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February 13, 2013
Senator Brian Birdwell
1400 Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78701
Dear Senator Birdwell,
We are writing to voice our opposition to the proposed legislation SB 182 that would allow students and other individuals to carry concealed weapons on our college campuses. While those of us at Baylor University are relieved that this bill would not force private universities to comply, we object to the proposed change that it would no longer be a crime for someone to carry a weapon on our private campus.
Furthermore, as educators we are concerned about the effect this law would have on higher education at all of our public universities in Texas.
Not only are the intended outcomes of this legislation (i.e., a safer campus against acts of violence) highly questionable but the unintended outcomes of this legislation are predictably disruptive and potentially disastrous. Allowing students to carry deadly weapons into our classrooms will potentially change the way we lecture and facilitate discussions. It may very well impede the free flow of ideas and exchanges which are essential in the academic enterprise; it may introduce an element into this environment that causes anxiety, tension, concern, and fear.
Allowing students, parents, or others to carry deadly weapons into our administrative offices where decisions are made about the academic status of students (including probation, suspension, expulsion, grade appeals, and graduation), where decisions are made about disciplinary matters (including probation, suspension, and expulsion), where decisions are made about financial matters (including the awarding of scholarships, financial aid probation, and financial aid termination) would, as you can surely imagine, create potential risks to administrators and their staff; this would be somewhat like allowing an individual to carry a loaded gun into a court room.
When transcripts, personal records, and financial aid of students are affected by decisions that we make, you can imagine the high levels of emotion which can be engendered in these situations.
Furthermore, it is no secret that our 17 to 25-year-olds are in transition from youth to young adulthood; they are at various stages of intellectual, emotional, and moral maturity. Loaded handguns carried by youth can be dangerous anywhere but surely we do not want them in our classrooms, chapels, laboratories, residential halls, recreation centers, sporting events, intramural fields, health clinics, student government meetings, cafeterias, cashier's office, financial aid office, registrar, record's office, and many other administrative offices.
We ask you not to gamble with the lives of our students, staff, and faculty at Baylor University and other Texas colleges with this ill-conceived experiment.
Instead, we ask you to support universal background checks as a way to keep our campuses safer.


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I am unable to see the Copy Database option in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2.
Can anyone tell me whats going on please?
I am unable to see the Copy Database option in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2.
Can anyone tell me whats going on please?
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That's because you are clicking on the wrong thing. Don't right-click Databases, but you need to actually right-click the database that you want to copy, and under Tasks there is an option for Copy Database.... In other words, right-click on Database1 and then you'll see this option under Tasks.
As per @AaronBertrand's comment, though, it is highly recommended not to use the Copy Database Wizard. Just go with a backup and restore. It'll be less of a headache.
Edit: It seems as though this option is not available for SQL Server Express edition. When connecting to a SQL Server Express instance, you cannot run the Copy Database wizard. This is due to the fact that the two primary means of executing this task are unavailable in SQL Server Express Edition. First, the Detach/Reattach method relies on SQL Agent (presumably to copy the data and log files from source to destination), and SMO has been removed from 2008 R2, so that method is also unavailable in Express 2008 R2.
I was able to make a copy of a database using SQL Express by choose Backup Database and then choose Restore from database.. quit simple
Make sure it's not marked for replication, or recovering/suspect/loading/inaccessible.
From the msdn page on this wizard:
This is odd ... but it looks like that this option is removed in SSMS 2008 R2. I can see it in SSMS 2005 (btw, the link you posted it is using same) And so I think your only option is just to script out the database or restore backup with different name.

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Let $f: \mathbb{R}^{n} \to \mathbb{R}^{m}$ be an injection for $n>m$. Can $f$ be continuous? Why?
I got this question in mind when I was trying to find a continuous map from $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ to $\mathbb{R}$.
Let $f: \mathbb{R}^{n} \to \mathbb{R}^{m}$ be an injection for $n>m$. Can $f$ be continuous? Why?
I got this question in mind when I was trying to find a continuous map from $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ to $\mathbb{R}$.
If $f$ is injective and continuous from $\mathbb{R}^n$ to $\mathbb{R}^m$ where $n>m$ then $f$ restricts to a continuous bijection from $S^{n-1}$, the unit sphere in $R^n$, to a compact subset $K$ of $\mathbb{R}^m$. Thus you can embed $S^{n-1}$, and a foriori $S^m$ in $\mathbb{R}^m$.
