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I realize it was some legal issue resulting in the game makers jumping ship, but what exactly led to this mutiny ?
I realize it was some legal issue resulting in the game makers jumping ship, but what exactly led to this mutiny ?
Because Sports Interactive split with Eidos. Eidos kept the rights to the name Championship Manager, while SI kept the right to the database.
The publishers Eidos and the creators SI both wanted to take the game in a different direction so they decided to split with SI keeping the actual game i.e. the code, database and so on while Eidos kept the name. So SI teamed up with Sega to continue the series as Football Manager and Eidos teamed up with Beautiful Game Studios to create the new Championship Manager. That is what I think happened anyway.
I heard Ray Houghton started all the trouble
I play CM and i enjoy it. Saying that ive never played any fm game. sorry. was going to try out 09 but then heard about the activation and decided to wait til April for CM09.
Anyway, do you ever think that the two games will merge into one? Im saying this because could you imagine the two games made into one? It would be insane
there's a guy called steven screch who made the the player manager series & the last i heard was champ man joined up with him.
player manager was brillant & the 3d match engine back then was WAY better than si's currant engine. if champ man is sitll with him then id bet that the new champ man is going to be way better than this seasons fm.
ps: has anyone watched the champ man 3d match on ytube it looks brillant & ill def be giveing it a go.
You can hardly make anything out from that. Far too blurry.
From what I can see there (which isn't much), it does look quite good.
The 3D gfx on CM is probably what is killing Champ Man. They need to stick to basics for the match engine and concentrate instead on submersive gameplay like SI have done over the years (remember the warning on CM4 posters?). The 3D on FM is damn good considering it is a first time shot on a public release but personally I had my doubts about it and it in the end has come good!
In the end the gfx is not what makes the game, it is the player and the gameplay that makes the game.
As I've stated in other threads, my main issue with 3D on FM09 is all the mistakes. Everything that happens seems to be the result of an error somewhere, and players are constantly making mistakes.
these are the only images i found.
& yes looking at the picture here dosnt show u mutch but the match engine & 3d were brillant & definatly better than si's.
Also looking at the picture the graphics don't look as good as FM either, not that I would expect them to be as that is much older and it obviously was just a PS1 game.
I remember borrowing this game from a mate back in the day. But didn't play it for long as CM 99/00 was much more enjoyable even without any match graphics.
you wouldnt get the goal keeper just standing there with the ball while a striker runs at him from the half way line & then score a goal.
the match seened to play from the 3d engine where as si's 3d plays from there match enging.
And your last sentence sums your argument up. The 3D visual interpretation has to come from the ME. The ME generates the result and events and the 3D view displays it. That only seems logical.
"They shouldn't have released an unfinished product."That is a feature of dealings with oTRUTHo.
man im going to enjoy this & i wish i was there to run your words down your throad haha.
1)hear you go, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJR1Mryt8wA & hears the thread it came out of http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=100047I never saw what you described above happening.
2)no ones saying anything diffrent & hears si's explanation. 4th post down http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=97539The ME generates the result and events and the 3D view displays it. That only seems logical
3) im saying that player manager PLAYED WAY BETTER THAN FM09 & THE MATCH WAS 10 tTIMES BETTER THAN SI'S
wee man, if you want a fight or you want to join in with the numptys that think im amuing then youd better start doing better than you are?
I was about to go to bed but this has potential. Pass the popcorn.
Haha go get him tiger!
2) I don't get what you mean here. I know that already. You quoted me and said noone is saying any different which is agreeing with me or not. :confused:
3) That gives the impression of either bias, exaggeration or both.
Why would I want start a fight? I don't think you are amusing, you are just giving some really strange opinions in my view. Am I not allowed to disagree without you becoming aggressive?
To be honest, looking at your recent posts and the ones just above, I don't why I bothered this argument.
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wee man iv already took your word & shoved the back up your *** so im done hear.
The most worrying thing about the split is now SEGA own the rights to the database/coding, so if things turn sour between Sega and SI, the fate of our beloved FM/CM is int he hands of the people responsible for Sonic the Hedgehog and the Dreamcast....
Could be worse though, they cold have sold out to EA!
Player Manager was a horrible game. Glad CM has that guy not SI. Did you actually play it. Guess it was ok if you were 5 years old and not owned a pc or an amiga.
I'm not holding much hope for CM's match engine and I doubt it will be anywhere near FM's but what their 3D representation might have, judging by that little clip, is animations and physics that actually resemble reality. FM's match engine needs a rewrite to ever look anything like a football match in 3D. Physics created for 2D will never cut it in 3D, simple as that.
CM is going to have The Northern Premiership (Premier Division), The Southern League (Premier Division) and The Isthmian League (Premier Division).
Now that is a mouth watering concept.
Instead of having one great game,now we have one good game(fm),and one too average(cm).
just so you no about cm
this is there write up :
This is our opportunity to give consumers a reason to believe in Championship Manager once again," continued Meredith. "After 4 years of mid-table mediocrity, we're making great strides to become genuine title contenders. We want everyone to test this out by trying the demo which is out in March. Try the demo and make up your own minds."
Eidos and Beautiful Game Studios are pleased to announce that the next version of Championship Manager, the leading name in football management simulation, will launch in April 2009.
With a complete graphical and engine overhaul,
Take total control with Championship Manager 2009, the leading name in football management simulations is back with a brand new look and a host of new features to bring the most loved sport in the world straight to your PC.
The fully animated, 3D match engine (featuring 500 fully motion captured animations per players) propels you right into the heart of the action on matchday, taking your management experience one step further. The only match engine specifically designed and created for a football management game allows you to watch the team in action as they put your carefully crafted tactics into action, view individual performances and be on hand to make changes when things go wrong.
With the development of a comprehensive training suite, managers can fine tune their tactics and their players. Fully customisable schedules, and numerous different drills, means managers can put individual players through their paces and then watch training unfold in full 3D glory.
With a brand new interface and backed by a huge database with all the latest data from the 2009 campaign, begin the journey to manage your team to success and bathe in glory.
Keep checking back as we'll be announcing more features for Championship Manager 2009 over the coming months.
i must say the 3d looks the same to me ....
"the leading name in football management" my arse.
I wish the best for CM, but will never ever buy it while it stays under that name... too embarassing (like buying a manufactured band CD, it's pretending to be something it isn't)
The name is the only thing the game has going for it. One thing that doesn't get criticised enough is the research. It's atrocious.
I know about new cm,i have seen the screenshots of the game and they look pretty good,i really don't care who's making a game,i would like to see cm be as good as fm,two great games in the market would be good for eidos and for si,they all would then try to make much better games!
some people are diehard cm & some are diehard fm. that will never change?. the only thing that will truely decide who is the king of the football sims is when you have both games & look at both from a neutral perspective.
Wasn't the match engine from the game Kick Off, published by Anco I think? You got to control one player ( the player manager). It was very good at the time as I recall.
CM is only the name,FM is a game(at least used to be)
For the record the original Player Manager from 1990 was great and yes saviocm, it used the original kick off engine. I can't comment on any of the more recent incarnations, like the 99 version posted above, but I'd imagine that they aren't very good, much like the Sensi games post 1997.
Look, I'm sure the new CM will look very pretty and everything, but it still won't make up for the fact that the database will suck, like it has last year and the year before that and so on.
How do you know that it will suck,i'm not saying it won't,but the demo will decide how good it is,you honestly think that they are developing it much longer to give us completely the same product like last editions that were pretty bad?It maybe will be the ond of the series,but it can be a new beggining for them!
Omg ive just seen the 3d match engine for champ man 09 and it beats the **** out of our FM one
saw it on youtube, heres the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5m1T...eature=related
That's CM08, CM09 has full 3D.
I'll try it definitely,it looks better then new fm(my opinion),but how it's gonna be playable is another thing,and match engine looks great even though i don't care about it,i've never used it in cm or fm!
i used to start the game over & over till i got good speed stats. it didnt matter about anything else... as long as you could run faster than the other players then you were ok
in saying that. i played as queens park in the lower leagues & i always seemed to get a good player.


