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I am in particular concerned with legal implications due to strong privacy legislations. However, I was also thinking about performance and false results by users blocking it.
I'm not a lawyer, take my advice as only that. You might want to speak to one about this issue.
However, as long a you provide a good privacy policy on your site, normally in the footer of your site, you should be good to go.
Also, as with all JavaScript, you want the benefits of your tracking to out weigh the costs. Basically, is the information producing profits over cost.
Google analytics can slow your page load time, just like every element on your pages does.
As far as false results go, there is not much you can do. The best thing to do is to really analyze the results you get back, over time. However, getting perfect data collection is not the point of tracking software. The software is made to help you make more objective decisions about your website. This is opposed to not having any data at all.
The software is made to help you optimized your content and know what pages work best.
Don't let numbers be the only thing you look at.
Google Analytics does not collect any personally identifiable information and it breaks their terms of use to modify the code to do that.
Google have always recommended putting their code at the bottom of the page specifically so that downloading the script doesn't hold up the page loading and display. They've also recently introduced asynchronous tracking code which should pretty much eliminate these kind of problems.
As mentioned elsewhere, web analytics is not about absolute numbers but about making useful comparisons (leading to actionable insights) so unless you think your audience is predominantly made up of Google/Javascript blockers, it won't prevent you getting useful insights.
I strongly recommend comparing the output of any analytics service to your server side stats. More often than not, you'll find that they don't agree. This is mostly (as you said) due to people blocking JS, or just outright sending GA requests to localhost.
As far as the legal ramifications, I can only offer this advice:
You really need to discuss this with an attorney, who can:
Its a unique enough issue to raise here, but you should really seek legal advice from legal professionals :)
Anybody who blocks JavaScript won't show up on Google Analytics. I don't know of that many people who deliberately block Google Analytics itself, but I do know that Analytics under-reports traffic. On one Ajax-based site I run, it is almost accurate, but on another static HTML/CGI site I run it is under-reporting (only (very approximately) 80% of actual visitors show up in Google Analytics), so somehow or other it is getting blocked a lot. Another thing is that it doesn't show up any web crawler or robot traffic, and doesn't show up hotlinked images and other kinds of abuse.
As for delaying the load, loading the same piece of JavaScript again and again on each page won't slow things down since the JavaScript will be cached anyway. It is detecting the time on the page somehow, so it must also be phoning home on page load and unload, which has to involve a short delay. However I honestly cannot detect that or notice it at all.
As far as I know, there is no requirement to have a privacy policy in order to use Analytics (unlike Adsense).
You site will be a little slower but it should be relatively unnoticed to most if not all users. Google works very hard to keep their footprint small.
As for legal implications, contacting a lawyer is a good idea. I am not a lawyer so take my advice as is. Most sites use Google Analytics because it is free, unobtrusive, and works well. Also, Google doesn't collect any info you enter into a site just what and where you click.
Another item you may want to consider is whether Google is providing you with enough value to pay for the information you are giving them about your site's data, relevance of specific pages, etc.
They already own a large proportion of this for your landing pages because of their overwhelming search domination, but by installing Analytics you're giving them ALL of it.
Google says that they don't use the information to determine your site's rankings, but they're measurement geeks, and of course they're analyzing the data in aggregate to improve their services.
Like others have answered before, I am not a lawyer.
Regarding performance, Google recently introduced a new async tracking script which makes the performance issues mostly noticeable to the users (obviously it is still using resources, but since the page loads first the user can't tell).
I have tried the new script and it is faster.

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I have a friend, who is not professionally trained in music. When she hums (with her mouth closed), she hits the right notes and everything. When she actually starts to sing, I felt her notes appear to be all over the place. I have caught her singing when she is not aware she's singing...sort of like she's singing subconsciously, and she managed to hit right notes again. What gives? Is this simply a case of lack of practice?
Short answer: The behavior you describe is pretty common, and the result of a combination of physiological and psychological differences.
Longer answer: First, humming increases the "internal resonance" your vocal chords produce. This increases your ability to hear yourself while humming, and so if you have any ability to perceive tone, you will also be better able to tune yourself while humming than while singing.
Also, because the air is leaving through your nose, a smaller opening than your mouth, you're introducing more "back pressure", which in moderation actually improves most of the positioning of the diaphragm, mouth, throat and nasal passages that are taught by vocal coaches as "good technique". The throat widens, the soft palate lifts, and the nasal passages open. In addition, because of the back pressure, your exhalation is controlled with less concentration on your part. This results in less variation in tone due to changes in positioning of these things which can push pitches around.
This phenomenon is used by many vocal coaches during warm-ups, to encourage the singers to maintain what they feel when humming as they open their mouth. By doing so, the singers naturally adopt many good habits that can be further tweaked by the coach.
There are also some psychological things at play. If you cannot hear yourself well, or don't want anyone to hear you, you will naturally sing more quietly. For an untrained singer, the two "natural" ways to do this are to drop the breath support (which drops the pitch; imagine the sound a bagpipes makes as the bladder runs out of air and the drones stop), or to close off the throat (which normally pinches notes sharp). Both are bad technique; the "right" way to sing more softly is to use the diaphragm to reduce the amount of air going through the vocal chords without completely dropping breath support. Simply being nervous, knowing that people are listening, will also make a singer trend sharp because of the natural tensing of a whole host of muscles controlling breath and voice.
Being nervous coupled with bad singing technique will cause notes to go totally wild, as the lack of breath control pushes notes flat while the nervousness trends them upward, and one or the other will "win" on each note.
Weird! It's probably to do with psychology of performance and social pressures. I base this on the presumptions that:
Since you have observed her being pitch-accurate (whether singing or humming), we can conclude that she has at least a rudimentary ear, even if it isn't well-developed through training. A rudimentary ear--able to hear a melody, internalize it at some level, and then replicate it--is all one really needs to be able to sing socially (i.e. hold a tune in a bucket, sing in key). There is virtually no difference between singing and humming (humming is simply singing on an 'm' sound).
