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I´m working with SA on windows and my default browser is InternetExplorer (you may ask: why but there are some good reasons). Every time I want to preview my project I get the message that the browser is not supported.
I would be very pleased if I could set a preview browser. It´s very annoying to switch every time to a supported browser and manually refresh the page. And there are some windows that need not to be displayed every time I preview a project: "deploy project" and "running xcopy". It would be great to have an option to hide these windows. I think hitting the preview button should immediately open the defined preview browser with no need to click or close any window.
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Noted regarding having the option to have these never appear again.
Once you preview once it's easiest just to Alt+tab and then hit F5 to refresh. Theres no need to continue clicking preview each time you want to preview.
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As a student studying Computer Science in college, I often hear from friends working on various humanitarian projects, and I want to do something myself. But it seems that programmers don't have as many obvious avenues to help out as, say, doctors or teachers. What are some ways in which programmers can put their talent to use for people in poverty?
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When I was in just out of college, there was a Guy who would stop by my house on recycling day and pick out all our cans and bottles that had a deposit. I became kind of friends with the Guy, I'd ask him how's business, he'd ask me how I liked my cube and we'd have good laugh.
One day we got to talking about what I do and I told him"I made things to help people do their job better with less work". He tells me he could use one of those things….
So, I had an old Palm3, I wrote an app where he could enter his Cans collected at each address and after 2 month he would know which Houses drink the most soda and what where his best blocks. (No route generator :-( ) I presented it to him the next week on recycling day.
Increased his productivity by 30%!
So there you go, Programming to help people in poverty!
Use your talent to earn lots of money, and donate a good part of it. As programmers, we are in the lucky situation to be able to earn more money than we need for our personal needs.
Contribute to open source software
By making a contribution to open source software (or creating your own) you can have a direct effect on the overall cost of a computer system. This in turn lowers the cost poor or needy people (or charitable organizations) incur to provide them with computers.
I know it's not very fancy but it could help!
I've had the same question, and I've thought of two things: doing web dev work for a nonprofit, or assisting with computer courses, like an adult education course. There could be poor people there trying to catch up with technology, depending on where the class is offerred, the area, etc. Maybe you could volunteer to manage computers at your local library- they have useful resources for people who can't afford their own computers.
If you just want to help people, you can always just go serve meals at the soup kitchen. Among the poor, I think general manpower is in greater demand than algorithms.
I live in India but I want to make this answer more general, probably the answer will go to some political or on a non IT way, so apologies in advance.
Poor people are poor because they can not enjoy some basic things like food, water, home, jobs and transportation. The lack of these basic things are the main cause of poverty.
Our job is to make programs, and our target audience is most probably those who have some extra bucks to spend on a server and a website. Mostly in India IT is not seen as necessity, many firms and govt organization avoid this if they don't have enough money.
Here the govt. spending the major part of money and manpower to make above mentioned resource proper and after that more better.
They have to build and keep better roads, better house and constant electricity. They have to watch and forecast weather and keep some proper storage if weather goes out of control so everyone can have proper food no matter how good or bad the whether is. They have to create and manage a good transportation system to keep business alive anywhere. They have to provide better medical and emergency services.
That's where I think a better programming helps, to provide a good and reliable programs to people and (Government and Non Government) organizations who handle them. And It's way better than programming for some freak clients who are like Dogs chasing cars. Atleast it makes me (And probably you too) feel proud by giving back the society.
P.S. As a mobile developer I felt proud once by developing an application for Blackberry to help people to cope with some medical emergencies.
P.S. 2 There is also one easier way, earn more by programming for these clients and spend more earned money to charity.
Unfortunately most causes of poverty don't respond well to programming solutions. Google made a valiant effort with the Google.org project, but after 6 years of trying, they've largely found that only donating money to lower-level "on the ground" organizations has much effect. A recent article in the New York Times highlights the problem: Google Finds It Hard to Reinvent Philanthropy
Using your skills to earn more money and donate it to causes that help relieve poverty is likely your best bet. When you donate to at an organization like Charity Water, where $20 provides clean water for one person for 20 years, you can do a whole lot of good just working an extra hour a day and donating the results. The Developers Against Poverty campaign is an example of programmers promoting doing good this way.
You can also participate in hackathons organized by Random Hacks of Kindness.
From their website:
I have a suggestion,
We can develop a website, which will have the details of hospitals, free medical checkups, government free medical services. In case of emergency, people can search for the blood donor near by their state/region/town.
Not only poor, you can help every single individual who really need someone in extreme emergency.
+1 for this nobel step.
Schools are always looking for people to come into the classroom and talk about (or demo) their jobs. I guarantee you the kids will love it.
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I live in Brazil and here, the software costs are prohibitive. This situation has been changed in last years, for the economic development. But it still is unconfortable. Almost every commercial software application imported is too expensive due to the differences in people's income and the minimum wage in relation to a rich nation. All the imported technology stuff costs, effectively, more than it would be cost in a full developed nation. An iPhone 4, for example, in Brazil costs more than a thousand dollars. If you compare the minimum wage of Brazil with US, UK, Germany, Japan, etc, the cost increases too much. I think that with India, China and Russia the situation is no different.
In my opinion, a good way to help poor people to be technologically included is provide free and open-source software for education and small businesses (that creates jobs). Imagine the development of better OSes, Office Suites, CAD tools and other software products that would help the development of a nation... I believe that we, programmers, analysts, software engineers and related, can do much to reduce social inequality.
Help the people doing the humanitarian aid and/or help alleviate the issues causing poverty.
For example, you could:
Bill Gates has been pushing to help eliminate Polio world wide, you can check the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation web site and see it there is anything you can do to help that effort.
Maybe organize a local fundraiser or something. Its not specifically programming related but it will definitely help people in poor countries! Or how about a hack-a-thon fundraiser?
And for the record I have been a Linux geek since about 1994, so not a Microsoft fan. But I am a fan of good public health policy, so for this I will give Bill a big round of applause.
I'm no econ expert, but I've heard a lot of people say that lack of education and access to shared knowledge is what helps to keep poor people poor.
If that's the case, then one could make a case for saying that FOSS could help lower the bar economically and allow the lesser privileged folks access to those realms. I know for a fact that a lot of schools that are on tight budgets have to spend massive sums on windows and office licenses, which if replaced by ubuntu and open office, could have been spent on more computers/professors.
Those projects are always looking for help.
"Deliver Good" would be a site built by a programmer to help match charities and donors that I believe is in the same ball park of what you mean. The site was started by someone in Calgary, Alberta, within the past year so it may still be gaining adoption to some extent.
"Talking Shop: Beef up your resume by doing volunteer IT work" is an old article about how your could volunteer your IT skills.
Something as simple as showing people in charities and non-profit organisations how to use computers and various platforms effectively can be a big help. Small groups particularly often lack people with technical skills and IT tasks often go undone. Sometimes basic things like setting up a website or Facebook page can seem daunting to those outside our field. It can be as simple as letting them know they can call you up with technical questions or helping out with setting up data security and backups.
