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Looking to Sell Your Lululemon Stuff? Proceed With Caution
If you want to recoup some of the big bucks you laid out for those leggings, you'd better think twice...
Sounds preposterous and downright Orwellian, right? Not to those who've tried to sell anything with a Lululemon logo on it.
Seems that the Canadian "yoga inspired athletic apparel company" has a problem with folks standing to make a buck on their products and they've taken to tracking down people who list items on auction sites and blocking them from being able to buy anything on Lululemon.com.
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Would-be sellers are even chastised for trying to unload things that don't fit, something they no longer like, a gift they received, etc. Bottom line: once you own a piece of Lulu, you own a piece of Lulu.
"We do not support the re-sale of new product, especially if it is at an elevated price point," reads a portion of the FAQ section on their website.
Kristin, a longtime, big-buck spending fan of the high-priced athletic wear recounted her experience to Business Insider. Seems she was blocked from shopping at the brand's online store when she sold a racerback tank that didn't fit. "They said we are welcome to shop in their stores, and that in my case, I should have donated the [tank]," she says. Kristin, who says she feels like she was treated like "a common criminal," is not amused.
Complicating matters is the fact that Lululemon only permits returns of unworn merchandise within 14 days of purchase --even when it comes to gifts. (So, next time you think you're doing that friend who lives in NoWhere Alaska a favor by getting her some cool Wunder Unders, think again.)
Needless to say, the expensive spandex-wearing crowd is none-too-thrilled with this policy and has taken to Facebook to air its grievances and some people are downright outraged.
"It is 100% legal for me to resell anything I own regardless of your made up policy about reselling. You can't stop anyone from doing whatever they want with your clothing once they purchase it and leave the store," reasons Laura Good.
Lakena Tompkins wonders: "Are you going to start sending someone out to garage sales and the such to find lulu being resold? I'm just about done with you myself. Between how poorly you treat your customers, your horrible return policy, and sheer pants..."
For now, the company whose original intent was to "elevate the world from mediocrity to greatness" (seriously) is sticking to its guns because the policy is "for the good of customers and is meant to protect them from buying counterfeit items."
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For beginers, any suggestions?
A good reference is Ken Brown and Peter Abramenko's "Buildings" (there is also the first edition freely available at http://www.math.cornell.edu/~kbrown/buildings/). Otherwise, you may want to look at Tits' "Reductive groups over local fields" from the Corvallis 1979 proceedings (see Corvallis 1979 proceedings).
In my opinion, the beginner would find the following very helpful:
Since this question was asked, Brent Everitt wrote A (very short) introduction to buildings. It comes with many pictures to help you visualize them, and a long list of pointers to where to find out more about each aspect in the literature.
Tits' original lecture notes from 1974 (Buildings of spherical type and finite BN-pairs, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 386, Springer-Verlag) can still serve as a very good introduction to the subject.
Another excellent reference (and not as voluminous as Abramenko--Brown) is the pair of books by Richard Weiss: "The structure of spherical buildings" and "The structure of affine buildings" (both published by Princeton University Press).
A book suited well for beginners on the subject is "Lectures on buildings" by Mark Ronan.
Just a comment (sorry but I can't comment yet) : if you want not to 'waste' to much time, you should tell people what kind of specific problems you want to work in; as far as I remember, Tits' book (spherical buildings) is essentially combinatorial, so for instance you can read it without much knowledge of algebraic groups. But if you intend to solve problems in that direction, then indeed the book of Brown for instance is better direction. I'm not a specialist but I hope that people will give you more infos on the references they recommend.

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Albert Camus was born one hundred years ago tomorrow, and the occasion is being marked in various ways. The TLS Recently had a review of his writings on Algeria, his homeland. Spiegel-online today has a good essay on the relationship between Camus and Sartre and how they eventually came to represent, as some of his can remember, the two sides of a great ideological divide in the fifteen years between the end of the Second World War and Camus' tragic death in 1960. I read and liked Sartre's essay on existentialism–especially on the self-constitutive role of freedom–but didn't much like his novel Nausea. On the other hand, I liked Camus's novels more than his philosophical writings, and I still remember how affected I was as I perfected my French by reading the brief essays in his Carnets in the early 1960's. Camus seems to have been much the better as a human being; while he seems to have been a man of great integrity and honesty, there does not seem to have been much to admire in Sartre the man.
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When I read The Rebel back in, what? must have been 1957, something in the way Camus wrote reminded me of G. K. Chesterton. When I re-read it last year, I had the same feeling, but I was expecting it this time. (Incidentally, I was surprised at how well it stood up.) I have absolutely no idea of what it is about Camus that reminds me of Chesterton, but I mention it in case anyone else has had the same experience.
I read Camius' "The Stranger" and "The Plague" in college. Also Sartre's "No Exit" and "Being and Nothingness". I actually liked Sartre's work better - it seemed more honest about meaninglessness and I thought it was brave of him to assert that in the face of that meaninglessness you could create meaning yourself. Perhaps you like Camus better because he was a fan of St. Augustine? :)
Subscribers to the New Yorker should have a look at this Adam Gopnik essay on Camus, which goes into great detail about his relationship with Sartre. Apart from their famous differences of opinion, there are also fascinating personal differences. Both were charismatic intellectuals, but whereas Sartre presented himself as a sage and was treated as a kind of father figure of the French Left, Camus was cool, more fraternal than paternal, a Humphrey Bogart of the Left Bank. From Gopnik's essay:
The ugly man who thinks hard—Socrates or Sartre—is using his mind to make up for his face. (Camus once saw Sartre over-wooing a pretty girl and wondered why he didn't, as Camus would have done, play it cool. "You've seen my face?" Sartre answered, honestly.) When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.
Sartre was one of the first authors I read once I got tired of "The famous five". My main memory is the amount of time I spent puzzling over the meaning of the word "pederast". The lack of completely explicit descriptions makes it a word that is hard to learn from context with any degree of confidence; in the end I had to ask my father about it. Sartre's books were generally unpleasant to read (fitting the title "Nausea"). The only exception was "Les mots", the only one of his books that is enjoyable when one is still at an age when we put no distance between ourselves and the narrative.
I have read Camus' "Stranger" several times, and it gets better every time. The first time, I was about thirteen and was taken aback by the sparsity of the writing style. How is one supposed to identify with a boring weirdo, and how does one read fiction if not by identifying with the main character? In the end, after reading the book, one was left with a gnawing question: "Why?" - how dissatisfying! ... But now I love it. The opening sentence already gives me pleasure. Even before that, I savor the book itself, its pages with wide margins and lots of white space around the text. Meursault no longer seems hard to identify with, his thought process seems much more natural, and the "Why?" question has lost its sharpness because of its familiarity.
Last year, during the Presidential electoral campaign, while the candidates were rivaling to show their culture, Sarkozy proclaimed his admiration for "Stephane Camus".
