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Chris Brown: New Team, New Look [11:06 PM]
WGR reports: Bills officially unveil new uniforms
The traditional red, white and blue color scheme that has been part of the Bills look since 1962 remains but has been intensified with the addition of a darker blue. The team's red helmet with a blue charging buffalo on the side has also been maintained but has been modified to include nickel gray and navy stripes. In another nod to tradition, the nickel gray of the 1960-61 Bills returns as a subtle enhancement on the helmet as well as the jersey and pants.
Monday Mini-Camp Notes [11:03 PM]
ESN reports: The second-week of mini-camp didn't produce any major changes but, one is still expected to take place starting Tuesday's practice. If all goes according to plan, left tackle Trey Teague will go inside to center while Jonas Jennings, last year's RT, will get snaps at LT. And as Gregg Williams said after practice on Monday, using a Tom Donahoe reference during the Drew Bledsoe talks, "stay tuned" the rest of the week.
Several camps will be summertime hot spots [8:25 PM]
CNNSI.com reports: Drew Bledsoe in a Bills uniform intrigues me. GM Tom Donahoe and his right-hand man, Tom Modrak, know how to build a playoff team and they will right Buffalo's ship sooner rather than later.
Breaking the Moulds [8:23 PM]
CNNSI.com reports: With the addition of Bledsoe, Buffalo becomes a bona fide contender for New England's crown. The Bills' offense -- now directed by Kevin Gilbride -- has a leader who can get the ball downfield to receivers Eric Moulds, Peerless Price and Josh Reed, the team's second-round draft pick.
Back To Work For The Bills [6:15 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: After spending the weekend modeling the new uniforms, the Bills were back on the football field on Monday for the first of four workouts this week before breaking until camp begins on July 24.
Bills Making National News With New Uniforms [3:43 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Here's a list of the national appearances that Bills members will be making this week talking about the uniform change. Listen in to hear what they have to say.
5th Down Book: Super Plays [2:22 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Don Beebe's End Zone Chase: Perseverance. Toughness. The absolute inability to quit. Those are the qualities that make up the greatest play ever in Buffalo Bills history. It's also one of the most memorable plays ever in a Super Bowl, and the lone bright spot in a painful loss for Buffalo.
Bledsoe turns down invitation to attend Superbowl ring ceremony [12:05 PM]
Canoe - AP reports: QB Drew Bledsoe, who was injured early in the season and never regained his starting job, was invited but did not attend the ceremony. WR Terry Glenn, who played four games between injuries and suspensions, did not receive a ring.
Tailgate 2002 Page was updated [10:32 AM]
TBD reports: Click on Tailgate Central or bookmark link
Information on all of the TBD events including:
Jim Kelly's HOF Induction Weekend
TBD Tailgate Party 2002 - Jets vs. Bills (Home Opener)
TBD Tailgate North - Bills vs. Vikings
TBD Tailgate West - Bills vs. Broncos
Hunter's Hope Candlelight Ball
All events have contacts for further information
Players Participate In Autograph Signing For NFL Charity Auction [9:26 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: The Bills players participated in an autograph signing of items that will be sold for charity via NFL Auction, an online charity-based initiative of the NFL
Bills' uniforms stay true to red, white and blue [9:08 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"Obviously, it's going to take more than new uniforms. But hopefully the new guys wearing them will help the Bills get moving in the right direction."'
Defiant Henry faces plenty of challenges in possible break-out year [9:08 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The question is, can he carry the ball 300 times and be effective in December? He had arthroscopic knee surgery in the offseason to relieve the tendinitis in his right knee. Can he thrive while carrying a Bettis-like load?'
Buffalo Bills Uniform Unveiling Pictures [9:04 PM]
TBD reports: Pictures from TBD's Blue Coat on the Spot.
Transcript for June 9 [6:17 PM]
NBC's Meet the Press reports: 'The French Open is next, but the big sports news: The Buffalo Bills have new uniforms, unveiled yesterday. New aggressive, and there's the new secret weapon. We're going back to the Super Bowl. Drew Bledsoe, bring it home one time.'
Mike Doser: Bills' new uniforms the pinnacle of COOL [5:12 PM]
Shout! reports: 'Despite filing a logo for trademark - a "B" folded into the head of a buffalo - the team did not include it. The Bills remain one of only 9 NFL teams to feature jersey numbers on the sides of their shoulders instead of on the tops of them. Many teams have put numbers on the tops so they can include a secondary logo on the sides. The fact remains that the Bills have a secondary logo registered to them, but have decided not to use it.'
Pasquarelli: Some veterans still on the bubble [4:54 PM]
ESPN reports: "The hemorrhaging hasn't quite stopped yet," said agent Jack Wirth, who represents Jay Riemersma, the Buffalo tight end whose continued tenure with the franchise remains an iffy proposition. "There still could be a little more blood before camp."
Bills Uniform Unveiling Main Page [1:42 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Complete coverage of Saturday's unveiling: video, audio, photos, uniforms for sale, etc.
New Bills Jersey Makes Appearance On "Meet The Press" [11:12 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: On this morning's "Meet the Press" program on NBC, host and Buffalo native TIM RUSSERT closed the show by holding up his brand new Bills jersey, a dark blue home version.
52 year old FG kicker scores only points in Fire win over Galaxy [10:45 AM]
NFL Europe reports: The Galaxy went straight to their ground game, with Buffalo Bills-allocated running back Curtis Alexander pounding out a pair of first downs on their first series. A interception by the Fire ruined that drive. A 21-yard field goal by 52-year-old Manfred Burgsm�ller. His successful kick made him the first player in NFLEL history to reach 300 career points and gives him the chance for a fairytale ending to his NFLEL career in World Bowl.
Curtis Alexander's efforts not enough in Galaxy loss to Fire [9:30 AM]
NFL Europe reports: The Rhein Fire will play in World Bowl X after beating the Galaxy 3-0 in front of an NFLEL-record crowd of 58,572 in Frankfurt's Waldstadion. Curtis Alexander had 15 carries for 69 yards plus 3 catches for 17 yards in a defensive battle between top rated Rhein Fire and Frankfurt Galaxy. Backup QB Hendricks was able to make only 9 completions in 30 attempts, many of them overthrown, underthrown (including one of the receptions to Alexander who dived for the catch) or otherwise off target. World Bowl X will be an all German matchup..
Wade Phillips is rested and ready to rebuild Falcons' defense [9:18 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"I enjoyed the whole time I was in Buffalo," he said. "The owner made a decision. He's allowed to do that. The disappointment for me was I still wanted to be there. I had a successful career going, and it got derailed. I did a good job and won a lot of games. I'd still rather be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills."'
Added bulk should help Edwards [9:16 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The Texas A&M product weighed between 285 and 290 pounds and saw limited action in seven games as a rookie. He's up to 305 pounds at the team's minicamp this week.'
