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28 Dec 2012 3:56 AM #1
Unanswered: Carousel: Pictures
Hey guys,
I've got a problem with the carousel function. I want to switch between several pictures on one site but I do not know how to do this. Could you please help me?
Thank you
My Code is:
new Ext.application({ launch: function(){ var carousel = Ext.create("Ext.Carousel",{ flex: 1 }); var seiten = ["site.html","site2.html","site3.html"]; for(i in seiten) { Ext.Ajax.request({ url: seiten[i], success: function(response){ var seite = Ext.create("Ext.Panel",{ html: response.responseText }); carousel.add(seite); } }); } Ext.create("Ext.Container",{ fullscreen: true, layout: "vbox", }); carousel } });
30 Dec 2012 8:58 AM #2
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|Sheri Miller kicking off the opening ceremonies with Mike Kamphuis playing the pink pBone
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Author Jeff Deck from The Great Typo Hunt
Tuesday, September 20th
CU Ballroom
The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time, by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, tells the story of a journey across the U.S. to fix typos in public signage. The Great Typo Hunt is a humorous, insightful tale of adventure, misplaced apostrophes, and the open road. It describes the authors' two-and-a-half month drive around the United States to fix typos in public signage, toting an arsenal of typo correction that included markers, Wite-Out, and chalk -- and how they were later summoned to federal court for defacing a historic sign at the Grand Canyon.
Besides detailing the comical adventures of typo correcting, the book shows how the pursuit of typos led them to broader social issues, such as cultural homogenization, race relations, workplace repression and education. There have been books about spelling and grammatical errors, and there have been books about quixotic road trips, but The Great Typo Hunt s the first to combine the two.
Anyone who's ever been annoyed or frustrated by a typo will enjoy this book. Editors, teachers, educational administrators, librarians, and writers will especially relate to the tale; the many amateur grammarians from other walks of life will also gravitate to The Great Typo Hunt (we heard from plenty during the trip!). If you enjoy adventurous exploits with plenty of grammatical swashbuckling, this book is for you!
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YORKVILLE - What a difference a week has made for first-year head coach Phil Pest. Just one week after opening the season with a hard-to-swallow loss at Utica, Buckeye Local bouncd back with a 24-6 win over Pittsburgh Westinghouse at Memorial Stadium in Yorkville Saturday night.
The Panthers return to action Friday playing host to an improving John Marshall team at Memorial Stadium.
Westinghouse will follow this opening season loss into next week's match up with Wheeling Central on Wheeling Island. The Bulldogs return four weeks later to face Steubenville Big Red.
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"I think we played very well in the first half," Pest following the win. "We played very good on defense, but our offense got a little sluggish in the second half.
"It felt really good to get that first win. It's important to get that first one. There is a lot of pressure on the kids until they get that one win under their belt.
"I thought defensively we played very well. They are a very athletic team with a lot of good layers. They certainly wasn't a gimme win by any stretch of the imagination."
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Buckeye Local 24, Westinghouse 6
Pittsburgh Westinghouse 0 0 0 6 - 6
Buckeye Local0 16 0 8 - 24
BL: Kirk 1 run (Kirk run)
BL: Duncan 12 pass from Kirk (Marshall run)
W: El 3 run (pass failed)
BL: Stock 74 kickoff return (Tustin run)
RUSHING: Buckeye Local (39-62-1) - Marshall, 15-67; Flaherty, 8-25; Stock, 2-11; Mosser, 1-1; Beall, 1-5; Kirk, 11-(-46) - 1. Westinghouse (26-61-1) -Walker, 10-20; Brown, 1-0; Lyons, 1-1 Allen, 9-25; El, 3-10-1; Roberts, 2-4
PASSING: Buckeye Local (3-8-41-1-2) - all by Kirk. Westinghouse (13-33-105-0-3) - all by Brown
RECEIVING: Buckeye Local - Zeroski, 1-28; Duncan, 1-12-1; Agnew, 1-5. Westinghouse - Lyons, 7-59; Harris, 5-37; Fuller, 1-7
FIRST DOWNS: Buckeye Local, 10; Westinghouse, 8
PENALTIES: Buckeye Local, 4-36; Westinghouse, 11-80
FUMBLES: Buckeye Local, 3-1; Westinghouse, 2-2
"Now we will start preparing for John Marshall. They will be a bit different from what we faced the last couple weeks."
Defense was highlighted in the first quarter with neither managing to get on the board as a result of some big defensive stops.
With 9:13 on the clock, the Bulldogs diminutive Dominic Fuller pounced on a Buckeye Local fumble that thwarted the Panthers' first drive. Just minutes later, the Panthers regained the ball with a Dylan Dokes fumble recovery.
Buckeye Local got on the board early in the second frame as the hosts took advantage of a ill-advised fake on a fourth down punt that hand the Panthers possession on the Bulldogs 16.
Dakota Flaherty took the pitch on the first play and the senior fullback added 15 to the 1. Nathan Kirk dove in from the 1 with 8:46 on the clock. Kirk ran in the two-pointer.
Later in the session, Buckeye Local put together a 57-yard drive sparked by a 24-yard Kirk to Brian Zeroski pass and an 18-yard run by Andy Stock. With 2:59 on the first half clock, Kirk tossed 12 yards to Shane Duncan for the score. Marshall ran for the two-pointer and a 16-0 lead for the hosts.
In the third quarter, it was nearly a carbon copy of the first with neither team able to cross the goal line and the defensive units taking control. Buckeye was sparked y two key interceptions in the third session with Caleb Agnew stepping in front of a Bulldog pass with 5:23 on the clock and minutes later, Marshall adding another pass theft to the Panther numbers.
Coming on the heels of a Hasaan Allen interception, Westinghouse was able to collect its only score with 4:19 on the clock. Beyshaud El scored from the 3 to cut the margin to 16-6.
Any question of a late Bulldog comeback was squelched on the ensuing kickoff. Stock collected the kickoff on the 26 and rambled untouched on a 74-yard return that pushed the hosts lead to 22-6. Shawn Tustin added the two-pointer with a run off tackle.


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I was sure it is known, but it appears to be an open problem (see the answer of Terry Tao).
Assume for a group $G$ there is a polynomial $P$ such that given $n\in\mathbb N$ there is set of generators $S=S^{-1}$ such that $$|S^n|\leqslant P(n)\\cdot|S|\ \ (\text{or stronger condition}\ |S^k|\leqslant P(k)\\cdot|S|\ \text{for all}\ k\le n) .$$ Then $G$ is virtually nilpotent (or equivalently it has polynomial growth).
Note that typically, $|S|\to \infty$ as $n \to\infty$ (otherwise it follows easily from the original Gromov's theorem).
If it is known, then it would give a group-theoretical proof that manifolds with almost non-negative Ricci curvature have virtually nilpotent fundamental group (see Kapovitch--Wilking, "Structure of fundamental groups..."). This proof would use only one result in diff-geometry: Bishop--Gromov inequality.


