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Bridge Builder
Anyone who followed media coverage of the papal conclave that elected the Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, couldn't help noticing that the same breathless questions were raised again and again by commentators assessing the future of Catholicism. Will the church ever allow priests to marry? Will it ordain women? Will it change its teaching on homosexuality or birth control? Will it permit the divorced and remarried to receive Communion? Is clergy sexual abuse still a problem? Will bishops ever be held accountable for covering up that abuse?
When it comes to these persistent conflicts it seems the scrum has barely budged over the past forty years. While most American Catholics think the church should change its positions—or at least moderate its tone—on these neuralgic issues, the hierarchy and a group of conservative Catholics influential in Rome remain intent on stressing the "countercultural" aspect of Catholicism, its power to push back against the overwhelming secularity of American life. The result is a church nearly as polarized as the U.S. Congress.
Meanwhile, the church in the United States has lost a third of its members and many doubt such losses can be stanched as long as certain teachings—say, about sexual morality or the role of women—do not change. Conservative Catholics respond that in comparison with the even more dramatic decline of mainline Protestant churches that have embraced supposedly more enlightened attitudes, the Catholic Church is doing fine. Any church that accommodates itself to our individualistic, egalitarian, and morally promiscuous secular culture, they say, is doomed to irrelevance. Better to stay the course; that way, even if losses are high, there won't be a complete collapse. This often seemed to be the default position of Benedict XVI. If Francis's initial remarks and actions are any indication, he promises to engage the larger culture from a less defensive posture.
Inevitably Catholics at both ends of the ideological spectrum look to a new pope for encouragement. And from the moment he made his first appearance on the balcony of St. Peter's, Francis seems to have given nearly everyone a reason to cheer. But whatever the direction in which the new pope steers the church, American Catholics struggling to make a life of faith in what is admittedly a vertiginous moral and cultural landscape will continue to take surprising turns, confounding the usual categories. Most practicing Catholics reject the teaching on contraception. At the same time, more than a few younger Catholic women eschew the pill in favor of the church's "natural" approach to family planning. Home-schooling is more popular than one might imagine, and not just among the politically conservative. Some younger Catholics are also intrigued by the solemnity of the Latin Mass. Religious "seekers" of all stripes happily mix and match what were once predictably conservative or liberal political and theological positions. This is a Catholic strength, not a weakness. Catholicism has never quite made peace with capitalism, for instance, and here all sorts of esoteric Catholic objections to modern liberalism merge with a rejection of the materialism and crass commercialism of American society and the hegemony of Wall Street. The Catholic critique of the modern economy may be needed now more than ever before, and Francis's promise to make concern for the poor central to his papacy could confound the powerful in surprising ways.
The philosopher Charles Taylor has written that, although Catholics will continue to disagree on many questions, they still "ought to be able to reach out to each other." And in order for that to happen we must look to those among us whose zeal does not merely confirm our biases, but rather the opposite. What we need, each one of us, is to be thrown off balance by the self-sacrificing example of others. For some it might be the devotion to family shown by a Latin Mass enthusiast who home-schools her children. For others, it could be a same-sex couple intent on raising their children Catholic. "The church, by which I mean all of us, has a very challenging task," Taylor writes. That task is how to hold "together in one sacramental union modes of living the faith which have at present no affinity for each other, and even are tempted roundly to condemn each other."
Yes, the church must preach the gospel, but it must also live it. That is something Pope Franics has done to wide acclaim in his native Argentina. Popes are a sign of unity, or so the Catholic tradition teaches. ("Pontiff" is from the Latin word for "bridge builder.") Francis will have to be a master builder if the church is to make its message heard in a time of great discord. Bringing a divided flock together, after all, is the first responsibility of a good pastor.
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It is impossible to presume the direction the actual curial operations of the church will take under Pope Francis. Will annulments and forgiveness for divorce and remarriage, even a declaration of 'jubilee' on the issue bring many broken-hearted people back to the faith? Will smart girls find it better to avoid pregnancy instead of lives barefoot, pregnant and broke as 'mistresses' instead of respected life partners? Will the poor find a turn-around in an increasingly mean spirited society that refuses them basic health, education, housing and living wage employment? Will we continue to silently approve of multiple wars, conflicts, oneupsmanships and wrangling disputes as the normal course of things? The church needs to be a real presence of Christ in the world, strongly preaching and supporting the preferential option for the poor and just treatment of everyone. If it remains aloof and retreats to its fortress in Rome, it will soon decline into irrelevance and become simply a museum of the past.
To quote GK Chesterton:
There are a lot of reasons to leave the Catholic Church but only one to stay: It's true!
Why in the world would the Catholic Church (the revelations of Jesus Christ), ever change core teachings (not that she could if she wanted to). The whole point is to change US.
When we say that Francis will "steer" the church, we should mean that he will first listen to the whole church's sensus fidelium and then teach what the whole church believes. Today's moral positions should not be "conservative" or "liberal," theyshould be the result of the faith discernment of the People of God. Nor should they be capitulations to today's secularism. They should be expressions of our faith in conformity with the best contemporary understanding of our evolving human nature.
The problem is that we are at least 50 years behind the times when it comes to understanding our faith and our evolving human nature.
Bravo, Mr. Massimini, for reminding us there ought to be no "liberal" or "conservative" in the Church, but rather the faith of the People of God. But when you and I expect Pope Francis to teach what the whole Church believes, we have to remember that this includes not only the sensus fidelium but also the already-standing Doctrine of the Faith as the Magisterium has handed it on to us. Much of what liberal Catholics want finds no echo in the sensus fidelium--among truly faithful Catholics. Divorce? The sensus fidelium clearly seems to oppose it. Abortion? Ditto, even more strongly opposed. Much of what reactionary Catholics want finds no echo in the sensus fidelium either. So what is it that you think we ought to have caught onto 50 years ago? I've been an adult for nearly 50 years and I cannot for the life of me think of any theological or liturgical or moral notion of the past 50 years that hasn't been eagerly embraced by one group of Catholics or another. Some fads are now increasingly being rejected, especially by young people--hootenanny Masses, for example. Others have produced modest fruit but are not growing especially strong in any obvious way--the Charismatic Movement, for example. Others have come to little fruition through no fault of our own --Ecumenism, for example. It has been torpedoed by the embrace of unacceptable moral positions by so many mainstream Protestant Churches, especially their acceptance of abortion and homosexual activity. Have I missed some earth-shaking alteration in human nature? I suppose it evolves, slowly as it is wont to do, but I haven't seen much change in human nature over the past 50 years. Same old greed. Same old egotism. Same old disregard of the poor and of the natural environment. Same old wars. Same old materialism, though it seems to be increasingly popular among the cafeteria Catholics who want us to lurch to the Left. Same old pride and spiritual arrogance, though these qualities seem especially alive and well on the Catholic Right. Both the Left and the Right are destined to be crushingly disappointed in Pope Francis, simply because he will, I'm confident, preside in harmony with the sensus fidelium and in utter fidelity to the Doctrine of the Faith.
"--hootenanny Masses' ??Thanks for a stop reading signal.
Just as one President cannot fix all the ills of our civil society, no one Pope can fix all the things people want to change about the Church. Pope Francis will have his work cut out for him no matter what he does. Yet he has not been called by the Holy Spirit to please people but to guide us all as the Body of Christ. Every believer can do their part by being less judgmental and divisive, and more prayerful, compassionate and respectful of one another in loving service.
Signs of Hope
This is further to my commentary "The Weary People of God: Three Cogent Insights" that was inspired by Mary Friedel-Hunt, Joan Chittister, Pat Howard and the two questions posed by a dear Franciscan (FSPA)-nun friend. Her questions centered on our ability to express concerns to Pope Francis; to wit: "1) who is contacting him ? and 2) how will he ever know what the people are saying?" The commentary has been posted at (http://commonwealmagazine.org/why-%E2%80%98francis%E2%80%99#comment-3177) following Paul Moses' Short Take "Why 'Francis'? -- What the Pope's name signals." Moses' piece and the Commonweal's "Bridge Builder" editorial reveal signs of hope that can be added to those discussed in my commentary. It is my fervent hope that the messages embedded in all of this material will be promulgated with dual aims. The first would be that of launching a message wave toward Pope Francis via every available means. To this end, a request has been made to the editors of The National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal and America magazines, as well as to the principals at Call to Action, The American Catholic Council, Voice of the Faithful, The Women's Ordination Conference, and FutureChurch.
The second aim would be to wake up the sheep-like Catholic laity to the fact that they are the church – the People of God – who are a critical component of the Sensus Fidelium in the sense that the wisdom of the laity is necessary to the church as a whole and is not to be circumscribed by the juridical dictates of the hierarchy.
And so, the obvious solution: call for a new ecumenical world council - Vatican III. Invite everybody not just cardinals and bishops. Perhaps then we can really discern the 'sensum fideli' and begin to address and discuss the role and theology of our church. Please invite all the other Christian denominations in particular - there is an opportunity to included these churches, whether local, national or world-wide as 'rites' of the catholic faith, allowing them to keep their liturgy, prayer forms, celibate or non-celibate, male or female clergy. We all pray the same Nicene Creed - there is but one baptism and one faith. Wouldn't that be a world game-changer?


