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What is the grammatical difference between these two sentences:
- Die Lehrer essen keine größeren Eier.
Why the ending -n in the second sentence?
What is the grammatical difference between these two sentences:
Why the ending -n in the second sentence?
The difference is that the first sentence is wrong. You always negate sentences like that by using "keine/n".
The -n in the second sentence is there because it's accusative.
(You can use "nicht" in the first case by putting it at the end of the sentence: "Die Lehrer essen größere Eier nicht." But that's very archaic and stresses the negation. It should be used only in poems and other literary work.)
1) Die Lehrer essen größere Eier nicht.
Both, größere and größeren, are plural accusative flexions of the comparative adjective größer. If you take a look at the flexion tables for größer, you'll see that größere is used in the plural accusative case when there is no article before the adjective (see under 'Ohne Artikel') – which applies to sentence 1). Größeren is used in the accusative case if it is preceded by an indefinite article (see under 'Unbestimmter Artikel'.)
The -en ending in sentence 2) is due to the declension pattern that applies to attributive adjectives that are preceded by
This declension pattern is also known as the third type or 'mixed' declension. See Wikipedia on German declension: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declension#Attributive_adjectives
The first sentence seems also a bit wrong to me, and perhaps there must be also an addition by putting some kind of explaination to be correct, example:
Your (wrong) sentence:
Should be:
So you will use this first sentence mostly in cases when you add an explaination or consequence.
Your second sentence:
It is correct, you say that mostly if they never do at all, maybe because they are always talking and their mouth always busy. Or "A snake don't eat an elephant."


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How was time measured for the purpose of Zmanim before we had accurate clocks like we do today? Was it possible to accurately determine Chatzos (at night) or the different watches of the night? I know the Gemara in Brachos suggests some ways to tell, but these seem to have more of a mystical significance than a physical one or at least I do not understand how someone could accurately determine time based on these at night.
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For nighttime, they could use water clocks.
[Jastrow (in the introduction to his dictionary, and under s.v. ארפכס) argues that one place in the Midrash (Bereishis Rabbah 4:4) and two in Mishnayos Kelim (14:8 and 30:4) refer to such a device, though most of the commentaries explain it as something like a funnel or a colander.]
Midday or midnight are relatively easy to determine for someone with a little astronomical awareness. When the sun is exactly due south - it's midday. When the constellation ("mazal") that is exactly opposite the sun's position on the ecliptic is due south - it's midnight.
Chaim, well said. You can certainly consult a historian of timekeeping and there must have been some decent technology, but I strongly suspect that with regards to many things, it was about best effort; the Chayei Adam says as far as when shabbos ends, "wait until all doubt is gone from your heart."
Anything related to sunlight, people just looked up and had a good sense of it (which most of us no longer have).
I'd like to say a sundial, but I don't know enough about constructing sundials to know whether they tell time in fixed hours or proporitional hours, or whether there are different ways to construct them so that they could be made to serve either purpose.
If I understand you correctly, your question is whether they were giving general time frames or precise measurements. I think both. There is a precise time that can be measured, even if they didn't have precise enough instruments to do so themselves.
It's clear from the Mishna in (פסחים (פרק א משנה ד that the population at large had no idea how to accurately tell time.
Which is why on ערב פסח they had to stop eating Chametz 2 - 3 hours before the designated time of midday:
Although we assume that our methods of time-keeping are much more accurate than those of previous periods in history, this is not entirely true. Over the course of history there have been very accurate methods of telling time which could even be used in the absence of the sun.
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Thoughts on Heavy Lifts
This was sent to me in an email by my teammate
Lenny Bacino
(2007 National Masters Champion) and I thought it had some good ideas regarding heavy squats and heavy quick lifts.
I don't have the thread this is in reply to, but I still thought it was a worthy read.
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Thoughts about strength and power
Jim O'Malley -- 2004.05.04
Seen on the GoHeavy Olympic forum, an interesting tidbit ...
I disagree with what you have said in your post. I hope you understand that what I will say is only my opinion and is certainly NOT meant as a personal attack on you or anyone else.
This will probably be somewhat lengthy so I apologize in advance but hopefully those who take an opposite stance will be open minded enough to read another point of view.
I would not say that PL is better or worse than OL, it is just different. It requires a different type of strength than OL (absolute vs. explosive). When someone deadlifts a heavy weight the goal is to overcome the inertia of the weight and then to just keep it moving while in OL you have to accelerate the weight in order to effectively move under the bar.
There is no correlation between the ability to display great strength and the ability to display it quickly.
Kirk Karwoski (many times world powerlifting champ) trained at the same gym as I did (Maryland Athletic Club in Beltsville Md) from 1990 to 2000. Karwoski was incredibly strong. Over the years I saw him perform such feats as squat 1,000 lbs for a double (he weighed only 275lbs), deadlift 750lbs for a triple, incline press 425lbs for five reps, and bench 600lbs. And by his own admission, he was atrociously bad at OL. If he was lucky he could snatch 90kg and C&J 120kg but he himself realized that the type of strength needed to excel in OL was in complete contrast to the type of strength he had developed over the course of his powerlifting career.
In the mid 70's I was an 82.5kg OL and I trained with two other guys in the same weight class for two years. They were Al Starck (originally from Central Falls and a student of Joe Mills) and Fred Hatfield (now perhaps better known as Dr Squat).Fred was tremendously strong. He did pulls and squats with very heavy weights but they were weights that bore no relation to what he could actually snatch or C&J. Al, on the other hand, did none of this. Fred was certainly much stronger than Al was, but in terms of speed and explosiveness there was no comparison. Fred never even came close to beating Al in any OL contest. His method of training was detrimental to the type of strength he needed to succeed at OL, but not for PL. I do not think it was a coincidence that Fred later went on to become a top level powerlifter and to squat 1000 lbs at age 45.
In my own case I only lifted seriously for 4 years (1973-77)and I employed what I term the brute force methods that have been advocated by some on this board recently. By brute force I mean trying to lift as heavy as I could as often as I could. And (for a while) it seemed to work. After three years I did 13 2.5+ 172.5 = 305kg as a 82.5kg lifter. My best squat (for a single) was 222.5kg I was then advised that my legs were too weak. So in my final year of training I repeatedly performed Maslaev's nine week Russian squat routine and raised my squat to 235kg for five reps. The impact on my lifts was negligible. I added 5kg to each doing 137.5 and 177.5 in April 1977. I was only 23 but I felt like I was about 63 as a result of this approach.
But the best example I can tell you about that refutes the notion that high levels of absolute strength are needed to become a world class lifter is Mark Cameron. Mark (also from Central Falls and a Joe Mills pupil) never pulled or squatted or pressed with weights that were out of line with what he could actually do in the classical lifts. He never overpowered weights, yet he the lifted the heaviest of weights with an almost effortless ease. Mark himself once put it this way : "I can do a limit lift and it would look as though I could do 100lbs more but if I put on an extra 2.5lbs it would look as though I could NOT do 100lbs less." That is how fine tuned he felt you needed to be to excel at OL at a high level.
There was another guy who trained at our old Dynamo Gym in College Park, Md in the 70's named Ed Schock. Ed trained at both OL and PL and was pretty good at both. Ed could move under the bar with fantastic speed in the OL but he had to because all his powerlifting had almost destroyed his ability to accelerate the barbell at the top of the pull. One day Ed and Mark had a deadlifting contest. Ed deadlifted 600lbs for eight reps while Mark FAILED to make even one rep with the weight. About ten days later they got into a clean contest. Ed made 385lbs but he turned about six shaded of red while doing it. Mark, on the other hand) cleaned 450 so fast and easy that if you blinked you would have missed it. In fact on the way up he did 250lbs and 350lbs and I could see no difference between them and the 450. I really learned something that day from watching that.
