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[00:20] - Explorer won't run, clicking icon or Windows+E shortcut.
[03:38] - Network icon in SysTray showing Limited Access.
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[10:25] - How to rename user profile and retain settings.
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[17:47] - Pick of the Week: What are some of the touch laptops we like? [link] [link] [link] [link]
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I liked the 3.5inch docking station drive. Who makes it?
[00:20] - Explorer won't run, clicking icon or Windows+E shortcut.
I also use TSVN and TGit and Explorer still works. Run ProcMon in background to see what is going on.
Btw, will this ugly limit of displayed overlay icons ever increased?
[03:38] - Network icon in SysTray showing Limited Access.
check that the DNS client service (dnscache) runs. Otherwise the apps disable that ugly message, that they don't have internet.
[10:25] - How to rename user profile and retain settings.
Use Windows Easy Transfer instead.
[12:10] - How to browse drives that are offline.
use this search tool, which creates an index:
Change "Look in" to your HDD drive letter and type the keyworks you look for.
[17:47] - Pick of the Week: What are some of the touch laptops we like?
the i7 has 4 real cores, while the i5 uses HT to get 4 "cores".
But I bought a new dell laptop explicit without touch, because I don't like it and the ugly implementation from Win8. Optimize Win 8.1/Blue for 4:3 AND sliding from top to button (like in Gnome 3) instead from left to right and I may buy a Surface 2 RT as an additional couch surfing device, but with this ugly crappy 16:9 I'll never use a Win8.x tablet!
[03:38] - Network icon in SysTray showing Limited Access.
-Instead of manually configuring DNS Settings, you could use a program such as DNS Jumper [Link]; It's pretty handy, offers numerous different DNS choices, automates the process and easily lets you switch back to your default DNS Settings.
Haven't tried other programs, however, as a free software, this works pretty well;
I've been using namebench to find out by fastest dns server.. its open source and can be found @ http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
Glad to hear the Surface pen is working well for you Larry. I really want a Surface Pro for all the reasons you listed. I just need to get final approval from the Spending Committee (aka my wife) first. She gets my hand-me-downs too and is still using my old Toshiba M700 that just refuses to die. That thing is a little tank. So an upgrade for me will be an upgrade for her too.
[17:47] - Pick of the Week: What are some of the touch laptops we like?
Very cool information, it also helps me in deciding which laptop I get in the near future. It looks like it will be the Lenovo X1 Carbon. Thanks again guys,
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What is the proper response when someone tells you, for example, that their mother has died? Relatedly, what should you do to express your sympathy? Do you send a card? flowers? bake a casserole?
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There is a common phrase for that.
For example
Regarding sending something, there is a special custom in Japan called こうでん「香典」 - giving money to remaining family members with the purpose of offering it to the departed soul. (Originally, this was used as an alternative of こうか「香華」 - incense and flowers)
In my experience, I have seen this two times: one for a colleague's mother, and one for someone from another department. In both cases, another colleague started to collect money and put it in an envelope to give to them.
And there is another custom, こうでんかえし「香典返し」, which refers to getting back some present/food from them.
(お母上様のご逝去を)心よりお悔やみ申し上げます =「(おははうえさまのごせいきょを)こころよりおくやみもうしあげます)」
"I'm so sorry to hear (of your mother's death)"
Other users have already provided good answers, but here is mine anyway. When attending to a funeral, the most common thing to say is: ご愁傷さまです (go shuushou sama desu)
If you are writing an email, you can also say go shuushou sama desu, but as @istrasci pointed out you can also say things like 心よりお悔やみ申し上げます (kokoro yori okuyami moushiagemasu), though I wouldn't know if is ok to say at a funeral since it is sounds very much like written language.
Regarding what to send... I'm sorry I have to research that further.

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After flushing, my toilet doesn't sense that it needs to refill. See the below image. If I so much as gently touch the gray piece, the toilet starts to refill. Any easy fixes?
After flushing, my toilet doesn't sense that it needs to refill. See the below image. If I so much as gently touch the gray piece, the toilet starts to refill. Any easy fixes?
I've dealt with the same problem with the same float. In my case it was grit and gunk that got between the float and the cylinder that was keeping it from sliding easily. All I did was turn the water off and clean it up with kitchen/bathroom cleaner and a rag. You clean the top area, then slide the float up, then clean underneath. Chances are you'll feel the binding when you slide it up and down, it will feel like it's catching on individual particles. Once it is clean enough you won't feel that binding anymore.
Try to clean the valve by following these steps:
I just had this problem. I did what BMitch described in his answer, and found the video linked by Lawrence Kesteloot to be very helpful just to understand what we're talking about. I found that in my case, after removing the cap off of the valve, the float was sliding up and down on the shaft very easily, so that didn't seem to be the problem. However, on the underside of the cap was a rubber seal that was causing lots of resistance. It was easy to pull off this seal and confirm that the arm went up and down without resistance when the seal wasn't there.
Here is what the cap and arm look like when removed.
On the underside of the cap, I saw the black rubber seal with a pin that slides through it as the arm goes up and down.
The black rubber seal was easy to remove, and I found that the arm moved without resistance once this seal was off.
I tried cleaning the pin and seal, but I still found resistance when moving the arm. I decided to apply some lubricant. I didn't try searching very hard, but this quickly found link suggests it would be a bad idea to use a petroleum-based lubricant. I decided to use some medical lubricant (generic version of KY jelly) I had on hand. I don't know if this is a good long-term solution, and I suppose silicone lubricant from the hardware store would be a better idea. So far it seems to have worked!


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The parliament of Greece is going to start discussions on the austerity measures which the European Union and the IMF want to pass before distributing the next installment of the bailout programme.
The austerity measures are facing stiff opposition with nearly three quarters of the people opposing the measures, according to a recent survey.
The government of Greece has thin majority in the parliament with 155 seats out of the total 300.
Greece under pressure to implement austerity measures
The austerity measures are being opposed vehemently and the opposition has rejected the call for unity given by the Prime Minister George Papandreaou. Greece faces imminent threat of bankruptcy and needs €12 billion to pay its bill in the next month.
Odysseas Voudouris, the deputy in the ruling party said that his country is torn between bad and a worse choice. "I am afraid that a default and new elections would cause irreparable damage to Greece," he said.
The bill will be presented before the parliament on Monday which is expected to vote on it on Wednesday. Specific steps to implement the austerity measures will be voted on Thursday.
While the 110 billion-euro EU/IMF bailout package makes it prominent that Greece will not be able to return to international bond markets next year, European leaders are working on another similar sized bailout package that would include a contribution from private banks for a "voluntary" rollover of their Greek debt.
A source in the French banking industry claimed that the French government has finished a deal with the banks to make the deal more agreeable.
Austerity measure opposed vehemently
The proposed austerity measures are facing stiff opposition from a vast array of citizens. The trade unions have called for a two day strike in the country against the introduction of these measures.
The proposals are facing opposition from within the ruling party itself and several leaders from the ruling party have left it.