In my old age, I'm trying to fill in my reading gaps with things I ought to have read somewhere along the way, so I selected Camus's "The Plague" last year. I steeled myself, I suppose because I expected something "difficult" in the absurdist vein, like Bertolt Brecht. I found that, as a human story (which is the basic level on which I understand things), the novel was an absolute delight. I have a little mental "film" of the segment about the man who spit on cats, one of the most wonderful little scenes I've ever encountered in a book.
Shades of Chesterton there were none. Chesterton is an overconfident blowhard with a heavy didactic hand, who goes off on riffs whenever he thinks he's struck on something that "proves" his own views (though even these problems failed to mar my delight in his bio of William Blake, possibly because nobody can wreck Blake for me). Camus's style struck me as quite spare, even reportorial. But maybe I'm only looking at surface. It's such an interesting comparison, I'll have to go back and look again.
Yes, Camus is a delight, especially close-up. I don't know about Sartre, actually. I've never been tempted to go back and read his books again, but I must have missed so much on first reading that it's not really accurate to say that I've read him.
In my last year at a small liberal arts college for women I elected to take a philosophy course, Existentialism. (It was the first year that we could elect philosopy and theology courses.)
I can say with honesty that I would not have been able to understand the focus of many of the Documents of Vatican II had I not taken that course.
The TLS link didn't work for me. I did a search and came up with this, which did work:
There is a very thoughtful and generous essay by Claire Messud in the New York Review of Books about Camus' newly translated Algerian Chronicles.
Messud characterizes Camus as "a Catholic atheist":
He rejected religion, but was nonetheless formed by its codes. His university thesis was a study of Saint Augustine and Plotinus, and his engagements always seemed to Czesław Miłosz 'marked by a suppressed theological bent.' That he was not wholly ready to dismiss a core of Christian values is further recorded in his Notebooks, when, at a gathering with Koestler, Sartre, Malraux, and Manès Sperber, he urged:
Don't you believe we are all responsible for the absence of values? And that if all of us who come from Nietzscheism, from nihilism, or from historical realism said in public that we were wrong and that there are moral values and that in the future we shall do the necessary to establish and illustrate them, don't you believe that would be the beginning of a hope?
It seems to me that Camus must have been the sort of atheist who is sometimes reached by the grace of God as it is evidenced in the actions such as the kindnesses of Pope Francis'. At Rod Dreher's blog an atheist says that the recent photo of Pope Francis kissing the hideously ugly man has made him wonder again about the existence of God.
The Most Beautiful Photo: Pope Francis Kissing a Disfigured Man
The great force of gestures such as Francis' is that extremely compassionate actions show the workings of grace, grace which enables people to do what is highly improbable or even impossible. Grace works something like miracles, persuading us, including even non-believers, that God works for good in this world after all..
As Dostoievsky said, beauty will save the world.
Exactly! I like Camus but I still think nobody can touch the Russian existentialists like Dostoevsky and Berdyaev; much more spiritual depth but I think that is a reflection of the Russian mind that just seems to naturally tend towards the spiritual but maybe that is my own Slav bias.
The picture, or rather Pope Francis' action, is a very great challenge for me. How many times have I walked past, averted my eyes quickly, hoping that the image of the person before me would not linger in my consciousness. How few times have I ever reached out, much less in such a direct way.
"I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me…"
Mark L.
In case you're interested:
1) "The Unbeliever and Christians," a talk given by Camus in 1948 at the Dominican monastery of Latour-Maubourg
2) Camus's speech at the Nobel banquet in 1957, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
3) "The Editorialist as Hero," Joseph Frank's excellent review of Camus at Combat
If I recall correctly, Camus said that he couldn't reconcile the suffering of a single child with the existence of God.
This is about neither Camus nor Sartre but about Crystal Watson's praise for the latter in creating meaning out of meaninglessness -- I have just watched once again Eric Rohmer's "My Night at Maud's" (Ma nuit chez Maude), and was struck by Vidal, the Marxist, who plays with a kind of secular version of Pascal's wager. A man who does not believe that history has any meaning, he nevertheless becomes a Marxist, reasoning that if there's even a 10% chance that history might hold meaning, it is the only thing that gives him hope. If you don't know the film, pull it out of your local friendly video rental; it's a staggeringly wonderful movie.
Thanks for the sites, Gene. Sadly, they've made me revise my old, positive but very superficial opinion of Camus. Many years ago I started reading one of his novels, The Plague, but I misread the beginning and gave up on it, so until I read his speech to the monks, I knew him only by what others had written about him.
Anyway, his talk to the monks makes me think that his rejection of God is a result not just of the problem of suffering children but of his rejection of people who behave badly. He seems to think that Christians who don't live up to their beliefs thereby falsify their beliefs. Frankly, he sounds rather self-satisfied to me. It's as if he thinks that the truth of a person's beliefs is determined by how well the person measures up to those beliefs.
Consider also what The Guardian says about him,
" The Algerian war trapped him in an impossibly vexed position. Unable to support a liberation movement whose tactics could "strike blindly" against his mother, he was reduced, in Tony Judt's words to "impotent silence". "
In other words, Camus himself did not speak out when it was called for, he too did not measure up to the ideals which the Christians claimed to hold.
But that doesn't diminish the fact that he was willing to speak out loudly to the brutality of totalitarianism in other places. It only means that he wasn't a perfect man either.
As to the problem of evil, true, there is no philosophical solution. But it also seems to be the case that the fact of compassion in some people seems to lessen the issue of the apparent injustice of innocents' suffering. (See also Job.) In other words, compassion somehow makes the fact of unjust suffering lose some of its existential power, though it certainly doesn't eliminate the problem. Mystery, mystery, mystery.
America magazine has Jason Berry's tribute to Camus. Here's how it begins:
"November seventh is Camus's feast day," says Sister Helen Prejean, with impish irony, giving the agnostic French author a ring of sainthood.
"He taught us that Christians should get away from abstractions and confront the blood stained face of history—that we should speak out clearly," says Prejean, who credits Camus's essay "Reflections on the Guillotine," as a major influence during her work on Dead Man Walking.
"The word is thickened," she explains. "When I finished the first draft, my [Random House] editor Jason Epstein suggested I read Camus. I had read him in college, but going back to him substantiated what I was saying and gave me a new edge. Camus helped me to see how Christians—and my own self—were slack. He thickened my argument, deepened my understanding of how we can live, and be slack by not doing anything about the death penalty. It's an issue of the poor and shows that to the extent we're not involved with the poor, we go along with injustice. Camus was good because he's so honest."