Bills show off new uniforms [9:15 AM]
USA Today reports: The Bills unveiled their new uniforms during a rally Saturday at Ralph Wilson Stadium. While the traditional red helmet and charging buffalo logo remain unchanged, the team will be sporting new navy blue uniforms trimmed in red, silver and royal blue for the 2002 season. Picture is shown of Jim Kelly holding the jersey with his son Hunter's name on it.
Huntley a key in plan to build a power attack [9:12 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'So the idea is to pound the football. Travis Henry is a pounder, although not in the mold of Bettis, so Huntley may be the second prong of a two-pronged pound attack, just as he was for a while in Pittsburgh.'
Winning uniform approval [9:09 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"It gives us a more aggressive, dynamic look on the field, but it doesn't drastically alter the look," Donahoe said. "Everyone in this building recognizes the great tradition of the Buffalo Bills. We didn't want to change the logo. We even dipped back into the history of the franchise and added some gray."'
Best Head Coach? Williams votes for Holmgren, Fisher and Belichick. [9:08 AM]
CBS Sportsline reports: "Belichick does a great job with the fundamental teachings that has to go on throughout the whole team -- special teams, defense and offense," says Buffalo's Williams. "It's the way he gets them all playing under one roof, the way he gets them to all play together."
Bills are blue-tiful! [5:40 AM]
D and C reports: 'An hour after the unveiling, a long line snaked outside the team store at the stadium.'
Blue on blue a marketing coup [5:37 AM]
D and C reports: 'Dark navy blue, vivid red, a touch of royal blue, some eye-catching silver, a white road jersey with navy on the shoulders, red helmet with new stripe and same charging buffalo logo. Old yet new. In the words of Dolce & Gabbana, "Me likey."'
Sabres' new look spiked sales, too [5:34 AM]
D and C reports: 'The year before switching uniforms, the Sabres ranked 24th in merchandise sales in the NHL. Their first season in their new attire in new HSBC Arena, they rocketed to seventh and have remained in the top 10 ever since.'
Bills unveil their new uniforms [12:05 AM]
AP reports: '"This is exciting," Bledsoe said, modeling the Bills home uniform bearing his number 11. "New uniforms for the past seven or eight years have been good luck for some teams. The Broncos changed and they won it all."'
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I'm a fairly cautious PC user. Hardware firewall, antivirus is always up to date, anti add and spyware always up to date, operating system patched and strong passwords. I'm cautious about the addons and executables I use.
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An Advice of Counsel Memorandum has been issued by Commission
Counsel Elizabeth H. Trimble regarding the use of statutory
license categories in all advertising that involves the
sale, rent, or offer to purchase real property.
The Memorandum indicates that the Real Estate Brokers Act
does not contain a general mandate that the statutory license
categories broker, associate broker, or salesperson must
be used in such advertising. Rather, the statute contains
a limited requirement that a licensee who offers to buy
or sell property for his or her own account must disclose
that they are licensed by the Commission in advertising
relating to such properties.
While the Opinion leaves licensees free to decide whether
or not to include their license category in advertising,
the Commission and Counsel advise licensees to avoid using
other terms that could mislead or cause consumer confusion.
For example, a licensed salesperson should not use the term
"sales associate", because there is a statutory
licensing category "Associate Broker." The use
of the term associate in any context other than Associate
Broker could confuse a consumer and therefore should be
Review for the full text of the Advice of Counsel Memorandum.
The Maryland law that regulates real estate brokers, associate
brokers, and salespersons requires that trust money be deposited
in the broker's trust account promptly after both parties accept the contract of sale.
Although most contracts contain a provision governing the
disposition of the deposit money if the property does not
go to settlement, disputes often arise as to the underlying
facts as well as the specific reasons for the cancellation.
For this reason, brokers are often unwilling to release
the funds on the request of a party claiming the right to them.
The law directs the broker to retain the funds in a trust
account until one of the following four circumstances occurs:
The Real Estate Commission does not have the authority
to order a broker to release trust money. If you are a party
to a real estate transaction and believe that you are entitled
to deposit monies, you should first contact the broker holding
the funds to determine his/her position on the matter.
If the other party will not agree to sign a written release,
you may ask the broker to file an interpleader case in court
requesting the judge to determine who is entitled to the
If the other party failed to complete the transaction, you
may ask the broker to initiate the notification process
provided that the broker agrees with you that you are entitled
to the money. If the broker is not willing to pursue either
of these options, you may need to file a claim for the funds
in court.
You should also be aware that some real estate contracts
contain a provision that all disputes between the parties
must first be submitted to mediation. You should read this
part of your contract carefully, and check with the broker to see if it applies to this situation.
If you are a nonresident who owned and sold or transferred
real property and associated tangible personal property
in Maryland, you must make a tax withholding payment to
the local Clerk
of the Circuit Court or the Maryland
Department of Assessments and Taxation (MDAT). The payment
must be made before the deed or other instrument of transfer
is recorded with the court clerk or filed with MDAT.
In the case of a nonresident individual, the payment is 7.5 percent of the total property sale payment made to the
individual. A nonresident entity must make an 8.25 percent payment.
Under this provision, a nonresident entity is an entity that is:
not formed under the laws of Maryland more than 90 days
before the date of the sale of the property, and
not qualified by or registered with MDAT to do business
in Maryland more than 90 days before the date of the sale
of the property.
In the case of multiple owners, withholding is required
from each of the nonresident owners based on the percentage
of the total payment that represents each nonresident's ownership percentage.
You must complete Form
MW506NRS (PDF document, download
Adobe Acrobat for free), Return of Income Tax Withholding for Nonresident
Sale of Real Property, and present copies A and B of Form
MW506NRS to the clerk or MDAT, along with payment.
In addition to filing Form MW506NRS with a tax withholding
payment, you are still required to file an end-of-the-year
income tax return with Maryland for the year in which the
sale occurred.
For more information, see Maryland's
Withholding Requirements for Sales or Transfers of Real
Property and Associated Personal Property by Nonresidents
(PDF document, download
Adobe Acrobat for free).
The Real Estate Commission and the Attorney General's Office receive inquiries from time to time
about the payment of rebates to a party to a transaction or the use of incentives to induce a
consumer or a licensee to deal with a particular real estate agent or broker. There are several
provisions of the licensing law that address these issues.
Incentives. Section 17-322(b)(9) provides that a licensee may not offer a prize or conduct
a contest in order to influence a party in the sale of real property. This provision has been
interpreted by the Attorney General's Office to mean that if a licensee uses inducements to obtain a
listing or a buyer/broker agreement, or to motivate a buyer to purchase certain property, those
inducements must be offered to all consumers on the same basis. There cannot be a contest where a
seller or buyer is offered a
chance to receive a prize or a cash payment. If an offer of inducements is made, it must be
available to all.
The law would allow the licensee to offer inducements related to price, that is, the offer could
be for a rebate/payment as a percentage of price. In this way, the offer would be the same for all
those whose purchase or listing price fell within a certain price range.
