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Systems of martial arts utilize of variety of weapons that include polearms, blades, and blunt objects among others. While Systema and some branches of ninpo budo taijutsu include firearms as part of their training, why have firearms not historically become part of most other martial arts systems or assimilated into practice?
I would disagree with the premise that firearms arent in the 'martial arts' world. Firearm training most definitely falls into the category of martial arts. It may just not immediately be recognized as what we typically consider to be a 'martial art' because its not surrounded by the trappings of Japanese/Chinese technique names, uniforms, and cultural influence.
That said, I suspect the reason it hasn't been picked up and assimilated into 'traditional' martial arts is two-fold.
First, economic/social. In most places in modern America you can walk into a gun store, plop down $500, and walk out with a high quality, reliable handgun (assuming you pass the instant check and such). But in the locales where most of the 'traditional' martial arts were developed, that simply wasn't feasible at the time. Even if it was legal in such places, and at a time when the technology was available, a hundred or two hundred years ago the residents of those places simply wouldn't have been able to afford it. Most were subsistence farmers. We'd be talking spending a year's earnings on a single weapon (and then starving to death). That's why Karate uses nunchuku (rice flails), and Filipino arts use sticks - that's what they had available to them. (and some extent, that still holds true in a lot of places around the world). Had they had M1911A's freely and cheaply available to them, the arts you know of now would be very different.
The second part of the reason is tautological. The reason most arts don't then assimilate firearms training after the style matures is because they aren't firearms training arts. That is, the art exists to train people in unarmed fighting, not to train people with firearms. That's what firearms trainers are for. Its the same reason Judo hasn't 'assimilated' Filipino stick fighting techniques. No one denies that hitting someone with a stick is effective. Its just not what they are there to teach.
Okay, after reflection, I'm going to try to answer this with the respect it deserves:
Since the firearm has a long and lustrous history, especially in the east from which many of our currently fascinating martial arts stem, it is completely illogical to ignore historical occurrences when wondering why firearms are largely ignored in modern training.
I would say that they have become part of martial arts in the greater sense of martial arts. By this I mean in training relating to war. It is just a very vague and unstructured one.
All military and police forces will teach firearms use. There are set movement and training regimes -- very similar to kata in hand to hand and ranged weapon styles. Body position and breathing are taught before you handle a gun. Philosophy is even taught -- "This is my gun, This is for fun". Practice is strongly suggested. There are even sport competitions: quick draw, target shooting, clay pigeon, and biathlon to name but a few. There are "teachers" and "students" and "ranking systems" -- snipers as black belts? There are dojo or shooting ranges where one can practice.
However, most people would not equate martial arts with fire arms. I think this stems from a misunderstanding (or rather a narrowing) of the definition of martial arts. Merriam-Webster defines martial arts as any of several arts of combat and self defense (as karate and judo) that are widely practiced as sport. As such, I see fire arms as one.
Maybe ease (as compared to other weapons) with which fire arms can taught means that there is no need for the whole classical structure of martial arts. This, I believe, is the real reason why Aikido or Muay Thai do not have gun-kata in them.
As near as I have been able to tell, it is more due to the philosophy of most martial arts systems as firearms do not require the same skill and arguably grace that other weapons require. There was a book on the history of dueling that touched on this briefly from a different perspective, namely that dueling with pistols was looked down upon because they didn't require any significant skill (i.e. you can train someone to be competent in an hour or so) when compared to dueling with swords which would require months of training and a high degree of skill to be competent with.
If we look at most of the weapons that are incorporated into martial arts systems, they tend to either be very simple (i.e. knives) or fairly exotic form the standpoint of combat (i.e. nunchaku) and either require a great deal of practice to become extremely dangerous with, or are actively dangerous to their wielder if they are not properly trained. This tends to mesh well with the philosophy of most martial arts of not just being a way to defend yourself, but also a form of long term self improvement that firearms just don't offer.
Some martial arts trace their lineage back to times that predate firearms. Other martial arts are more of sport arts and focus on point systems and forms. Others are for physical and mental fitness rather then actual combat. A martial art that would be used totally in real work scenarios where weapon use would be common or viable is pretty specific. But this by no means that there are no martial arts the focus on firearms.
As started in other answers most law enforcement and military organisations teach weapon use, multiple firing positions, stances, grips, drills (kata's) and actions that are very much an art form.
I would say that because of the requirements, legalities and logistics required to teach people how to use a gun, fire it and practice with it are outside the capabilities of most organizations other then government ones. Martial arts can be dangerous, but it's very seldom fatal, one tiny mistake with a firearm and someone can die, there is no margin for error.
Most of the arts are very practical, and deal with things you will always have with you, such as your body, your sword (in some cultural roles, for some historical periods), etc.
Martial arts meant for categories of people using weapons which include firearms naturally include firearms: systema, ninpo, etc. To some extent, it could be argued that the military is trained in a martial art regarding their weapon, as they become intimately acclimated to it.
Since the arts are practical, it does not make sense to add a study of firearms when you, or the people likely to force you to use your skills, will likely not have a firearm.
In today's world, the situation is a bit different - and if no one has managed to include firearms training in a traditional art, there may be many reasons:
I know of at least one example (sorry, no source) of someone who has brought handgun manipulation into their bagua training. I can't find it again, unfortunately.
It is happening, but not very quickly, because it's hard. A lot of small skills come into play when managing a weapon.
Tradition, inexperience. That is all I suppose. :) More often it is probably such that one hasn't been trained by their teacher, neither has ever had a gun, so they don't do so themself. Tradition continues.
Another thing to consider, depending on school of thought, the main intention of weapons training is not always to learn to use a weapon, but to act as an extension in training the body/mind. Weapons are also weights, and they require other considerations beyond the body, such as not hitting yourself, and how to put your energy through something that is not necessarily your body. It is not necessarily about the weapon, but enhances existing body/mind refinement.
Military, law enforcement or "combat training" is not really the question. I think what we want to know is why aren't they slinging guns in Aikido, Karate, Kung Fu? Rubber guns are not fatal.


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When researching any sort of predictive model, whether using ordinary linear regression or more sophisticated methods such as neural networks or classification and regression trees, there seems to always be a temptation to add in more explanatory variables/factors. The in-sample performance of the model always improves, and sometimes it improves a great deal, even after one has already added quite a few variables already. When is it too much? When is the supposed improvement in in-sample performance very unlikely to carry over into live trading? How can you measure this (beyond simple things like the Akaike and Bayesian Information Criteria, which don't work very well in my experience anyway)? Advice, references, and experiences would all be welcome.
