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If you haven't heard of Outside Lands, it's not too late. Tickets for this 3-day music, food, beer, wine and art festival in Golden Gate park August 10-12, 2012 go on sale tomorrow at noon. It shouldn't take you long to decide if you want to go. The full lineup has just been released and it is going to be incredible!
This festival began in 2008, and quickly burst onto the scene making quite the splash. Headlined by the most killer current artists and several stages with newer, up-and-coming, supporting acts, Outside Lands is geared toward being eco-friendly. There are bio-degradable cups, plates, bowls and utensils, solar-powered stages, and a refillable water program which encourages reusable water vessels to cut down on use of cups. Outside Lands also offers a bike valet service to encourage attendees to bike to the festival. Additionally, golf carts are not used for production/transport but instead utilize cargo bicycles to go easier on the environment and conserve resources. I have never heard of such a thing, have you? Pretty cool.
The food and beverage choices are tantalizing, with some of the best local wineries, breweries and restaurants providing the festival fare. While the food lineup has not yet been released, based on the previous years you can be certain this won't be your typical hot dog and cardboard-pizza concert menu.
Outside Lands offers VIP cabanas based on availability, which overlook the main stage, and include hosted alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, access to catered food, a private entrance, 20 VIP tickets and 4 parking passes. No shortage of creature comforts to enhance your festival experience!
VIP, 3-day passes at $495 are also offered based on availability and grant VIP's Polo Club lounge seating, special viewing areas, access to massage therapists, access to restroom facilities, VIP food selection and beer, wine and cocktails.
Don't have the cabbage to throw down for a cabana or a VIP pass? Regular 3-day passes were offered on an early bird basis for $165 that have already sold out. The regular 3-day ticket will go on sale tomorrow for $195. It's not clear how many of those tickets are available, but when they sell out the price will go up to $210 and then $225. Other extremely helpful passes that may be purchased are a 3-day parking pass for $149.50, and a 3-day shuttle pass from the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for $29.50. Fortunately the Civic is also very close to other public transportation such as Bart, Muni and Caltrain.
While I love to indulge in good food and wine with the best of them, it really comes down to the music for me. Who could pass up seeing legends like Neil Young, Stevie Wonder and Metallica at the same festival as Skrillex? One of the headliners for the festival this year is The Foo Fighters, one of my all time favorite bands. I have been a fan since they were founded in 1994 by Dave Grohl, former drummer for Nirvana. While I have loved all of their albums over the years, I was immensely proud of them for cleaning up at the 2012 Grammys (6 trophies!) and especially winning Best Rock Album. I have seen them live twice, and was completely blown away. Check out the Foo's performance on Saturday Night Live last year of their 2012 Grammy-winning Best Rock Song, Walk. Dave and the boys just BRING IT.
I am also a huge fan of Jack White, who we featured on yesterday's post as well as Beck, Franz Ferdinand, Norah Jones and more recently Fitz and the Tantrums.
And lastly, I leave you with this soothing, soulful melody by newcomer to the scene, Alabama Shakes. The Shakes first full length album was just released for streaming this month. I am pretty confident we will be seeing a lot more of them in the future. Enjoy!


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Why did it take three votes before the Democrats put the word God into their convention platform? These people are not the party of my father and grandparents. Most of their party who speak on television or in person act like Vice President Joe Biden at his debate with Paul Ryan.
I wonder why they don't allow their opposition to speak? President Barack Obama did the same thing when he didn't want to answer Gov. Mitt Romney's question about where his (Obama's) pension funds are invested. He urged Candy Crowley, the so-called non-biased moderator, to go to the next question. Crowley apologized to Romney's team about being wrong about Obama using the word terrorist attack in the Rose Garden. Her apology means nothing unless she apologizes to the millions that saw the debate. We cannot ever have a non-biased debate with a CNN moderator, their liberal leaning always reveals itself.
I was at the Eastern Gateway Community College forum and Robert "Steve" Vukelic stated he pays more in taxes than most of us. Is he telling me he's very rich? He also pleaded for forgiveness for his wrongdoing, which resulted in a felony charge and conviction. He said he was sorry and paying back all the fines and penalties levied on him as punishment. Why would I want this man to handle millions of our tax money? I'd vote for him if he would answer this one question - Mr. Vukelic, if you weren't caught, when would you have turned yourself in to the authorities?
Democrats believe in compromise, but only if the opposition agrees with them. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took full responsibility for the fiasco in Libya, then departs for what must be an urgent life and death visit to Peru without explaining what she told Obama about the massacre of our ambassador. Very convenient, I think. To say one is responsible, one must accept the consequences of that responsibility, so Clinton doesn't resign but goes on a trip to Peru.
How can Obama look into the camera and proclaim he has no war on coal? He said in a 2009 ad that if someone wants to build a coal electric plant he'll see to it that it bankrupts them and that our electric rates would skyrocket. He claims his administration digs more coal than any other. Readers, check the facts about issuing permits and actual tonnage produced, you'll find the man does not tell the truth and has no shame about it. As scary as our president is, this is more so. After his rally at the University of Wisconsin, several students, all Obama supporters, were asked if they thought it was fine Obama didn't have the use of a teleprompter in his first debate with Romney. Most said he should have been allowed to have one, others thought he did. These students are allowed to vote, and Obama loves them.
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Say that we are given a set of variables, $X=\lbrace X_1,X_2,...,X_n \rbrace$. Their order $\Pi$ is an index array living in a permutation space $Perm(n)$. There is a positive function $f(X,\Pi) > 0$. I would like to optimize $f$ over $\Pi$, i.e., $\Pi^*=\arg\min_{\Pi\in Perm(n)}f(X,\Pi)$. Is there any good approximate algorithm for this?
It may be the case that simulated annealing and genetic algorithms are relatively complicated to understand, bound and implement in this instance.
Instead, a very easy starting point would be a simple hill-climbing algorithm.
Start with an arbitrary (or better, random) initial permutation $\pi$.
The set of moves is the set $M$ of permutations that you can reach by transposing two elements of the permutation.
While there is a move that decreases $f$,
This will get you to a local minimum at a cost of $O(n^2)\cdot C(n)$, per move, where $C(n)$ is the cost of calculating $f(\pi)$ for a permutation of $[n]$.
Extremely simple and probably not too costly as a first step. You may be able to prove some sort of worst case bound between a local optimum and a global optimum.
At lerast, simulated annealing is simple to program for your problem, so you could just try it ...
Simulated annealing is a good answer, as given by Kjetil B Halvorsen. You can also try genetic algorithms to mix and cross-over multiple tries at different permutations.
Say that $\Pi_a$ and $\Pi_b$ are two permutations in your permutation space. If the function $f$ is not a black box, or if it is a black box which you are allowed to use as an oracle, find the value $f_a$ for $\Pi_a$ and $f_a$ for $\Pi_b$, or for a larger population of permutations. Take two or three of the highest scoring permutations based on the values of $f(X,\Pi_j)$ and use a genetic algorithm to cross-over between these two permutations.
Or take the single highest scoring permutation and then internally permute a short region of the permutation and recalculate $f$. Iterate as necessary. This presumes that $f$ if smoothly continuous and that you can use a hill-climbing style of approach to find local maxima or local minima, whichever you need in your case.


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Let $V$ be a vector space over $\mathbb R$, and $a: V\otimes V\to \mathbb R$ a symmetric bilinear pairing. Recall that the Morse index of $a$ is the maximal dimension of any subspace $V_- \subseteq V$ on which $a$ is negative-definite.