But there are homological obstructions to embedding $S^m$ in $\mathbb{R}^m$. Using the arguments of this excellent paper
Albrecht Dold, A simple proof of the Jordan-Alexander complement theorem, Amer. Math. Monthly 100 (1993), 856-85.
(essentially a cunning use of the Mayer-Vietoris theorem) it would entail the homology of the space $\mathbb{R}^m-K$ being nonzero in negative dimension, which is absurd.
Added As I replied in haste I forgot the sledgehammer that cracks this little nut, namely Alexander duality.
Added later In fact this result also follows from Brouwer's Invariance of Domain. This is Theorem 2B.3 on page 172 of Hatcher's book. This implies that if one has an embedding from $\mathbb{R}^n$ to itself, then its image is open. One gets such an embedding by composing your putative embedding with the natural embedding of $\mathbb{R}^m$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Adapting the proof, gives a swift proof that the answer of your original question is no.
If you have a continuous injection from $\mathbb{R}^n$ to $\mathbb{R}^m$, with $n>m$ then you have an embedding of $S^{n-1}$ into a nontrivial hyperplane in $\mathbb{R}^n$. By the Jordan-Brouwer separation theorem the image $K$ of this embedding separates $\mathbb{R}^n$ but it's easy to see that since the image is in a hyperplane any two points of the complement of $K$ can be connected by a path (exercise for reader :-)).
Alternatively, you may use the Borsuk-Ulam antipodal theorem, in order to prove that such a map cannot be one-to-one.
More generally, you might ask whether there is a continuous injective map from a space of dimension $n$ to a space of dimension $m$, where $n > m$. The subject of dimension theory investigates this problem. (Hurewicz & Wallman wrote a classic, though hard to find nowadays, book on the subject; perhaps an expert could recommend a more modern reference?) Here is a representative theorem:
If $f: X \to Y$ is a continuous surjection bewteen separable compact metric spaces, where $X$ has dimension $n$ and $Y$ has dimension $m$, then there is a point $y \in Y$ whose preimage contains at least $n - m + 1$ points.
This applies to your question, as Robin Chapman explained, by restricting your map to a nice compact subspace of dimension $n$, for instance the unit closed ball.
In any case, my point is that the techniques above for Euclidean space and for spheres have appropriate generalizations to separable metric spaces.
As to the "why?", I recommend tracking down a copy of Hurewicz & Wallman from a library. It's very pleasant reading and assumes only a brief encounter with point set topology.
I taught an introductory topology course this last autumn where I covered this theorem from an elementary point of view. The argument just uses the Brouwer fixed point theorem (which itself has a proof via Stokes' theorem which is readily accessible to students with several variable calculus) plus elementary point set topology. In particular no homology or Jordan--Brouwer separation theorems are used. The treatment was based upon that of Hurewicz & Wallman but was also inspired by Larry Guth's ICM-2010 presentation in Hyderabad.
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I find there are often things that I want to do specifically when I'm doing something else, and always forget to. A couple examples (silly as they seem) will probably make this more clear.
The inner (plastic) curtain in the shower at work flies into the shower and brushes up against me (something to do with the airflow I guess). I want to remember to simply bring a binder clip and attach it to the other curtain. By the time I remember (i.e. when the nasty curtain is flying into me) it's too late.
When I'm shaving, for whatever reason I forget to shave up by my nostrils and the corners of my mouth (I realize at some point during the day and am annoyed by it).
Obviously these are not incredibly important (which is why I never remember them, I guess), but they are annoying. I am horrible at remembering to do things so I resort to lists, and that works well in a "todo" sense, but not when the task is context-sensitive (i.e. WHEN I go to the shower I have to remember the binder clip...not now).
Are there any techniques to better remember things like this?


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I run a lot of long running processes (simulations) that print progress to
STDOUT. I occasionally forget to redirect to
STDOUT to a file I can
grep, and it's usually too far along to restart.
QUESTION: Without stopping the process, is there a way I can hook into another
These are always running in GNU screen with ZSH on OS X 10.7.3.


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Does the axis of Time point into a black hole or away from?
Can you give a reference paper?
Does the axis of Time point into a black hole or away from?
Can you give a reference paper?