I would guess that when her notes are all over the place, she's in a sort of "I don't sing; this is what it sounds like when I try to sing" mindset. What results from this mindset are behaviors or habits that are counterproductive to actually singing in key. Maybe she thinks she has to "oversoul" it, sing too loudly, or maybe she's just yelling because the alternative is too embarrassing. I have no idea; you'll have to figure that one out for yourself.
To resolve the issue:
For an exercise, she could try humming a simple tune on an 'mmmm' syllable, then try it on an 'nnnnn'. Then, slowly and on each note, start on 'nnnnn' before opening to 'aaaaa', and then do the same with 'mmmmmaaaaaaaa'. Last, use only the 'ah' syllable.
That's about as broken-down as I think it can get. Let me know in a comment if any of this was the least bit helpful or applicable to your situation!


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Discussion in 'Fantasy / Horror' started by Kloke, Jul 4, 2008.
Is anybody into the Inheritence Cycle books?
Nah we like good books. Not drivel.
And we all liked star wars/lotr/Dragonriders of pern...etc. first time round
I havnt heard of them, whats the author, synopsis etc
That sounds about right.
Ok, I don't want to be argumentative with my first post here, but cut the kid some slack. I cant stand how everyone is always complaining that every fantasy story ever written is copying someone else's work. I'm sure lotr is copying from the epic of gilgamesh and star wars is from the bible, or maybe the iliad.
So the kids got a mentor? Yea, what a terrible start to a fantasy novel. Eragon is like Aragorn? Its also one letter from dragon, d to e, the first dragon rider. Lets cut the kid some slack.
Now that said, the story, while original enough, does kinda suck. And the writing is medicore. But for a 16 year old kid it kicks ass, and I'm looking forward to seeing what he produces in the future. My opinion anyway.
I agree, Soul. And I'm ashamed to say that when I want something totally shallow - and only then - I do read Inheritance.
The guy has money though. It's because people love reading the same stuff. They want more of it. They know LOTR so they look around for something similar... Oh, look! the Inheritence Cycle! It has elves and drawfs... and dragons, too!
Soul, I agree that it is impossible not to copy a previous idea, but Paolini did it so blatantly that it hurts.
Maybe he knew that people would buy the book because he took ideas from good stories and put them all together. Maybe he just wanted to make money.
Also, if so many people 'loooooooooooove' his story, you have to respect that. It sells, so there's demand.
I read the first book, and it was ...difficult to remember. I was impressed that a 16y/o wrote it, but I had and have no interest in reading any of the other books. My question about Paolini is this: when you have such huge success in a solitary endeavor like writing at such a young age - and let's face it, a big part of his success had to do with the whole I-can't-believe-he's-only-16 schtick - does it stunt your future growth? He isn't Mozart or a muscial/math savant, and I will be curious to see where he goes with his writing after he gets he completes Inheritence. Will he go for broke and try to do something different, maybe a different genre, or will he just churn out more adolescent fantasies?
If paolini went the proper route. I.e to Orbit or Tor. And not published it on his mommy and daddys printing press Eragon would not exist as it does today. It would have in all likleyhood been rejected.
And Sorry soul. But its not original enough. Its a blatent copy of other works. And is only considered original enough by those not well read in fantasy.
The fact that the synopsis is exactly the same as Star wars but with Dragons instead of droids should be a hint.
Its not original. Never has been original and never will be.
The proper route? There are many good works that have been rejected by publishers. I can tell you that if nobody accepted my MS and I would have parents with a publishing firm I would go that way, too. The proper route differs from person to person.
I understand that.
But he went to parents first. And they published it no questions
I am actually not quite sure if his parents owned a publishing firm prior to his achievement, or if they simply 'made' one after they had decided to self-publish his work, but I'm too lazy to check that out.
The author started the book at 16 and finished at 18, I believe. Oh, and the books are horrid.
His parents jobs were publishers before hand, which is why he was actually published.
I gotta say, I rarely thought of Star Wars while I was reading the first book. I guess the power of the dragons would be like the force? Rescuing a captive girl, again, that is a pretty typical storyline. Maybe somebody should try to do lotr in a sci-fi environment; give em some blasters and light sabers and let em go wild. Might be a big seller.
So I did enjoy reading the first book. Didn't read the second as the story got off course from traditional fantasy, and I enjoy traditional fantasy. Roran fighting off the Ra'zac? Kinda detracts from Eragon's accomplishments...
Its amazing how popular it was to start, and that came largely from the book tours the family did when they first released the book. They personally scheduled library and school readings for a grass roots movement; incredible. The people spoke and eventually he got picked up by a big publisher. I don't think his parents had been successful publishing before that.
It doesn't matter which way you paint it Eragon and Eldest is poorly and over written and un original.
Yea alright, I'm not going to argue too much. But it was fun watching the kid come into his own (both of the kids really), and also, there was an old feeling of morality that is underappreciated and not seen too much of now a days. What can I say, I was bored and I liked it.
Haha, I laughed so hard at this post. So true!
Paolini switches the D in dragon to E, and calls his superhero Eragon, and he figures it's very clever of him. Seriously, why didn't he pick Cragon?
Let me tell you something: I'm turning sixteen in four days, and I can say for a fact that what I write is not nearly as derivative as his -- and this is not meant to be arrogant or anything, I just look at my work and his work and make my decision.
Okay I think we're being a bit unfair here.