If $V$ is infinite-dimensional, it can be very hard to check every negative-definite subspace and compare their dimensions. Much easier is to exhibit a subspace $V_- \subseteq V$ on which $a$ is negative-definite, which is not contained within any other negative subspace. But how do I know that the dimension of this negative subspace is the maximal dimension of any negative subspace? The approach I thought worked fails; see this question.


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COPPERAS COVE (October 24, 2012)--Keep Copperas Cove Beautiful will host Eco Harvest on Saturday at the Copperas Cove Civic Center.
The event, from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m., includes a free pancake and sausage breakfast along with giveaways and informative booths that teach about composting, energy conservation, water pollution and conservation, recycling and more.
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I have just bought a Kindle and the cool thing about it is you have an email address
@kindle.com where you can send your books and it automatically converts it to a .azw and syncs it with your Kindle. I was under the impression it would also sync the books with all your devices, including the Kindle app on my Android phone (Isn't this the whispersync thing?). However, it doesn't seem to do this. Is there way to also sync all my books to my phone as well as my Kindle automatically?
I have just bought a Kindle and the cool thing about it is you have an email address
It currently doesn't sync outside content with your phone, no pdfs, txts, emails... only kindle books you get from amazon. I have tried to manually load pdfs with no luck. I believe the functionality is planned but not yet implemented.
There is a folder on your sd card called Kindle. Just move the book there. If you are having trouble downloading it, try dropbox. Worked for me.
If you look at your Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon (the same page where you set the email address up) you can see that the Kindle email address is specifically assigned to one Kindle device. If you had more than one Kindle device, then you can assign different email addresses to each. The upside of this for Kindle owners is that you and other family members can both have Kindle's on the same account (and thus share books) but you can avoid bombarding anyone else with your documents (if you did want to send to both at the same time, you just list both addresses in the "To" box when you send the email).
The fact that Amazon don't allow you to set up an email address for any non-Kindle device (and I have the Kindle app installed on my laptop as well as my phone) suggests to me that they're keeping the conversion service as a "value-add" incentive for people who've bought a Kindle device. It's also worth bearing in mind that the conversion process will use some of their computing resources and cost them (albeit a tiny amount compared to the rest of their business) this could be the reason that it's only open to paying customers.
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Geanangel to be in showcase
WINTERSVILLE - Paige Geanangel, a sophomore at Indian Creek High School, has been selected to compete in the Queen of Diamonds Showcase North Jan. 5-6 at Kent State University.
The QDSN is part of the Queen of Diamond's Showcase events which are the largest fast pitch softball showcases of its kind in the United States.
Youth league to hold sign-ups
FOLLANSBEE - The Follansbee Youth Basketball League will hold its final registration from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Follansbee Middle School gym for players in grades 4-6.
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STEUBENVILLE - The Steubenville Big Red Boosters Club will meet at 6 p.m. Monday in the high school commons area.
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STEUBENVILLE - The annual Big Red football banquet will be held at 5 p.m. on Dec. 2 at Steubenville High School.
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Since Linux has a lot of useful tools, while Windows has a lot of apps (like Chrome), instead of buying another machine to run Linux, is there a way to run it as a Virtual Machine on the PC? The Ubuntu installation CD-ROM doesn't seem to have such an option.
Lots of options here:
Tools Only
If you just want the GNU/Linux tools, there are a few choices.
Linux in a Windows Process
There are several packages that will run Linux as a Windows process, without simulating an entire PC as virtualization does. They use Cooperative Linux, a.k.a. coLinux, which is limited to 32-bit systems. These don't have the overhead of virtualizing, and they start up faster since you're not booting a virtual PC. This is a little more on the experimental side and may not be as stable as some of the virtualization options.
Virtualization software lets you boot up another OS in a virtual PC, one that shares hardware with the host OS. This is pretty tried-and-true. There are nice options here for taking snapshots of your Virtual PC in a particular state, suspend/resume a virtual PC, etc. It's nice to be able to experiment with a virtual PC, add a few packages, then revert to a previous snapshot and "start clean".
Dual Booting
It looks like VirtualBox runs on Windows, which should have decent Linux support. Virtual PC, as far as I know, does not offer very good Linux integration.
If you're just looking for the regular set of command line tools, you might look at cygwin. A lot of the goodness without the overhead of maintaining a separate system.
An alternative to a virtual machine (meaning it can share RAM with Windows) is Portable Ubuntu, which runs Ubuntu as a Windows app. It's one of the niftiest ways to get the best of both. I can't post a link because I'm a new user here. The domain is: portableubuntu.demonccc.cloudius.com.ar
Maybe andLinux would be interesting?
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You can use cygwin if you just want the tools.
You can use VirtualPC software to mount any Linux.
There are a few distros that install on top of Windows like phat linux
Many useful linux utils (including bash) have been ported to native win32 (unix utils).
It's not the job of the Ubuntu CD-ROM to provide virtualised installation.
Just install VirtualBox, and then create a new virtual machine booted from the Ubuntu disc.
Alternatively get VMWare Player and download a pre-made image.
You can run it in a virtual machine ala VMWare, but there's also Wubi, which you might find suitable.
VMWare gave me Ubuntu for a while, but then I used VMWare to create a virtual machine of Windows, then I installed Ubuntu and Windows in Ubuntu.
In terms of UNIX tools there is of course the Microsoft Unix for Windows.
ATT Research also provides UWIN.
"Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine."
You can run Linux in Virtual PC, though your performance may suffer some. I've got a trixBox PBX running in Virtual PC, for testing purposes, and it works fine.
I notice some performance problems when calling from one softphone to another in my network and getting the extension's voicemail. The sound is slow and stuttering, I presume due to how Virtual PC allocates CPU cycles, because the PC it's running on is fairly robust. (Dual core 1.4 MHz with 4GB RAM - 3.6 recognized, of course, because it's 32-bit hardware.)
I'd say try it out and see how it works for you. It won't take too long to get it up and running, so it's probably worth experimenting.


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Put my NN5 up on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=180374484573
This is an early NN5 (differs slightly from current model, which allows for easier detaching of upper rotator lock stops Äî this is the only real difference.)
As photo the shows, soft case is included and also have the instruction manual in pdf format which I will email to buyer.
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Dane Corner Sectional Sofa by TrueModern
designed by Edgar Blazona
With its Danish styled wood legs and intricately stitched back cushions, the Dane Corner Sectional Sofa is an all-around showpiece of functional and attractive modern design. Perfect for use in the corner of your living area or even in the center of a room, this corner sectional has details like cording and super-slim arms to give it character - and you won't find a sectional with more gorgeously shaped and finished legs. This modern sectional sofa delivers the look you love and the comfort you expect.
Dane Corner Sectional Sofa Features:
- 28" h x 94" w x 94" d
- Grid-stitched back cushions give visual appeal
- Sturdy solid wood frame and beautifully formed legs
- Chaise provides a comfy place to lounge
- Ships quickly
- 50,000 rub count fabric
- Consider adding the Dane Ottoman to give your feet a break
Materials & Measurements
Frame and legs: solid wood
Fabric: 100 percent polyester, 50,000 rub count
Overall: 28" h x 94" w x 94" d
Seat Height: 16.5" h
Seat Depth: 22"
Arm Width: 4"
Arm Height: 23"
All cushions are removable
Assembly Instructions
Assembly Required:
Minimal. The Dane Corner Sectional Sofa ships in two pieces so it's easier to get it into your home. Additionally, legs ship unattached. Each leg attaches via 2 bolts that you will need to bolt into the corner of the sofa frame.
Special Note: the wood base is removable; however, special tools and aptitude are required.
