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Please some one help me first I have finished the image classification process in another software package but many literary recommend Arc GIS package to process post-classification which means from which one land scape type has been changed to what. So please how can I process post-classification in Arc GIS 9.3 to look at the matrix of change or "From-to" change? Thank you in advance Alemayehu
The way to do it is to use the Tabulate Area tool:
The output is the cross-tabulted areas between 2 rasters.
Give the first raster as the input raster or feature zone raster, the zone field is the land cover class field, the second raster is your second input raster.
The result will be in areas not in amount of cells, but to arrive to the number of cells, you just need to divide it by your raster resolution (e.g, if the raster is 1kmx1km, divide the output by the resoltion in meters: 1000x1000)
The vertical will be your first raster cell values (FROM), the horizontal your second raster cells values (TO).
You could try these old instructions. Similar to Tabulate Area in the previous post, the Combine tool gives you every combination of cell values but with the count. You can Pivot Table (or export table to use MS Excel or MS Access cross-tabulation if you don't have an ArcInfo license needed for the ArcGIS pivot tool) to create a matrix of the sum of the counts to calculate various statistics (consult a statistics text for the authoritative formulae).


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I want to interpret an $n\times n$ matrix $D$ as a set of pairwise distances, and assume that $D$ obeys metric properties. Namely, $D_{ii} = 0$, $D_{ij} \geq 0$, $D_{ij} = D_{ji}$ and $D_{ij} \leq D_{ik} + D_{kj}$ for all $1 \leq i,j,k \leq n$. For convenience, let $\bigtriangleup_n$ denote the set of such matrices.
Now, I need to integrate some "simple" functions over this set. The simplest would be an exponential. Namely, I want to compute something like $\int_{\bigtriangleup_n} \exp\left[-\lambda \sum_{i=1}^n \sum_{j=i+1}^n D_{ij}\right] d D$.
I've been able to work this out for the simplest nontrivial case: namely $n=3$. But for higher $n$, my brute force way of calculation gets really ugly. The approach I've been taking is to basically first integrate over $D_{11}, D_{12}, D_{13}, ..., D_{1n}$, all of which have no constraints... then integrate over $D_{23}$ which is just a definite integral from $|D_{12} - D_{23}|$ to $D_{12}+D_{23}$ of $\exp[-\lambda D_{13}]$ and then, in the general case, integrating over $D_ij$ becomes the definite integral from $\max_{k \neq i,j} |D_{ik}-D_{jk}|$ to $\min_{k\neq i,j} D_{ik}+D_{jk}$, but this is the point at which I get stuck, because these things becomes nasty quite quickly (even for just $n=4$).
At the end of the day, I've love to be able to integrate more complex functions, like a chi-square type function rather than an exponential type function, but the exponential is the most trivial case that is interesting...
To be precise, I'm looking for a closed form evaluation of the integral above, preferably with some derivation that will help me work out more complex examples.

