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A study states that the average woman works for 12 years fewer than the average man, makes $300,000 less than the average man in a lifetime and lives six years longer than the average man. All combined, it means that women have to plan for a longer retirement with less money.
Why women need focus on retirement planning more than men?
According to the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER), in Washington, D.C.:
1. Three out of four working women earn less than $40,000 per year.
2. Half of all women work in jobs without pensions.
3. Women's earnings average $.77 for every $1 earned by men.
And, it gets worse.
Another study conducted by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies shockingly revealed that American women are not at all prepared for retirement. They are not saving enough to ensure a comfortable stress-free after work life.
Now that we've got your attention, here are a few handy hints for you to stay in control even at the fag end of your life:
1. Start Saving Early
It is very important to start saving early. If you haven't started yet, start now. If the company you work in offers a retirement plan, take advantage of it. The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) study showed that 52 percent of workers over the age of 55 currently have less than $50,000 in retirement savings. For workers between the ages of 25 and 35, the figure was a whopping 88 percent.
2. Educate Yourself
80 percent of the women and 67 percent of the men interviewed in a study by 'Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies' said they didn't know enough to feel comfortable about retirement planning. If you get the same feeling, don't be lazy. Educate yourself by various simple measures like reading up on retirement tips, reviewing the retirement and investing guides provided by your employer-sponsored plan and so on.
Understanding these retirement plans may also provide benefits to your spouse, so make sure you read and understand any waiver or consent forms that require your signature as part of your spouse's retirement plan distributions.
3. Diversify Your Retirement Savings
Putting all your eggs in one basket, is a risky business. Diversification of funds is most critical in retirement planning. You don't want your IRAs and your TSP invested in high-risk funds. Though they generate higher income, if these funds do a U-turn on you, you'll be left a pauper.
The solution is to invest some of your assets in stocks, some in bonds, and some in cash savings account. Try to increase your contributions to your retirement plan progressively as you move closer to retirement. This will allow your plan to grow over a period of time.
4. Thou Shall Not Touch Thy Savings
Temporary pleasures such as vacations home improvement etc might tempt you to pluck your budding savings. No matter how much pleasure you derive from that money now, it will cost you dearly. Withdrawing money from your IRA means you'll pay income tax and also 10% penalty if you are under the age of 59½. Taking money out of your retirement savings, also decreases the amount of your investment that's allowed to grow tax-deferred. So it is in your best interest to leave that money untouched till maturity of the scheme.
5. Postpone Your Retirement
If, after various calculations and efforts, you still find yourself not where you expected, and you think that you might have to compromise on your lifestyle after retirement, then revise your goals, or better , work longer. A few extra years on the job, will help you generate more savings.
With these simple retirement tips, you should experience a comfortable retirement without worry.
This story was originally published on 2009-08-05.


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WESTPORT, Aug 24 (Reuters Health) - Mice lacking the catalytic subunit of the lipid kinase phosphoinositide-3-OH kinase (PI(3)K) spontaneously develop invasive colorectal cancer, suggesting that the protein is a tumor suppressor, researchers report.
The results were a complete surprise, Dr. Josef M. Penninger, of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, told Reuters Health.
"If we would have talked to 100 researchers who work in this field, they would have thought that the opposite would happen," he said. PI(3)K normally promotes cell growth and inhibits cell death, so it seemed likely that it would promote tumors rather than suppress them. There was also no evidence linking this protein to colorectal cancers, he pointed out.
As they describe in the August 24th issue of Nature, Dr. Penninger and colleagues created mice lacking the p110-gamma catalytic subunit of PI(3)K. These animals had shorter lifespans due to progressive weight loss and the development of colorectal cancers.
The cancers represented various stages of transformation ranging from benign polyps to metastatic carcinoma, Dr. Penninger noted. The tumors looked very similar to human cancers and were also in similar areas of the colon, he noted. Interestingly, the cancers were not associated with mutations or the loss of other genes previously implicated in the development of colorectal cancer.
"It looks like the single mutation did the trick," he said, noting that this did not rule out secondary mutations in other unknown genes.
To look at the relevance of p110-gamma in human tumors, the researchers looked at eight human colon cancer lines and found that none expressed detectable levels of p110-gamma protein. The protein was also undetectable in 3 of 12 primary adenocarcinomas isolated from patients.
The team then added the gene to several human colon cancer lines already harboring mutations in other genes associated with colorectal cancer. Adding either the normal gene or even a catalytically inactive form of the gene inhibited colony formation in vitro and tumor formation in mice, they report.
"It regulates the growth of cancer cells. So, basically, it's a new tumor suppressor for colon cancer," Dr. Penninger concluded. "Even if you have a mutation in other tumor suppressors you can still turn on another brake and cells stop growing. So this is quite nice for the future, I think, because it means if you have two or three mutations, it's not your death sentence. You might still be able to turn on the pathway which is still working."
Why the lack of p110-gamma leads specifically to colorectal cancer is still an open question, but Dr. Penninger suggested that other cancers may take longer to develop.
In the journal, he and colleagues point out that mice deficient in the G-alpha-i2 gene also develop colorectal cancer, and suggest that the G-alpha-i2 protein may be coupled to p110-gamma through a G-protein coupled receptor. "Identification of such a G-protein coupled receptor and downstream signaling pathway that control differentiation and proliferation of intestinal epithelial cells may be helpful in the design of novel strategies for colon cancer treatment," they write.
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I'm new to Oracle databases. I have used to SQL Server and the description fields (MS_Description) for tables and columns for documentation purposes. Is there an equivalent for Oracle? What is the best practice for documenting Oracle database?
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In Oracle, you would use the COMMENT command to:
Most tools (PL/SQL Developer, Toad...) will display these comments in appropriate fields when you browse the database schema.
The comments can be queried directly with the
In Oracle there are table and column comments that can be used for documentation.
These comments can easily be added by the following commands:
Oracle exposes its data dictionary through views. You can use these views to query the information you need.
The main views that you'll need to use are:
There are also
If you need to do it within Oracle database then comment command is your answer. But there are couple of disadvantages of documenting schema that way:
I'd recommend storing documentation in dedicated repository - check Dataedo database documentation tool. It reads schema (and existing comments) and lets you describe every item with rich text and images (for your ERD diagrams). You can then export to nice PDF document or interactive HTML. When schema changes you can sync your documentation with couple clicks.


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I accidentally grabbed the toasted sesame seed oil instead of balsamic vinegar and it was incredible. I'll still have to try it with balsamic vinegar but that was hard to beat. I loved it.
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Roasting isn't usually the first cooking method you think of for cauliflower but the results are quite delicious. The florets are cut into thick slices and tossed with extra-virgin olive oil and herbs. Wherever the flat surfaces come into contact with the hot roasting pan, a deep browning occurs that results in a sweet, nutty flavor.
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Hi, I am using an intel Mac with OSX 10.4.9. My system says that I already have Java installed (it supposedly includes the SDK). I downloaded the newest lejos verion (2.1.0) and renamed it lejos_nxt and put it in applications folder.
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Pretty much anyone who does algebra is familiar with group objects in categories, but what about cogroup objects? Most of what I've been able to find about them is that they "arise naturally in algebraic topology" (from wikipedia) and that, somehow, the n-sphere is one (nLab's meager entry). Is there a reference for more on the stuff? Specifically wondering if the spaces of pointed maps from a topological space X to a pointed sphere are cogroups, and if anything is known about these "cohomotopy groups."
Spheres are (homotopy) cogroups for the same reason that homotopy groups are groups. The comultiplication S^n \to S^n \vee S^n is the map that collapses the equator, the same map that is used to define composition in homotopy groups. Note that this only satisfies the cogroup axioms up to homotopy, just as composition in the homotopy group is only a group operation because you are taking homotopy classes.
