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Games that have developed a strong professional circuit generally consider resignation a courteous behavior. Some consider not resigning discourteous. This question is about the rest of board gaming: When (if ever) is resigning acceptable?
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Many people I've played with have a "See it through to the bitter end" mentality. Especially for some of the longer games, like Advanced Civilization, Pax Britannica, and Supremacy. Then again, in those, the game is multi-player, and one player dropping out will drastically alter the flow of play; further, all three have victory conditions that can change the apparent leader to a loser in even the last turn.
I see nothing wrong with offering a resignation, but I also often see it as discourteous to simply walk away.
My usual experience with resignations in long games is one of two situations:
On the other hand, while no one I've played with saw offering to resign as inherently discourteous, neither was it discourteous to ask the attempting to resign player to play it out in multi-player games.
I would say that resignation is perfectly acceptable as long as
1) It was preceded by a good-faith effort to play optimally.
2) All parties who are affected by the resignation agree on its timeliness.
The only times I feel a resignation is discourteous is when it negatively impacts people who were depending on your continued presence; for example, if Japan were to unilaterally resign from a game of Axis & Allies despite the objection of Germany.
It depends on the type of game:
Option 1 is easy: when you're playing chess, there is more honor (and a sign that you atleast understand the game of your opponent) in seeing when you are lost, then in playing on and hoping the other person will make a mistake. When I see I'm lost and I'm sure the other person knows he's won, I will usually resign. Unless when I want to learn from the other player, in which case I'll say "I know you've won, but I want to strengthen my endgame for a bit by watching how you do it" or something like that.
Option 2: for example in Monopoly, a resigning player could just donate his property to the bank, if the other players agree.
But there might be cases where the other players don't agree, for instance when the quitting player will probably be hitting one player's hotels the next turn - the other player may feel his odds of winning decrease when the player goes.
One small tip: if you do insist the game is played to the bitter end, take away the bitter. Grab something to drink and/or to munch on, make jokes, have a conversation. Thank the player for continuing to play, apologize that he still has to play but explain that this allows the other players to end the game as it is supposed to be played.
One thing to keep in mind is resigning isn't a means to avoid losing, but a recognition that you have lost - you just haven't finished going through the motions.
In a two-player game, this should be fairly simple - you resign, opponent wins, you start another game.
In a team scenario (like Axis & Allies), the entire team should resign as a group - if a single player just packs up and leaves, the other team members should be allowed to fill in the blank spot. (Assuming they wish to continue the game).
In a multiplayer scenario, it really depends on how the interactivity works. Dominion can easily manage a disappearing player, but Settlers can't. Generally, I'd err on the side of allowing someone to bow out, especially if he knows he can't win, but the ultimate winner is still unknown. If it's fairly obvious that someone is going to win (or if it really doesn't matter who wins), I'd rather sweep and reset than force someone to suffer through the remainder of the game.
That's funny, I was going to use A&A as a perfect example of a game where I would consider it very rude not to resign, although I was thinking about the Axis or Allied players retiring together as a group--I agree that one member of an alliance resigning unilaterally would be in very bad taste.
The criterion I use is that a player should resign when it's obvious that the victor is obvious but that achieving the stated victory conditions will take a long time. A&A is the quintessential example because of how hard it is to captured the "island" of Japan, Great Britian, and North America.
In a two player game, the time to resign is when it is certain (or almost certain) that the weaker party will lose, given the playing abilities of both parties. That could be a disparity of as little as two pawns in chess (at the master level), or a piece, major or minor, for weaker players.
There are some multiplayer games like Diplomacy, where a single player can "declare civil disorder" without substantially affecting the chances of other players. On the other hand, if you are part of a pre-set "team" (Axis and Allies), it's better to resign, if at all, as a team.
In board games played online that have score values resigning may be considered rude.
For example, if you forfeit in Scrabble Online, you prevent your opponent from scoring, thus ending their opportunity for a high score value (which is tracked and viewable by opponents).

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I don't understand wedge product and Grassmann algebra. However, I heard that these concepts are obvious when you understand the geometrical intuition behind them. Can you give this geometrical meaning or name a book where it is explained?
For a brief explanation of the geometric meaning of exterior product, interior product of a k-form and l-vector, Hodge dual etc. see my answer here: When to pick a basis?
The best reference for this stuff is Bourbaki, Algebra, Chapter 3.
I'm going to vote for Guillemin and Pollack's chapter of "Differential Topology".
Basically, a k-form should be something that you can integrate over k-dimensional submanifolds. And it shouldn't matter how you parametrize them. That means that there should be determinants baked in to the definition, since those measure how the volume changes when you change coordinates. The determinant of a matrix negates when you switch two rows, so a k-form should be antisymmetric this same way. That's pretty much it.
I guess Bott-Tu is one book to check out. But probably my all-time favourite is Morita's Geometry of Differential Forms.
Oh, of course there's always John M. Lee's Smooth Manifolds book, which has a lucid and thorough explanation of every single concept he introduces.
You could consider going back to the source! There is a good English translation of Grassmann's original work, which is all rooted in his geometric intuition for what is now called multilinear algebra and Grassmann algebras. Of course, you'll also have to suffer through a lot of metaphysical and theological mumbo-jumbo to get at the mathematics. But the mathematics is brilliant indeed. I have long thought that his examples were always more convincing to me than any of the modern texts -- although the modern texts have much clearer mathematical definitions! I really wish that modern texts were written with the mathematical clarity and rigor of 'now', but with the detours into motivation and intuition best seen in the classics (i.e. mathematical papers from the early 1700s to the early 1920s).
The best synopsis, one developed by a real teacher, is from David Hestenes who not coincidentally developed a relatively complete curriculum built around it, and an elegant symbolism. The outer product is simply the multi-dimensional extension of the notion of a directed line segment to include directed planes and directed volume elements. William Clifford incorporated this into the surprisingly straightforward notion of a geometric algebra, something that's been a dream of mathematicians for a very long time. In one of the truly unfortunate events in mathematical history, Clifford died of tuberculosis at the age of 34, derailing his ideas for almost one hundred years, and giving us the bizarre pantheon of often incompatible systems we currently use.
What does geometric algebra have for elements? They are called multi-vectors and they have scalar, vector, bi-vector (a directed plane), and - in general - multi-vector components. What Clifford defined was the product of multi-vectors as the sum of the inner (dot) product and Grassman's outer product. Geometric algebra is built up from this basic operation, and the rules that guide it, the key one being that the outer-product is anti-symmetric: reverse the order of the elements in the outer-product and the sign changes. That one simple rule turns out to be the key to unlocking one of the greatest advances in the history of mathematics and physics, an algebra for manipulating objects in space.
Just as a complex numbers "tag" real and imaginary parts, objects in geometric algebra are "tagged" by the basis elements which are extended to include, not just one dimensional basis elements, but multi-dimensional basis elements as well - those directed planes and volume elements mentioned above. It's an extremely elegant and very seductive extension of linear algebra to obtain an algebra that unifies the hodgepodge of systems currently used including differential geometry, matrix algebra, vector algebra and tensors. I'm not making this up, it really does this.