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I'd like to use plain TeX in Portuguese, but I don't know how to hyphenate in this language, or in any other language than English. What do I have to do?
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I can propose a procedure for XeTeX; there is some that can be done also for pdfTeX, but it needs some time.
Find in your TeX distribution the file called
Now call the initialization program
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The format file can be moved in a suitable directory, consult the manual for your distribution in order to see where and how.
Caveat: I wrote the "hyplain" system.
In Plain TeX, just set a non-used language number and then input the hyphenation patterns for Portuguese — a TeX file available in every distribution, like this:
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For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed -- and unreported -- this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They've been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they've endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can't fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president.
Merida writes about several incidents, like one in Kokomo, Ind., where on primary day, "a group of black high school students were holding up Obama signs along U.S. 31, a major thoroughfare. As drivers cruised by, a number of them rolled down their windows and yelled out a common racial slur for African Americans." He also mentions voters who've said they wouldn't vote for Obama because of his race, and an incident in Vincennes, Ind., in which an Obama campaign office was vandalized: "A large plate-glass window was smashed, an American flag stolen. Other windows were spray-painted with references to Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and other political messages: 'Hamas votes BHO' and 'We don't cling to guns or religion. Goddamn Wright.'"
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Does anyone stil think a national discussion on race might not be useful?Of course, I think we also need that kind of discussion in Holy Mother here too.
A curiosity that seems to go unmentioned is the matter of "super-delegates". Are these not just a new [but not improved] version of the old party bosses? No matter how you or I vote, it will be the super-delegates who will decide. I don't say I am against it. The Irishman in me has a lingering fondness for the bosses. They did protect their own. I have forgotten the name of the [you should pardon the expression - Liberal] columnist who wrote against his grain, that if his son had been arrested on a bum drug charge in Mexico - who would he call for help? Alfonse D'Amato.
I'm glad we Catholics aren't racist. Of course, those busing riots in "Southie" and the Marquette Park area of Chicago so many years ago (all good Catholic 'hoods) were an abberation .... right? Oh, yes. On the other hand, I guess attitudes towards other races are a matter of prudential judgement, are they not?
Well, whatever you can say about racists in West Virginia or Kentucky, the odds are pretty high that they are not Catholic. Appalachia = Scots Irish, with its distinctive music derived from the British Isles, and an insularity and traditionalism that is probably now foreign to most of the rest of America, excepting the Amish. There are some really good documentaries on this region. Frontline had a terrific documentary called Country Boys: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/countryboys/ And the website has a lot of interesting interviews and the stories of these two young boys are unforgettable.There is a film called Harlan County, USA, by Barbara Koppel that is truly a classic about unionization in a Kentucky mining town. And finally, Rory Kennedy did a documentary called American Hollow, about a multi-generational Kentucky family.What KY and WV have in common is an economy that has traditionally focused investment on extracting natural resources rather than on the people who extract them. This is what separates Appalachia from, say, North or South Dakota, which are equally rural. On the other hand, if you are ever in a car with an idiot friend who destroys a wheel while driving too fast and trying to avoid going over the side of a mountain, there are not many places where two brothers in a truck will stop on their way home and bail you out at 1:00 am and spend the rest of the night fixing your car with spare parts gleaned from junkers in the backyard, while their mother gets up early to make you a seriously wonderful breakfast. So, you know, it's good and bad.
This is disappointing.Despite the great step forward this year in the possibility of electing an African American or female president for our country, this primary season has also revealed numerous dark shadows still present in our society in the form of racism and misogyny.However, I must say that with all the coverage of racism from the press (which is a good thing), it'd be nice if they also did a little reporting on misogyny, especially since of the two, that's the one that's clearly present even in the MSM. In this regard, Marie Coco has a great article just out today over at Real Clear Politics:"Clinton Campaign Brought Sexism Out of Hiding"http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/clinton_campaign_broug...
If Bob Imbelli can get dressed down for his Obama thread, why does Eduardo Penalver get a bye with a piece like this which imitates his ridicule (by omission) of Hillary in similar posts of his? Certainly, this is terrible racial behavior against Obama. But very few here get what Marie Coco describes in the article cited by Chris. It certainly got a tone deaf response from this blog, no matter how one slices it. "There are many reasons why Clinton is losing the nomination contest, some having to do with her strategic mistakes, others with the groundswell for "change." But for all Clinton's political blemishes, the darker stain that has been exposed is the hatred of women that is accepted as a part of our culture."
Bill, I don't know why you think that "very few here get" how misogyny has played a role in this campaign. It has been noted several times on the blog. What very few people accept is the way in which you tend to characterize a lack of support for Clinton as evidence of misogyny. There is simply no comparison between the Luttwak op-ed, which never should have been printed, and this news story--not even "by omission." Chris, you and I have not been paying attention to the same media, apparently, because the list of offenses cited by Cocco have been noted many times in many places. (Although I am grateful she compiled them.) I'm also confused by your statement, "especially since of the two, thats the one thats clearly present even in the MSM." I'd rather not go down the path of Which -Ism Is Worse? Gets us nowhere. But just out of curiosity, how did you find our little corner of the blogosphere?
Grant, thanks for asking about how I found my way here. Honestly, I've been around the site on and off for a long time (more so with the magazine than with the blog) -- in the midst of the conservative Catholic culture that seems to largely surround me, I really appreciate the more engaging and critical (yet still sincere and faith seeking) essays that tend to come from Commonweal. I'm not sure how regular my comments will be, but I will be around.In response to your points about my comments, I didn't mean to suggest that no one in the media has noted the sexism. I apologize. By saying misogyny is "the one that's clearly present even in the MSM", I simply meant to suggest that of the two, I think in general misogyny is far more tolerated in the media than racism is. Do you not think that racism has gotten much more recognition (as as a bad thing of course) and attention than sexism has during this primary season?As for which saying which -ism is worse, I've heard this point before, that this kind of talk gets us nowhere, but I think that's assuming a lot. Good social science and public policy research ought to desire to determine the biggest problems in a society, right? The danger that I think you're getting at is when one uses the claim of being the worse as reason to ignore or downplay one or more other social problems. But that does not need to happen, not in policy nor in discussion, and it's certainly not what I intended by my comments. Personally, I don't see any reason why there can't be well-intentioned and fruitful discussion comparing the harmful effects of different "-isms". Doesn't that sound okay?By the way, since I haven't been following this blog consistently throughout the elections, I wasn't aware of the posts that have dealt with political misogyny in the past. Is there any way you can link to those for me? If it's too hard to do, that's okay, but I was just curious as to what you had covered before.
In the interests of being conciliatory, let me start by agreeing with you. The MSM and, generally, society as a whole tolerates demeaning and degrading conduct towards women that would be found utterly unacceptable, for the most apart, if it were racially motivated. People even on this usually oh so civil board defend the use of the word bitch but no one here has ever defended the use of its racially charged counterpart. The fact that sexism can be more overt does not make it more of a social problem. Indeed, some social scientists would argue that its very oppenness makes it less of a social problem because it can be called out directly for what it is. Please read the following book on how damaging the nouveau "hiddenness" of racism can be:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Patterson-t.html?_r=1&ore... would characterize the differences between racism and sexism, thus, understanding that in some cases discriminatory behavior might be more or less overlapping:Sexism is a verticial stratification that takes place within a group, which has sometimes the purpose and certainly the effect of demeaning or discouraging female traits, achievement and autonomy. Racism is the vertical stratification that takes place across groups that allocates respect and resources according to membership within a particular group. In the United States of America, opportunities, whether tangible (education, access to capital even if only in the form of home equity) or intangible (social networking) are far more likely to be a function of racial classification. Read this for a succinct primer: http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/03/wheres-the-grat.ht...'s not to say that sexual inequality doesn't exist, simply that even white women benefit from their inclusion within a white social structure in terms of access to education and other resources. Which is one reason of many why Clinton's statements on "white voters" is so jarring. Read this for more: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/betsyreedNote, also, how Clinton's supporters themselves have traded in gendered politics, for instance, by lauding Clinton for her macho traits (testicular fortitude, extra cojones, etc.), which some of us find to be VERY demeaning to women. And Clinton herself has tried to prove that she is as "tough as a man" by, IMO, voting for the AUMF and refusing to back down, and more recently cavalierly threatening the annihilation of an entire country, in which, I assure you, lots of women are living. She's okay because she's one of the boys. That doesn't sound like a radical change to me, and I worry a lot about how this need to prove toughness at all costs would play out in terms of governance.If the only way a woman can become president of the U.S. right now is to authorize or threaten war, then my bottom line is that a woman president is unlikely to be good for women generally, even if it rewards that single woman specifically.
Grant, my point is that every time Eduardo has focused on Hillary, he ridiculed her or portrayed others ridiculing her. This post shows his awareness of one issue while apparently blind to the other. Clearly, he (omission) has been absent on the misogyny issue. Barbara, while I agree with many of your points and appreciate your researching it, I hold that you too, and others here, have a double standard in this campaign. While the vote of AUMF and the comment on Iraq is repeated ad nauseum, you all are bending over backward to explain Barack's behavior on Wright and his ties to shady characters in Chicago. That some white people will not vote for Barack is a fact of political note. Hillary did not say it was right. When Barack says "Hillary has negatives" it is just a dressed up way of saying she is female. No one has said a word here about Pam Marten's article about Barack's ties to Wall Street, agent of change that he proclaims to be.
Bob Nunz wonders whether anyone is opposed to a "national discussion on race" ... but what would this discussion involve? And how would/could we keep it from devolving into a blame-game or white-guilt/white privilige dialogue (which only a handful of people would bother listening to)?The fact is that most white people can go through days, weeks, months of their lives without ever even thinking about their race--whereas many African-Americans (and possibly other races?) have argued that they must contend with such issues every minute of every day ... but how do you bring in the majority of the population for what--historically, at least--has been perceived as a discussion of their sins, crime,s failings, etc.? There's no point in just preaching to ... an all-black choir.
I'm not the only one who noticed the martial posturing:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-ducat/revenge-of-the-wimp-facto_b_...
I'm confused - I thought the thread was about racism against blacks. There's also (as I can tell from experience here in NM,) racism against Latino and Native americans. I question Mr, Reid's premise that most whie Americans go along never thinking about raceDuring my work days in the high;y multicultural New York justice system ,isues of race and gender, bith mysogyny and homophobia, arose with lots of frequency and folks telling you on the QT how they weren't prejudiced, but...Race and gender had to become isues in this campaign, given our hostry (and pace the few here who stubbornly refuse to beleive there was a "southern strategy".)Seems like the United Church will kick off its conversation on racism this weekend - might be interesting.
Bob Nunz:My statement was based on what African-Americans themselves have said--that white people rarely have to think about themselves as "white" whereas blacks are constantly reminded of their race ... also, I would suggest that your experience ("During my work days in the high;y multicultural New York justice system ,isues of race and gender, bith mysogyny and homophobia, arose with lots of frequency and folks telling you on the QT how they werent prejudiced, but") is not a common one for most whites. I have often heard of studies that show that many people--especially middle-aged and older--will self-segregate themselves by race at work, at church, in many of their recreational activites, etc. (whether deliberately or not) ...but again: I am curious about WHAT this discussion of race would cover? What would its topics be? What--if anything--woul;d be taboo? Because from my experience the closest thing to a dsicussion of race most people have is the mandatory diversity training they get at work which tends to veer heavily toward either somewthing so bland as to be useless or else it's focused on supposed "white privilege," white dominance, etc. and thus turns off the majority of its participants.
"To succeed in politics, you have to deal with ugly facts sometimes. Here's one ugly fact: Some voters won't vote for a black man. Here's another: Some of the same voters won't vote for a woman. It's foolish to think you can advance the rights of one group by inflaming prejudices against another. The best way to fight racism or sexism is to fight all prejudice."
I hate protracted arguments (part2) but...1) I suggest it migh tbe useful t owatch the United Church conversation about race t osee how it goes along and what its construct is.2)I agree with the awfulness of a lot of siversity training in some job settings - lawyer constructs of political correctednes3)Here in multicultural New Mexico, lots of division and racism across all line among Anglos, Latinos and Native Americans And also many folks who try to get some of it over with though immigration issues as well as tribal land/water and energy development disputers raise hackles more. Small example: every year our Senior Center has had a Cinco de Mayo Pot Luck - not this year! Whites may not talk much (openly) about it but the steering cmmitee was told by some dear users in no uncertain terms that no paricipation if that title was used. Small but gross stupidities - often multiplied.4)In this election year, the issue of racism and blacks (as well as mysogyny) are quite real.Hence the Obama speech on race and the whole Rev. Wrigh tfoofaraw we've beaten into the ground.5) So the incidents in Indiana, the discussion of white vote, black vore, Catholic vote, women's vote not only has reality and significance but underscores we're still not at the prideful point where we'll mainly talk about issues.
The Cinco de Mayo party poopers should read a littloe history. Americans have every reason to celebrate Cinco de Mayo because we supported the battle it commemorates--the French under Napoleon III had invaded Mexico ... Abraham Lincoln would have loved to have done something about this clear violation of the Monroe Doctrine but was a bit preoccupied with the Civil War .. so instead he clandestinely had weapons smuggled across the border to aid the Mexicans (weaposn that might even have been used at the actual battle on the 5th of May). So if it's good enough for Lincoln ...
The whole concept of a "national conversation" seems like an oxymoron. Individuals and small groups have conversations, and in private, individuals might be willing to let down their guard and expose themselves to critique or honest feedback necessary to make progress or resolve misunderstandings. But make that conversation public, and the possibility of losing face and being ridiculed is too great. Which is why "open" discussions among members of opposing groups rarely do anything except entrench their positions. Dare I say that it's almost Clintonesque, this idea that a private life can be effectively lived as a kind of public drama. (Just FYI, Bill Clinton convened a series of "conversations on race" early in his first term.) If you have ever tried to mediate dispute resolution you would see the parallels. If anyone on one side digs their heels in or refuses to be open to resolving it, the other members of that side are more likely to take his defense than try to persuade him to go along and those members on the other side who had expressed a willingness to compromise have even stronger feelings in opposition. Which is why, when you do dispute resolution, you try to have as much time in private with just one group, to get the venting over with and the group agreement in place before you put the two groups together.
Barbara, thanks for your very conciliatory response. I feel as though I've missed a whole conversation in just a day's absence, but I'll try throw a few thoughts in.First of all, I'm glad you agree that in regards to the political press coverage, sexism does seem to be a bigger problem than racism.However, I think you're right to point out how complex these subjects are. Your observations (and links to which you give evidence of this) on the the economic impact of racial classification first and foremost sound right on the mark to me, based upon the little I've read on the subject. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that none of this is meant to suggest that one's gender doesn't also have a secondary affect, right? (i.e. a black woman having first and foremost more hardships then white men and women, but then also more difficulties then black men) Your points on the more hidden nature of racial discrimination economically and socially also make sense to me -- we really are less cognizant of the class divides that continue to permeate this country (hopefully white people will wake up soon to the serious class struggles we still have going on, for the ultra rich are increasingly creating a divide between themselves and the vast majority of whites below them as well).I do sort of have a qualm with you're concern with the Clinton supporters who you see as "lauding Clinton for her macho traits". Putting aside for now the problem of reducing "toughness" to a masculine trait (because it's another whole discussion in itself), I have to first ask, do Clinton supporters really use phrases like "testicular fortitude" and "extra cojones"? I haven't seen that myself, but if it's true, that's incredibly hypocritical and just plain weird. Now, I should say that despite my not being a huge fan of Clinton (I think they're all pretty mediocre when it comes to progressive values), I have supported her since mid-January in the primaries (my main reasons being her healthcare proposal and concern over Obama's ties to Wall Street / Chicago school economic thinking, as evidenced in some of his policy proposals. Other than that they're not that different and both are hands down better than McCain). As a consequence of my support for her, I've spent a fair amount of time reading comments from her other supporters on websites such as Talk Left, The Left Coaster, and Taylor Marsh (and for the record, I try to keep up with more pro-Obama sites such as Daily Kos and TPM too). A couple of observations: I have hardly seen anyone praising her for voting for the AUMF (though they will frequently criticize Obama and Obama supporters for using that her vote against her, but primarily because they think Obama hasn't been consistent himself in being against the war). As for the threatening of nuclear response to Iran, while many Clinton supporters have agreed with her "umbrella of deterrence" foreign policy proposal, as best as I can recall, the tendency was to talk of its value as smart foreign policy and not as an exhibit of "toughness". Lastly, on this issue, while I agree with your concern that Clinton might take this "toughness" presentation too far (though this isn't necessarily the case -- I'm against all nuclear weapons, but I still feel like I can't deny that deterrence does not necessarily imply one really plans to use those weapons), at the same time, I wouldn't reduce this to a question of gender. I think she's making a political move here too, because many voters have a perception of Democrats as being weaker candidates. She's also probably trying to evoke some controversy on another issue, hoping to get a response from Obama, because the MSM pretty much stopped covering the issues a couple of months ago. By the way, has Obama addressed what she said yet? (this is a sincere question because I haven't come across anything on his position yet)One last thing, I looked at that Stephen Ducat article and found it to be spot on in describing America's obsession with power in relation to its perception of gender, as well as the various "gender" roles Hillary has taken on in her career. However, I think the way in which he uses this to contrast Obama to Clinton is a bit wanting in argumentation. After making pretty sweeping statements about the way Hillary has acted in her political career, he than makes the most sweeping without-evidence statement of all in the last paragraph: "Barack Obama stands in stark contrast to the attitude of the Clinton campaign. His guiding political ethos has always been one of bridging but not overlooking divisions, while privileging dialogue, debate, and negotiation over conquest." This is actually the other thing that bothers me so much about Obama, that so many of his supporters (even the thoughtful ones) continue to believe he is clearly "different". I sometimes wonder what these people are relying upon when they look to what Obama has accomplished in the past -- just his self-authored books? Just looking at his campaign alone, Obama has done just as much dirty campaigning against Hillary, especially in 2007 when he was losing (smart politics says you play it cool and take the high road if you're in the lead) -- he's just had the advantage of having the MSM largely on his side throughout it all. This too is another whole discussion in itself, so I'll wait to go there only if other people really want to.And I apologize for some of these sentences being rushed and somewhat run-on at times. Plus, I apologize for any misunderstandings. One thing in particular, if I'd known the blog had written about sexism in the past, I wouldn't even have mentioned that topic on this post (though I think the discussion that's come from it has still been worthwhile). Also, forgive me for any limited understandings of these topics that I might be expressing -- I'm certainly no expert in any of these areas of study.
Perhaps relevant to this discussion of "power" and "toughness" is an article I just came across this morning:"Clinton was brain behind the war room"http://hill6.thehill.com/leading-the-news/clinton-was-brain-behind-the-w... this an example of good or bad "toughness"?


