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Twenty-four Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Persian Farsi language students spent four days training and teaching 4th
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Background Example: Suppose you have Cartesian coordinates for $n$ different points $p_1, \ldots, p_n$ in the plane, and you want to find a point $p$ that minimizes $\sum_{i}^{n}|p-p_i|.$ (In other words, you want to find the "geometric median" for these $n$ points.)
Finding such a $p$ is trivial for $n = 1$ and $n = 2$, and well-known for $n = 3.$
Note that even for $n = 4,$ finding a general approach that leads to an exact answer is tough. For larger values, say, $n = 10,$ we would (in most real life situations) estimate $p$ using a computer.
But here's a way to estimate $p$ using a physical model: take a piece of plexi-glass, draw a grid on it, drill tiny holes corresponding to the $n$ points, thread equally-weighted wires through each of the holes (tie, say, a $10g$ weight to the ends below the plexi-glass), and fuse the tops of all the wires together. Holding the plexi-glass level, a minimal energy argument suggests that the final resting point for this "fused top" will be (approximately, because we're talking about the real world here) at $p.$
Question 1: Is there some way to build a physical model where you start with a $9$x$9$ Sudoku grid and its clues (i.e. the numbers filled in at the start) and then separately have all the numbers yet to be placed, and by "doing something" (dropping balls, something with weighted-strings, I'm not sure -- hence the question) release the non-placed numbers so that they "quickly" fall into place (e.g. as a "minimal energy" or "path of least resistance" consequence)?
Remark: On the one hand, Sudoku is "discrete" in a way that the aforementioned background example is not, which suggests to me that it might be possible to create such a physical model. On the other hand, the $NP$-completeness of Sudoku has me nearly convinced that no such model could be built. However, I haven't the faintest idea as to how one proves the non-existence of this sort of physical model.
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Fabulous girl!ReplyDelete
Love it! So cute! :)ReplyDelete
Gotta LOVE Ikea. Can't go wrong when you buy their curtains. They really look nice.ReplyDelete
They look beautiful! I *wish* I had an Ikea near me all the time so I could buy some window treatments.ReplyDelete
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My daughter goes to Ikea all the time..the Chicago one. I am amazed at what you can find ther. Your drapes are absolutely gorgeous...they DO make the room seem bigger. Isn't THAT weird!? I'd say that was one of the best buys I have seen! It looks perfect! Hugs- DianaReplyDelete
It would not be convenient for me to have to drive to my closest Ikea either {it's basically a planned day trip}, but it is well worth it for not only these drapes you got, but the hardware as well. There are many times that I've been looking for a rod that would span a very wide width window for a client job. Who knew Ikea?! This is also good to know for my daughter for her apartment and her budget is tight.ReplyDelete
They look fabulous. Love them. Great prices too. Hugs, martyReplyDelete
oh LOVE it! Great job saving all that muhlah!!ReplyDelete
they look perfect in the space!
Love em! They make the room look finished! And comfy and soft.ReplyDelete
It looks very nice!! So relaxingReplyDelete
what i really love is the harware and how the rods underline your quotes- i think it ties the quotes in much more now. the drapes of course are beautiful, too!ReplyDelete
very, very nice - i've already been scheming on how i can get a road trip in to ikea! i'm having withdrawal symptoms.ReplyDelete
a mere 4 hours to the closest one AND a state away.
Beautiful! What a difference!ReplyDelete
I'm dying to go to Ikea - I can't believe the price difference in the curtains from PB & there! They certainly do soften up your space, which is lovely by the way. And I visit your blog often but have never mentioned how much I love your blog header - it makes me smile every time I pull up your page!ReplyDelete
I'm sure you've probably figured this out by now, but you can shop online now.ReplyDelete
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He wants to explain X concept to the layman, not before warning him ...
Or should I write:
He wants to explain X concept to the layman, not before warning him or her ...
The easy (and for once not inelegant) solution is to evade the issue by using the collective:
EDIT Since use of laity in a non-religious sense has excited considerable comment, I note that OED 1 dates it back to 1832, citing the Jurisprudence of John Austin, a leading philosopher of law:
And for those who object to grounding an argument on the usage of a lawyer, I offer the greatest modern master of English prose style:
I would suggest either using layperson and using either him or her or them which can be used as a singular.
Historically, he can be used to mean he or she, but nowadays I think it's less acceptible due to changing tastes and English being a living, changing language. I've also seen she used meaning he or she and I think that's fine but inelegant.
I would use he or she/*him or her* or they/*them*.
The singular-they has been used in English for a long time, and I think ultimately offends fewer people than just he or just she.


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Q: Recently, my 15-year-old daughter's best friend's mother searched her daughter's room because she suspected her daughter was using drugs and stealing. She came up with a lighter, an unopened bottle of Visine (eye drops), and a diary -- but no drugs. She read the diary and found tons of information about other children and what they had been up to. She called a meeting with all the parents and told them about what she had found.
This has ruined relationships between her daughter and her daughter's friends. The two girls mentioned in the diary come from different homes. One girl is Mexican and the other is black. These two are the only non-white girls in the group. I think at the meetings the white parents are blaming the bad behavior on two kids. What advice can you give me to tell the other parents so this unnecessary drama can end?
A: What an unfortunate situation - all caused by a mother's violation of her daughter's trust and privacy. If anyone should receive condemnation for her actions, it's this mother. She "stole" her daughter's private thoughts and snooped in her room. Then she further betrayed her daughter and the girls mentioned in the diary by revealing her daughter's diary entries to their parents. Now it seems that all the "good" parents are getting together to discuss how the only girls who don't fit into their lily-white, upper middle class world corrupted their kids. I find this parental behavior to be morally bankrupt, self-serving and damaging to all the girls concerned, the two who have apparently become convenient scapegoats.
