text: The History Department is very pleased to announce the winners of the Essay Contest for 2010-2011. First place winners will receive a certificate and a check for $200. Second place winners receive a certificate and a check for $100. Checks and certificates will be sent to your homes beginning sometime next week. Congratulations to all of the winners, and best wishes to all for a happy and productive summer. Read a good history book!


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Just did an upgrade on my laptop from 10.04 to 10.10, and audio doesn't work at all anymore. I have the indicator applet, and it seems like everything is working fine. I've even tried installing several mixers in case something is muted, but nothing is (and mixers are showing activity as if everything is working fine).
No application is reporting any errors, they all seem to be playing happily, but no sound comes out. I've tried reinstalling PulseAudio with --purge but that didn't help either.
(If you need any logs or command output please let me know in the comments, I don't know where to look..)
Things tried so far:
- Creating a new user to eliminate any configuration problems
- Creating /etc/asound.conf with these instructions
sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg
- Booted from a live CD (10.04) to eliminate any hardware problems

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The sexual abuse of young boys by Jerry Sandusky at Penn State captured the attention of the country for months. Reports covered the pain of the victims, the responsibility of those who did not report allegations and the shock that rocked the entire community. And with this attention, there is emerging research on working with youth serving organizations and lessons learned from Penn State to focus attention on child sexual abuse prevention. This webinar will provide an overview of the research and lessons learned and describe efforts underway to advance efforts to end child sexual abuse. HostsJoan Tabachnick & Cordelia AndersonGuestsKaren Baker, Director, National Sexual Violence Resource CenterKeith kaufman, Ph.D., Portland State UniversityJanet Saul, Ph.D., Research Psychologist and Chief of the Prevention Development and Evaluation Barnch of the Division of Violence, Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCost is FreeLearning Objectives:
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Lance Armstrong confessed to doping to win the Tour de France during an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday. In sports, doping refers to the use of performance-enhancing drugs and substances taken to mask performance-enhancing drugs in test. Particual types of drugs are banned by sports organizations. Click to find out more.
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I have an RCX and want to know if it's possible to connect it to an iOS device. If this is possible, how do I do it?
Communication with the RCX Brick was via the Infra Red tower (or IR Remote Control) which connected to the computer with either a serial or USB cable.
As neither iPhone nor iPad have an IR port, there's no way to connect directly between the two.
You might be able to do something with a docked iOs device, but that strikes me as somewhat pointless.
There are ipad adaptors for iPad, iPhone. Some connect to the data port, but others connect to the headphone jack, so are eminiently programmable - you presumably just need audio samples. Alex
You could do it using a computer as an intermediate. Basically, you have a wireless connection between your iPhone and your computer, then the IR link between the computer and the RCX. It would be technically challenging but not impossible. The IR tower uses a serial port and the protocol is detailed here http://legolab.daimi.au.dk/CSaEA/RCX/Manual.dir/RCXManual.html. The connection between the computer and the mobile device could simply be achieved via wireless connection using TCP sockets and wouldn't have to follow any very specific protocol at all. All of this could be achieved with any number of programming languages, but Python and Visual Basic would likely be the easiest. I could help you write the software to do this if you are very determined, but I only have experience with Windows, so the computer itself couldn't be a Mac.


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Register your American Express card here and make a single purchase at a BP gas station and receive 5% cash back on your entire statement!
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Little misleading. It's 5% on all purchases at BP. 5% on everything could make that New Years Eve dinner out, completely worth it.
From the site: "Follow these steps to get 5 cents back with every $1 you spend on ALL PURCHASES ON YOUR STATEMENT"
@hbsurfer17: no I hear ya. It says statement, but Fat Wallet has it posted as just BP...so I'm gonna go with them. The language is way too vague and I can't see Amex doing 5% back due to one stupid purchase of a hot dog.
I emailed Amex customer service to clarify. I'll update with their response when I receive it.
Yeah, according to Amex only purchases at BP earn the 5%.


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I am trying to decipher what decibels are:
It seems to be a log ratio of audio amplitude multiplied by a constant. I am confused by what this means though.
If my original volume is X, what does say increasing the volume by Y decibels mean?
Does it mean
New Volume = 10 log ( Y / X )?


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Private Fostering
Information for Professionals
This page is known as: www.birmingham.gov.uk/private-fostering
What is Private Fostering?A private fostering arrangement is essentially one that is made without the involvement of a local authority.
Private fostering is defined in the Children Act 1989 and occurs when a child or young person under the age of 16 (under 18 if disabled) is cared for and provided with accommodation, for 28 days or more, by someone who is not their parent, guardian or a close relative. (Close relatives are defined as; step-parents, siblings, brothers or sisters of parents or grandparents).
A Cause for ConcernThe risks involved in private fostering received widespread media coverage following the tragic death of Victoria Climbie in 2000. Victoria was privately fostered by her great aunt and Lord Laming's report into her death recommended that the government review the law regarding the assessment and approval of private foster carers.
It is estimated that there may be as many as 8,000 - 10,000 privately fostered children living in England and Wales. Last year there were fewer that 2,000 notifications of these arrangements. Most private foster carers will have the best intentions in caring for somebody else's child, but privately fostered children and young people may not receive the services and protection they are entitled to because they are not known to safeguarding agencies. Most alarmingly in some cases children risk becoming "invisible" and are extremely vulnerable to safeguarding issues such as child trafficking and exploitation.
The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) has identified some common situations in which children are privately fostered:
- African and African Caribbean children with parents or families overseas;
- black, white and minority ethnic children with parents working or studying in the UK;
- unaccompanied asylum seeking children and refugees;
- trafficked children;
- local children living apart from their families – adolescents and teenagers;
- children at independent boarding schools who do not return home for holidays;
- children brought in from abroad with a view to adoption;
- children whose parents are in the armed forces;
- children who stay with a host or guardian during the school holidays; and
- parents whose employment takes them out of the home for long periods of time.
What to do if you believe you have identified a privately fostered childRead the first question and depending on whether the answer is YES or NO follow the arrows until one of the final boxes is reached:
Contact the Information, Advice and Support Service via the Children's Information and Advice Service on 0121 303 1888
Interagency Referral Forms are available from the Birmingham Safeguarding Children's Board
See also:
'Somebody Else's Child': the BAAF guide to private fostering: www.somebodyelseschild.org.uk