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Siempre que pienso en decir "más o menos" sólo pienso en "more or less" pero no estoy seguro de que sea la traducción correcta. Entonces ¿Cómo se dice en inglés?
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Más o menos means at least two different things in Spanish.
When it is used as a synonym of "aproximadamente" ("approximately"), "more or less" is a fine English translation. For instance, "está a más o menos cinco kilómetros de aquí" can be translated as "it's more or less five kilometers from here."
However, when it is used to mean "no tan bien," more or less is wrong. Correct alternatives include "not too good" and "so-so". Imagine if someone asked you "¿Cómo estás?" If you weren't doing too well you could indeed say "más o menos." But if someone asked "How are you?" you can't say "more or less" in idiomatic English: you can use one of alternatives mentioned above (there are plenty of other ways to say the same thing as well.)
"More or less" is perfectly acceptable and normal English. You'll also hear "give or take," "just about" or "plus or minus (a quantitifier)" with quantities, or "pretty much" when speaking of things that are qualitatively similar.
Si, es significa "more or less"
La mejor traducción es "more or less". La expresión se dice con frecuencia en Inglés.

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For the purposes of communicating coding styles to my co-workers, what would I formally call the following variants of camel case?
Notice that the former version starts with a lower-case alphabetic character, and the latter version starts with an upper-case alphabetic character.
I assume these have some sort of "official name".
Also if there are any other forms I have not listed here, bonus points to those that mention them as well as well as their names.


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What causes atherosclerosis?
Doctors don't know exactly what causes atherosclerosis. It may first develop when the inner layers of your arteries become damaged. Many things can cause this damage, including:
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Overweight or obesity
- Smoking and tobacco use
- Unhealthy diet
- Lack of exercise
- Family history of heart disease
When damage occurs, your body tries to repair your arteries. The repair process creates plaque (say: "plak") deposits in the walls of the arteries. Plaque is made of fat, cholesterol, calcium, and other things that are naturally found in your blood. Over time, this plaque builds up in your arteries, becomes hard and makes your arteries narrow.
How do my cholesterol levels contribute to atherosclerosis?
High cholesterol can increase your risk for atherosclerosis. Cholesterol is a waxy substance your body uses to protect nerves, make cell tissues and produce certain hormones. Some cholesterol is essential for health.
Your liver can make all the cholesterol your body needs. Your body also gets cholesterol directly from the food you eat (such as eggs, meats and dairy products).
There are 2 important types of cholesterol to know about: low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad" cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or "good" cholesterol. LDL cholesterol is the type of cholesterol found in plaque. High levels of LDL cholesterol can damage your arteries and contribute to atherosclerosis. However, a high level of HDL cholesterol can actually help protect your arteries and prevent atherosclerosis.
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I have acquired a lot of nice blue and green equipments ~lvl 20. I have no use for these since my class can't equip them. Should I just npc these or salvage them? What is the most profitable way?
The most profitable way to get rid of rare equipment is often the Black Lion Trading Post. For common equipment, the trade price is not even high enough to account for the cost to post the item. In those cases, it is more profitable to just sell them to a merchant.
I would just sell them to a merchant unless you really need the materials that they are composed of, the essences of luck, or are working on the monthly salvages achievement. Salvaging armor pieces usually nets less value than simply selling them.
It really depends also on what you are aiming at, for example Legendary weapons require different behavior, but basically that's what I do:
76+ rare/exotic weapons: save for throwing in Mystic Forge for legendary precursor
68+ rare/exotic weapons/armors: salvage with Black Lion Kit for Globes of Ectoplasm (to craft new 80 exotics and legendary)
Then everything selling for good at Trading Post is sold here (I usually sell what is already required by someone)
The white items salvaged (sometimes blue too, if you need the salvage achievement), the rest sold at the merchant
Even if you are not aiming at legendary, salvaging and forging can get you some nice items and components which you can sell at an higher price, compared to the original item
Hope it helps!
Most common equipment is better off salvaged than sold. Even if you're not going to do crafting, you can usually sell the components you salvage in the TP for more than what you can sell the original item for. For 'green' items and above, better to sell them to the merchant or TP. You can check the prices in the TP wherever you are (no need to be at the trader for that), so you can see what's better for you.