The Commission has also reviewed proposals of licensees who offer a drawing for a prize among
attendees at an open house. As long as the only action a consumer has to take is to attend the open
house, the Commission does not view this as a contest used to influence a party to purchase property.
There have also been questions about whether unlicensed individuals who refer consumers to a
licensee may be compensated in some way or may participate in a drawing. The licensing law considers
the act of referral to be the provision of real estate brokerage services, and thus an activity that
requires a license if compensation in any form is involved. The Commission views the possibility of
winning a prize as a form of compensation. Therefore, under Section 17-604(a), a drawing may not
include an individual based on referrals he or she has made to the licensee.
Rebates/Cash Payments. Section 17-604 provides that a licensee may not pay compensation in
any form for the provision of real estate brokerage services to an individual who is not licensed. A
person who is simply a party to a real estate transaction is not providing real estate brokerage
services within the definitions in Section 17-101, and therefore may receive monies from a licensee.
If the monies are used to pay settlement charges, that should be reflected on the HUD-1 form.
The agreement to pay compensation to a buyer in the form of a rebate of commission, or to
compensate the seller either through a cash payment or a reduction of the commission rate must be in
writing as required by the Code of Ethics, COMAR 09.11.02.01H. The Real Estate Commission has also
taken the position that financial payments by a licensee to a party should be disclosed to the other
party to the transaction, even if they are not required to be recorded on the HUD-1 form.
Elizabeth H. Trimble
Assistant Attorney General
Counsel to the Commission
To address confusion that could arise under current regulations
which address both opinions of value and competitive market
analyses prepared by a real estate licensee, the Commission
has repealed those regulations (Code of Ethics 09.11.02.02
F and G) and adopted a new one entitled "Competitive Market Analysis."
The new regulation, which went into effect on July 19,
2004, provides that a licensee may prepare a competitive
market analysis of a specific property for a client, prospective
client, or customer. The analysis must include the following
language printed conspicuously and without change on the first page:
This analysis is not an appraisal. It is intended only
for the purpose of assisting buyers or sellers or prospective
buyers or sellers in deciding the listing, offering, or sale price of the real property.
The new regulation also provides that a licensee must disclose to the client, prospective client, or customer
any interest the licensee has in a property included as a comparable in the analysis.
The Maryland Real Estate Commission requires associate
brokers and salespersons who use an individual telephone
number or e-mail address in their advertising to also include
in the advertisement the identified telephone number of
the broker or branch office manager. Consumers must be able
to reach your broker or branch office manager directly without
going through you or your staff. (Phone menu options are acceptable.)
The Commission is concerned that members of the public
may be unaware of how to register any questions or concerns
that may arise in their dealings with a particular associate
broker or salesperson. The Commissioners believe that many
issues can be resolved with the assistance of the broker
or branch office manger, and that this requirement will
make it easier for that assistance to be obtained.
The Commissioner of Financial Regulation is becoming aware of a growing
trend among mortgage lenders to delay funding of purchase money mortgages beyond the loan closing.
Licensees are reminded that Maryland law requires lenders
to disburse the proceeds of purchase money loans on or before
the closing date in accordance with the loan documents,
to the agent responsible for settlement. This is the basis
of a "wet settlement." The practice of requiring
a borrower to sign closing documents and actually delay funding the loan is not permitted.
The Annotated Code of Maryland, Real Property Article
§7-109(b) specifically states:
"In any consumer loan transaction in which the
loan is secured by a purchase money mortgage or deed of
trust on real property located in this State, on or before
the day of settlement, the lender shall disburse the loan
proceeds in accordance with the loan documents to the agent
responsible for settlement
Loan proceeds must be disbursed in the form of cash, wired
funds, certified check, teller's check, cashier's check
or a check issued by a political subdivision or on behalf
of a governmental entity (refer to the law for permitted forms).
The Office strongly encourages lenders to consult with
their legal counsel to confirm that the appropriate departments
comply with this law. Any lender failing to comply with
the disbursement requirement under the statute may not charge
interest on the loan for the first 30 days after the settlement date.
The Real Estate Commission has received several complaints
recently about salespersons who attempted to require a buyer
to use a specific lender or settlement company. These complaints
involved the sale of new homes as well as the sale of existing
homes. Section 17-607 of the Maryland Real Estate Brokers
Act states that, in a real estate transaction involving
a single-family dwelling, a licensee may not require a buyer,
as a condition of settlement, to employ a particular title
insurance company, settlement company, escrow company, mortgage
lender, or title lawyer. The only exception is that a seller
may not be prohibited from offering owner financing as a
condition of settlement. Violation of this provision of
the law is a misdemeanor crime, and could lead to a fine
not exceeding $5,000, imprisonment not exceeding one year,
or both. Under Section 17-322(b)(29), these actions could
also be the basis of a disciplinary action before the Commission
which could result in the suspension or revocation of the
license and/or a fine of up to $5,000.
As a result of the enactment of House Bill 704 during
the 2002 session of the Maryland General Assembly, licensed
real estate associate brokers and salespersons are now eligible
to register a nickname with Real Estate Commission and thereby
hold themselves out to the public by that nickname.
Accordingly, a licensee named William Salesperson may
register the nickname "Bill" with the Commission
and trade under the name Bill Salesperson. The licensee
will receive a new license with the authorized nickname
in parenthesis on the name line of the license:
William F. Salesperson (Bill)
This authorization is limited strictly to the use of nicknames.
Consistent with the action of the General Assembly, the
Commission will not register the name of a joint venture,
partnership, corporation or some other entity under this provision.
How to apply:
If there is any question about the acceptability of a particular
nickname, please contact the Commission before filing an application.
Return to the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing home page
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Questions or comments regarding the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing may be directed to
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We continue our School is Cool Series this morning. Today we are talking with a representative of Kumon on tips for Mastering Math and Reading,
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Ardmore, OK 73401
Kumon Math and Reading Center Helps Children
Build Confidence and Improve in School
After months away from school and homework, it's time for parents to help their child prepare for class. A successful school year, according to Wendy Russell, director of the Kumon Math and Reading Center of Ardmore can depend on how smooth a child transitions from vacation. Ms. Russell suggests the following tips for a successful route back-to-school.
· Focus on the Positives. Talk to your children about their summer accomplishments and recognize the skills they used to be successful, such as perseverance, time-management, responsibility and independence, which are the same skills that will help them succeed in school.
· Ask your child to write a short story including exciting highlights from their summer experiences. This will give your child practice writing before their first day back in the classroom, and it is also a nice way to reminisce about quality time spent together.
· Give your child genuine and frequent praise. Praise your child's progress, not perfection. Let them know that you believe in them, you think they are special and you have confidence in them. Let your child know that you recognize and value their efforts not just their final accomplishments.
· Set up a study area for your child. It should be quiet (no TV or stereo), well ventilated, free of distractions (no phones, pets), well lit and equipped with all necessary supplies for the child (pens, paper, markers, dictionary, thesaurus).
