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What's the story with "undershirt Tzitzis"? In case you've never heard of them, they're special Tzitzis made to be worn directly on the body. So is there any problem with them? Like, do some hold they're no good?
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As I understand it, there are two issues:
As far as what's appropriate, I don't know. Biblically, people just attached fringes to their normal clothing, which was four-cornered, so of course it got sweaty (and I assume was up against their skin). Today that we wear a special garment for the sake of the mitzva, many people like to keep it separate from the skin, but I don't know sources on that (or if it's in fact required anyplace, or just a practice that developed.)
As for the shape, see above. The first Lubavitcher Rebbe in his Shulchan Aruch HaRav says it's okay, in his siddur says not. Chabad-Lubavitch hassidim consider the latter source more authoritative. Non-Lubavitchers often take the Shulchan Aruch HaRav into consideration (especially when it comes to informing non-Lubavitch Hassidic halacha), but I think they treat the siddur as specifically Lubavitch practice. The Chayei Adam (who was non-Hassidic; he lived in Vilna and was strongly influenced by its Gaon) says he sees French Jews attaching fringes to their ordinary vests, which happen to be four-cornered. He thought that was great. I don't know of other sources on this.
The Baal Hatanya, in his Shulchan Aruch (10:18), says that as long as visibly more than half the length is open along both sides of the garment, then it's fine.
However, in Hilchos Tzitzis in his Siddur (which was written later, hence it represents his final decision), he says that it should be completely open on both sides, not connected even with laces, let alone stitches. According to this, then, undershirt tzitzis are no good.
Apparently the Siach Yitchok in Siman Ches says they are no good.
See my update here: http://mi.yodeya.com/questions/1703/tzitzis-worn-directly-on-the-body


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Shouting directly up the arse is the only true cure-all.
Spoiler!It's not Saul, but I wouldn't be suprised if he was murdered by the mole.
I haven't got around to watching it yet, will likely be the entertainment highlight of my day, if not week.
Don't know if you guys care or know of this, but here ya go:
Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome - Episode 1
Wait I thought this wasn't happening anymore. I'm not sure if I can be bothered and I'm a gigantic BSG fan. It's just not as intriguing from the trailers but I'll watch this thing. =/
Why are they reusing actors? Baldie was in Caprica.
Obligatory "the end of BSG sucks"
but seriously, it did.
The first 3 seasons were boner inducing.
I only really remember the episode 'Crossroads' because it was amazing at the end.
Season 2 was the best, despite a few episodes that were filler-y. Some of season 1 feels a bit campy, but it's second best.
Flight of the Pheonix is one of the best episodes of television ever.
The last montage in the finale of Caprica did send shivers down me. The good kind, despite the confusion that came from the general series.
Finally watching newest Red Dwarf.. Jesus they are all looking very, very old.
Getting back into X-Files. Watched the first season loved it. Then took a break and moved across the country, Girl I was sleeping with before I left didn't like it so I didn't get to watch much. I forgot how awesome this show was.
I plan to eventually watch it all again or rather really watch, since I was a kid when the show first aired and the opening scared the shit outta me. I remember watching probably till the end of season 6

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Saudi Aramco, Dow sign agreement for Sadara Chemical Company joint venture
October 9, 2011
Saudi Aramco President and Chief Executive Officer Khalid A. Al-Falih and Dow Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Andrew N. Liveris signed the Joint Venture (JV) Shareholders' Agreement for the Sadara Chemical Company in Dhahran yesterday.
Al-Falih delivered a speech in which he characterized the new Sadara venture as a "game-changer in the Kingdom's petrochemical industry." He reported, "Sadara is expected to deliver annual revenues of approximately $10 billion within a few years of operation while contributing significantly to Saudi Arabia's industrial diversification." Lauding the partnership between the two companies, Al-Falih declared, "As the world's largest integrated and most reliable supplier of energy and petroleum-based derivative products, our strengths complement those of Dow, the world's foremost chemicals company with a global track record and unique suite of chemicals technology."
During his own remarks, Liveris noted that the joint venture is expected to generate thousands of direct and indirect employment opportunities. "By the end of 2011, Dow and Saudi Aramco are aiming to recruit hundreds of Saudi nationals as the first batch of technical trainees for competitive and unique manufacturing and engineering training programs," he said. Production of a wide range of chemical products is expected to begin in 2015, he added.
The signing ceremony was attended by Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Chairman of Saudi Aramco Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi; Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf; Chairman of the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thunayan; and Advisor at the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Prince Faisal bin Turki bin Abdulaziz.


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There are certain users on SO that we may highly trust, that we know in real life, or that we are tutoring. And to prevent abuse of the feature, perhaps the number of "Favorite Users" can be limited to 5 or 10 or 20.
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High school sweethearts reconnect for good
|John Farley and Christine Squeo, at lunch together as teenagers at Oliver Wolcott Technical High School in Torrington. Credit: contributed
In the early 1980s, when both were students at Oliver Wolcott Technical High School in Torrington, she broke his heart. He received his first and only speeding ticket en route to reclaim his high school class ring. They went separate ways. Married other people. She had two sons.
"We pretty much just went on with our lives," said John, 47, a Torrington native and financial adviser. He recounted how in the years following their breakup, Christine sent periodic birthday cards, which John would promptly "throw in the pail."
"It was probably more serious for him than it was for me," said Christine, 45, a Sharon native who was a high school freshman when she started seeing John, then a junior, in 1982.
After five months of dating and finding the 25 miles between their homes a challenge, she recalled how she broke things off "before he could break up with me."
Then, in the age of social networking, they reconnected.
At first, the friend request she sent him on Facebook — a tool she wasn't particularly fond of but employed for her career as a Realtor — went unanswered. One of her sons was interested in golf. John had played on the high school golf team. She figured he might have advice.
Eventually, John accepted Christine's friend request, and they started chatting online. It was 2009, and both were going through divorces. She lived in Portsmouth, R.I., while he still resided in northwest Connecticut. Despite the many more miles that separated them than before, they met for coffee. Weekend dates followed. They waited several months to make sure their relationship was lasting — and to ensure her children would be comfortable — before introducing John to them around Easter in 2010. The following December — Dec. 17, to be exact — John proposed.
So anxious was John to pop the question that day two years ago, he could not wait to get to a local restaurant or landmark.