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MORRISTOWN - In winning five games in a row, Bellaire had limited its opponents to hardly any big plays, something that had pleased head coach Jose Davis.
He wasn't real pleased that his Big Reds (7-2) yielded a handful of big plays to homestanding Union Local Friday night at a cold Jet Stadium, but he'll take a 41-25 Buckeye 8 victory, spoiling the Jets' Senior Night.
"We kind of reverted back to four or five weeks ago where we gave up a couple big plays," Davis said of a 72-yard fumble return and a 39-yard jump-ball reception. "Those are things that we were playing so well and taking care of things like that, but we let them happen tonight.
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BELLAIRE'S Brendon Ross runs through an attempted Union Local tackler during Friday's game in Morristown. Ross had an interception and caught four balls for 128 yards and two touchdowns.
"If we want to keep on playing, we can't afford to let that happen."
It was the defense, however, that came up big for Bellaire, along with senior quarterback Spencer Badia, who eclipsed the coveted 7,000-yard mark for his sparkling career.
The Big Reds came up with a pair of huge fourth-and-1 stops in the first half, and defensive end Cody LaRoche sacked Union Local quarterback Travis James in the end zone for a safety as Bellaire held a 16-6 halftime advantage.
Things started to go south for the Jets on the very first play of the third quarter when Dom Vinka, whose name was announced a lot on the defensive side of the ball for Bellaire, pounced on a fumble at the UL 32.
After Badia found Brendon Ross for 23 yards on first down, Hunter Westlake took a handoff and sprinted 9 yards up the gut for six points. The PAT was blocked as Bellaire led 22-6.
Five plays later, James was picked off by Ross who returned the ball 18 yards to the Union Local 38.
On second down, Badia flipped a short pass to Ross in the right flat and the fleet-footed receiver broke a tackle and was off to the races to complete the 38-yard hookup for a 28-6 advantage.
"You can't turn the ball over against a team like Bellaire," Union Local head coach Bruce Stiles admitted. "We let them score two touchdowns early in the second half after we thought we were in a good position at the half down 16-6.
"You can't give a team like them that many opportunities because they can score," he continued. "You're going to have to outscore them to beat them."
Bellaire seemed headed for another score after holding the Jets on a fourth-and-4 when Myliek Green sacked James, but UL's Demitree Turner scooped up a Big Reds' fumble a few plays later and outran everyone 72 yards for the score. The two-point conversion failed, leaving the score 28-12 with 2:46 left in the third quarter.
The hosts got even closer when Jake Leishman bulled his way into the end zone from two yards out for a 28-18 count. Once again, the conversion attempt failed with 11:12 remaining to play.
All the momentum the hosts had generated went by the wayside on the very next snap as Badia and Ross teamed for a 58-yard scoring connection. Badia completed a hitch in the left flat, and Ross broke a pair of tackles before breaking into the open and taking off to the promised land. LaRoche made it 35-18 with 10:57 on the clock.
UL didn't give up, though, as it marched 58 yards on six plays to cut into the deficit once again. On fourth-and-goal from the 12, James was under pressure before lobbing the ball to the left side of the end zone when Isaac Goodson was all alone. Eric Dunfee's PAT made it 35-25. Keying the drive was a double reverse pass where Dunfee teamed with Josh Bolyard on a 39-yard hookup in which Bolyard outleaped two Bellaire defenders.
After Patrick Abboud recovered a Bellaire fumble, Nick Patrone stepped in front of a James' pass and returned the pick 42 yards to ice the game. He also caught TD passes of 26 and 5 yards to stake the Big Reds to a 14-0 lead in the first half. Patrone also caught seven passes for 123 yards, while Ross had four receptions for 128 yards.
Badia finished 17 of 30 for 347 yards and four TDs. He now has 7,345 and joins Bellaire's Nate Davis and Steubenville Central's Brenton Colabella in the elite club.
"It feels good," Badia said of the mark. "But it really is a team effort. It's not just me, it's the guys around me. It's the guys up front who block and the receivers who make the catches."
James accounted for nearly 300 total yards of offense with 155 yards rushing on 26 carries. He had a 4-yard TD run in the second quarter. He also completed a dozen passes for 141 yards and a score, while throwing two INTs.
"I proud of the fact my kids didn't quit the entire game," Stiles continued. "They played hard the entire game and that's all I can ask for as a coach."
Union Local rushed for 246 yards behind James' effort. Leishman added 60 on 11 totes.
"We'll get back in the lab this week and get ready for a big test in Martins Ferry," Davis said.
The Big Reds, who clinched at least a share of the Buckeye 8 title and inched closer to the OVAC title, will host the Purple Riders for the SPARKY Trophy next Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Nelson Field. Both teams are already assured a playoff berth. Meanwhile, Union Local (3-6) heads to St. Clairsville to conclude its season.