Geometric algebra also manipulates geometric objects in space without having to resort to coordinates. It provides what computer scientists might call a "wrapper" for complex numbers, vectors, rotors, spinors, and the physical concepts derived from those objects. In the initial paper I read, the third page was devoted to showing, almost off-handedly, that geometric algebra has an almost trivial isomorphism that is in every way equivalent to the complex numbers. But there's more. Difficult concepts in physics emerge naturally, almost casually, through the manipulation of geometric space using the algebra. It's greatest benefit may be this: It allows "specialists" to actually talk to each other. Who woulda thunk it!
Here are some links: Hestenes, D. - A Unified Language for Mathematics and Physics Gull, S; Lasenby, A; Doran, C - Imaginary Numbers Are Not Real - The Geometric Algebra of Spacetime Hestenes, D - Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics Lasenby, J; Lasenby A; Doran, C - A Unified Language for Physics and Engineering in the 21st Century
It can't be emphasized too strongly that geometric algebra is not just another technique. It is, instead, an all encompassing framework.
The best mathematical introduction I've found, to date, is from Alan Macdonald of Luther College in Iowa. His freely available paper, A Survey of Geometric Algebra and Geometric Calculus, is exceptional, but you have to be prepared to spend time with it. It is rigorous and comprehensive, and every page is a new adventure as you learn the operations of geometric algebra.
Macdonald also has a recently (2009) published book, the first undergraduate text to cover both linear algebra and geometric algebra.
Most books just introduce the formalism of exterior algebra and dive directly into differential forms, without really explaining the geometric interpretation of just the exterior algebra of a vector space. My recollection is that the book by Harold Edwards,
explains everything very nicely.
You could look at
There is a free pdf book draft which discusses Grassmann algebra from a geometric point of view, and without too much mathematical terminology.
I can recommend reading the book "Geometric Algebra For Computer Science, An Object Oriented Approach to Geometry". It covers not only covers the geometrical meaning of Grassmann Algebra, but even better, Clifford Algebra.
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"To extend the representational capabilities of linear algebra, Chapter 2: Spanning Oriented Subspaces introduces the outer product. The outer product of two vectors is algebraically a 2-blade. In its most simple geometric interpretation such a 2-blade represents the 2-dimensional subspace through the origin, spanned by the vectors, as shown in Figure 2.3 (left). An outer product of three vectors is a 3-blade, see Figure 2.3 (right). A 3-blade represents the volume spanned by the three vectors. Such extended geometrical entities are now basic elements of algebraic computation. We use the blades of a geometric algebra to algebraically represent all geometrical primitives. The scalars in a vector space are represented as 0-blades, the vectors by 1-blades, and the oriented area elements are 2-blades. In Part II, we will give enriched interpretations to these blades. For example, in the homogeneous model 2-blades are used to represent lines and 3-blades represent planes; in the conformal model 3-blades represent circles, and so on."
from http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5356:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra has some more pictures.
I think a good introductory book is Federer's book "Geometric measure theory", I remember the first chapter is on Grassmann algebra. Another more accessible book is "The Road to Reality" by Roger Penrose, you can check the chapter on Grassmann algebra and Clifford algebra.
The key ingredient, in my mind, is to realise that the Grassmann algebra of a $d$-dimensional vector space $V$ is concerned primarily with $d$-dimensional volumes of parallelotopes and that lower-dimensional parallelotopes are merely building blocks for $d$-dimensional parallelotopes. This is explained at length here: http://jmanton.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/introduction-to-the-grassmann-algebra-and-exterior-products/
All volumes are relative volumes. We act as if we do not know what the underlying metric on $V$ is and we only want to make statements such as "this parallelotope is twice as big as that parallelotope" if it is true with respect to all metrics, not just a single metric.
Since the volume of a $d$-dimensional cube equals the $d$-fold product of its side length, it is not unreasonable to hope that the (signed) volume of an (oriented) parallelotope is some sort of product of its side lengths. In fact, the axioms of a "product" of two things essentially agree with the axioms of a bilinear function, and the volume of a parallelotope is indeed given by a multi-linear function of its sides, leading to the standard definition of the exterior algebra in terms of (alternating) multi-linear maps. Regardless, thinking of volume as a product of lengths gives some intuition as to why the wedge product is used to define parallelotopes.
The notation $v_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge v_i$ should be understood to refer to the parallelotope made from the vectors $v_1,\cdots,v_i \in V$. If $i < d = \dim V$ then the "volume" of the parallelotope $v_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge v_i$ is always zero; keep in mind the key point that the Grassmann algebra on $V$ is a priori concerned with $d$-dimensional volume. Lower-dimensional parallelotopes are merely building blocks for top-dimensional parallelotopes. For example, we say $v_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge v_i = w_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge w_i$ if and only if, for all $u_1,\cdots,u_{d-i}$, it is true that $v_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge v_i \wedge u_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge u_{d-i} = w_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge w_i \wedge u_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge u_{d-i}$ where the latter means the (signed) volumes of the two $d$-dimensional parallelotopes are equal (with respect to every possible metric).
The classical results now follow from this. For example, $v_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge v_i = \lambda w_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge w_i$ for some $\lambda$ if and only if, either both sides are zero because they are degenerate parallelotopes, or $\operatorname{span}\{v_1,\cdots,v_i\} = \operatorname{span}\{w_1,\cdots,w_i\}$. It is a posteriori acceptable to interpret $v_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge v_i = \lambda w_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge w_i$ as meaning the $i$-dimensional volume of the parallelotope $v_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge v_i$ is $\lambda$ times the $i$-dimensional volume of the parallelotope $w_1 \wedge \cdots \wedge w_i$, but the underlying reason is that they behave the same way when used as building blocks.
The importance of thinking in terms of top-dimensional parallelotopes is that it is otherwise difficult to explain why $v_3 = v_1 + v_2$ does not imply that the length of $v_1$ plus the length of $v_2$ equals the length of $v_3$. In the Grassmann algebra, vectors and lower-dimensional parallelotopes do not have an independent life of their own but are primarily building blocks for top-dimensional parallelotopes. Vector addition in a Grassmann algebra relates to addition of top-dimensional volume, not to lower-dimensional volumes.
Even though finished in part. The book by John Browne Grassmann Algebra Volume 1: Foundations: Exploring extended vector algebra with Mathematica gives a very good geometric intuition of Grassmann algebra and its axiom definition.
My favorite geometric feature of the Grassmann algebra I encountered in Pressley & Segal's "Loop groups": algebra of sections of the top exterior power line bundle of the tautological vector bundle over the Grassmanian. Sounds a bit tautological I admit :D
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On Sunday, tennis superstar Maria Sharapova won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix for the third year in a row -- an accolade she adds to her four Grand Slam titles. (Pretty impressive, huh?)
Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised when she needed a couple extra days to answer my burning questions about style and beauty.
When she got back to me earlier this week, I was also surprised by some her answers. Of course she loves sunscreen (she just became a co-owner -- not a celebrity spokesperson -- of Supergoop!), but she doesn't seem to fully grasp her role as a style icon. Over the last few years, she's looked as good on the red carpet as she has on the courts -- and everyone from Vogue to Joan Rivers has appreciated her sartorial choices.
Whether it's a cool printed dress or sporty separates -- accessorized with sunscreen, naturally -- this girl's always winning.
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I was reading this question, and I idly wondered if there could be spaces that were globally Euclidean, but locally not, and couldn't think of any circumstances in which that might be the case.
As the comments have suggested, the question is a bit under-determined, but let me supply some definitions in a plausible way and answer it based on those definitions.