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South Dakota Doctors Urge Their Governor To Expand Medicaid Under Obamacare
CREDIT: AP Photo/Doug Dreyer
South Dakota doctors are urging Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R) to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, warning that a failure to do so will hurt hospitals financially and raise health care costs for people with private insurance.
Current Medicaid eligibility thresholds in most states — including South Dakota — are so demanding that they disqualify even the poorest working adults from receiving coverage through the program. In South Dakota, 15 percent of the adult population lives at or below 100 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), which works out to be about $11,500 per year for an individual. But just eight percent of adults are covered by Medicaid.
Under Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, any adult making up to 138 percent FPL would be able enroll in the public health insurance program. That would end up cutting South Dakota's uninsurance rate by more than half. Without the expansion, on the other hand, South Dakota's poorest will have to continue relying on the emergency room for their medical services.
Doctors argue that the state's uninsured won't be able to afford those procedures, forcing hospitals to swallow a financial loss that they would then pass on to privately-insured consumers by charging them higher prices. "The citizens of South Dakota are going to continue to get care, but it's going to be more expensive and it's not going to have the same kind of outcomes," said South Dakota State Medical Association President Dr. Daniel Heinemann in an interview with the Rapid City Journal.
Daugaard is reticent to expand Medicaid, echoing other GOP governors' concerns that the federal government will renege on its commitment to fund the vast majority of expansion's costs. But Heinemann and other doctors argue that all South Dakota residents would see their medical care costs go up without the Medicaid expansion.
They also say that giving basic health benefits to the poorest is prudent in the long-term, since low-income residents would then be able to seek out preventative care, improve their personal health, and consequently lower overall health care spending.
"We know that people who are uninsured are more likely to live longer and have healthier lives," Heinemann told the Associated Press.
A recent study by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation found that states refusing to expand Medicaid under Obamacare will leave over 5 million of the poorest Americans without basic health benefits. Oregon, which expanded Medicaid under Obamacare, cut its uninsurance rate by 10 percent in just two weeks by signing up over 50,000 poor resident for coverage.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – Winning the rebounding battle 47-23 and posting 20 offensive rebounds that led to 22 second chance points, Anderson University women's basketball earned a 74-61 win over South Atlantic Conference newcomer Queens University of Charlotte Saturday afternoon at the Abney Athletic Center.
Junior Jasmine Franklin paced the Trojans on the boards with nine rebounds to go along with her nine points on 4-of-8 shooting, just missing her first double-double of the season. Leading AU offensively was junior sharpshooter Lesley Woods with five 3-pointers en route to a game-high 19 points. With her five treys, Woods is now in a three-way tie for eighth-place all-time in program history, joining Kim Hausman (2003-07) and Lateshia Williams (1997-01) with 116.
Following Woods was freshman Heather Jankowy who poured in 11 points as the freshman has now scored in double figures in four straight contests. Joining Franklin with nine points were freshman Alexis Dillard, who also grabbed seven rebounds, and junior Jaclyn Moore, who broke her previous career-high of eight points.
For the game, the Trojans knocked in nine 3-pointers, after coming off a game where they recorded 10 3-pointers on Wednesday at Brevard. In the two-game span, AU is 19-for-58 (32.8 percent) from behind the 3-point arc.
"This was a really good win," Anderson head coach Jimmy Garrity said. "I was proud of our effort and execution today. I thought we did a great job of crashing the offensive glass and converting on second chance opportunities."
On the opposite end, Queens (5-11, 4-8 SAC) recorded three players who played the entire 40 minutes, as Shonice Pettaway and Nikia Squire each posted 18 points. The duo combined for 59 percent of the Royals' scoring output on the afternoon, as Pettaway also led the team in rebounds with six.
After the teams battled to an 11-11 tie in the opening nine minutes, Anderson went on a quick 5-0 run capped off by a 3-pointer in the corner by senior Emily Willoughby at the 8:25 mark. Queens quickly responded and eventually drew the score even once again at 16-16 when Squire dropped in a pair of free throws with 7:29 remaining.
The Royals took their first lead of the contest at the 6:43 mark when Pettaway recorded a 3-pointer from the top of the key for one of her three treys of the opening half, giving Queens a 19-18 advantage.
After Pettaway made a jumper, the Trojans answered as Jankwoy buried a 3-pointer from the wing to even the score at 21-21 with 5:26 left in the period. Following the bucket, Queens continued its offensive attack and scored back-to-back baskets on ensuring possessions, forcing Garrity to call a timeout with 4:29 left and trailing 25-21.
The timeout would settle the AU offense as Jankowy and Woods posted back-to-back 3-pointers to give the home side a 27-25 lead. Following a basket from Royal McKell Oliverio, the Trojans began a 9-0 run over the next three minutes, beginning with a Sierra Simpson runner in the lane for two of her four points on the afternoon. The run would give the Trojans a 36-27 lead, before Squire snapped the Queens scoring drought with a fast break lay-in to beat the halftime buzzer.
In the second half, the Anderson offense proved to be the difference as it would eventually take its first double-digit lead of the game when Dillard posted a tradition 3-point play with 15:28 left. Despite the advantage, the Royals cut the deficit to just three points when Oliverio scored on a jumper, bringing the score to 44-41. Oliverio, Queens' lone substitute for the game, finished with six points in 14 minutes.
The Trojans answered the Oliverio basket with three straight field goals by Franklin and Dillard to increase the AU lead to 50-41 with less than nine minutes to play. Anderson grabbed its double figure lead of the contest when Woods connected on a 3-pointer in front of the Trojan bench, as Queens would only come as close to seven points following the 3-point field goal.
"Jasmine Franklin really provided a spark in the second half that our team needed," Garrity said. "Jaclyn Moore had a really good game for us in the post, she was a big defensive presence and very efficient on the offensive end. Lesley Woods continues to shoot the ball very well from the outside."
AU's 47 rebounds for the day is its highest total since its 78-71 win over Mars Hill on Jan. 15 (49), as the plus-24 rebounding margin was its highest of the season.
The Trojans are now 8-1 this year when scoring more than 70 points for a game, as they move to an even 6-6 record in the SAC. For the game, AU shot 42.4 percent from the floor (28-66), as the Trojans move to 6-3 when shooting more than 41 percent from the floor.
In the all-time series, Anderson has now won five-straight games over the Royals, rekindling a rivalry for the first time since the 2010 Conference Carolinas Championship game, when AU knocked off Queens, 62-52 at the Abney Center on March 6, 2010.
Anderson looks to end the month of January on a high note when it welcome SAC leader Carson-Newman to the Abney Center on Wednesday. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m.