· Establish a consistent homework routine at the very beginning. Schedule daily homework time in your house so it becomes a part of your family's routine. This also helps children to see that homework is a priority in your home.
· Make time to get acquainted with your child's teachers and keep the communication open. Discuss goal setting with both your child and the teacher. This parent-teacher-child partnership will be very effective in the development of healthy homework habits which will in turn help children have a successful school year.
Students attend sessions at the Kumon Center once or twice a week for approximately 15-30 minutes per subject and complete short daily assignments at home on the other days of the week.
Kumon is an after-school math and reading program that unlocks the potential of children by motivating them to achieve more on their own. The learning method uses a systematic individualized approach that helps children develop a solid command of math and reading skills. Through daily practice and mastery of materials, students increase confidence, improve concentration and develop better study skills.


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A housing boom has hit Warren County. Officials say building permits are up which has brought a ripple affect to area home suppliers. Home Source Direct says customers have become more confident after the housing crisis two years ago.
"People were still coming in but it was purchases they were making very cautiously. I think people are a little bit more optimistic now and the economy has improved slightly," says store owner Beverly Dalton.
Flooring, cabinets and counter tops are most popular. While business is up, Super Home Surplus says it's more homeowners than contractors coming through the door.
"We do get a lot of their customers. They come in and say hey, such and such sent us to you to see what you have. That tells us right there this contractor knows about us, he's depending on us and we can work with him. So we do get a good mix," says store manager Lucas Haile.
The increase in sales doesn't stop with home suppliers. Once a home is built, it must be filled with furniture. Thornton Furniture says more new homes mean more customers looking to decorate.
"We've seen a lot of customers building new homes. In addition we have a lot of remodels or people that are just refreshing certain rooms. In 2009, 2010 we began to see a slow down or a bottom. Of course we are glad to see a significant rise," says Vice President and General Manager, Ben Thornton.
Area businesses say more confident customers are also drawn in because of increased price cuts.


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Today EMC Greenplum announced the industry's next-generation platform for big data analytics—the EMC Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP). This platform combines co-processing of structured and unstructured data with a productivity engine that empowers and shatters current barriers to collaboration among data science teams.
Pentaho is proud to participate as a preferred Data Integration Partner for the EMC Greenplum UAP. A great boost for the productivity of data scientists, Pentaho plus the UAP make it easy to extract business intelligence out of unstructured data with the exact same tools and interfaces they use to access, visualize and analyze structured data.
This adds to Pentaho's big data strategy and another step in our ongoing relationship with EMC Greenplum. Just back in May, we announced Pentaho support for the EMC® Greenplum® distribution of Hadoop, as well as native support for the Greenplum Database GPLoad (bulk loader).
A hybrid architecture that combines Hadoop with data marts and warehouses are a critical part of any effective business analytics architecture, so providing powerful and easy-to-use data integration, which is natively integrated with Hadoop, is a key piece of UAP. That's why we believe Pentaho Data Integration is perfect for use as a part of UAP, especially as it provides the deepest available native integration with Hadoop, as well as native integration with the Greenplum Database and bulk loader.
The EMC Greenplum UAP is a giant step forward in simplifying the management, integration, and analysis of big data. It's all about lowering the barriers to adoption, by simplifying working with big data analytics for IT, through things like providing familiar graphical interfaces for managing and analyzing big data, and orchestrating big data tasks. Then for business users, it's about making it quick and easy for them to access and analyze big data.
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State lawmakers will observe President's Day Monday, taking the day off after a busy week in Frankfort.
House members last week passed bills that would increase the state's dropout age to 18, strengthen Kentucky's human trafficking laws and allow foreign-born students to stay in high school until age 23.
The Senate also was busy. It filed legislation that would allow overseas military members to email their ballots back home to the commonwealth. And Kentucky's farmers could grow industrial hemp under a bill the Senate approved.
Both chambers will resume the legislative session on Tuesday afternoon.


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30 of the greatest audiophile albums
Audiophiles are a strange breed: here are a bunch of men (always men) who'll happily fork out a week's wages for power cables that provide "clean electricity" to their CD player, but refuse to part with a penny for any album they consider to be mastered in a sub-par way.
We can't help but see their point of view (about the albums, not the power cables): today's pop music tends to be mastered to sound "loud" even when it's being played at low volumes – a compressed dynamic range means that there's not much difference in decibels between the quiet and loud parts of the music. Listening to these albums through high quality audio gear can be an horrific assault on the lugholes, which is why audiophiles seek out albums that have been mastered with a wider dynamic range.
That doesn't mean you have to resort to slapping some leather waistcoast-wearing, ponytail-sporting Austrian jazz fiddler's latest opus onto your beloved turntable. Thankfully, a handful of today's artists are still committed to well-mastered, exquisitely produced recordings and that, along with a plentiful supply of older albums that were either originally mastered well or have since been remastered, means there's plenty of fantastic music to listen to. And here are some of our favourites.
Additional reviews by Stephen Graves, Marc McLaren and Tom Wiggins
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (1991)
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (1991)
You're going to want a weighty set-up for this one. When they perform Loveless live, MBV crank up the volume to such an extent that most fans don earplugs, and while we're not suggesting you go that far, it's an album that demands to be played loud. Recorded over two years in 19 studios and with almost as many engineers, it's dominated by Kevin Shields' trademark tremolo-heavy guitar plus layer upon layer of samples: sampled guitars, sampled drums, sampled vocals, sampled samples. The net effect is a modern wall of sound, at once hypnotic and chaotic, dreamy and thunderous, urgent and woozy. At its best – the delicate intricacy of "To Here Knows When", the relentless hookery of "What You Want", the rhythmic assault of "Soon" – it's crying out for a system with great separation and precision. [MM]
Standout tracks: "Soon", "To Here Knows When", "Only Shallow"
Dr Dre: 2001 (1999)
Dr Dre: 2001 (1999)
Mainstream hip-hop isn't the first genre that springs to mind when you think of audiophile-quality recordings: the majority of rap albums are compressed, lacking the dynamic range craved by golden-eared beard-strokers. Not so 2001.
Dr Dre's second studio album exhibits a clean clarity and dynamic range that suits its sparse beats, bottomless bass, doom-y string samples and g-funk synths – it's a great workout for any decent pair of speakers or headphones (Beats or otherwise). The lyrical content won't sit comfortably with every listener, being an encyclopaedia of gangsta rap clichés but, well, it's a gangsta rap album with a cannabis leaf on the front cover made by the co-founder of N.W.A. If it was mum-friendly it just wouldn't be the same.
Standout tracks: "Still D.R.E.", "The Next Episode", "XXXplosive"
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On (1971)
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On (1971)
Deeply affected by his brother's experiences returning from the Vietnam War and what he viewed as rampant, widespread injustice in America, Marvin Gaye shrugged off his soul loverman image and recorded a concept album about the state of the world.