Let $P$ be a property of topological spaces. (Formally speaking this could be any "predicate", but it would only be asking for trouble if $P$ were not a topological property of topological spaces -- i.e., such that if $X$ and $Y$ are homeomorphic topological spaces, then $X$ has property $P$ iff $Y$ has property $P$.)
Then we say that $X$ is locally P if for every point of $x$ there is a neighborhood base $\{U_x\}$ each of whose elements $U_x$ has property $P$ in the subspace topology.
We say that $X$ is globally P if it has property $P$. Why would we say this? Well, it's a matter of emphasis, presumably by way of comparison to something which locally has property $P$.
Now define a space to be Euclidean if it is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^n$ for some $n \in \mathbb{N}$.
Now I claim that any space which is globally Euclidean is also locally Euclidean. In other words, I claim that for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$, every $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ admits a neighborhood base, each of whose members is homeomorphic to Euclidean $m$-space for some $m$. But indeed, for any $\epsilon > 0$, the open $\epsilon$-ball around $x$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^n$.
Note that in general "globally P" need not imply "locally P". For instance a connected space need not be locally connected, and a quasi-compact (non-Hausdorff!) space need not be locally quasi-compact.
In fairness I should say that some mathematicians don't like the idea that globally $P$ need not imply locally $P$, so they weaken the definition of locally $P$ to "each point of $X$ admits some neighborhood which has property $P$". I would call this weakly locally P and then it is trivial that globally $P$ implies weakly globally $P$: for each $x$, take $X$ itself as a neighborhood which has property $P$.
Yes, $\mathbb{Z}$ is one.
(Note: As pointed out in the comments, $\mathbb{Z}$ is technically locally Euclidean as it is discrete. If you are bothered by such things, replace $\mathbb{Z}$ by something like $\mathbb{Q}$, or the union of copies of the Cantor set. I think that, despite this flaw, $\mathbb{Z}$ is a better example of the point I wish to make so I'm going to stick with it.)
Of course, as Qiaochu and Alex effectively say in the comments, this all depends on what you mean by "globally". But before I say what that means, let me point out that "locally X" is not so straightforward. In topology, we say that a space is "locally X" if whenever we have $p \in U$ with $U$ open (or just a neighbourhood of $p$) then there is some neighbourhood $V$ of $p$ with $p \in V \subseteq U$ such that $V$ has property X.
This works fine with lots of properties such as connected, path connected, compact, and similar. When we put the word "Euclidean" in it, something is a bit weird. What does it mean to say that a space is Euclidean? We don't tend to define that. Rather we define "locally Euclidean" all in one go. It's like the definition of the limit of a sequence. We write $\lim_{n \to \infty} s_n = s$ but we never decompose that funny symbol "$\lim_{n \to \infty}$" and talk about $n$ actually going to $\infty$ in the same way that we talk about $x$ going to $0$ in the expression $\lim_{x \to 0} \sin(x) = 0$.
Well, except that we do. There is a way to make sense of $n$ going to $\infty$, but it comes second, not first. We could happily deal with limits and the like without ever knowing how to really make sense of $n$ going to $\infty$. But to know what $n$ going to $\infty$ means, we have to know about limits.
So it is with "locally Euclidean". We can decompose this, but it comes second. And the decomposition, into "locally" + "Euclidean", is almost determined by what "locally Euclidean" means. I say almost, and this is the point of the ramble, because there are actually two things that it could mean which both give the same answer for "locally Euclidean".
For "locally Euclidean", both of these give the same answer because any open subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ contains lots of small open subsets that are homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^n$. But if we replace "Euclidean" by some other space, this equivalence will break.
And so back to the original question. Why is $\mathbb{Z}$ globally Euclidean but not locally Euclidean? Again, we need to know what everything means. But now on a slightly higher level. What are we doing when we talk about "locally X"? We're saying that we can get out our microscopes and examine our space near $p$ and find that property X holds. By doing this, we effectively ignore a huge part of our space. In fact, we can ignore almost as much as we like (within reason) and focus down only on a tiny, tiny bit near $p$.
So what happens if we reverse this process? Instead of taking a microscope and examining our space really close up, let's put it in a rocket, shoot it off to the Moon and look at it through a telescope. Then, not only do we not see any of the small detail, we can't really tell if all that detail is there in the first place. The resolution of our telescope means that we cannot examine our space very closely at all. Indeed, we can't even tell if it is all there or not.
So when put on the Moon, $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{Z}$ are indistinguishable. So $\mathbb{Z}$ is Euclidean in the opposite sense to "locally Euclidean" but is (clearly) not locally Euclidean.
If you look for this concept in the literature, you won't find it under the heading of "globally X". That's because that would be too confusing a term. Rather, what I'm talking about is coarse geometry. And it's a lot of fun, and I wish I knew much, much more about it than I do.
(disclaimer: I'm not writing anything deep in this answer, but it might be useful for people starting to learn manifolds/topology)
I guess it would be safe to say no, globally euclidean always implies locally euclidean, although of course it all depends on how you define these concepts.
A (not very useful) definition could be:
From this (tautological) definition then it is obvious that
The converse is of course false: take the real line $\mathbb{R}$ and the circle $S^1$, the first is globally euclidean, the second is locally euclidean but not globally. If $S^1$ were globally euclidean then (by a general result of algebraic topology "invariance of dimension") it would be the one-dimensional euclidean space $\mathbb{R}$. But $\mathbb{R}$ is contractible and $S^1$ is not (or $S^1$ is compact and $\mathbb{R}$ is not) (or if you remove a point from $S^1$ it stays connected but if you remove a point from $\mathbb{R}$ it splits in two).
Just another attempt could be:
However, that would be again just seeking for some consistency pressing in some technical dress, so hmm I think best is still to stick with the luckily almost widely accepted aggreement presented by Pete Clark - though I like Andrew's view on these things although it's kind of vague.


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Does anyone think that if the Browns draft Robert Griffin III as speculated that Colt McCoy could get the axe? If so he could be decent backup material.
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is this part of the Rooney Rule or something? :D
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The thought of seeing McNabb in black and gold would make me puke, much like he did (allegedly) in the Super Bowl.
Its confirmed he signed a reserve/futures contract with us. Scary stats in San Fran
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waste of a signing ....
Why the hate for Dixon? He's started a whole 2 or 3 games but is labeled a bust. I'll bet you Terry Bradshaw is glad you weren't his coach early in his career. :wink:Quote:
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Dennis Dixon is as good as gone and we need someone to take his roster spot. also, I'll bet we signed Troy Smith to a very modest contract so there isn't really any risk in bringing him into camp and letting him compete for one of the backup QB positions.
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I am trying to use the aforementioned plugin with QGIS 1.7 and Postgres 9.0/PostGIS 1.5.