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The product page doesn't mention it, and while I'd guess this is the 4G console, does anyone know for sure?
Xbox 360 4 GB S console• Nike+ Kinect Training game• Xbox 360 black wireless controller• 1-year limited warranty on console• Kinect sensor for Xbox 360• Kinect Adventures game• 1-month Xbox LIVE Gold membership
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Whether you choose speed piecing techniques or a more traditional approach, enjoy making a simply fun pieced quilt in your choice of size. Its row-by-row construction makes it a perfect project to take on your next retreat. Just cut and go...and have lots of fun! Two size choices 46 1/2" x 58 1/2" and 58 1/2" x 70 1/2" Designed by Sharon Welch
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text: It's coming, February 14th. What does that mean? Well it means time to go out and spend some hard earned dollars to show your sweet heart how much you care and or love them. The best way to do that is either to buy a huge heart shaped box of chocolate with a dozen roses to go with it, or an enormous card that stands two feet tall that says "Be Mine". In this short but sweet tutorial I will show you "how to draw a rose" with little steps. This tutorial is especially good for kids that want to learn how to draw a rose as well. Being a novice in this particular field, I really struggled with this simple task because lets face it a rose is probably one of the hardest flowers to draw. I mean I can't even make them out of icing for a cake. I didn't sketch this image on paper at all. I totally drew it free hand with my tablet in Adobe Photoshop. Sometimes I do draw without sketching first because it just comes out a whole lot better. I'm not saying this image is perfect and I admit I do have to practice a bit more, but at least you will get the general idea on how to draw a rose for your special someone on that love bird day of February 14th. Oh yeah I almost forgot, remember roses come in different colors not just red, they come in pink, yellow and white as well. I'm sure there are more colors but those are the basic ones. Okay that's all, so go have some fun, and teach yourself "how to draw a rose, step by step".


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He picked up a quarrel.
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
Is it syntactically correct? Yes, of course.
Is it semantically correct? Less clear. Was he a crossbowman who's spilt his quarrels on the ground? Or was he a short-wave operator trying to tune in a distant channel of people bickering?
In either of those cases, sure. But if we're talking about somebody being quarrelsome and starting one up, then no. One starts quarrels; one does not pick them up.
If you mean that he's about to shoot a stubby arrow from a crossbow, then yes. If you mean that he tried to start a fight, the idiom is, "He picked a fight".


