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Sorry for asking a linear algebra question on a research forum, but this seems to be either a case of extreme blindness on my side, or a case of a result lying much deeper than it seems.
The following theorem is "easily seen" according to a text I have been reading (more precisely, it is part of Proposition I.1.2 in that text):
Theorem 1. Let $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$ be four vector spaces over a field $k$. Then, the canonical map
$\mathrm{Hom}\left(A,C\right)\otimes\mathrm{Hom}\left(B,D\right) \to \mathrm{Hom}\left(A\otimes B,C\otimes D\right)$,
$f\otimes g\mapsto \left(a\otimes b\mapsto f\left(a\right)\otimes g\left(b\right)\right)$
is injective.
I see how this is trivial if $A$ and $B$ are finite-dimensional. I also see that it is indeed easy if $C$ and $D$ are finite-dimensional. But without finite-dimensionality conditions I have nowhere to start. The $\mathrm{Hom}$ functor does not commute with direct sums, while $\otimes$ does not commute with direct products (or does it over a field?), so there seems to be no easy way to reduce it to finite-dimensional cases. How can we proceed then?
Also, is there any application of the above theorem outside of the two cases I mentioned?
To make this more interesting, how much is saved if we let $k$ be a commutative ring with $1$, and require (say) flatness instead of freeness?


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The game is Darts for the iPhone. It's OK but it's more like a simulation than anything I'd ever claim to be overtly "fun". I am looking for some ideas to spice up the gameplay. What are your thoughts?
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Let other people play it while you watch. Consider their reactions. Ask for their comments, and listen to them - this is surprisingly difficult.
Not knowing much about your game, it's difficult to give any more specific suggestions, but here are some that may or may not apply;
When I first looked at your game I immediately expected that I'd be able to hold my phone in my hand like I would a dart and make a throwing motion, in order to throw the virtual dart using the accelerometer. However, it doesn't look like you actually have that feature. I think that would be a pretty neat thing to add. Of course, not being able to see the screen when you're throwing would be something of an issue, and you might want to look into what liability you could be facing for basically encouraging people to almost throw their phones... Even so, I think it'd be a very novel and Wii-like way to play the game.


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Dan Kaercher learns there's more than ice cream to taste at this small town diner with BIG food. Goldie's Ice Cream Shoppe has an award-winning pork tenderloin sandwich.
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Kaercher: Even though this next stop is an ice cream shoppe, there's more than just the creamy cold stuff on the menu. In fact, you might not even have room for ice cream after you try their award winning sandwich. The buffalo roam the land near Prairie City, even serving as the welcome wagon for the Jasper County Community. This iconic small town, complete with required towering co-op, is now known by others around the state and beyond as a must-stop on the Iowa dining circuit.
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Kaercher: Dan Kaercher with Iowa Public Television. Our crew has been traveling around the state, and I've heard you serve a pretty good tenderloin here.
Worker: Yes, we do.
Kaercher: Can I speak to the owner?
Worker: Yes, I'll get him.
Kaercher: Goldie's in the shadow of the co-op but clearly stands out in this community.
Magg: Magg Combo, an Italian sausage sandwich, and a regular tenderloin.
Kaercher: Owner Brad Magg is young in age but a veteran in the kitchen.
Magg: I started my first business when I was fourteen. I started a catering business actually out of my parents' house. At one point they said this is enough, we're tired of catering equipment in our living room. So we built a commercial kitchen on our family farm between Colfax and Mitchellville. I started Magg Family Catering as a freshman in high school. I did that through high school, and I went to culinary school at DMACC in Ankeny. And I had this bad habit of going around to cool places that I liked and asking the owner what they were going to do when they retired or when they were going to retire. And Golda, I asked her that one day, and she said, "Well, whenever you buy the place."
Kaercher: Golda was the previous owner?
Magg: Golda was the original owner and the creator of Goldie's Ice Cream Shoppe. She said, "Well, whenever you buy the place, I'll retire." And we signed papers about a month later.
Kaercher: How did you come to perfect your tenderloin recipe?
Magg: You know, when you open a new business and everything, nothing goes quite as planned, so the kitchen wasn't done until the night before we were supposed to open. I'd already made the menus and printed the menus but didn't quite know what the recipes were for a few things. So I made a mad dash to the grocery store and bought quite a few things that I thought might be possible to use in a tenderloin recipe. And about six hours of breading and frying tenderloins, we came up with one that we thought was pretty good. Some things didn't work, however. Ice cream mix is not very good to use in tenderloins.
Kaercher: We know that's not the secret ingredient.
Magg: That one failed miserably. That wasn't good.
Kaercher: Once awarded the top tenderloin prize, the secret of his shop was out and business took off.
Magg: It doubled our business. We went from doing 300 tenderloins a week. We now do about 200 tenderloins a day. So that was a little boost in business. We -- for first two weeks of the award, we ran both the Altoona Fareway and the Ankeny Fareway out of pork loins. We actually had to have special shipments of cracker crumbs brought in because we couldn't keep up with the demand.
Kaercher: So you purchase your tenderized pork loins from the market, but you do the breading and the cooking.
Magg: Yeah. The great meat guys at Fareway, they slice and tenderize the pork loins for us, and then we bread them ourselves with our special recipe. We get customers from all over the state. Since the tenderloin award, we've had customers from all over the world. About once a week we have somebody from outside the county that comes in for lunch or for dinner. So we've made a lot of new friends and met a lot of cool people. But anybody, you know, family, kids, anybody that wants good food, they stop in.
Kaercher: You're open for lunch and dinner?
Magg: Lunch and dinner.
Kaercher: How many days a week?
Magg: Seven days a week. We're closed six days a year. So as long as you don't come on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, or Easter, we'll be here.
Kaercher: Well, it's kind of a small facility here, but you do a lot of to-go orders, right?
Magg: We do. Yeah, we only have five tables, but you'd be amazed how fast people can get in and out. There's normally not much more than a ten-minute wait if you do have to wait. We do about 30 percent of our business is to go. We have a drive-through, so with a van load of kids, you can just drive through and not even get out of your car. One of our things is the Magg Combo. It's where we take a tenderloin and put a cheeseburger on top of it on one bun. We also have the Mingo Special, which is our number one tenderloin with Italian Sausage on top and mozzarella cheese melted over it. So that's really good too. Where do I start? I want to get a little bit of everything here. After sampling the tenderloin, the Magg Combo, and the Italian Sausage, it was time to try one of the ice cream treats. After all, this is an ice cream shop. I guess I have to try some desert. I mean the things I do for this job, I just can't believe what I have to do for the cause. Oh, a banana split. Oooh, oh yeah! This was the brownie sundae. I think I'm feeling a little full at the moment. I can't imagine why.
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I know the equation that fits the given points is exponential. What is the best way to find the equation?
If you have an equation of the form $y=ae^{bx}$, you can think of it similarly as the points $(x,\log{(a)}+bx)$ and run a linear regression on this to find the choices of $(a,b)$.
Edit: You're running a linear regression on $(x, \log{(y)})$, which there are many methods. Once you get your $\log{(y)}$ values, just exponentiate them.
Perhaps you'll want to consider an exponential regression. Here is an online tool (very easy to use).