This can be a top town approach and things can be done at all levels. You can help the world by participating in developer challenges like the one from the World Bank Apps for Development that tackles the Millennium Development Goals. Those guys have a lot of data that can be processed in a lot of useful ways. Also you can search Google with "PROBLEM-NAME developer challenge". That gives some interesting results.
At a lower level you can offer your services to one of your national non governmental organizations. Surely they have some ideas and are in need of some skilled programmers. And of course there is the 1 to 1 approach. Volunteer your time to teach people how to use a computers/the internet in ways that help them do stuff with less money. Teach children computer programming.
Hire programmers in developing markets.
"If you've come here to help me, you're wasting your time. But if you've come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
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As a service learning project in my senior year of college, we built a system for the local Salvation Army to help manage their annual Christmas gift donation drive for needy families. While it may be rare for such an organization to need the help of a programmer, it doesn't hurt to ask around in your area.
I am a (computers) student in India, and I have had the fortune to know and work with several people who are passionate about using technology to help people in need. Check out these webpages - Microsoft Research India, act4d and Gramvaani.
Personally, I feel that you are looking at in the wrong way. If you think that you can help people with programming ability, you are probably thinking of building some kind of website/software. However, the fact of the matter is poor people largely (I am talking about the developing world here) don't have access to computers etc. and don't usually speak English. If you think that technology alone will solve the world's problems, take a look at this. This is the text of a talk by a person who was involved quite heavily in this field.
In my view, if you really want to make a difference, you have to combine technical engineering with social engineering. Try to realize what obstacles are holding people in poverty - it could be lack of education, lack of access to opportunities, lack of money etc. Then try to think of some way that these can be overcome, and then you can perhaps be ready to help them. If you are really interested in helping out, remember that technology is typically geared towards people with money, and you have to remember that technology is only useful if it actually meets the needs of people. Think less about new technology, and more about better ways of using existing technology.
Contribute your time and efforts to improving Open Source projects such as Ubuntu linux. The philosophy of Ubuntu speaks directly to your cause. Humanity to others...
By improving this excellent free operating system and software you contribute directly to assisting people in poverty. Since this Linux operating system is free and very easy to use, it can assist people in all walks of life gain the tools they need to manage their information needs.
I am living in the Philippines and I shifted my career to IT because I want to help other people... and I plan to give my service for FREE... For example, I want to develop a program for our public CITY library because currently they are still using a manual catalogue system. Another thing is that if I became an expert in programming, maybe I could teach children who cannot afford to have a proper education some computer skills.. :)
One thing that programmers are often exceptionally good at, in comparison to the rest of the population, is collecting and organizing information. I live in a relatively poor neighbourhood compared to the rest of my city and there are literally dozens of disparate programs designed to help people. The problem is, is that nobody knows about them. You ask anyone working for these programs, and one of their biggest issues is connecting people with problems to people with solutions.
In our community we've started a extremely local web site (for roughly the 4x8 block area in our municipal neighbourhood). We've actively sought out the various mailing lists and organizations that offer programs, and we filter and organize them, and add them to the website. Nearly everyone in the area has access to the internet in some form or another. But we're also supplementing the site with a monthly newsletter. The intention is to centralize the information that is already out there. We've even given some organizations the ability to post directly to our site. So far the response has been quite positive.
There are tons of charitable open source projects out there--it's finding them that's the rub. Sahana comes to mind; can't think of any others offhand...
If you don't find anything that resonates with you, then start something! Think of how automation and information transfer (the core of software's strength) can improve the lives of those you wish to help. I find Dean Kamen a great source of inspiration here. When you have your great idea developed--make it happen. It's that simple.
Programming is for the well off and well connected.
Disregard the previous answer. I later remembered a fantastic TED talk I had seen earlier and went to find it again.
Edit: Found it: Sugata Mitra: The Child Driven Education..
Whilst not programming, I have done quite a bit of voluntary work within IT drop-in centres. Primarily teaching the elderly and those with learning disabilities on how to use popular software.
A lot of people in society don't realise the benefits that things we may take for granted, can give them, such as the internet. This is prevalent with the groups I mentioned above and it can be extremely rewarding when you see the progress they make and the benefits that they inevitably gain.
Maybe this is an area you could look into, as I think most major conurbations would have such set-ups. If not, ask your University would they be interested in giving something back to the community and volunteering their resources for a few hours a week.
Have you heard of the Venus and boinc projects? search for them and see what we can all do.
get informed mate ;)
The reference to the BOINC project didn't work for me. However, I have found a BOINC project that serves a a good introduction to BOINC:
World Community Grid
Click on each of the pictures under the big picture to see all their current subprojects, some of which should help mostly people in poverty. I've given them years of computer time already.
A few more BOINC projects of interest:
for malaria
for tuberculosis, but early in development so I recommend it only for those with experience in testing new software
likely to help with research on RNA-based viruses, but not giving much detail yet; not quite so early in development but still not recommended for beginners
I'd recommend selecting at least two BOINC projects so your computer can still do useful work if one of the projects goes down for a while.
BOINC is used mainly when some research project needs much more computer time than the computers they can afford can deliver within a reasonable time.
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I don't think you can contribute a lot in that field: what you do on computer often stays on computer, while poverty is material thing.
What you can do is teach kid how to use a computer or how o program, but again, they need a computer to continue learning, and most kids tend to learn alone.
I've had this idea for a long time now, but obviously the thing that would improve our society from the bottom, is some kind of clean, location based, goods/service exchange for everyone website.
I'm not thinking about you regular "selling" announcement website, but something which makes a lot of emphasis on locality.
Some sort of craigslist + google maps, but better and not necessarily based on emails. There would be people who search, and people who propose...
I don't think successful companies like google or facebook put much emphasis on how the economy has to organises itself, while it is like the biggest feature that internet allows: transportation of information.
Try to think that the current economy makes people pay for meeting each other and delivering services, while what you really need might be much closer of where you live.
Delivering information organised in this manner would greatly diminish poverty, which to my sense is just a big lack of organisation money can not always solve effectively.
SOrry for the political post :)
You can work on Mifos: http://mifos.org/ - the software used by Grameen bank.
"Participate in an open source project that's building technology to end poverty faster" - quote from the website.
You can always help indirectly - eg. make some software, that would help some humanitarian project. Our you can make free ( or symbolic price ) web for em. if you are web programmer - this can help to get more other people know about project.


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All fungal species within the kingdom have the same common ancestor, which is unicellular (thought to be protistan). This common ancestor is the point at which it is thought that animals diverged, as suggested by this article. In their words:
A fungal phylogenetic tree is shown below, which originated from this paper.
Note: all colored areas represent different phyla of fungi.
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I am rather sure (but can't explicitly confirm with a reference) that multicellularity in fungi only evolved once. If this were true, I would also hypothesize that mushroom-like characteristics also evolved only once, thus indicating that there is a multicellular ancestor to all mushrooms.
No. One branch of dikarya seems to consist of only unicellular organisms, suggesting that multicellularity evolved at some point within organism under only one dikaryan branch.