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St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, environment & peace, is shown in a Southwest landscape befriending a horse, coyote, rabbit & birds. Chili ristras hang on the adobe wall while Hollyhock flowers grow wild nearby. Measuring 24" x 31", this fusible machine appliquéd wall hanging offers full-size patterns & step-by-step instructions for making this fairly quick & easy project. Designed by Joy de Dow y Anay
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Since the sexual revolution of the '60s, we tend to think that sexuality from the Baby Boomers back to the beginning of time was a long history of repressed urges, prudish fundamentalist restrictions and brutal rape politics.
But it turns out that a lot of what BBC dramas tell you about sex in history is just a fanciful cover for sex lives that didn't differ that much from our own. Myths that persist to this day include ...
Ya know, we've made fun of the DC Universe for not immediately realizing what Batman's secret identity is (hint: He's the only person in the world who could conceivably afford an experimental private helicopter-plane), but here in the real world, we have a similar relationship with sex. No, seriously: We spread strange rumors about sex, and often make sex seem like the bad guy just because it confuses and scares us. We're obsessed with the strange tools sex uses and marvel at the vast size of sex's "utility belt." And, as this Cracked Classic shows, we haven't even figured out Sex's origin story!
Yes, sex is the real world's Batman. Tell your friends. -Cracked
#5. Victorians Were Repressed and Sexless
When you think about the Victorian era, you probably remember a whole bunch of jokes about how women couldn't show their ankles without it being considered indecent exposure. If they ever did have sex, they would first have to peel off so many layers of clothing that it almost wasn't worth it.
Queen Victoria is rumored to have told her daughter to "just lie back and think of England" when the princess was concerned about having to fulfill her wifely duties on her wedding night. There's even a myth that Victorians covered the legs of their tables because they resembled female flesh.
We can barely conceal our boners right now.
Frankly, we're surprised that the population of England didn't collapse after men got sick of sobbing their way through sex long enough to impregnate their wives.
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It's true that Victorians weren't exactly into halter tops and assless pants. In public, that is. In private, they made up for it by producing extraordinary amounts of porn. And not just any porn, but the type of porn that would make the most seasoned Internet deviant blush and cover their table legs. We're talking incest, rape, pedophilia, orgies, BDSM ... and that's the normal stuff.
She has a dozen live eels stuffed under that corset. You know why.
Here's a taste from a piece published in 1907:
"Seeing her dressed you'd have taken her for thin, but she wasn't in the least. In fact if anything she was on the fleshy side. Her dark pubic hair, I noticed, climbed all the way up to her navel ... her nipples were set in a small field of light brown hair. Lifting her breasts, I saw that she also had some short, fine black hairs underneath. Her armpits were likewise covered with hair as thick as a man's. The sight of all this healthy fleece caused John Thomas to harden even more. I ripped off my nightshirt and straddled the lovely creature, whose rhythmic movements set my pickle slapping back and forth against her belly."
-From Memoirs of a Young Rakehell
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Classy. As. Balls.
Alas, Victorians also left their table legs as bare as their marvelously hairy women: furniture-leg covers are a myth originally peddled, ironically, by an English travel writer demonstrating American prudishness to his British audience. As for the famous prudishness of Queen Victoria, not only is the "think of England" exchange untrue, but the Queen's diaries reveal she was extremely fond of sex, and often presented her husband with male and female nude artworks. Oh, and this is after those diaries were heavily censored posthumously by her children.
Are you picturing it? Are you picturing them boning?
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- After years of planning and raising funds, the Sunset Zoo cut the ribbon Sunday on its new entryway and its new Nature Exploration Center, a 15,500 square foot education facility.
"We see about 45,000 people a year through our education programs and we've literally outgrown every facility we have in the building. We have converted old exhibits into education space in order to try to meet the growing demand and it just came to a point where we could not do all of the programming we wanted to do and so that was the genesis of the idea for this building and the need for this facility," said Sunset Zoo Director Scott Shoemaker.
"We have four dedicated classrooms in this building and the idea is that our education programs will be what we call nature-based science programs. The idea is, we're going to try to get youth out into nature- get kids back outside, get them exploring nature, and then hopefully have them make that connection with the animals they inhabit the planet with," he added.
"A lot of our animals cannot be exhibited outside, they've got to be exhibited inside and with this facility here, we can bring our animals in and show them to the kids and students and have a real good exhibit," said Manhattan Mayor Loren Pepperd.
"We've always had to take our education programs mostly on the road to other facilities because we lacked a facility that really allowed people to come together," added Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr.
The project was funded primarily through a sales tax initiative that was passed by Manhattan citizens in 2009. City officials say the need for the center was identified in the late 1990s when they designed a master plan for the zoo.
The zoo also received another $500,000 in private donations to enhance the technology inside the center.
Several organizations and individuals provided funding: the Sunset Zoological Park & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Friends of Sunset Zoo, the McCullough family, the Kemper, Commerce Bank Shares and Caroline Peine Charitable Foundations, the Little Apple Veterinary Clinic and the Lindquist Family.
The new Nature Exploration Center will house an interactive distance learning lab, expanded education offerings, a year-round gift shop and ticket booth, and provide a unique venue for private events, including weddings, family reunions and corporate gatherings.
"One of the exciting things we added was the distance learning center which will allow us to basically televise our zoo education programs to schools all over the state of Kansas so kids can talk to us and we can talk to them in real time. They can ask us questions about the animals they're seeing and then we can follow up with answers," Shoemaker, the director, said.
"It's going to raise our game. It's going to take Sunset Zoo to a whole new level. In the kind of programming we can offer and the kind of zoo that we are going to become," he added.


