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From Our 2010 Archives
What City Tops the 'Sun Smart' List?
Survey Ranks Cities by Their Residents' Knowledge of Sun Cancer Protection
By Joanna Broder
Reviewed By Laura J. Martin, MD
May 3, 2010 -- Not every city is created equal, at least when it comes to the residents' awareness of skin cancer prevention.
That is according to the results of a new online poll, "Suntelligence: How Sun Smart is Your City", a survey commissioned by the American Academy of Dermatology.
The poll examined more than 7,000 adults in 26 cities questioning them about their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors about skin cancer detection, sun protection, and tanning.
Findings showed that those living Hartford, Salt Lake City, and Denver are the most knowledgeable about sun protection while residents of Cleveland, Chicago, and Pittsburgh are the least knowledgeable.
"One common thread we found encouraging is the majority of people polled expressed concern about skin cancer and had awareness of the importance of proper sun protection," William James, MD, a professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Academy, says in a news release. "However, we found that people's behaviors don't always correlate with their concerns."
The survey was conducted between Jan. 12 and Jan. 31, 2010; 7,116 people completed it. More than 200 participants took surveys in each of the 26 cities. An additional 1,123 people completed surveys outside of the study cities, which were used for the national comparison.
Residents of the highest- and lowest-ranked cities showed significant differences in skin cancer knowledge and practices when compared to the average collective responses for all surveys.
For example, 59% of respondents nationally had never received screening for skin cancer from a health care provider. However, in the top-ranked city of Hartford, 48% of residents had never undergone skin cancer checks. The two lowest-ranked cities, Chicago (No. 25) and Pittsburgh (No. 26), fared worse. Sixty-seven percent from Chicago and 69% from Pittsburgh admitted to never having had such an examination.
In another finding, 85% of respondents from Salt Lake City, the second-highest ranked city, disagreed with the statement that they are not too concerned about skin cancer because it is easily detected and treated, while 76% of respondents nationwide rejected this statement.
Where the appeal of a tan was concerned, 72% of respondents nationally believed that tanned skin looks good. In Pittsburgh, the second-lowest ranked city, 81% of residents had that impression, while in the 3rd highest-ranked city of Denver 65% agreed that a tan improves a person's attractiveness.
"We're hoping the results of this survey will draw attention to the public's need to change its attitudes toward tanning, which is the first step in changing behavior," James says in a news release.
He notes that if detected early, skin cancers can be successfully treated. It is a different story, however, when detection is late. The five-year survival rates for individuals with regional and distant melanoma are 65% and 16% respectively, James says.
Melanomas generally grow sideways before they grow deep, he tells WebMD, and while they are growing laterally they are not generally invasive, have less tendency to spread, and are far more curable than when they are detected later.
When detected late, melanomas are much harder to treat successfully, he says. "That's why people must be vigilant about protecting their skin from sun exposure and aware of the early warning signs of skin cancer."
Tips to Prevent Skin Cancer
To reduce the risk of skin cancer, the American Academy of Dermatology recommends the following tips:
City Rankings
Curious about how the 26 cities stacked up in terms of sun smarts? Check out their rankings.
No. 1 - Hartford
No. 2 - Salt Lake City
No. 3 - Denver
No. 4 - Tampa, Fla.
No. 5 - Boston
No. 6 - Phoenix
No. 7 - Atlanta
No. 8 - Philadelphia
No. 9 - Portland
No. 10 - Baltimore
No. 11 - Dallas
No. 12 - Houston
No. 13 - Miami
No. 14 - San Francisco
No. 15 - Washington, D.C.
No. 16 - Detroit
No. 17 - San Diego
No. 18 - Cincinnati
No. 19 - New York
No. 20 - Minneapolis
No. 21 - St. Louis
No. 22 - Los Angeles
No. 23 - Seattle
No. 24 - Cleveland
No. 25 - Chicago
No. 26 - Pittsburgh
SOURCES: William James, MD, president, American Academy of Dermatology.
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How to Get What You Want from the Doctor
Patient, Know Thyself
Physicians constantly complain that patients don't share crucial information about their symptoms and lifestyle. This is ironic, since patients' number-one complaint is that doctors don't seek their opinion. It seems as if patients are forever waiting for the doctor to ask just the right questions, while doctors are waiting for their patients to go ahead and spit out the facts already. It is up to you to break the impasse and start speaking up in the doctor's office whether or not he asks you the right questions. In fact, speaking up is the single most powerful thing you can do for your health. About 70 percent of correct diagnoses depend solely on information the patient tells the doctor, according to an analysis done by the American Society of Internal Medicine.
Why do patients find it so difficult to talk to their doctors? Some common reasons include:
- I don't want to waste the doctor's time. This is a natural reaction to the hurried, no-nonsense atmosphere in most doctors' offices. What you need to do is come prepared with a list of questions and concerns so that you won't ramble and lose focus.
- I don't want to seem weak. Lots of people were taught to bear their pain silently, even in a doctor's office. They don't want to seem like wimps. Yet pain is often the first signal your body sends when things are going wrong. You could seriously jeopardize your health by hiding or downplaying your symptoms.
- I am afraid of what the doctor might find. If this is the case, talk your symptoms over with a friend before you go to the doctor. It will get you more comfortable with saying the words out loud, and your friend will give you moral support and encouragement.
- I am afraid the doctor will tell me to change my lifestyle. Instead of fibbing to the doctor about your lifestyle, try asking him to give you a range of options for making changes. Request that he help you devise a plan that's broken down into small steps so you will be more likely to comply.
- I am intimidated by my doctor. It's not unusual for people to be so fearful of their physician that they simply tell him what they think he wants to hear. This is especially true if they have not been following the doctor's orders concerning medications, diet, and/ or behavior. If you're too afraid of your doctor to be honest, you should consider changing doctors.
- I don't speak the same language as the doctor. Bring along a friend who can translate or ask the doctor's office if they can provide a translator.
- I don't fully understand which information is important. No matter how unrelated it seems, tell the doctor anything you think might have influenced your condition. Pain in the body is often "referred"—that is, an injury or ailment in one part will result in pain somewhere else.
- I don't want the doctor to know everything. Some patients deliberately withhold information to protect a third party (such as an abusive spouse) or for some sort of gain, such as qualifying for disability or an insurance claim. This is a pretty dangerous game to play with your health.
Of all the reasons patients clam up in the doctor's office, the most common is that they're afraid the doctor will think they are stupid. Doctors' intimidating terminology is to blame for this. If you're like most people, you may walk into the office fully prepared to state your case only to have your mind go blank the moment the doctor opens her mouth. Doctors often ask questions that require a simple "yes" or "no" response, so you answer those and forget everything else you were going to say.
To set the record straight, no one except other doctors understands what doctors are talking about. Doctors know this, but they tend to forget. "The situation is like trying to talk in English to a Japanese speaker who has studied one year of English," according Dr. Terry S. Ruhl. "[The patient] will understand many of the simple words but will miss much of the complex meanings....Likewise, many patients lack the basic anatomy and physiology concepts to understand our explanations. They are starting with no frame of reference."
Ruhl suggests that doctors use analogies to explain how the body works, and you might ask your doctor to do the same. Although some of the examples he provides seem a little preschoolish—"The heart is like a pump that pushes blood around the body....The spine is like a pile of blocks"—you have to start somewhere.