"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler." The problem you want to avoid is (near) multicollinearity. The tip-off will be that adding/removing a regressor will significantly change the coefficients on the other regressors. In practice (well, in the research that I read) I rarely see this explicitly tested.
If you think that you have multicollinearity, then it's likely best to either estimate over a subset without multicollinearity or to drop the offending regressors. A model with less explanatory power as measured by $R^2$ is certainly better than a model with incorrect (unstable) explanatory power.
Although not directly related to financial modeling, I've found the following quotation to be very instructive:
"I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'" -- E. Fermi
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There's no rule to answer this question for you. You need some combination of:
As always, the key is to be certain of what question you are trying to answer. Then you can muster as much unbiased evidence as possible.
I think you're looking for a metric that quantifies the effectiveness of the added variable(s). Objectively, you want each variable to have correlation to your model estimation output and non-correlation between other variables that may be utilized. If you adjust your $R^2$ metric accordingly (less degrees of freedom per variable) you'll get a reasonable feel for where the limit is for adding more variables (otherwise $R^2$ will just increase and you're back to asking the same question).
Just pick up a decent econometrics book (Gujurati is what I used in school).
If you have multicollinearity, find a dummy variable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_determination#Adjusted_R2 << this should be somewhat helpful.


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I know this should be posted as a comment on Yirmiyahu's answer but 1. there is not enough room and 2. I believe this requires real hora'ah for clarification:
I question the Feldheim translation of "s'hok" as amusement based on the fact that the "Batei Tiatros" (theaters) and "kikusaos" (circuses) were of a certain ilk. The ancient circus (and maybe the modern one as well) devaluated human life through risky and sometimes downright deadly performances. The ancient theater was essentialy a place of gathering to witness re-enactments of legends of pagan mythology which were full of immoral and degrading behavior. It is easy to see how they can fit into the category of "Moshav Leitzim". A classical music concert is in no way making light of anything important. Si'hok means laughter and in this context, laughter of leitzanus. I think this is an example of a question which requires real hora'ah from a poseik.
Yirmiyahu has presented (in my opinion) a conclusive case that Feldheim's translation of the Mishna Berurah is in keeping with the intent and usage of the original. He has also presented the Seridei Aish's opinion. Barry has presented room for other approaches to understanding Hazal based on Rishonim. We have heard, albeit not in writing, that Rav Scheinberg disagrees with the MB and SA. We do not know who asked him and in what context.
We need to investigate if there are any "contemporaries" of the MB or SA that argued (barring reports of Gedolim having season passes in their youth, since, yes, it could be they did so (gasp!) against halacha and then such reports could fall into the category of Lashon Horah on the dead without toeles, which is under a ban by the Rema).
If there are no contemporaries that argue we get into the (sticky) question of whether the MB is accepted as the Poseik Aharon on this matter.
Yirmiyahu: No offense taken. You brought valid and relevant sources, while I haven't.
The plain meaning of Moshav Leitzim is the company of scoffers, see Radak on Tehillim (1,1). The mishna in Avos you quote isn't meant to contradict this meaning, rather it is derived from further on in that chapter, where it states "Only in the Torah of Hashem is his desire". So the root of the issue in that Mishna is Bittul Torah. If the gathering isn't Bittul Torah, say because it provides a way to relax after a stressful week, and it doesn't stray into Leitzonus or other prohibitions, such as a classical music concert, it is not a Moshav Leitzim.
See also Avodah Zara (18b) and Tosefta (ch. 2) where theaters and circuses are described as a Moshav Leitzim, specifically becuase of the Bittul Torah involved. Once again, if the Bittul Torah aspect is addressed, there's no Moshav Leitzim.
Essentially, I am arguing against a position that "there is no such thing as kosher entertainment". There is Bittul Torah at one extreme, there is Limud HaTorah at the other extreme, and there are a range of activites that lie in between.
Another point which nobody has mentioned here yet:
Very often, classical music concerts also feature an operatic performance which often involves the prohibition of kol ishah. That would make it off limits for any Jewish male, even if not a ben Torah.
See http://mi.yodeya.com/questions/977/is-it-ok-to-watch-to-american-idol-during-the-omer for some relevant points.
There are a couple of issues that must be taken into consideration, whether music is permitted and "moshav leitzim":
Regarding the first issue see Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 561:3 which discusses the prohibition against listing to musical instruments in remembrance of the destruction of the Beis HaMikdosh. The Rema brings a number of qualifications to this, and the Mechaber himself notes that the custom is to be lenient regarding singing praises of Hashem while drinking wine. The Seridei Eish seems to understand the prohibition against musical instruments as being the main opinion all though he notes that in Germany this wasn't really on the radar, he nevertheless prohibits holding a secular concert in shul (Seridei Eish O.C. 16:20). Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igros Moshe O.C. 1:166) seems to favor being strict but notes a number of considerations for leniency, though not all would apply to secular music.
While the most obvious issue, perhaps, is the issue of instruments there is another issue. Concerts are highly problematic because of the prohibition of Moshav Leitzim, but ask your Rav:
It is clear that Moshav Leitzim is a seperate prohibition from bitul Torah (which is why it is called by a different name) but they are related. The Gemara in Avodah Zara 18b says that events and activities which are "moshav leitzim" bring one to bittul Torah. See also Rashi on Tehillim 1:1 and Igros Moshe Y.D. 4 simon 11.
Moshav Leitzim, we can see from the poskim, does not require that the entertainers engage in leitzanus per se. This can be illustrated by the well known piece from Pirkei Avos (3:3) about people sitting together without divrei Torah, it is called moshav leitzim without any qualification on what IS spoken about. Rebbinu Yonah, as I understand it, comments that their neglecting to do so makes a "mockery" of limud haTorah.
The application of this to contemporary events is not, basicly, a disputed ruling:
"And this is the ruling for one who goes to theaters and circuses which are places of amusement and pastime." (Aruch HaShulchan 307:9)
See also the Magen Avraham 307:22 and Chayei Adam Hilchos T'fillah u'Brachos 63:17.
From these sources we see that the prohibition applies even to Jewish events (M.A.224:3, Be'er Heitev 224:2, M.B. 224:3). From this, and the Gemara in AZ 18b itself we can infer that these events a problematic even when there isn't avodah zara or violence.