All nine of its songs flow into one another and it ends with a reprise of its opening theme, all the better to tell the story of a Vietnam veteran who has come home from war to see his country in a new light. Gaye tackles poverty, drug addiction and even environmental issues not through angry political rants but from the point of a dismayed man who believes love – not more hatred and violence – is the answer.
As a recording the album exhibits a rare spaciousness, with each element able to be picked out clearly. Combining blues, jazz and soul elements, it's a hugely influential album and over 40 years after its release, still highly relevant and relatable.
Standout tracks: "What's Going On", "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", "Inner City Blues (Make We Wanna Holler)"
Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
MTV may be a dirty word these days, but the TV network's Unplugged series served up several excellent albums in the 90s, most of them recorded with a "hey, I could be in the audience" fidelity. And this is one of them.
It would be Nirvana's last album recorded before Kurt Cobain's suicide, and hindsight adds extra weight to songs like "Pennyroyal Tea", "Something In The Way" and the soul-wrenching closer "Where Did You Sleep Last Night". That song is one of several covers performed by a band who appear to have consciously avoid picking their biggest hits for the acoustic treatment. But the reworkings of Cobain's own songs, stripped of their grunge trappings, highlight just how much of a talent he was when it came to melody and lyricism – a talent that would be lost forever five months later.
Standout tracks: "The Man Who Sold The World", "Pennyroyal Tea", "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
The Beatles: Abbey Road (1969)
The Beatles: Abbey Road (1969)
Recorded in eight tracks rather than the four of previous Beatles albums, Abbey Road was the first of the Fab Four's records to be originally released in stereo. In 2009, along with most Beatles albums, it was remastered and rereleased, and this version is considered the best in terms of audio quality. At the time of its release, some critics claimed the band's use of the Moog synthesizer was "inauthentic", but in retrospect most of them – and the wider world – consider Abbey Road to be among The Beatles' best LPs, and certainly their most painstakingly produced.
Standout tracks: "Come Together," "Oh! Darling", "Here Comes the Sun"
Bon Iver: Bon Iver (2011)
Bon Iver: Bon Iver (2011)
Trading the intimate "folk music pity party in a log cabin" feel of debut album For Emma, Forever Ago in favour of a more expansive, ambitious sound, Justin Vernon's second album as Bon Iver flirts with R&B-style crooning, country hoedowns and, at one point, Bruce Hornsby and the Range-esque MOR (well, that's what it takes to win a Grammy as an indie artist these days). But there's beauty throughout: Vernon's multi-tracked voice and his band's rich instrumentation evoke the icy northern reaches of America just as deftly as For Emma did – but in a far grander way. There are landscapes conjured by this record, and they are vast.
Standout tracks: "Holocene", "Towers"
R.E.M.: Automatic for the People (1992)
R.E.M.: Automatic for the People (1992)
R.E.M. were no strangers to chart success by the time they released Automatic for the People, but this was the album that cemented the Athens, Georgia natives as the mainstream's favourite alternative rock band. And you can't say they got there by continuing down the jangly, upbeat pop furrow they'd ploughed with earlier songs like Shiny Happy People: Automatic features only three tracks that move above mid-tempo (two of which became singles) and for the most part, it's a sombre, ballad-dominated affair. It might be a dark journey, but it's also musically irresistible thanks to the lush arrangements, in which organs and strings feature prominently.
The album is available in the Hi-Res DVD-Audio format.
Standout tracks: "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", "Everybody Hurts", "Man On The Moon"
Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis (1969)
Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis (1969)
In an attempt to boost her musical credibility, British swinging sixties icon Dusty Springfield decided to make an album of soul songs – and record it in a city forever associated with the origins of soul and blues. The result was Dusty In Memphis, a record that didn't make many waves when it was released but has since been recognised as one of the best releases of the 1960s – or any decade. The tracks are arranged and recorded with a rare perfectionism (Springfield ended up re-recording all her vocals in New York because she was unhappy with the Memphis takes) and the songs hit a sweet spot between soul and pop that suggests Dusty was way ahead of her time.
Standout tracks: "Son of a Preacher Man", "Breakfast In Bed", "The Windmills of Your Mind"
Burial: Untrue (2007)
Burial: Untrue (2007)
Believe it or not there was a time when dubstep wasn't the sound of adverts for energy drinks. These days Burial's Untrue is barely recognisable as dubstep: there's no pumped-up euphoric drops and it barely hints at the wriggling 'wub wub' bass that was to come. Play "Etched Headplate" in most clubs and the only way you'd empty the dancefloor quicker would be to release a wolf onto it. That's because Untrue isn't a record for dancefloors; it's a record about the lonely, 3am bus ride home, or the feeling of unease you get when walking alone late at night. While Untrue is not an album with any daylight in it, it's a long way from The Dark Side of the Moon. You don't listen to it to appreciate the stereo image of your expensive hi-fi, you listen to it for its heavily textured yet spacious tunes, and samples that sound like coins or bullet casings falling to the cold pavement. [TW]
Standout tracks: "Archangel", "Near Dark", "Untrue"
The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (1999)
The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (1999)
Boom! Boom! Crash! Boom! Subwoofers at the ready – it's a Flaming Lips album… Although actually, The Soft Bulletin isn't just a Flaming Lips album, it's THE Flaming Lips album, the high-point of a career now spanning 31 years and 14 albums. It's also the finest moment in the career of producer Dave Fridmann, a man regarded as the indie-rock Phil Spector (but without the murder) and whose CV also takes in such classics as Weezer's Pinkerton and Mogwai's Come On Die Young. Fridmann ramps up the percussion on The Soft Bulletin, turning drums and cymbals into weapons of mass destruction. But if the sound's big, the songs are bigger still – from string-drenched opener "Race For The Prize" to the searingly honest "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate", it's a work of musical and lyrical genius. [MM]
Standout tracks: "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate", "Race For The Prize"
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In simple words, Income Tax means Tax on Income you earned. Some portion of your income you are supposed to pay to Central Government for development of our country. Now to know How much Income is taxable, What amount of Tax you have to pay and How to save Tax you have to look at provisions of Income Tax Act and amendments in that act from time to time. We have tried to simplify all necessary income tax provisions to get maximum benefits of the same.


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Congress calls on Goodell, Smith
Updated: July 27, 2012, 6:16 PM ETESPN.com news services
Four member of Congress sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith calling on them to provide "written assurances" that testing for human growth hormone will be in place for the start of the 2012 season.
The letter was authored by Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee; Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade; and their Democratic ranking ...
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8 Celebrities With Unexpected Famous Relatives
You probably won't be too shocked to learn that nepotism exists in Hollywood: If Nicolas Cage hadn't gotten some of his earliest roles from his uncle Francis Ford Coppola, the world would be a sadder, less crazy place. But some blood connections between celebrities aren't so easy to spot, since they exist between people you'd probably never imagine being in the same room together, let alone getting drunk and having an argument on Thanksgiving. For instance ...