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Edgar Blazona brings more than 16 years of furniture design and manufacturing experience to TrueModern. His deep knowledge of manufacturing, understanding of materials and the modernist aesthetic are the driving force behind TrueModern. Edgar has held senior design and creative positions at multiple companies. Praised for its clean lines and impeccable workmanship, his work has been showcased in galleries, hotels and private collections worldwide.
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All TrueModern products come with the choice of Standard Curbside Delivery or Inside Delivery (recommended).
Standard Curbside is 5% of the item total, and includes delivery to the outside or front door of your home or office. Prior to delivery, our shipper will contact you using the number provided to us during checkout to schedule a delivery appointment. The driver will unload the boxes from the truck and leave them at your front door or outside your home or office. Be sure to inspect the item closely for damage and notify us any issues right away. Also be sure to hang onto the packaging in the event you need to request a return or an exchange. Keep in mind that this service does not include product placement inside your home, debris removal or assembly, so if you need one of these options be sure to choose our Inside Delivery option.
Inside Delivery is 10% of the item total, and includes delivery by two trained furniture movers, where the item is placed inside your room of choice (includes two flights of stairs). When your order reaches the local station in your area, the delivery agent will call to schedule a day and time specific appointment. Be sure to inspect the item closely for damage and notify us any issues right away. Also be sure to hang onto the packaging in the event you need to request a return or an exchange. Keep in mind that this service does not include debris removal or assembly, or homes or businesses with more than 2 flights of stairs to climb. If you require these services, please contact our sales team for a quote.
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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
Delaware: Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Innovation, and Welcoming Initiatives in the First State
In Delaware, there is no doubt that immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators play an important role. Immigrant entrepreneurs bring in additional revenue, create jobs, and contribute to the state's economy. Highly skilled immigrants are vital to the state's innovation industries and to the metropolitan areas within the state, helping to boost local economies. Furthermore, local government, business, and non-profit leaders recognize the importance of immigrants in their communities and support immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
Immigrant entrepreneurs contribute to Delaware's economy.
- From 2006 to 2010, there were 3,320 new immigrant business owners in Delaware and in 2010, 10.5 percent of all business owners in Delaware were foreign-born.
- In 2010, new immigrant business owners had a total net business income of $261 million, which is 12.6 percent of all net business income in the state.
- Delaware is home to many successful companies with at least one founder who was an immigrant or child of an immigrant, including well-known companies such as the chemical giant DuPont, which brought in $39.5 billion in revenue in 2012 and employs 70,000 people worldwide.
Highly skilled immigrants are vital to Delaware's innovation industries, which in turn helps lead American innovation and creates jobs.
- Immigrants contribute to Delaware's economic growth and competitiveness by earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields from the state's research universities. In 2009, 53.8 percent of STEM graduates earning masters or PhD degrees from these universities were foreign-born, and 63.7 percent of graduates earning PhDs in engineering in Delaware were not born in the U.S.
- In 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor certified 1,979 H-1B high-skilled visa labor certification applications in Delaware, with an average annual wage of $66,238, which is higher than both Delaware's median household income of $60,119 and per capita income of $29,733.
- An expansion of the high-skilled visa program would create more than 1,800 new jobs in Delaware by 2020. By 2045, this expansion would add around $674 million to Gross State Product and increase personal income by more than $592 million. The following are examples of metropolitan area demand for high-skilled foreign-born workers.
- Wilmington, Delaware's largest city, is part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metropolitan area, which had 8,875 H-1B high-skilled visa requests in 2010-2011, with 73.3 percent of H-1B visa-holders working in STEM occupations.
While the numbers are compelling, they don't tell the whole story.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs not only contribute to large innovative companies, but also to small businesses in local communities. In cities across Delaware, immigrant family-owned small businesses contribute to the vitality of their local communities. Although initially aimed at other immigrant customers, many businesses quickly see an expansion of their clientele to include a diverse array of immigrant and native-born customers alike.
- In Wilmington, the state's largest city, a variety of immigrant-owned restaurants are found along major business corridors and in shopping centers. For example, Peter Chen, from Malaysia, owns and operates Soybean Asian Grill in Pike Creek Shopping Center on Limestone Road.
- In New Castle, Riyad, Ousamah, Bachar and Haitham Albaroki, four brothers from Morocco, started Casablanca Restaurant in the 1990s on Dupont Parkway just south of Wilmington. The restaurant operated until 2012, when a fire unfortunately forced the establishment to close.
In Delaware, localities have begun recognizing and supporting immigration through "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
- The Delaware Hispanic Commission, part of the State of Delaware government, is involved with "expanding and improving the representation of and advocacy for Delaware's Hispanic Community to identify and address the most important needs of Delaware's rapidly growing Hispanic families."
- The Commission is comprised of members from the community, education, non-profit organizations, health, housing, employment, legislative, media, legal, and various state agencies.
- The Commission's Economic Development Subcommittee "focuses on assessing career opportunities and finding ways to expand career options within the Hispanic Community. Currently the focus of this sub-group is to determine the level of interest for Entrepreneurial and Small Business development, focusing on raising the awareness of existing educational business finance and career development programs."
- The Hispanic-American Business Resource Center, with locations at several Delaware public libraries, including Seaford, Wilmington, Dover, and Georgetown, offers workshops for entrepreneurs about how to do business in Delaware.
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The BS degree program provides interested students with a broad approach to biology, but requires a comprehensive background in mathematics and the natural sciences. The BS program is recommended for students planning careers in research or who plan to continue study in graduate school, medical school, dental school or in other graduate health care schools.
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PopMatters magazine wasn't short on accolades in a recent profile of singer/songwriter Will Stratton '09, proclaiming: "this Bennington graduate's fourth full-length [album], Post-Empire, just so happens to be one of the best albums released so far this year." Full story.
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Starburst In Pink is a brightly-colored wall hanging that features pieced star blocks with machine applique flowers & stars. Measuring 40" square with 10" blocks, this fast & easy quilt has the pre-cut shapes fused & then machine appliqued for a design that is sure to please. As the name implies, we chose to make our quilt in shades of pink, though you could use another color selection for this star-filled design. The flower & star shapes were cut using the AccuCut Roller Die Cutting System; check with your local quilt shop for this cutting service. Designed by Kay Gentry
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As a student studying advertising and public relations in ACU's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Julie Coppedge has certainly taken advantage of every resource at her disposal.
I want to work for (and with) brilliant minds, people I respect and for a company that values its employees. I want to be challenged daily. I love the fast-paced world of external communications.
Photographer, radio anchor, soccer player: Julie's done it all
During her time at ACU, Julie has worked as a project manager for Morris and Mitchell, the department's Ad/PR agency; authored stories and taken photographs for The Optimist, the student-run newspaper; and served as an anchor on KACU, the campus radio station. She has also served as a lab instructor in the Publication Design Course and managed to earn all-Conference and all-region honors as a midfielder on ACU's women's soccer team.
Julie has developed a love for what she does - and that has allowed her to keep so many irons in the fire successfully. Abilene Christian's JMC program has helped her grow along the way.
"I've grown intellectually and spiritually with the help of the JMC department. I've been encouraged; I've been set straight. I've been challenged; I've been stretched. I've been awarded; I've been humbled," she says.
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I did an 'apt-get remove' on a whole bunch of packages including zip, curl, libx11-dev, libglib2.0-dev, etc. and, after I did that, nearly all of my applications have silently disappeared (I believe that that is what caused it although I'm not 100%... I also uninstalled my python installation and did some other stuff before I finally went to go and open a program [terminal] and found that most of my programs were gone including ubuntu software center, etc... basically nearly everything). Does anyone know what may have caused this or, better, how to refresh everything? (no, I didn't create a restore point :-( ) Or, am I hosed?