In an interview with Spanish daily El Mundo on Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister Theodore Pangalos said that he believed that the law will get a clearance from the parliament though some provisions of it may be blocked by the rebels in the parliament.
Large scale protests have already started with a large number of protesters positioned in front of the Greek parliament to oppose the proposed measures as the country remains in the grip of recession for the last three years.


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I know my bike's rear cassette needs replacing, but before I do that, is it feasible to dismantle the 8 sprockets to reverse their spin? Can you increase the lifespan of a cassette by letting the cogs wear and tear the other way?
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Assuming you have Shimano-compatiple Hyperglide cogs: No, you can't. The cassette body is not symmetric, the cassette fits in only one position. You could resort to adapt the cogs with a file, though. But shifting will be problematic at least, the cogs have certain indents to make shifting smoother.
The problem is that any rear cluster designed for indexed shifting has directional cogs. There are ramps embossed on the sides of the cogs to catch the chain pins and lever the chain up to the next larger cog when the chain is shifted. If you somehow reverse the cogs these ramps will be on the wrong side of the cogs and will be running the wrong direction.


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- BSO Case Number: PB12-11-0384
- PIO Number: 12-11-2
- Date: November 2, 2012
- Time: 11:21 am
- Place of Occurrence: Chase Bank at 2285 N. Federal Hwy & NB I-95, north of Copans, Pompano Bch
- Jurisdiction: Pompano Beach
- State of Florida / United States of America
- Dep. German Bickbau, 48, male, Broward Sheriff's Office
- Name withheld, W/M (DECEASED)
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A serial bank robber was shot and killed by Broward Sheriff's Office deputies after being forced to stop his getaway vehicle on I-95 in Pompano Beach.
At 11:21 a.m. the suspect entered the Chase Bank at 2285 N. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach, armed with a handgun and wearing a ski mask. Because glass was recently installed at the teller windows the robber was not able to jump the counters, as he has in past robberies. He fled from the bank empty handed. A description of his blue Dodge Ram pickup truck and his license plate number were immediately relayed to BSO deputies.
Deputies spotted the getaway truck on Atlantic Blvd and attempted to make a traffic stop but the driver refused to pull over and headed north on I-95. Just north of the Copans Road on-ramp Deputy German Bickbau performed a PIT maneuver, successfully sending the suspect's truck onto the large grassy space east of the interstate. Dep. Bickbau's marked cruiser struck a light pole and he was injured. Other deputies approached the suspect's truck after it rolled and came to rest. Two deputies fired their weapons, striking the suspect and killing him.
Deputy Bickbau was flown to Broward Health Medical Center, complaining of back and abdominal pain. He is being treated at this time and is expected to recover.
According to FBI agents who responded to the scene, the suspect has an extensive criminal history and is suspected of committing six recent bank robberies at two Broward County banks:
Chase Bank at 2285 N. Federal Highway on 5/10/12, 6/15/12, & 11/2/12 and the Bank Atlantic (now BB&T) at 1299 S. Military Trail on 8/8/12, 8/29/12 and 9/29/12. For more details on the robberies, contact the FBI.
The suspect's name is being withheld until he is positively identified and his family is notified.
- THIS REPORT BY: Sheriff A Lamberti Jim Leljedal / PIO LTC R. Reilly, Lt. R. O'Neil 11/2/12 1600 Pompano Beach District personnel
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I created a shell script that logs me in to a server. The script was in a directory that was added to
I think I might have deleted the script when not paying attention (not on purpose). I cannot find the script anymore. I tried several things:
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Simple Definition of democratize
: to make (a country or organization) more democratic
: to make (something) available to all people : to make it possible for all people to understand (something)
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: to make democratic
democratizationplay \-ˌmä-krə-tə-ˈzā-shən\ noun
democratizerplay \-ˈmä-krə-ˌtī-zər\ noun
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Community leaders have had some success in democratizing the organization.
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Some circles can be seen to have adopted a monotonous and exceedingly joyless Muslim model totally different to that revealed in the Qur'an. One of the main errors made by these people, who are weak in faith, very pleased with themselves and who behave quite uninterestedly when it comes to preaching the moral values of the deen, is to imagine that the life of this world consists of getting married, having and raising children and earning money. These are all certainly consistent with Islamic moral values. The error here lies in a believer forgetting his responsibilities to Almighty Allah and aiming solely to get married and raise children, avoiding using the goods bestowed by Allah on the path of Allah and spending all his time on activities such as gossiping about other Muslims instead of preaching the moral values of the religion.
Adnan Oktar describes the character traits and life style of those who adopt this mistaken Muslim model in great detail in interviews and calls on all Muslims to avoid falling into heedlessness of this kind.
|The main reason for the fragmentation in the Islamic world for many years and the violence and oppression suffered by Muslims in various parts of the world is that some Muslims regard it as enough to pray, fast and go on the hajj, avoid any activities requiring self-sacrifice because they are concerned solely with their own comfort and take no interest in any problems facing their Muslim brothers across the world.
Examples of the Muslim Model That Is Weak in Faith, Pleased with Itself, Uninterested in religious Moral Values and Distracted by the Life of This World
"Their Sole Aim Is to Get Married and Do Business"
"There are people like those described. Who are known to be conservative people recognizing spiritual values. They work somewhere, engage in trade or sell carpets. They have three daughters and a son. The son studies abroad. The girls live at home. Do you know what their job is? To get married and have children, to reproduce. They have no other aim. If you ask the man what his aim is, it is to make a lot of money, do good business. "That is my aim," he will say. What else can you do? He will ask. When we are bored we go off on the Umra. He hangs a silk rug on the wall with a picture of a mosque on it, and then slurps his coffee." (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Kanal 35 and Kanal Avrupa on January-31, 2010)
|Muslims are people of good conscience and who think the best. One of their main characteristics is that they do not discriminate between people on the basis of group, gender, culture, social status or any other worldly criterion. Everyone's degree of taqwa, faith and closeness to Allah is known to Allah alone. Allah therefore forbids believers, anyone who says he is a Muslim and numbered among the good, to make any comment to the contrary. One has to think the best of everyone who says "I believe" and help them with enthusiasm when they need it.