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I am not exactly aware of the similarities in fruiting bodies in both branches, but if the physiology behind fruiting bodies are similar, it is very likely because the dikaryan common ancestor had a similar mechanism.


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I've noticed than many numerical sorting methods seem to sort by 1, 10, 2, 3... rather than the expected 1, 2, 3, 10... I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario where I would need the first method and, as a user, I get frustrated whenever I see it in practice. Are there legitimate use cases for the first style over the second? If so, what are they? If not, how did the first sort style ever come into being? What are the official names for each sort method?
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that is lexicographic sorting which means basically the language treats the variables as strings and compares character by character (
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Alphabetically, 1 comes before 2. Whenever you see the first method, it's not because it's desirable, but because the sorting is strictly alphabetical (and happens left-to-right, one character at a time): 1, 2, 10 makes sense to you but not to a computer that only knows alphabetic comparison. There's no way in that kind of simple comparison to know that a one followed by a 0 actually comes after a two.
When you see mixed word and number sorting that treats numbers correctly, it's because the sorting is more intelligent, and on top of that, still usually only works at the beginning or end of a string.
That's the result when you sort strings of numbers alphabetically instead of numerically.
That sort style is the default behavior of the unix
Others have answers what this sort is, but no one every really answered your question about why you see it. The answer isn't really that exciting. It's usually a bug. Most sorting methods will default to one or the other and the programming likely careless of changing the default when sorting numbers.
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1941 Ford Pickup - Long HaulWritten by Chuck Vranas on October 1, 2007 Ric Wrenchey's '41 Ford
Somehow an affair with a classic truck only seems to get better with age when you get a chance to look back at your life's experiences that came about thanks to that cool piece of vintage steel you spend so much time with. Whether it was a cross-country cruise, a hop to the local doughnut shop, or hanging out at the beach with good friends, your hauler was always there.
For Ric Wrenchey of Clermont, Florida, 12 years and almost 50,000 miles can tell some great stories when you sit down to have a cold one and think about it. It must have been all the time spent with dear old dad, Bud, while frequenting his best friend's garage that prepared him for one wicked journey that embroiled him in the hobby ever since he fell hard at age 12 for a '41 Ford pickup his Dad dragged home one afternoon. As he moved on, he never forgot that truck, even when he was crewing for the Lewis & Rolstad Saturn V A/A Fuel dragster during the '60s in Seattle, Washington, as a teen. While his personal time spent racing included a wild '59 Volvo C Altered that constantly ran in the 10s thanks to a built 289-inch Ford with Webbers and Mondello heads, trucks were always a mainstay in his life ever since he purchased his very first '49 Ford before he could even drive.
Having loads of trucks in his rearview mirror as the years passed, it wasn't until he was living in California in '95 that he came across his personal holy grail. Locating a respectable '41 Ford wasn't easy for Ric, even being on the West Coast, but when he answered an ad for one up north in Redding, he came away with a truck that would let him flex his capabilities as a builder as he worked to bring it to the next level.
After tweaking it enough to use as his daily driver till '97, when he relocated to Florida, the combination of a 289 Ford linked to a C-4 proved to have too many issues, causing the fatalities of four transmissions in a short timeframe. This was enough for Ric to decide it was time for a total teardown and redo to build the truck the way he had always envisioned it.
With everything finally apart, Ric began focusing on the Ford's tired old spine. He decided to fully box it to add additional strength while updating all the suspension components with help from his good friend Dan Porter, who helped out with much of the critical welding.
To complete the project, the truck needed some new threads inside, so Ric brought it over to P&B Custom Upholstery in Minneola, Florida, to work their magic, laying down yards of rolled orange marine vinyl accented by off-white trim and orange loop carpeting. So as to add a final touch of class, Ric fabbed up a custom dash insert polished to perfection and filled with both Stewart Warner and Auto Meter gauges to keep track of any vitals, while a Southern Air unit keeps everything inside extra cool.
Ric was able to use the truck as his daily driver for some 40,000 miles till an unfortunate accident wrecked it. It was time for another redo, this time with the help of Tazz Customizing (also in Minneola), who gave it another life, reshot the original decadent coating, and topped it with ghost flames, giving it even more personality. With the odometer fast approaching 50,000 miles, we couldn't think of a better daily driver with a great story to tell in our recent memory...dig it!
So the truck would handle like it was glued to the pavement, he made a call to Fatman Fabrications for one of their IFS setups and combined it with a Chassis Engineering antiroll bar and Carrera coilover shocks. Out back, he added a fresh set of Chassis Engineering leaf springs to the mix, complemented by a matching antiroll bar and Gabriel shocks to smooth out the bumps.
To add plenty of neck-snapping "go" to the mix, Ric decided to keep a Ford in a Ford when he was joined by Dan Erminger and Randy Eckenroth, who helped nail a 302-inch SVO V-8 between the 'rails, with plenty of heavy breathing thanks to Edelbrock and shifting from a modified Ford AOD tranny. Putting the power to a limited-slip Ford 8-inch rear, there had to be plenty of whoa when duty called, so he updated the brakes with an ECI 11-inch front disc setup and 10-inch Ford drums out back, while Wheel Vintiques steelies shod with Diamond Back wide whites bring it all home. To give the truck some mellow tones, he then fabbed up a 2 1/4-inch exhaust with a set of Flowmasters to keep it all legal, even though he really wanted it to sound like his old Altered!
When it came time to address the body, Ric pulled out all the stops by doing a full restoration himself, which included replacing all the floors, adding a new firewall and a rolled rear pan, repairing any nagging rust, and blocking the body to perfection. To add the vibrancy he always wanted, he contacted RM to mix up some of their eye-searing Dino Russo Red, which has a really killer orange vibe that he laid down to give the truck its signature look.
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Boehner surrenders but, still terrified of the GOP's Tea Party wing, vows to continue its war on Obamacare. From his remarks this afternoon, comments passim:
That fight [against Obamacare] will continue. But blocking the bipartisan agreement reached today by the members of the Senate will not be a tactic for us. [Then why was Boehner threatening to block it just yesterday? And why did House Republicans ever think threatening default would be a winning tactic for them? Because they did not think the president would call their bluff.] In addition to the risk of default, doing so would open the door for the Democratic majority in Washington to raise taxes again on the American people and undo the spending caps in the 2011 Budget Control Act without replacing them with better spending cuts. [Read: "If we keep this up, we might lose seats in next year's election. Most Americans are fed up with our stunts."] With our nation's economy still struggling under years of the president's policies [sic], raising taxes is not a viable option. [No matter how the Republicans start a sentence, this is always how it ends.] Our drive to stop the train wreck that is the president's health care law will continue. [If it were such a train wreck, it would stop itself. It would eventually be repealed, democratically—not nullified by means of extortion.] We will rely on aggressive oversight that highlights the law's massive flaws and smart, targeted strikes that split the legislative coalition the president has relied upon to force his health care law on the American people. [If that's the plan, then what were the last few weeks all about? The only coalition Boehner's come close to splitting is his own.]