Here are a few more excerpts:
"Camus commanded unusually respectful attention from Christian readers," writes Robert Ellsberg in All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses of Our Time:
Several of his works prompted anticipation of the author's imminent conversion. His untimely death did nothing to silence the rumors that he had been secretly receiving instruction in the Catholic faith. All this was ironic tribute to a man whose philosophy began with the assumption that God does not exist...Despite his protests, many have suggested that Camus's position was not so far removed from Christianity as he supposed. The number of those who serve Christ is not confined to self-professed Christians. Paradoxically, Camus served the Truth by keeping faith with his conscience and denying God.
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In the title essay [of The Myth of Sisyphus], Camus calls Sisyphus, "the wisest and prudent of morals"—as it were, an Everyman of the Resistance—condemned by the gods to push a stone up the hill, only to have it fall back each time he neared the plateau. The quest for moral truth, to restore peace, lay in the faith to keep pushing, again and again, regardless. "Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks," wrote Camus. "The struggle toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
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When the Allies ended the German occupation and toppled the Vichy government in 1944, French officials began trying collaborators. Camus supported the execution of those found guilty of killing members of the Resistance. As the trials degenerated into purges, his views began to shift toward the position he would later articulate in "Reflections on the Guillotine." As questions of justice and death bore down on Camus, the French novelist and Nobel laureate, François Mauriac, had a hand to play. As Robert Zaretsky writes in the superb new book, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning (Belknap/Harvard):
François Mauriac, whose resistance and literary credentials were equal to those of Camus, had already signed the petition [to prevent execution]. Devoutly Catholic, Mauriac had previously collided with Camus on the question of the purge. The older man insisted on the need for mercy and national reconciliation, while the young editor of Combat replied that national healing required a foundation built on implacable justice. When the trials had turned into sham events, however, Camus confessed in an editorial: "We now see M. Mauriac was right: we are going to need charity."
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A major turn in Camus's journey toward the guillotine essay came in 1951 when he published The Rebel, which triggered one of the most spectacular literary battles in post-War Europe. The Nazi assault on European civilization had failed in the end; but Communism, for Camus, was just as morally blind. Marxist totalitarianism sacrificed justice as means to an end: the classless society. Camus' position drew the scorn of Jean-Paul Sartre, a committed Marxist, who published a long public letter attacking Camus himself as much as the book, throwing their friendship off the rails.
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By 1957, when he wrote "Notes on the Guillotine," Camus had taken a lonely position in refusing to take sides on the Algerian civil war. Denounced by Sartre and other former allies from the left for his unwillingness to endorse the National Liberation Front in Algeria as it sought independence, Camus was appalled by the front's terror tactics. As he told a news conference in Stockholm, on receiving the Nobel: "People are now planting bombs in the tramways of Algiers. My mother might be on one of those tramways. If that is justice, then I prefer my mother." He was just as appalled by the French military policy of torturing Algerian captives.
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In "Reflections on the Guillotine," Camus wrote with the unerring precision of a prophet: "I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."
Ann Olivier: you claim that "Camus himself did not speak out when it was called for." I don't see it that way; I'd say it was more complicated than that, more a question of him refusing to speak out in the way that others (e.g. Sartre) wanted him to speak out. I think this is made clear in the fine piece by Claire Messud, referred to in James Englert's earlier comment.
After reading that piece, does it still seem fair to you to characterize Camus's position as one of "impotent silence?"
In "The Rebel" Camus denounces what he calls "rational murder," i.e., the notion that there are some sound grounds for killing another person. He acknowledges that we may sometimes have to kill a person to preevent his or her killing us or someone else. Even so, he argues, those of us who do kill in such circumstances have made forfeit our own lives. Strong stuff, but there is something right about it. The historical record shows so many putative justifications offered for killing, so many of which are no more than rationalizations.
Camus, in my eyes, is something of a prophet. He has no grand theory, but he does confront us with some stark challenges.
By 1957, when he wrote "Notes on the Guillotine," Camus had taken a lonely position in refusing to take sides on the Algerian civil war. Denounced by Sartre and other former allies from the left for his unwillingness to endorse the National Liberation Front in Algeria as it sought independence, Camus was appalled by the front's terror tactics. As he told a news conference in Stockholm, on receiving the Nobel: "People are now planting bombs in the tramways of Algiers. My mother might be on one of those tramways. If that is justice, then I prefer my mother." He was just as appalled by the French military policy of torturing Algerian captives.
I wonder if Camus can be of good counsel for taking a sound position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is something that concerns, confuses, and vexes me.
Gene --
I don't know whether Camus was a case of impotent silence. My complaint about him is that he accuses others of not speaking out when they too perhaps thought that the consequences would be worse than silence. The specific issue for him was: should I risk my own mother by speaking out? His answer was, No. My problem is that it seems wrong to me that he then faults the monks and others for protecting their own -- as, for example, Pope Pius XII did when he protected his priests in Germany by not speaking out more forcefully against the Nazis.
I have not read him in decades but I clearly remember on readingTthe Stringer,thinking of Jesus Christ when reading the sentence about the prisoner who when a chaplain walks in his cell feels his gentleness and peace[I believe ,something to that effect.I. don't have the book here so can't go back and check that particular sentence]I remember thinking immediately that he Camus was expressing the peace of Christ and that he Camus is really a christian,in his heart of hearts.A christian without actually believing -one can't help not believing but but up to that ,totally christian in understandiong of the human condtion.Christ loves the world,understands and loves suffering humanity so does Camus.THAT is christian. Though people can profess atheism, God scrutinizes hearts and he I believe was a Christian.I also thought of christianity in general [i'm remembering now] when in that book the protagonist says that something about the sun over head in the sky propelled him to murder his victim.That, though sounding like a deflection, reminded me of the ancient Christian belief in the "noon day Devil." I believe Camus was alluding to it..Also even in his phrase" the gentle indifference of the universe"-I see that as a prayer .I think of Camus, I think of Christ. Funny how that happens rather often-professed atheists can be the ones who evoke Christ in ones mind. At least for me.
I don't understand or agree with the atheist existentialist position that though life is meaningless, one can create meaning for oneself. Either life has meaning or it does not. To create meaning or give it a subjective meaning ,is to pretend it has meaning.The only thing tha can give meaning to life is trancendence of life. Meaning to life is either found outside life or life is meaningless.Creating meaning is to play at meaning, a past time,a game.Christ on the cross confronts the heart of the matter, we suffer and die .And the iconic cross does not hedge, that brute existential fact of being humnan.From that reality springs the good news that yes ,though we suffer and die, though we're all on the cross, our suffering and death is not the ultumate truth about us. The good news is that God so loves the world...Only christianity takes the bull by the horn so to speaks and cronfronts the reality of the human condition. The belief that it is up to us to give memaning to our lives, is a bore. How long can you keep up the pretense?
Ms. Caminer: I don't think that one need counterpose things as sharply as you do in this last post. To affirm that life has meaning or, in addition, that it is in Christ that life has meaning, is to make a personal judgment--I believe (Credo), and, since this meaning is not obvious, believing is an act of freedom. Yes, the meaning comes from the Gospel, and it is disclosed in what God has done in Christ, but it is each of us who has to appropriate that meaning by personal judgment and commitment. In that sense, it is not wrong to say that it is up to each of us to give meaning to our lives.