There is no uniquely defined time axis is relativity. Locally, observers in different states of motion have time axes that don't coincide. Even if we fix a state of motion for the observer, there is both a forward and a backward time axis. A more meaningful question would be phrased in terms of the past and future light cones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone
In the following, I'll assume a spacetime containing a black hole that is the result of gravitational collapse. (There are other possibilities. See http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/black_holes_picture/index.html )
For any spacetime event that is inside the event horizon, we have a future light cone and a past light cone. One of these contains world-lines that all terminate at the singularity. The other contains world-lines that extend out through the event horizon. Conventionally, we call the former direction the future and the latter the past direction. (If we were to reverse these labels, then this would be a white hole, not a black hole.)
For any spacetime event that is outside the event horizon, the past light-cone (assuming the conventional labels) contains world-lines that stretch back in time but never intersect the event horizon. The future light-cone contains some world-lines that pass in through the horizon and some that don't.
The short answer to your question, phrased in the language you used, is basically that if you're inside the horizon, all possible future time axes point toward the singularity.
As far as references, you could look at any textbook on GR. If you can post more about your level of math and physics background, we could point you to something specific that would be appropriate.
Time axis is not bent by the black hole - the light-like axis is. here we have the Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates:
Schwarzschildradius is at $r_S$ and you can see the both light-like rays, one of which is parallel to time axis, the other points towards the singularity.


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NN looks like a great product, but I need some help wrapping my mind around all the options. Hope you can help.
I've shot a great deal in panoramic but tend to turn to film for it -- have a few swing lens panoramic cameras and Xpans. Now that my favorite films are being cut, I'm getting deeper into shooting digital & would love this groups' advice on which NN product is a good place to start.
My gear consist of Nikon d800 and Nikkor lenses: 16mm fish 2.8; 14 - 24 mm 2.8; 24 - 70 mm 2.8
I called NN to get some advice; the mention of the 14-24 mm [I didn't mention others at that point] pointed us to NN4. Then I came on a thread which suggested the longer 24-70 might call for the M series.
But then again it seems a lot of people love the 16mm nikkor for this kind of work -- would it be a good choice to make the 16 my exclusive pano-shooting lens and work with the R series? It sounds like the R-variety can work well on monopod as well as tripod which might work for a few projects where I need to shoot overheard. With other kinds of shooting, of course, there are benefits to having a variety of lenses, but for stitched-panos maybe I can just stick to 16 and there is little point in switching??
I shoot mostly for print and expect to be most interested in single row work like these:
But once I get going I might enjoy the spherical as well...
I'd appreciate some advice so I can make the best choice!


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CARPENTER, SR., Robert "Bob" W., 76, of Wintersville, Ohio, passed away Feb. 6, 2013, at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville.
He was born Oct. 29, 1936, in Steubenville, Ohio, a son of the late Chester and Effie (Robinson) Carpenter.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by brothers, Eugene, Donald, and Edward Carpenter; sisters, Virginia Pearl, Mary Mankowski, Rose Jones, and Saundra Matty; and three grandchildren, infant twin boys and granddaughter, Angel.
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Bob was a member at the Brentwood United Methodist Church.
He loved playing high school football, fishing, hunting, NASCAR, showing off his 1951 Ford pickup, but most of all Bob loved his family. He was a great husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and uncle.
Bob is survived by his loving wife, Doris Faye (Search) Carpenter whom he married on June 27, 1957; son, Robert Carpenter, Jr. of Wintersville; daughter, Lisa (Larry) Pearce of Bloomingdale; brother, Howard (Dorothy) Carpenter of Wintersville; sisters, Geraldine (Orman) Shields of Doylestown, Ohio and Janet (Bill) Evans of Vonore, Tenn.; grand children, Robert, Jason, and Tiffany Pearce; great grandchildren, Lance Coleman, Cole, Griffin, Kennedi, and Kenzi Pearce; brother-in-law, Richard Matty of Marshallville, Ohio; sister- in-law, Evelyn Carpenter of Spence, WV and many nieces and nephews.
Friends will be received on Friday from 4-8 p.m. at the Everhart-Bove Funeral Home, 685 Canton Road, Wintersville where funeral services will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. with Pastor Bill Westling officiating. Burial will follow at Ft. Steuben Burial Estates.
Send condolences online at www.everhart-bovefuneralhomes.com.


