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I was considering buying a version of the Sefer Yetsirah, but wondering how I should treat it. It's not the Tanach, so I suppose it probably doesn't require being as careful. Even though my question is specifically about the Sefer Yetsirah, I would also like to learn how one should treat commentaries, editions of the Talmud, Zohar, Shulchan Aruch, even textbooks on Jewish history, etc.
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All Torah works are considered holy and must be treated with respect, regardless of the specific genre (halacha, Talmud, kabbalah, etc.), even if the name of God is not mentioned in them. (This is true even if they are not written in Hebrew.)
The only difference between Torah works is that Biblical books are should not be placed underneath non-Biblical works, and Chumashim should not be placed underneath any other books, including other Bilical books.
Generally, how you treat a book is not based on its relative Kedusha level, but rather if Gd's name is in the book or not.
The relative Kadosh levels of books only really comes into affect when you are stacking books ontop of eachother, or placing them in a bookshelf. (See Shulhan ARuch Yoreh Deah 282:19 for more details)
But how you treat the book itself, depends entirely on if Gd's name is in the book, or if it's from tanach.


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Abel KM, Wicks S, Susser ES, Dalman C, Pedersen MG, Mortensen PB, Webb RT. Birth weight, schizophrenia, and adult mental disorder: is risk confined to the smallest babies? Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Sep ; 67(9):923-30. Pubmed Abstract
Abel KM, Wicks S, Susser ES, Dalman C, Pedersen MG, Mortensen PB, Webb RT. Birth weight, schizophrenia, and adult mental disorder: is risk confined to the smallest babies? Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Sep ; 67(9):923-30. Pubmed Abstract
The large study from Nuevo and colleagues is very thought provoking. There was substantial between-site variation in response to various psychosis-screening items. Assuming that endorsement of these items is a mix of: 1) "true" psychotic-like experiences, 2) "true" responses that are understandable from the perspective of local cultures and beliefs, and 3) innocent misinterpretations of the questions, why is there such marked variation? For example, why do 46 percent of respondents from Nepal endorse at least one psychotic-like experience and a third report auditory hallucinations?
It seems self-evident that populations with strong religious and/or cultural beliefs related to psychotic-like experiences might endorse psychosis-screening items more readily (type 2 in the above list). But could it be feasible that these same populations might also kindle psychotic experiences in vulnerable people? This notion is pure speculation, but we should remain mindful that dopaminergic pathways related to psychosis are vulnerable to the process of endogenous sensitization (Laruelle, 2000).
What does it mean to be a member of a cultural group that is more prone to psychotic-like experiences? Tanya Luhrmann, an anthropologist based at Stanford University, has examined individuals attending evangelical churches who hear the voice of God during prayer (Luhrmann et al., 2010). The vignettes suggest that some individuals reported more hearing the voice of God after improving their prayer skills. Practice makes perfect, but could it also kindle pathways related to schizophrenia?
Regardless of the underlying mechanisms, understanding variations in these symptoms is a fascinating topic worthy of more multidisciplinary research.
Laruelle M. The role of endogenous sensitization in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia: implications from recent brain imaging studies. Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 2000;31(2-3):371-84. Abstract
Luhrmann TM, Nusbaum H, Thisted R. The absorption hypothesis: learning to hear God in evangelical Christianity. American Anthropologist. 2010;112 (1):66-78.
View all comments by John McGrathComment by: Tanya Luhrmann
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It seems to me that there may be two different patterns that show up in these large epidemiological studies: the psychotic continuum and phenomena associated with absorption. Absorption is basically a capacity for/interest in being caught up in your imagination. It is associated with hypnotizability and dissociation, but not identical to them (Tellegen and Atkinson, 1974).
In my own work on evangelical Christianity, I identify a pattern in which people report hallucination-like phenomena that are rare, brief, and not distressing (as opposed to the pattern associated with psychotic disorder, in which the hallucinations are often frequent, extended, and distressing). Those who report hearing Gods voice audibly or seeing the wing of an angel are also more likely to score highly on the Tellegen absorption scale (Luhrmann et al., 2010). This relationship between unusual experiences and absorption also shows up in a significant relationship between absorption and the Posey-Loesch hearing voices scale when these scales are given to undergraduates. Among undergraduates, the rates for hallucination-like phenomena are also consistently far higher than the Nuevo paper reports, perhaps because neither the absorption scale nor the Posey-Loesch scale seems to probe for pathology (Luhrmann, forthcoming).
I am not the only one to have found a significant association between unusual sensory experiences and absorption. Aleman and Laroi (2008) report that a handful of other researchers have also found significant correlations between hallucination scales and the absorption scale. As a result of this work, I think that there may be different pathways to hallucination-like phenomena—some pathological, others less so.
Yet, I also wonder whether there is indeed something like priming psychosis, as John suggested. This would arise if there were some looseness in the relationship between psychosis and dissociation, which there appears to be. At least that's the way I interpret some of the phenomena that Romme and Escher (1993) report. If there is some kind of loose relationship, it would suggest that someone could have an absorption/dissociation response to trauma that would look psychotic; it might also suggest that an intensely absorbing negative imaginative experience (being pursued by demons, e.g.) might contribute to a vulnerable person exhibiting more psychotic-like symptoms.
How would we begin to pull this apart?
Aleman A, Laroi F. Hallucinations: The science of idiosyncratic perception. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2008.
Luhrmann TM. When God speaks back. New York: Knopf, forthcoming.
Luhrmann TM, Nusbaum H, Thisted R. The absorption hypothesis: learning to hear God in evangelical Christianity. American Anthropologist. 2010;112 (1):66-78.
Romme M, Escher S. Accepting voices. London: Mind, 1993.
Tellegen A, Atkinson G. Openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences (absorption): a trait related to hypnotic susceptibility. J Abnorm Psychol. 1974;83(3):268-77. Abstract
View all comments by Tanya LuhrmannComment by: Mary Cannon
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Posted 15 November 2010
This beautifully written piece serves to excite interest in the fascinating epidemiology of schizophrenia. In our search for the missing heritability of schizophrenia, we dont have to look too far for clues. There are many contained in this piece. It just requires some Sherlock Holmes-type deductive reasoning to put them all together now!
The realization that psychotic symptoms (or psychotic-like experiences) can be used as a proxy for schizophrenia risk has opened up new vistas for exploration (Kelleher and Cannon, 2010). For instance, the paper by Nuevo and colleagues will provide a fertile ground for testing ecological hypotheses on the etiology of schizophrenia—such as examining cross-national vitamin D levels (McGrath et al.) or fish oil consumption. Geneticists have yet to appreciate the potential value of studying such symptoms. Ian Kelleher, Jack Jenner, and I have argued in a recent editorial that the non-clinical psychosis phenotype provides us with a population in which to test hypotheses about the evolutionary benefit of psychosis genes (Kelleher et al., 2010; see also Nesse, 2004). This non-clinical psychosis phenotype gives rise to the possibility of moving beyond just-so stories into the realm of testable hypotheses.
Kelleher I, Cannon M. Psychotic-like experiences in the general population: characterizing a high-risk group for psychosis. Psychol Med. 2010 May 19:1-6. Abstract
Kelleher I, Jenner JA, Cannon M. Psychotic symptoms in the general population - an evolutionary perspective. Br J Psychiatry. 2010 Sep;197(3):167-9.
Nesse RM. Cliff-edged fitness functions and the persistence of schizophrenia. Behav Brain Sci. 2004;27:862-3.
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Submitted 17 November 2010
Posted 17 November 2010
I recommend the Primary Papers
With interest, I read Victoria Wilcox's summary of some thought-provoking papers published this year. It seems that schizophrenia, like cancer, has many different causes. I would like to point out that three of the studies (Zammit et al., 2010; Wicks et al., 2010; Schofield et al., 2010) support the idea that social defeat and/or social exclusion increase risk. The paper by Zammit et al. showed this in an elegant way: being different from the mainstream, no matter on what account, increased the subject's risk. The next step is to show that social exclusion has an impact on an individual's dopamine function. My group is examining this in young adults with an acquired hearing impairment, using SPECT.
Zammit S, Lewis G, Rasbash J, Dalman C, Gustafsson J-E, Allebeck P. Individuals, schools, and neighborhood: a multilevel longitudinal study of variation in incidence of psychotic disorders. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Sep;67(9):914-22. Abstract
Wicks S, Hjern A, Dalman C. Social risk or genetic liability for psychosis? A study of children born in Sweden and reared by adoptive parents. Am J Psychiatry. 2010 Oct;167(10):1240-6. Epub 2010 Aug 4. Abstract
Schofield P, Ashworth M, Jones R. Ethnic isolation and psychosis: re-examining the ethnic density effect. Psychol Med. 2010 Sep 22:1-7. Abstract
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Submitted 26 November 2010
Posted 26 November 2010
I recommend the Primary Papers