The tone of your letter and some of your opinions about this group of parents suggests that you do not wholly support their actions or motives. I won't tell you what to do about your further involvement with this group. I think that you know in your heart what you should do and why you should do it. I would follow your heart in this case and learn from this experience about the importance of not betraying trust and the ugliness of a "lynch mob" mentality. Thanks for trying to do what's right and kind.
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things seem to be going well with the lady.
they got a little more coupley the other night, like holding hands in public or whatever and cuddling on the couch with her roommates there. I'm still just going to roll with it and see what happens, but at this point I like where it's headed.
also we were walking to a bar and just kinda stopped and made out on the streets... I usually hate people who do that. but it was fun, I felt like a horny kid again who didn't give a fuck.
D'aw so cute! Glad you are feeling good about this. It's great being with someone you have that chemistry with.
So my Fiance showed me something one of the people he talks to online said. It was the most adorable thing ever. He basically said that he didn't care much about her planning most of the wedding because his goal was to make his best friend happy and all he cared about was the open bar and having his friends there. It's kind of nice to see guys like that out there.
The kind of guys that only care about their friends and free flowing beer and not anything else that goes on around them?
So I've been working my ass off and at work 12+ hour days taking a craps class (with 7 to 10 hour shifts on top of the 4 hour class) and it's been stressful, but is finally paying off.
For one I'm done with craps class tomorrow and I think I actually know the game pretty well. I've been on a live game a few times which is nerve wracking, but a fun game after you get past the tricky stuff.
The other thing is our toke rate (the hourly wage of our tips, which is where 90% of my money comes from) this check was higher than it ever has been. The previous record was our LAST check, and it looks like the next one is going to be even higher.
My flat hourly wage is $4.75, but my hourly rate for tips this check is fucking $15.98 and I worked 78 hours. So this check I'm making $20.73 an hour and it's looking like the toke rate for our next check is probably going to be closer to $17 or $18...
Still can't believe how fortunate I am, considering a year ago I was wrapping up dealer school to MAYBE get this job, and initially I was only working 16 hours a week.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a BUNCH of alcohol to go purchase.
Congrats CB, I'm glad to hear that things are working out for you.
I had a really nice moment happen to me yesterday after work. I take the bus everyday, and this guy that I see everyday at the busstop came up to me and wished me a happy holiday. He acknowledged that we don't know each other and that he's not good at meeting new people (neither am I), but just felt like being friendly and wishing me a happy holiday. It was just a really nice moment that I think will stick with me for a long time.
He's nice to you at the bus stop yesterday and then you drive to work today. What kind of message are you sending to this poor man? You're so mean, Puppy.
So mean.
I'd like to explain that my creepy level of knowledge of Puppy's transportation habits is only because I happened to see it on twitter this morning. I'm not, like, in love with him or anything.
That's okay, ZP. You can obsessively stalk me any day. I decided to drive to work today because there's a chance that I might be able to leave early and I don't want to have to wait for the bus if that happens. Plus, I knew that traffic would be really light today and that parking opportunities would be better, which they were.
I get almost 2 full weeks off work. Paid. This is gonna be nice.
Also, I lost about 30 lbs. this year. Almost down to 200. wooo
Jen and I have a busy week and with folks going away we did our gifts early yesterday.
She made me cry. She gave me a huge box with a note on the front expressing how she felt about me, from some of the early times we met or talked to when I rushed off to Blackpool to meet her, she even mentions it was the launch week of Diablo and surprised I would've missed the first few days of that to go see what would become what we have now, especially how shy and nervous we both were and I hadn't left my home for a long time due to depression and anxiety. That made me smile.
What made me cry was the frame inside the box. In the centre are two cinema tickets to The Avengers, which is one of the first things we did on our first day together, surrounded by pictures of us together. What really hit home was the extra pictures my Mom had printed, some with my parents, one with my Uncle Lump and the rarest of all as my brother hates having his picture taken, me with my arms round my sister and brother, all laughing and looking incredibly joyous.
It felt like a mark as to how far I've come. Suffered heavily for a long time early this year but still managed to fall in love with the loveliest lady I could ever wish to meet and that I still have my family, after I came (fighting tears to type this) very close to removing myself from any future pictures with my friends and family.
Two of the pics have me wearing a Destructoid shirt, so it's also representative of my coming to this site and how much that has helped me too.
She's a darling and I know she reads my posts (too scared to join though), so I'd just like to say I love you Jen, for everything that's happened and for becoming the greatest factor in my life.
That's awesome Edd, glad you're happy dude!
But why she scared to join? We iz lovely.
It's not you folks, always sensitive to new social groups and getting to know folks. Part of the anxiety.
Ah, that's understandable.
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I have a partial answer for the following homework and I was wondering if you could tell me if I have it right and help me with part (c) which I'm currently stuck on. Many thanks for your help!
Let the forcing partial order $\mathbb{U} = ([\omega]^\omega / \mathrm{fin} , \leq)$ be defined as follows:
Define an equivalence relation on $[\omega]^\omega$ by stipulating $ x \sim y \iff x \Delta y$ is finite and let $[\omega]^\omega / \mathrm{fin} := \{ [x] \mid x \in [\omega]^\omega \} $. On $[\omega]^\omega / \mathrm{fin}$ define a partial ordering $\leq$ by stipulating $[x] \leq [y] \iff y \setminus x$ is finite.