No layperson can be expected to grasp medical terminology, and most doctors are not adept at translating it. To resolve this problem:
- Bring a notepad and pencil, or, better yet, a tape recorder.
- When the doctor totally loses you, politely interrupt: "Excuse me, but I don't understand what you're saying. Can you explain it in layperson's terms?"
- Don't expect to understand everything, even if the doctor tries his best to explain. Tape record everything or take notes and plan to research it later. Then, with a little more knowledge, you can call him back for a phone consultation or schedule another visit.
- Ask the doctor where to go for more information. The office may have brochures about your condition, but they are usually very brief or published by drug companies who have their own priorities. Ask the doctor for specific Web sites, books, or magazines that would be helpful.
From Say the Magic Words by Lynette Padwa. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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I have been playing guitar for 19 years now. I'm an old-school rocker/metalhead, but I try to keep my mind open and am more than happy to incorporate other musical influences, be they blues, country, progressive, folk or even electronic.
My current project is Viridian - a melodic hard-rock band where I am the guitarist, main songwriter and manager, for my sins. The band is in something of a state of suspension at the moment - following our move to London from Warsaw, Poland - as we are presently looking for musicians to complete the lineup.
On the side, I write music business commentary @ TheCyncialMusician.com - something which has surprisingly gained me more notoriety than my music. My point of view stems from my personal experience in music and the biz, plus my education as an economist. More often than not, I find myself pointing out holes in conventional MusBiz blogosphere wisdom, but I hope it helps provide other musicians a different perspective in these troubled times.
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I see where she's coming from. He's worked hard all of his life to get to the NFL and then you play it off as if they are irrelevant even though it may be true.
I'll keep this anonymous, but I received an e-mail from a player's mom yesterday. Here's what it said:
Any player who makes it to the NFL is not a body at any camp! They are hard working players trying to make the roster. I resent people like you who insult players! If you don't have anything good to say why say it at all? FYI, [John Doe] was playing all positions on the o-line during mini camp with the 1st team and playing well.
Jane Doe Mother of John Doe XX Miami Dolphins 2008
My Response:
Jane Doe,
Thank you for the e-mail.
I'm sorry you didn't like my comment about your son, but it was not said in malice, nor was it meant to be insulting. It was factual; [John Doe] hasn't played a regular-season game since 2005.
I see where she's coming from. He's worked hard all of his life to get to the NFL and then you play it off as if they are irrelevant even though it may be true.
She e-mailed me back:
Wrong [John Doe] started in the CFL last season. What ever you don't know your facts i can see that now.
LOL def. not a camp body in the CFL...
I e-mailed her back:
Sorry, the CFL is not part of the NFL. If I ran a CFL Web site, I would mention that [John Doe] was a starter for whichever team in that league, but they are two completely different leagues. The fact remains [John Doe] hasn't appeared in an NFL game since 2005.
Thanks again,
haha... cranky old lady with nothing better to do with her time. Walt, you're getting pretty popular when NFL players' moms are emailing you because they are upset about your opinions =P
R.I.P. Sean Taylor 1983-2007
Spanos couldn't have played in the CFL, nor in the NFL prior to this.
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I have heard the phrase "desde ya" used to mean "in advance." Literally, it means "since already." How is it understood to mean "in advance," or is it simply an idiom with a nonsense literal meaning? Can the phrase mean anything else besides "in advance"?
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So, the "official" meaning is right now, immediately.
The expression desde ya, however, is used as a closing formula as in desde ya, le quedo agradecido which would mean something like from this moment I am thankful and could be translated (with some freedom) to the standard thanks, in advance; this last use could explain why desde ya can be sometimes understood as in advance, although that is not its intended meaning.
Although Gonzalo's answer is excellent I have something to add about the meaning of desde ya:
Desde ya literally means from now, even if the intended meaning is almost always resumed into this moment it is many times understood as in advance
I personally don't think that desde ya is always a closing formula. It can be used in other cases such as in a letter:


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I have NEVER had a recipe that I just threw in the garbage after tasting it. Waaaaay too much Thyme. The meat and veggies turned into a big mushy mess. The whole dish had zero flavor to it. GROSS GROSS GROSS!!!
Hamburger Buddy
From EatingWell: September/October 2007, EatingWell for a Healthy Heart Cookbook (2008)
Very finely chopping onion, mushrooms and carrots in the food processor is not only fast—it makes the vegetables hard to detect for picky eaters. They also form the base for the sauce of this ground beef skillet supper. Make it a meal: Serve with a green salad.
159 Reviews for Hamburger Buddy
I had high hopes for this dish. It looked and sounded scrumptious but the result was just sub-par. The taste was just not really held on together with the meat and the veggies. I can't describe it well but my husband said it was the result of trying to make a meal too healthy. It sure looked wonderful as I took it out of the oven...
This was a great meal however I made a few additions... I added finely pureed fresh spinach and pureed fresh tomatoes - no mushrooms! I also substituted the noodles for quinoa noodles...this dish came out awesome however it was low on flavor - next time I may add crushed red pepper and extra fresh pepper, maybe even some jalapeño juice to give it a little kick but overall it was delicious and a big hit with the hubby! Get creative and enjoy...
I followed many of the other reviewers suggestions to tweak this recipe. I omitted the thyme (i don't enjoy the flavor) and added a cajun season we use in the family. I used all low sodium beef stock instead of water, I chopped my veggies instead of using the food processor and I used greek yogurt instead of sour cream. The recipe turned out thick and flavorful. I wish i would have remember to throw in some frozen peas as some of the other reviewer had suggested. I will definitely make this again.
Neither my kids nor I are huge fans of carrots or onions, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway. The finely chopped veggies was a good way to disguise them. I made a few substitutions- ground turkey instead of beef and Greek yogurt instead of sour cream.
The thyme flavor is strong, but it was fine for us. My 2 year old finished her bowl and my 4 year old asked for seconds. I'd say that was a success.


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My boys (40-something and 11) have been sucked into Minecraft.
My writing nook is situated in such a way that I get to hear their conversations as I
play plants vs. zombies work on my next novel.
Some overheard snippets of their conversations:
Preston: "Why don't I have anything?"
Joe: "You have to punch a tree. That starts your industry."
Preston: "This is a nice house."
Joe: "It's just a room. With a trunk. And a duck."
Preston: "I made that duck."
Joe: "It's a nice duck."
(5 minutes later.)
Joe: "ACK!"
Preston: "What?"
Joe: "The duck pushed me into the lava!"
Preston: "Look at me. Now look at Joe. Now look at me. I'm on a pig."
Joe: "Why do you have a bed on the very edge like that?!?"
Preston: "I live on the edge!"
Joe: "Well, don't wake up on the wrong side of the bed."
Preston: "Oh no, the pig is here!!!"
Preston: "Did you find lava today?"
Joe: "Yes."
Preston: "Lucky. I found lava the other day, but there was a chicken…" (quiet angsty mumbling) "…stupid chicken."
P's friend C: "Where are you?"
Preston: "In my treehouse."
P's friend C: "Cool. That's a big tree. Be careful! That jockey skeleton can totally get into your house."
Preston: "I'm going to blow this lava up."
Joe: "Why?"
Preston: "To see if it makes it go away."
(30 seconds later)
Preston: "IT JUST MADE MORE LAVA!"
So basically, Minecraft is a game in which you can ride around on nefarious pigs, punch trees to get stuff, skeletons are short guys that ride racehorses that can climb trees, and birds are a-holes who will push you into lava. (Much like in real life I might add. Birds are evil, y'all.)