While taking the logarithm of the data and then doing a linear regression as suggested in aengle's answer above will give you a quick and dirty answer much of the time, the logarithmic transformation of the data changes the underlying statistical distribution of noise such that it may violate an important assumption underlying least squares methods, namely that the noise is approximately Gaussian-distributed. Also, if the data contains a zero, the logarithm is undefined and therefore you can't do the curve fit.
In practice, a nonlinear least squares fit is usually done instead. The method of Levenberg-Marquardt and "trust region" methods are fairly popular for this kind of fit, although there are many many ways to do it. Here is some example Mathematica code to fit the initial signal S0 and the rate constant R to the model S(t) = S0*e^(R*t) given a set of five data points and using a "trust region" method. Note that if you have good initial estimates of S0 and R, you should use them.
In[42]:= FindFit[{{0.001, 1268.5565625472284}, {0.002933333333333333, 840.0515614029605}, {0.004866666666666667, 581.1715538716999}, {0.0068, 374.3637645280635}, {0.008733333333333333, 360.71242247849415}}, S0*Exp[R*t], {{S0, 1000}, {R, 1.0}}, {t}, MaxIterations -> 50, Method -> {"Newton", StepControl -> "TrustRegion"}, AccuracyGoal -> 3, PrecisionGoal -> 3, WorkingPrecision -> MachinePrecision]
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Hi. Associated with a finite poset $P$, one can consider the poset $S(P)$, whose elements are the intervals of $P$, ordered by inclusion. (See Discrete version of Nullstellensatz? for some motivation why to look at this).
Does anyone know if there is an algorithm around which, given $P$, computes $S(P)$? I think it is not very difficult to come up with one, but I just want to know if it has already been implemented, say, in some computer algebra system, or studied in the literature.


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There are lots of recommendation services for books, or music, or movies. Is there any service that unifies these, so that if I rate some movies I can get recommendations for books?
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Try Hunch. Interesting project where people collectively create series of questions that will help you pick virtually anything.
amazon comes close. if you rate somewhere something, search for "something" on amazon and then you see what other people who were interested in "something" actually bought as well.
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You are either a French man or an arrogant burger eater, take your choice!
You are either a French man or an arrogant burger eater, take your choice!
It appears that there might be a problem with adding the MLS into a challenge.
Looking at the team information screen, there's no predicted finish so you're not going to be able to select the team predicted to finish bottom.
So probably not going to be able to include it.
Ah oh well Razer, MLS isn't that much of a challenge (to me) anyways.
Looking forward to your challenge.
And roberto, I'm neither! Can't speak French and only Americans love burgers so much they like eating them everyday, but not Canadians!!! We do love our hockey though...
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Been thinking about the MLS again and wondering if I included it, would selecting either of the teams that finished bottom of their respective conference the previous year be a reasonable option. What do people think about that?
I have an idea for a Football Agent sign-up. Basically 15 people would sign-up and have £20 million to spend on 5 players for the premiership. Then points will be awarded for any of your players winning trophys or individual honours. Also when this happens the forummer will receive a sum of money depending on the achievement for example if one of their players wins the world cup they may receive £10 million and if they win the Community Shield they may win £2 million. A forummer will also receive 10% of money generated by a transfer for one of their players. Players can be sold and bought by the forummer throughout the season with a maximum of 15 players being owned at once although you will start with 5 as stated above. Each players price is their value within the game so obviously that will either increase or decrease as the game goes on. Updates would be provided monthly consisting of a brief sentence on how each player that is owned is getting on. I will also provide the save game each month so that the forummers can have a look to see who they may want to purchase and who they want to sell. A leaderboard will be posted at the end of season as well
I have only just thought this idea up and so could need a bit of work so please post any comments and tell me if it has been done before, I have done a search
it's definitely a good idea SL, and i'd definitely be interested in signing up if I was giving the opportunity.
Sounds good super lampard
Sounds like a nice little idea Super Lampard, I'd be interested in participating.
Thanks for your support guys, i want to have a look around the game first but hopefully i will start it wthin the next few weeks
Sounds like a great idea! I would take part. It seems like everyone has posted their challenges within about 20 minutes!
Tell me about it \o/
Great idea Super Lampard. I'd be interested.
The battle of the managers
Here's an idea I came up with another site I'm a part of.
Every fortnight I set a team from anywhere in the world and then say "right, you have a fortnight, Whoever does the best in that season with them wins" And thus get 'X' amount of points?
Bit scatter shot on detail but I'm still developing.
Good idea or not
i'd say that that's basically ssestig's 20/20 challenge.
Love your idea Super Lampard, would love to sign-up
Lirim - Will it be a league or knockout (hands of ) etc. ?
I'm liking your idea Super Lampard
Anyhow I'd like to now go into a little detail about my proposed " Strictly French Football" sign up.
The plan is for an even number of people to sign up ( hopefully 20). Each signeruper, then creates their player ( any position). They then get randomly assigned a Club + Partner. The sign up will last around 10 years Fm time ( 17-27). Each year will be a round. The points will be decided by the average average rating of the two players as well as mini-competitions through out the year. The team with the lowest points score gets knocked out.
Other info
Will probably use middle 10 clubs ( e.g predicted 5th to 15th) although might use top 10
Players will have to balance their attributes e.g a 20 has to be complemented by a 1.
I think thats about it. Suggestions?
Sounds good
WW's FM09 Sign Up
Project XYZ - (Working Title)
Right, so it's this time of the year when loads of sign ups come out... but not mine yet. I can reveal that my FM09 sign up will be coming out in the run up to xmas, probably in the week or two leading up to the big day.
So what's its all about....
Well it takes inspiration from several of the best sign ups of the last few years - think of a mixture of:
* Bamble's OOTP Style Game
* bermybhoy's Dragon Den in Scotland
* Eurovision Striking Contest
* Shetland v Orkney Islands
* The Commentators Curse Vol I sign ups.
(credit will be given where necessary for ideas)
Can you tell what it is yet?!?!
No.... well I will reveal more in the next week or two, but the sign up will mean different roles for different people - with plenty of rivalries.
8 team captains, 8 vice captains and plenty of players.
Oh and the thread title is going to be fb (even if I do say so myself).
So this was just tantalising bait rather than any calls for ideas .
Tch, tell us more
cant wait
Sounds good, can't wait
WW, I have an idea of what the sign up will be like, can I PM it to you though, as posting it here may spoil your big surprise
Got an idea for my sign up, an improved version of one I helped with a bit for 08. Although it could be pretty hectic so I need ot sort out how it is going to work first. Well, I'd need ot PM the user first to sure I can do the sign up
Robert - the X Factor?
he didn't help at all with that
I know what it is, but i'll keep Robert's surprise/secret safe for now
1) I didn't help with that and 2) no
I'll be keeping my "secret" secret secret for now
For how much longer though?!
Not long hopefully
Hmm, looking through the archives and nothing seems to jump out at me :/
Sounds ambitious already WW. Reminds me that I completely abandoned the Dragon's Den
Might get back onto it seeing as I'll be FM09-less for a while yet.
sort of guessed a bit of it right \o/
well, as you know or should know, my 'The Mole' sign up has come to an unexpected ending rather prematurely. I will be doing an FM09 version, but not yet. The majority of the few sign-ups I have run have all been fairly interactive, requiring users to either post in the thread or PM/Email me information. I'm not saying I want to run a sign-up which will require less work, just something different.