Does Eragon's plot follow that of Starwars fairly closely? Certainly it does. Are the "standard issue" fantasy races all present and correct? Oh yeah. Has Paolini done anything particularly interesting or new with them? Not really, [though for shere refinement of stereotypical dwarf environments I'll give him the mountain stronghold at the end of Eragon. I have rarely seen a fortress so tricked out.] Is Eragon a standard chosen one with a mark on his body denoting him as such, as legions of heroes have been before him? Yep. [In fact, I believe Eragon's mark is on his palm, and is sometimes described in terms similar to Belgarion's marking in the Belgariad / Malloreon. Copying much?] And yet many stories use similar plot structures. Perhaps it is fair to rag on Paolini a little for the shere extent to which we think his story's derivative, [and I do think there's a difference between "done before" and "derivative", I just think the definition is different for each of us and believe some people are too quick to call foul.] But what it really comes down to is that a lot of us just plain don't think this well-worn story is given a good showing in the Inheritance novels. It's not that its unoriginal, -- it's that its just plain not good.
I am among this group. I would be fine with a traditional fantasy tale, -- I love them, in fact. But the characters and plot just don't hold up in these novels so far as I'm concerned. I've seen a lot worse than Eragon: the characters weren't that deep, but a couple of them had potential. [I'm thinking particularly here of Eragon's mentor's destiny to fail at every task in his life but one.] The dragon was basically cool, and there were some fun adventure sections. I actually enjoyed the book the first time through, but I was relying on Paolini to up his game a level or two in Eldest and he just doesn't. Eldest is so bad I swear it makes the first book worse retroactively, [mostly by making clear that many of the flaws in Eragon were not first novel blues, but honest-to-evilness writing defects only waiting to spring into full and awful flower.] The coming of age plot descends into trite absurdity and is boring. [Eragon shaves himself. Yay for Eragon.] A quite indefensible bit of plotting has a major character disappear from the scene in chapter one only to return as a villain in the final pages, with no point-of-view time with him to go through the process and trauma of his fall. The failed romance sequences read like they were ghost-written by George Lucas on a bad day and range from physically painful to impossible to read. The pace is glacial in the extreme, and Eragon spends the majority of the novel in a boring place learning boring things. Someone mentioned Rorin's, [Eragon's non-superpowered cousin], plot-thread being what drove them away from Eldest, and I find this perplexing, as his sections are the only thing that stopped me from flinging the book. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying they're good -- they're just a lot lot lot less bad.
I know this post is long already, but I'd like to take a moment to explore a couple particular things about Eldest: By no means did I study fan response to the book on-line, but I did come across one or two negative comments on a specific subject. "Well, yes", you say, "because the book is rubbish". Actually no that wasn't what people were getting upset about. Okay, so for any who don't know there's this character in Inheritance whose an elf woman. And Eragon has fallen in love with this elf woman like the good little chosen one that he is. And, in a stroke of realism unusual in Inheritance, the hundred-year-old, sober-with-experience elf maid isn't interested. Quite uninterested, in fact. And this seems to upset some fans. It's as though they expect this poor character to go all googly-eyed and start confessing her love whenever Eragon walks into a room. I find this expectation, -- a sort of reliance on predetermined plotlines, -- disturbing. I'm really starting to understand why Diana Wynne Jones wrote The Tough Guide to Fantasyland. It's as though some readers are beginning to take certain overused character types and plot elements as signifiers leading directly to the signifieds represented by specific conclusions or outcomes. Hmm, we could diverge into the semiotics of popular fantasy at this juncture, but this probably isn't the place.
Note that Eldest does not as closely mirror The Empire Strikes Back as Eragon does A New Hope, and this is seriously to its detriment. Yes Eragon goes to learn from an old master as does Luke, but Eragon's training lasts a whooooole lot longer and this loses the book a lot of narrative momentum. Where Empire is punchy, fast-moving, and rough on its heroes, Eldest is slow as they come, renders both heroes and villains, [dear god, the cardboard mockeries used for villains!], shallower than previously as opposed to deeper, and throws virtually no curveballs of any kind at all in its 700 pages.
So basically I don't think going after Paolini because we think him cliche is fair, or at least not by itself. Go after him because you think the material isn't good, and perhaps incorporate how totally derivative you find his work into that critique. But cliches by themselves do not a bad book make, and I think we should focus on them less when critiquing this series. Is Paolini's reliance on previous plots, and his obvious freeze-up when forced to plot without a guideline, a problem? Most definitely, but the problems go deeper, I think.
Also, however bad we think the books are, he has finished them and got them published. He is a writer under twenty-five, he has written a series of books, they are coherent, they are on store shelves and a lot of people love them very much. I personally find that more than a little amazing, and I think that anyone else who has had a go at writing an extended piece will too.
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Sandy Aside, Weather Puts 2012 in Record Books
New York City is poised to finish its warmest year since modern record-keeping began, with an average temperature projected to top 57.2 degrees.
A Wall Street Journal analysis of federal temperature data from an observation station at Central Park puts 2012 on course to surpass the three-way tie for the city's warmest year, which is currently shared by 1990, 1991 and 1998.
With less than two weeks left in December, it would take an unprecedented cold snap—with a deeper freeze than January 1918, the coldest month in city history—to keep the current year out of the record books. If the remainder of December follows the long-range forecast, the year would end with an average temperature of 57.3 degrees.
"If you were to end the year right now, we would finish a 10th of a degree above 1991, which was the current warmest year on record," said David Stark, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Upton, N.Y. He cautioned that the final result remains uncertain at this point.
Temperature records at Central Park date back to 1869, the longest-running set of government weather data in the five boroughs. Eight of the 10 warmest years in that span have occurred since 1990.
Tree-ring analysis and other proxy data compiled by climate scientists suggest 2012 might be the warmest since the Dutch opened the trading post of New Amsterdam in 1624, said William Solecki, director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College.
"I think it is entirely possible that 2012 might be the warmest year for the city since its founding," he said.
November featured the city's earliest snowstorm in more than a century, helping to possibly obscure the broader warming trend over the course of 2012. The current month, for instance, could end as one of the 10 warmest Decembers in Central Park since the Civil War. More than 80% of the daily temperature averages in December so far have been warmer than normal, according to the data.