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I sent out a mass e-mail out on Saturday. Today is Tuesday and I have not heard back from a single person.Is noone interested in a summer getogether!?!?!?
Hopefully noone will take advantage of my error and use it to spam or solicit or otherwise annoy you.
I'm touched that most people want to do this on the weekend of 2 August, since my birthday is only a couple of days later. Bring gifts.
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By dlacher on Oct 23, 2007
In SR related news but not specific to the Gobi7 90 day trial, someone dropped me a note the other day and had me utswitch over to a different box that was on the Sun corporate network... what did I see before my eyes but a login prompt for a couple of windows sessions running under win4solaris (I am guessing). I was able to login to an XP instance and poke around for a bit, after that I headed back into my $SHELL and cleansed myself. The technology totally rocks.
I mentioned to Craig that I am just geeked on thin clients and their use. I drew out a scenario for him that just excited me to think about. Say there is an area hospital that is planning an EMR roll out and now they are going to have to place either laptops in all the docs hands or lots more terminals (currently fat clients) around the place. Now what if they could hand out smart cards, install sun rays all around the hospital, in the rooms in the docs offices... you get the point and let the doc, nurses... move their session from place to place. No fat client nodes to backup all over the campus, no laptops with data walking all over the state, less power being consumed, lower total cost of ownership and increased security. Makes my heart skip a beat. Now if I could just find some folks in Southfield to talk to.
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$\newcommand{\Z}{\mathbf{Z}}$ Given a nice infinite collection of groups, for example the symmetric groups, one can ask whether any finite group is a subgroup of one of them. Of course any finite group acts on itself, so any finite group is a subgroup of a symmetric group. Similarly any finite group acts linearly on its group ring over a finite field, so given a field $k$, any finite group embeds into $GL(n,k)$ for some sufficiently large $n$ (as permutation matrices).
Question 1: What if we do what I ask in the title, and consider the groups $SL(2,R)$ as $R$ ranges over all commutative rings. Given an arbitrary finite group, can I find a commutative ring $R$ (with a 1) such that this group is a subgroup of $SL(2,R)$?
Of course this is inspired by this pesky question which, at the time of typing, seems to remain unsolved.
Here is a more specific question:
Question 2: Is there a commutative ring $R$ (with a 1) such that the symmetric group $S_4$ injects into $SL(2,R)$?
I haven't thought much about question 1 at all. I'll tell you what I know about question 2. Let's consider first the case where $R$ is an algebraically closed field. If the characteristic is zero, or greater than 3, then by character theory any map from $S_4$ into $SL(2,R)$ must contain $A_4$ in its kernel (the map must give a semisimple representation and the irreducible 2-dimensional one has non-trivial determinant).
If the characteristic is 3 then considering the restriction of a map $S_4\to SL(2,R)$ to a Sylow 2-subgroup we see again by character theory that the kernel must contain the central element. But the kernel is a normal subgroup of $S_4$ so it must contain $V_4$ and hence factors through a map $S_3\to SL(2,R)$. Now the image of an element of order 2 must be central and it's not hard to deduce that the 3-cycles must again be in the kernel.
In characteristic 2 there are more possibilities. If I got it right, the kernel of a map $S_4\to SL(2,R)$ ($R$ alg closed char 2) is either $S_4$, $A_4$ or $V_4$ and of course the representation can be non-semisimple this time.
We conclude from this case-by-case analysis that if $R$ is any ring and $S_4\to SL(2,R)$ is any map then the image of $V_4$ is in $1+M_2(J)$, where $J$ is the intersection of all the prime ideals, that is, the nilpotent elements of $R$.
I now wanted to consider the case $J^2=0$ and check that $V_4$ must be killed mod $J^2$ and then go by induction, but I couldn't bash it out and wonder whether it's true.
It's clear that one could brute-force the argument if one could do a Groebner basis calculation over the integers. I have tried one of these in my life---when trying to solve the open problem of whether every finite flat group scheme of order 4 was killed by 4. That latter question seems to be beyond current computers, but perhaps the one I'm raising here might not be. The problem would be that one has to work over $\Z$ and this slows things down greatly.
I then looked for counterexamples, but convinced myself that $S_4$ was not a subgroup of either $SL(2,\Z/4\Z)$ or $SL(2,\Z/2\Z[\epsilon])$ with $\epsilon^2=0$ [edit: I am wrong; $SL(2,\Z/2\Z[\epsilon])$ does work, as pointed out by Tim Dokchitser]. I don't know how to get a computer algebra system to check $SL(2,\Z/2\Z[\epsilon,\delta])$ so I gave up and asked here.
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Searching for the word "portion" brings up a lot of results in the Bible. Sometimes it means a portion of food or of money. But what exactly does it mean in the following context:
LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. -Psalm 16:5
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. -Psalm 73:26
You are my portion, LORD; I have promised to obey your words. -Psalm 119:57
I cry to you, LORD; I say, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." -Psalm 142:5
The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion; indeed, they are your lot. -Isaiah 57:6
"Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit," Elisha replied. -2 Kings 2:9
"To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit." - 1 Chronicles 16:18
He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, including the people of his inheritance—the LORD Almighty is his name. -Jeremiah 51:19
The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem. -Zechariah 2:12
(All verses are from the NASB.)
The list goes on, but I wanted to show how often it was used. Repetition can sometimes imply significance.
What I'm getting out of this is that the Lord is our portion and we are his portion. What does this mean?