#8. Ewan McGregor Is the Nephew of Wedge from Star Wars
It would be unfair to reduce Ewan McGregor's career to the fact that he was cast as a young Obi-Wan in the Star Wars prequels: The man has demonstrated his versatility by playing everything from a junkie (Trainspotting), to a U.S. Army Ranger (Black Hawk Down), to Jim Carrey's boyfriend (I Love You Phillip Morris).
However, it turns out that McGregor's involvement in the Star Wars saga isn't a fluke in his career, but part of a family tradition: His uncle is Irish actor Denis Lawson, who played Luke Skywalker's BFF Wedge Antilles in all three movies of the original trilogy. According to Wikipedia, Wedge has the distinction of being "the only Rebel pilot to have survived both attack runs at the Death Stars." Now we know why -- he was Obi-Wan's freaking uncle and had the Force on his side all along.
Via Starwars.wikia.com
"New plan: You guys wait here -- I got this."
McGregor says that his uncle was a huge influence on him, saying that "If he hadn't been an actor, I'm sure I wouldn't have thought to be one." Think about that. One of the best known actors in the world finds his inspiration in a guy who didn't even get an action figure in the original Star Wars toy series (and freakin' everyone did).
#7. Malcolm McDowell Is the Uncle of Dr. Bashir from Star Trek
And because we believe in equal opportunity, here's one that will make Star Trek fans' heads explode, too.
Malcolm McDowell is best known for playing lovable sociopath Alex in A Clockwork Orange before getting all wrinkly and finding his niche as "generic sci-fi villain" in places like Tank Girl, the show Heroes, and Star Trek: Generations (1994). That last movie made him infamous among Trekkies as the man who killed Captain Kirk.
The bridge that fell on him had nothing to do with it.
But while McDowell was busy murdering Kirk, his nephew Alexander Siddig was keeping the USS Enterprise's legacy alive as Dr. Bashir, one of the main characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (which ran from 1993 to 1999, meaning that Siddig's involvement in the franchise actually predates his uncle's by a year).
Alexander Siddig was born Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi in 1965 to a Sudanese father and a British mother, who happens to be Malcolm McDowell's sister. The young man shortened his name to "Alexander" after going into show business, perhaps inspired by his uncle's most famous role, or more likely just worried that his IMDb page would look ridiculous.
It's interesting to note that, while McDowell started out in respectable films and eventually ended up doing genre parts to pay the bills, Siddig has taken the opposite course: He started in a Star Trek spinoff and went on to act in films like Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, the critically acclaimed Syriana, and the award-wining Cairo Time. Meanwhile, his uncle recently appeared in this:
Via Homealone.wikia.com
Suddenly we're not so worried about Siddig's IMDb page looking sillier.
#6. Lenny Kravitz and Al Roker Are Cousins
Lenny Kravitz, besides achieving the impossible when he managed to become an international sex symbol despite having the name of a Jewish accountant, has a pretty well-connected family: His mother was an actress, his father was an NBC producer, he was married to actress Lisa Bonet from The Cosby Show and A Different World (thus making him Cliff Huxtable's son-in-law), and he and Bonet spawned Zoe Kravitz, of X-Men: First Class and Californication fame.
What you might not know is that Kravitz is also a second cousin to Today weatherman Al Roker, of all people. Incidentally, in 2009, Roker interviewed the entire cast of The Cosby Show ... except Lisa Bonet. We're guessing she was too distraught by how much Roker looks like her ex-husband to do the interview.
Via Thelmagazine.com
We're pretty sure you could sculpt another Lenny Kravitz with all the weight Roker recently lost.
Speaking of sitcoms, Kravitz's mother was Roxie Roker, best known for her role as George and Weezie's neighbor on The Jeffersons, where she shocked '70s audiences by being married to a white guy. And, of course, she was also Al Roker's first cousin. Are we being cynical if our conclusion here is that Hollywood doesn't allow black people in unless they have a relative there who can vouch for them?
#5. Snow and the Barenaked Ladies Guy Are Cousins
Rapper Snow, Canada's polite response to Vanilla Ice, became famous in the '90s thanks to his instantly regrettable hit "Informer." The rapid-fire nonsense lyrics made it a novelty hit, and if you were alive back then, chances are you still catch yourself humming it every once in a while and wishing you could purge it from your brain. You might also remember the music video, which can be pinpointed squarely to 1992 due to its overuse of out-of-context jiggling butts.
In the same decade, Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies jumped to fame with their single "One Week," also a novelty hit due to its rapid-fire nonsense lyrics. It included lines like "Chickity China the Chinese chicken / You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'," which makes Leonard Cohen cry every time the song is played, wherever he is. The Barenaked Ladies also like to cover Snow's "Informer" in their shows, but we wonder why they bother, since the two songs sound pretty much the same.
This, however, isn't plagiarism; it's simple genetics. Snow is the second cousin of Barenaked Ladies co-founder Steven Page.
The implications are vast and fascinating. Both musical acts rose to prominence just as white culture was coming to terms with their ability to enjoy hip-hop, and they are the only white Canadian musicians who had a major role in that movement. This means that "obnoxiously infectious nonsense rap that drives white people crazy in the '90s" is a family business in Canada.
It's so hard not to hear the Beastie Boys screaming "KICK IT" when we see this picture.
Another trait the two cousins have in common is their love for felonies. Snow served a year in prison for assault right before "Informer" made him a big star. Speaking of snow, Page prefers the kind that you snort: He was arrested in 2008 for possession of cocaine and marijuana. Say what you will about white Canadian rappers, at least they're devoted to the thug life.


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I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 and dual boot. I have put the Windows partitions to the launcher blacklist so that they won't show up there (via "unlock from launcher" option). These partitions will then appear in the blacklist viewable in dconf-editor. But when I start gparted all blacklisted partitions reappear in the launcher ( and get lost in the blacklist as well).
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The problem whether a real function $f$ has a root or not is undecidable, given that $f$ is from a class of functions including polynomials and the sine function (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=321856). Usually, undecidability is proved by using a periodic function like sin to encode integer problems. Is there anything known about undecidability of the root existence problem for some "reasonable" class of functions with bounded domains, such as from a bounded $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^m$ to $\mathbb{R}^n$?
Suppose there is an algorithm that decides whether a function $f\colon \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ has a root. Then one can also compute a root of $f$ if $f$ has one.
One can see this using a standard bi-partition argument: Cover $\Omega$ with finitely many balls of radius $1$. This is possible since the closure of $\Omega$ is compact. Then using the algorithm we can find a ball that contains a root of $f$. Then we cover this ball with balls of radius $2^{-1}$ and again find a smaller ball which contains a root...
Iterating this process yield a sequence converging to a root of $f$ with rate $2^{-n}$ or in other words a Cauchy-real representation for a root.
