mount.vboxsf NetBeansProjects $HOME/NetBeansProjects" >> $tempWork/mount-from-host.sh
echo "sudo umount $HOME/NetBeansProjects" >> $tempWork/netbeans-umount.sh
echo "sudo umount $HOME/NetBeansProjects" >> $tempWork/unmount-from-host.sh
echo "exit 0" >> $tempWork/unmount-from-host.sh
echo "exit 0" >> $tempWork/mount-from-host.sh
echo "exit 0" >> $tempWork/netbeans-mount.sh
echo "exit 0" >> $tempWork/netbeans-umount.sh
sudo chmod +x $tempWork/*
sudo mv -f $tempWork/*.sh /usr/local/bin
rm -rf $tempWork
#This function is used to cleanly exit with an error code.
function error_exit {
sleep 7
exit 1
sudo reboot
exit 0
Any pointers? My goal is to write a super scripts for Java developers that downloads most needed tools onto any Linux (not just Ubuntu) and mount potential things that don't need to be reinstalled if you have an existing development host. Things like Maven, Tomcat, SVN, JBoss don't need special guest install if they are already on host system and there are further benefits in combining different systems into one; e.g. Windows can run Photoshop and Safari browser, but Linux provides better customization and tools like ssh out the box.


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Darn it let me find out how to change the link and get the link back
Copy and paste this link for some reason woot's linking doesn't like it.
Requires 2 year subscription.
@cengland0: All Tivo's are like that when you get them free.
@zapp brannigan: I cannot disagree; however, it's marked as free but you have to pay a monthly fee for a contract.
It's like advertising a free phone but not mentioning that you need a 2 year contract. That should be stated upfront. It's just the right thing to do.
@cengland0: It's stated in the description that there's a monthly fee.
@zapp brannigan: I realize that but it doesn't say it's required and doesn't say you have to have it for 2 years.
how stupid does one have to be to think they are going to get the product AND the service for free.


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Grace Blackwell
Published: Monday, September 2, 2013 at 8:05 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 2, 2013 at 8:05 a.m.
LANDRUM, SC-- Grace Turner Blackwell, 73, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, August 31, 2013. She was the daughter of the late Woodrow Wilson Turner and Evaline Holtzclaw Turner and the wife of the late William Walter Blackwell.
She was a member of Bible Baptist Church in Landrum.
She is survived by a daughter, Stacey Brown; two sons, Ricky Blackwell and Ernie (Carolyn) Blackwell; one sister, Lois Collins; and a brother, Larry Turner; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by five brothers and two sisters.
The family will receive friends from 10:00-11:00 am Tuesday, September 3, 2013, at Bible Baptist Church. Funeral services will follow at 11:00 am at the church conducted by Rev. Tommy Turner and Rev. David Eubanks. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, 130 Forest Glen Dr., Columbus, NC 28722.
The family will be at the home of Ernie and Carolyn Blackwell.
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Bowling Green, Ky--The Willie Taggart era is over at WKU.
Taggart stepped down as head coach of the Hilltoppers Friday and accepted the head coach position and the University of South Florida.
Taggart informed WKU players of his decision shortly after the team practiced for its upcoming bowl game. Shorty after the team meeting, Taggart departed for Florida from Bowling Green Regional Airport.
He leaves WKU after spending three seasons as head coach. Taggart compiled an overall record of 16-20, leading the Hilltoppers to back to back 7-5 seasons.
Taggart is a native of Palmetto, Fl, which is about 45 minutes from the South Florida campus.
WKU has yet to comment on Taggart's departure.
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Would it be possible to elongate the lower horizontal arm of NN5 approximately 6"?
In order to photograph the nadir from exactly the same distance from the floor as other shots, one could shoot the horizontal shots, the zenith, then reverse the Vertical arm 180 degrees and extend it away from the tripod maximally while pointing the camera downward 90 degrees. One would have to move the tripod and center the lens over the nadir center point of course.
Currently the lower horizontal arm is not long enough to achieve the desired results with this method.