And then there's this:
G4 is totally going to hire me to be a stand-in for Morgan Webb now. After all we're both brunette, totally hot, and geeky. Well, two out of three ain't bad.


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Marvel Assembles an Official Title for Third "Avengers" Movie
Comic Books, Film
Svetlana Chmakova has sent demons to school, been on the run with witches and wizards, and braved the world of comics as a fan-turned-professional. If you asked her, she might argue the last one was the toughest of all.
The Russian-Canadian cartoonist made a name for herself as part of a wave of artists working on TOKYOPOP's OEL Manga line. 2005's Dramacon and the two follow-up volumes showed Chmakova delving into the world of comics and manga with a story inspired by attending comic conventions and interacting with cosplayers. Chmakova went on to be one of the star players hired for Hachette's graphic novel imprint Yen Press, first creating her own series Nightschool and then adapting hit novelist James Patterson's Witch & Wizard series. Chmakova's work has been prodigious, with 10 graphic novels released in just over nine years, and now here in 2014 she's beginning a new chapter with a new creator-owned series with Yen, webcomics and a line of video podcasts on drawing. ROBOT 6 caught up with Chmakova to find out about what's on her plate, as well as what's on her mind and in her future.


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25 years after Bernhard Goetz shooting
Twenty-five years ago today, on December 22, 1984, when I was in my second month as a reporter for New York Newsday, I was sent out to check on a report from police that four people had been shot on the subway. There were several detectives in the subway station where the train stopped, and I was among a few reporters who peppered them with questions. The detectives seemed to be bursting to tell what had happened: that a well-dressed "golden haired" white man had shot four black youths who may have tried to rob him.There were maybe three detectives there - at least one was black - and they told us that the shooter was "a Charles Bronson-like character." My more inventive colleagues at the Daily News and the New York Post quickly dubbed him "the `Death Wish' gunman," after a movie in which Bronson plays a vigilante who shoots thugs. TV news, talk radio and UPI picked up that line and made it a refrain. It took more than a week for police to arrest Bernhard Goetz, and in that space of time, the mysterious subway gunman had become a folk hero. When police asked the public for help in solving the shooting, it yielded hundreds of phone calls from people praising the gunman.The police commissioner and Mayor Koch called for the public not to glorify vigilantism, to little avail. Gradually, actual facts began to come out: that the youths had in fact asked for money ($5), upon which Goetz drew his unlicensed handgun and shot them. Goetz fired a second shot into the back of one of the fleeing youths, supposedly telling him, "You don't look so bad. Here's another." He was paralyzed from the waist down at age 19. Goetz was ultimately acquitted of attempted murder and convicted of illegal possession of a weapon, for which he was sentenced to six months in jail.Up until my last week as a reporter at Newsday - the week of Sept. 9, 2001 - I had never covered a New York story that drew as much attention and controversy as the Goetz case did. I recall one TV "news" interview that aired in which a reporter, having followed Goetz from a court hearing, interviewed someone in a diner where he had eaten and breathlessly asked what kind of sandwich he had eaten.I've been wondering what the reaction would be today to such a case. Have racial fears in the age of Obama and violent crime calmed enough that such a gunman would not be turned into a hero even before his name was known?
About the Author
Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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From a distance, I admit, it seems to me that:-there's still a lot of racial fear around,but-the crime scene in New York is less fearsome (if reports I see are accurate)-gun toting is not such a great thing (due not only to the current mayor's views but also events like the LIRR shootings, Son of Sam etc..)Of course there are always lunatic crazies who can be heroes to some like the guy in Kansas who shot the abortion doctor.
I was a young tenant organizer in the Fordham section of the Bronx when the Goetz trial was going on. The trial must have been a couple of years after the crime itself, because I don't think I was organizing until 1986 or 87. I remember having a conversation with community leaders at some event, where I expressed dismay that Goetz got off so lightly; the neighborhood people kind of jumped all over me, feeling a lot of sympathy for Goetz even a few years after the shootings.New York City, at least in the Bronx, was a very different place in the 1980s. The subways were especially violent. I remember I wouldn't wear jewelry, and women wore their purses with the straps diagonally across their chest to make it harder to steal them. I always carried some cash, so in case I was robbed, I would have something to give the mugger. My husband remembers breaking up a rape on the A train, I was robbed a couple of times on the D platform; everyone has stories about something they saw or experienced on the trains in those days. Many people thought Goetz reasonably feared he was about to be robbed. That's a long way, though, from justifying his extreme response and from making a folk hero out of him. Didn't the Guardian Angels sort of adopt his cause as well?The subways today are much, much safer than they were in the 80s. I believe many years later, in that different, much safer NYC, Goetz did lose a civil suit to the kid he paralyzed, didn't he? So, yes, I think there is less racial fear and less fear generally, as well as less violence, and the outcome would be different now.
Context is important as Irene points out. Whatever his faults Giuliani was the first mayor to unequivocally state and make sure that the streets and subways returned to the people. In that setting in which women and older people were daily and too often fatal victims, Goetz did what law enforcement was not able to do . It was shameless on the part of Koch and others to condemn vigilantism when the mayor and police were deficient in their job. Goetz was excessive only when he shot a fleeing criminal. The crime was in no way racial. It was a symbol of a concerned citizenry living in a jungle.
It's been a long time, but I seem to recall that Goetz admitted he had used racial slurs at times prior to the shootings. If I'm not mistaken, Goetz got off the half dozen or so shots quite rapidly--in just seconds--and there was no time for any of the four young men, who later admitted they intended to rob Goetz, to flee. The individual who was paralyzed was shot a second time while he was down, and I believe it was he who got the approx. $40M civil judgment against Goetz, who filed for bankruptcy in an unsuccessful effort to get the judgment discharged. I recall seeing Goetz a few years ago on TV, somewhat self-satisfied that he had never paid anything on the judgment.
I've been on a subway car during an assault. It's a frightening experience and perhaps the scariest part is the stark realization that the only real substance to "safety in numbers" is the fact that a larger number of potential victims makes it proportionally less likely that the next one will be you. Even on a crowded subway car, everyone realizes what is going on but does the only prudent thing, which is to look straight ahead, avoid eye contact and show no reaction. It would take a Gandhi-caliber pacifist to experience the utter powerlessness and vulnerability of that situation and not feel at least a little pleased that someone finally fought back.
Racism exists and must be vigorously fought. But the application fails when it is used with hoodlums. Bronson was out of order as he set up people. No society should defend plunderers whether they be Christian knights or poor people.
The one things that's truly different as Irene points out is that the subways are far safer now than they were then. It's probably a sign of New Yorker's essential sanity that there weren't more Goetz-like incidents back then. Whatever Goetz's motives, people identified with him not necessarily out of racism, but because they too had been intimidated and would have like to strike back as he did. A few years ago, I was on a subway at 3 pm when most New York high schools get out. There was a fist-fight between two boys; MAT's right it's frightening not to be able to do something and not to be able to get off the train. In this case, peers of the fighters pulled them off one another, but one wound up on the platform of the next stop unconscious and very quickly surrounded by cops. Another big difference between then and now. The subways are policed.