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A secret serviceman, who has not been paid in 16 days, said that when Congress approves the Bill he will personally bring it to the president. This is typical of the country's impatience and anger at Boehner and the Tea Party. Many Republican Senators anc Congressman are lambasting the Tea party folks. They may not have hit their Waterloo here. But they came close.
Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) said on Wednesday afternoon that their female colleagues can take most of the credit for driving the compromise that is expected to temporarily reopen the U.S. government and raise the debt ceiling before Thursday's deadline.
"Leadership, I must fully admit, was provided primarily from women in the Senate," McCain said after the bipartisan deal was announced.
Pryor said that people sometimes like to joke about women in leadership, but he is a huge fan of his female colleagues after watching them negotiate. "The truth is, women in the Senate is a good thing," he said. "We're all just glad they allowed us to tag along so we could see how it's done."
Out of the 14 senators on the bipartisan committee that laid the framework for the debt deal, six were women. Susan Collins (R-Maine) started the group, and Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) took part in negotiations.
"I don't think it's a coincidence that women were so heavily involved in trying to end this stalemate," Collins told The New York Times. "Although we span the ideological spectrum, we are used to working together in a collaborative way."
It is way too early for dancing in the end zone.
The government again teeters on shutdown in January; the U.S. teeters on the edge of default in February. Unless blah blah blah. Meanwhile, the sillly sequester budget resulting from the silly sequester deal the Oblama thought Congress would never allow to happen remains the law of the land. As the dust settles, Obama has the stuttering rollout of his (kill me if I ever hear it called this again) "signature issue," and Boehner has the sequester budget with government furloughs.
The only way to stop Act III of Government by Occasional Crisis is for the Republican House and the Democratic Senate to agree on a budget. Anybody holding his or her breath on that?
Tom B
I disagree... if the GOP repeats this defeat again in Feb.2014 I can assure you a Dem House after the Nov. 14 elections.
Ed G
I've heard the theory. It is based on two assumptions -- one is that the public has an attention span longer than the common housefly, and the other is that we are still in the pre-moron era in Washington. Neither seems to be true.
By January, Obama will be back in trouble for stumbles in Syria or Iran or North Korea; Darrell Issa will be investigating the failure of the multimillion dollar private contractors who rolled out Obamacare -- "worse than the W. Bush contractors in Iran!" -- and Miley Cyrus will be getting married or having a baby. The pains of the past two weeks will have been forgotten. There will be grousing about the lousy Christmas shopping season as bankers hunkered down for the next debt crisis, but that won't be seen as related to anything that happened in October.
And the goofiest of the tea party Representatives will be pollling 70 or 80 percent in their own districts and caring less about anyone else's.
Tom B...you are much too pessimistic. Stock Market takes off tomorrow to the hidhest level in 10 years. Jobs will increase revenues, and the ACA enrollment will do better now that they can go back to work. All 6 of my college age grandchildren are in parents ' health care due to ACA. My children don't have to worry about losing house, savings and future earning if one young adult has a catasthrophic injury or sickness. how much is that peace of mind worth?
we have No US killing people in Syria, Iran, Iraq. and the small strikes in Somali and Libya are made w/o killing innocents. Israel war noises are silent.
Did you watch Cruz speech? He was like a quarterback being sacked 3 times and running off, trying to give the fans and coach a high five.. pathetic.. .. so drop the Obama is failing mantra.
Ed Gleason,
I am with you. This is a win-win situation for the Dems. Nancy Pelosi is the next Speaker of the House and the American bishops are SOL. Their Republican bed mates can't help them now. It is over. The Tea baggers did the GOP in and Cruz will bear the brunt of the GOP failure. He has already acknowledged that by not trying to oppose the deal parliamentarily. Read Tea Party = dead. Obama has won and ACA is the law of the land. Who would have thunk it? Caling Archbishop Lori:your red had is fading to pink.
Boehner blinked. Will Obama get the kudos Kennedy earned when Khrushchev blinked?
This piece by Stu Rothenberg seems as straightforward an analysis as any I've seen so far.
Tea Partiers are blaming "sellouts" like Boehner and McConnell for compromising instead of continuing the fight. They're the spiritual descendants of those hawks like Gen. Westmoreland, who insisted that there was indeed light at the end of the Vietnam tunnel--but he still needed half a million more pairs of boots on the ground.
The severely gerrymandered districts in the House of Representatives worry me. The "Hate the Government, and Don't Pay Your Country's Costs" gang can retain many seats in the House. In one version, a group of politicians boasts that they have created a seat for minorities, but their real intent is to save for themselves the surrounding districts. The drawing of congressional district lines is gamesmanship in too many states.
Jim P. What your friend Rothenberg didn't say -- even though he is known for knowing these things -- is how many Republicans will be past the deadline for primary opponents to get on the ballot agaqinst them when the January and February deadlines are met. As long as they can be primaried the "responsible" Republicans are ripe for extortion.
As far as the potential extorters are concerned, the following analysis says the age of government by morons hasn't passed:
Remember, Ted Cruz just set a new indoor-outdoor record for TV appearances by freshman senators. As far as he is concerned, he found a way to win the lottery.
Ted Cruz learned a valuable lesson. He has the vision and ideology clear but without the leadership to mobilize and coordinate a movement, his political strategy failed.
Not saying he does not have talent but he lacks patience, humility, and perseverance to build up a movement.
And even if he does, the tea party will always be a rump party of the Republicans. Boehner seems effective at managing them but the Democrats are tight! Don't know who is keeping them together but they are marching to the drumbeat!
People of the Left - for example, I - love to shake our heads at the Right's "echo chamber:" Limbaugh, Hannity etc. But of course, we spend most of our political time communicating through entirely comparable mechanisms. (Perhaps even here?)
So which of us is Luke's publican, and which the Pharisee?
And are we, as Simone Weil taught, "…practic[ing] the opposite virtues…" that we may "…hold out in such a confrontation."
Mark L.
With our nation's economy still struggling under years of the president's policies [sic] [sic]
You're right, Mark: that sentence is so stupid it deserves two sics. From Paul Krguman's column in today's New York Times:
A useful starting point for assessing the damage done is a widely cited report by the consulting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, which estimated that "crisis driven" fiscal policy — which has been the norm since 2010 — has subtracted about 1 percent off the U.S. growth rate for the past three years. This implies cumulative economic losses — the value of goods and services that America could and should have produced, but didn't — of around $700 billion.[...]
The main driver of their estimates is the sharp fall since 2010 in discretionary spending as a share of G.D.P. — that is, in spending that, unlike spending on programs like Social Security and Medicare, must be approved by Congress each year. Since the biggest problem the U.S. economy faces is still inadequate overall demand, this fall in spending has depressed both growth and employment.
What's more, the report doesn't take into account the effect of other bad policies that are a more or less direct result of the Republican takeover in 2010. Two big bads stand out: letting payroll taxes rise, and sharply reducing aid to the unemployed even though there are still three times as many people looking for work as there are job openings. Both actions have reduced the purchasing power of American workers, weakening consumer demand and further reducing growth.
I don't think Tom Blackburn is overly pessimistic. I'm not sure you CAN be too pessimistic about politics these days. Commentators I heard on NPR this morning said that Boehner and Cruz were the biggest GOP winners in the lastest debacle, Boehner for listening to giving the Tea Party wing its chance, and Cruz for sticking to his principles.
