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Soup Kitchen Visit By Ryan Stirs Anger
Most of the debate in Catholic circles about Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan has taken place in the arenas of philosophy (e.g., can Ryan claim both Ayn Rand and Catholic social teaching as major influences on his thinking?) and policy (e.g., are Ryan's plans to "end Medicare as we know it" by turning it into a voucher program, and his plans to slash Medicaid funding proper exercises of his "prudential judgment" in applying the Church's teachings to public policy?).Last Saturday the debate shifted to a practical incarnation of Catholic social teaching---the Front Street soup kitchen in Youngstown, Ohio where the Mahoning County St. Vincent de Paul Society serves nearly 100,000 meals a year to the poor of their community."The president of Mahoning Countys St. Vincent de Paul Society is shocked and angry that Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan used the soup kitchen for a publicity stunt.
Brian J. Antal, who runs the society, said the campaign ramrodded themselves in there without getting proper permission for the visit Saturday that followed Ryans town-hall meeting at Youngstown State University.They said they got permission from the right people, but that would have been me, and I never would have given them permission, Antal said Monday.Juanita Sherba, St. Vincents Saturday coordinator for the dining hall, said she gave the Ryan campaign approval that day for the visit by the candidate and his family.Sherba say she now realizes it wasnt her call to make.The event was a photo op, she said. It was the phoniest piece of baloney Ive ever been associated with. In hindsight, I would have never let him in the door."The photo op included Ryan washing pots and pans---which Sherba and other volunteers had to set aside while waiting for Ryan to show up, rather than simply going home after their morning's work.Anyone who's worked on political campaigns knows how this could happen. Everyone, including the candidate, is exhausted from weeks of campaigning. The pressure is on with less than a month until Election Day. One event (a speech that morning at Youngstown State) runs long, so the candidate is late showing up for the next event on his schedule.And if that was the only side to the story, there would be no controversy. But there is another side to the story, as anyone who's worked in one of what we could call the Matthew 25 ministries knows in their bones.Feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, visiting the imprisoned, etc. is work. Often, it's tedious, boring, physically and emotionally exhausting work. (Sometimes it's inspiring, rewarding, uplifting work.) For a politician (and his advance team) to demand the St. Vincent de Paul volunteers wait around until the candidate shows up, so he can wash some pots that would already have been washed and put away is, in its own small way, abusive treatment directed at both the volunteers and their guests. It objectifies them.There are ways for a politician to handle this type of situation well. The fact that Paul Ryan, a devout lifelong Catholic, didn't handle it well doesn't speak well for his knowledge of the Church's social teaching. Not his intellectual knowledge, his experiential knowledge.
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Luke Hill is a writer and community organizer in Boston. He blogs at dotCommonweal and MassCommons.
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I think it was very wrong of Rep. Ryan to take advantage of the soup kitchen clients that way; it does indeed objectify them.But here's a big silver lining: if that photo gets some Ryan admirers who wouldn't otherwise support soup kitchens to now contribute to this important work, it's that many fewer hungry people out there.
Campaign photo-ops are generally cringe-inducing affairs, so stagey that to watch them is to wonder how they ever achieve their purpose at all. Like this one, trying to turn Paul Ryan from Ayn Rand to Dorothy Day seems so obvious. But the way this was done was particularly ham handed, and seems like the kind of thing that can hurt Ryan much more than his libertarian economic philosophy. Pictures speak volumes, and Ryan washing clean pots in an empty soup kitchen...ouch. That said, the analogy is interesting: Ryan cleaning up a mess that has already been cleaned up by someone else. The only difference is that Ryan didn't help make the mess at the soup kitchen, as he did with the economy. And he didn't promise to come back and mess it up tomorrow. Well, every analogy limps...
It is so demeaning to run for office in this country. You have to do things you never would do, like pretending to wash pots when you'd rather be watching football. You have to take advantage of people, some of whom resent being taken advantage of. Like tonight: the candidates for president have to endure the questions of "uncommitted voters," when "uncommitted" means either they haven't been paying attention for 10 months, or they have to repaint the living room every six months, or they missed the cut for American Idol and hope to make it up on Decision 2012. If you can't pretend to like performing such demeaning activities, you don't have the right stuff to guide the nation.
This kind of thing is just another way to lie.
They pretend: To be 'regular people'To have ideas that will lead to prosperity for allThat they care about common folkThey can cut taxes and balance the budgetThat they feel our painThat they will actually do what they say they will.That they will 'work with the other side.'We pretend:To understand the issuesTo pay attentionThat we are open mindedThat our guy is honest, but their guy lies.That the Republic will rise or fall on this election.
WashPost reports that "Chris Maloney, Ohio communications director for the Romney campaign, saidthat the visit by Ryan had been intended to highlight the work of the soupkitchen volunteers." . "Photographers snapped photos and TV cameras shot footage of Ryanand his family washing pots and pans that did notappear to be dirty." No wonder Ryan's wife, dutifully carrying her pan, has an odd expression on her face. Maybe she is the perceptive one in the family. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/15/charity-...
Antals complaint about the lack of permission reflects a lack of charity as well. It was internal to his organization and reflects his management shortcomings, not anything about the Ryan campaign. But the whole thread makes a huge mountain out of something smaller than a mole hill.
Bruce --- The technical term for Antal's organization management task is "herding cats". The volunteers showed up and produced on Saturday morning. That's where charity and Antal's management comes in. Exploiting their courtesy to strangers to make misleading pictures for a Republican politician's campaign wrap-up is, as Luke puts it, "in its own small way, abusive treatment". And imprudent if one assumes some of those who had to hang around on Saturday morning might have been considering their votes.
Gosh, why didn't they just photo-shop the candidate's head onto the body of some actual volunteer? It would have meant as much. And then everyone could have gone home on time.I also note that the candidate didn't come and talk to the homeless people during dinner, but only came after these unfortunate people had left. Is it because he shares Romney's contempt for those who can't provide for themselves? Or because it's impolitic to befriend the poor? If the 47% can't be influenced to take responsibility for their lives, how much less so the very poor, who need a meal at a soup kitchen? No, I'm afraid we must photo-shop actually needy people out of the picture, if it is to make useful fodder for the campaign. Even in Clinton's speech at the Democratic convention, "the poor" were not mentioned, but only "poor children." Repeatedly. I guess poor adults are not deserving of our care or concern, when it comes to politics. It must be that too many voters blame them and don't want to help them. I'd like to note that the basis on which the coordinator gave permission for the visit was that she was told that Ryan wanted to talk to "the clients." This evidently was not true. See below. He wanted to applaud the staff, not talk to the clients.Here's the quote:She said she was told Ryan would talk with the societys clientele, but he arrived so late that breakfast was over for quite some time.Volunteers started to clean up, she said, when a Ryan campaign staff member asked them to leave some pots and pans unwashed so the VP nominee and his family could do something when he arrived.We just wanted to come by and say, Thanks, Ryan said to a few volunteers who stayed behind Saturday. This is what makes society go.Despite some media reports, Sherba said Ryan and his family washed a few dirty pots and pans, but it wasnt necessary.http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/oct/16/soup-kitchen-visit-by-ryan-stirs-a...
Ryan should know by now that the camera is not his friend.
The technical term for Antals organization management task is herding catsJack,I understand and sympathize. But Antal should not be complaining that Ryan wasnt properly authorized. And as with every event where a muckety-muck shows up, they arrive with an entourage often late, shake a few hands, pretend to do some minor work, and leave. This sounds like it fits the mold perfectly. CST doesnt teach that everyone has to do everything. Ryan is running for VP; what he can do to the help the cause (and be helped too) is make time to publicize that a soup kitchen does important work. No more and no less. Seems like he did that. So why does that deserve a Commonweal thread carping about him - that seems uncharitable to me.
@Bruce (10/16, 1:48 pm) It is, to say the least, debatable whether the Romney/Ryan campaign scheduled this event "to publicize that a soup kitchen does important work". There are plenty of ways for any elected official to do that. Showing up after the meal is over and staging a photo op of the candidate "washing dishes" is, to put it as charitably as I can, one of the least effective ways imaginable to achieve that goal.Based on Ryan's behavior, I strongly suspect he has little or no experience of feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, etc. If he had some experience (even as little as, say, volunteering 1 meal a month at a soup kitchen for a year), then it's hard for me to imagine that he wouldn't have shown more consideration for the St. Vincent de Paul volunteers. You're absolutely correct that the Church doesn't teach that "everyone has to do everything". In fact, we are a big enough and old enough church that the collective understanding is that there are many parts of the vineyard in which to work. Some have the ministry of prayer, some of service, some of prophecy, some of healing, some of proclamation, some of administration, some of education, etc. What's surprising to me about this incident, as I indicated in the post, is it reveals Cong. Ryan apparent lack of any substantive lived experience of Catholic social teaching in action. That's certainly not a sin or a crime, but it is surprising.