Moses doesn't mention that Goetz was violently beaten in a previous robbery. If you can sympathize with someone who hates the Church because he or she was sexually abused by priest, can't we understand the desire of someone who didn't wish to be a crime victim again? (Also, three of the four men later got arrested again for different crimes--one of them for rape.)Goetz did apply for a gun permit, but it was denied. By contrast, the city was willing to issue permits to celebrities, politicians, and rich people such as Bill Cosby, former Mayor John Lindsay, Donald Trump, and even the publishers of the pro-gun control New York Times (Arthur Sulzberger) and the Daily News (Fred Drasner). What makes their lives and safety more important than everyone else? (Even pro-gun control Rosie O'Donnell hired an armed bodyguard.)Prof. John Lott has shown that states (31) that allow people to carry concealed handguns have lower crime rates. This because criminals don't know who might armed, and that people who are attacked can defend themselves. (A gun doesn't have to be fired to be used in self-defense, but only brandished.)I think the availability of guns can help the most vulernable members of society such as the elderly, disabled, minorities, store owners in high crime neighborhoods, taxi cab drivers, gays, and victims of domestic violence defend themselves from crime. I just don't think we should be expected to depend on 911 for help. (In most cases, all the police do is show up after the fact and take the information.)I recall the woman who was sexually assaulted by her former co-worker, writer Peter Braunstein about 4-5 years ago. While he was on the run, the woman had to completely change her routine, stay away from her home and place of work. Wouldn't it been easier to issue the a woman a gun permit? Why should she or anyone have to change her regular activities to avoid a criminal?
I am so thrilled to read the comment boxes here that i actually agree with!About the question if this has happened subsequently. Wasn't there a robbery of a white merchant in his own store in a black neighborhood in New York recently. He shot and killed the robbers and was applauded by the neighborhood? Not exactly Geotz, but he did have an illegal firearm. Law and Order did a recent episode based on this, with Elliot Gould. They butchered the story but the bare bones were there.
On the other hand --- with this crowd? --- good thing Bernie Goetz wasn't a Bishop!
One of the stories I remember best about the Goetz controversy was a column in New York Newsday by Jim Dwyer. He wrote about a single object recovered by police in the subway car and held long after in the Transit Authority's lost-and-found: a baby stroller. A crowded subway car isn't the place to shoot a gun, and it is especially not the place to keep firing at someone who has already been shot. Goetz was hardly a good candidate for a gun permit. Gun advocates don't help their cause by turning someone who acted so irresponsibly into a hero.
Paul,Goetz is not a hero. The problem with the action at the time is that he was named a racist. Today he would have not been convicted in the civil case. Except if they got an OJ jury. Sharpton and Co made them heroes which was the repulsive part.
"... and they told us that the shooter was a Charles Bronson-like character."I find it fascinating that Mr. Bronson has become synonymous with vigilanteism. I always remember him primarily for his, pun intended, magnificent roles in "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Great Escape", which, being the Steve McQueen junkie I am, perhaps occupy a disproportionate chunk of my memory with respect to his filmography, but are of course not related to vigilanteism in any way. "A crowded subway car isnt the place to shoot a gun, and it is especially not the place to keep firing at someone who has already been shot. Goetz was hardly a good candidate for a gun permit. Gun advocates dont help their cause by turning someone who acted so irresponsibly into a hero."I do not know enough about these events to be able to take any sort of position on it, but as a general proposition, I imagine gun advocates would counter that a regime of gun-owner education which could accompany broader CCW laws in NYC would have mitigated Mr. Goetz's potential recklessness. At the same time, personally speaking, as an NRA member and gun owner myself, including handguns, you make a good point that it does our cause little justice to elevate someone as a hero who openly flaunts their material non-compliance with local gun laws or uses their firearms in a reckless manor.
It is most interesting to read the comments. They prompted me to look up the Wiki entry on Goetz, leading to his recent life.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Goetz#Activities_since_the_incidentAs of 2005, Goetz was again living in New York City and had run for both Mayor (in 2001) and Public Advocate (2005)... He is also an advocate for vegetarianism and the serving of vegetarian lunches in the New York City public school system. Goetz is also involved in the squirrel community of New York...Merry Christmas!
To add, Goetz's shift from vigilantism to vegetarianism and squirrel advocacy doesn't sound like something we hear about every day. Or perhaps he was already a vegetarian or already installed squirrel shelters 25 years ago.


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CORINTH, Mississippi (CNN) -- An arrest has been made in connection with possibly contaminated letters sent to President Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
Paul Kevin Curtis was arrested by the FBI at his home in Corinth, Mississippi, the department said in a statement.
Discovered Tuesday, the letters were addressed to Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, and to Obama. The justice department release said a third letter was sent to a Mississippi justice official.
The letters to Wicker and Obama were stopped at a government mail-screening facility after initial tests indicated the presence of the deadly poison ricin.
Sadie Holland, a judge on the Lee County, Mississippi, Justice Court, told CNN on Wednesday night that she received an envelope with a suspicious substance and a letter similar to the ones sent to the offices of President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican. The letter arrived one week ago and originally tested negative for ricin. It was being retested Wednesday, Holland told CNN.
Because initial tests can be "inconsistent," the envelopes have been sent off for additional tests, an FBI statement said. The FBI does not expect to receive results from the tests until Thursday, federal law enforcement sources told CNN.
The letters read: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."
They were signed "I am KC and I approve this message," a source said.
Reports of suspicious packages and envelopes also came into two Senate office buildings late Wednesday morning. Capitol Police evacuated the first floor of the Hart Senate Office Building for more than an hour and questioned a man in the area who had a backpack containing sealed envelopes, but the man was not taken into custody.
"It just reminds you that with public service comes the real possibility that you could be a target," said Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas. "But on the other side of it, we have an excellent police force, and I think they'll get to the bottom of it."
Investigators are trying to determine whether suspicious letters found at Senate offices elsewhere in the country came from the same source, federal law enforcement sources said.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, said one of his home-state offices received a "suspicious-looking" letter and alerted authorities. "We do not know yet if the mail presented a threat," said Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
A staffer for Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake flagged "suspicious letters" at the freshman Republican's Phoenix office, Flake spokeswoman Genevieve Rozansky said in a statement, but "no dangerous material was detected in the letters."
Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Jonathan Jacobs said the envelope contained some type of powder. The person who initially found the envelope is being treated at a Phoenix-area hospital for a pre-existing condition and stress from the event, and others in the immediate vicinity were examined as well.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the FBI said it has no indication of a connection between the tainted letters and Monday's bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. But the discoveries further heightened security concerns at a time when Congress is considering politically volatile legislation to toughen gun laws and reform the immigration system.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president had been briefed on the letters.
"Obviously, he understands and we all understand that there are procedures in place, as the FBI has said. There are -- there is is a process in place that ensures that materials that are suspicious or substances that are found to be suspicious at remote locations are then sent for secondary and more intense testing, and that process is under way now," Carney said.
While authorities in Washington investigated the letters, the wife of a Texas chiropractor said the wording in them caught her by surprise.
The phrase used in the letters is something chiropractor John Raymond Baker once said and has been widely quoted online, his wife, Tammy Bennett Baker, told CNN.
On Wednesday, she sounded surprised when told by CNN that the wording was included in the letters under scrutiny in Washington. She said she was not aware of the letters and that the phrase refers to her husband's general philosophy of care. She said their office phone started ringing frequently Wednesday afternoon, and it was "kind of freaking out our other employee."
A 2006 post on a blog for Baker's office says the comment originally was a criticism of insurance companies. Since then, the site says, it "has been a quote that has been picked up and quoted (sometimes without attribution) around the net" and "people are using it about all kinds of injustices."