A temperature milestone might carry extra significance just three months after the devastation of superstorm Sandy, which touched off a discussion about possible links between the region's shifting climate and extreme weather.
In the days after the storm, for instance, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg framed his endorsement in the presidential election as a response to climate politics.
But for scientists, the more urgent discussion isn't the prospect for more big storms—it is the city's vulnerability to increasingly balmy temperatures.
"In what it means for the future, the temperature is as big a story as Sandy," said Adam Sobel, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University.
"As a symbol, it's significant," he added. "But if next year doesn't break the record again, it won't mean global warming has slowed."
Mr. Solecki, a co-chairman of the New York City Panel on Climate Change established by the mayor, said that a record-warm year could prompt a "discussion of how to make our critical infrastructure more resilient to heat-related stresses." But he also cautioned against investing too much meaning in any numerical milestone.
Not all New Yorkers with a careful eye on the unusually warm year are bothered by the apparent record-breaking temperatures.
After finishing up a morning jog in Brooklyn's Prospect Park earlier this month, Joanna Paterson reflected on the ways the weather has been good for certain segments of the local economy.
"As a fitness trainer, my business is more successful. People are feeling healthier, recovery times from illness are shorter," said Ms. Paterson, 40 years old. "More people going to the green market. To be able to use this park for more of the year is a huge benefit."
Just down the street, a coffee shop offered a sale: "Global warming got you down? Get a cold brew coffee and enjoy summer forever!"
Inside, Matt Easton, 42, sipped an espresso and mused on the likely temperature record for 2012. He was not as sanguine as the runner.
"It's less dramatic than Sandy," Mr. Easton said of the city's warmest year. "But in some ways it's a more frightening indicator."


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Online ALTER TABLE in MySQL 5.6
By Marko Mäkelä on Sep 29, 2012
MySQL before the InnoDB Plugin
Traditionally, the MySQL storage engine interface has taken a
minimalistic approach to data definition language. The only natively
supported operations were
TABLE and
RENAME TABLE. Consider the following
CREATE TABLE t(a INT); INSERT INTO t VALUES (1),(2),(3); CREATE INDEX a ON t(a); DROP TABLE t;
CREATE INDEX statement would be executed roughly
as follows:
CREATE TABLE temp(a INT, INDEX(a)); INSERT INTO temp SELECT * FROM t; RENAME TABLE t TO temp2; RENAME TABLE temp TO t; DROP TABLE temp2;
You could imagine that the database could crash when copying all
rows from the original table to the new one. For example, it could run
out of file space. Then, on restart, InnoDB would roll back the
INSERT transaction. To fix things a little, a hack
was added to
ha_innobase::write_row for committing the
transaction every 10,000 rows.
Still, it was frustrating that even a simple
INDEX would make the table unavailable for modifications for a
long time.
Fast Index Creation in the InnoDB Plugin of MySQL 5.1
MySQL 5.1 introduced a new interface for
DROP INDEX. The old table-copying approach can still
be forced by
SET old_alter_table=0.
This interface is used in MySQL 5.5 and in the InnoDB Plugin for
MySQL 5.1. Apart from the ability to do a quick
INDEX, the main advantage is that InnoDB will execute a
merge-sort algorithm before inserting the index records into each
index that is being created. This should speed up the insert into the
secondary index B-trees and potentially result in a better B-tree fill
The 5.1
ALTER TABLE interface was not perfect. For
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- In InnoDB, this method is used for creating secondary indexes or for rebuilding the table. This is the 'main' phase that can be executed online (with concurrent writes to the table).
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prepare and
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FULLTEXT indexes.
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ON…SET NULLoption.
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executing SQL statements.
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COLUMN and
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simplicity, we will copy the entire table, even for
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needed when applying changes from the log. We have special logging for
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The survey paper of Prof. Dan Boneh entitled "Twenty years of attacks on the RSA cryptosystem" mentioned that (Page 5) one can attack CRT-RSA in square root of decryption exponent. However no argument is given. I know this comes from man-in-the-middle attack. However I cannot understand the idea clearly. Is there any lecture notes/paper where this attack is clearly explained?
It's a good question, since it looks like Boneh's paper doesn't give a reference. It's not actually a man-in-the-middle attack, at least not the attack I've seen. Instead, it's reminiscent of baby-step giant-step but with an extra twist. Here's how it works.
Suppose we are given $N$ and $e$, where $N=pq$ with $p$ and $q$ distinct primes and $ed \equiv 1 \pmod{p-1}$ with $0 < d < D^2$. We are not given $p$, $q$, or $d$, but we know the bound $D$. We want to factor $N$ in roughly $D$ steps (up to log factors). For what I'm about to do, we'll have to assume that the inverse of $e$ modulo $q-1$ isn't $d$, and in fact isn't anything like $d$, but this assumption holds for CRT RSA.
For a random value of $x$, $\gcd(x^{ed}-x,N)$ will be $p$ with good probability (this is where we need the assumption). If we write $d = a + bD$ with $0 \le a,b < D$, then $\gcd(x^{ea}x^{ebD}-x,N)$ will be $p$, and in fact the gcd of $\prod_{i=0}^{D-1} (x^{ei}x^{ebD} - x)$ and $N$ will also be $p$ with good probability. (Note that if the inverse of $e$ modulo $q-1$ were of the form $i+bD$ with $0 \le i < D$, then this would fail since we would pick up a factor of $q$ in the product. This is what I meant by "anything like $d$" above.)
Now consider the polynomial $\prod_{i=0}^{D-1} (x^{ei}y - x)$ in the variable $y$. In a number of steps nearly linear in $D$, we can compute this polynomial modulo $N$ and then we can evaluate it at any $D$ given points. (This requires special algorithms, since for example multiplying the factors one by one would require about $D^2$ operations. See Chapter 10 of von zur Gathen and Gerhard's book Modern Computer Algebra for background on fast evaluation and interpolation algorithms.)