What makes this especially silly is that even if it had been handled better -- i.e., if the campaign entourage had arrived on time, while the soup kitchen was actually in the process of serving its patrons, and even if Ryan et al. had managed to contribute in some minimally useful way to the work -- it would still be dopey political theatre. The idea, I take it, is to portray Ryan as the sort of guy who takes time out of his schedule to serve the poor, who makes it a personal priority because it's just that important. But nobody would actually believe that a candidate for vice president would stop campaigning to do non-political volunteer work with just a few weeks to go before the election. It's not at all credible as a break from campaigning, in other words -- it is very obviously just another campaign event. Their mistake was making that so obvious that it can't be ignored, by subtracting the actual service work from the equation.
Bruce: Because what Ryan did is emblematic of the thin coat of shiney paint that Mitt and he are trying to put on their campaign that they really care about the poor and disadvantaged. Again and again I say that no person of good Christian conscience who is paying attention could possibly vote for the Reb. R&R.
I can't stop watching the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2WVJNxOpvY"I'm going to water them [the dishes]," Ryan explains to his kids. "I'm gonna get them wet, and then you guys have to dry them." And: "You know I spent a summer washing dishes.... You'd get callouses on your fingers because it was so hot." #science
This is a man who is running with everything he has toward being a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the United States in a few months. Caveat elector. (Grant -- Could the duty Fact Checker please look into callouses from really hot water? In my years of literally hands-on experience, that hasn't come up.)
You'd think a hardworkin' guy like that would know the difference between a callus and a blister.
It reminds me a bit of that scene in Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward, where one day the prison camp inmates are given better clothes to wear, better food to eat, and turned loose to read in the well-stocked library, while representatives from the Red Cross (or perhaps it's some other NGO) are paraded through to show how well the prisoners are treated. As soon as the NGOers leave, of course, the clothes are taken back, the library is locked up again, and the food goes back to its regular stale cabbage and gruel.
Wonder how it is this gentleman's complaint got in the press. Hmmmm
It's pretty important to note that Brian Antal wanted to get his story out - again, per the news account linked above - because he is afraid that failure to object publicly could result in a loss of income from donors who are turned off by the appearance of partisan politics at an expressly nonpartisan charity.
Antal said hes received several phone calls and emails from donors who are not pleased that Ryan used the soup kitchen as a photo op.Id have the same problem if [Vice President] Joe Biden or [President] Barack Obama came down there, Antal said of the Democratic ticket.But he did specifically criticize Ryan for wanting to eliminate the small amount of federal money the society gets for the dining hall.That is a little two-faced to say the least, he said. I cannot have the appearance that we are endorsing the Republicans by letting them use our facility for photo ops and publicity stunts.The society received $12,000 in federal money this year and raised about $175,000 to $200,000 in private donations for the dining hall, Antal said.The nearby food pantry received $3,200 in federal aid this year and $75,000 in private donations, he said.If we cant get private donations, were sunk, Antal said. Its not a Democrat or Republican issue. Its a faith-based organization, and were not here to get someone elected.Antal said he doesnt blame volunteers for this.The societys bylaws prohibit the endorsement of candidates and political parties, Antal said.
Sounds reasonable to me. But if you're more comfortable insinuating that the guy who runs the St. Vincent de Paul Society soup kitchen is the one behaving badly here, then you go right ahead.
"Wonder how it is this gentlemans complaint got in the press. Hmmmm"In the story linked above, the paper's newsroom and distribution facility is next door to the soup kitchen. But it was a press event, anyway; it would have been pretty odd not to get a quote from the head of the program where it took place.
Irene/Mollie--First, it's expected that there'd be a mention in the press about the Romney/Ryan visit to the soup kitchen. But if Antal were truly as non-partisan as he wants us to believe, wouldn't he have said something more like this to the press:"We're glad that Paul Ryan visited our soup kitchen today, as it gives us a chance to make the importance of our work in the local community better known. Of course, being non-partisan, this should not be seen by anyone as an endorsement of the Romney/Ryan ticket and, in fact, if Joe Biden would like to make an appearance we would happily welcome him."The donations from all sides would have started rolling in. Instead, he calls it a "publicity stunt."Second, the angry calls and emails, if you believe Antal, were not anger with the SVDPS, but supposedly with Ryan. How could that adversely affect donations to the SVDPS? If anything, I'd think they'd increase. Plus, why would Antal risk turning off conservative donors the way he did?Third, Antal specifically mentioned his dissatisfaction with Ryan's policies as the SVDPS attempts to serve the poor, but his criticism of Obama's policies, under whose presidency the number of poor has increased, did not make it into the paper. HmmmmFourth, Antal was so anxious to get his dissatisfaction into the press that he publicly threw his underling (a woman, by the way, who had approved the visit) under the bus. What a guy. Not unlike a president throwing his female secretary of state under the bus?But if you don't find the above thoroughly convincing, ask yourself this question: If you ran the soup kitchen and VP Biden visited, and you were as upset with the disruption as Antal was, would you have voiced your dissatisfaction to the newspapers the way Antal did? Yes, I'm pretty comfortable concluding that somebody here has let his partisanship get in the way of making the most of an opportunity to help the poor.
Oops, it appears this wouldn't be the first time Mr. Antal has misled people.http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/16/brian-an... turns out Paul Ryan did help out washing dirty dishes and, for crying out loud, Mr. Antal wasn't even there!Should a correction/revision/update be made to this thread, Luke?
@Mark Proska (10/17, 1:24 pm) Thanks for the link, and the question.I don't think any correction/revision/update is necessary beyond what you and others have already added. In my original post I wrote "The photo op included Ryan washing pots and panswhich Sherba and other volunteers had to set aside while waiting for Ryan to show up, rather than simply going home after their mornings work." And I linked to the source on which I based much of the post---(what appears to my eyes to be) excellent reporting by David Skolnick of the Youngstown Vindicator. (Linked here again: http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/oct/16/soup-kitchen-visit-by-ryan-stirs-a...)In my experience it's common for soup kitchens to have dedicated, experienced and well-trained volunteers who run the soup kitchen for a day or a meal---regardless of whether the director is there or not. (Indeed, it's often a sign of a good director that she/he has recruited and trained such volunteers.)Again, what was surprising, even revelatory in a small way, for me about the incident was Cong. Ryan's apparent unfamiliarity with the actual operation and culture of Catholic charities like the Mahoning County St. Vincent de Paul Society.
Of course, there is this clip from Stephen Colbert, in which he too defends Paul Ryan: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/420236/october-16...
Luke--Thanks for the response. You don't think your characterization of Ryan's limited assistance as "abusive treatment directed at both the volunteers and their guests" is a bit hyperbolic? Even more so considering Mr. Antal's backtracking?
@Mark Proska (10/17, 7:55 pm) You're welcome.Having thought about it overnight, I think I'll leave the judgment as to whether my comments were hyperbolic to you and others. For fuller context, here's the paragraph from which you quoted:"Feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, visiting the imprisoned, etc. is work. Often, its tedious, boring, physically and emotionally exhausting work. (Sometimes its inspiring, rewarding, uplifting work.) For a politician (and his advance team) to demand the St. Vincent de Paul volunteers wait around until the candidate shows up, so he can wash some pots that would already have been washed and put away is, in its own small way, abusive treatment directed at both the volunteers and their guests. It objectifies them."I hope a couple of things are clear:1 - I consider this a small incident, not a big one. Thus any abuse would be correspondingly minor.2 - The "abuse" (if any) lies primarily in the treating of the volunteers and guests as objects for the candidate's own ends, rather than as subjects in their own right with some mutually beneficial exchange taking place. (So for example, I would draw different conclusions about the actions of an officeholder who worked for and delivered a government grant to a charity, and in return got the publicity and goodwill that accompanies a photo op for the occasion.)Finally, it's unclear (at best) whether "Ryan's limited assistance" was, in fact, assistance in any substantive way. It seems from the reporting done by Mr. Skolnick and others that the primary impact of the congressman's visit was to require volunteers to hang around for an unspecified period of time after they had already finished their morning's work.