I currently have a fairly good idea, but it like my other sign-ups is probably going to be very interactive, so whether or not I choose to go ahead and do it will depend.
Just wanted to post in here for advice, preferably from someone who is fairly experienced at running sign-ups.
Right, i've sort of got a base line of my idea in the above post. It is an ambitious project. Well, actually it's an extremely ambitious project. I don't think there has ever been anything like it before on the forum. My initial aim is to get 34 people on board in this ambitious project. However before I open it (don't know when that will be), i'd want to get as many regulars on board as possible.
Without giving away too much, the 34 people (34 is the maximum amount of people I can have, but I can have less if needed) will each have a massive amount of power available to them within the FM World. They will each have a huge amount of responsibility and their decisions could make or break them. They will not be a player, a manager or a Chairman.
Over the next coming days/weeks I will be trying to sort it out so I have a decent enough Opening Post for the new thread, which I don't know when will be out.
i have no idea as to what thats about but it sounds great
Dosent seem to be the invaision from GD that i was expecting so ive decided to bring my sign up forward and it should be out tonight. Hope to see a lot of you regulars taking part as its an interactive one.
I will be mikey, think you've been in a few of mine, hope it's a good one
Sounds good PaulHartman71. Can't wait!
yeah it seems good to me some credit must go to you though paul for introducing interactive sign ups and also to roberto for introducing sign up challenges
Go me Just gotta finish one of the damn things now
I just had an idea for a challenge. Okay, so you take control of the team predicted to finish bottom of the BSN/S. Then, with transfer regulations(not allowed to spend any money until you are in league 1 and then you can spend 2mil a season 4mil in champ and 10mil in Prem,) you must win the prem, fa cup, league cup, charity shield and champions league). Plus, you have to win the Setanta Shield etc.
I just tried this on 08 because I still havn't got 09 and I got Redditch(BSN - 22nd predicted) promoted first season, via the playoffs(3rd in league). This was mainly down to the numerous players I loaned from Birmingham(parent club).
Its really fun and I'm not sure whether to make it into a challenge.
I know it is quite similar to Dafuge's, so I'm not sure.
Some of you may remember birdy's last sign up, the premiership draft. I made the database for it to help speed things up and couldn't wait to get it to get started. Unfortunatle it stopped halfway through the first season.
I have got birdy's permission to use the idea for FM 09. Although I wouldn't just want to copy his idea so instead of making an order for people I want to make a kind of auction for players. With say a week to buy your keepers, a week for defenders, a week for midfielders and a week for strikers. However I realise the thread would get very messy and descend into a farce so the idea would need to be refined a bit, any ideas? I would also like to find a way to get as many regulars as possible because I can't be bothered doing the sign up for 5/10 responses although I can't exactly invite the regulars first.
Oh and while I'm here I have another idea, people stop posting that's a good idea when people ask for ideas as those posts are of no relevance whatsoever
think the auction would be really chaotic, what was Birdy's way. Not against you trying to make it different in picking the players, but I can't think of a sensible way of doing it at the moment.
Ok well DodgeeD beat me to it but still, it is a good idea.
Was really looking forward to birdy's but anyhow, I think doing an auction type thing is just asking for trouble really.
The easiest way I can think of would be to offer each player seperately in order of value (or anything else) for each position. So starting with the highest value GK and we all bid, then the next highest value and so on until we all have a GK, or two. Then do the same for defenders etc But that would be incredibly time consuming. Probably have to be closed bids as well otherwise all hell would break lose.
Paul, got no clue what your idea is, but it sounds interesting. I just can't figure out why 34 is an optimal number...
Robert_296 - I have no idea how birdy did it either, but how about some sort of 'silent auction'. Everyone could submit how much they're willing to bid for each player, and they go to the highest bidder. Obviously you'd need to set an overall budget, and it would take a lot of organising on your part just initially. How many players does each team get?
and people online more would get a better choice of players, so yeah not sure how that would work, but it's your decision.
But surely it'd be better to reward people that are contributing more?
yeah I know, maybe people could like bid for a cartain amount of players with a priority order and then the person with the highest bid gets them. Therefore you'd only get a couple of posts per week each. So for example say Paul had:
1. Ochoa £5 million
2. Lloris £7 million
3. Akinfeev £8 million
4. Ustari £4 million
and Ridleys had:
1. Cech £15 million
2. Ochoa £6 million
3. Robinson (Getting stuck for names :P) 2 million
4. Valdes £5 million
As Ridleys had offered more for Ochoa he would get Ochoa and Paul would then move down to his next priority for his third keeper and sign those players for his squad. Not a very good example but you get the jist? People would then edit their posts to prevent the thread from becoming clustered
He got a list of players and then got people to sign up. The people who signed up first got to pick their team first therefore getting all the best players
Right then, I've started planning my tournament, I've decided to be a bit selective this time due to the inactivity that ruined the last tournament, due to that it would be pretty much impossible to do a 32 team world cup so I have decided to stick with the European Championships format except there will be two big changes, instead of the group format that we started with last time it will be all knockout rounds, the second change is that the time limit will be taken from a week up to a week. Now heres the format I'm 99% certain will be used:
CSE European Championships
First Knockout Round: 16 teams: 8 challenges
Quarter Final: 8 teams: 4 challenges
Semi Final: 4 teams: 2 challenges
Third Place Playoff: 2 teams: 1 challenge
Final: 2 teams: 1 challenge
If you have any ideas feel free to post them, I'll be grateful for any ideas
Doesn't matter Robert, I read it wrong.
Yeah, you would need several 'rounds' of bidding until everyone got a full compliment of players. That could be quite interesting, as you could be very tactical and bid extremely low for some players you think no-one else would go for, and way over the top for the supoerstars.
However, it might go on indefinitely
whoopy D, it sounds like a good idea but it would go on way too long. Bermy, so after each round of bidding everyone's bids would be revealed?
Me and bermybhoy have both suggested exactly the same thing but in different words,no?
roberto, it looks good.
Already got some ideas for the challenges.
I thought I was never gonna get an answer
:S yeah sorry, not having a very good day today Might be best to try and have a think about it tomorrow. I was thinking they bid for the players they want with priorities and they sign the first 3 available but as some people may be left without any keepers there would be anothe round of bidding for the other players until everyone has 3 keepers. Not perfect at all but I really can't see any way of making this perfect. It is just that people who got to pick first in Birdy's had a huge advantage
Yeah I know what you're saying, I was pretty happy with my team in birdy's but then again I was about 4th on the list so
Ahem, right then now that I have your attention, like I said in the post that no one saw (twice ) I'm gonna be more selective with the CSE European Championships to ensure it is alot better this time so I want to get a few people on board before I put it on the forum, this time I want the people that are on most days, post regularly and are good on FM. Just stick your name on the list if you want to take part and I'll be PMing a couple of the people that I really want on the challenge that don't really post on this thread. FWIW out of the lads that look on this thread that I'd like to take part are (not limited to though) Robert_296, PaulHartman71, Rancer890, DodgeeD, Walcott\'s_Wonderkids and bermybhoy, obviously I know that not all of you will have time to do it but its only one season every two weeks so it should be more than manageable.