"They Depict Themselves As Saints (Awliya)"
"I see people talking about religious subjects. They adopt a totally different style, a false one, and try to give an impression of spirituality when religion is being discussed. They look at the sky as if they are flying in the clouds, with music playing behind them, mystic pipes or reeds. They make extraordinarily false gestures, and make strange comments in a false tone of voice, awkward explanations. I have seen many such people. Exaggerated actions, like miming theater. Look carefully from that perspective, they are really strange types. Or people who try to give the impression they are saints; they look at the sky as they speak, for instance, why pipe music rises up from below. They talk about our Prophet (saas) in that way. Why not just discuss him wisely, in plain language, straight up? What need is there for all that? Why the need for such special concentration? The Qur'an gives us reason. Reason stems from the Qur'an. The Qur'an is the reason of the world. The Qur'an is human beings' reason. A rational or intelligent person is one who abides by the Qur'an. A clever person, a very smart person becomes wise when he abides by the Qur'an. But of course intelligence is created moment by moment. A man is not intelligent the moment he is born, intelligence is created every moment. And reason is created every moment. I mean, there is no fixed reason in human beings. And then there is talking with lots of foreign words, Latin or Arabic. Turkish people, for instance, do not know Arabic. Very few people know it. Why does the Arabic or Latin equivalent have to be used all the time? OK if the other person understands, but they don't. And the aim is not to teach, either. And since the aim is not to teach Arabic or have the other person learn it by rote, then the aim has to be to show off. "How learned he is," people will say. We normally talk Turkish. We talk in the rhythms and sounds of Turkish. But if we constantly pronounce words using an Arab accent, or use a half-Turkish and half-Arabic accent, then this really sounds very peculiar indeed. We have to be honest. For instance in Turkish we say "ikhlas". Meaning a person devoted to Allah, a sincere person. This is how it is used in Turkish. But if we pronounce it as "ikhlas", people may perceive our accent as deviant from the standard accents, as something different. It is perfect in Arabic, but when one mixes it up with Turkish something very different may emerge. It is a different matter if he cannot pronounce the words properly. But if one solely wants to appear learned and puts on all kind of airs, then that is dishonest. We must speak honestly and sincerely. There is no need to try and speak like a madrassa scholar. In effect telling people, "I have learning that you do not, so learn from me."
Nobody knows anything at all. Allah manifests things in people, but it is Allah Who speaks. And Allah also creates the listening. And the talking. We are merely instruments, that is all. People are shadow entities. One must always employ a very sincerely form of communication. And that applies when describing the Qur'an. One must avoid nonsense and weird descriptions. Everyone can tell when someone is talking nonsense, but they pretend not to." (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Kocaeli TV and Mavi Karadeniz TV on January-26, 2010)
"The men and women of the believers are friends of one another. They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and establish salat and pay alms, and obey Allah and His Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah will have mercy. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise." (Surat at-Tawba, 71)
"They Believe in Slanders Made against Muslims without Checking Them out"
"Believing in the slanders of the masons, communist slanders or the slanders of the alleged Ergenekon organization will render a Muslim responsible in the Hereafter. Look, Almighty Allah says "if a deviator "that is someone who doesn't to abide by a provision of the Qur'an, someone who doesn't act according to the Qur'an, "brings you a report," I seek refuge with Allah from the satan "scrutinize it carefully". Investigate it, that is see it with your eyes, hear it with your ears, or else do not believe in it. But that is not how it happens now. Nowadays, a report about a Muslim appears in a masonic publication and people say, "Well, well, well, look what's going on." They sit at home with their legs crossed, sipping their coffee, taking no risks and striving not at all, generally living the good life, minding their own business, looking out for their children and enjoying the fact everything is fine in the worldly sense. On the other hand you have people, who spend all of what they have on Allah's path, who have withdrawn from all the social aspects of life, and who have entered every kind of danger, and who are therefore exposed to slander, oppression and mistreatment. Yet they still are subjected to those men sitting comfortably at home, still believing what they learn from the masons' newspapers. And on top of all, he is left in a position to defend himself. Those people who do no preaching and do not spread the religion then pass judgment on him. So that Muslim person halts his preaching the word and strives to correct what they have been commenting about him. Whereas, those slackers should at least be saying is, "my friend, let me perform a religious observance, let me check the veracity of reports from a deviator, and do not believe. Let me believe in what I see it with my own eyes and hear it with my own ears." But they don't. So what happens when they don't do this? The merit that Muslim earns, is increased from 10 to a million. Such people are the reasons why others earn merit. That is the wisdom behind their creation. If that person who believed reports from dubious sources did not exist, the Muslim would earn very little merit. These are people who enhance Muslims' merit, and are thus created with great wisdom, to be auspicious. I am saying this so people know the true facts, so they realize their responsibilities in the Hereafter. Or else, these people are useful from that respect." (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Adiyaman Asu and Kral Karadeniz TV on January 25th, 2010)
"Those who disbelieve are the friends and protectors of one another. If you do not act in this way there will be turmoil in the land and great corruption." (Surat al-Anfal, 73)
"Women with This Mindset Do Not Engage in the Intellectual Struggle that Allah Commands for the Dominion of Islam "
"What I say about the headscarf is very important. There are many devout young women. A young girl came the other day, with her eyes cast down on the floor. I spoke to her. "Do you struggle on Allah's path, do you preach the word?" I asked. She said, "No." Was she part of any Muslim group? Again not. Why not? I asked. She said she was very shy. So what is your aim in life? To get married, she said. "I want to raise a family." That is really infuriating. Is this the time to be sitting at home playing housewife? Did the wives of the companions just sit at home playing housewife? Didn't they know how to be a conservative family, to have husbands with the names Hasan, Huseyin having moustaches. They did not. The wives of the companions waged a heroic struggle before the eyes of Muslims. Our mother Aisha (ra) held discussions for the wives of the companions. She went to preach to the polytheists and the Jews. She was a real beauty, wasn't she? She fell in love with the Prophet (saas). She married as a manifestation of Allah. But she never sat around indoors. She was always active. Rasulullah (saas) never sat around at home, either. He was always traveling, struggling or preaching. Wasn't he? That is how Muslims have to be. But they just go and sit indoors together, like clans." (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Gaziantep Olay TV on January-30, 2010)
"They Condemn Muslims for Preaching"
"The other side preaches and works and the incidents appear in the press. They are insulted by some members of the press. They say they are spreading corruption. Is your head on straight? You should get married and have children. They say you should preach to your own children. They say they have one or two daughters they are raising. That is what preaching the world really is. The Prophet (saas) used to preach, but you should know your place. Where did you get the idea of preaching from? There is no question of "commanding what is good and eschewing what is evil." That is the task of the Prophet (saas) alone. That person's duty, they say, is to sit at home eating rice and gnawing on chicken bones, and then drink coffee. That looks to off-putting to the other side, I cannot describe it. Of course there are some people who are well-intentioned, but naive. I do not include them in this description. The error here is this; they find something to deceive themselves and thus strive to ease their consciences." (From Adnan Oktar's interview on Kanal 35 and Kanal Avrupa on January-31, 2010)
People are full of love and peace in Islam, and live in an environment of peace and mutual understanding. Societies with such characteristics can develop fast and grow very strong. In addition, above all else, those who strive for unity and unison are promised help, support and strength from the Sight of Allah. That is why in various verses Allah reminds believers not to fall out with one another, otherwise they will lose strength and be weakened. One such verse reads:
"Obey Allah and His Messenger and do not quarrel among yourselves lest you lose heart and your momentum disappear. And be steadfast. Allah is with the steadfast." (Surat al-Anfal, 46)
The Moral Values That Genuine Muslims Should Possess
"The Moral Values of the Qur'an Must Be Lived, and Not Just in Appearance"
"The headscarf is also in the Qur'an. It is in Surat an-Nur and Surat al-Ahzab. We cannot say a word against the headscarf. What I am talking about is different. This has been a firm provision for the last 1400 years. The people I am talking about put the headscarf on but neither pray, nor fast nor perform any other religious observance. On the contrary, they gossip and act immorally and act out of self-interest. That is the mindset I criticize, do you see? Otherwise, what complaint can I have about a devout person? There is a hadith. He says that "70,000 people with turbans will follow the dajjal in the End Times." It is not that I am opposed to the turban. Rasulullah (saas) wore the turban. He wore a turban on his head. Together with my friends I also prayed for years in the mosques with a turban on my head, didn't I? From '83 to '87 we had turbans right down our backs, in line with the Sunna, that is how we prayed en masse in the mosques in those days, everyone knows. I have no problem with the turban. In the mosque is fine, but not on the street. That is unacceptable according to our laws, insha'Allah. The beard is also Sunna. It is the Sunna of our Prophet (saas). Some people wear beards, but are complete frauds. They neither want the global dominion of Islam nor strive to elevate Islam. They strongly avoid anything to do with the world dominion of Islam. What can I say to such people? But how can I remain silent in the face of such people? They wear headscarves, but all they do is gossip from morning till night. Their sole purpose is to get married. They look with hatred on girls whose heads are uncovered. As if they were saints. But those girls with bare heads may be so many times better than them, incomparably better. That girl with the bare head may go to Paradise, and they may go to Hell. Pride and arrogance in the deen is unacceptable. One has to have moral virtue and be affectionate and compassionate, loving and humane and avoid gossip." (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Gaziantep Olay TV on January-30, 2010)
"Such people are truly racing towards good things, and they are the first to reach them. We do not impose on any self any more than it can stand. With Us there is a Book which speaks the truth. They will not be wronged." (Surat al-Muminun, 61-62
"Muslim Women Must Not Be Passive, But Rather Courageous, Noble and Active"
"Second, the position of Muslim women. Because Muslims consist of men and women, but women are a large number, half and half. Women have generally been marginalized for a long time now. She is asked who she is. She says she is a woman. So what is your job? To get married. And your other job, to have children, to be a mother, and that is all. Anything else? That is all. But that is unacceptable. Muslim women cannot be restricted to that. For one thing, a Muslim woman must be courageous, and noble and active. She must even be more courageous and active than the man. Because women are more effective at communicating and preaching and telling people about Islam. Their position is more important. An excessively timid woman, turned in on herself, withdrawn from all social aspects are no good. There has to be a rational active state of mind." (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Adıyaman Asu and Kral Karadeniz TV on January-25, 2010)
"There Must be No Group Divisions in Islam"
"The majority of young Muslim girls do not recognize one another. Because of concerns stemming from being affiliated with a group, they do not talk to one another. One says that she is affiliated to such and such a group, while someone else is a member of another group, so they do not speak. Why? Because we are this way and they are that way. This us and them mindset leads to a very strict exclusion. That is very wrong. Let us imagine the students of one Suleyman Efendi. Men or women, they are very pure, worthy and trustworthy folk. But sometimes they do not talk to one another out of a very unnecessary way of thinking. Take the students of the Nur. They sometimes do not talk to one another. They follow a very strict line, with very strict bounds; that is very wrong, isn't it? Let us imagine there are young girls who admire Fethullah Gulen very much. They are our sisters, and that is excellent. But there is a group of people who read the newspaper Yeni Asya, and they do not talk to one another. This is very odd and wrong. Whereas they should be watching out for and protecting one another, asking each other round to dine and chatting. It is wrong for them to try and impose their own ideas on one another. One has to respect all ideas. It is very wrong to try and win the other side over when there is a difference of opinion. For example, it is wrong to try and force a Christian to convert to Islam. One should just tell him of the existence and oneness of Allah in an honest manner. The Qur'an should be described pleasantly, not with pressure. The other party should not be made uneasy. One has to respect their beliefs and listen to them, insha'Allah. But it is very wrong to sit down and have a huge row when a difference of opinion emerges among a group of friends. If they are all respected then they can establish friendship among themselves and talk together. This reluctance to talk severely weakens their power of bonding." (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Adıyaman Asu and Kral Karadeniz TV on January-25, 2010)
"You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of Allah verify things carefully. Do not say, 'You are not a believer', to someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the goods of this world. With Allah there is booty in abundance. That is the way you were before but Allah has been kind to you. So verify things carefully. Allah is aware of what you do." (Surat an-Nisa', 94
"Rather Than Finding Fault with One Another, Muslims Must Strive against Philosophies of Denial"
"The third problem is Muslims criticizing and gossiping about one another. Women get together in their homes. They say they have had a religious talk. They start with gossiping; this person has done this, that group has done that... Instead of wasting time on all that, why not think about how to criticize the irreligious, Darwinism and materialism? Talk about the signs leading to faith. Talk about fear and love of Allah. Why criticize Muslims? You get a handful of Muslims. For instance another meeting is held at somewhere else, they read the Risale-i Nur and then they start gossiping. Not all, of course, but some. I do not include everyone but some of them. No one likes a gossip. Nobody has any time for someone who talks behind his back. What need is there for gossip? They are all immaculate people. They should never gossip about one another. They should always look warmly and moderately at one another, with the spirit of love. Only then will Allah help them. They must say, "O Lord, shine Your light on the world". Bestow world dominion on Islam very quickly. In this century, immediately. That is what they should be saying. If they do that, they will see Allah's Might. I mean, was there any talk of visas being abolished or Islamic Union before now? But now there are serious developments toward the Turkish-Islamic Union every day. Amazing progress is being made. When I started talking about this 2 years ago, they wondered how I was telling these. People were taken aback. You can look back to those days, if you wish. Look at the press of the time. There was not a word about it. But things have changed 180 degrees over the last 2 years." (From Adnan Oktar's interview on Gaziantep Olay TV on January-30, 2010)
"Muslims Never Fear for Their Own Skins. Muslims Must Be Fully Submitted to Allah"
"They say they recite their prayer beads from morning till night. They say their headscarves are always perfectly in place. They say they pray punctually. That is okay, but everyone does that. A woman can wind a meter of cloth around her head in the comfort of her own home. She can pray in the comfort of her own home. A young person can go to school, graduate as he likes, get married and concentrate on his job and home. But that kind of Muslim is nowhere in the Qur'an. A Muslim will surrender himself completely to Allah. He does so by withdrawing himself from all the social aspects of life. For instance the Prophet (saas) withdrew from all social aspects and strove solely to serve Allah. Do you think that the Prophet (saas) wasn't perfectly capable of sitting at his warm home? But he went on the hegira instead. He hid in the cave of Hira. He travelled for years, and went on the hegira as far as Abyssinia. Those routes were very dangerous. They went round the edge of Africa, by the most difficult paths. Young people of 15-16 went on the hegira with the Prophet (saas), abandoning their families. But they said to other youngsters, "well done, you are very clever. You are very loyal to your families and have not run off after Muhammad (saas). That is what families are all about. You are a level-headed girl who is virtuous and prays. You are educated, you have a job, what business would you have running off after them?" And indeed, some stayed behind; they imagined they were being very clever. But those people, the Companions, went off with the Prophet (saas). They have earned the happiness of both this world and the Hereafter. Now we cannot even find the traces of them on the soil, can we? But their reward in the Hereafter is eternal." (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Samsun Aks and TV Kayseri on January 27th, 2010)