"He had all these ideas of how he wanted to do it," said Christine.
Instead, he blurted out his proposal in her kitchen.
Later, they unearthed their high school yearbook and discovered the date of their engagement came exactly 20 years after their first date, on Dec. 17, 1982. And though their initial relationship was long ago and fleeting, both had held on to vestiges of their time together.
Christine kept a sign John made in carpentry shop class with her name on it.
"She took it out one day when we finally got back together," said John.
John also held onto part of the past: In high school, his English teacher had students write letters to themselves that he would not mail for 10 years. John's letter predicted that he and Chris "would be together." John still has the letter.
A year and two months after they got engaged, John moved from Connecticut to join Chris and her sons, Matthew and Zachary, now 17 and 11, respectively, in Portsmouth. He also moved his business there. In October, with about 100 friends and family surrounding them, they wed at church and celebrated with a reception at a farm dappled with pumpkin patches and apple orchards on what they described as a picture-perfect day. With former school teachers and childhood friends in attendance, it proved part reunion and part celebration of years to come. The vibe was that of a casual New England clambake.
"It was a big party, it really was. We had people at our house the night before," said Chris, describing a bonfire in her back yard that cast a warm glow on the faces of friends.
During the ceremony at the local church, Chris' sons acted as the wedding attendants, and gave her away.
"We gave them bracelets to just show (that) we're joined together as a family," said John.
The couple occasionally returns to their former northwest Connecticut stomping grounds to visit friends and family. On one trip to Chris' hometown, they stopped at the restaurant they frequented as teens, a pizza joint in Sharon.
"It was a little surreal," said Chris.
Added John: "I wake up every day and can't believe it's real."
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For a group $G$, if $K\unlhd H\leq G$ and $N\unlhd G$, then $NK\unlhd NH$? How come?
If $NK/N\unlhd NH/N$, then by correspondence theorem, $NK\unlhd NH$, but why is $NK/N\unlhd NH/N$? I know homomorphisms like the natural projection preserve normal subgroups, so wouldn't $\pi(K)\unlhd\pi(H)$, or $K/N\unlhd H/N$? Why is there the extra $N$ on top?


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Given two $n\times m$ matrices $A$ and $B$ and an invertible $n\times n$ matrix $M$, do two other $n\times m$ matrices $C$ and $D$ exist such that the $m\times m$ matrix $X = A^T M^{-1} B$ (assumed to be invertible) is equal to $(C^TMD)^{-1}$ for $n>m$? (The case $n=m$ is obvious, if $A$ and $B$ are invertible, the solution would be $C^T=B^{-1}$ and $D^T=A^{-1}$)
So in brief, do $C$ and $D$ exist (and if so what are their values) such that
? I guess some minimal requirement would be a maximal rank of $A$ and $B$, but is that sufficient?
edit I am searching for a way to avoid the inversion of the big $n\times n$ matrix $M$ when the inversion of a smaller $m\times m$ matrix $C^TMD$ might be sufficient.
So in extension, if the above-mentioned $C$ and $D$ exist, are there solutions independent of $M$?
edit2 In the case I want to use this, $n$ is a multiple of $m$ such that, as p.s. suggested, using block-matrices might help. I suspect that the minimum requirement for $C$ and $D$ to exist is then that each $m\times m$ block of $A$ and $B$ must be invertible, I'll try to investigate upon that.


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I need to iterate over between 120k and 500k files.
find handles this well.
find $PWD -type f -path "fragments/*.pdbqt"
For some reason I want to list the same set of files again, in the same order. I don't mind if the list is sorted alpha-numerically or by
fstat calls or whatever. Using
sort is not an option because it needs to know the full
find output before proceeding, slowing down the script execution. Do you know some way to accomplish this?
Update. I described my problem poorly. While my script is processing this large number of files, a light outage might occur, and the UPS could go down. My script should continue from where it left off. How can I process the remaining files?


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The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Military Operations Ever Kept Secret
The Cold War was a crazy time: We went into battle against the duplicitous penguins and the mighty polar bears; the great walrus hordes and the brutal whale armada; the seal assassins and the alba-
The Cold War was a time of geopolitical tension between two world superpowers, mostly involving political maneuvering and veiled threats? That sounds really boring. Let's talk about the best way to kill a penguin with your bare hands instead. First, grasp just above and below the beak, then apply a twi-
What's that? You say the five craziest stories we've ever heard -- stories about shadow governments, sci-fi ice fortresses and nuclear obliteration -- are all from the Cold War? OK, we're listening ... for now.
#5. The Underground Nuclear Ice City
Sometimes history is just a little bit weirder than science fiction. Here's a fact: The United States of America used to have a small underground city in the North Pole called Camp Century. Also, it looked a lot like the rebel base on Hoth, which always gets you points when Cracked is keeping score.
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"We already ate our Tauntauns."
Camp Century began life in 1959 as a scientific outpost located hundreds of feet beneath a Greenland iceberg. From the surface, it looked like nothing more than an ominous snow-covered pyramid. But below, it was gigantic: The base was powered by an underground nuclear reactor, and at one point boasted a staff of 200. It was a veritable city, complete with a gym, a chapel, a library, hobby shops and even a friggin' movie theater. Although why you'd watch movies down there when you were already living a better plot than half of them is beyond us.
But as with all awesome things, the military soon snatched it away from science and started using it to try and blow stuff up. It's all explained in this very real and clearly unbiased military-funded documentary.
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"Basically, we took all of that sciency nonsense out and replaced it with missiles. Ice missiles."
Let's reiterate what we've got so far, just so it sticks: The United States had a 200-person nuclear-powered outpost located beneath the ice of the North Pole, where one of their primary objectives was to drill as deep into the unforgiving, ancient ice as possible. If that's not the start to one hell of a horror movie, we don't know what is.
After the military takeover, Camp Century was converted into a giant ice-bound missile silo. The goal was to store approximately 600 nuclear missiles in the base, giving the U.S. a nice, neighborly little nuclear bungalow right next to Soviet Russia. Luckily for Russia (and the unmutated faces of your loved ones), technical problems led to the whole mission being scrapped. Because maintaining the tunnels was a constant chore (they had to remove 120 tons of ice every month just to stay uncrushed), the whole site collapsed within the decade.
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It's fit only for Hobbits now.