The letter sent to Wicker had a Memphis, Tennessee, postmark and no return address, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer wrote in an e-mail to senators and aides Tuesday. Wicker has been assigned a protective detail, according to a law enforcement source.
A laboratory in Maryland confirmed the presence of ricin on the letter addressed to Wicker after initial field tests also indicated the poison was present, according to Gainer. However, the FBI said additional testing was needed because field and preliminary tests produce inconsistent results.
"Only a full analysis performed at an accredited laboratory can determine the presence of a biological agent such as ricin," according to the bureau.
A law enforcement source said further tests would be conducted at the Army's biomedical research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
After the arrest was announced Wednesday night, Wicker released a statement thanking "the men and women of the FBI and U.S. Capitol Police for their professionalism and decisive action in keeping our family and staff safe from harm." His offices in Mississippi and Washington "remain open for business to all Mississippians," Wicker said in the statement.


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In the aftermath of the SnowBall Music Festival, public officials and a number of businesses in the Fraser Valley consider the event a success, while other businesses, community members, and medical service professionals view the event in a more negative light. "The Fraser business community has been desiring a Fraser festival or music event for years and years to drive business, 'bring a festival down here, they're all up in Winter Park,'" said Jeff Durbin, Fraser town manager during the Fraser board of trustees meeting on Wednesday night. "This might be one of those 'be careful what you ask for' moments."An unscientific online poll conducted by the Sky-Hi News, which by Thursday, March 21, had 180 votes, found that more than 50 percent of respondents thought "the festival attracted an undesirable crowd that we don't want associated with our Valley." More than 20 percent of respondents thought the festival "attracted a large crowd, but they didn't spend much money while they were here and the festival kept other potential visitors from coming here." As many as 12 percent of respondents believed "it's a nice new attraction, but it should be moved to sometime in April when normal business would be slower." Business owners contacted throughout town who didn't see the crowds have voiced similar concerns about the festival, many saying they would like to see the festival during another time of the year.Business reactionsWhile some merchants reported benefiting from the SnowBall festival, others reported sales numbers were down from last year. The weekend the festival took place is considered the first weekend of spring break, which is normally a busy time of the year in the valley, according to Gale Delphia, operations manager for B Jammin', a retail store with two locations in the town of Winter Park and one location at Winter Park Resort.Delphia reported business for both stores in town as being significantly down from the previous year, while business at the resort store was up."It was a dead zone in Cooper Creek Square," Delphia said. "None of these kids were our customers."The numbers relating to sales tax revenue for the Fraser Valley and Grand County will not be finalized until June, so whether the Valley actually benefited or was hurt by the music festival still remains to be seen.Some of the concerns voiced by merchants who didn't see a large SnowBall crowd was the timing of the festival. "Scheduling an event that might jeopardize that traffic [from the first weekend of spring break] seems kind of reckless to me," Delphia said.Durbin reported the Town of Fraser and Winter Park & Fraser Chamber planned this event around what lodging companies said usually is a slow weekend for them."We picked this weekend because the lodging folks told us this would be a good weekend when the lodging was low," Durbin said. "We are starting to hear some things in the community that maybe that is not the case, but that is why the weekend was originally selected.""We would have had a great weekend, but a great amount of the business community suffered on one of the biggest weekends of the year so others could have record numbers," said Ron Jones, managing partner of Cooper Creek Square. "We are in this together, when we have something that is poison to one group and good for another group, you lose that balance." Other businesses in the Valley and beyond reported they had a good amount of business related to the festival.Ian Gough, an owner of Smokin' Moe's reported the restaurant had a "slow start on Friday, but it picked up as the weekend went on and overall turned to be pretty good." Gough also commented he hoped the festival would come back."It went quite well I would say," said Kristy Meyer, owner of Destinations West at Beaver Village. Beaver Village covered its bases before the festival by hiring extra security, charging cash deposits, and setting ground rules with guests; the company reported not having very many problems at all. "The lodging folks tell us that everything was sold all the way beyond Granby," Durbin said. "The lodging folks reported they didn't experience any unusual problems - noise issues, property damage, those kinds of things - so that was really great news.""We found them very pleasant to deal with and very easy to manage, as easy of a group we have dealt with large events in Winter Park in the past," said Jeff Williams, owner of the Winter Park Pub. "It's nice to have this one over so we can plan better and know what we're up against if we do this again next season."Public servicesPublic safety agencies reported the event as largely successful, which they attributed to hundreds of hours of pre-planning for the event and a large amount of interagency cooperation."We took an organization of 30 employees and, overnight, we became 130," Durbin said. "Everyone that has been involved feels that given the performance that we had during this event, we are prepared to handle any type of incident."A total of 10 different law enforcement agencies from around Colorado were involved in the enforcement activities for the Snowball festival and the Fraser Valley."Operationally, it became our goal to provide these visitors with a positive experience so that they and their friends would become return visitors, Durbin said. "I can't tell you how much positive feedback I had from festival goers about how they felt welcomed by the community and about how they felt comfortable here."In all, 21 individuals were booked into the Grand County Jail and 40 individuals were placed in the detox center at the Grand Park Community Recreation Center over the weekend. A total of 127 serious charges were handed out by law enforcement over the course of the weekend."You as the town board can be very proud of the way Glen [Trainor, chief of police for the Fraser/Winter Park Police] put it together," said Jim Campbell, meeting attendee and Grand County undersheriff whose department contributed more than 50 employees to help with the event. "I have been in law enforcement a long time and have been involved in some events and under Glen's leadership and how he brought the different law enforcement agencies together along with the other services and really focused it and got it going, I compliment him and you for having him there to do it.""I think you can be very proud of the law enforcement we have in this county regardless of what color of uniform they wear, because not only did we work together, which doesn't always happen, but if I've heard it once I have heard it 50 times about how friendly the cops are in this community, that's stuff that larger departments in the United States can't buy," Trainor said.Trainor, Campbell, and a number of other town officials and employees received the "Snowflake Award" from Durbin in recognition of their dedication to the community and public safety.Another entity that received a Snowflake Award was First Transit, which transported over 20,000 festival goers to and from the festival. "Over 20,000 people rode the bus, so over two thirds of the people arrived by bus," Durbin said. "I think First Transit did as much to keep people safe as anybody else."Will snowball return?"Is Snowball coming back? I don't know, Do we want it to come back? I don't know," Durbin said. "Those are conversations we have to have as a community."The Winter Park & Fraser Chamber has sent out a survey to its member businesses, the results of which will not be released until the chamber has finished collecting responses and has sorted through and organized the information. The chamber has already received over 500 responses to the survey, according to Durbin.
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What is the fastest possible square number test in Mathematica 7, both for machine size and big integers?
I presume in version 8 the fastest will be a dedicated C LibraryLink function.
What is the fastest possible square number test in Mathematica 7, both for machine size and big integers?
I presume in version 8 the fastest will be a dedicated C LibraryLink function.
Sorry for my ignorance not taking into account that the question specifically asked for a Mathematica 7 solution. I updated the complete post.
Mathematica 7
In Mathematica 7 we don't have the option the compile code into a C-library which includes the thread parallelization which can be turned on when using
This leaves the possibility to not compile the used function and make it a normal Mathematica function where you can set the attribute Listable. I tried this, but it was horrible slow.