Indeed we see this prohibition brought down by various contemporary authorities regarding to current entertainment events, see Igros Moshe O.C. 2:95, Shemiras Shabbos K'Hilchasa 16 footnote 25. While other activities including books and games can fall under the category of moshav leitzim, the dynamic at work with circus and theaters, and by extension concerts, seems to be one of passive entertainment in a group setting. This, even with my expansion, is not exhaustive in explaining the issues, but I think it is clear that one should not make decisions about what constitutes "kosher" relaxation based of of speculative "explanations" about what constitutes moshav leitzim. And while it has been noted that Rav Chaim Pincus Sheinberg shlita has given a lenient p'sak it is very difficult to reconcile it with the Poskim (Divrei Chachamim 5:42) nor is it clear that every form of contemporary entertainment would come under this heter, although presumably .
We should not make the mistake of ignoring the explicit rulings in halachah in favor of, at times dubious, stories about Rabbis doing this or that (especially when young):
איו למדין הלכה לא מפני למוד ולט מפי מעשה עד שיאמרו לו הלכה למעשה -בבא בתרא קל:ב
A warning which should also serve to remind us not to render decisions based on what we read here but rather to consult a Rav.
A range of classic and contemporary sources which discuss Moshav Leitzim and entertainment
Any lenient sources are more than welcome but it has been my observation that individuals trying to present their own line of reasoning about this topic end of permitting that which the poskim have prohibited.
Based on anecdotal evidence, yes, one is permitted to attend not only a classical music concert, but also an opera with singing.
As noted in Hillel Goldberg's From Berlin to Jerusalem, Rabbis Yitzchak Hutner and Joseph Soloveitchik attended operas and concerts. In fact, according to Rabbi Rakeffet-Rothkoff, Rav Hutner even had a subscription to the opera in Berlin.
Rabbi Soloveitchik held that the prohibition of kol isha applied only in situations that would engender improper thoughts. Indeed, Rabbi Soloveitchik attended the opera, and considered it to be "advanced culture", and that far from being prohibited (for containing kol isha), that its attendance was actually to be encouraged. (Source: http://www.jewishideas.org/articles/new-hearing-kol-ishah near the bottom)
Re "...reports of Gedolim having season passes in their youth, since, yes, it could be they did so (gasp!) against halacha and then such reports could fall into the category of Lashon Horah..."
Is one allowed to listen to non-jewish music altogether? According to R' Ovadia Yosef in Abia Omer one can. However, many say that since the non-Jew who wrote the music imparts his soul into the music, it shouldn't be listened to. (If you look up R' Yosef's tshuva, you will notice that he gives the hetter based on the fact that many great kabbalists listened to non-Jewish music. Perhaps one can answer that since they were so holy, they weren't affected, while normal people would be).


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We have made it our mission to celebrate the underrated badasses of the animal kingdom because in general, Hollywood has taught us to be afraid of the wrong creatures.
For instance, for every animal you'd be terrified to run across in the wild, the odds are there is at least one other beast who sees it as a tasty snack. And often it's what you'd least expect. Like ...
#6. The Wasp That Eats Tarantulas
The Terror:
So you are a tarantula, the hairy giant of the arachnid world and the absolute worst nightmare of, oh, about 99 percent of humanity. You hunt in the trees and prowl the ground in a manner that leaves little doubt of your absolute, all-consuming terribleness.
Your favorite hangouts include cradles, wood sheds and the bottom of sleeping bags.
As you roam the landscape looking for a late night snack, you spot a potential prey: a silly-looking insect buzzing clumsily around. Raising yourself in the attack position, you confidently prepare for a kill ...
... only to wake up hours later, unable to move, and with a nasty writhing feeling inside you.
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A wasp isn't anyone's favorite insect to find flying around in their house, but nobody is going to call 911 if they see one. And when it comes down to wasp vs. tarantula, you'd expect to see the former in the nest of the latter, getting slowly eaten.
But there is a spider wasp called the tarantula hawk that is the boogeyman that small spider children are scared of. To us humans, it looks surreal rather than scary -- like something you'd find in Guillermo del Toro's personal petting zoo.
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Seriously, that's Pan's Labyrinth stuff right there.
Of course, there is a reason this kind of bug is called a spider wasp -- its sole mission in life is to transform the world into a never-ending horror movie for its arachnid prey. In this case, the movie is Aliens. The tarantula gets to play the victim; the wasp is the face-hugger. The tarantula hawk will capture, sting and paralyze the tarantula. Then, much as the Alien would, it plants an egg inside the spider's ... ahem, abdomen. Like this:
And, to finish the circle of movie-referencing terror, after growing big and strong on a steady diet of the freaked-out spider's internal organs, the baby tarantula hawk outgrows its home. Yes, this happens exactly as you would expect.
#5. The Pink Dolphin That Eats Piranhas
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You're having a regular field day with your school of piranhas, munching on the legs of hapless river-crossing explorers, reducing whole cows to skeletons and generally enjoying your reputation as the most badass flesh-eating freshwater fish in existence.
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"Fear my mighty underbite!"
Your day keeps getting better, as a new meal swims into sight. Frankly, the thing looks ridiculous -- you vaguely recognize it as one of those "dolphin" things the bikini girls you had for supper had tattooed on their ankles. This one, however, is completely pink. Ha, that thing swam out of a cartoon!
Then it opens its mouth. Wait ... shit ... no! It's not supposed to go this way. Mommy!
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"Pink is the new black."
The Amazon river dolphin, known throughout local fight clubs by the punchier name of "boto," is a freshwater dolphin that any My Little Pony fan would be proud to be reincarnated as. It possesses a brain 40 percent larger than a human's and is rumored to be quite the devil with local ladies. Also, it's pink. Really, really, really pink.
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"I look sort of like a dick, if you squint."
But while on the surface this pink Cadillac of Amazonia appears as harmless as it is adorable, it is a skilled hunter and possesses a particular taste for piranha flesh.
The boto's uniquely flexible body and neck enables it to maneuver through the intricate labyrinth of branches and tree trunks beneath the Amazon. This is bad news for the piranhas, to the point where it has been suggested that they swim in schools not for shock value, as was previously thought, but out of fear of being eaten themselves.
But, as your piranha just found out, the huddling-together tactic proves futile against the Pink Assassins. They will eat the shit out of piranhas any which way they want. In an ultimate dick move, they even swim into large lakes when water levels drop to take advantage of their cornered prey in a feeding frenzy of sweet, fear-tinged piranha flesh.