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I am very confused with null sets. I get that a set which has no elements will be called a null set but I am not getting the examples given below.
Please help me by explaining how $P,Q,R$ are all the null set? Thank-you
I am very confused with null sets. I get that a set which has no elements will be called a null set but I am not getting the examples given below.
Please help me by explaining how $P,Q,R$ are all the null set? Thank-you
Perhaps what you find confusing is the use of set-builder notation to define $P, Q, R$: Included in between { ... } are the condition(s) that any "candidate" element must satisfy in order to be included in the set, and a set defined by set-builder notation contains all, and only, those elements satisfying all the conditions given.
In each of $P,\; Q, \;R$, set-builder notation is used to provide the conditions for inclusion in each set, respectively. Note: unless otherwise stipulated, you can take conditions separated by a comma to be a conjunction of conditions; that is: $$X = \{x : \text{(condition 1), (condition 2), ...., (condition n)}\}$$ means $X$ is the set of all x such that x satisfies (condition 1) AND x satisfies (condition 2) AND ... AND x satisfies (condition n).
$$P = \{x: x^2 = 4, x \text{ is odd}\}$$
The only solution to $x^2 = 4$ are $x = -2$ or $x = 2$, neither of which is odd. Hence there are $no$ elements in $P$; that is, $\;P = \varnothing$.
$$Q= \{x: x^2 = 9, x \text{ is even}\}$$
The only solutions to $x^2 = 9$ are $x = -3$ or $x = 3$, neither of which is even. Hence, there are no elements in $Q$; that is, $\;Q = \varnothing$.
$$R = \{x: x^2 = 9, 2x =4\}$$
$x = 2$ is the only solution to $2x = 4$, but $x = 2$ is not a solution to $x^2 = 9$, (and neither $x = 3$ nor $x = -3$ is a solution to $2x = 4$). Hence, there are no elements in $R$; that is, $\;R = \varnothing$.
NOTE: As an aside, regarding notation - sometimes instead of a colon
A Null Set is a set with no elements. While the author of your book uses the notation $\emptyset$, I prefer to use $\{\},$ to emphasize, that the set contains nothing. The example sets $P,\ Q$ and $R$ are all null sets, because there is no $x$, that can satisfy the condition of being included in the set.
All sets have a null set as a subset of the set.
so: H={1,2} would have subsets of {1},{2},{1,2}, & {}.
The way I look at it is a set with literally nothing in it. So anything, even a 0, would not be a part of a null set.
So like amWhy and FUZxxl have said, P, Q & R are null sets because nothing that has been difined in the original example could ever have anything in them, so it would be null.
A more laymen example: If you have 5 apples and you define a subset of those apples to include all oranges that you have, it would be null because you have no oranges to put in the subset. (this is how it was explained to us in my discrete math class, lol)
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If you look up while you are falling into a black hole you see the universe blue shifted, that is, you see the universe moving quickly forward in time compared to your local time. Since this effect increases as you get closer to the singularity, a star aimed at you could blast you with a billion years of radiation in maybe a second. Of course, no star will be perfectly aligned for billions of years. On the other hand, there is lots of cosmic background radiation coming at you from everywhere in the sky and it will be blue shifted too. So, how bad is it? Would this radiation cook you before you hit the singularity?
Which gets you first when you are falling into a black hole, the black hole singularity or the cosmic background radiation?
That is an incorrect description of what happens.
If the black hole is small, the gravitational forces pull you apart before you get anywhere near the horizon. On the other hand, if the black hole is large, you won't even notice anything as you cross the horizon, until you hit the singularity and then you'll be pulled apart. Remember, from your point of view you are just free-falling, the event horizon only has meaning for the outside observers. The stars will look somewhat different during your fall because of the hole's gravitational lensing effect, but no fiery death by cosmic radiation.
From the outside observer's point of view this is all different: they will see you getting closer and closer to the horizon but never reaching it.
Some more detailed explanation about this (and many other things about black holes) is for example here: http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html#q3
I agree with Greg. There is no infinite blueshift, because you as an observer are also getting blue-shifted. In fact, due to the tidal forces, the radiation coming just behind you actually appears redshifted (although not infinitely so).
I remember calculating the amount of time one would take to fall radially inward with zero energy (so as to maximize the time taken) starting at the schwarzschild radius of a black hole of n solar masses to be $$ n(1.55 \times 10^{-5} ) \text{ seconds}$$ And you would never be able to tell that you had crossed it in the first place, the event horizon is simply a coordinate singularity (the Ricci scalar is very well behaved at the event horizon indicating large but finite curvature). But since the curvature isn't infinite it doesn't make sense to say things are blue shifted to infinity for an inward falling observer, the only place where the curvature diverges is at the singularity and there isn't any understanding at that point.
Now you would have a problem if you attempted to remain stationary just outside the event horizon.
Time dilation and the blue shifting of incoming radiation go to infinity as you approach the event horizon, and you'll cross that before you get near the singularity. This means that, as you said, you'll be fried by blue-shifted radiation from the rest of the universe before your vaporized remains cross the event horizon.
Edit: To clarify my answer, from the point of view of an observer approaching the event horizon of a black hole, down-falling radiation from a distant source will be blue-shifted. This blue-shifting goes to infinity as the observer approaches the event horizon.
Furthermore, from his point of view, the regions of the universe far from the black hole will be accelerated in time. The rest of the universe sees him slow down, and he sees the rest of the universe speed up. This time dilation effect also goes to infinity as he approaches the event horizon.
It is not really correct to say that an observer won't know that he is crossing an event horizon. The size of a black hole only affects tidal forces; they are small at the event horizon of a large black hole. But other effects are still important.
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GENESEO, N.Y. -- It's not often that Geneseo Mayor Richard Hatheway gives tours of the village to his counterparts but two fellow mayors, both from New York's Hudson Valley, were among parents who accompanied their SUNY Geneseo freshmen to the college's orientation programs this summer.
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I remember hearing that a knife can be kashered (from being treif) by sticking it in the ground. But I also know you can use the traditional kashering methods - Hag'ala and Libun.
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store and filters lifecycle...
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But if you add a new record to the store which has "active:false" the record appears in the store.
If a grid uses that store, the record is immediately visible.
IMHO, this is wrong (unless I am doing something very strange...)
Nothing changes if the store is synced to the server.
I think that if a store has a filter, it should be filtering on every data change.
Has this been considered and discarded? Is it too CPU consuming?
What's the rationale behind the filters behaviour?
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I'm a little confused as to the results of multiplying vectors and scalars. If I multiply a vector and a scalar, is it a vector? And if I multiply a vector and another vector, is the results also a vector? I looked at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/VectorMultiplication.html but still haven't figured it out.
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Ok, this is a math question really, but a 'physics answer' could go as follows:
Velocity is a vector: it has a size (speed) and a direction. If you multiply a velocity vector by - say - a factor of two, you go twice as fast in the same direction. So multiplying a (velocity) vector with a scalar gives again a (velocity) vector.
Now the multiplication of two vectors. There are several meaningful definitions of vector multiplications. Out of these, the inner product multiplication (or dot product) is most abundant in physics. We take force vectors and displacement vectors as examples. Dot multiplying the force vector exerted on a particle with its displacement vector yields the amount of work done. This amount of work is a scalar (a number without further attributes such as direction). So the dot product between two vectors gives a scalar.
As I mentioned, other definitions of products between vectors are possible. For instance, the direct product between two vectors yields a (rank two) tensor. No need to be bothered about this in basic physics though.
If $\alpha$ is a scalar and $\mathbf{v}$ is a vector that can be decomposed into some basis $\mathbf{e}_i$, then $$\alpha \mathbf{v} = \alpha v^i \mathbf{e}_i\, ,$$ thus remaining a vector.
Other vector multiplications where you get out a vector as well (e.g. the cross product) can be seen as $$\mathbf{v}\times \mathbf{w} = A^i_{kl}v^k w^l \mathbf{e}_i$$ but there are also other ways you can define a map from some $\mathbb{R}^n$ to a $\mathbb{R}^m$ like a scalar product etc.
It depends on what you want to calculate what you will get out. You may consider some Wikipedia articles such as linear algebra to specify your questions in the future.
Multiplication on scalar is an operation that must be defined on every vector space. Multiplicaton of two vectors is trickier, however, there is no single right way of doing it. Indeed, for any vector space $V$ over a field $k$ you can fix any $k$-bilinear mapping $f: V \times V \to V$ and call it multiplication. Then (V, f) is called a $k$-algebra. You can further require $f$ to satisfy some properties and get associative algebra, unital associative algebra, commutative associative algebra, division algebra, or maybe Lie algebra which is much different :)
Or you can fix a $k$-bilinear mapping $f: V \times V \to k$ and call it a scalar product. Depending on what additional properties you require, it may turn, for example, into (pseudo)-euclidean form or into symplectic form, which is much different. You get the picture :)
Some concrete examples with $\mathbb{R}^n$ as the vector space:
In particular, in $\mathbb{R}^2$ you can define a very well-behaved algebra :)
I think the ambiguity stems from naming all those fundamentally different operators "multiplication". Let's go back to the definitions: a vector space over a field $K$ is a set $V$ together with additional structure provided by two binary operations $+:V \times V \rightarrow V$ and $\cdot: K \times V \rightarrow V$ that satisfy certain axioms I won't list here. One can equip a vector space with more structure still by equipping it with an inner product (of which the dot product is a single example/case) $<,>: V \times V \rightarrow K$ which, again, satisfies certain axioms. The binary operator often called vector cross product is a handy mathematical tool for certain geometrical calculations in 3-dimensional Euclidean Space (which is a very specific example of a vector space over the field of real numbers $\mathbb{R}$).
God the answers above are mere showing off. Vector multiplied by a scalar is a scalar. vector multiplied by another vector can take two forms, known as scalar product (inner product) or cross product. The former (inner) is a scalar.