Now let $V \models ZFC $ and $G$ be an $\mathbb{U}$-generic filter over V. In the model $V[G]$ let $\mathcal{U} := \bigcup G$
(a) Show that $\mathcal{U}$ is a set of infinite subsets of $\omega$, i.e. $\mathcal{U} \subset [\omega]^\omega$.
My answer:
$\bigcup G = [\bigcup_{g \in G} g ]$ where $g \in [\omega]^\omega$ so for any $y \in \bigcup G$, $y$ has cardinality $\omega$.
(b) Show that $\bigcup G$ is a filter
My answer:
(i) $\bigcup G \neq \emptyset$: If $\bigcup G = \emptyset$ then $G = \emptyset$ which would contradict $G$ being a filter.
(ii) Any two elements in $\bigcup G$ are compatible, i.e. for any $p,q$ in $\bigcup G$ there is an $r$ in $\bigcup G$ such that $p \leq r$ and $q \leq r$:
Let $p,q$ be in $\bigcup G$. Then there exists $g_q , g_p$ in $G$ such that $p \in g_p$ and $q \in g_q$. $g_i$ are sets of ordinals and so $p$ and $q$ are ordinals, too. So either $p \subset q$ or $q \subset p$. Set $r := \max_{\text{w.r.t.} \subset} p, q$, then $p \leq r$ and $q \leq r$.
(iii) If $p,q \in \bigcup G$ and $p \in \bigcup G$ and $q \leq p$ then $q \in \bigcup G$:
Let $p,q \in \bigcup G$ and $p \in \bigcup G$ and $q \leq p$. $q \leq p$ means that $|p \setminus q| < \omega $ which implies that $|p \cap q| = \omega$ which means that $|p \Delta q| < \omega$ and hence $[p] = [q]$ and hence $[q] \in \bigcup G$.
(c) Show that for every set $x \in [\omega]^\omega$ in the ground model $V$ there exists an $y \in \bigcup G$ such that either $y \subset x$ or $y \cap x = \emptyset$.
Here I'm stuck. I thought I could do a proof by contradiction by assuming that there exists $x \in [\omega]^\omega$ such that for all $y \in \bigcup G$, $x \subset y$ but this doesn't lead anywhere.
Many thanks for your help!
$p \leq q$ reads as $p$ weaker than $q$.


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Why use need not instead of do not need? What does it mean? Also, why no to before be?
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Why use need not instead of do not need? What does it mean? Also, why no to before be?
There are two verbs need, which mean the same thing but use different constructions:
This need is a modal verb: it always requires an infinitive without to; it doesn't have do-support in questions and negative sentences; and the third person singular (he/she/it) doesn't have -s. This is the need in your example.
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Melbourne City FC can today announce that New York City FC's inaugural player and Spanish World Cup winner David Villa will join the Club for a period of the Hyundai A-League 2014-15 season.
Villa, 32, who was unveiled by New York City Football Club as its inaugural player on Monday, will play, train and contribute to Melbourne City FC's Hyundai A-League campaign between October and December 2014 prior to the commencement of the MLS season in the United States.
A prolific striker for club and country, Villa is Spain's all time top scorer and will play at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. He also lifted the La Liga title in Spain for his former club Atletico Madrid this year. Regarded as one of the top players in world football, Villa has won three La Liga titles, a UEFA Champions League title and will represent Spain at his third World Cup this June.
Ferran Soriano, CEO of the City Football Group, said: "We are very proud to have David Villa as part of the City family and are thrilled to announce he will play for Melbourne City FC in the Hyundai A-League this season. The sports fans of Melbourne can look forward to seeing one of the best players in world football representing their city when David brings his rare talents to AAMI Park later this year."
David Gallop, CEO of the FFA, said: "It is exciting news that David Villa will be playing in the Hyundai A-League 2014-15 season. The presence of some of the world's finest footballers in our competition, including a player like David coming straight from the World Cup, is an attractive prospect for spectators that further enhances the value of our game."
Villa, who will play against the Socceroos in Group B at the World Cup, said he was excited about the prospect of playing club football in Australia.
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As you all may know Roxie has mild hip dysplasia and somewhat severe arthritis in her rear hips. I have noticed that her right rear leg bothers her the most while walking and she begins to cross the leg after walking for 5-10 minutes. I had her tested for DM (Degenerative Myelopathy) and it came back NEGATIVE
After this news I went to the vet for a check-up and after performing some x-rays on her hips he put her on Tramadol 50mg (2 tablets per day). This transition to Tramadol went quite alright although the first night was somewhat rough. I think she was just confused as to why she felt "different".
Today: She has been on Tramadol for about 6 months now and does completely fine with it. I have not given her any type of aspirin due to the side effects it brings along. While the Tramadol still mitigates the pain, Roxie still has trouble getting motivated in the morning to go outside to the bathroom (this could be because it has been -5*F lately!). At times she also has trouble with steps and balance.
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I just recently wrapped up reading one of the best books thus far in my life, and if you knew me well enough, you'd know it's next to impossible to make that list.
John Kilmer-Purcell's, I am not myself these days, made the list.
Typically, I'm not one for gay literature, as I feel the characters' homosexual ways are often over exaggerated and the stories center more on the sexual acts versus the actual human emotions and relationships (think Danielle Steele versus Louisa May Alcott).
That's where John Kilmer-Purcell comes in. His personal living memoire tells his drag queen tale and the chapter of his life where he falls in love with a male escort. The book revolves around the relationship, not just the sex, and struck a deep chord with me as a gay male reader. Not just because I've always dreamed of throwing on a sequin dress with live gold fish in my brazier (read the book, it will all make sense), but because the emotional connection and feelings expressed between the two men on each page of the book, for once felt real.