After a bit of research I found a nice solution which uses some number-properties in base 16. Since (at least in V7) it seems somewhat hard to return lists of True|False, I use 0 and 1 where 0 means no square.
Comparing this with the almost one-liner of Sal gives
I leave it to you to decide whether such a C-like programming style is worth the small speed up.
Mathematica 8
The fastest way (using Mathematica only) I know is to compile a C-library and process all data in parallel. Since most computers these days have at least 2 cores, this gives a boost. In Mathematica 8 the compilation to a C-library does not copy the data when it is called.
To make the computation parallel you have to use the Parallization option and the compiled function must be Listable. If you are sure of your input-data, you can additionally switch off most of the data-checks by using RuntimeOptions set to "Speed".
Update I include here the parallelized version of the Mathematica 7 code above:
The results here come from my MacBook in battery-save mode which has 2 Intel cores. The disadvantage is that you need a C-compiler installed on your system which is most likely not true for the majority of Mathematica users.
I voted for all three previous answer because they all taught me something. However they, being
At least on my system, Sal Mangano's code appears reducible to this without loss of speed:
For big integers between about 2*10^9 and 2*10^11 I am currently using this code from Sasha:
For integers larger than that I am using code (modified) from Daniel Lichtblau:
I don't think there are any built-in functions for this but the following is probably fast enough for most purposes.
Does 1 million integers in under a second.
This is under 2 orders of magnitude faster than the un-compiled equivalent, by the way.
More info as requested by @Mr.Wizard.
For $n$ below the $\approx 2*10^9$ limit, Compile gives the fastest solutions. For larger $n$, Sasha used
I am not sure how to speed up each comparison (as in, I spent half an hour trying different things and didn't manage to), but making the compiled function listable speeds things up quite a bit.
and then compare:
ie, it's 3-4 times faster.
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When I build a wonder that gives a percentage bonus, for example Hagia Sophia gives +33% generation of great people, is that percentage bonus applied once to the current base generation rate or it is on-going? i.e. if the base great person generation rate increases, is this bonus re-applyed to this rate?
All percentage bonuses are live and recalculated whenever the affected value changes, which is to say they are always based on the current base value, and not any historical value.
Since it's the given example, lets look at the +33% bonus to great person generation from the Hagia Sohpia.
Let's say that initially you have a city producing +3 great engineer points, with no other percentage effects currently in place.
Then, a few turns later, you adjust the citizen allocations for this city so that the base rate is now +6.
Most percentage based bonuses in the game are applied last. This means that if you are currently generating 3 great engineer points per turn and you build the Hagia Sophia, your new "gpp" looks like this
This works the same way for any other city % modifier, such as the forge, workshop, windmills, etc. Percentage bonuses are applied last.


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- There is a set of keys hanging on a wire by the water heater by the bathroom. Both are common "SC1" Schlage warded keys.
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Considering the function $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{C}$, with $\left| f(x) \right|=1$ for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$.
Considering $g:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{C}$ with $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}{\left|g(x)\right|^2dx}=1$
I am interested on properties of the amplitude of the Fourier Transform of the product of $f$ and $g$:
Is there any constraint on $A$ apart from the fact that A is real positive? Considering a fixed $g$, is it possible to attain any $A$ simply by changing $f$?
Thank you for any help
Considering the function $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{C}$, with $\left| f(x) \right|=1$ for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$.
If $g$ happens to be in $L^1$, then the amplitude of the Fourier transform of $fg$ is bounded by the $L^1$ norm of $g$, for any unimodular $f$. This is the only restriction from above since you can always choose $f$ so that $fg\ge 0$, thus bringing the (essential) supremum of $\widehat{fg}$ up to $\|g\|_{L^1}$.
Another part of the question is how small we can make $A$. I guess "arbitrarily small", but don't have a proof. (Except for special case: if $g$ is in $L^1$, then we can chop it into pieces with disjoint supports and small $L^1$ norm, and then use $f$ to move the Fourier transforms of pieces far from one another.)
The only thing you can say is $\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}|A(k)|^2dk=1$, since the Fourier transform is an isometry of $L^2(\mathbb{R})$.
Any function $A(k)$ with $\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}|A(k)|^2dk=1$ is the Fourier transform of a function of the form $f\cdot g$. Let $h$ be the inverse Fourier transform of $A(k)$, so that $A=\hat h$ and $\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}|h(x)|^2dx=1$. We can write $h=g\cdot f$ with $g=h/f$; then $$ \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}|g(x)|^2dx=\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}|h(x)|^2dx=1 $$ and $A=\widehat{f\cdot g}$


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Futuristic cars are coming faster than you think
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Automotive supplier Continental is testing a self-driving car that, by month's end, could be among the first licensed for use on public roads in Nevada, the first state to pass laws governing driverless vehicles.
Continental, which has its U.S. headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich., removed brake and steering controls in a Volkswagen Passat and replaced them with sensors and advanced technology to read the surroundings and drive accordingly.
To qualify for Nevada's special license, Continental engineers have racked up and documented almost 10,000 miles of autonomous driving. That included a recent trip from Las Vegas to Brimley, Mich.., where Continental has a development and testing center. More than 90 percent of the journey was without a hand on the wheel or a foot on a pedal, said Ibro Muharemovic, lead engineer of Continental's Advanced Engineering unit and one of three engineers riding shotgun.
A final trip is being planned to hit the 10,000 mark in the next few weeks.
Most of the technology is already on the market as safety features to avoid accidents, or at least mitigate their severity.
Google started the debate about autonomous driving when it took a Toyota Prius and attached sophisticated but expensive equipment so the car could drive itself.
Both companies are chasing the same goal: to reduce accidents, congestion and fuel consumption. With driverless cars, the age and state of the driver does not matter, and parking is not an issue when cars can drop off passengers and drive home.
"There is a strong business case for an autonomous car that can drop you off or a cab without the expense of a driver," said Ravi Pandit, CEO of KPIT Cummins, a global IT and engineering company in Pune, India.
This is the future of the auto industry, and it is happening faster than consumers realize.
A production semiautonomous car is still a few years from production, but much of the safety technology that makes it possible is on the market now. But the whole idea of cars driving themselves raises questions about liability and regulation and whether the public is ready to accept them.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will start studying aspects of autonomous driving in August with a one-year pilot project in Ann Arbor, Mich., to test 3,000 cars with equipment to communicate with one another to prevent accidents. Officials have expressed support for technology that addresses distracted driving and prevents accidents.
Issues still to be resolved include who is liable in a crash and whether drivers of autonomous cars are legally exempt from bans on texting.
"When you put everything together, a car can drive automatically," Muharemovic said.
"It's an exciting area and the natural progression of vehicles," Pandit said.
Most automakers have joined the quest. Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford addressed a conference in Barcelona, Spain, where he urged the telecom industry to help solve mobility problems as the world approaches global gridlock. He called for cars to communicate with one another and their surroundings..
Mercedes, BMW and Audi are among the companies developing systems that assist driving in traffic jams.
The all-new Cadillac XTS coming in May will feature a package of sensors, radar and cameras to provide 360-degree input to detect the risk of a crash and try to prevent it. Alan Taub, General Motors vice president of research and development, said in October that GM will have semiautonomous cars on the road by 2015 and fully autonomous ones by the end of the decade.
Already on the road are cars that park themselves, adjust their speed to that of the car in front, and brake, accelerate or steer when a crash is imminent.
The law also is working to catch up with the technology.