However, Maps(X,S^n) does not inherit a natural cogroup structure from S^n, because Maps(X,S^n \vee S^n) does not naturally map to Maps(X,S^n) \vee Maps(X,S^n). However, there is something called (stable) cohomotopy groups: these are stable homotopy classes of maps from X to S^n. This is a cohomology theory, the cohomology theory associated to the sphere spectrum. This cohomology theory is very hard to compute though; its value on a point is the stable homotopy groups of spheres!
The way you can get a cogroup from a sphere and an arbitrary space is by taking smash products, rather than mapping spaces: for any X, X \wedge S^n (which is the n-fold suspension of X) is a homotopy cogroup. You can see this by using the same "collapse the equator" map on the suspension, or you can see it more categorically from the fact that we have a map X \wedge S^n \to X \wedge (S^n \vee S^n) = (X \wedge S^n) \vee (X \wedge S^n). More generally, if C is a cogroup, so is X \wedge C for any X (and Maps(C,X) is a group), and if G is a group, so is Maps(X,G) for any X.
You may be thinking maps into a cogroup object should form a cogroup the way maps into a group object form a group. This isn't quite true; the "correct" analog is that maps out of a cogroup object form a group.
More precisely, if G is an object in a category and D is its group object diagram, then applying the functor Hom(X,-) to D yields a group object diagram making Hom(X,G) into a group. Essential here is the fact that Hom(X,-) preserves products (in fact all limits); it does not generally preserve coproducts, which is why in general one would not expect Hom(X,S) to inherit a cogroup structure from a cogroup structure on S. Hopefully this addresses your ponderings about the possibility of "cohomotopy groups".
The dual statement is true for cogroups: if S is a cogroup, applying Hom(-,X) to its cogroup diagram yields a diagram defining a group structure on Hom(S,X). Here, dually, it's essential that Hom(-,X) turns coproducts into products (in fact all colimits into corresponding limits); it does not generally turn products in coproducts.
This makes precise the relationship of the cogroup structure on the spheres to homotopy groups: if you work through the example of Sn and see how its cogroup structure makes Hom(Sn,,X) into a group after applying Hom(-,X), you'll get exactly the nth homotopy group of X :)
This is less of an answer and more of a bit of bickering about terminology. I think that the word "group object" rightly means the following:
If you want, you can consider the unit and inversion maps as part of the data. What's important in the word "group object" is that it is in a Cartesian category, i.e. a category with products. The object 1 is any choice of terminal object for the category.
From this perspective, the most obvious notion of "cogroup object" is:
But this is a rather problemmatic definition. First of all, by definition there is a unique map G → 1 for any object G. Second, there is a unique coassiciative map G → G x G; it is given by the diagonal map, which is the element of Hom(G,GxG) corresponding to (id,id) ∈ Hom(G,G) x Hom(G,G). (Remember that the definition of Cartesian product is that for any H there is a natural isomorphism Hom(H,GxG) = Hom(H,G) x Hom(H,G).) So every object of a Cartesian category is a "counital cosemigroup" in a unique way. Finally, it's rather hard to write down exactly what the inversion axiom should say.
Well, so the problem is that we're trying to use the Cartesian structure. So Wikipedia and elsewhere adopt the only nontrivial definition, which is to say that for cogroups you should use the coproduct, not the product, so you should ask for a map G → G + G. I think this is the question you're asking about. I guess I would word it "are the any natural categories C with interesting group objects in Cop?", since this definition of "cogroup object" really is "group object in the opposite category".
Finally, I'll mention that certain related constructions do show up all the time. There are good words "algebra" and "coalgebra", which refer to objects in categories with designated monoidal structures (e.g. tensor product in VECT). What's cool is that to make sense of the inverse map's axiom when you aren't using either the product (for groups) or the coproduct (for cogroups), you actually need all the data of a "bialgebra". So the correct notions of "group" and "cogroup" coincide when you give up on categorical (co)products, and become the word "Hopf algebra".
It seems to me that there is still something to say here.
Suppose C is a category. Then we have the Yoneda functor C(X,-) from C to Sets.
A cogroup structure on X is a lift of this functor to a functor to Groups. If C has finite coproducts, but NOT otherwise, this is equivalent to a counit map X --> 0, where 0 is the initial object, NOT the terminal object as previously stated, a comultiplication map
X --> X + X (where + denotes the coproduct)
and a coinverse map X --> X, making the usual diagrams commute.
Obviously, there are no cogroups in any category where the empty set is the initial object, such as Set or Top. If you use pointed sets of spaces, you might have a chance.
But the best example is in the category of commutative k-algebras, where k is a field. A cogroup object is then just a Hopf algebra, and these appear all over mathematics. You might know them under the name affine group schemes, because a cogroup object in commutative k-algebras is the same thing as a group object in the opposite category of affine schemes over k.
A nice example is GL(n). As a commutative ring this is the polynomial algebra on the n^2 entries in the matrix, with the determinant polynomial inverted. The counit is dual to the identity matrix, so it takes the generator x sub ij to 0 if i is not j, and 1 if it is. The comultiplication is dual to matrix multiplication, so it takes x sub ij to the sum of
x sub ik tensor x sub kj .
The coinverse is dual to the inverse matrix, so x sub ij goes to the formula for the ij-entry of the inverse.
Eric already explained exactly how the suspension of a space and in particular S1 is a cogroup object in the homotopy category of pointed spaces. I'll just point out that we know it must be one, by Yoneda, because the functor it corepresents [S1, –] = π1 is group-valued.
This isn't a homotopy theory answer, but the most widely used type of cogroup in mathematics is an algebraic group. An algebraic group is a cogroup object in the category of commutative rings, or in particular commutative algebras over a field. What is important in this case is that people care a lot about the opposite category, the category of affine schemes, or in the field case affine algebraic varieties. People care just as much about schemes and algebraic varieties in general, but if you want the algebraic groups analogue of connected semisimple Lie groups, then all examples are affine.
In my view, any time you endorse a co(something fancy) object in a category, you are really endorsing the opposite category in general. Of course, at the formal level a category and its opposite category have exactly the same information, but conceptually it's a big leap. For example, non-commutative geometry is largely the study of the opposite category of non-commutative rings. Although in this case, people (correctly) use Hopf algebras as if they were cogroup objects, but they aren't! The tensor product operation on non-commutative algebras is not a coproduct.
Just to round things off, the statement "maps into a group object form a group" means that when we have a group object, say G, in some category then the hom set Hom(X,G) can be given the structure of a group. That is, Hom(X,G) is the underlying set of a group (and this is all natural in X, etc). If you try to make the analogous statement "maps into/out of a cogroup object form a cogroup" then you are looking for a way to make Hom(X,G) or Hom(G,X) into a cogroup. This is either trivial or can't be done, depending on how you interpret "cogroup".
If "cogroup" means "turn the maps for group around" then, as Theo says, this is just "sets with an involution" which isn't all that interesting (at least, if you were expecting a nice theory of cogroups).
If "cogroup" means "turn the category around" then you're asking for cogroup objects in Set (in the standard meaning of "cogroup") which means, in particular, that you want a map from X to the empty set: the terminal object in Setop is the initial object in Set and so a map from the terminal object in Setop to X becomes a map from X to the initial object in Set. So, sadly, the empty set is all you get.
So we take "cogroup object in a category" to mean "group object in the opposite category" because that gives us something interesting. Indeed, once the category gets more structure then cogroup objects become more plentiful than group objects (and likewise for other varieties of algebras).
Just one word of warning. Although a "cogroup object in a category" is a "group object in the opposite category", this is a dangerous way to think of them because a morphism of cogroup objects in a category is not a morphism of group objects in the opposite category. The forgetful functor from cogroup objects goes to the original category, not its opposite. The correct statement is that "The category of cogroup objects in a category is the opposite of the category of group objects in the opposite category.". Or, with hopefully obvious symbols:
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This talk,""Fulfiling Our Prophetic Mission," by Bishop James Conley, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is one of the best talks on equal dignity that I've ever seen.
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We're all sinners. We're all called to holiness. But our dignity doesn't depend on achieving it. God wills salvation for us, and we try to follow after him. When we acknowledge our common sinfulness and our common call to holiness, it becomes easier to see one another, not as objects, but as brothers and sisters in need of support, and encouragement, and solidarity with one another. When we are in solidarity with the vulnerable, the culture of life becomes familiar, and essential.