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Software-center depends on python. you may want to try installing (or reinstalling) the ubuntu-desktop meta package, this should get you back basic essentials,
if it is allready insalled remove it (
That's easy to recover ;-P
First , find out all what you just removed by:
And re-install things needed by
Don't care about dependencies , just find the packages you need , they will be installed automatically.
Your programs weren't 'silently' removed. Packages in Ubuntu have 'dependencies', other packages that need to be installed for them to function properly. The Ubuntu Software Centre depends on Python, so when you uninstalled Python, Software Centre was also removed because it wouldn't have worked without its dependencies.


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May I ask a Moderator to change my Thread title to "Holt and Pepper, Managerial team that totally condiment each other" please?
Current thread title is "From Newboy to Journeyman - Dreams of a Legend" found here: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...of-the-Legends
Many thanks!
In fact, Scrap that one, as Pepper decided he wasn't going to be on my plate after all! Will probably have a change when I actually think of something witty and keep it as that. Nothing til then though thank you!
Last edited by Toadi; 05-09-2010 at 01:28. Reason: Bloody AssMan showing NO loyalty!
Hi. Please could a moderator close my thread Starting at Goodison as the game crashed and have lost this save Thanks
Daf close my wales and cardiff saves mate. Had nice crash dumps to ruin it. cheers ears
Can anyone close my 'breaking the arsenal duck one'? Bloody crash dumps cheers
Could I please have my thread "Up the Dale" renamed "Upped the Dale!"? I wanna brag!
In before Dafuge.
can you rename this thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...5-Team-Bury-FC to "The Rise Of A College Team - Team Bury FC"
delete my World is not enough thread as im going to start with more leagues loaded cheers.
Thank you!
Hey, could my thread 'papa was a rolling stone' be deleted please? Getting a corrupted file one month into a game isn't good :S Thanks!
hi could you delet this thread for me as ive lost my save and started another one Please and thank you http://community.sigames.com/showthr...boy-world-tour
Could you please delete this thread as I've lost the game to crash dump and now won't re-load so i'm gonna make a new career.
Any chance you can delete my thread, I cannot get a job anywhere so have started again no need to have the thread on here.
Both done
hey there can you delete this thread as my save game was file was damaged had to start another one so can you delete this one please http://community.sigames.com/showthr...Easy-No-Chance!
Never been comfortable with the rubbish title I gave my thread. Any chance it could be changed to: "[Newcastle FC] - We've got something up our Slieve (Donard)"
Thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...Down-N.Ireland!
Jesus that was quick! Thanks.
Can someone please delete my thread as I've had a serious motherboard failure on my laptop in which I've just bought a new machine. Was a massive shame as I was enjoying this save
Thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...Hometown-Glory!
Hi guys, can I change the name of my thread to "It started with a Droylsden dream"
Much appreciated
can you please delete my Italian Legacy forum post please. I am looking to free up some Photobucket server space
Hey, can you please change the name of my thread to: 'Winners Park?... More Like Loserville!'
Thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...Over-The-World!
Thanks guys!
Dafuge, Purefun or Neji or any other mod for that matter could you please close Sitting on the banks of the Trent and my road to nowhere. As I won't be playing the saves any more.
hi can you please delete this post for me as ive lost my hardrive save file thanks http://community.sigames.com/showthr...in-Scandinavia
Can a mod change my title from "Hips don't lie and neither does the table" to "Far East Movement"?
No longer in Colombia, so the current title doesn't apply.
can my thread be deleted please a bit of blue magic-rise to fame crash dump ended that save so upset about it aswell.
Can someone please modify the Thread title for my thread about the Polish League save issue to show that there is a hotfix (11.2.1)? Thanks!
http://community.sigames.com/showthr...43#post6220243 hi can u deletd this one for me as ive updated the gazme going to start another on on the update
Closed it .
Hi there,can someone please add the following text to the end of my current career thread title: [ FM 2011 - Journeyman career ]
Much appreciated
Can you please change this thread to Dave Azzopardi - 'The Angel of Football'
Thanks a lot
Can you please change the name of this thread to An Impossible Dream
All done
Thanks Daf
Ta daf x
Thanks very much, but being the guy I am, I always think of a better name right after I've decided on one.
Can I have the name of the thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...possible-Dream change to: Éire go deo - An Impossible Dream
Sorry for the hassle. Cheers.
Thanks very much
Can you change: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...andic-Football title to: The Ice Cream Dream, The Rise Of Icelandic Football
can you please change http://community.sigames.com/showthr...47-The-Big-Six to deadfncat : Sailin round the world for football
Thanks mate
thanks mate
Can someone please close and or delete my 'o JaY at Arsenal' thread please?
Could you please change the name of my thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...-give-me-a-job
Just add this part please: [FM11 Journeyman Career]
So it looks like this: Who will give me a job? [FM11 Journeyman Career]
can you please delete this for me as my laptop keeps crashing and lost my save game started a new on this is what i want deleted thanks ... http://community.sigames.com/showthr...anagerial-Tour
I would like to have posts 4 through 8 deleted from my thread ( http://community.sigames.com/showthr...ving-dominance ) as they pertain to the thread being in the wrong forum. (It was moved !)
Could someone change the title of my thread 'The Heart Of A Shrimp' to 'Below Par - The Travels of a Young Manager'. Thanks!
could i be able to put 15 images in my posts
Both done
I think the limit of four images is set across the forums, I don't think we can change it.
Cheers dafuge.
Can anyone change the name of my 'o JaY's world tour.' to 'o JaY's on tour.'?
http://community.sigames.com/showthr...e-Ultimate-LLM) Can you please close this thread as I had fm wiped
Sorry to do this again, but can you take my name out of the front of my thread please? so it is just Sailin round the world for football :l 2.0! http://community.sigames.com/showthr...r-football-2.0!
ack! can you take out the :| too please? sorry :|
Could you close my http://community.sigames.com/showthr...y-Hessenthaler as everything from my laptop had to be wiped
can this be closed, unfortunately the game keeps crashing so need to start again
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I have read few textbooks and papers about the $K$-theory groups $K_{0}$ and $K_{1}$ of (reduced) $C^{*}$-algebra and most of them didn't give a clear simple way to define these groups.
Just wondering if anybody can give me good sources for that?
I have read few textbooks and papers about the $K$-theory groups $K_{0}$ and $K_{1}$ of (reduced) $C^{*}$-algebra and most of them didn't give a clear simple way to define these groups.
Just wondering if anybody can give me good sources for that?
I also think this question would benefit from some more detail, however...
If you prefer getting your hands dirty, I recommend the first book. The approach is somewhat pedestrian (as the author writes in the introduction) but you will get a good sense of how things work, and there are lots of great exercises and examples. There are lots of arguments involving explicit homotopies of loops of projections and unitaries.
The second book I would recommend more if you prefer a functorial approach to things. In particular, Higson and Roe emphasize that Bott periodicity will be true for any sequence of half-exact functors satisfying similar properties to the K-functors.
I think the following is a "clear and simple" way to define the $K_0$ group: let $A$ be a unital C*-algebra. Define an equivalence relation (stable equivalence) on the class of finitely generated projective $A$-modules by saying that $P_1 \sim P_2$ if there is a finitely generated free module $A^{n}$ such that $$ P_1 \oplus A^{n} \simeq P_2 \oplus A^{n}.$$
Then denote by $V$ the set of stable equivalence classes of finitely generated projective modules. $V$ is an abelian semigroup with respect to the direct sum operation. Finally, $K_0(A)$ is defined to be the Grothendieck group of $V$. This means that you have to add in formal inverses to elements of $V$ in order to make it a group. (For example, the Grothendieck group of the abelian semigroup $\mathbb{N}$ is $\mathbb{Z}$.)