I have been collecting diverse references for environmental risk factors in schizophrenia at Schizophrenia Risk Factors. These include many prenatal influences due to maternal infection, usually with some sort of virus, or immune activation with fever. Several animal studies have shown that infection or immune activation in mice can produce schizophrenia-like symptoms in the offspring. Toxoplasmosis has often been cited as a risk factor in adulthood.
Many of the genes implicated in schizophrenia are also involved in the life cycles of these pathogens, and interactions between genes and risk factors can together contribute to endophenotypes; for example, MICB and Herpes simplex infection have single and combined effects on grey matter volume in the prefrontal cortex.
Over 600 genes have been associated with schizophrenia. When these were pumped through a Kegg pathway analysis, the usual suspects (neuregulin, dopamine, and glutamate pathways, among others) figure highly in the list of pathways. Immune-related pathways are also highly represented, as are many pathogen entry pathways, including that for toxoplasmosis, which heads the list. Some of the more exotic pathways, for example, Chagas disease, should be considered as generic, as well as specific.
These Kegg-generated data suggest that there are strong relationships between genes and risk factors. Perhaps stratification of GWAS data in relation to infection could take this into account.
Bortolato M, Godar SC. Animal models of virus-induced neurobehavioral sequelae: recent advances, methodological issues, and future prospects. Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis . 2010 Jan 1 ; 2010():380456. Abstract
Carter CJ. Schizophrenia susceptibility genes directly implicated in the life cycles of pathogens: cytomegalovirus, influenza, herpes simplex, rubella, and Toxoplasma gondii. Schizophr Bull . 2009 Nov 1 ; 35(6):1163-82. Abstract
Fatemi SH, Emamian ES, Kist D, Sidwell RW, Nakajima K, Akhter P, Shier A, Sheikh S, Bailey K. Defective corticogenesis and reduction in Reelin immunoreactivity in cortex and hippocampus of prenatally infected neonatal mice. Mol Psychiatry . 1999 Mar 1 ; 4(2):145-54. Abstract
Fatemi SH, Pearce DA, Brooks AI, Sidwell RW. Prenatal viral infection in mouse causes differential expression of genes in brains of mouse progeny: a potential animal model for schizophrenia and autism. Synapse . 2005 Aug 1 ; 57(2):91-9. Abstractx
Ozawa K, Hashimoto K, Kishimoto T, Shimizu E, Ishikura H, Iyo M. Immune activation during pregnancy in mice leads to dopaminergic hyperfunction and cognitive impairment in the offspring: a neurodevelopmental animal model of schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry . 2006 Mar 15 ; 59(6):546-54. Abstract
Prasad KM, Bamne MN, Shirts BH, Goradia D, Mannali V, Pancholi KM, Xue B, McClain L, Yolken RH, Keshavan MS, Nimgaonkar VL. Grey matter changes associated with host genetic variation and exposure to Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV1) in first episode schizophrenia. Schizophr Res . 2010 May 1 ; 118(1-3):232-9. Abstract
Yolken RH, Torrey EF. Are some cases of psychosis caused by microbial agents? A review of the evidence. Mol Psychiatry . 2008 May 1 ; 13(5):470-9. Abstract
Zuckerman L, Weiner I. Maternal immune activation leads to behavioral and pharmacological changes in the adult offspring. J Psychiatr Res . 2005 May 1 ; 39(3):311-23. Abstract
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If I work as a Developer in one language (e.g. Java) and work my way up to Senior Developer, would that qualify me to be a Senior Developer for a position using another language (e.g. Ruby)?
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The best way to answer this is to look at what the difference between a Developer and a Senior Developer. Assuming that it's not just a time served thing, generally I'd expect both Developers and Senior Developers to be able to:
In addition I'd expect a Senior Developer to:
So, the question then becomes do you fulfil the extended criteria for your second (or third or fourth) language? I'd suggest that so long as you're technically competent enough in the language you're moving to then yes as most of the Senior Developer stuff tends to be transferable.
You can apply for any position at any company you like regardless of what your current status is.
It will be up to you the prove in your CV/cover letter/interview that you are the man for the job.
I look for the following qualities when I've interviewed Sr. Developers.
There are a myriad of other things I look for, but these are the main points.
While I have recommended hiring Sr. Developers who weren't experts in the language used at work, they were experts in similar languages.
You could apply, but at least if I was doing the hiring, I might or might not hire you.
Seniority relates to (at least) two areas. General development expertise and language/framework expertise. (I am purposefully leaving out business-space-knowledge) at present. Being a senior developer in my books would also include a level of design/architecture expertise. How to build good/testable system, etc.
Getting to this level in Java should stand you in good stead for other (similar/procedural) languages.
But in this era of expected immediate productivity, you are unlikely to know nearly as much about Ruby as Java. How to split up your system into Ruby-friendly constructs instead of Java-friendly constructs. You probably know some Java frameworks and not Rails or other Ruby-specific things.
If I were to ask you to do whiteboard coding in Ruby during the interview, could you do it?
All of these would go into my decision to hire you or not, at any level; but in particular for a senior role.
Good Luck
That's one of the big differences between our profession and other more 'formal' professions. If you've worked as a lawyer doing wills & estates for 20 years, then you are going to command a high rate because you have 20 years of knowledge built up in that domain.
If you've been doing C++/Win32/MFC for 15 years, that doesn't really qualify you for a senior spot as a Rails developer, even if you're still solving the same problems in the same domain... say medical billing, for example.
Even worse, most companies won't even consider you for a position that is roughly similar... For example, if you've done C++/MFC for 5-7 years, you ought to be able to get up to speed on C#/.NET very quickly, at least for the desktop. Unfortunately most companies don't see it that way.
It Depends
Take "programming" out of it. Pretend instead that you are a professional translator.
Assume English is your first language, and you are also proficient in French. You are likely to learn Spanish fairly easily.
However, you are not as likely to quickly master the many dialects of Chinese. While your experience as a linguist will help you learn the language(s), giving you an advantage over somebody that has never studied a foreign language, it will still take you a much longer time to become an "expert" (i.e. "senior") translator in that language.
Yes and No.
If the languages are kind of similar, say C++, Java or Ruby sure you should be considered. Depending on how flexible the people sitting in those offices are, you have a fighting chance.
However if the languages are vastly different, and by that I mean you are a COBOL guy who's kicked up about Haskell, then notwithstanding your 10+ years of COBOL chances are rife that you may not be able to even as much like secure an interview.
I've rarely seen a "senior" title based on language. I know a few senior systems programmers, a couple senior web programmers and one senior COBOL programmer.
Programming is multifaceted and has quite a few disciplines to offer. I would expect a senior web developer (in titles, programmer and developer seem to be interchangeable) to be proficient in several mainstream languages used in web development. Does that make a Python and PHP guru an instant expert in C#? No. On the other hand, not all C# gurus have mastered the fine art of project management and leadership.
I served the role of CTO in a company, in addition to being the senior systems programmer. Yet, I'd happily defer to a scheme or LISP expert if we encountered a project that necessitated either. Part of being a good leader is understanding your own limits and shortcomings first.
I'm not sure that I'd want to work in a company, or even a department that focused on one and only one language. That sounds like it would do what they always said smoking cigarettes would do: stunt your growth when the reality is actually far worse.
Don't chase after titles, chase after knowledge. But, to be fair, your role in a prior leadership position would probably give you an additional edge, provided that you demonstrated competency in the language at hand.
I think it kind of depends on what you perceive as a Senior developer? If it's more of an architect role, many of the design principles and design patterns will be at your disposal from your experience as a developer, regardless of language. So that's a plus ;-)
However, when looking at creating an application or code as productively and maintainable as possible (the rolling up your sleaves bit), I don't think you could enter at the same experience level when switching language, IDE and/or framework.
But as runrun said, this doesn't stop you from applying for anything
This is going to be highly dependent upon the company you interview at as it is typically the internal human resources procedures that drive how new employees are brought on board. Larger companies tend to be very rigid and if they say you must have n years experience in a given language to be considered a senior level then you might find that they will only bring you in a a mid-level developer.
That said though, this shouldn't prevent you from applying for the position and if they bring you in for an interview it is something that you should discuss.
I'd say that the more low-level or machine-friendly the language is, the more expert you are.
Java/C# expertise is less paid than ASM/C/C++ expertise.
Those latter languages do memory management and other things that actually MATTERS when programming.
But for other "easy" languages, you would need to make a quick comparison about the features that makes them "easier", but I find it useless. Experiences with easy languages is better measured with CMS/other made-code you used to do you work, such as code igniter or django or Apache or RoR.
For me, senior developpers are people who program Kernels, Systems, Embedded hardware, etc. Programmers using languages that are not machine friendly are not seniors to me. They just do the job, but that's all.