Unfortunately I'd be out. Not looking likely to get the game until I'm home at Christmas now quite apart from anything else.
It'll be starting at the new year most probably.
As much fun as the last one looked, I don't think I'll be able to take part - it seriously takes me blooming ages to complete a season due to work commitments.
If I didn't do my sign ups I'd have more time for it obviously
No problem.
I'm like bermyboy. Probably not getting the game till Christmas...but since you say you're starting at Christmas I can probably take part.
don't have the time unfortunately. Have a lot more work on my hands this year than I did last year, add that to potentially starting a new sign up in the near future, and I really wont have enough time to complete more than one season a week, and I would like to continue in canvey!!'s challenge, and dafuges.
I'm in a similar boat to everyone else. My game time is limited anyway due to work and family commitments and once I get the game (by the weekend hopefully ), there are a couple of big challenges I want to attempt. Would be interested if you do it at a later date though.
Bah humbug :*( I'll have to either wait a bit longer until more of you are less busy or start it with a load of people that don't take part I'll wait a while.
ill take part deeply disapopinted at not being mentioned in that list after i completed every challenge last time
That was people that post on here alot. Obviously I want people like you and Blanco to return.
I post a lot in here, why wasn't I on the list?
Not that I'd want to take part, don't really have the time.
You haven't posted on this thread since late August...
Oh I thought you meant CSE in general, not specifically this thread.
Well I didn't see the point in specifying people that wouln't see it. Plus I'm after people that finish things
I think on a forum were it is fairly rare for a sign-up to be finished, it's a bit harsh to have a dig at Ridleys for not finishing things.
Best bet to wait for a few months and things settle down a bit more.
I was joking Paul
But his is open doors, I'm trying to get the best competitors in that I can.
EDIT: Plus that's like saying that the Premier League is like the Champions League...
Slight problem I've found out about my planned sign up + experiment.
1st. I won't be able to run it on 9.01, as my mac operating system isn't supported.
2nd. I can't really use the data editor, as i have to download the patch, install it, delete some stuff, re install some stuff. It's a bit of complex process
Trying to organise a bit of my sign up now. How long and how many rounds do oyu think I should do for each position? I thought two rounds of four days but then people could still be left without enough players.
i think you would need 4 rounds probably
of how many days though? I don't have a problem with the length but I would prefer it to be done quickly. The thing is, if people make lots of bids for people in the first two or so rounds then people will have their players for that position.
I think the only way you're going to find out is to try it, if it doesn't work you can always start again with a revised system.
I guess I'll try with 2 rounds of 4 days and then if more time is needed then there can be another round
Hi guys,
Apologies if this is old news but I haven't seen it posted anywhere, at least in this forum.
Did you know that in the data editor to go with the game, that there is now an option to 'Free all players'?!
You can all 'free all non players' or all persons, so that everyone starts unassigned on a free contract.
Someone has surely got to start an AI Experiment with this.
Plud Robert, it makes your proposed Fantasy Football sign up a bit easier as all the players are now unassigned from clubs.
I noticed it and posted it in the group, I'm considering an experiment with all clubs equal rep and all the staff released but I don't have the time to set the reps There should be an option to delete all people on there.
Hopefully Dietspam can make another database for no players so I can start my FM09 A New World Challenge/Signup/Experiment...
Just remembered something, are FM databases and WWSM databases compatible with each other? Or do I have to delete every single player...
And nice to see you're still awake roberto.
I'm awake for the next 5 minutes when my laptop will lose power and I won't be able to charge it until tomorrow at the earliest due to my damn dog chewing the wire I swear to god I should just give up with computers :**(


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I've played mostly 2nd Ed. and some 3/3.5. I have a lot invested in those materials. I am intrigued by 4E an Essentials, but am looking for the best way to approach the new editions. Keep in mind I am introducing my children of varied ages to D&D as well. The older ones have limited experience with the game, while the younger ones will be new to it. I am a little confused about the differences between 4E and Essentials. Should I start with Essentials and then move to the core rule books, or just start with the core rules?
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This is just to answer the titular question: What is the real difference between D&D 4th Edition and Essentials?
Essentials is a beginners version with fewer races and classes and most of the options removed. So instead of a core 4e Fighter (which might be any one of several builds, and gets a choice of one of several options at each level), the Essentials Knight gets a predetermined option or might have a choice between a smaller set of abilities.
Essentials versions of the classes also have a simpler mechanic by which they (mostly) use their basic attacks and stances instead of the choices a core PC gets.
The real difference is this: Essentials is simpler but has fewer options. It's a beginners thing- they are the same game.
The two have the same rule base and are completely compatible.
However, if you are just starting, pick up either or both of the Essentials books Heroes of the Fallen Lands and Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms (depending on which classes/races you are interested in. As a DM, pick up the Dungeon Master's Toolkit, the Monster Vault can wait until you have a few games under your belt and are sure you will be continuing. The Rules Compendium isn't needed as all the rules are in each of the Hero's books.
The main problem with the old trilogy (Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and the Monster Manual) is that a considerable amount of errata has been issued since those books were released. I'd recommend skipping them until you have the rules well in hand and can grab those books for any options you want.
4e Essentials is fully compatible to non-Essentials 4e.
Since you are introducing your children, (I did the same with my 3 sons about 10 years ago), I would recommend getting the D&D Starter 'Red' Box. It takes you through everything a newbie would need to grasp the game. It has a structured learning system that has you actually playing the game while you are learning. It is excellent in that regard. You will find that you can go through it and exhaust what is in it in about 2 weekends.
After that move them to Heroes of the Fallen Lands. It follows nicely and expands on the four basic character types that are in the Red Box. Getting a Dungeon Masters Toolkit at this time will expand the game out to about 3rd level.
Once you are ready to take them beyond that you can add the Monster Vault and Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms for more character types. The rules compendium puts everything into a single place that is well organized and easy to handle.
Have fun
The most important thing for you to know is that if you pick up the Red Box, or the Rules Compendium and one of the "Heroes of" books, you have the 4E rules and will be learning to play 4E. In addition to having the balancing errata after 2 years on the market, the Rules Compendium is a much better read. After playing 4E from the initial release, the RC gave my group a lot of clarity in different areas of the rules. I would recommend to anyone new to the game to start with the Essentials products.
While some might describe the essentials classes as 'simple' or 'basic', in my opinion a better word is 'cleaner'. They're also more distinctive - between the two Heroes books, you'll get a pretty good selection of classes that really play differently from one another. Yes, there's not as much complexity as the 'Core' Players' Handbooks - but you can easily add that on later.
To be honest, I prefer to play Essentials builds in my current campaigns. I find combat is a little more streamlined with fewer bookkeeping powers/buffs. And they play just fine alongside any 'non-essentials' builds.