#4. The Bird That Eats Giant Hornets Like Popcorn
The Terror:
As a fearsome Asian giant hornet, you and your swarm of homeboys spend your days terrorizing Japan, bringing down animals hundreds of times your size and starring in YouTube videos where you happily massacre scores of really, really helpful insects. There is pretty much nothing in the world that can withstand the neurotoxins of your unnecessarily huge stinger. You are a ruthless, mindless part of the most dangerous hive in the world, incapable of fearing anything, as one would expect from a bug known by the nickname of "yak-killer hornet."
The background is gone because the hornet fucking ate it.
You are, all in all, more untouchable than Eliot Ness and MC Hammer combined. You were once declared one of the five most horrifying bugs in the world.
Which makes it all the more shocking when a random bird comes along and starts munching on you and your friends like candy.
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"I'm building a necklace of stingers."
Pernis ptilorhynchus, aka the crested honey buzzard, is, well, a big bird. Common sense says that seems like pretty much the worst thing to be in a fight against a swarm of huge, overtly toxic hell-insects. The honey buzzard, however, disproves our puny logic by being the only natural predator to Asian giant hornets -- and therefore pretty much the only thing keeping the entire ecosystem of Asia from collapsing into a dark, twisted realm ruled by the Hornet King.
It manages to hunt the little monsters by having certain natural advantages that come off like they were designed by Lucius Fox himself. The buzzard's coat consists entirely of unique feathers that are capable of protecting it against wasp stings like the ornithological equivalent of the Batsuit.
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Robin not included because he devoured his soul.
While YouTube does sport its fair share of the giant hornets doing their thing, there's also footage of a crested honey buzzard setting a trap, ambushing a whole hornet's nest using detective mode and then eating their young while the hornets watch helplessly. Oh, and the best part ...
Yes, much like Batman, this particular honey buzzard not only insulted these hornets to their faces by bringing the fight to their turf, but also as a parting salvo she actually destroyed their whole base of operations. Enjoy this photo of one absolutely not giving a shit:
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"Why, I've stumbled across an angry swarm of treats! Yay!"


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UPDATE: You must be signed up for Amazon Mom AND have a paid Prime account.
Sorry, missed the fine print when first posted.
Firemoms...Why hasn't anyone made a ridiculous comment about this yet? C'mon fellow wooters...I need a good laugh this morning!
@rjchicago: I have one of those as well. I had to call Amazon and they had to issue me a $25 discount on the Kindle b/c the promo code has a glitch.
@me54350: I'm from Chicago (surprise) and our MLS team is the Chicago Fire, so my first interpretation of the code was SOCCERMOMS ;)
@rjchicago: That's a good start! haha
I ordered a Kindle Fire two days ago, and Amazon support was nice enough to give me a retroactive $20 refund. Thanks for pointing this out!
@me54350: I was going to say something about FIREMOMs but your ma ma had me too busy to get to my computer, if you know what I mean...
@dawgopoly: I'd feel dirty, like the 'free ginger' comments from a couple of days ago.
Is there still a glitch with the code?
@rjchicago... MLS Chicago Fire... Ohhhhh I so want to post the Nordecke chant... P* on the fire... But, I will refrain. The Fire vs Crew rivalry makes those games very exciting. Go Crew!
Any sale that requires a PAID Prime membership is not a deal...
Knocks $50 off the 8.9" LTE version.
(so i bought one.) thanks!
@tcayer: For those of us that have a Paid Prime account, this is a deal... We paid for prime this past January (for the videos and such) and we have more than recovered our cost in free shipping and deals with in a few months, so this is a great deal... Just because you are not eligible does not mean it is not a deal.
WARNING this is a very limited "Android" tablet. It's locked to Amazon. So unless your handy with rooting and hacking, say goodbye to the thousands of apps (many free) on the Google Play Store.
Spend the extra $25 and get a Nexus 7 for $200. It's so much better in so many ways.
I'm really hoping they decide to offer some deals on the regular Kindle. I'd get one for my mom if I could pick one up sub $50...
The glitch occurs when you just open a new Prime or Amazon Mom membership. You have to wait 24 hours until the account is fully activated and then the promo code will work.
I don't agree with the comment that you need to say goodbye to most of the apps. I have hundreds of apps on my Kindle, Samsung Android phone, and Acer Android tablet. I do encounter apps that are not available on Amazon that I have to download from Google's Play store, but Amazon's store also has thousands of apps. For the average user, you can get all of the Apps you need from the Amazon store. Also, Amazon runs a daily special every day where a paid app is given away for free. I check it every day and have gotten some really nice paid apps for free.
@melindalerma: This sounded legit up until "up to I looked at the paycheck", "woz", "actualey", and "neighbour". You almost got me!
@rjchicago: I got it to work. Nice deal.


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7 Priceless Works of Art Ruined by Staggering Acts of Idiocy
War, natural disaster, incinerating a painting because it's haunted by Vigo the Carpathian--there are all sorts of regrettable, but perfectly legitimate, reasons valuable art has been lost to the world. But sometimes there is no good reason. Sometimes we just screw up. Sometimes we do something silly, something like this...
#7. Bad Plaster Ruins The Last Supper
When you think of the last supper, you probably only have one image in mind: Jesus sitting calmly at the center of the table while everyone else clambers around as if they've all misplaced their contacts. That image right there is Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, perhaps his most well known masterpiece next to the Mona Lisa.
Apparently, "forgetting to give her eyebrows" was not considered a major blunder at the time...
So What Happened?
The painting is so well known, you might not be surprised to learn that it crossed paths with two of history's most famous figures. But, you probably didn't know that both figures went out of their way to treat it like it had been pooped up there by someone with a remarkably imprecise and explosive strain of diarrhea.
The first noted figure was Leonardo himself. See, frescoes are supposed to be painted on wet plaster or they start to peel. Unless you want your fresco to have the shelf life of a Banksy painting, the wet plaster is as important to the equation as the paint. But this wasn't any painter, he was Leonardo motherfucking da Vinci and if he wanted to paint on a dry surface, who's going to stop him? Unsurprisingly, the whole thing turned to a horrible peeling mess within his own lifetime.
By 1652, it was considered ruined and unrecognizable. This may explain why someone decided later to knock a hole right through the base of Jesus to make room for a door.
Just so we're clear how much of a mess this was, this is the 15th century Catholic Italy we're talking about. Jesus was sort of a big deal over there.
Then Napoleon, a great lover of art and anything Leonardo, came along and decided it was shit. When his troops were stationed in Italy, he decided to turn the whole room into a storage closet. Then, because he wasn't quite finished dragging his ass all over Leonardo's second greatest work, he decided to turn it into a prison.