Now, finding a root for a function implies Brouwer's fixed point theorem.
To see that let $\Omega$ be bounded and closed and $g\colon \Omega \to \Omega$ continuous. $g$ has a fixed-point at any root of the function $f\colon \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$, $f(x):= \lvert g(x) - x\rvert$.
For Brouwers fixed point theorem it is known that there is no algorithm to find solutions, see for instance Computable counter-examples to the Brouwer fixed-point theorem, Petrus H. Potgieter.
Thus, we can conclude that there is no algorithm which decides whether a function has a root.
Suppose $f$ is continuous (and therefore uniformly continuous) on a compact domain $K \subseteq {\mathbb R}^n$ (and this is effective in the sense that given $\epsilon > 0$ you can construct $\delta > 0$ such that $\|x - y\| < \delta$ implies $\|f(x) - f(y)\| < \epsilon$. Then if $f(x) = 0$ has no solution in $K$ you can prove that fact: take $\epsilon > 0$ small enough, take $\delta$ as above, cover $K$ with finitely many open balls of radius $\delta$, and compute the values of $f$ at the centres of these balls with sufficient precision to show they all have norm $> \epsilon$.


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My family has a website that helps to keep us all in constant contact with each other. Recently a good number of the younger family members have started to use facebook. Our little family website is somewhat idle as a result which is where a few older family members still visit.
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I'm building a desktop application using EXTJs 3.4. I have a window with border layout which is splitted into two sections: at the left there is a TreePanel, at the right a TabPanel. In the left side I need to visualize two different TreePanel objects (containing different elements) depending on different situations. I have put both tree panel as items in desktop window:
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where trElems and trSearchRes are the two TreePanels that I want to visualize alternatively.
Then I put SetVisible(true) or SetVisible(false) of the the trees dipending on the situation but it's not working because noone of the two trees is visualized.
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This is the ExtJs 4 forum, you should post this in the ExtJs 3 forum. But you could try to play with the hideMode property and set an other mode.
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I want to study basic properties of symmetric spaces.
What is a basic textbook?
I want to study basic properties of symmetric spaces.
What is a basic textbook?
I do not now really elementary text, but for the non-positively curved ones you can have a look at Eberlein's Geometry of nonpositively curved manifolds (Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, University of Chicago Press, 1996).
By the way, I do not see why similar answers where stated as comments. Maybe you should repost them as answers so that one can be accepted?
My favorite text is chapter 8 in Joseph Wolf's book "Spaces of constant curvature". I have a copy of the 5th edition, published by Publish of Perish, but a 6th edition by AMS Chelsea has recently come out. I don't claim it is an easy read, you need to work a lot on the details, but it gets to the point very efficiently. Perhaps it is fair to say that one can use it as a guide and complement the arguments as needed using the books of Helgason and Loos (2nd volume).
In particular, the classification of symmetric spaces is done in a rather elementary way, up to the case of involutions of $E_6$ which requires a bit of theory of roots (this part is best looked up in Loos' book).
You can start with the chapter in the second volume of Kobayashi-Nomizu; both volumes are written in a reader friendly manner, and normally proofs are well detailed with precise references to the previous used results. Helgason is quite tough I think. Neither of these two are geometric enough in my opinion. The best for that are Loos's books (Symmetric space 1 and 2); these are my favourite !
As a very basic reference, you might enjoy the easy-to-read Arvanitoyeorgos' book (see Chapter 6 for symmetric spaces): An Introduction to Lie Groups and the Geometry of Homogeneous Spaces (Student Mathematical Library, V. 22). Another good introductory text is the Chapter XI of Kobayashi & Nomizu, Foundations of Differential Geometry, vol II. Of course more advanced references are the ones mentioned before: Helgason, Wolf, Loos etc.
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For the Capital Prep girls basketball team, playing in a state final is a been-there, done-that experience. The Trailblazers reached Mohegan Sun Arena a year ago, losing to Coginchaug in the Class S title game.
On the other hand, Prep's opponent, Thomaston, is going where no Golden Bears have gone before. Well, at least not since 1994. And back then, the state final was played at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, not on the same floor where WNBA stars perform in the summer.
How will the Bears prepare for the bright lights?
"What I want to do," said coach Bob McMahon, "is to talk with Coach (Tony) Turina. He's always been there to help us or anyone else. That's what I want to do."
As he spoke at Wednesday's CIAC media luncheon, McMahon hadn't yet had a chance to chat with Turina, the former Torrington boys basketball coach who owns a coffee and pastry shop in Thomaston. Turina's team played at Mohegan Sun in the 2009 Class L final, losing a heartbreaker to Bulkeley, 58-57.
So the Republican-American contacted Turina, who warmly gave advice on how to handle "a game not like any other."
It all begins when the team bus pulls up to the arena in Uncasville and, in Turina's words, "descends into darkness" as it glides into the garage underneath the building. As the bus doors open and the team disembarks, name tag-wearing officials are there to greet the players and coaches and guide them to their lockerroom.
"You feel like a rock star," said Turina.
The standard high school lockerroom doesn't have televisions hanging on the walls; the lockerrooms at Mohegan Sun do.
An ordinary high school gym doesn't have a scoreboard suspended in midair or hold 10,000 fans; Mohegan Sun does. And then there's getting accustomed to a shooting background of rows and rows of seats.
"I'd have the kids get on the floor and shoot as much as they can, get acclimated to it as much as they can," said Turina.
Once they get used to that, Turina said, "they'll realize it's no different from the Thomaston High gym when they're in the layup line."
Turina also had his team watch the preceding games — in 2009, Sacred Heart played for the Class M title just before Torrington — as a way to absorb the atmosphere and deal with any butterflies.
"It's going to be different," said Turina. "But they should enjoy the excitement."
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Why is the word bloody considered obscene in the UK but not so in the US?
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I don't think it's obscene so much as profane. By one theory, "Bloody" in this context is a contraction for "by our lady", essentially swearing by the Virgin Mary (Bloody in Wikipedia). Other similar oaths include "blimey" (God blind me) and "gadzooks" (by God's hooks (hands)). As to why "Bloody" is considered obscene/profane in the UK more than in the US, I think that's a reflection of a stronger Catholic presence, historically, in the UK than in the US, if we're accepting the above etymology, as Catholics venerate the Virgin to a greater extent than Protestants.
All of which is void, of course, if the etymology is incorrect.
Here's the OED's comment on the origins:
I always thought "bloody" was a reference to the blood of christ. kind of like "suffering Jesus" if you've ever heard that.
edit: I see that this interpretation is also listed on Wikipedia, nonetheless, it uses something of religious value and turns it into an expletive. I think it's more offensive in the UK than the US because it started in the UK, and people actually know what it means, whereas in the US "bloody" is just a funny British curse word. Don't know if that helps in any way.
Comparing UK usage...