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GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – Led by Sean Shelton's even-par 71, the Anderson men's golf team is in fourth place following day one of the Tusculum College Invitational, hosted par 71, 6,733-yard Link Hills Country Club.
The Trojans shot 298 as a team and trail co-leaders Lee and Lincoln Memorial by 13 strokes heading into the second and final round on Sunday. Anderson is seven shots behind the host Pioneers.
Shelton's opening-round effort placed him in a tie for ninth, while Arran Setro shares 24th following a first-round 74. David Wachter is two shots further back in a tie for 32nd, while CJ Messana carded a 77 and is tied for 42nd. Rob Warren notched a first-round 78 and shares the 48th spot.
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It's on Camps Bay Beach that the designer types flex their muscles and show off their volleyball skills. While the supermodels and rock stars of the world are known to hang out here, it's also a great place for families – the white sand beach is wide and flat and parking is sometimes more available than at Clifton.
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The Maine State House, known to many by its patina-green dome, will be getting a new copper top.
Legislative leaders have approved a plan to remove the present copper covering, which has grown thin and leaky over the 103 years it's been in place, and replace it with new copper. The plan was approved Monday.
Council Executive Director David Boulter said Tuesday the $1.2 million cost requires no new appropriation or borrowing. He says the project's scheduled to start early next spring.
Besides developing leaks, the old copper dome has turned green over the decades. Copper domes usually have a lifespan of 75 years, so replacement of Maine's is past due.
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TGIF is a group of breast cancer "conquerors" who meet at Molly's the first Friday of every month for good cheer and camaraderie, explains PJ Hamel, co-founder of the group with Debra Grabill. Note the preference for the term conqueror rather than survivor. "Survivor sounds like you're just making it," says Hamel, a writer at King Arthur Flour, "but we're winning. We're flourishing."
The seeds of TGIF were planted six years ago—just two women diagnosed with breast cancer connecting over coffee. Today, this self-described "support group without the social worker" has an e-mail list of forty-six names and counting, most of them referred by the staff at Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center. TGIF is open to women of any age, any stage of breast cancer.
Member Pam Gile, a medical secretary at DHMC, readily admits that she's not the support group type, but this one, she explains, is different. She likes that the meetings are outside the hospital walls in a social setting. "We don't feel pressured to adhere to any guidelines. We have fun."
Hamel elaborates, "We can talk about cancer without feeling guilty, like we're hurting or worrying our families. We've all been through it so we don't have to be serious. We can joke and whine and needle each other about chemo hair, botched surgeries, and out-of-shape bodies because, underneath, there's always love, understanding, and support."
This afternoon the women's conversation shifts across topics in typical fashion.
"I have to say something about hot flashes here and now," announces Caroline Schneider of Killington. Schneider's brown hair is just starting to grow back, and she is experiencing early menopause thanks to chemo. This is her second happy hour with the group. "For once, I'm not cold all the time," she jokes.
Another TGIF member, Amy Dressler, a special educator at Grantham Village School, recalls when her tumor markers went up two years ago (a false scare, thankfully). As Dressler talks about how TGIF members rallied around her, the mood around the table turns serious. Everyone here has had her fair share of scares and tears. But then the subject segues to shoes—pink patent leather shoes, to be exact—and the laughter is back.
Cancer conqueror Janet Daniels of Hanover (dubbed the group's "costume queen") wore those particular shoes in a dance video TGIF recently made to help raise money for the Prouty Bike Ride and Challenge Walk in July. For five years, Team TGIF has participated in this annual event to support research and patient services at the cancer center. This year, inspired by the wildly popular "Pink Glove" dance video made by hospital staff at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, the group decided to follow suit. Only instead of pink gloves, the twelve TGIF dancers sported feather boas, beads, and sunglasses.
TGIF credits two outside volunteers for helping them make the video (which runs almost seven minutes) a reality. Filmmaker Jeff Morris of Woodstock worked the camera, at one point strapping it to a wheelchair to achieve a weaving effect. And choreographer Denise Frawley of Lyme managed to keep everybody in line (mostly) during the upbeat dance segment, shot on the lawn outside DHMC's cafeteria.
Hamel talks about some of the challenges of the nearly three-hour shoot to create the dance portion of the video. For starters, some of the women claim a total lack of rhythm, which meant a lot of counting aloud, some confusion about "stage right," and a few pink pompoms in the face. And then there were other issues: chemo-brain; old bones; a bout of heat exhaustion. Oh, and the fact that one of the women was scheduled for major surgery the next day.
Given all the challenges, why bother making the video?
"We wanted to show other women with breast cancer how we're doing," Hamel explains. "We're thriving. We're enjoying ourselves."
"When you have the chance to do something," adds Janet Daniels, owner of the coveted pink shoes, "you say, Yes!"
"We're happy to be alive," Pam Gile states. This is evident as the video's final credits roll: "With pure gratitude to the caring folks at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Norris Cotton Cancer Center. You saved Our Lives."
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Prior to a recent game, our group had a great discussion on culture/race and it's relation to RPG races. While it is fairly established that Tolkien based some of the iconic aspects of his fantasy races on stereotypes of various cultures from his era, has there been any indication (interview, designer notes, etc) that a similar style of thinking has been purposefully interjected into fantasy RPG races (ala D&D, Earthdawn, etc)? And as a follow-up, is there any discussion (within the related rules) on how to handle this overlap respectfully and without coming across as "corny"?
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There are a few where it's been explicit that certain aliens or demihumans have been modeled after particular cultures.
The MekPurr, from Space Opera, are Scots in Felinoid bodies, for example.
Certain Human-aliens in Traveller are specifically based upon certain cultures (Sword Worlders and vikings, Jonkerer on desert nomads), and some of the Alien aliens originate in clear stereotypes (Aslan as Samurai Cats).
The Orks of Orkworld are clearly Bretons (A pre-roman Celtic culture in what is now England). The humans are Romans... but Gurtha isn't Earth by the maps.
The Warhammer world is explicitly a parallel earth... the Empire is essentially the Holy Roman Empire; Tilea is italy; Bretonia, France and England; Kislev is Kyiv. The Orcs are east of Germany and Kislev, where the Rus and Slavs lived on earth. The Slann, in older editions, were the Aztec and Inca. The Undead Hordes are in lands that were under Islam on earth... And in early editions, the North were chaos hordes... but aside from Bretonia, the Empire, Kislev, and Tilea, which are all human, the non-humans are not identified with the earth cultures of their spots. Those human cultures are parodies as much as anything.
None of these, however, talk about the sources as anything other than sources. Once you establish your race, it's different, if only because of player ignorance.
I've never seen it called out explicitly in a game text, but you can see signs of it in globetrotting or cosmopolitan settings like Eberron and Al-Qadim, or anthropomorph settings like Ironclaw. My homebrew setting (for who doesn't have one?) does it quite a bit; my advice is to make sure that the research is done, and make sure that the fantasy folk are compelling and interesting even if someone comes in unaware of the historical/cultural shorthand of being "like the Ancient Egyptians" or "like Borgia's Venice."
IMO the proper approach is for fantasy cultures to be influenced by, but not analogous to, real ones. No caricatures, no implied values structures, but not completely alien to our world.
So "These Halflings are known to worship the Sun, to which they bow five times daily." entirely good, we can got a tidbit of learning about these Halflings. "These elves are cave-dwellers, and are suspicious of outsiders" makes me more curious about them.
But "These Halflings speak in gruff accents, drink mead, and wear horned helmets" is already groan-worthy, because there's nothing mysterious about it, and I'm already assuming, right or not, that they are coastal raiders who arm wrestle each other every night.
So if you need to describe their accent or buildings or art or weaponry, think it through well, make it mysterious and not label-able as "They are like the people who live in (real place)"
Most of the classic D&D races (elves, dwarves, halflings, orcs) are derived from a mix of sources, not necessarily directly with real world races or cultures. I dont think Tolkien drew his races that much from real world races or cultures either. Tolkien was a professor of Anglo Saxon literature. All of these races have qualities that can come across as "recognizable", possibly to stereotyped personalities or appearances that you may know - that makes a lot of sense because they embody tropes within a northern European / Western cultural framework in European/ Western literature.
In the games that have these overlap, it typically explains the perception of the game world of these real-world inspired cultures. Like when a setting has an exotic asian locale, or the like.
Perhaps I'm not following the question entirely, but, in general, I don't believe that most games put race->real-race/culture relations in the game rules. Any such nonsense is usually a holdover or a player trying to bring discussions that don't belong at the game table to the forefront.