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TARP, and our Adventures in Wonderland, 2010
As hoped and predicted, TARP was quite a success, as this NYT story today recounts, and the government will break even, or even make a bit on the deals, which despite various flaws helped rescue the economy and save jobs and alleviate greater suffering.Yet, as the WaPo story shows, the program is wildly unpopular with the public and pols are running away from it. What kind of upside-down world is this? I suppose a large part of this, as with health care reform and Obama's "Muslim" faith, is about right-wing propaganda tainting something or someone so completely they can never recover, no matter what the facts.But it doesn't bode well for the long-term health of political discourse, it seems to me.
About the Author
David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and author of The Coming Catholic Church (HarperOne) and The Rule of Benedict (HarperOne). He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Ah...the old stand by "right wing propoganda" which of course is at odds with the left wing propoganda found in this spin piece.Did TARP prevent some banks and financial organizations from collapse? Absolutely. BRAVO...everyone join Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi in patting themsleves on the back.However, as a famous sports broadcaster is found of saying "...not so fast, my friend".TARP rescued bad managers and financial organizations from their own failures. I can bail out my grown children from financial mistakes too but does it treat the underlying bad behavior? More often than not, that answer is "no". I am merely "carrying them" until the next series of bad decisions.TARP, despite the profit, has come with significant negative costs. It has preserved the structure of the banking system in its current, over-concentrated, too-big-to-fail form. The risk managers and risky behavior are essentially still in place. All TARP has done is subsidize the exsiting system that ended in near failure. And one day that bill may come due, in the form of another costly crisis.TARP is a bandaid America - it rescued a failed system and then left it in place.
Darrell, not sure where the left-wing spin was -- in the post or in the news stories? You seem to agree with the facts about TARP. So not sure where the spin is. Certainly wider financial reform is good and necessary -- and has been opposed down the line by the GOP, if I recall. (Though I have doubts the Democratic measures go nearly far enough.) So what are you saying would have been better? Not to enact TARP, and then...?
TARP is a bandaid America it rescued a failed system and then left it in place.Darrell,Are you saying it would have been better to let the whole system collapse so we could start over? Or are you saying the government should have reorganized the whole system? If you think the economy is bad now, imagine what it would be if the system had been allowed to collapse. And if you think the government should have radically reorganized the system, where would the votes come from to do such a thing? Certainly no Republican would have voted for any such thing.
TARP was about avoiding catastrophe. The Financial Reform bill has been about fixing a broken system. It's dubitable that both could have been achieved in a single bill. We needed some distance to be able to gauge the problem (and the solution) properly. What are your thoughts on the financial reform package?
It does seem to me that virtually no effort has been made by the Obama administration or the Democrats to educate the American people about the economics of the financial crisis and what was done to cope with it. I do not understand this gross failure to communicate with citizens.
I thought the article and the above comments do a good job pointing out why TARP was necessary and why we all loathe it. I don't think there is anything inconsistent about resenting having to bail out an industry so richly undeserving of assistance.Wasn't TARP Bush Administration, though?
Yes, TARP was an initiative of the Bush administration, so this shouldn't necessarily be a left-right issue, though certainly most Republicans in both houses opposed it (though it did have what we might call bipartisan support -- not sure of the vote tallies -- anyone?)
The right wing did the same thing with Clinton but people were working, keeping their houses, gaining on their investments so they did not buy it. When people are not working they will look for anything. The other part is as it was in health care the democrats are not good at selling what they have accomplished. It is all about soundbites. So far Sarah Palin who is showing herself as a sleaze opportunist and others are winning the soundbite war.
C'mon David - this is a general article with no substance - show the statistics (the facts) - let's see the ledger - and don't count your chickens before they're hatched about AIG - the banks who were bailed out are more arrogant now than ever - they have cut credit and jacked up interest rates - that's how it would have been without TARP - so who was helped - TARP allowed us as a government to continue to spend, but we the people can't spend because we have no money - I would have liked to see the USA showing its greatness and surviving without TARP - Europe and Asia definitely would have floundered in this global economy without TARP - but we always seem to prop up the world and then NATO tankers are attacked in Pakistan.
Bill M has it right. when there was Clinton propriety the fear mongers pitch was muted. There was and is a 'right wing propaganda' machine. It is motivated by people who feel 'America as we know it, has been taken over' .They no longer were rewarded by the financial bubble where their house equity was a cash machine. This created an energy for them to blog, organize, and create fear well beyond their numbers.. How else can one explain how some sleazy and some other plain ignorant crop of Tea party candidates were able to chase the country club Republicans out of office. If they take over the House they will use the investigating power to smear more people. We ain't seen it all yet.
" The risk managers and risky behavior are essentially still in place. All TARP has done is subsidize the exsiting system that ended in near failure."Darrell --I was with you up to the above. We are not out of the woods yet by far. However, I'd say the action taken was more like a touniquet, simple effective, but not solving all problems. Yes, the same managers were put into place, but Congress -- liberal and conservative -- had to act immediately and there was no time to remove the bad guys and put good guys in. (Are there any good bankers? Ouch. You can see where my prejudice lies!) Further, even conservative economists now know more now Wall Street works than they did in 1929. Even Alan Greenspan, the former respected chairman of the Fed, said (and I heard him myself on TV) that he was wrong -- that the market does not always correct itself. I admire him enormously for admitting his mistakes. Few people are big enough to do that, and his mistakes (lending too much money too fast) were humongous.Congress has restored some of the regulation of those financial factors, so we (except, of course, for the people out of jobs) are in better shape than before because we are wiser than before. At least we should be wiser. But it requires that we also admit our mistakes, our going along with the popular but contradictory notion that you can borrow your way out of debt problems by ignoring the problems (i.e., not paying off credit cards and not paying taxes). These are bitter pills for a people who likes nothing more than to spend money, but they must be recognized and swallowed.
jim s., the accounting as it stands shows that the program will cost nothing like the $700 billion figure, and is likely to break even. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/10/01/business/01tarp.html?ref=bu... So I'm not sure how you deal with these figures.
While we are blasting the investment banks, insurance companies, and Wall Street, we should remember that huge amounts of retirement money was and is still invested in banks, insurance companies and Wall Street. We didn't complain as they made lots of money, And most of us were surprised when the melt down happened.What we should have learned is that we all need to put some effort into learning some economics. By that I mean that we shouldn't wait for lessons in it from the Pres. of the U. S. That isn't his job, except to confirm how he sees what happened and to explain his plans for dealing with it. It is up to us to understand what he is talking about. This is my conservative side speaking -- the side that says Do not expect the government to do everything for you! If I can understand the basics of economics, then it really isn't all that difficult. And we should insist that it be taught in the high schools as a requirement.
David G, thanks for highlighting this good news. If TARP breaks even or turns a profit, then surely it would be in the running for one of the most successful government programs ever, anywhere.It's worth reiterating that TARP has been bipartisan, passed by both Democratic and Republican legislators, and administered by successive Republican and Democratic administrations.Would that Washington worked like this more often.