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I'm sad to announce that Rhonda Kallman has left the beer industry. Whatever your feelings about Rhonda or Moonshot, it's always sad when an entrepreneur abandons their dream.
Kallman is shutting down New Century Brewing for good this month, and preparing for the next challenge. The decision follows a move last fall by the FDA that essentially banned New Century's Moonshot beer because it contained caffeine.
Kallman, who ran New Century out of her Cohasset home, puts most of the blame for New Century's demise on the FDA. The decision to label the caffeine in the beer as a dangerous substance took the fizz out of her expansion plans. She says it didn't make sense to reformulate Moonshot one more time, especially without its signature ingredient. Her other product – Edison Light – had a following, but it wasn't doing well enough to sustain New Century on its own.
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FDA's move is last call for local beer company.
We wish Rhonda the best of luck as she pursues new adventures.
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First Aid for Burns
Second-Degree Burns
By the very nature of their place on the "burn hierarchy," these burns require some medical treatment. You can get a second-degree burn from too much sun, scalding hot soup, coffee, tea, or quick flash burns from gasoline or kerosene lamps.
Second-degree burns are distinguished by the blistery, red blotchy marks they leave on skin. Blisters form in these burns because the burn penetrates deeper into the layers of skin, releasing body fluids that erupt and cause blisters on the surface. Sometimes the burned area will swell or ooze, and it is painful.
Pain from second-degree burns can be vastly reduced by preventing air from getting at those tender, exposed nerve endings and tissues. Here's the best emergency first aid, step-by-step:
- Submerge the burned area in cool water. If the burn occurred on the chest or back, pour cool water from a bucket directly onto the burn.
- Keep the cool water on the burn until medical help arrives. If the burns are minor, keep them in cool water for at least five minutes.
- If the burns are extensive, you can apply a cool, wet cloth to the affected area—but only if the dressing is wrapped in plastic. Cloth tends to adhere to burns, and it can worsen the pain if a physician has to pull it off to treat the burn.
- If the burns are minor, you can treat them in the same way you'd treat first-degree ones. You won't need medical help. Simply pat the area dry and place a loose sterile cloth over it.
Burns in the Third Degree
Third-degree burns are serious—deadly serious. If you encounter someone who has a third-degree burn, get medical attention fast! How do you know a third-degree burn from a first- or second-degree one? The injured person is literally burned, the skin is charred and white. All of the layers of skin are destroyed (sometimes quite obviously) with this kind of burn.
First Things First
Did you know that third-degree burns hardly ever hurt at all, at least not initially? That's because nerve endings have been completely burned, and the brain hasn't yet received the painful message.
Third-degree burns come from situations like the ones you read about in the paper. Fireman rushing from burning buildings. People rolling on the ground with their clothes on fire. Pots of boiling water spilling on vulnerable skin. Accidents involving electrical outlets. Any of these can cause serious burns and shock.
If the burned person shows any of the signs of shock, immediately treat that before taking care of the burn. See Performing Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation for step-by-step instructions on treating shock.
As we've already mentioned, third-degree burns are the most severe of all burns. They require medical treatment and precise first aid care. If you know what you are doing, you can help prevent infection from spreading.
- Call for medical attention if access is immediately available.
- Treat for shock, if necessary. This is especially true if the burn is caused by electric shock.
- If you suspect chemical burning, especially from dangerous acids, you need to take first aid care one step further in order to stop the burn from spreading. As soon as you've called for medical help, pick up the phone and call the local poison control center. As with any type of poison ingestion or inhalation or burn, these specialists can tell you exactly what you need to do. (See Poisoning: When to Induce Vomiting, and Treating the Most Common Overdoses for more on poisoning.)
- Remove any tight clothing or jewelry that's not on the actual burned area. With third-degree burns, there's always the danger of swelling which can cause blood vessels to constrict and create other complications.
- You can submerge the burned area under cool running water, but avoid ice. Too much cold can exacerbate shock.
- Pat the area dry and place a loose, sterile cloth over the area.
- If hands are burned, elevate them, keeping them higher than the heart. This can be done by gently placing pillows under the injured person's arms.
- Burned legs and feet should also be elevated to keep blood flowing smoothly.
- Keep the injured person still. Do not let him or her walk around.
- If the face is burned, keep checking for breathing complications. If airways seem to be blocked, follow the instructions for performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
- Above all, get the burned victim to a hospital. Third-degree burn victims are prime candidates for infection, pneumonia, and other complications, and they need medical attention fast.
More on: First Aid
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to First Aid Basics © 1996 by Stephen J. Rosenberg, M.D. and Karla Dougherty. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Consider the following family of polynomials in $K[x,y]$, where $K$ has characteristic zero:
for $n\geq 3$. I can prove that $f_n(x,y)$ has an irreducible factor of degree $n-1$ in $x$. I also know that the galois group of $f_n$ over $K(y)$ is the symmetric group of degree $n-1$, but am having trouble proving this.
Here is an alternative form for $f_n$: make the substitution $x\rightarrow xy$ and divide by $y^n$. this gives:
Substituting $-n$ for $y$ in $g_n(x,y)$ we get:
where $h(x)$ is separable (EDIT: $h(x)$ is the subject of this question).
Alternatively, substituting $x\rightarrow x-1$ into $g_n(x,y)$ gives us a polynomial which factors as:
$(x-1)(x^{n-1}+x^{n-2}+\ldots +x^2+x+y+1)$
It seems as though it shouldn't be hard to show that some specialisation of $y$ into this gives a polynomial with galois group $S_{n-1}$ over $K$...but I'm well and truly stuck.
Any advice much appreciated!


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HILLSDALE — Keith Otterbein spent the early part of Tuesday afternoon folding "Otter's Army" t-shirts in his office.
In one week, those moments will be packed with practices, gameplans and preparation for the upcoming season.
With the team reporting Thursday, Hillsdale College's head football coach is trying to use this time to take care of the little things — while sneaking in a Monday round of golf with head basketball coach John Tharp.
"It's pretty smooth," Otterbein said. "Trying to relax a little bit is part of it. There's a buildup in anticipation."
It's been almost nine full months since Hillsdale finished its season 8-3, won the GLIAC outright all while being denied a playoff berth.
"If you would have told me 365 days ago we were going to wear a ring, I would have been pretty excited," he said. "How's this whole story going to unfold? We don't know. I think we can be a factor in all of that, if we do in fact stay healthy and play to the level that I think we're capable of playing.
"If we're not kind of in the mix going down the last couple weeks, I would be disappointed. We're going to take our run at that championship. Hopefully it'll be a year like last year."
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Amazon: Nanobots: They Might Be Giants: MP3 Downloads for $5 + free shipping
The new album from They Might Be Giants, 25 tracks.
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I was on the fence about this, but had to pull the trigger because of the Free Shipping. Can't pass that up!
I would be greatly concerned when MP3 downloads actually CHARGE shipping.
Oh, you guys. So snarky. :)


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte softball team secured a pair of crucial Atlantic 10 wins after sweeping St. Bonaventure in a doubleheader at McGraw-Jennings Field, Sunday afternoon.
Charlotte (20-22 overall, 6-8 A-10) won game one 2-0 and game two 9-6. The Bonnies (6-34) fell to 2-14 in the conference.
In the opening game, Charlotte took a 1-0 lead in the second inning with Samantha Slade's leadoff home run over the left field fence. Slade's homer was her second of the season.
In the fourth inning, the 49ers were able to extend their lead to 2-0 over the Bonnies. With two outs and Slade on first, Jessica Plemmons singled to right field. Kalie Lang hit a RBI-single to left field to drive in Slade but Plemmons was out at second on the play to end the inning.
Pitcher Katie Watkins was able to keep St. Bonaventure scoreless and allowed just five hits. Watkins tossed a complete game, finishing with a game-high seven strikeouts.
Natalie Capone finished with a game-leading three hits.
In game two, the Niners were trailing 2-1 until the third inning when Briana Gwaltney crushed a three-run homer, her seventh of the season to lift Charlotte to a 4-2 lead.
Charlotte added a run in the fourth inning with a solo home run from Lang, her sixth of the season to extend its leads to 5-2.
But St. Bonaventure also got its hands on the long ball and tied the game 5-5 with a three-run homer from Ashely Snider in the bottom of the fourth.
The 49ers regained the lead in the sixth when it put together four runs off five hits and a St. Bonaventure error to push the score to 9-5.
In the seventh inning, Katie Sinclair led-off with a solo home run to slice Charlotte's lead to 9-6 but it wasn't enough as the Niners closed out the game.
Watkins improved to 12-13 after relieving Lisikatos in the fourth inning. Watkins allowed only one run as the duo each finished with a pair of strikeouts.
The 49ers finished with 12 hits and were led by Capone, Slade, Lang, and Lisikatos who all recorded two hits.
Chelsea Ingersoll who leads the 49ers in home runs, hit her ninth of the season, a solo shot over the centerfield fence in the second inning.
Capone tallied five hits in the doubleheader and recorded her 16th multiple-hit game of the year.
Charlotte will visit South Carolina in a non-conference doubleheader on Wednesday, April 24 beginning at 4 p.m.