The book can be found pretty much anywhere, but the likeliest of places in Vancouver is Book Warehouse on Davie Street. If you're not from these parts, then any online retailer or local book store should carry it. It's the perfect way to spend an evening or two, while we're all still waiting for the spring weather to finally set in again.


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I have a credit card (Citi AAdvantage Visa) that offers collision loss / damage waiver insurance on car rentals paid for with the card. My question: does this benefit also apply when I am renting a car outside the USA?
Does the collision insurance (CDW) benefit of a U.S. Citi AAdvantage Visa apply to car rentals in Europe?
It appears the answer is "yes". From the online card member info, I see that it is called the "Worldwide Car Rental Loss & Damage Insurance Coverage":
The Citi AAdvantage Visa does NOT provide "collision loss / damage waiver insurance" (CDW/LDW). Instead it provided what is called "Secondary" insurance.
CDW/LDW provide a "waiver" that you will not be charged for any damage/loss to the car. If you are involved in an accident (regardless of who is at fault) you can simply "walk away" from the damaged vehicle, and you will not be held responsible - presuming there are not extenuating circumstances such as you breaking a law/being drunk/etc.
This differs from the insurance provided by credit card companies in that with these you WILL be responsible for the damage. When you return the damaged vehicle the rental car company will require you to fill out paperwork regarding the damage, and will eventually send you a bill for the damage.
What happens next depends on the type of coverage that the credit card has. Most cards, including the Citi AAdvantage Visa, provide "Secondary Insurance", which means that you must first claim with any other insurance that might cover the costs first. This might include your car insurance (most US car insurance covers rental vehicles), travel insurance, corporate insurance, etc. Only once they have settled the claim will the credit card company become involved to pay for any remaining balance - normally this would be the excess/deductible/co-payment from your other insurance. There can also be implications regarding future insurance rate increases due to the claim, etc.
Some high-end credit cards do provide "Primary" insurance where you can file the initial claim with the credit card company, but these are rare and generally have very high annual fees.
Having just been through this process myself, I can attest to the fact that it can take months. My claim for an accident that occurred last July (rental car hit in hotel carpark overnight) is due to have the the deductible paid out by the credit card insurance within the next week - basically 6 months after the accident. This is very different to CDW/LDW where I could have simply returned the car and walked away.


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MONROE — Gabbie Holness had a monster game with 34 points, seven rebounds, 11 steals and four blocks to lead the Pomperaug High girls basketball team to a 70-54 win over Masuk at the Masuk Tip-Off Tournament on Thursday night.
Holness led a defense that made 26 steals, while Pomperaug only turned the ball over five times in the game.
"We had very strong guard play, and all five on the floor at any time can handle the ball," said coach Joe Fortier. "We were able to general our offense off our steals. (Masuk) wanted to play a halfcourt game, but we were able to up the tempo."
Fortier praised his guards for their unselfish play.
Hannah Metcalf had 16 points for Pomperaug, while Morgan Metcalf contributed 12 points, nine rebounds and six assists, and Katelyn Perrotti grabbed 11 rebounds.
Pomperaug will face Norwich Free Academy in the tournament final Saturday night at 7 at Masuk.
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Audra Spellman had five points to lead Kaynor (0-2). Barlow is 2-0.
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Login Page with Manifest feature and Webstorage.
I have managed to created a small demo of login application which works in online and offline mode. In addition to this i have tried to use Web Storage and Session storage . Hope some one could better it anyway.
You could find the database feature in Chrome or Safari under Developer in section "Storage" and could run SQL queries. It seems Online detecting feature is not working in chrome and safari browser, but works in iphone and other device.
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Unzip the folder to your server or localhost and view through chrome or safari. Using web developer tool you could access Database details under "Storage" Tab. You could also find htaccess file in it to Add mime type for manifest type.
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thank you for sharing, through your work I can understand touch betterFirst I would like to thank you for your time and knowledge
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Did you changed the path in manifest file also?
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Hi, i tried your login form with the latest sencha-touch release (0.93) and it did not work well.
If i set the safari user agent to iPad. it tries to show the profile page and page cannot be unmasked. the Safari developer tool (error console) points to ext-touch-debug.js line 13488 "Result of Expression 'item' [null] is not an object. I can see the profile form, but not the navigation bar and logout button.
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#4. Dracula Ants Are Worse Than Vampires ...
Your typical colony of ants is literally one big, happy family. Unless, of course, we're dealing with the Madagascan genus Adetomyrma, who in any other country would have insect social services busting down their doors. They would be like, ladybugs or something, with little warrants written on buttercup petals.
Members of Adetomyrma are also known as Dracula ants and have been called a "missing link" between ants and their close cousins, the wasps. To other insects, this is like being chased by the missing link between wolves and grizzly bears. You can already tell this only gets more horrible.
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Really? Things don't move up from "eyeless yellow demon"?
Not only do these unholy ant/wasp monstrosities murder you and feed you to their children, they then slice their own children open and suck your liquefied remains right back out of their guts. If a species that eats its own kids makes you think evolution forgot to carry the 1 at some point, then don't worry -- like their namesake, Dracula ants drink just enough blood to keep their victims alive and wriggling, to eventually turn into vampires themselves and continue the cycle of abuse.
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Scientists call it "non-destructive cannibalism," but we like to call it "evidence that hell is right here on Earth and it's called Madagascar."