Added a PostGIS spatial layer w/out a problem and then clicked on the RT Sql layer button which displayed the main dialog. When I select Database-> , I got this error
BTW - the ...'s is the QGIS plugin path. Left it out for clarity):
An error has occured while executing Python code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ".../python/plugins\rt_sql_layer\ManagerWindow.py", line 112, in dbConnectSlot
self.dbConnect( self.sender() )
File ".../python/plugins\rt_sql_layer\ManagerWindow.py", line 163, in dbConnect
File ".../python/plugins\rt_sql_layer\ManagerWindow.py", line 272, in refreshTable
File ".../python/plugins\rt_sql_layer\DatabaseModel.py", line 250, in loadFromDb
File ".../python/plugins\rt_sql_layer\DatabaseModel.py", line 96, in constructTreeFromDb
list_tables = db.list_geotables()
File ".../python/plugins\rt_sql_layer\connectors\postgis.py", line 275, in list_geotables
items[i] = geo_item
IndexError: list assignment index out of range
Python version:
2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
QGIS version:
1.7.0-Wroclaw Wroclaw, 63ecdd7
I never used python in the past but I had a look at the source code and it seems that the query the plugin is running to get the spatial tables into a tree view is not returning anything? Had a go to running the sql statements in PostGIS and they all seem to return data. Then again- not sure if I am looking at the right place!
Have you seen this before? Has it got anything to do with the s/w versions? Plugin was developed for an earlier version and something has changed in the latest?


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I have been placed in charged of overseeing our DB and web servers (SQL Server 2005/2008.) Not being a technical person, what reports should I request on a weekly/monthly basis to asses the health of our database?
I am thinking resource useage (ram/cpu/io). Database size and growth rate.
Error log?
Anything else I should be looking for to be proactive?


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GUNDLING, George Franklin, 82, passed away on December 25 at his home in Wellsburg, surrounded by family with his wife Sara at his side, after succumbing to complications of Alzheimer's disease.
He was born October 29, 1930. He leaves his wife of sixty years, Sara (Finley) Gundling originally of New Martinsville, and was preceded by a twin brother Joseph Verner Gundling, who died as an infant, a sister Pauline Rice, and a daughter Cheryl who died in 1972 after a lengthy illness.
Mr. Gundling leaves 6 children his son George Gundling and wife Bonnie of Plano, Texas; his daughter Diane Gundling Cadenhead and husband Milton of Darnestown, MD; his son Mark Gundling and Debi of Wellsburg, WV; his daughter Becky Gundling Cheripko and husband Darrell of Darnestown, MD; his daughter Lori Gundling Feola and husband Dennis of Towson, MD and his son Mike Gundling and wife Jen of Yorktown, VA. 20 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
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Born and raised in Wellsburg, WV, the son of George and Annie Headington Gundling, Mr. Gundling attended Wellsburg High School and graduated from West Liberty State College, before embarking on a career as a high school Mathematics teacher and football coach at Wintersville and Toronto High Schools, while raising his family in Wellsburg.
A three-sport standout at Wellsburg High, Mr. Gundling was recruited for college athletics, but declined an opportunity to attend Mississippi State, after deciding his place was at home following the death of his father during his senior year. After working his way through college and graduating from West Liberty, Mr. Gundling accepted a teaching position at Wintersville and joined the football coaching staff. In his early years while teaching, coaching and raising a family, Mr. Gundling also played semi-professional baseball for teams in the Tri-State area and the Coal Miner's League, where he pitched multiple no-hitters and attracted the attention of pro scouts.
Mr. Gundling's coaching career spanned over 20 years at Wintersville and Toronto, including his final stint as the head coach at Toronto High School where his last two teams in 1980 and 1981 finished 8-1-1 and 9-1, narrowly missing the state playoffs each time. In over 20 years, the teams he coached lost more than two games in only 2 seasons. Mr. Gundling was the recipient of the OVAC Carl Hamill Award for leadership in 1989.
Mr. Gundling was an avid mathematician and taught advanced math and calculus courses, while also serving as the head of the Math department at Toronto. Combining his two passions, Mr. Gundling also formulated the official Ohio Valley Athletic Conference football scoring system to rank teams based on performance and strength of schedule.
In addition to his teaching and coaching profession, Mr. Gundling also owned and operated a store, Partyland, in downtown Wellsburg for over 45 years, and owned racehorses based at Mountaineer and Cleveland Thistledown race tracks. Mr. Gundling was an active part of the Wellsburg community and member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Wellsburg.
Mr. Gundling served as a member of the St. John School Board and Parish Council, and was a regular lector for decades at Catholic Mass. George Gundling will be missed, but forever remembered as a devoted husband, loving father and grandfather, inspirational coach, mentoring teacher and generous, beloved fixture of the Wellsburg community and St. John Church.
Visitation will be held on Thursday December 27, 2012 from 2-4 & 6-8pm at Reasner Funeral Home 1515 Charles St. Wellsburg. Funeral Liturgy with Mass will be celebrated on Friday December, 28 at 11 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Wellsburg with Rev. Father Dan Pisano as celebrant.
Interment will be at Franklin Cemetery Wellsburg. A Christian Wake service will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
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In "Foxcatcher," Miller spins another sports-tinged tale about the paranoid du Pont who's obsessed with the Olympic gold-medal wrestlers (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo).
Carell is married to Cohasset native Nancy Walls. He is originally from Acton but spends summers in Marshfield. He owns the Marshfield Hills General Store. Carell was nominated for an Emmy Award six times but never won for his role on "The Office."


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Is there a way to launch an application, such as Transmission, every time the computer goes idle (instead of sleeping)?
This is a very hard feat to accomplish, primarily because there is no specific definition of "Idle". The only programs I've seen to actually have idle features are Instant Messaging Clients and the recent Mac App Store releases of Growl. And those simply have a configurable time that goes off after the set number of minutes when there's no mouse/keyboard activity occurring.
There's been similar discussion on the Macworld Forums some years ago, and a specific post that essentially entails creating and running an AppleScript that will monitor your usage and launch an application when you go "idle".
In this case idle is only after 2 minutes, but you can easily change that to be longer if necessary. You will also want to modify the line to open Transmission instead of TextEdit.
Note that you will have to open this AppleScript and leave it running in order for the action (launching an application on idle) to ever occur.
Have you tried using Scenario? It is on the Mac App Store. While I haven't tried it myself. It seems that it might do what you need. Hope this helps.
How about Sleepwatcher?
"SleepWatcher 2.2 (running with Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.7, source code included) is a command line tool (daemon) for Mac OS X that monitors sleep, wakeup and idleness of a Mac. It can be used to execute a Unix command when the Mac or the display of the Mac goes to sleep mode or wakes up, after a given time without user interaction or when the user resumes activity after a break or when the power supply of a Mac notebook is attached or detached. It also can send the Mac to sleep mode or retrieve the time since last user activity."
To launch an app (using a command), you'd have to do something like the following:
Power Manager can be used to launch an application after inactivity.
As Jason mentions in his answer, Apple's implementation of idle time is difficult to predict. Power Manager uses a measure of inactivity based on user activity; this is easier to predict and more likely to be what you are looking for.
If the screen saver starting is what you mean as idel you could look at ScriptSaver which makes itself into a screen saver and then when it is called it calls your AppleScript ad a screen saver.


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Why is an aufruf (Askenazim) before and a shabbat chatan (sefardim) after the wedding? I know there is an idea of a chaasan going to shul from the Pirkei d'Reb Eliezer 17 but how did it get split betweeen the Askenazim and Sefardim.
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The reason for the aufruf, the calling to the torah before the wedding, is unknown to most people and therefore not kept properly. The Toras Hashlomim on Yore Daioh 192:4 suggests the following reason which requires some background understanding.