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Collected by Merlin Mitchell
Transcribed by Kyle Perrin
The Tale of Two Brothers
Reel 6
Item 4
Milton and Fred High
High, Ark.
February 20, 1950
Fred •••• There was a man moved in our country by the name of Tub. He had two
boys and one day he told them to cut some sprouts.
Milt •••• Seven and twelve year old.
Fred •••• And they went off to store and when they come back the boys was
missing. And they hunted all that day--
Milt •••• Well, they waited 'til night and come to my place--that night.
Fred •••• Yeah, Saturday night. And they hunted all night that night for 'em,
Couldn't find 'em.
Milt •••• Thought they'se at a neighbor's house, you know--to start with.
Fred •••• The dog was gone, and the gun, and two boys. Well, we looked all
over the place and the next day they got the word out--that was last
Milt •••• I hunted all night that night.
Fred •••• Fifth day of March. And they hunted for 'em--
Milt •••• Last March--this last March.
Mitch ••• 1949.
Milt •••• '49, yeah.
Fred •••• And they couldn't find them nowhere. And they hunted--they had
airplanes to came look for 'em.
Milt •••• That was on Sunday the airplanes was there. Two planes flew all over
the place. We hunted all day with seventy-five or a hunderd men on
Sunday. Well, then, on Monday morning we started out to hunting and
someone--well, fella by the name of Got(?) found them right close
to the house--
Fred •••• Judge(?) Got.
Milt •••• --in a hunderd and fifty yards of the house in under some cedars.
Mitch ••• What killed them?
The Tale of Two Brothers (Cont.)
Reel 6
Item 4
Milt •••• Well, one of them was dead--the least boy was dead--shot from behind
the ear and it come out his forehead.
Fred •••• Mmmmm, went the other way.
Milt •••• No, he was shot behind the ear and it come out right there. Cause
there was powder burns all over that side of the head, father. The
other boy was laying with his--on his back with two shells in his
mouth. He was shot right 'tween the eyes and the gun was pointed
right at his head where you could see he'd done it hisself. Well,
the dog was lying right close to this dead boy--shot twice right
down on top of the back. No whether that dog had went mad and
they'd tried to kill it and accidentally killed his brother or not,
we'll never know 'cause the boy now is--he's paralysed and can't
hardly talk. He knows he had a brother all right, but--
Fred •••• He's back at home now, though.
Milt •••• He's at home now with the chicken pox.
Fred •••• They took the bullet out of the back of his head.
Milt •••• Yeah, they took the bullet out of the back of his head. And I didn't
no one thought he'd live. They laid him down--they'se excited--they
laid him down and I picked him up and we put him in a truck and went
straight to the hospital with him and no one thought he'd live. But,
this leg is paralysed now. The arm is straightened out and the leg
moved then but it's never moved since. He's never been able to
move it. But, I don't know--he 'll never know what happened. We
just think he was just trying to kill the dog and accidentally killed
his little brother with a little .22.
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Dear Editor,
Perhaps no part of President Obama's budget is more out-of - touch and with demands for more of the same, than his failed "green energy" boondoggles.
Like Solyndra's Collapse captured the headlines in 2011 ... now, the future appears even more bleak for scores of coal-fired plants closing.
It's more doom than gloom, for the coal industry, as Obama, fully intends to replace coal with "untested" green energy.
At one point, he promised to create five million green jobs in ten years.
However, the results so far suggest that such members are a pipe dream.
But lets call Obama's green energy initiative for what it is: a "cap and tax" program, because the thing is - costs will be passed onto the consumer.
The president already admitted the policy he seeks will cause our electricity bills to "skyrocket."
Ironically, this violates Obama's repeated promise not to impose new taxes on middle - and lower - income groups. Its a tax on everyone.
President Obama came into office vowing to adopt regulations that would bankrupt companies which build new coal plants.
In closing, I can't think of any previous president in American History who announced to bankrupt the coal industry ... like President Obama, himself, promised long ago.
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Topeka (WIBW) - Murder charges are now officially filed against three people in connections with a weekend shooting in the Topeka West High School parking lot.
District Attorney Chad Taylor filed the case late Wednesday afternoon.
21-year old Coty Newman, 19-year-old Austin Tabor and 20-year old Samantha Hochard each face counts of first degree murder, attempted second degree murder, aggravated battery, and two counts of attempted sale of marijuana in a school zone.
20-year-old Matthew Mitchell of Topeka was killed in the Saturday night shooting and 17-year old Treshawn Wynne was wounded. Topeka Police have said it was drug related and that the victims and suspects knew each other. They also say it was not related to the school.
Newman and Tabor are being held on a $1 million bond. Bond for Hochard is $500,000.


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I just downloaded a customized PainterlyPack for Minecraft, and have chosen a lot of "biome compliant" options. The thing is, they all show up as just white. I have patched with MCPatcher, per Painterly's suggestion, but everything is still just white.
What have I done wrong? I didn't find anything Googling or reading through Painterly's website.


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People in Space: The Pioneers
9 of 18
Guion Bluford
Guion Bluford was the first African American to travel into space. His adventure took off on 30 August 1983 aboard the space shuttle Endeavor. In this picture, Bluford is keeping in shape using the shuttle's treadmill.
Photo source: NASA
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What exactly did Matthew mean when he is talking about Jesus' brothers in Matthew 12:46? From Matthew 12:49, its clear that he didn't mean Jesus' disciples as his brothers. So who are the Jesus' brothers mentioned there?
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I have composed this answer from an answer on this site which was posted for some other question:
When Catholic Church call Mary the 'Blessed Vigin', they mean she remained a virgin throughout her life and there were no brothers to Jesus. The basis for this is:
Firstly because in Aramaic and Hebrew language there is no word for "Cousin" and as such they were either called brothers or with circumlocution. In Septuagint, the Hebrew word that included both brothers and cousins was translated as "adelphos" which in Greek has same narrow meaning like in English "brother" has. Even though the Greek has a separate word for cousin, the translators of Septuagint used the word Adelphos even for true cousins and the same usage was employed by writers of New Testament.
Secondly, when Jesus is found in temple at the age of 12, the context suggest that he was the only son of Mary (Luke 2:41-51). In Mark 6:3 Jesus is referred as "the son of Mary" and not "a son".
Also others in Gospels are never referred as sons of Mary, not even when they are called Jesus' brothers, which is strange in case they were indeed his brothers.
Thirdly, in ancient eastern societies the younger siblings seldom gave advice to older. But we find these Jesus' brethren giving him advice on couple of occasions like John 7:3-4 and in Mark 3:21-where they sought to restrain him. This also eliminates them being his brethren since, if they were not his brethren then why they were referred as Brethren of Jesus?
Lastly, of all the four brethren named in Bible, consider only James, for similar reasoning can be applied to others also. "James the younger's" mother is Mary. Bible describes the scene at the foot of Jesus' cross in following verses:
From above we can say that the mother of James and Joseph must be the wife of Clopas. As James is described as son of Alphaeus also at other place in Bible, Clopas and Alphaeus are probably the same person, since Aramaic name for Alphaeus could be rendered in Greek either as Alphaeus or Clopas. So probably James the younger is the son of Mary and Clopas and who is taken as brother of Joseph the Husband of Mary.
Another view on this verse is that, if Jesus had brothers from Mother Mary, then we find something awkward or amiss with this verse. Here all those who were closest to Jesus were there at the foot of the cross except his purportedly-existing brothers. This is something unimaginable by any count of imagination. If Jesus had brothers then they would have been definitely standing here. [I cannot imagine myself to be not there as a brother of Jesus(In case if I were one) especially when my mother and even distantly related women were standing there unafraid of Jews].
John in his gospel gives us another clue that Jesus had no brothers.
Here as per John's account in his gospel, Jesus tells Mary Magdalene to go and tell His brothers and she tells this to Jesus' disciples. If Jesus had brothers Mary would have gone and delivered this message to them and not to disciples.
In Protestant Christianity, it is understood that Mary was a virgin until the birth of Jesus, but not after.
After the birth of Jesus, then, Joseph and Mary were like any other married couple and would have likely had other children.
Paul refers to someone named "James" whom he refers to as "the Lord's brother".
Later in Matthew, Jesus arrives in Nazareth, and he is rejected there because that is where he grew up, and people refused to believe he was anything special. They specifically say that we know his father (who was actually only his stepfather), his mother Mary, and four named brothers.
So, Jesus appears to have had four brothers, namely James, Joseph, Simon and Judas. It also indicates that Jesus had sisters, but it does not give a specific number.
The "brothers" mentioned in that context could be referencing to his cousin brothers. The word "brothers" in the Gospels is ambiguous. The Bible does not explicitly state that Jesus had brothers(in the absolute sense).