#3. ... And So Is the Vampire Finch
Getting stranded on a deserted island can lead to some pretty desperate behavior. Grown men talk to volleyballs, children worship dead pigs, and cute little Tweetie birds mutate into demonic ghouls.
And the worst version of Hamlet ever filmed.
On four of the Galapagos islands, the sharp-beaked ground finch leads a fairly normal little birdy life of eating bugs all day, but on the two barren, rocky islands of Darwin and Wolf, the same finches have diverged into a ghastly subspecies nicknamed the vampire finch, which wields razor-sharp peckers to feast on boobies (we're still talking about birds).
Vampire finches depend on fresh blood for protein and moisture during long droughts, and the boobies have so adapted to this horror that they barely even give a shit when they start getting beak-stabbed by the blood drinkers. The finches, you see, are really just the Biff Tannens of the bird world, and all the other animals have just had to learn to cope with the assholes.
When they're not actually pecking holes in other animals, the vampire finches supplement their diet by eating bird poop, as well as pecking the feathers off booby chicks and even pushing booby eggs out of their nests to smash them on rocks. They probably also trash hotel rooms and steal candy from babies.
#2. Beetles That Eat Unborn Snakes
The life of a burying beetle is just marginally more romantic than that of those beetles that eat only poop. A freshly mated pair of burying beetles will actually bury an entire tiny animal corpse underground in one night, and the female spends the rest of her life chewing up rotten meat for her larvae. It's pretty goth, though one species has decided that it wasn't nearly creepy enough.
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Nicrophorus pustulatus engages in the "normal" corpse-burying ritual of its cousins, but whenever possible, it prefers to raise its young on a wholesome diet of embryonic snakes. If she can find a snake nest with eggs, the mommy beetle lays her own eggs near them, and the larvae tunnel into the unborn reptiles, eat them alive and use the eggshells as their own protective nursery. We're pretty sure there's a horror movie somewhere that tried to use a scaled-up version of this plot but was canned for being way, way too horrible.
This kind of predatory stealth abortion makes the female pustulatus what is commonly known as "a psychotic bitch," or in scientific terminology, a "brood parasitoid." And while it's a tactic shared by many other insects, this is the first known case of an insect parasitizing the brood of a vertebrate. And in the never-ending horror show that is the animal kingdom, we can only assume that snakes are just the beginning.
"We'll be up in yo' uterus next."
#1. Osedax Worms Eat Whale Bones (From the Inside)
In case you haven't heard, whales are big. The carcass of a whale weighs over 200 tons and takes months or even years to completely decompose. In the perpetual, freezing blackness of the deep sea abyss, a whale dying is like a zeppelin full of Big Macs crashing over Ethiopia. Entire ecosystems have evolved for the singular purpose of making sure no part of that whale goes to waste, not even its bones.
You might even call it a whale of a feast.
Forming over a whale corpse into what looks like pink fuzz are the countless tentacles of Osedax mucofloris, a relative of worms and leeches whose Latin name translates as "bone-eating snot-flower." We're not kidding.
Their microscopic eggs drift like spores in the deep ocean, lying dormant until the day they bump into recently exposed whale bone. On contact with the gigantic skeleton, they take root like plants, drilling into the bone with a network of fleshy tendrils.
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"You say fleshy tendrils like they're a bad thing."
Completely lacking mouths or digestive tracts, the worms depend on symbiotic bacteria to break down the fatty oils contained within bone, so technically, they don't so much eat bone as eat the poop of something inside of them that eats bone. That's right: Nature found a way to make the bone-eating process even more disturbing.
You impressed us once again, Nature.
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What is the number of families of $4t+1$ subsets of order $2t$ of the set $\{1,2, \ldots ,p\}$, where $p$ is a prime number which is equal to $4t+1$ and the order of intersection of each pair of the subsets is $t$ or $t-1$ and each subset has $t$-intersection with $2t$ subsets and $t-1$-intersection with the other $2t$ subsets?
Yes, equivalently, the problem can be stated as follows: We are looking for the number of $p\times p$ 0-1-matrices $A$ with all row sums $2t$ such that $AA^T=tJ+tI-B$, where $B$ a 0-1-matrix with also all row sums equal to $2t$. (Here, $J$ denotes the all-1-matrix).
It is not hard to find circulant matrices that fulfill the conditions for each $p=4t+1$ (why only for primes?), and each of them gives rise to $(p-1)!/2$ set families. But different matrices can yield the same families, e.g. for $t=1$, we can have
For $t=2$:
In fact, looking at the $t=2$ patterns that seem "complete", I'd conjecture that there are $\binom{2t}{t}$ essentially different such circulant matrices.
I do not know the answer. However, here is part of an analysis for t=1; perhaps some of it can extend for larger t. I usually mean set of size 2t when I say set.
Consider two sets with intersection C of size t. The complement of their union has size t+1, which specifies only one set which has intersection of size t-1 with the two sets. This means any other set that intersects the two sets misses C. Thus (as t=1) one can specify a structure by listing the locations of successive C's. In this case, it means enumerating 5 cycles and dividing out by cyclic and reversal symmetry, giving 12 such structures. (I view it as 0-1 matrices where each column is proved to have 2 1's.)
It may be that taking a matrix view will help with larger t.
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Income inequality isn't going away
A few months ago, there was some good discussion on the blog about the persistently large gap in income inequality. And though the Occupy movement no longer garners headlines, the problem of income inequality remains a core moral issue for many Americans. It is widely thought that Bill de Blasio's focus on the topic has aided his rise in the New York City mayoral race. Andrew Sullivan's influential blog continues its coverage of the data, which shows that just since 2009, top 1% income has grown by 31.4% and everyone else's has been basically flat. Our own E. J. Dionne continues to cover the politics of inequality, and the U.S.C.C.B. has not shied away from it in its advocacy.