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MOORE, Okla.—Violent tornadoes swept through towns just south of Oklahoma City Monday afternoon, killing at least 51 people, including at least 20 children, and laying waste to numerous buildings, including more than one elementary school.
One tornado leveled Plaza Towers Elementary, a school in Moore, a city of 55,000 people about 15 miles south of Oklahoma City, the state capital. Jerry Lojka, an official with the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, said Monday evening that rescue workers were "trying to turn over every stick to find survivors" at the school. The estimated number of fatalities was as of late evening.
The Moore Medical Center took a direct hit from a tornado, forcing 30 patients to evacuate to hospitals in Norman, about 10 miles to the south. All of the patients are believed to have survived, said Melissa Herron of the Norman Regional Health System, which owns the Moore Medical Center.
"It's very sad and chaotic right now," said Ms. Herron, who said the company's two hospitals in Norman treated about 60 people injured in the tornadoes. At least 100 people were injured in the storms, officials said.
The Department of Emergency Management said at least three tornadoes touched down Monday in Oklahoma, including in Oklahoma City, Moore and Duncan, farther southwest. But Moore seemed to bear the full brunt, with some neighborhoods reduced to rubble, broken cars wrapped around trees and lodged into homes.
Monday night, parades of residents were wandering the streets trying to help, with blank expressions on their faces as they hauled pets, piles of clothes and wheelbarrows of belongings out of the devastated areas. Meanwhile, crowds at reunification areas were anxious as they awaited word of their children still missing at Plaza Towers Elementary.
"Everything is just devastated," said Darren Hacker of Moore. "It's like a bomb dropped on Moore. People are dying here, they are buried. I just praise God my daughter is safe."
Some local residents tried to help at the school even if they didn't have kids there. William Brown, a 26-year-old juvenile-detention guard, and his wife, Jennifer, a dental technician, ran to Plaza Towers to aid in the rescue after the twister hit. "We were pulling out kids—about eight or nine were alive," Mr. Brown said. "Then it turned into a recovery mission."
Mr. Brown and his wife said they had ridden out the tornado in a storm cellar, Iistening to the sound of screeching metal and smelling the odor of gas.
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Carolyn Booher, a 71-year-old Moore resident, said her home was destroyed, as were her two cars, and the homes of her son and daughter. "We are reeling," she said. "Nothing is salvageable."
Still, she said, she feels fortunate her husband, who was hit in the head by a brick and was in stable condition at the hospital, was the only family member to suffer injuries. "I'll be afraid to close my eyes tonight."
The path of the tornado that hit Moore was estimated to be 20 miles long, according to the National Weather Service, and state officials said the storm was 1¼ miles wide and had kicked up a ball of debris 2 miles wide. The federal agency assigned it a preliminary damage rating of at least EF4, which means winds of between 166 and 200 miles an hour.
Moore firefighter Darren Sigmen, 47, said he was among the first responders and that the devastation was unimaginable.
"I had no idea a tornado could flatten whole neighborhoods like this," he said. "You could tell the people who lost everything. They have that look…like they aren't all there, which is understandable. They just walk around in a daze."
At a news conference in Moore, Gov. Mary Fallin said that rescue dogs were being taken around the debris to find people before darkness fell.
"We're doing everything we can to get all the resources out throughout this community," she said, "and certainly we've got other areas of the state that we're dealing with now."
She said she had received a call from President Barack Obama offering help and prayers. Late Monday night, the president declared a major disaster in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.
Father Guy Dunklee, of the St. Thomas the Apostle Church of Orthodox Anglicanism, said he lives about two blocks from one of the schools hit by the storm, but that his home wasn't seriously damaged. Like many homes in Oklahoma, his has a storm shelter, and his wife retreated to it. "We've been fortunate," he said. In Oklahoma "you have to have a storm shelter. We have one in the garage, that's where my wife went," he said.
It was the second day of severe weather in the state. A tornado touched down Sunday in Shawnee, killing two men and injuring dozens more.
In 1999, Oklahoma City and Moore were struck by tornadoes that also hit Kansas, killing nearly 50 people and causing about $1.5 billion in damages.
Moore officials said search-and-rescue efforts would continue through the night.
"We've been through this before unfortunately," said Moore City Manager Stephen Eddy. "I can tell you that our citizens are resilient. This community will recover."
Officials described a dangerous scene for emergency responders, with downed power lines and debris everywhere. Emergency workers were preparing to do a second round of searching Monday night, and planned to pass over it at least two more times. They said residents wouldn't be able to return to their homes until their task is complete.
Some reunification points were set up for children stranded by the storm to meet their parents, they added.
More than a dozen counties in Oklahoma were under a state of emergency declared by Ms. Fallin on Sunday due to storms over the weekend. Ms. Fallin added more counties to the list on Monday and deployed National Guard Troops to help with search-and-rescue efforts in the affected areas, said Aaron Cooper, a spokesman.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said his neighboring state is ready to help Oklahomans. "The images emerging from Oklahoma today are a terrifying reminder of how quickly the force of Mother Nature can devastate entire communities," he said in a statement.
Tornadoes initially appeared to be barreling toward the heart of Oklahoma City, home to roughly 600,000 people, but residents there appeared to escape the brunt of the damage.
"We haven't had much business, but we're in a concrete building, so we're really fine," said James Thrasher, whose father owns the Fat Elvis Diner. Mr. Thrasher said the storm hit about 30 miles southeast of the restaurant.
Ken Garcia, a spokesman with the American Red Cross, said the relief organization had set up a shelter at St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, which would likely be operational for weeks.
Dylan Bishop, 30, was answering phones at an emergency call center in Edmond, Okla., about 10 to 15 miles north of Moore, on Monday night after the tornado.
"I'm just overwhelmed with emotion," he said. "But in my line of work you have to set all that aside."
Mr. Bishop, who grew up in Moore, said three of his aunts still live there with their families and he was waiting to hear whether they were safe. The phones are still out in Moore, he said, but his family has storm shelters and he is hopeful that they are safe.
"This isn't the first time we've been through this," he said, "but still you don't get used to it at all."
Mr. Bishop said he had had a shock watching an earlier newscast that was reporting from the street where he grew up. "The house I was born and raised in is gone," he said. "Everything is just gone."
De Angelo Bradley, a native of Edmond, Okla., said he is assistant fire chief at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq and he was on his way back to Baghdad when his flight was canceled because of the weather. Instead, he headed to Moore to help with rescue efforts at Plaza Towers Elementary School.
"I wouldn't want to be anywhere else," he said. "This is home. If something hits home, it's totally different."
Mr. Bradley said firefighter units were focused on shifting debris so search and rescue dogs could get in to find those still missing.
Moore resident Craig Kelley said he rode out the tornado with seven adults, nine kids and four dogs because his house has the only tornado shelter in his neighborhood. Mr. Kelley, a former Navy chief master who is now a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, said he had never seen carnage like this.
"I used to be offended when people said 'Oh, it looks like a war zone,'" Mr. Kelley said. "It looks worse than a war zone."
Mona Penn knew as she rushed to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City late Monday that the storm had killed her daughter-in-law, Shannon Quick, and left her 8-year-old grandson injured and in surgery.
Ms. Penn's son, Michael Quick, a Moore resident, had called to tell her about Ms. Quick's death and the injury to his son, Jackson. Mr. Quick's other son, 13-year-old Tanner, was uninjured. Ms. Penn said the family probably took shelter in their home's restroom.
"If God's willing to take you, he's going to take you," Ms. Penn, 59, said in the parking lot outside of the emergency room, clutching a drink in a Styrofoam cup as tears spilled down her cheeks. "But I don't want to lose two of them."
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First Lady insult: What or who, exactly, is a big bum?Posted Thursday, December 22, 2011, at 7:39 PM
Big news this week!
Some of the Republicans apparently believe that Michelle Obama's bum is larger than it ought to be but one, at least has apologized for his comment! Stop the presses! What an unbelievable scandal!
Republicans, lighten up. It's just a bum, the appropriate size of which varies substantially in the minds of both those whose bums are being viewed and those who are doing the viewing.
Democrats, lighten up. It's just an opinion.
First of all, the only people who need to be concerned about the First Lady's figure or its impact on her health are her and her doctor; possibly close family members if their concern comes from the right place in their hearts.
Now while it may have been rude of a less-than-slender congressman from Wisconsin to express opinions that the First Lady's posterior may be larger than necessary, that's all it is! It's an opinion!
And the congressman didn't even say it publicly! It was overheard on a telephone conversation!
If Michelle Obama weighed 400 pounds, would that make her advice on and encouragement of good nutrition less valid? Or would it simply mean that she, too, struggled with this issue that challenges so many Americans?
And what difference could it possibly make in the next presidential election?
I have NEVER heard anyone say, "Oh, I won't vote for him. Then we'd have a First Lady with a big bum."
OK. Yes I have. But they weren't referring to the First Lady's backside. They were referring to her husband.
The important thing is, if you think there's a big bum in this equation, no matter what kind of bum you're thinking of, it's your right to hold and to express that opinion -- on the phone at the airport, to your friends at church, or anywhere you like.
Just be prepared for others to form the opinion that YOU'RE the big bum.
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Suppose we have an additive category $\mathcal{A}$ and we consider the homotopy category of chain complexes in $\mathcal{A}$, denoted by $\mathcal{K}(\mathcal{A})$. If we have $X_1, X_1', X_2, X_2' \in \mathcal{K}(\mathcal{A})$ such that $ \Psi_i:X_i \to X_i'$ is a homotopy equivalence for $i = 1,2$, and $f:X_1 \to X_2$ a morphism, then what is the induced homotopy equivalence on the mapping cones $\Gamma(f:X_1 \to X_2)$ and $\Gamma(\Psi_2f\Psi_1': X_1' \to X_2')$?
(Where $\Psi_1'$ is the map such that $\Psi_1'\Psi_1 - id_{X_1} = \partial(\psi_1)$ for some homotopy $\psi_1$, and with the similar condition for $\Psi_1\Psi_1'$).
I know that such a map should exist by the axioms of a triangulated category and the 5-lemma, but I can't seem to pin down the actual map in terms of the information already present. Ultimately the issue is that part of the map between cones from $X_1$ to $X_2'$ and $X_1'$ to $X_2$ seem to need closed corrections which are complicating things.