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This is a new Pro Comp 6" Suspension Lift Kit for the 92-99 Chevrolet/GMC K2500/3500 Suburban 8lug 4x4. This is being offered by Top Gun Customz . Read below for TONs of upgrades and add-ons!
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Anyone buy the Cuisinart Tri Ply 12pc Stainless Steel Cookware from Costco?
So I bought the Cuisinart MCP-12 MultiClad Pro Stainless Steel 12-Piece Cookware Set from Amazon.com a couple days ago for $299.00. Then I head on over to Costco yesterday and saw them selling a Cuisinart Tri Ply Professional Stainless Steel 12pc Cookware Set for $199.99. Problem is, I can't find the Costco set ANYWHERE online. Only difference I could find is the Costco set has a 4qt sauce pan instead of a 3.5qt sauce pan. Why would the Costco one be $100 less?
Link to the Amazon set: http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-MCP-12-MultiClad-Stainless-12-Piece/dp/B0007KQZWU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334941060&sr=8-1
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I got MCP-12 off amazon for 209$ on April 3, 2012
Wow, the price really jumped in 2 weeks!
@arunk3: Well damn, guess I just got it at a bad time. Gonna try and refuse shipment and get it from Costco instead. Thanks!
@williamt1980: I believe you can return it (as long as it was purchased directly from or fulfilled by Amazon) without any punishment if you say you found a better price. It's one of the standard reasons for return. As long as you chose the Free Shipping method (why wouldn't you), your return shipping should be covered.
so whats the difference in cuisinart mcp-12 set from amazon and the cuisinart triply from costco ? Or are these both the same ones ?
@curtisuxor: You were right. Amazon graciously sent me a return label for free and will be refunding the full amount.
@sirin: Far as I can tell, the only difference is the Amazon one has a 3.5qt Sauce Pan and the Costco one has a 4qt Sauce Pan. Both are multiclad tri ply (though the Costco one doesn't state multiclad in the title, it does in the descriptions) and both are induction heating capable.
@arunk3: Yeah, I bought this same set back in February for the same price you paid. I wonder why the jump?
I bought the one from Costco, the other difference I see is Costco set has glass lids awhile the amazon has steel lids.
I had bought the mcp-12 last year from Amazon. I really love it. The only issue I have is that when left wet the outer steel
rusts a little. This I believe is because the outer layer is magnetic steel to be compatible with induction ranges.
I wipe it dry after washing or use bar keepers friend if I see rust stains.
Have anyone of you tried washing this set from Costco. I plan on buying it. Any feedback regarding outer layer stains will be greatly appreciated.
The set looks good so far and havent seen any rust spots when I leave it wet for drying.
@sirin: You should take your Costco set back. There is a $50 off coupon that starts on the 10th so it will be down to $149.
@dgaulait: Thanks, I saw that $50 coupon. I will go and get the price adjusted.
If you haven't already bought it or did so recently, keep your receipt. Starting tomorrow 5/10 and going through June 3, you can get another $50 off if you get the Costco discount mailer.
Can anyone speak to the quality of this set? How long have you had it? What is cooking with it like? How is it holding up?
I have this set for less than a month. I like it so far and I like cooking with it. Even cooking eggs is also easy, but only thing clean up is bit tough if we use very little oil. But other than that set is pretty good and clean up other eggs is pretty easy.
After the purchase I wrote my review http://www.cookrev.com/cuisinart-mcp-12-review/
I bought the tri ply set from costco about a month ago for $149.99. We have used the sauce pans and skillets. Cooks very well, but they leave discoloration after washing. BKF takes care of the problem, but using BKF after every use is a little pain in the neck. I don't know if the MCP-12N is any better. I am thinking of getting the MCP-12N set from Amazon and see if it performs any better. By the way, I went to costco today, and found the tri-ply set or $100 (no kidding!). I am going to take my old receipt and get a price adjustment. But why is costco selling this for the throw away price of $100? Is cuisinart discontinuing this set or costco does not want to carry this product and is clearing their inventory? Any thoughts out there?


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Which natural language, other than English, will be most beneficial to an aspiring game developer? French, because of the Canadian game industry, or Japanese, maybe? Will AAA studios consider it an important plus point in an employee?
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34-year-old Richard Leon Barton Jr. never got around to divorcing his first wife in Rhode Island. So when he married a second woman last July in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he probably should have not posted those pictures to Facebook! His first wife became suspicious when he defriended her, so she snooped around and found his "happy wedding photos with the Grand Rapids woman on the pages of Barton's friends and family," according to The Grand Rapids Press.
Now Barton's been arrested for bigamy and faces up to 4 years in prison. This has got to be the worst PSA for adjusting your Facebook privacy settings ever. [via All Facebook]