A woman before marriage has to go to mikva even if she has already been recently and is not yet a niddah again, because of a rule called "dam chimud" where the gemara assumes a woman who is proposed to, will become a niddah due to the excitement. The Toras Hashlomim suggests that the aufruf is designed so that the woman will feel secure that the wedding is really going ahead, because since the husband invests effort and expense in a small party he will not afterwards jilt her. This way, she will feel secure during the week that the wedding will go ahead and not come to have the issue of "dam chimud" when the wedding actually does go through. This is undesirable as some Rishonim (notably the Rambam) hold that nissuin cannot take place if she is a niddah.
So according to this reasoning, one should:
The Biur Halacha (136) provides a list of individuals who take precedence for aliyot. Among them he lists a groom on the Shabbos before his wedding and a groom on the Shabbos after his wedding. Based on this, the standard practice is to call a groom up to the Torah on both the Shabbos before and after his wedding.
Among Ashkenazim the Shabbos before is celebrated as the Aufruf, seemingly because the Biur Halacha indicates that in order to create a real obligation for the groom to be called to the Torah the community should sing celebratory songs to the groom.
As for the Sfradic practice to celebrate the Shabbos following the wedding, this probably stems from the idea that a groom is like a king and should not be seen in public without an entourage.
For a more thorough treatment of this subject (with footnotes) see Aufruf by Rabbi Ari Enken
It's not pleasant, but I've heard one scholar indicate there are sources that the original Ashkenazic custom was to make a big announcement of the wedding in advance to make sure this fellow doesn't already have a wife out there who's unaware of what he's doing.


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A value in the range for any base polynomial function with a y-intercept of zero can be expressed as: $$f\left(x\right) = px$$ where $p$ is the average rate of change between $0$ and $x$. The average rate of change can be in turn expressed as $$p = \frac{ f'\left(0\right) + f'\left(x\right)}{2}$$ where $f'\left(0\right)$ is the instantaneous rate of change at $0$ (or in other words the derivative evaluated at zero) and $f'\left(x\right)$ is the instantaneous rate of change evaluated at $x$ (or in other words the derivative evaluated at the specific range value). In a base polynomial equation (or in other words a polynomial with one term of degree $d$ and leading coefficient $1$) with degree greater than 1 the derivative evaluated at zero can be further simplified to $0$. This leads to a final simplified equation: $$f(x) = \frac{f'(x)x}{2}$$
This final equation however fails to provide the range value for a polynomial above degree $2$. According to the power rule, if: $$f(x) = x^3$$ then: $$f'(x) = 3x^2$$ According to the above derived equation:
$$f(3) = \frac{f'(3)(3)}{2} = \frac{(3(3)^2)3}{2} = \frac{81}{2}$$
which is clearly the wrong answer. What is the flaw in the equation relating the average change of rate and the derivative?


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When working with a wireless driver module, noise in the wireless medium is reported to the module as a s32 data type, which is defined in
I would like to use printk() to print out this value to the syslog, however when I do I get unintelligible results. Current attempts have been:
printk("%d", val);
printk("%d", (int) val);
printk("%3i", (int)val);
printk("%3i", val);
printk("%lx", val);
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I don't understand is how to format this for printing. I have also not been able to find any information thus far on how to do so.
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Chef Daniel here.
I love food. I will eat anything. Absolutely anything. Except duck. That's another post. I'm envious of Anthony Bourdain. What a job – travel and food. Yum.
I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. I still don't. From time to time, I think about it. The list is something like this – what I'm doing now, photo journalist, think tank-er, rich person with lots of free time, and chef.
I really love food. I love cooking. I love preparing, chopping, sauteing, marinating, grilling, and so on. I enjoy creating food experiences for people. It's incredibly relaxing and a great creative outlet. I often think about winning the lottery and enrolling in Le Cordon Bleu. It sounds idyllic. And then I could hang out with Gordon Ramsay.
Perhaps the greatest food experience I've ever had was on a trip to Singapore with my dear friend Despi. Singapore eating represents a complete fusion of global cuisine. Wow. I ate things I had never heard of, seen or tasted. There were moments where I had my doubts. Things looked scary. And some things I wasn't sure how to eat. But it was all incredibly delicious. Unforgettable. And yes, I drank a Singapore Sling.
Travel provides that authentic food experience. Which is a reason I love traveling so much – experimenting with local cuisine. One of my goals is to keep embracing these food opportunities so that I can bring them home with me. They can shape my food prep techniques. Travel can be my cooking school. I need to get going on that.
If any of you come across any new media, photo journalist, think tank, chef/travel opportunities that would make me extremely wealthy with an abundance of free time, please let me know. I'll give you a cut of the action. I'll even cook for you. But not duck.
I'm Casey and my husband Cody once took me to this place in Rochester, New York called Nick Tahou's Hots, Famous for the Garbage Plate. We had been married less than a year and aside from our honeymoon (which sucked-DO OVER!) this was our first vacation together and we ended up eating something called "garbage plates."
Cody wonders why when I request a vacation I also request it involve fruity drinks with umbrellas and food that does not originate from a garbage bag.
What bothers me most is that Nick Tahou's met every standard I have for the *perfect* hole in the wall restaurant, busy at all hours of the day, questionable appearance inside and out, salty employees and a crazy variety of customers preferably containing the elderly, college kids and some cops. The presence of local cops (or firefighters) at a hole in the wall is better better than a Zagat rating for me.
Dude, they even serve garbage plates at the New York State fair.
That's practically GIFT WRAPPING A RESTAURANT IN A TIFFANY'S BOX FOR ME.
Alas, I hated it. I ate maybe three bites and was done despite the old school lunch benches, the stooped over couple in the booth next to us, the employee that barked at me in a thick NYC accent when I dared use all the syllables in the word "hamburger." (Hint, at Nick's it's "hamburg.") Even the cops hollering at each other from outside couldn't win this place over for me.
I'm still pretty ticked about it. Mostly because a brilliant theory I came up with that is always! true, isn't always true. It's almost always true. I hate almost always, it's risky. Babies? Babies are almost always cute, face it, there's a chance you could end up with a dud, admit it, they're out there. Politicians are almost always liars. Really screws up the whole benefit of the doubt for the honest ones. Traffic is almost always good on West 70 after 9 am. Except for when it's not and you get stuck in traffic for several hours.
Don't tell Cody, but I want to go back. I want to give it a second shot. Maybe my tastebuds are dulled after eight years and just maybe loads of questionable food piled on top of each other, smothered in sauce, topped with hots and hamburgs and served with bread out of a garbage bag is delicious. It has to be.
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Earlier this week we asked our Facebook fans to answer the following question; "Are you concerned about the government spying on you?" And told them their response may be used in an upcoming article. Here are the responses we've received.
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Suppose we have some random variable $X$ that ranges over some sample space $S$. We also have two probability models $F$ and $G$. Let $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ be the probability density functions for these distributions. Does the following quantity $$ \log \frac{f(x)}{g(x)} = \log \frac{P(F|x)}{P(G|x)}- \log \frac{P(F)}{P(G)}$$ basically tell us how much more likely model $F$ is the true model than model $G$?
I am totally confused by the last comment made by Michael (the answer is ok, it is the link with logistic regression which went too far for me). Logistic regression is to be used when you have pairs of observations (X, Y) where Y is a binary variable (taking values in {0,1}) which is modeled as a Bernoulli variable $\mathcal{B}(p)$ the parameter of which depends of the value $x$ taken by $X$ : $\mathrm{logit}(p) = \beta_0 + \beta_1 x$. Here you don't observe a variable Y taking value 1 when the model if F and 0 when it is G, the model is fixed beforehand and would not change along the observations... and you wouldn't write $\mathrm{logit} P(F) = \beta_0 + \beta_1 x$. To me, this doesn't make any sense.
