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Oxbow Upsets Orb in Preakness Stakes
A horse whose name begins with an "O" did win the Preakness Stakes. It just wasn't the horse everyone expected.
Oxbow went to the lead and never looked back, winning the second jewel of the Triple Crown. Itsmyluckyday was 1 ¾ lengths behind in second, followed by Mylute in third. Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner, finished fourth.
Ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, Oxbow went off as a 15-1 longshot in the race and paid $32.80 on a $2 win bet. Oxbow covered the 1 3/16 mile race in a final time of 1:57:46.
Oxbow is the first wire-to-wire winner since Aloma's Ruler in 1982.
For Stevens, it was his third career Preakness win. Earlier this year, Stevens, 50 years old, returned to racing after retiring in 2005. "When I hit the half-mile pole, I said, 'Are you kidding me? Is this happening?'" Stevens said. "The race was over at that point."
"I get paid to spoil dreams," Oxbow's trainer D. Wayne Lukas said after the race.
In a news conference, he joked: "Any superlatives you'd like to use on Oxbow feel free."
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Oxbow was bred in Kentucky and is owned by Calumet Farm, which is operated by billionaire Brad Kelley. Read more about Kelley, one of the largest private landowners in the country.
Including his three entries in this year's Preakness, Lukas has run 40 horses in the Preakness, now winning the race six times: Oxbow (2013), Charismatic (1999), Timber Country (1995), Tabasco Cat (1994), Tank's Prospect (1985) and Codex (1980). It is Lukas's 14th Triple Crown win, the most of any trainer. Lukas won a record six consecutive Triple Crown races beginning in 1994.
In the Kentucky Derby, Oxbow chased the pace and was the only horse near the front of the pack in the opening half mile to finish in the top six. For astute handicappers, that was a sign that the colt was rounding into top form. "He's not an easy horse to train at all," Lukas said. "But the good ones do that sometimes."
Orb, the Derby winner, had been bet down to 3-5 odds in the Preakness. For his connections, it was a letdown. "I'm disappointed," said Orb's trainer Shug McGaughey. "We had a great run two weeks ago." Breaking from the No. 1 post, Orb settled near the back of the pack. At the top of the home stretch, it became quickly apparent that Orb didn't have the same late burst he displayed in winning the Derby. Perhaps it was the unlucky No. 1 position. A horse from that spot hasn't won the Preakness since Tabasco Cat in 1994.
Oxbow was bred in Kentucky and is owned by Calumet Farm, one of the classic Kentucky farms that was founded in 1924 and is now leased to and operated by billionaire Brad Kelley.
Once again in horse racing, expect the unexpected. "You gotta line them up and run them," Lukas said.
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Capers and wine make this dish elegant, but oh-so-easy to make.
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 20M
Serves: Serves 4
- 4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves (preferably free-range), about 7oz (200g) each
- 1 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1-2 tbsp olive oil
- 2/3 cup dry white wine
- 2/3 cup hot chicken stock
- handful of capers, rinsed, gently squeezed dry, and coarsely chopped if large
- handful of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
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- Sandwich the chicken breasts between 2 large sheets of plastic wrap, and pound with a meat mallet or the side of a rolling pin until thin and an even thickness. Lightly dust each one with flour.
- Heat the oil in a large heavy frying pan over high heat. Cook the chicken breasts two at a time, for 6-8 minutes, turning once, until golden. Remove from the pan and set aside on a plate to keep warm.
- Pour the wine into the pan, and increase the heat. Let bubble for a few minutes, scraping up any bits from the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon, until the alcohol has evaporated. Now pour in the stock and boil for about 5 minutes until the sauce has reduced and slightly thickened. Add the capers, taste, and season if needed.
- Return the chicken to the pan, heat through for a few seconds, then sprinkle with the parsley. Serve immediately with crusty bread.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Belmont County Engineer Fred Bennett spoke with the Times Leader concerning his department's budgetary issues, funding and priorities for 2013.
Bennett noted the primary sources of income including license plate fees, totalling about $2,042,000 last year. Permissive tax generated an added $230,000. The gasoline tax generated $2,290,000. Another $85,000 was derived from fines collected by the court for speeding and other offenses.
Bennett noted that the gas tax income decreased by $20,000 since motorists are driving less and cars are becoming more efficient, although there are more cars on the road. He added that this has affected the income of federal and state governments as well. However, he noted that money the county has received from license plate fees has increased by more than $50,000.
"It broke about even," he said.
Bennett said the auditor calculates the yearly budget by taking the amount of money spent last year and deducting carryover purchase orders. Since the engineer's department may not pay bills from the first of December to mid-January, the purchase orders must be written beforehand.
A total of $4,881,000 was certified at the beginning of the year, to be set aside to fund such needs as insurance, PERS, salaries and equipment.
"The problem has been our income has stayed pretty stagnant, but prices just keep going up," he said, adding that one measure to curtail expenses was the reduction of full-time employees to 41 compared to 50 employees in 2008. Bennett noted that in 1976 the department had 96 employees.
"We've got fewer people to do the work," he said. "It hurts on our maintenance end."
Bennett added that employees are always out on projects including roadwork, snow plowing, building bridges, cutting weeds and patching potholes.
"We're able to cover everything," he said, however this has meant in a delay in projects such as bridgework during winter when snow plowing must take priority.
Bennett noted other complications, such as the increased price of blacktop.
"20 ago we could pave a mile of road for about $30,000, now we're $80-$90,000," he said, adding that material, labor and insurance costs also increased. "Everything keeps going up except the income."
In addition, the law requires projects of $100,000 or more require a contract.
"We're at the point where we can't cut anymore. We just need more income," he said, adding that federal and state funding has been secured for some of the larger projects.
This year's projects include the replacement of bridges, traffic signals and guard rails. The commissioners have also funded the re-painting of center lines on several county highways, with contracting for the striping to begin April.
Bennett noted other routine maintenance such as culvert replacement and pothole filling. He added that oil and gas companies paved some roadways last year.
He added that the public has voiced concerns about the state of roads and bridges and the need for road paving and center line marking. However, bridges take the first priority.
"We've got bridges school buses can't cross," he said. "Fuel trucks can't get fuel to their homes without a lot of inconvenience."
In the last 10 years, about 100 bridges have been built, for a total of about 280 bridges. County employees are also responsible for 308 miles of roadway.
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I'm a lazy person, so running while staying in the same place appeals to me.
Are there any benefits to running outside worth considering, besides aesthetics and feeling the wind in your hair?
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I prefer running outdoors for several reasons...
A few advantages to running outdoors:
I've read a good article/study on this, but I can't find a link to it right now. The general idea for criticism regarding the treadmill that I recall was that the movement is not as natural as it seems, because the treadmill is moving your leg backwards instead of your muscles doing all of that and this apparently can create strength imbalances.
Before dismissing treadmills I'll point out some advantages of running on [your own] treadmill:
But main disadvantages of treadmills:
I prefer treadmills for short or interval training runs, and outdoors for longer runs.
The unevenness of the ground outside can cause you to workout different muscles.
For me, the best non-aesthetic benefit to running outside is far better sweat evaporation (if weather cooperates), and therefore a cooler body temperature throughout my run. My gym is air conditioned and the vent is close to my favorite treadmill--but not close enough to make a dent in my insane sweating. Whereas when I run outside, even at a somewhat higher temperature, the moving air due to my body traveling through it, plus the breeze, makes an enormous difference in how sweaty I get:
So, for that reason, outdoor running is actually, for me, the "lazier" thing to do, in that the experience is much more enjoyable since I am not overheating so much.
That said, the benefit of the quantifiability of my pace (since I don't own a GPS watch) on the treadmill is a great advantage, and it is much easier to train toward certain pacing goals on the treadmill.
Using landmarks [buildings, trees, signs, etc.], you can do interval sprints easier than having to deal with treadmill settings.
You can multi-task if you go outdoors!
I have been running for over twenty years and I do not see enough emphasis here on the psychological benefits of running outdoors. Running outdoors is a great stress reliever, running on a treadmill...not so much.
I've been going to gym for around 4 years, where I sometimes run on a treadmill, but I don't really enjoy it for longer period of time. But about 3 months ago, I started running outdoors every day and I totally love it.
For me the biggest plus is, that I hafe to finish the track I choose. If I feel good, I take a longer track around the park and there's just no way other than running the whole thing. On a treadmill, it's easy to just stop for whatever reason (you might need to go to toilet) and don't get back on again. But when you're 2 miles from home, you still have to get home.
Another great thing are checkpoints. For example you're running and you're getting really tired, so you can say to yourself ok I'm going to run to that tree and then take a little break. It gives you much better motivation when you're running towards something.
Or you might be running up very long stairs and you say 40 more steps, and you can see how you're progressing towards the end. While running on a treadmill, you can only monitor time/distance, which isn't really a good motivator, at least for me it isn't.