My mother, who spent a long time working in religious education for mentally handicapped children, made exactly the same point about not de-humanizing the mentally handicapped by treating them as "angels." They don't need to be angels to matter--they need to be human--just like the rest of us.
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Every day, L'Arche communities pray "to be liberated—to see people with disabilities as God sees them
And this is how we are to be viewed, according to Gregory of Nyssa:
It is true, indeed, that the Divine beauty is not adorned with any shape or endowment of form, by any beauty of color, but is contemplated as excellence in unspeakable bliss. As then painters transfer human forms to their pictures by the means of certain colors, laying on their copy the proper and corresponding tints, so that the beauty of the original may be accurately transferred to the likeness, so I would have you understand that our Maker also, painting the portrait to resemble His own beauty, by the addition of virtues, as it were with colors, shows in us His own sovereignty: and manifold and varied are the tints, so to say, by which His true form is portrayed: not red, or white , or the blending of these, whatever it may be called, nor a touch of black that paints the eyebrow and the eye, and shades, by some combination, the depressions in the figure, and all such arts which the hands of painters contrive, but instead of these, purity, freedom from passion, blessedness, alienation from all evil, and all those attributes of the like kind which help to form in men the likeness of God: with such hues as these did the Maker of His own image mark our nature.
A noteworthy quote from Bishop Conley. I hope it reflects his principal message. In the same talk, he relies on the prophetic rhetoric often employed by Pope John Paul II and many Catholic bishops: the culture of life vs. the culture of death, the Church vs. the world, us vs. our adversaries. Such rhetoric can distort good news and undermine efforts toward solidarity.
I'm curious. By what measure does Sherry Wedell estimate that "only 3% of Catholics...have ever been really invited into a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ"? What constitutes a real invitation? What are the features of authentic friendship with Christ?
It doesn't strike me as a particularly helpful evangelical tactic to approach 97% of Catholics with this message: "Whatever you've gathered from family and community life, the sacraments, prayer, catechesis, service, virtuous conduct -- it's all beside the point. You've been asleep and haven't really heard the call of grace."
I think the culture war language is tamped down quite a bit, which is good. On Sherry Waddell's work. I too take a very dim view: I think she is chastising Catholics for not being evangelical Protestants, as I have said before. But this shift away from moral perfectionism in the bishop's talk is all to the good.
I think the quotation cited is admirable, but its value gets lost in the bishop's culture of death rhetoric. After al he is in Lincoln Nebraska. You give him too much credit.
Re: culture of death rhetoric. It's true that it runs through the speech. I'd note a couple of things, though: while Conley doesn't back off from naming abortion as a serious issue, he does, istm, make a concerted effort to cast the net more broadly - to talk about how we treat the disabled and the elderly as other instances of promoting a culture of life. This is, in fact, seamless garment language.
Second, it really can't be ignored that one of the reasons that parents choose to abort children in the womb is precisely because prenatal testing reveals that those children have, or are likely to have, serious disabilities. The nexus of disabled children and abortion is real, and it's a serious issue. He'd be remiss not to name it.
Cathleen, I note that Conley's theme is prophetic witness; and I've found your published thoughts on Christian prophetic witness to be quite interesting. I take it from your words of praise in this post that this speech, or at least the passage you highlighted, is an example of 'good' prophecy.
FWIW - I tend to use terms like "witness" and "discipleship" rather than "prophecy" for the sorts of things that Conley describes in this speech.
In the same talk, [Conley] relies on the prophetic rhetoric often employed by Pope John Paul II and many Catholic bishops: the culture of life vs. the culture of death, the Church vs. the world, us vs. our adversaries. Such rhetoric can distort good news and undermine efforts toward solidarity.
chris loetscher - I don't disagree; yet consider one passage from his speech - a paragraph where he does, in fact, use the word "adversaries":
Our adversaries go to great lengths to deny humanity. In the culture of death, the unborn child is held at a distance—he is never a "baby," instead he is a "clump of cells," or a "parasite." The elderly or brain-damaged person is a "vegetable." On death row, the prisoner is not a person, but a "monster."
I'd note, first of all, that this is an instance of "seamless garment" rhetoric. What is interesting, too, is: who are "our adversaries" in these instances? Istm that each of his instances may posit a different group of adversaries - i.e. the set of those who deny the humanity of a child in the womb may not be the same set as those who call a person on death row a monster.
This is an adroit passage in that it illustrates that "culture of death" / "culture of life" doesn't reduce to "Democrats" / "Republicans" (or, "people who read the NY Times" / "people in Nebraska"). The lack of reverence for life may really be a cultural artifact that attaches to most or all of us who live in that culture, regardless of our political preferences.
Cathleen and Jim,
I concede that Bishop Conley makes some effort to dial down the self-righteous tone of "culture warrior" rhetoric. I prefer a rhetoric of solidarity, with prophetic sting: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/szymbors/st...
Jim P. --
I think it's unwise to use the word "prophesy" with the sense of "witnessing" because people who aren't intersted in theology will likely get the wrong meaning. (I checked a number of dictionaries, and more often than not the first meaning given for "prophesy" conveys foretelling the future.)
Ann - you may have noted that Conley defines what he means by "prophecy":
The Second Vatican Council teaches that prophecy is the "power of the Gospel shining forth in daily social and family life" and the "announcement of Christ by a living testimony." It's that kind of prophecy for the Gospel of Life I'd like to consider this evening.
I wish he had referenced the Vatican II document and paragraph from which he's quoting here. I have to say that this definition of "prophecy" doesn't strike me as a primary meaning of the word, either, as I'm not sure how well it describes what Amos, Hosea or Isaiah were up to. As I said, I'd use words like "discipleship" and "witness" rather than "prophecy" for what Conley seems to be getting at.
Jim P. ==
I think you have chosen the wiser course. No ambiguity about "discipleship" and "witnessing". People are often so ignorant of Church teachings these days that the Church needs to meet them where they are, using their terminology.
Ann - in choosing "prophecy", he might have been trying to steer away from "evangelizing", a word that can mean "announcement of Christ by a living testimony", for the reason you note: "evangelizing" smacks of "proselytizing" in common parlance.
But this shift away from moral perfectionism in the bishop's talk is all to the good.
Oh well, so much for Matthew 5:48. Hey, anybody know what the special in the cafeteria is today?
See, Matthew 9: 10-13. I'll have what he's having.
Thanks, I especially like verse 12.
Yes, "proselytizing" is another word whose meaning has gone sour. The worst change of meaning is, I think, that of "religion" itself. Now for many, many people it has the added connotations of "rigid, prejudiced, hypocritical, ignorant, stupid, judgmental". Sigh.


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The following statement seems to be taken as given in papers I'm reading:
Let $\mathcal{M}^n$ be a compact, embedded hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. Then $\mathcal{M}$ is the boundary of some compact domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^ {n+1}$.
Is this an elementary result? I feel there must be some algebraic topology argument here. Any suggestions?


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Thank you for Marc Larocque's article about a community-owned solar array just unveiled in Rehoboth that allowed subscribers to buy a "lifetime's worth of energy" for $1,215 per panel. It sounds great!
But so many questions were unanswered: how much electricity is one panel expected to provide its owner per year? How many panels does an average homeowner have to buy to provide their full electricity needs? If you don't use all your electricity some months, do you get a credit?
Where else in our area are community-owned solar arrays being established? Whom should readers contact to request a similar project in their area?
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With gnome-do I could! It's very very useful for me, because tomboy is well integrated in Ubuntu. Why doesn't dash have anything about this?
I've written a small Lens for Unity, allowing to search and open Tomboy notes.
You'll find it here:
Please let me know if you find it useful or have any comments/problems.
To install:
Source -> here
As far as I can tell, no.