One last guy who trained in a vein similar to Al and Mark was the late, great Bob Bednarski. I guess that is enough said. Bob was also from Central Falls and Joe Mills. Think maybe Joe Mills knew something that most others didn't ??
I have used these examples both because I think they are relevant to the point in question and because I just like to tell a few stories every now and then.
However, in my opinion, the real flaw in the argument as put forth by yourself and Mr Burgener, and Mr Gough is that you focus on strength training to develop high levels of muscular strength without taking into consideration the effect this has on the nervous system. A first rate explanation of the whole process can be found in "Quantum Strength and Power Training" by Pat O'Shea (Professor Emeritus of Exercise Physiology and lifelong lifting enthusiast) see chapter 2 "Neuromuscular and neuro-psychological basis of strength".
< BR>I have been involved in T&F for some time as well as OL. The T&F experience really taught me alot about the importance of properly training the nervous system. The general rule in T&F is that one should never use assistive or resistive means that will either slow you down or speed you up more than 10% from your optimal performance level. For example, you will never see a shot putter throwing a 24lb shot (50% over the normal size). For one thing they are not even manufactured, but that is for a reason. There is NO demand for them at all as they simply destroy throwing technique by dramatically altering the motor pattern required for top notch shot putting. Basically it makes you very slow (at least in a relative sense and that is the key).
The same principle applies to OL. One single rep in the SN or clean pull will slow your ability to properly accelerate the bar (the way you need to to actually snatch or clean it) by about 13% (i.e. the 10% rule has already been violated). Many people perform pulls with weights of 120% and more for MULTIPLE reps so you can just imagine the degree to which this alters the motor pattern needed to effectively snatch or clean weights that are 95-100% of their best.
But was makes this so damaging is the fact that a motor skill engram is developed that PERMANENTLY hardwires the body to perform in this less than optimal framework. A motor skill engram is a learned movement pattern stored in the prefrontal cortex as memories. Once a complex movement pattern (good or bad) has been learned by the sensory cortex, the memory engram of the pattern will be used to activate the motor system to perform the SAME sequential pattern. These are messages that are sent AUTOMATICALLY and once ingrained they are notoriously difficult to reverse. Training with light (50-65%) weights to get faster also yields a training effect that is low but for a different reason (lack of muscular tension that is induced) yet Louis Simmons in his article "If I trained Olympic Lifters" advocates combining light lifts with extremely heavy pulls and squats. In my opinion, this is the worst of both worlds.
So to sum up I guess I would just say that it is sad to me to watch yet another generation of young lifters be taught training methods that have both proven themselves to be less than effective from past results and that are fundamentally unsound from a scientific perspective.
Thanks for taking the time to read.
Jim O'Malley
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Reliving Friday Night Lights
It has been decades since Colville High alumni (and a few friends) strapped on the helmets and laced on the pads for a little high school football déjà vu. But with the encouragement of CHS grad Cole Weatherman and support from the Colville School District administration, a Colville vs. Chewelah alumni football game was resurrected—and played—last Friday night at CHS. No, it almost didn't happen. There was a point last week when Weatherman thought the game was going to have to be cancelled. Practice sessions were more often than not non-existent, but the game came off and it's a good bet that most of the players who took time out of their Fourth of July weekend schedules would like to do it again next summer. Practice—what practice? Show up at the CHS field and play was the mantra. Practice—we don't need no stinkin' practice. The score was almost a moot point. This was a chance for CHS and Chewelah alums to relive those Friday Night Lights of years past—hit somebody and hopefully not get hurt, at least not so badly that the required ambulance sitting just beyond the south end zone would actually have to move. It was the chance to ratchet up the competitive levels one more time, in the name of a good cause…feel young again (until the next morning) and play some real, live football again…against an old rival. The crowd was sparse, but money raised from the game went to the respective football programs at each school. Indians' alums, behind the arm of 2009 grad Paul Swanson and a stout defense, blanked Chewelah 12-0. Swanson hooked up with receiver Shane Brady on an 80-yard pass and run in the first half and on a pass and run to Brady of about half that distance in the second half (no, there were no official or unofficial statistics kept on this one). The Colville alums, with a roster that seemed to be a little shorter in the tooth, played solidly on the defensive side of the ball. Former CHS standout Austin Pete (CHS 2010) was Colville's defensive coordinator. Pete's work with the Colville alumni defense on short notice impressed Weatherman. "The defense did a good job," Weatherman said. "Austin (Pete) did a good job with them…he knows his stuff. I think he has a future in coaching." Is there enough interest for a return match-up? Whether the game is resurrected for a second annual effort is anybody's guess. Weatherman says he did what he could to help resurrect the fund-raiser. If the game returns next summer, the organizational aspect is going to have to be assumed by somebody else. "I don't think I'll do it next year," Weatherman said after it was all over. "The kids (Colville alums) and a lot of the Chewelah players said they'd like to do it again," Weatherman said. "But it's up to them." Weatherman, who played in a few alumni games for Colville many years ago, admitted that "there is a lot of hassle involved with putting it on." It helps to have the support of football coaching staffs and athletic directors for an undertaking like alumni football. For one reason or another, that support hasn't always been forthcoming. In years past, Kettle Falls and Inchelium have made alumni football work. There is no reason to believe that Colville and Chewelah alumni football, with a little more planning and organization (and a different date), and support from the two schools and school districts, couldn't fill the stands and boost the coffers of the respective schools' football programs. "I'd like to see it come back," Weatherman said. "It was nice to be able to pull it off." Weatherman admitted that holding the game on the leading edge of the long Fourth of July weekend wasn't the best plan. But Weatherman enjoyed the experience, along with the vast majority of other grads from CHS, Chewelah, Kettle Falls, etc. who took the time out of their schedules to play full contact football again. Was that Icy Hot I smelled along the Colville bench? Watching Colville and Chewelah alums who loved their high school football and that weekly testosterone rush get after it again with the aid of copious amounts of anti-inflammatory medication and analgesic balm…maybe even Icy Hot by the gallon…was a very good thing. While there was a concussion or two and a shoulder injury, by and large, serious injuries seemed to be avoided last Friday night. That was also a very good thing. I hope Chewelah vs. Colville II returns next summer. The Colville roster included Brandon Hastings (2010), Jeff Wall (2010), Zach Hull (2011), Tyler Newman (1998), Trevor Zyskowski (Kettle Falls, 2010), James Price (2011), Paul Swanson (2009), Colby Teibel, (2011), John Fowler (2009), Brandon Nielsen (1996), Ben Newman (1992), Bill Warner (1998), Andrew Walsh (2010), Kurt Day (2007), Dylan Timmons (2010), Tom Baun (1995), Cruze Thompson (2010), Joey Medlen (2010), Ian Nelson (2010), Dylan Chester (1996), Shane Brady (2010).


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STEUBENVILLE - From where Mike McGlumphy sits, playing matchmaker has never been this much fun.
McGlumphy, director of the Jefferson County Workforce Investment Act One-Stop Center, has been busy in recent months preparing workers for new careers, particularly in the oil and gas industry.
He's spent more than $500,000 this budget year to train workers in occupations for careers as heavy equipment operators, truck drivers and welders.
"They don't have hands-on experience, being that they're fresh out of school, but a lot of laid-off workers have work experience, just not in the fields they've trained in. They have the work ethic the industry is looking for."