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The Ionia County Board of Commissioners will include a familiar face from the 5th District and a new face from the 1st District after Scott Wirtz and David R. Hodges won their district seats in the primary election Tuesday, Aug. 5.
Incumbent Wirtz (R-Fenwick) who was elected to the 5th District seat on the county board of commissioners in 2012, beat out challenger Chad Murphy (R-Orleans), 333 votes to 197.
Hodges (R-Belding) won the 1st District seat on the county board of commissioners, beating out Debra Bach (R-Belding) 312-263.
Other winners in the county commission race were:
- 2nd District — Larry Tiejema (R-Saranac) (incumbent) with 670 votes, and James Anible (D-Lowell) with 170 votes;
- 3rd District — James L. Banks (R-Lake Odessa) (incumbent, who ran unopposed) with 737 votes;
- 4th District — Brenda Cowling-Cronk (D-Ionia) (incumbent) with 192 votes, and Will Wagner (R-Ionia) with 334 votes;
- 6th District — Jack L. Shattuck (R-Portland) (incumbent, who ran unopposed) with 604 votes;
- 7th District — Julie Calley (R-Portland) (incumbent, who ran unopposed) with 600 votes.
Judith A. Clark (R-Ionia) was elected county treasurer, receiving 3,850 votes. She will serve a partial term ending in 2016.
Clark, who has served as treasurer since Jan. 1, 2013, when she replaced long-time county treasurer Nancy Hickey, who died in November 2012, ran for the office unopposed.
All results are unofficial until certified by Ionia County Clerk Tonda Rich.
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20 Mar 2012 4:32 PM #1
Native Android Build Launching Issue
Can't seem to figure out a small annoying bug. when i run "sencha app build native" everything seems to run perfectly. I get an apk file generated in my build folder, the application is also installed on my attached android device but it is not started automatically. I am getting this error in the command prompt
'Error: Bad component name: com.mycompany.myAppID.STActivity'
followed by a '""C:\Developer\SDKs\Android\tools\android" create project --target android-15.....' command
then i see this '[ERROR] 4969 KB/s (840559 bytes in 0.165s)'
Any help? thanks
20 Mar 2012 4:46 PM #2
Thank you for the report, can you also post the details of your operating system and app.json file?
21 Mar 2012 7:11 AM #3
I am on Windows 7 64bit
Sencha SDK located at: C:\SenchaSDKTools-2.0.0-Beta
Project located at C:\Users\{username}\Desktop\TestSencha
I never edited the app.json so it looks like this
22 Mar 2012 3:06 AM #4
I have the exact same problem, any clue on the solution?
22 Mar 2012 8:22 AM #5
We are working on some major rewrite of the builder tool due to some issues with JSDB on the Windows platform. We will have a new update on it as soon as it's ready.
22 Mar 2012 8:54 AM #6
That sounds great, currently it's not horrible i just have to go launch the application myself, but also the problems with spaces int he folder structure and such sucked up some of my time. Anyways excited to see the update. Thanks for letting us know the status!


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Rheumatoid Arthritis Health Center
Biologics for Rheumatoid Arthritis
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How It Works
Biologics block harmful responses from the body's immune system that lead to the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
Why It Is Used
Biologics are used to treat moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms and to prevent joint damage, particularly in people who have had side effects or poor results from other medicines such as methotrexate.
Biologics are usually used after nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), corticosteroids, and methotrexate have been tried. A biologic is often used at the same time as other medicines.
How Well It Works
Biologics can slow joint damage, limit symptoms, and improve function in people who have rheumatoid arthritis.1, 2
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call911or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor right away if you have:
- Hives.
- Signs of illness or infection, such as chills, cough, or fever.
- Chest pain or tightness.
- A rash on your head, face, or belly.
- Belly pain or fullness.
- Lower back or side pain, especially with painful urination.
Common side effects of this medicine include:
- Stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting.
- Painful throat.
- Redness, itching, or swelling at the injection site.
- Skin problems, such as bleeding, blistering, or crusting.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Warnings have been issued about the serious side effects of biologics. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the drug's manufacturers have warned about:
- An increased risk of a serious infection. Biologics affect the body's ability to fight all infections. So if you get a fever, cold, or the flu while you are taking this medicine, let your doctor know right away.
- An increased risk of blood or nervous system disorders. Call your doctor if you have symptoms of blood disorders (such as bruising or bleeding) or symptoms of nervous system problems (such as numbness, weakness, tingling, or vision problems).
- An increased risk of lymphoma (a type of blood cancer) in children and adolescents who take this medicine for longer than 2½ years (30 months). Adults, children, and adolescents who take this medicine also have a higher risk for leukemia and other cancers.
- An increased risk of liver injuries. Call your doctor if your skin starts to look yellow, if you are very tired, or if you have a fever or dark brown urine.
- An increased risk of psoriasis.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
Drugs for rheumatoid arthritis (2009). Treatment Guidelines From The Medical Letter, 7(81): 37-46.
Shah A, St. Clair EW (2012). Rheumatoid arthritis. In DL Longo et al., eds., Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th ed., vol. 2, pp. 2738-2752. New York: McGraw-Hill.
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical ReviewerAnne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine
Specialist Medical ReviewerNancy Ann Shadick, MD, MPH - Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Current as ofSeptember 9, 2014
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2014 Ford Mustang - Full Metal JacketWritten by Brandan Gillogly on June 3, 2014 Contributors: Hollywood Hot Rods Hollywood Hot Rods '14 Mustang
Troy Ladd, owner of Hollywood Hot Rods in Burbank, California, is a tad bit averse to technology. He's not a complete Luddite—his shop has a website, of course—but right there at the bottom of every webpage, you'll see the mantra, "Respect Tradition," in large type next to the galleries of prewar coupes and roadsters. He admitted to us that before this Mustang, he'd never even owned a new car.
We do coachbuilding. We shape metal.
He's well versed in everything deuce, flathead, and Hemi (at least the early ones) and has dabbled in muscle cars. That didn't stop him and his crew from diving headfirst into one of the first Coyote 5.0L swaps back in 2010. That project, a roadster pickup for Raybestos, gave the shop an appreciation for modern engine design and got his crew some practice in applying traditional customizing methods to late-model parts. When Ford asked Hollywood Hot Rods to take a crack at building a SEMA show car, Troy was up to the challenge. His goal was to take traditional hot rod craftsmanship and apply it to a '14 Mustang. That meant no plastic or fiberglass body kits and no off-the-shelf body parts. Troy knew right away how to stand out from the rest of the SEMA builds: "Let's cut up a brand-new car and do metalwork on it—nobody does that anymore." After three months of metal fabrication and bodywork, the car was unveiled at the '13 SEMA show in Las Vegas—and not without controversy. Troy told us, "Some people think we went too far, but that's the point."
That is a wicked Mustang! Looks Euro. -- Jeff Rhyner via HOT ROD's Facebook page
From the Designer
Designer Eric Black felt that the car's tail didn't look like a GT car should, so that was his first focus. Shortening the rear led to modifying the top to work in concert with the new proportions. Eric also added taller quarters that mimic those on a first-gen Mustang and taller wheelwells. Those two aspects didn't make it into the actual car, but Eric told us, "It was a very fun exercise. I think the car turned out great."
Fastback Facts
In 1969, SportsRoofs counted for 61,980 of the 299,824 Mustangs produced. In 1970, Mustang production dropped to 190,727, but SportsRoof production was up to 86,904.
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Hollywood Hot Rods' Mike Romero hand-fabricated the all-aluminum top. It uses the factory convertible latches up front and also mounts to the car at the rear deck and at the forward edge of the quarter panel.To show off the metal's shape, the aluminum top was left unpainted. The acrylic rear window is from A.M. Hot Rod Glass.A vintage Mustang fuel-filler door was built into the top of the quarter panel. This shot also shows that with the new fastback in place, the decklid had to be considerably shortened. The opening is now much smaller.This car sees the track quite a bit, so a Watt's link and torque arm suspension from CorteX Racing was chosen. The precise rear-axle control results in predictable handling and also allows for wide tires without worrying that they will rub under articulation. That's what enabled Hollywood Hot Rods to fit 22x11-inch Forgiato wheels with 305/30R22 rubber in the back.With no need for a convertible top, Art of Sound car audio in Upland, California, filled the space with amplifiers and subwoofers from Kicker.Hollywood Hot Rods fabricated a custom exhaust using oval tubing for maximum ground clearance. It exits at the rear of the aluminum rocker panels.Sean Ramage formed the rear panel. The first task was gutting the rear seats and trunk, then bracing the trunk area before the rear bumper, trunk floor, and rear fascia were removed.John helped line up the opening for the acrylic rear window. Note the texture left in the bent aluminum from being through the English wheel.