|Muslims must protect and watch over one another. They must abstain from adopting an attitude against each other based on communal bigotry or any other group bigotry. But, if there are serious abnormalities going on, then of course criticism is required on that. For example, activity aimed at preventing the world dominion of Islam is a serious abnormality, for instance. We can't remain silent in the face of that. Or if someone tries to alter a pronouncement in the Qur'an, we cannot remain silent in the face of that. But apart from that, a unifying language that strengthens love and friendship should be adopted. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Adiyaman Asu and Kral Karadeniz TV on January 25th, 2010
"One's Aim Must Be to Earn Allah's Approval Above All Else"
"Human being's aim is the approval of Allah, His Mercy, and above all things it is to earn the approval of Allah. A Muslim may just go to school or work, seek to get married or may avoid risks. For instance, it is the same for me, if I wanted to be so; I could have just sit at home. Then I would never be arrested or imprisoned and no reports against me would appear in the press. I would not be put in a mental hospital or put on trial. Nothing untoward would happen to me. I could just live minding my own business. But in the end I would have probably gone to Hell, may Allah forbid. Right? That is why it would be an aberrant behavior to regard that as smartness. I mean, to see those devout Muslims who sacrifice themselves and strive for Allah's approval as feeble-minded and to consider himself wise in such worldly interests would be, on the contrary, just the opposite of wise. They will see that this is the case in the Hereafter. The life of this world is very short. We did not come here to be born, reproduce and die. That is what animals do. They are born, grow, reproduce and die. That is in the description of what an animal is. But this is not the aim of humans. Human beings are born, become a servant of Allah, strive for gaining the approval of Allah, try to live the moral values of the Qur'an, sacrifice himself for the approval of Allah and aim to enter Paradise. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi did not spend 30 years in prison because he was naive or because he didn't think much. While he was serving those 30 years in prison, while he endured those ordeals, a great many families prayed, fasted, did business and ate and drank at home and got married. But they still regarded themselves the same, in the same category with him. That is not so. Allah will question them one by one. In other words, what Bediuzzaman did was right. In other words, to consider himself very smart in fact shows that he is not at all. The really smart person is he who fully submits to Allah. Right?" (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Samsun Aks and TV Kayseri on January 27th, 2010)


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There were words, 'August pick, October pick, and January pick" in the article titled "Biden's Brief - Obama picked his running-mate to help him govern," appearing in New Yorker magazine October 20 issue. The article deals with the character and political records of Joe Biden who made a name in the recent vice presidential debate by making for President Obama's lethargic representation in the preceding presidential debate.
The words appear in the following statement:
In 2004, when John Kerry was conducting his search for a running mate, he divided his options into three groups, based on the electoral calendar. "Kerry said you can pick either a Mr. August, a Mr. October, or a Mr. January," David Wade, who was Kerry's press secretary at the time and is now serving in that role for Biden, told me. "In a perfect world, you have someone who is all three."
By Kerry's logic, Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor, whom John McCain named as his running mate, was an August pick. An October pick tends to be political—someone with strong, even strident campaign skills, Kerry's choice—John Edwards—may have fallen into that category."
As I'm totally ignorant of political affairs in U.S., I have no idea about what August, October, and January pick mean, though I understand Mr. August, Mr. October, and Mr. January mean respectively those who are picked up as the presidential running-mate according to the political calendar.
Are they political jargons, or just an application of greengrocery terms? What do they mean?


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I'm having a hard time truly understanding the meaning of $\dim\operatorname{Im} T + \dim\operatorname{Ker} T = \dim V$ where $V$ is the domain of a linear transformation $T:V\to W$. I've used this equation several times in many problems, and I've gone over the proof and I believe that I fully understand it, but I don't understand the intuitive reasoning behind it. I'd appreciate an intuitive explanation of it.
Just to be clear, I do understand the equation itself, I am able to use it, and I know how to prove it; my question is what is the meaning of this equation from a linear algebra perspective.


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Math educator Kate Hartmann assists two Rochester City School District students with technology skills, part of the Rochester Young Scholars Academy camp. Students are focusing on forensic science during the two-week camp.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- Rising fifth- through 10th-grade students from the Rochester City School District are on the SUNY Geneseo campus through July 27 investigating an art theft during the college's annual Rochester Young Scholars Academy camp (RYSAG).
During the two-week Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) camp, the 67 students are being crime scene investigators and learning the science of forensics. They will learn investigative methods during various science, art history and communication workshops during their stay.
"We had a similar CSI theme at the camp five years ago and it was quite successful," said Susan Norman, camp director and director of Geneseo's Xerox Center for Multicultural Teacher Education. "Most of our campers will know little about forensic science but they likely have heard about it through popular media and will quickly learn about the science involved in such investigation and the value of critical thinking."
Geneseo faculty members are teaching the students laboratory analysis and other scientific techniques as well as art history and communication skills. Geneseo undergraduate and graduate students, college alumni and Rochester City School District staff are participating as counselors.
Major funding for the camp is being provided by the Rochester City School District, Xerox Corp. and SUNY Geneseo.
New to the camp this year is a group of English-language-learning refugees from other countries who are students at Rochester's Jefferson High School. Joining them is their instructor who teaches the students English as a second language and is here to facilitate their involvement in camp activities. Their participation in the camp is made possible by a Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation grant to the Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association, which is helping the students acquire pre-collegiate experiences.
The camp will culminate in a graduation ceremony July 27 following a town hall presentation where the students will showcase their work. The RYSAG program continues during the school year through a Saturday school program at the Rochester Public Library, where Geneseo education faculty and students do academic follow-up with the RYSAG students involved in the summer camp to continue developing their critical thinking skills.
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I know that this is meant to explain variance butthe description on Wikpiedia stinks and it is not clear how you can explain variance using this technique
Can anyone explain it in a simple way?
I know that this is meant to explain variance butthe description on Wikpiedia stinks and it is not clear how you can explain variance using this technique
Can anyone explain it in a simple way?
Principal component analysis is a useful technique when dealing with large datasets. In some fields, (bioinformatics, internet marketing, etc) we end up collecting data which has many thousands or tens of thousands of dimensions. Manipulating the data in this form is not desirable, because of practical considerations like memory and CPU time. However, we can't just arbitrarily ignore dimensions either. We might lose some of the information we are trying to capture!
Principal component analysis is a common method used to manage this tradeoff. The idea is that we can somehow select the 'most important' directions, and keep those, while throwing away the ones that contribute mostly noise.
For example, this picture shows a 2D dataset being mapped to one dimension:
Spent the day learning PCA, hope my cartoon translates the intuition over to you!