Last time we talked about it on this blog, we focused on ratios of CEO-to-worker pay in a given year, and David Cloutier followed up with a longer analysis at Catholic Moral Theology. But the problem is about more than a given year -- it's about the long-term trend from the late 1970's to the present. Timothy Noah has called this period The Great Divergence, in a multifaceted analysis of the possible causes of the growing gap. To my mind, the long-term story offers a compelling moral problem for our time, and one without an easy solution.
A quick way to capture the "great divergence" is this summary of the Economic Policy Institute's report from last year, about which Jena McGregor at the Washington Post wrote:
Average CEO compensation, according to EPI's calculations, rose 726.7 percent between the years of 1978 and 2011 — more than double the percentage increase in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. Meanwhile, pay for the average private-sector nonsupervisory worker rose a startlingly meager 5.7 percent. ...
My guess is that it's this inequality that really erodes worker satisfaction and guts employee morale far more than the discrepancy between the top and bottom in any one year's pay.
I think she's right. Everyone expects annual ratios of 20-to-1 or even 200-to-1 in our form of capitalism. But the fact that purchasing power has not trickled down in the long run -- over my whole lifetime -- is what drains energy and optimism.
One feature of Pope Francis's pontificate has been a renewed emphasis on moral issues that had been thought of as peripheral for many Catholics. He has expanded the core of what counts as a central moral issue. But it's worth remembering that his predecessor had strong words on growing inequality, such as those quoted in the U.S.C.C.B.'s letter from Labor Day:
The dignity of the individual and the demands of justice require, particularly today, that economic choices do not cause disparities in wealth to increase in an excessive and morally unacceptable manner, and that we continue to prioritize the goal of access to steady employment for everyone. . . . Through the systemic increase of social inequality . . . not only does social cohesion suffer, thereby placing democracy at risk, but so too does the economy, through the progressive erosion of "social capital" . . . indispensable for any form of civil coexistence. (Caritas in Veritate no. 32)
Evangelical leader Jim Wallis is famous for saying, "The federal budget is a moral document." I agree. But every budget is a moral document -- from that of Wal-Mart down to that of each family's breakfast table. In a democracy, the problem of income inequality is everyone's problem. And it's not going away.
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The 1% earn their income from 'money makes more money' .... not job income. The rest have to learn and absorb this lesson.... . our system is built on "money makes more money'... a good job is one that allows the worker to start to learn 'money makes money' .. public workers may have learned this when their pensions have been very generous over the last decades.And better incomes at the bottom is the reason minimum wages must increase even if the hamburgers cost a quarter more. ..
No question that this is a huge problem. But it is ironic that in New York City where DiBlasio is making it an issue, the layoffs are no where near the catastaphies in other states. Much of it isdut to Manhattan's real estate which attracts so much foreign money that the prices will never go down there. Thus enhancing the tax base. On the other hand, Republicans do not realize that this inequality will diminish their party. This was certainly the message of the last election. Labor will get more members as the Middle Class realizes that its power is gone.
Ed Gleason: > our system is built on "money makes more money"
Classic capitalism is certainly founded in this manner, hence its name. But it is not a very helpful formula for those who cannot accumulate capital, and it does not easily apply to the lives of most of us, even if we were to subscribe to it as an appropriate basis.
There has been an interesting discussion over the last couple of years in Bruce MacEwen's blog adamsmithesq about paradigms for compensation of attorneys other than billable hours. Six months ago, I was passing through the airport in Charlotte NC, and having some time to kill I decided to get a shoe polish. The young man shining shoes was very engaging, but not very worldly. He said he had never been away from North Carolina, and wanted to know if I thought Atlanta might be a place where he could be happy. He was very concerned with the future of his young children. He had posted a sheet with rates for polishing different styles of shoes and boots, but as I jumped down, I would not read it at the distance, so I asked what the charge would be. He very naturally answered, "Whatever makes you happy." So I paid $20 for a shoeshine that, when I could read it, I saw was a nominal $6. Not because I felt sorry for the man, not because of some prior plan, but simply because it seemed a "happy" sum for the experience. And he took it in exactly that way, thanking me, not at all in any servile way, but rather as if $20 for a shoeshine were a level of happiness that he recognized, too. And I thought that, however different the context, it might work well as a compensation model in many transactions, including the legal ones of MacEwen's main readership ("American "Big Law").
" But it is not a very helpful formula for those who cannot accumulate capital'
If the education system taught and encouraged all future workers, that saving 10-15% of all they ever earn ought to be placed in accumutated capilal account the national income leveling could be done in a generation. Your shoeshiner ought to know to put 2 bucks of your generous wage in such a capital accumulation account. He was never taught how our system really works.
Forgive my skepticism. Believe me, I understand the political potency of this issue. But I really think that, if our concern is to improve the lot of those whose real incomes over time are flat or shrinking, this issue represents a juxtaposition of two facts (CEOs: getting richer; workers: not getting richer) whose cause-and-effect connection hasn't been established.
To put it another way: suppose boards of directors adopted a corporate governance rule that executive compensation may not grow any faster than the compensation of the rank and file workers in the enterprise. Wouldn't that seem just and fair? At least in the shor term, such a rule would effectively eliminate the growing discrepancy. From the papal point of view, it would also seem to have the potential to forge a bond of solidarity between CEO and workers. But I don't think it would improve the lot of the workers. Actually, I think it would motivate executives to go find a population of much cheaper workers (possibly in the developing world) who could be given larger raises every year.