Given these fast algorithms, the final steps are easy: we compute the polynomial, compute the $D$ evaluation points $y = x^{ebD}$ with $0 \le b < D$, compute the evaluations of the polynomial at these points, and take their gcds with $N$. All of this is nearly linear-time in $D$, and one of the gcds will give us the factor $p$.


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Many students can suffer lasting effects of carrying weighted down backpacks.
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In the world of our school kids, books rule. They're not just carried to school on the street or bus, but they also patrol the hallways, used from class to class within the school building itself. The omnipresent backpack or binder can cause "functional scoliosis" or a dysfunctional spine for the modern student.
The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons reported that 58% of its responding members have noted mounting evidence of how backpacks are hurting the backs and shoulders of American children. Especially noteworthy are muscle fatigue problems not usually seen among students. This is not just noteworthy, say experts, it is truly alarming. Dr. Gregory Lutz, Chief of Physiatry at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan and an expert on musculoskeletal spine and back problems remarks that "excessive loads can create injury to the lumbar discs even at younger ages."
Also sounding the alarm is the Consumer Product Safety Commission. According to CPSC data 10,062 young children, ages 5 to 14, went to emergency rooms with backpack-related injuries in 1998 alone. Incidence of troubles with backpacks dropped relative to the kids among teens, who suffered just 2,719 incidents. It seems that backpacks might be especially hazardous to younger children. With new backpack or back restrictions in most schools, the younger kids are the primary ones still carrying them.
Problems don't just begin when the tikes haul their gear in the packs. In fact, just putting on the backpack seems to start the injury express on the tracks. There is a youthful tendency to slip one of the two back straps on, and then swing the bag into place to fasten the other. This causes injuries. And very often, kids don't adjust the straps properly, so the weight is distributed unevenly. Dr. Knight describes a condition known as "head forward posture" characterized by leaning or stooping forward and "poking" the chin. "Patients will present with headaches, aching in the neck and between the shoulders>" adds Dr. Knight.
Most children that carry backpacks carry too much weight. It's not uncommon to see 90-pound girls or boys carrying 30-pound bags, a three-to-one weight ratio which is not allowable except in boot camp in the United States Marine Corps. Dr. Knight maintains that "prevention strategies are to keep the weight of the backpack to less than 15% of total body weight". Shifting back weights in the packs are also a culprit. The dynamics of gravity are bad enough, but when students run, leap, bend over and backwards, or remove the backpacks during the day, you have a recipe for trouble.
Most students take off their backpacks to deposit or remove books, usually in between classes and before the bell. This complicated and risky maneuver takes place in a beehive bustle of changing classes, usually in a crowded space with many distractions. Even mere transit has its problems, with backpacks strung hazardously across the shoulders, and balanced with a minimum of care at the very best.
Some medical and backpack experts are cynical, noting that when properly used, strapped and balanced, backpacks should cause little concern and fewer injuries.
But there are good rules to follow to keep your student injury free:
* Kids should make use of a hip strap. This bears more weight.
* Straps should be ergonomically designed and wide.
*Place the heaviest loads closer to the back.
*Use both straps.
Dr. Knight recommends wearing the straps on both shoulders to distribute the weight evenly as well as having straps that are well padded.
It is extremely helpful that many schools now offer an alternate set of books kept at home so less is carried on the bus. It might also be helpful to pack books tightly and neatly, thus avoiding awkward and hazardous shifts of materials within the backpack itself.
So while America gears up for better schools and smarter students, it would also be advisable to pay more attention to the logistics of learning...backpacks and the like.
"A reasonable recommendation is a 10-15% cutoff weight for bodyweight," he says. "This will help reduce the risk of injury related to falls and relieve pain that comes from wearing giant backpacks loaded with school supplies."
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125 pounds 12.5 -18.75pounds
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Let $F_n$ be a free group, $u, v \in F_n$, where $[u,v] \neq 1 $. Trying to show that the following equation does not have a solution in $F_n$ :
$$ [v,x] = [u,v] .$$
Any ideas are appreciated. I seem to have a proof but it's ugly (combinatorial, cancellation theory etc.) and not short (so, more likely to have a silly mistake :) )
Immediate thing to notice is that if $x=w$ is a solution, then so is the "line" $x=C(v)w$, where $C(v)$ is a centralizer of $v$.
Also, not difficult to show that there are no solution in a free group of rank two generated by $u$ and $v$.


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If buoyancy is caused by pressure gradient and if the pressure of a gas is same everywhere in its container, which means there's no difference of pressures on surfaces of the lighter-than-air object, how come we observe such an effect?
Typically, there is pressure gradient in gas due to gravity.
akhmeteli's answer is correct, and if you're going to accept an answer you should probably accept his, but I think it's worth expanding on his rather brief answer to give some physical insight as to what is going on.
Suppose your lighter than air device is a cube 1m x 1m x 1m (I'm just making it a cube for convenience). And suppose the pressure on the top surface is 1 atmosphere (101325 Pa). The cube of air has a non-zero weight. In fact a quick Google for density of air will tell you that the 1m cube of air weighs 1.225 $kg/m^3$. That means the pressure on the bottom surface of the cube is 1 atmosphere plus the weight of the air in the cube, so the pressure on the bottom is greater than the pressure on the top. In fact the difference is 1.225 $\times g$ per square metre, which is 12.02 Pa.
Because the pressure on the bottom is greater than the pressure on the top there is a net force upwards of (in this case) 12.01 Newtons, which is the same as the weight of the air. In fact this is an example of Archimedes principle, and though I've considered a cube the result is generally true i.e. the upthrust on a body in a fluid is equal to the weight of fluid displaced.
Since you asked, you should look into the "next level" of the following concept.