Of course this is not so easy to calculate. But the definition itself I think is not that complicated.
Also, these things admit a pretty concrete description. Finitely generated projective modules correspond to projections in matrix algebras over $A$, and stable equivalence corresponds to the two projections being connected by a continuous path of projections in some (possibly larger) matrix algebra over $A$. So you can really get in there and work with things if you have a good description of the algebra. In particular, projective modules over noncommutative tori can be described concretely in this fashion. This is shown in the book Elements of Noncommutative Geometry by Varilly, Figueroa, and Gracia-Bondia.
I found the notes of Timothy Gowers an easy read: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/Ktheory.dvi
I quite liked Bruce Magurn's "An algebraic introduction to $K$-theory": it starts low enough, and pushes high enough (at least for my taste!).


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Is it ok to self promote an item for sale on E-bay or Amazon? Or is that bad form?
If I posted something for sale on E-bay or Amazon, is it bad form to post the "deal" here on Woot? I refer to one-item sales listings, as Multi-item stores on those services are established.
Thanks for your input / comments.
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That would be bad form and I would not recommend it. It is against the unofficial, official rules.
If it's just one item for sale: bad form
If it's your own business thing and according to you it's normal priced: bad form
If it's you're actually selling it cheap (e.g. cheaper than Amazon with free shipping etc): that's ok with me.
I normally don't like when companies promote themselves here, unless it actually is a good deal (the companies that promote themselves here think everything they sell is a good deal, but that's lame).
Keep in mind there will always be someone that thinks whatever you do is bad form. Just the way it is.
Single item deals are generally not allowed. Thanks for asking, though.
Thank you all for your input. Saves me from getting flamed.
If someone on this site has a good deal on eBay of at least 10 items (per the rules) and is a trusted seller...please post it. I might want one!!!!
I was actually going to ask this question myself.
I think I've reached an epiphany the other day to go full speed on my dreams for eCommerce (aka selling things online), and one great way to start off the shop was to advertise here.
But unlike other posters, I'm a well established user here and I'm trying my best not to point fingers here but there are people like Ocheri and such (I can't really name any others, sorries!) who does promote their website.
Not to worry though, this won't happen anytime soon and I have no plans to spam everywhere.
How much does it cost for a "sponsored deal" though?
@joshobra: If your store would like to be considered for the sponsored deal space, contact email@example.com for details. But if your deal is lame, or sketchy, no amount of money will let you buy your way in. Believe it or not, we have a reputation to uphold.
(From the "What is Deals.woot?" page.)
Wow, I didn't think I'd go negative on my last comment (which really pisses me off how I don't really like commenting anything on deals.woot anymore), but it is what it is.
Definitely not going for the "lame" stuff here, not going to sell cheap crappy headphones and whatnot.. it's going to be stuff like what happened last weekend at my Grandmas 80th birthday party where everyone was trying to order (no joke, even people overseas wanted to order after the video was posted on Facebook) the present I got my grandmother. Now I can't say exactly what it is at the moment, business is business and heck I could see the high potential with the things I will be selling.
So yeah I'm not sure why asking a simple-yet-educated question would cause it to be considered "bad", so much for being "welcome" in this website.


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Happened to me in Newcastle. After few seasons it appeared that I have son, Jaroslaw who has been promoted to youth squad. It also says something about me since I became a father being 15 years old, hehehe.
Update tonight when i come back peeps ..
Can't wait for next update!
err wheres last nights update
Are there any requirements for having a son? Like amount of time at a club, or reputation etc?
a missus perhaps?
I ask because I joined Real Madrid in mid-june and am trying reloading the game constantly, waiting for a son, but I'll have wasted about a day if it can't happen.
You could use the editor to put a youth player with your surname and with you in their favoured personnel but actually getting a son in the game is a better feeling.
It's easier to know who is your son if you don't have a common surname, so if your surname is Smith and your managing Birmingham and someone comes through the academy with your surname and with you in favoured personnel it's unlikely he's your son.
After a long hard think , Danny has retired after a succesfull season which saw him win a staggering 48 medals ... damnn..
He did not make the 100 caps But hey what the hell , It's been a brilliant career for him to get this far , Sheff UTD are interested in him and they are in the premiership but i want him to stay ...
Next update is tomorrow people. Happy Valentines day everyone ...
After a glorious Football Career Danny Mohiddins begins his managerial career. A tough group which included Holland and Scotland was always going to be a good test .
To be continued tommorow ..
Tears man ..
The Final ... update today oooops :P
Premier League season Starts And Danny has picked up his first trophy medal so quick as a manager . Im chuffed and i even attended the final ..
All i can say is brilliant ..
Update tommorow ..
Ronaldinho has hinted he may retire at the end of the season ..
Hey, can you post some pics of the English league? I want to see which teams were raised to big clubs, and which teams flopped and are now in lower leagues. \ (So the English league up to the BSPL)
Great career and very nice read. Beem following your posts religiously since I first seen them.
Danny's a manager now, I'm going to be following this thread until he retires from managing.
Amazing career, just read the whole thread. Put a smile on my face when he finally won a World Cup after all his bad luck in that competition. And congrats on getting such a star as a son. Hope he manages for many decades...
Magic Stuff FMAnderson! Delighted he got his first trophy! Any more clubs sniffing around him?
Imagine if United the team ive always wanted to manage come in for him , it would be very interesting ..
Great thread! Spurring me to continue my career! I see he has a had a good start to his managerial/ coaching career but how much is this down to the previous manager or is solely down to Danny?
Newcastle in takeover talks . Henrik Tourang apparently wants to buy the club, Money has not been a problem really but should be good anyway ..
This should be very interesting to follow now you never know where his career will take him.
Fixture update -
You see if i make him a coach alone at setpeices it becomes 4 stars ..
His Mental , Defending , Fitness , Judging player ability stats have gone up ... :P
He is a very attacking coach :P
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What tactics is he using in the games or do you have it set too 'Use Current tactics'?
I've finally managed to read everything and I must say I've enjoyed all of it.
I got sacked as England manager .. Till today i dont know how....
Quarter Finals of the Euros is ok man .. And they sack me .. lol
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Danny obviously isnt getting fired yet as England U21 have 6 in 6 .....
lol ..
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This guy got offered the England job after retiring at Newcastle ....
I lost to poland but come on i won the world cup once and got them into another world cup final ..
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Bloody hell, Chelsea and fulham were the first teams to be interested in him when he was 19 .... Now look at this madness ...
Im going to offer him a new contract ...
Last edited by FMAnderson; 16-02-2010 at 14:58.
Ive just offered him a 5 year contract at £5,000 from his previous £1,800 a week contract .. Hopefully he accepts quick..
Ronaldinho is not retiring .. lol
Surely a couple of years at least until Dinho goes...
You should have let him go. Whats more classic than facing your son in high-profile showdown..
Not Chelsea man lol ...
Lets hope he gets a high profile manager job somewhere, as someone else said it would be very intresting to see you 2 go head to head.
I would move him on if he's offered a manager position. That's when the fun begins all over. He's 42, time to start out in management.
You should let him leave to fend for himself. He could use the experience of being away from his father for a change.
that danny is such a daddys boy lol
This is a great save... Never had such a good save before.. Very jealous.