Some Tea Partiers told reporters that that shutting down the government was "worth it," though no newscaster I've heard has asked whether it was worth $24 billion, the estimated cost of the shutdown. Talk about government waste ...
Any victory the Democrats derive from having made the GOP "blink" will be quickly neutralized by news coverage that has turned its attention to the snafus going on over at healthcare.gov. The site really is pretty awful unless it takes you to one of the few state-run sites.
Jean R..
ACA takes effect 2014 except for already insuring 6 of my college aged grandchildren on their parents accounts. . I can access Covered Ca, the ACA site very easily. Kaiser, that insures me and about 33% of Californians has a site that will CONTACT me when any ACA applies to my coverage. . Maybe the Red states e.g Idaho and other yokel states, have problems, and my answer is vote em out or move
Try Coverered California .. easy on the eyes. .
Seconding Ed Gleason re: CA.
I'm covered through Anthem Blue Cross (adminsisrator for a group for my small business), and they contact me bi-weekly with ACA information, and more frequently if there are special updates. Our rates for 2014 are 3.1% higher than for 2013, with no changes ot co-pay or deductible. Everyone in the group is a year older, and inflation rate will be about 2%, so I reckon this proposal is perfectly acceptable, especially given expanded coverages and availabilities ot our fellow persons. Evidently, the exchnages can be established, access systems are possible (CA's population is about 35 Million), and the insurance companies have seen that fair-minded participation is posisble. In fact, essential in their own interests.
Mark L.
Yes, I've heard California's and New York's sites are great. I live in Michigan, where our GOP legislature nixed the move by our relatively progressive GOP governor to set up a similar state site. The woeful federal site is great for Republicans who want the program to fail.
I keep my elected officials apprised of my frustration on a weekly basis. I do try to vote the bastids out. But given the finely-tuned gerry-mandering, it's very difficult these days.
If they don't get that site fixed by Feb. 15, and I end up having to pay a fine in addition to not having insurance, I'm gonna get real agitated.
Oh, and the advice to move? Please. I have an elderly mother who needs care and would have to be declared incompetent for me to remove her from her home. My kid is a senior in high school.
And where would I move? Californy? Where the cost of living is even higher than here? We are low income people. How do we get the money to make a move like that.
And never mind that we're 60 and the jobs open to you at that time of life are largely part-time. In fact, part-time work is the wave of the future, given that one of the unintended consequences of ACA is that it encourages employers to keep employees at less than 30 hours per week in order not to have to provide health care.
OK, I'm off topic and likely to get my comments axed if I go on complaining about my personal problems. But if conservatives are relatively callous to the problems of the poor--and I think they are--progressives can be mighty blinkered about them.


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THE BELMONT County Drug Task Force is continuing its battle against illegal drugs in the county, and on Thursday it raided two houses in Bellaire and made five arrests.
The raids were conducted at a duplex at 1787 and 1789 Belmont St., and at 621-1/2 38th St. Confiscated from both residents were about $2,500 in cash, a loaded 12-gauge shotgun and ammunition and crack cocaine, marijuana and prescription pills.
Taking part in the operation which took place between 5-6 a.m. were police from Bellaire, Bridgeport, Martins Ferry, Shadyside and deputies from the Belmont County Sheriff's Office.
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McFarland said the task force is trying to be more and more proactive toward the drug dealers in the county, whether it be cocaine, marijuana or prescription drugs, which are a major problem.
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McFarland said officers are dealing with more incidents of people trafficking in drugs who are not from the area. He said most of the recent heroin busts have either been people from out of town or local people who are associating with people from out of town.
The five suspects are in the Belmont Count Jail and are expected to be arraigned sometime this coming week.
"This is an on going investigation," said McFarland. "I want to commend the officers conducting the investigation and urge people in the community to notify the Drug Task Force if they suspect someone dealing drugs."
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WACO (January 9, 2013)--It took a 54th District Court jury only 13 minutes to return a guilty verdict Wednesday in the trial of a local man accused of failing to register as a sex offender.
The punishment phase of the trial of William Ray Phillips II started immediately after the verdict was returned.
State District Judge Matt Johnson, who decided punishment, sentenced Phillips to 10 years in prison.
Phillips, who acted as his own lawyer, claimed he was not required to register as a sex offender because his conviction in an earlier trial was overturned after he served four years of a 99-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault of a child.
The 10th Court of Appeals overturned an earlier state court conviction, but Phillips was also convicted in federal court in 2002 of a possession of child pornography charge, for which he also was ordered to register as a sex offender.
Federal court records also show that while he was on supervised release for the 2002 conviction, he violated the terms of his release and U.S. District Judge Walter Smith ordered him to serve an additional year and one day on the revocation and ordered him to comply with sex offender registration rules after completion of his sentence.
The charge in the state court for which he was found guilty on Wednesday was that he failed to register as the court had ordered.


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Prometheus is probably the biggest sci-fi letdown since the last time someone made a movie set in the Alien universe. Instead of a worthy follow-up to the best sci-fi action movie ever, we got an attempt at a stand-alone plot that wouldn't have even happened if the characters weren't stupid enough to pet alien snakes, get lost in tunnels that they themselves had mapped, and take their helmets off on an alien planet most likely so full of dangerous microbes that they'd be shitting their intestines out within the hour. Seriously, they're like the dumbest scientists ever.
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"I found something that looks like chocolate! Let's lick it!"
And beyond that, the plot winds up being just a disjointed series of scary situations with no rhyme or reason, from the deadly black goo that is never explained to the ship's android randomly turning evil, just because.
But maybe the weirdest thing of all is that clearly the film is intended to be an Alien prequel -- the finale of the movie literally leads up to the plot of Alien. A horseshoe-shaped ship crashes with an alien sitting in the cockpit, landing in the exact same position as it is discovered by the crew in the first Alien film. "But wait," they say, "this isn't the planet they landed on in Alien known as LV-426. This is LV-223, a completely different planet. It just so happens that this planet has an identical bit of wreckage and a nearly identical species of alien on it. Makes perfect sense, really." It would be like if, at the end of Revenge of the Sith, it turned out that Anakin had actually been turning into a completely different guy who was also named Darth Vader in a neighboring galaxy.
Actually, that might be a best case scenario.
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Prometheus was just one or two rewrites away from greatness -- but not in the direction you think. An earlier draft by John Spaihts called Alien: Engineers was in fact a straight Alien prequel that, yes, took place on the same planet and could easily have been one of the best movies in the series (or at least something that wouldn't have made audiences want to reach into the screen, grab each character by the shoulders, and violently shake them until they stopped being stupid).
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Where's Michael Biehn when you really need him?
This script completely removes or explains all the weird character decisions and plot holes, opting instead for badass one-liners ("I brought it in. [hefts her gun] I took it out"). Engineers has a new take on the chest-burster scene that's even more intense than the one Prometheus gave us: Instead of getting a cesarean section, the original draft had that medical pod repairing Watt's chest as a xenomorph burst out of it. We also would've seen new types of xenomorphs, including a gray human-alien hybrid -- except, ya know, better than the one we saw in Alien: Resurrection.