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For spells such as ray of enfeeblement, there is a ranged touch attack to target the spell. Other spells activate after a touch attack, such as chill touch.
If a victim was otherwise unaware that the spell was being cast, or not in any way resisting, could you target them by (say) just shaking their hand?
This may be applicable to other versions of AD&D, but Pathfinder and 3.5 are the ones I know have this.


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Whether you're a Spinning® instructor, facility manager or enthusiast - inspiration is the name of the game for generating momentum. But who is inspiring and how did they get there?
Do you sometimes feel like you're preaching to the choir? I mean, I love it when I teach and someone says something like "I needed that..." or "I really felt like you were coaching to me..." or "How do you get in my head like that?" But - these are the guys who are already coming to class. When a bike sits empty, I have to admit - I take it personally, like maybe I should be out recruiting more.
So recently I am making it my mission to see what it takes to inspire people. I mean really, really inspire people. I mean, let's face it...you can't fake it. You can't set out to do something amazing. Amazing just happens, right?
..or does it?
I'm not really prepared to do anything amazing right now, but I've thought about what it takes to be inspiring....not inspired...but inspiring. People who inspire others don't do the same thing as each other but they have some things in common. A quick google search will show you what others think is important, but here is what I personally find inspiring in other people.
1. FEARLESSNESS: Maybe they're great liars, and actually really feel a lot of fear, but they seem to just say - "I'm doing this no matter what." Think whistle blowers who know there is something wrong going on and yet, in the face of intimidation, they bravely do what is right. I find that amazing and so very inspirational. When I think of why some people don't exercise and take charge of their health - I have to wonder if there is fear involved. For someone to arrange their habits and schedules around eating right and exercising, they might have to abandon ship on their social circles and really confront their family.
2. ENDLESSNESS: I really am not inspired by skinny people, super strong people and amazing athletes who have not really had to plough through a lot of challenges to get to where they are - just like you should not really be impressed that I don't smoke cigarettes....how inspiring could it be for a smoker to regard me as a non-smoking role-model...It is easy for me not to smoke...I've never done it. So, yah...the woman who is still 50 pounds overweight and loving her body because she has already dropped 100 pounds, is so much more inspirational to me than the woman who is 75 grams overweight and whining about her thighs. yah...uh...no.... Community triathletes (not seriously competitive people) who just keep going back to better their time...despite busy schedules and injuries along the way....much more inspiring to me than 6-time winner of some big event.
3. SELFLESSNESS: Don't get me wrong on this...I really have no problem with people who acquire great wealth for their hard work...but honestly, when someone pours their heart and soul into something so that the world will be a better place - that rocks. Whether it is as simple as being bald in public during chemotherapy, just to normalize it for others who might be mortified by the idea themselves...I consider that selfless and inspiring or dedicating their lives to exposing abuses - selfless astounds me. Take Kylie. My 14 daughter did a 10K race and was the last person across the finish line because she not only escorted a woman who is both deaf and blind, she released her to go first across the finish line first...on purpose. Selfless. Inspiring.
4. FOCUS: This is the one I really need to commit to. We live in such a distracting time right now... I can't even begin to calculate how much time I waste being distracted. I have just committed to setting an alarm for a small window of wasteland time - where I can check in with my family on FB or goof off. In the process of setting my own "impossible goals" (really, the stuff of life, don't you think?) I know that my clock is ticking and I'm not really getting to that novel I plan to write, not honestly getting in that training that will take me toward a finishline... I am sitting down tonight to schedule out my next three months with extreme focus. Inspiring people have this - i want it.
5. DRIVE: Drive, will, motivation, determination - call it what you will, something has been ingnited in inspiring people that makes them move forward no matter what. So many people don't have that drive - to overcome the stagnation of a sedentary life...to work through the discomfort, the social challenges of stepping outside everyone else's comfort zone (imagine if Fred Flintstone wanted a greek salad for dinner!), the sheer inconvenience of taking on more, taking on change, taking on challenge.
Back to considering if it is possible to decide if you can be an inspiring person, or if you just be you and in the course of being you you inspire others. Can inspiration be manufactured?


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13 Mar 2012 3:33 PM #1
iframe support in Designer 2 ?
Question ?
Is there any iframe support for your panel or window containers in Designer Pro 2 using EXT 4 ?
Just learning EXT 4 and Designer and see no references to Iframes
13 Mar 2012 4:05 PM #2
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Ext JS 4 does not have a standard component which handles iframes. The designer currently only handles visual editing of standard components in Ext JS 4 and Sencha Touch 2.
There is a popular user contributed extension called Managed Iframe Panel which provides rich ability to embed iframes in Ext applications. You can use this ux (user extension) by including the library and writing source code in an override file.
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[Washington, DC] – Saudi police arrested six suspected Al-Qaeda militants after a shootout yesterday in the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia. The raid on an apartment triggered a shootout that left two suspected terrorists dead, and one security officer wounded. Officers also seized a large cache of weapons they believe were stockpiled for attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The militants had rented the apartment for just the month of Ramadan.
Interior Minister Prince Nayef said that police captured four suspects and two others surrendered to authorities.
Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, stated: "The fact that these criminals were preparing attacks in the holy city of Makkah, during the holiest of months, is a clear indication that they have no respect for Islam or humanity, and that they are cultists driven by a desire to inflict harm on the innocent."
In a speech on the final day of the Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Malaysia last month, Crown Prince Abdullah, addressing leaders from the Islamic world, stated: "Islam is innocent of violence, hatred and terrorism. It is a religion of kindness, mercy and tolerance. We should not allow a minority of deviant terrorists to inflect on Islam and tarnish its image. The bullets that kill women and children, terrorize those secure in their safety, and destroy innocent communities, do not come from rifles but from deviant thoughts and misguided interpretations of our great religion and its noble message."
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been relentless in the pursuit of suspected terrorists and those who finance them or condone their actions. More than 600 suspects have been arrested since September 11, 2001, a number of terror cells have been broken up, arms caches seized, and suspected bank accounts frozen. Prince Bandar stated: "We are determined to rid our country, and the world, of the scourge of terrorism. We will pursue them and those who support them vigorously and without mercy."


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The page protectors that are compatible with this album are:
Universal 12 x 12 Page Protectors
I love 3 ring binders and these D-rings are the best. I just purchased 10 of these albums so I must love them!
This item was exactly as presented in the Superstore. These albums are true 12 x 12 no trimming necessary.
three ring format makes it easy to insert photos any where so you can maintain order.
only use this type of album and have it in several colors!