Hope he gets offered a manager post in the EPL.
After long thinking , Danny Mohiddin thought it was time for him to move on , and suprise suprise Chelsea wanted him as a coach ...
Aston Villa have just released their manager ...
Man City want an assistant manager ..
I did not even bother giving him a new contract .. Villa were the first to offer him a contract ... a year after i made him first team coach .. meaning Ronaldino retired and Danny moved on so i need an assistant ..
Pretty Funny , Look at Aston Villa this season prior to last ..
First season in charge of Aston Villa below ......
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Danny has beaten Man Utd and Liverpool this season already ... and Aston VIlla are not doing bad ..
I drew with him first game ..
Aston Villa and England U21 Manager!
After retiring from proffesional football and going straight into management, Danny Mohiddin sure has shown that he's a brilliant manager, winning the euros (U21) and now with a decent premier league side as well.
Father vs son record ..
P w d l f a p
newcastle - 3 2 1 0 6 2 7
aston villa - 3 0 1 2 2 6 1
3 - 0 victory for Newcastle ..
2 - 2 draw with Aston Villa getting a last minute .. 50/50 possession ..
1 - 0 ( this season ) Newcastle had less possession at home and still won ..
So how long you going to play this for? Another 30 seasons by the looks of it!?
Just sent him to get a suit at John Smith's Worldwide store ..
Lovely suit ..
by the way Villa just lost to Aston Villa .. lol
January is coming up ill see if i can sell him a few players ..
just read through a lot of this, what a great game.
but how do you manage to get through the game so quickly? it takes me ages just to complete a season as theres so much processing etc. also do you just do commentary for match highlights or something?
I got a regen who is dubbed the new paul gasgoine ..
what do people think ..
I drew i stay 2nd ,
Villa are 6th after beating Everton 2 - 0 ...
Not bad
Last edited by FMAnderson; 17-02-2010 at 15:53.
Question ..
What is the best way to do the updates , How will people like to see the updates now he is a manager .. ?
Shame there isn't more to the whole father-son thing, aside from start at own club/has surname/has you as favoured personnel. There isn't any extra dimension to the standard player-manager (or now manager-manager) interaction.
FM Anderson, you better check your youth academy, you may get another son!
I will be doing 6 Months Updates every time ...
Danny Mohiddin .. Aston Villa manager ..
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Last edited by FMAnderson; 17-02-2010 at 18:00.
I think i am losing it , I had a transfer budget of 109m , i need to win this premiership .. ive spent almost 75m on 3 players ..
Villa need defenders .. No business there .. :P
Aston Villa have signed 2 youngsters and a Experience left back .. i will upload the pictures when i get back ..
Villa spent 1.7m only ..
I spent 80m on 4 players ..
Next update will be after the football , :P
So have you worked out his transfer policy yet. Is he an Arsene or a Sir Alex when it comes to transfers?
i knew it!
when your son had the chance he beat real good!
Last edited by FMAnderson; 17-02-2010 at 20:28.
Previous season was more....
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The league was cruel ...
Look at my job status ..
wow untouchable.....goood job there mate
Good updates


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5 Awesome Cases of The Internet Owning The Mainstream Media
In case you haven't seen the ads framing Cracked.com these past few day, Family Guy starts back up tomorrow. Which is kind of strange when you consider that Fox canceled it almost 10 years ago. It's still on the air because the unwashed masses demanded it. In fact, the little guy has been increasingly making huge media companies his prison-wife thanks to the two most dangerous things in existence: incredible amounts of spare time and knowing how to use the Internet.
#5. The Internet Programs TV, Greenlights a Movie
Right at this very moment, you most likely have a device in your pocket that can show you your location from space, give you directions and reviews to your favorite restaurant, play a few rounds of virtual golf against a man in South Korea and stream whatever amateur fetish porn is currently floating your boat... and it can do all that within the next five minutes. And yet, most TV decision-making is based on Nielsen Ratings, which apparently consists of a small random sample of evil, inbred Nazis who rejoice in poisoning the zeitgeist with reality shows about fat people dancing for Brett Michaels' anal virginity (or whatever). But when they canceled Family Guy, the Internet made its presence known and massive online petitions and email campaigns led to the resurrection of the show on two separate occasions. If you're counting, that's one more than Jesus Christ.
Then, in 2003, the Fox Network decided to cancel the most exciting new science fiction show in decades, Firefly.
Nerds suddenly felt like the entire world had turned upside down; it was like entering Jaynestown (that's 14 Nerd Points! We're going to level up into Geeks any minute now). Bespectacled women in brown trench-coats sobbed hysterically in the corners of darkened rooms, listening to "You Can't Take the Sky From Me" on endless repeat. And really, nobody else cared. They were just nerds, right? They're always whining about something. Ignore them, maybe throw them a Star Trek marathon or get a girl to talk to them or something; they'll go away.
Pictured: Nerd not thinking about how much he misses Firefly.
But thanks to the word of mouth on the web, DVD sales skyrocketed; organized email campaigns flooded the networks and the show leapfrogged the entire medium of television, and became an actual big budget Hollywood movie. That's like being fired from Burger King and then getting re-hired as official blowjob tester for Ice Cream Island.
#4. Twitter Vs. Breaking News
Conventional news outlets have always treated the Internet like a foster parent treats their child at the supermarket: With thinly veiled disdain only kept from becoming outright physical abuse because people are watching. But that all changed last year, when Twitter scooped them all on the "Miracle on the Hudson" story with the above picture, two sentences and one fragment (if you wanna be a dick about it): "There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy."
Breaking News! The Internet is making our jobs unnecessary!
Suddenly, it became clear that when bad stuff happens, you don't always need Anderson Cooper on the scene to tell you about it. Not when every asshole in the world has a camera, a printing press and a worldwide distribution network in their pocket.
Not a big enough story for you? Well, Twitter also scooped every news outlet in the entire world, and broke the history-making story that there is, in fact, water on the moon. That's right: That thing you use to update family members on the consistency and difficulty of your bowel movements? Yeah, that just broke the biggest story to happen on the moon since Neil Armstrong got flashed by a three breasted woman.
And then his head exploded.
This all happened because Science Magazine, who were responsible for the ground-breaking research, wanted to announce their findings with the appropriate pomp and circumstance. There was to be a worldwide press conference attended by all the major news outlets, and an embargo was placed on reporting the story up until the conference. But as the scientific community went about gathering the trumpeters and confetti for their first major announcement in ages, Twitter was all "lol they found water on the mooooon, whuuuuuuuuuuut?!"
This generation's Edward R. Murrow.
OK, so in reality it wasn't some random jerkoff, but a concentrated, amorphous movement. When they announced the press conference, Science Magazine made the mistake of announcing which scientists would be in attendance. The Internet, loving nothing more than to check facts (to the frequent chagrin of Cracked writers), figured out that the common denominator between all of the scientists was water on the moon, and just went ahead and made the announcement themselves.
#3. Newsweek Vs. The Drudge Report
If you touch this jpeg, it is sticky. Nobody knows how! It is the mystery of The Clinton.
There's nothing all that special about Twitter; it's just the latest service that illustrates the point. Before Twitter it was Facebook, before that it was MySpace, before that it was blogs. But the start of this trend is easy to trace. The Internet first started schooling conventional journalism all the way back in 1998, when Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff got word that special prosecutor Kenneth Starr was investigating political BBW Monica Lewinsky. Isikoff did extensive research. He dug through every lead, did all of his footwork and finally placed what he thought was the story of the year before his editors who promptly shut him down. This was probably because Lewinsky was "not a reliable source," but more likely because they didn't want to alienate their connections in Washington.