Didn't Sartre believe in free will? If so-then that is a spiritual belief. Today atheists deny free will.Today our seculatized culture is adapting the narrative of" people as brains".And brains we know are matter. Hence our secular cultures indoctrinating narrative is filled with this" humans as brains" reductionism.Mental health is dipicted and spoken of as a brain disease. All behavior is increasingly reduced -to brain chemstry /matter. We see this mostly with mental illness discussions but this deterministic world view is starting to permeate our beliefs about what it means to be human.Denying free will-is becoming the defacto position.So from todays perspective a Sartre who believed in radical human freedom and claimed that humans are an unfolding;of our actions, thoughts, beliefs experiences, ironically his belief in free will allignes with those of us who believe that we are more then our unfolding in life;more then our actions, thoughts, experiences.We have a soul hence though influenced by matter and previous events/states, are always free to choose.We're always more then the sum of our past.Sartre for all his atheism, believed in what today is deemed a belief that is the legacy of superstious relgion;that we have free will.That is subversive to the atheist/humanist view today.


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Given $x_1,x_2, \ldots, x_n \ge 0, \alpha \ge 1$, show that
$\sum_{i}\alpha x_i(\sum_{j \le i}{x_j})^{\alpha-1} \ge (\sum_{i}x_i)^\alpha$
We're pretty sure the inequality holds for the given precondition. It can be validated using a small piece of matlab code. Now we post it for rigorous proof. Its continuous version is easy:
$\int^{n}\alpha x(\tau)(\int^{\tau}{x(t)}dt)^{\alpha-1}d\tau= (\int^{n}x(t)dt)^\alpha$
When writing down the proof, there are more details to be finalized, so we're stuck for a rigorous proof. Hope there's anyone who can help or point us to some resource.


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Getting to the weekend feels a whole lot quicker when the right attention is paid to your soles. The Thru the Week Slip On adds cushioning to a flexible design. This versatile, comfortable dress casual shoe will become your go-to for every autumn occasion. Once you slip these Rockport shoes on, you'll be ready to chase your weekend.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by NEILNSA from COMFORT I NOW HAVE BOUGHT 4 PAIRS OF LOAFER/DRIVER SHOES FROM ROCKPORT. NO BREAK IN, COMFORTABLE FROM THE START. INCREDIBLE VAULE. I AM A LONG TIME ALLEN EDMONDS CUSTOMER, WHICH GENERALLY COST TWICE TO THREE TIMES AS MY PURCHASE FROM ROCKPORT, ACCOMPANIED BY A PAINFUL BREAK IN PERIOD. THIS PARTICULAR STYLE HAS A HIGH BACK AND A BIT MORE FUNKY. THE OTHER THREE ARE MORE ELEGANT LOOKING. I AM WEARING THE FIRST TWO PAIR FOR ABOUT 6 MONTHS AND THEY ARE HOLDING UP WELL
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A 96-year-old Indian man has broken his own record of being the world's oldest father.
Ramjeet Raghav, with his 52-year-old wife, Shakuntala Devi, gave birth to their second son on Oct. 5, becoming the world's oldest father for the second time.
According to Raghav, he practiced celibacy his entire life before meeting Davi 10 years ago.
He says he can definitely have a lot more, however, for financial reasons he will not have any more children.
To prevent any more children he is even asking his wife to be "sterilized." Raghav told ABC News, "I have asked my wife to be sterilized now. I don't want more children, we can't afford it. I want my boys to go to a school and study. I will do my best to give them what they need in life."
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Enough about the "fiscal cliff." What about the dividend cliff?
At one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 2013, the maximum tax rate on dividends is likely to go from 15% to either 18.8% or 43.4%. The best-case scenario: Congress retains the top dividend-income tax rate of 15%, and the only increase is the scheduled 3.8% surtax on investment income for high earners. The worst case: Congress decides dividends are to be taxed at ordinary-income rates, and the highest rate jumps to 39.6%, plus the same 3.8% surtax.
In just the first two weeks of January 2012, U.S. public companies paid $16.1 billion in dividends, according to Robert Gordon, a tax expert at Twenty-First Securities in New York. If they pay at approximately that rate again, shifting those distributions a few days earlier so they fall before the end of this year would make a significant difference to investors' after-tax wealth.
Wal-Mart Stores, WMT -0.37 % for instance, already has declared that it will pay its next dividend on Jan. 3, 2013. Its dividend last year amounted to $1.25 billion. Based on publicly available information, Wal-Mart's upcoming January dividend will total approximately $1.34 billion. By moving the payment of the dividend up a mere three days—from next Jan. 3 to this Dec. 31—Wal-Mart could reduce its investors' tax bills by a total of $35 million at the low end and $263 million at the high end, estimates Mr. Gordon.
It doesn't sound as if Wal-Mart will move its payment date. "Our dividend record and payable dates have been set," says Randy Hargrove, a spokesman for Wal-Mart.
Other companies with dividend payouts scheduled in January, including General Electric GE -0.35 % and Philip Morris International, PM 1.17 % declined to comment.
Analysts say many companies are waiting to see what Congress does before they finalize their payment plans. There are no significant tax or financial consequences for companies that speed up a dividend, analysts say.
There is some precedent for doing shareholders a favor by paying out income before it becomes taxable at a higher rate. Two years ago, when Congress also looked likely to jack up taxes on dividends, roughly two dozen companies, including Sara Lee, accelerated their January 2011 payouts into December 2010.
That time, the dividend-tax rate stayed put after a congressional reprieve. This time, a rise to at least 18.8% from 15% is all but inevitable; the odds of a tripling to 43.4% are uncertain.
"I am advising all my wealthy clients [who own private corporations] to pay their dividends this year" before rates rise, says Robert Spielman, a tax accountant at Marcum LLP in Melville, N.Y. "So why shouldn't public companies who care about their shareholders' well-being do the same thing?"
Daniel Peris, co-manager of the Federated Strategic Value Dividend mutual fund, is concerned that higher tax rates might provide some companies with an excuse to avoid raising dividends. "It's yet another pretext not to send out a check to company owners," he says.
That excuse isn't justified by history, of course. For much of the past century, wealthier investors paid taxes on dividends at far higher rates than today's—and companies still managed to pay out much more of their net income to shareholders than they do now. C.J. MacDonald, a portfolio manager at Westwood Holdings, an investment firm in Dallas, points out that companies paid out roughly 60% of their earnings as dividends in 1960—even though the tax rate on dividends topped out then at a confiscatory 91%.
Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices, estimates that the lower tax rates on dividends that have prevailed since 2003 have put an extra $358 billion into individual investors' pockets.