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8 Diet Drinks Skinny Women Love to Sip
We all know that diet coke you chug every day isn't that healthy, but is there any diet drink that's actually good for you? These are the ones the healthiest and fittest among us stock up on
Most frozen margaritas have hundreds of calories because they're loaded with sugar. If you're going to indulge in a cocktail, Kotsopoulos says the best rule to follow is to always be in control of the amount of sugar that's in the cup -- even if it's fruit. "Squeeze the lime yourself," she says. "You want to know exactly what's going into that drink." One of her favorite combinations is coconut water and vodka. "The coconut water has electrolytes, which rehydrate you," she explains. "I like to say that you 'tox and detox' -- which means you're a lot less likely to be hung over."
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I need to try some of these things.
by Monique3 Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 07:49AM Report as inappropriate
Not so sure about choosing red wine- that tends to give headaches to many... My other concern with all those juices, smoothies, and berries is that even if you get something "organic", you still can't be sure you'll get a good quality product without pesticides, and that was stored right. Winter cucumber products tend to give me horrible allergies, which means there actually is some chemical junk in them. beware.
by venenumletalis Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:49AM Report as inappropriate
cucumber water is delicious! I want to try the sparkling water and berries now too!
by Chris213 Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 06:31AM Report as inappropriate
skinny women drink water (:
by LittleBunny Monday, November 26, 2012 at 02:51PM Report as inappropriate
I'm not sure about adding Kale to a fruit smoothie...it seems like that would change the flavor a lot. I guess I shouldn't knock it until I try it, but it sounds a bit odd as a flavor combination.
by mlenaei Monday, November 26, 2012 at 01:45PM Report as inappropriate
love the coffee substitute!
by sportimonki13 Monday, November 12, 2012 at 04:36PM Report as inappropriate
They all look pretty nice in the cup, but in a I-would-never-drink-this kind of way.
by schien Monday, November 12, 2012 at 11:21AM Report as inappropriate
The coconut milk with raw cacao looks so good!
by EricaF123 Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 03:42AM Report as inappropriate
Thank you for your sharing
by Ada87 Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 01:29AM Report as inappropriate
I love the healthy options. Good article
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STEUBENVILLE - Firefighter Dave "Pounder" Coladonato reached for and started tugging at a small tree growing out of the main library's chimney on South Fourth Street.
Then he used his hook to dig the roots out of the crack where the tree had sprouted.
Another job well done by the city firefighters who had volunteered to remove the plants that had been growing from the library's north chimney.
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PUBLIC SERVICE PROJECT — Steubenville firefighters spent an hour Wednesday removing small trees growing in the north chimney of the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County's Main Library on South Fourth Street. The firefighters said the public service project helped library officials and also was a tactical training exercise using the department's ladder truck. - Dave Gossett
Coladonato and Capt. Chris Allen rode the ladder truck platform 80 feet into the air Wednesday morning during a combination training exercise and public service project after hearing about the small trees that had taken root at several spots on the chimney.
"There is still a small tree growing inside of the chimney that we couldn't reach, but we sprayed it with weed killer, and hopefully, that will take care of the problem," Coladonato said at the end of the hour-long exercise.
Fire Chief Carlo Capaldi heard about the tree issue last week when Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County Director Alan Hall mentioned his frustration in finding someone to remove the small trees.
"That is a good training exercise for us and we can help the library remove a problem," said Capaldi.
So on a sunny Wednesday morning Assistant Fire Chief Frank DeLeonardis, Capts. Dave Sullivan and Allen and firefighters Coladonato, Gray Nagy and Matt Ulasiewicz carefully maneuvered the department's ladder truck on South Street to allow them to extend the ladder to the top of the chimney.
"This a good chance for us to use the ladder truck in a non-emergency training exercise. That is important so we maintain our tactical skills in operating this particular truck and the ladder when we do encounter an emergency," explained Nagy.
Nagy kept one of the tree cuttings to plant at his residence.
"I believe it is an apple tree. It is some type of fruit tree. So I will work with it and see if I can get it to grow at home," Nagy noted.
Hall said a famous tree grew for several years in the south chimney before it was removed in 1996.
"That tree continued to grow for 41 years before we were able to remove it when we rebuilt the chimney. We also sealed off that chimney because it was no longer used. But this chimney is still used so we can't seal it," Hall explained.
After the 41-year-old tree was removed Hall replanted it in his garden where it is still growing.
"When the library was built in 1902 I doubt anyone thought about trees growing out of the chimneys. But birds land up there and drop seeds so we have plantings growing out of the cracks. I wish Gray luck in getting his tree to flourish," said Hall.
"And maybe we can do something about his late book fines," laughed Hall.
"I greatly appreciate the cooperation and their help with this project. I thank the firefighters for going to great heights to solve our problem," he added.