But when the Matt Drudge got hold of this news, he--being big on the Internet in the late 90s--didn't have to worry about stuff like "destroying relationships" (blogging was still mom's basement territory back then) and so he freely covered the story with all the understated solemnity he's famous for:
We should probably just be thankful that he managed to restrain himself to appending it with five exclamation marks and a "1." In the past, if a major publication dropped a story, that was it. It would be swiftly swept under the rug and forgotten about. But thanks to one screaming Internet News Queen and his tenuous grasp of grammar, this story was dragged screaming (and probably still sticky) into the public eye, and became so important it nearly dethroned the leader of the free world.


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To the editor:
The Nov. 14 edition reprinted an editorial from the Madison, Wis., State Journal that fretted over how much political campaigns and their supporters spent on the 2012 elections - $6 billion, the sentence fragment with which the editorial starkly began ("It's time for campaign finance reform.") Specifically, the campaigns spent $2.6 billion on the presidential race and $3.4 billion on the other federal races. The Journal then urged that federal and state laws will be enacted to require more transparency about donors and accountability for deceptive advertising.
Should the Journal be so exercised about this $6 billion? Uh, no. Consider: it was about half a century ago that Sen. Everett Dirksen (may have) said, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." Taking inflation into account, it's now "Seven billion here, seven billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
But political campaigns spend nowhere near real money. For starters, they do not spend $6 billion every year. Using 2012 figures, in a four-year cycle, they would spend $2.6 billion in one presidential race and $3.4 billion in each of two off-year elections, a total of $9.4 billion, or $2.35 billion a year. Time for some perspective: that works out to about two cents per American per day. Two cents, I repeat starkly. We spend more on Halloween costumes ($2.5 billion) than on these political campaigns and 47 times as much on fast food ($110 billion).
Each of us decides how much, if any, of his own money to spend on, say, Halloween costumes, fast food, and politics.
There are those who object: some Christian groups to Halloween, health Nazis to fast food, and would-be reformers like the Journal to private money spent on political campaigns. About the last, why is any amount of spending cause for concern? The Journal does not claim that the money is used to bribe voters, which is illegal; instead, it wants to clamp controls on things that are now legal - private people privately spending private money and about the advertising the money is used for.
Our public discourse already suffers from too much transparency, not too little: we rely far too much on party affiliation, celebrity, and other forms of brand-recognition to evaluate what we see and hear. Without such wobbly crutches, we might, just might, dial back the knee-jerk reactions and start analyzing content. (And the smart money may even decide not to waste itself on mere brand recognition to persuade us.)
As for the accountability for deception, the Journal wants: money is hardly the only thing to follow. Ideology and association are among many others. In any case, none of these are guarantees of sincerity, let alone accuracy. Who is to judge accuracy? How are deceivers to be punished? For example, should we punish the Journal for the meaningless string of alphanumerics that was its editorial?
I say, with no more than a snarky letter.
Terry Graves


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President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Americans to put aside partisan differences and come together as a nation for Thanksgiving.
Obama, just re-elected to a second term, says in his weekly radio and Internet address that the country has "just emerged from a campaign season that was passionate, noisy and vital to our democracy."
While the election required voters to make choices, Obama says Thanksgiving offers "a chance to put it all in perspective — to remember that, despite our differences, we are and always will be Americans first and foremost. "
In the GOP address, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state said Republicans are ready to work with Obama to avert impending tax increases, big spending cuts and other problems.


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Hospitals in at least eight states want to know how many hundreds or thousands of their patients have come in contact with a lab technician accused of spreading hepatitis C. The man, David Kwiatkowski, has the disease, which can pass through contact with contaminated blood, most often via shared needles.
(Information in the following story is from: KAYS-AM.)
HAYS, Kan. (AP) _ The Kansas health department says it has now confirmed six cases of hepatitis C in Hays Medical Center patients linked to a traveling technician.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Wednesday that the six of 474 patients who had contact with David Kwiatkowski at the Hays hospital have a hepatitis C strain linked to him.
Kwiatkowski worked in the catheterization lab at the Hays hospital from May to September 2010.
Kwiatkowski has denied allegations that he injected himself and used contaminated syringes on patients across the country. So far, prosecutors say 32 cases across the country are linked to Kwiatkowski.
The Hays Daily News reports 391 Hays patients have submitted specimens, with 374 negative results as of Wednesday.


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"So you got a vasectomy. Well, bully for you!" I hear you cry.
Oh, come on. It's got to be a more intriguing post than my usual Friday fodder of a few links or an obscure black metal band I'm way too old to be listening to.
Anyway, if you're a dad of a certain age and with a certain number of kids, this is bound to be something you've thought about or even had done.
Supermum and I began discussing more permanent ways of contraception a year or two ago. She's been on a particular kind of pill (Yasmin) for about three years and there are a number of good reasons why she shouldn't carry on putting additional hormones into her body (e.g. the additional small risks of cancer). On top of that, we'd agreed after Little Elf that we wouldn't have any other children. I'm in my late 40s and supermum is only five years younger so the idea of going though another couple of years of sleepless nights and mayhem, let alone dealing with the physical impact of another pregnancy on her part, didn't appeal. Also, there's the matter of age. I don't want to be retiring just as the third one starts agitating for college fees. And I don't want to be playing catch in a Zimmer frame.
Condoms split, coils are icky, sterilisation for supermum wasn't something I ever considered at any point other than typing it out right now and as for the rhythm method, I'd rather trust "Am I fertile?" answers delivered by cutting a deck of cards and assuming the answer is "No" if its spades or diamonds*. So that left vasectomy if I wanted us to carry on having sex. Which I did.
After a chaotic attempt to have a vasectomy through the NHS ended up in their moving the appointment forward two months to an impossible date with no notice and substitute offered, I checked out how much it would cost to go to a Well Known Provider of birth control. It wasn't insignificant but it wasn't bank-breaking. I booked and today I showed up and had the deed done.
The particular branch was apparently where M**** S***** moved her first clinic in 1921, a narrow Georgian townhouse near Fitzroy Square. I hoped, as I read the blue plaque, that they'd updated the equipment since. Across the road, a lone anti-abortion protestor knelt, clutching a set of rosary beads. I passed him on the other side of the street and we eyed each other up warily. He was surrounded by scattered plastic baby limbs which (a nurse told me) he'd try to press into the hands of already stressed women on their way into the clinic. A kind of emotional terrorism of a deeply unpleasant kind. I went and got a sandwich and by the time I came back, he'd evidently gone for lunch.
Inside I checked in, paid the balance of the fee and was soon taken into the basement to the pre-op/recovery room. Two other men were already resting on the blue recliners there. We all avoided each other's eyes. A nurse took my blood pressure, explained the procedures to be followed after the operation and went through the consent form. Then I waited, Classic FM softly torturing my ears. I twittered a little and reviewed the kindly thoughts of my Twitter followers:
tikkabootwo @dadwhowrites It won't hurt as much as your wife being sterilised. Good for you manning up …… or not
Snowgirl1972 @dadwhowrites that can mean only one thing. Condolences'
scrummycupcake @dadwhowrites on my hub they didn't wait for local anaesthetic to take effect before making the 1st cut, heard him scream from waiting room
scrummycupcake @ dadwhowrites hubs was in agony for days…in contrast, my dad went back to work an hour after op.
And my favourite:
pureartifice @dadwhowrites aubergines. Expect them. That is all I have to say. Good luck x
Soon after, the surgeon came out to collect me. I think he was Nigerian and, whilst I've no doubt he was fully qualified**, his English wasn't entirely up to speed. His first question was
"Tell me about your history of heart problems."