By 1826, after a number of attempts to fix it, an attempt was made to move it to a safer location. Unfortunately, they commissioned a man who specialized in moving frescos to move The Last Supper. That'd be great if it was actually a fresco. His techniques ended up damaging the painting, and he quickly tried to glue the whole thing back together, which only added to the damage.
Clearly, The Last Supper. Or an out of focus photo of some laundry. We're not sure.
#6. Monet Destroys His Own Lilies
Monet was known to be one of the founders of the impressionist art movement and his lily paintings essentially kick-started a radical art community that was widely misunderstood in it's time. Of course now he is recognized as a genius, kind of like how generations from now the world may finally understand what Fred Durst was trying to tell us.
So What Happened?
Monet had cataracts. While nobody can say for sure if the condition was responsible for the blurred look that initially made his paintings so influential, we do know that as his condition worsened with age, his paintings became blurrier. And since cataracts affect your ability to perceive color, what began as paintings of green lilies...
...became lilies tinged slightly pink and brown and then, eventually, red lilies.
Eh, close enough for government work.
The art world assumed he was intentionally using the wrong colors and blurring images more than ever. If anything, this later work encouraged other impressionist painters to take more risks with colors and style. Everything Monet produced, including his red lilies, was considered invaluable, and would still be considered invaluable today... if Monet didn't go on his crazy lily destroying rampage.
His mighty beard hungered for fine art.
After Monet got corrective surgery on his eyes, a 1920s procedure that probably consisted of a rusty scalpel and a bottle of scotch, he actually started seeing things more clearly. When he saw that he'd been painting red lilies for all these years, even though they'd been partially responsible for his fame and critical acclaim, he decided to destroy them all. The only reason we know what some of these looked like is because friends and family saved some from Monet's wrath.
#5. Several LS Lowry Drawings Get Trashed
You don't have to appreciate his artwork to appreciate the insane amount of money LS Lowry's drawings, even his sketches, would get at an auction today. It's predicted today that even his most half-assed, coffee stained, possibly even suspiciously stained, sketches could fetch a tidy sum of one million pounds, which, by our own measurements, is like a shitload of American dollars.
Or $12, depending on if they turn it into one of those folk art calendars or not.
So What Happened?
He was giving them out as tips to his local milkman. The milkman, thinking they looked like garbage, immediately scrunched them up and threw them into the trash. Which is exactly how you should behave when someone is just trying to share their art with the world. Please, if this article isn't up to your standards, feel free to print this page off, spit on it, rub it into the mud and then burn it in a trashcan.
That'll teach you to art.
Ben Timperly, the milkman, only found out later how big a deal Lowry was. While sitting in a doctor's office, he noticed a drawing on the wall of the waiting room which looked surprisingly similar to that one he threw out so he could finish a minimum wage-paying job. We're guessing he destroyed that one as well.
According to Timperly: "I just thought my children could paint better than him." He then said Mt. Rushmore "looked like something my dog threw up" and dismissed the entire history of human achievement by saying, "Eh, I could do better."
What is this shit?
#4. Statues Everywhere Are Losing Their Dongs
In ancient Greece, Rome and essentially all of Europe way up till the 1500s, public nudity was just a fact of life. A dirty, sexy fact of life. So if nudity was so great to these guys, why are so many of these statues missing their most valuable parts? Why are there fig leaves on their crotches, a fashion choice that defies both logic and physics?
So What Happened?
You can thank 16th century sensibilities and the Catholic Church. In ancient Rome, Greece, and even right up to the Renaissance, artists liked to show off their work to its full extent. After several centuries of just letting them flop on out there in the open for the whole world to see, a few popes launched the whole Dick Crusade, which is totally what it should have been called.
Dan Brown, for instance, claims the whole thing started in the 19th century when Pope Pius IX whacked off (figuratively speaking) a bunch of stone dicks so they would not corrupt the minds of the citizens. While we can't vouch for what Dan Brown calls "historical accuracy," nor can we vouch for what Pius was up to in his spare time, the whole dick thing started much, much, earlier.
In an effort to keep up with the Protestant Reformation's sense of piousness during the 1500s, the Catholic Church decided to ban any depiction of genitalia, breasts and buttocks (essentially, all the fun bits) in art. Pope Paul IV turned the church away from its more sinful, penis-filled past by adding marble and plaster fig leaves to groins of the statues within the Vatican, permanently damaging many statues.
You'd think a man dressed as the head of a penis would be a little more open.
Pope Innocent continued Paul's work in the 1600s, but for reasons unknown (we suspect it was his "thing"), he added metal fig leaves instead of marble leaves to the statues. Whatever the case, within a few generations of dick Popes, statues across Europe lost their manhood.
Of course, this doesn't explain why they're all missing their members. The Bacchus statue by Michelangelo may have been mutilated purely to make it look more antique. It seems that no matter where you look, history is rife with a strong hate towards anything penisy.


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Ranch Rhymes: Cowboy Poetry and Music
Ranch Rhymes: Cowboy Poetry and Music from the Western Folklife Center is our first podcast, offering great poetry, music and commentary, and available here on our website and over iTunes, Odeo and other media services. Recordings and photographs are drawn from the Western Folklife Center Archives, and listeners who have joined us in Elko for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering will recognize some of their favorite performers.
Unfortunately, due to financial considerations, we had to suspend production of Ranch Rhymes as a search for sponsors was unsuccessful. Until such time as the Western Folklife Center can resume podcasting, you can listen to all the past podcasts here and you can download them from iTunes. For more information on podcasting and the RSS feed, click here. Special thanks go to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Dick Burton Foundation, the R. Harold Burton Foundation, Anne Pattee, and the GRAMMY Foundation® for funding support of the Western Folklife's audio preservation program, enabling us to make these archival recordings.


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8 Oct 2013 8:43 PM #1
Mixed-Mode x-compile and microload markup is currently unsupported
I pressed the "Upgrade CMD" button and got lots of errors, like the following:
[ERR] com.sencha.exceptions.ExBuild: Mixed-Mode x-compile and microload markup is currently unsupported
[ERR] at com.s
[ERR] encha.command.environment.BuildEnvironment.execute(BuildEnvironment.java:245)
14 Oct 2013 1:50 PM #2
Tell me more...
What did you have in the form fields associated w/ Upgrade?