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I have a Canon 7D and often take my camera on the road while traveling. In the past I've taken my Sigma 17-70 f/2.8-4 and my Canon 70-300 f/4-5.6, which means that I must switch out lenses quite a bit, depending on what I'm shooting. I get a much better overall image with the 70-300, but the 17-70 gets the big picture. Should I invest in a third lens for better travel portraits, close-up lenses to save space, or just a better lens overall (such as the Canon 24-105 f/4L)? I do love having low f stops for great focus and blur, but I also like having options, macro equipment, and reach. Perhaps there's no easy solution, but what would you do to travel relatively lightly in such a situation? Thanks!
Update (11/27/11): After many frustrations on past trips, I need to prioritize once more for a big trip, and your opinion could help!
I have a Canon 7D. I'll be taking:
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i'm having some problems creating a .deb file with debuild
before reading some tutorials i managed to make the file but i always get this error:
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debuild: fatal error at line 1329:
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I just wander whether it is possible to install Ubuntu in my iPod Touch 2G just for fun.
It's possible, but very impractical for several reasons.
I'd look into the progress of Android on iPhone. Last I know, Froyo was running alright on an iPhone 3G. Since the full chain of trust has been compromised on all devices except the Verizon iPhone and the iPad 2, it's possible, but the Android port is suffering all the issues I listed above.
Edit: Ubuntu will also expect much more RAM and a much faster processor than the older iDevices have, but the newer devices are more up to par.
I do not believe anyone has put together a way to do that. Even jailbreaking uses the iOS. Moreover, what do you expect to do on a 320x240 screen with no keyboard?


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I have just recently created a "Register With Facebook" button for our website, and I am attempting to achieve the same thing with Twitter.
However I am having difficulty finding precise step by step instructions for accomplishing the task with Twitter.
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I know that verification is QC (focused on products) but what about validation? I would say its QC too, as it does aim on the product workings, yet no source mentiones that. I am trying to understand, in QA/QC, where these activities belong to.
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then, one position is that both validation and verification are aspects of quality control, although someone could also argue that validating we are building the right product is an aspect of quality assurance because we are driving 'quality' upstream.
In my view modern software testing requires being involved in both validation and verification and the role also entails aspects of QC and QA.
While it may be important to understand these differences conceptually I question the value in slicing and dicing these roles and/or tasks in practice unless the company revolves around a rigid set of rules carried out by process droids, or someone wants/needs to pigeon hole labels in artificial silos.


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I'm new to Linux but liking it so far. My symptom is that I have a machine which dual boots WinXP and Ubuntu -- internet works on WinXP, not on Ubuntu.
Some specs: Ubuntu 11.10; AMD Athlon 64 processor; Network Interface Card by Realtek (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+); cable modem by Scientific Atlanta (2100R2).
The connectivity is Cable > Modem > PC (by DSL)
The first times I booted into Ubuntu from CD, could not connect to internet. After installing on HDD, and booting (not from CD), internet worked once, and never again.
Searching around, I decided to try editing
Used to read:
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iface lo inet loopback
Based on posts, I decide to change it to
auto lo eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface lo inet loopback
and run
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
This gives me a message about the command being deprecated, and then hangs so I kill it. I reboot and now in the splash screen I see "Waiting for network configuration" then "Waiting up to 60 seconds for network configuration" then "Booting without full network configuration".
Reading more online, I decide to keep
/etc/network/interfaces the same, and edit file
managed=true # It was originally false
This changed nothing.
When I run the command
ifconfig -a:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:2a:03:f0:77
inet6 addr: fe80::214:2aff:fe03:f077/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:22 Base address:0xdf00
eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:2a:03:f0:77
inet addr:169.254.7.133 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:22 Base address:0xdf00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:38880 (38.8 KB) TX bytes:38880 (38.8 KB)
I find it weird that I have no inet address for first entry for eth0, and why two entries? Actually, I don't know if that's unusual. Reading further, I decided to try to force a static ip address, you can tell me if that makes no sense. I changed
/etc/network/interfaces to read:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 220.127.116.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 220.127.116.11
and reboot. This didn't help a bit. Been searching everywhere. DHCP is supposed to just 'work'. What else to do?
A bit more info: when I run
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default * 0.0.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
And when I run
sudo lshw -class network:
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:02:05.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:14:2a:03:f0:77
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:22 ioport:df00(size=256) memory:fddff000-fddff0ff
Well, I am mucking around in things I don't understand. Time to ask: any help is much appreciated! I am teachable.