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A defunkification station, in the form of a stall(s) with hot water. This could also be done as a mobile setup that could be stored and pulled out/setup on demand.
WTF: Where did this come from? See: Reboot
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- RFID activated water valves.
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Behind the kitchen sink?
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See: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/The_Shower_Pattern
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Many Protestant and Evangelical churches and Christians view Freemasonry as incompatible with Christianity and teach that a Christian should not be a member of the group. What is the basis, biblical or otherwise, for this position?
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I want to preface this by saying that I have never been a Freemason, and this answer, necessarily will include items that are likely to be disputed by those within Freemasonry. This can't be avoided if I'm to answer the actual question. The question is "Why do Evangelicals consider it to be incompatible". It's not asking if it really is, just why they think it is.
In order to answer that, I need to post the things that those who oppose Freemasonry believe. I have absolutely no idea if those things are true or not, and I'm not here to claim they are or aren't. I'm just repeating what's in the literature and what's believed of Freemasonry by Christians.
I'm going to use, as my primary resource, a site that's been put up by someone claiming to be an ex-Mason. It contains much of the same in formation that can be found in other literature. I've read several books on "cults" and Freemasonry is listed in several of them. For example, while it's not listed as a cult in this book, the book What's the Difference lists Freemasonry in a section called "Nothing New Under the Sun... Eleven more viewpoints that undermine, challenge, or attack Biblical Christianity". At any rate, the claims on this site are compatible with most of what I've said.
With all of that out of the way, here are several points about Freemasonry that are incompatible with Christianity:
Another site lists other reasons, again, which I've heard before, but can't personally verify. Again, I'm just answering why some Christians are opposed to Freemasonry.
And finally...
Freemasonry is a fraternity that does not refuse people due to their specific religious preferences. But there are some exceptions. For an example, an atheist is strictly and universally (under the grand lodge of England) not permitted to join. Because we allow multiple faiths, some people take issue with the fraternity. Such as Christians are taught to not to yoke with unbelievers
2 Corinthians 6:14 NIV
Because Freemasonry does not support a single specific religion but requests that it members subscribe to a religion and as mentioned "yoking", some people such as the Sovereign Pontiff. Maximillian Kolbe believe that implies that they are against Christianity.
Christians who do not believe you should be friends with non-Christians would have a problem with the fraternity.
Freemason takes obligations or makes promises which some Christians dislike. So for example, I promise to not allow an atheist to join. Some Christians feel that you should not make promises like that to yourself or in front of God.
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Holy Cross, Wolcott post football victories
Joe Kalosky threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as Holy Cross held off St. Paul 49-46, in NVL football action Saturday in Bristol.
Bryan Burnette ran for 214 yards on 17 carries and scored on a 54-yard run for Cross (7-3). Trai Weaver added two TD receptions, including a 91-yard strike from Kalosky.
Mike DiMaria also scored twice for Cross and rushed for 66 yards. Gerron Pendarvis added a 2-yard TD run.
Logan Marchi completed 22 of 31 pases for 311 and six touchdowns for the Falcons (6-4), who scored two late TDs in the fourth to make it a close game.
Brendan Carroll caught eight passes for 78 yards and three TDs. Eli Parks ran for 85 yards on 17 carries and also scored three times. Daija Fitzpatrick also scored, on a 23-yard pass from Marchi, for the Falcons.
Wolcott 48, Watertown 23: Vincent Gambino completed all nine passes for 145 yards and four TDs to lead the Eagles (7-3) in an NVL game at Watertown.
Adam Santopietro caught two TD passes, and Jayson Matos and Joe Lynch added a TD reception each. Joe Keeley returned an interception 22 yards for a score for Wolcott and Jacob Ramos and Lynch had rushing TDs.
Anthony Yordon, Daniel Desaulniers and AJ Cattaneo had rushing TDs for the Indians (1-9).
Cheshire Academy 70, New Hampton 20: Patrick Kehoe was 35-of-47 for 660 yards and eight TD passes in the Dan Rourke Bowl.
Tarik Black had nine catches for 190 yards and three TDs, and Matt Torrey added six catches for 145 yards and two TDs.
Frank Zumbo also had two rushing TDs.
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Chase Collegiate 3, Montrose 2: Sarah McCauley scored all three goals, including the game-winner with 3:26 left of the second overtime, in the semifinals of the New England Class D tournament at Post University.
Madison Jensen made 11 saves for Chase (14-3-3), which will play today for the championship against the winner of Gould-Southfield at the Pomfret School at 1 p.m.
Smalec 2nd at Open: Cheshire's Lindsay Smalec placed second in the 100 butterfly with a time of 57.61 at State Open girls swimming championship at Yale University on Saturday.
Cheshire's 400 freestyle relay was fourth (3:38.02), featuring Smalec, Laura Mongillo, Denise Costello and Ellie Senft.
In the breaststroke, Pomperaug's Grace Regan was sixth (1:07.72).
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Data on prognostic factors of primary cutaneous lymphomas (PCL) other than mycosis fungoides (MF) and the S?zary Syndrome (SS) has been lacking. The well-established factors associated with poor prognosis for nodal lymphomas may not hold true for PCL. Grange and associates conducted this study to test the clinical validity of the EORTC classification and to identify important prognostic factors of survival in patients with non-MF/SS PCL.
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I'm not sure how long this iterative questions can go on, but let me try again. Let's say $X$ is a Cohen-Macaulay scheme with an action of $\mathbb{G}_m$ (i.e. if $X$ is affine, a grading on the coordinate ring). Are the schematic fixed points $X^{\mathbb{G}_m}$ of $X$ Cohen-Macaulay?
Here is a counterexample. Consider the action of $\mathbb G_{\rm m}$ on $\mathbb A^4$ defined by $t \cdot(x,y,z,w) = (x, y, tz, t^{-1}w)$, and let $X$ be the invariant closed subscheme with ideal $(xy, y^2 + zw)$; this is a complete intersection, hence it is Cohen-Macaulay. The fixed point subscheme is obtained by intersecting with the fixed point subscheme in $\mathbb A^4$, which is given by $z = w = 0$; hence it is the subscheme of $\mathbb A^2$ given by $xy = y^2 = 0$, which is of course the canonical example of a non Cohen-Macaulay scheme.
Developing this idea a little, one can show that any kind of horrible singularity can appear in the fixed point subscheme of a $\mathbb G_{\rm m}$-action on a complete intersection variety.