He said one oil and gas company, new to Jefferson County, had initially required a year's on-the-job experience before an applicant would be considered, but dropped the requirement after meeting with a handful of prospects who showed up at their offices in search of jobs once word got out that the company had located here. Days later the company's human resources officer met with some additional prospects who'd taken advantage of training opportunities through Jefferson County Workforce Investment, sending them for their drug testing and background checks.
McGlumphy said that employer has hired four of his trainees over the past few days, "so I'm happy." Another oil-and-gas related company "is also hiring some of our people," McGlumphy said.
"They love the caliber of workers they're getting from us," McGlumphy said. "More and more companies are starting to utilize our One-Stop service -word is slowly getting out."
Of course, McGlumphy said it helps that the tri-county region has a very qualified work force used to working in industrial settings.
"What we're doing now is going out and identifying the requirements of the oil and gas industry and trying to train people in those skill sets," he said.
McGlumphy said he's already trained or is in the process of training 102 dislocated workers as well as 70 other adults considered unemployed or even under-employed. He won't have any more training funds until the new budget year begins July 1, however.
He said training is available in virtually any area, although oil and gas is currently a big attraction. Long-haul truck driving and medical fields, however, also are popular.
"We're pretty happy we're getting people jobs," he said. "One of our main purposes is to get people back to work. It's starting to happen at a faster pace than we were ever used to."
And as jobs in the oil-and-gas industry pick up, McGlumphy said they're seeing openings in traditional job sectors as well.
"Some other businesses are now feeling the effects, individuals who have experience are moving on for bigger and better pay," he said.
"Are we getting more job orders? Yes," he said. "And are we seeing more activity? Yes. We're starting to see a lot of new (job) growth, new businesses are coming in."
He praised the Progress Alliance staff, which he says "work hand-in-hand" with their counterparts at the One-Stop center.
"Our end goal is the same, to get people back to work," he said.
Meanwhile, McGlumphy said unemployment numbers locally are starting to fall, though the verdict is out as to whether that's because more people are finding jobs or they've just exhausted their benefits.


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Here be Remans?
There has been much speculation that this mystery alien is a Reman, a species first seen in Nemesis and apparently cousins of the Romulans. This article is going to have a look at the two side by side and try to get at the truth.
Remans are only comfortable in the dark. The scene the mystery alien appears in is dark.
The mystery alien has red eyes. Remans do not.
The mystery alien's skin colouring is, as far as lighting allows us to judge, almost identical to a Reman's.
The mystery alien has two small ridges on his bottom lip. Remans do not.
Remans would be expected to be enemies of Earth at this point; the mystery alien is, presumably, hostile/evil.
Reman ears curve outwards. The mystery alien's do not.
Remans have a built up ridge around their eyes, which has a break in the middle. The mystery alien does not.
The mystery alien has a prominent V-shaped ridge beginning at his nose. Remans do not.
The mystery alien has jowls to the sides of his mouth. Remans do not.
Although the mystery alien is very similar to a Reman in overall look, there are numerous detail differences between the two - the most notable being that the mystery alien has red eyes, something Remans do not. There are various differences in facial structure which also argue that the mystery alien is not a Reman, but these are a little less convincing. It might be that there is a fair bit of variability in Reman facial features beyond that seen in Nemesis, and that the mystery alien is just a little further from the norm than the Nemesis Remans.
Overall, it's just about possible to believe that the mystery alien is a Reman. However, all the evidence we have at the moment argues against it. Whoever the mystery alien is, he seems to be a new species.
Well, that was then and this is now. Turns out that , as predicted, the mystery alien was nothing to do with the Remans. They are a new species, one of the nastier temporal cold war factions. Problem solved, nothing to see here, move along.
I'm going to leave this here as a bit of a historical curiosity. Twenty years from now we can all look back and smile fondly at how we speculated over this...
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CADIZ - When Harrison Central boys' basketball coach Justin Clifford and Martins Ferry's Jeff Sabatino got together prior to Tuesday night's tip-off inside the John W. Stephenson Center in Cadiz, Clifford admitted to his counterpart that his team wasn't shooting well from the floor.
All the Huskies (4-1) did was blister the nets at a 65 percent clip en route to a workmanlike, 64-48, Buckeye 8 victory before a raucous crowd.
"Like I just told the guys, everything looks better when the ball goes in the hoop," Clifford said. "Our seniors stepped up big tonight."
After scoring just 25 points in a loss at Indian Creek last Friday, the hosts came out clicking on all cylinders as they raced to a 15-0 lead.
Fletcher Watt tallied six of his game-high 23 points in the initial eight minutes, but it was reserve Cody Evans that electrified the home crowd.
Coming off the bench for Nick Pelegreen, who picked up two early fouls, the 5-9 junior knocked down back-to-back triples to spark the early surge.
"That's what we expect from Cody," Clifford said. "That's his role. Everyone on this team has a role, and that's his."
The Purple Riders, who misfired on their first 10 shots from the floor and registered seven turnovers, didn't dent their side of the scoreboard until Jake Barritt's floater in the lane found the bottom of the net with 1:12 on the clock.
Martins Ferry started to find the range in the second quarter as senior Cody Schau, who entered the contest averaging 31, netted 10, but Evans canned another trey and sophomore Austin Kowalski connected twice from beyond the arc as Harrison Central had all the answers.
"We didn't play well from the start," Sabatino said, "and they did. When one team doesn't play very well and the other does, that's the result. It wasn't really a contest start to finish.
"They (Harrison Central) had been struggling shooting the ball by Coach Clifford's own admission, but did they shoot it well tonight. Most of them were from the perimeter. A lot of them were 3s. When a team shoots the ball that well, it's hard to beat them."
When the Purple Riders made their move in the second half, Watt, who missed last season with a knee injury, saddled the Huskies up and they rode him to the victory.
The 5-10 southpaw tickled the twine for 15 of his game-best counters in the second half - nine in the third panel - that kept the visitors at bay.
"That's the Fletch that we're used to," Clifford said of his veteran backcourter. "He played well tonight."
In addition to Watt's 23, other twin-figure scorers for the Huskies were Rashaen Mitchell and Pelegreen who evenly divided 20. Evans finished with nine and Kowalski eight.
Schau paced the Purple Riders with 22. Freshman Emilio Appolloni added a dozen before fouling out late in the game. Robert Vargo chipped in nine. Barritt was the only other player to score with five.
Martins Ferry held a commanding 30-21 advantage on the glass as Vargo cleaned it 14 times. The 6-8 Appolloni had seven. Barritt charted five steals and a trio of assists.
Mitchell pulled down 10 boards for Harrison Central, which also received four steals by Kowalski and a like number of blocked shots by Mitchell.
After the barrage of early turnovers, Martins Ferry settled down and finished with 15, one more than Harrison Central.
The Purple Riders travel to Shadyside Friday night. The Huskies host Weir the same night.
Harrison Central 64, Martins Ferry 48
Martins Ferry 4 17 15 12 - 48
Harrison Central 17 17 14 16 - 64
MARTINS FERRY (2-1): Schau 10 2-3 22; Vargo 4 1-2 9; Appolloni 5 2-2 12; Barritt 2 0-0 5; Sears 0 0-0 0; A. Burress 0 0-0 0; Totals: 21-54 5-6 48.
HARRISON CENTRAL (4-1): R. Mitchell 4 2-2 10; Pelegreen 3 2-4 10; Watt 10 2-2 23; K. Mitchell 1 0-0 2; Kowalski 2 2-4 8; Rutter 0 0-0 0; Evans 3 0-0 9; Olmstead 1 0-0 2; Totals: 24-37 8-12 64.