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For $\alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{Z}[\zeta_3]$ , is it true that $(\alpha \cdot \beta)'=\alpha'\cdot \beta'$?
For $\alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{Z}[\zeta_3]$ , is it true that $(\alpha + \beta)'=\alpha'+ \beta'$?
For $\alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{Z}[\zeta_3]$ , is it true that $(\alpha \cdot \beta)'=\alpha'\cdot \beta'$?
For $\alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{Z}[\zeta_3]$ , is it true that $(\alpha + \beta)'=\alpha'+ \beta'$?
If $F$ is a field of characteristic different from $2$, and $K$ is an extension with $[K:F]=2$, then the conjugate of $\alpha\in K$ is the image of $\alpha$ under the unique nontidentity element $\sigma\in\mathrm{Gal}(K/F)$ (this agrees with the usual "complex conjugation", since complex conjugation is the unique nonidentity element of $\mathrm{Gal}(\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{F})$). Since $\sigma$ is a field homomorphism, you automatically get both $$\sigma(\alpha+\beta) = \sigma(\alpha)+\sigma(\beta)\qquad\text{and}\qquad \sigma(\alpha\beta) = \sigma(\alpha)\sigma(\beta).$$
In particular, this holds for the unique nonidentity automorphism of $\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_3)$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ (which, as it happens, is complex conjugation). In particular, it holds for elements of $\mathbb{Z}[\zeta_3]$ (which, as it happens, is closed under this automorphism) , so that the restriction of conjugation is in fact also an automorphism of the ring $\mathbb{Z}[\zeta_3]$.
Of course, you can try defining different kinds of "conjugate". Instead of applying the automorphism of $\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_3)$, you could try defining "conjugate" by $a+b\zeta_3\mapsto a-b\zeta_3$ with $a,b\in\mathbb{Z}$. If you do that, then it's not a ring homomorphism, because $$(a+b\zeta_3)(x+y\zeta_3) = ax+\zeta_3^2by + (ay+bx)\zeta_3 = ax-by + (ay+bx-by)\zeta_3$$ but $$(a-b\zeta_3)(x-y\zeta_3) = ax+\zeta_3^2by - (ay+bx)\zeta_3 = ax-by - (ay+bx+by)\zeta_3$$ so the "conjugate" of the product is not the product of the "conjugates". That's why one uses the field automorphism.
Added. I focused on extensions of degree $2$ to be able to refer to the conjugate. One can of course consider extensions of larger degree or in charactersitic $2$.
In the general case, the conjugates (plural in general) of $\alpha$ in $K$ are the images of $\alpha$ under automorphisms that lie in $\mathrm{Aut}(K/F)$. Under any particular automorphism $\sigma$ it is still true that $\sigma(\alpha\beta) = \sigma(\alpha)\sigma(\beta)$, but if you consider different automorphisms (different notions of "conjugate") of course things go astray. One can also consider the norm, $N_{K/F}$, which maps from $K$ to $F$ by $N_{K/F}(\alpha) = \prod_{\sigma\in G} \sigma(\alpha)$, where $G$ is the Galois group of the Galois closure of $K$ over $F$. The norm is multiplicative: $N_{K/F}(\alpha\beta) = N_{K/F}(\alpha)N_{K/F}(\beta)$; and a very important map. But I doubt this is what you were refering to.
If conjugation means mapping $\zeta$ to $\zeta^2=1/\zeta$, then it coincides with complex conjugation, which is a ring homomorphism.


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In a letter published in the Times on April 17, Doc Ernest Evans claims the Travon Martin case may cause black-white race problems, seemingly suggesting the fellow who shot Martin is white, and will get away with it for that reason.
That premise is misleading, and plain wrong. The guy who killed Martin isn't lily white, his lineage is Hispanic.
The fellow killed, Travon Martin, has been described by some as a known trouble maker, an aggressive thug, and a possible felon. The fellow who shot him had called out for help after being attacked by him, and then shot when help didn't arrive. He was injured in the attack, as evidence clearly shows. It appears he simply exercised his right to self-defense after being physically attacked.
This case doesn't illustrate that white Americans get away with murdering innocent black folks, far from it. It illustrates how far our media, and others, will go to stir up false black-white race troubles, and the opinion that a person doesn't have a basic right of self-defense when attacked, which is a ludicrous notion. Virtually all living things excercise their ability to protect themselves when under attack, why can't humans?
Doc Evans, and others, would do well to pay attention to the actual facts of the case, and let the matter be decided by factual evidence in a court, not in the realm of toxic, aggravating, and misleading public verbage.
If this is tied into the public debate about gun control, it's interesting to note that a recent Gallop poll showed that only 4 percent of our population considers more gun control laws a truly important public issue. Maybe people are waking up to the really important issue, our destroyed economy. And it's about time.
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Is there any relation between these theorems on interlacing roots?
- The roots of $f(x), f'(x)$ interlace (if all the roots of $f(x)$ are real and have real coefficients).
- The eigenvalues of an $n \times n$ matrix $A$ and it's minor $n-1\times n-1$ matrix $A_{ii}$ interlace (is a real symmetric matrix, or Hermitian).
Is there a more modern version of these results?
EDIT: Picturing Terry Tao's answer, let $f(x)= (x-1)(x-2)\dots(x-9)(x-10)$. For aesthetic reasons, the roots are perturbed slightly.
A plot of $x \mapsto (f(x), f'(x))$ for 1 < x < 7. This figure is symmetric, and not very representative.