Let me suggest that we juxtaposition the plight of workers to a fact in this Forbes article from July: "The 3000 corporations that make up the Russell 3000 index, which represent 98% of all publicly traded stocks, have over $3 trillion in liquid assets on their balance sheets." I'm probably as numerically-challenged as the next person, but I believe that works out to $1 billion per large corporation, just sitting there, earning interest (and given the reality of interest rates today, probably not much of that). I would rather see pressure brought to bear on executives and boards to take that cash and give their employees raises, and make capital investments that create new jobs. And as far as I'm concerned, set aside some of it to give raises and bonuses to the fat cats. If the enterprise grows and the workers are happy, I'd say they deserve it.
I apologize for the typos and misuse of words in the previous comment. I'll try to re-read and correct better next time before hitting Save.
…the problem of income inequality is everyone's problem.
Ok, I'll bite. What, exactly, is the problem of inequality? How does a rich man having less money make me a better person? How is my obsession with what he has any less sinful than his obsession with what he has?
Apologies in advance if I'm questioning what we're supposed to accept as an article of faith.
There are some things in the world that are intrinsic problems for people – say volcanoes or malaria. There are other problems that arise for people because of how they understand society to work. If there is a belief that income inequality arises from fundamental, systematic corruption, then that is a problem, potentially a problem for everyone if the belief becomes widespread. It is problematic whether or not the belief is "objectively" true," whatever that might mean. There is a significant portion of the population that considers tax advantages for the wealthy, laws that restrict labor unions, weakening of environmental protections and worker safety rules, etc. to be the intended outcomes of electoral politics that are fundamentally corrupted by our campaign financing. The rich get richer, demanding ever increasing "productivity" from their workers which they manipulate by laying off workers here and offshoring not only the work, but also the profits for yet further tax advantage. The representatives who vote to support the policies that make this possible are rewarded with yet further electoral donations, not to mention directorships and prized consultancies when they cross K Street.
For better or worse, a large portion of the American population (overwhelmingly in the portion of the population whose incomes and wealth have stagnated) believes in some form of the labor theory of value, whether they have ever heard of the theory or not. In fact, they were taught it as part of the Horatio Alger legend – their hard work will allow them to accumulate wealth that will permit, in fact impel them to advance to the level of Ownership. Except that is not their experience.
Those of us writing to Commonweal have overwhelmingly been through an educational system that has taught us (with varying levels of success) a different narrative: one of the Invisible Hand, in which homo economicus is a Hero of our system, and in which economic and ethical life are two entirely separable matters. Thank goodness we do not have to live as do those others, but it certainly would be nice if they were just bright enough to recognize that this is not only the way the world does work, but also should work.
Mark P - I don't believe you are biting so much as baiting. If your obsession with what he has is a problem for you capitalism as an economic model provides a solution...get more stuff. Any useful religion, on the other hand, has another solution entirely. Perhaps moving towards the middle would help.
Mark L - well said. I'm uncertain as to whether I am expressing a different view of one of your remarks when I say my impression is too many of us now experience capitialism as a religion. A sometimes vague, often intense belief we are doomed if we wander too far from its dogma. The thing of it is from Adam Smith to Joseph Stiglitz and beyond there are more than a few highly useful, readily available opportunities to a see capitalism as a set of constructive notions in somewhat specific circumstances and not a grand dogma at all.
There is a significant portion of the population that considers tax advantages for the wealthy, laws that restrict labor unions, weakening of environmental protections and worker safety rules, etc. to be the intended outcomes of electoral politics that are fundamentally corrupted by our campaign financing. The rich get richer, demanding ever increasing "productivity" from their workers which they manipulate by laying off workers here and offshoring not only the work, but also the profits for yet further tax advantage. The representatives who vote to support the policies that make this possible are rewarded with yet further electoral donations, not to mention directorships and prized consultancies when they cross K Street.
RIght - as it happens, I belong to the portion of the population that believes this. Not that this is the whole picture: there are still large sectors of the economy where the work-hard-and-you'll-get-ahead narrative still holds true; and the corruption of political favoritism isn't restricted to the wealthy - it also pertains to people in the working classes who have figured out how to pull the right levers, push the right buttons and grease the right skids (eg some public-sector labor unions). But it is reality.
So I think this is a pretty good explanation of *why* or *how* the rich get richer; but it doesn't answer the question, "Why aren't the poor and working classes getting better off?"
"Apologies in advance if I'm questioning what we're supposed to accept as an article of faith."
Help me out. Parse the Magnificat for me.
"Why aren't the poor and working classes getting better off?"
Jim P. --
It's because for many years now their wages haven't risen with prices. As inflation creeps up the wages are worth less, so the workers are worse off. Falling behind 2% a year for even just 5 years reduces the buying power very noticeably for a poor or middle class person.
Put at its simplest it's almost tautological: they don't have more money because they don't make more money. And they don't make more money because their employers won't raise their wages.
Complaints of inequality is not a matter of envy. It's a matter of justice -- of business not sharing profits proportionately with labor.
Always amused by those who *preach* about welfare queens, etc. Welfare is seen as any advantage or public good slant - thus, social security; food stamps; medicare/medicaid; healthcare reform act, etc.