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Can stabilizer groups in an orbifold have global twisting?
For example, consider the two groups $\mathbb Z/3\times\mathbb Z$ and $\mathbb Z/3\rtimes\mathbb Z$ (where $\mathbb Z\to\operatorname{Aut}(\mathbb Z/3)$ is the unique nontrivial map). Both groups act on $\mathbb R$ through their common quotient $\mathbb Z$, so there are two orbifolds here: $$M_1=[\mathbb R/(\mathbb Z/3\times\mathbb Z)]$$ $$M_2=[\mathbb R/(\mathbb Z/3\rtimes\mathbb Z)]$$ The coarse spaces of $M_1$ and $M_2$ are both $S^1=\mathbb R/\mathbb Z$, and in both $M_1$ and $M_2$, all points have stabilizer group isomorphic to $\mathbb Z/3$. Are $M_1$ and $M_2$ isomorphic as orbifolds?
Why they should be different: Over any orbifold $X$, we think of there being space $E$ with a "nice" map $\pi:E\to X$ such that $\pi^{-1}(\{x\})$ is a $K(\Gamma_x,1)$ (see for example this paper by André Henriques). In the case of $M_1$ and $M_2$, this just means we have a $K(\mathbb Z/3,1)$ bundle over $S^1$, and its monodromy is a homomorphism $\mathbb Z\to\operatorname{Aut}(\mathbb Z/3)$ which should recover the difference between $\mathbb Z/3\times\mathbb Z$ and $\mathbb Z/3\rtimes\mathbb Z$.
This twisting is a subtle point that I don't see mentioned explicitly anywhere, and I didn't realize it could happen until now, when I actually have to do something with orbifolds and the precise definition becomes important.
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Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading by Steve Graham and Michael Hubert is a report that draws on a statistical review of the research to highlight writing techniques shown to enhance students' reading. One often-overlooked tool for improving students' reading, as well as their learning from text, is writing. Instruction in writing not only improves how well students write, but it also enhances students' ability to read a text accurately, fluently, and comprehensively. Three closely related instructional practices are identified as being effective in improving students reading: (1) have students write about the texts they read, (2) teach students the writing skills and processes that go into creating text, and (3) increase how much students write.
In May 2009, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute for Literacy conducted an invitational scientific workshop on writing development and instruction. This two-day workshop convened approximately 15 nationally recognized writing researchers. The workshop provided a forum to identify what is known about writing across the lifespan; topics that remain understudied; barriers that might impede future research; and ways writing can be connected to other basic skills and content areas. The proceedings will be made available to the broad education research community and other stakeholders through a scientific summary or edited volume.
Learning to Achieve : A Review of the Research Literature on Serving Adults with Learning Disabilities is a report by Juliana M. Taymans, H. Lee Swanson, Robin L. Schwarz, Noel Gregg, Michael Hock, and Paul Gerber covers six topics: assessment, English language learners, accommodations, teaching methods, transition, and impact of LD. General implications for practice are provided as well as those specific to the domain of writing.
Writing Next: Effective Strategies To Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle And High Schools by Steve Graham and Dolores Perin, found several elements that are effective to teach. Specific strategies from the report involve:
Writing Strategiesteaching students strategies for planning, revising, and editing their work
Summarizationexplicitly and systematically teaching students how to summarize texts
Collaborative Writingpromoting instructional arrangements where students work together to plan, draft, revise, and edit their work
Specific Product Goalsassigning students specific, reachable goals for writing they are to complete
Word Processingusing computers and word processors as instructional supports for writing assignments
Supporting Teacher Quality Across Content Areas in Adult Education: Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy (TEAL) is a project designed to improve the quality of teaching in adult education in content areas and to enhance state and local adult education providers' capacity to understand and apply evidence-based instructional practices that promote student learning. Beginning with the content area of writing for Adult Basic Education (ABE) students, the TEAL Center will offer a program of professional development and individualized technical assistance to participating local staff in up to 12 states, project website will be available fall 2010.
The National Institute for Literacy's Basic Skills Resource Collection focuses on providing reading, writing, mathematics and numeracy resources to improve instruction in basic skills. The resources in the Basic Skills Collection assist include research articles, materials and curriculum based on research, and discussion lists that can be used to ask questions and share ideas.
The Reading and Writing Skills Discussion List provides an ongoing professional development forum for practitioners, advocates, researchers, learners, policy makers, and all other persons who are interested in discussing matters related to reading and writing in the field of adult literacy. This list promotes the sharing of information, research, expertise, and resources on topics such as motivation and reading/writing; diversity and reading/writing; component skills of reading/writing; reading/writing instruction, reading/writing strategies; reading/writing skills necessary for postsecondary and workplace settings; and child/adult differences in reading/writing.
The National Commission on Writing for America's Families, Schools, and Colleges was founded by College Board to focus national attention on the teaching and learning of writing. This effort resulted in a published series of reports on the importance of high-quality writing instruction.
The Neglected "R" was the first report to Congress on writing and discusses how American education will never realize its potential as an engine of opportunity and economic growth until a writing revolution puts language and communication in their proper place in the classroom. Writing is how students learn to connect the dots in their knowledge.
Writing: A Ticket to Work...Or a Ticket Out A Survey of Business Leaders is a survey of 120 major American corporations that were affiliated with the Business Roundtable concluded that in today's workplace, writing is a "threshold skill". The survey indicated that writing is a ticket to professional opportunity and that employers are spending billions annually to correct writing deficiencies.
Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers: Evidence-Based Practices is a book with the focus on how to provide effective instruction to students who find writing challenging. Several federally-funded researchers have contributed to this edited volume and report their findings and suggestions for writing instruction and assessment using evidence-based practices. Summaries of the research and ideas to implement are provided. While the book targets the K-12 population, there are many suggestions offered for building students' skills at the word, sentence, and text levels that are applicable to adult basic education students.
Writing Research Across the Borders Conference was held in 2008 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It focused on writing development across the lifespan, including the early acquisition of writing, writing across grade levels (K-20), in the disciplines, as well as in the workplace and other community and institutional settings. The next conference will be held in Washington, DC in 2011.
Teaching and Learning Writing: A Review of Research and Practice reports on what is known about the teaching and learning of writing that might be relevant to adult literacy learners. Two separate literature reviews were undertaken. The first review addressed the question – 'How do relevant studies, which conceptualise writing and writing development, contribute to an understanding of how adult literacy learners develop as writers?' The second literature review addressed the question – 'What factors in adult literacy programmes enable learners to develop effective writing skills?' This study was funded by the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom as part of the national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy skills – Skills for Life .