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I would like to congratulate the stakeholders responsible for the implementation of the Fall River high-speed ferry to Newport and Block Island. Traveling to Newport and Block Island has been difficult in the past for Massachusetts residents due to summer traffic and road construction.
With the implementation of the Fall River Fast Ferry, the traveling time is now an easy 45 minute drive from Boston. The Fall River Fast Ferry is comfortable, fast, and has air conditioning.
The parking is convenient and reasonably priced. The crew is professional and polite. The Fall River Fast Ferry will contribute to the Fall River Battleship Cove exhibit by increasing the travel options for tourists while boosting the local economy.
The Fall River Fast Ferry is a wonderful way to experience the best of what the Massachusetts SouthCoast and Rhode Island coast has to offer.
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Is it possible to plug a Thunderbolt cinema display into a Mini DisplayPort-equipped Mac and have it work? This question suggests that it's possible and that it's pretty much the same cable, but I don't see any explicit confirmation anywhere.
The short answer is no. Apple's Thunderbolt Display requires a thunderbolt signal (and only that) to operate.
The spec page for the display implies very strongly that Thunderbolt displays will only work with Thunderbolt Macs.
This happens to concern me since I own a previous-generation iMac (pre-Thunderbolt) and really wanted to have the option to use it with a Thunderbolt display. So I asked the guys at the Apple Store.
The Apple Store told me no, it will not work on a non-Thunderbolt Mac.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news :(.
Plugs are the same, cables are not. The thunderbolt cables contain chips and firmware.
I haven't used the new Thunderbolt display, however I am aware of the following:
MiniDP Macbook -> MiniDP iMac 27: works fine. Thunderbolt Macbook -> MiniDP iMac 27: works fine. MiniDP Macbook -> Thunderbolt iMac 27: does not work Thunberbolt Macbook -> Thunderbolt iMac 27: works fine.
This is in my experience and confirmed from various Apple KB articles. So I believe it's likely you won't be able to use the Thunderbolt display on a MiniDP machine, as that is certainly the case with the iMac 27" models.