There can be external forces acting internally to the gas, such as gravity. By that I mean each molecule in the gas experiences the force where it is. When you have that, the above statement doesn't apply. If the gas is accelerating it's the same deal. For the case of gravity, you can write the gravitational force as a vector downward, $\vec{g} = (0,0,-9.8 m/s^2)$. The pressure then has a gradient along this vector. That statement comes from the force balance. It is required so that the system is stable, and by that I mean non-accelerating. I could write:
$$\nabla P = -\rho \vec{g}$$
And here, $\nabla$ is a scalar field to vector operator that is $(\partial/\partial x,\partial / \partial y, \partial / \partial z)$. The above statement is the fluid-mechanics analog to saying the normal force is equal to $m g$ for an object sitting on the table.
The density of the gas will also change along the the gravitational gradient. This is required from the fact that the pressure changes, and the state equation gives an equality that uses pressure. For our purposes the gas state equation may be the ideal gas law.
I think this question presents a very valid contradiction from the basic laws that students are often told early on, but aren't necessarily true in all situations. Many statements about physics, in fact, most of them, are based on a set of assumptions. It is nearly true that gases maintain a constant pressure all around us. The change in pressure is small compared to the total pressure. However, that change in pressure from elevation is the reason that a balloon floats.


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He mentions in the book that it is in every chapter and while inspired by it, I did not have a clear idea of one single secret after reading the book.
Did anyone discover a "secret", or is it something we each identify that is personal to us?
He mentions in the book that it is in every chapter and while inspired by it, I did not have a clear idea of one single secret after reading the book.
Did anyone discover a "secret", or is it something we each identify that is personal to us?
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I used Think and Grow Rich to reach my goals. And then I forgot about it.
Napolean Hill's main theme, in my humble opinion, is holding one dominant thought, in your mind, until it comes true in reality. Dominant thought plus your belief in it will make your dominant thought come true.
I used it to get to university when I was younger. I was told that I was not good in soccer and my coach told me to study hard and get into University Malaya (UM). So for 5 years, I held that dream, always thinking and believing that I will get into UM. I dreamt of UM, not University Malaya.
When it was time to get into university, I took a bank loan and went overseas. On my graduation day 4 years later, I finally noticed the words UM embossed on the pencil that I was buying as a souvenir.
My problem when holding my thought for all these years was that I was not precise or definite in the UM that I wanted to go to. So, instead of getting into University Malaya, I ended up in University of Manitoba. I could have ended up at the University of Michigan or some other university.
But the main thing was that I always believed that I was going to get into UM. And somehow the Universe got me to my goal. Napolean Hill said that we should think of the end result without worrying about the details in between. And that was precisely what I did. I always held the end result in my mind without worrying about how to get there (at that time I was young and naive and didnt think about how to get there).
Since then, I have used this technique one more time to get the salary that I wanted.
And now I am using it to become a millionaire.
My only obstacle in reaching my goal - my belief that I can become a millionaire. Once I can believe in myself, then I'll reach my goal.
There is no any secret. Look, our life will be over some day. I think, we must live. Not just exist, but live. If you have a dream, if you do want something, you'll "burn". You will work to realize your dream. And doing this, you'll be happy. You'll find yourself.
But if you get up every morning, have a breakfast, go to work/school/institute, have a lunch, do something you do every day, have a dinner, do another bored things, go home, have a supper, watch TV or doing on-line chat / browse Internet / watch movie, go to bad. You think, that you are tired, you'll start sport exercises tomorrow. You doing it every day and it is how your life passed. Don't be passive!
I think, Hill's mind is the way to happiness: have a DREAM --> form your AIMS --> make the PLAN --> WORK --> ... --> WORK and you'll got your dreams come true.
I wish you luck!
Whatever you think, will happen. Dream big, big things happen. Worry about problems, you will get more problems.
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PS: But to be complete in my answer: The book is very tempting and well written. I was inspired myself by it. But on my search to get deeper I came across things that not everyone believes in. There is nothing wrong to make plans and act on them! Do it! But to play with forces and believe in something so undefined is dangerous in ways that a lot of people do not believe in and do not care about as long as they get what they want. I myself detached from this thinking and very happy about founded the way, the truth and life.
Can't believe every one here is just beating around the bush and not actually getting to the point. The secret in think and grow rich is really basic and simple, and if you studied the book you would know that ! And here it is : "You become what you think about." Its really that simple yes alot of other factors plays a role as well , but this is the secret. Its called the power of visualization.
There are two ways to think about this, and helpfully they reduce to the same thing.
If your happy to trust that the author has a secret then you also have to trust the author's position that 'the only way to properly digest the secret is to discover it for yourself', and thus just asking for it defeats the purpose...
On the other hand, if you don't trust that there is a secret, you can take the position that maybe it's at best, a nice way of attempting to ensure that your readers fully engage with the material, and at worst a cynical sales tactic that in some ways stands in direct opposition to the whole point of writing a book to share knowledge.
In the introduction Thomas Edison said Edwin C. Barnes "was determined to get what he came after." The book states on the same page that "he made up his mind to stand by until he succeeded." Barnes stood by learning all the while until his opportunity came to sell the Ediphone. There you have the secret "determination and an idea when opportunity comes". This is very much like the answer above on visualization.
Whatever we put in our minds is in direct reflection of what we think about. Whatever you want put those things in your mind, read about it listen to it, watch it, meditate on it and visualize it you will have it and become it.


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A while ago I bought "Fish Sauce" for a recipe (that I've long forgotten) and ended up not using it. Now we don't know what to use it for because none of the Asian cuisine recipes we come across seems to use this stuff. It says the contents are anchovies, salt, and sugar, and it comes in a little bottle with a cap. The smell is pretty strong and fishy. What is this used for (soups, stir-fry, bbq, everything)?
I grew up with a Vietnamese mother that used to put fish sauce in nearly everything. While I can't exactly recommend all of her uses (she once used it in a texas beef chili -- was not good), there are a few techniques that are good to know.