I think David's point about the continuing demise of public discourse is the real kicker here and is demonstrated in the comments.Defenders of the righ tare apologists for ideology not civil discourse and that, I submit, undermines the patriotism they so loudly wrap themselves in.On NPR this morning, the local GOP defender of the Reppublican gubernatorial candidate is quoted in defending the attack on the NY Post reporter by sayying "this is war; there's nor room for civility."That strikes me as the mindset -ideology trumps intellectual honesty every time!
Jim Pauwels - where are the facts that TARP will break even or turn a profit? Is it a secret program? Can you name one government program ever that broke even or turned a profit?
jim. s -- Like we say at the tabloids, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!" What is your evidence against the evidence presented today?
As Chait noted today, over at the notorious leftist outfit the Frum Forum, writes a post titled, "AIG Exit Plan Proves Obama's No Socialist":http://www.frumforum.com/aig-exit-plan-proves-obamas-no-socialist
DavidThe issue is considerably more complex than TARP. There at least two overarching matters which seem to be at the heart of the public's anxiety and have nothing at all to do with right wing propaganda. The first is the widespread concern regarding the magnitude of annual deficit. It was extensive and irresponsible under Bush and is equally extensive and irresponsible under Obama. The current administration is no different than the last. Both spend on wars, social programs and economic bailouts without raising taxes to finance these things. People have every right to be worried. They sense that if the deficits are not brought under control by reduced spending (such as may be achieved getting out of Afghanistan) and higher taxes (such as may be achieved by bringing the top marginal income tax rate back to 70% where it was in the early '80's), then it is a certainty that the debt will be monetized-said differently the debt problem will be solved by a rapid and high rate of inflation. The public is not stupid. They know that the burden of high inflation falls mainly on the middle and lower classes while the rich always escape.The second issue is what's hitting people's pocket books right now. Not just the people who are unemployed or underemployed, but the far larger element of the population who are fully employed or retired. The resentment and even anger has to do with the Federal Reserve and Obama administration's manipulation of short term interest rates which are now near zero. Middle class Americans have more than $7 trillion tied up in money market mutual funds and almost as much in bank and other fixed income accounts. The zero rate means that each year the middle class is losing somewhere between $20-$40 billion in interest income. For working people this comes out of their retirement savings. For retirees, this comes out of their current income. Once again, people are not stupid. They know that these low rates are a way to transfer wealth from themselves (the middle class) to the likes of CitiBank and Goldman Sachs. The near zero cost of money to the financial institutions produces high profits-a portion of which are distributed to their executives and employees just as was occurring before the crisis. Is it any wonder that people are angry?Right wing propaganda may fuel the flames, but there is a hard reality affecting people that for some strange reason politicians and pundits simply do not understand or simply do not have the courage to address.
David - you use the line often regarding facts - that it is written in the New York Times does make it a fact no matter how hard you want to push the liberal agenda - I know the Times is gospel to you - what evidence is in the article that shows we will break even or make money other than the New York Times saying so - I say the opposite - the preponderance of evidence is on my side since you have not identified a government program that ever broke even or created a surplus.
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Charles Ladner: I don't think the issue is much more complicated than TARP, though right-wing talking points would make it so.jim s.: I'm not citing the Times or any other outlet as gospel. Just referring to the -- I admit -- government-released figures. But if the paranoid style is alive and well, I guess alien abductions aren't so far-fetched. Weird, I thought this post could prompt some discussion of the anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism in American culture. Instead it underscores that current.
If TARP breaks even or turns a profit, then surely it would be in the running for one of the most successful government programs ever, anywhere.Of course, that doesn't take into account the potential cost of the disaster that was averted by such intervention. A failure of AIG alone would have undermined economies world-wide. I often wonder how close we came to a total meltdown of the global financial system.
The zero rate means that each year the middle class is losing somewhere between $20-$40 billion in interest income. "Mr. Ladner --I don't understand how this works. Could you explain, please.
The WSJ has an article today on TARP and AIG (which was partially funded by TARP). The headline (p.C1) says, "AIG, U.S. Agree on an Exit Deal; Making it Work Will Be Tougher". The article says it expects that the US will not recoup everything. However, it has already recouped 100% of the money from the Targeted Investment Program and and the Legacy Security Public-Private Investment Program, so you could say those were two successful government programs. The Capital Purchase Program [for the banks] has recouped about 3/4 of the program so far. The auto industry monies are not doing so well -- only 11.2 B of 79.7 B have been repaid. And there is still AIG . Both AIG and the gov't. are optimist that the US won't lose money on the deal.
AnnYou asked how the zero rate is hurting the middle class. Well, there is about $7.0 trillion in money market mutual funds-almost all of this, is held in the 401K and direct accounts of middle class people. In addition, there is about $7.5 trillion of deposits (FDIC insured) in banks and savings institutions. This too is held largely by middle class people. (see Charles Schwab article in today's Wall Street Journal). The total of these two asset classes is $14.5 trillion, and if you assume that the short term interest rate, if not manipulated by the Fed, would find its historic market equilibrium of 1.5% - 3.0%, then the lost annual interest income is in the range of $21.8 billion to $43.5 billion.The impact of this policy created and managed by the Federal Reserve and fully supported by the Obama Administration, is to have implemented one largest wealth transfers in U.S history- from the middle class to the banks and their bonus babies.David, I know you find it hard to believe that voter discontent is not necessarily ideological in its origins, but rather a function of people's economic situation. However, I would repeat that people are not stupid. They know what is happening to them, they understand the unfairness, and they know that it is the Obama administration that is bringing this upon them. The success or failure of the TARP program or the rantings of Glenn Beck and his crew are irrelevant to the vast numbers of people who, rightfully or wrongly, perceive that they are in the grip of an administration determined to destroy their economic well being.
Why is the fact that TARP will "almost break even" or even "make a little profit" considered cause for rejoicing? We lent out $700 billion for a few years and we're getting it back...so what...a businessman would still consider that a bad deal. Can you imagine the risk premium a private individual with $700 billion would have extracted? He/she would have literally made the (mostly wealthy) people who were the primary beneficiaries of this sign over their first-born sons, and grandsons, and so on to the 10th generation. Instead, we are supposed to be happy because we're getting "almost all" of our money back, while the mega-rich whine and complain that raising their tax rates to Clinton-era levels is comparable to the Nazi invasion of Poland. Wake up...we got hosed, and we're still getting hosed.
Charles --Thanks for the explanation of the lost interest each year. But about the fairness issue -- it seems to me that the very people who have their investments in those 401Ks and bank investments are in large part the very people who bought houses that they couldn't really afford and who ran up their credit card debt. These factors loomed large in the melt down. So aren't these people partly responsible for their own plight?I'll grant you that depression babies like me have little sympathy for people who squander their money, not save it. And perhaps that is a lesson one learns only by hard experience. But I think the fact remains that the melt down is not totally unfair to the spend-thrifts. Capitalism is a machine with very deterministic laws, so it performs well or badly depending on what we use it for.
Now that I think of it, I wonder what percentage of the Tea Partiers were savers rather than squanderers? Are they really mad at *themselves* and have transferred their anger on to the gubment? Or did they spend wisely plus save and now are rightly outraged? Anybody got any figures?