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Russia Launches Criminal Probe of Bank Chief
Russia's Investigative Committee said Thursday it had opened a criminal investigation into the head of Société Générale SA SCGLY 2.25 % 's local unit for allegedly receiving a bribe, a potential blow to the French bank's plan to make Russia the cornerstone of its international expansion.
Vladimir Golubkov, chief executive of Société Générale's Russian arm Rosbank, was detained by the country's anticorruption squad Wednesday after allegedly collecting five million rubles ($159,000) from an aide, Russia's Interior Ministry said in a statement. The cash was handed to Mr. Golubkov on behalf of a customer who was seeking an extension to his loan and a lower interest rate, the ministry alleged.
A video posted on the ministry's website shows armed police officers shoving their way past security at Rosbank's headquarters and into the office of Mr. Golubkov, who was standing behind a desk that had stacks of orange 5,000-ruble bills on it.
Rosbank, Russia's third-largest private bank by assets, confirmed Wednesday that a police investigation was under way at its headquarters in Moscow involving "two managers," and said it was fully cooperating with authorities to "help clarify the situation." A ministry official identified the second person targeted by the probe as Tamara Polyanytsina and said she was cooperating with investigators.
The bank announced that it had appointed deputy chief executive Igor Antonov as interim chief executive and said its business activities wouldn't be affected by the detention.
The Investigative Committee on Thursday said Mr. Golubkov had solicited more than $1 million from the customer which was to be handed over via Ms. Polyanitsyna, according to a statement on its website.
"During 2012-2013, he received this sum in several installments. Golubkov and Polyanitsyna were detained by law enforcers while receiving the final part of the demanded sum," it said.
A lawyer for Mr. Golubkov told Interfax news agency Thursday that his client denied wrongdoing. The lawyer, Dmitry Kharitonov, couldn't be reached for further comment. Ms. Polyanitsyna couldn't be reached for comment.
The 48-year-old Mr. Golubkov, who has been Rosbank's CEO since July 2008, couldn't be reached for comment.
A spokeswoman for Société Générale in Paris Wednesday said the bank didn't know where he was, and she declined further comment.
The detentions and formal investigation are a potential setback for the French bank, which has described Russia as a key growth driver to help offset shrinking business at home.
RusRating, a Russian credit-rating firm, said Mr. Golubkov's detention by police "could damage the reputation of the bank in Russia." It could "throw into question the quality of the bank's corporate oversight, including the relationship between the top management in Russia and owner Société Générale," the rating agency said.
Like many banks in Europe, Société Générale perceived Russia, where abundant natural resources have been fueling steady growth, as an alternative to China for expansion. Russia is an attractive market for both retail and investment bankers. Many Russian families own their homes, which they inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union and can use as collateral to borrow money. Flush with petrodollars, large corporations are making investments in infrastructure and new plants.
The Paris-based lender, France's third-largest listed bank by assets, bought 20% of Rosbank for $634 million in 2006, in a bid to gain a foothold in a promising new market.
After years of costly restructuring, Société Générale has yet to deliver on the billions spent to increase its interest in Rosbank to 82% and integrate back-office and technology platforms, shake up management teams and cut more than 2,500 jobs.
Rosbank's net profit fell 4% to $260 million in 2012 as it set aside more money to cover bad loans, even as revenue rose 11% to $2.51 billion.
A number of Western banks, including HSBC Holdings HSBC 1.14 % PLC and Barclays PLC, quit the Russian retail business in recent years after struggling to compete in a relatively mature market dominated by large domestic banks. But Société Générale said earlier this month it was committed to remaining in Russia.
The Russian Interior Ministry said it moved to detain Mr. Golubkov on Wednesday after an unnamed Rosbank customer called police, complaining that the Rosbank CEO was allegedly asking for a bribe to approve his request for a loan extension.
The ministry said Ms. Polyanytsina, the Rosbank aide, agreed to cooperate with police after she was detained with five million rubles in cash, allegedly representing a first installment paid by the unnamed customer.
She allegedly delivered the money to Mr. Golubkov, who was detained as he allegedly received the cash, the ministry said.
Some bankers in Moscow and Paris said they were perplexed by the case, as the sum of five million rubles is a fraction of the 100 million rubles a year that the head of a large Russian bank would expect to earn.
One banker said Société Générale had tightened oversight of its Russian unit in 2012 by appointing Didier Haugel, a longtime executive in charge of risk assessments, as head of Rosbank's board.
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When the body of murdered Florida Lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare was found, his mother said that on many occasions Shakespeare had said he wished he had torn up the winning ticket.
After lottery winner Jack Whitaker, of Hurricane, West Virginia, went through a litany of problems, including the drug overdose death of his granddaughter, his wife said she wished he had torn up his record-breaking Powerball ticket.
Seems like a lot of lottery winners want to tear up the ticket.
Some don't verbalize the thought. They just run through the money as fast as they can.
Having unlimited wealth is a dream for many people. However, I keep running into others, like 9/11 widow Kathy Trant, who consciously or subconsciously hated the idea of being rich.
What is going on?
A lot of "Big Money" misery comes from not having the necessary systems in place. The winners weren't ready for their fifteen minutes of fame and the hangers-on who would want a piece of them.
I've been following the Shakespeare story closely.
He clearly did not have the education, temperament or background to handle his fortune.
Being an easy mark was how he ended up dead.
People don't really know what to do with wealth.
Some dream of showing off or sticking it to people they don't like. While "take this job and shove it" probably feels good for a day, revenge won't keep you happy over the long run.
Money equals security for most people. Or, at least, it should.
One of the primary reasons that people become entrepreneurs is to keep big corporations from running their lives. They want to be responsible for their own financial destiny.
Since money is the ultimate security blanket, it seems senseless that people fritter it away. Yet, it has been said that 90 percent of people who get a lump sum do exactly that.
First is a person, like Abraham Shakespeare, who just couldn't say no. He was the perfect mark for every con artist with a story.
Usually the person with a story isn't a stranger. It's family, longtime friends and newly found "romantic interests." A lot of emotions get brought into play.
And money seems to flow out the door.
The second is having too much money all at once.
Most of the lotto winners who get in trouble are the people who took all the cash up front. If it were up to me, I wouldn't let lottery winners take a "cash option."
If they took the annual payments, they would learn from the mistakes with their first installment or two, and would still have 18 or 19 more chances to get it right.
Most lottery winners eventually figure things out, once the money is gone. Or when they are at the point where they wish they had "torn up the ticket."
The government figured it out a long time ago. We don't give people a lump sum social security check at retirement. We don't want them to run out of the money. The same used to hold true with pension plans. People received an annuity that lasted the rest of their lives.
Today, most pensions are 401K plans. Just like the lotto winners, people are running out of retirement money while they are still alive.
When you think about it, almost all of us have our own "lotto moment." We make decisions about money that will either give us long term security and happiness or bring on pain and regret.
Handling a lump sum wisely can be a "ticket to paradise." Or, like Abraham Shakespeare and Powerball Jack, it can be a ticket to misery that they wish they would have torn up.
Don McNay, who lives in Richmond, Ky., is an award-winning financial columnist for Huffington Post Contributor. You can learn more about him at www.donmcnay.com.