This question is related to a question I asked: How do I get Synapse to search my Tomboy notes? -- because both dash and synapse use zeitgeist. I am now able to search my notes with synapse, but for some reason not with the dash. I am not a developer, so can't say why not, but it is probably trivial enough to get Dash to show the tomboy notes logged by zeitgeist.
However, even if tomboy notes are logged by zeitgeist, this will not replace gnome-do: gnome-do searches through all your notes, whereas zeitgeist only logs the notes you open. I still rely on gnome-do just to search my notes.
I have posted a question that might bring us an answer: Tomboy notes logged by zeitgeist do not appear in the Unity dash. Why not?
Unfortunately, the Tomboy lens that was available in 11.10 doesn't work with 12.04. Fortunately, Tomboy notes can easily be searched using the HUD: press 'Alt' + a keyword or title of yor note... et voilà!


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Baldacci v Patterson
Baldacci reader ratings campaign: new library project launched
Plans are well under way to make international bestselling and award-winning US novelist David Baldacci a top 10 most borrowed author from UK public libraries. Publishers, library staff and reading and literacy campaigners are working to get him challenging some of the biggest-name authors at the top of the ratings.
In a unique new partnership project created by The Reading Agency and Pan Macmillan which will transform the way publishers and libraries work together, over 500 public libraries across 35 UK local authorities, and readers who visit libraries to borrow 'most borrowed' books, will be targeted with 'shelf talker' information about David Baldacci.
The key aims of the promotion are to:
- Increase engagement with users, and with a similar author that readers are very likely to enjoy
- Increase borrowing by finding a new series and author that readers love
- Getting more people reading and talking about David Baldacci
About David Baldacci
David is a No.1 bestselling author in the UK, The Sixth Man recently got the top spot for the first time. He's written 20 books and so has a healthy backlist with a number of different series. What stands David Baldacci apart from similar authors are his strong female characters, and that almost every book has two main characters, a man and a woman working together.
What does David Baldacci write? Crime thrillers set in America, with a duo at the heart of the story. His books include lots of twists and turns, action, strong female characters, global stories. David Baldacci is often invited by secret agencies in the US to write about them, so he really is a writer with inside knowledge!
The campaign which started in November and David Baldacci said: "I am both honoured and thrilled to be part of this initiative. I hope readers enjoy exploring my novels as much as I enjoy writing them."
Tne of David Baldacci's early thrillers, Absolute Power (1996) was made into a major Hollywood movie directed by Clint Eastwood, also starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman. A more recent bestselling novel, Wish You Well, has just gone into production. Darnell Martin ("Cadillac Records") is directing the film; David Baldacci wrote the script and is also producing.
His latest thriller is called The Forgotten. It is about a murder investigation in Paradise, Florida where its inhabitants are more akin to Hell than Paradise.
David Baldacci has now published 24 novels, all of which have been national and international bestsellers, translated into more than 45 languages and sold in more than 80 countries. You can find out more about David and his writing via his website: www.davidbaldacci.com
The new library campaign will run until the end of February 2013. A key part of it will involve staff at participating libraries creating 'review boards' of readers' comments with feedback on David's books, as well as photos of the contributors.
"It's clear from the response we receive from readers – both men and women alike – and the reviews that David receives, that there is a real passion for David's books. He writes well-plotted, action-packed, edge-of-seat thrillers with terrific characters. We feel that there are many more readers who would love his books," says Trisha Jackson, Pan Macmillan Fiction editorial director.
In Birmingham, 3 libraries are involved with the promotion. West Heath, Walmley and Quinton all have dedicated displays promoting David's books and also have a limited number of free books to give away (in return for a review!). If you would like to get involved in the promotion and help get David Baldacci onto the Top Ten Most Borrowed Author list, please visit West Heath, Walmley or Quinton Library.


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Deal in Concussion Suit Gives NFL a Big Victory
After years of damaging publicity, the National Football League reached a surprise settlement with a group of 4,500 former players who sued it over concussion-related issues.
The settlement represents a major victory for the NFL. Just a week before the 2013 season, the league has largely removed an issue that has dogged it for years and led some to suggest the sport should be banned.
The agreement, reached at 2 a.m. Thursday Eastern time after nine weeks of intense mediation, came far earlier than most expected. It calls for the NFL to pay $765 million, mostly for medical benefits and injury compensation for the retired players, in addition to funding medical research and covering legal expenses.
The settlement includes all retired NFL players who present medical evidence of severe cognitive impairment, not just those who joined the suit.
The NFL admitted no wrongdoing or liability in the agreement, which must be approved by Anita Brody, the federal judge in Philadelphia overseeing the case. She is likely to approve the agreement, said a person familiar with the matter.
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The plaintiffs don't have to approve the settlement, but anyone can opt out, a league spokesman said.
Layn Phillips, a former U.S. District judge who mediated the settlement, said in a statement that it would "provide relief and support where it is needed at a time when it is most needed," while avoiding a long legal process.
"This settlement is a very important step for ensuring that future generations of football players do not suffer the same way that many in my generation have," said Kevin Turner, an NFL running back in the 1990s and a lead plaintiff who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a motor neuron disease known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
The settlement will cost each of the NFL's 32 franchises $24 million over 20 years, or roughly $1.2 million a year. Projected league revenues this season are $10 billion, and the NFL finalized a series of media-rights deals last year that guarantee more than $40 billion through 2022.
The agreement doesn't prevent future players from making claims or suing the NFL for injuries incurred while playing. But because all current players are party to the current collective-bargaining agreement between the NFL's owners and the league's players' union, those claims would be handled through the arbitration process outlined in the labor deal.
NFL Executive Vice President Jeffrey Pash, who spearheaded the case for the league, called the deal "an important step that builds on the significant changes we've made in recent years to make the game safer, and we will continue our work to better the long-term health and well-being of NFL players."
The lead plaintiffs' attorney, Christopher Seeger, said the settlement is an opportunity for the most severely affected players to get medical coverage quickly and covers retired NFL players for the next 60 years. Former players who suffer from ALS, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, dementia and other neurological conditions will receive "substantial benefits," some as high as $5 million, he said.
Mr. Seeger said the deal will "get help quickly to the men who suffered neurological injuries. It will do so faster and at far less cost, both financially and emotionally, than could have ever been accomplished by continuing to litigate."
Legal experts familiar with the case say the plaintiffs' attorneys didn't believe they had enough firepower to win in court. NFL lawyers were prepared to probe each plaintiff about his athletic history to try to convince the court the NFL couldn't be held liable for injuries that could have come from youth, high-school or college football—or substance abuse.
John Goldman, a litigator with Herrick, Feinstein LLP, who was following the case, said the plaintiffs had "tough legal hurdles," given the inability of players to prove what caused their injuries.
Current executives at the NFL Players Association issued a terse statement: "All of the plaintiffs involved are part of our player community, and we look forward to learning more about the settlement."
Kevin Mawae, a former president of the NFLPA who wasn't a plaintiff, said the settlement was far too small. "Basically, for the cost of their least valuable team, the NFL was able to remove a huge monkey off their back," Mr. Mawae said. "But even worse than the money, it's that they don't have to admit guilt and the players will never be able to know the information that the league knew about this issue."
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NFL (2013): The professional football league and a class of former players agreed to settle a concussions-related lawsuit for $765 million. The NFL generated $9.5 billion in revenue in 2012.
Goldman Sachs (2010): The bank paid $550 million to settle its civil litigation with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which charged that Goldman profited off the housing market's collapse by selling clients mortgage securities. The firm reported $34.1 billion in revenue last year.
Countrywide (2011): Bank of America settled for $335 million a discriminatory mortgage-lending suit filed by the Justice Department against its Countrywide unit. BofA reported $84.2 billion in revenue last year.
Dow Corning (1998): The company agreed to settle a lawsuit related to its silicone-breast implants for $3.2 billion. Its revenues in 2012 were $6.1 billion.
Tobacco (1998): The four largest cigarette makers in the U.S. settled state claims for $206 billion to be paid over 25 years.