How far has the Obama Admin. financial intervention to overcome the Bush crash come? Exactly 48 days [March 9 2009] after Obama took over, the Dow bottomed at 6500. Obama administration brought both calm and initiatives. And they are working, unless you are part of the right wing propaganda machine. Dow is now approaching 11,000, almost a 70% increase. When unemployment, a lagging indicator gets to 8% next year, 2012 Dem. re-election will be insured.
" we are supposed to be happy because were getting almost all of our money back, while the mega-rich whine and complain that raising their tax rates "MEP --These are two different issues. Yes, we should rejoice we're not in a depression. But we also have a right to be angry that the some are profitting outrageously from the means to avoid a depression. Why are the new regulations not good enough? Well, we can blame it all on the huge majority of Republicans who refused to take reasonable actions, but we also need to ask: where do the nay=sayers get their power from? I say the fundamental problem is the requirement for 60 votes to break a fillibuster. That is not part of the Constitution, it's only a Congressional rule. That 60 figure must be reduced.
AnnAs to the fairness issue, I too have little sympathy for those who bought houses that they could not afford only to see the market value of their houses fall below their mortgage value. However, I doubt that there is much commonality between this group of people (the financially reckless), and those who are either savers or retirees. Certainly the financially reckless are well represented among the Tea Partiers, but I suspect that it is the much larger group of savers and retirees-mostly silent-whose issues are totally ignored by this as well as the last administration, who in their anger and frustration will determine the outcome of the upcoming election.
"However, I would repeat that people are not stupid. They know what is happening to them, they understand the unfairness, and they know that it is the Obama administration that is bringing this upon them. "Pure rubbish. People are very stupid, and a prime example is the number of middle and lower-middle class people who have bought into the idea that the Federal Reserve is the cause of their economic problems, as you are trying to argue. There is nothing in Charles Schwab's article that even attempts to make the argument that the middle class is being hurt by low interest rates, as it would be such a laughably disingenuous argument that even readers of WSJ would guffaw. The reality is that "close to half of the American population does not have any net worth to speak of." http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/are-we-a-nation-of-property... you cannot figure out how higher interest rates would hurt those people, then you are beyond help.
MEP"pure rubbish"..."disingenuous"..colorful language! However, adjectives are no substitute for facts. "Close to half of the American population does not have any net worth to speak of." Correct. This means that more than half of the population does have some net worth and it is this segment to whom my observations apply. These are the savers and retirees. These are the people that are damaged by interest rates close to zero. Many of these people-especially the retirees- depend on interest income to finance their daily needs.These people are not happy and politicians ignore them at their own peril. As for Schwab's article, here is part of what he says about the impact of near zero interest rates on savers (i.e. the middle class). "The Fed's super-loose policy has driven down the security and spending power of savers, particularly those in retirement who played by the rules during their working years and now depend on earnings from their savings for a decent quality of life." You should read the entire article with care. You will learn a great deal. not only about how the near zero rates hurt savers, but also how these artificial rates serve to reduce lending, thus hurting all borrowers, small business and ultimately employment levels. Schwab calls these rates "counterproductive" and I agree.
Charles and MEP -- We old folks are generally well aware of what we get from government programs. I suspect that the coming elections will be determined by who votes more heavily -- the younger savers (Tea Partiers) who have yet to see any government checks or the non-rich retiree-savers who get both Soc. Security and Medicare. I don't see the latter voting Republican at all, at all. And the children of old folks who are totally dependent on Soc. Sec. and Medicare will also want those programs to continue.


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'Mama Bird' Evelyn Johnson Dies At 102; Logged 7 Years Of Flight Time
Evelyn Bryan Johnson, a record-setting pilot who was born just six years after the Wright brothers made their historic flight, has died at the age of 102. Johnson, who began flying in 1944, holds the Guinness world record for the most hours logged by a female pilot — more than 57,000.
In addition to her accomplished flying record, Johnson also helped many other pilots earn their wings. After one student called her Mama Bird, the nickname stuck with Johnson, as she gave lessons and FAA flight exams to thousands of pilots.
Johnson made an impact on aviation that will last beyond her years — by her own estimation, she trained some 5,000 pilots, including many who are today flying commercial jetliners and cargo planes.
"Two of them turned out to be vice presidents of US Air," she told NPR's Scott Simon back in 2003. "One of them was a 30-year pilot for FedEx; one of the girls flies for American out of New York; some of the other girls fly for United, Delta. There's lots of girls, as well as boys."
Johnson lived in Morristown, Tenn., where she was the longtime manager of the Moore-Murrell Airport — a position she held beyond her 100th birthday, and seemingly up to the time of her death Thursday.
Update at 7 p.m. ET: We've added audio to the top of this post — a remembrance from Charlie Mayer, NPR's director of operations. Charlie was Scott's producer when they visited Johnson in Tennessee; he also later flew with her. His story aired on All Things Considered Friday.
As the AP reports, "Johnson was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, in 2007. At that time, she had been flying for 55 years and had spent the equivalent of seven years in flight."
Those flights included several exploits, as Johnson told TAP TV last year. There was the time she flew in a race from Washington, D.C., to Havana, Cuba; the two times her engine failed, forcing her to land in fields; the flight that ended smoothly despite an engine on fire. Johnson also became one of the first women to earn a helicopter pilot's license, joining a group known as the Whirly Girls.
In 1958, Jonson's quick action after witnessing a helicopter crash earned her recognition from the Carnegie Hero Fund. The injured pilot was still in the wreckage when Johnson crawled beneath the whirling blades to turn off the machine's motor. She then sprayed the wreck with a fire extinguisher to prevent an explosion.
At the time of her death, Johnson had flown more than any other living pilot. She spoke with Scott Simon on the occasion of her 94th birthday, when she told him how flying airplanes always helped clear her head of life's worries.
"It's a different world from anything else. When you get up there and you fly around, everything is so beautiful. It's just wonderful like that," she told Scott. "And then, while you're up there, you forget about your problems while you're up. You've still got 'em, but that doesn't matter, you've had a little rest from it. It's just a wonderful thing."
That interview took place six years before Johnson's hundredth birthday — an occasion she said she was looking forward to. Johnson told Scott how she'd like to spend the day.
"Here's what I'd like: Willard Scott will be telling about me being 100 years old," she said. "But I wouldn't hear him — because I'd be up flying."
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I am in the following situation. I have two (rather explicit and specific) dg commutative algebras $R,S$ over a field of characteristic $0$. In fact, $S$ is an $R$-algebra, in that I have a map $R \to S$. Because I am interested in computing some derived tensor products $S \otimes_R$, I have worked out a "Koszul" resolution $\tilde S$ of $S$ over $R$. So all seems well.