Three-Point Goals: Martins Ferry 1 (Barritt); Harrison Central 8 (Evans 3, Pelegreen 2, Kowalski 2, Watt)


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Do any principles commonly used in the field of hermeneutics have any counterparts in scientific principles? Is there a corollary in hermeneutics to the requirements that science demands as far as the reproducibility of experiments, peer review of results, etc?
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There have been theologians historically who tried to use a scientific method of theology (and so presumably of hermeneutics)—specifically the Old Princetonians (Archibald Alexander, the Hodges, Warfield, etc.). Also, higher criticism, Hegelian and Kantian theology all have tried to apply their various views of science to theology and textual interpretation. There's a sense in which scholastic theologians such as Aquinas also took a scientific approach. Sorry that this answer is in such general terms.
Of course, all good hermeneutics will share some basic tools in common with science—logic, etc. However, there are fundamental differences between the two which make it dangerous to apply the same principles.
Science deals primarily with historic revelation; in making the world, God reveals himself. Biblical hermeneutics deals with historic revelation which is administered in the present. Thus the living, active nature of the Word of God; it is a historic revelation which is given to the individual united to Jesus Christ in a special way in the present. Thus, science is more active, and hermeneutics is more passive. Also, science has as its end information, structured models; theory is its goal. Biblical hermeneutics has personal knowledge as its end and not a conceptual model. For this reason, to apply too many scientific techniques can be stifling to the relational aspect of interpreting the Scriptures.
Because of the rules of sensus plenior, the meaning is reproducible and verifiable. It exists like a giant crossword puzzle, but rather than words crossing and tying the solution, whole passages, cross, metaphoric meaning is locked, and theology is consistent with the literal Bible.
Consider a cipher where words are replaced with metaphoric meanings. Garments are always works, donkeys are always prophets, blood is always life, water is always the word, light is always holiness in it's various aspects, and darkness is always grace. Replace those few words everywhere they exist in scripture then find a sensible, theologically sound double entendre wherever they occur. It is humanly impossible to construct such a cipher, yet that is what the rules of sensus plenior demand. Nothing short of divine authorship is acceptable.
Likewise, since all nature testifies of Christ, there are legitimate metaphors in nature. But since they are not revealed prepositionally as in the scripture, they are more difficult to discern. But we have a "more sure word of prophecy" in the scriptures.
The tolah worm is an example.
Physics might be better suited with a model taken from Genesis 1. Since there is nothing larger than God, when he created the void, he created it within himself. We are the voids within God. He made room for us. Now view the physical model of reality where what we think of as primary particles are discontinuities within a hyper-dense plenum. Gravity is caused by the plenum moving to it's lowest energy state and pushing the discontinuities together. Charge is a discontinuity that placed the plenum in tension or compression. Opposite charges move together to reduce the stress. Magnetism is a discontinuity with tension at one end and compression at the other. Energy and mass interchange as the localized energy creates a discontinuity, or a discontinuity collapses and throws energy back into the plenum. Hyper jumps occur when particles of the plenum are lined up and move simultaneously permitting the void to jump without existing between the points of travel. When an electron enters a nucleus, the nucleus void becomes unstable and spits out another electron void in another direction as it collapses to a stable configuration.
In this model, since all the properties belong to the plenum and the geometry of the voids, you automatically have a unified theory.
No there are not. This is because hermeneutics is not a science. There are no hard-and-fast rules in literature. Bible teacher James Jordan, in a recent lecture, said,
"Do you read anything else by rules? When you pick up the latest mystery novel, do you say, "Well, let's remind ourselves of the rules of hermeneutics," or do you just plow in? Do you read the newspaper by rules? The assumption seems to be that the Bible is some kind of weird book, and that if you don't have all these rules you're going to misinterpret it. There's always some helpful stuff... but the problem with reading by rules is that it reduces reading to science. We have what is called 'the ideal of science.' Science has to turn all art into knowledge of a certain sort, with rules. That's not the way the Bible is written and that's not who God is. Some rules are commonsense, designed to get you to read sanely, like 'Pay attention to the context.'"
The reason literature, like art, has no hard-and-fast rules, is because authors and artists confer meaning upon things as they go. So I guess reading cumulatively through a book is one rule. But once you are inside the author's or artist's world, the work becomes uniquely self-referencing. So the Bible makes its own rules based on what has gone before. Which is why I get so upset with the myopia of some voters on this site. Please treat the Bible as literature, as a book, not an autopsy. If you take a single note out of a piece of music, it loses its meaning.
If anyone's interested, the lecture series is here.
Also, if anyone who reads this site is interested in a one day event on hermeneutics and literary structure (held in Australia), you can find details here.


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Jodie Evans: Code Pink founder, Obama bundler, Osama apologist
posted at 7:44 am on June 12, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
Politico reports that Jodie Evans, the founder of Code Pink, has joined Team Obama as a bundler. She has pledged to raise at least $50,000 to elect Barack Obama to the White House. However, she has a long history of making controversial statements that may overshadow the campaign itself — including some apologetics for 9/11:
According to research being circulated by GOP sources, Evans has a record of inflammatory statements such as saying that women were better off in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, "Men are dying in their Hummers in Iraq so you can drive around in yours" and, my favorite, that the invasion of Iraq amounted to "global testosterone poisoning."
Evans, though, is not just a single-issue crusader. She's worked in politics and liberal causes for decades, including stints working for Jerry Brown during his years as governor and in his 1992 White House run.
That an activist liberal is raising money for Obama isn't all that surprising. But in a campaign that has been dominated as much by the associates of candidates as the candidates themselves (Jeremiah Wright, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush), Evans is a reminder that what may not have mattered much in a primary has the potential to be resonant in the general.
Evans may have made controversial statements in the past, but that won't hold a candle to the statements she made on a radio show called "The Conscience of Kansas". Paul Ibbetson spoke with Evans about the 9/11 attacks, and …. well, listen for yourself:
Ibbetson tries to explain that we hadn't done anything to provoke the 9/11 attacks by saying we hadn't invaded Afghanistan. Evans replies that we were in Saudi Arabia, which to her gave al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden a rational reason to kill thousands of Americans in terrorist attacks. Note that she says, "I don't think any terrorist attack is justified," and then says we should listen to Osama bin Laden and change our policies because — "Sometimes, it would be a good idea to listen to why someone is trying to blow you up".
Q: Do you think that's a valid argument?
A: Sure. Why do we have bases in the Middle East?
Does Barack Obama share these views with his new bundler and the founder of Code Pink? Does he also feel that we should heed Osama bin Laden's speeches and adjust our policies in the Middle East accordingly? If Evans represents the kind of people Obama wants to attract to his campaign, that says quite a bit about his approach to terrorism and the defense of American interests in the Middle East.
Sweetness & Light has a primer on Jodie Evans:
Jodie Evans is a radical activist and Democratic fundraiser best known as the co-founder (along with Diane Wilson, a Wiccan calling herself Starhawk, and Global Exchange's Medea Benjamin) of Code Pink for Peace. Evans also works closely with Leslie Cagan, the pro-Castro leader of United For Peace and Justice.