Even if tax rates do triple, investors still would be better off with bigger payouts. History also shows that high-dividend-paying companies outperform dividend misers.
More than seven decades ago, in his classic book "Security Analysis," the great investor Benjamin Graham made a call so radical that it still sounds shocking today. Complaining of the "despotic powers" wielded over dividend policy by corporate executives and directors, Graham argued that companies should no longer be allowed to direct surplus cash away from paying dividends—even for reinvesting in the business—without first obtaining formal "consideration and appraisal" from their investors, most likely through a vote at the annual meeting.
Capitalist to his core, Graham was dead serious with this Bolshevik-sounding suggestion. He wanted shareholders—who, after all, own the company—to force management to provide at least a general justification for using cash for any purpose other than paying a dividend.
With the percentage of profits paid out as dividends today near all-time lows, at 34%, Graham's drastic proposal is just what we need to cattle-prod companies out of being such skinflints.
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How do I convert an existing Fedora system into another spin?
Example: You have installed from the KDE live image and now want to switch to Xfce.
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I've been told to revise the derivation that proves $\frac{\mathrm{d}P}{\mathrm{d}r} =\frac{GM(r)p(r)}{r^2}$ where brackets indicate a function of, P is pressure and p is density. Rather helpfully he hasn't given us it to revise, so if anyone knows it I'd be really grateful. Thanks.
I think you've mistaken $P\ $ for $\rho$.
Here's why: Since we're looking for a static solution, the gravitational force balances exactly the pressure gradient: $$\vec\nabla P +\vec f=0$$ where $\vec f$ is the gravitational force density. Since the system is spherically symmetric, you can write $\vec \nabla P=\frac{dP}{dr}\hat r$, and use $\vec f=-\rho(r) \frac{G M(r)}{r^2}\hat r$ to get $$\frac{dP}{dr}= \frac{G M(r)\rho(r)}{r^2}$$
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I have a problem which I am unable to tackle to the best of my efforts. Whenever I learn a concept (maths, computers physics), if I am required to solve a question on it immediately, I do it without any problem. If I return to a similar problem later, say after two weeks, I can't think of anything on that problem. I know what concept will be applied but its all gone. I am not able to recall anything on that topic.
Why is this happening? I have tried everything - from trying to solve the same question twice or more times, regularly revising the concepts, etc. Regular revision does work. However, I think that the practice of redundancy can help only this far. What about situations in life where I can't revise concepts?


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SAN ANTONIO (October 30, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage announced today the launch of "Matsumoto's Rescues" headlined by Rampage forward Jon Matsumoto. The program is aimed to address the stray dog population in the neighborhood surrounding AT&T Center by hosting a series of collection drives throughout the Rampage season.
At all seven home Sunday games, including the team's seventh-annual Pucks and Paws Night on March 9, fans are encouraged to bring pet food, towels, blankets, paper towels, pet shampoo and plastic grocery bags to AT&T Center to be donated to the Animal Defense League, a no-kill shelter in San Antonio.
The program officially gets underway on Thursday from 2-3 p.m. at the Animal Defense League (11300 Nacogdoches Rd.). Matsumoto will visit two dogs he personally rescued on his way home following a recent Rampage game, one of which required extensive surgery. Both dogs, named Rampage and Silver Star, are currently available for adoption.
"My wife, Kristen, and I have always been animal lovers and we saw this as a great opportunity to help pets here in San Antonio," Matsumoto said. "We have a rescue dog of our own and we want to do everything we can to help animals in need find permanent homes."
By bringing pet supplies to AT&T Center for Sunday Rampage games, fans will be entered in for a chance to win great prizes at the conclusion of every Sunday game. In addition, Matsumoto will donate $20 to the Animal Defense League for every goal he scores this season.
The Animal Defense League will bring dogs ready for adoption to all Sunday home games at the "Matsumoto's Rescues" table on the concourse. The Voices for Animals Group from Highlands High School, the 2010-11 Team Up Challenge Champions, will also assist with the program.
Tickets to Rampage home games start at $10 and can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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On the technical side of life.
A Chinese kid that really likes Japanese stuff. I know how to cook a bit, and I LOVE spicy foods. Buffalo wing FTW!
I am pretty new to uploading on YouTube, so I have some stupid videos, but I am not new to YouTube itself. One of the things I go on whenever, where ever.
But, I AM serious about things. Being top of my class is stressful, but has its rewards. I don't feel happy a lot, IDK why.
Movies are fun, but I don't go to them often.
School, for me, don't really like. But I don't hate it. Except for Chinese school. People in my class are crazy, they curse, and it gets annoying after 4 years.
Anyways, I love to work with technology. From computers to lightbulbs, their all cool to me.
I don't do great in PE, and only have a score of 94 out of 100.
I don't like ELA, or just Language arts, because to me, its kinda boring. Ironically, I love to write stories, and I try to sound like my favorite authors.
Math is really easy for me. Once I get the concept, I can do calculations REALLY fast. Math is sorta boring after a while of doing the same thing, I guess.
Social Studies, or History, is something I HATE. I mean, I like to learn about it and all, but remembering dates is not my thing. And the tests, oh my, I have to study SO much for them.
I'm part of my school chorus, and I do pretty good in it. The teacher really likes me, and the funny thing is that I never practice a song. I just sing it with everyone else. I just go with it, I guess.
My favorite animal is the cat, and my favorite food is basically anything spicy.
I don't like any seafood unless it's fish or clams.
I LOVE spicy tuna sushi. I get it all the times.
Beyblade, is really the past for me. Obsessed for 1 year, and it died down for me. I might be selling my stuff....
Some life goals: +Build a computer +Build/get a claw machine +Create a video game +Build cool Lego stuff +One day go to Japan +Publish my own book
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Do you guys know the best way to get money and make everyone happy in Tiny Tower? It's very addicting and i need some help to get money fast and build more floors.
This game I found to be interesting. Making people happy is easy - give them their dream jobs. This only helps to give you a few extra TowerBux. To make money and more floors, simply build a residential floor, and look at the people in there once you add them in. Lets say 3 have creative personalities or higher levels in creativity. Make a creative floor next. Keep checking the app every 15 minutes or so and keep restocking every store. Having fully restocked floors will give you extra cash and TowerBux.
It takes AGES, let me tell you. I have 107 floors and it took months. Just be VERY patient and continue stocking as much as you can.
Don't be afraid to evict tenants who don't offer enough skills, or delete an unprofitable floor to replace it with something better. Both of these actions will take time, but not cost money. I've also found that getting two or three workers on each floor gives me money faster than having more floors, so make sure you build plenty of apartments.
When you talk about money, do you mean Coins or Tower Bux? There are different things involved for getting each.
If you're impatient and feeling unscrupulous you can start a floor build or restocking and then set the calendar on your device forward a day or two. Popping back into the game will yield a completed project in a fraction of the time.