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by Melissa Brunner
We are in the last few days of October, the month when we are inundated with all things pink! Many of us hop on the bandwagon, buying products, sporting clothing or participating in events designed to raise awareness of breast cancer.
People seem to be listening to the message. Survival rates for breast cancer are better than ever. The National Cancer Institute shows that, from 2001 to 2009, the mortality rate decreased 2.1 percent annually. The figure is thanks in no small part to early detection, which is best achieved by women over the age of 40 having annual mammograms and, as early as your 20s, starting annual clinical breast exams.
But the positive trend can only continue if everyone who sports their pink is also following through on the steps needed to have the best possible chance of survival should they ever develop breast cancer. I have done a lot of stories on the importance of early detection and interviewed dozens of survivors. So, I will share with you that, when I turned 40 in September, one of the first things I did was make a mammogram appointment. I'm pleased to report everything was normal - and I even got free pink nail polish since I went in October!
Now, it's your turn! If you are over the age of 40 and have avoided it, don't let this Breast Cancer Awareness Month end without picking up the phone and making your appointment. Daughters, offer to take mom for a "girls' day" if she's been skirting the issue!
Wearing pink is one thing, but truly living the message is a practice that could save your life.

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Each mathematician knows that good notation or symbolism – which seems to be irrelevant from a purely logical point of view – makes theorems more plausible and motivates results which would otherwise be overlooked. Examples abound. Let me only mention such diverse things as decimal notation, $B^A$ for the set of mappings from $A$ to $B$, $\frac{{df}}{{dx}}$ for differentiation, commutative diagrams, umbral calculus, etc. I would be interested in a list of examples of the most useful notations or symbolic devices together with hints for the reason of their usefulness.
Group conjugation: $a^b$ means $b^{-1}ab$, so $(a^b)^c$ is $a^{bc}$ and $(a^b)^{-1}$ is $(a^{-1})^b$.
I really like the multi-index notation for derivatives which is quite often found in the theory of PDEs.
$D^\alpha f = \frac{\partial^{\vert\alpha\vert} f}{\partial x_1^{\alpha_1}\cdots\partial x_n^{\alpha_n}}$
Where $\alpha$ is defined as:
$\alpha = (\alpha_1,\cdots,\alpha_n),$ $\vert \alpha\vert = \alpha_1 + \cdots +\alpha_n$
It makes definining Sobolev Spaces (and their corresponding Norms) so much cleaner and straight forward:
$W^{k,p} = \lbrace f\in L^p : D^\alpha f\in L^p \text{ for all } \vert\alpha\vert \le k \rbrace$
For certain problems, suppression of a common entity or entry and making it understood by other means. For a lecture involving manipulation of some algebra (ternary groups, maybe?) a form similar to matrix multiplication was used. Instead of spelling out the matrices with all the entries, those entries that were zero were omitted, giving a more eye-friendly appearence. I (and many others, I'm sure) use it for small incidence matrices which are not very dense; the symmetry and other relationships seem much more obvious without the clutter of zeroes. And this is just one example of many.
Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2011.09.13


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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Charlotte combined for 20 hits on Wednesday and split a pair of games with Greensboro at the UNC-G Softball Stadium.
Charlotte's offense is ranked ninth in the nation by the NCAA.
After dropping game one 8-6, it was Charlotte (12-10 overall) who evened the score in game two with an 8-4 win.
Charlotte put the game's first runs on the board in the sixth inning to clinch a 5-0 lead. Alex Rogers led off the inning with a single up the middle followed by a walk from Briana Gwaltney. With one out, Plemmons hit her second double of the day to give Charlotte the 1-0 advantage.
UNC-G pitcher Erica Navarette walked the next three Charlotte batters, giving up two runs. Nicole Thomas came in to relieve Navarette and immediately recorded the second out after striking out the next batter. However, Charlotte wasn't done just yet. Pinch hitter Lindsey Holloman drove in a pair of runs with a clutch hit to right field, giving the 49ers the 5-0 edge over the Spartans.
Charlotte tacked on three more runs in the seventh inning off three hits including a double from freshman Courtney Carroll that drove in two runs, a RBI single from Capone, and hit from Samantha Slade.
A grand slam by Eileen Horsmon in the bottom of the seventh cut Charlotte's lead 8-4 but the Spartans (18-4) never threatened from that point on.
Plemmons was 2-for-3 with two runs and a RBI. She also notched her eighth multiple hit game of the season. Natalie Capone also finished with a pair of hits. Capone is currently on a seven game hitting streak and recorded her tenth multiple hit game.
Katie Watkins (7-7) went the distance and finished with a season-high 11 strikeouts.
In game one, Chelsea Liskatos' double to left field in the seventh inning scored two runs to cut UNC-G's lead to 8-6. The Niners loaded the bases with hits from Jessica Plemmons, Holloman, and Stamey to spark the rally but fell short in the comeback.
After trailing 8-1 to UNC-G in the fourth inning, the 49ers used three hits to score three runs to slice the Spartans' lead to 8-4. Lisikatos led off the inning with a walk and moved to second off a groundout by Natalie Capone. Alex Rogers reached on a walk as Gwaltney singled to right field to score Lisikatos. With runners in scoring position, Chelsea Ingersoll recorded the second out after popping up to the second basemen. However, Plemmons kept the Niners' fight alive and doubled to left center to tally a pair of RBIs. Samantha Slade singled; moving Plemmons to third but another pop up from the Niners would end the inning.
The Spartans took a 1-0 advantage in the second inning but Charlotte responded with two hits in the third to tie the game 1-1. With one out, Lisikatos singled to centerfield and advanced to second off a wild pitch. Capone used a single to left field and then stole second to put the Niners on second and third. With two outs, Gwaltney reached on a walk to load the bases. Charlotte scored a run on the next play as Ingersoll struck out but took advantage of the dropped third strike rule to reach first.
Capone, Lisikatos and Plemmons each finished with two hits.
Lisikatos fell to 4-2 in the circle but tallied a game-high five strikeouts.
The Niners have a week off until they host Fordham on Friday, March 22-23 for the Atlantic 10 Conference opener at D.L. Phillips Complex.


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I am trying to compute $\chi(\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^2)$ using only elementary techniques from differential topology and this is proving to be trickier than I thought. I am aware of the usual proof for this result, which uses the cellular decomposition of $\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^2$ to get $\chi(\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^2) = 3$, but I would like to find a proof of this result that relies on concepts like indices of isolated zeros on a vector field. So for the purposes of this question, I would like to utilize the following definition of the Euler characteristic: For a closed orientable manifold $M$ we define $\chi(M) = \sum_i \mathrm{Ind}_{d_i} \mathrm{v}$ where $\mathrm{v}$ is a vector field on $M$ with isolated zeros.
In my first attempt at this problem I thought about finding a vector field on $\tilde{\mathrm{v}}$ on $S^5$, and then using the identification $\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^2 \cong S^5/\mathrm{U}(1)$, seeing if $\tilde{\mathrm{v}}$ descended to a vector field on $\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^2$ with isolated zeros that lent itself to computing the Euler characteristic. I had difficulty making this work out, so I am unsure if this is a good approach to tackling the problem. Any insights?


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Bear Baloney
May 12, 2008 -- A Federal judge in California last month ordered the Interior Department to decide by this Friday whether to list polar bears as a threatened species because of global warming. It's a fine chance for the Bush administration to stand up for common-sense environmentalism and sound science.
You see, polar bears are thriving -- and will do so under all but the most speculative scenarios of global-warming apocalypse. Any "threatened" listing would be absurd.
The case started with a lawsuit filed by Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council in 2005. To settle it, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Interior division that administers the Endangered Species Act's land-animals provisions, proposed in December 2006 to list the bears as threatened.
The environmental groups argue that warming will melt sea ice, on which the bears often live, and that this loss of habitat will doom the bears to extinction. In other words, they don't claim a current threat, but one decades down the line.
This would be the first time a species was placed on the endangered list based on global-warming projections. On Jan. 8, Interior announced it was postponing its decision by a month to study the issue further. The deadline passed, and the conservation groups quite rightly took FWS back to court and won. Now Interior has to do what it should have done all along: Make the decision.
Where the environmentalists are wrong is on what that decision should be.
The world polar-bear population is at a modern high - and growing. Mitch Taylor, a polar-bear biologist with Canada's Federal Provincial Polar Bear Technical Committee, notes that the bears now number about 24,000 - up about 40 percent from 1974, when fears arose about the bear's ability to survive overhunting by Canadian Eskimos and aboriginals.
The bears have been brought back by prohibiting hunting of them, along with quotas that permit only strictly regulated harvesting where needed, especially among Canada's aboriginal hunters, who have been admirably cooperative.
Under these restrictions, the species has thrived - even though sea ice has in- deed declined in recent years.
As for the warming threat, a recent article by an FWS researcher looked at how much of the bears' sea-ice habitat would vanish under the UN's (gloomy) climate projections - about 30 percent. So, even if the bears are using all the habitat now available, there'd still be habitat for about 17,000 polar bears 100 years from now.
In other words, even under the most pessimistic respectable estimates of the global-warming threat, polar bears won't be threatened with extinction or anything approaching it.
And the consequences of listing the bears as endangered would reach far beyond Alaska. The ESA requires FWS to designate the "critical habitat" for the species, and prohibits federal agencies from doing or authorizing anything that would "destroy or adversely modify" it.
So a listing based on a global-warming threat could oblige the entire federal government to stop anything that's seen as exacerbating warming. New electrical-power plants or other projects across the nation could be subject to federal review and quashed if they would generate greenhouse gases, because they might contribute to arctic warming that might melt sea ice.
Economic growth across the entire country could be stymied by a new burst of regulation.
Today, we have the most polar bears ever measured. On April 25, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada acknowledged this reality by designating the polar bear as of "special concern" - its mildest classification - ruling the bears are not endangered. That was the right call; the Interior Department should gather up the courage to do likewise.
It's not the bears that are endangered, it's the economy.
S. T. Karnick is director of research for The Heartland Institute in Chicago.