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If a scale model has 0.5x the original length in all directions, should its mass be 1/8th of the original mass?
OK, now we have a better idea what you're trying to do. If we can assume elastic collisions, then answer should be independent of the mass of the bike (though it will depend on the relative distribution of the mass, i.e. center of gravity and moments of inertia). However you will need to think how to scale the velocity of your model.
One way to think of it: you want to make a coordinate transformation from your model system that replicates the physics of your target system. The length transformation from model to target system is $l_t = 2*l_m$. However, your model system has a gravitational acceleration of $g = 9.8 m/s^2$, so your simulated target system will have an effective gravitational acceleration of $g_t = 2*9.8 m/s^2$ which is not right. How do you fix this? You have to rescale the time between model and target systems: $t_t = \sqrt2*t_m$. This in turn means your models velocity will be related to the target system velocity by $v_m = l_m/t_m = (\sqrt2/2)*l_t/t_t=v_t/\sqrt2$, so you will want to reduce the velocity of your model accordingly.
Yes, assuming it has the same density. Volme scales as length to the power of three and mass is proportional to volume.
$$ \left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^3=\frac{1}{8} $$


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Where would you place a Change language button/Country selector (or dropdown) on a web page? In a footer menu or in a utility menu in the top right corner of a web page or somewhere else on the page? What are your findings? Where does it feel most natural?
I won't go for the note in the footer since the primary use of such a selector is when landing the very first time on the website, as soon as the user sees that he does not understand the site language, he must not have to scroll to the footer to switch language.
But this should be a secondary action. So given the cultural context, I'll put it on the top right corner for left-to-right layout.
This case study shows that users mostly expect that the language button is in the top right:
I think it is good standard to have language selector at top right corner which allows the user to quickly change the selection besides having at the bottom. Refer the McAfee home.mcafee.com website, like how they have combined the actual language name/characters with country.
Also, Refer this thread which has detailed study on the placement of country selector. I think this thread will answer what you are after...


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6 Organizations You Didn't Know Were Secretly Badass
Some organizations spend their entire history trying to convince the world they're badass. Nobody would dare mess with a bunch of Navy SEALs, for instance, and if your girlfriend says her dad is a member of the Hells Angels, you're going to watch your ass. But some of the most badass groups on the planet don't put nearly as much effort into maintaining that kind of reputation.
Therefore, we shall do it for them.
#6. The Salvation Army
When we think about the Salvation Army, we get a heartwarming image of little old ladies in red aprons doing their bit to serve the community one bake sale at a time, which is why you'll probably be alarmed to discover that the "Army" part of their name isn't just a metaphor.
The roots of the Salvation Army play like something out of Gangs of New York. Although founded as a Christian mission by Reverend William Booth in 1865 in East End London, their "salvation" caused so much trouble for local pimps, brewers and other ill-merchants that they armed themselves and formed an anti-Salvation Army gang they called The Skeleton Army.
The Salvation Army's eternal foe.
At a time when the Salvation Army was in its infancy and essentially fighting to stay alive, they were forced into a confrontation with the Skeleton Army gang on August 17, 1884, who rioted and tried to burn down their headquarters. The soldiers of the Salvation Army managed to outlast their adversaries, first with hope, and then with gunshots.
Then, presumably, with bells and buckets.
And they were victorious.
But even that doesn't trump the action they saw in the trenches of World War I. It was during this time that the Salvation Army deployed 1,065 women onto the battlefield, "in the face of danger, with death striking all about them."
Although this meant having to offer their services while "under fire, day after day and night after night" from a host of technological terrors ranging from machine guns to planes to poison gases, these young soldiers in the Salvation Army "coolly went about their work, giving first aid to the injured or, as the occasion offered, serving hot drinks and sandwiches."
"Did she say BLTs?"
Sound pretty ballsy? Try doing all that while unarmed and wearing a dress.
#5. The Canadian Mounties
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Due South combined did enough of a job on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to make them fodder for our mockery well into the 21st century.
Though the Dudley Do-Rights of the Canadian border may dress like nutcrackers in Crocodile Dundee hats, many Americans tend to forget that silly costumes and funny nicknames aren't necessarily an accurate gauge of strength or ability.
When you consider just how vulnerable the vast Canadian border is to everything from syrup-smugglers to bears, you have to figure that it must take one hell of a security system to keep Canadians sleeping soundly at night. Especially when you consider that the USA has tried to conquer Canada several times, and each time the Canadians kicked our flag-waving asses.