Soon we'll have the about screen tell you what versions of Cmd, framework you're working with so that will be helpfulPhil Strong
14 Oct 2013 2:33 PM #3
Framework (tab)
Ext JS 4.2.x - Documentation URL:
Custom framework path:
Change License
GPL: <selected> Commercial: <not selected>
That is all there is in this tab. I click on "Upgrade CMD" and I get the above errors.
16 Oct 2013 1:33 AM #4
I get the same message, from cmd. When I run "sencha app build" after upgrading cmd from 3 to 4, and also upgrading the framework from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2.
The upgrade failed, and I''m in the process of doing a manual upgrade (apparently not done yet ).
Snippet from the logfile:
[INF] -init:
[INF] -init-compiler:
[INF] -detect-app-build-properties:
[INF] Loading app json manifest...
[ERR] com.sencha.exceptions.ExBuild: Mixed-Mode x-compile and microload markup is currently unsupported
[ERR] Total time: 3 seconds
[ERR] The following error occurred while executing this line:
R:\mystrippedprojectpath\.sencha\app\build-impl.xml:359: The following error occurred while executing this line:
R:\mystrippedprojectpath\.sencha\app\js-impl.xml:11: com.sencha.exceptions.ExBuild: Mixed-Mode x-compile and microload markup is currently unsupported.
I found that if I remove the js and css parts from app.json (the "genererated by SA do not edit parts"), then cmd works happily, and builds my projectSven Tore Iversen
16 Oct 2013 4:14 AM #5
I've been testing this a tittle back and worth and currently I've found that I have to open app.json before every build and remove js and css resources that SA have added, before building with cmd.
SA needs the resources defined to be able to use my custom css and locale js file in development/preview mode, but I have to remove them again to build.Sven Tore Iversen
16 Oct 2013 7:00 AM #6
Oh man we have a bug I'm working on right now that malforms the app.json. Can you send me a copy of your app.json?Phil Strong
16 Oct 2013 10:53 AM #7
Whenever I save now I get this file:
{ "name": "BRes", "requires": [ "ext-locale" ], "id": "8c1f7089-9777-471a-95c9-50b8b32d6558" , "js": [], "css": [ // Architect generated... do not edit! // { "path": "resources/css/custom.css" } ///////////////////////////////////////// ] }
My svn repo is currently offline, so I can't send you the pre-upgrade version right notSven Tore Iversen
16 Oct 2013 7:00 PM #8
My app.json is also messed up, lots of repeated things:
PHP Code:
"css": [
// Architect generated... do not edit! //
"path": "resources/style.css"
// Architect generated... do not edit! //
"path": "resources/style.css"
// Architect generated... do not edit! //
"path": "resources/style.css"
19 Oct 2013 10:15 AM #9
Continuing Build Problems
Is the 'build web app' function supposed to be working in the new Beta build (1278)? It most assuredly is not working so I'm assuming this is an area still under development. It appears to have everything to do with the app.json file. With each save/deploy/build step, all JS and CSS directives are duplicated in the file. I think this is throwing the build process completely off and it fails every time. I can manually build the app using Sencha CMD at the command line, but only if I empty all contents of the app.json file (save for the "id" property). I tried deleting the app.json file altogether and the cmd process didn't like that at all. Architect did not recreate the file so I had to restore a backup copy. I edited the file just before I attempted to build it and removed all extraneous entries as mentioned above. Architect added back the entries and, again, the build failed. I think you're getting close to successfully implementing this feature, but it's not quite there yet. Can you confirm? Maybe I'm just doing something wrong.
One other question - what good is the app.json file? What purpose does it serve if the only way I can successfully build an app is to delete all the contents of this file? I'm not asking to be sarcastic...I would genuinely like to understand where the file is supposed to fit in the project framework.
Thank You,
M. McConnell
19 Oct 2013 7:17 PM #10
We've been having issues with our app.json management. We're in the process of rewriting it. It will be simpler and so you'll lose the nice inline comments that Cmd generates for touch app.json. However it will be more reliable which is much more important. Next week we'll release itPhil Strong


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Naxos Releases World Premiere Recording of the Opera 'Late Victorians' by Mark Adamo
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Is it always true that a principal $G$-bundle $E$ admits a connection (on the total space, not a local connection on the base manifold $M$)? I know that it must be true, since almost every construction starts off with ...fix a connection on $E$..., I just don't know how to show this rigorously. The only proof I can find is:
Let $U_i\subset M$ be an open subset of $M$. Then $E$ restricted to $U_i$ is trival and we can construct a connection, denoted $\omega_i$, in this case. Now, let $\big( U_\alpha \big)$ be an open covering of $M$, and let $\big(f_\alpha\big)$ be a partition of unity subordinate to the cover. Then we can define a connection $\omega = \sum_{\alpha} (f_\alpha \circ \pi) \omega_\alpha$, where $\pi: E\rightarrow M$ is the projection.
However, doesn't the right-hand side of this expression live on $M$? Does this give a connection on $E$?


text: Howdy cowboys, how are ya'll doing so far today. Hope the day is going good because I have some pretty neat lessons coming your way. To start, we will be learning "how to draw a cowgirl", step by step. These beauties are found in both northern and southern parts of the U.S. I didn't want my cowgirl to be just ordinary so I sketched her out in a sexy, but traditional manner. Everyone knows that cowgirls have the reputation of being both naughty and nice. They are bubbly, natural and beautiful. I like the end results which means I know drawing a cowgirl will be exciting to replicate. Adios amigos, and enjoy!


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1 Oct 2011 11:03 PM #1
New Ext.Direct stack for Perl
Hi everybody,
I am proud to announce a new Perl server side implementation for Ext.Direct API: RPC::ExtDirect. This stack has two primary goals: maximum compatibility with different environments, and ease of use. As the result, it is compatible with Perl 5.6+ in non-XS environments (pure Perl), and as for the second goal... Take a look yourself.
As of this moment, there are three gateways (adapters) for actual Web environments:
- CGI::ExtDirect for both fire-once and persistent CGI environments
- Plack::Middleware::ExtDirect for PSGI/Plack applications
- Apache::ExtDirect for Apache2/mod_perl
Version 2.0 of RPC::ExtDirect was fully tested to be compatible with Ext JS 4.1.
Comments, suggestions and bug reports are always welcome.
Last edited by nohuhu; 20 Jun 2012 at 8:47 PM. Reason: Added Apache gateway link
20 Jun 2012 8:42 PM #2
I have recently released version 2.0 of the core RPC::ExtDirect module, as well as updated gateways. There is also an addition: Apache::ExtDirect, an Ext.Direct gateway for Apache/mod_perl environment. This gateway needs more documentation, but is already production grade software.