A common method to create a savory sauce is to use fish sauce with sugar at a 2:1 ratio. For example, you can make Dau phu sot ca chua by sauteeing fried tofu with diced tomatoes and adding 2tbsp of fish sauce to 1tbsp of sugar. This ratio can also be used in stir-fries. I would make sure to turn on your air vents when doing this -- the smell of fish sauce hitting a hot pan is... different than what most people are used to.
It works as a savory salt alternative in a lot of dishes. I use it to season fried rice instead of using salt or soy sauce. It generally is a good idea to add this during the cooking process, so the liquid can reduce and meld with the food.
It can also be used to quick brine ground pork for savory asian dishes. I'd add somewhere in the vicinity of a tbsp per pound of ground pork. I use this technique when making Thai Krapao. There are probably other marinating/brining applications, but I don't have much personal experience with that.
You can also use fish sauce to create a wide variety of dipping sauces -- in general it is paired with something sweet (sugar or rice vinegar) to help balance out the saltiness. It is also commonly watered down (Nuoc cham) in vietnamese dipping sauces to keep it from being too overpowering.
On a personal note, my favorite use is straight up on crispy fried eggs (slightly runny yolk) over white rice. It isn't for everyone, but it's something I've been making and enjoying for years.
Fish sauce is used as a general flavor enhancer, as it is very high in glutimates, the so called umami flavor. As the Wikipedia article says:
Edit: I should add that it is also quite salty, so it serves to contribute to the general seasoning of dishes via its salt content as well as through the glutimate content.
And as Jefromi has kindly mentioned: fish sauce is mostly commonly used in Southeast Asia and the coastal regions of East Asia, and featured heavily in Cambodian, Philippine, Thai, and Vietnamese cuisine. BlessedGeek points out that it is also prominent in the cuisines of Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia and Singapore.
Fish sauce is liquid drained from fermented anchovies!! When I was in Vietnam we were staying near fish sauce factories, very very smelly!!
It's used to season soups (Pho for example) and sauces and dressings (as with this Lemon Grass Beef) all over Asia. It's really very strong so best only add a little at a time!
Dipping sauce for summer rolls also nice with spring rolls
makes A LOT of dipping sauce :)
You can use it as a salt alternative in most savoury dishes. It also a imparts a distinctive "fishy" flavour pastas and most tomato based sauces. You can also use it as a budget alternative to anchovies which is getting a bit expensive.
I just used fish sauce myself for the first time, in a stirfry. The stir fry included veggies I had in the frig (green onions, summer squash, mushrooms, snow peas) along with chicken breasts (and of course garlic and peanut oil). As soon as everything was cooked, I added fish sauce (about 1 tablespoon or two) and a couple of teaspoons of Sesame oil. It was DELICIOUS! So much better than soy sauce - I was surprised. So you CAN cook Americanized Chinese food with it. I highly recommend you try it.
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The launch of Titanfall is finally upon us, with the game due out in North America tomorrow, March 11th, and then later this week on March 14th in Europe, the UK and other regions (except for South Africa…). To mark the occasion, and because we won't have a chance to review the game for ourselves in the near future, we've done something we've never done before: A review round-up! Of sorts…
Below you'll find a selection of five reviews and impressions pieces we've picked from around Mother Internet, accompanied by snippets of text by their authors. Some of the selected text is from impressions pieces rather than full reviews, but you should definitely click through to read the entire articles to get the full picture and the authors' full opinions.
Polygon – Score: 9/10
Arthur Gies writes:
"Titanfall is the rare game that feels like it came out on top of the few compromises Respawn has had to make. Sliding the spectacle and holy s*** moments of an epic campaign among bold, fast multiplayer that steals unlikely elements, Respawn has made them shine like they belonged there all along.
"Titanfall may not mark the same kind of sea change that Modern Warfare started but the pieces are all there in a game that delivers on its potential as the next big thing."
Giant Bomb – Score: 4/5)
Jeff Gerstmann writes:
"Titanfall is a very specific game built for a specific type of person. When you add it all up, the list of available content and the various options for speccing out your pilot feel light, and that might make this game a little hard to swallow at $60. But getting into these wild situations and shooting your way out of them feels fresh and fun in a way that the other shooters on the market don't.
"If you like the basic form but need more of a twist on how you move and how you shoot, Titanfall's core action is extremely satisfying, which makes it a little easier to overlook the lack of available modes."
CVG – Score: 9/10
Chris Schilling writes:
"Thrillingly chaotic and expertly tuned,Titanfall is a fairly orthodox FPS elevated to greatness by dozens of intelligent design choices. One-note? Perhaps. But what a note."
Joystiq – Score: 4.5/5
Ludwig Kietzmann writes:
"When it's not all a clash of the you-know-whats, when there's a volatile mix of scampering boots and earth-rattling bipeds on the battlefield, Titanfall truly excels. It subsists on imbalance and the race to bear big arms first. It feeds on the fallout that results when equality means the other guy gets a robot too. Titanfall isn't tuned to perfection for everyone yet, but it starts as a smart, swift and startling movement in well-traveled space."
VG247: Impressions Piece
Sam Clay writes:
"It may have a throwaway story and and a few technical issues, but Titanfall is still a first-person shooter that pushes the genre forward."
"Get involved. You'll look back on the day where you first played Titanfall. You'll remember the first time you ejected over your Titan and crashed back into the battlefield. Titanfall is a game that inspires stories and you'll shortly have your own to tell."
Will you be jumping into Titanfall this week?
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To the editor: This is in response to the story about Tammy Takach, the homeowner who thwarted a home invasion and robbery by holding the useless jerk at gunpoint. You go girl. We need more of this....
If Obama gets his way Tammy will have to use a butter knife the next time. "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so" Adolf Hitler
"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns." Joseph Stalin
"One man (or woman) with a gun can control 100 without one." Vladimir Lenin
"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party" Mao Tze Tung
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"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrment for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
Patrick Henry
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I'm so glad that people are starting to realize that their life is their responsibility and standing up against the no good thugs that would otherwise cause them harm. This letter, this story sends a great message. People, your safety depends on you. Arm yourself well!