He said, "At end of the day it's a very small price to pay considering the negative outcome that could have happened to the NFL if the players had taken this to court."
The settlement calls for $75 million of the NFL payment to go to baseline medical exams for ex-players, $675 million to go toward compensation and $10 million to go to research and education.
The cost of notifying members of the class won't exceed $4 million. Legal fee payment will be determined by the district court. The NFL will pay 50% of the settlement over the next three years, then the balance over the next 17 years.
If the initial funds are exhausted, the NFL will have to contribute a maximum of $37.5 million to supplement the fund, bringing the total to just over $800 million, not including legal fees, which are expected to be as much as $100 million, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Players in the suits include Pro Football Hall of Famers Chris Doleman and Bruce Smith and recent stars such as former Jacksonville Jaguars running back Fred Taylor.
Families of players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy who have been posthumously diagnosed, including those who committed suicide as did former NFL linebacker Junior Seau, also will be eligible for millions of dollars in compensation, Mr. Seeger said.
Former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton said the deal is a good one for the players, simply because most older players have little money. "They are just broke, they've got dementia, they've got ALS, all types of brain damage and what this does, it puts the money into these people to let them live their live with some type of dignity."
Helmet maker Riddell, a party in many of the lawsuits, wasn't a part of the settlement, Mr. Seeger said. A Riddell spokesman declined to comment.
—Ben Cohen contributed to this article.
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Bishop Kicanas' 'both/and' evangelization
Gerald Kicanas of Tucson is one of the U.S. bishops at the Synod on the New Evangelization, and he spoke with Vatican Radio's Philippa Hitchen (who also had a nice chat with Rowan Williams) about the so-called "new evangelization." Kicanas' words are characteristic of him, but especially well put, and much-needed, I thought:
What Im talking about at the Synod is the importance of works of charity and justice as fundamental to the new evangelisation. When people see the good the Church is doing, experience the love the Church is presenting, this is the most people way that people encounter the Lord...There are some who begin to challenge the Churchs social teaching and doctrine, yet its endemic to all that the Church says about human life that flows from our faith and belief in God.it was quite inspiring for me to hear our Holy Father choosing to reflect on these two words, confession and charity the two go hand in hand, we have to profess our faith but we have to live our faith with courage and commitment to those who are struggling...Sadly I think for some people there is this tension between pro-life and pro-justice but for a true believer in the Lord there is no such distinctionso a pro-immigration Catholic has to be concerned about the unborn and a person who is concerned for the unborn has to concerned about people on the margins who are living less than decent lives.our Catholic social teaching is a tremendously rich heritage that we have that I hope will continue to live and maybe this Synod will be an inspiration to stir the embers of our social teaching and live it more completely.."
Let us hope.
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Imagine if we had a few more bishops like Kicanas or like Cupich? Imagine if we had a few more/any American cardinals who thought or spoke like this? We had them 50 years ago (read Vat II). And as people of hope, we can hope again
Imagine if Bishop Kicanas were now president of the US conference! Which he should have been. I can never forget the stunned look on Cardinal George's face when the surprise vote was announced and his spontaneous gesture of patting Bishop Kicanas on the shoulder.
I admire Bishop Kicanas a lot, indeed I am grateful to him as he was my bishop when I entered diaconal formation, and I always cheer when a bishop stresses the importance of works of charity and justice as strongly as Kicanas has here.What's more, I agree with what I think he is saying in part here, which is that the church is never more appealing than when it is engaged in works of charity and justice.But ... allow me to register, if not an objection, at least a request for clarification.In my view, it would be an error - a category error - to equate evangelization with works of charity and justice. They are not the same kind of thing. Not only is it possible to be good at one and poor at the other, it's arguable that this has indeed been the experience of the church in the US: it has been relatively good at works of charity and justice, but relatively poor at evangelizing.I wouldn't want to see the church patting itself on the back that it has solved the problem of evangelizing American culture, and evangelizing its own members, by engaging in works of charity and justice. In my view, the challenge for the church in the US is to sustain or improve its ministry in charity and justice, AND transform its evangelizing - take evangelization to levels and places it has never been before. I think that many, perhaps most, American Catholics recognize that works of charity and justice are a necessary part of discipleship. But I think that not many American Catholics recognize that evangelization is a necessary part of discipleship. That is what needs to change.
Jim, may I ask if you listened to the veteran Vatican Radio correspondent Philippa Hitchens's full interview with Bishop Kicanas? He had only twelve minutes after all. And he focused principally, though certainly not exclusively, on his own forthcoming talk at the Synod where each bishop gets, I think, five minutes to speak. In that brief span Bishop Kicanas has decided to concentrate on one major theme, a theme very much influenced by his being the US bishops' chairman of Catholic Relief Services.Still, I believe in the compass of a twelve-minute interview focusing on a five-minute speech he went a good deal further than saying the work of evangelization can be primarily carried out through the Church's works of charity and justice.Your call earlier this week for more expressions of joy on this site with regard to our Catholic Christian faith was appreciated. But perhaps gentleness too.
Jim Pauwells: "I think that many, perhaps most, American Catholics recognize that works of charity and justice are a necessary part of discipleship. But I think that not many American Catholics recognize that evangelization is a necessary part of discipleship. That is what needs to change."I think the bishop's point is you can't have one without the other. In fact, there's nothing worse for evangelization than separating it from the other two, which -- unfortunately -- churchmen too often do.
David, thanks for highlighting that contribution. Don't you think that journalists like you have a role to play this week, by bringing the voices of the best bishops out to the media and trying thus to amplify their effect? The silly extremists (mostly from the US, I'm sorry to say) usually get so much publicity with their stunts. If during the synod a place of honor was given to the ones who show common sense and a desire for dialogue, would it be possible to thus give them more influence?
Perhaps I'm not making enough effort to understand, but I don't know what "Catholic evangelization," particularly disaffected Catholics, is supposed to look like. Jim, enlighten us!
I don't know, Jim, where you get this notion. When you set the captives free, you evangelize and it is a distinct of an anointed disciple. Jesus proliferates in saying the blind see and the poor have the gospel preached to them. It was Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement that brought justice to people of color. The church came later . And it was not the bishops. It was Theodore Hesburgh. Law, Mahoney and all those other former justice advocates who became monarchs when civil rights was no longer fashionable. The bishops position on women is still quite deplorable as they seek "attractive, intelligent females." The bishops all over the world are lame in proclaiming the freedom of women. They still bear sceptors of a bygone age and live richly. Taking care of the downtrodden is evangelization of the highest kind. I understand that there are humanitarians who leave God out. But we should never let them coop or excel our solicitude for justice and to set the captives free which is the quintessential mark of discipleship.
The gospels are quite clear: When obligations of religion and charity conflict, the latter must prevail!
The gospels are quite clear on another point, namely, the simplicity of clothing of Jesus (and, one presumes, of his disciples).
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"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words." attributed to St. Francis of Assisi.
What exactly is a pro-immigration Catholic?
@Mark Proska (10/13, 4:29 pm) Good question. My guess is it's a someone who connects the following commandments to today's experience:"So you too should love the resident alien, for that is what you were in the land of Egypt." Deutoronomy 10:19" You shall not deprive the resident alien or the orphan of justice, nor take the clothing of a widow as pledge. For, remember, you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD, your God, redeemed you from there; that is why I command you to do this." Deutoronomy 24: 17-18"You shall not oppress a resident alien; you well know how it feels to be an alien, since you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt." Deutoronomy 23:9"When an alien resides with you in your land, do not mistreat such a one. You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the LORD, am your God." Leviticus 19:33-34http://www.usccb.org/bible/deuteronomy/10
I live in AFFORDABLE assisted living developed and continuously supported by the local Jewish community. We have a synagogue on premises. Does 'evangelization' require me to stand outside the synagogue on Friday and hand out leaflet or sermonize as my friends leave? I am confused.
Luke --In the spirit of ecumenism, may I remind us all that Muslims in particular believe very strongly that we are to be hospitable to strangers, and the Jews too accent this command. I wonder why we Christians generally don't seem to see it as clearly as they do.