A comprehensive Ext.Direct testing framework is also coming soon to CPAN.Regards,


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BURGETTSTOWN, Pa. - Jim Reedy, director of the Burgettstown Kids Center, is looking forward to another year serving the community.
The center has been offering children's and community activities and adult education for more than a decade.
"It's been a staple of the community for more than 10 years, helping to provide multiple activities for kids and adults in the community," said Reedy.
The center offers adult education classes and General Equivalency Diploma testing from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reedy added no appointments are necessary, and anyone wanting to take classes can arrive any time. The GED test will change next year, becoming more computer-oriented and difficult.
"They are going to change testing and people who have started and those who want to get (their GED) - the time is now," said Reedy. "It will be a little bit tougher, so if they feel they are in need, feel free to come down."
A job developer also is available to help with resume building and job instruction at request.
"We are here to help the community in any and all ways," he said.
The center also hosts craft nights, adult and children's bingo nights, dances and family movie nights during evenings and weekends throughout the year.
"They are all free and open to the public," said Reedy.
A monthly calendar including all the scheduled activities for the month is distributed regularly through the Burgettstown Area School District.
The kids center also hosts a variety of special events throughout the year, beginning with the annual Easter egg hunt, which is regularly attended by more than 100 children each year and is held each year at the Main Street Park.
Volunteers hide thousands of plastic eggs throughout the park, and the event also features a visit from the Easter Bunny.
In the mid-summer, Reedy and kids center volunteers assist with the annual Burgettstown Community Days, which is held in the parking lot shared by the borough municipal building, Burgettstown Volunteer Fire Department and kids center and along Main Street.
"I want to thank Gregg Pavan and Janet Castellino," said Reedy. "They have formed a great committee to make things happen yearly. It's a pleasure to be on it with them."
Community days features dance, musical and variety acts, vendors, a variety of foods, inflatables, eating contests, petting zoo and carnival games.
"It's just a good, fun activity for the community with lots of entertainment and activities," said Reedy.
The event is funded, in part, by the sale of banners to area businesses, churches, organizations, community and service groups and families and individuals. The banners are hung throughout downtown for six to eight weeks.
"I want to thank those who purchase the banners for their support," he said.
The kids center's primary funding is through donations and fundraisers, and one of the largest is during the annual Hanover Covered Bridge Car Show.
"When you take part in a fundraiser, you can feel good, knowing that it is going back to help the community," said Reedy. "One hundred percent of the money goes into the community."
The kids center is one of the food vendors during the car show, which is held in August at the Hanover Township Park.
"For the last few years, it's been one of our big fundraisers, and we love being part of it," said Reedy. "I want to thank (organizer) Ralph Farulli for having us - a big shout out to him for allowing us to be involved, it helps tremendously."
In the fall, the kids center hosts a Halloween party, and it will be held at the Main Street Park, weather permitting. The event includes music, refreshments and crafts for the children.
"It is our biggest party of the year," said Reedy. "It sees 200 plus kids easily."
In November, the center's breakfast with Santa is usually held the weekend following Thanksgiving, and the children of the community are invited to make a craft, get a treat and visit - and have their picture taken - with Santa.
In early December, the kids center is behind the annual Light Up Night at the park, where area businesses, churches and organizations are invited to decorate one of 40 Christmas trees, which are lit throughout the holiday season.
Light Up Night itself kicks off the holiday season with musical performances, caroling, refreshments and a visit from Santa.
"It's a good community activity that gets the Christmas spirit going," said Reedy.
Those decorating trees compete for one of three judged prizes or the people's choice, which is based on the greatest number of votes from those attending the event. As one of the largest events of the year, a battalion of volunteers are on hand to haul and set up trees, set up electric and serve refreshments.
"Our volunteer group is tremendous," said Reedy. "A special thanks to all of our volunteers, whether they volunteer once a year or every day."
Reedy added he drew inspiration from local volunteer Clara Alvarez and the Restoration and Beautification Committee in his own volunteer efforts.
"They work hard to create some beauty in town through planting flowers and making improvements," he said. "I get inspiration from her - she'll be out there, digging in rocks, trying to plant geraniums."
The year ends with a special Christmas dance for the children in the community, including treat bags and a visit from Santa, sponsored by local business Call Center Solutions.
"They brought the magic of Christmas to many young kids in our community," said Reedy. "We look forward to working with them in the future."
Reedy said he and the kids center staff and volunteers are looking forward to another year of activities.
"We wish all the community a happy New year, and we can't wait to see them again in 2013," he said.


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Let $B$ be the group of upper triangular $n$-by-$n$ matrices of determinant $1$ over a finite field $F$. What is the group of outer automorphisms of $B$? More generally, what are outer automorphisms of the Borel subgroup of a finite Chevalley group?
All I can suggest is a partial answer. In the narrower case when you look at a Borel subgroup of the finite special linear group, there should be no outer automorphisms arising from conjugation within the general linear group: Here your group (usually denoted something like $B$) lives in a split BN-pair for the Chevalley group in question as the subgroup $B$. Like other parabolic subgroups, $B$ is then forced by the axioms to be its own normalizer in the ambient Chevalley group.` Using this standard fact (easily documented in the literature) for the special linear group, it carries over to the general linear group which differs only by scalars. (Similar arguments apply over more general fields.)
The same kind of BN-pair structure exists for any finite Chevalley group, along with the same normalizer theorem. But I'm much less certain about what happens when you view the given Borel subgroup just as an abstract solvable group. While its structure as a solvable group is very specialized (as a certain kind of semidirect product), it has usually been studied only in the Chevalley group context.
Let me add my partial answer. Let us take $B$ to be upper triangular invertible $3\times 3$ matrices over a finite field of $p$ elements, $p\geq 5$ an odd prime. Then I claim that the automorphisms group is generated by the inner ones and the map $\sigma: g\mapsto \kappa ^tg \kappa ^{-1}$ where $\kappa$ is the longest Weyl group element in $GL_3$. Let $\theta$ be an automorphism. It takes $U$ to $U$, where $U$ is the unipotent radical of $B$ (since $U$ is the unique $p$-sylow subgroup).
After changing $\theta$ an inner conjugation if necessary, we may assume that $T$ goes to $T$ where $T$ is the group of diagonals: The diagonals contain an $l$-Sylow subgroup of $B$ where $l$ is a prime dividing $p-1$ and we may assume $\theta $ stabilises this $l$-Sylow subgroup $H$. Therefore, $\theta $ stabilises the centraliser of this $H$. But the centraliser is $T$.