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The digital edition of the July issue is now available for download. In addition to all the content featured in the print magazine, the iPad, iPhone, and Android version includes serveral digital exclusives you won't be able to find elsewhere:
- Five articles written by Fr. Andrew M. Greeley published between 1964 and 2005
- Four reviews of James Gandolfini's work published between 2000 and 2009, with a new introduction written by Cathleen Kaveny
- A series of photos taken by Catholic News Service showing current events in a visually stunning format
- The cover and one article from the July issue we published in 2008 (5 years ago--including a cover story on Hillary Clinton's loss in the Democratic Primary), 2003 (10 years ago), 1998 (15 years ago), 1988 (25 years ago), 1963 (50 years ago) and 1938 (75 years ago)
- A link for digital subscribers to recieve a complimentary three month print subscription, as well as a copy of Commonweal Confronts the Century signed by the editor
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Do I understand that these "digital exclusives" are not available on-line to subscribers to the print-edition?
Yes, that is correct. They are only available in the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android versions of the magazine.
Could you explain the logic that excludes print-subscribers?
Sure! At this moment, it is too expensive for us to link print subscriptions with digital subscriptions as many large publications currently do. If you have a print subscription to The New Yorker, for example, you automatically get access to The New Yorker on your iPad. Although we'd like to make that possible for our subscribers as well, it would cost us tens of thousands of dollars every year.
Since we know a lot of paying print subscribers would like Commonweal on their mobile device--and knowing we can't give it to them for free--we have added extra content to justify the subscription rate. We don't like the idea that they have to pay twice, but it's the only way for us to distribute through the Apple Newsstand. If a print subscriber has to pay the same amount again because they would like to read on their iPad, we want them to get more than just the convenience of reading on their mobile device.
The secondary reason this content is not available in print is because we are constricted to a page limit in print, whereas we can include as much as we want in each issue of the digital magazine. On average, the digital version of the magazine includes twenty additional pages of content which simply wouldn't fit in a typical issue of the print magazine.
I hope this has helped shed some light on our thought process. If you have any other questions about our digital sales model, or the digital edition of the magazine in general, feel free to e-mail me at [email protected]. I'd be happy to chat with you about our strategy as we are always open to new ideas!
Could you just email the added stuff, or at least the stuff from the archives, to the subscribers' blog?
I'd have expected that if one had a paid print-subscription, it would also cover materials you make available digitally. What accounts for the "tens of thousands" of dollars every year that this would cost? Does it cost that much to arrange this technologically? Or is this what you estimate you would lose in revenue if print subscribers got the digital materials for nothing?
The added expense has to do with the software we'd need and the distribution charges to both Adobe and Apple. We're not even factoring in potential lost revenue if print subscribers got digital materials for free. In reality we'd most likely end up paying close to a hundred thousand dollars every year just to those two companies and the revenue we receive from our digital subscribers doesn't come close to covering that, and we don't expect it to for quite some time. Unfortunately the large magazines that many of our subscribers read alongside Commonweal can afford to make this happen, but it's just not a reality for us right now.
For now, we are including these digital exclusives as a way to promote the digital edition of the magazine and as an added incentive to pay (and thank you for paying) for a digital subscription. We won't be making them available on online or in print.
Thanks for the explanation.
Back to Greeley. If you have never read any of his fiction, read "The Cardinal Sins," written in the early 1980s. It evidently lauched his story-writing career.
It seemed remarkably contemporary to this reader.
Well that is good to hear that the digital edition is now available on iPad, iPhones android but would like to know whether the print subscribers will be made availble later or not.


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Ha! Here in the Corpulent Governor State, ...
If he tries for the GOP nomination, every one of his opponents will be running commercials showing him cuddling with The One after Sandy.
Rand Paul/Ted Cruz, FTW.
If FTW is "for the win", that hardly matters to moderates. The important thing is ... being moderate.
It seems like the goal of a "moderate" republican is to get as many democrat votes as possible, without too many republicans getting "out of line."