And took our belt!
The RCMP are actually something like the FBI of Canada. If they ride into any crime scene, anywhere in the country, they have automatic authority to boss everyone around. You'll want to listen to them not just because they're the highest authority, but also they're armed with MP5 submachine guns because "it is hard as hell to hit someone with a handgun."
If you commit a crime in Canada and try to evade the Mounties by slipping over into the States, then you've fundamentally misunderstood the power of the Mounties. They can just gallop over the border and shoot you in Maine, because they have international jurisdiction. Not to mention their paramilitary hoard of weaponry and vehicles including trucks, snowmobiles, aircraft, sea vessels and a goddamn train.
Apparently, they also have camels.
In short, the Mounties alone compose a force fear-worthy enough to, at the very least, conquer Alaska if Sarah Palin ever tries to make a comeback.
#4. The Boy Scouts
Of the words that come to mind when we hear "Boy Scouts," "badass" isn't one of them. Words like "nerdlinger" and "snot-nosed little knot-tying wieners" are probably closer to the mark. Don't say it to their pimply little faces though or they might cut you up with a Swiss army knife. Or without one.
We could regale you with all kinds of stories about Scouts who went beyond the call of duty to achieve feats that grown men couldn't dream about--like 13-year old Jimmy Kennedy, who saved his entire family when Hurricane Katrina struck his home; Chris Malasics, 14, who survived a run-in with a bear; or when two unknown Boy Scouts in 1921 fought against the worst flood in Colorado history to save a half dozen people from a burning, "exploding" lime plant... using canoes.
In the original draft of Die Hard, John McClane was a boy scout trying to get his pottery badge.
But that all somehow pales in comparison to the time the Boy Scouts answered the call to fight in the biggest worldwide free-for-all in history. Back before the Scouting organization was even in its teens, the world came down with a fever known as World War I. After boning up on their emergency preparedness skills, the Scouts competed for their Hun-killing merit badges under a sky black with artillery shells.
Tales abound of junior MacGyvers putting their scouting skills to the task of ruining Germany's day, such as the case of 12-year-old Ukrainian scout Andrew Mironenko, who crossed over enemy lines in the dead of night, unscrewed the bolts of a bunch of artillery guns and wheeled them right the hell back to the Russian front line. Or consider the Belgian Scout, Leyson, who "killed one of the enemy with his own hand and captured no fewer than 11 spies."
And finally, there's Boy Scout Mohammed Jaisham Ibrahim. While in full Boy Scout uniform, he spotted and seized an assassin's knife just as he was about to plunge it into the stomach of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the President of the Maldives. The Boy Scout, who instantly became a Man Scout, received serious injuries and had to be airlifted, but he gets to spend the rest of his life with all of the Maldives knowing that he saved the president's life. At age 15.


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Manhunt for Bombers Focuses on Two Men
The faces of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects came into fuzzy view Thursday as the Federal Bureau of Investigation released photos and videos of two men carrying backpacks near the scene of the deadly attacks.
The FBI, seeking a quick resolution to one of the nation's biggest terror attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, urged the public to come forward with tips about the two men, who were described as the principal focus of the investigation. The two were seen together and then separately, with one putting a bag down at the spot where the second of two blasts went off Monday, the FBI said. The bombs killed three people and injured more than 175.
Richard DesLauriers, chief of the FBI's Boston office, said people should consider the men "armed and extremely dangerous." He added, "No one should approach them, no one should attempt to apprehend them except law enforcement."
The release of the videos and photos reflects both significant progress in the investigation—finding the images amid hundreds of hours of surveillance-camera and other video—and an acknowledgment that the high-tech tools at the FBI's disposal weren't enough to immediately identify the two men.
Dan Defenbaugh, a former FBI investigator who worked on the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, said the public labeling of the men as suspects means "it's obvious now that the FBI and the joint terrorism task force needs everyone's help in identifying, finding and locating these people."
"You want to come up with these guys, and you want to come up with them real fast," Mr. Defenbaugh said. "It's not like waiting for the bank robber to rob his next bank.''
The man described as suspect No. 1 was wearing a black golf cap. Suspect No. 2 was wearing a white cap on backward and seen dropping a bag near a restaurant on Boylston Street, the thoroughfare where the Boston Marathon finish line was located Monday. Within minutes the bag's contents exploded, Mr. DesLauriers said.