And from Front Page Magazine:
Throughout the 1990s, in fact, many of the Marxists currently working for Code Pink were busy organizing anti-free trade protests – some of them violent – and filing numerous high-profile lawsuits that forced American corporations to spend enormous sums of money to defend themselves…
Jodie Evans… sits on the board of directors of the Rain Forest Action Network (RAN), a coalition of anti-capitalist, anti-corporate environmentalist groups. RAN's co-founder Michael Roselle also founded the Earth Liberation Front, which the FBI ranks alongside the Animal Liberation Front as the foremost domestic terrorism threats in the United States. According to the FBI, during the past seven years those two groups have been responsible for more than 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages…
As the photo on this post indicates, Evan also felt comfortable putting her arm around Hugo Chavez. So, surprise surprise, Obama has decided to associate himself once more with a radical associated with violent radicals, tinpot dictators — a woman who thinks Osama had a point on 9/11. What does this say about judgment?
Melanie Morgan and Redstate have more.
Update: Evans, not Davis. I didn't even like the Cubs. (See comments for the joke.)
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Hamilton's principle states that a dynamic system always follows a path such that its action integral is stationary (that is, maximum or minimum).
Why should the action integral be stationary? On what basis did Hamilton state this principle?
Hamilton's principle states that a dynamic system always follows a path such that its action integral is stationary (that is, maximum or minimum).
Why should the action integral be stationary? On what basis did Hamilton state this principle?
The notes from week 1 of John Baez's course in Lagrangian mechanics (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/classical/#lagrangian) give some insight into the motivations for action principles.
The idea is that least action might be considered an extension of the principle of virtual work. When an object is in equilibrium, it takes zero work to make an arbitrary small displacement on it. I.E. the dot product of any small displacement vector and the force is zero (in this case because the force itself is zero).
When an object is accelerating, if we add in an "inertial force" equal to -m*a, then a small, arbitrary, time-dependent displacement from the objects true trajectory would again have zero dot product with F-ma, the true force and inertial force added. This gives
$(F-ma)\cdot \delta q(t) = 0$
From there, a few calculations found in the notes lead to the stationary action integral.
Baez discusses D'Alembert more than Hamilton, but either way it's an interesting look into the origins of the idea.
There is also Feynman's approach, i.e. least action is true classically just because it is true quantum mechanically, and classical physics is best considered as an approximation to the underlying quantum approach. See http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/5852.html or http://www.eftaylor.com/pub/call_action.html .
Basically, the whole thing is summarized in a nutshell in Richard P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Addison–Wesley, Reading, MA, 1964), Vol. II, Chap. 19. (I think, please correct me if I'm wrong here). The fundamental idea is that the action integral defines the quantum mechanical amplitude for the position of the particle, and the amplitude is stable to interference effects (-->has nonzero probability of occurrence) only at extrema or saddle points of the action integral. The particle really does explore all alternative paths probabilistically.
You likely want to read Feynman's Lectures on Physics anyway, so you might as well start now. :-)
As you can see from the image below, you want the variation of the action integral to be a minimum, therefore $\displaystyle \frac{\delta S}{\delta q}$ must be $0$. Otherwise, you are not taking the true path between $q_{t_{1}}$ and $q_{t_{2}}$ but a slightly longer path. However, even following $\delta S=0$, as you know, you might end up with another extremum.
Following the link from j.c., you can find On a General Method on Dynamics, which probably answers your question regarding Hamilton's reasoning. I haven't read it but almost surely it is worthwhile.
I generally tell the story that the action principle is another way of getting at the same differential equations -- so at the level of mechanics, the two are equivalent. However, when it comes to quantum field theory, the description in terms of path integrals over the exponentiated action is essential when considering instanton effects. So eventually one finds that the formulation in terms of actions is more fundamental, and more physically sound.
But still, people don't have a "feel" for action the way they have a feel for energy.
Let us remember that the equations of motion with initial conditions $q(0), (dq/dt)(0)$ were advanced first and the least action principle was formulated later, as a sequence. Although beautiful and elegant mathematically, the least action principle uses some future, "boundary" condition $q(t_2)$, which is unknown physically. There is no least action principle operating only with the initial conditions.
Moreover, it is implied that the equations have physical solutions. This is so in the Classical Mechanics but is wrong in the Classical Electrodynamics. So, even derived from formally correct "principle", the equations may be wrong on physical and mathematical level. In this respect, formulating the right physical equations is a more fundamental task for physicists than relying on some "principle" of obtaining equations "automatically". It is we physicists who are responsible for correctly formulating equations.
In CED, QED, and QFT one has to "repair on go" the wrong solutions just because the physics was guessed and initially implemented incorrectly.
P.S. I would like to show how in reality the system "chooses" its trajectory: if at $t = 0$ the particle has a momentum $p(t)$, then at the next time $t+dt$ it has the momentum $p(t) + F(t)\cdot dt$. This increment is quite local in time, it is determined by the present force value $F(t)$ so no future "boundary" condition can determine it. The trajectory is not "chosen" from virtual ones; it is "drawn" by the instant values of force, coordinate, and velocity.


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I'm a Java EE developer and I was wondering if anybody has had experience with the OWASP Project and could weigh-in as to how it measures up as a security standards organization. They have a huge website with multitudes of documents, sub-projects, frameworks/APIs, etc., and I just want to be sure that they are well-regarded before I start heading down the path of learning about it from the ground-up. I would hate to spend the next couple of weeks investing time & energy in this group only to find out that they aren't credible for whatever reason.
Are there other project bodies that are also open source that I should consider, as well?


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The most famous Volvo truck ever was undoubtedly the 'Viking', probably for two reasons: firstly due to the two 'V' letters forming the first letter in both the make and the model name, secondly because of the genuine 'Scandinavian' origin of both the ancient Vikings and Volvo vehicles.
A very Scandinavian truck
The Viking was originally a slightly updated model of the L24 diesel 'Roundnose' truck with a new bonnet and new fenders, but was constantly updated with new, stronger engines and modernised chassis components. Since the GVWs needed for most transport in the 1950s were modest, there was no need for the brutal power of the 10-litre engine, L39 Titan truck for the majority of tasks in areas where a single truck was a natural transport tool.
Technically, the Viking was a relatively simple and straightforward truck, which was probably the reason behind the popularity of the Viking truck, making it famous over large parts of the world.
Reliable direct-injection engine
The heart of the Viking truck, in both early and late models, was the 7-litre direct-injection engine (initially of just over 6 litres) with fairly modest output but total reliability. In the first year of the L38 truck production this engine had an output of only 100 bhp, but this was gradually increased with the help of turbocharging to 125 bhp.
This family of trucks was always called the 'Viking', but in fact this designation did not come about until the 7-litre engine arrived in 1954, along with wider fenders (identical to the fenders used on the L39 Titan).
Powerful upgrades and design
Initially presented as a very basic truck without a standard cab, with a naturally aspirated engine of 100 bhp and without power steering, it was continuously upgraded with turbocharging and power steering together with a fairly comfortable Volvo safety cab. The 'L38' designation was changed in 1959 to 'L48' and included instrumentation in front of the driver (the instruments had initially been placed in the middle of the cab to facilitate the production of both left-hand-drive and right-hand-drive Viking trucks).
The Viking was produced in both 2 and 3 axle versions (the 2-axle being by far the most popular). Unlike most other Volvo trucks of the era, the Viking also featured quite frequently in an all-wheel-drive version, being popular for military duties as well as occasional use as a timber or construction truck with (for its time) extremely good terrain mobility.
Additional models
Between 1954 and 1962, a forward control truck was also produced (without a standard cab) under the designations L382/L3851. This truck was not only produced with the 7-litre diesel engine from Volvo but also with a 5-litre petrol engine. This F truck (with a fixed cab) was produced in limited numbers, mainly for use as a tipper truck but also sometimes for other transport missions.