Nevada is the first state to pass a law making driverless cars legal, and bills have been introduced in Florida, Hawaii, California and Oklahoma. Arizona introduced a bill, but it failed.
Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles Director Bruce Breslow said the new regulations "establish requirements companies must meet to test their vehicles on Nevada's public roadways, as well as requirements for residents to legally operate them in the future."
Engineers at Continental are within weeks of completing 10,000 test miles of autonomous driving with their Passat, at which point, the car will qualify to be registered legally in Nevada and receive a special red license plate allowing it to drive on designated public roads.
In the future, production driverless cars would get a green license plate.
The Passat has driven safely through traffic congestion and shouldered the burden on long stretches of mind-numbing highway, all of which has been carefully documented.
"I was surprised by how well it worked," said Muharemovic, who made adjustments during testing. Also in the car were software and algorithm engineers from Continental in Germany.
The test Passat has a stereo camera in the windshield that monitors the ground for speed bumps or potholes, long-range radar in the front grille that looks out about 220 yards and short-range radar sensors on corners of the car to capture details of the surroundings and command the car to steer, brake and accelerate accordingly.
The sensors detect if the car in front stops, if there is a construction barrier on the right and a delivery truck cutting in from the left. The car stops and does not resume driving until the road clears; the engineers nod their approval and continue to check e-mail and send texts.
Plans for a long highway drive should be equally free of stress and fatigue because once again, the car will do the driving. The driver takes over control only to pass or change lanes.
"We still have a long way to go, but the technology is amazing," said Christian Schumacher, director of engineering systems and technology for Continental in North America.
Like cruise control, the self-driving mode can be tapped on and off. "The driver is always in control and can override the system any time," Muharemovic said.
The driver must stay awake and pay enough attention to satisfy a camera in the vehicle that is monitoring him or her and will make warning sounds threatening to revert to automatic control.
"We're looking at reducing accidents and deaths," Muharemovic said of Continental's plans to build more test vehicles to hone the technology.
Pandit believes safety is not a concern. "A car can see better than a human can, and the car responds faster," he said.
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Google's more ambitious goal of a fully autonomous car is further out.
The seven Google test cars on the road rely on a spinning $70,000 Lidar, a laser-range finder that acts like a set of eyes to map the surroundings and compare the data against GPS and other onboard systems.
"The Google car is more capable but the cost is (higher by) a factor of 1,000," Schumacher said, compared with Continental's semiautonomous solution.
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Are there any place I could download the Touch Style Demo Project? I would like to prototipe an app for the Fashion Market and I liked a lot that demo. Anyone knows if that demo is available for download?
17 Sep 2012 4:35 AM #2
You can find the demo's source code inside your sencha-touch folder under examples->touchstyle.
17 Sep 2012 4:54 AM #3
Thanks, Jerome.
I am testing the Sencha Architect and, I don´t know why, this sample is not included in that package. I downloaded the Sencha Touch and I can find it.
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Yes, I downloaded the Sencha Touch 2.1.0 and I found it in Examples directory.. Thanks.
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I did download of Sencha Touch and I installed it, but when I navigated thru the examples they shown the app without any data.. Sorry, I am new in this environment so I need some tip how can I see the examples with data in our development machine.


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There is an injunction on returning to Egypt. Why was it and is it ignored? For example, how is it that the Rambam an even Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef lived there?
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The Yeraim answers that the ban only applies when leaving Eretz Yisroel for Mitzrayim.
The Ritva has another answer he says the ban only applies when most of the Jews live in Israel.
The Rabbeinu Bechaye says the ban on living in Mitzrayim only applied in the times of the Torah when the Egyptians were infamous for their immorality, latter it would not apply (especially seeing that they are Muslim)
The Sho'el U'meishiv says the ban only applies when the whole of Klal Yisroel returns to Mitzrayim.
The Divrei Shaul by Rabbi Yosef Shaul Halevi Nathansohn says it is only banned if we go back to Mitzrayim by the same route of 42 encampments that the Jews followed in the desert.
The Semag says since Sennacherib and the Assyrians sent away the original Egyptians the ban no longer applies.
For a start, consider what the Rambam says in Hilkhot Melakhim 5:8, to the effect that it is permissible to move there for financial reasons, etc, just not with the intention of settling. And that if one were to then decide to settle, he would not be lashed for this, since his moving there was permissible at the beginning. And if one were to change one's mind and decide not to leave, אין בו מעשה (this is not a "deed"; ie: it cannot be considered a transgression, since you have not actually done anything).
This opinion of his also helps us to understand what he says in halakha 9, to the effect that it is forbidden to leave the land of Israel. Before the Rambam settled in Egypt, he lived briefly in Acre, and made pilgrimage to Jerusalem. But as he says, this prohibition is only in effect at such a time as money is plentiful and life in the land of Israel is good. At all other times, it is permissible to leave in order to make a living.
The scriptural source for the aforementioned, which is alluded to in the following texts, is Deuteronomy 17:16 - "Only let him [the king] not multiply horses for himself, nor send the people back to Egypt in order to acquire horses, as the Lord has said to you: do not continue to return by this path any more".
To get to the essence of your question, so far as the Rambam in particular is concerned, note that this has been asked by others already. For example, R' Meir haKohen of Rothenburg (student of the Maharam; "Hagahot Maimoniot", 13th c.):
Also, the following is brought by R' David ben Avi Zimra (Radbaz, 15th-16th c.):
Apparently, as is brought in מקורות וציונים in the Fraenkel edition, R' Shmuel, one of the Rambam's grandsons, testified that the Rambam used to sign his letters with the words העובר בכל יום ג' לאוין ("who transgresses three prohibitions daily"). This shows that he recognised that it was forbidden to dwell in Egypt, and perhaps supports the view of the Radbaz that he was forced to do so. In any case, if you read Joel L. Kraemer's excellent Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds (New York: Doubleday, 2008), you'll see that he says the following on p.141:
The Rambam holds that it is prohibited (and put a post-script after his name as "someone who violates 3 commandments daily")


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Not for Honor. Not for country. For his wife and child.
Opening Statement
One of Tom Clancy's best books adapted to film, this disc is further blessed by the presence of some very fine actors and actresses. Unfortunately, Paramount has gutted a fine story with a disappointing transfer and a criminal lack of extras.
The Evidence
I am a huge Tom Clancy fan, so I always run to the video store when there is a new Clancy movie to buy. I was tickled when I heard this disc was coming, because I knew that it would have to be a great improvement over my pan and scan VHS copy. If that were my only criterion for a review, I would report mission accomplished and go write my next one. Sadly, as a DVD, Patriot Games is mediocre at best.
The story is relatively straightforward, but has its share of tense and compelling moments. Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is on a working vacation in London, England, when he stumbles across a terrorist attack upon a member of the Royal family, Lord Holmes (James Fox). In short order, Ryan kills one terrorist and wounds his brother, Sean Miller (Sean Bean). Ryan sticks around to testify against Miller, then heads back to his Annapolis, Maryland home while Miller heads to a maximum security British prison…But not for long.
Miller's cohorts spring him in effective and murderous fashion, and Miller begins to nurse his desire to exact revenge upon Ryan. His revenge leaves Ryan's wife wounded and his daughter critically wounded. Ryan fights back in the best way he knows how, by going back to an old job with the CIA and tracking down Sean Miller and his IRA splinter group. He does a thorough job, which leads to a particularly chilling scene where Ryan watches via satellite while a British SAS team eliminates Miller's training camp in "North Africa" (wink, wink). Thinking that Miller has been killed, Ryan proceeds with a birthday party for his recovered daughter, with Lord Holmes as a special guest. Miller crashes the party, and we are eventually treated to a mano a mano fight between Ryan and Miller. (A real Hollywood ending, which is a bit of an anti-climax. I prefer the book's ending.)