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[Washington, DC] -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today pledged
U.S. $1 billion for the reconstruction of Iraq. Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Saud Al-Faisal made the announcement in Madrid, Spain, at the Donors' Conference for Reconstruction of Iraq. Of the one billion dollars, Saudi Arabia pledges to provide U.S. $ 500 million through the Saudi Development Fund, and U.S. $ 500 million through the Saudi Export Program.
This pledge is in addition to the ongoing humanitarian assistance provided by Saudi Arabia to the Iraqi people, which includes setting up a field hospital in Baghdad with over 150 medical staff. Saudi Arabia has also set up ten water purification plants; distributed food, medicine and supplies to the Iraqi people; and airlifted Iraqi patients to Saudi hospitals for specialized treatment.
According to Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, "Saudi Arabia is committed to helping the Iraqi people in their hour of need. We hope that other countries will step up and provide the assistance required for Iraq to rebuild itself and assume its place of honor among the nations of the world."


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anyone know a good packet sniffer for windows. i have been looking but all the realy good ones seem to be for Linux.
need a packet sniffer
This is a windows packet sniffer. Hope it helps you in anyway
thank you so much. i have been looking everywhere. this is great and all but you wouldn't happen to know about a packet injector would ya?
try cain and abel
if you want a packetsniffer, for LAN i'd use cain and abel, i personally use that, but for WLAN, i'd go with kismet
btw immortal's got the right idea - out to u bruv
btw immortal's got the right idea - out to u bruv
hahaha shit i meant spoonwizard - sorry about that immotal, u got the right idea too
^^ what do you mean by that? But for wireless I would use Airodump-ng for linux and airodump for windows. aircrack-ng for linux comes with aireplay-ng which enables you to inject packets.


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With over thirty members, you'd think it'd be no biggie if AKB48's 17-year-old Yumi Wakatsuki was M.I.A. Yet, this weekend when she didn't show at a Gran Turismo 5 event, people began wondering whether her absence wasn't merely because she was under the weather. People began wondering if she had been benched for one of the most unspeakable things a young idol can do: Kissing a guy.
While AKB48 is located in Tokyo's geek center Akihabara, Nogizaka 46 is located in Tokyo's SME Nogizaka Building—home of the group's label, Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It all feels very cool and impersonal.
"Cool" and "impersonal" would not describe a slew of leaked sticker pictures that featured a then-15 year-old Wakatsuki and her 27-year-old boyfriend. For the hardcore (and blissfully naive) fans, it's bad enough when the inevitable idols-and-the-their-boyfriends photos leak. Worse here, because Wakatsuki's companion was almost thirty—and she was still underage.
The photos leaked onto Japanese bulletin board 2channel and featured Wakatsuki doing more than her infamous finger trick (above). In the stickers, she didn't just pose and prim with her male companion, who was described as being "27 years-old", "short" and "kind of fat (lol)". The person responsible for the leak, who referred to him or herself as "a friend of Yumi", seems to be anything but, describing Wakatsuki as "a total bitch", being into wrist-cutting, and getting plastic surgery.
The photos, taken on arcade sticker machines, feature Waktsuki and her boyfriend embracing and kissing, with notes like "head-over-heels for five months" and "always together". The photos were probably meant to be private, but somehow came into the possession of Wakatsuki's "friend".
This isn't the first time Wakatsuki has apparently had scandalous sticker pictures leak. This fall, photos that supposedly depicted her making out with some dude in a sticker booth appeared online.
In year's past, when seemingly innocent photos like these have leaked, the idol has either been suspended from the group or removed entirely. Likewise, fans tend to jump ship.
It's not only boyfriends, but things like smoking and drinking. Former Morning Musume idol Ai Kago was booted from that group after repeated infractions that involved underage smoking and being photographed walking from a hotel with a married man. (Kago is currently making the leap to pornography.)
This weekend, when Wakatsuki didn't appear at the Nogizaka 46 Gran Turismo 5 promotional event, a spokesperson told Mainichi that her absence was for "various reasons" and are carefully checking to looking into the photo leak.
Idols are supposed to be pure. It's similar for teeny-bop idols in America. (Remember Britney Spears virginal declaration?) They're not supposed to have boyfriends like regular girls do. That's because they are not regular girls. They're idols. Sometimes, like many of us were, they're stupid teenagers. And sometimes, they're just totally normal. What idol fan wants normal?


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My email replies default to my Gmail account even though the "from" line and the "default account" in the Settings are my main (preferred) account address. How do I fix this?
It's a known bug introduced in Mountain Lion and was submitted to Apple by several people. Mail ignores the Send new messages from: Account of selected mailbox setting.
See for example:
I submitted the bug and is now marked as duplicate (but Apple's reporting tool does not allow you to see the duplicated entry).
If you're in an account's Inbox, it'll send from that account. Go to the All Inboxes general inbox or the main account-selection screen to hit the "Compose new email" button.
In brief, though this isn't an Apple-specific answer, check your settings to see what SMTP servers (not POP3 or IMAP4) you're using and see if it isn't gmail. I'm pretty sure if you use Gmail to send an email, the return path is set to that gmail account. This helps bring down the usefulness of a zombie Gmail account for spammers.
See a little bit about From, Reply-To, and Return Path here.
The deal is that the server stamps the Return Path; it's not something you can edit with your mail handler. As the above post says, Return Path isn't a client-set header.
So to build off of @CajunLuke, if you're reading an email that went to your Gmail account in Mail, then reply using, by default, Gmail, even if you have From and Reply-To set to firstname.lastname@example.com, you'll receive replies via a return path set for Gmail (depending on the replyer's mail hander).
Note that anything sent with Gmail's SMTP server will return path to your gmail account. If you use Gmail's SMTP server as your default SMTP server, it'll stamp that gmail return path no matter what your client uses as its mail headers. Try another SMTP server as your default and see if that doesn't work.
Iirc. IANAL. ;) I do recall having a similar problem with Gmail as the default SMTP server [for me, on Thunderbird, but it's the same in Mail.app].


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smart Times 2011 Event in Italy
smart Times is the world's biggest gathering of smart fans and had been happening in Austria for the past ten years. But for the first time, smart Times event will be held in Italy on August 4-7, 2011 and will gather the smart community in Riccione on the Adriatic coast. The event is expected to gather about 4000 smart fans from 22 nations. Some of them will bring their self-designed smart cars in Riccione as they celebrate their passion for the brand and connect with industry experts and designers. According to Dr. Annette Winkler, Head of smart, in the future, they will take the event in different countries each year… Continue Reading »