I will slightly reword Michael's answer, just to give you some additionnal keywords. If you have a single observation $x$, then $f(x)$ is the likelihood of the model F, denote it by $L(F; x) = f(x)$, and $g(x)$ is the likelihood of the model G, denote it by $L(G;x) = g(x)$. As you stated, the likelihood ratio $L(F ; x)/L(G ;x) = f(x)/g(x)$ tells you how much the data support F against G.
If you have prior probabilities for F and G, denoted by P(F) and P(G) = 1 - P(F), then you can write posterior probabilities P(F|x) and P(G|x). You have $$ P(F | x) = { L(F ; x) P(F) \over L(F;x) P(F) + L(G;x) P(G)},$$ $$ P(G | x) = { L(G ; x) P(G) \over L(F;x) P(F) + L(G;x) P(G)},$$ and $$ {P(F | x) \over P(G |x) } = {P(F) \over P(G)} \times {L(F ; x) \over L(G ;x)}.$$ This is as Michael stated an application of Bayes' theorem. The quantity P(F)/P(G) = P(F)/(1-P(F)) is called the odds of the model F. You can take the log of this last equality to get an additive statement, which is very usual (cf Michael's answer). The quantity L(F;x)/L(G;x) is called a Bayes factor.
If you have $n$ independent observations $\mathbf{x} = x_1, \dots, x_n$, the same thing holds with $L(F ; \mathbf{x}) = \prod_i f(x_i)$ and $L(G ; \mathbf{x}) = \prod_i g(x_i)$.
I was slightly puzzled by the notation, but I'm assuming that by $P(F)$ you mean the probability that $F$ is the right model, and $P(F\mid x)$ is the conditional probability that $F$ is the right model given the event $X=x$.
The identity you write is then a form of a special case of what is sometimes called Bayes' theorem.
If one assumes the right model must be either $F$ or $G$, but not both, then one can say that $$ \operatorname{logit} P(F) = \log \frac{P(F)}{1-P(F)} = \log(\operatorname{odds}(F)) $$ increases by $\log(f(x)/g(x))$ when it is observed that $X=x$.
So that quantity tells you by how much the logit of the probability increases when you observe the data.


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This has been bugging me for a while.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_division, if I divide integer $a$ by integer $b$, I get unique $t$, $r$ such that $a = t b + r$, $0 \le r < b$.
Furthermore, for any Euclidean domain $R$, division with remainder can be defined as follows: $a = t b + r$, and either $r = 0$ or $f(r) < f(b)$. where $f$ is the euclidean function of $R$. $\mathbb{Z}$ fits into this classification by letting $f(n) = |n|$.
My problem with this "generalization" is that $t$ and $r$ need not be unique. Is there a classification for structures which support division with remainder where $t$ and $r$ are unique?


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If you're looking at t-shirts some are available on woot's Amazon storefront. The card should be enabled there.
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The 22nd Goodguys Heartland NationalsWritten by on January 3, 2014 A Fireworks Kinda Weekend!
When I think of Middle America one word comes to mind…pride. Every time I traveled to the Midwest I feel an overwhelming sense of American pride and it makes me feel how lucky I am to be free. The word freedom means different things to different people and most of us think of being free as being able to do something by choice. For example, being able to drive a 400-plus horsepower classic truck that breathes fire and keeps tire companies in business is a freedom. On that same note, being able to take the wife on a cruise up a mountain road just to grab some apple pie is a freedom. Freedom is something that is taken for granted more often than not, that's why when we can enjoy our freedom in life we should take advantage of it.
The Goodguys 22nd Heartland Nationals was held on an extended Fourth of July weekend and was held at the Iowa State Fair Grounds in Des Moines. The Fourth fell on a Thursday, but the fireworks continued all weekend and blasts of smaller pyrotechnics were spotted Sunday evening. The show was not only a time to watch fireworks, grill some hamburgers, and have some downtime, but also celebrate the Independence Day with honor and pride. Everywhere I turned the American flag was waving in the wind and classic vehicles wandered the city with a sense of elegance and rich history of Mid America. So I'll ask this question: What better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than driving or enjoying pre-1972 classic vehicles?
On Friday morning, the rumble of 3-inch exhaust, open headers, and straight pipes lined the fairgrounds. As I walked into the show I was welcomed by the musky smell of old magazines and rusty car parts as the owners of the perishable items tirelessly unloaded. Moving forward toward the center of the fairgrounds, cars and trucks alike lined up to find a spot in the shade under the tall trees. Others tirelessly chased the chance to hold a Goodguys trophy, and for them, parking in the right location is key. I overheard a gentleman say he was getting ready for the show at 3:30 a.m. in the morning and how he could use some naptime. With the hundreds if not thousands of people making their way through the gate, foot traffic was high. Young kids with their grandparents saying, "Look, look grandpa I want that one!" And who can forget the overwhelming smell of fairgrounds food. Chocolate-covered hotdogs anyone?
Hidden behind a bar, the autocross was running full force. The crowd favorites were cheered on by family, friends, and onlookers as TV personality Tim Strange worked the mic. The gathering was strong and each and every autocross pass got faster and faster. Fun times were had by all and the weekend was wrapping up, but not before the awards were given out. Happy motoring everyone. See ya at the next show.
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Mark, Lana and Jesse Bowers from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, brought their 1968 LS-powered C10 pickup out to play."Grandma's Favorite" truck on the Goodguys ID sticker. Kent and Alicia Stricklin from Rolla, Missouri, having fun under the shade with their 1949 Chevy.Ron Ivey with his 1953 Ford F-100 was powered by a small-block 302 that looked like it revved to 7,000 rpm. I wanted to take a ride in this bad boy.Dar and Karla Vogelsang of Oxford, Wisconsin, had the hood up on their 1953 GMC and boy are we glad they did.
Want!!!!! I don't know if it was the carbon-fiber bed parts or the 4.6L Cobra engine that made me like this truck. Great job Steve Wendland of Lawrence, Kansas.Toss the kids in and cruise to the show. Gary and Nell Bohnart stretched their cab to make some more legroom.Kerby and Pat Wilcox had one of the most unique trucks out of the whole bunch. Who would have thought a 1962 Dodge D100 would look so good?
Nothing says more about American pride than this truck does. Rick and Nancy Domenge of Omaha, Nebraska, and their Blue Angels-inspired 1966 Ford.Ed and Kathy Lindsey with their 1963 Ford F-100 longbed. Check out the cool pinstriped horns on the hood of this truck.Mike and Sherry Pennington from Easton, Kansas, showed up Saturday with their two-tone 1959 Ford F-100. A modern Ford 302 powered this truck with all-wheel drive.Joe Wyles from Waterloo, Iowa, brought his really cool Hemi-powered '64 Ford F-100. He installed a Fatman front IFS and flipped the rear springs to get the stance he was after. What a cool ride.Pete Klucas of Top End Engineering built this '48 Chevy that was mind blowing. The details on this truck were so clean that the builder had to point them out. Four-inch stretched doors and a '46 Chevy car bumper were two of the many customized parts.