Edit: the following does not answer Ben's question. It gives an example of the subring fixed by $G_m$ being not CM, while the question asked about the subscheme of fixed points, see the comments for more details.
Let $R$ be the (homogenous) cone of a curve $C$ of genus $g>0$, for example $R=\mathbb C[x,y,z]/(x^3+y^3+z^3)$. Let $S=R[u,v]$, $X=\text{Spec}(S)$ and $G_m$ acts by
$a.(x,y,z,u,v) = (ax,ay,az,a^{-1}u, a^{-1}v)$.
Then $A= S^{G_m}$ would be a homogenous coordinate ring for $Y= C\times \mathbb P^1$, so it is not Cohen-Macaulay (if $A$ is CM, it would mean that $H^1(Y,\mathcal O_Y)=0$, impossible, see here for an explanation).
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WACO (October 5, 2012)—A motorcycle accident early Friday afternoon on the edge of the Baylor University campus sent a man and a woman to a local hospital.
The two were riding on South University Parks Drive when a car whose driver was turning onto University Parks from Daughtrey Avenue pulled into their path.
They were both thrown to the pavement when the motorcycle struck the car.
Neither was wearing a helmet, but their injuries weren't believed to be life threatening.
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Allen Friedman says he declined the optional insurance when he rented a Chevrolet Impala from Dollar Rent a Car at Denver International Airport recently.
So when Friedman, a retired dentist from Sarasota, Fla., returned the vehicle a few days later, he was surprised to see an extra $215 for insurance and $53 for �roadside assistance� added to his bill � charges Dollar insisted were legitimate because it said Friedman had signed an agreement asking for the additional coverage.
Friedman�s complaint is the basis of a lawsuit brought against Dollar in federal court in Colorado by lawyer and consumer advocate John Mattes, who says hundreds of other car-rental customers have faced similar fraudulent charges.
Dollar says the claims are without merit.
�We deny the allegations and intend to defend the case vigorously,� said Anna Bootenhoff, a company representative. The company declined to answer questions about Friedman�s bill.
But according to the lawsuit, which is seeking class-action status, the rental company brushed Friedman off with a form response. When he disputed the charge on his credit card, Dollar wouldn�t budge. It showed his credit card company a signature that it claimed was his. When Friedman finally obtained copies, he realized that his signature had been forged, Mattes alleges in the complaint.
Friedman eventually got his money back after his credit card company sided with him and reversed the charges. But others aren�t so lucky. Mattes said he has a file of complaints from other car-rental customers who verbally opted out of extra services but then found them on their final bill. Faced with a form-letter rejection from their car-rental company, they gave in and paid up.
�I truly find it difficult to believe that anyone would forge a signature � ever,� said Sharon Faulkner, executive director of the American Car Rental Association, a trade group. As a former owner of a Dollar franchise, she said no one ever accused her employees of forgery, although some customers complained that they were sold something they didn�t want.
�If the renter was truly upset and apparently confused about their decision, I would reduce their rental so they were satisfied with their final bill,� she told me. �If it meant either removing coverage they realized they did not want or reducing their rental fees to make them return again to do business with me, then I always decided that was more important.�
What�s the source of this conflict? Mattes said it has to do with how companies make money and compensate their employees. Like other travel companies, car-rental firms derive a significant portion of their profits from �up-selling� optional services such as insurance, roadside assistance and fuel-purchase options. Car-rental employees, he said, often are paid the minimum wage but offered a generous commission � as high as 12 percent � from the sale of those extras. That gives employees an incentive to strong-arm customers into taking the insurance and, if they don�t, to forge their signatures, he said.
�Insiders have told me that if employees fail to obtain an average level of up-sells per month, they may be terminated,� said Mattes.
Those allegations aren�t new. This class of dispute, which I call the �sign here� scam, was plaguing car-rental customers when I started mediating travel disputes in the 1990s. Back then, car-rental customers were issued contracts printed by a fuzzy line-printer and were told that the contract was the same one they�d agreed to when they made their reservation. Only later would they find out that they�d initialed the square to buy insurance they didn�t want or need.
In recent years, technology has made this ruse even harder to detect. Contracts today often are signed electronically, through a touch pad at the counter. That favors the car-rental company, which conceivably could forward any e-signature to a credit card company that�s contesting a charge. (And if Friedman�s allegations prove to be true, they have.)
Most frustrating, perhaps, is that even if Friedman prevails against Dollar, the effects on consumers would be minimal. Car-rental firms routinely are fined by courts for consumer-unfriendly practices, but because the industry is not federally regulated, it can ignore any ruling except in the state in which it�s made.
As the case against Dollar notes, this is not the first time the company has been accused of deceptive sales practices. In a 1989 California case, Dollar was accused of instructing its workers to aggressively sell optional products in return for high commissions. An appeals court sided with consumers.
Until the federal government � either by legislation or regulation � steps in to put an end to these �gotchas,� they are likely to continue, even if Friedman wins his case. In the meantime, you can benefit from the artificially low car-rental prices subsidized by drivers who are talked � or tricked � into buying services they might not need.
Always read whatever you sign. Otherwise, you could end up in court.
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Sony set to take on Nokia and Samsung with "lens cameras" for your phone or tablet
It seems that the beleaguered Sony is hot on the heals of Samsung and Nokia with their latest smartphone camera ambitions. In the latest round of Sony-related leaks, Sony Alpha Rumours shows of the upcoming Sony CX10 and Sony CX100 "lens cameras" to be used with your smartphone or tablet.
The Sony "lens cameras" are without a doubt aimed at the Nokia Lumia 1020 and Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom and are quite a concept. The Sony CX10 (pictured above) is supposedly a point-and-shoot camera that lacks a screen and controls, it is controlled by your smartphone or tablet through WiFi and packs its own processor, SD card slot, zoom lens and an 18MP CMOS sensor to hit the sweet spot. The Sony CX100 is set to feature the same sensor as the RX100 Mark II, though little else is mentioned regarding it.
Sony is scheduled to host an event at IFA 2013 which is likely to feature the two cameras alongside the long rumoured Sony Honami which is rumoured to pack a compact 20.7MP sensor inside a dust and water resistant body.