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Take a trip into the wild with an adventure to the Mentawai islands. Be surrounded by tropical rainforests and immerse yourself in the traditions of the local people. While the physical distance between the mainland and Mentawai is not great, this remains one of the most isolated places in Indonesia, and was only subject to outside influences at the start of the 20th century. A long way from the world of shopping malls and theme parks, this is where travellers come to get a truly off the beaten track adventure.
Located off the West coast of Sumatra, the Mentawai archipelago includes four municipalities, Siberut, Sipora, North Pagai and South Pagai. is the biggest of the Siberut islands and remains largely covered with tropical rainforest. From the moment you arrive on and see the white coral beaches, ancient rainforests and hear the cheeky black gibbons playing in the trees you'll find it hard to resist falling in love with the place. This Siberut island is home to a rich array of bio-diversity which has earned it designation as a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
The remote location of these islands means that the Mentawai people have had very little contact with the outside world. The archipelogo is thought to have broken off from the rest of Sumara about 500,000 years ago and it is only since the 20th century that outside influences began to have an impact on the local people. Today, the Mentawai still abide by traditional practices and live largely off the land. Local people have a strong spiritual relationship with the forest with a belief system that emphasizes harmony with creation.
It is believed people first came to inhabit these islands at least several thousand years ago. Most anthropologists classify the Mentawai people as Protomalay which means they have a mostly Neotlithic culture but have not been effected by Buddhism, Islam or Hinduism.
Tatoos are an important symbol in Mentawai culture and reflect maturity, manhood and status. The art of this body painting has been inherited from ancient ancestors and the ink is made from natural fibres.
The biggest town on Siberut is Muara Siberut on the southeast coast. This is the major point of entry for tour groups from the mainland. From here, you can travel with a with a local guide and trek inland to some of the Mentawai villages. If your bahasa is good enough, chat to the locals and enjoy their hospitality.
The other big attraction for visitors to these islands is the world class surfing. With some of the best surfing conditions in the world, monster waves and swells that remain all year round, this is ranked by serious surfers as a must visit destination.
There is a guest house and restaurant in Muara Siberut. While travelling in villages, guests can sleep on the floor with a local family. Payment is up to you but is normally in the form of cigarettes or other gifts. Visitors are expected to bring their own food. Mentawai island trek adventure travel organise treks on Siberut island. This includes arranging accomodation of home stays with local clans and camping in the jungle. There are also a number of luxury resorts that operate on the islands, offering guests the chance to laze under palm trees while they savour the sunset. Mentawai resorts offer luxurious five star surf villas at HT's resort.Siloinak resort, situated on its own private tropical island near Siberut, is the ideal place to sit back, relax and absorb the beauty of this deserted island. With 900 meters of coconut palm fringed beaches and a refreshing lagoon great for swimming among tropical fishes, this is truly a tropical paradise.
Mentawai Atmosphere has the mission to provide a full service through sustainable tourism and integration with the indigenous people of the island. They are running boat trip that have all the amenities and experience people to serve our guest. Also provide trekking trip through the jungle of siberut island and tailor made surf trip around siberut islands, spent the night with the native speaker of mentawai island.
(Images credit and copyright: www.freelinesurf.com.au)
To access all the beauties offered, you can rent a boat owned by local people. You can find the boat along the beach. The rate depends on your bargaining skill.
Sebaung Merauke Air flies between Padang and the Mentawai islands. It is a 30 minute flight. Flights can be booked via a number of local agents including Mentawai Air. Some resorts which operate on the islands will arrange flights and airport pick ups for you.
An overnight ferry service departs from Padang. It is best to regularly check times with ferry operators as timetables can change depending on weather conditions.
Probably the easiest way to get to Sirebut is to join a trekking tour. These tours normally depart from Bukittinggi or Padang and will organise transport to the island.
Independent travellers will need to be able to speak reasonable Indonesian to negotiate with local guides in Sirebut. They also must organise their own travel permits with police.


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Hand, Brewster, Evans, And Pierce Springfield Chamber Of Commerce/Pepsi Night Winners
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Northwest Racing Productions)
In addition to the Northwest Wingless Tour being on tap, the Cottage Grove Speedway would host four other classes on Springfield Chamber of Commerce/Pepsi Family Night. The IMCA Modifieds, W.R.S. Late Model Lites, Street Stocks, and Hornets were all on the card for the Saturday July 12th event.
Eighteen IMCA Modifieds were on hand including a very stacked field of competition. In just his second race of his career Cottage Grove's Kinzer Cox got to the front in his Howell Logging/Geo Synthetics/Razor's Edge Graphics/Jerry Dills Trucking #1K Loose Gruff. A caution would occur after the opening lap resulting in the field bunching up. On the ensuing restart the Ester Lee Motel/Dr. May Harada Breast Cancer Specialist at Samaritan Health Services/Debra Herndon Family Nurse Practitioner/Mid-Valley Farms #25 Rocket by Ruhlman of Craig Cassell would get around Cox on lap two.
Cassell, of Albany, was in his first race back after a nasty crash on the last laps of the CGS Modified Nationals a few weeks prior. Several cautions would occur in the next handful of laps but Cassell would remain out in front. On a lap six restart Braedon Hand would navigate his way past Cassell for the lead. The Cottage Grove native, Hand, would keep his Todd's Auto Body/D&D Automotive/KNND 1400 AM/Vintage Inn Family Restaurant #5 Shaw by S.D.M.F. entry in first place for the rest of the way to win his fourth victory of the season.
The Virgil Hanson Automotive Machine/BSB Manufacturing/James Gang Pizza/C.T. Warner #33C Shaw of Albany's Craig Hanson was second while Craig Cassell was third. The rest of the top five would be made up of Steven Sturdevant from Springfield in his Springfield Tire Factory/Tan Republic #11 X-Factor in fourth and Kevin Williamson out of Coburg was fifth in the Kelly Williamson owned Royalty Homes/Furniture Options/X-Factor Race Cars #W6 Loose Gruff.
The W.R.S. Late Model Lites were at the Cottage Grove Speedway for their first and only appearance of 2014. Seven total cars would sign in on the registration sheets and would produce a thriller of a main event.
Grabbing the lead on the opening lap, and starting in fifth place, was Ron Brewster of Redmond in his Central Oregon Truck Company/Stipe Engine Specialties #31B Rayburn. Brewster would beautifully work his car on the bottom of the race track constructing a massive lead and would easily win the caution free main event and only first and second place finished on the lead lap.
Bob Westcott from Milwaukie was second in the Royal Purple/Pro-Tek Automotive/Northwest College Of Beauty/T.P.R. Industrial #93 Fab-Tek Termination while behind him in third was Medford driver Nolan Fincher in his Brian Luzny at Keller Williams Real Estate/Morgan Stanley Financial/Dick's Towing #10 Klemcheck. Portland's Randy Hansen would place in fourth in the Jason Wesolowski owned Fab-Tek/T.P.R. Industrial #3 Harter and in fifth would be Jason Wesolowski from Hillsboro in his Fab-Tek/T.P.R. Industrial #16 entry.
In the Street Stocks Justin Evan of Lebanon made his return to the historical ¼-miel clay oval. Evans, driving for car owner Al Flora and sponsored by Albie's Medical Transport/Allied Medical Transport/Monty's Racing Repair/X-Factor Race Cars/Wirth Wireless #99 Cougar, was very fast all night long. Evans would take the lead on lap three from the Myshkin Ferguson Racing/Brad's Car Tunes #7M Camaro of Marena Starr-Ferguson from Eugene.
Once Evans was out in front the only thing that would slow him down would be the three cautions to occur over the course of the feature. Evans would blaze the trail for the rest of the way to win his third race of the season at CGS.
Marena Starr-Ferguson would place in second while behind her in third was the Oregon Property Services #73 Monte Carlo of Cottage Grove's Darin Crooks. The Swan & Sons Woodworking/Smart Solutions/Les Schwab Tires of Bend #17Z Camaro of Ethan Landers from Bend in fourth and in fifth would be Darryl Crooks in his Nathan Anderson Dentistry/Platinum Hair of Creswell/Stacey Graves Massage Therapy #00 Nova.
Last but not least the Hornets would host a great main event. Josh Linville of Springfield would lead the opening lap in his Save The Ta-Ta's Breast Cancer Awareness/O'Reilly Auto Parts/Bigg Dogg Recycling #NE1 Mitsubishi Mirage but would get passed on lap three. The driver to get around him for the top spot would be Chris Pierce of Cottage Grove.
Pierce, in his Froggy's Towing/Meineke Car Care Center/Bigg Dogg Recycling #28 Chevy Cavalier, would keep his machine in front of the field and would keep all challengers behind him to win his third triumph of the year.
Jayson Nelson from Springfield was second in the Quality RV Repair/Springfield Automotive Service #51 Acura Integra while behind him in third would be the Burnett Builders/Quality RV Repair/Thela's Custom Jewelry #7C Nissan 200SX of Josh Corley out of Westfir. Mike Swaim of Dexter would place in fourth in the Rapid Delivery Service/Bigg Dogg Recycling/DT Machine & Fab #48 Toyota Tacoma while his son Taunton would cross the wire in fifth in the Randy Kuhl owned Bigg Dogg Recycling/DT Machine & Fab/Big B Tire #17 Toyota Tacoma.
Saturday July 19th the Cottage Grove Speedway will host for the first time ever the Rolling Thunder Big Rigs. These are freight trucks, minus the trailers of course, that will be battling door to door lap after lap on the ¼-mile clay oval. Also on the card will be Northwest Extreme Sprints, Hornets, and Dwarf Cars.
Pit Gates will open at 2:00 PM, Front Gates open at 4:00, and Racing starts at 6:45. Ticket prices are Adults $15.00, Seniors/Military/Juniors (13-17) $13.00, Youths (Ages 12-6) $8.00, and Children under the age of 5 are FREE. For more information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
Race Summary:
Springfield Chamber Of Commerce/Pepsi Night
Saturday July 12th, 2014
Cottage Grove Speedway
Cottage Grove, Oregon
IMCA Modifieds
A Feature: 1. 5-Braedon Hand; 2. 33C-Craig Hanson; 3. 25-Craig Cassell; 4. 11-Steven Sturdevant; 5. W6-Kevin Williamson; 6. 77-Kreg Britton; 7. 85P-Ricky Ashley; 8. 9-David Schmidt; 9. 44-Greg McDonald; 10. 1K-Kinzer Cox; 11. 21C-Curt Coggins; 12. 27-Mark Wauge; 13. 45-Jason Kocks; 14. 5M-Jake Mayden; 15. 16-Austin McTaggart; 16. 93B-Justin Ryker; 17. 10-Gus Cooper; 18. 73-Bryan Gray
Street Stocks
A Feature: 1. 99-Justin Evans; 2. 7M-Marena Starr-Ferguson; 3. 73-Darin Crooks; 4. 17Z-Ethan Landers; 5. 00-Darryl Crooks; DNS 85-Evan Britton
A Feature: 1. 28-Chris Pierce; 2. 51-Jayson Nelson; 3. 7-Josh Corley; 4. 48-Mike Swaim; 5. 17-Taunton Swaim; 6. NE1-Josh Linville; 7. 30-K.C. Scott; DNS 32-Eric Cooper; DNS 41-Jim Simmons
WRS Late Model Lites
A Feature: 1. 31B-Ron Brewster; 2. 93-Bob Westcott; 3. 10-Nolan Fincher; 4. 3-Randy Hansen; 5. 16-Jason Weselowski; 6. 29-Greg Prewitt; DNS 17-Mitch Geyer
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Acquiring my own 21st Century Work of Art
By pcr on Maj 02, 2006
Well last week was my birthday and I decided I really wanted something tangible this time. I absolutely could not live without a new video iPod. We discussed earlier the differences between 20th Century art (a urinal) and 21st Century art (an iPod) here.
I guess I have to confess that I haven't yet downloaded an episode of "Desparate Housewives" or "Lost" from iTunes in order to test out the video quality of my iPod. Maybe later. I have been loading up on my favorite music. As a traveling consultant I am surprised at how noise polluted our environment is. I fly every week, walk around the streets of New York and take subways. In each of those environments the noise from the jets, the traffic or the trains can overwhelm the music from the iPod. Even with noise pollution music has the ability to produce a strong emotional response within me. As Shakespeare said,
Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
("Much Ado About Nothing," Act 2)
Music isn't the only reason to have an iPod though. You can improve your mind through books on iPod and even college lectures. I have loaded up an overview of philosophy entitled "The Consequences of Ideas" by one of my favorite lecturers. I have also seen some courses packaged at Barnes & Noble called "The Portable Professor" that I have had my eye on for some time. Also, podcasting is the latest rage on the web and many sites offer mp3 downloads that can be stored on the iPod and reviewed later on those long flights.
For an approach to the video iPod that I had not even considered I commend to you Greg Papadopoulos' thoughts on the topic. (While mentioning one of my favorite brainiacs/MIT grads, check out his thoughts on the real meaning of Moore's law here.)
Got to go, I think some Dan Folgelberg is coming up the iPod rotation.