But! Actually, $S$ and $R$ are both Gerstenhaber algebras (in dg vector spaces; the differential and the Gerstenhaber bracket point in opposite directions), and the map $R \to S$ is a homomorphism of Gerstenhaber algebras. My problem is that I have been so far unsuccessful at giving the resolution $\tilde S$ a Gerstenhaber structure such that the resolved map $R \to \tilde S$ is a homomorphism of Gerstenhaber algebras.
This leads me to two questions. The second question depends on the answer to the first.
Question 1: Does there necessarily exist a resolution of $S$ that computes the derived $S\otimes_R$ and that is Gerstenhaber in a compatible way?
Question 2 if the answer to 1 is YES: How do I construct it?
Question 2 if the answer to 1 is NO: Certainly my homotopy equivalence $S \leftrightarrow \tilde S$ allows me to move the Gerstenhaber structure on $S$ to something on $\tilde S$. What structure on $\tilde S$ does it move to?


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When we pray, does Jesus hear us? Is there a direct point of contact or is it received by all three persons of the trinity simultaneously?
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There is no way to know for certain, and given that God knows your prayers before you pray them, if you will, before the foundation of the world, the direct path of your prayer is somewhat immaterial.
Those who dwell in him, indeed, must also have this knowledge as well; but in a more limited fashion since they are not God.
For the second part, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit fully indwell one another, thus aside from the aspect of incarnation, it is impossible to make such a distinction.
Short answer: My understanding is that "we pray to the Father, in the name of the Son, with the help of the Spirit."
Scriptural Justification:
Let's say you write a letter to the CEO of a company: one important thing you need is the address. Even if you take it there in person, you first meet the front desk manager/assistant or receptionist. The letter goes through him or her before it is handed over to the boss.
Jesus is the address or the receptionist, the path.
The Holy Spirit is God's active force that we pray for, for him to use to empower us and direct us to carry out his works.
Well don't try to imagine that there is Complicated Prayer System or algorithm in heaven.
Just hold this very word of Jesus:
The prayer path is simple one: ask and you'll receive the answer.
Please read Luke 11:1-13 so we may understand what was exactly Jesus trying to teach us regarding prayer. Let us beware so that our intelligent didn't hinder us from understanding God.
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First, let us see what's Jesus intention:
The possible question arises in the people's mind is: What's the difference between this kingdom of God with all the world's kingdom so that it's important to be preached?
Jesus provide the answer through Lord's Prayer as we already know it:
Unlike all the world's kingdom, God, the King himself is our Father. The hassles (path, system, rules, algorithm, laws) we going through to speak (pray) to the King is present no more. I believe everyone here can easily talk to their own father.
Examples some of the hassles before the time the kingdom of God is preached:
In the evening in Galilee.
Disciples: Rabbi, how's the rules (path, system, algorithm, laws) so that our prayer reach God (King)?
Jesus: It's simple, there's no rule, just go and talk to Him. He's our Father after all.
I hope it helps. God bless you.


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The concept is a nod to James' systematic Keltner Test, which is named for former Indians third baseman Ken Keltner, a seven-time All-Star who's best known for his defensive work in helping to end Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941. James' test is a set of 15 questions that can be used to frame a player's case for Cooperstown. One of the most important: "Is he the best player at his position who is eligible for the Hall of Fame but not in?" [emphasis in original]Given the recent elections of players such as Roberto Alomar, Bert Blyleven, Barry Larkin and Ron Santo who could make such a claim, an annual crop of new candidates, and tweaks to the JAWS methodology, the answers to that question change with some frequency, making it worthwhile to take another trip around the diamond for what I like to call the Keltner All-Stars.Catcher (49.3 career WAR/32.0 peak WAR/40.7 JAWS): Mike Piazza (56.1/40.7/48.4)A 12-time All-Star who can lay claim as the best-hitting catcher of all-time, Piazza is in his first year on the ballot. Even with his throwing woes, he's tied with Yogi Berra for fifth in JAWS. He doesn't appear likely to be elected this year, polling around 60 percent in Baseball Think Factory's voter straw poll, but that's a strong enough debut that he should gain entry within a few years. Ivan Rodriguez (63.7/37.8/50.7, third among catchers) won't become eligible until 2017, so if Piazza does go in before then, the mantle falls to Joe Torre (54.2/35.2/44.7, seventh among catchers), who spent more time at catcher (903 games) than any other position, but more time at first and third base combined (1,302 games) than behind the plate. A nine-time All-Star who won the NL batting title and MVP honors in 1971, Torre additionally has six pennants and four world championships to his credit as a manager, and may well be elected via either the 2014 Expansion Era ballot or the 2015 Golden Era ballot, assuming the Hall doesn't change its rules once again.First Base (62.3/40.7/51.5): Jeff Bagwell (76.7/46.7/61.7)A five-time All-Star who earned NL MVP honors in 1994 and put up impressive numbers despite spending much of his career in the Astrodome, Bagwell ranks sixth among first basemen in JAWS. In his third year of eligibility, he's gaining momentum among the electorate (67.4 percent in the BTF poll), though he's likely going to have to wait at least one more year. Once he does get in, the honor at the position will fall to Bagwell's birthday twin, Frank Thomas (69.7/.43.7/56.7, ninth among first basemen), a two-time AL MVP who reaches the ballot next year.Second Base (66.0/42.8/54.4): Bobby Grich (67.3/44.3/55.8)For stat-minded fans of a certain age, Grich's absence from Cooperstown ranks among the great injustices of the universe, making him the keystone equivalent of Santo. From 1970 through 1986, he combined good power with excellent plate discipline and outstanding defense while playing on five division-winning teams in Baltimore and Anaheim. Grich earned All-Star honors six times, won four Gold Gloves and led the AL in homers and slugging percentage during the strike-shortened 1981 season. Unfortunately, injuries — including a herniated disc caused by carrying an air conditioner up a stairway — cost him about a season's worth of playing time and forced him into retirement after his age-37 season. Between that and his 13 percent walk rate (en route to a .371 on-base percentage), he finished his career with just 1,833 hits, a total that appears to be an impediment to election, given that no player from the post-1960 expansion era with fewer than 2,000 hits has been elected.The great injustice took place in 1992, when Grich debuted on the Hall of Fame ballot and received just 2.6 percent of the BBWAA vote, less than the 5.0 percent needed to stick around. Since then, he has yet to appear on a Veterans Committee ballot, but hopefully, he'll be on the 2014 Expansion Era one. Just behind Grich, and suffering a similar one-and-done fate among BBWAA voters, is Lou Whitaker (71.4/36.5/54.0), who paired with Alan Trammell in the Tigers' middle infield for nearly two decades. Speaking of which . . .Shortstop (63.1/41.0/52.1): Alan Trammell (67.1/43.3/55.2)An outstanding two-way shortstop who was somewhat overshadowed by Hall of Fame contemporaries Robin Yount and Cal Ripken, Trammell was a six-time All-Star and the 1984 World Series MVP. Robbed of the 1987 AL MVP award, he has gone