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Mashed bananas in a jar. Tiny fruit-shaped juice bites in individual serving packets. Cheese and crackers sealed side-by-side in a small plastic container, complete with a little red spreader about the length of a paper clip, though alas, not as wide.
These are the wonders of my in-laws' pantry. They live outside Seattle in a swanky new housing development in Snoqualmie. I got to know their kitchen intimately because my family and I were stranded in their home during the Christmas snowstorm that blanketed the Northwest. We spent the better part of a week enjoying their hospitality. They have a little girl just a year older than our toddler, Henry, and the two of them got along famously.
But I always feel just a little inadequate around these step-in-laws. As parents, they have advanced "product knowledge." They know about all the kid stuff — and they have most of it.
Their house is like a Babies-R-Us plus a few pieces of adult-sized furniture. And when it came to toddler food, all I had to do was reach into a drawer, and out came enough convenient snacks to satisfy a legion of Happy Toes dancers.
When they visited us here in Crescent City last fall, we got a preview of their advanced coping skills. At the Thai House, as soon as my stepsister-in-law got her daughter in the high chair, she whipped out a disposable placemat from the depths of her giant diaper bag. It stuck on the table with some kind of adhesive.
Next, she produced a bib that unfolded from a pouch the size of a post-it note. Henry even got a placemat, too, though he drew the line at the bib. Bit of an ascetic, Henry.
I wonder, though, if all this stuff doesn't become a burden in the end. I don't mean to criticize my fellow soldiers in the trenches. I'm certainly on the other end of the "parent, be prepared" motto.
I'm the frazzled mom at the grocery store letting her child play with a bag of frozen peas because she hasn't thought to bring a toy along in the diaper bag. Or a snack. Or a drink. Okay, sometimes I even forget the diaper bag. But our own parents managed to keep us alive with a lot less baggage. How do we keep it simple?
Well, that brings me to jars of mashed bananas. Does anyone else see the absurdity? If I'm not mistaken, bananas come in their own protective covering: the peel. If one has a fork, one can mash a banana in about the same time it takes to open a jar.
And those tiny fruit-shaped juice bites? They're called Gerber Graduate Juice Treats. It turns out the first ingredient is corn syrup. The next is sugar.
I guess there's juice in there somewhere, but it's way down the list. With childhood obesity and diabetes on the rise, couldn't we just cut up apples instead? Kids' eating habits are formed very early in life.
Convenience has its costs.