The L38 (1953-1962) and the L48 (1959-1965) was succeeded by the N86 truck. This had a similar appearance, but had been further developed in numerous areas, and was never known under the famous 'Viking' name.


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The Man Who Showed Up Messi
It is difficult for anyone to steal the spotlight from Barcelona star Lionel Messi. But in a charity soccer game Saturday in Chicago hosted by Messi himself, the world's best player was shown up by an analyst for GE Capital.
Matt Eliason, a former Northwestern player who tried unsuccessfully to make an MLS roster, took a pass from ex-Arsenal/Barcelona star Thierry Henry and scored on a bicycle kick, gaining him instant Internet fame in the sports world.
"I just thought I might as well go for it. There's only so many times you play with Messi," Eliason said. "(Henry) said he hopes to see it on (ESPN's) SportsCenter Top 10."
Count former U.S. soccer captain Carlos Bocanegra as another star who was impressed.
"Your boy stole the show up there," he told Northwestern's athletic department.
Not bad for a guy who, despite being Northwestern's all-time leading scorer, has only seen the field for some local Chicago recreational teams since graduating in 2011. And had the game—a charity match called Messi and Friends—not suffered last-minute cancellations, Eliason wouldn't have seen the field at all.
Messi's charity-game series has encountered problems in the U.S. portion of the tour. A stop in Los Angeles was canceled, while the game at Soldier Field went on despite cancellations from Barcelona's Cesc Fabregas, A.C. Milan's Kevin-Prince Boateng and Chelsea's David Luiz, among others. Overall, a roster of 36 stars was whittled to 13, with a need for more players for the game to continue.
That's where Eliason and his teammates came in. Santiago Solari, a member of the Messi and Friends roster who played for Real Madrid and Inter Milan, called up Northwestern coach Tim Lenahan, his former coach at Richard Stockton (N.J.) College.
Lenahan and nine of his former players were involved in the game, which he described as "incredible." It was just a charity game, but Northwestern's players took the nationally televised match as seriously as any other, with so many high-profile players on the pitch.
"They're just regular guys and that's what I kind of told our guys," Lenahan said. "Don't be fans."
Instead, it was a former college star making fans of some of the best soccer players in the world, past and present.
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Tuesday, February 5
7:30 am Conference Registration and Morning Coffee
Shared Session between Strategic Alliances and Global Site Selection
8:00 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Bonnie Brescia, Founding Principal, BBK Worldwide - Biography
» 8:05 Keynote Co-Presentation:
Part 1: Industry Partnerships and the Operational Impact of Strategic Alliances
Christine Pierre, President & Leadership Council Chair, Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS) - Biography
Part 2: Making Partnerships Work: Aligning Incentives, Avoiding Traps
Douglas Peddicord, Ph.D., Executive Director, Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO) - Biography
What do partnerships that work do? They negotiate meaningful metrics, they standardize operations, they assess quality - they align incentives, and they reward success. This panel will discuss the perspectives of investigators, sponsors and CROs in creating partnerships that work.
8:50 Global Trial Location and Strategy
Jorge Rodriguez-Larrain, Head, Global Site Management, Global Clinical Operations, Alcon - Biography
9:15 Co-Presentation: Establishing and Implementing an Effective Vendor Selection Process
Lisa Sergas, Senior Manager, Strategic Outsourcing, Global Business Operations, Santen, Inc. - Biography
Bruno Gagnon, Vice President, Clinical Operations, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. - Biography
There is a lot of risk associated with vendor selection and the performance of our vendors is critical for a successful trial. It is important to spend the time up front to ensure the appropriate vendor is selected and that risks are mitigated and documented from the beginning. We will discuss from a mid-size/small biotech perspective how to ensure the best-fit vendors are selected, selection criteria and considerations, time and resources needed and risk mitigation and expectation setting. We will also discuss the operational aspects and success factors of the selection process such as: ownership, decision making, governance structure and oversight models.
10:00 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:40 Chairperson's Remarks
Yogesh Bahl, Partner, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP - Biography
10:45 Co-Presentation: Benefits of Establishing a Strategic Partnership between the ARO/CRO and the Central IRB
Brooke Chandler, Site Start-up Specialist III, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Tim Schuckman, Director, Business Development, Copernicus Group IRB - Biography
The ability of the ARO/CRO to truly partner with the study's Central IRB improves the success of the trial from start-up to close-out. Unfortunately the importance and benefits of this relationship is often over-looked and underutilized. Our presentation will highlight the steps needed to create such a partnership and its proven positive effects on not only the study, but also the Sponsor-Site relationship.
11:30 Featured Presentation: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Manage Strategic Alliances
Adam Chasse, MHA, COO, RxTrials - Biography
Studies indicate that large percentage of strategic alliances fail, and this is most often back to poor execution and/or inadequate governance. Organizations need a simple way to define the strategic purpose of an alliance, identify mission critical tactics, and measure progress. The Balanced Scorecard is an effective way to accomplish this, and should facilitate better governance.
12:00 pm Lunch on Your Own
Shared Session between Strategic Alliances and Electronic Data in Clinical Trials
1:25 Chairperson's Remarks
Keith Howells, Senior Vice President, Product Development, OmniComm - Biography
1:30 Featured Presentation: Integrated Data Environment for Clinical Trials
Munther Baara, Senior Director, Development Business Technology, Pfizer - Biography
1:55 Developing and Managing Clinical Data Standards in an Outsourced Model
Paul Bukowiec, Director, Oncology Standards Management, Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company - Biography
This presentation will highlight opportunities and challenges encountered when developing a clinical data standards strategy in an outsourced model. The focus will be on outsourcing under a preferred provider model. Attention will be given to alignment of sponsor and vendor strategies as well as utilization of industry standards.
2:20 The Impact of Analytics: Transforming Clinical Trials Data into Business Intelligence
Brion Regan, Head, Strategic Development, PharmaPros Corporation
Life sciences organizations are seeking new ways to access the intelligence residing in their clinical trials data. A critical first step in this effort is the need to centralize information in an automated way. With a hub where trialdata can be aggregated and stored commonly, organizations can leverage analytics for a wide variety of applications. From feasibility analysis of trial design and site selection, to modeling risk factors for source data verification, analytics can transform clinical trials data into powerful business intelligence.
2:35 Panel Discussion: Integrating and Managing Data in Multi-Company Partnerships
Moderator: Keith Howells, Senior Vice President, Product Development, OmniComm - Biography
Panelists: Munther Baara, Senior Director, Development Business Technology, Pfizer - Biography
Keith Wenzel, Senior Director, Global Alliances, Perceptive Informatics
3:00 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall
3:40 Compliance Issues and Trends in Strategic Alliances
Yogesh Bahl, Partner, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Strategic alliances increasingly have become the norm within the modern life sciences research and development program, especially in the case of emerging markets. This session will outline and explore some of the compliance and governance considerations that impact those alliances, including anti-bribery legislation, global transparency requirements, as well as appropriate due diligence and oversight. This session will also explore leading practices on how clinical operations and corporate compliance professionals can collaborate more effectively in this area.
4:05 Featured Presentation: Ensuring Integrated Clinical Quality with CRO Alliance Partners
John Hubbard, Senior Vice President, Research & Development; Head, Worldwide Development Operations, Pfizer, Inc. - Biography
As the Biopharmaceutical industry continues to evolve outsourcing strategies the need to balance speed, cost and quality becomes even more critical. Regulatory, quality and compliance requirements continue to put pressure on both sponsors and service providers. These pressures require Biopharmaceutical companies and CROs to align on requirements at a much deeper and comprehensive level. The presentation will focus on Pfizer's approach using Quality by Design principles, Six-sigma and new innovative models to ensure quality and compliance requirements are aligned and deliver the highest value in an outsourced model.