So no, you can't go there and play the world's most awesome game of hide and seek. This was all just a big cocktease, and we're really sorry.
#4. Italian Freemasons Chose the President of the United States
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Propaganda Due, or P2, was a Freemason lodge described by journalists as a "shadow government." Their goal started out as fighting communism in Italy, but don't worry: That's just their noble origin story. They turn entertainingly villainous as shit in just a few sentences.
P2 had a litany of powerful members in their ranks, including Silvio Berlusconi, or as you may know him, the freaking former prime minister of Italy. This isn't some accusation by conspiracy theorists and Internet vigilantes or anything -- Berlusconi was found guilty of lying about his membership in P2 by a court of law, and has openly acknowledged the fact since.
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Through what we can only assume was a series of sweeping hand gestures.
Let's not forget that whole "shadow" aspect of the thing: We say that because the only real data anybody has on P2 comes from an Italian investigation conducted in 1981, which confirmed that the group had managed to infiltrate not only the parliament, but the military and press as well. The investigators also tied P2 to assassinations, kidnappings and arms deals. A list of roughly 1,000 members was compiled, most of them prominent politicians. It's a good start to a supervillain organization, if you ask us. But where's their big hook? Where's their grand act of impressive influence that proves that they control the world with an iron fist? Or, being Italian, some tasteful leather gloves and a purple ascot?
Well, how about the time they chose the president of the United States of America?
It all started with Billy Carter, Jimmy Carter's hilariously oafish brother, accepting a $220,000 loan from Libya. Libya was generally considered to be a landmass full of pretty sketchy dudes at the time, if not straight up enemies of the nation. The scandal was clearly enormous, but short attention spans aren't a recent invention: Since it happened months before the election, by the time November came around, most people had forgotten about it.
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Billy Carter, seen here as a living stereotype.
P2 wanted Reagan to win (look at those shrewd eyes, that glorious, razor-sharp haircut; can you blame them?), so they reached out to a few key journalistic contacts at The New Republic to plant another story come election time. They wrote that not only had Libya given Billy another $50,000, but that Billy had recently met with the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which is considered a terrorist group by the United States to this day. And all this just two weeks before the election. Billy and everybody else involved denied it (the Senate investigation years later would confirm that it never happened), but the damage was done. Reagan won in all but six states, and likely all because of an Italian "shadow government" pulling their sinister strings behind the scenes.
The numbers speak for themselves:
And they sound a lot like Mario.
You can see plenty of gentle dips and slopes there for both major candidates -- that's just how elections work. But look there, at the end: the two weeks after the story was planted. Reagan friggin' skyrockets! It's the sharpest, fastest movement in the entire graph. Although to be fair, that's not saying much when Carter is involved: Nobody ever accused Carter of being exciting. Dude even looks like a human turtle.
#3. The 100 Nuclear Missiles Left in Cuba ... AFTER the Cuban Missile Crisis
Everyone who's passed freshman history knows the story of the Cuban missile crisis. Since that might not include you, and certainly doesn't include us, here's a recap that we just looked up and pretended to understand: Cuba was afraid that the U.S. was going to invade (which, in fairness to them, we had already done), so they asked Russia to install nukes across their country to launch against the U.S. if we ever attacked. Russia was thrilled to oblige. The U.S., not particularly keen on mass annihilation, was less so. We blockaded the nukes, and at the appropriately dramatic last minute, Russia and the U.S. worked out a deal where Russia would pull the missiles out of Cuba if we withdrew ours from Turkey and Italy.
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We got to keep our Florida missiles, though, which is all that keeps the crocodiles under control.
What you didn't know was that we didn't actually intercept all those missiles. After the Cuban missile crisis was officially "over," Russia still had 100 nuclear missiles in Cuba. Since the U.S. didn't know about them, and therefore hadn't technically included those hundred in the deal, the USSR decided that they could legally "give" them to Cuba. But when the Russian higher-ups visited Cuba to figure out the details, they quickly realized that Castro was balls-out-of-the-underwear crazy. During those first negotiations, Cuba had been left out completely. And, since they suffer from the nation equivalent of Short Man Syndrome, they were furious at the slight.
The Russians decided that if the missiles were left in Cuba, it would almost definitely lead to World War III. So they did what politicians do best: lie ridiculously. They told Castro that there was an unpublished Russian law that made it illegal to give missiles to Cuba permanently -- our legal department says it's a variant of the "never promise crazy a baby" statute -- and the Cuban missile crisis was averted.
For realsies this time.
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog for $9.93
Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day, Simon Helberg
Conceived as an "online miniseries event" during the 2008 writers' strike, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 42-minute musical romp that bears the distinctive stamp of Joss Whedon. Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) plays the title character, who video-blogs about his twin goals to join the Evil League of Evil and to woo the fair Penny (Felicia Day, of Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Web series The Guild), a woman he met at the local laundromat. Dr. Horrible is foiled on both fronts, however, by his arch-nemesis, the self-absorbed superhero Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion, Whedon's Firefly).
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Would you believe that the Blu-ray is cheaper than the DVD? At the time I am posting this, it is only $9.26
@linkage89: good find, i was going to change it to the blu-ray and then something shiny rolled by and forgot
"The status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it."
I love this movie... but that's not really any cheaper than normal.
If you loved Dr. Horrible, be sure to see this...
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I want to replace a lost head unit/computer on my old Tacx Basic from 2002, does anybody know if modern Flow head unit will work with this old frame/load generator? I think such was an upgrade path, once, but still - the frame is really old (but in good working condition).
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As suggested in a comment on the question, the load generator for the Tacx Basic in the early 2000's was the same load generator used across the entire Tacx ergometer line. The Basic, the Grand Excel, the Flow, and the I-Magic all used the same load generator, so the head units are interchangeable. The capabilities of the Basic can thus be "upgraded" by switching to a Grand Excel or I-Magic head unit (the Flow replaced the Basic in the Tacx line in 2004 or 2005 and, except for a larger screen and slightly easier calibration procedure the models are equivalent).


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I've been reading through various materials on relativistic quantum mechanics, but I find the lack of simple examples disturbing.
I'm acquainted with the general form the solutions to the Dirac equations have, but I'm having trouble just practically getting any specific example solution.