A fine group of actors and actresses, also including Samuel L. Jackson, Anne Archer, and James Earl Jones, provide an excellent emotional depth to the story, which is a lot more personal than your usual Clancy techno-thriller.
The video transfer looks like it was pulled off a shelf from somewhere and slapped onto the DVD with only limited attention paid to quality. Specks of dirt and the like are seen too often for comfort. Too many scenes are marred by excessive graininess or digital noise. I had to review several scenes to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. Sadly, they weren't. I observed a number of other minor, but annoying video problems, such as the opening credits shimmering and a certain softness of picture in some scenes. Colors are well saturated and vivid, at least.
I don't mean to imply that the video is unwatchable, but it is sadly deficient.
Being a Paramount disc, it contains the typical (and only recently corrected) fault that you can't choose your audio on the fly, but must choose from the Setup menu. The audio is acceptable, but bass punch is AWOL for the big explosions. I do have to give points for James Horner's musical score, which at times had an Aliens sound to it.
The menus are bare bones, and the ONLY extra is the theatrical trailer, which at least is 2.35:1 letterboxed. If Paramount is going to express such contempt for its movies by treating their DVD release with such neglect, they shouldn't even bother.
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Oddly enough, the video problems aren't consistent through the whole movie, but they come and go. Some scenes, such as Miller's rescue from his prison van, are actually quite stunning. Bottom line, if you are casually watching the movie, you probably could tolerate or ignore the worst of it. The disc is guilty as hell, and only the film saves it from becoming a coaster.
Closing Statement
If you are a Tom Clancy and/or Harrison Ford fan, you'll still want the disc. Otherwise, I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it (except for a bargain price).
The Verdict
The film itself is acquitted. Paramount is guilty of Criminal Simulation of a DVD Disc, and ought to publicly humiliate itself and commit ritual suicide for releasing such a poor disc of such a fine movie.
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Weil cohomologies seem to be "natural" and useful cohomology theories. Wikipedia lists Betti, De Rham, l-adic etale, and crystalline cohomologies as examples of Weil cohomology. Do we have more of them? and is it plausible to classify all or some Weil cohomologies? Or more generally, classify these really good Grothendieck sites?
If we believe in the standard conjectures (or something similar) so that the category of motives is Tannakian, then a Weil cohomology theory is just a fibre functor and as such twists of each other (that does not quite give the multiplicative structure however) which gives, more or less, a classification. Note that your question on Grothendieck sites is only vaguely related, the whole point of the notion of Weil cohomology theory is that there is no site in sight (pun intended).
Addendum: This is a little bit simple minded as the requirements for a Weil cohomology theory to be a fibre functor go beyond the standard conjectures I think. Also one would need to define motives using cohomological equivalence. However, I think the statements I made are philosophically OK and one cannot hope to get anything in the way of a more precise classification.


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Unsure how I feel about 25% increase in cost. I think it would have been better to do 2 years at $10/year but that's just me. We'll see how I feel about it next year when I'm faced with paying the higher price.
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The rich get richer.......
Yes, I did receive one. I 'avoided' getting Prime for a very long, long time. Finally succumbed. I say by accident, because I do not remember clicking the 1 month trial. Apparently did - when I received the confirmation it showed delivery w/i 2 days. What??? Long story short, I decided to keep it. This was late last year - mine will go up on renewal in Dec. 2014. Will I keep it? Not sure yet. Do know I've been hopelessly spoiled. So far it's been worth it for the quick deliveries. As I age, I'm not as patient.
I suspected they would increase the Prime cost when they raised the free shipping to $35. Prices have gone up on everything - obviously up on mailing parcels. So...for me the question is, Do I want to go back to the Wish List gathering? Maybe, maybe not.
I also got it. Mine is up next Nov, so I will also wait to see what happens. I actually am finding myself buying less from them as is, with local b&m closing the gaps in some prices.
I figured this was coming, but honestly, over the 12 months it's only $1.67/month more. I understand any increase is an increase but seems like a lot to get upset over as I imagine many people will :) .
However, mine said it will be increasing to $99 on my next renew period in September.
I'll stay with it. We buy a lot from Amazon, in part because I have some mobility issues that make traipsing from store to store looking for a particular item painful and time consuming. Prime actually saves us money, since without it we often "padded" a purchase to get to the $25 [now $35] needed for free shipping, and that additional wish-list purchase might well have never been made without the incentive of free shipping. Additionally, I use the free Kindle borrowing option each month to save $4-10 on a book I want to read but won't spend that much for.
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I got one too... I have until next March...
Mine will got up in Feb 2015. I am pretty sure we'll keep it. I also always assumed shipping costs were built in and that the Prime fee covered the faster shipping time, despite what the small print said. I will be curious to see how those lawsuits play out, though.
Yup, I sure did, and I immediately went into my Amazon Prime account and disabled automatic renewal of my subscription.
It was remarkably difficult to find the right place to change that setting, the buttons you have to click make it appear as though you are requesting the cancellation of your account.
Now why on earth would they make it so darn hard to turn off automatic renewal?
I'm a sucker, then have me totally. I have become completely spoiled on the free two day shipping. All of my and my wife's family lives away from us, so all gifts have to be mailed. Having free two day shipping pays for itself in those gifts alone.
My ass has been saved several times by both the free 2 day shipping and the $3.99 one day upgrade. Last year, a few days before I was to leave to get married, I discovered that the studs I had were not going to fit in the shirt I had. Crap and other comments. I found a nice set for a very reasonable price (way under what was available locally) and got them shipped in a day. No worries.
I also have discovered plenty of good shows on Prime Streaming. My wife wanted to see Vikings: free on streaming. I watched all of Justified on Amazon.
So, yea, the additional 20 bucks is worth it.
@wilfbrim: That $3.99 upgrade is not $3.99 anymore. It changes depending on item, now.
don't tell anyone, but we share a prime account with my inlaws. log into the primary account and order. just have to keep an eagle eye on which card and which billing/shipping address...and i use it to order items for friends using their cards too.
on the other hand, more and more local stores are pricematching amazon. just saved $7 tonight at babies r us doing that. got the item immediately and got the good price. win for me.
@durkzilla: Turning off auto-renewal was exactly my first thought. But once I found it, the link did not work!?! Tried several times, even with a reboot in between. Must have been overloaded with others attempting the same. ;-)
Gave up and opened a ticket with Amazon support - to their credit, they were amazingly fast and turned it off behind the scenes for my account.
Everyone who is on the fence should turn off auto-renew. Saves you from forgetting it as well as sending a message to Amazon.
I am in the process of evaluating, analytically, whether it makes sense for us to keep since we only tried it at the old $79 for a year...
I'll stay with it.
I use Amazon Prime shipping quite a bit. I also have 4 family members that I share it with. This is a gift I can give them and they love it. My son can use it while he's at school.
I watch Amazon Instant Prime videos quite a bit. They have a good selection and many are free for prime.
I use Amazon Prime a lot, and the student increase ain't that bad, but mine expires in May. I might have to let it go until I figure out how to stop being poor.
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