...to US usage, I think it's quite clear that US usage lags behind the UK here. Bear in mind that sheer weight of numbers normally puts the US ahead, so any suggestion of the opposite trend should probably be seen as more pronounced (and significant) than the charts might suggest.
Also compare prevalence values in British and American corpuses for stupid bloody, to see this more obviously "intensifier" usage is almost three times more common in the UK than in the US. For example, I hear things like "You bloody idiot!" all the time in both real life and British movies, but in American movies (and, I suppose, real life) it's much more likely to be "You fucking idiot!".
I think what this means is that many middle-aged and older Americans (the age range most likely to be defining any usage as "obscene") barely even encountered adjectival bloody when they were growing up. So they had no predisposition to rail against it when the younger generation started using it more. The etymology of the word (which has been addressed repeatedly on ELU) is at best uncertain, but most likely few Americans automatically perceive it as blasphemous/profane. So to many of them, it's just another blinking, blooming, freaking, flaming, flipping mild "cuss word".
Brits, on the other hand, were using it a generation earlier - back in the days when using even relatively mild curse words was generally considered a "bad thing".
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I have a burning desire to install RPMs onto my Ubuntu installation - is this possible? Can I use Yum - or another RPM Package Management tool?
I wouldn't recommend it. You probably could compile it but you wouldn't have any Ubuntu-compatible package repositories for it to handle.
You can convert single RPM files into DEBs with Alien:
Note: It might change the filename a little more than just the extension.
This won't work for everything as packages link to other packages to fulfil dependencies. Obviously Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS use different package names to Ubuntu so you're likely going to run into a whole load of pain.
Chances are if a DEB doesn't exist, you'll be better off just getting the source and compiling it.
You will need
This will install all the required packages.Now you can start converting your .rpm files to .deb packages.
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Convert the package.rpm into a package.deb
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If you want to keep alien from changing the version number use the following command
The short answer is, Don't!
If you got a RPM that is so important that you need to have it there is properly a Ubuntu package as well, and if not it is properly worth going through the trouble of compiling it from source in to the Debian package format (that Ubuntu uses as well). Now there are certain times when you can't just recompile the software (if it's not opensource it's impossible) and in that case you can use the
To build a package from source there is a guide on the Ubuntu Wiki, there are also a program called checkinstall that can do some tricks with a default source-tree without setting up build instructions for the package. If you think that someone else can benefit from the programs that you compile you can setup a repository on launchpad and share the package goodness!
Theres a GUI package manager named SmartPM on the Repos, created by Canonical, it handles .deb AND .RPM
If you really need to install RPMs on your system you should indeed try to convert them using 'alien'.
Please keep in mind that by default 'alien' will meddle with the version number of the package. If you want the version number to stay the same, pass the option '-k' when converting.
You should not try to use Yum or any other way of installing the RPMs, such as apt-rpm, themselves next to the existing DEB packages. The DEB and RPM systems manage the list of installed software separately and therefore don't know what packages were installed previously by the other system. If, e.g., you'd try to install a GUI-bearing application with an RPM-based package management system, it'll try to install vital system components itself, because it thinks they are not installed yet. This will either cause the installation to fail horribly, or overwrite vital system files.
Alien is a tool that convert from one format(.deb or .rpm) to another (.deb, .rpm or tarball)
Alien is not advised to use in converting from .deb to .rpm its perfect to use in converting .deb to tarballs
Althought Alien attempts to preserve meta-data when converting but it will still have Metadata & dependency problems make package less reliable and thus will conflicts ehen adding or removing distirbution packages in the future.
Actually shortest option is
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Alien will convert rpm package into deb package, the -i option means install the converted package after is converted and the -k option ensure version is not +1 after conversion.
With alien I can just convert the .rpm file to a .deb file and simply install that one.
Alien is available in the normal Debian repositories, so we can install it like this:
To convert it into a .deb package, we simply run
Follow these instructions:
Now you should be having
To install .deb file:
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use alien which converts the rpm to deb and subsequently installs the deb.
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Is there some simple upper bound on $||(B^{-1}+A^{-1})^{-1}||$, where $A,B$ are $n \times n$ symmetric matrices?
You can use the surprising identity $(A^{-1}+B^{-1})^{-1}=A(A+B)^{-1}B$, and take the norms of the three factors separately.
To expand on my first comment, if $A, B > 0$ are symmetric positive definite matrices. Then, it is known that
$$\left(\frac{A^{-1}+B^{-1}}{2}\right)^{-1} \le A\sharp B \le \frac{A+B}{2},$$ where the inequalities are in the Löwner partial order, and $A\sharp B := A^{1/2}(A^{1/2}BA^{1/2})^{-1/2}A^{1/2}$ denotes the matrix geometric mean.
These operator inequalities are of course, stronger than corresponding norm inequalities (based on unitarily invariant norms).
For the case where you don't have positive matrices, I think the conjecture mentioned in my second argument can be expanded into a proof --- maybe if I get time, I'll try to expand that.
Probably not unless $A$ and $B$ are positive-definite, since if $B$ is very close to $-A$ then $B^{-1}+A^{-1}$ is very small and so its inverse is very large. In fact, depending on the norm, they probably need to be close only on one shared or almost-shared eigenvector.
For spectral norm of positive-definite matrices, we have a nice answer. The highest eigenvalue of $(A^{-1}+B^{-1})^{-1}$ is the lowest eigenvalue of $A^{-1}+B^{-1}$, which one can find by minimizing $x^T(A^{-1}+B^{-1})x$ with respect to $x^Tx=1$. But the minimum for $A^{-1}$ is its lowest eigenvalue, $1/||A||$, and the minimum for $B^{-1}$ is similarly $1/||B||$. Thus:
$x^T( A^{-1}+B^{-1})^{-1} x= x^T A^{-1} x+ x^T B^{-1} x\geq 1/||A||+1/||B||$
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Q: My 12-year-old daughter hates school. She doesn't like to do her homework, although she does most of it, but very sloppily. She won't study for a test, and wants someone else to do her research. I want her to succeed and pass to the next grade, but she couldn't care less. What can I do?
A: It's obvious that your daughter cares less than you do about her success in school, and until she cares there really isn't any way for you to change her. But, there are actions that you can take to change how you feel and react to her. My guess is that she realizes that you will step in and save her by doing her research for her -- you do the work and your daughter gets the grade. While she is learning that she can evade responsibility, she is not experiencing the satisfaction of having earned her grade.
I encourage you to take some time by yourself and/or with your partner and answer these questions: Why do I want her to succeed so badly? Is it for her or for me? Ask yourself: How did I learn how to succeed? Did I have to do my own work?
Lastly, but most importantly, what is the worst thing that could happen if she fails seventh grade? What are the consequences? Summer school? Repeating seventh grade? By failing seventh grade - and either going to summer school or repeating -- your daughter can learn that she is responsible for the choices she makes about her studies.
Talk with the school counselor about parenting skills classes. There are also some excellent books at your local library that cover topics like study skills and helping children accept responsibilities.
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