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This was $20 just a few days ago on Amazon.
@derk: Yep, I got this from Amazon on the 29th for $19.99. Okay deal I suppose if you missed that one, but I'm guessing we'll see $20-ish again in the fairly near future. No up-vote, no down-vote from me.
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I want to attach a gate to a fence where the fence will be attached to a 2 3/8 in. metal post. What gauge should the post be for proper support?
The fence will be a six foot wooden fence, as will the gate. The gate will be no more than 36 in. wide.
Assuming that they are round metal poles that are generally used for chainlink, the 'corner' poles are what you generally use for a gate. You pretty much use corner poles anytime you terminate a run of any kind, and a gate opening is a termination. The actual gauge isn't going to matter so much as the diameter of the pole, you need to make sure your gate hardware will fit the pole. Since your are going with wood, the extra few bucks for the thicker gauge is probably worth it, the actual diameter should be about the same either way.
Also, make sure you measure the opening correctly before concreting the poles in. Depending on the hardware you use you may need to leave extra space. For pre-fabricated chainlink gates, you need something like 39 inches for a 36 inch gate. Since you are using wood, I assume you are fabricating it yourself, but you'll still want to make sure you leave plenty of room.


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I have an AirPort Extreme home network that is extended with an AirPort Express. Because some legacy devices within the household do not support WPA/WPA2 Personal, I would like to keep my AirPort Extreme network secured with WPA2 while allowing devices that can connect to the AirPort Express to connect via WEP. Is this possible? (knowing in advance would certainly help, as I do not want to mess up the current configuration for the AirPort Express.
First you can save you current configuration in Airport Utility.
Then you have two options: 1. If your Extreme support guest network then just set it up as WEP and extend it with Express. 2. Or connect Express with ethernet to Extreme(i.e. just use it as gateway to internet) and setup WEP network on Express.
This is admittedly not a full answer. But I am going to bet that your final method is going to involve having your airport Extreme serve up two separate networks (you can configure it to serve up the 5GHZ band as a fully separate wireless network.) But, this has the obvious disadvantage that that network will not be repeated on all the airport Expresses.


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Certain Hebrew prepositions, such as אל, על, and לפני, are always conjugated in the plural form even with a singular object: thus אליו, עליך, etc.
Others don't: the single-letter prepositions (ל and ב), and some of the longer ones (כמו comes to mind) don't follow this pattern, and are conjugated in the expected forms (בו, כמוה, etc.). I would have expected that at least ל should match אל, since it's a shortened version of it.
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Let the free electromagnetic current $J_\mu(x)$ be = $:\bar{\psi}(x)\gamma_\mu Q \psi(x):$ where $::$ is the normal ordering.
- In this expression why is $Q$ thought of as a "charge operator" instead of just a number?...its quite pesky to keep track of this operator while doing the current-current OPEs though I don't see anything changing conceptually if I just thought of it as a number...
After a lot of (I found it very subtle!) calculations one can show that in the light-cone limit $x^2 \rightarrow 0$ the commutator, $[J_\mu(x),J_\nu (0)]$ has one of its terms (say X),
$$X = \frac{iTr[Q^2]}{\pi^3}\{\frac{2}{3}g_{\mu \nu}\delta''(x^2)\epsilon(x_0) + \frac{1}{6}\partial_\mu \partial_\nu [\delta'(x^2)\epsilon(x_0)]\}$$
Now one wants to compare the contribution of this term to two different situations,
- The total hadronic cross-section,
$\sigma(e^+e^- \rightarrow hadrons) = \frac{8\pi^2\alpha^2}{3(q^2)^2}\int d^4x e^{iq.x}<0|[J_\mu(x),J^\mu(0)]0>$
- The inclusive hadronic tensor in deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering,
$W_{\mu \nu}(p,q) = \frac{1}{M} \sum _{\sigma} \int \frac{d^4x}{2\pi} e^{iq.x}<p,\sigma|[J_\mu(x), J_\nu(0)]|p,\sigma>$
In the derivation/argument for the expression for $W_{\mu \nu}$ it is kind of clear that the initial and final states have to be $|p,\sigma>$ - the initial state of the proton.
But I am unable to pin down as to exactly why the initial and final states in the first case had to be vacuum $|0>$. It would be great if someone can explain this conceptual point about the difference in the initial and final states.
Hence if someone can explain as to why the term $X$ contributes (and is infact the leading contributor!) to $\sigma$ but does not contribute to $W_{\mu \nu}$!?
(..my vague understanding is that this difference stems from the difference in the initial and final states..but can't make this precise..)
- Though initially $W_{\mu \nu}$ is defined in terms of the correlator $[J_\mu(x), J_\nu(0)]$, often I see that during calculations one is in practice evaluating $[J_\mu(\frac{x}{2}), J_\nu(-\frac{x}{2})]$. Why this change?


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Consider an arbitary positive semidefinite operator ρ, acting on ℂA ⊗ ℂB ⊗ ℂC, for A,B,C finite. Also, let P be an orthogonal projector on ℂB ⊗ ℂC . For the sake of concision, I will write R = 1ℂA ⊗ P ; this of course is also an orthogonal projector. Consider the completely positive transformation
M(ρ) = (1 − R) ρ (1 − R) + R ρ R .
As R is an orthogonal projector, it is easy to show that || M(ρ) ||2 ≤ || ρ ||2 . This is because we may represent ρ as matrix in a basis consisting of the eigenvectors of R; if we divide ρ into block according to rows/columns representing vectors in the image or the kernel of R, the effect of the map M is to set the non-diagonal blocks to zero.
I am interested in how the map M may similarly affect the operator 2 norm of reduced operators on ℂA ⊗ ℂB. So I would like to know:
Is it also true that || trC( M(ρ) ) ||2 ≤ || trC(ρ) ||2 — where trC is the trace operator acting on ℂC, taken in tensor product with 1ℂA ⊗ 1ℂB ?


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Quakers blank Big Red
STEUBENVILLE - The New Philadelphia girls soccer team downed Steubenville Big Red, 4-0, Thursday at Harding Stadium.
"New Philadelphia is a very talented squad," said Big Red coach Jared Robinson. "They play in a harder area and their record (7-0-2) shows it. However we played with them for the majority of the game and being able to possess the ball and complete a series of passes and go toe-to-toe with them is just going to make us stronger for the rest of the season."
Tori Moreland, Karli-Ann Sanders, Lauren Ramey and Joy Leindecker scored for the Quakers. April Blackwell had four saves.
Loren Gray collected 18 saves for Big Red.
Red Riders nip Red Devils
ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The Weir High boys soccer team beat host St. Clairsville, 3-2, Wednesday.
Alex Hannah, Ryan Kirk and Ethan Gilbert scored for the Red Riders. Hannah also had two assists. Matt Tenaglio collected 14 saves.
Jordan Vincent and Taylor Wissman scored for the Red Devils and Izaac Wiley made 10 saves.
FUS men's soccer loses
STEUBENVILLE - The Franciscan University of Steubenville men's soccer team dropped a 4-3 contest to visiting Westminster College Thursday.
"What we talk about a lot is the self-confidence to know you're doing the right things and the guys are really getting that," head coach Ward Rogers said. "Sometimes we're staying on the ball too long and we're not making that last little pass that really breaks them down."
Mark Allen gave the Barons a 1-0 lead 10 minutes into the contest. After Westminster scored three straight, John Imbimbo scored from outside the box and on a penalty kick one minute later to tie things up. Westminster scored in the 78th minute for the win.
The Barons host Washington & Jefferson at 5 p.m. Wednesday.