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And no one has sex with it!
Weirdly enough, it also explains virtually every plot hole in the version we saw. Why does the crew not know what their job is? Because classified jobs pay more and Peter Weyland is worried about corporate espionage. What's the black goo? A bioweapon originally intended for Earth. Why does the Engineer throw a temper tantrum when people wake him up? Because he has a xenomorph in his belly and is awaiting medical care -- our heroes have effectively doomed both him and the planet. Why did David the Android turn evil? Because he goes nuts and starts seeing the Engineers as gods worthy of worship.
So what happened? Well, they brought in Damon Lindelof (the guy who wrote Lost) and, shockingly, suddenly the plot took on the same random and nonsensical nature of the seasons of Lost he wrote. Lindelof convinced director Ridley Scott that the movie didn't need to be an Alien prequel at all, that audiences wouldn't care about that. So instead they'd just make the aliens look pretty much like the xenomorphs everyone knows and loves and do a "search and replace" in the script, switching out the names of the planets. After all, there's nothing audiences love more than being utterly confused by random plot elements that seem to have been slapped together on the fly, right?
#4. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry Was a Serious Take on Gay Marriage
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No, really.
The I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry that you know is an Adam Sandler vehicle about two New York City firemen who have to pretend to be gay because that's the only way Sandler could think to end that sentence at that moment. It's ostensibly pro-gay rights, but is so worried that you might actually think it's gay that it takes the preventive measure of serving up great slathering piles of homophobic humor with just a spritzing of casual racism, because why not?
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Oh, Rob Schneider. What ever happened to- oh, wait, he's always been this terrible.
So this is one of those deals where Sandler and some of his buddies just got high and slapped together a movie idea in an afternoon, right? Hell, they probably just wrote an outline and improvised it as they went along.
But here's the thing -- the script is credited to the award-winning writing team of Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, best known for winning a Best Screenplay Oscar for Sideways, getting nominated for another one for Election, and winning a Golden Globe for About Schmidt. In fact, the disappointment of seeing Payne and Taylor's names on such forgettable trash caused at least one movie critic to lose his faith in God.
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It's almost tragic: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry wasn't always just another copy-pasted guy-has-to-do-a-thing Adam Sandler comedy, but was a funny and touching character comedy called Flamers. To give you an idea of just how convoluted the Hollywood process can be, it started life as a script written by Barry Fanaro (who wrote Kingpin), and the award-winning team of Payne and Taylor were brought in to make it not terrible. This resulted in a script so good that Sandler now wanted to be a part of it, and as soon as he came on board, he proceeded to make it terrible again.
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At least he resisted the urge to add a ukulele number.
Despite Sandler's uncredited rewrite, you can see the shape of the cool story struggling to escape the crushing grip of Sandlerification. In the original script, Larry's kid was a young figure skater struggling with his sexuality, emotionally trying to deal with the complication of his father merely pretending to be gay. In Chuck & Larry, Larry's son is a walking gay stereotype who wears sparkly shirts, screams like a girl, and concludes his character arc with a Gene Kelly-style victory dance after punching a bully in the nuts.
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Oh well, same thing.
While Chuck and Larry's courtroom kiss is yet another opportunity for Sandler to make a joke about how kissing other men is gross because of how totally straight he is, in the original script it was an intimate moment between two friends -- described in the stage direction as a "melding of souls."
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Apparently their souls smell like butt.
Basically, Flamers would've thrown down the gauntlet on depictions of gay men in film by tackling homophobia and male sexuality pretty much head-on. Instead, we got more Sandler-style freakouts, dropped-the-soap gags, and Rob Schneider.
#3. The Three Stooges Film Could Have Been the Most Utterly Insane Thing Ever Made
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Despite a supporting cast that features Larry David, Jane Lynch, and everyone from Jersey Shore (at least all the ones we've heard of), the 2012 reboot of The Three Stooges still managed to suck in a way that made it utterly forgettable (how many of you even remembered they made this movie?).
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This is a shot from the movie, we think.
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We want you to sit back and imagine a Three Stooges film starring Jim Carrey, Benicio del Toro, and Sean Fucking Penn as Curly, Moe, and Larry, respectively. What's that, you say? You can't imagine it, because that's too bizarre for the human mind to conceive? Well, it almost happened.
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No, really.
Yeah, we're gonna go on record here saying that this visionary dream cast for a film about three man-children who solve every problem they face with cartoonish violence is a work of abstract modern art. Watching it would've been like ... well, like a two-hour movie of Three Stooges gags performed by Ace Ventura, Fred Fenster, and the guy with the terminal heart condition from 21 Grams. Got a good mental picture?
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Neither do we.
When was the last time Penn did anything -- movie or otherwise -- that wasn't wrought with psychological material mined from the Stygian depths of human suffering? We're picturing a Larry flailing around a scene of chaotic slapstick while his eyes quietly whisper the truth: that Larry is constantly fighting the pain from the acid burns he suffered as a child, and he is searching, ever searching, for a grip on his place in the modern world. And then Moe would hit him in the face with a shovel.
Sadly, the world was spared this celebrity LSD trip when all three actors eventually backed out -- presumably after deciding that the world just wasn't ready for this yet. And speaking of potentially great films ruined by casting ...


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My Aikido teacher advised us (I'm in a beginners group) not to study Aikido movies on youtube, at least not until we get our black belts. He said that's because there are different Aikido styles and we might be studying techniques that are totally different from our particular style. What's your opinion on this? Is he right? Or is it possible to find movies on the internet showing techniques for a particular Aikido style?
I've found videos very helpful when I already knew a particular technique (or especially a form), and very unhelpful when I did not.
On those occasions when I became stuck and couldn't remember the next move in a form, it was great to see a video of someone practicing the form in the exact manner I was taught. I have a video set from one of my sifu's contemporaries for exactly this reason. However, this is rare. A particular form or technique can have many different variations from school to school, even within the same style, so even if I was successful at picking up what was in the video, I would end up having to unlearn it later as I was taught the right approach for my school.
If I tried to learn something for the first time, something I wasn't already familiar with, seeing it on film was worse than useless. More often, I would end up not even knowing what happened in the video. Yes, obviously, this guy moved and that guy hit the floor, but what was really going on?
Once I had 8-10 years of experience I started to be able to figure out what the intent was for different techniques. After almost 20 years, I'm able to gain a little more by watching a technique, whether in person or online. However, getting hands-on with a technique is still by far the best way for me to learn.
I think your teacher is giving you just one of many reasons to avoid trying to learn martial arts through video, and I agree with him (or her).
Videos don't teach technique
Learning from videos is just not an effective way of learning technique. It can work, but it's wildly inefficient and can produce bad habits. One of the primary reasons to avoid video-based learning is that without an excellent feedback system (e.g. great training partners at home, or near-daily practice where you test the video-learned techniques) you will pick up bad habits. Without feedback to warn you away from bad habits, your technique could stagnate.