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11 Feb 2012 1:44 PM #1
How to define an object in Component Config
I'm currently using an Ext.Map view, but this applies to any view really. In the component config area for Ext.Map there is a mapOptions setting. The text for the value shows [object]..., when I click on it I get a blank box. I try to add my object in there and it sets my value as a quoted string in code view.
What I put in:
{ centered: 45.622469,-122.666933 }
What I expect to show up in code view:
... config: { mapOptions: { centered: 45.622469,-122.666933 } } ...
... config: { mapOptions: '{ centered: 45.622469,-122.666933 }\n' } ...
Last edited by joe_montanab; 11 Feb 2012 at 1:45 PM. Reason: comment for second code block
11 Feb 2012 7:25 PM #2
Thats not a valid object
needs to be { prop: value, prop1: value}
Look at this
This is one way to specify an object but the center expects a reference and we dont support reference in Designer currently so you will need to add custom code in impl class.
center:new google.maps.LatLng(-34.397,150.644),
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
}Bharat Nagwani
Sencha Designer Development Team
14 Feb 2012 12:10 PM #3
14 Feb 2012 12:25 PM #4
So, flip to code view and make sure you didn't mess up the syntax anywhere, you'll see it create an object or string based on what you type in.
14 Feb 2012 1:01 PM #5
Ahh, I see. Thanks! For some reason it doesn't like mapTypeId though. The other mapOptions seem to work as you described.


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A person who chases skinny chicks. Similar to chubby chaser.
Friend: "Shotgun on dat fat gurl"
You: "Nah bro, imma skinny dipper"
You: "Nah bro, imma skinny dipper"
by Chill Nutz February 22, 2010
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Men who wear very skinny jeans.
Haha, look at them two lads in their skinny jeans. OI OI SKINNY DIPPERS!
by Stacey Mn. December 24, 2009
I wonder if Paris will give her latest skinny dipper a diamond stud collar just like her little dog's.
by Russ W. August 18, 2007