Since the motion of a free Dirac particle is entirely determined with four-momentum $p^\mu$ and the spin (polarization) four-vector $s^\mu$, how exactly does one find the wave-function corresponding to some given $p^\mu,s^\mu$?
E.g. $p^\mu=m\{\sqrt{2},0,0,1\}, s^\mu=\{1,0,0,\sqrt{2}\}$


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Dow Closes Above 15000
Market's Rapid Rise Through Key Level Comes as Investors' Fear of Missing Rally Replaces Concerns
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15000 for the first time Tuesday as stocks continue a historic four-year run that investors are finding increasingly irresistible.
The Dow is off to its fastest start to any year since the dot-com-fueled bull market of 1999. But this time around the surge isn't driven by blind optimism—many investors simply see few alternatives to stocks.
Tuesday's rally, which pushed the Dow up 87.31 points to 15056.20, was the latest milestone for a steep climb that began in the throes of the financial crisis. Since the market bottomed in March 2009, the Dow has surged nearly 130% without suffering a single bear-market downturn—typically defined as a decline of 20% or more from a recent high.
The latest leg of the rally has been led by stocks favored by cautious investors, such as those companies that pay high dividends. And investors continue to pour money into the perceived safety of bond mutual funds despite extremely low yields.
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Traders say the stock market's march into record territory has been fed by a steady stream of buying. That includes smaller investors who had for the most part shunned U.S. stocks in the years since the financial crisis.
"This has been a pretty resilient market," said Sean Lynch, global investment strategist at Wells Fargo WFC -0.33 % Private Bank, which oversees about $170 billion in assets. "Investors have played the worry game, and those that have sat on the sidelines in cash are starting to question that."
Fueling the growing confidence in stocks is a sense that the U.S. economy is healthy enough that recession isn't a concern but not so strong that the Federal Reserve will pull back on its aggressive measures to ease monetary policy.
The Fed's efforts to keep interest rates extremely low are seen by many as a key driver of the rally.
In recent months, the blue-chip Dow has seemed particularly impervious to economic and political headwinds. The Dow is already up 15% this year, despite a congressional battle over the federal deficit and a banking crisis in Cyprus that threatened a flare-up in the euro zone's continuing debt woes.
The Dow hasn't suffered a three-day losing streak in 87 days, the longest such run since 1958. It has been nearly six months since the Dow suffered even a 5% decline. And the last 10% drop took place in the summer of 2011, when the index lost 17% as the European debt crisis flared up and the U.S. government's debt rating was downgraded.
The force of the rally is a warning sign to some investors still stinging from the recent past.
"When I see all-time highs in the Dow, that's a signal to me to back off," says Frank Seldin, 51 years old, a management consultant in Rhinebeck, N.Y., who invests his own money. Looking at the broader market, he says, "I think this thing is running out of steam."
In addition to the Dow's record finish, a number of other closely watched measures also staked out new ground.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index gained 0.5% to 1625.96, its fourth straight record. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 0.1% to its highest finish since November 2000.
With cash and money-market funds yielding next to nothing, and Treasury yields near historic lows, more investors are deciding stocks are the best place to put their money, even with a U.S. economy that has struggled to build momentum and relatively weak earnings news.
"The risks really seem to have dissipated," said Benjamin Pace, head of asset allocation for Deutsche Bank DB 1.43 % Personal Wealth Management. "We're five years removed from the initial onset of the financial crisis, and that echo effect has gotten lighter and lighter."
"All that money is starting to burn a hole in people's pockets," Mr. Pace added. "People talk about there being no alternatives to stocks, and there's an element of truth to that."
Mr. Pace knows the dilemma firsthand.
His investment team came into the year with a cautious stance on the equity market, given worries about the ongoing debt crisis in Europe and budget wrangling in Washington. Last month, though, the Deutsche team, which manages $60 billion in assets, decided to increase its holdings of stocks, and is debating whether to push that allocation even higher.
Many smaller investors are also starting to creep back into stocks.
In the past few months, Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, the retail brokerage business for the fund-management giant that has more than 14 million client accounts, said more money has been flowing into stocks and mutual funds.
"People's confidence is coming back," said Ram Subramaniam, president of Fidelity Brokerage Services, adding that the amount of client money that flowed into stocks last quarter is about two-thirds higher than it was a year ago.
Bill Brasuell, a 77-year-old retiree in Key West, Fla., said he has never felt better about the stock market. He recently let the last of the bonds in his portfolio mature, and has rolled the proceeds into stocks.
Mr. Brasuell said that when the tech bubble was nearing its peak in late 1999 and early 2000, he sold most of his stocks after concluding that the stock mania had gotten "awfully frothy." This time, however, "I'm just hanging on and enjoying the ride," he said.
As a sign of how quickly the recent gains have come, the Dow first cleared the 14000 level in July 2007, as the housing-fueled stock rally was reaching its peak. After the financial crisis, stocks tumbled by 54% before taking the next four years to reclaim the 14000 level again on Feb. 1 this year. In contrast, it took just 66 days to burst from the 14000 level to Tuesday's close above 15000.
There are signs of lingering caution among investors. There have been big gains in the more conservative corners of the market, such as consumer staples, utilities and telecommunications stocks. These companies tend to be valued more for their steady earnings and their dividends rather than their growth opportunities.
Defensive posturing can also be seen among U.S. Treasurys. As recently as last Thursday, the yield on the benchmark 10-year note—which falls as prices rise—dropped to 1.63%, one of the lowest levels in history.
Meanwhile, investors have continued to pump money into bonds alongside stocks. The first 17 weeks of 2013 saw a record $55.2 billion of investor money flow into mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that focus on investment-grade corporate debt, according to Thomson Reuters unit Lipper.
Still, Bob Baur, chief global economist at Principal Global Investors, PFG 4.29 % which manages about $280 billion in assets, has seen more signs of stock-market interest percolating.
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The 6 Most Utterly Insane Attempts to Kill a US President
#3. John Hinckley Jr. (1955-)
The Target:
Ronald Reagan
The Man:
You know that friend who's just really, really into some actress? That weird guy who spends hours in Blockbuster, gently caressing a copy of Speed 2: Cruise Control just to feel closer to Sandra Bullock? Well here's a tip: don't let that guy buy a gun.
That brings us to John Hinckley, Jr., a failed songwriter who must have had a lot of down time because, according to trusted historian Dr. Wik E. Pedia, Hinkley saw the movie Taxi Driver at least fifteen times. The family friendly story of vigilante justice apparently captivated him because of Jodi Foster's role as a 12 year-old prostitute.