unappreciated on the ballot since 2002; only last year did he even climb above 25 percent, to a whopping 36.8 percent. Trammell ranks 11th among shortstops in JAWS, tied with Derek Jeter (but with a peak that's 2.3 WAR higher), and two rungs ahead of 2013 inductee Barry Larkin.Third Base (64.9/41.8/53.4): Graig Nettles (62.8/40.1/51.5)This one's a little trickier if we look past Edgar Martinez (64.4/41.8/53.1), who created significant value at third before being shifted to the DH role to preserve his Cooperstown-caliber bat. Nettles ranks 13th in JAWS at the hot corner, below future eligibles Chipper Jones (fifth), Scott Rolen (10th) and Adrian Beltre (12th). A six-time All-Star who played on five pennant-winning teams for the Yankees and Padres (with additional stops elsewhere), he admittedly falls a little short of Hall-worthy, but he was a spectacular fielder whose defensive metrics (134 runs above average) match the legend, and who provided plenty of pop and patience at the plate.Leftfield (61.7/39.7/50.7): Barry Bonds (158.1/71.1/114.6)Owner of a record seven MVP awards as well as the highest WAR total of any player besides Babe Ruth or Cy Young, Bonds doesn't appear likely to gain entry on the first ballot thanks to the PED allegations that surround the second half of his career and polarize so many fans, media members and voters. He's currently at 44.9 percent in the BTF straw poll, high enough to suggest he'll reach Cooperstown in a few years, warts and all. Now, the question is whether he'll beat Tim Raines (66.2/41.1/53.7, eighth among leftfielders) to the dais. A seven-time All-Star and an on-base machine who holds the record for the best stolen base success rate in baseball history, Raines is polling above 60 percent in his sixth year on the ballot. We know he's going to make it, but the question is when — just like the 3,200-odd times he reached first base in his career.Centerfield (67.1/42.5/54.8): Kenny Lofton (64.9/42.0/53.5)A six-time All-Star, five-time Gold Glove winner and a stellar leadoff hitter in his own right, the well-traveled Lofton ranks eighth among centerfielders in JAWS, a hair below the average Hall of Famer but still above the median among that group. He's in his first year on the ballot and in serious danger of getting lost in the crowd; the straw poll has him below 5.0 percent, and I couldn't find room for him on my virtual ballot either. Hopefully, he can get a longer look.Rightfield (69.5/41.3/55.4): Larry Walker (69.7/43.1/56.4)A three-time NL batting champion whose stats admittedly received a boost from spending his prime in high-altitude Colorado, Walker edges past the standard in rightfield even after adjusting for his environment and ranks ninth among rightfielders. Like Lofton, he may hold this distinction for a while; his candidacy is now in its third year, but he's polling under 15 percent at the moment, down even from the 22.9 percent he received last year.Starting Pitcher (67.9/47.7/57.8): Roger Clemens (133.9/64.0/99.0)Owner of seven Cy Young awards and the third-highest JAWS total of any starting pitcher, Clemens is tied with Bonds at 44.9 percent in his first year on the ballot due to PED allegations that he battled in front of a Congressional hearing, to no great benefit of his own. With fellow 300-game winners Greg Maddux (ninth in JAWS) and Randy Johnson (10th) becoming eligible in the next two years — along with Pedro Martinez (17th), Mike Mussina (30th), Tom Glavine (32nd) and fellow 2013 ballot newcomer Curt Schilling (29th) — voters will have no shortage of JAWS-approved starting pitchers to sort through.Relief Pitcher (37.9/26.7/32.3): Bobby Shantz (32.5/23.7/28.1) Until the still-active Mariano Rivera (52.7/27.9/40.3, second among relievers) becomes eligible, the honor of the highest-ranked eligible reliever belongs not to current ballot-dweller Lee Smith but to Shantz, a sidearm-tossing 5-foot-6 southpaw who ranks fifth in JAWS at the position, but below both the standard and the median. After some occasional success as a starter the Philadelphia A's in the early 1950s — including the 1952 AL MVP award — Shantz became a standout reliever for the Yankees, Pirates, Astros and Cardinals in the late 1950s and early 1960s. 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What is the best way to stream our band practices on uStream? Right now we are just using the microphone that came with our webcam.
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What is the best way to stream our band practices on uStream? Right now we are just using the microphone that came with our webcam.
What is the next step in improving the audio quality of our stream?
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The next step would be mic'ing up your entire band through one mixing console, like you would for a live show, and running a stereo mix out of the console and in to your computer via a line in on a sound card and streaming that mix.
You wouldn't necessarily need a full-on dedicated mixing console to achieve this. You might be able to get away with something like a Presonus FireStudio -- where you've got an audio interface without enough mic pres and inputs to handle your bands needs. If you lay out the band (instrumentation, vocals, etc.) I could give you a more detailed answer on how you'd want to mic it for mixing.
Buy a Zoom H1 and run a line out into your laptop and then change the zoom H1 to your default mic.
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In the past I have done some recording of my band (keyboard, vocals, bass, and drums) using only 1 microphone between the drums and the bass and keyboard/vocal amp. I was able to get a pretty good mix by moving the microphone and speakers around until the sound was fairly well balanced.
You should be able to get a really nice jump in quality without too much cost by simply adding a decent USB mic to the computer.
The next step up in cost is to add a USB interface with 1 or more inputs, which would allow you to plug some of the instruments in directly.
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There are no days where I'm not thankful for one thing or another.
Some days it's the big things - like life itself, God's love, my church, good health, family, this country we live in, freedom to make choices, a job I enjoy.
Other days, it's the little things - hot water in the shower, a good cup of coffee, a word of encouragement, laughter, barn therapy time with horses, a to-do list that suggests actual progress being made, HGTV, the invention of Fix-A-Flat, an umbrella that works, someone bringing doughnuts to work.
I'm thankful for this column space, too, this weekly opportunity to connect and bond with readers whether I ever actually meet you or not.
It's a job, yes, to conjure the words and craft the message to fill this space from Sunday to Sunday with whatever is going on in my little neck of the world, or with whatever thoughts have preoccupied my attention, but it's a privilege, too, one I don't take lightly.
With Thanksgiving's approach this week, I found myself thinking a lot about the word anticipation for some reason or other, maybe it's because we anticipate the holiday to be something special.
Anticipation is a good thing, I say, something I'm thankful I have an appreciation for in a world where instant gratification chips away at that a bit.
It does so in a not necessarily always bad way, but it tends to dull the Oh-I-can't-wait excitement of having to be patient a tad before an outcome.
Two examples of that quickly come to mind, including how as a kid I anticipated - looked forward to with expectant pleasure - when "The Wizard of Oz" would have its annual showing on television.
You had to actually wait to see it, maybe even mark the date on the calendar or dog tag the page in TV Guide in gleeful anticipation, and be patient for its arrival and this time of Dorothy and Toto and the Munchkins and more.
Now you just go buy the DVD and watch it whenever. Or fast forward to the scenes you like. And never mind the commercials.