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On "Ether", one of Nas' most ruthless lines aimed at Jay-Z was "Eminem murdered you on your own shit". Although that was not the first or last time a rapper invited someone to appear on their track, only to be accidentally bodied by his guest artist. We take a look at the 20 best examples of guest artists outshining their hosts. Rules: 1. Guest artist must outshine song's host. 2. One song per artist on the list. 3. No bootlegs or freestyles.
20. DMX on Mase's "24 Hrs To Live" - Of course, this is a Mase song. How hard is it to out rap him? Pretty much everyone did, but X came through at the end with crazy energy and one of his most thought provoking verses.
19. Common on De La Soul's "The Bizness" - Com pretty much solidified his career right here, after building a nice buzz with his first two albums. Even fucking up at the end ("That's how it's supposed to be, like…. triple it, aight"), his timeless rhymes outdid that of De La's. Pardon the remix above.
18. J. Cole on Wale's "Beautiful Bliss" – We love Wale's Attention Deficit LP – a solid record all around. Wale probably thought to himself, "Hmm, maybe I'll let my fellow Roc Nation buddy jump on a track with me. Yeah, "Beautiful Bliss" is a mellow beat, he'll probably kick some laid back shit….." Uh, no. Cole proceeded to rip the shit out of a track more tailored for a Blackalicious album, as if he was rhyming next to Jay-Z himself. Cole even goes beyond the allotted 16 bar timeline and goes for 24, when suddenly the engineer turns the music down in shock that the kid is giving blisters to the beat. Yes, he's next.
17. Pharoahe Monch of Street Smartz "Metal Thingz" – This track dropped in an era where indie rappers got with established artists to help them sell their 12″ vinyl. O.C. set the song up nicely, but then Pharoahe Monch blindsides the rest of the crew by proceeding to write the type of shit to make rappers incite race riots. F.T. does his best to keep up at the end – and does at least hold his own – let's face it, Pharoahe munched on him.
16. Kool G. Rap on Heavy D's "Don't Curse" - On Heavy's clean rap anthem, he sets the song up by explaining that he, like Will Smith, doesn't need to swear in his rhymes, so therefore his friends shouldn't either. G. Rap, known for tracks such as "Fuck U Man" and "Break A Bitch Neck", jumps on right after and proceeds to find a way to curse anyway, by spelling the word "bitches" and barely letting a "fuck" slide. All done in style, of course. Kane also ripped the shit out of this track.
15. Big Pun on Beatnuts' "Off The Books" – Oh, there are other dudes on this song? The first Latin rapper already baffled our skulls.
14. Jay-Z on Snoop Dogg's "I Wanna Rock" – Of the 10,000 remixes of this song, Jay ripped Scoop's beat the hardest, with a verse that took the "I Wanna Rock" concept literally, peddling to the dope fiends. Channeling both Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock's "It Takes Two" lyrics, as well as Master P's patented "ugh", all while shouting out Rae and Ghost. Then Snoop gets on. Near Miss: Jay-Z on M.O.P.'s "Put It In The Air"
13. Lil' Fame (M.O.P.) on Jay-Z's "U Don't Know (Remix) – In Jay's defense, he already murked the original version of this track, but Lil' Fame comes in here and rips Just Blaze's beat to shreds.
12. Bun B on Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'" – There's nothing wrong with the way Jay came on this joint, but Bun B came on in verse two and solidified himself as an emcee that New York could fuck with. It was this record that allowed UGK to broaden their fanbase. We wonder if that's why Jay added extra verses for the video version.
11. Cappadonna on Ghostface's "Winter Warz" – One of the best Wu-Tang posse cuts ever, captured when the Wu were in their prime. A then unknown emcee named Cappuccino manages to get ahold of the mic and absolutely destroy everyone else on the track with a ridiculous two minute long verse that finds him out of breath at the end of the song. P.L.O. style got thrown out the car.
10. Jadakiss on Gang Starr's "Right Where You Stand" – Guru's never been appreciated for being super-lyrical, we all know it was mostly the voice. Maybe Jadakiss should have respected his elders here – but by not doing so, he delivered one of the hardest verses of his career.
9. Andre 3000 on UNK's "Walk It Out" - Classic. UNK taps Three-Stacks for their remix and he disses their whole style of over-sized white-tees. Near Miss: Andre 3000 on UGK's "International Players Anthem".
8. Ludacris on Nas' "Made U Look (Remix)" – Arguably both Jada and Nas came with it on his "Made U Look" remix, but Luda lets off the loudest buckshots here. Near miss: Ludacris on Shawty Lo's "Dey Know (Remix)"
7. Redman on EPMD's "Headbanger" – Watching this video again for probably the first time in 15 years or so, reminds us of how much we miss hardcore hip-hop. EPMD and K-Solo simply warm up the stage for Redman who makes his first major appearance here, and proves why he gotta go last.
6. Kanye West of Lil' Wayne's "Lollipop (Remix)" – "You ain't finna murder me like everybody else / I'm a rap like I got some type respect for myself…." Hook, aaaaaaand mix out…. Near Miss: Kanye West on Jay-Z's "Run This Town".
5. Notorious B.I.G. on Tracey Lee's "Keep Ya Hands High": Lots of possibilities on the Biggie front – there's the "Flava In Ya Ear" remix, but pretty much everyone rapped circles around Craig Mack. Some might argue Big got the better end of Jay-Z's "Brooklyn's Finest", and some will say Big just won by default on Shaq's "Can't Stop The Reign". But "Keep Your Hands High" is pretty much the rap equivalent of if Tracey Lee and Frank White were to get on opposite ends of a see-saw.
4. Canibus on Lost Boyz – "Beasts From The East" - Freaky Tah knew it was better to stay home that day. But yo, what were the Lost Boyz thinking allowing Redman and Canibus to join them on a track? We know, they were trying to put their little homie A+ in the same space as these "actual" beasts from the east. This of course was in the era when Canibus was in high demand and destroying everything he jumped on, and this was by far his nastiest guest shot. Near Miss: Canibus on The Firm's "Desperados".
3. Nas on Main Source – "Live At The BBQ" – Nas opens with perhaps his most quotable (and sampled) verse, which set off his entire career. We love "Breaking Atoms" and all, but damn guys, he broke your balls. Near Miss: Nas on Raekwon's "Verbal Intercourse"
2. Eminem on 50 Cent's "Patiently Waiting" - Since "Renegades" can't be included here, as it's Nas' own example, another hard choice is to pick Eminem's most lethal guest shot. We could say "What's The Difference" or "Forgot About Dre", but he wrote Dre's verses on both. We could say "3hree6ixFive" with Skam, but that was back in the high pitched voice days. We could even go with "Dead Wrong", but it's no contest when rhyming next to a deceased rapper. Best one? "Patiently Waiting". 50 carries this song with his hook, not his verses, and then just as the track seems like it's about to go on life support, Em comes in and resuscitates it, once again.
1. Busta Rhymes on A Tribe Called Quest's "Scenario" – Granted, we know every word of this song by heart, so everyone else must have been doing something right, but Busta Rhymes proved why he was too big a personality for Leaders Of The New School, with a song ending verse that makes him worthy of just about every posse cut thereafter. Even 18 years later, Busta is still hopping on remixes and murdering everyone. All he does is win. Near Miss: Busta on Pharoahe Monch's "Simon Says" Remix.
A new example, and a great one.
Kendrick Lamar on Game's "The City". Just straight up ran away with the track and brought the sickest flow I've heard in a long time.
Another one is R.A. the Rugged Man on Jedi Mind Tricks' "Uncommon Valor" for the same reason, just styled on Vinnie Paz and totally dominated the track.
Holocaust, on RZA/Bob Digi's "Silkworm". So much that they even went ahead and named the song after him "Holocaust (Silkworm)"!
..cause I'm filthy and guilty, dastardly mastery
my felony melody has to be a bastard's masterpiece
[...] since has been afraid of "getting murdered on their own shit". There has even been some dope articles about that over the [...]
Since the list was made due to Nas bigging Em up for his verse how about Sticky Fingaz murdering Eminem on his own shit. Sticky Fingaz killed "Remember Me"
Jay z on Kanye's" So appalling"
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January 28, 2010, 01:40:20 am »
Ok everyone, i am looking to create the real hive from resident evil, i have most everything i need.
for those that don't know, this means the entire real hive map from resident evil, not just one made up with music that is called the hive.
what i am here doing is asking for input for it, suggestions and such. since this is a huge map and most of everything is predetermined as per the movie, i am asking for suggestions on how i could make this a more ZM interactive map environment rather than just going ver batim to the movie/game.
i plan to be an avid mapper and release several maps, however this is just the first of many.
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January 28, 2010, 09:55:50 pm »
Do what requeen did only better.
This isn´t spam. This is how I would see a good hive map.
The faster they fester the quicker they muster.
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dude I am in the gifted program. I am probably more intelligent than you hell I am more intelligent than you. Come one you and 90% of the ZM forum are trolls
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January 30, 2010, 12:24:28 am »
Finally some1 will create the map i have always dream of!
Make it a gooden
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January 30, 2010, 07:13:59 am »
Hrm, this would be a huge map, which is a problem in itself with zm.
Well, one way you can help the interactivity of the zm is by having the zm take on the role of the Red queen. What was creepiest about that movie to me was they were facing an intellegent enemy, one who would open new paths, cause lasers to shoot out of walls, nerve gas, and otherwise fuck the people.
So yeah, less predetermined, more traps and entities the zm could use. Other examples include flooding of water tight offices, and controlling elevators (Not just forcing them to crash, but mabye the ability to send them to other floors at the zm's discretion?).
Anyway, good luck.
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January 31, 2010, 10:06:47 pm »
firstly, Redqueen is exactly what made me want to do this map. when i played the level i was severely disappointed that it was nothing more than the music with a non RE level.
as for the interactivity, eeny, that is actually a very intelligible idea that is pretty practical too. i will probably implement that for use in it. as for the size of the map, yes this will be a problem. i will have to either make adjoining maps at checkpoints, or i will have to find a way to map the entire hive on one single grid, which is more likely since no one like to wait for a map to load.
accuracy wise, this will be as close to movie exact as i can get it. there may be a few textures here and there that are off, but the map will be almost identical to the movie's. as for the rooms that you did not see in the movie, these will also be accessible. i know this is a question that will come up often, so yes, you will have full exploration ability to a point (i.e. doors and areas will require locks, buttons, switches to be used in another area or for a group of areas), and yes, there will be areas that do require a sacrifice to pass through them (the laser entryway to the redqueen for example). i will also be trying to limit this map to only shamblers and banshees, the latter being very rare as they are to make up for the lack of dogs.
have patience as this might take me about two to three weeks to complete, since i have to get everything leading to the right place and get the rooms to looks as close as possible. plus i have to get the score tracks and set up the red queens voice for use with certain traps. and most of the mapping is being done use of the actual maps from the movie as well as repeatedly watching and screen shotting the movie for continual reference.