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Note that she successfully defended herself without using a military assault rifle with a 50 shot magazine. One loaded shotgun/handgun was more than enough. It wasn't "the government" storming her house it was one intruder. Get the point?
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He's backkkkkkkkkk
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Fritzopup, I have to ask you this. What if there were 3 armed intruders? A standard capacity 30 round magazine in the AR-15 platform would be a good thing to have. 50 round magazines to my knowledge don't exist for the AR-15.
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Fritzopup, do you know what an "assault rifle" is? Can you tell me what makes an "assault rifle?" I highly doubt you can since you think such weapons have 50 round magazines.
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Never heard of a 50 rd mag. I'll bet after that congresswoman told him that when they fire all their rds. they can't be used again. LOL
Stick with us fritz RPG and I will teach you all about guns. I have my AR ready but depend on my carry gun witch isn't far away at any time and my Rem. 1100 with 10 rd extended mag loaded with 00 buck. Now do you know what I am talking about fritz? What is you game plan if a couple of tugs broke into your home with your family home? Do yo have a gun to protect you?
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fritz are you going to call 911 and wait until they get there to put up the crime scene tape and do the chalk outlines on your floor.
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What is an assault rifle fritz? I'll give you a clue. They are very rare.
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Fritzopup, I have a semiautomatic rifle available for home defense for various reasons. First and foremost the aluminum quad rail allows the mounting of a vertical foregrip for better control of the weapon, I also have a high intensity light for target identification. Also, the AR-15 platform allows the mounting of a holographic sight for easier target acquisition, along with a backup iron sight if the electronic sight fails. The 5.56mm cartridge when loaded with the correct ammunition is not known to over penetrate barriers, so there is less of a chance of a bullet passing through a threat and exiting my home. Because of low recoil and therefore better controllability my wife can more effectively deal with multiple threats more efficiently than with a handgun. Finally, it has the capability to change magazines easily when under stress so if you get "click" instead of "bang" the problem can be fixed in a hurry.
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Oh, Fritz, before I forget. The rifle also has much more energy than a handgun. The chances of having to fire more than 2 rounds into a threat to stop it are minimal at best. Especially when using high performance law enforcement grade ammunition.
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Fritzopup- Wherever would she, or anyone else for that matter, get a "military assault rifle"? The only people that have access to those are the military. Are you referring to an AR-15? If so, that is just an ordinary .223 hunting rifle. It's just dressed up in black plastic instead of an old fashioned wooden stock. Hey, maybe that's what it is! You don't like them because they're black! Politicians coined the term "assault rifle" because they know words are scary and sheeple fall for it.
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The Second Amendment gives me the right to own any type of weapons I want. Even military style automatic weapons if I have the proper licenses and can afford them. They are very expensive.
If I want to take out some thug that is breaking into my home with a 9 mm pistol or bazooka that is my choice.
Fritz do you own a weapon and are you prepared to defend your home from invasion.
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Senator Manchin's political ad running on TV now makes me angry. Senator Manchin is a liar, and his ad is misleading. The NRA should throw him out as should the voters in Wva. He calls for criminal back round checks we already have , and act like he is getting picked on for that. He is getting called out on his extension of background checks, banning of so called assault weapons and registration which will lead to confiscation. Manchin is a liar we have back round checks we don't need more and we don't need his lies.
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The ninety percent lie. My first question is 90% of who? A Quinnipiac University poll called here and asked about extended background checks. If this is the poll they used it is highly biased and weighted liberal. Not a fair representation of the minds of the people. Do you think that 90% of the people in TX, Ark. Ak. Oh, Pa, WY, WV, AZ,VA,NV, ND,SD, NC, or SC wanted the crap bill that Manchin Toomey were trying to push on US? Ninety Percent my Butt.
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Ohio Expanding gun laws and CCW laws.
House Bill 191, introduced by Republican Rep. John Becker, of Southwest Ohio, would strip a clause from Ohio's definition of "automatic firearm" that classifies a semi-automatic weapon that fires more than 31 rounds without reloading as "automatic." The legislation would keep language that defines "automatic firearm" as a gun that fires multiple rounds with a single trigger pull — a more traditional definition.
House Bill 210 would stop the state's law enforcement agencies from destroying legal, confiscated firearms and ammunition. Instead, agencies would be compelled to sell the ordnance to a federally licensed dealer.
The measure also gives law enforcement the option to sell the guns "for sporting use or as a museum piece or collectors' item."
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Becker is also toiling on legislation that would give public employees who have a concealed-carry license the right to carry guns inside the Statehouse, including the House and Senate floors.
Terry Johnson, of Southern Ohio, introduced a bill that would allow people from outside the state to carry a concealed gun in Ohio if they hold a concealed handgun license issued in another state. The proposal included in House Bill 203 would apply only to licenses issued by states that recognize concealed handgun licenses issued in Ohio.
In addition, HB 203 would change the training requirement to obtain a concealed handgun license. Current law states a person must go through 12 hours of training. HB 203 doesn't set a minimum number of hours required for competency.
Johnson's bill would also arm Medicaid fraud investigators appointed by the attorney general and expand the "castle doctrine" to apply outside of the home in any place a gun owner "lawfully has a right to be."
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ohnson's bill would also arm Medicaid fraud investigators appointed by the attorney general and expand the "castle doctrine" to apply outside of the home in any place a gun owner "lawfully has a right to be."
"Not everyone is a track star and the legal duty to retreat in Ohio law places the elderly, the infirm and those of us who have gained a few pounds at risk," Deeken said. "It's absurd that in order to satisfy the law that I must flee to protect my loved ones. 'Castle doctrine' was a great first step but [HB 203] is where the law should be."
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I wonder where Fritz has gone? LOL. He probably morphed into Automan260.
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I meant to say agree and disagrees instead of likes and dislikes.
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