Since $p\geq 5$ we may take logarithms, and the automorphism $\theta $ takes one root space into another. The root group $X_{13}$ being central, goes into itself. The other two $simple$ root groups $X_{12}$ and $X_{23}$ may be permuted. After changing $\theta $ by $\sigma$ if needed, one can see that $\theta $ stabilises each root group, and after changing $\theta $ by an inner conjugation by an element of $T$, we see that each simple root group is left point-wise fixed by $\theta$. Now by examining the conjugation action of $T$ on these root groups, you can see that $T$ is also point-wise fixed. Since $B$ is generated by $T$ and the simple root groups, it follows that $B$ is also point-wise fixed.
[Remark]: I think this argument extends to $n\times n$ matrices as well , at least when $p>n$ (we took logs). Perhaps with some more group theory tricks, we can avoid logarithms and get this for all $n$ and all odd primes $p$.


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Andrea, We've given our boys a chain (I've been told boys don't wear necklaces:)) with a medal of their name saint on it. They've also been given small statues of their name saints. My one son really likes St. Michael the Archangel so his Godparents gave him a statue of St. Michael. I know you said you weren't knick-knack and neither are we. The boys statues sit on a the headrest of the bed. They like to say their saints are watching over them while they sleep. My in-laws gave my boys an entire set of saint biographies that were written at the 3rd grade level. They started out as read alouds but eventually my boys read them all on their own. Now they read them to their younger brothers so they were a great investment. Good luck coming up with a list!
Kathleen - if your athlete's foot is causing some inflammation, I would think it could cause a slight fever. Not what you'd usually associate with a fungal infection though.
Andrea, What a blessed event for your son! Some First Communion gifts that we have found to be especially enjoyed & meaningful are an icon of your child's Patron Saint, a medal of St. Tarsicius (boy martyr who gave his life to defend the Blessed Sacrament), & the following books: Bl. Imelda Lambertini: Patron Saint of 1st Communicants & The Weight of a Mass. God bless!
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In Chinese, one uses the phrase 其他 when refering to other things. In Japanese one uses a similiar phrase: 其の他 (Sono ta), where 其 is often written in Hiragana: その他. Since the meaning is identical, I want to ask whether these two phrases have an etymological connection. If yes, which language's phrase appeared first?
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其の他 can also be read as "sono hoka" in Japanese, both consisting of native Japanese morphemes. In "sono ta", only the "ta" (他) is borrowed from Chinese. Early citations for both expressions is c. 14th century. Japanese borrowed much vocabulary from Chinese. It is entirely possible that the reading "sono ta" or "sono hoka" developed from the Chinese 其他. However, as halfelf has cited, the Chinese is much older, so Japanese likely did not have any effect on the Chinese expression.
I think 其他 and 其の他 appeared first in Japanese. 其の他 often appeared in 手紙、仕樣書. It means ceremonial and honorific. But in chinese 其他 was used extensively everywhere.


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Hace poco he leído un libro donde se empleaba el sino. Al principio pensaba que era un error de ortografía, pero me resulta un poco extraño que se equivocaron en poner sino y no separado si no. Cualquier aclaración sera bienvenida.
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"Si no" = if + negative
Si no coges el paraguas, te mojarás [If you don't take your umbrella with you, you'll get wet]
"Sino"= similar to "but" ("instead" in a negative way; "except", "only")
No llegan mañana, sino el martes. [They don't arrive tomorrow, but on Tuesday]
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@Zeravala's answer is good, but I'd add a few things.
When I was learning Spanish, I decided that the best translation of sino was most often "but rather." No leí el libro de Bioy Casares sino el de Borges translates to "I didn't read Bioy Casares' book but rather Borges'." Of course sometimes "but" works better, sometimes "rather" or "instead", and sometimes something quite different works best, which brings me to my next point.
sino can mean something along the lines of "do anything but" such as in no puedo sino reír which you might translate as "I can't do anything but laugh." This second usage is far less common than the first, but as it will turn up from time to time, you should be prepared to recognize it.
Finally, to reiterate what @MikMik said, you should also be prepared to see what would properly be written as si no squashed together. Many people are sloppy.
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Sydney recently studied the inspirational book, Cradle to Cradle, which has had a big impact on her way of thinking. We hope you enjoy her analysis of the book's message and its implication for the future of the Earth.
Daniel Wallach, Sydney Menees, Ruth Ann Wedel & Jason Culbertson smile for the camera during Sydney's last week in Greensburg
Transitioning Away From Sustainability by Sydney Menees
Since I started working at GreenTown in August of 2012, I have been happily surprised by the amount of sustainable products and practices available today. There are so many innovative green building products on the market and renewable energies are getting better all the time. But thinking of the actual definition of sustainable ("capable of being sustained") doesn't make it sound like an especially appealing lifestyle.
As I hear politicized rhetoric surrounding sustainability, I gather that a lot of the pushback comes from people disliking feeling guilty. Some of the dialogue of environmentalism encourages people to cut back: use less gas, produce less waste, have fewer children.... Why should I cut back if my neighbor isn't? Previous generations didn't worry about cutting back; why should we? It's a natural inclination, but the sustainability of earth depends on us cutting back and restricting ourselves...or does it?
I recently finished reading the book Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. The book introduces a new paradigm for sustainability: eco-effectiveness. The idea behind eco-effectiveness is that environmentalism and capitalism necessarily go hand-in-hand. This harmony is achieved by ditching the current paradigm for sustainability, which is making products, buildings, and emissions less bad. Eco-effectiveness means making products, buildings, "waste," emissions, etc. that are actually GOOD for the environment. To illustrate how creating good waste/byproducts is possible, McDonough and Braungart use the analogy of a cherry tree. By living and growing, the tree purifies the air and its "waste" (blossoms) enriches the soil and provide food for other animals. Why use chemicals that make us sick when we have the possibility to use materials that are harmless? Why be less bad when we can be 100% good? Though the switch to eco-effectiveness will require a restructuring of current practices throughout industry, it is possible and a few companies (the book specifically mentions Ford and Nike) have been reaping the benefits of enhancing the environment.
The ideas presented in Cradle to Cradle make so much sense to me. It personally relieves me to know the future will not necessarily hinge on humans restricting themselves for their survival. But it will require thoughtful, diligent planning, to which I am excited to contribute.