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Women's Tennis Knocks Off Brevard, 7-2March 20, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Four Trojans finished perfect for the afternoon, as Anderson University women's tennis captured a 7-2 over Brevard in South Atlantic Conference action Thursday afternoon at Max Grubbs Memorial Courts.
The win evens up AU's record at 4-4 for the year, while moving above .500 in league play at 3-2. Brevard, which has won three of its last four contests, falls to 3-5 overall and 0-2 in the SAC.
Junior Lindsay Gregory and freshman Rebecca Bruning (No. 2) began the afternoon with an 8-1 victory in the doubles round, while the sophomore tandem of Alexandra Ebner and Nikkola Wichenko posted an 8-5 win at the No. 3 position.
After taking a 2-1 lead into the singles round, five Trojans recorded wins in straight sets. Senior Avery Owens grabbed her fourth straight victory of the season, as she defeated Michelle Prata 6-0, 6-3 at the No. 2 position.
Bruning continued the winning trend at No. 3 with a 6-1, 7-5 triumph, while Ebner cruised to a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Caludia Hellman at the No. 4 position.
Rounding out the singles round, Gregory notched a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Nirvanna Silva at No. 5, while Wichenko recorded her fourth straight singles win over Ana Drummond, 6-3, 6-0.
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A report published in April 2004 by Sister Dale McDonald for the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) indicates that during the 2003-04 school year, 123 Catholic schools nationwide were "consolidated or closed." In February, the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago announced plans to close 23 elementary schools. Dozens more are slated to close in other cities. That story leads page 1 of the April 2005 issue of School Reform News.
The April interview is with J.C. Huizenga, founder and chairman of National Heritage Academies (NHA), a for-profit educational management company based in Grand Rapids. NHA serves nearly 27,000 students in Indiana, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Ohio. The company's aim is to create 200 of the highest quality schools in the country.
Also in this issue: Bush budget for FY06 includes choice, private schools are closing the achievement gap, high school students apathetic, unknowledgeable about first amendment, latest California test scores bring good news for English learners, school violence is under-reported, new computer technology increases school security, an effective "second chance" school, Hawaii withholding funds from charters, and judge orders sharply higher spending or NYC public schools.
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When you get your picture on the cover of the Rollin' Stone
Someone may yet do a more substantial post on Mark Binelli's Pope Francis cover story in Rolling Stone, but for the moment I thought I'd pull out quotes from three of the people interviewed. Context-free, maybe, but how much is needed?
Thomas Reese: "The people Francis is going to have the most trouble with are the ideologues. They're basically like the Tea Party. They've made up their minds. They don't get it. And unless they go through some major conversion, they ain't gonna get it."
Cornell West: "Pope Francis is a gift from heaven, a prophetic voice willing to be a critic of capitalism and imperialism. I don't want to fetishize the pope. He heads a deeply patriarchal and homophobic organization that I'm critical of. But I love who he is, in terms of what he says, and the impact of his words on progressive forces around the world."
Unnamed street vendor outside St. Peter's, when asked if the increased crowds under Francis have been good for business, answers in "perfect, New York-inflected English, 'Naw, this guy, all he does is talk about the poor, and so he's bringing in these poorer tourists from places like Argentina. They ain't got no money, these people! When Ratzinger was pope, Germans would pull up on a bus. They're organized, they spend! Now, everyone wants a discount.'"
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Can First Things and the Acton Institute be far behind?
"When Ratzinger was pope, Germans would pull up on a bus. They're organized, they spend! Now, everyone wants a discount."
I'm almost sorry I'm a lapsed RS subscriber as well as a lapsed RC communicant. You can't make this kind of stuff up. On the other hand, I've had a nice photo of Pope Francis on my office file cabinet, and everybody who sees it smiles and wants to talk about him. So it's nice to feel affiliated with something positive instead of the gay-haters and pedophiles.
There is an excellent article on Francis in the current issue of Der Spiegel, 27 Jan, under the title 'Herausgefordert' ('Challenged'). If you want to sneak a look at it in a bookshop it is on pages 32-40 (Der Spiegel cleverly makes it hard to locate the cover stories inside, omitting them from the table of contents, so as to lure curious readers to buy).
Here's an item in the Rolling Stone piece that I hadn't heard about before, and that seems noteworthy:
In July, Francis forbade the traditionalist Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate from saying the Latin Mass and launched an investigation of their finances. Some saw this move as a direct jab at Benedict, who had loosened restrictions on such ultratraditionalists. Francis' disdain for ultratraditionalists dates back to Buenos Aires, where the leaders of one of the groups supported by Benedict had praised the military junta and another member turned out to be a Holocaust denier. A pair of Italian journalists with links to the order attacked the pope's decision as "a slap in the face" and suggested that "the new pontificate seems to love the cameras and being in the spotlight." By the end of the year, Francis had shuttered the friars' seminary and suspended the order's ability to ordain new priests. His chief investigator described the founder of the order, who'd been banished to a religious home, as running a cult of personality.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/pope-francis-the-times-they-are-a-changin-20140128#ixzz2rtg1HV5j
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You'd think that if some of the church's most formidable critics as in the Rolling Stone article can see the authenticity of Papa Francesco's humility and spirit that his engaging manner could melt the hearts some of the church's own most right-wing ideologues?
It is illogical to think that Francesco can embrace policies and pastoral practices that most of the cardinals who just elected him pope less than a year ago consider subversive. [local example: Here in the Bay Area we have two new prelates both of whom are hopelessly alienated from and dangerously irrelevant to the people they're suppose to shepherd - the damage they are doing and will do will take years to overcome.]
Pope Frank has his political work cut out for him if he is really serious about igniting a season of renewal and reform for the church.
Francesco's biggest problem - and my guess is he understands this really well since he is a smart Jesuit - is that reforming the curia is little more than the proverbial rearrangement of the deck chairs on the Titantic.
Much more radical surgery is required to excise the malignancy at the heart of the body of Christ: narcissistic clericalism, misogyny, vestigial celibacy, self-loathing ideologies about human sexuality.
Perhaps Francesco has concluded that he can't swing for the fences during his papacy? But, he must only make the course corrections necessary to stem decades of drift and corruption that occurred under the Polish and German papacies?
For starters maybe Francesco thinks the curia and college of cardinals needs to be cleaned-up and restructured in order to properly set the table for the next pope?
Maybe after a decade of compassionate pastoral leadership in the papacy maybe The PEOPLE will be ready to enact real substantive reform and renewal?
We'll see ...
There are a number of individuals whose zeal for the honor of the previous pope is meant precisely as a rebuke to the current occupant of the office. They are very happy to announce criticism of anyone who says too openly that Pope Francis is a welcome change after Pope Benedict.
Poor Lombardi. Two popes to defend. The job is getting unwieldy.
Jim Pauwels: I read a couple of articles about the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. Others who know better can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe members of the order appealed to Rome when they had concerns with some of the order's leadership on several issues, one of which is that they began to insist on only the Latin Mass, and not allow the ordinary one. But there were other concerns as well and the order was in internal disarray over what was going on. And what I read indicated, not that the head of the order was banished to a home, but that he checked himself into some kind of nursing home and then refused to give the papal representative any information, citing health issues.
I might not have this right, but nothing I read in the articles indicated the Pope was doing any kind of smackdown of the Latin Mass. It was very interesting reading,though.
I used to faithfully buy and read Rolling Stone many, many years ago. The last time I perused a hard copy at a news stand (maybe several years ago), I was struck by the number of ads for cigarettes and hard liquor.
Jim, Irene is right. I can add that the head of order, fr. Manelli, is alleged to have trasferred order's properties to friends and relatives.
Frank, RS now mainly carries ads for whale-watching cruises, ovaltine, and saltine crackers.
The trads in Italy are upset also because after 14 years the first Saturday Tridentine Mass has been abolished at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome last January.
Irene and Mary, thanks for that info. As described in the Rolling Stone article, a couple of the characteristics of that religious order (which I had never heard of before) sounded somewhat similar to the Legion of Christ, and I am wondering if the disposition of the order mentioned in the article is a precursor of what may happen to the Legion.
I believe that those who are counting on the Holy Father to:
a) Legitimate homosexual acts
b) Legitimate gay marriage
c) Call for the dismantling of capitalism
d) Call for the creation of socialist economies (defined as the complete control of all economic activities, but not necessarily the ownership of the means of production) in North & South America, England, and Europe.
Are going to be bitterly disappointed. Sorry.
Jim P. --
I suspect the Franciscan Fathers are quite different from the Legionaires. The Franciscans also had a dreadful founer, like the Legionaires, but it is much, much smaller. And the Legionaires have have the financialy backing of the likes of Carlos Slim. I predict the Vatican will tread rather softly in the latter case.
Bob S: and do you think that the world as we know it will fall apart if Francis does/does not do any/all of those things? I doubt that the thrust of history in the case of these various actions will be much affected by what Francis or any other pope says about them.
If you don't believe me then look at how effective the prohibitions of contraception and abortion have been on the world in general or Catholicism in particular.
The magazine's name is Rolling Stone, not Rollin' Stone. Why the cutesy headline?
Angela- I think its a line from the Dr Hook Song. (Another one of those great songs written by Shel Sivlerstein).
No think about it--it definitely is.


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I have Ubuntu 12.04LTS installed on a dual-booted machine
i5 dual core 8G RAM and it's been working fine, but today for some reason when I logged out and tried to log back in
it is stuck at the login page, i.e. the mouse and the keyboard are not responding. The mouse is stuck at the top left corner of my screen, and I can do nothing but to turn the machine off. (I have been using logitech wireless mouse and keyboard.)
I can not access the virtual console using Alt F1 or Ctrl Alt F1 either!
Here is what I have tried so far:
- Verified it is not a H/W problem since the mouse and keyboard work fine with windows7
- Booted with ubuntu installation dvd and ran trial mode and mouse and keyboard worked fine.
- Tried bypassing the login screen by booting into recovery mode and editing
tty1.conf, but to no avail.
- I moved
.bashrcfrom my
$HOMEto another location so my login would proceed completely by system defaults. But this did not help
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recovery modecommandline used to dpkg-reconfigure to switch between
lightgdm. This did not help either.
- By the way, when in recovery mode as root from command line I mount the filesystem, all apps work fine. Python is Ok, octave is ok, vi is ok etc.
I have a feeling if I could only bypass the login screen, and automatically get into the desktop, I will be ok. But I haven't been able to accomplish this either.
I desperately need help please. Thank you in advance.
Update: So I tried to switch to lightdm by
dpkg-configure lightdm. This at least brings me up to the classical linux commandline login prompt but without a gui.
Should I install startx? Should I install ubuntu-desktop?


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Chaim and Shprintza got engaged. They, their entire families, and their rabbis were all totally happy about the engagement. They didn't hide any information from one another. Chaim and Shprintza both know both his and her detailed halachic status.
A few days later, Chaim and Shprintza (and their families) still desperately want to marry each other, but halacha now requires them to break their engagement. There were no mistakes at the time of the engagement. Chaim is not a Cohen.
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This week I've been intrigued by the Winter Sun Travel Outfit prototype currently being developed by Travel Supermarket. If there is enough interest the dual purpose clothing will go into production with children's versions containing a GPS tracker to keep little ones safe. Read the full story about how you can leave the UK warm enough for winter but arrive in the sun dressed for the correct climate here.
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6 Tips to Avoid Ticks
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Ticks can ride home on articles of clothing or pets and attach to a person later, so make sure to check all of your clothes and gear, including backpacks. Do a full check on your pet too, making sure to look in his ears and under his tail.
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I'm Running 2.3 Gingerbread. There is a setting Settings->Privacy Settings->Back up my data
If checked, what data does this back up? Where is it backed up? How do I restore it?
This setting backs your data up to Google's magic cloud. It includes what apps you have installed, and some apps' settings (if they are written to take advantage of it) which are restored when you first sign in to a new phone.
Relevant quote from the Android 2.3 user guide, pg 18:
That setting controls apps' ability to use this API, which includes Google's apps such as Market.