So even if you could find videos of your specific Aikido style, it probably won't be very helpful.
Videos can teach possibilities or "style"
However, videos of high-level exponents of a style can convey a lot of useful information that isn't about technique.
By watching a significant amount of video, and being discerning about who to watch, what to watch, and the quality of each piece, one can pick up an idea for the "style" of a style, or the approach of a given technician. For analogy, in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, it's not too helpful to try to learn the cross-collar choke by watching Roger Gracie. But watching tape of him cross-collar-choking everyone in the heavyweight division is mighty informative about the power of the technique, and of Roger's stylistic approach.
One can get an okay idea of the "feel" or "flow" of a style or practitioner by watching tape. This can be useful as a "finger pointing at the moon", guiding one's practice.
The other somewhat useful thing one can pick up from video is possibilities. I won't learn from a video the "feel" of a technique, or figure out how to apply it well, but I'll at least be aware that it exists. This can be helpful in defense against people without too much expertise, and can expand one's understanding of the problem space.
Reasons an instructor might object
Let's look at it from your instructor's perspective. I've trained under instructors who ran the gamut of opinions on this: totally opposed to outside instruction like video, tolerant of it, or wholly embracing it (though recognizing its drawbacks). I've encountered three serious objections:
YouTube may be a valuable tool in learning how to do something (much like this site), but that will vary depending on the student and the teacher. I don't know much about the variance of aikido styles, but I know that there are hundreds of different kung fu styles. While some fundamental movements may be similar or the same, there are lots of different characteristics unique to each style, its forms, and culture that make them very different.
Your instructor is right in saying that you might end up learning the moves that aren't in your particular style. Others might view this as a negative move, because they might see or feel that you aren't being respectful to the system or your instructor if you are going behind their back on your own to learn something else. If an instructor makes a living off teaching martial arts, that person could be seen as doing a disservice to the teacher (and is probably not the kind of student they might want in that case).
You may also end up learning a particular technique incorrectly as well due to inexperience. If you're watching a video that isn't instructional, you only have visual input (and the view could be obstructed) on how to perform that move without a verbal or more detailed or nuanced explanation for it. Some videos may not be performed by experts either, so you might end up learning an incorrect movement from an inexperienced or beginner person who hasn't fully understood what they are doing.
Some systems may not want videos of their style online to maintain the traditional aspect of learning martial arts. I know this is true in various kung fu systems I've met in the Chinatown area. A lot of it has to do with maintaining the tradition, culture, and history that is passed down from teacher to student along with the physical movements and respecting your martial arts ancestors. Some of those videos might outdated or old or perhaps performed by people who aren't fully trained in that particular art.
Since you've written that your instructor has told you not to learn from the Internet, my advice is to respect that person's wishes and not go off on your own. Once you do reach a certain level or proficiency or mastery (in your case reaching black belt status), then I would assume you've reached a level where you can discern what is going on in a video and also interpret or analyze and use it in a way that would be respectful or complementary to your style. I would personally still bring it up with my instructor for discussion and try to share that knowledge and give back rather than go solo and "take, take, take." The context or content of the video might also set the tone of what could be useful or not as well, and that is also something I would also bring up.
One behavioral phenomenon I've seen with students (especially with new and young youths) is that they tend to get very eager after the initial "beginner's hump." They start to get more comfortable and relaxed, often times becoming more boisterous or ostentatious about what they can do (more so in the presence of other newer and incoming students. It's okay for them to feel proud, but they also need to be reminded to not show off (it's very disrespectful) especially when they've only been there for 6 months compared to others who have been there for 6 years.
The point is to have patience and control over one's self and develop that self-discipline when studying an art. My perspective comes from a traditional kung fu perspective on that, but the way I see it is that there is always room to learn and grow more no matter what your age, level, or discipline is.
IMO observing techniques, even if from other styles, is more helpful than harmful.
Of course you should be able to find techniques from whatever style you practice, assuming a reasonably well-known style.
"Should" you practice another style's techniques before "mastering" your own? That's a separate issue, and it depends entirely upon your goals. Would I suggest studying two different styles of the same art simultaneously? Probably not. Would I suggest comparing different styles? I would, because understanding the differences can enhance the understanding of your own style.
Would I tell your instructor I was doing so? Doesn't sound like it would be a good idea--but I'm wary of instructors that attempt to dissuade "outside" information, whether it's the same art or not, so I'm biased.
I'm a beginner at Aikido as well. Personally I find looking at lots of videos and reading lots of books very enjoyable, and pretty helpful, particularly when it comes to remembering the Japanese names for attacks, techniques, etc. (for our 5th kyu we have to do 9 arts from 2 attacks omote and ura, so that's 36 combinations to nail down). From reading books and articles I've got a rudimentary understanding of the different schools/styles arising from the main splits that have occurred over Aikido's relatively short history. If you build this background knowledge it should be fairly apparent whether you are looking at aikikai, yoshinkan, ki society, tomiki, etc. and hence how relevant it is to your particular school. If I felt all that was closed off for at least 4 years (probably more like 8) until I reached Shodan I'd probably get bored fairly quickly. Maybe your teacher feels that all the history and politics behind this could be off-putting to new students though. Certainly our teacher discourages questions and analysis during class.
All that said, there's no replacement for hard practice and you can't learn martial arts from videos or books, they are purely supplemental to time in the Dojo with a good teacher, but IME a great way to feed your addiction when you can't get on the mat. :-)
I've never heard of a good instructor (of any subject) recommending students not learn something.
There's nothing wrong with watching youtube videos to get different technique ideas. Unless you engage in serious 'offline' training, though, you're not actually 'learning' them. Just learning that they exist.
I just dont see what the issue is - if you show up to class and start doing a technique incorrectly, then he corrects you. Its not like you're going to build up massive muscle memories and become untrainable form watching some aikido videos.
My teachers also object to learning from videos, because they say one should learn in class, during training. I, for one, disagree.
I think videos can be a great resource because they show you exactly what should be done, not what you remember from what the instructor has said should be done. They allow you to see the details of the movement, and you can use them to extract summaries of the techniques
Not to take away from any of the other answers here, but I would like to add another perspective. I think visiting other dojos and watching videos is something that everyone must do at some point in their martial arts career.
The question is what is the right time?
In my opinion, it is about the time you are a nidan or a sandan (2nd or 3rd degree black belt). The reason for this is that you must develop the trained eye to understand what you are seeing. To recognize what is universal (there is more similarity, for example, between good karatedo and good aikido than difference), to understand what is surface affectation, and to decode the language used by the instructor from the physical reality of what they are their students are doing.
All of the senior martial artists I know have "made the tour" of many other dojos, styles, and arts (watching videos would fall in this category) and it is very, very helpful as you rise towards the senior ranks.
However, as a beginner--anything under shodan (1st degree black belt), you may not be ready for this. It is easier to learn one system, without worrying about why things differ and whether those differences are important. Pick a good instructor, and learn from them.