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Miranda Sharp, Ionia County Republican Party Treasurer and Chair of their Fundraising Committee, has announced that Bill Schuette, Michigan's Attorney General, will be the keynote speaker at the group's Free Fair Tent Dinner to be held on July 24.
"We're real excited! It's a real honor to have the Attorney General speak this year! In addition, we'll get to hear from other state and local officials who will each have a few minutes to address the gathering," Sharp said.
"We have another special surprise this year. We'll be showcasing the history of this event – in tune with this year's Free Fair theme 'Memories. Made here,'" she added.
The annual dinner is a social and fundraising event that helps the group promote Republican candidates running for office in local and state elections.
"Miranda and her committee are planning an informative and fun-filled night," said Robert Van Lente, Ionia County Republican Party Chairman. "Everyone who joins us will have a good time celebrating our heritage and supporting our mission to promote Republican candidates."
This year's dinner will be on July 24 under the Free Fair floral tent. The evening will start with a social hour at 5:30 p.m. Schuette will speak at 6:30 p.m., and be followed by dinner, then comments by other officials. Admission prices are $25 per plate, or $150 for a table of eight.
The party has sent 450 postcards or emails that promote the dinner and encourages everyone who is interested to attend. Reservations are available by email to email@example.com, or by US mail to Treasurer, Ionia County Republican Party, PO Box 215, Ionia, MI 48846. Also, payments can be made by cash or check at the door.
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I'm fairly new to XPath, been fiddling around with it for a few hours now, so i'm not entirely sure if you can even do something like the following with it.
Okay, here's the scenario: I want to find a link from a page. That link is only recognizable by it's text value, ie. the text between  tags (this link). So far i've managed to get my hands on to link elements with that text, the only problem is that there's a few of those lying around.
These links are found from unordered lists which are preceded by another link tag, which would serve as a really good "anchor" point to begin the search for the final element that i want to find (ie. then i could just accept the first one that matches)
To clarify things a bit, here's an example of what's going on:
first dropdown menu

some link

link i want to find

<-- *And i would actually want to find the thing from this list* -->
second dropdown menu

some link

link i want to find

And i should probably specify, that i only want to receive either one result or a set of results with the first element being the "correct" element - the element i want to find.
EDIT: The question has been answered already, but there were some comments that I should specify this a bit more, so that people could actually understand the question ;)
So the idea was to use an element to specify the location of another element that could have duplicate search results scattered all around the document.
Essentially you would run into something like this if you wanted to find a given link from a group of dropdown menus that would have elements with same names or values.
That's basically it. I know that it's still a bit difficult to get the point, but unfortunately I'm having a hard time trying to explain it better. I'm sure that somebody else could do a better job and if that happens, I'm more than happy to include that description here.


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WHEELING - Sen. Joe Manchin says he will push for creation of a national energy policy as the new chairman of the Senate Energy Committee's Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining.
Manchin, D-W.Va., acknowledged educating the public - including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - about the importance of coal also will be a major part of his job.
"This administration has pushed away fossil fuels in every way they can," Manchin said. "Yet they are dependent on coal, and they don't want to admit it. Under my jurisdiction, at least our voice will be heard."
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said if Congress did not pass climate control legislation, he would seek to impose the measures through executive orders - a move opposed by Manchin. Manchin added he was disappointed Obama didn't talk more about coal in his speech.
"Thirty-five percent of the energy we use in this country comes from coal - it's our largest source of energy in this country," Manchin said. "They (the Obama administration) act like it is non-existent, and that's just not reality ...
"The United States burns less than one-eighth of the coal consumed in the world, less than a billion tons," he continued. "If the people really believe if we stop burning every lump of coal in America that will clean up the environment, that makes no sense at all. They are in total denial."
In West Virginia, people "don't want dirty air or water," he continued.
"We don't have it - we have cleaned it up," Manchin said. "We could do more if the federal government would do more to help us. That's where I come from."
Manchin this week was appointed subcommittee chairman by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Energy Committee.
The subcommittee has jurisdiction, including oversight and legislative responsibilities, over national mining and minerals policy; general mining laws; surface mining, reclamation, and enforcement; mining education and research; federal mineral leasing; public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service; and the establishment of wildlife refuges on public lands and wilderness designations.
"I really, really wanted this," Manchin said of the chairmanship. "We're going to make sure we exercise all three branches of government. We'll work with the White House, but they will have to work with us, too."
Manchin believes the Energy Committee as a whole, chaired by Wyden and ranking minority member Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, will be able to achieve "a true energy policy."
As for whether Reid, D-Nev., will be an obstacle to reaching the subcommittee's goals, Manchin said, "I don't think so."
"If we have to do an education job with Harry and the Senate leadership, we will educate them, too," he said. "If they are not being realistic about the facts, that's what I'm going to do."


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Is it known how many faithful linear representations a finite group G has on a complex vector space of given dimension? What if G is abelian?
I would even be interested in this special case: the smallest dimension of a faithful representation of an abelian group over C is the number of factors in the group's invariant factor decomposition, how many faithful representations are there of that dimension? It is not just the sum of φ(mi) (where mi are the orders of the "invariant factors") (e.g. Z/2 × Z/2 has 3 faithful two-dimensional representations).


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28 Nov 2012 9:00 PM #1
Adding an image to a button in Architect
I'm new to Architect, Is there no simple way to add a image to a button. seems like there where be a property for one but i don't see it
Thanks in advance
29 Nov 2012 5:15 AM #2
iconCls: cssClass or architect has lots of images to choose from.
you can also use icon: 'path to icon'
29 Nov 2012 7:33 AM #3
Sorry, lil confused I tried iconCls and it provided a icon size image. I am trying to create an image button. Is that how i do it?
29 Nov 2012 11:36 AM #4
You might just be looking for an Image and then setup an event handler on the element.Aaron Conran


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There is some convention? how is this 3d to 2d mapping done?
here an example
The ellipse is a particular way to draw the surface of a sphere - like the sphere of the skies around us, or the surface of the Earth - on a flat piece of paper or screen (because of the curvature of the sphere, it cannot be "flattened" without distortions). This one is called the Mollweide projection and it preserves the areas (and completely sacrifices correct representation of the angles):
The second link enumerates many other ways how to draw the spherical surface.