The release of the pictures came after President Barack Obama visited Boston for a prayer service at the city's Cathedral of the Holy Cross and promised to find who carried out the bombings.
To a standing ovation, he said the city showed resilience after the attacks and would continue to show its resolve by holding next year's marathon.
"We carry on. We finish the race," Mr. Obama said.
Investigators say the two bombs were assembled using household pressure cookers, similar to devices thwarted in several prior U.S. terror plots. The bombs were packed with nails and pellets to make them more deadly and placed in black bags or backpacks, the FBI has said.
The FBI's use of the "suspect" label Thursday came as something of a surprise after days of officials urging the news media to exercise caution in speculating about perpetrators. Earlier, officials had said only that the FBI wanted to talk with some of the people in the videos.
Immediately after the announcement, the FBI.gov website received more traffic than it has ever seen, an official said, as well as a "sizable" jump in calls to their tip line. The FBI set up a new site, bostonmarathontips.fbi.gov, to report tips.
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Mr. DesLauriers urged the public to focus on the photographs the FBI released—and not other images that have proliferated on the Internet and in the media.
Investigators were reviewing thousands of leads and tips, Mr. DesLauriers said. "Somebody knows these individuals," he said.
Federal authorities tried to reassure the public that the investigation was moving at an appropriate pace.
"This is not an 'NCIS' episode," said Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano at a congressional hearing, speaking of the popular TV series. "Sometimes you have to take time to properly put the chain together to identify the perpetrators."
Within 48 hours of the attack, FBI and Boston police investigators began homing in on video and photos from the scene and trying to identify a person in a video who appeared to leave the bag at the spot of the second bomb.
Mr. DesLauriers said investigators became persuaded Wednesday that this man—the one with the backward white cap—was a suspect. Further reviews of the videos led them to conclude Thursday that the man with the black cap was with him and a suspect.
Investigators said the men were recorded walking on Boylston Street and they encouraged anyone who had been at the Forum Restaurant, near the second blast site, to contact the FBI in the hopes they might be able to provide even a small scrap of new information that would help them find the men.
"For more than 100 years the FBI has relied on the public to be its eyes and ears. We know the public will play a critical role in identifying and locating these individuals," Mr. DesLauriers said.
Jim Albers of MorphoTrust USA Inc., a company that supplies facial-recognition software to U.S. agencies, said the FBI likely tried running the images through photo databases and didn't get a match. "Then you need to seek the public's help," he said.
While the FBI conveyed little doubt that it thought it had zeroed in on the suspects, initial leads in earlier investigations have sometimes failed to pan out. In the 2010 failed bombing in Times Square, investigators urged the public to help identify a person wearing a red shirt who was seen in a video leaving the scene. However, that person never was branded a suspect and later proved to have nothing to do with the incident.
Three people were killed in the blasts: Lu Lingzi, a Boston University graduate student from China, 8-year-old Martin Richard and 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, a restaurant manager from Medford, Mass.
—Jared A. Favole contributed to this article.
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For what real algebraic curves do rational points form a group ? How does this relate to Jacobian Varieties ?
There are lots of curves whose set of rational points have a group structure with a geometric interpretation - which is the question that should have been asked. In addition to the projective group laws on elliptic curves there are group laws on many curves of genus 0, in particular Pell conics (degenerate or not; actually any conic will do, but the group structure is "canonical" only if you have a canonical rational point acting as an identity). And of course you can always get group structure on higher dimensional varieties such as products of Pell conics.
Geometrically, these group laws com from "generalized Jacobians". These are nicely described in the thesis of Isabelle Dechene, which can be found here. On a much more elementary level I will try to put a few things together here.
The question is a little imprecise. For any algebraic curve $X$ the set of rational points $X(\mathbb{Q})$ can be given a group structure, because it's just a set.
If you want $X$ to be a projective algebraic group over $\mathbb{Q}$, which means that the identity, inverse, and multiplication map are defined over $\mathbb{Q}$, then its genus had better be one (this has nothing to do with the arithmetic and is already true for projective curves over an algebrically closed field - over $\mathbb{C}$ you can see this topologically since $\pi_1$ had better be abelian, which eliminates higher genus curves, and $\mathbb{P}^1$ is just $S^2$).
For any $Y$ of genus bigger than zero, there is an embedding of $Y$ into another variety $J$, its Jacobian, which is an algebraic group. The embedding is arithmetic in the sense that if $Y$ is defined over a field, or for that matter a ring, then so is $J$ and so is the embedding, with the caveat that $Y(R)$ needs to be non-empty for the embedding to be defined over $R$. The Jacobian won't be a curve; rather, the dimension of $J$ is the genus of $Y$.