Luke--Thanks, hard to disagree with any of that. I imagine that an essential element of the command that we not deprive the resident alien of justice would require no special treatment under the law. So for illegal aliens that would mean
Pro-immigrant: or just be like the Good Samaritan who took care of the stranger.
"So for illegal alients that would mean......doing unto them in their situations as we would have them do unto us in identical circumstances."
Joseph--I do not think the "do unto others as you'd have them do unto you" commandment requires that we not prosecute lawbreakers because, if we broke the law, we'd (self-servingly) not want to be prosecuted.
Mark, Jesus "broke" laws according to the Romans and Pharisees. So there is a place for going against unjust laws. Think of laws against blacks, Irish and Italians. Etc. Give us a break from your posturing juridicism.
The Bishop is correct of course. In my case while it is easy for me personally to be pro-life, on other issues that may not be so clear, I defer to the bishops and work to bring my own views in line with theirs. If I cannot bring myself to fully understand the why part of something, for example like voting against the death penalty (which I will do this November on the CA initiative ballot), I trust the learned opinions of the bishops. Pope John Paul II was clear enough when he indicated his opinion that in most modern societies, the death penalty was not reasonable, and so I just leave it at that and adjust my view accordingly.
Bill--There's nothing posturing about it. I do not think laws that limit immigration are inherently unjust.
Charity trumps law, Mark.Always.That said, I support a secure border and just steps to try to make it secure. However, as Luke Hill makes clear by his scriptural quotes, we also have a Christian duty to help the "resident alien" (and, no, I'm not referring to an alien possessing a valid green card or government work permit). If an undocumented alien needs my help, I have a Christian obligation to help that person obtain any necessary food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. However, I am not going to report the person to authorities. God knows, they already have enough of a problem trying to catch the "bad guys" who cross our borders without permission.Jesus put charity first.
Mark Generally I tend to agree with your outlook, but what about When I was thirsty you gave me to drink. When I was a stranger, you welcomed me . . . Jesus no doubt chose his words carefully. If He did not mean to include strangers, he would not have mentioned them. Also, what about general obedience to the Bishops and ultimately to the Pope? They do not just say things in order to hear themselves talk. They ponder and consider important matters carefully.I like the story in past Sundays gospel - about it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, then for a rich man to enter heaven. I especially liked how Chesterton looked at it (paraphrasing); If you make the camel as small as possible and make the needle as large as possible; if you take the Lords words to mean the least that they could have meant, then the least that Christ meant to say, was that the rich are not very trustworthy.;-)
ISTM there is one fact that is morally relevant that is not being sufficiently considered, viz., that the immigrants often leave their families behind, often for many years. The truly Christian solution would be to work towards reform of the Mexican and other Latin American economic systems where unfair wages are the norm for the poor.Fr, Maciel was Mexican and begged hundreds of millions of dollars from the Mexican rich in order to proselytize -- oops, evangelize, in other countries. It seems to me that the money the rich Mexicans are willing to spend on the education of the poor of other countries would be better spent in Mexico, and in fact justice would seem to require it. Perhaps the evangelization of the Spanish-speaking countries should aim at the rich as well as the poor. With more equitable economic systems the immigrants might not find it necessary to leave their families and homes.
Good luck with that one Ann. The way rich Mexicans deal with things in Mexico is the main reason so many poor Mexicans head to CA and TX. It is a bit like saying that if only the Brits had gone easier on the Irish during the potato famine of the 1840s, then we would not have had so many Irish arriving in New York.Sure, If rich Mexicans changed their hearts and minds to the better, If they listened to the better angels of their nature, Then eventually that would be reflected in a more just Mexican society, which in turn would mean fewer Mexicans heading north. However the average man cannot wait for all that; he must try his best to provide for his family in his generation/timeframe. Rainbow stew will not do for him.We can change our actions/policies so he can go home periodically to see , but I doubt we can change the attitudes and/or actions of rich Mexicans anytime soon.We cannot even change ourselves (collectively) so as to not demand that cocaine be hauled up here, through Mexico, and that alone causes a huge problems for Mexican society. And so in my opinion, the chances of our changing the hearst and minds of wealthy Mexicans so as to improve their society to the point where all is well, is just about zero.
Oops - should have typed "...can go home periodically to see his family . . ."
Ken --My point wasn't that the Mexican immigrants shouldn't come here. My point was that a better, fairer solution for them would be an fairer economic system in Mexico, and Latin and South America.We're all in this together.
I agree with you Ann, that if Mexican society would improve, that would be better for all involved. It is just that the time line for improving Mexican society does not work for a guy (for example) who has a wife and three kids now; he needs the job now, his family needs to be provided for now. He cannot wait ten or twenty years for long term change in Mexican society, and so he heads north. The thing we can do in the short-term (i.e., now) is make it possible for him to go home in the off-season of agriculture or construction or whatever, in order to see his family.
Joseph/Ken--I'm not sure we disagree (though we may). Regardless of whether an immigrant is legal or illegal, we owe him charity (food, clothing, shelter, etc). But does that mean after these things have been provided, it would be wrong to say, if he's here illegally, "Ok, now it's time for you to honor our laws"? I don't think so (maybe we do disagree on that).
Mark you make a good point. As for legal vs. illegal immigrants, I agree that we do not "have" to do anything about this whole issue. Before I start, please note that I am aware that not all illegal immigrants come from Mexico. However most do and so for brevity, I focus on Mexican indoumentados. You are correct Mark, in that we certainly do not owe Mexico anything. In my opinion this is not about what we "have" to do; it is about what we "should" do.Americans are far and away the most decent, friendly, and tolerant people on this planet. We treat immigrants from all lands better than any other nation on the planet. This is a wonderful part of our national character. Another great characteristic for which we are justifiably known is our sense of fair play.Certainly indocumentados who commit crimes should be deported; on that everyone agrees.However for other "illegals", it is worth bearing in mind that for more than twenty years now (since the 1986 amnesty), many Americans - not just big hotel chains and Argri-business outfits, but many average Americans - have basically given these illegal workers a wink and a nod, and have hired them to pick crops, slaughter beef, mow yards, clean house, paint our houses, care for kids, etc.. Every American that did this knew very well at the time that the person they were dealing with was technically illegal. What were these Mexicans supposed to think? All of them arrive poor, and most have no more than a forth grade education. Most of them are however, quite trusting, hard working, and Roman Catholic. In a word, most are decent people. Obviously we wanted them here; we paid them well (compared to what they were used to), and we were friendly toward them. Americans basically gave them the impression they were welcome and that ultimately whatever problems they had with their work status would be resolved in future. Meanwhile - we implied by our actions that if they just worked hard enough, they could trust that we (the Americans) would make things Ok.Now, twenty plus years on, after their having worked very hard, all the while trusting that we would somehow "make it right", and after many of them have bought homes and land, and have kids growing up here and all the other things that come normally with living life, now we are considering simply rounding up all these folks and hauling them back to Juarez or whatever other Mexican hell-hole they came from, and telling them "next time" they should follow the rules.I do not think that is the type of people we are. I think we are better than that. We are a Christian nation after all. We are not they type of people who would be proud of ourselves for having snookered some of the poorest folks in the western hemisphere into working ten or twenty years at low pay with the implied possibility of a better life, only to toss them out like yesterday's newspaper. Moreover, we owe it to ourselves not to become that sort of people; we are better than that. For fun, look up "Mexican Standoff" in the dictionary; that seems like that.
Ken--I agree with much of what you say, though I might quibble that, because Americans have hired illegals, we are now morally estopped from enforcing laws against illegals--surely the INS has conveyed the message that breaking the law will not be tolerated by all Americans. However, I will concede that any law enforcement against illegal immigration should concentrate on recent violations--I'm not interested in deporting those who have behaved as good American citizens for an extended period of time.