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The 6 Worst Comic Book Super-Husbands
It's a tough life for female comic book characters. If you aren't being killed off/raped/depowered/kidnapped to motivate your gormless love interest, you're being fitted for your back brace in order to balance your hilariously over=sized super-boobs.
But to make things worse, the potential mates out there among the superheroes will probably convince you you're better off alone. Such as ...
#6. Spider-Man AKA Peter Parker
Married To:
Mary Jane Watson
Good Qualities:
Spider-Man has a certain Hugh Grant-esque bumbling sweetness about him, and legs that go on for miles.
Warning Signs:
Spider-Man's a wisecracker. Everyone knows that, it's one of his defining character traits. However, audiences only have to tolerate Spider-Man's lip for 28 pages every couple of weeks, or a couple hours every few years. Imagine trying to live with the guy. Imagine trying to have sex with the guy:
"So I guess that's where I left that web-shooter!"
On top of that, he's a terrible provider. Costumed vigilantism gets you tons of headlines and the adoration of millions but the pay amounts to all the spare change he can salvage from window ledges and pigeons' nests. The good news? That's still more than your average freelance photographer pulls in.
The Clincher:
Spider-Man sold his marriage to Satan. Just read that sentence over a couple more times, let it marinate. Done? OK, allow us to explain:
Spider-Man, in one of his trademark haphazard attempts at doing the right thing, unmasked himself on national television. This led to the Kingpin putting a hit on the wall-crawler, and Aunt May eating the sniper round intended for her dimwitted nephew. With his former caregiver in a deteriorating coma, Spider-Man's angst began approaching critical levels, attracting the attention of the demon Mephisto.
Mephisto, feeling generous, proposed a deal to Spidey: Aunt May would be returned to full health, bullet-free, but in return ...
... he would have to give up his marriage to Mary Jane. For some reason.
Spidey hemmed and hawed for a while, but eventually came to the logical decision: Abandon countless future years of happiness with the woman he loves in exchange for giving his octogenarian aunt a chance to die of heart failure or something.
The marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson could be likened to a Toyota Prius with faulty brakes: Comfortable and reliable under most circumstances, but destined to eventually flatten itself against a brick wall. And ultimately, not worth it.
#5. The Incredible Hulk, AKA Bruce Banner
Married To:
The alien warrior queen Caiera.
Good Qualities:
Say what you like about the Hulk, but he's reliable (to be fucking insane with rage.) Great teeth, too.
Warning Signs:
Aside from the obvious (that he may flip out, grow six feet, and demolish an entire city block because it was suggested they're getting a little paunchy) there's anatomical compatibility to think of. Bruce Banner may have the tiniest, most adorable member imaginable, but once he Hulks out, that thing becomes weaponized.
"Weaponized" is actually a literal description. Every single fluid the Hulk produces is so radioactive that a Hazmat team would rush into the bedroom every time he climaxes.
The Clincher:
The Hulk is cursed. A happy Hulk is not a Hulk at all, so in the comic book universe that means bye-bye to anything that might bring him peace (like, say, a happy relationship.) This is bad news for anyone hoping to settle down, maybe buy a house in the suburbs, and pump out little Hulks.
Case in point: When the Hulk took his second wife, Caiera (yes, he's been married twice) it was on a planet he'd recently liberated from a despotic overlord and saved from an alien menace. She was a proud warrior queen, making her capable not only of withstanding Hulk's temper tantrums, but also his immense mojo.
So, the Hulk basically became king of an entire planet, married to his perfect woman and is surrounded by people who love him to pieces. What happens?
A massive explosion kills everyone except Hulk. Insert trumpet going "Wah-Wah-Wah-Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah."
To be fair to Hulk, we don't really know how good of a husband he would be long-term, due to the incredibly short lifespan of his wives. And though it's probably not much consolation to them, nothing that happened to either of his wives was his direct fault.
The same cannot be said for the next guy on our list ...
#4. Cyclops, AKA Scott Summers
Married To:
Jean Grey, AKA Phoenix
Good Qualities:
We won't lie, Cyclops seems to have the whole package: He's polite, clean-cut, great with kids, and ridiculously muscular. That's like winning the husband lottery, right?
Warning Signs:
Wrong. While Cyke might be the go-to guy for fighting colossal robots, you've got the wrong man if you're looking for someone to have a good time with. Summers is a little like the Hulk, only instead of transforming into a rampaging monster, he turns into sort of a dick. And never changes back.
He's the only man alive who can make beating the tar out of a gang of genetic freaks feel like work.
The Clincher:
The worst thing Cyclops ever did to his wife might not be the most heinous on this list, but it is without a doubt the dumbest. See, Cyclops was married to Jean Grey who, by the way, had psychic powers. When some of the spark went out of the relationship, Cyclops dealt with according to the true nature of his dickishness: by seeking sexual healing from another telepathic babe, Emma Frost.
Ms. Frost In Her Ongoing Campaign Against Subtlety
Thus they being a bizarre "psychic love affair." After all, how would Jean ever find out? Oh, wait. She's also psychic. To reiterate: Scott Summers, while married to a psychic of inestimable power, enters into a psychic affair with the sluttiest psychic in town.
Once Jean catches on, it predictably takes her about a thousandth of a second to tear into Emma's mind and break up the shenanigans, leading to this charming tableau:
Look at Cyclops' face in the above picture. It betrays one of two things: Either he's only just realized what a titanically poor decision he's just made, or he's still in the dark and is completely fucking flabbergasted. "What's wrong, honey? Why are you so angry? Oh, say hi to Emma, you know Emma, right?"
Meanwhile, in the back of his mind he's thinking, "Threesome."


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I used ubuntu for several months before the update came around and ever since then my wifi has been unable to connect (let alone i can not see any available connections either). I have read everything online and followed all the code that everyone has advised yet nothing seems to work. somebody save me before i whack this computer. any suggestions are great ones
I had problem with my dell laptop and wifi almost in all releases after 10.04. My solution was to use another network to update my drivers. However, last time, I followed the instruction of this post and it worked. Checked it out:
I'm using the same LapTop (Dell Inspiron 1440) and I had the same problem, and used many ways but with no luck. Until I found this post. http://www.mindwerks.net/2012/06/wireless-bcm4312-with-the-3-4-and-3-5-kernel/
But I modified the last step a little.
After running "make" in terminal, I followed this step using the Readme file from this address: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
And if you encountered an error, this README file has solutions for a couple of them.


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Hi, I've been trying to run Ubuntu off of my usb drive. I've tried different distros of ubuntu but non of them work. The usb drive boots up fine on my main laptop but doesn't work on my tablet pc.
Here are pictures I took of the parts where my le1700 stops when it tries to boot. Every time I try to boot from any distro they all stop at the same places.
One of the error messages said no plug and play devices found so i tried to hooking up my external usb keyboard but that didn't work.