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I use conky to see network load statistics with sampling every 8 seconds in order to get somewhat more smooth history chart. Unfortunately, all values i get are not average for this 8 second period, but they are sampled from much smaller time span, so charts are the same choppy, as if they were sampled from 1 second or less.
Is there any way to get conky (or at least System Monitor) display system properties averaged over specified amount of time, just like Windows' task manager does?
I would like to have conky display hard drive usage from iostat, but there will be little use if it, if conky reports instant values not averaged over time.
edit: There is half-solution to the specific network problem in utility ifstat. This program if run
ifstat 8 1
does indeed give proper network load averages over 8-second interval. But, from obvious reasons, this call takes 8 second to complete. I am trying to learn enough lua to get this working.


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is there a way to add custom user meta fields (like the one in the profile.php which contain specific user data), but only an admin (or an other user with enough capabilities) can change them? Maybe I'm thinking too complicated, how would you tell your site visitors who from your users is doing which work on the site, if there are too many users (and probably often changing work) that it would be impossible too make a static page or something.
Greetings, .wired
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I am not sure that all automorphism groups of algebraic varieties have natrual algebraic group structure. But if the automorphism group of a variety has algebraic group structure, how do I know the automorphism group is an algebraic group. For example, the automorphism group of an elliptic curve $A$ is an extension of the group $G$ of automorphisms which preserve the structure of the elliptic curve, by the group $A(k)$ of translations in the points of $A$, i.e. the sequence of groups $0\to A(k)\to \text{Aut}(A)\to G \to 0$ is exact, see Springer online ref - automorphism group of algebraic variaties. In this example, how do I know $\text{Aut}(A)$ is an algebraic group.
It is not always true that the automorphism group of an algebraic variety has a natural algebraic group structure. For example, the automorphism group of $\mathbb{A}^2$ includes all the maps of the form $(x,y) \mapsto (x, y+f(x))$ where $f$ is any polynomial. I haven't thought through how to say this precisely in terms of functors, but this subgroup morally should be a connected infinite dimensional object, and is thus not a subobject of an algebraic group.
On the other hand, I believe that the automorphism group of a projective algebraic variety, $X$, can be given the structure of algebraic group in a fairly natural way. This is something I've thought about myself, but not written down a careful proof nor found a reference for: For any automorphism $f$ of $X$, consider the graph of $f$ as a subscheme of $X \times X$, and thus a point of the Hilbert scheme of $X\times X$. In this way, we get an embedding of point sets from $\mathrm{Aut}(X)$ into $\mathrm{Hilb}(X\times X)$.
I believe that it should be easy to show that (1) $\mathrm{Aut}(X)$ is open in $\mathrm{Hilb}(X\times X)$, and thus acquires a natural scheme structure and (2) composition of automorphisms is a map of schemes.
This is really a comment on Pete's comment for Mikhail's answer, but I am making it an answer because it raises a question which I think should be more widely known.
The construction of Aut-scheme uses the entire Hilbert scheme, which has countably many components (due to varying Hilbert polynomials), and it is not obvious how many of these intervene in the construction. Mikhail's answer illustrates the basic example showing it can be infinite. But this leads to the following problem (suggested by what is known about Neron-Severi groups, whose construction encounters the same issue via construction of Pic schemes in terms of Hilbert schemes, at least in the original Grothendieck construction):
Q. Does the Aut scheme of a proper scheme over an alg. closed field have finitely generated component group? (This is a more basic question than finiteness, which is really Pete's comment to Mikhail's answer.)
Incredibly, even for smooth projective varieties over C this appears to be a wide open problem!! I have mentioned this to several experts in alg. geom. (including Oort), and nobody has an idea. If anyone has an idea or a solution, please let me know right away.
In [Matsusaka, T. Polarized varieties, fields of moduli and generalized Kummer varieties of polarized abelian varieties. Amer. J. Math. 80 1958 45--82.] it is proved that a non-singular projective variety has a maximal algebraic group of automorphisms (that is, every group which acts on the variety by automorphisms contains a maximal algebraic subgroup)
[Matsumura, Hideyuki; Oort, Frans. Representability of group functors, and automorphisms of algebraic schemes. Invent. Math. 4 1967 1--25.] shows the automorphism group (of an algebraic proper scheme over a field) is representable by a group scheme.
If A is an elliptic curve then G (in your notation) is finite. Yet it seems that for a square of an elliptic curve you get something infinite and very far from being algebraic. If $A=B\times B$, $B$ is a 'general' elliptic curve, then it seems that $G(A)=GL_2(\Bbb Z)$; this is a 'large' discrete group. Another example is an abelian variety with complex multplication: you get the group of units in some order in some CM-field over $\Bbb Q$, and this is infinite if this field is not quadratic. I think, in these examples it is not difficult to prove that Aut(A) is not an algebraic group.


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I'm using this regex in my model to validate an URL submitted by the user. I don't want to force the user to type the http part, but would like to add it myself if it's not there.
validates :url, :format => { :with => /^((http|https):\/\/)?[a-z0-9]+([-.]{1}[a-z0-9]+).[a-z]{2,5}(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/.)?$/ix, :message => " is not valid" }
Any idea how I could do that? I have very little experience with validation and regex..


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I feel a little bit of a back-story is necessary here:
I was an under-grad student up until last year. I had this habit of sleeping way too late and waking up with time enough to get to classes on schedule. (I used to sleep intermittently in classes, but they didn't affect my grades, so oh well). Then I worked at a software company, until recently. Somehow, I got into the pattern of going to bed on time and waking up on time.
But now that I've quit my job and I'm about to get back to continuing my post-grad education, I find myself with no compulsion to go to sleep early. This habit started out as fun, but now I find myself awake all night (like up to 4 or 5am), and I sleep throughout the day (up to around 4 pm). Ridiculous, I know.
My classes are due to commence in a couple of weeks, and if I don't find a way to get back to my usual healthy pattern, it's not going to be easy for me, to say the least. What do I do?


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12 Things to Do in Orlando with KidsMelinda Carstensen
Summer days spent with my toes in the sand, grade-school field trips to see world-renowned performers, weekend visits to see Mickey Mouse, my childhood was filled with incredible, fun memories I consider myself lucky to have. Although I've since left Orlando and taken root in The Big Apple, I still have a strong appreciation for my hometown, and when I visit, I'm reminded of the variety of things the city has to offer.
While Orlando may be synonymous with Disney (and of course, that's a huge part of it — and was a big part of my childhood), it's actually true there are oodles of other things to do. For instance, why not sit in the splash zone at Orlando's SeaWorld, or swim with sea critters and slide down an awesome water slide at one of Disney's water parks? Theme parks not your thing? Shop at one of Orlando's outlet malls, or dine and see a show in downtown Orlando instead. Click through to find out why this may be the Sunshine State's most family-friendly city ever.
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