When Hinckley learned that Foster was enrolled at Yale in 1980 he moved to Connecticut and enrolled in a writing class there. After numerous attempts to charm her by talking about how he fell in love with her portrayal of a child prostitute, he decided he would have to try something else.
"Yikes. You look so much less 12-years-old in person."
Proving that he totally understands women, Hinkley decided that the best way to impress Foster was by murdering the leader of the free world. It was between that and flowers.
The Attempt:
Hinckley first sought to assassinate Jimmy Carter, but got arrested on a firearms charge before he had the chance. Obviously a man of persistence, he waited until March of 1981 and decided to try Ronald Reagan.
"Same difference."
Reagan, having just given a speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel in D.C., was returning to his limo when he was greeted by a crowd of public admirers and news cameras (that captured the event in its entirety). At the time he had a whopping 73% approval rating, so it probably came as a shock to him when some dude drew a pistol and fired six rounds in his direction.
What Went Wrong:
In the three seconds it took Hinckley to fire six shots he hit four people, Reagan included. It wasn't a direct hit, however; the bullet ricocheted off the open limo door and grazed the President's side. At the end of the ordeal Hinckley had a kill-to-hit ratio of 1 to 5, but only if you count breaking a window as a kill. No, Hinckley hadn't practiced with the weapon before the event.
What's more embarrassing, however, is that the rounds he used were "Devastators," which were supposed to explode on impact. Of the six bullets not one of them detonated, despite each one striking something. So Hinckley was probably eligible for some kind of refund.
Everyone injured by the attack survived and Hinckley was committed to a mental institution. Jodie Foster became a lesbian, though far be it from us to suggest that she did so mainly in an attempt to avoid the gender that thought six explosive bullets would be a good way to win her heart.
#2. John F. Schrank (1876-1943)
The Target:
Theodore Roosevelt
The Man:
John Schrank had a dream that almost changed the world. And by that we don't mean a "Martin Luther King" dream, we mean a literal "at school without your pants" dream.
He seemed normal as a youth. Then, his entire family died. And his girlfriend. He then spent his early adulthood wandering the east coast, where he found religion and began to study the Bible intensely. Indeed, it seemed that Schrank overcame all his misfortune and established himself as a peaceful and functioning member of society.
Then, one night, Schrank saw the ghost William McKinley in a dream. McKinley told Shrank to avenge his death and pointed to a picture of Roosevelt.
Shrank accepted this, ignoring the fact that McKinley was actually killed by Leon Czolgosz. Quick to appease the demands of his phantom overlord, Schrank stalked Roosevelt's campaign for three weeks before making his move.
The Attempt:
On October 14th, 1912 Roosevet was to make a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before 9,000 people. Unfortunately, one of those people was Schrank. Before the speech could be delivered he fired once, hitting Roosevelt right in the chest.
What Went Wrong:
Compared to everyone else on this list, Schrank was a goddamn marksman. Had he aimed a few inches to the left the bullet would have torn through Roosevelt and maybe even killed him (we emphasize "maybe"--we are talking about Teddy Roosevelt, after all).
Instead the bullet struck his breast pocket where it had to punch through Roosevelt's one-hundred page speech and his glasses case, before lodging itself in the wall of his lung.
Among the ensuing chaos Roosevelt had two options: go to a hospital and have the wound patched up, or deliver the speech while bleeding all over the place. After opening with the line "I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot," he gave his ninety-minute speech before conceding that maybe he should have the bullet wound checked out, you know, just in case. And of course Schrank was arrested and found to be insane, no doubt after telling the police his little ghost story.
Fate wasn't done kicking Schrank in the ass, however. When Roosevelt did see a doctor he remembered from McKinley's assassination that having the bullet removed could potentially be fatal and thus declined. So he was ultimately saved by the death of the man whose ghost possibly wanted him dead.
#1. Giuseppe Zangara (1900-1933)
The Target:
The Man:
After serving his native Italy in World War One, Giuseppe Zangara moved with his uncle to Paterson, New Jersey in pursuit of the American dream. He never had much of an education and spent most of his time doing physical labor to pay the bills, coming to the gradual realization that the American dream kind of blows. To make matters worse, he was diagnosed with appendicitis and, to a much more hilarious degree, chronic flatulence.
The illnesses led to his inability to work which, in turn, lead to severe depression and odd delusions, including the belief that Herbert Hoover was using supernatural powers to cause the illnesses.
To remedy his poor health and combat black magic, Zangara planned to kill Hoover. Hoover was out of office before Zangara could act, so the would-be assassin went after Franklin Delano Roosevelt instead, figuring that FDR must have picked up the witchcraft baton after Hoover left.
The Attempt:
In 1933 Zangara was living in Miami, Florida. It just so happened that FDR was giving a speech in his community from the back of an open car, accompanied by Chicago mayor Anton Cermak. Armed with a pistol Zangara joined the small crowd.
What Went Wrong:
Zangara was only five feet tall and decided to stand at the back of the crowd, so he didn't exactly have a clear shot. Instead of simply repositioning himself elsewhere, he set up a wobbly folding chair and stood on it with his gun.
Of course, a short Italian guy with chronic flatulence (which we assume made him sound like he had a two-stroke engine running in his pants 24 hours a day) was bound to draw some attention. But before the crowd could subdue him, he got off six shots, hitting five people and killing one.
None of them were FDR (Mayor Cermak was the fatality). Not only did he utterly fail, but Zangara was arrested and executed via the electric chair.
By the way, here's a picture of Mr. Roosevelt.
Notice how he's in a wheel chair? It's understandable that one bullet missed, but six? This guy couldn't exactly leap out of the way of gunfire. You could say it was the crowd or the angry mob that threw off Zangara's aim. Only Roosevelt knew that his survival was actually due to the potent witchcraft he'd learned from Herbert Hoover.
For some examples of US Presidents who were much more successful at murder than these guys, check out 6 Great U.S. Presidents and Their Crimes Against Humanity. Or read up on 5 Presidential Elections Even Dumber Than This One (Somehow).