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Man's 6 Most Ridiculous Attempts To Take On Mother Nature
#3. Moscow Dog Packs
Moscow, Russia has a population of 10.3 million people. According to official figures, you're more likely to be attacked by a dog than be mugged there ... and that's not because nobody gets mugged. In 2007, there were 20,000 dog attacks in the city--8,000 of them bad enough to require police intervention or hospitalization.
Many of the dogs live in the subways, because if CHUDs knew nothing else, it was that the underground is a kick-ass place to attack humans. The dogs are so commonplace in the subway tunnels, they actually wait on platforms and will board trains with passengers to go for rides. Some commuters have told horror stories of running to catch a train, only to have an entire pack set upon them, which while awful, also gives us a kick-ass idea for an excuse the next time we're late for the office.
The "Solution"
Back in the Soviet days, they dealt with the stray dog problem the same way they dealt with all of their problems: by rounding the culprits and shooting them in the head. But it's a different time over there, sort of, and they decided to go the more modern and humane route of sterilization.
Unfortunately for Moscow animal control, dogs are pretty good at not getting caught when they realize their balls are on the line. They've only been able to round up about 20 percent of the strays they'd need to if they want to make a dent, so the result is there is still a pantload of dogs roaming free.
These days many Moscowvites actually leave the house strapped with pepper spray or, even better, with sausages. Seriously, joggers will take sausages with them so they can toss the links to the dogs when they attack. So while it doesn't appear Moscow has solved its pooch problem, the dogs of Moscow have solved their human problem beautifully.
#2. Aussie Bunny Infestation
Ever since Europeans decided to turn Australia into a Vegemite- and Crocodile Dundee-producing wonderland, the continent has been plagued by rabbits. The rabbit population in Australia numbers in the hundreds of millions, causing anywhere from $100 million to $600 million in crop damage every year. It's led to the extinction of many native plant and animal species and, like a giant semi-arid Elmer Fudd, the continent pretty much has no clue how to get rid of them and often looks stupid when it tries.
The "Solution"
The Australians have never been shy about shooting the rabbits, but when you're faced with a few hundred million of the things, you probably need them to line up in front of you about 1,000 deep with every shot to make a difference. Records indicate few if any rabbits actually did this.
From 1901 to 1907, some innovator thought building a rabbit fence would teach the little bastards a lesson. It's unclear if this person had ever seen a rabbit or was aware that they both jump and dig, which we're pretty sure are the two biggest problems any fence has to face when trying to keep something out.
Anyway, the fence took a total of six years to build and stretches for over 2,000 miles, which is pretty impressive. Also impressive is that they found rabbits on the other side of the fence as early as 1902, but still went ahead building the thing on the theory that there are no fence-related problems that additional fencing cannot solve.
In the '50s a little biological warfare came into play. A disease called myxomatosis was released on the rabbit population and estimates believe it dropped the number from 600 million to 100 million. Unfortunately that 100 million were the ones with a genetic resistance to the disease and by the early '90s, their population grew back up to around 300 million disease-proof super-rabbits.
Rising to the challenge, Australian rabbit control teams released Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease, which can make the rabbits convulse, shoot blood out of their noses and die. This is the point when the rest of the world stood in awkward silence and said, "Dude ... we knew you were serious about the rabbit thing but ... dude."
#1. Flying Shit Factories
Most people probably recognize pigeons as a pain-in-the-ass bird that seems to want to coat the entire earth with a slick layer of shit. And while that's disgusting and all, the problem is actually much worse than it seems: The acid in pigeon shit destroys concrete faster than weather and time ever could. This costs millions as buildings have to renovate rooftops and balconies.
As an added bonus, pigeon crap is host to a number of diseases that can be contracted by humans, a few of which can even kill you.
The "Solution"
Once again civilized society demands we don't go with the obvious and direct solution (poison or, even better, automated flamethrowers on rooftops). No, we must go with a much more humane and incredibly convoluted method.
The solution has been building tiny bird condos in the middle of cities, knowing the pigeons will nest there. Then workers steal the eggs and replace them with fake ones. Pigeons, which are not particularly smart even for birds, don't seem to notice or care. Somehow, it works: the pigeon population in Britain has dropped 50 percent in four years, and now some cities in the US are trying the same tactic which we're almost certain came from a cartoon.
You can read more of Ian's stuff at ScenicAnemia.com.
Read about some creatures that are genuinely terrifying even when they're not ganging up on you in our rundown of The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World, and then read about some that are only terrifying once it's too late in The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You.


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Here's a question from an old qualifying exam. Does there exist a continuous function $f : [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ such that $\int_0^1 xf(x) \ \mathrm{d}x = 1$ and $\int_0^1 x^nf(x) \ \mathrm{d}x = 0$ for all $n > 1$?
Let $f$ be such a function. By Müntz-Sázsz theorem the identity function $\mathit{id}$ can be uniformly approximated in $[0,1]$ by polynomials $p_n$ not containing linear term. In particular $p_nf\to\mathit{id}\,\cdot f$ uniformly on $[0,1]$, and so $$\int_0^1p_n(x)f(x)\,dx=p_n(0)\int_0^1f(x)\,dx\xrightarrow{n\to\infty}\int_0^1xf(x)\,dx=1\,;$$ but $p_n(0)\xrightarrow{n\to\infty}\mathit{id}(0)=0$, which is a contradiction. Therefore no such function $f$ exists.
If there exists a sequence of even polynomials $(P_n)$ such that $P_n(0) = 0$ and $P_n$ converges uniformly to $i(x) = x$ on $[0,1]$ then we are done.
Since each such non-zero $P_n$ is a linear combination of $x^{2n}$ with $ n \geq 1$, $$\int_{0}^{1} f(x)P_n(x) dx = 0,\quad\quad\quad (1)$$
and since $ x - P_n(x) $ converges uniformly to $0,$
$(1)$ and $(2)$ imply $\int_{0}^{1} x f(x)dx = 0 ,$ a contradiction.
Such polynomials are constructed in exercise 23 of chapter 7 of Baby Rudin by the rule:
$P_0(x) = 0$ and $P_{n+1}(x) = P_n(x) + \dfrac{x^2 - P_n^2(x)}{2}.$
Clearly, $P_n(0) = 0$ and $P_n$ is even for all $n$ by construction.
The rest of the proof consists of a solution of Rudin's exercise following his hints.
Consider the statement $0 \leq P_n(x) \leq x$ for all $x \in [0,1].$ This is obviously correct for $n=0$, and if this statement is valid for some $k \geq 0$, $$x - P_{k+1}(x) = \left( x- P_k(x) \right) \left( 1 - \frac{ x + P_k(x) }{2}\right),\quad\quad\quad(3)$$
and since $0\leq\dfrac{ x + P_k(x) }{2}\leq x \in [0,1]$ and the second term in the product in the RHS also lies in $[0,1]$. The statement is true for all $n$ by induction.
From (3) it also follows for $x \in [0,1]$ $$0 \leq x - P_{k+1}(x) \leq \left( x- P_k(x) \right) \left( 1 - \frac{x}{2}\right),$$ hence for $n \geq 1$ and all $ x\in [0,1]$, $$0 \leq x - P_n(x) \leq x ( 1 - \frac{x}{2} )^{n}.$$ Let $g_n(x) = x ( 1 - \frac{x}{2} )^{n} $, the maximum of $g_n$ on $[0,1]$ cannot occur at $0$ for any $n$, also, $ \frac{n}{2}g_n(2/n) \to \text{e}^{-1} $ and $g_n(1) = \frac{1}{2^n}$, so $ g_n(1)/g_n(2/n) \to 0$ hence $g_n(1) < g_n(2/n)$ for sufficiently large $n$ and for such $n$ the maximum of $g_n$ cannot occur at $1$. Hence the maximum of $g_n$ for large $n$ occurs at a $m_n \in (0,1)$ with $g_n^{'}(m_n) = 0$, i.e, $m_n = \frac{2}{n+1}$. Since $g_n(x) \leq x$ for $x \in [0,1]$ we have $$ 0 \leq x - P_n(x) \leq \frac{2}{n+1},$$ for all sufficiently large n. Hence the convergence of $P_n$ to the identity is uniform.
This answer was inspired by Justin's comment on Matemáticos's answer, looking for a way to use the Weierstrass approximation theorem and not one of its generalizations. A direct consequence of the Weierstrass approximation theorem is that continuous functions on $[0,1]$ can be uniformly approximated by even polynomials.
To see this, let $g:[0,1]\to\mathbb R$ be continuous, and define $h:[-1,1]\to\mathbb R$ to be the even extension of $g$, so $h(x)=g(|x|)$. By the Weierstrass approximation theorem, there is a sequence of polynomials $(p_n)_n$ converging uniformly to $h$ on $[-1,1]$. Then the sequence of polynomials $q_n(x)=\frac{1}{2}(p_n(x)+p_n(-x))$ converges uniformly to $\frac{1}{2}(h(x)+h(-x))=h(x)$ on $[-1,1]$ and hence the sequence $(q_n)_n$ of even polynomial functions converges uniformly to $g$ on $[0,1]$.
If you have $g(0)=0$ (for example if $g(x)=x$), then you can also choose the polynomials to have $0$ constant term, e.g., by replacing $q_n$ with $q_n(x)-q_n(0)$ if needed and then reassigning notation to still call the result $q_n$. In that case, with $f$ as in the problem, $\int_0^1 q_n(x)f(x)dx=0$ for all $n$, which implies $\int_0^1g(x)f(x)dx =0$.