We're doomed.
"FTW" is an old biker term, the "TW" stands for "The World." I'll let you figure out what the "F" stands for. I'd like to live in a world where Rand Paul and Ted Cruz were considered moderates.
Gun writer Alan Korwin, who
blogs here,
argues (in an email missive that does not seem to be online yet)
that the "assault weapon" ban
introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) last week
effectively bans all semiautomatic rifles, not just the
scary-looking, military-style ones. How so? Under
her bill, a rifle that accepts a detachable magazine qualifies
as an "assault weapon" if it has one or more of six features,
including "a pistol grip." The bill defines a "pistol grip" as "a
grip, a thumbhole stock, or any other characteristic that can
function as a grip" (emphasis added). Therefore, Korwin says,
"any semi-automatic firearm that exists, with anything on it you
can grip, is banned."
BTW, according to GovTrack, Feinstein's S-150 bill to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes, still has no text or summary available.
The legislation bans the sale, transfer, manufacturing and importation of:All semiautomatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature: pistol grip; forward grip; folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; barrel shroud; or threaded barrel. All semiautomatic pistols that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature: threaded barrel; second pistol grip; barrel shroud; capacity to accept a detachable magazine at some location outside of the pistol grip; or semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm.All semiautomatic rifles and handguns that have a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds. All semiautomatic shotguns that have a folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; pistol grip; fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 5 rounds; ability to accept a detachable magazine; forward grip; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; or shotgun with a revolving cylinder. All ammunition feeding devices (magazines, strips, and drums) capable of accepting more than 10 rounds. 157 specifically-named firearms (listed at the end of this page).
The legislation addresses the millions of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines currently in existence by:Requiring a background check on all sales or transfers of a grandfathered assault weapon.This background check can be run through the FBI or, if a state chooses, initiated with a state agency, as with the existing background check system.Prohibiting the sale or transfer of large-capacity ammunition feeding devices lawfully possessed on the date of enactment of the bill.Allowing states and localities to use federal Byrne JAG grant funds to conduct a voluntary buy-back program for grandfathered assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices.Imposing a safe storage requirement for grandfathered firearms, to keep them away from prohibited persons.Requiring that assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices manufactured after the date of the bill�s enactment be engraved with the serial number and date of manufacture of the weapon
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What is the history of "X is dead. Long live X"?
For example,
Location is dead. Long live Location.
I feel like I'm missing out on a joke.
What is the history of "X is dead. Long live X"?
For example,
I feel like I'm missing out on a joke.
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Typically it's used in the phrase, "Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!" or "The King is dead, long live the King" This means that the (previous) king is dead and we wish the (new) king a long life. It's also to indicate that there is never a time without a king.
Wikipedia goes into more detail
The examples you list typically mean something like, "[language] was bad, now [language] has been improved, or is being used in a totally new way."
The original phrase is
According to wikipedia:
In these modern variations, the apparently contradictory phrase is used as an attention-grabbing headline to appeal to the reader's curiosity.
Something the other answers here are missing is the bitter irony of the phrase. The exclamation "Long live the King!" is used to suggest that it would be a horrible tragedy if the King were to die. The implication here is that the King is such a good King that the people want him to live a long life so as to continue such a good rule.
Then the King dies and another King arrives and... nothing changes. The people immediately begin wishing the new King long life which sort of implies that, as much as the tragedy of a King's death is horrible, the old King was just as good as the next is expected to be. "The King is dead. Long live the King!"
Its use with regards to modern technology doesn't really fulfill this irony well, however, and it is more often used to imply that as one use of a technology dies the technology will survive in another form. People often call out that one technology or another is "dead" and so this phrase finds a use keying into the idea that something can "die" and then survive in another way or form. Likewise, some technologies are notoriously stubborn and refuse to go away no matter how much we all want them to fade into the history books. (coughCOBOLcough)
Although I commented I thought I'd raise the point because it is relevant to the answer.
The phrase is about immortality.