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I am very pleased to extend a warm welcome to Senator-elect Deb Fischer as a colleague in the U.S. Senate. Nebraskans have entrusted us with the tremendous responsibility of representing their ideals and concerns in Washington. I look forward to working with Deb to do just that. She'll take the oath of office in January.
Before that happens, Congress has a serious laundry list of issues it must address. Terms like "fiscal cliff" and "Taxmageddon," referring to a host of deadlines and tax increases at the end of 2012, paint a stark picture. The situation we are in is severe, and the need to reach some agreement is imminent. Failure to do so will have a potentially devastating impact on families and businesses in Nebraska and across the country. With only a few weeks before the end of the year Congress must address these fiscal challenges.
It's important to pull the curtain back and understand what is at stake behind the catch phrases and labels. The current tax rates, which have been in place for the last 12 years, are set to expire at the end of this year, just as some new taxes are scheduled to take effect. At $536 billion per year, this would be the single largest tax hike in U.S. history. Roughly half comes from the expiration of the tax rate reductions and investment income tax rates implemented during President George W. Bush's tenure.
Many Nebraskans are rightfully concerned about the expiration of estate or "death" tax policy. Currently, estates in excess of $5 million are taxed at 35 percent. If this policy is allowed to expire, estates will be taxed at a rate of 55 percent with only a $1 million exemption, dramatically expanding the scope of those affected. While a $1 million estate sounds like a lot of money, more than half of Nebraska's farms would exceed this exemption in land value alone.
Another looming tax hike is the Alternative Minimum Tax, which was originally designed to keep high-income earners from avoiding income taxes through various exemptions. However, over the years, the "high income" threshold has been eroded by inflation. This mark for a family filing joint taxes is currently $74,450, but if congress doesn't act, it will revert to $45,000. The Congressional Research Service estimates the number of Nebraska households impacted will climb from 16,546 in 2009 to 134,289 in 2013.
In addition, there are other expiring tax provisions including a number of popular deductions, like the child tax credit. To be clear, tax reform will not be easy. Deductions will be affected, but the goal is to lower overall tax rates and simplify your tax paperwork.
President Obama's healthcare law will also add an additional $22 billion in new taxes next year alone. Besides those tax hikes, a round of automatic spending cuts known as sequestration are scheduled to kick in on New Year's Day. The cuts, totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years, are largely across the board, with half coming out of our national defense. I believe Congress must significantly reduce spending, but we need to carefully examine this blanket approach. I believe we can do better.
Page 2 of 2 - Despite disagreements about the right answer to our fiscal crisis, one thing remains uncontested: a new recession awaits us if we don't responsibly address this fiscal cliff looming on the horizon. It's time to make the difficult decisions that have been repeatedly put off. The alternative—crushing tax burdens and a shrinking economy—will undoubtedly be far worse.
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By now many of you have seen Synrgy360 and its launch video. Well, so did the Indy500. In March, the Indy500 race promoters reached out to us at Life Fitness after seeing Synrgy at launch, and were so excited about the product they requested to air the video hourly on the jumbotron throughout the world's best-attended sporting event.


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How can I determine what kind of BMX frame I have if I there no decals on the bike when I got it? I got it from my dad who found the frame and we put it together, but I am clueless as to what brand or make it is. Can someone help me?
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There was a time when bikes (and cars, and food mixers, and whatever) were manufactured to last, and the same model would be manufactured and sold, unchanged, for many years.
From somewhere in the 90's, there seems to be an obsession with the NEW, so now bikes (and cars, and cell phones, etc you get the picture) change their designs overnight, so people might want perhaps to purchase a NEW one every year.
To make matters worse, in the world of bikes there has been a relative epidemics both from bikes manufactured in Asia (which might or might not be a Bad Thing, depending on perspective) and WalMart bikes (which are always Evil).
So, if your bike is a "vintage" bmx, I think the best to do is to go to an oldschool BMX bike store and ask the shop crew. There are some bike models which are very distinctive (for example, the classic GT triple triangle), and folks used to see the same bikes over and over might remember some subtleties.
But if your bike is very new, then I'd say it's nearly impossible. Sometimes bikes from two different brands are identical except for the logos, and sometimes bikes that are SUPPOSED to be identical are not, just for being from different batches.
In the end, it matters most to know if your bike is GOOD (aka, real bike), or if it is just a Bicycle-Shaped Object, which I hope it is not.
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I came across this on the main page of Stack Overflow. If it matters, I'm using Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows 7 RC.
I came across this on the main page of Stack Overflow. If it matters, I'm using Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows 7 RC.
Just change the word "views" to "Kviews" and "Mviews" and give it the same font color as the number itself so it's highlighted when the number is highlighted.
It'll fit. It'll make sense. It'll allow the same amount of precision as always.
Problem solved.
What about the mathematical notation? 1e5, 2e5 look quite good and I'm sure almost all programmers understand it.
123k views
This requires more scaling than 123 thousand views to fit 4 characters horizontally, but it doesn't try to cram the word "thousand" between the number and "views."
Here's the reason it's status-bydesign, since clearly you all find it an issue.
It's definitely intentional (thus not a bug), although I don't like it much myself.
.1m views
I think this looks pretty good. You lose some granularity on the number, but no extra CSS is required to shrink the numbers or realign stuff. Unfortunately, the leading '0' won't fit.
.12m views
Here's some more precision with a smaller 'm'.
123 thousand views
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I took a crack at this for Jeff and everyone else to take a look at. I'm no CSS-whiz, but here it goes.
The "What is your best programming joke?" question wasn't in the main view when I started editing so I commandeered a random question.
I made sure to keep "views" vertically-aligned with "answers" because I think that would be the most visually-jarring thing if they were unaligned. This meant scaling down the views number somewhat.
I understand that Jeff is opposed to scaling the number, but maybe others won't find it so bad. I find it favorable to the current situation.
How about using a log10 scale for views and changing indicator to a popularity or interest index rather than raw number of views? You can then not use a number but a narrow color bar to indicate views. One can also add a title to the HTML element which would show the raw number on hover.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I'll throw in two other possibilities:
Something like this:
Or, if you can't spare the extra space for the ">" character, add text above the view count to specify "greater than" (obviously with better alignment):
more than
Of course, then we have the same problem with how to display the total when it gets really large. Maybe we should just cap it and anything over 99K views is just displayed as ">99K" views.