I have also tried to briefly explain the utility of PCA and related it to an analogy (no maths) to help give that feeling of "learning closure".
Visual Intuition (zoom in)
Intuition via utility
I think the main usage for PCA is to be able to categorise different distinct "things" e.g. Shiny cells vs. Dark cells in a way that leads to least error. E.g. Imagine sam was hiding behind me and I pinched a cell off the left side of his body then asked you to guess the color of the cell, by looking at the winning photo, or even the winning line, you can make a very good guess it will be a "dark cell".
Intuition via Analogy
So my understanding is that PCA is like taking a "picture" in a lower dimension, but the various methods used out there attempt to make the picture as informative as possible by deciding which "angle" to take the picture from (notice for 1D the angle of "squishing line" also vary).
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Language is a really hard thing to understand. When using the term "hacking" or "hacker" in general conversation, you'll see many variations on its definition. Much of this is skewed from buzz word media coverage over the past 15 years. This page is setup here to help define what "hack" means to the Noisebridge community and as a general place to link people to when they ask about the term. All content here is subject to organic wiki growth over time.
Wikipedia has several articles in reference to the subject matter Hack and Hackers.
What is a hack?
The term "hack" has been synonymous with make, craft, build, do, alter, change. Typically creating something in a way that wasn't generally meant to be, without going by given instructions. Example, "I hacked together this table with an old door and some cinder blocks." Other times it could be used to define when one is working on constructing things that an everyday (American) consumer doesn't build, with components a consumer wouldn't normally acquire. In many cases a hack could be using something for a purpose it wasn't intended for, like an old credit card to patch a hole in your shoe, or using a shoe to open a wine bottle.
With crafting this word can be used to label projects created from raw materials, such as clothing from fabric and fun fur, or furniture from recycled woods and plastics. Typically there's a bit of sloppiness that goes along, also knows as jank or janky. Example, "I couldn't find any screws to hold my robot together, so I'm using zipties, duct tape and hot glue." Additionally this may also be seen as being ingenious with supplies and tools available at the time, or pulling a MacGyver.
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What is hacking?
Hacking is the act of creating a hack. Many times a hack is created to find a solution for a problem, other times it's a hobby or just for fun.
Who are hackers?
The media's portrayal of hacking and hackers
During the 1990s and early to mid 2000s, many media sources would hype up the term hacking and hackers in reference to computer security experts who've gained illegal access to a computer or network of computers, or have committed felonies which involved computers. This term was so broad that the media would easily use it in any story that involved some sort of computing device, such as pedophile looking at child pornography or someone running scams on an online auction site. Even though no electronic security was breached, hacker was a great buzz word to use.
Due to this many people falsely feel that when someone or something is referred to as hacker or hacking, then it must be in regards to malicious illegal activities that involve computers and the internet.
Over the late 2000s, the terms cybercrime, cyberfelony and cybervillain have come into use with most media outlets. Hackers and hacking still do get used but it's becoming a rarer occurrence.


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5 Ways to Trick Your Brain into Eating Healthy
The human brain is a complex device -- and we figure that, like all devices, there's always someone out there who has figured out how to hack it for their own benefit. More specifically, scientists bent on never having to diet again have discovered extremely simple techniques that you can use to trick yourself into having healthier eating habits. For example, you can ...
#5. Use a Bigger Fork
Using a bigger fork makes you eat less food, as weird as that sounds. It's not that your wrist will be too tired to keep shoveling stuff into your mouth; it's that you'll simply feel full with less food than if you were eating with a regular-sized fork.
In one study, researchers invaded a restaurant over several days and gave random customers different types of forks. Half of the customers were given forks 20 percent larger than average size, while the other half were given forks 20 percent smaller. The researchers went through the diners' plates when they were done and measured how much food was eaten off of each of them, which isn't creepy at all.
Why go to a restaurant to look at a stranger's food when you could just join Instagram?
What they found out was that the people who were given larger forks left significantly more food on their plates than those with smaller forks. But why would larger bites make you eat less? Because sight plays a huge role in our eating habits. We rely on visual cues to guide us when we're eating (i.e., how much food we see on the plate), since it takes our nervous system a while to realize whether we're really full or not.
So, if your senses are telling your brain that you should be satisfied, the brain will decide that, what the hell, you might as well be. When you use a bigger fork, you'll see yourself making bigger dents in the overall food on the plate, fooling your brain into believing that you're overeating. With a smaller fork, the transition from "a lot of food" to "hardly any food at all" is more subtle, so you keep on snacking well past the point your thunder thighs would appreciate.
Next thing you know, your dining room has no furniture.
However, the "use a bigger fork" trick only works at regular meal times, where your goal is to eat until you're satisfied. If you're snacking (where your goal is to eat until your pants explode), using a bigger fork will simply make you eat more food.
#4. Look at Healthy Food While You're Eating Something Else
Here's a simple trick to lose a few pounds: Keep healthier food around ... and don't eat it. Just let it sit there, looking disapprovingly at the pizza you're gorging on.
You smug motherfucker.
Why? It turns out that just having healthier food on your table makes you a more conscientious eater. According to researchers from Cornell University, even if you don't choose the healthier alternative in front of you, you're still going to make healthier choices than if you didn't have that fruit or salad there at all.
In their study, they went to a school cafeteria over several days and put different side options on the lunch line. On one day they placed sugary meals like applesauce and fruit cocktail on the counter, and on the next there were healthier things like green beans and bananas. Naturally, most of the students ignored the obvious attempt to make them eat better and just chose what they would normally choose.
It's like putting heroin next to an algebra textbook. Which would you choose?
Or at least that's what the kids thought they were doing. What the researchers found is that on the days when green beans and bananas were presented to them, even if students didn't take those items, their overall meals became healthier than on days when they were offered sugary items.
It's a priming effect -- just by being reminded that healthier food exists, subconsciously the kids felt guilty for not picking that food and ended up eating better. In other words, it's for the same reason you're less likely to curse when there is a priest sitting at your table.
"Did you hear the one about the priest ... and the altar boy ... who, uh, enriched each other's lives in a totally platonic way?"
#3. Pretend You're Eating Fatty Foods
You might have seen recent studies that found that diet products are bad for you, and not just because of all the chemicals that make bacteria grow in your stomach. One reason appears to be that diet soda and other low-fat products make you fat because you believe that they don't.
And before you even ask, no, the same argument does not apply to condoms.
The way a meal is labeled is more important than you think. In one experiment, researchers gave people cookies that were labeled either medium or large and told them that they could take as many as they wanted. The catch? The medium and large cookies were the same size, and since people trust their brains more than they trust their guts, people who were eating the "medium" cookies ate more than those who were eating the "large" cookies, simply because they thought they were making a healthier choice.
But this isn't a purely psychological thing; there's actually a real bodily effect going on here. In our guts, we have this hunger hormone called ghrelin, which is pronounced "gremlin" with a thick Jamaican accent. Ghrelin, essentially, is what makes you eat -- more ghrelin in your system means more appetite, and less means you feel like those two slices of pizza were enough. But here's the thing: How much ghrelin is produced depends not just on how much you've eaten, but on how much you think you have.