As an answer to the question in the title, the Essentials line is full of products that any store that wants D&D can carry successfully, while the D&D 4E line is best suited for hobby and game stores. As a retailer, you can stock Essentials products and be assured of regular turns. Books in the 4E line other than the core three are designed for niches of a small market, and might simply gather dust on the shelves at Target or Wal•Mart.
The rules are compatible and many of the class options can be mixed between versions.
The real difference is that Essentials limits itself to the traditional spread of classes and races, including some tweaks to how powers are gained and used that preserves some of the play feel of the pre-4e versions of the core classes. By contrast, the full 4e line allows players to create such off-genre things as Warforged Runepriests, Dwarven Invoker/Swordmages, and Shardmind Battleminds. Along with those less traditional possibilities though, the full line gives players a much wider choice of races and classes from which to build their character, which adds a "meta" character-building/advancing, strategic component to the game which is to many players' taste.
Depending on taste, having a full palette to create characters with might be a pro for your group or it might be an unmitigated DM's nightmare. Choosing to start with (or stick with only) Essentials over 4e or vice versa gives you the chance to twist that dial to your preference.
You probably want to just use Essentials.
Though the rules from original 4e to Essentials are "compatible," Essentials incorporates a bunch of errata and has basically rethought designs for the core classes. And if you get the four core Essentials books there's very little you are missing from the original core 3 4e books, there's a lot of literal and a while bunch of conceptual overlap. Mainly you'd get them for obsessive completeness, because there's one sweet power or monster you want from them, or to be compatible with a group that has a lot of them.
Actually all the classes are in essentials and all of the races. However, no there are not as many items and at the moment no multiclassing rules/hybrids and weak ritual rules. Plus with the release of the Sword and Spell compendium for essentials then all those missing rules/other builds will all be available.
My main issue with the Essencials builds is that most of them have at least 1 'dead' level - an odd-numbered level where they gain no new powers, abilities, feats, stat increases, or any other form of enhancement. Hexblade Warlock is the worst with this due to having no bonuses at Levels 13, 23 or 27. Hunter Rangers have 19 as a dead level, Bladesingers get Lvls 19 and 25 as dead levels. Knights, Slayers, Vamipres and Executioners have 27 as a dead level.
Another main difference is that most of them seem to get rid of either Encounter or Daily Attack powers (sometimes both). Bladesingers, for example, get Encounter powers as Daily Attack powers. Hunters and Scouts loose both Encounter and DAs. Personally, I prefer the builds from the player handbooks and guides better as they allow for more options among powers. The only essencials build I use is Mage, since it gives me most of what the Arcanist Wizard from the Handbook 1 does, but with a third (mandatory) At-Will attack in place of your 4th Cantrip and 2 Encounter powers at each level you get them. The loss of the Ritual Casting is easily fixable and the School bonuses you get instead of the Implement Mastery is a fair tradeoff (actually, for my tiefling Pyromancer, the Schools offer better bonuses than the Implement Mastery Features do).


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Most of us think of ancient civilizations as an unhealthy mix of communicable disease, outdoor toilets, and nearly toxic body odor. And that's if you're lucky and don't starve to death before puberty. But many civilizations had shockingly advanced modern amenities, for example ...
#7. The Persian Empire Had Air Conditioning
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When you think of Persians, you probably think of flying carpets and people getting kicked into holes. That may or may not be historically accurate, but what the movies usually do get right is that, being in the middle of the desert, the Persian Empire could get hot as fuck. But, you know, what could they do back then: turn on the AC and kick back?
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And for the winter, you just switch to the hole that's bored down to molten lava.
That diagram shows how the old timey Iranians cooled themselves about 1,000 freaking years ago. You see, during the Achaemenid Empire (2,500 years ago), Persians started building complex underground irrigation systems called qanats, whose transported water allowed people to not die during droughts. The qanats were basically a series of giant holes in the ground leading to an underground stream -- you can still see them from satellites these days:
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"And lo, the lord did snake-fuck the earth."
Fast forward to the middle ages: After realizing that these areas were unfortunately still hot as deserts (because they were deserts), the Persians also began to construct wind towers above their buildings. Warm air flowed down to the cold water stream under the building and circulated back to the lower level of the house transformed into a cool, refreshing breeze. The wealthiest inhabitants of the region had huge qanat-connected basements for the sole purpose of sitting back and chilling in the middle of the desert heat -- some of these included pools and, we have to assume, naked slaves swinging giant leafs.
As far back as 400 BC, the qanats were also used to refresh specially constructed "refrigerator" rooms where the Persians stored ice accumulated during the winter. We think it's no coincidence that these buildings looked like giant upside-down ice cream cones.
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That or giant cold nipples.
Add this to the fact that the Persian Empire also had a modern postal service, and we're thinking maybe those Spartans in 300 would have been better off just giving in to Xerxes' army and becoming pool slaves in Persia.
#6. Romans Had Shopping Malls and Fast Food Joints
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The shopping mall is seen by many as the biggest symbol of our bloated, decadent, smoothie-loving society. Don't you wish we could go back to the good old days before rampant consumerism turned every other building into a freaking temple of consumerism? And by "good old days" we mean "around when Jesus walked the Earth," because apparently that's how long malls have existed -- check out Trajan's Market in Rome, which opened in 113 AD:
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It's been in ruins since the great Midnight Sale of 120 AD.
It turns out the Romans loved to shop as much as we do. They had recently perfected the art of cement making and decided to put their new skill to some immediate use by building an obscenely big (for its time) shopping complex. Trajan's Market featured more than 150 different rooms among four different levels, including countless stores, storage rooms, and "public assistance" offices -- we're now imagining mall law offices owned by cheap Lionel Hutz-caliber lawyers.
At Trajan's Market, Romans could buy silver, gold, textiles, clothing, decorations, soaps, cosmetics, and, of course, food to stuff their faces with: There were all sorts of eateries, lounges, taverns, and probably an Orange Julius. Having trouble imagining what an ancient fast food joint looked like? Well, there's one in the ruins of Pompeii, and it's basically an Iron Age McDonald's:
Via Arch.mcgill.ca
The Romans were a lot less strict about the "Don't shit where you eat" rule.
Food or drink would be served in the holes on the counter you see up there. This wasn't just a Pompeii thing, since archeological studies have found that Romans, in general, loved to eat on the go -- they lived in tiny quarters with no space for a stove, so they'd just buy takeout food from any of the "numerous fast food restaurants" across the empire.
Via Arch.mcgill.ca
"Fresh urine?"
And if they caught a bug from that falafel they bought outside the Coliseum? No problem: The Romans also had a modern sewage system. The Cloaca Maxima was built in the 6th century BC to carry storm water into Tiber, and eventually they linked their toilets into it so they didn't have to wallow in, or anywhere near, their own poop.
#5. South Asia Had Dentistry 9,000 Years Ago
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No matter how bad your last dental session was, it was still infinitely more safe and pleasant than what, say, your grandfather had to deal with. And if you go back a couple of centuries, they just yanked out the teeth with pliers, right?
Actually, evidence suggests that dental drilling was in practice in parts of Pakistan as far back as 9,000 years ago. Pretty advanced for some primitives who were still figuring out they could make food grow out of the floor, right? Of course, the problem was that the drilling pre-dates all forms of anesthetics and even alcohol by a substantial chunk of time ... which means early dentist's patients had to endure having a sharpened stone bore into their teeth without any sort of pain-killer.