"The king is dead. Long live the king." symbolises the (suggested) immortality of the throne through continuous mortal kings.
"JavaScript is dead. Long live JavaScript." symbolises the (suggested) immortality of the technology through continuous versions.
It is ironic play on the concept of death. A man may die, but an idea/institution lives on.
The greater irony I think is that it was the French that then removed the same monarchy that coined the phrase.
It (almost certainly) originated as "The king is dead. Long live the King." Originally, it was just pointing out that the king had died, and upon his death, his heir had become the new king1.
Using the phrase to refer to exactly the same thing/person in both instances probably started out as a play on words ("The once and Future King", so to speak), but seems to have degenerated into use by people who don't appear to have any clue of the original phrase or what it meant.
1Though it wasn't necessarily nearly that simple -- quite a few countries had fairly complex laws about succession, and in a fair number of cases, the king was actually elected from a number of eligible candidates by a group of noble-men and such. Oddly, that meeting/group was often called a "diet" -- it might be an interesting follow-on whether that's etymologically related to the modern use of the word.
I think I read somewhere that the original phrase was "The King is Dead! Long live the King!"
Kidding. ;)
To me, the Javascript example means is that there no suitable replacement. If a web developer were to say, "Javascript sucks! I will never use it again!," then he would quickly find out that there's no alternative to it, and would basically have to go straight back to Javascript once again. To me, it sort of signifies some sort of roller coaster ride type of relationship -- even if you hate it, you're going to have to learn to like it.
Perhaps an analogy would best explain it: Imagine, if you will, a wife that screamed at her husband, "You're an idiot, and I really can't stand to be around you! This marriage is over!" and when she opened the door to walk out, she saw some guys outside that were drinking, playing with dog crap, pissing in bushes, etc... prompting her to shut the door immediately and change her mind: "Just kidding! Teehee! Love you, babe! You're the best!"
I think the phrase is a twist on "The King is dead! Long live the King!" which was said when a king died, and was then replaced by the next King.
In the contxt of that article about JavaScript, he goes on about the problems with JavaScript ("JavaScript is dead!") and then what can be done to fix them going forward ("Long live JavaScript").
I believe the play on words is that, despite any belief or reality about the status, that it continues on.
This is much like the original saying "The King is Dead! Long live the King!" While the king may have died, the king lives on in his heir, who throughout much of history shared the king's name, essentially prolonging the rule of the original king. So despite the claimed death of the king, the king lives on.
In this case, despite the proclaimed death of JavaScript, or location services, they live on.
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I've just completed a fresh new installation of Ubuntu 11.04 Server (64 bit) including xfce. After the installation was complete (along with all the LAMP server components), I started X for the first time and all was good. After the initial reboot, I get the nice xfce login screen. I put in my credentials, it suddenly switches to command-line mode for less than half a second and returns me to the pretty xfce login prompt.
The login credentials are correct, as if I intentionally using the wrong username or password, it tells me so. I managed to capture an image of the terminal window that flashes up and disappears - all just an install script with all [ok] - no errors at all.
Now, this is running on a VBox virtual machine, but that shouldn't really matter - and I've successfully used the same VBox for dozens of other Linux installations - including Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS.
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I was raised Christian. I am Armenian, and my parents were raised Christian (however my grandmother was raised Catholic).
Every so often I think about my religion, and I can't help but think about whether it's true or not. I know that it's more on a "believing is seeing" basis rather than "seeing is believing," but sometimes I have trouble accepting the Christianity is the true religion of God when there are all these other differing religious opinions in the world. How do we know which one is true?
I still believe in Christianity, but I just want to know if it's okay to have thoughts like this.


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Washington, November 11 -- Connecticut Democrat and Senator Christopher Dodd unveiled a reform bill on Tuesday that will impose higher capital requirements on financial institutions.
Under the 1,136 page proposal, the Fed would be stripped off its role as a bank supervisor and the Congress will be given a greater role to choose officials. Fed will also now no longer be able to provide emergency loans to companies.