"I think the bishops point is you cant have one without the other. In fact, theres nothing worse for evangelization than separating it from the other two, which unfortunately churchmen too often do."Hi, Beverly, I agree that both are necessary. I was thinking about this a bit this morning. I'm celebrating St. Hedwig's memorial today. The Gospel Canticle antiphon this morning was, "All the world will recognize you as my disciples when they see the love you have one for another." How true that is.Nevertheless, as I said in my previous comment, I believe the church in the US has been better at works of charity and justice than at evangelization. My basic point is that we can't let our works of charity and justice be our only word to our families, our communities and the culture. We need to find fresh and effective ways to share the Good News - ways that go beyond rearing our children and teaching religious ed and feeding the hungry. All of those are necessary and praiseworthy, but they leave huge sectors of our world untouched.
"Perhaps Im not making enough effort to understand, but I dont know what Catholic evangelization, particularly disaffected Catholics, is supposed to look like. Jim, enlighten us!"Hi, Jean, my basic point of view is that faith is spread when it is shared. Sharing our faith with others, at the right time in the right place in the right way, has the power to convert and transform others' lives. And the inverse is true: if we don't share our faith, it doesn't spread, and conversion and transformation don't take place.Someone asked if we're supposed to pass out tracts outside churches and synagogues. My view is that would be a very poor and counterproductive, not to mention offensive and rude, way to evangelize. My own view is that all of us are presented with opportunities to share our faith in our daily lives. When those opportunities arise, I would advise that we be attuned to the promptings of the Spirit, and she will give us the right words to say. That's how it's worked out for me.
Mark, I don't think it's necessary to remind undocumented aliens that they need to obey our laws. They know they are here without legal permission. I also don't think it's appropriate to extend Christian charity with one hand and do the law's bidding (so to speak) with the other hand. It seems to me that a genuinely Christian outreach would be incompatible with giving legal reminders to folks who are already living under the proverbial radar so they can continue to provide for their families in the U.S. and elsewhere. Most of these folks, I suspect, would not be trying to work in our country if decent work opportunities were available in their own countries. **********Jim, I do draw a distinction between the Church of Rome and the Catholic faith. I do share my Catholic faith from time to time with others, but there is no way I could conscientiously encourage seekers to join the Church of Rome, not at this time anyway. I make it a point, in fact, to let others know why I left but Catholic Church but continue to embrace the Catholic faith.
Oops: "...to let others know why I left the Catholic Church..."
Joseph J - I hope you don't mind if I say that I hope you're able to find a way home again some day.
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15 Nov 2010 10:09 AM #1
Getting a scrollbar to appear on the lists of a DualListField control
I've populated a DualListField control with data and scrollbars are not appearing on the ListField components, I can't find any methods to force them to appear (no setScrollMode or anything).
Any suggestions? Thanks for your time in advance, GXT is really new to me.
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Works fine there. Are you sure you are using the correct css version that matches to your gxt version? Its a common mistake to mismatch the versions
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That turns out to be the problem, thanks for your help with this.
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Can you please explain me how you solved the problem in making the scroll bar appear. I am also facing same issue. can you tell me how to check the css version. currently I am using gxt 2.2.1 and gwt 2.0.4. I have my own css file where I have edited the css of some widgets along with that I have a standard.css provided by gwt.
It will be great if you help me,as its most needed.
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5 Stupid Get-Rich Quick Scams (People Still Fall For)
Want to get rich, but don't have the time or energy to start a business? Or get a job at one? Don't worry! In the era of the internet, any old dumbass can log on and make piles of cash with no effort or skill!
That or all of the following programs are complete bullshit.
#5. Sell "The Greatest Vitamin in the World"
Don Lapre is that annoying hobbit-looking dude you might have seen a few years back trying to tell people they could get rich by placing classified ads, even if they didn't involve sexual services. This time he is back selling "The Greatest Vitamins in the World," because subtlety is another of Lapre's strengths.
The vitamins are supposedly the result of millions of dollars of testing and development and over 100 studies by the New England Journal of Medicine. Lapre claims the vitamins can help with diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Cancer! Holy shit!
Nothing some vitamins can't fix.
For $35 you get a chance to make millions because Lapre will sell you one of his websites so you, too, can sell the vitamins. Then if 20 people buy vitamins from that website, Lapre pays you $1,000 that month. This seems a lot less efficient than just having one website and selling the pills himself but, like others on this list, Lapre obviously has no more room in his house to store cash so now he wants to help you.
This is all explained in this video. It left us badly confused but what it lacks in clarity it makes up for in boobies.
What You Will Really Get:
A website no one will visit, that sells something the FDA has warned is being falsely advertised. You mean it won't cure cancer?!?!
But don't worry if you don't get any sales from your site (and you won't), because Lapre's company will sell you some marketing help, for just a few thousand dollars. Of course the problem may be there are thousands of these websites he has sold to other people competing with yours for a product no one wants and that doesn't work.
Yea, but...
Even when people manage to sell a few bottles of this junk, it turns out they still can't get paid by the company. This is probably because Lapre's math skills pretty much suck as he promised to pay people $1,000 each time they sold $900 worth of his product. Kids selling lemonade in front of their homes have a better business model than this.
Okay, yes, but, still...
It may have been Lapre's inability to count that caused him to file bankruptcy and get slapped by the IRS for failing to pay almost a million dollars in taxes. Or it could be it was because he is a con artist.
#4. Free Money to Pay Your Bills
This is a book put together by Matthew Lesko, that annoying guy on late night infomercials who wears the suits with the question marks on them. In between fighting off trademark lawsuits from the Batman comics, he spends his time screaming at you about all this free money from the government that you are totally missing out on:
If you had a hard time understanding his wailing, Lesko is saying the government has $350 billion dollars sitting around in various programs that you--yes, you--can have if you just fill out some forms. The problem is, he claims, that the government is being its usual dick-ish self and keeps it a secret.
Fortunately, Lesko breaks this code of secrecy by revealing a list of 4,000 programs that will give you free money to pay your bills, just as his book title says (though we wonder if "Free Money to Pay for Lapdances and Nachos" would have sold more copies).
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The good news is that you will get a book with lists of government programs that have money. The bad news is that you probably don't qualify for any of it despite the fact that the website says "Everyone who needs to Pay Bills Qualifies."
It turns out that the programs listed in the book fall into two categories: Obvious Stuff and Useless Crap. In the obvious category, it turns out that the majority of that money he was screaming about is stuff like unemployment insurance and food stamps which are about as secret as the Post Office.
In the useless category, the programs listed are so obscure that its unlikely anyone will find one they qualify for (most of it is given to other government agencies rather than individuals).
Sure, there are success stories like that dude who got 500 large to travel the world. You can get that, too, as long as you are a quantum physicist who got the award from the National Science Foundation. Otherwise, stay poor, asshole!
By the way, Lesko admits he just copied and pasted a book he ordered from the government and then sold it. Thanks to his minutes of hard work, now you, too, can spend $40 on a book of nearly useless information you could have Googled for free.
#3. Quixtar
Quixtar is a way for you to have your own business without all those pesky business degrees and millions in start-up capital. The company claims that it's a $6.8 billion dollar business with three million "business owners" around the world. Hell, can three million people be wrong?
The process couldn't be simpler. They have a website where your customers log on and buy stuff, then you get a cut of the sales. Like a pimp but without the slapping and choking! And in case you need help with your business, professional consultants like this guy are there to help.
Ignore the home made sign, and the fact that "free" is in "quotes." According to some Quixtar representatives, you can make up to $250,000 a year working just 10-15 hours a week, which means you can finally hang up your squeegee and keep your sperm.
But you don't make the real money by just hawking their giant boxes of soap and vitamins. No, the real trick is to sponsor new people to join and start selling products. Then you can get a cut of all of their sales and the sales of the people they bring in. So you can finally sit back and reap the rewards of the hard work of others, in the manner of kings, or tapeworms.
What You Will Really Get:
If this sounds a bit familiar, it's because Quixtar is just Amway with a website.
As with all pyramid schemes, starting your own "business" involves bugging the shit out of people you know to buy products from Quixtar and/or to join up and sell themselves. Once you get good at being obnoxious you can then start harassing complete strangers.