I found that early on in the game, the strategy of saving 50 tower bux for 100000 gold pieces was a fairly efficient way of making a lot of money quickly. Obviously, as the game progresses, elevator speed seems to become more important - so a trade-off has to be made at some point.
On mine I tend to save up to say 50000 coins and then when I buy say a floor that is something like 26000 coins I will still have money over left which makes it look like I still have a lot of money.
Another option is no matter how long the 3rd stocking takes on each business floor you should always stock them as you will get a lot of money from them and then after they have finished buy the 2nd stocking and then the 1st so you're fully stocked!
The best/easiest way to earn money is to buy a new floor, hit "specific floor", go to "food" on the top, find "sushi room" or whatever it's called, hire two bitizens, and where it says "hire" on the third consecutive block, tap it twice as fast as you can. Keep trying until the option to hire "(null)" appears. Hire him. The "Sushi bar" is his dream job, so you'll receive 2 towerbux. Despite all of the details, this is a VERY fast way to earn towerbux. Once you get 50 bux, go to the bank in "menu" and trade bux for money. It's super easy! I love it
you can also get the casino and a big spender sell all your poker chips but this only works if you only have poker chips but you get like 3000 coins!!!


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July 1, 2013 Ralph Mann
150 years ago, July 1, 1863, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War took place in a little town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg. Two days later the seemingly invincible army of Northern Virginia was defeated, forced to go back to Virginia. It was a battle that many historians, including CU-Boulder history professor Ralph Mann, believe turned the tide of the war in favor of the Union.
150 years ago – the battle of Gettysburg
July 1, 2013 Ralph Mann
150 years ago, July 1, 1863, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War took place in a little town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg. Two days later the seemingly invincible army of Northern Virginia was defeated, forced to go back to Virginia. It was a battle that many historians, including CU-Boulder history professor Ralph Mann, believe turned the tide of the war in favor of the Union.
CUT 1 "It's a huge victory and that resonates. Most of the major Union victories have been in the West with Grant. That resonates all over the Western world. It was a huge victory. Lee has been badly defeated." (:16)
Mann says there are several reasons why Lee went into Pennsylvania. But unlike some historians, who say he invaded the North with the sole purpose to end the war, Mann says there is most likely a more practical reason - his army was hungry and they had run out of food in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
CUT 2 "The battle of Gettysburg was at the end of what was essentially a raid into Pennsylvania. The main food source for the Confederate Army was the Valley of Virginia. The northerners call it the Shendendoah. It's the same valley in Pennsylvania and it goes to Gettysburg, essentially. (:20) So what Lee is doing after the victory at Chancellorsville is moving into Pennsylvania to take the pressure off of agriculture supplies in Virginia." (:30)
But Lee understood the ramifications of winning a big battle on Northern soil, says Mann. If he can do that, plus feed his army, he may well put the South in a position to get aid from France and England and fortify anti-war opponents in the North to pressure President Lincoln to sue for peace. But Mann says Lee's arrogance of invincibility my have cost him the battle.
CUT 3 "Lee goes into that battle, he gambles, and he's doing the attacks on the grounds that if this army is properly led the army of Northern Virginia can do anything. Well, no. So that whole thing about the invincible Confederate Army - the Army of Northern Virginia – Lee's army – is badly damaged. (:19) So the defeat reverses all of those. Lee ends up back in Virginia with the same supply problems. He's tied to the railroads. He's tied to the valley. He can't move around." (:31)
The defeat starts a chain of events that will ultimately spell defeat for the South less than two years later. After General Meade refused to chase after Lee's army President Lincoln replaced him with General Grant, who, on that same day of Lee's defeat, captures Vicksburg in the west.
CUT 4 "At the same day of Gettysburg Grant completes the conquest of Vicksburg. He's won all the battles and pretty quickly Lincoln's got Grant superseding. (:13) Meade stays as commander of the Army of the Potomac but Grant is his commander – Grant is the overall commander. And so that was Meade's last chance and from then on out it would be Grant's type of war." (:27)
And Grant's type of war is a war of attrition. A type of war the confederates can't maintain. Gettysburg cost Lee a third of his army and the South did not have the resources to replace men nor supplies like the North could, says Mann.
CUT 5 "The Confederacy is in real trouble there. In terms of killed and wounded at Gettysburg, Lee loses 30 percent. The Union army lost 20 percent. It was a hellish bloodbath but they have much more resources. (:17) The bleeding has Really started, and with Grant's exhaustive campaign, keeping Lee under attack. Lee is in a position where he can't replace men nearly as easily as Grant can." (:29)
The Union victory at Gettysburg also bolsters Lincoln's popularity and resolve. Four months later his Gettysburg Address redefines the war as not just to save the Union but also to defend freedom and the republic, says Mann.
CUT 6 "He talks about in the Gettysburg address. And so forever, what he does, is link that victory to a turning point in the war and to the ideals of the war – a new birth of freedom, anti-slavery, a government for the people, by the people. – but mostly the reestablishment of a republican government." (:20)
In all some 160,00 soldiers from the North and South fought at Gettysburg. After three days, roughly 51,000 men were either killed or wounded – making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
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I have a single speed bicycle that has some slack in the chain and threatens to come off. How can I reduce this slack?
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If you have horizontal dropouts (the wheel axle slides into the frame from the back of the bike) the dropouts have long slots which will allow you to pull the rear wheel back and take slack from the chain. Be careful to ensure when you torque the wheel nuts down the wheel doesn't slip from being aligned straight, or the chain is running at a slight angle.
If the chain is so stretched to the point where it's falling off, you really should consider replacing the chain. You can get away with removing a link to remove the slack but a worn chain will be prone to sticky links and popping off unannounced.
Typically the adjustment would be made at the rear dropouts. Loosen the bolt back there, hold some tension (not a lot) on the rear wheel while you tighten it back.
If you don't have a tool to measure chain stretch then a normal ruler can work. The pins on links should line up at the beginning and 12" mark.
I change my chain 2 or three times a year based on the distances I'm riding. Chaning chains regularly means that your gearing doesn't quite wear enough to fit a single chain and it's less likely that you'll have to purchase some new drivetrain components when you get a new chain.
Many/most single speeds also have the rear dropouts set up so you can slide the wheel back a bit. At least last time I looked at them.
The best method I've found for adjusting tension without using a Surly Tuggnut or similar tensioner is to walk the axle back and forth. Generally, just holding the wheel at tension is not enough to get the tension right without undue frustration.
NOTE: while this method works for singles and fixies, it doesn't work with quick releases. (It will also work with eccentric hubs where dropout tensioners don't help.)