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The deuterocanonical books, treated as part of the Bible by the Orthodox and Catholic churches, are accepted because they appear in the Septuagint. However, they are excluded from the Jewish Bible, the Tanakh (and are therefore also excluded by most (all?) Protestant Christians). Given that the Septuagint was a Jewish publication, why does it contain books which are not part of the Tanakh?
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In Judaism the final decision of which writings (Ketuvim, the third part of the Tanakh) were canonical did not happen until at least the end of the 1st century CE. This was after Christianity and Judaism had largely split, and so the two groups made different decisions about which writings were accepted as canonical.
In particular, nascent Rabbinic Judaism made the decision to only include writings which were originally written in Hebrew (possibly with parts in Aramaic), but not books which were originally written in Greek (or thought to have been originally written in Greek). The deutorocanonical books are roughly the books which were popular among the Greek speaking Jewish diaspora in the 1st century, but were excluded from the writings on the basis of their being written in Greek (and possibly also excluded for other reasons). Around the same time nascent Rabbinic Judaism also rejected using the Septuagint in favor of only using the original Hebrew texts.
(A key search term to find more to read on this topic is the "Council of Jamnia," which is the name of the hypothetical council which made the decision on canonizing the Ketuvim. The hypothesis that there was an actual council is no longer particularly popular, instead people tend to think it was a more gradual process, nonetheless the name is still useful for finding material on the topic.)
The Greek translation of Jewish scripture (the Septuagint) occurred between the 3rd and 1st centuries BCE. The canon of the Tanakh was finalized hundreds of years later. The Christian canon was debated from the 4th to the 16th centuries. We have a tendency of thinking of the Bible as written in stone, so to speak, but the canon has been the object of scholarly debate and change for millennia. Catholic and Orthodox Bibles are generally based on the Septuagint, whereas Protestant Bibles are based on the Masoretic (the authoritative Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible), which was developed between the 7th and 10th centuries CE.
The Tenakh was not a book but a collection of scrolls from which Jewish scribes translated into Greek. What most likely began with the Torah (original LXX: 5 Books of Moses) continued over 200 years. During this period of time additional scrolls were written in Hebrew (e.g. Books of Maccabees, Jesus Sirach, Judith, Tobith) and then translated. Some may have found more acceptance, others less. They were read, copied, translated, allowed by some, forbidden by others, valued and forgotten. One can assume (for the 1st century A.D.: The closer to Jerusalem, Temple and Saducees, the less prevalent these later (non-Torah) texts were. In Greek translation they had a longer lifespan and wider distribution (in the synagogues of diaspora), and even more so after the Greek-speaking churches grew more and more and the Rabbis emphasized on the Hebrew text to clearer separate Jewish from Christian beliefs (and followers).
The answer for the question what texts (scrolls) the Greek scriptures (later named Septuagint) comprised, depends largely on the time and location one asks for.
Obviously the Greek translation of the 7 books in question, means they had to be translated from something. The Greek wasn't translated from the Greek. These also were written in Hebrew. The dead sea scrolls prove this. Also the New Testament refers over 350 times to the Old Testament and 300 of those references are from the 7 books in question. So obviously the Jews in Israel at the time of Christ, used these 7 books. The truth is that there was an agenda in place by the Jews and later by the Protestants for not including these 7 books.
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5 Computer Hacks from Movies You Won't Believe Are Possible
As we have mentioned previously, Hollywood just doesn't seem to have a very firm grasp on how technology works. So when it comes to depicting computer hacking onscreen, it's no surprise that the implausible scenarios Hollywood's tech-challenged screenwriters manage to pull out of their asses don't even come close to resembling the real thing.
Except it turns out that, every once in a while, they inadvertently get it right on the money. Because real-world hackers have done stuff like ...
#5. Jackpot an ATM
As Seen In:
Terminator 2
The Hollywood Hack:
Let's look at the classic scene for a moment: Young John Connor -- the kid whose voice sometimes makes you wish they had sent a few extra T-1000s back from the future -- jacks his Atari (yes, Atari) laptop thingy into an ATM. With the push of a few buttons and some fast-scrolling numbers on what appears to be an old-school scientific calculator screen, he turns bits into Benjamins in a matter of seconds.
"If you see any cops, I want you to mullet as fast as you can."
It's one of those scenes you just know James Cameron made up on the fly, because ATMs can't be that easy to hack in the real world -- otherwise, people would be doing it all the time. No, if real-life criminals want to steal money from an ATM, they need to go all low-tech and do something like steal the entire machine and get busy with a blowtorch, or blast it open with explosives:
The Real-World Hack:
Only it turns out that jackpotting an ATM is even easier than lil' John Connor made it look, even in a future that finds itself severely lacking in Atari laptops.
One pair of criminals in Pittsburgh reprogrammed an ATM to think it was dispensing $1 bills instead of $20s, netting themselves $1,540 in two days. And they didn't even need to plug in a laptop to do it -- they simply used the built-in keypad to reprogram the machine. Anyone watching them on the security camera would have thought they were just some of those people who hold up the ATM line when all we need to do is grab 20 bucks for lunch, goddammit.
The crime was similar to one that had previously taken place in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where crooks were able to reprogram an ATM thanks to the instruction manual -- complete with default administrative passwords -- that the ATM manufacturer had posted online.
But the demonstration of ATM hacking that really takes the cake was given by security consultant (i.e., "hacker with a job") Barnaby Jack at the annual hacker convention Black Hat back in 2010, where he showed the crowd how he could compromise an ATM either via plugging in a USB flash drive or by injecting his digital salmonella remotely over the Internet to make the machine spew out bills like there's no tomorrow. Barnaby Jack (we just love saying that name -- were his parents Hollywood screenwriters?) not only relieved the machine of its burden of holding all that cash, but also programmed it to display the word "Jackpot" across the screen and play a catchy tune. And he did it with style.
#4. Hack Traffic Lights to Cause a Traffic Jam
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The Italian Job
The Hollywood Hack:
In the 2003 remake of The Italian Job, the characters need to create a traffic jam as part of an incredibly complex heist that we chose to nap through until it got to the car chases. So Seth Green breaks out his trusty laptop and hacks into the traffic control system (over a public Wi-Fi hotspot at LAX, no less), turning green lights permanently red and causing a gridlock that even a zombie apocalypse could be proud of.
"I like two things: action figures and gridlock. And I just put all of my G.I. Joes on consignment."
This has to fall into the category of silly things Hollywood thinks computers can do -- that every single machine in the entire world is operated by a computer and thus available to be hacked from the Internet, as if hackers are wizards who could just shut down civilization if they felt like it.
What hacking looks like to old people.
The Real-World Hack:
Back in 2006, the city of Los Angeles was in the middle of some rather nasty contract negotiations with its traffic engineers. After the union representing the engineers declared that on the day of their strike, "Los Angeles is not going to be a fun place to drive," city officials decided to play it safe and blocked the engineers' access to the traffic control system.
But apparently they never thought about the fact that the people they had "blocked out" were the very same people who designed the goddamn system. So two of the striking engineers -- Kartik Patel and Gabriel Murillo -- whipped out a laptop just like Seth Green's (OK, we didn't actually check the model) and proceeded to hack into the system to make good on their threat to remove all the fun from driving in LA. Which, if you've driven there, isn't all that impressive a threat.