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STEUBENVILLE - City Council and administration officials met behind closed doors for two-and-a-half hours Tuesday to discuss "personnel and contract negotiations" before listening to local residents ask for the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center to remain open in the light of a looming general fund $822,968 budget deficit.
City Manager Cathy Davison said the executive session, "saw progress in us moving forward to correct the projected deficit. The council and administration have agreed on a plan to resolve the issue."
"Unfortunately, almost 90 percent of our general fund budget is salaries and benefits. We have requested the city unions to join the rest of us in reaching a solution to the projected deficit," said Davison.
Davison sent an e-mail following last week's special city council closed-door meeting to union representatives requesting the three city unions agree to changes in the employee health care program and a 7 percent cut in wages.
Davison, Law Director S. Gary Repella and Finance Director Alyssa Kerker met with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2015 last week and with the International Association of Firefighters Local 228 on Monday.
She said she has not received a response from the Fraternal Order of Police Ohio Labor Council .
"We are asking union and non-union to share equally to resolve the deficit issue for the future of our city," Davison said following the Tuesday night council meeting.
"If we can resolve our deficit issues by Dec. 31 the worse case scenario we will be facing will be major cuts. I know there are people questioning why this is happening after the voters approved our operating levy during the election earlier this month. If the levy had not passed we would be looking for ways to make up an additional $570,000," stated Davison.
She said the city finance office, "will be moving a small cash balance to the 2013 budget.
Sixth Ward Councilman David Lalich, who serves as chairman of the council Finance Committee, said Tuesday night the deficit, "is especially stressful on city employees as well as the community."
"We are discussing difficult options. Personnel cuts may be necessary if we don't see cooperation from everyone. I hope all city employees consider their fellow workers who also have families when making their decisions," said Lalich.
Davison also met Tuesday morning with Jefferson County Commissioner Thomas Graham and Jefferson County Auditor Pat Marshall, "for discussions on collaboration."
"Councilman Lalich has discussed the need for regionalization of water services in the county. So, with the agreement from Commissioner Graham, I will be contacting the waterworks association and asking them to conduct a feasibility study on how we may be able to create a regional water utility," explained Davison.
"We will continue our discussions with the county and I believe we can move forward with collaboration efforts. Council will meet in executive session next week to continue to review our end-of-the-year projected budget deficit and our options in resolving the deficit," Davison noted.
Council heard from three residents who urged city officials to keep the MLK Recreation Center open.
"I understand the city is facing difficulties. But can we start a drive to save the MLK Center? I am afraid if the center closes there will be more violence because the youth will have no place to go," Terese Elder told the council members.
"I agree. I understand we are facing a deficit. But we are going to see more violence if the center closes. Children go there to play. Senior citizens go there to socialize and play games. I am asking you to please find a way to keep the MLK Center open at least a few days a week or a few hours a day," said Delores Wiggins.
During the meeting, council approved two ordinances as emergencies and supported a resolution opposing n Ohio House of Representatives bill now under consideration.
Council authorized Davison to proceed with a task order with MWH Constructors Inc. for repairs to the 100-year-old sewer line that runs under University Boulevard.
City officials have said the sewer line is in immediate need of repair and a void created beneath the brick and block sewer must be backfilled in order to avoid a sinkhole in the future.
Members also passed an energy service agreement as an emergency with Plug Smart for a review of all energy used by the city.
And, the council passed a resolution opposing the passage of HB 601 by the Ohio General Assembly which proposes uniformity measures for municipal income taxes.
First Ward Councilman Gerald DiLoreto reported a recent tire drop-off campaign coordinated by the city and the JB Green Team saw 503 tires brought to a collection center.
"Next, we are going to start cleaning up all of the mattresses that are dumped in the city," promised DiLoreto.
And John Poole of county Road 26 asked the city to replace a water line in his neighborhood that has broken several times.
"I am tired of buying heating elements for my hot water heater because every time the city shuts off the water to repair the line it acts as a siphon and drains the water from our local residences. In my case it drains water out of my hot water tank," said Poole.