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Marching bands from all over the state are making their way to Bowling Green, as they get ready for the state band competition on Saturday.
More than 50 of the state's finest bands are going to be in town, to compete in semi-finals Saturday morning and afternoon. The top four bands from each class will then go on to finals Saturday night.
If you want to get in on all the marching band action this weekend, here's a look at the schedule:
State Marching Band Semi-Finals
Bowling Green H.S., 11 AM, Class 1A
Franklin-Simpson H.S., 10 AM, Class 2A
Allen County-Scottsville H.S., 11 AM, Class 3A
Western Kentucky University, Noon, Class 4 A
Admission $8
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Western Kentucky University, 6 PM
Order of Appearance: 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A
Admission $10
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I read in a CSV file for linking to a .shp file.
All the variables that are just numbers came in as text.
How do I change the text variables to numeric in QGIS?
I read in a CSV file for linking to a .shp file.
All the variables that are just numbers came in as text.
How do I change the text variables to numeric in QGIS?
I once had the same question. The answer is that you put a file in the same folder with the ending csvt. For example your file name is xyzdata.csv you add the file xyzdata.csvt
This one you can edit with editor for example. And in it you set the data type like this. "Integer","String","Integer","Integer","String","Real"
Integer is now the variable for the first column, string for the second and so on... Make sure the files are named identically.
Edit: See here too if needed: http://underdark.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/how-to-specify-data-types-of-csv-columns-for-use-in-qgis/
Rather than messing with the input file, trying to get everything picture perfect, just use the field calculator to convert the text to a number / real. See the examples below:
Instead of loading the .csv using Add vector layer, use the Delimited Text layer tool. It will try to detect the most fitting data type for each column.
For more details see the QGIS user guide.
MMQGis caused this problem, and, as it turns out, it can fix it to.
Once you've joined your Shapefile & CSV Data, use MMQGis's Modify > Text to Float tool.
As usual, it leaves a trail of junk intermediate shapefiles but what else is new
Another alternative in case of large datasets to be managed and obviously time consuming to to proceed with the field calculator (without looping) or within a text editor : - save your data as CSV + XY + variable for the joint with our polugone shapefile - upload your CSV with the plug in (import csv) then save as shapefile (point) - then close q gis - back to the folder with the shapefile point, duplicate the corresponding dbf table / rename - open Qgis - upload the new dbf and join to shapefile (polygone features)
One stone, two pigeons : you have potentally 1) a shapefile point with all the data and all the possibility of represention 2) and independant shapefile with dbf table joined (editable !) linked to polygone for thematic cartography
This is a bit rude , but quite straightforward ...


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"I think we all know that every income tax filer in America is going to pay higher rates come January 1st unless congress acts. So I believe it's important that we protect as many American tax payers as we can." - John Boehner, R-House Speaker
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is rejecting House Speaker John Boehner's plan to push a backup tax bill as a way to deal with the "fiscal cliff."
In a statement, White House spokesman Jay Carney says Boehner's "Plan B" approach can't pass the Senate. And he says it does little to address the nation's fiscal challenges.
Unless the White House and Congress reach a deal, a series of tax increases and spending cuts begin taking effect on Jan. 1.
Boehner is calling for a separate bill to address only taxes. He wants lawmakers to extend tax cuts for people making up to $1 million.
Carney says the president is willing to continue working with Republicans to keep from going over the fiscal cliff.


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5 Daring Crimes (That It Turns Out Never Happened)
#2. Super Chinese Ransom Bros.
The "Crime":
In July 2008, a couple from Shangqiu, China was aghast to find that their son, Yang, had been kidnapped. His captors demanded a 10,000 yuan ransom for his release. Naturally, Yang's folks took no chances and coughed up the cash to return their shanghaied son to Shangqiu.
The Facts:
First off, do you know how much 10,000 Yuan is? It's about $1,400. Yang's parents ostensibly complied with the kidnappers' demands since they knew a good discount when they saw it. After all, a grand-and-a-half is a bargain basement price for one's son to have a pulse.
This watch is worth approximately five and a half Yangs.
The kidnappers next gave Mr. and Mrs. Yang an even weirder request. They didn't want the ransom in cumbersome, unmarked bills. No, they would withdraw the money from an ATM. A nice, totally traceable ATM.
When police inevitably caught the idiot crooks using Mr. Yang's PIN, they were in for a twist of Shyamalanian proportions--Yang had kidnapped himself. Together with some pals, Yang schemed to extort a relatively small amount of money from his parents. Surely he must've put his parents through hell for some noble and worthwhile reason, right?
Well, no. Yang was pissed that mom and dad wouldn't buy him a "Nintendo computer" as the article says.
In short, this kid put his parents through extreme psychological torture instead of getting an after-school job. Also, we're not sure how authorities punished Yang for swindling his folks, but seeing as how Chinese society places a high premium on respecting one's elders, we're pretty sure he's currently farming rocks in the Gobi Desert or something.
#1. The Runaway Bride
The "Crime":
On April 26, 2005, Jennifer Wilbanks made national headlines when she disappeared before her wedding in an upscale Atlanta suburb. After a three-day bride-hunt, FBI involvement and media hoopla on par with the return of Jesus Christ, Wilbanks surfaced at a 7-Eleven in New Mexico, claiming she'd been kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a white woman and, gasp, a toothy Hispanic man.
The Facts:
Hmm, where we have heard these situations before? Let's see, mysterious cross-country disappearance plus ethnic abductor with poor dental hygiene equals... one total crock that the media totally ate up. Calling off a wedding is hard, but Wilbanks thought she could skip all that nasty lashback by falling off the damn planet.
When Wilbanks went for a jog one evening, something in the Forrest Gump section of her cortex snapped. From her home, she jogged to a taxi, which took her to a Greyhound bus, which took her to Las Vegas and then Albuquerque, where she bumbled around until she realized A) she was broke and homeless; and B) her fame had exploded so much so that, days later, a piece of toast bearing her likeness would sell for $15,400 on eBay.
The buyer was smart enough to welsh on the investment.
Upon her return to Duluth, authorities soon gleaned that Wilbanks's shaky story was a big load of horsepucky. To her credit, this vanishing act led to her break-up - Wilbanks and her fiance finally split 12 months, $43,000 worth of wasted police funding and one epic national embarrassment later.
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The Black Diamond Conference boys track meet was held on Thursday at Hamilton County, and Chester won the meet in decisive fashion. Carmi-White County finished third. But at the end of the meet, the name on everybody's mind was Michael Brown.
Brown broke two conference meet marks at the event, setting new times in the 800-meter and 1600-meter runs.
Brown ran the 800-meter with a time of 1:59.06, breaking the old mark of 1:59.3. In the 1600-meter run, Brown broke his record from last year, shaving around five seconds off last year's mark, with a new time of 4:31.81.
"I think I am on track to run in the fast heat in the 1600 at state this year, that's the goal," said Brown. "Last year I was averaging 2:03 in the 800 and around 4:40 in the 1600. I am extremely happy with my times today."
High finishers for CWC at the meet were a second place finish in the 3200-meter relay, Michael Trail in sixth in the 3200-meter run, a second place finish in the 400-meter relay, Jake Russell in fifth in the 100-meter dash, Dylan Kuykendall in fourth in the high jump, Nik Brown in first in the shot put, Logan Weller tied for second in the pole vault, Ryan Ashford in sixth in the triple jump, Michael Brown in first in the 800-meter run, a second place finish in the 800-meter relay, Weller in sixth in the 400-meter dash, Joe Matz in sixth in the 300-meter hurdles, Russell in sixth in the 200-meter dash, a third place finish in the 1600-meter relay and Michael Brown in first in the 1600-meter run.
Chester was the leader of 10 teams in the BDC meet with 145.50 points followed by Fairfield (91), CWC (78.50), Hamilton County (60), Christopher (56), Sesser-Valier (34), Goreville (30), Johnston City (24), Vienna (20) and Eldorado (16).
The team will compete in the sectional next Thursday at Fairfield.
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In the Pacific Northwest of the United States lives the Southern Resident Community of Orcas, an endangered population of orcas, sometimes known as "killer whales".The Whale Museum, located in beautiful Friday Harbor, Washington, opened to the public in 1979 as the first museum in the country devoted to a species living in the wild. Today, our museum continues to promote stewardship of whales and the Salish Sea ecosystem through education and research.
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