4:30 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups
Concurrent breakout discussion groups are interactive, guided discussions hosted by a facilitator or set of co-facilitators to discuss some of the more poignant questions facing the industry. Delegates will join a table of interest and become an active part of the discussion at hand. It is an informal, yet informative, format that allows attendees to learn from each other and make some new contacts. To get the most out of this interactive format please come prepared to: share examples from your work, vet some ideas with your peers, be a part of group interrogation and problem solving, and, most importantly, participate in active idea sharing.
TABLE: Managing Decision Making through Governance with Your Alliance Partner
Moderator: Paul Cook, Ph.D., Regional Operations Manager, Integrated Project Management
• Plan ahead for decision milestones and contingencies• Resolve disagreements before they begin• Manage the unknown through risk assessments
TABLE: Ensuring Your Internal Staff Understand the Goal of a Strategic Alliance
Moderator: Adam Chasse, MHA, COO, RxTrials
• Do they understand why the company has entered into this alliance and what the expected strategic (not just tactical) outcomes are?• Are their day-to-day actions conducive to achieving those outcomes?• Are they routinely updated on the big picture progress of the alliance?
TABLE: Metrics: How to Measure the Value of the Strategic Alliance? What are the Aggregate Benefits of the Relationship?
Moderator: Yogesh Bahl, Partner, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
• Is the value simply financial?• What other types of metrics are important?• What do you see the role of metrics playing in the future?
5:30 Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall
6:30 End of Day
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I've recently asked a question about blanking the password fields in UX for usability purposes, but It seems all the sites use this approach for security reasons. Why is it insecure to post back the same pass that user has entered?
Good question. Having the benefit of looking at some of the answers, and pondering over this myself, I actually don't see any major security benefits from clearing the password from the partial form returned to the user, but there definitely are some risks worth considering.
From a security architecture point of view (as @Roryalsop already touched on), you usually want passwords flowing only in one direction. From the user to the application, never back. This applies on all layers, and this one-way-system gives benefits from a security point of view. Having an exception to this rule might or might not be a good idea. But that's why your question is interesting. Does this scenario deserve an exception?
Lets look at some attack vectors and see if nulling the password protects against any of those:
But then, nulling the password is easy enough, shouldn't damage user-experience too much and keep things cleaner from a security standpoint. I would still suggest you keep doing so.
If you're worried about user-experience, try to follow the advice you were already given on UX - perform extra validation on the client side, just so the user gets early feedback. Don't replace the validation on the server. This is the most important validation ultimately. But for user-feedback, client-side validation can work wonders to improve user experience and you don't have to take even a slight risk of the password being cached (or change your security architecture by making an exception).
Because if you then view source on the posted back page, the password will be visible in plain text. This goes against the principle that passwords should only be one way - i.e. passwords can be input but never output. For example, when storing passwords in database, these should be hashed rather than encrypted to prevent them from being extracted if an attacker manages to view the data. Following this principle everywhere will lead to a more secure system.
In this case it can prevent "shoulder surfing" and it can protect against it being cached by the browser and then later viewed.
It is possible to have a good UI and follow this principle. For example, the system could store the hashed and salted password in the server side session state, and then on the post back the form only shows the other fields. Once this have passed validation, the password from the session state is used rather than the ones that the form would have provided. Of course, care must be taken here to invalidate the session if the user does not continue with the registration process so that this password does not override the one set by the next visitor from that browser. otherwise a session fixation attack may be possible.
2 key points here:
Both of these have risks.
This is why most websites have password reminder and reset mechanisms, so they don't need to send the password back to you. They may send a one-time password to you as a reset, that you must then change.
Some will send your password in an out of band route, but these are getting rarer as the risks continue to build.
(of course the security of password reset mechanisms is another matter)


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The 77-year-old former Ballon d'Or winner says "it will not be easy" for Barcelona to overturn the 2-0 deficit and tips Neymar to excel at the club, if the move materialisesFormer Barcelona great Luis Suarez is expecting his former club to be given a rigourous test of their Champions League credentials by AC Milan ahead of Tuesday's clash at Camp Nou.
The Italian giants lead 2-0 on aggregate courtesy of goals from Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari at San Siro three weeks ago, but Max Allegri's men still have a considerable task ahead to ensure the Rossoneri are in the pot for Friday's draw for the quarter-finals.
And Barca legend Suarez says success hinges on how they perform for the first 30 minutes.
"It will not be easy for Barcelona. The 2-0 result is dangerous. Everything depends on the first half-hour, if Barca can score a goal. If they do then the tie will be within their grasp and they will be able to play with more ease," Suarez told La Xarxa Radioon Monday.
"Milan are dangerous, they are fit, physically good. Barcelona have their style of play and must continue with that, they cannot change their style for one game.
"The thing they have to do is see that everyone in the team has a great game. In these European Cup games you have to play to your death."
Suarez was a prominent figure for the Blaugrana between 1955 until 1961 and has offered his sentiments on a potential future star at Camp Nou, Neymar, and believes the starlet is tailor-made for the Barca experience.
"Neymar has a way of playing that can be perfectly adapted to Barcelona," he added.
"Players who come to Barcelona cannot be just good players, but they have to adapt to a style of play that is not easy."


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Technology catches the wind at Sauer Energy(r) in Camarillo
By Bridge Carney 02/14/2013
It may be a cold and rainy night or a hot day with Santa Ana winds blowing. A local company has a new idea on how homeowners and commercial real estate owners can use these winds to generate power, save money and reduce fossil fuel consumption.
Sauer Energy Inc.®, of Camarillo, is preparing to ramp up production of its highly engineered, patented WindCharger and Helix Wind® brands of wind-powered generators. Unlike the 20-stories-tall "windmill farms" thathave been installed in remote desert and mountain areas, Sauer Energy's vertical-axis-type wind turbines are small and compact enough to be mounted on or near homes and commercial buildings.
The Sauer technology wind generators are called vertical-axis wind turbines, or VAWT for short, because their power-producing blades run around vertical center posts. That makes a big difference as to where you can now capture wind power. The advantages of Sauer's VAWTs are due to their very compact size, which is between 4 and 8 feet in diameter. They generate enough power to reduce home or office building fossil fuel consumption. And VAWT-type wind power generation can now be located right where it's needed.
The versatility of Sauer's compact VAWT designs makes them ideal for single units or in small, medium or large groups. In addition to home installations, Sauer has units in test for remote, isolated locations such as communications towers. In other commercial uses, the eye-pleasing VAWTs can be used in clusters on large buildings in cities, stadiums and convention centers. Many building owners are now trying to find multiple ways to provide alternative energy to meet their power requirements and lower the cost to operate.
The Sauer Energy Wind Turbines make a good neighbor in neighborhood environments for a couple of reasons. Their designs are such that they run virtually noiselessly. Unlike the large, classic tall windmills (known has HAWT or horizontal axis wind turbines), the moving portions of Sauer wind turbines, just like any bush or tree, provide adequate visibility to flying birds, giving them ample warning of their presence. The units can be customer-painted to blend in with their location.
Sauer VAWTs can also be used in combination with other alternative, renewable energy resources, including solar. There are times when this combination makes an ideal pairing by capturing the advantages each solution offers. No single source of energy has yet replaced fossil fuel-generated power, but every kilowatt made by alternative, renewable energy makes things just a bit greener.