Pictures were the other example I thought about.
Remember having to send film away and actually waiting days before you discovered some of your pictures were good, some of them not so hot?
The anticipation of seeing the results, that was part of the film fun in my book.
I can say lots of my days were good days just because I knew I was going to be picking up a pack of pictures at some point and quite possibly there would be something scrapbook or wallet worthy among the double prints I always seemed to automatically order.
Now it's click, click, boom.
Check the digital image right now. Delete that one. Keep this one. Carry on. Snap some more.
No need to wait.
No need to anticipate.
I think God wired us to be expectant people, to be anticipatory in a joyful way, to delight in not just the day-to-day pleasures and privileges we have, our bounty and blessings, but to ponder the prospect of good things to come.
So with that in mind, I anticipate my Thanksgiving will be a good one, and I trust yours will be, too.
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Role-playing game have been a staple of the video game industry for decades, and while they often share some similar themes and elements, it's a genre that has become increasingly difficult to define.
More often than not, however, role-playing games use some kind of battle system to give players a chance to fight their enemies and show off their ever-improving characters and skills. These systems came in all shapes and forms - Final Fantasy VI, for instance, has players trading turns with the enemy as they select abilities through a series of menus.
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The most defining aspect of a "traditional role-playing game" is the turn-based battle system. So are you telling us to design a turn-based battle system, or can we do ANY kind of battle system? I would assume the latter, except at the end of the challenge you say, as I quoted above, design a battle system for a "traditional role-playing game." If I designed combat like in Skyrim, would that be accepted?
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Anyone feel like sharing their idea? Might be fun to discuss. I didn't submit one.
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I have had bad luck with commercial hosting in the past and wish to make my own web server. I have heard Linux is the way to go. I was wondering what distro you would suggest and any tutorials i could follow.
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I personally suggest you consider checking out a VPS. Running your own server is much more expensive than you might think as you cannot generally use residential Internet connections to connect a server to the internet and uptime is a major concern as most good hosts have multiple, redundant connections and both battery and generator power backups.
To get started I personally like this walkthrough for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Nginx, PHP, and MySQL.
Choose a popular long-life distro such as RHEL, CentOS, Debian, or Ubuntu LTS. The two groups (RHEL and CentOS, and Debian and Ubuntu) each have their own ways of doing things, but reading RUTE is a good start to familiarizing yourself with Linux in general.
I would recommend using Debian or Ubuntu because im lazy and all you have to do is execute "sudo apt-get install apache2" in a shell. Then start creating your site in "/var/www/"
Iv set up a few servers for local businesses this way and for a domain i would recommend godaddy
Definitely go for Fedora. It's rock solid and quite fast. Debian isn't bad either.
For a quick setup, I'd go with Ubuntu's server package. The install wizard has a few standard options, so you can install a LAMP stack during (or shortly after) the OS installation.
I've used it once or twice for a home server and it's pretty easy to use. You may have to tweak some network settings, but other than that, it's relatively easy to get working. You can install a remote management system (I used Webmin at one point) or Putty into the server.
It doesn't generally come with a windowing system, though, so you'll have to use the console. It does run well on low-end hardware, however (ran a LAMP server on a 1ghz processor with 512 RAM and a 40 gig IDE HDD, with reasonable performance).
I'm doing the same thing. I was running my own setup with quite a few sites on it. We only had a DSL connection, but the sites loaded quite fast. I also ran email, FTP, and mysql db's. The hardware was two core duo systems running Ubuntu LAMP server. The savings over having it hosted on a dedicated server elsewhere was good, but I never calculated the cost of power usage. The whole thing came to a crashing halt just a little while ago because my router/firewall died. Many of the sites use SSL so I couldn't use just any router. I had made my own software router out of an old PC and 5 NIC's. I guess that was my big mistake - live and learn. We also have a backup generator, but no back up Internet. I'm thinking of trying it again, but doing it better this time. I can get a better Internet connection than before, but no redundancy is still a problem. I'm going to stick to dual core systems, and CentOS. I'm also going to add separate hardware for the mail server, and a better router/firewall. I still think this is a good way to go, but the argument can go either way. I guess the thing I would miss about hosting it elsewhere will be tech support that isn't me, and never losing the Internet connection.
I have to recommend getting a VPS from a provider such as Linode. I use their service myself and I couldn't be happier.
The choice in distro doesn't matter that much really, but Ubuntu probably has the most and the most user friendly information out there. If you want to check out how to setup an Ubuntu server on a VPS, this is an amazing resource (Linode again).
Personally from my own experience I would recommend Ubuntu Server edition on a VPS from a company such as BurstNET, very low cost, but a lot of learning is required to fully manage a server your own server. I would also recommend Virtualmin which is free and it installs all the major packages for running a web server, email, etc... and it gives you a easy to use web interface.
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The relative frequency distribution of the weights of all passengers using an elevator is mound-shaped, with mean $150$pounds and standard deviation $35$pounds. Suppose there are n passengers in the elevator, describe and explain the probability distribution of the total weight of n passengers in the elevator.
So, here's how I describe the distribution:
I let $X$ be the total weight of $n$ passengers.
I think that if $n < 30$, then $X$ follows T-Distribution with $n-1$ degrees of freedom.
If $n \geq 30$, by CLT, then $X$ follows a Normal Distribution.
I am also making an assumption that the weights of all passengers are normally distributed.
However, in the later parts of the same question, it asks to show the probability that the total weight of $12$ passengers in the elevator not more than $2000$ is $0.0495$. The only way to get the probability of $0.0495$ apparently is through a normal distribution. If I follow the way I described the distribution above, since $n = 12 < 30$, it should follow a T-Distribution, which yields the probability of $0.064$. But this is not a number the question wanted me to show.
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HENDERSONVILLE — John Rieger, of Carolina Village, passed away Sunday, Dec., 30, 2012, at Pardee Hospital. Born in Bischofszell, Switzerland, he was a son of the late John F. and Maria K. Rieger. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Gene H. Rieger, who died in 2010 and by a brother and two sisters.
He had lived in Woodbury, Ct., and Teaneck, N.J., before moving to Hendersonville in 1983. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University. After receiving his commission at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., he served aboard the USS Pensacola in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was Divisional Manager for Research and Development; Industrial Products with Uniroyal, Inc., for whom he held several patents.
He was a member of Hendersonville First Baptist Church, where he served as a Deacon and the Director of the Homebound Department. He was a member of the Gideons International, a Sunday School Teacher in New Jersey and Connecticut and a board member of the Hendersonville Rescue Mission.
Mr. Rieger is survived by his son, Bradford J. Rieger, of Branford, Ct.; two daughters, Karen R. Laidlaw, of Hillsdale, N.J. and Ellen R. Bryan, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren, a niece and a nephew.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, at the Carolina Village Hall. The Rev. Wally Shamburger will officiate. Burial will be held at a later date in Friendship Cemetery, Landisville, N.J.
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