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How would I build something like this with wordpress. Where multiple tags texts all go to the same page.
If you click on the tag "scifi" it takes you to tag "science fiction". I am not looking for a way to merge them.
I want the tag text to vary, but the end page to be the same. Any Ideas?
A physical redirect shouldn't be needed. The tag text of X needs to be linked to Y when wordpress builds the link.
Example: If I type "scifi" as a tag, and the link gets build as
scifi and therefore the tag is an alias for "science fiction".
Where would I hook in to do this?


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The urine creatinine test measures the amount of creatinine in urine.
Creatinine is a breakdown product of creatine, which is an important part of muscle. Creatinine is removed from the body entirely by the kidneys. Creatinine can also be measured by a blood test.
Urine creatinine test
After you provide a urine sample, it is tested in the lab. If needed, your doctor may ask you to collect your urine at home over 24 hours. Your provider will tell you how to do this. Follow instructions exactly so that the results are accurate.
Your health care provider may tell you to temporarily stop taking certain medicines that may affect test results. Be sure to tell your provider about all the medicines you take. These include:
Do not stop taking any medicine before talking to your doctor.
The test involves only normal urination. There is no discomfort.
This test can be used for the following:
Urine creatinine (24-hour sample) values can range from 500 to 2000 mg/day. Results depend on your age and amount of lean body mass.
Another way of expressing the normal range for these test results are:
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
Abnormal results of urine creatinine may be due to any of the following:
There are no risks with this test.
Gerber GS, Brendler CB. Evaluation of the urologic patient: history, physical examination, and urinalysis. In: Wein AJ, Kavoussi LR, Novick AC, et al., eds. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 3.
Israni AK, Kasiske BL. Laboratory assessment of kidney disease: glomerular filtration rate, urinalysis, and proteinuria. In: Taal MW, Chertow GM, Marsden PA, et al., eds. Brenner and Rector's The Kidney. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 25.
McPherson RA, Ben-Ezra J. Basic examination of urine. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 28.


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I use an iPad to visit Stackoverflow. Stack overflow is simply THE best Q&A website I have ever come across. But the problem I face is every time I visit stack overflow I am presented with a desktop view. And I believe there is only one view.
In the desktop view, when I try to comment or touch anything in an answer, I am first presented with the feedback asking me if I found the answer helpful. Then I have to touch again to complete my action.
Please, it would be a great help if the administrators created another tablet-friendly view be ause in the desktop mode, the feedback appears at every hover over an answer.
Note: I am logged in on SO.


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I have 2 questions which are making my life difficult in using the Android phone a hell, may be I am/was an IPhone user.
I was wondering if there is anyway to know if current screen has "Menu" options available?
How I can know how many activities/screens are on the stack?


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Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead? Is it important from an SEO point of view?
The short version is that that the various tags and CSS have different purposes.
You can't dismiss the semantic tags based on what you can do with CSS, and vice versa.
Markup and presentation are different
This is a bit like asking "why should we have walls when we have paint?" :)
HTML tags denote what your content is - this is a headline, this is a list, etc.
CSS denotes what your content should look like - headlines should be blue, lists should be indented this much, the menu should be on the left, etc.
Javsascript tells how your page should behave - animations, etc.
So, without HTML content, CSS and Javascript really have nothing to work on.
These categories are not 100% black and white - for example, CSS can specify "transitions" now, which are animations - but they're the basic idea.
Please see previous discussions on this topic on StackOverflow here and here.
Good markup saves a ton of effort and works better
If you want something to behave like a link, you can use
This is also why you should use a
How good markup impacts SEO
Fundamentally, SEO is about convincing search engines that your content is the best match for a search term. Obviously, nobody at Google is personally reading every web page and ranking it.
Therefore, for search engines to know what your content is, a program has to parse it.
And hey, look! We have this whole language called HTML that's meant to label your content in a way that machines can understand! :)
So yes, clear markup will help search engines to index your pages better.
To use an extreme example, if your page's headline was actually a photograph that you took of a newspaper headline, it might look interesting, and people could read it just fine, but to a search engine, it would just be an image with no meaning. Whereas
Please also think about people with some sort of impairment who (as an example) have to use a braille reader. In such cases the html tags are of far greater importance than the visual css stylings.
Su answered the semantic portion. With regards to SEO, you'll find that the h1 element is given more weight by search engines than other tags. The h2/b/strong tags are given a little more weight than regular text.
Most other tags are pretty much equal, but you should always use the most appropriate tag for the job. Google has recently begun parsing tables when used for tabular data, and other appropriately-used HTML can give signals to which content is more important than others.
For HTML5, check out bold and italic in HTML5.
Also: do not forget the importance of the semantics for users with a disability. Screenreader software depends on these semantics to present blind people the required context they're missing out on because of their disability.
Nextly, while stylesheets are great, some devices will ignore stylesheets and focus only on the HTML, which is where a tag like
Sure, we can say that HTML was not meant to be for styling, but there is a delicate line between design and style; and frankly, I'd say consider that to be user preference. Whether you use


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Is it true that, if S is a subring of a separable topological Noetherian ring R, then S is separable, too ?
While looking through old questions, I came accross this one, and decided to throw my hat into the "ring."
Partial Answers and Observations:
Putting (1), (2), and (3) together produces a topological space which is about as close to a normal Moore space as you can get without actually being one, that is to say, under these assumptions: $R$ is a separable completely regular developable Hausdorff space, (and we haven't even invoked the ACC yet)
The interesting Part:
Ignoring for the moment the previous assumptions, intuitively, the ACC should somehow produce a covering property for this particular space. However, there is an interesting problem when it comes to the definition of subgroup/subring (which is required to get to the notion of ideal needed to apply the ACC): will they be open, closed, neither? Because of this we cannot really apply the ACC, to produce a nice covering property that might have tied everything together (like Lindelöf.)
Edit: While poking around Wiki, I came across something I felt I needed to add
However, if you mean that the space is a Noetherian topological space, then we get some gnarlly consequences ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetherian_topological_space ), like the fact that the space is compact! Which is exactly the thread we would want to tie everything together, and produces a normal moore space.
The Reality of the Matter:
The question is ill-posed, in that we do not have enough information to properly deduce a valid and fully general answer. My answer to this question has tried to highlight this point by giving you a case where, you can be about as close as you might ever want to be to something genuinely interesting, and then failing to make it interesting because of the incompatibility of the algebraic assumption with the topological ones. Even if we consider the other possibility we enter one of those strange and beautiful areas in topology where things being to become independent of $ZFC$.
Final Conclusion:
Because of this freedom or lack of information, we are left with an answer of Most Likely No. (Weak answer I know) But I can make this claim, because we honestly do not completely understand the notion of hereditary separability (in fact it was only in 2006 that J T Moore was able to produce a ZFC example of an L-space Article)
Unless I misunderstand something here, this has to be true, but has nothing to do with the ring structure. A subspace of a separable topological space is itself separable. That is, of course, unless separable is in this context an algebraic concept, and not the usual topological one.