Sauer Energy was founded by its owners, Dieter and Ana Sauer. It started with an idea Dieter had, which became the WindCharger™ VAWT. At the time, Dieter was in the financial industry so his concept took a couple of years to move from paper to reality. With the help of his family members, who became intrigued and involved in the project, the design was developed through early stages of prototypes and modifications. These were then tested through wind-tunnel testing. From dream to reality has taken four years.
In February of 2012, the Sauer Energy WindCharger was awarded the prestigious Project of the Year award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Buenaventura Section, at the 2012 National Engineers Week Awards. This award was presented at a banquet held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
The company started with personal funding and then went public, as a small cap stock (OTCBB: SENY), to fund the work of development. Recent press releases by Sauer (see the website at www.sauerenergy.com) include an announcement of a $15 million equity line funding that will enable it to expand its production and sales operations.
Last year, Sauer Energy saw another opportunity and purchased an alternative VAWT design called Helix Wind® in San Diego. The Helix VAWTs are larger and heavier and can generate more power in areas that have additional room for their nearly 8- to 20-foot height. Both the WindCharger™ and Helix provide a range of power and space solutions for all different types of installation and power generating requirements.
Sauer Energy is deeply committed to having its production operations in the U.S. In the fall of 2012, Sauer Energy chose to consolidate its operations at 4670 Calle Carga, unit A, Camarillo. This choice was based on the county's location along the "101 corridor," which provides an abundance of people resources (for staffing their growth), access to local fabricating partners and easy access in transporting of its goods, both domestically and, eventually, around the world.
Plugged In is a new monthly column focused on new technology in and around Ventura County and it will be featured the second week of every month. Plugged In authors Bridge Carney and Karl Geiger are chair and past chair, respectively, for the Ventura section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [IEEE], the world's largest professional organization, with over 800 local members in Ventura County. Please find them at www.ieee-bv.org.
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CAMERON (December 18, 2012)—Marvin Charles Williams, 44, of Cameron, was in the Milam County Jail Tuesday facing a list of charges after a theft suspect armed with a box cutter struggled with a Cameron police officer.
Police earlier identified the man as Marvin Charles Davis, but issued a corrected press release on Wednesday.
Officer Ana Lumbreras responded to a report of a theft in progress Tuesday at Mike's Convenience Store at 1003 North 4th St. where a man armed with a box cutter had threatened the clerk.
When she arrived at the store, she attempted to arrest the man, who ran, police said.
She gave chase and used her Taser in an attempt to subdue the man without success, police said.
Then the man tried to take her Taser away from her.
A second officer, Shelia Sager, arrived and joined the struggle.
She also used her Taser in an attempt to subdue the man who was finally taken into custody with the help of a Milam County sheriff's deputy.
Lumbreras received minor injuries in the scuffle, but did not require medical attention.
Davis was charged with evading arrest or detention, tampering with evidence, attempting to take a weapon away from a peace officer and resisting arrest, police said.


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I am not absolutely sure this is the correct place for this question, though I couldn't find a better one - please point me to a proper place if possible.
I am a 13 year old guy, I love technology in general, and I am most of the time programming. I believe I am actually a good programmer for my age, people tell me that too; but recently (not really, it was about 2-3 months ago) I have started working on a project which isn't really maintained by me, I am just a developer, and although there is no exact deadline, I think this is taking too much and I haven't done much (to be honest, I couldn't do anything at all), I mean, it's been half a summer since I started it.
The problem is I cannot start it (nor any other project), I either don't know where to start from, or nothing I do satisfies me. I can think of everything in my mind, out of here, but when it comes to writing the actual program, I just don't know what to do or what I do doesn't satisfy me, as I said, thus I either give up or start losing motivation to work on it because I cannot sleep with something insatisfying.
I do not want to live my whole life relying on others' solutions, looking up Google or calling other people to find a solution to my problem, or searching how to organise my projects. I want to be able to come up with creative solutions to solve my own and others' problems, plan my projects my way and have my own ideas & opinions.
I think all of this is due to the fact that I am a perfectionist, I think everything has to be perfect and perhaps I end up requiring things to be too perfect, which I cannot achieve - though, I don't know how to "bypass" this.
This all is probably just too subjective and doesn't belong here, heh.
EDIT: Just to clarify things a tiny bit: Planning the project is easy. I have lots of paper with plans for my projects. I get all kinds of ideas when I'm out of the computer. But when it comes to write it, when I'm in front of the computer writing it, it doesn't satisfy me - not the project itself, but the code I am writing - it bothers me that I cannot get satisfied with my code, although I follow various designs I see on web, I search a lot about designing code and laying out plans, yet when I am doing it, it doesn't satisfy me. This doesn't apply only to programming, but this is the worst of them, because that's the thing I care about and do the most (I'm pretty much all of my time sitting on the computer because there's simply not much else to do except watching TV :p), it prevents me from starting any project. I have projects, in which I am not the only one working on and have people expecting me to show them my work but I am unable to start it, although I HAVE the skills for it. I try to seek solutions for my projects design yet others' solutions don't satisfy me either, in fact some of them seem even worse.


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On behalf of the Somerset Teachers' Association I am writing to express our disappointment with the statements made by Somerset Berkley Regional School Committee Chairman Richard Peirce at a public hearing.
On March 25, Mr. Peirce was paraphrased stating that "the budget reflects a 0 percent increase for teachers and other staff." The STA and town are currently in contract negotiations, and this statement was made prior to any monetary discussions at the bargaining table. Mr. Peirce clearly violated our collective bargaining ground rules.
The teachers are completely aware of and sympathetic to the fiscal realities faced by the town of Somerset. In fact, many of our members are long-term residents of the town, as well as alumni of our school system.
However, it undermines our ability to craft an agreement that is beneficial to the town and its educators when Mr. Peirce seems to have his mind made up and makes inflammatory statements absent of any context in a public forum.
We feel that by making this statement, Mr. Peirce and the school committees are no longer bargaining in good faith regarding the issue at hand.
We are eager to hold discussions to meet the best interests of the students and town, but do not appreciate statements being made that mislead or incite our members prior to negotiations. Thus, we hope to continue the negotiation processes as attended with open and honest dialogue between the Somerset Teachers' Association and the school committees.
David Ashley
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*In Remembrance of Salina Fire Engineer Richard �Steve� Funke
When I tell emergency responders about the �old days� they often look at me with disbelief. Granted, there are only a few of us old dinosaurs left.
We started our career when air packs were optional. And there were only a few available � 15 minute sling-pack demand style.
There were no thermal cameras. No hoods. No sit down seat for firefighters.
We rode on the tailboard with the wind blowing in our face, hanging on for dear life to a chin high chrome bar. On snowy days we might hook up a couple spanner belts and do a little skiing on the way back to the station. �Old days�
Gloves were the mustard colored cotton jersey version. Medical gloves weren�t available because infection control hadn�t been invented yet. Mobile radios were just making their entry. Turnout gear resembled a heavy rain coat with thigh level rubber boots. �Old days�
I could have referred to the old days as the �good old days�, but we know that operationally it wasn�t good. What was good though was the camaraderie.
During the "old days" emergency responders had a tighter bond. I believe it might best be explained with an example.
Several weeks ago one of the old timers left us. His name was Richard �Steve� Funke. Many of us simply called him �Mother.�
Mother spent the majority of his career as a fire engineer for the Salina Fire Department. And that role was probably part of the reason for the name �Mother�, but there was more, much more.
You see the caring didn�t start or stop on the fire ground. It was constant, whether it was preparing meals, or just general concern for your welfare. That was Steve. We will miss him.
The "old days" � they weren�t all bad.