"You see me eating four pieces of chicken, I see me eating only 20 percent of this bucket."
In one study, researchers from Yale University gave each subject a 380-calorie milkshake and told half of them that it was a high-fat 620-calorie milkshake, while the other half were told that it was a diet milkshake at 140 calories. Blood samples were taken while the subjects drank their milkshakes to record their ghrelin levels.
The results were clear: People who thought that they were drinking the high-fat shake had a significant decrease of ghrelin, while those under the assumption that they were sipping the sissy-boy shake had no ghrelin response at all, meaning they were still just as hungry as they were before. By tricking yourself into thinking that you're eating more, you can stop your body, both mentally and physiologically, from wanting more food. But there are also external things that can help you control your appetite ...


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Various manufacturers of Olympic and weightlifting plates use different standards for accuracy. Is there a good resource for comparing price versus accuracy? Can anyone suggest some manufacturers and supply some reasonably trustworthy data as to their plates' accuracy?
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Unless a manufacturer specifies the accuracy that they test their plates with, the weight can be off by a few percentage points from the nominal weight. Of course, if the plates are IWF certified, they go through an independent review process to make sure they are within specification.
MuscleDriverUSA has a good reputation for shipping plates at the same weight they are advertised. They have "econ" plates that ship at +/- 10g which is a variance within the range of "don't care". They also have reduced price failed color plates that are +/- 25g which again is insignificant.
Rogue Fitness has a mix of plates, and if they don't specify accuracy, the plates will have a significant variance. They do advertise some colored plates that are +/- 10g. They also have some higher bounce plates (hi-temp) that can be off by a few pounds.
I only know this because I read an independent review which I can't find the link to right now, where the guy went through and weighed all the plates he had. The hi-temps were useful for outdoor lifting, but had a significant variance, and on the heavier plates were as much as a couple pounds. This was in contrast to both the higher priced competition rogue plates and the Pendlay plates from muscle driver which he also had in his possession.
Some brands are legendary such as Eleiko, but you do get what you pay for. High price, great construction, and within very tight tolerances.
You don't have to get them IWF certified (which adds cost due to independent testing), but do look for the tolerance spec when reviewing the advertised plates.


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(AP) ORLANDO, Fla. - Hal Steinbrenner is concerned about Derek Jeter's recovery from a broken ankle but is confident the New York Yankees captain will return to his form prior to the injury 13 months ago.
Jeter broke his left ankle on Oct. 13, 2012, during the AL championship series opener against Detroit. He didn't return until July 11 and wound up on the disabled list three more times because of quadriceps and calf injuries and what appeared to be ankle pain. He appeared in only 13 games at shortstop and four at designated hitter, and he'll turn 40 next June.
"Given his age and given the severity of the injury, I think we all have concerns," Steinbrenner, the team's managing general partner, said Tuesday night after arriving for Major League Baseball meetings. "But if anybody is going to succeed, it's going to be Derek. Nobody is tougher, and nobody is going to work harder to get back.
"But given his age and given what the injury was _ you know, it's not a Grade 1 quad strain, this is a fairly serious injury. So are there concerns? Yes. But we're also confident that he's going to come back to be the player he was a couple years ago."
New York and the 13-time All-Star shortstop agreed Nov. 3 to a $12 million, one-year contract, a deal worth $2.5 million more than the player option pending from his previous contract.
"Given what Derek has meant to the organization and means to the organization, all I'm going to say is both sides needed to be comfortable with a number," Steinbrenner said. "We needed to come up with a number that both sides thought was fair, and that's what we did."
In the talks leading to the agreement, the sides never discussed beyond 2014.
"I don't know that Derek has thought that far," Steinbrenner said. "He's got a lot of thinking to do just getting to March, you know what I mean? And I think that's his focus right now."
New York also is uncertain about its third baseman. Alex Rodriguez was suspended for 211 games by MLB on Aug. 5 for alleged violations of its drug agreement and labor contract, and the players' association filed a grievance to overturn the penalty. Hearings resume next week, and arbitrator Fredric Horowitz may not rule until January.
"Right now, we're assuming Alex is going to be our starting third baseman," Steinbrenner said. "Time will tell."
Steinbrenner has not spoken with A-Rod since before the player went to Triple-A Scranton for a minor league rehab assignment last summer.
In addition to the grievance, Rodriguez filed separate lawsuits against MLB and Yankees team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad, claiming his hip injury wasn't properly diagnosed. Steinbrenner said Ahmad would "absolutely" treat Rodriguez if there's an injury "as far as I know."
"Anybody can get a second opinion," he added. "Most of them do."
Rodriguez has a $25 million salary next year and could earn an additional $6 million payment if he hits six home runs and ties Willie Mays at 660. Steinbrenner isn't concerned about the uncertainty.
"Even with Alex as our third baseman, we've got a fair amount of money to start spending to try to fill the holes, and that's what we're going to do," he said. "We all worry, but I try not to worry about things I can't control, and I can't control that process."
Steinbrenner expects talks will resume in the next week with second baseman Robinson Cano, who became a free agent and has sought a 10-year deal in excess of $300 million.
"We haven't really had any communications regarding any specifics yet," he said.
New York also is interested in pitcher Masahiro Tanaka, who went a 24-0 with a 1.27 ERA during the regular season for the Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan's Pacific League. The 25-year-old right-hander may become available if MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball agree to a new deal to replace the expired posting system for bidding by big league teams.
"We certainly like him. He's a great player, without a doubt," Steinbrenner said. "I'm sure there will be numerous teams in on him. He'd be a great, great catch for anybody."
Steinbrenner also said the Yankees had made changes to their player development system without altering the top officials. Jody Reed has been hired as a roving minor league instructor, a task also given to Gil Patterson. There will be changes in the way scouts work.
"It's really easy to say, `Get rid of this guy. Get rid of this guy. And get rid of that guy.' And there are certainly some owners that might do that," said Steinbrenner, whose father, George, acted that way for much of his tenure as owner.
"But that doesn't always solve the problem. Sometimes it's procedural or process, the way scouts influence each other because they're talking too much to each other _ somebody has a preconception about a player they haven't even seen yet because they've talked to two scouts about them and they go in to go see the player with those preconceptions," he said. "So those are the kind of things we're working on, communication. We're teaching the scouts. We're going to teach them to look for different things, maybe things they haven't looked at before."
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Sometimes the interests of the planet and your budget align
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Do they really think people are going to pay $100+, for a light bulb, making this look like a great deal?
The price of LED bulbs get cheaper every month. Considering you can buy a compact florescent bulb at a fraction of the cost, I'd pass on these unless you just have to show off your bulbs.
@metzger13: Agreed, the price premium for LED's isn't worth it except for special cases. LED's tend to handle dimming better than CFL's, so I use LED's in dimmable fixtures.