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Lots of fun – with Muppets Most Wanted and Lufthansa
Round two cleared for take-off: after last year's Planes joint promotion, Lufthansa and Disney have once more joined forces to guarantee you the best in entertainment. This time it's the Muppets who have landed with Lufthansa, and they'll soon be arriving in German cinemas too, so this joint promotion is all about the movie premiere of Muppets Most Wanted on 1 May.
And the fun has already started: go to LH.com/muppets to find out all about the Muppets and their latest film. To whet your appetite, take a look at the trailer. And of course there's a competition with three exciting online games and great prizes waiting for you. Fun and games are guaranteed! So why not take a look and join in.
Get up close and personal with the Muppets


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In a new report issued today, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) welcomed Saudi Arabia's strong economic performance in 2007 and stated that the outlook for 2008 remains favorable.
According to the IMF, the Saudi economy is expected to grow 5 percent in real terms in 2008, up from 3.5 percent growth in 2007. The report also expects oil output to rebound to 9.2 million barrels/day with increasing growth in the non-oil sector.
In addition, a record current account surplus of $191 billion (35 percent of GDP) is projected for 2008 as a result of higher oil prices.
The IMF welcomed Saudi Arabia's plans to expand oil production and refining capacity to support global market stability. It recommended that the Kingdom continue to invest in infrastructure, education and public services with the aim of diversifying the economy and encouraging job creation.
Also praised were Saudi efforts to liberalize the financial sector and the Kingdom's substantial assistance to developing countries.
The report contends that the primary challenge facing the Saudi economy in the period ahead is inflation, which has been fueled by rising food import prices and infrastructure bottlenecks. It projects inflation in the Kingdom to peak at around 10.6 percent in 2008 and then ease in subsequent years.
The IMF assessment was released as a Public Information Notice (PIN), reports that are compiled within the framework of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of its views and analysis. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters or Article IV consultations with member countries.


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The Sixth Extinction and the Religious Imagination
Dominic Preziosi has written an excellent post on the question of climate change and the question of potential futures, here. My post might be understood as an extended riff on issues raised there, as well as a continuation of a question I raised in an earlier blog, about religion and the anthropocene. I need to start with some initial ground clearing:
1. Humanity has altered the basic order of life on earth. Nearly every natural process is shaped in a fundamental way by processes of production and consumption. We live in the anthropocene.
2. We have known since at least 1972 – the year of the Club of Rome Report – that such dominance is unhealthy in the present, and unsustainable with regard to any conceivable future. The pursuit of material comfort (in the developed world at least) has ironically led to a future of radical climate volatility.
3. One potential future has to be seriously considered: a globe where human life no longer exists. Here we enter the world that Scheffler's book Death and the Afterlife examines: how do we philosophize, how do we think ethically about the present – one's own present – when no-one, no human persons, will live on in the future? Because of the anthropocene, it is clear that the earth itself will stratigraphically mark/inscribe and "remember" the human trace. We have some future. In geological time, our legacy will be literally etched in stone. But on a human temporal scale, what happens to ethics when the expectation of a collective cultural "afterlife" disappears? We already live in what may be the sixth great extinction, the most destructive erasure of life forms in 65 million years. What happens if human life falls under its shadow? What happens if the bell tolls for us, just as it has tolled for the species that are currently going extinct all around us?
I want to raise a question before I continue to discuss these issues in a second entry. What might happen -- what could or should happen – in the temporal gap between awareness of an end and our collective experience of the end itself? Specifically, what happens to religion? Others (Jack Miles, for example) have addressed and attempted to answer this question. How might religion – or to speak more directly to the readers of Commonweal, our religious tradition – prepare us not only to change course while we still have time, but if and when our time runs out, to comprehend in a full and mature way the imperatives of that condition?
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I wonder if the Community of Saints is relevant, the Community of the living and dead in Christ. Aren't the future members of the Church and whether there are any important? I can, tongue in cheek, imagine Christ coming back to an earth devoid of humans and asking "what happened? Guess we'll have to upgrade another critter." But, there goes Teilhard's Omega Point. Right? My take is that we are in a similar situation to that of the Great Oxygenation Catastrophe, 2.65B years ago. A new life form, cyanobacteria, generated free oxygen, which caused the extinction of many other species and a global climate disaster when the methane greenhouse gas was oxidized, freezing water from pole to pole. Somehow the earth recovered (CO2 from vulcanism?), the cyanobacteria culprit survived, and a new world was born allowing for eukaryotic cells, metazoa, and us. Now, the novel life form is us, reflexive consciousness, smart enough to be dangerous. Either we will maintain what's left of the ecosystem and adapt our civilization, or we will continue our present path with two possible results. Our own extinction or survival of a remnant. Will this remnant continue in folly or survive in a recovering world and co-evolve with the recovering ecosystem to create another new world. I think this can be called a Noah-type scenario.
As far as the implications in terms of how we understand ourselves as "Church" in light of this reality, this is quite important. The Second Vatican Council, it seems to me, provides some foundations for precisely this kind of re-imagining.
First, we have to break out of our self-imposed ghetto obsessing around insider questions and issues. The Lutherans, as usual, are ahead of us in many respects. Bonhoeffer spoke of a religionless Christianity and by this, I think, he meant a non-institutional form in which the "Church" (i.e. us) are fully engaged in the issues of the present moment. Gaudium et Spes focussed on this as well. Our Vatican or institutional focussed ecclesiology needs to finally be laid to rest. There are still roles for bishops, priests, and of course monks but that kind of baroque mindset needs to go. I think Merton, just prior to his death, also was reflection on how monasticism might have to change and reform in different ways. Simone Weil also envisioned a broader Catholicity and as a result was never baptized and formally part of the Church although unquestionably, she was, a part of the mystical body.
Climate change, nuclear war, etc. are secular variants of the eschaton, the end of the world. We have always directed our present life according to the reality of the end. Berdyaev wrote a good work called the Beginning and the End on this theme. There are things we can do now and the end calls us to present virtue, modesty, less consumption, etc.
So, as a religion, what do we do. Well not to sound too mystical but insert ourselves even more deeply in the paschal mystery this Holy Triddum. I heard Scott Hahn one time make a good point. Our major "religious" event surrounds commoration, remembrance, and representation of an event that was actually 100% secular.
Why is it so difficult to accept an Earth that will become like Venus or Mars? Unfortunately, those who did the least to destroy it , will suffer the most inthe process.
I thnk this was Teilhard's whole point. Jesus didn't come to take away some originial sin, or satisfy a vengeful God. He came to point evolution toward God. He came to teach man that in order to survive, he must give up this doctrine of "survival of the fittest", and live in a conscousness loving relationship with each other. If the species is to survive, we must learn to share finite resources with an expanding population,. Teilhard knew that with the systems we have today we on the road to being an extinct species as we know ourselves and maybe headed to some form of transhumanism. As the Omega point goes, God lives in all creation. It's not just about us. Where rather late on the scene, but in the end all creation will reach the Omega point.
My goodness, the Eath is not going to turn to Venus or Mars; life is not going to end. These sorts of extreme statements are what feed Deniers' insistence that global chage is a Chicken Little story, or worse a plot by radicals insistent on a Cult of Death, ending our way of life (that is, the way of those most powerful in virtually all spheres). The Earth has seen CO2 levels over geologic time much higher (as well as lower) than those projected in the next few centures, and yet tectonics persisted, climates rose and fell, and life evolved.
Climate change is certainly occurring [I work often in the Arctic, where the chages are blindingly obvious), and these chaniges will have consequences, mainly associated with the rates of change. As in almost all crcumstances where are negativeue consequences, the magnitudes of the negative consequences are greater for the poor ad powrless ('man, and bird, an beast') than they are for the rich and powerful. Surely, this i where Christianity and the Catholic vision of a Preference for the Poor directs us toward how we can respond in meaningful ways. Jesus (as Isaiah before Him) direted us not to build a paradise on Earth, but to feed the hungry, to welcome the stranger, to clothe the naked, to attend to the ill.
"Feed my sheep."
Mark L.
Mark, although mankind might still become extinct once the fight over resources begins while we're armed with nukes, I agree with what you say if that is that Christians must become extremely Christian.
Although the last 3 popes have begun to talk about ecological problems, so long as they continue to preach that it is good to have many children, they are a huge part of this humongous ecological problem, not part of its solution. It seems to me that the theologians and philosophers and, yes, the priests, need to start talking back loudly and start to question in particular the teaching about contraception. There is simply no way the Earth can support more and more people without end. Resources are finite. End of story.
The hierarchy has been flying in the face of the world's scientists. If the bishops want to show that the scientists" teachings are wrong, then they (the bishops) will have to give evidence that the vast majority of the scientists are either incompetent or liars. The bishops have not even begun to present such evidence, and, indeed, as non-scientists, they are incompetent to judge.
What happens to religion in light of the possibility that we go extinct as a species? If we are talking about going extinct and Jesus not coming back, then that is a renunciation of Christian theology.Humanity as the epitome of God's creation on earth is renounced as a false doctrine.What do we mean by ethics? Is ethics tangled with theology? Ethics can stand alone regardless of belief in God. What we CAN say though, is; if we believe we will go extinct which means[equates with the belief] that Jesus is not coming back, then all we have is our life right now. God ,at least the God of the Bible, is dead The pursuit of happiness ,in this life;and life now is all we have, becomes the bases for ethical considerations. If we're told that to be happy people need at a minimum 70 thousand dollars a year ,and that more wealth then that does not increase happiness, then ethics entails an equtable distribution of wealth where everyone has that level of security to pursue happiness.Giving up ones life is giving up everything and ethics is about the ability of all to pursue happiness in life.
Seems a pity that it would take an existential threat to cause us to *live* as if we were Christians, but there you have it. I am not sure what "extremely" Christian would mean: we need to follow Bonhoeffer's admonishments to avoid "cheap grace," and to learn and pay the "cost of discipleship."
Well short of human extinction, we should be prepared to answer for our stewardship, and if that includes flooding in Bangladesh and the Lower 9th Ward, or the extinction of polar bears or long-toed salamanders, then as Lincoln said in his 2nd Inaugural, ".. so still it must be said, 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' "
I hope that I can act as a simple Christian.
Mark L.
4-11-14 dotCommonweal comment and list of recent relevant posts:
Francis effects Grant Galllicho 3-13-14
The Sixth Extinction and the Religious Imagination Robert Geroux 4-10-2014
Climate change & 'the aferlife' Dominic Preziosi 4-8-2014
This is the way the world ends: How the cosmos will meet its demise -- Stephen Battersby
Excerpted from "Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion," from New Scientist, edited by Jeremy Webb. Published in the U.S. by The Experiment. On sale March 25, 2014. All rights reserved.
"But it is quite possible that the universe is truly infinite. Far beyond the horizon, conditions may be very different. Even the constants of physics may be different, and perhaps some of those regions may be more durable. In some models an infinite cosmos is constantly spawning new big bangs.
None of this can affect us, or have any bearing on our future—unless, perhaps, we somehow learn to manipulate wormholes in space-time and tunnel to freedom, moving to a fresh region of the cosmos whenever the old one gets tired. But even if we can't escape our local universe, at least it might be reassuring to think that the cosmos itself is immortal."
Excerpted from "Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion," from New Scientist, edited by Jeremy Webb. Published in the U.S. by The Experiment. On sale March 25, 2014. All rights reserved.
4-11-14 My comment:
This publication may change old ideas significantly. Cosmology, astronomy and related subjects will surely influence Catholic teaching (one reason among a number of reasons that we are moving into a post-axial age of religion).
Whether a devoted Catholic or not, isn't it time to form a reading club online and check out some of the evolutionary journey of Catholicism's influence on us both past, present and future?
Marie --
Have you any reason to think that there is at this present time a real possibility that this world, or at least some of us in it can escape through a possible worm-hole *before* we destroy the Earth as a home for man?