thanks for the suggestions, and again, any suggestions and or link for materials that you think might be suited for this are much appreciated.
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February 04, 2010, 02:02:39 am »
ok, i am about halfway through the main construction of the build for the hive. what i need is someone who is very experienced in mapping who is willing to take this map and fine tune the little things (textures, some lighting and such) nothing major (feel free to make corrections if you find them), but as i said i am not a very experienced mapper, and i want this to be as close to the actual hive as possible as though you yourself are traversing the movie.
please send me a message if you are willing to lend a hand, credit will be given, and you can even leave you own little trademark on the map if you wish. but i want to complete this properly so that the gameplay is accurate and functional as well as fun being that this is one of the few maps that most want to see in a zombie genre game.
also note that i am at a point where i can either leave out or add in the 8 main floors of the hive, being that aside from the first floor they dont really show any of them. i havent decided which to do as of yet, though if i do the map will be much longer and larger speaking exploratively ( should you choose to venture that way). however if i do, i might add in some extras that might make the map more of a challenge optionally, as per some ideas i have been playing with.
please let me know soon, i am working to try and get this to a point where i can send it to someone in the next week for fine tuning.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that no one will respond to this call. If an experienced mapper has the time to fix your map, he also has the time to work on his, and he's going to pick his. Some things you just have to do yourself.
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well, if they dont then they dont. i wasnt asking for anything much anyways, i just figured some people may actually be decent enough to give a hand to someone if they needed it, just as most hope others do for them. either way, i am going to finish the map, it would be nicer if an experienced mapper would give a hand with the finishing touches for superficials, but oh well.
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Can you show us at least some wip screenshots? =)
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I would have to say i am a experienced mapper, and i would love to take a look at your map. I'm absolutely fantastic when it comes to touching up and such. Contact me :3
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Any rider who is truly honest with himself (or herself) will admit that the mental picture that they have of how they look while seated on a bike plays a big part in their satisfaction with that bike. Some riders look like they belong on their bikes. Caliolo would look out of place on anything but his muscular Rocket III.
On the outbound leg of my ride, I'd been passed by two "kids" on sport bikes. From a quick glance, one of the bikes looked to be a customized Kawasaki ZX-14R. It was bright green with an extended swing-arm. I couldn't tell the model precisely because they passed me on Route 118 at a speed that was probably much closer to 90 miles per hour than the posted speed limited.
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Maybe it's because it's the start of the riding season, but I've already noticed a lot of excessively risky or downright bad riding. Two weeks ago, I was in my pickup heading northbound on Route 222 in Harwinton, approaching the stop sign where the road dead ends at Route 118. I was braking to halt at the stop line when three guys on heavy cruisers, who were turning left to head south toward Thomaston, cut the corner and rode directly across my lane. I jammed on the brakes and gave them a dirty look. Had the window not been up, I would have screamed.
While in many cases it may be true that "we are what we ride," riding in a manner that courts catastrophe gives all riders a bad name. Note to Mr. Caliolo: Tom, I actually do enjoying being a sluggish bear atop a buzzing bumble bee. But, please, don't hand me a mirror.
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It seems that I need to use concept of potential zero in my work and I want to know whether I could reference some other works in order to fully understand what I'm dealing with.
Specifically for my purposes I have defined concept of
potential zero $x$ as a placeholder for the non-negative integer. Placeholder might be replaced by one non-negative integer. Placeholder is different from the set of non-negative integers $\mathbb{N}^0$ and used in conjunction with reference to
actual non-negative integer. For example, pattern $N.x.x$ (where $N$ is a single non-negative integer) defines set of such numbers/entities as $0.x.x$, $1.x.x$, $2.x.x$, ..., $N.x.x$. Pattern $N.x.x$ can be used to generate other kinds of patterns (for example, $N.M.x$, $N.x.K$ and $N.M.K$, where $M$ and $K$ are single non-negative integers) describing other different kinds of sets. Note that
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- It is not unknown even though I use $x$ symbol (commonly used for denoting 'unknown' values) which , in fact, is used as a part of names used for referencing 'real' entities ($10.x.x$, $1.5.x$, $20.x.21$, etc).
- It is a placeholder for single non-negative integer, not for the set of possible values or other 'invisible' values.
- It is expected to be substituted with a sequence instead of one value or set of values. Placeholder is about to be replaced with 0 first, then by 1, 2 and so on. So, $x$ turns out to be the number before 0 with a 'potential' to 'start' new sequence of non-negative integers.
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Jim Tracy wants a chance to put the pieces back together.
The manager of the Colorado Rockies will meet with Bill Geivett, the team�s director of major league operations, today to discuss the direction of a club that just completed its worst season ever.
The Rockies� 98-loss debacle featured a historically awful starting rotation that won just 20 games at Coors Field, a realignment of their front office, a pitching coach that quit midseason, devastating injuries to Todd Helton and Troy Tulowitzki, among others, and an uncertain future for Tracy.
�Ace� acquisition Jeremy Guthrie, who was brought in to eat up innings, went 1-5 and flirted with a 10.00 ERA at Coors Field before being traded to Kansas City for Jonathan Sanchez, who posted an 8.59 ERA at home.
Jhoulys Chacin, Jorge De La Rosa and Juan Nicasio, who are expected to anchor the rotation in 2013, spent most of this season on rehab. And the two prized prospects the Rockies obtained from Cleveland in the Ubaldo Jimenez trade, Drew Pomeranz and Alex White, both went 2-9 overall and 1-5 at home.
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Rosario�s power � 28 homers � was offset somewhat by 20 passed balls, hurting his chances of winning NL Rookie of the Year.
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�That was the hardest part, all the injuries,� slugger Carlos Gonzalez said. �It�s hard for any team when you lose your shortstop, your right fielder, your first baseman, your top three guys in the rotation. That�s hard.�
Gonzalez said he�s so eager to get this bad taste out of his mouth that �I won�t rest. Maybe a couple of weeks and then start working again, start thinking about next year, about being better as a player and make this team better.�
It�ll take a lot more than the determination of their All-Star outfielder.
The Rockies will look for upgrades all over, but they also hope all the innings logged by their youngsters will pay off next season.
�This is a better place to learn. There is no better,� Pacheco said. �The game is quicker and comes at you fast. I think we�ve all taken our bumps and bruises this year and know what to expect next year.�
The rebuilding of the Rockies, whether or not Tracy is in charge � he�s under contract for next season at $1.4 million � most likely will begin with changes to the coaching staff, then the front office will focus on fixing the pitching problems, then a porous defense and a lack of run production.
�It�s going to be an interesting offseason,� Tulowitzki said. �Obviously, what we had in this locker room did not work. With that being said, in professional sports there are usually changes. ... And there should be moves made after a year like this.�
Tracy is hoping he�ll still be in charge after this weekend so he can get a chance to turn things around next year.
�There�s been a lot that�s taken place here this year, yet ... we don�t lose baseball games from a lack of effort or intensity,� Tracy said. �The growth that has taken place in relation to several of the younger players on this team, offense is not a problem here. And it won�t be next year. It won�t be a problem if there�s nothing added; that�s how good these young players are.�
The pitching, now that�s another story.
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�There�s been a lot of guys who have become special pitchers who were 2-9 after five months of service time at the major league level,� Tracy said. �You go to the Atlanta Braves staff with (Steve) Avery and (Tom) Glavine. Go back and look how they did their first five months, and it became a year after year after year type thing.�
Veteran position players such as Cuddyer and Dexter Fowler could be trade bait as the Rockies seek more starting pitching so they can avoid another free-fall in 2013.
�You don�t get an opportunity to play baseball in the month of October if you screw it up in April, May, June,� Tracy said. �And that�s what we did.�
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Step 2: Lay the spool on one of its wheels, then use a ruler to measure the distance from the top of the top wheel to the top of the bottom wheel. Use a handsaw to cut the dowels to this size, then sand the spool and dowels.
Step 3: Measure the distance from one wheel's outer edge to the spool's core. Divide that number in half.
Step 4: Beginning at the outer edge of the top of the top wheel, measure in the distance computed in Step Three. Mark with a pencil. Repeat around the spool's circumference, spacing marks an equal distance apart.
Step 5: At each mark, drill all the way through the top wheel, using a three-quarter-inch spade bit. Then, with a hammer, drive a dowel into each hole, until the dowel's bottom is secured against the bottom wheel. Paint spool and dowels, if desired; let dry.
Step 6: Evenly space three casters ($12 for five; ikea.com) in a triangle pattern atop the top wheel, placing each caster about an inch in from the edge, and drill into place. Flip the spool over and you're ready to roll.
Give the ubiquitous thrift store find a makeover with a colorful, stitched design.
Step 1: Use a pattern to trace a design onto the chair in pencil.
Step 2: Use a back stitch to thread chunky yarn (available at craft stores) through each opening.
TIP: To maneuver yarn more easily, wrap the ends with tape.
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) - Benedict XVI has become the first pope in 600 years to resign, ending an eight-year pontificate shaped by struggles to move the church past sex abuse scandals and to reawaken Christianity in an indifferent world.
The Swiss Guards standing at attention in Castel Gandolfo shut the gates of the palazzo shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday (2 p.m. EST), symbolically closing the doors on a papacy whose legacy will be most marked by the way it ended - a resignation instead of a death.
In a final farewell to his cardinals as pope, Benedict tried to dispel concerns about the unprecedented future awaiting the Catholic Church, with one reigning and one retired pope living side-by-side. He pledged his "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his successor.
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