Via Nbcnews.com
"Don't worry, I'll put back the rest of your skull when I'm done."
We know the procedures were performed when the individuals were alive, because the teeth show signs of wear. This makes it more impressive that some cultures used these advances for non-hygienic reasons: namely, looking totally pimp. The Native Americans of about 2,500 years ago would use these same basic techniques to ingrain their teeth with pure bling in the form of precious gemstones. A chunk of enamel was removed, glue-like resin was applied to the newly formed tooth-hole, gemstones were attached, and pussy was gotten in great quantity.
Via José C. Jiménez López
This guy rode around on a buffalo with literal flames on the sides.
The ancient Egyptians also knew a thing or two about oral health, and they invented a couple of amenities you use every day (we hope): toothpaste and breath mints. These were born of necessity, however, as the gritty foods that the Egyptians ate wore away at their teeth, exposing the pulp and allowing infections to take hold. Ass breath became a national problem, and the first mint was invented out of myrrh, frankincense, cinnamon, and honey.
They didn't stop there, though -- the Egyptians also came up with a recipe for toothpaste so good that a component in it is now being used again due to its recently (re)discovered properties, mainly its ability to prevent gum disease. Yep, the Egyptians had better toothpaste than your grandfather did.
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Which is why his punk ass needs a new grill.
#4. Greeks Had Alarm Clocks
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We tend to think of the ancient Greeks as a bunch of circle-jerking beardos in white togas who sat around coming up with abstract concepts like philosophy or democracy, but not necessarily anything of practical use. If the Greeks were so smart, how come the concept of trousers continued to elude them?
However, the Greeks also gave us a useful "modern" invention, without which we'd all be arriving at work extremely late (or worse, extremely early). You see, back in the fourth century BC, philosopher Plato had a little problem: He needed a way to make sure the students at his famous academy got up on time for his fabulous lectures, but alarm clocks didn't exist back then. So he just invented them.
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Academy Rule #1: All students must be on time. Academy Rule #2: No shirts allowed.
Water clocks had been around for centuries: These were just two stone vessels, one of which dripped water into the other, and once the water filled the second vessels you knew a certain amount of time had passed. In Greece they were everywhere, including on your local prostitute's nightstand, just so she could time your visit down to the drip.
Via BBC
Don't ask what she filled it with.
These clocks were no good for you when you were asleep, though. Plato got around that by modifying the academy's water clock so that as the liquid dripped overnight it would fill a vessel that was attached to a siphon. When the water reached a predetermined level, the siphon would activate and pull all of the water into a second, sealed vessel that had only small slits for the air to escape. This created a loud whistling sound that would wake the students, and also make them want to punch anyone who whistled near them through the day.
The idea was expanded by Ctesibius about a century-and-a-half later (also, he may have just invented everything we described while trying to figure out Plato's system). Ctesibius added reeds to the whistling slits of Plato's alarm, creating a monotonous trumpeting that would wake a coma patient, and even pebbles that dropped onto gongs when the water reached a certain level.
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And, um, little naked guys. He was Greek.


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I recall reading that their is a pesak/teshuvah/report by a major posek, perhaps an early "later" Acharon, (Rabbi Akiva Eiger zt"l) which noted that at least elementary arithmatic or mathematics was traditionally taught in cheder. I did not make note of the makor, however. Is anyone able to provide the source?
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Sefer Sheeris HaNachala mentions in the name of the Sefer HaItim that Rav Hai Gaon said that it is permitted to teach children Arabic and mathematics in order to assist them in learning Torah.
Not sure these quotes exactly answer your question, however they do show some of the major times when math was taught and introduced into Jewish schools. The last one seems particularly on topic.
It was published in 1906, and reads: "On the 31st March 1805 members of the High German Jewish community in Altona formed an association with the purpose of establishing a school for Jewish boys, with lessons in religion, Hebrew, arithmetic and writing.
The Jews established elementary schools where boys from about 6 to 13 years of age probably learned rudimentary mathematics and certainly learned reading and writing.
Joseph Ibn Aknin (12th century)states in his will that the curriculum should include math amongst other secular subjects.
Yaskil Avdi (vol. 1 Orah Haim siman 7) permits it (he was asked by Rabbi Masliah Mazuz). As well as Sis Eliezer (vol. 9 siman 15). See the aforementioned Yabia Omer 7:21.
I found in Yalkut Yosef vol. 2 pg. 255
He prohibits lectures about non-Torah things in a Shul except for Kiruv and Hizuk.


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What are good/interesting examples of theorems than can be proven classically, but not constructively, and have applications in e.g. physics?
In general it is very difficult to be sure that a theorem cannot be constructivised in some form that preserves its applicability. As you will notice most of the answers offered have comments attesting this fact.
One reason for this is that many non-constructive theorems in analysis become constructive when they are relaxed a little bit. A typical example is the mean value theorem. It does not hold constructively as usually stated, but it its $\epsilon$ version does: if $f$ is continuous and $f(0) < 0 < f(1)$ then for every $\epsilon > 0$ there is $x \in [0,1]$ such that $|f(x)| < \epsilon$. Many other theorems can be relaxed in this way: Hahn-Banach, Brouwer fixed-point, etc. Moreover, such relaxed versions often make more sense in applications than their exact versions, for example because we need to take into account noise, errors, or bounded numerical precision.
Another reason is that for applications we typically do not need a theorem in its full generality because we have extra information, which allows for a specialized constructive version. For example, while the general mean value theorem fails constructively, it holds for locally non-constant maps. Special versions of Hahn-Banach holds constructively, and they will typically suffice in concrete situations.
There is a third reason why it is difficult to find classical theorems with applications that cannot be constructivized. Most applications belong to the fields of physics and computer science, which are both very naturally constructive. Physics is constructive by its very nature because "everything is continuous" in the real world, while in computer science "everything is computable". These are two main motivations for intuitionistic mathematics (namely Brouwerian continuity principles or sheaf-theoretic models, and computable interpretations of intuitionistic mathematics).
Lastly, there remains the simple fact that one has to perform an exhaustive literature search to be sure that a theorem has not been constructivized. A lot more has been constructivized than one would think, and the only obstacle seems to be lack of man power.
I would assume that the Hahn-Banach theorem would have to be close to the top of any list.
The mean and pointwise ergodic theorems are non-constructive, and I understand they were originally developed for applications to thermodynamics.
One of the simplest is the monotone convergence principle, that every bounded increasing sequence of rationals is convergent.
Along with Henry Towsner's example of the Ergodic theorem there is Doob's martingale convergence theorem and Lebesgue's theorem that every function of bounded variation is differentiable a.e.
However, if more information is known then this non-constructivity can be overcome. For example, with a martingale, if the limit is computable in the $L^1$ norm and the $L^1$-bound is computable, then the rate of convergence is computable (both convergence in measure and a.e. convergence). (I assume the proof is constructive, but I haven't worked that out. However, computable rates of convergence are one of the most important consequences of constructive proofs.)