But, a balanced, nuanced analysis (agree with Jim P) indicates that you can also define *welfare* in terms of tax advantages to the 1% (avoiding taxes at death; passing on inherited wealth w/o taxes; estate gifts for those who can play the system; corporations can use tax loopholes to actually pay little to no taxes; offshore accounts; the way the farm bill protects large industrial farm corporations and pays them not to plant, subsidies for their crops, you could go on and on) and yet this is rarely ever described as *welfare*. Compared to the 1950-60s, the 1% pay significantly less in taxes compared to other levels of income and some (most) of this can be attributed to *welfare* in the sense of an economic system slanted by Congress/Administrations to benefit the 1% as if they are entitled.
So, the 1% stack the deck; redefine *welfare*; and then try to reduce or eliminate the common good *welfare* by making folks look like they are *users*; *lazy*; etc.
MIghtBe/MightNotBe--Can you explain to me what a useful religion's solution MightBe to our unwholesome desire for OPM?
Bill--It would be impolite of me to answer your request until you've first answered my question.
". . . and yet this is rarely ever described as *welfare*."
Bill deH. --
It is sometimes referred to as "welfare for the rich", a felicitous phrase. Tells it like it is.
Aw shucks, Mark P., we both know ole' Pope Francis has just recently done a much better job of providing a useful explanation than I could. But, to respond to what I believe is the gist of your question, when fishing with rather light tackle one is more likely to find success by casting in the shallows. At the moment I can't recall which of the gospels made that very suggestion. Perhaps it was Pisces.
Mark P: you might want to read Christopher Hayes' "The Twilight of the Elites" to see a different point of view about the negative effects of income inequality ... and they all aren't on the large number of people who are at the low end of the scale.
"Why aren't the poor and working classes getting better off?"
The problem with this formulation of the problem is that it is false. The poor and working classes are better off. Think phones, TV's, computers, foodstuffs, autos, clothes, health care, etc. While the poor and working class may need improvements in all these areas, there has been substantial quantitative and qualitative improvements in quality and affordability for all these goods since the 1970's and everyones consumption of them. The rising economic tide has lifted all boats since the 1970's though, no doubt some are still scraping bottom.
MightBe: >too many of us now experience capitalism as a religion
Yes, that is close to my thought. But of course, if there were any Communists left, one would say much the same of them. And because we talk and think "theologically" in these matters, we argue from positions that have almost no room for compromise, or even growth.
What is really quite astonishing is that in America we are operationally (and often rhetorically) committed to the concept of economic determinism at a level that would quite astonish Frederick Engels, whether we see ourselves as of the Left or of the Right. A level that is utterly at odds with every Wisdom literature that has ever existed, never mind the Gospels.
Mark L.
"What is really quite astonishing is that in America we are operationally (and often rhetorically) committed to the concept of economic determinism at a level that would quite astonish Frederick Engels,"
Mark --
Indeed. I wonder whether the economic conservatives (mainly the right-wing Republicans) realize that in being such rigid economic determinists they share a lot with Marx? Irony of ironies, good ole liberal Keynes realized that long-term predictions in economics are impossible because there are so many variables that can change so fast.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm not convinced the elites that Hayes refers to are quite the same as the rich who are the subject of this thread. Some overlap, to be sure, but I don't think the woman who starts her own nail salon business, or Joe the Plumber, are people that Mr. Hayes would consider "elite." If anything, I think his elites are more likely to envy the rich.
What kind of society would allow someone who did not even go to college to earn more than someone who graduated from, say, Brown?


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22 Jun 2011 3:00 AM #1
Issue with cursor focus on Input/Textarea when an overlay appears (Android)
Sencha Touch version tested:
- 1.1.0
Platform tested against:
- Android 2.2 (HTC Desire): BUG, see description below
- iPhone 4.2.1: works fine!
- Blackberry Playbook: works fine!
- Windows 7 (Google Chrome): works fine!
- If an text-input element has the focus and an overlay appears (like a alert popup or even the selectoptions of a selectbox), the textfield is still displayed in the front.
- Use your mobile browser to navigate to the Kitchensink
- Go to "User Interface" ==> "Forms" ==> "Basic"
- Type some text into the fields "Url" or "Bio" and click on "Birthday" or "Rank" (maybe you have to scroll the page a little bit so that the overlay shows up where the inputfield is).
Tested in the Kitchensink:
...or with an popup in my application:
Last edited by basty; 22 Jun 2011 at 4:33 AM. Reason: Test this issue on iPhone
22 Jun 2011 3:05 AM #2
(Sorry for the mistake in the title. It should be "if" instead of "when")
27 Sep 2011 5:18 PM #3
Input box has focus when mask overlay is shown keyboard also pops up
I have seen this mostly on HTC devices. I have tried blur-ing the fields Ext.getCmp("id").blur()
I have tired disabling the form when the alert mask pops up and re-enabling the form when it goes away.
I am still seeing inconsistent results.
Has anyone seen this and do they have a solution?
Happens on HTC Incredible, HTC Incredible 2, HTC EVO
So frustrated....
18 Jan 2012 12:48 AM #4
I observed the same thing on HTC Sensation and Desire. Disabling the form before the MsgBox and enabling it back afterward solves this. It makes the code very messy though...
26 Jan 2012 2:12 AM #5
This also happens on scroll, on parent panel
When a text field has focus, and the parent panel(fullscreen) has vertical scroll enabled(lets say I have a panel->formpanel), the fields position is not updated. It will overlap the other fields.
Workaround: by "not" having the parent panel scroll enabled, and enabling scroll on formpanel
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20 Feb 2013 2:19 AM #6
This issue comes in Android 4.0.1 (ICS) also. The focus remains when we scroll and while moving to some other screen. The full screen looks messy coz of this issue.


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