If you still want to show the total view count somewhere, you could display the approximate view count on the questions tab, and then display the total view count only when you actually click on the question, perhaps above or below the title in a smaller font, or below the question next to the asker's information.


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Ferry Crash Injures 74
Boat Smacks Dock at Foot of Wall Street
Federal investigators planned Thursday to interview the five-member crew of a ferry that crashed Wednesday morning at an East River pier in lower Manhattan, injuring dozens of commuters on their way to work.
A team from the National Transportation Safety Board will assess maintenance records, onboard protocols and other issues to determine why the 140-foot high-speed catamaran apparently failed to slow down properly on its approach to Pier 11 at the foot of Wall Street before slamming into a floating dock.
No one was killed, but the impact of the crash sent people flying on board the boat, and 73 passengers and one member of the crew were taken to area hospitals.
Police said all crew members of the Seastreak Wall Street had passed breathalyzer tests and would undergo routine drug tests, though investigators didn't suspect the involvement of drugs in the accident.
The crash occurred at an important point of New York's busy marine commuter network, where 45,000 to 65,000 commuters a week use privately owned ferries such as the Seastreak boat to enter the office district of lower Manhattan.
The Seastreak Wall Street carried 326 passengers and five crew members at about 8:40 a.m. as it neared the end of its second, 45-minute trip of the morning from Highlands, N.J. Many on board had begun to rise inside the ferry cabin, preparing to descend the staircase and disembark at Slip D, one of two floating, barge-like docks on the south side of Pier 11.
But several passengers said the boat didn't seem to reverse its engines to fully slow down, and instead struck the slip.
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"I was thrown backwards about 10 rows and slammed to the ground," said Bob Gunn, 61 years old, an attorney from Atlantic Highlands, who was headed to a meeting in SoHo. "I wound up hitting my head on the floor." He said it was a good thing the floor was carpeted, because it might have saved him from a worse injury.
He said that as the boat turned toward the dock, it had reduced speed, but was still going at a "pretty decent clip."
"Basically, it was a hard landing," said Janette Sadik-Khan, the commissioner of the city Department of Transportation, during a news briefing. Ms. Sadik-Khan said the boat's speed at the time of the crash was 10 to 12 knots—far too fast for a normal ferry landing. (After a 2010 Staten Island Ferry crash that injured 50 people, federal investigators estimated its speed on impact at less than 8 knots.)
"Clearly," said Joseph Bruno, commissioner of the city Office of Emergency Management, "the boat did not slow down."
Seastreak Chairman James Barker said Wednesday that his company was still trying to determine the cause of the accident. The ferry's captain, Jason Reimer, 36, of Red Bank, N.J., was ready to be interviewed, Mr. Barker said.
"He is doing the best you can do…not very well," Mr. Barker said of the captain. "He is very concerned for the people that got hurt. He knows these people. He's transported these people for years."
Jillian Donohue, who said she was Mr. Reimer's girlfriend and spoke outside the Red Bank home she said she shares with him, said the probe was "in the Coast Guard's hands now."
"Physically, he's fine," she said of Mr. Reimer. "He has a lot of guidance. The company is sticking with him."
Dick Cadman, 68, lives next door to Mr. Reimer and called him a good neighbor. "He knows the waters," Mr. Cadman said. "He's been around a long time doing that."
The ferry is one of four similar catamarans Seastreak operates between Highlands, on the Monmouth County, N.J., coastline, and Manhattan. The vessels can carry 505 passengers and crew when fully loaded, according to the firm's website.
Mr. Barker, who bought the ferry company in 2008, said the Seastreak Wall Street was launched in 2003. It was overhauled last summer, when its original, water-jet propulsion engines were replaced with two inboard propeller engines.
Robert Sumwalt, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said an 11-member "go team" would be on the ground in New York for the next five to seven days, interviewing crew members and passengers about the incident, and looking into past incidents and maintenance of the ferry.
"That group will also be looking at human performance, how the crew interacted, what was going on the bridge of that vessel" before the collision, Mr. Sumwalt said.
The boat doesn't have a voice-data recorder on the bridge, Mr. Sumwalt said, and isn't required to have one. But the boat "has a lot of sophisticated electronics" that can help investigators, he said. Mr. Barker said the company was providing transportation home to those who needed it and helping family of those injured get to New York.
Coast Guard records show the Seastreak Wall Street was involved in seven incident investigations between 2006 and 2010, including four in which it was damaged in collisions with stationary objects such as docks or pilings. None of those collisions resulted in injuries, and a Coast Guard spokesman said some such collisions were normal in the operation of a working ferry, especially those operating many times a day and in poor weather.
The New York Harbor is the third-busiest in ferry traffic in the world, said the Coast Guard spokesman, Charles Rowe, with scores of government and privately operated trips per day crossing the water between Manhattan, Long Island, Staten Island and New Jersey.
"They all have a darn good safety record," Mr. Rowe said.
In the most serious ferry accident in the past decade, a Staten Island Ferry crashed into a pier in 2003 after an assistant captain passed out at the controls, killing 11 people and injuring 70. The pilot had taken painkillers the night before and was later sentenced to prison.
In May 2010, another Staten Island Ferry crashed and injured dozens of people on board.
Amanda Dafeldecker, owner of Dafeldecker Associates, a drug- and alcohol-testing company in Toms River, contracted through Seastreak, was in Highlands waiting for a 12:20 p.m. ferry to the city so she could begin standard urine and breathalyzer tests on the ferry crew. (While a breathalyzer test had already been done by investigators, she said she would conduct a separate one.) She said results would be confidential and released to the company in 24 to 48 hours.
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Can access control matrix in addition to confidentiality provide the integrity of the objects to which access is being controlled?
Of course! Yes, absolutely. To explain I need to give a refresher on these terms.
What's an access control matrix? It's a matrix A, where Ai,j indicates the permissions that subject i has to access resource j. The permissions might be something like "read" or "read,write" or "read,execute". The access control matrix is an abstraction that captures the policy that is enforced by an access control mechanism.
So, can you use access control to protect the integrity of a resource? Sure. Just limit who receives write permission to that resource to only entities who are trusted not to screw up its integrity. This is indeed one of the primary motivations for access control.
In theory, yes. The Biba integrity matrix is the traditional theoretical description of such an ACL. Unfortunately it turns out to be rather difficult to describe "integrity" in a way that facilitate development of a Biba based system. I'm not aware of any real world implementations of Biba, although if I remember correctly, the concept was applied to parts of the Trusted Computing Station.