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Let us suppose we have an excited atom at rest. It has a certain mean lifetime $\tau_0$. If we wait sufficiently long time $t>>\tau_0$, we will find a deactivated atom and a (spherical) electromagnetic wave function of photon with about $\tau_0\cdot c$ long layer with non zero probability to find a photon within. Something like a fast expanding probability "ring" with a $\tau_0\cdot c$ width of the ring.
Now, let us consider this system in a moving reference frame. It seems to me that this width $\tau_0\cdot c$ is relativistic invariant: it is a difference between two "fronts" of electromagnetic wave rather than a length of a material body subjected to the Lorentz contraction. Is it correct? In other words, whether this picture relativistic invariant?


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I came across this piece while sorting:
It appears to be similar to 2569, but it's clearly a different part. 2569 doesn't have the ridges and has a spherical tip rather than the cylindrical one on this part.
I didn't see the word LEGO anywhere on the part, so I strongly suspect this is from a knockoff brand, but I wanted to make sure before I remove it.


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I am landing in Brussels later today at 17.35 and was planning to continue by train to Ghent. I just learned that the trains are on strike so this option has disappeared. The strike ends at 22 so maybe it is possible to catch a train then. Are there any options better than waiting? Also - may it be smart to get a bus into Brussels and wait for the trains there?
Fot his specific strike, my answer is too late, but since the Belgian railways are prone for strikes (sometimes even instant strikes) I can still answer.
The bus connection google mentions is not worth a try, especially if there are strikes. You mention 3 connections, meaning in practice your travel time will be doubled due to at least one missed connection.
In my opinion there are three options.
Using google maps directions I found this option using the bus network: Google map link. It involves four buses: 821 to Merchtem, 245 onwards to Dendermonde, 28 to Wetteren and finally number 34 to Gent. It seems that the latest option for this route starts at 18:16 making it hard to catch with a flight arriving 17:55. (If I remember correctly Brussels is one of those airports where you walk forever before reaching arrivals.)
If you can afford it the best option is to rent a car.
This is what I ended up doing. I was a bit worried that there would be no cars left due to the strike but I guess people need to get to the airport then too. Anyway I booked one in advance and found it in the midst of an ocean of other rentals.


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Joining nine other acts for a special vinyl release series orchestrated by The Vinyl Factory and Independent Label Market, "Latest Style" by Fresh Touch fuses traditional African grooves with new electronic sounds – familiar territory for Damon Albarn following work with Africa Express and DRC Music.
Sold exclusively at the Independent Label Market which takes place at London's Old Spitalfields Market on Saturday 13th July, each of the ten one-sided singles in the series will represent a different label from the broad spectrum present at the event and will be limited to a mere fifty copies each.
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If musical instruments are forbidden on shabbat why do we adorn the crown of a (ashkenazik) sefer torah with bells?
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don't know how much data mining counts as an independent answer but here is what I have found (the links include the textual citations)
If one has bells that chime whenever one opens a door and neglected to remove them before Shabbat, then the custom is to allow one to enter the house despite the knowledge that he will thereby produce the problematic sound. This is based on the Magen Avraham (338:1 and 301:35) who says that one can move curtains or clothes with little bells attached to them if he does not have intention to make the noise. The Mishna Berura 338:6 (see also Biur Halacha ad loc.) explains this opinion and allows following it in a case of need, for example, if it is the only way into his house. In the case of bells on the adornment of a sefer Torah, there are authorities who are lenient because of the mitzva involved (see Mishna Berura, ibid.), and each shul should follow its minhag and the ruling of its rabbi. ------------emphasis mine
this reviews a variety of opinions rangibg from "One who lifts and carries such a Sefer Torah creates a ringing sound, and it would therefore appear that just as one may not walk about with a bell on Shabbat, so is it forbidden to carry a Torah with "Rimonim." Indeed, the Taz (commentary to the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi David Halevi, Poland, 1586-1667), in Yoreh Dei'a (282), writes that a Sefer Torah with "Rimonim" should not be used on Shabbat, due to this concern."
"The Eliyahu Rabba (work of Halacha by Rabbi Eliyahu Shapiro of Prague, 1660-1712) and others contend that this prohibition does not apply to situations involving a Mitzva. The "Rimonim" serve to adorn the Torah scroll and to announce the removal of the Torah from the Heichal, and the prohibition against making sounds on Shabbat therefore does not apply to the sounds produced by the "Rimonim." "


text: Hey everyone, here I am with yet another shape tutorial. This new lesson features an old trick learned from a previous art class. I will be showing you 'how to draw a rectangle', step by step. You don't need to use rulers or those projectors. We'll be executing with a basic 'point' system, and knowing the boundaries of drawing various types of rectangles. Make sure you have enough patience to practice drawing these shapes in order to enhance your skills. Anyways, thanks for viewing and I hope you'll enjoy. Let me know if this lesson has taught you something!