Similarly, the Lebesgue differentiation theorem has computable rates of convergence ($L^1$ convergence and a.e. convergence) since the limit is known (it is the function itself) and the Hardy-Littlewood maximal lemma controls the maximal amount of deviation from the limit.
Sard's Theorem, which is foundational, may be an example of a theorem of the sort you are looking for when the differentiability class of the function is low. Let's recall its classical statement:
Sard's Theorem: Let $f\colon\, \mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^m$ be a $k$ times continuously differentiable function, where $k\geq \text{max}(n-m+1,1)$. Let $X$ be the critical set of $f$. Then $f(X)$ has Lebesgue measure $0$ in $\mathbb{R}^m$.
A constructivist version was proven by Yuen-Kwok Chan in 1971:
Chan, Yuen-kwok, A constructive proof of Sard's theorem. Pacific J. Math. 36, 291–301 (1971; MR0276988).
The constructivist version relaxes the statement of Sard's theorem in a benign way ("critical points" are replaced by "almost critical points") and in at least one less benign way:
The function $f$ is taken to be a $k$ times continuously differentiable function, where $k\geq 2+\frac{1}{2}(n-m)(n-m+1)$.
I can imagine this being a real issue, because the function actually given to you might be $C^k$ only for $\text{max}(n-m+1,1)\leq k< 2+\frac{1}{2}(n-m)(n-m+1)$. John Milnor on Mathematical Reviews asks whether the bound on $k$ can be tightened, and so does the author at the end of the paper. If not, then Sard's Theorem for small $k$ seems to me to be a genuinely important result which can be proved classically, but not constructively.
The Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm is used in computer algebra. Its proof of correctness relies on Kruskal's tree theorem, if I understand correctly. The proof of Kruskal's tree theorem is very nonconstructive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_tree_theorem
A famous Martin Gardner mathematical games column had a number of April Fool items, one of which was about a guy getting rich by duplicating gold spheres using the Banach-Tarski theorem. I guess that doesn't count as a real application, but it's surely nonconstructive and I can't resist mentioning it.
Well, the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem comes to mind. An example of an application: http://physicsoffinance.blogspot.com/2011/09/brouwers-fixed-point-theoremwhy.html


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You can�t argue the Ramones� contribution to music. The New York punk quartet achieved perfection through their simplicity; three chords, 3 minutes (tops) and they stand the test of time today, through sound and sales.
When the Ramones called it quits in 1996, front man Joey recorded a solo debut. It was released in 2002, a year after his death from lymphoma. Joey�s second solo effort, �Ya Know?� will hit stores today. How, you may ask?
The recorded demos that Joey had been working on landed in the hands of the Ramones� producer/engineer/mixer and friend Ed Stasium. Joey�s mother and brother, Mickey Leigh, insisted Stasium work on them. The demos had been in the hands of another producer, Daniel Rey, who worked with the Ramones in the 1980s.
�They were 4-track Fostex cassette demos originally. It took awhile for the estate to acquire these demos for reasons unbeknownst to me,� Stasium said last week from his Bayfield studio. �I talked Daniel into giving them up. If I was involved with finishing up these recordings, he would relinquish them to me.�
The rest is a product of modern technology. After Stasium acquired the songs in 2008, he spent hundreds of hours working on them, now serving as a producer, engineer, arranger and musician.
�Some of the songs were just pieces, a lot of them were fragments and some were songs. Some had one track of vocals, some had three,� he said.
Stasium finished the tedious chore of working with the digital editing software Pro Tools� program called �identify beat� to create a grid in which he could fly around Joey�s existing vocals.
Then he created the drumbeats and arranged the instrumentation, all the while adding reference bass, guitar, percussion and keyboards. He�d work on one song over the course of a month and move on.
After Stasium recorded all of his parts at his Kozytone Studio in Bayfield, he recruited some of Joey�s friends to play on the tracks.
Little Steven Van Zandt, Joan Jett, Richie Ramone, J.P. Thunderbolt Patterson and Richard Manitoba from The Dictators were just some of the artists who were more than willing to help out. Those parts were recorded at Stratosphere Studio in New York City.
�They�re all friends of Joey�s. Not just fans, friends,� Stasium said. �Joey knew all these people who played on all the records. That�s why these people were chosen. We asked them if they wanted to do it, and they said �sure.��
The result is a product identifiable with the Ramones because of the vocal presence of Joey Ramone, but the songs are a reflection of the work of someone who had grown as a songwriter, musician and performer.
�Joey was maturing in his writing,� Stasium said. �His vocals always matured, since I first worked with him. It�s a broader style. It�s not just the three chord �boom-bomp-boodah-bomp� stuff, it�s a lot deeper. It�s advanced Joey stuff. He would have been happy with it.�
Since Joey�s passing over a decade ago, the Ramones continue to sell records and have finally been acknowledged by an industry that all but ignored them in their prime.
�He was shy and outspoken, but he would have appreciated being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and getting the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award,� Stasium said.
Stasium is proud not only of �Ya Know?� but of his more than 30 years of working with Joey.
�It�s a great finish,� he said. �This is pretty much it. There won�t be anything else coming out from Joey. It�s a great legacy to have been involved with from their second record to this record.�
Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station manager. Reach him at email@example.com.
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I have a survey spread onto numerous pages. I would like to add a heading at the start of each page of the survey. Is this possible? How would you go about doing this?
The way I did it was using JQuery/JavaScript. Basically using JavaScript I look to see if the first question on a section was present and depending on the question I find I would write the section heading to a tag. I did a search like you and could not find anything so that is what I came up with.
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That happen to me to. This is why I used the text of the first question in the section to search for. If found, then add appropriate heading.
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What does running and a child's death have in common?
For close to 150 people, running.
And running helps them make a difference in the lives of special needs children.
The group is running in the Kentucky Derby Festival's miniMarathon and Marathon to raise money for "The Molly Johnson Foundation."
This idea was born from 28 friends and family members who completed the Chicago Marathon last fall running to help launch The Molly Johnson Foundation.
More than 45 friends participated by cheering the 28 competitors along the 26.2-mile course.
So, what is The Molly Johnson Foundation?
It's a group dedicated to helping children with rare illnesses, right here in River City.
Robin and Jojo Johnson founded The Molly Johnson Foundation in honor of their daughter, Molly, who passed away November 2, 2007.
Molly was born with a rare genetic disorder called Wiedemann–Rautenstrauch Syndrome, a neurological condition diagnosed in less than 100 children worldwide.
Children born with this condition are affected by many different characteristics including being small in stature, poor growth and development and a depressed respiratory system — all stemming from the lack of neurological development.
Molly was born in 1996 and diagnosed at birth with this condition. Her parent's first child, Elliott, was born in 1993 with the same condition and passed away at 9 months.
Nearly all of the children diagnosed with WRS pass away in early childhood.
Molly lived a very full life of 11½ years and passed away in her sleep.
Her parents decided to turn a tragedy into good by launching a foundation to help others with similar problems.
Through their own experiences of raising two special needs children, The Molly Johnson Foundation was created to assist families of special needs children.
These families often face many obstacles that the foundation can help them overcome.
Fresh of the experience in Chicago, the group set its next goal on the Derby Festival miniMarathon.
Its goal was 100 Runners, running 13.1 miles all for one cause.