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MARTINS FERRY - Three people were arrested this morning by the Belmont County Drug Task Force following a raid at a residence in Bridgeport around 3:40 a.m.
Cash and drugs were confiscated.
The raid was conducted at 501 Rhodes St. The Bridgeport and Martins Ferry police departments, along with the Belmont County Sheriff's Office, Belmont County Drug Task Force and Echo from the Ferry PD all took part.
Taken into custody were Eban B. King, 40, of 440 Richmond Park East, Richmond Heights, Ohio; Denzel A. Crowell, 22, of 2037 Goodnor Road, Cleveland, and Gloria Gonsalves, no age available, 2440 Noble Road, Cleveland.
A spokesperson at the Belmont County Jail said the three were not yet booked in at press time.
Confiscated were approximately $1,200 in cash, crack, heroin and some marijuana.
A Bridgeport police officer said the three were renting the house where the raid was conducted.
"This is the sxith raid in the last three weeks," said Martins Ferry Police Chief John McFarland.
"Once again, the officers who participated in the raid were thorough and did an excellent job, Cooperation among the departments in the drug task force is outstanding.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dove into a historic debate on gay rights Tuesday that could soon lead to resumption of same-sex marriage in California, but the justices signaled they may not be ready for a major national ruling on whether America's gays and lesbians have a right to marry.
The court's first major examination of gay rights in 10 years continues Wednesday, when the justices will consider the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of benefits afforded straight married people.
The issue before the court on Tuesday was more fundamental: Does the Constitution require that people be allowed to marry whom they choose, regardless of either partner's gender? The fact that the question was in front of the Supreme Court at all was startling, given that no state recognized same-sex unions before 2003 and 40 states still don't allow them.
There is no questioning the emotions the issue stirs. Demonstrators on both sides crowded the grounds outside the court, waving signs, sometimes chanting their feelings.
Inside, a skeptical Justice Samuel Alito cautioned against a broad ruling in favor of gay marriage precisely because the issue is so new.
"You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cellphones or the Internet? I mean, we do not have the ability to see the future," Alito said.
Indeed, it was clear from the start of the 80-minute argument in a packed courtroom, that the justices, including some liberals who seemed open to gay marriage, had doubts about whether they should even be hearing the challenge to California's Proposition 8, the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the potentially decisive vote on a closely divided court, suggested the justices could dismiss the case with no ruling at all.
Such an outcome would almost certainly allow gay marriages to resume in California but would have no impact elsewhere.
There was no majority apparent for any particular outcome, and many doubts were expressed by justices about the arguments advanced by lawyers for the opponents of gay marriage in California, by the supporters and by the Obama administration, which is in favor of same-sex marriage rights. The administration's entry into the case followed President Barack Obama's declaration of support for gay marriage.
On the one hand, Kennedy acknowledged the recentness of same-sex unions, a point stressed repeatedly by Charles Cooper, the lawyer for the defenders of Proposition 8. Cooper said the court should uphold the ban as a valid expression of the people's will and let the vigorous political debate over gay marriage continue.
But Kennedy pressed him also to address the interests of the estimated 40,000 children in California who have same-sex parents.
"They want their parents to have full recognition and full status. The voice of those children is important in this case, don't you think?" Kennedy said.
Yet when Theodore Olson, the lawyer for two same-sex couples, urged the court to support such marriage rights everywhere, Kennedy feared such a ruling would push the court into "uncharted waters." Olson said that the court similarly ventured into the unknown in 1967 when it struck down bans on interracial marriage in 16 states.
Kennedy challenged the accuracy of that comment, noting that other countries had had interracial marriages for hundreds of years.
The justice, whose vote usually decides the closest cases, also made clear he did not like the rationale of the federal appeals court that struck down Proposition 8, even though it cited earlier opinions in favor of gay rights that Kennedy had written.
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WACO (January 18, 2013)—An elderly man who was injured during a carjacking Friday afternoon outside of a nursing home was taken to a local hospital with what police said were minor injuries.
The incident happened at around 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Woodland Springs nursing home at 1010 Dallas St.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - State University of New York at Geneseo professor Jennifer L. Rogalsky's selection as a Fulbright scholar for this semester has taken her to Ghana, where she will teach a course and conduct research on the role of gender in the developing world.
Rogalsky, associate professor of geography at Geneseo, is part of a new collaborative partnership between Geneseo and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, where she will teach "Gender and Development" in the Geography and Rural Development Department. The head of that department and vice dean of the faculty of Social Science at KNUST, Eva Tagoe-Darko, received a Fulbright grant for the entire academic year and is teaching and conducting research in Geneseo's geography department.
"This is a true academic and cultural exchange that will benefit students in Ghana and Geneseo," said Rogalsky, associate professor of geography at Geneseo. "I feel very honored and lucky to be a part of this program. "
In addition to teaching, Rogalsky will conduct gender research in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana, focusing on how women cope in the informal economy in urban markets.
"I plan to involve students and collaborate with KNUST faculty in my research," she said. "I expect to find that national policies such as the Ghana poverty reduction strategy, and growth and poverty reduction strategy are not 'trickling down.' My findings could have policy implications to help women and their children address barriers to economic and educational success."
Tagoe-Darko taught a course on maternal education and child health the first semester at Geneseo and will teach a course on the geography of Africa this semester. She also will continue her research on identifying effective preventive health practices for children and adolescents.
"My experience here at Geneseo has been wonderful and I see this as the beginning of more collaboration between our institutions," said Tagoe-Darko. "There is great potential for more exchanges, not only with faculty but also students."
Rogalsky gives credit to the dean of Geneseo's School of Education, Osman Alawiye, for initiating the partnership between Geneseo and KNUST, which encouraged Rogalsky and Tagoe-Darko to apply for the Fulbright award. Livingston County officials also are pursuing trade opportunities with the country.
About 1,250 U.S. faculty and professionals received Fulbright scholar or Specialist awards to teach or conduct research abroad this year. A similar number of foreign scholars received Fulbright grants to visit the United States. Congress established the Fulbright program in 1946 under legislation introduced by then-Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. Since 1947, the program has awarded more than 50,000 grants to support teaching and research in countries around the world.
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