The idea is that you install the wheel in the dropouts with the chain routed correctly and then tighten the axle nuts a bit beyond finger-tight. Then, loosen the right axle nut and pull the wheel (using the leverage from the rim) to tension the chain and tighten that nut. You want to get the chain a bit too tight and then gently tap the nut to back off the tension until it is just right. Repeat the process on the left axle nut to get the wheel aligned, keeping one or the other axle nuts tight. Proper tension should allow the bicycle to pedal smoothly without binding and with as little chain droop as possible (the big risk of a droopy chain is that it will derail and that would not be healthy.)
By using the wheel as leverage, you don't need to rely on physically holding the wheel perfectly straight and taught. After you've tensioned and aligned the wheel (the rim should be centered between the stays) be sure the axle nuts are tightened to spec to keep the wheel from slipping forward.
(Additionally, if as you're adjusting your chain tension you find that the tension wobbles - i.e. it is tighter at some spots in the pedal rotation - then you need to center your chain ring!)
Your chain has probably stretched.
An amusing anecdote. I took my 1996 Litespeed Tachyon (20K miles or more on it) into the shop for a tuneup and asked them NOT to change the drive train unless absolutely neccasary, since it would mean changing everything. Its DuraAce so that would be a big chunk of change.
Anyway, turns out my chain had stretched a complete link! It was clearly stretched, but one complete chain link, so he popped out a link and reconnected the chain.
Short of that you will have to decide what you want to do. See if the chain is stretched. They have a tool for this, see if you can borrow one.


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Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder.
In early May, instruments at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii marked a new record: The concentration of carbon dioxide climbed to 400 parts per million for the first time in modern history.
The last time researchers believe the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reached 400 ppm—between 3 and 5 million years ago during the Pliocene—the Earth was about 3.5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer (2 to 5 degrees Celsius) than it is today. During that time period, trees overtook the tundra, sprouting right to the edges of the Arctic Ocean, and the seas swelled, pushing ocean levels 65 to 80 feet higher.
July 29, 2013 Jim White
Something that hasn't happened on Earth since the Pliocene period, some 3 to 5 million years ago, happened in May of this year. That's when the concentration of carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere registered 400 parts per million at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. But there's a noticeable difference between now and the last time CO2 levels were that high, says CU-Boulder geological scientist Jim White.
CUT 1 (42) "The planet was much warmer. It was 15 to 20 degrees warmer in the Arctic. And the sea level, because of Greenland melting and West Antarctica melting, the sea level was 20 meters higher – 60 feet higher. It was a very different planet the last time we had 400 parts per million of CO2." (:14)
Climate scientists are puzzled by the difference because when they use their climate models to try and recreate conditions during the Pliocene, the result is an Earth that's cooler than it was in real life.
CUT 2 (120) "If we put 400 parts per million of CO2 in to the atmosphere in our climate models, we can't make the Pliocene as warm as it was based on the records that we have from fossils and from other things we measure in the environment to measure temperature. (138) So we know it was warm. But the models can't get it to be that warm. So a fundamental question is: why?"
To answer that question White and his colleagues launched an investigation and the research team decided to force the model to assume that the Arctic was free of ice in the winter as well as the summer during the Pliocene. Climate models, left to run on their own, show ice reforming in the Arctic during the Pliocene winter.
CUT 3 (557) "What happens is water evaporates off the ocean. What that does is that it puts water vapor in the atmosphere and water vapor in the atmosphere does two really important things to warming. (607) One is that it creates a blanket of greenhouse gas. The other thing is when you evaporate water that takes energy and so then that energy is now in the atmosphere and that energy spreads out from the Arctic Ocean and warms up the entire Arctic." (629)
Could we see that happening in the near future? Probably not, says White,
explaining that since the Earth is made up mostly of water and water takes a long time to warm, it would take some time for the Earth to warm to Pliocene-type levels.
CUT 4 (335) "It will be a while before our planet acts and looks like a 400 parts per million CO2 planet (440) But will that planet be a Pliocene-like planet with ice-free conditions in the wintertime, with trees growing all the way up to the arctic circle, with sea level high enough to drown out Delaware?"
The goal now, says White, is for he and his colleagues to try and understand what types of conditions could bridge the standard model simulations with the simulations in which ice-free conditions in the Arctic are imposed. If they're successful, computer models would be able to model the transition between a time when ice reformed in the winter to a time when the ocean remained devoid of ice throughout the year.
Such a model also would offer insight into what could happen in our future, says White.
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All items are 24/40 standard taper unless otherwise specified. Some items are not glassware, but are used in reaction setups.
- Liebig condenser, 200mm
- Allihn condenser, 200mm
- 3-neck 500mL round-bottom flask
- 500mL round-bottom flask
- 250mL round-bottom flask
- 100mL round-bottom flask
- 50mL round-bottom flask
- 2x50mL round-bottom flask with distiller arm (not standard taper)
- Addition funnel, 125mL
- Separating funnel, 100mL (not standard taper; use a 1-hole stopper for an adapter)
- Stillhead adapter
- Vacuum adapter
- Claisen adapter
- 0-360 degree thermometer
- 500mL beaker
- 250mL beaker
- 2x200mL beakers
- 40mL beaker
- 500mL Erlenmeyer flask with vacuum adapter (not standard taper)
- Buchner funnel
- 100mL graduated cylinder
- 10mL graduated cylinder
- 10mL burette
- Evaporating dish
- Aquarium pump with hoses (attaches to condenser for cooling it down)
- Test tubes, various sizes, lots of them
- 1 gallon methanol
- 1 gallon phosphoric acid
- 1 gallon hydrochloric acid, 12M
- ~1lb potassium hydroxide
- Calcium chloride, anhydrous (drying agent)
- Magnesium sulfate, anhydrous (drying agent)
Things that are broken but could be fixed
- A 500mL round-bottom longneck distillation flask with the distiller arm broken off. If someone has an acetylene torch, this could be repaired by fusing a glass tube onto it, or the hole could be sealed up and the flask used for a reflux reaction flask.
- A Liebig condenser, not standard taper, with part of the stillhead end in several pieces. Again, fixable with a hot enough torch.
- A vacuum aspirator with a bunch of pipe-fitting adapters. It works, but currently the adapters are on there really tight and I can't get them off. If someone has a plumber's wrench and a bench vise, this is easy to fix.


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im new to using Ubuntu and just bought a HP Pavilion g6-2240sa with windows 8 pre installed.
I made a bootable USB with Ubuntu on it and installed alsongside windows, for 2 days it worked fine, I got into Ubuntu by doing an advanced restart from windows 8 and then booting Ubuntu from the partition it made.
When i did the advanced restart today there was only 1 HDD i could select ( there were 3 before windows, a restore partition that was already there when i got the computer and Ubuntu) so i booted from the USB again and re-installed Ubuntu. then did an advanced restart and the 3 partitions where there again, i booted from Ubuntu and now heres my problem.