Anyway, using their comprehensive knowledge of the city's traffic patterns, the engineers chose a few key intersections and reprogrammed the lights to stay red longer than normal. This seemingly simple change caused a massive traffic bottleneck and several days of gridlock. So if you live in the LA area and ended up with a pissed-off boss or significant other due to traffic delays in late August of 2006, you have these two guys to thank for it.
"That's no excuse -- you should have left two days earlier!"
So now we're wondering if hackers don't in fact have access to every mechanical device in the world. What's next -- they'll just hack our cars using their iPhones?
#3. Steal a Car Via an iPhone
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The Hollywood Hack:
When infiltrating the bad guys' car-thieving operation in "The Boost Job" episode of the TNT series, resident hacker Hardison needs to help the Blonde One steal a shiny new BMW as proof of their mad car-jacking skills. So how does a cable TV series hacker break into a car? By frantically tapping on his smartphone, of course. After the token comedic moment in which he pops the trunk first by accident (you can tell it's funny because his eyes get all wide when it happens), the door opens with a conspicuous lack of car alarm.
We're surprised it didn't read "Car Hack in Progress" across the top.
It's just the type of lazy scene you'd expect a television screenwriter who's completely out of touch with technology to dream up. But we're far enough into this article now that you know what's coming next, right?
The Real-World Hack:
Yeah, you guessed it: In the real world, it works pretty much exactly like that.
You see, all those bells and whistles that modern cars come equipped with -- GPS, remote entry, alarm systems, rear-facing cannons -- are connected to the cellular phone network. Those devices have their own phone numbers where they can receive commands via text message, and unlike you when you receive an unwanted text, and can either block it or send a reply and hope the sender can comprehend it, since you typed out all the curse words in English rather than txt-speak, your car unfortunately doesn't have that capability.
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"May we recommend the more secure model, sir?"
Researchers at iSEC Partners demonstrated how, with a few quick text messages sent to a Subaru Outback, they could unlock the car, start it up and add it as a friend on Facebook. So in theory, a hacker could use a sniffing tool to listen for cellular traffic around a car and figure out that car's "secret phone number," then have complete control over it within minutes -- all from his iPhone. Just something to think about the next time you're drooling over that fully loaded model at your local car dealer.


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Conference Dates: October 9-11, 2003
Conference Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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MT. PLEASANT - The car wash on Market Street has sat unused for last five years.
Previously a profitable business, but when the owner passed away, no one took over to run it.
Steve Schubert, owner of Schubert's Storage in Rayland wanted to expand his business holdings and saw a perfect opportunity in the car wash.
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STEVE?SCHUBERT recently purchased and re-opened the car wash on Market Street in Mt. Pleasant. Now called Schubert's Car Wash, it's open 24 hours a day as LED?lighting provides a well-lit atmosphere for night washing. An outdoor, roofless bay also provides space for larger trucks and vehicles to get a wash.
Schubert purchased the facility in Dec. 2012 and has been working tirelessly to get the facility back in working order.
Now, Schubert's Car Wash is open to serve residents of Mt. Pleasant and the surrounding area.
"The building hadn't been in operation in five years," Schubert said. "The car wash was originally built in 1983 so all the equipment was in need of replacement."
And replace Schubert did.
He ran new lines in the control room and updated the washing equipment.
He installed new LED lighting at the facility so late-night washing will be easy for anyone unable to get to the facility until after dark.
The vending machines that dispense towels, air fresheners and wipes are also new. Drink vending machines will be installed shortly.
There are three bays open for vehicles to be washed. Two are under the cover of a roof and the third is an open-air bay on the back of the building.
The best part about this bay is there is no height requirement for vehicles entering the third bay. The hose is also positioned higher, allowing the washing or larger trucks and other vehicles.
Schubert knows with the oil and gas play continually expanding in the area, workers and companies are in need of places to wash their vehicles.
Schubert's Car Was has the space for the bigger vehicles. Plus, Schubert's aim is to keep the facility as clean as possible. He's planning to make multiple trips by the wash daily to clean out and mud and other debris that is left behind after customers clean off their vehicles.
"I am going to make sure to keep this facility cleaned and properly maintained," Schubert said. "People aren't going to want to come wash their vehicles and have to step through mud."
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In addition to the car wash, Schubert is hoping to expand his offerings in the area but didn't elaborate yet as to what directions he is looking to go.
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Chamber music > Chamber music with winds
Ludwig van Beethoven
Septet E flat major op. 20
編集者: Egon Voss
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Urtext Edition, paperbound
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ページ: 90 (VII, 21, 12, 12, 8, 8, 7, 7, 8), 大きさ 23,5 x 31,0 cm
"Send my septet out into the world a little faster – because the rabble is awaiting it". It was thus that Beethoven bade his publisher make haste in 1802. The public did not take offence at this rather derogatory term: Today the Septet op. 20 for Wind and Strings is one of the most popular chamber music works for a larger ensemble, together with Schubert's Octet. Our edition follows the musical text of the Beethoven Complete Edition. As the only practical edition available at the current time, our Urtext edition not only contains the original part for horn in E flat but also a transposed one for horn in F.
Mustergültig in Hinsicht auf die Musizierpraxis ist die Ausstattung der Stimmen mit Stichnoten und ihre wendefreundliche Seiteneinteilung.
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Henle editor Egon Voss has left no stone unturned in this meticulously researched and spacious edition.
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I derives from vol. VI,I of the "new" Collected Works, published last year. It is excellent that such editions are so quickly made available for performance.
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Cape Minstrels in Hout Bay – Flickr pic of the day
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HUDACHEK, Joseph (Joe) Francis, 51, of New Kensington, PA, formerly of Weirton, WV, passed away Friday, September 7, 2012 at Forbes Hospice in Pittsburgh, PA, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.
Born March 12, 1961 in Steubenville, OH, he was a son of the late Joseph Michael and Edna Garish Hudachek.
Joseph was a civil engineer, with degrees from West Virginia University and the University of Pittsburgh. He did his graduate study at Notre Dame. Joe loved antiques and art and was an avid gardener.
Joseph's survivors include his loving family: four sisters, Dr. Carol Hudachek of Weirton, Joan Hudachek and her husband Michael DiCicco of Shrewsbury, MA, Susan Hudachek of Pittsburgh, PA, and Jean Hudachek and her fiance William Bletzer of Grafton, MA; two brothers, John Hudachek and his wife Starla of Reisterstown, MD, and Robert Hudachek of Scottsdale, AZ; two nephews, Daniel DiCicco and Johnathan Hudachek; one niece, Gracen Hudachek; his good friend, Wayne Skufca and his cats Ash and Callie; and many other relatives and friends.
Memorial Liturgy will be celebrated 10 a.m. Saturday, September 15, 2012 at St. Joseph the Worker Roman Catholic Church with Rev. Fr. Manuel Gelido officiating.
Interment will follow in St Paul Cemetery, Weirton, WV.
Memorial contributions may be made to: Forbes Hospice at Forbes Health Foundation, 2570 Haymaker Road, Monroeville, PA, 15146 or online at wpahs.org/ways-to-give/ forbes-health-foundation/giving-forbes-hospice.
Because of Joe's true love for all animals, memorial contributions may also be made to Western PA Humane Society, 1101 Western Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15233, wpahumane.ejoinme.org/MyPages/ Memorial In Honor Donation
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