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There was a funny question ("How to launch a missile?"), highly upvoded by the community, that was closed and almost reopened before I went to bed. I woke up today to the fact that it was wiped off the face of the planet. It still shows up in Google Cache, but now stack overflow won't show it to me. Did the mods decide to leave their sense of humor at home today and nuke it?
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Yes, it was deleted by one of the mods (I'll let him speak up if he wants), and I congratulate him for it.
Frankly I find very few of these so-called "humor" questions funny at all. The fact that 82 people voted it up only proves that 82 Stack Overflow users would laugh at Bob Saget. Even if they are genuinely funny, they add no value to Stack Overflow as a Q&A site, so please don't complain when they get closed/deleted.
(Go ahead and downvote me for being a bitter old crank; I don't care, I'm leaving this post where it is.)
I'm not a 10K user (so I can't see the original/deleted), and I can't find it in Google's cache. (Though I do see it on search results.) The little text I have from Google reads:
I'm going to guess that it was originally closed as "off topic." It may have also garnered offensive/spam votes.
The reality is that while a sense of humor is a good idea, it takes a lot to get something like that by the community. I'd have voted to shut it down in a heartbeat. It's obviously nothing but a noisy joke, and thus doesn't even provide much in the way of entertainment value to the community.
And before you mention other classic jokes on SO:
This question:
is only available to 10k+ users, because it was deleted by Marc Gravell, a moderator.
It was deleted because it wasn't really programming related, and while humorous, really wasn't an acceptable question for Stack Overflow. While funny questions are alright sometimes, the community generally discourages them.
He posted the following comment before deleting it:
If enough people want the question back, it can be undeleted by three users with over 10k reputation.
You should of asked this question at the beginning of the month. Joke questions are tolerated one day out of the year.


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Huston Smith, the man who brought the world's religions to the West, was born almost a century ago to missionary parents in China during the perilous rise of the Communist Party. Smith's lifelong spiritual journey brought him face-to-face with many of the people who shaped the twentieth century. His extraordinary travels around the globe have taken him to the world's holiest places, where he has practiced religion with many of the great spiritual leaders of our time.
Smith's life is a story of uncanny synchronicity. He was there for pivotal moments in human history such as the founding of the United Nations and the student uprising at Tiananmen Square. As he traveled the world he encountered thinkers who shaped the twentieth century. He interviewed Eleanor Roosevelt on the radio; invited Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at an all-white university before the March on Washington; shared ideas with Thomas Merton on his last plane ride before Merton's death in Bangkok; and was rescued while lost in the Serengeti by Masai warriors who took him to the compound of world-renowned anthropologists Louis and Mary Leaky.
In search of intellectual and spiritual treasures, Smith traveled to India to meet with Mother Teresa and befriended the Dalai Lama; he studied Zen at the most challenging monastery in Japan; and he hitchhiked through the desert to meet Aldous Huxley, dropped acid with Timothy Leary, and took peyote with a Native American shaman. He climbed Mount Athos, traipsed through the Holy Land, and was the first to study multiphonic chanting by monks in Tibet, which he recorded with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead. Most important, he shared the world's religions with the Westwriting two bestselling books and serving as the focus of a five-part PBS television series by Bill Moyers.
Huston Smith is a national treasure. His life is an extraordinary adventure, and in his amazing Tales of Wonder, he invites you to come along to explore your own vistas of heart, mind, and soul.
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Huston Smith is regarded as one of the most prominent authorities on religions of the world. His classic text, "The World's Religions", has seen multiple editions and has sold in excess of three million copies. He has been the subject of a Bill Moyers' PBS series called "The Wisdom of Faith" and is the author of numerous books, including "Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief, The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life", and "The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition". Jeffery Paine is the author of "Father India, Re-enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West", and "Adventures with the Buddha".
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Poignant and readable, Smith recounts professional adventures—meeting Martin Luther King Jr.,befriending Aldous Huxley and the Dalai Lama, dropping acid with Timothy Leary . . . this is what it feels like to have lived a long and interesting life.
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"Remarkably brief and humbly written for a man of Smith's fame and accomplishment, Tales deals simply with his life and his encounters with the great and the good (Eleanor Roosevelt, D.T. Suzuki, and Frithjof Schuon, to name a few). Highly recommended."
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When I read a math or science textbook and do not understand something, I can easily look it up online or look at another book for a different perspective. But how does one develop the ability to understand a book review or an article that contains the opinion of the writer? Many times I am unable to grasp what the author is trying to get at and I am not aware of any resources online that explains to me paragraph by paragraph what an author is saying.
Here's a link to criticalthinking.org. That may be helpful as a start, especially in light of your earlier question. To me, this sounds like you're not quite sure how to think about something or how to gain an understanding of something to formulate how to think. Those are critical thinking skills, and there may be some tips there.
More to the point of your question though, when I was in college, I spent a lot of time reading critical theory, and man, oh man, can that be obtuse. It's all based on opinions of deconstructing how we think about things, and I found myself desperate for more resources...much like you talk about.
However, since the dawn of google, I've found the net to be an incredible font of resources. That took a lot of time developing search skills. Knowing what to ask is half the battle. No you're not going to get another resource that's identical to opinion A. But with everyone wanting their fifteen minutes of internet fame, I can guarantee that there will be a discussion or commentary ~somewhere~ on the 'net, no matter how obscure the media.
Learn to ask very specific questions about the material. Reference the author, article, title, etc. in the question. Use keywords like "understand" "confused" etc. As an example, you could ask "I'm confused about why Kaja Silverman calls film an Acoustic Mirror" or "Why is Marxism applicable to filmmaking?" One of the first things I searched (back when Yahoo! was all the rage) was "Noel Carroll is right" and I got a ton of commentary discussing his latest book, and by reading that, gained a better understanding of what it's about.
You may need to tweak your searches a bit...and keep in mind that you're looking for other opinions about the opinion...that may guide some of your questioning. Think of it as a discussion section in college, but you're starting out from scratch, trying to find which building to call home. Join the discussion, pay attention, ask for clarification and engage the other participants. Your understanding will grow exponentially!
I think that the best solution is the simplest in this case. You should take a little time to try to resume what the author has written into your own words. When we explain something to other (or on paper), it gives us a different perspective similar to what you achieve by reading from many sources.
It works very well for me. I remember reading about general topology and having very hard time understanding how it works. Then I tried to put on paper some problems and some definitions. I was able to grasp everything while I was writing.
Think it is important to learn to ask questions.
Take a look at my answer http://productivity.stackexchange.com/a/3298/1728.
Maybe How to read a book or this book How to read a book can help you getting into the needed mindset.