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CENTRAL TEXAS (March 22, 2013)--A $3,019, 674 grant has been awarded to dozens of veterans organizations across Texas including here in Central Texas.
25 Texas organizations received funding from the Texas Veterans Commission Fund for Veterans' Assistance.
On that list includes $100,000 given to Mental Health America of Greater Dallas which covers Bell and Coryell counties, and $250,564 was awarded to National Alliance for Mental Illness – Texas which serves Bell County, among others.
McLennan County will receive all of the $50,000 awarded to the Salvation Army in Waco which provides veterans with an extended stay shelter, case management and assistance with establishing housing and professional stability.
Two organizations provide benefits statewide and received a total of $270,000. Those organizations are the Texas National Guard Family Support Foundation and the University of Texas –Pan American Foundation.
The primary source of funding for the Texas Veterans Commission Fund for Veterans' Assistance comes from the $2 scratch-off lottery game "Veterans Cash."
"These new grantees are projected to serve an additional 3,755 veterans, family members and surviving spouses between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013," Fund for Veterans' Assistance Director Kathy Wood said.


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The WKU football team is headed to a bowl game.
After a slow end to the season, football fans couldn't be happier to see their Toppers going to their first bowl game as a Division One team.
The football team is headed to the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl in Detroit.
The toppers will take on Central Michigan.
While fans say they were surprised the team got in, they have no doubt they will win.
"I was kind of surprised being that we didn't make one last year. We got kind of snubbed out of it. I was happy, really surprised, but I was happy to see it happen," Mason Holloran says.
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"It's just all about the heart that the team gave out that last game. I felt like they deserved it after the North Texas game," Elijah Mays says.
The Toppers take on Central Michigan Dec. 26th at 6:30 PM central time in Detroit.
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Two points $A$ and $B$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with origin $O$ are given in terms of a Cartesian coordinate system by $A = (1, 2, 3)$ and $B = (4, 5, −1)$.
How do you find the point $C$, such that $OACB$ are the vertices of a parallelogram (with $A$ and $B$ diagonally opposite each other).
I have worked out $|OA| = \sqrt{14}$, $|OB| = \sqrt{42}$, $|AB| = \sqrt{34}$.