Also, the long lifetime can make them more attractive in hard-to-change lights, I have a light high on a wall over a stairwell and I have to set up a big folding ladder to reach it. I replaced it with an LED so I should never have to replace it again. At 2 hours/day, its 25,000 hour lifetime means it should last around 35 years.
But in general, I use CFLs - $2/each is a lot better than $15/each for LED's. And when the $2 CFL's burn out in 5 or 10 years, LED's will be cheaper and better.
Bit of a head scratcher really.
Am I missing something here? Surely they can't sell many at this price? It would take decades to make a saving.
@theco2: it's a 4 pack. Still too much but not so bad.
They are better than CFLs in certain applications:
1) They dim much better than CFLs. Only some CFL bulbs are dimmable, and even those don't work very well.
2) In some applications (like PARs) the CFLs that I have exhibit a significant warm up period: they start out somewhat dim then slowly (over a few minutes) come up to their full brightness. LEDs come up instantly.
3) The color temperature of the LEDs is more pleasing to some people than CFL. The LEDs seem (to my eyes) to be generally bluer, less green than the CFLs
For all these reasons, over the past year I've replaced all the incandescent PAR lights in the ceiling of the kitchen and hallway with LED. I'm very happy with the result: they save money, create less heat, and I don't have to worry about changing them (they are all a PITA to change).
"Sometimes the interests of the planet and your budget align"
That's downright false advertising. We'll all be DEAD before the electricity savings payback on a $50-70 bulb vs a $2 CFL!
Pretty much the same result even if they are 4-packs. Don't be a tree-hugger trophy sucker. (Prius owners?) Wait a few months until the utility companies are subsiding them and the volume manufacturing cranks up.
I've begrugingly switched over to CFLs where possible over the last 5 years, but I hate them. First of all I could not put them in anything with a dimmer (and we have a lot of dimmers) because even dimmable CFLs don't dim, it just means they won't burst into flame if you try. Secondly, I can't stand the warm-up time. We have them in our master bath, and when you flip the switch, it's like someone turned on a night light. 5 minutes later, and it's blindingly bright in there.
The LEDs we've tried have been perfect - dim, look, and behave just like the old incandescents. But I'm not going to pay $50 a bulb either... the price is coming down. I've bought a number of LED bulbs for $10-$15 a bulb and that's worth it to me.
The Cree brand ones at HD are pretty good. You can get a 60-watt equivalent that looks just like a standard incandescent bulb for about $12.
I didn't know Joseph A Bank also sold LED bulbs...
$80 for a lightbulb? Am I on Candid Camera?
The only LED lights I have in my house are two floodlights out back. I originally put in CFLs to save energy but they didn't run at full brightness right away.
I have bought two LED light and that is for my 9yo daughter's room. I know that at some point she or one of her friends will knock over the lamp and I figured that LEDs might be able to withstand the fall and I didn't want the little bit of mercury in the air if they broke a CFL. Bought them from Ikea.
The prices are actually pretty much in-line with competitive LED bulbs. On a technical note, one issue which kept me from buying the MR16 bulb (price, curiously wasn't the issue) was that the face of it protrudes slightly beyond the mounting lip of the MR16, which means that it wouldn't fit in any of my various MR-16 track light fixtures. I went with Philips LED instead, which cost about $30 apiece also from Home Depot, and which both work and fit great.


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Haier 6 Bottle Wine Cellar for $57.99 + free shipping
Use three, rent out the others. Boom! Pays for itself!
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I've got a larger Haier wine fridge (dual zone) and it works great. Just clean off the filter that keeps the fan clean every couple months and it'll last a long time.
Same thing for the same price on Amazon.
Though strangely Amazon gives it a "list price" of $20 less, go figure.
eeeew!...Chilled Wine?...Why?
@snosbig: Uhhh you drink white wine at room temp? ewe
I normally just put ice cubes in my Pinot, so could this instead be used for storing 2-liters of soda in the office?
Joking about the ice cube thing... chilled plastic mugs all the way... joking.
Ever notice that manufacturers of thermoelectric coolers NEVER post the power draw and you never see the little "Energy Star" on them?
These thing suck serious amps and are thermodynamically inefficient - this will only give you a 20 - 25° temperature difference and will run all the time.
Go to WallyWorld and spend an extra $10 on a dorm-sized vapor-compression refrigerator and turn the thermostat to a warm setting. You'll still get ice cubes, plus it won't brown out the whole neighborhood.
@thinkerer: I could not agree more! I have one of their 12 bottle coolers and the thing ran all the time. Originally, I thought this wasn't using too much power. I plugged it into a Kill-A-Watt and saw that it was drawing a good amount of power. That led me to google the cooling technology and I saw that it was extremely non-efficient but was desirable in circumstances where you didn't want vibration of a compressor turning on.
Over the course of 24 hours, the 12 bottle cooler during the summer would use more electricity than my full size fridge.
Needless to say, I stopped buying wine with the purpose to age it in this style cooler.


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Psychiatric episodes from those living with mental illness can pose a danger to police and the public if not handled properly. Sometimes such incidents can end in an arrest or jail time — or even a needless death. If a mentally ill person feels threatened by a police officer's actions, they may become violent. If cops feel threatened, they may shoot in self defense.
But it may not have to get to that point. If officers are better prepared to handle and help those in the midst of a psychiatric episode, it can lead to a happier ending for all involved instead of an avoidable tragedy.
"When someone is in a psychiatric crisis, if a first responder is inappropriately skilled, the situation can escalate dramatically," said June Binney, director of the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Project at the Massachusetts chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. "What may not have been a particularly dangerous or violent situation in the first place can quickly, on a dime, turn into a very dangerous situation."
That's why it's a welcome development that Massachusetts — like many other states — has launched a new curriculum for its police recruits that aims to change officers' approaches toward those with mental illness. It's a requirement for graduates of nearly all municipal police academies in Massachusetts starting this year.
The new 12-hour curriculum, developed by the state Department of Mental Health and the Massachusetts chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, replaces the previous four-hour police training course that was an all-encompassing primer on dealing with people with "special needs" — ranging from autism to those with seizures, along with mental illness. Last week, more than 60 police officers, social workers, psychiatrists and psychologists were trained in the new 12-hour curriculum at the Municipal Police Training Committee.
Under the training program, led by a mental health professional and a police officer, police engage in role-playing exercises to better empathize and understand how a person with mental illness may be thinking. Another important lesson involves learning a different way to handle certain situations.
While officers are generally trained to take control of a situation, such an approach can make a person suffering from mental illness feel threatened, which can quickly escalate a situation. Instead, although it may be counter-intuitive to some cops, there are ways for officers to make a person feel at ease and in control. In the training course, officers learn to keep a calm voice, give the person space and use their first name.
This new approach makes a lot of sense. More than half of all prison and jail inmates in the United States suffer from mental illness. For the criminal justice system, there's a new attitude toward treating mental illness in appropriate programs as an alternative to jail time. The new police training curriculum is a step in the right direction.
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