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I watched a video that said the probability for Gaussian integers to be relatively prime is an expression in $\pi$, and I also know about $\zeta(2) = \pi^2/6$ but I am wondering what are more connections between $\pi$ and prime numbers?
Well, first of all, $\pi$ is not just a random real number. Almost every real number is transcendental so how can we make the notion "$\pi$ is special" (in a number-theoretical sense) more precise?
Start by noticing that $$\pi=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{dx}{1+x^2}$$ This already tells us that $\pi$ has something to do with rational numbers. It can be expressed as "a complex number whose real and imaginary parts are values of absolutely convergent integrals of rational functions with rational coefficients, over domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ given by polynomial inequalities with rational coefficients." Such numbers are called periods. Coming back to the identity $$\zeta(2)=\frac{\pi^2}{6}$$ There is a very nice proof of this (that at first seems very unnatural) due to Calabi. It shows that $$\frac{3\zeta(2)}{4}=\int_0^1\int_0^1\frac{dx\,dy}{1-x^2y^2}$$ by expanding the corresponding geometric series, and then evaluates the integral to $\pi^2/8$. (So yes, $\pi^2$ and all other powers of $\pi$ are periods.) But the story doesn't end here as it is believed that there are truly deep connections between values of zeta functions (or L-functions) and certain evaluations involving periods, such as $\pi$. Another famous problem about primes is Sylvester's problem of which primes can be written as a sum of two rational cubes. So one studies the elliptic curve $$E_p: p=x^3+y^3$$ and one wants to know if there is one rational solution, the central value of the corresponding L-function will again involve $\pi$ up to some integer factor and some Gamma factor. Next, periods are also values of multiple zeta functions: $$\zeta(s_1,s_2,\dots,s_k)=\sum_{n_1>n_2>\cdots>n_k\geq 1}\frac{1}{n_1^{s_1}\cdots n_k^{s_k}}$$ And they also appear in other very important conjectures such as the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. But of course all of this is really hard to explain without using appropriate terminology, the language of motives etc. So, though, this answer doesn't mean much, it's trying to show that there is an answer to your question out there, and if you study a lot of modern number theory, it might just be satisfactory :-).
The probability that two Gaussian integers are relatively prime is $6/(\pi^2 K) = 0.66370080461385348\cdots$, where $K= 1 - \frac{1}{3^2}+\frac{1}{5^2}-\frac{1}{7^2}+\cdots$ (Catalan's constant). There is no known simple expression for $K$ in terms of $\pi$. See http://www.springerlink.com/content/y826m64747254t87.
Here is an example of a way to use $\pi$ to prove the infinitude of primes without calculating its value, or using the relatively deep fact that $\pi$ is irrational, but starting from the knowledge of $\zeta(2)$ and $\zeta(4).$ Suppose that there were only finitely many prime numbers $ 2= p_{1}, 3= p_{2}, \ldots, p_{k-1},p_{k}.$ From the formulae $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^{2}} = \frac{\pi^{2}}{6}$ and $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^{4}} = \frac{\pi^{4}}{90}$, we may conclude after the fashion of Euler that (respectively) we have: $\prod_{j=1}^{k} \frac{p_{j}^{2}}{p_{j}^{2}-1} = \frac{\pi^{2}}{6}$' and $\prod_{j=1}^{k} \frac{p_{j}^{4}}{p_{j}^{4}-1} = \frac{\pi^{4}}{90}.$ Squaring the first equation and dividing by the second leads quickly to $\prod_{j=1}^{k} \frac{p_{j}^{2}+1}{p_{j}^{2}-1} = \frac{5}{2}$, so $5\prod_{j=1}^{k} (p_{j}^{2}-1) = 2 \prod_{j=1}^{k}(p_{j}^{2}+1).$ This is a contradiction, since the product on the left is certainly divisible by $3$, whereas every term in the rightmost product except that for $j = 2$ is congruent to $-1$ (mod 3), so we obtain $0 \equiv (-1)^{k}$ (mod 3), which is absurd. (I would be grateful if anyone knows a reference for a proof like this. I can't believe that I am the first person to think of it).
A formula that surely belongs here linking $\pi$ and the primes is $$22.214.171.124...=4\pi^2.$$ This is obtained via a zeta regularization in a similar way to the more well-known $\infty!=\sqrt{2\pi}$ (see e.g. here for a short discussion of this). However, to find the product of the primes, one uses the prime zeta function $$\sum_{p\; prime} \frac{1}{p^s}$$ which has the unfortunate property of having infinitely many singularities between 0 and 1 which breaks the standard regularization procedure. E. Muñoz García and R. Pérez Marco circumvent this problem (literally) by adding in an extra variable and taking the limit from a different direction.
There are a few formulas relating $\pi$ to arithmetic functions. For example, if $\sigma(n)$ is the sum of the divisors of $n$, then $\sum_1^n\sigma(n)=\pi^2n^2/12+O(n\log n)$. If $d(n)$ is the number of divisors of $n$, then $\sum_1^{\infty}n^{-2}d(n)=\pi^4/36$. If $\phi(n)$ is the Euler phi-function, then $\sum_1^n\phi(n)=3n^2\pi^{-2}+O(n\log n)$. These all appear in Section 3.5 of Eymard and Lafon, The Number $\pi$.
Leonard Euler discovered many years ago that
$\frac π 4 = \frac 3 4 \cdot \frac 5 4 \cdot \frac 7 8 \cdot \frac {11} {12} \cdot \frac {13} {12} \cdots$
where the numerators on the right-hand side are the odd prime numbers and each denominator (on both sides) is the multiple of 4 nearest to the corresponding numerator. Pretty fascinating if you ask me.
There is a nice story, initiated by L. Van Hamme, which relates several Ramanujan's formulas for $\pi$ to supercongruences modulo powers of primes. The simplest way to witness this route is to make a look at (my) http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2788 .
More elementary: the probability that two positive integers have GCD=1 is $6/\pi^2 = 1/\zeta(2)$ because the probability that a prime $p$ divides the GCD is 1/p^2 by considering each p by p block of pairs of positive integers. More generally, the probability that k positive integers have GCD 1 is $1/\zeta(k)$ by a similar argument.
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Factory Experimental: Pushing The Envelope, Detroit-StyleWritten by on November 14, 2013 Contributors: Bryan Flach Though brief and chaotic, the FX period was the crucial component to late-model drag racing
It was 1961, and as the decade erupted, acceleration became more than a wheel-driven thing. The crucible of NASCAR's Grand National series had been too much of a temptation, and a self-imposed ban on factory competition initiated in 1957 by the auto industry's American Manufacturers Association (AMA) quietly sank beneath a tide of cubic-inch displacement, advertising braggadocio, and potent personalities. Drag racing was a secondary force in this, to be sure, but it was certainly blipping the radar. By August of 1961, when the NHRA hosted its annual Nationals, the factories were earnestly focused on a simple premise: If you go faster, you sell faster.
In fact, a number of mid-season modifications were made to factory-connected Super Stock entries for the 1961 Nationals held at Indianapolis for the first time. These few cars fell into a new category NHRA created and termed O/SS (Optional Super Stock, with approved factory-authorized changes as those options). Incidentally, it was through the AMA arm of the Big Three that the NHRA, AHRA, and the other auto factories received all the formal classification information on new models. However, when the paperwork for those changes had not been filed properly with NHRA for the 1961 race, Stock Eliminator winner Don Nicholson's Chevy 409 and runner-up Arnie Beswick's Pontiac were disqualified. This impasse was the catalyst for what came to be known as Factory Experimental.
That term "experimental" was laden with mystery. In an era when the personal automobile was considered a most treasured purchase, emotion was firmly vested in the brand, along with a sense of pride that could border on violence in the right circumstances. Moreover, the idea of seeing the inside track of what might end up on the street was mighty heady stuff, indeed. Guys in white lab coats who could calculate trigonometry, read a slide rule, and understand chemical formulas were in back rooms under the cloak of secrecy, brewing up some secret automotive weapon that would "whoop them other boys but good!" The most visible of these cool nerds was the cabal of Chrysler engineers known as the Ramchargers.
Though the Dodge boys might have been moonlighting in the dyno rooms at Highland Park, Ford was getting just as serious. Indeed, it had fired the opening salvo in the 400hp battles with the 401-horse tri-power 390 in 1961, had been the first to drop the AMA clause, and continued to up the ante for nearly the next decade, culminating in the monster Boss 429 of the late 1960s Grand National battles.
Though it was first to dominate, General Motors actually would be a standard bearer only for the first two seasons of the FX era. An over-militant government against the corporate giant caused GM President Ed Cole to demand that all racing involvement cease in early 1963, thus limiting their technical evolution in the rapidly accelerating world of FX drag racing after that season.
In 1961, the NHRA decided that expensive late-model projects from Detroit needed a place where they were not racing coupes and high-boy roadsters in Gas, were not embarrassing the weekly customers in front of their girlfriends in Stock and Super Stock, and frankly, they needed a place where they could show off. For the 1962 season, the NHRA created three FX classes based on cubic-inch-to-weight ratios: A/FX was 8.99 or lower, B/FX rated 9.00–12.99, and C/FX was for 13.00 and higher (stock-class factoring was done on the advertised/adjusted horsepower-to-weight formulas). The important rules were pre-authorization and approval from NHRA on any desired changes from production…and no superchargers.
Each manufacturer had to file FX paperwork in advance to give the NHRA an idea of what they were doing. Then, the NHRA would bless the final combination for legality before the combination could run. For the first year, most of these entries were focused in two directions—bigger-than-factory-available engines in smaller cars like the Tempest, Lancer, and Chevy II, and specially released factory engine and body parts for what were now called Super Super/Stock type entries; these were S/S-legal models with mid-year parts changes. But by 1963, well-heeled racers usually had a legal car for Super Stock and a modified one for FX.
Tailing Mickey Thompson's sole Pontiac A/FX effort in 1962, when it had won the Winternationals and the Indy Nationals, the factory fielded several 421ci Tempest coupes in the A/FX division in 1963, as well as wagons weighted to run B/FX. There were also a handful of Catalinas built this way. These cars were so above the field in terms of potential and performance at Pomona in 1963 that the new Z11 427/425hp aluminum-panel Chevy Impalas and the lightweight Ford Galaxie fastbacks ended up in a one-race-only Limited Production class to prevent embarrassment, since the companies were lacking proof that the minimum number of 50 cars had been created for Super Stock legality. This season, Chrysler's new 426 Max Wedges were now playing the spoiler in Super Stock by sheer number, hauling off the SS/S Automatic crowns at will. The Ramchargers, which had been runner-up at the 1962 Nationals, also had FX on its mind.
Two things changed that spring of 1963: GM's withdrawal from racing and Chrysler's direction under new president Lynn Townsend. With GM no longer pushing guys like Fireball Roberts, Ned Jarrett, and Junior Johnson to the top of the Grand National charts, Townsend doubled-down on all participation, authorizing the re-emergence of the hemispherical cylinder head on the 426 wedge block as a NASCAR nuke. Meanwhile, Ford, whose market share was large enough to justify multi-million dollar outlays in everything from international F1 to rally racing during this era, threw its engineering capital behind a development program it called Total Performance. That cauldron went red-hot in 1964, when former GM contract racers such as Bill Jenkins, Hayden Proffitt, Don Nicholson, Ronnie Sox, and Mickey Thompson got new bosses, new budgets, new fans, and new equipment from Dodge, Plymouth, Mercury, and Ford.