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I am working with friend requests. When the user sends a friend request, I get a request_id as a response. However, when i use this request_id ( XXXX) as follows:
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the access_token seems to be the right one( the one used here is for example only), am i missing something ? what does false mean? how do i get the JSON object as the return data?


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In a large set of tests written for RSpec there are some tests who are expected to fail (at least, for a couple more months). These known failures makes it difficult to sort through the results reported by RSpec for regressions (new failures since the last run).
Is there a easy system that works with RSpec results to keep track of old testrun results and only report on new failures?


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Paper Towel Art
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- Bowls of diluted food coloring or strong watercolors
- Have your child fold a piece of paper towel into a fairly small packet.
- Have her dip each corner of the packet into a bowl of colored dye (diluted food coloring or strong watercolors).
- Use a different color for each corner.
- Unfold the paper towel and hang to dry.
- You can use various types of paper; the more absorbent the paper, the faster the dye will spread.
- Dipped rice paper makes a nice gift wrap, but it is fairly expensive.
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It's well known that any attempt to describe the spin (of say an electron) in terms of non-internal spatial coordinates is futile since this is just orbital angular momentum and can't take half-integral values. Spin is currently understood to be simply the generator of rotations, which being Hermitian should correspond to an "observable".
However, I remember hearing about attempts to model the electron as an extended object that literally spins and that in these attempts you run into problems with relativity. (A back of the envelope calculation shows that the "periphery" of the electron should be moving 35 times the speed of light)
- My first question is whether someone knows of a serious attempt in the literature at doing something as described in the previous paragraph
- How is spin understood (or incorporated) in the framework of (a) string theory (b) loop quantum gravity?


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According to Einstein, whenever massive objects interact, they produce gravitational waves -- distortions in the very fabric of space and time -- that ripple outward across the universe at the speed of light.
While astronomers have found indirect evidence of these disturbances, the waves have so far eluded direct detection. Ground-based observatories designed to find them are on the verge of achieving greater sensitivities, and many scientists think that this discovery is just a few years away.
Catching gravitational waves from some of the strongest sources -- colliding black holes with millions of times the Sun's mass -- will take a little longer. These waves undulate so slowly that they won't be detectable by ground-based facilities.
A team led by University of Colorado Boulder researcher Bruno Giacomazzo that includes astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is using computational models to explore the mergers of supersized black holes. Their most recent work investigates what kind of "flash" might be seen by telescopes when astronomers ultimately find gravitational signals from such an event.
Studying gravitational waves will give astrophysicists an unprecedented opportunity to witness the universe's most extreme phenomena, leading to new insights into the fundamental laws of physics, the death of stars, the birth of black holes and perhaps the earliest moments of the universe, said Giacomazzo, a research associate at JILA, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
A black hole is an object so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape its gravitational grip. Most big galaxies, including our own Milky Way, contain a central black hole weighing millions of times the Sun's mass, and when two galaxies collide, their monster black holes settle into a close binary system.
Close to these titanic, rapidly moving masses, space and time become repeatedly flexed and warped. Just as a disturbance forms ripples on the surface of a pond, drives seismic waves through Earth, or puts the jiggle in a bowl of Jell-O, the cyclic flexing of space-time near binary black holes produces waves of distortion that race across the universe.
While gravitational waves promise to tell astronomers many things about the bodies that created them, they cannot provide one crucial piece of information -- the precise position of the source. So to really understand a merger event, researchers need an accompanying electromagnetic signal -- a flash of light, ranging from radio waves to X-rays -- that will allow telescopes to pinpoint the merger's host galaxy, said Giacomazzo.
Since 2010, numerous studies indicate that mergers could produce a burst of light, but no one knew how commonly this occurred or whether the emission would be strong enough to be detectable from Earth.
To explore the problem in greater detail, Giacomazzo and his colleagues developed computer simulations that show what happens in the magnetized gas in the last stages of a black hole merger. "The black holes orbit each other and lose orbital energy by emitting strong gravitational waves, and this causes their orbits to shrink," said Goddard astrophysicist John Baker. "The black holes spiral toward each other and eventually merge."
Both of the simulations reported in the study were run on the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "What's striking in the magnetic simulation is that the disk's initial magnetic field is rapidly intensified by about 100 times, and the merged black hole is surrounded by a hotter, denser, thinner accretion disk than in the un-magnetized case," said Giacomazzo.
The most interesting outcome of the magnetic simulation is the development of a funnel-like structure -- a cleared-out zone that extends up out of the accretion disk near the merged black hole. "This is exactly the type of structure needed to drive the particle jets we see from the centers of black-hole-powered active galaxies," Giacomazzo said.