"Hi, old people, a quick moment of your time, please."
Quixtar says they are a multi level marketing company and not a pyramid scheme, which is like saying "call girl" instead of "whore." If you think that's harsh, here's a legal expert comparing them to the mafia.
But at least the mafia makes money. The average monthly income from an active Quixtar "business owner" is only $115 a month. We don't need a beautiful mind to know that $115 a month is a whole lot less than $250,000 a year. If you only worked 10 hours a week on your business you are looking at a return of about $3 an hour, or less than half the Federal minimum wage. But that's OK, because you won't need money after you've driven away all of the friends who used to go out with you by pestering them with sales pitches.


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Polk County sheriff's deputies cut off access to a South Lakeland neighborhood Thursday after a man barricaded himself inside his home on Lakeland Highlands Road.
The man, who was not identified, was inside a house at 6820 Lakeland Highlands Road and refused to come out, sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Wood said.
Deputies closed the road near the intersection of Crews Lake Drive about 5 p.m.
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There are tons of jquery tab solutions for page web parts. I can't find anything for custom list DispForm and EditForms for SP 2010? Essentially, I have a custom list with 94 custom fields. That's a LONG display and edit form.
What is the optimal way to apply jQuery Tabs for SP edit and display forms? My last resort would be creating content type for each group of fields, but the UI doesn't look good visually appealing. A company called Kaldeera has a server add-on to process tabs visually, but at $1800 it's expensive.
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Since most internet users have ISPs using dynamic IP addresses (e.g. someone gets a new external IP address every few days) are there any laws requiring the ISPs to keep logs associating an IP address on a certain day with a certain individual? For example if someone hacks a website and their IP address is found, can anything be done about it? If ISPs do keep logs, what is associated with a persons IP address? I mean does DHCP somehow know the geographical location of who gets what IP, and then that information is stored?
There are databases like http://www.geoiptool.com/ that try to provide location information for any given ip address, but their accuracy greatly depends on different factors (e.g. if your ISP only operates in a small regional area or in the entire USA). Usually those databases are only good for associating IPs to countries.
Yes. ISPs do store all DHCP ip assignment logs. They know exactly who had what IP address and when. For them it is a legal obligation to harvest this information to facilitate any legal queries and investigations. In the US, they have to follow The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations.
In the US, ISPs keep track of these items (as available) associated from IP assignment logs and their billing system records for any IP address they assign…
They do not keep track of who accessed what site or what IP address and when, no tracking of subscriber's online activities/traffic. It is against privacy laws.
ISP are obligated to provide this information to Law Enforcement Agencies (Police, FBI etc) for any given investigations of frauds, hacking, online crimes, threats to the society and to prevent loss of a life.
Also take a look at Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI). It is a compliance requirement for all ISPs to protect network propitiatory information of every subscriber. It includes, call records, IP address, service details and also Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to some extent.
EDIT: To add more into this, A good example is - ISP has all subscriber IP information, If a subscriber uploads a pirated content on a site, or make it freely available on internet, the content owner can request investigation on this to the ISP and the ISP will dig through their DHCP lease history and actually send the subscriber a Piracy Act violation notice.
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As the owner and operator of an ISP, I can say that most of us (90%) keep connection logs. We need these internally for troubleshooting purposes. From these logs I can tell you exactly which user account was assigned what IP address and how long they had that address for (start stop times). I further have MAC address information on the device that made the connection to me. I keep these logs for 7 years and only provide information to law enforcement when provided with a court order commanding it so provided. We usually get a court order per month. When we do, law enforcement provides the time of date range, IP address used, any other pertinent info they have. They ask for just about the kitchen sink on the suspect. We by law only provide exactly what they ask for.
You need to specify the legal jurisdiction, when asking a question about the law.
In the US, I do not know of any legal requirement to record and retain this information (there have been some proposals but I do not believe any were enacted into law), but I believe most ISPs do anyway. In the EU, I believe there is a requirement to retain and record this information.
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If we think of the l1 distance as a grid-distance between points, then we can think of l2 distance as what we get when we "shortcut" the grid by going "inside" a cell.
Making the grid finer doesn't change the l1 distance, so there's no obvious sense in which the l2 distance can be seen as a limiting version of the l1.
So here's my question: is there any way to take an l1-like distance and extract an l2 like distance from it (possibly as a limiting case). I'm asking because i have a distance defined in a discrete space that has an l1-like behaviour, and I'd like to generalize it as the discrete space gets finer and finer, but I want to end up with a distance that goes "directly" through the space like l2.
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I have several bikes and use them more and more in bad weather. I have no problem with rust on the chain, but I am seeing little bits of rust in the various hex bolt heads on the bike. What can I use to remove this rust and how can I prevent it from happening again. Note I ride things like Ragbrai, so keeping out of the rain, or drying the bike right away is not an option.
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Where possible, replace with stainless fasteners. Things like water bottle bracket bolts are readily available in stainless at a good hardware store.
But most fasteners on a good quality bike are stainless to begin with, so it may be that you're not seeing "rust" per se but rather a sort of corrosion that can form on stainless.
After cleaning I give the bolts a small squirt of WD40 followed by a good rub down.
This leaves a very fine film of oil that won't hold dirt but is just enough to stave off the rust if done regularly.
The spray also displaces (WD, water displacement, geddit?) any water left from cleaning in any little gaps.
Little bits of rust shouldn't hurt anything, but if you're getting lots of rust or it just drives you crazy you might consider spraying them down with a wax based lubricant or dry lube. Finish Line's Teflon dry lube might be a good option because it has a tendency to build up on chains, which means it goes on thick and may act as a barrier to oxidation. Boeshield's T9 may be another option though it goes on thinner than Finish Line's product. Of course these products aren't truly "dry" and you're going to be trading rust for dirt. If you wanted to get really crazy you could pack the heads with paraffin wax, but that seems over the top to me which brings me back to my first point that you probably shouldn't worry about it.
You may have to do some searching to find the right sizes but you could go with stainless steel hardware. Buying them in small quantities can be expensive. I have had issues with some hardware that is countersunk. Conventional allenheads won't fit in the hole. Maybe that is why they call the brand "Specialized".
I like using marine grease in the hex "slot" itself. Just get a mini grease gun and some tubes of marine grease (both available from automotive shops), and then you can quickly apply little blobs of grease in each bolt head.
You'll end up with some grease on the ends of your hex wrenches whenever you make adjustments, but this way you know that your bolt heads won't clog with dirt or ice (or rust, which as others have noted usually does not meet destructive levels).
A mini grease gun is also what you use for maintaining Speedplay pedals.
They sell galvanized bolts in almost every shape and size. or find some cosmoline and thin it with mineral oil. Give them a bath after you wire brush them. They will last for years.


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A character has access to a roc egg. I would like to work out at what point it could be ridden, and when it stops being a cute bird and turns into a man-eating monster that locals might object to having arrive with the party. How quickly would it grow?
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Depends on what you want to compare it to I'd think
I had a look at the Emu (as one of the largest birds alive today) and their chicks are full-grown within 5-6 months, they are still looked after their father during this time (up to seven months) so could be considered "young" during this stage. They can leave the nest within a few days so they quickly become semi-independant.
Given the size of a roc this may stretch out a bit more; but even so within a year the party are going to have themselves a massive beast that's easily capable of carrying a character, and since most animals breed once a year that's going to be the longest marker for age.
So going from this; I'd roughly extropolate:
Cute and fluffy chicks: Up to a week. Awww, it ate your finger.
Make sure they keep it well fed!
One approach would be to ask yourself how quickly does the story require it to grow? If it isn't explicitly described in the 50 Fathoms rules, then my feeling is that it would be open to interpretation, and that you should do whatever is needed to make an interesting adventure for the Roc's owner.
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That means it's up to you! There are a few ways you can decide this.
So, how long it takes hatchling rocs to mature into young adults could take anywhere from "not applicable" (for the unique Roc) to 20+ years, and anywhere in between.