An agency for financial stability, which will have broad powers to protect the economy from financial risks, will be set up.
Approval of the bill awaited
The proposal comes when Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke waits for confirmation to a second term and Dodd a re-election to a sixth term next year.
Dodd believes that Bernanke is "doing a terrific job", and that his proposal is "not about individuals and personalities. It's about putting together an architecture that makes sense."
The bill is "not designed to basically punish the Federal Reserve at all, but rather to enhance their role, and their independence," he said. "You start loading up the Fed with additional responsibilities, and that independence can be threatened."
Bankers not happy
The bankers, however, criticized it, and are not very happy with the decision.
The American Bankers Association said the single regulator idea failed "miserably" in Great Britain and would without doubt undermine the state chartered banking system.
The bill must be first approved by the Senate, and then signed by President Barack Obama in order to become law.
Fed's main responsibility is the monetary policy
Dodd has left Fed with the main task of handling the monetary policy.
The commercial banks would be losing their power to appoint directors of the 12 regional Fed banks.
Directors would now be chosen by the Fed's Senate confirmed governors. Currently, only two thirds of directors are chosen by private sector banks, and one third by the governors.
"For firms that play by the rules, this single prudential regulator will provide clarity, cut red tape and make it easier to compete," said the Connecticut Democrat. "But those institutions that would undermine the security of our economy will no longer be able to shop for the weakest regulator."
Currently, banks can choose between the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision as their regulators.


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Congratulations on the baby-on-the-way!As far as encouragement - I'd just like to echo the words about baby's first year. I'll be 30 when I start law school this coming year, and I have two kids. I love 'em both to death, but I am glad that our youngest will be close to one year old by the time I start school. Four years in, it's become obvious to me that parenthood will never be 'easy.' It is certainly rewarding. But the first year of a child's life can be particularly challenging, and your entire family will likely find itself in transition. If you were to take on law school and new parenthood at the same time, you could easily end up shortchanging yourself, your family, and your legal education all at once.So don't be discouraged. This year's LSAT score may have put you in good position to get a great start on both parenthood and your legal career.
For those of you that are currently working full time, but hope to go to law school how are you preparing for the LSAT? I was out of work for a few months from back surgery, and I got the brilliant idea that I should go to law school. I bought the Kaplan LSAT book, and started reading it and practicing. Mind you, it was difficult since pain killers tend to make you sleepy, but I tried, and found I enjoyed taking the practice tests. I never did get to the point of taking a real practice test with the set time limits, because I had to go back to work and haven't been back into my book since. (that was 4 years ago!) The desire is still there, although I've done a great job of convincing myself that I just need to stay in this job and pay my bills, and how will I do that if I'm in school?So, I am ready to get the heck out of a job I hate and am back to thinking about Law school.How are you guys studying if you are working full time, and have family obligations?I have no children, only pets that require a lot of my time to expel their energy, and then I'm tired too. I could make myself study for an hour or two every night, and I will once I finally make that decision this is what I'm meant to do. Any help on how you study for the test and work, and fulfill your family commitments is greatly appreciated!


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The 20-year-old feels his dismissal in Tuesday's crucial World Cup qualifier was an unfair punishment.France midfielder Paul Pogba has voiced his frustration with referee Viktor Kassai's decision to dismiss him in Tuesday's 1-0 World Cup 2014 qualification loss against Spain.
The Juventus starlet was booked after 77 minutes of play for a high challenge on Xabi Alonso, only to receive his second yellow card hardly 60 seconds later for a late tackle on Xavi, and Pogba feels Kassai's decision to send him off was harsh.
"I hardly touched him. Yes, there was contact with his foot, but he started screaming and only then did the referee pull out the second yellow card," Pogba was quoted as saying by Ouest France. "That's football, though. There's nothing I can do to change what happened.
"I feel bad about it because it weakened the team when we tried to get back in the game."
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Can anybody translate this Hebrew tattoo for me?
Can anybody translate this Hebrew tattoo for me?
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the translation of the tatoo is the word "sun"