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Emotional Intelligence
There are very intelligent people who still have problems getting their life in order and seem like the intelligent that they posses do not help them. In past few years more and more talk is also about emotional intelligent – witch influences our lives. What is emotional intelligence?
"Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups" People with higher EI are more successful because they understand their emotions and why they behave as they do, and what body and mind is telling them. And they are able to better understand other.
The researches show that those with higher EI can be more successful at their work, business and ordinary life.
As a Spinning instructor you are faced and exposed with individuals and their behavior. Not only members but many times from colleagues or managers or bosses, owners, investors, partners...
Often I see instructor taking things to personal. Instead of looking it from distance they get angry, hurt, disappointed, frustrating, happy, excited … so there is a question have members influence us and our teaching. They do or not? So our EI and level of it is important also in Spinning® classes.
Emotions serve for biological purpose. They tell us about our needs. Emotions are responding of our body and needs. These needs can be mental, social or physical. Those with higher EI have more balance in feelings like: motivation, friendship, and focus, peace of mind, desire, awareness, self- control, freedom, connection, fulfillment, fear, loneliness, guilt, emptiness, frustration, instability, disappointment, anger, and failure … So as we see it is important to learn have develop higher EI. IQ alone cannot predict have a person will be successful. Most of us work in teams. Team work is important for performance in facility.
I also work in team. And I work with teams. The success of Spinning® program is never a responsibility only of instructor. But it is always a "TEAM WORK" team work of every person in a club. Many times I hear answers:
- I cannot work with this instructor
- My boos does not listen to me
- Teams fight with each other; there is a team of personal trainers fighting with the team of Spinning instructor what is better
- The receptions are angry on instructors as they think they are divas
- And so on
At the end when we look from outside "the success depends of every single person working in a club" And the higher EI is easier the team will work together. Fitness is hospitality business where energy is important and delivering positive is unavoidably if you want your member coming back.
What does it mean t work with coleus with higher EI;
- Everyone ideas and thought are respected
- Gossip and negative talking stops
- Everyone encourage and celebrates each other success
- Integrity is valued
- Decisions are value based
- Your potential is constantly developed
But to be able to be part of slouch team – we need to be aware of our emotions, have we respond and have they influence on us.
The next step is to work on felling and emotions. That is probably the hardest think. As you need to work on yourself. To work on self confident, self control, team work, empathy, adaptability, organizational awareness, adaptability, collaboration, communication …
We often feel more than only one emotion at time, and each with each emotion we can learn more about you. Have we respond to information's, have we behave in team, on bike, in front of group, have we communicate and what our body language says it is not only about other it is about us – our emotions and have we respond on them. It is the EI that can help us be more successful in doing our job better and happier.
"What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests." Daniel Goleman,


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Pairing vFree with a Mac:
1. Turn on the Bluetooth function by clicking the Bluetooth logo in the top right corner of your screen.
2. Select "Set up Bluetooth Device."
A window will pop up called Bluetooth Setup Assistant.
4. Make sure vFree is turned off. There should be no light showing on the LED indicator.
5. Turn on Bluetooth pairing on vFree by holding down the power button for 5 seconds until the LED indicator flashes blue and red repeatedly.
6. Your vFree will now appear in the device list on the Bluetooth Setup Assistant. Select it and click Continue. Once vFree is successfully paired, click Quit.
7. Click the Bluetooth logo in the top right corner of the screen, hover over "Velodyne vFree," and click "Use as Audio Device."
Your successfully paired vFree should now be flashing blue every five seconds.
More information about how to use your vFree headphones can be found in the Users Manual.
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I spent some time thinking about this recently. It's kind of frustrating. It seems that most of the advice out there on posture is about why sitting up straight is good for you. There are also all these diagrams that show you how your back, shoulders should look like. But as crazy as it sounds, I just can't remember to consistently sit up straight.
For the past 15 minutes, I've been sitting with a book behind my back. It's pressed up against the back of my chair - so long as I don't slouch. This has worked for the past 15 minutes. Not sure how annoying this would get day in and day out. Has anyone tried something like this?
What else might be a good way to encourage proper posture?
EDIT: I've found placing the book between my back and chair to be pretty effective, but only during the times I remember to put a book there. :(