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Shoshana Fineman, a Hancock County native who teaches English at a private school in Bogota, Colombia, brought some of her colleagues to her home country in June 2012 for sight-seeing and practical English lessons.
She and her fellow teachers spent time in New York City, Pittsburgh and Chester. Next week, she's bringing her Colombian friends back to Chester for an expanded itinerary she hopes will include local residents.
She's calling it "Lingo Language Camp."
"The activities we are going to be doing can be for absolutely anybody of any age. They don't need to have any prior knowledge or experience," Fineman said. "They are just to have fun and for my guys to interact with people."
Fineman, 27, a 2004 graduate of Oak Glen High School, said that after last year's trip with a group of science teachers, she decided to try something more organized this year.
"The classes have been created so that the Colombian students can interact with new people and practice their English," she said.
The activities begin at 3 p.m. Friday at Tomlinson Run State Park, where there will be a "Capture the Flag" event. Participants should bring clothes that can get dirty and a water gun.
A dance class will be held from 5:30-8 p.m. July 6 at the Chester City Park Badgley Pavilion.
"We will be showing some basic dance steps used in traditional dances in Colombia, such as salsa," Fineman said. "The class is going to be a lot of fun."
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A soccer class will be held from 10 a.m. to noon July 8 at Chester City Park.
"Soccer is the most important and played sport in Colombia," Fineman said. "We would also like for the participants that same day to teach the Colombians how to play American football."
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In my house we have a water butt connected to the gutter from the roof that fills when it rains. Could we use it as a keli mikvah if we connected two of them by a hose pipe so that the total water exceeded 40 seah?
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It depends on if the receptacle was originally made specifically to be attached to the ground or another structure that was attached to the ground (Shulchan Aruch Y.D 201:48; Pischei Teshuvah 33).
An interesting book is "The Secret of the Jew" by Rabbi Dovid Miller (A 2nd volume here.) Chapter 19 describes how to build a mikvah with various plans and costs. R' Miller learned in Slobodka, then moved to Oakland to become a banker. He focused on getting women to use a mikvah in the 30's when conditions were not as sanitary (and before antibiotics).
Edit: I found a case similar to yours in "The Secret", page 336. Howver, he requires both original intent to connect and a hole in the bottom (the tank is being used to regulate supply, not collect it). I don't know his source. To me it looks like either or would do, based on Shulchan Aruch above, and 204:7.


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OpenLayers Zoom Pan Control has a Zoom World Icon. When it is clicked the map zooms all the way out. Is it possible to override this behavior and define a center and zoom level to which the map should be reset? If yes how?
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I can't get used to the new Unity system. I'd like to move the left Unity panel to the bottom of screen (like Windows 7 – more similar is better).
But I can't find a way. Is it possible?
There is now an unofficial Compiz Plugin that allows you to move the Unity 3D (not Unity 2D) launcher from the left to the bottom.
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As of 12.04 you can not move the launcher, and there's no official support for that.
This is by design, and so far, there are no Canonical plans to change that. Here's a quote from Mark on the bug report for Ubuntu 11.04:
I interpret that as a stand that a consistent design must be experienced as a Unity (pun intended), or it won't work at all.
While I personally disagree with Mark's/Canonical's decision not to provide a way to move the launcher (please read my final note on this), I do understand the design choice: it truly makes sense for it to be on the side and not at the bottom. Most users today have a widescreen monitor, and virtually all monitors for sale, specially for end-user consumer market, are widescreen too. That means the vast majority of users have lots of extra horizontal space (mostly underused), while vertical space is premium.
Most apps and websites do not use your whole screen width (check the large vertical background bars in both sides of screen of Ask Ubuntu, for example). But they do use the full vertical length (actually, they scroll 3, 5, 10 times your screen height). Meaning lots and lots of scrolling. And then you subtract title bar, menu bar, favorites bar, tabs bar, etc., all of them sucking up your precious vertical space. So adding the launcher on top/bottom would make things even worse, while there's plenty of extra, "idle" horizontal space.
There is an ongoing, strong movement in app development, specially browsers, towards reducing the number of bars and merging them together. Think about how Firefox changed in this regard in the last few years. So it makes sense for an OS to do the same.
True, Windows' panel is a well-crafted one… but the design choice of Unity to put it at side and not the bottom is a wise one, once you get used to it. And it's worth doing so. Your mouse wheel will say thanks ;)
That said, some important notes:
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16.04 and later (Unity 7)
From 16.04 the unity launcher can be moved.
Copy and paste the following into a terminal:
To reset it back to its side-position:
You can't move the launcher from where it is. Here is a comment from Mark Shuttleworth:
As an alternative, you can use Cairo-Dock :
Other alternatives that offers you a launcher at the bottom of the screen: Cinnamon, LXDE, and so on.
This is a screenshot of my Cinnamon desktop (as you can see the launcer is at the bottom):
As you can see, Linux is full about choices!
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I'm a bit confused about the difference between these two concepts. According to Wikipedia the Fermi energy and Fermi level are closely related concepts. From my understanding, the Fermi energy is the highest occupied energy level of a system in absolute zero? Is that correct? Then what's the difference between Fermi energy and Fermi level?
If you consider a typical metal the highest energy band (i.e. the conduction band) is partially filled. The conduction band is effectively continuous, so thermal energy can excite electrons within this band leaving holes lower in the band.
At absolute zero there is no thermal energy, so electrons fill the band starting from the bottom and there is a sharp cutoff at the highest occupied energy level. This energy defines the Fermi energy.
At finite temperatures there is no sharply defined most energetic electron because thermal energy is continuously exciting electrons within the band. The best you can do is define the energy level with a 50% probability of occupation, and this is the Fermi level.
It depends on who you ask.
If you ask someone with solid-state physics background, they will probably answer along the lines of Colin McFaul or John Rennie: The fermi level is the same as chemical potential (or maybe one should say "electrochemical potential"), i.e. the energy at which a state has 50% chance of being occupied, while the fermi energy is the fermi level at absolute zero.
If you ask someone with semiconductor engineering background, they will probably give the same definition of "fermi level", but they will say that "fermi energy" means exactly the same thing as fermi level. (The obvious question is, "Then what term would a semiconductor engineer use to describe the fermi level at absolute zero? The answer is, they call it "the fermi level at absolute zero"!)
The Fermi energy is as you describe: it is the highest occupied level at absolute zero. The Fermi level is the chemical potential. It is the energy level with 50% chance of being occupied at finite temperature T. The Fermi energy does not depend on temperature; the Fermi level does depend on temperature.
Fermi level as a state with 50% chance of being occupied by an electron for the given temperature of the solid and at absolute zero temperature occupancy is 100%.
Fermi energy is the corresponding energy of Fermi level.
Fermi energy is difference of energies of highest and lowest occupied single state particle. But, Fermi level is the sum of total energy of a particle (i.e) the sum of kinetic and potential energies.
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