Each runner has the personal goal of raising $100 in sponsor support to reach the overall goal of $10,000.
The recruiting process started and the original goal of 100 runners was reached in 10 days. The number stands at 124 and is still growing.
"Team Molly" will also consist of nearly 100 supporters at several cheer zones along the course to encourage all of the competitors. "Team Molly" will also include approximately 20 walkers competing in the event.
The majority of the competitors are members of St. Michael Catholic Community outside of Jeffersontown.
The pastor of this faith community, Fr. Dick Sullivan said "he is proud of how many of the parishioners are involved in such a good cause to make a difference in the lives of the special needs children and their families."
The Molly Johnson Foundation has many other fundraising projects in the works and plans to announce the next goal at an appreciation party to thank the competitors the night of the miniMarathon.
"Team Molly" members train weekly with the organization of one of the foundation board members, Bob Ford.
The group meets on Saturday mornings at daylight to run their weekly "long runs," as most who are training for a half or full marathon do.
Ford said "the group consists of men and women and usually has 10 to 25 participants running all sorts of distances."
He said there is a pace for everyone and the camaraderie formed on those Saturday morning runs is incredible.
"The most important thing is to help others who have many obstacles to overcome," he said. "Many of which most of us will never have to deal with. When I get fatigued and worn down I think of Molly and all she had to overcome and I'm inspired to press on."
One little girl who couldn't talk, couldn't walk, couldn't do anything for herself has inspired so many to make a difference because of the life lessons she taught them.


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I'm doing some revision for an exam and I've made a note to look at how DoS attacks can be used to gain access to a system. I can't find anything online but I found a reference to the fact here.
I hope one of you can enlighten me
I'm doing some revision for an exam and I've made a note to look at how DoS attacks can be used to gain access to a system. I can't find anything online but I found a reference to the fact here.
I hope one of you can enlighten me
DoS attacks can be used in several ways as part of gaining access:
There's a perfect illustration in this movie and an even better in that movie.
Spoiler alert (although if you have not seen these movies yet, then you must have spent the last three decades frozen in a glacier or whatev)
In the first movie, the bad guys simulate a terrorist attack (which can be thought of a massive DoS) so that the authorities apply their anti-terrorist procedures, which imply shutting down power -- which automatically opens the strong room that the bad guys wanted to enter in the first place.
In the other one, the newer bad guys simulate another terrorist attack, this time with actual bombing (there is nothing more DoSing than high explosives), because then the whole anti-terrorism scheme allocates all police forces to a bomb-seeking race (that's one effect of DoS: to divert defence resources from their normal stations) and the explosion itself overwhelms vibration detectors in the bank which is the true target of the villains -- who can then make a big hole in the strong room wall with bulldozers, undetected by the said detectors.
In a network+computers environment, you can think of a DoS as triggering abnormal conditions, under which normal defence mechanisms are less effective.
I don't believe DoS attacks are traditionally utilized to gain access to the system per se. It is more of a tool utilized to confuse the system or flood the system with irrelevant requests and deny legitmate traffic access to the system. That can in turn facilitate the use of vulnerability exploits to actually gain access to the system.
Denial-of-Service attacks by definition is simply denying authorized users or devices access to the specific system or network. It could be utilized in conjunction with another exploit, say a buffer overflow, to get the required result of penetrating the system.
Also the DoS attack can thwart IT pros and security pros from focusing on the real issue at hand is that someone is exploiting their system. A lot of pressure is placed on the IT department by senior management when they can not get to or access certain pieces of technology. So while they are attempting to fix and resolve the DoS issue the hacker goes by completely obscured. Additionally, trying to sift through the plethora of log files that will have been created while it was going on leads to a difficulty in tracking a breach has ever occured.
A DoS attack can crash the server causing it to reboot and execute assets that the attacker previously compromised.
For example, the attacker compromised the cron table or a script called by cron. When the server reboots the corrupted cron is invoked.
Could even take the DDoS to a whole new level if the corrupted script overruns the drive partition.
A DoS attack may force a system's IPS to fail open the traffic towards internal recources. That is a configuration option on many defence in depth appliances and overwhelming them will lead to either service unavailability or degradation of security. If the service availability of the organization is more improtant than the security of the data provided by the service, the system is configured to fail open, meaning that security will be degraded by accepting all connections.


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Sessions Calls For Action As Deficit Projection Worsens
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered opening remarks at today's hearing with Congressional Budget Office director Dr. Douglas Elmendorf. Sessions discussed the new CBO baseline and President Obama's recent State of the Union address.
Sessions' remarks, as prepared, follow:
"I would like to begin today by congratulating you, Dr. Elmendorf, on your reappointment as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office. You have carried out your duties with honesty and integrity, and I greatly look forward to having a candid discussion this morning.
Yesterday we received the new baseline from the CBO. The news was not good.
Our deficit is expected to reach nearly $1.5 trillion by the end of the fiscal year. Our gross debt is expected to reach 100% of GDP—meaning that the amount of money our nation owes will soon be equal to the value of everything our nation produces.
Forty cents of every dollar we spend is borrowed. By the end of the decade the interest on our debt is expected to rise to nearly $750 billion for just one year.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that we have almost a fifty percent chance of a bond-market crisis in the next two or three years.
The path we are on is unsustainable.
And yet, in his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that he would continue down this perilous road.
But to hear the president's remarks one would think his speech had been written ten years ago—they were disconnected from the reality of our present situation.
Earlier this week I said that his State of the Union address was a defining moment in his presidency.
But he did not rise to the occasion. His timid speech squandered a historic chance to rally the nation behind true spending reform. It was far short of the standard set by Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey and Prime Minister David Cameron in Britain.
No one forced Mr. Obama to be president. He asked for the job. But instead of setting forth a bold vision, he proposed instead that we continue with business-as-usual for at least five more years.
His so-called freeze on domestic spending is not a plan to reduce deficits; it is a plan to preserve them—locking in place the very spending levels the president has dramatically increased.
The plan is remarkable not for its strength but for its weakness.
In defense of his proposal, the president argued that government spending is the engine of our economy.
But he has his metaphor backwards. The engine of our economy is the private sector, not the public sector.
When the private sector grows, it creates new jobs, new industries, and new ideas. But when the public sector grows it simply consumes more of what the private sector produces. Big-government waste is funded on the back of small business thrift.
The American people deserve candor from elected officials. The money to sustain the president's big-government vision is simply not there. Meaningful spending reductions are not a choice; they are an obligation. There is no serious alternative.
Reducing the size and cost of government may not be easy. But it is the only responsible course—and the only one that leads to a better, more prosperous future."


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THE 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg will be observed July 1-3, and a restored 1883 cyclorama depicting Pickett's Charge from a point behind the Union lines will help to give viewers a......
My son participated in the 140th . As my younger son watched the battle he looked at me and asked "Hey Dad, who are the good guys?" True story.
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Gettysburg is a very special placed. One that will never be forgotten. such swallowed ground !!!!!!!
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Too bad today's Republicans don't follow that advice. It seems they are more interested in abortion and phoney scandal investigations. Darrell Issa can't even find a smoking cap pistol.
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