The reason beginners are not ready to absorb multiple styles or systems is because they don't have the observational skill to see what is important or not important. Sometimes surface details don't matter at all. Especially in aikido (although in all martial arts eventually), the things that don't matter are very hard to see, until you have learned what to see--usually by doing and having done to you so many times that you begin to recognize.
Beginners need the instructor to coach them through the beginners path, helping them to find the core of the correct, fundamental technique.
For this reason, I don't recommend visits, videos, or books to beginners (everyone up to about shodan or nidan is a beginner). It just isn't time yet.
Then, a student is at the point where they truly know their own body, and can read others, then they are ready to begin review and exploration of the larger world. This is an exciting time in any martial artists development. You will see that much that earlier seemed incredibly different is really the same, yet things you couldn't see when you were a beginner have profound outcomes.
Conversely, if an instructor expressly forbids looking at videos, visiting other dojos, or whatever, that is not good sign either. Good instructors should be able to help their students understand the similarities and differences of other styles, and more importantly, why they are that way and what it means.
My advice is to keep looking at videos and possibly change teacher.
Looking is a training per se, in Aikido. (Tada Hiroshi used to teach that, at least: metsuke no keiko)


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I have a cake that calls for 4 Tablespoons of brandy. I don't have any brandy in the house, nor any kind of liquor at all (besides maybe red wine vinegar which doesn't help much). Is there anything I can substitute, or should I just skip? (I think I've skipped the brandy sometimes before when making this recipe and it came out fine.)
It depends what the recipe is, but I've successfully replaced brandy with orange juice or apple juice in the past. It's not a direct replacement for the flavour, of course, but gives a similar strength of flavour, if you see what I mean.
I don't think there is a recipe that will give you trouble if you just skip the liquor.
As for substitutes, I would says add a bit of brandy extract, you can find small bottles in the supermarket. You can add other liquor extracts (rum etc.) if you don't like the taste of brandy. But be careful to adjust the amount. I think 1 Tbsp of extract will me more than enough in your recipe here.
I would probably make a simple syrup and heat it and then steep some chopped raisins or dates in it for an hour or two, and then use some liquid from that instead of the brandy. That way you're adding some flavor, but without the alcohol. Much like the other suggestions, it won't be exactly the same as adding brandy or other liquor, though.
I don't wish to detract from those saying "skip it", except that I would draw attention to the fact that if you choose to "skip it" there is a price to pay, you loose the flavor that brandy provides. This does not mean that your product will be 'bad' just 'different'.
As for those advancing the idea of Vanilla, In the US Vanilla Extract is a MINIMUM of 35% alcohol (or 70 proof). The flavor change may indeed be fine, but it is not an alcohol free decision to switch from brandy to vanilla extract.
The actual process of baking removes much (but not all) of the alcohol from the final product. Then there is apportionment to consider. 4 Tbl is 2 shots, or roughly the amount of alcohol in 2 beers, before reduction. If you start with 4 Tbl and bake for one hour you are down to 1/2 of one beer, apportioned over 8 to 10 servings. Each consumer will receive the approximate amount of alcohol as the consumption from looking at a bottle of beer (ok, 1/16 of a beer...)
Now I appreciate that you may well have important reasons to maintain a standard of "no alcohol" and I would not attempt to dissuade you from those values. If, however, something like vanilla extract is an acceptable cooking ingredient then too should small amounts of other alcohols be acceptable when treated as an ingredient.
That said, if you wish to substitute for brandy then your best choice is whiskey.
Brandy is a distilled wine (fermented grape mash) which has been aged in oak barrels. Whiskey is distilled from a fermented grain mash and then aged in oak barrels. In each case the oak is the primary source of flavor (while distillation and quality of the mash contribute to the 'smoothness' the flavor is OAK)
Depending on the recipe, you might be able to substitute additional vanilla extract to give more flavor. I wouldn't recommend doing a whole 4 tablespoons as vanilla is much more concentrated than actual brandy, but maybe 1-2 teaspoons vanilla + some water or apple juice to end up with the right overall amount of liquid? If cake recipe uses milk already, use vanilla + milk.


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… though you wouldn't think it from the way they acted.
Is there a French analogue of "though you wouldn't think it"?
Is there a French analogue of "though you wouldn't think it"?
Here are some idiomatic phrases, but more likely to be heard than to be read.
"en les voyant": looking at them
There is an old French saying which is often used in similar situations (but you can't 'embed' it in a phrase):
Who would have believed this (before seeing the evidence)?
For instance:
Légèrement informel, mais je trouve cela bien plus idiomatique que les autres formulations proposées :
On peut utiliser le conditionnel passé (« on ne l'aurait pas dit ») pour marquer que l'apparence est fausse. Le conditionnel présent (« on ne dirait pas ») peut être utilisé que l'apparence soit vraie ou fausse.
« On ne dirait pas » est à peu près équivalent de « you wouldn't think it ». Exemple :
The following should fit when the phrase strengthens the hypothesis it is reffering to. (Have a look at this question on EL&U, luckily it is the case in the context you provided.)
Here "though you wouldn't think it from [X]" is translated as "bien que [X] ne le laissait pas supposer". Instead of bien que, which is closer to even though, a few alternatives exist:
Within the context you provided, a conditional mood might fit better:
Also, I don't think that "Qui l'eût cru ?", which is nevertheless a very good idea by Yves, can be used in this context. It suggests strong surprise, related to a revelation backed by evidence.
And, in casual speak, one would probably use the idiomatic phrasing given by Gilles:
But, be aware that without a conjunction like bien que, one could perceive the first sentence as sarcasm.
N.B. base anglophone trop faible : pas très sûr du temps du verbe avoir : on doit pouvoir aussi utiliser vous n'auriez pu
The translation would be better if we had the whole sentence, but the quoted part would probably translate to :
or, more casually :
or, less litterally :
This third version being, in my humble opinion, more euphonious (euphonic ?) and naturally-sounding in french than the first two.


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I a new to Panoroma photography and therefore looking to buy pano gear that will suit most of my needs
Here's my current set up
BH-55 head
Gitzo travellers tripod
5d MK3 with RRS L plate
50mm 1.4
35mm 1.4
I like the Nodal Ninja Gear but since I have already invested in expensive BH-55 head, I am therefore debating whether to go for RRS Pano gear or Nodal Ninja. What would you suggest ?
I am also interested in signing up for Google Trusted Photographers program.However, Google suggests that I use 8-15mm lens and R10
8-15mm costs around 1500 dollars which I cant afford.
My budget is around 1000 dollars.


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For local field, the reciprocity map establishes almost an isomorphism from the multiplicative group to the Abelian Absolute Galois group. (In global case the relationship is almost as nice). It is tempted to think that there can be no such nice accident.
Do we know any explanation which suggest that there "should be" a relationship between the multiplicative group and the Galois group?
Actually, my current belief is that the reciprocity map is half accidental. I think that there is a natural extension where we can define a natural action of the multiplicative group. In the local case this is the Lubin-Tate extension (a generalization of cyclotomic extension). The fact that this Lubin-Tate extension is the Abelian Absolute Galois group is an accident.
Do we know something that might support/ reject this view?
Please feel free to edit the question into a form that you think might be better.