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I do NOT have any backache problems, nor any pain in the joints. Recommendations please, keeping these points in view.
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You have some good answers already so I will just add to the list and give you some other points to consider:
Regularity - Increasingly studies are showing that Regular Exercise:
The key is being regular. Convenience, positive feedback and doing something you enjoy will help you keep more regular with your exercises. Also, having a partner or exercise buddy can help you keep going when you don't want to exercise.
Exercise Intensity
The UT Southwestern study found that different levels of exercise intensity are effective for different people:
To give you an idea of an effective schedule of intensity and frequency, a study in 2005 found that:
A heart rate monitor will help you determine the level of your exercise intensity and your exercise target heart rate.
For Stress
Breathing exercises, relaxation and meditation exercises are also helpful to reduce stress. As Lauren pointed out, yoga is an excellent choice as it encorporates all of these.
Any kind of exercise can help relieve stress, depression, and anxiety by releasing endorphins and providing a distraction, among other things. I'd imagine that yoga would be particularly good, since it concentrates on breathing and mental relaxation as well as physical exercise. It's also good because it doesn't require any equipment, and you can do it anywhere, including in your own home. You might try some body weight exercises too, if you really want to stay inside.
However, it may actually be more beneficial to exercise outdoors than indoors. According to this article:
Not to mention the fact that you'll get more social interaction if you go outside.
I see others recommended getting outside, I'll stay with your specifics of indoor stress and depression focus exercises. I would recommend that you get a heavy bag, some good bag gloves and tack out what you need to on the bag. There's a lot to be said for contact reducing stress (aka beating the heck out of something)
For me, a hard, aerobic workout is by far best. You can do this on a stationary bike, treadmill, stair or elliptical trainer, etc. I realize this may not be the norm, but it's something to consider.


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Are there any disadvantages to adding a toilet so that the toilet waste drains into the washing machine drain? We have a small home and it only has one toilet. There are four people who live here so we are looking to maximize our space by adding a toilet in the garage. Is this possible? Any pitfalls?
a toilet needs either a large drain pipe or a fecal grinder that prevents fecal matter and toilet paper from clogging it up
that or it needs to be a urinal
It depends what the size of the drain going to the washing machine is. As mentioned it should be put through your local authority but if your drainage under the washing machine is accessible and at least 3" it is possible. Running the toilet straight into the wash machine drain isn't possible if it discharges through a floor waste (gully).


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The dynamic range (ratio between dark and bright regions) in the visible world far exceeds the range of human vision and of images that are displayed on a monitor or printed. But whereas human eyes can adapt to very different brightness levels, most cameras and computer monitors can reproduce only a fixed dynamic range. Photographers, motion picture artists, and others working with digital images must be selective about what's important in a scene because they are working with a limited dynamic range.
High dynamic range (HDR) images open up a world of possibilities because they can represent the entire dynamic range of the visible world. Because all the luminance values in a real-world scene are represented proportionately and stored in an HDR image, adjusting the exposure of an HDR image is like adjusting the exposure when photographing a scene in the real world.


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You expect long lines on black Friday, but it's the day before Thanksgiving and this line will be long all day. That's because these people are waiting to pick up their pre-cooked turkey and ham for their Thanksgiving meals.
"The lines you see here were put up yesterday, and we will have them lined up out the front door at some point today," said Honey Baked Ham Owner Jane Hamlet
Honey Baked Ham cooks holiday meat so you don't have to, and they say 60 percent of their business comes between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and they make preparing your food a family affair.
"When we're here on Thanksgiving eve and Christmas eve, she's usually here with us. We have, our son is in the back helping with production, so it's a family affair at the holidays," said Hamlet.
Other restaurants like Ryan's allow families to enjoy a meal together, even if it isn't at home, and it works well for those who work on the holiday.
"We work until 11:30. Usually we take our lunch in, but we just clock out and come over here."
York says he and his coworkers have made eating a Thanksgiving meal at Ryan's together a tradition. Ryan's anticipates serving many like York.
"We'll feed approximately 2100 people in nine hours. It's a pretty big day for us. It takes us three or four days to prepare," said Ryan's Senior General Manager Billy Snider.
Restaurants aren't the only places preparing to serve large crowds.
the Salvation Army is already cooking meals for those in need.
"We have a massive undertaking to get the turkey and dressing and all the sides prepared for. We're anticipating approximately 400 plus people tomorrow," said Salvation Army Officer Mjr. Edward Binnix.
Salvation Army will be serving that Thanksgiving meal from ten till two tomorrow.
The Salvation Army will also be handing out boxes of food and personal care items to those who come in for a Thanksgiving meal. They say it's an added way to help carry families through the holiday season.


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20 Mar 2012 2:05 AM #11
@bbg: Well, being new to GWT development, I haven't used much Cells yet. If you have a sample code to share (how to add it to a Sencha text field), I would be glad.
Beside, I stands by my point: it makes, if not really "hard", non obvious to have this very common functionality.
9 Apr 2012 12:34 PM #12
Well I ended up overriding ComboBoxCell and TextInputCell to do the following:
ComboBoxCell instead of String, you'll want to type cast with T.
@Override protected void onEnterKeyDown(Context context, Element parent, String value, NativeEvent event, ValueUpdater<String> valueUpdater) { super.onEnterKeyDown(context, parent, value, event, valueUpdater); fireEvent(new EnterKeyDownEvent()); }
import com.google.gwt.event.shared.GwtEvent; import com.google.gwt.event.shared.EventHandler; public class EnterKeyDownEvent extends GwtEvent<EnterKeyDownEventHandler> { public static Type<EnterKeyDownEventHandler> TYPE = new Type<EnterKeyDownEventHandler>(); public EnterKeyDownEvent() {} @Override protected void dispatch(EnterKeyDownEventHandler handler) { handler.enterDown(this); } @Override public Type<EnterKeyDownEventHandler> getAssociatedType() { return TYPE; } public interface EnterKeyDownEventHandler extends EventHandler { void enterDown(EnterKeyDownEvent event); } }
9 Apr 2012 12:41 PM #13
Just a thought, it would be nice if someone added this functionality into the core AbstractEventInputCell, then you wouldn't have to override for every cell type class.
10 Apr 2012 5:42 AM #14
@mtraynham: many thanks, it works well!
Indeed, it would be nice to have that in the core. I had to make a TextInputCell and a PasswordinputCell overriding onEnterKeyDown as you shown, to create the handler with the login action, to attach the handler to the cells and to create the input fields with the cells as parameters. A bit convoluted... But it works!
13 Apr 2012 6:00 AM #15
Please let me know if it is added to the core?
14 Jun 2012 8:08 AM #16
I have the same bug in the final version !
Will you correct it or not ?
29 Jun 2012 6:23 AM #17
Waiting for a fix. Even if the workaround is easy