I get the Ubuntu background when its loading then its just a black screen with some writing, its not on long enough to read, then just a black screen with a white _ and the top left corner that does nothing, i have to restat the computer and it auto boots into windows 8.
im a little confused as the first time i installed Ubuntu it worked fine until the partition dissaperd), the second time i installed i did everything the same except it found the old Ubuntu so i reinstalled it and now is donst work.


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After Perry heard a news report about a local disabled Georgia woman having her customized Chrysler minivan stolen from her house, the star decided to jump in and help.
Alicia Day is 24-years-old and suffers from Cerebral Palsy. She uses a wheelchair and her van is crucial for transportation.
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and maybe additionally joining a new proposal should either cost some rep or be limited (per week or in total)
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Agreed on voting and posting questions only on followed proposals.
But I'm totally against limiting how many of them you can follow.
I think anyone should be able to post a example question, but I can see a good case for only letting people that follower a proposal vote on its questions.
By following I am saying I will take part in the site often, the fact I will only make use of a site 1 or 2 times a year does not stop me posting good questions, however it means I should not follow it (and imply I will commit), or help define it.
When you create a proposal, you automatically follow it. Do you mean that you should have to wait until someone else follows it prior to creating sample questions?
Those first few questions help you to clarify what you had in mind (as far as what should be on / off topic) when you created the proposal.
I'd also be against a limitation of how many proposals I could follow. Of the (I think 10) I'm following now, I'm committed to only two. As it stands, I don't think I'll be committing to anything else that I follow, but I like to keep up with the proposals anyway .. I may change my mind.
In short, just following something isn't going to get it into beta. I think the fact that we can only commit to a few proposals will naturally keep 'questionable' stuff out of beta.
Now - reading between the lines -
It's been made abundantly clear that no matter the intentions, creating a 'fun place' is not in the scope of Stack Exchange 2.0. Likewise with a deliberately nonsensical site. If I start a proposal today on .. let's say ... "How to be a pimp" - even if it got 200 followers, you can be sure that it would not live past the first 24 hours. Keep in mind that early on, nobody but diamond moderators could vote to close a proposal. That has since changed.


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Since I have a full-time job, I find difficult to do things I like, such as starting personal projects.
For example, I'm trying to listen to a webcast, which from time-to-time requires me to switch to the application to the slides, while reading and programming at the computer. But I often find myself missing parts of what I'm hearing.
I know is difficult to really do two things at the same time, but I'd like to be able to listen to something while reading something else, more specifically when both are technical and potentially different subjects.


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My wife and I have decided to move across Europe by train.
Do you know of any good sites for planning a trip via train (schedule and maybe prices)?
We're going to go across Europe from east (Russia and Baltic countries) to west (France and Germany).
I've found only http://www.oebb.at/.
My wife and I have decided to move across Europe by train.
Do you know of any good sites for planning a trip via train (schedule and maybe prices)?
We're going to go across Europe from east (Russia and Baltic countries) to west (France and Germany).
Seat 61 is the absolute definitive guide for international rail travel. It has all the information you need about routes, prices, and schedule. It also has plenty of links to the places where you can price up and buy tickets, and where to buy them if you can't buy them online.
If you have more specific questions you can ask them here obviously.
For route planning, the German Railway's website - http://www.bahn.de - is unbeatable for working out how to get from Helsinki to Madrid by train. It doesn't cover the ticket purchasing for journeys outside Germany though.
I'm surprised no answer so far has mentioned Raildude. This is a very useful, community-driven website for international trains in Europe. It is particularly focussed on budget travel, and indeed originates from a Interrail-related website.
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I'd like to issue a word of warning about Hafas-based search engines. Bahn.de, B-Rail, ÖBB, and NS Hispeed are all based on the same international train database known as Hafas. It relies on participating train companies submitting their timetables, and is not always complete. In my experience:
The different Hafas-based search engines have slightly different features. For example, B-Rail permits to specify the maximum number of connections, whereas Bahn.de allows to specify the minimum change time. Most allow to have one or more via stations. My combining those features, one can often get a much better connection than to simply write Stockholm to Madrid in an arbitrary search engine.
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I suggest to use InterRail pass instead of buying tickets. This is cheaper if you plan to travel more than few thousand kilometers.
For schedules, search HAFAS on Google. This is the common database shared by most rail companies in Europe (e.g.: Germany, Switzerland, Belgium)
Finally, for dreaming, check Orient-Express.
The site that stands out by a mile is seat61.com. Really well written, very comprehensive, and has all the information you'll need on how to book when you've decided. I use it all the time!
EURail should be a good place to plan the trip.
They do go as far east as Poland and Bulgaria, but no further than that.
EuroStar is another network that may be useful, but it stops short of EURail on the eastern side.
If you travel through the Baltic countries, prefer the bus to the train. Busses are faster, more frequent, more comfortable than trains. Once you are in Poland, you can switch to trains. So here are the sites:
Here is the Interrail map:
On the site, it is also available as a 14Mb PDF that you can zoom for details.
As speed/duration depends on many factors, the map only distinguishes between high speed lines, main lines and other lines.
As mentioned by others Seat 61 is really the bible for European train travel and I would have been lost without it when planning and booking our train travel. It's focused on travelling from London but it's still really useful even if you're not starting your journey in London. It will point you in the right directions in terms of finding online timetables and tickets from the various operators and retailers.
I also stumbled across Loco2 but haven't used it other than some quick searches. I'd be interested if there's anyone here that's used it and has some feedback.
To go from Russia and Baltic Countries to Germany and France you have to go through the Poland. Although in other answers you have good international links, I think it's good to double-check connections on country-specific site. Polish railways has schedules and approximate prices on site: http://rozklad.pkp.pl/
This website is awesome to find route around europe by official.
btw, If you planned to travel in Europe by train, You should use an
The best website to plan a trip in europe like an InterRail is http://www.eurorailplanner.com/
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farina wrote:Good! I'd like to see Microsoft start concentrating on the UI...if only they weren't 10 years late .
I absolutly agree the line between design and development is bluring, and I'm more than happy to see the merger.
I love the UX team at Microsoft, they are doing an amazing job of highlighting to the developer community of the importance of designers to the SDLC.
The issue is that there are a immensly short supply of designers with microsoft skills. They are all residing in the adobe/flash arena.
The challenge over the next couple of years is to, in order of importance,
1. Convince the adobe/flash developer community to take up microsoft skills and design for us
2. Train the existing arsenal of microsoft experienced developers with good design skills to move into design.
3. Convince a new generation of designers that the microsoft way is worth investing in, get them from Uni or from non-traditional IT related fields.
It's no use having all these cool new tools to design in if there arnt designers to use them!
ps. Im not an MS employee BUT i love the whole UX approach that Im going out of my way to do 1 and 2 above. If we can grow our designer market to half the size of adobe's, were talking a billion dollar industry arising from virtual nothing.
Great talk and looking forward to more talks from the UX team!!!
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