Under these conditions, FX quickly became a melding of rapid development from Detroit, aided by an exploding aftermarket business. The NHRA tried to keep the lid on the pot, but it was "no can do, Wally," especially in areas of the country where these cars were beginning to eclipse the fuel dragsters and prewar gas machines in terms of attention and adulation. Paperwork filed by the factories to and from North Hollywood showed there was keen interest in both the letter and spirit of the rules. However, by mid-1963, GM-associated racers who did not have access to updates simply quit trying to abide. In the South, it was match racing with basically no real rules; tracks just wanted racers to race. In the urbanized Northeast and Midwest, former FX-legal cars got tweaked more and more each week, as the stakes grew larger.
On the West Coast, door-car racing took another step forward in 1964, when Dodge and new rival Mercury both created factory exhibition cars that were supercharged and running in fictional S/FX or S/XS classes. One of these, a 1964 Comet Caliente, built by former dragster great Jack Chrisman, swilled nitro and heralded the start of the real schism between what constituted a "stock" machine versus an all-out race car sheathed in modern skin. Pontiac loyalist Arnie Beswick followed suit in a new blown GTO, and the war escalated. Though not FX legal, this change aptly foreshadowed the future.
Politics took the forefront. Letters and telegrams between Detroit and the NHRA's Jack Hart and tech master Bill "Farmer" Dismuke are rife with terse answers, personal appeals, and questions about competitors' legality. Ford was playing FX with Galaxies. However, within three months of the Mustang being released for sale that following spring, they were requesting approval of a 427 version for the Nationals, as well as for a 427 Falcon, both forms presenting problems, due to the NHRA's preoccupation with ballast placement and weight distribution.
On the other side of town, Chrysler Engineering decided to throw caution to the wind and really experiment after playing with wheelbase modifications in its Super Stocks. After Indy that year, Dick Landy (California) and Bill Flynn (Connecticut) created wheelbase-adjusted A/FX Hemi cars with the straight front axle from the A100 pickup truck. Though the stick was legal as a production part, the NHRA immediately placed the cars in the Gas and Altered classes. Hearing about Ford's short-wheelbase 427 monsters, Chrysler's next logical step was to move all the wheels as far forward as possible to get as much rear overhang as possible, thus thumbing its nose at the 2 percent wheelbase change that the NHRA had already imposed. With a wheelbase of just 110 inches, this wild entry was built for the '65 season and was funded to the hilt when Chrysler dropped out of NASCAR, after France had outlawed the Hemi because it wasn't a production street engine.
One look at this beastie, and the NHRA balked, labeling it exhibition or B/Altered. Ford Motor, with a new 427 single-overhead-cam engine coupled with the popular Mustang ready and approved for FX, complained fiercely. At the first event of the year, the AHRA Winternationals in Arizona, announcer Jon Lundberg reportedly coined the term "Funny Car" as the new Mopars came to the line. Though Chrysler gamely built four legal A/FXs for the NHRA Winternationals the following weekend—at no small expense—it authorized all of them for the full treatment soon after, effectively thumbing its nose at the NHRA rule book.
This one change resulted in outlaw status, and change was in the cultural wind. President John F. Kennedy had been shot dead, there were riots in major cities, and there was a growing awareness that self-actuation was a wonderful alternative to the straight world. For car guys, this moment was the cutting edge of progress, and Chrysler frankly changed everything right there. Surely, the Mopar engineers were not radicals; they simply followed the path that proved the most functional, a focus that resulted in transformation they had not imagined at the onset.
In comparison, the Mustangs, though sporting altered wheelbases and a healthy measure of aggression, appeared more respectable, even a little plain, and that included NHRA-legal A/FX, which the Fords dominated in 1965. But, as a class, FX now played second fiddle to whatever contraption showed up to race each weekend. The factories drew battle lines and demanded their sponsored entries not race the other company's products. At the start of the season, Ford and Chrysler entries were banned by corporate edict from racing each other. This finally changed due to pressure brought from promoters, the media, and the racers themselves, but that did not prevent a plethora of monster wheelies, fuel injection (which was not legal under FX rules), nitro and other fuels, fires, gold dust, and arguments real and imagined. When C.J. Hart discovered that this stuff made the turnstiles spin at the dragster stronghold of Lions, the West Coast was summarily smitten. When Super Stock & Drag Illustrated magazine had a near-riot at Pennsylvania's York US30 track in early August after 25,000 fanatics jammed into the little airport-turned-dragstrip for a one-night show, legal FX had technically passed from the spotlight of drag racing. At Indy in 1965, the nastiest stormers, blown and on nitro, ended up playing with the big dogs in B/Fuel Dragster.
In 1966, the NHRA found there was little to show for the once-premier category. It dropped back, punted, and created a new group of classes it called XS, for Experimental Stock. There was no need to file paperwork here; rules were based on a cubic-inch-to-weight formula and type of fuel used, ranging from Unlimited Development (U/XS) on through gasoline-powered categories ranging from A to E. Though at first deemed illegal for NHRA racing, Mercury's new Comets, using a Logghe Stamping welded tube chassis fitted with a flip-top fiberglass body pulled right from the factory styling plug, found a home there as well as the AHRA, which had become a true rival to North Hollywood. So did the even funnier Chryslers, which were now pushing injected, and eventually supercharged, fuel on a severely altered chassis design, and the Mustangs, whose noses had been extended in the interest of better performance and safety, becoming true Funny Cars, as well.
In match racing, Funny Car had stuck, but the NHRA's XS categories also allowed the independent racers a place to race in the big leagues. Frankly, those events were not as important as the week-in/week-out possibilities afforded by touring, and the money was better in the NASCAR drag racing series, which had a 2,600-pound Super/Unlimited Stock Formula 1 (S/US-1) division just for door cars. After all, at the NHRA's big shows, cars like these ended up racing against Altered and Gas entries in the higher-horsepower eliminators after class racing was over. Fame was fleeting there. Therefore, big-buck independent events and match racing were the focus of most build-ups and not in formal competition.Oh, it was still experimental…and increasingly dangerous. Frankly, what evolved was not even close to what FX had been, nor did it reflect what was sold off showroom floors. Paradoxically, while XS went insane, the new cars available to anyone were styled and built for performance—Hemi, Rat, and side-oiler entered the popular lexicon. After Dick Landy had a big transmission fire in mid-1966 testing, Chrysler decided to let it all go.
The NHRA wanted to keep romancing Detroit, as well, and created a separate category in 1967 called Super Stock, which was fully isolated from what had become the Junior Stock/Stock Eliminator divisions. While a handful of factory drivers stayed with the Unlimited class, Ford and Chrysler refocused on Super Stock in 1967, and even GM met the minimum 50-unit production numbers with ZL1 Camaros and 396 Novas.
As a result, the three FX classes were cancelled. Many former FX racers now made waves in Street (later Modified) Eliminator, as well as in the Super Stock wars. Indeed, by Indy in 1969, these drivers were now pushing the FX envelope in spirit and were racing in the Gas and Modified Production classes with factory assistance in heads-up-type, match-race stockers. This development and an aggressive push already started by the AHRA's Ultra Stock division would give way to a long private meeting with the NHRA at the conclusion of the '69 U.S. Nationals with the goal of creating a heads-up door class for the '70 season. It was called Pro Stock.
FX died for 10 years but was revived again in 1977 with the plethora of former Pro Stockers now flooding the Modified ranks. The indexes were now pounds per cubic inch at 5.5 pounds (A/FX), 7.5 (B/FX), and 9.5 (C/FX). Ronnie Sox raced in A/FX in 1977 in a Hemi Colt that the Rod Shop backed and which was to have been driven by Don Carlton, who had been killed in a testing accident that July. Though it was no longer the harbinger of the future it had once been, the FX mystique remained.
Of course, we now know that Funny Car, Pro Stock, and eventually Pro Modified and the modern ADRL all spawned from that handful of earlier seasons. For people who see drag racing from a long-term spectrum, FX conjures up a time of dreams and a space of infinite possibility, when hard work and sound thinking answered, "Who says you can't do that?" quite visibly. It was indeed an experimental season that not only worked too well, but also ignited the chain reaction that is modern full-bodied drag racing, today.
[Some text excerpted from unpublished book manuscript by Geoff Stunkard. 2013 All rights reserved.]
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This is the Ramchargers 1964 S/S car after the Hemi was installed in the early spring, a change that moved it into A/FX, until the requisite examples were built to be legal in Super Stock, allowing it to win the '64 Indy Nationals. A similar car was built with a 2 percent wheelbase change for the early '64 A/FX wars. Notable in this image is the legal wheelbase change, a harbinger of the coming season.The guys responsible for Funny Car? Certainly Ramchargers Tom Hoover (right) and Tom "Gray Ghost" Coddington could take credit for a lot of the evolution that pushed the envelope in the '64–'66 corridor of door-slammer drag racing history. This is the '64 A/FX car, the first Mopar drag car to get a 426 Hemi (now owned by Mike Guffey).The spirit of A/FX returned to the NHRA Nationals in 1969, where the likes of Ronnie Sox, Bill Jenkins, and Don Nicholson (in a 1965 Mustang, no less) battled the factory wars in B/Gas and A/MP, during the final sportsman-class match race stockers before Pro Stock was approved.Here's Ford's legal entry for 1965 coupled with the new fastback Mustang body and the monster 427 SOHC engine. With the Mopars all-in on its new-but-outlawed body designs, these cars won A/FX at all of the big NHRA events that year. The A/FX class winner was Bill Lawton and the Tasca Ford entry.Don Nicholson's cars show the radical change of 1965. At Pomona, the car had a slightly reworked wheelbase design, special panels, independent suspension, and an SOHC engine. By the end of the season, it looked like it does in the shot from Cecil County, running a stick axle and highly modified with injectors on light fuel loads. This car has been restored to its as-built early '65 appearance.Bill Hoefer gets on it at Pomona in early 1965. Hoefer used the whale Galaxie body and a small-displacement engine based on the 289 block to fit into the C/FX class. Later that year, Dave Koffel raced a '65 Dodge A990 Hemi body with a worked 273-inch screamer in this class. Both companies filed paperwork, and the cars were more exotic than many think.Mercury was able to effectively demarcate the birth of the modern AA/FC design, when it introduced a flip-top, fiberglass-bodied, tube-chassis car for 1966. The attrition on the cars was substantial; this one was gifted to racer Pete Gates in 1967 and is the sole survivor of the '66 season. Collectors Greg and Kathy Mosley own it now. (For much more on this, see "The Birth of the Flip-Top" elsewhere in this issue. —Ed.)Don Nicholson's cars show the radical change of 1965. At Pomona, the car had a slightly reworked wheelbase design, special panels, independent suspension, and an SOHC engine. By the end of the season, it looked like it does in the shot from Cecil County, running a stick axle and highly modified with injectors on light fuel loads. This car has been restored to its as-built early 1965 appearance.Collector Jim Kramer owns the original 1965 altered-wheelbase Dodge that Pennsylvanian Bud Faubel drove to victory at Beeline Dragway's AHRA Winter Nationals in 1965 in the association's initial Funny Car event that season; realizing its potential popularity, the AHRA legalized these entries immediately. Next to the Honker is Charlie Allen's homebuilt, albeit factory-assisted, Atlantic Dodge Flyer. Chrysler offered parts to many racers who did not get one of the dozen original entries. The image here was snapped in front of Funny Car racer Bruce Larson's house, where "we did not scare the neighbors…too badly."


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