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I'd like to implement a shield effect like that done for Protoss units in Starcraft 2. I'm guessing that the technique involved uses a partial sphere that is rotated to reflect where a unit is hit.
Assuming this is the idea, how can I create a quaternion to rotate this model to achieve the desired effect? My collision detection system conveniently relies on sphere-sphere intersection.
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I was watching a program called Dogfights where they were talking about the Sonderkommando Elbe and their tactic of ramming Messerschmitt Bf 109's into American bombers is a sort of suicide attack. This reminded me of the kamikaze attacks of the Japanese air force, but this didn't seem like a long living tactic for the Germans - I can only find one reference to a mission flown on April 7, 1945; and the show only noted this one in the program but I forgot many of the details. I was hoping there might be a book on this that someone can recommend on what this unit was, how it came to be and the small success it seemed to have.
Arno Rose and Adrian Weir are two recommended[1] author's who have written on the subject of Sonderkommando Elbe. Arno Rose's Book Radikaler Luftkampf (Translation: Radical Dogfight) evidently does a great job providing descriptions and explanation. However, I have not found an English translation or a digital copy that could be translated. Adrian Weir's Book(s) are more of an entire outline of Germany's situation in 1945. The 1997 publishing includes 38 pages of illustrations as well as minute-by-minute detail of the suicide mission.
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For someone who has not worked anywhere in Java Technology except learning just the core concepts in his Masters (MCA) and Graduation (BCA, bachelor degree course):
Is it possible to get job anywhere in Java technology? Considering he/she has not studied it in regular college and not First Class throughout except BCA, MCA (in case of Indian or international companies).
How will he/she get his/her dream job (in the Java field) and what are the prospects for his/her career life?
If the knowledge he received in his grad/univ is not enough, than what more should he do to make this his specialty before getting started for the search job or to increase job offers?
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Cited: Sarah L. Richards, 26, 315 Rosslyn Blvd., dog at large; and Michael R. Cvengross, 28, Carrollton, driving with suspended license.
Theft: Spool of copper wire taken from house under renovation in the 800 block of Granard Parkway and outside of house vandalized with spray paint, Thursday.
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I set up a secondary profile in Google Analytics a long time ago for a site for a store my wife owned. She has long since sold the store and neither of us has access to the site. I am not given the option to delete the "profile" anywhere in the Analytics dashboard. How can I get rid of it without removing my entire Google Analytics account?
Pelms is correct, you cannot currently delete a profile under certain cirumstances, Google support recommend requesting manual removal, however we never heard back from them. I'm afraid you are stuck with your extra profile.
Google Analytics organizes individual sites as profiles, and groups those profiles within "accounts".
Within your Google Analytics overview you should see all the accounts you manage. Click "edit" on the right for the account you wish to delete. Then within that next page you should see an option to delete the account. That will just delete the website account and not your entire user account.
If you wish to just delete one profile within an website account, first open that account by clicking its name and you can see a list of the profiles within that website account. There you can delete any profile using the delete link at the right.
I don't think you can currently if you're not an admin user - see this thread on the support forum.
One poster managed by emailing Google Analytics support and requesting manual removal but where he found the email address I've no idea. If you had/have an Adwords account you might have some luck here though.


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I'm thinking of making a lander game, where you control a spaceship and need to land it without crashing. What is a simple formula to calculate speed of falling or acceleration with relation to working time to time engines?
The simplest way is the Euler integration. You have to store position vector and velocity vector. At each frame:
(x for scalars, X for vectors)
be sure that dt is small...
|G| is about 9.8 m/s² for earth and about 1.6 m/s² for moon
in general the actraction Force due the gravital interaction is:
It affects each body and it points toward the other one.
The G scalar is the very famous Gravitational constant it is about 6.67e-011 N(m/Kg)²
Since you are interested in acceleration:
You only need to know the planet's mass (m2) and radius (r) to compute your acceleration.
Typically the acceleration that moves the planet toward your spaceship is negligible because usually m1 is negligible compared to m2.
However, if you are trying to land to a small asteroid you probably have to use the general formula adding that force to the total force vector in the second step.
As required some hint on implementation. You will need:
First of all the vector library: your game can be mono/bi/tree/four... dimentional, as far as you consider your case to be a projection of a 3D word, the physical roules hold.
If n is the dimension you choose (probably 2 or 3 in your case), the library must have:
You can use a library that does this or implement one by yourself; a vector can be a struct or a class, the choice is yours.
Each engine should be described by:
your user input will be used to provide to each engine a number that will be between 0 (unused engine) and 1 (full power): the engine (usage) factor.
Multiply the engine factor for its thrust vector to obtain the engine real trust and sum up all the results of all the available engines; this will give you the F of the second step.
Your engine factor can be used to know the real fuel usage for each engine: multiply the engine factor by the fuel usage and by dt to know the instantaneous fuel usage; you can substract this value from the total fuel capacity variable (this gives you the opportunity to update your total mass m if the fuel mass is considerable).
Now you can proceed using the integration to compute the new position, check for the collision with your planet surface; if any, use the length of the velocity vector to say if the landing was a success or a disaster.
Obviously other collision checks can/should be made, some surface entities cant be allowed as landing point so every collision is a fatal one.
I leave how to get input and how to render your spaceship to you; you can use the engine factor to render the engine status frame by frame, for example.
As the other excellent answer seems a bit theoretical, here's the simple code version:
Unfortunately, the math here gets hairy. FxIII's answer is fine for the general case of a falling object but you are talking about a rocket--and rockets burn off fuel.
I have seen code that does it but it was completely undocumented and I never managed to figure out the math behind it. Unless you're CPU-limited somehow I wouldn't bother and simply brute force it--FxIIIs approach applied on a quite short timescale and adjust the thrust (or fuel use if you figure the rocket throttles back as the fuel burns off to maintain the specified acceleration rather than the specified thrust) between each iteration as the rocket burns off fuel.


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Can I use a game controller with Diablo 3? Since there are not that many keys that are actually used, can you map a controller to play? Or would this require some type of mod?
Not within the game, no you cannot use a game controller to play. Diablo 3 on PC is intended to be played with Mouse & Keyboard.
Using an external program / mod to add this capability not a good idea, as it is most certainly against the EULA. Using external things to change the game experience is a potentially bannable offense.
Edit many moons later: section 2-2 of the EULA (http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/legal/d3_eula.html) is pretty all-encompassing about what you agreed you will not do:
I would personally categorize a system to use a GamePad without going through the game itself to be something that is "designed to modify the Game experience."
Diablo 3 is now playable on consoles, which obviously use GamePads to great effect, but the game mechanics are subtly different to compensate (for example, on consoles there's a dedicated dodge mechanic). I'm not sure why they never got around to enabling GamePads on the PC version, though.
Yes, but you'll need to remap some of the keys. Good controllers have keymapping or dynamic key binding so you can do it in the game. Otherwise you will have to manually remap the keys in D3 through the options page.
I use a Logitech G13 game pad to play and it makes it so much easier. I especially like 1-click login thanks to dynamic key binding. Highly recommend it!
No, it is not possible and here are the reasons:
Currently the best thing you could hope for is some kind of mouse emulation for your controller.
I am very skeptical that Diablo 3 will ever allow controllers, as the whole UI would need to change and the difficulty has to be reduced.
I'd grab a USB controller and map 1-4 to ABXY and mouse buttons to trigger buttons. As long as the controller doesn't install any macro software, I can't imagine anyone getting banned for using it. Analog stick sensitivity would be another issue. You'll either be a sloth on the battle field or a Parkinson's victim -- I'd stick with the mouse and keyboard.
Bonus third option: Nostromo game pad?
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Kansas State University students packed Bramlage Coliseum Tuesday in an effort to pique the interest of employers and launch their careers.
Some 600 students came through the All-University Career Fair in the first hour alone and the event lasted throughout the day.
Representatives from nearly 300 companies, industries and agencies were there. The number of participating employers was higher than last year when fewer companies were hiring.
"Kansas State has an excellent reputation for really fine students, great work ethic, just good people, very well prepared academically. Many of the employers have told us that this is one of their favorite places to go for a career fair," said Angela Hayes, Career Fair Chair.
"We basically have everything- we've got engineering, we've got communications- there's something for everyone. We also have school systems. We'd like for all of our students to come out and take a look because there's something for everyone here. The opportunities are endless and many of the employers have many, many open positions," she added.
"We're here to hire for a merchandiser-in-training program. K-State is a great agricultural school, one of the best in the country. We've had very good results in the past. We've hired quite a few graduates from K-State. We have four alumni in our program right now," said Ryan Kennedy, a representative with Lansing Trade Group.
Students took full advantage of the situation and the array of potential job opportunities by networking, handing out their resumes and trying to set themselves apart from the competition.
"It was very overwhelming at first just because there are a lot of organizations here and a lot of people are looking for jobs. It's definitely hard to jut go up to a business and be yourself and hope for the best so it's been kind of tough but I'm definitely trying to be positive about it because I really want to find a good job especially when I get out of college," said Erin Gerken, a K-State student majoring in Communication Studies.
The job fair continues Wednesday, September 19th. The fair is for Kansas State University students, but also is open to members of the Manhattan community.