That nearly started a history of heart trouble there and then – I've so far never had cardiac problems of any kind. I think he heard something in my tone as he quickly rearranged the question as "Have you ever had any heart trouble?" which made much more sense. After that, he left the questioning to the lively Chinese nurse. I mention their nationalities specifically as I found it interesting that the medical and surgical procedures were carried out by foreign nationals whilst British staff dealt with all the admin.
The other thing I noticed as soon as I entered the small surgery was a strong smell of burning.
Anyway, the nurse had me take off my trousers and lie down on the padded surgical table with my underpants about my ankles. It was all too business like and matter-of-fact for me to realise that a strange woman was looking at my penis and a strange man was apparently carrying out some form of genital origami before it was too late to argue. The surgeon (who was highly professional and inspired a lot of confidence, despite his English) warned me that there'd be a scratch. There was. "OW!" I said. He ignored me and carried on manipulating my scrotum. I suspect he was shaving it. I haven't dared look properly yet. The nurse engaged me in cheery, hairdresser like conversation ("Do you have children? Do you work near here? How old are they?…") as various weird prods and sprays and twists carried on in the by-now numb area of my groin.
"This will scratch a bit more…"
"OW!" That was the main local anaesthetic.
"Do you have a boy or a girl?"
"Ah…one of each…What exactly is he doing down there?"
"He wants to know what you're doing down there."
"I'm looking for your tubes."
I didn't ask any more questions.
"You're done."
That's it? My underpants apparently weren't supportive enough so they provided me with a fetching pair of briefs in white netting.
"All the way from Harrods! High Fashion!" the cheery nurse chuckled. The only evidence of the surgery I'd just had was a white pad of bandages. I felt nothing in my groin whatsoever.
"Thank you," I said. "But that burning smell is a bit off-putting." The nurse nodded sympathetically.
"I know," she said. "We've tried to get rid of it but nothing works. And we have to work with it all day!"
She had a point.
Afterwards, I hung out in the recovery until the light-headed feeling generated by the local anaesthetic went away and then I went home to lie on a bed and feel a bit sore.
I wouldn't take it up as a hobby but it was ok.
*Look, if you're interested in trying out this method, I accept no responsibility. But let me know how it goes.
**I've had occasion to work with non-UK medical staff in an NHS context. Current GMC requirements are very rigorous and anyone who doubts a Nigerian or Indian doctor's professionalism is reading from a Daily Mail script of misinformation.


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The NCMN operates and coordinates seven Central Facilities that are open to all UNL researchers as well as external (private sector) researchers. Crystallography has merged with the X-Ray Structural Characterization facility. To learn more about our facility, please go to our About Facility web page.
The NCMN X-Ray Structural Characterization Facility is dedicated to materials identification and characterization through non-destructive, X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) technique. The following equipment is utilized: (1) Bruker-AXS D8 Discover High-Resolution Diffractometer; (2) Rigaku D-Max/B Horizontal Q/2Q X-Ray Diffractometer (with normal and small angle goniometer).
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High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction
Bruker-AXS D8 Discover High-Resolution Diffractometer
This recently acquired system is a state-of-the-art machine including HI-STAR area detector, centric 1/4-circle Eulerian cradle, domed hot stage, hi-flux in-plane hardware, laser/video sample-alignment system, Göbel mirror, V-groove Ge crystal monochromator, fine tilt stage, and dual-beam path analyzer module. The system can be configured for grazing-incidence in-plane XRD, grazing-incidence XRD, x-ray reflectivity, high-temperature XRD, high-resolution XRD (rocking curves, reciprocal space maps), texture (pole figures), residual stress, and microdiffraction and capillary diffraction.
Rigaku D/Max-B Diffractometer
X-Rays are produced by a 2 kW, copper target, sealed tubeor diffracted beam then converges (is "focused") into a diffracted beam monochromator which removes all radiation except the Cu Ka wavelength (about 1.544 Å) which then enters a scintillation counter. The sample and detector are rotated with respect to the incident beam at angles q and 2q, respectively. A typical XRD scan consists of a plot of detector angle (2q) vs. diffracted intensity. These diffractograms can be printed out or saved to disk in application-friendly ASCII format. Analysis can be carried out in the facility on any of 3 PCs equipped with qualitative and quantitative XRD software and access to the latest ICDD powder diffraction file database.
Most powder, thin-film, and bulk samples are acceptable. The sample holders can accommodate samples up to 30 x 30 x 10 cm in size (sometimes larger) with the 30 x 30 cm surface tangent to the diffracting circle. The amount of material needed for a diffraction pattern depends on the diffracting power of the sample and the type of analysis desired. For example, phase identification of a well crystallized powder, with small (< 40 mm) particle size, may only require 1 mg. or less.
Rigaku X-Ray Diffraction Laue Camera System
This instrument consists of a 2 kW, copper target X-Ray tube, a Polaroid XR-7 camera system, a manual goniometer with three rotational axes, and a movable platform. The camera uses film that is sensitive to x-radiation. The Laue x-ray diffraction method requires a continuous (white) spectrum of X-Ray which is what you get from an unfiltered, unmonochromatized X-Ray tube. The single crystal sample is fixed in position throughout the X-ray exposure with respect to the incident beam and the camera. Using this configuration, we obtain diffraction peaks (show as white spots on film) from many sets of crystal planes simultaneously because, although the geometry and d-spacing are different for each set of diffracting planes, there is a wavelength of radiation present for which the Bragg law is satisfied. The relative location of these spots on the film can be used to determine crystal structure and orientation. The system can be set up to allow transmission (sample between incident radiation and film) or back-reflection (film between sample and incident radiation Laue patterns)
The NCMN Central Facility for X-Ray Structural Characterization / Crystallography has been established to bring on-site small molecule crystal structure determination and analysis to UNL. Services provided include unit cell determinations, complete structure determinations, and collection of single crystal data for users to solve and refine themselves. A Bruker AXS SMART APEX instrument equipped with an Oxford Cryosystems 700 series Cryostream is used to collect the single crystal data. A Meiji stereo zoom microscope with polarizer attachment is used to select single crystal samples. A special fitting for the Meiji microscope allows a digital camera to photograph the crystals.
The facility holds licenses for the Bruker AXS software, including SMART, SAINT, SADABS, SHELXTL and XSHELL, as well as ATOMS and the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). There are also many freeware crystallography programs which are maintained on the facility computers, such as PLATON and ORTEP. There are one Mac and 3 PC's available in the facility for collecting data and performing structure determinations. The specialist is available daily for consultation and can provide advice on crystallization techniques or problems. The Bruker AXS SMART APEX CCD X-ray Diffractometer is equipped with a 4K Apex CCD detector, a Mo sealed-tube X-ray source, and MonoCap collimator, and an Oxford Cryosystems 700 Series Cryostream Cooler. The data collection temperature ranges from 80 to 400 K. The standard operating temperature is 120 K for materials that do not undergo phase transitions. Users are encouraged to communicate their preference for data collection temperature.
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Data collection and structure determinations are performed on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you are preparing a highly unstable and possibly fleeting material, make arrangements ahead of time with the specialist. When a structure is considered final and complete, a CD will be written containing all pertinent data and distributed to the user who submitted the crystal. If users develop a later need for different pictures or new analysis of interactions, they should see the specialist with the archived CD in hand. A folder will be saved on your archive CD called FINAL. All pertinent files (.cif, .res, tables, ortep, etc.) will be saved in this folder.
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